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USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

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Kepler said:
It's... soothing. I tend to find this genre as all sounding alike: (but that criticism always says more about the listener than the listened to) incidental music in a Manic Pixie Dream Girl ironic romcom montage. OTOH, it would have spoken to me in a voice like thunder when I was 19.

To every thing there is a season.

And I must admit, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, which lives right next door, is to me a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
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Soothing depends upon the song. And a lot of people think it really jarring when listening to the lyrics. It's like they tried to temper the morose lyrics with the soothing sound on many of the tracks.
 
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St. Clown said:
Soothing depends upon the song. And a lot of people think it really jarring when listening to the lyrics. It's like they tried to temper the morose lyrics with the soothing sound on many of the tracks.
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This may well be true. Many songs need to be listened to several times before they start working into you. I loathed Marquee Moon the first time I heard it, now I think it's excellent. And people say the same thing about Trout Mask Replica, which still leaves me annoyed and unsatisfied.
 
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Kepler said:
You're currently in the lead for least overlap with my experience: I have heard 2 of these albums, and I have heard of just 5 of these acts. I'm taking it as a homework assignment.
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Beatles
Chris Stapleton - Bluesy country. The guy has written about 30 major country (and non-country) music in the last ten years. He finally did a solo album and took home just about every award in country music in 2016 (and should have won for Tennessee Whiskey in 2017). He would have won album of the year Grammy in 2016 if Taylor Swift had released 1989 in any other year.
Eric Church - Country/rock.
Norah Jones - jazz/blues/pop - An argument could easily be made that this isn't her best album, but it has my favorite song of hers on it (Chasing Pirates)
Rilo Kiley - Alt - This was the best of their albums, but Silver Lining on Under the Blacklight is my favorite song of theirs
Smashing Pumpkins - Kind of goes without saying
Taylor Swift - I think this was the best of her albums. I might get some ridicule for this selection but it's one of the best produced albums I've heard in years in the pop world, YMM(greatly)V.
Tedeschi Trucks - Classicish rock. Midnight in Harlem has my favorite guitar solo of all time. Derek Trucks absolutely kills it.
The Who - No explanation needed.
Zwan - This was Billy Corgan's band after Smashing Pumpkins broke up. It's nothing like anything Smashing Pumpkins put out. It's alternative and one of the first albums I could really listen to cover to cover.
 
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A lot of reasonable people, (mainly Brits, but others as well) put the Smiths 'The Queen is Dead' down as one of the greatest albums of all time. Perhaps the problem I have had then is listening to it enough to really get it working. But that is never going to happen.
 
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Kepler said:
It's... soothing. I tend to find this genre as all sounding alike: (but that criticism always says more about the listener than the listened to) incidental music in a Manic Pixie Dream Girl ironic romcom montage. OTOH, it would have spoken to me in a voice like thunder when I was 19.

To every thing there is a season.

And I must admit, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, which lives right next door, is to me a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
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Rilo Kiley was my go to back in college (2003-2007) while doing homework.
 
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Kepler said:
You're currently in the lead for least overlap with my experience: I have heard 2 of these albums, and I have heard of just 5 of these acts. I'm taking it as a homework assignment.
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I accept your challenge...

Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust
The Wombats - Glitterbug
Autechre - EP7
Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
Atari Teenage Riot - Burn Berlin Burn
Portishead - Live at Roseland
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Dr Dre - The Chronic
Atlas Genius - When it Was Now
The Aquabats - The Fury of the Aquabats
 
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Wisko McBadgerton said:
Maybe, but I've def. seen some bad reviews:

One star- wouldn't recommend.
-- Snake Plissken 1981

Two thumbs down. Very unfriendly. Terrible trip.
-- The Warriors 1979
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That's almost forty years ago. It's changed. A lot. I went into the city a few times in the early 80s and hated it. Every time I've been in the last decade I've loved it. To be fair, part of that is it's the meanest city on Earth to be poor in, and one of the best (London, Rome, Geneva, Shanghai) to be comfortable.
 
