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USCHO Music Thread: We All Have A Crush On Shirley Manson

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MissThundercat said:
Arcade Fire, Death Cab, and Counting Crows were easy to listen to when I was super depressed. Now that I've come out, started hormones, my MSW, etc, and my life is improving, I want music that matches my mood. Mama Wendy got me going on Sara Bareilles, Norah Jones, Ingrid Michaelson, etc, and that's been the music of my transition.
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And from my POV: how many times do I need to hear "Help," "Welcome To The Jungle," "Start Me Up," etc? As you said, if I'm in the mood, sure. But otherwise....
 
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The Rube said:
And from my POV: how many times do I need to hear "Help," "Welcome To The Jungle," "Start Me Up," etc? As you said, if I'm in the mood, sure. But otherwise....
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You don't have downloaded music nor do you listen to anything from when you were a teenager? My musical rotation is vast, but I don't go very long without listening to most of the following. Not every day, but I listen to music most of the day in my office and it's pretty likely there are bands from way back when that come up at least once a week.

The Cure
The Replacements
REM
U2
The Beatles
Zeppelin
The Who
The Clash
Etc.
Etc.

Maybe you also need to go deeper into musical catalogs. There's way better material from each respective band than Help, WTTJ and SMU. :)
 
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The Rube said:
And from my POV: how many times do I need to hear "Help," "Welcome To The Jungle," "Start Me Up," etc? As you said, if I'm in the mood, sure. But otherwise....
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No matter what I have pretty much thumbs downed every band's top selling songs on Pandora. I've just heard them tool many times -- even bands I really love. I would much rather hear a band's 100th most popular song for the first time than their most popular for the 100th.

We could do the world a favor and erase all of these songs, for a start. And there are plenty of people on that list (Chubby Checker, Santana, the Police, Blondie, the Monkees, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye) worth listening to.
 
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Slap Shot said:
You don't have downloaded music nor do you listen to anything from when you were a teenager? My musical rotation is vast, but I don't go very long without listening to most of the following. Not every day, but I listen to music most of the day in my office and it's pretty likely there are bands from way back when that come up at least once a week.

The Cure
The Replacements
REM
U2
The Beatles
Zeppelin
The Who
The Clash
Etc.
Etc.

Maybe you also need to go deeper into musical catalogs. There's way better material from each respective band than Help, WTTJ and SMU. :)
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I do, but nowadays I have to be in the mood to hear the "hits." ;) That's one reason I started listening to the Current a couple years ago. The corpie stations around here play the same old stuff I've heard for the last few decades. IF there is a new song, they'll hype it for a month or two, then it disappears.

FTR: of that list you have, I have most of the Cure, ALL of the Zeppelin, and not a big enough fan of anyone else on the list to get anything more than their Greatest Hits stuff.

Related: While AC/DC's Back In Black is a tremendous album, TNT (US version was Dirty Deeds) album was way better, IMO. And I think Whole Lotta Rosie was their best song. The guitar work, especially at the end, was so sick. And "Ride On" is such an underrated song.
 
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Me in my teens: this radio station is playing my jams.

Me in my 20s: this bar is playing my jams.

Me in my 30s: the grocery store is playing my jams.

What happens when I hit 40? The oldies station is playing my jams?
 
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MissThundercat said:
Me in my teens: this radio station is playing my jams.

Me in my 20s: this bar is playing my jams.

Me in my 30s: the grocery store is playing my jams.

What happens when I hit 40? The oldies station is playing my jams?
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Yes. I've heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the "classic rock" station.
The old joke was: did you know Will Smith was a rapper? Or Mark Wahlberg? (Some of my co-workers were legit shocked). Now, the joke is, "There's a whole generation that only knows Billy Ray Cyrus for Old Town Road, and not Achy Breaky Heart.
 
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MissThundercat said:
Me in my teens: this radio station is playing my jams.

Me in my 20s: this bar is playing my jams.

Me in my 30s: the grocery store is playing my jams.

What happens when I hit 40? The oldies station is playing my jams?
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50's: The Elevator is playing my jams
60's: The Doctor's office is playing my jams
70's: What???
 
Twitch Boy said:
I need to read Ghost Rider.

Neil went on a cross-continent motorcycle trip to get his mind straight after losing his wife and daughter in the span of a year and wrote about it.
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Yeah, I heard the book is great. I have it but I have like 40 other books to get to including by The Replacements Trouble Boys that i’m Not sure when i’ll Get to Ghost Rider. Hopefully by the end of the year if I keep up my reading discipline.
 
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Oof, tried to play Tom Sawyer and Red Barchetta on drums for the first time in forever. Now those are real workouts. And now way in hell i’ll Be able to nail every nuance.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million, doesn't matter who dies
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Yep. That blurb from Revolution Calling and then the stuff about AK-47's from the next album's song Empire are very prophetic.
 
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Started to get into The Script. They had a huge hit with "Hall Of Fame," but I'm liking their other stuff!
 
Also, Kesha is on tour this summer, and I plan to see her in Chicago with VIP passes. Her albums Warrior and Rainbow have helped define my transition.
 
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Halsey is just a massive talent. Phenomenal on SNL last night.
 
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Pearl Jam’s new single is interesting. I’m curious to hear the rest of the LP.
 
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solovsfett said:
Pearl Jam’s new single is interesting. I’m curious to hear the rest of the LP.
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Heard it on The Current (89.3 in MPLS) and IIRC it was Jade who was DJing at the time, and said it was Talking Heads-esque. I can't disagree with that. It sure doesn't sound like Pearl Jam, that's for sure. I'll have to hear it a couple more times before deciding if I really like it or not. As of right now...meh at best.
 
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Assuming we're talking about Dance Of The Clairvoyants, I like it. It has some vaguely Brian Eno elements but it is far more hard rock than funk. It sounds more like Danny Elfman than David Byrne.

They tuned their guitars major rather than minor and everybody freaked out. :) Grunge is dead. Leave discordance to Wagner.
 
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As much fun as these guys were I never really appreciated how good they were.

Also, Daryl Hall is way cooler than I thought.
 
Kepler said:
Assuming we're talking about Dance Of The Clairvoyants, I like it. It has some vaguely Brian Eno elements but it is far more hard rock than funk. It sounds more like Danny Elfman than David Byrne.

They tuned their guitars major rather than minor and everybody freaked out. :) Grunge is dead. Leave discordance to Wagner.
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Pearl Jam was never really grunge, they just came out the same time as some other Seattle grunge bands were transitioning to more mainstream (or some formerly more hair-metal esq bands like Alice In Chains were being influenced by the grunge sound). Stone Nd Jeff were in a grunge band “Green River” before Mother Love Bone, but MLB was more glam rock influenced. The “real” grunge bands were Mudhoney, “Bleach” era Nirvana (by Nevermind they were departing from the super slow grunge sound)
 
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