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  • Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭lewisdhead


    Zero1986 wrote: »
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    Also if you're looking for more stuff along similar lines check out the new album by Welsh band The School called Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything. It's very 60's pop-inspired and it's as addictive as fuck.

    Thanks for that. I will check it out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 597 ✭✭✭one man clappin


    Ben Howard - Every Kingdom.

    Saw him last week on Later, brilliant performance.





  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    Anyone recommend any Flaming Lips albums pre-Soft Bulletin? Was recently watching the Fearless Freaks documentary on Sky Arts which got me digging out the few Lips albums that I have.

    In order of preference I have Yoshimi (****in masterpiece!), At War with the Mystics, and Soft Bulletin.

    Also, gave a listen to the latest effort Embryonic, wasn't really getting into it. Should I give it another go?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Anyone recommend any Flaming Lips albums pre-Soft Bulletin? Was recently watching the Fearless Freaks documentary on Sky Arts which got me digging out the few Lips albums that I have.

    In order of preference I have Yoshimi (****in masterpiece!), At War with the Mystics, and Soft Bulletin.

    Also, gave a listen to the latest effort Embryonic, wasn't really getting into it. Should I give it another go?
    Get your paws on Clouds Taste Metallic and Transmissions From The Satellite Heart, you will not be disappointed. Their mid-90's era is my favourite Flaming Lips period, the sound on those albums isn't as heavily-produced as their later stuff and has a rawer, crunchier guitar-driven sound. They are both magnificent albums with plenty of memorable tunes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭mooliki


    Just bought AU's last labum, Both Lights, released in April. Possibly an acquired taste, but personal favourites, and there are some pretty amazing tunes on this. Listen to Solid Gold.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭Delightfully Pessimistic


    Some albums I'd recommend, now these are entirely dependent on taste.

    Radiohead: OK Computer
    Muse: Showbiz
    Nirvana: In Utero (Very Under-appreciated album)
    Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power
    Rage Against the Machine: Rage Against the Machine
    Weezer: Pinkerton (I personally prefer it to the blue album)
    System of a Down: Mezmerize
    Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik

    Its a lot I know, just some personal recommendations.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9 reddevilgirl96


    The Maccabees- Given to the Wild
    Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory
    Oasis- any of their albums
    Sum 41- All Killer no Filler
    Nirvana- Nevermind and their MTV Unpluged album


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    The Maccabees- Given to the Wild
    Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory
    Oasis- any of their albums
    Sum 41- All Killer no Filler
    Nirvana- Nevermind and their MTV Unpluged album

    I think you have stumbled into the wrong thread.

    Not alt/indie in the slighest. But you did use their correctly so that makes me happy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    lordgoat wrote: »
    I think you have stumbled into the wrong thread.

    Not alt/indie in the slighest. But you did use their correctly so that makes me happy.

    Quiet you.

    Nirvana shall always be welcomed in this forum as long as I'm around.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9 reddevilgirl96


    lordgoat wrote: »
    I think you have stumbled into the wrong thread.

    Not alt/indie in the slighest. But you did use their correctly so that makes me happy.
    I'm sorry but you clearly do not know music or you cannot read I admit that the Maccabees and Oasis are alt/indie bit they are awesome and the original post says name an album that grew on you it doesn't specify what genre AND Linkin Park, Sum 41 AND Nirvana are all AMAZING rock bands with GREAT ALBUMS!:p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    I'm sorry but you clearly do not know music or you cannot read I admit that the Maccabees and Oasis are alt/indie bit they are awesome and the original post says name an album that grew on you it doesn't specify what genre AND Linkin Park, Sum 41 AND Nirvana are all AMAZING rock bands with GREAT ALBUMS!:p
    I never thought I'd see the day when a Linkin Park and Sum 41 fan tells someone in an alternative/indie that they don't know music :D

    But since you like Nirvana I suggest that you should look into some of the bands that influenced them, like Melvins, Big Black, Scratch Acid and Mudhoney.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9 reddevilgirl96


    Zero1986 wrote: »
    I never thought I'd see the day when a Linkin Park and Sum 41 fan tells someone in an alternative/indie that they don't know music :D

    But since you like Nirvana I suggest that you should look into some of the bands that influenced them, like Melvins, Big Black, Scratch Acid and Mudhoney.
    Thanks for the referals:) Did you know that Kurt Cobain also loved the Beatles? Also Linkin Park and Sum 41 are awesome!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    I'm sorry but you clearly do not know music or you cannot read.

    Please be civil when dealing with other people on boards. That includes not telling people in the music forums that they "clearly do not know music".

    We're in the Alt/Indie forum so while that's a very broad and oft-debated genre we do ask people to try and keep in the general area that it encompasses.