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Kepler said:
That's almost forty years ago. It's changed. A lot. I went into the city a few times in the early 80s and hated it. Every time I've been in the last decade I've loved it. To be fair, part of that is it's the meanest city on Earth to be poor in, and one of the best (London, Rome, Geneva, Shanghai) to be comfortable.
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Yeah, I've been, but not in the last couple years. In fact, Mrs. McBadgerton just said this weekend she wants to visit again, maybe around Christmas. But anyway, it's no surprise, I mean Starsky and Hutch and then Sipowicz were bound to get the upper hand eventually, especially when Batman came back. (This isn't a spoiler is it? I mean everyone knows Gotham City is really New York, right?) Heck by the mid 90's a couple of broke Friends could afford an apartment bigger than Seinfeld, who had to be pulling eight figures, easy. Don't think that's still the case. New York 'comfortable' is pretty freakin' rich every where else, and being pretty freakin' rich is pretty freakin' great anywhere. LA for example. Or not actually LA, but the Palisades or Topanga Canyon or Malibu. Great place to be wealthy. You don't have to worry about traffic.

And man, look what they've done to Brooklyn!
Sure it was bad, but I say put Huggy Bear and the mob and the hookers, pimps, and pushers back. At least they had some style.
 
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Wisko McBadgerton said:
Mrs. McBadgerton just said this weekend she wants to visit again, maybe around Christmas.
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Mistake. The worst times to go to NYC are Christmas (bloody tourists) and August (sweltering and the Mets are already eliminated).

Go in late September, early October. Manhattan is, against all its instincts, honest to god lovely in the fall.
 
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St. Clown said:
Well, they're a band from Los Angeles that made it big in Omaha, when that city was going through a musical revival of sorts. The band members are roughly my age.
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That should be the title to someone's next album.
 
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Kepler said:
Mistake. The worst times to go to NYC are Christmas (bloody tourists) and August (sweltering and the Mets are already eliminated).

Go in late September, early October. Manhattan is, against all its instincts, honest to god lovely in the fall.
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Problem is that I find, in the Northern Hemisphere anyway, fall is the best time to be everywhere. It's even the best time in Florida. No tourists, (which is huge and also why I'm never overly keen on NYC at Christmas. But one has to do what one must when it comes to keeping in Mrs.' good graces.) the ocean is like a comfortable bath, the rainy season has ended, the beach, fishing, diving, surfing, sailing, etc. are all at their best and no reservations are required anywhere.

Talk about sweltering --now it's sweltering here with a capital SWELT, and it storms so much that I literally did not notice that TS Emily was hitting 75 miles away until 6 or 8 hours after the fact.
 
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Wisko McBadgerton said:
Problem is that I find, in the Northern Hemisphere anyway, fall is the best time to be everywhere. It's even the best time in Florida. No tourists, (which is huge and also why I'm never overly keen on NYC at Christmas. But one has to do what one must when it comes to keeping in Mrs.' good graces.) the ocean is like a comfortable bath, the rainy season has ended, the beach, fishing, diving, surfing, sailing, etc. are all at their best and no reservations are required anywhere.

Talk about sweltering --now it's sweltering here with a capital SWELT, and it storms so much that I literally did not notice that TS Emily was hitting 75 miles away until 6 or 8 hours after the fact.
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Fall sucks in the PNW. The rains have started.
 
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June 1 to August 31 it's the best climate on earth.

September 1 to May 31 it's suicide-inducing.
 
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If I'm stuck on an island, I would prefer to have greatest hits of various artists rather than a studio album. However....

The Dark side of the Moon - Pink Floyd - this needs no explanation
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John - I'm kinda embarrassed but I really like this one
On An Island - David Gilmour - Not only a great album but the title is so appropriate
Carolina Dreams - Marshall Tucker Band - My first exposure to the best of SC
Aja - Steely Dan - since this is only 7 songs, can I bring The Royal Scam too?
Exodus - Bob Marley - How can you be on an island and be without some Marley?
The Legend Lives Anew - Hank Williams Sr. - When I was a kid my father played this until the grooves flattened out. I learned to love Hank.
Cryptic - Here Come the Mummies - Their best studio album but Undead Live is much better
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Neil at his finest
Lay Down, Lay Low - The Steel Wheels - back to my roots
 
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Pearl Jam – Ten
The Black Crowes – Croweology (might break the compilation rule, but they recorded all acoustic versions of the band’s favorite songs they previously released on other albums specifically for this album)
The Beatles – Rubber Soul
Led Zeppelin - IV
Rilo Kiley – The Execution of All Things
Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
Garth Brooks – Ropin’ the Wind
Garbage – Bleed Like Me
My Goodness – Shiver + Shake
Walk Off the Earth – R.E.V.O.
 
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