Current music trends. Comments?

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:12 pm

SuperSnob wrote:The band I am most embarrassed to admit I like is INTERPOL because their lyrics are so mind-numbingly stupid. Then again, I suppose A-Set's lyrics are kinda dumb too. oh, well...

Heh heh....

Stories are boring and stuff.
She's always calling my bluff.

Laugh everytime I hear it. Cool song, though.

Flaming Lips might be the best band out there right now, if it's not OutKast. When I'm into some gleeful drunken anger I put in Alkaline Trio, and when I'm into depressing bleak moroseness, Radiohead. PJ Harvey is a goddess; I feel most alive when I'm listening to her. And Ted Leo's voice and conviction can make the most insipid Creed song sound credible, but he'd rather kill himself first.

Fullcircle · Post by **Fullcircle** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:38 am

Moxy Fruvous: folksy geek-pop from Canada.

Is that like Arrogant Worms? (who are hilarious, btw)

~SR

Fullcircle · Post by **Fullcircle** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:52 am

Opps... repeated myself and can't delite this post... oh well... please ignore that..

~SR

Chaos Cricket · Post by **Chaos Cricket** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:49 am

Can't really say for certain. The best way I've discovered of describing Moxy Fruvous is either:

(1) a cross between Barenaked Ladies and They Might Be Giants

or

(2) kinda like Corky and the Juice Pigs.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:44 am

Oh, I found Moloko and Ramones in some corner too. Gotta add them to list.

My secret shame is, I like Wheatus's "Teenage dirtbag".

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:34 pm

mcDuffies wrote: My secret shame is, I like Wheatus's "Teenage dirtbag".

Words cannot express my disappointment when I learned the singer was male. Especially with the end of the song being the way it was.

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 2:04 pm

Warren wrote:
mcDuffies wrote: My secret shame is, I like Wheatus's "Teenage dirtbag".
Words cannot express my disappointment when I learned the singer was male. Especially with the end of the song being the way it was.

You gotta be kiddin me, right? Pull one over on ol' Brockway?

...

Oh my god... OH MY GOD!

...

I've got posters! And magazines!

...

NooOOO!!!! First my avatar, now this!

*runs away screaming and crying*

Nah, I know. It made me sick when I found out though. I really can't listen to it now, even though I liked it...

Okie · Post by **Okie** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:20 pm

Music I Enjoy:
Erin Mckeown - Action Plus

Goldfrapp - Ladytron - Spillsbury - The Capricorns - Suede - Elastica

Pulp - The Cardigans - Morrissey/The Smiths - The Cranberries - David Bowie

The Cramps - The Gore Gore Girls - Fred Schneider/The B-52's - Roy Orbison
They Might Be Giants

Bauhaus - L7 - Blondie - Rasputina

The Residents - Primus - NegativeLand

Toris Amos - Natalie Merchant/10K Maniacs - Sixpence None the Richer

Bjork - Bertine Zetlitz

Henry Mancini - Danny Elfman

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:11 pm

Warren wrote:
mcDuffies wrote: My secret shame is, I like Wheatus's "Teenage dirtbag".
Words cannot express my disappointment when I learned the singer was male. Especially with the end of the song being the way it was.

Ummm... I don't see what's so weird about it...

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:16 pm

Hey Megalomaniac
I know Jesus
Yeah, I'm the fucking antichrist
Watch yourself maniac
Step down! Step down!
Step down!

*Ponders rumored anti-Bush message in song*

Ratbert · Post by **Ratbert** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:30 pm

Hey, good to see Cake is making everybody's list. Cake is the most non-offensive band ever...not lyrically, but musically. I would find it very hard to find any reason not to like them.

Plus, I like They Might Be Giants. Rock.

Chaos Cricket · Post by **Chaos Cricket** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 5:03 pm

Cake's great. I probably should have put their distant relation, Soul Coughing, on the list, too. Gotta love me some deep slacker jazz, oh yeah.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 5:08 pm

Ah, I forgot about Cake. They make me happy.

Zhan_Dvega · Post by **Zhan_Dvega** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 5:46 pm

Bleh, I've only listened to classic rock on the radio for a good couple of years now, and I hardly listen to that anymore. I don't remember who said it, but I agree with them when they said everyone nowadays sound the same, for the most part. Though I have been meaning to look into that album by "Jet", that one song they have out that's real popular sounds nice.

I, whether or not music was better or not, like pop/rock from the 60's and 70's (and some 80's and 90's) more than I do modern music. I just find it more... amiable, I guess. There's only so many distorted guitars, screamy, crybaby vocals, and equaly crybaby lyrics I can handle. :| Give me rich arrangements, beautiful melodies and harmonies over that other stuff anyday.

The majority of my collection are 60's and 70's music (Beatles [and solo Beatles], Fleetwood Mac, Beach Boys, Electric Light Orchestra, Rolling Stones, Billy Joel, Alan Parsons Project) and some 90's music (No Doubt, Oasis, the Verve)

I haven't gotten too much into 80's music (unless by a band that started in an earlier decade) because I've been watching a lot of VH1 Classics on digital cable, and have come to the realization that the 80's owes us an appology. :|

Chaos Cricket · Post by **Chaos Cricket** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 5:56 pm

Argh! I forgot to list ELO, too!

Dammit, I listen to too much music.

Psiogen · Post by **Psiogen** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:11 pm

My current favorite bands...LISTEN TO THEM OR DIE:

The Beach Boys, Beatles, Kinks, Zombies, Bob Dylan, etc.
King Crimson
XTC
Gentle Giant
Pixies
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
They Might Be Giants
Radiohead
The Flaming Lips
Yes
Brian Eno
Talking Heads
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Dismemberment Plan
Genesis
The Decemberists
Super Furry Animals
The Velvet Underground

Luprand · Post by **Luprand** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:58 pm

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Have fun.

--Sij

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:07 pm

Ratbert wrote:Hey, good to see Cake is making everybody's list. Cake is the most non-offensive band ever...not lyrically, but musically. I would find it very hard to find any reason not to like them.

Plus, I like They Might Be Giants. Rock.

Ah, yes, Cake. I got one CD from him too, unfortunately not the one with "He's going to distance" which rocks my world.

Otherwise I listen to him cause he reminds me of Beck. Well, the sound, the arangement, the use of instruments, particulary rhythm section, it just somunds similar. 'course, Beck is much more crazy.

Fi13r · Post by **Fi13r** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:12 pm

I don't like Linkin Park because too many of their songs use identical riffs or sound too much like each other.

I think the few purely-insturmental music they've done has been vastly better than all their other material with lyrics (some of their insturmental-only music actually sounds pretty cutting-edge, in fact), and I think if they did an album that was ONLY insturmental like that, it might be much better than what they usually do. But it would be much less popular.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:33 pm

TOXIC AVENGER! wrote:Hey Megalomaniac
I know Jesus
Yeah, I'm the fucking antichrist
Watch yourself maniac
Step down! Step down!
Step down!

*Ponders rumored anti-Bush message in song*

Listen to the bonus track on Funker vogt's Surviors on the US version. now that track has some anti-bushness.

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