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USCHO Music Thread 3: They Heard Me Singing

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I have R.E.M. playing today. Songs like "Orange Crush" off of Green and "Nightswimming" off Automatic for the People just remind me of summer.
 
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The entire Murmur album reminds me of fall, for although I bought it earlier in the summer, it got a lot of play while driving around that fall, the first fall where I wasn't heading off to school. But visiting friends still in school quite often, and this was often playing while doing so.
 
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R.E.M. invokes so many lasting memories including for me probably the 2nd best concert I've ever been to at Alpine in 1989 as well as hanging out with friends in jr. high through college.
 
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Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill
Tremonti - Dust
The Cult - Love
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
 
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Gin Blossoms - new miserable experience.

I was never into this band but recently read the story of Doug Hopkins, their original guitar player who evidently wrote most of this lp including the music and lyrics to all of the hits. What an incredibly sad end to get kicked out of a band due to alcoholism and then watch them hit number 1 with songs he wrote on top of the fact they extorted 1/2 of his publishing rights and all of his mechanical royalties.

Listening to the lyrics now reveals a kind of beauty. Power pop with brooding, and refreshingly honest lyrics
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
On one hand, the structure and the chord progression sound like too much of a coincidence.

On the other hand...it's been 45 years.
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That same chord progression has been used going back to Bach. I was going through YouTube a couple months ago watching videos on this debate. One guy had a video where it spliced that same chord progression in more than 30 different rock and pop songs, many of them well known, and then it also included a recording of some symphony performing Bach's piece with that same progression.
 
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So I've gone and gotten myself hooked on vaporwave.

Something those wild Internet kiddos dreamed up. EDM with old 80's/90's synths chopped up and remixed. Think being alone in K-mart at 1 AM or circa 1995 corporate training video, but with more of a groove. There's also lots of imagery of late 80's/90's corporate culture run amok (the idea is the music is kind of poking fun at this stuff.)

There's plenty of it a Youtube search away. This video is a pretty good primer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgEGqK9wl44
 
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Twitch Boy said:
So I've gone and gotten myself hooked on vaporwave.

Something those wild Internet kiddos dreamed up. EDM with old 80's/90's synths chopped up and remixed. Think being alone in K-mart at 1 AM or circa 1995 corporate training video, but with more of a groove. There's also lots of imagery of late 80's/90's corporate culture run amok (the idea is the music is kind of poking fun at this stuff.)

There's plenty of it a Youtube search away. This video is a pretty good primer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgEGqK9wl44
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Listened to a sample. I get it, but nah. It's ALMOST there for me, but not quite.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Listened to a sample. I get it, but nah. It's ALMOST there for me, but not quite.
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I like it as background while I'm web surfing or reading or working - a nice groove to aid concentration, enough there to be interesting, but not too much that it becomes a distraction.

Reminds me of when Gran Turismo used to use the cheesy jazz in the menus.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
So I've gone and gotten myself hooked on vaporwave.

Something those wild Internet kiddos dreamed up. EDM with old 80's/90's synths chopped up and remixed. Think being alone in K-mart at 1 AM or circa 1995 corporate training video, but with more of a groove. There's also lots of imagery of late 80's/90's corporate culture run amok (the idea is the music is kind of poking fun at this stuff.)

There's plenty of it a Youtube search away. This video is a pretty good primer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgEGqK9wl44
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I'll take my 80s synth straight, thanks.
 
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Kepler said:
I'll take my 80s synth straight, thanks.
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That song was one of the two that started me on my path away from classic rock. When I first got to Maine, there were two radio stations we could get, one was Top 40(think, Endless Love) and the other was Steven King's hard rock station, like Scorpions and Dokken. So I discovered the campus radio station. Echo Beach and India by the Psychedelic Furs were two of the songs in very heavy rotation when I first started listening. Hadn't heard anything like them.

I'll take my 80's synths straight, also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3jG5x7yCrI
 
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rufus said:
That song was one of the two that started me on my path away from classic rock. When I first got to Maine, there were two radio stations we could get, one was Top 40(think, Endless Love) and the other was Steven King's hard rock station, like Scorpions and Dokken. So I discovered the campus radio station. Echo Beach and India by the Psychedelic Furs were two of the songs in very heavy rotation when I first started listening. Hadn't heard anything like them.

I'll take my 80's synths straight, also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3jG5x7yCrI
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For me it was the Post Punk Progressive Pop Party on the Hofstra radio station in 1978. It melted my middle school head. At 14 I was listening to "Tommy" and "Kashmir." At 15 I was listening to "Horses" and "Hamburger Lady."
 
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