    Thanks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 769 ✭✭✭dan185


    haha, I'm glad I decided to catch up on this thread.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24 Sheriffz


    Battles - Gloss Drop
    The Postal Service - Give Up
    Portrico Quartet - Self Titled
    Clams Casino - Intrumental Mixtape 2


  • Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭ohsurelook


    Recommend an Arctic Monkeys album?


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭jakobgallagher




  • Registered Users Posts: 223 ✭✭rocky raccoon


    My two cents is Ryan Adams Demolition, listen to it, nuff said


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭Brokentime


    Not sure if anyone'll read this, but you should really check out the album 23 by Blonde Redhead.

    Another great one I've listened (again) to lately is Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Angrybastard


    Brokentime wrote: »
    Not sure if anyone'll read this, but you should really check out the album 23 by Blonde Redhead.

    Another great one I've listened (again) to lately is Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.

    Loveless is a classic, and I'm sure there are many worn vinyl copies lying around.

    My new guy (new to me) is Richard Hawley.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcRzbjGlPNQ


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭Brokentime


    Loveless is a classic, and I'm sure there are many worn vinyl copies lying around.

    My new guy (new to me) is Richard Hawley.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcRzbjGlPNQ

    I got into Loveless by that kind of shoegaze backdoor. Got into a band called Lush in the start, then to Blonde Redhead, Asobi Seku (all shoegaze), before moving over to My Bloody Valentine. Hearing some of Kevin Shield's music on Lost for Translation was fantastic, too.

    Seems that shoegaze, real shoegaze, is a dying breed, though.

    What's this Richard Hawley like? I can't get Youtube here.


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Angrybastard


    Brokentime wrote: »
    I got into Loveless by that kind of shoegaze backdoor. Got into a band called Lush in the start, then to Blonde Redhead, Asobi Seku (all shoegaze), before moving over to My Bloody Valentine. Hearing some of Kevin Shield's music on Lost for Translation was fantastic, too.

    Seems that shoegaze, real shoegaze, is a dying breed, though.

    What's this Richard Hawley like? I can't get Youtube here.

    He's a guy from Sheffield, with a voice like velvet and sings about his tortured/romantic outlook on things. Very smooth. We're not talking shoegaze here!
    My wife describes him as a latter day Eddie Cochrane, which is not far off the mark, but don't let that put you off.
    Try him on spotify or his site may let you stream some tracks.
    He's also a decent guitarist and was briefly in Pulp.

    If you're looking for some recent shoegaze, try The War on Drugs. Also Kurt Vile's Smoke Ring for my Halo (I think he may have been part of War on Drugs at one point).


  • Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭woof im a dog


    richard hawley is brilliant give coles corner a listen


  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭larrykinney


    +90 to all the recommendations for 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' by Wilco, prob my favourite record ever. Shortly after its release Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche of Wilco recorded an album under the name 'Loose Fur' (the album was also called Loose Fur) with Jim 'O Rourke, the guy who mixed YHF and produced the follow up, 'A Ghost is Born (also excellent). Tweedy and Kotche also played on 'O Rourkes album 'Insignificance', released around the same time. All these records are v v good and worth checking out IMHO.


  • Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭Luis21



    Hardly, weakest album of their discography


  • Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭Suspicious Dave


    Ah hello.

    I'm in a bit of musical lull recently, I can't seem to find anything new that I really love. Very few albums in the last 7 or 8 years have stuck with me longer than a month. I end up going back to the old reliables that I have played to death. I scour review sites and blogs but nothing takes. The old reliables being albums like

    QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf
    Dredg - El Cielo
    Mew - ...And the Glass Handed Kites

    but especially Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium. Nothing has ever blown me away as consistently as this does. Power, musicality, dynamics, originality, groove, hooks - it just ticks all my ruddy boxes.

    Can anyone suggest any bands/albums that might come close to this?


  • Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭chris1970


    Ah hello.

    I'm in a bit of musical lull recently, I can't seem to find anything new that I really love. Very few albums in the last 7 or 8 years have stuck with me longer than a month. I end up going back to the old reliables that I have played to death. I scour review sites and blogs but nothing takes. The old reliables being albums like

    QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf
    Dredg - El Cielo
    Mew - ...And the Glass Handed Kites

    but especially Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium. Nothing has ever blown me away as consistently as this does. Power, musicality, dynamics, originality, groove, hooks - it just ticks all my ruddy boxes.

    Can anyone suggest any bands/albums that might come close to this?

    brillant stuff, one of a kind really, overplayed deloused , gonna stick it on the phone for work tomorrow, try 'ride' albums from early 90's , or get last.fm similar sounding bands sometimes crop up


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    I think Frames by Oceansize is one of those albums everyone needs in their collection.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    Brokentime wrote: »
    Not sure if anyone'll read this, but you should really check out the album 23 by Blonde Redhead.

    I would say misery is a butterfly is their masterpiece..23 is still good though


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭francois


    If anyone is into drone/psyche like Wooden Shjips/hawkwind/Spacemen 3, this is a great record



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