Thread: what are you listening to???

fun story about "i sit on acid". . . i was introduced to that track my freshman year of college, 1992. . . you know how they bring the high school seniors on college tours? we realized that our dorm room, a corner unit, sat right above a point where the tour guides always stopped to talk. . . whenever we saw them down there, all starry-eyed with their parents in tow, we'd shove a big speaker out on our window sill, and blast that song. . . "darling come here, f**k me up the rear!"

appreciate you, dog

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

appreciate you, dog

thanks, homie. . . couple more. . .

Thanks dudes. This is where I ended up:

Into Dust - Mazzy Star
Fade Away - Trevor Something
Under Your Spell - Desire
Glory Box - Portishead
Possession - Sarah McLachlan
Love Song for a Vampire - Annie Lennox
Fitzpleasure - Alt-J
Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge
I Sit on Acid - Lords of Acid
Love's Secret Domain - Coil
Play - David Banner
Pretty When You Cry - VAST
Time To Find Me - Seefeel/AFX
#1 Crush - Garbage (Nellee Hooper remix)
Spin Spin Sugar - Sneaker Pimps
Messin' up the Sheets - Juliette Ashby
Junglebook - Esthero
Apple Juice Kissing - Deee-Lite
Play with Me - Rendezvous at Two
Acid Rain - Lorn
Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby - Cigarettes After Sex
All Is Full of Love - Bjork

I'm happy how it turned out.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/67...95222d76464b11

North, meant to tell you I really enjoyed the Steve Von Till track. Exceptional.

Sarah McLachlan's "Possession" -- I can't stop listening to that bass. I hope I'm able to play like that one day, it's so damned good.

I can't believe I've never heard Possession and Love Song for a Vampire. JFC they are good.

(insert Sephiroth song)

Still a banger of an album 10 years later.

I look forward to listening to that. Japandroids.

Dream Theater - Live at Budokan.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

I look forward to listening to that. Japandroids.

Dream Theater - Live at Budokan.

If you are also a fan of the album, this is a good anniversary writeup on it:

https://www.stereogum.com/2187862/ja...e-anniversary/

At this point, I don’t think I need to spend a lot of time describing what Celebration Rock actually sounds like. Critics like myself had to get more creative in 2012, whereas nowadays, I can just say “dudes rock” and be done with it — “dudes” as either an adjective and a noun, “rock” as either a verb or a noun. It’s a non-toxic masculinity, where a constant chorus of whoas, yeahs, high-fives, and bear hugs aren’t deflections from sharing deeply held emotions to friends and partners but expressions of them in their purest form — something closer to a purifying primal scream than the oversharing and self-deprecation and buzzwords that have arisen alongside the mainstreaming of therapeutic language.

For all of its bluster and overstatement and astronomical stakes, King taps into something volatile and vulnerable: “I’m talking about the night you felt that way — that one time,” he explained. Just about every second of this album hits that sore spot from multiple angles — the lifelong pursuit of trying to put words to that indescribable feeling and also the fear that it really was that one time.

Even though Japandroids released a legendary rock album, it does not present King and Prowse as people who were born for this shit, a la their heroes in Guns N’ Roses or AC/DC (let alone U2). It does not strike me as a work of magic or genius, even the kind exhibited by Paul Westerberg or Robert Pollard, guys who have likely forgotten more songs than Japandroids will ever write. They don’t even provide the lifeblood of punk rock, the vicarious thrill of seeing a couple of normal guys on stage and thinking, “I could do that.” Even in 2012, they were an outlier amongst wildly prolific garage rockers (Ty Segall, Cloud Nothings), DIY rawk lifers (Screaming Females, the Men), crusty post-rock titans (GY!BE, Swans), and vibey visionaries (DIIV, Tame Impala). Japandroids embodied maybe the dirtiest word in indie rock — tryhard.

Rather than trying to deny this obvious quality, it inspired one of the most insightful things I’ve ever seen an artist say about their own music: “There’s a difference between people who are born with that special thing and people who love the people who are born with that special thing so much that they want to try their best to get as close as they can to it.”

This is their most popular song which you may have heard, but just in case you haven't.



And if they try to slow you down,
Tell em all to go to hell