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What song are you currently addicted to?
Sometimes i find a song that i end up playing on repeat for almost the whole day, i bet many of you know what i mean. I even get cravings for days, often playing it directly after i wake up to set the tone of my day.
The songs i cannot stop listening to at the moment are Milk by Sweet Trip and Be On Fire by Chrome Sparks
"I Feel Better" by Gotye
Though he was considered by most to be a one-hit wonder with "Somebody That I Used To Know," the entire album is pretty good. If you haven't listened to the album, do yourself a favor and check it out. Another favorite of mine from it is the corky song "State of the Art."
Easy Way Out is also underappreciated.
I see your point of it being corky in a way. But there is nothing wrong with a good ole feel good track to lighten the mood. I have heard this one before, my immediate thought is that i heard this in a movie at some point? If not, it would fit super well in a light feel good movie, where the antagonist finally got the girl, dancing down the street with flowers and confetti :D
The corky one is the song "State of the Art" from the same album
oh, i kind of find "i feel better" more korky or corny.
The "songs giving me life" (as NPR puts it) right now are probably Tiger by Sons of Kemet, and a live recording of One Word by Mahavishnu Orchestra.
I feel like you might like affro-beat and African jazz? I love listening to Ethiopian jazz, or as it is called ethio jazz. Where my favorite music composer is Mulatu Astatke
I forget exactly how I discovered Sons of Kemet, but I'm not particularly into or against Afro-beat and African jazz. I'm ignorant on the topic more than anything. But I'm enjoying this album a good bit so far!
Really digging Tiger. Looking forward to exploring Sons of Kemet. Have you ever listened to GOAT?
From his Isolar II tour in 1978, when he played it for the first time live, is my personal favorite version of the song. Low is an overall incredible album, from front to back (Some might say his best ever).
"Wish you were here" by Pink Floyd
I've already posted it to the group, but I have listened to Goodbye, Goodbye by Tegan And Sara way too much these last two weeks. Thanks, Rachel!
Yo i heard they suck live!!! Also, Fat Michael Berkowitz is the man.
Holdupholdupholdupholdup. Ima let you finish. But, WHAT?! What is going on there? Is this like the pre-Ellis Island spelling or something?
Without going to deep i think your view of the song and its video left an impression on me. A personal one. I think all art including music have personal meaning for each person. Good music are often able to convey emotion, What those emotions mean are different to each person.
Thank you for giving me a look into what the emotions that grew within you while listening to this, and what they meant to you.
"Thick Niggas and Anime Tiddies" by DBangz.
Do you remember Big Booty Bitchez? This reminds me of this. Or like old Tyler the Creator except is Tyler was better at rapping and funnier.
Oh man. Were they ever. Man so many great memories. Pie day? Frickin homestar runner and strongbad? They're taking the hobbits to eisengard? One ring to rule them all?
I would trade today's meme culture for that era in a second. The kids these days are so hostile and meanspirited!
All your pie is what I remember as "Pie day!!!!" Fuck this is getting me nostalgic and shit. Piiiiiiie daaaaay! Don't you eat this piiiiiiie! Piiiiie day! Lisa needs braces!" Wowee did I watch a lot of legendary frog. It's too bad flash animation is less common these days.
Picross 3D (a Nintendo DS puzzle game) soundtracks.
I kinda of got sick of it after looping it, but I still love the song Lone Digger by Carnava Palace
But in more recent times I'm down for anything by Bo En
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Ha! this brings me back a few years and makes me think of a good old friend, we drifted apart. But every time i listen to electro swing i think about him. This must be around 10 years ago by now, time flies.
I've recently embarked on a project of listening to every single Weird Al album.
This has been sneaking back into my head for the last week or so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw7lqXHMLYA
Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy Late Show, one of the more intense tracks from this period for him. It's one of those that I have to hear every time I think of it., there isn't a hook, no repetition, it's just a solid track.
There are more, but that song is just one that digs in, and I can't shake it until I listen to the entire Dark Comedy Late Show EP a few times.
Tool - Parabol / Parabola
I listen to this song about 3 or 4 times every day.
Pano by TRP. Some sort of Deep House/Minimal bass-heavy something or other.
haha! I know that feel, it is so hard to put electronic dance music in the correct genre sometimes. You did so well without being sure. Cool track! Such a refreshing, cool, and personal take on house.
I found a song really only on youtube after the artist deleted it from his tumblr and I've been really enjoying it. It's a fun synthwave-y song made by the guy who made Resonance (HOME). It's called High Five
I've also in the past few weeks been addicted to this 80's japanese city pop song and this song which is sort of a jazzy guitar-y indie song that I really like.
I love, what i call, comedic electronic dance music. This song falls into that category for me. I like being silly when i dance. I like it! This home person needs to upload this track to more places! I want to save it on spotify.
yeah I really like a lot of that guy’s work. glad you enjoyed it :)
We're Finally Landing will always be my favourite HOME track. Which then of course makes it the best.
Gotta be Old Town Road by Lil Nas X which started as a meme originally but is actually a damn catchy song regardless. All jokes aside I was surprised I was still bumping it again and again after the first listen. https://youtu.be/5ho88VXJTBg
Honestly I agree, the song gets a bit of shit from its memetic (is that a word?) origins, but I think its a pretty good song.
Right now, it's been Jackrabbit by San Fermin on loop. They're trained in classical, but branch out into some experimental rock stuff. The true value in this album is found in the lyrics. I'm convinced they'll resonate with anybody lonely enough to listen to them.
It's betweem that and The Moss by Cosmo Sheldrake. A friend introduced me to him recently, and I'm astounded by his ability to merge lyrical masterpieces advocating for the value of folklore over fact while maintaining an adequately mellow rhythm.
Groove Armada - Just for Tonight
Bubble tea by dark cat. I discovered this song playing beat saber and now I just can't stop listening to it. It's not even a genre I normally listen to!
Other than that, I tend to always come back to John Lennon's blackbird as a classic and recently the outer wilds theme has been on repeat a lot.
Knock Me Down - RHCP
I've been really into Guest House by Daughters. It's a great kind of unrelenting with a much softer ending.
I've been back on a kick of listening to one of the few absolutely perfect songs, "This must be the place" by the Talking Heads. I'm not sure if the video I linked is the original version (I'm checking out Sound and Vision on YT right now!).
I don't tend to get on "kicks" like this with individual songs--I do it sometimes more with albums or artists. But if I was going to with a song, it'd have to be Joanna Newsom's "You Will Not Take My Heart Alive" or maybe "Sapokanikan." In the former, whenever she gets to the title line, "You Will Not Take My Heart Alive," it melts my heart. The words don't particularly have a lot of meaning for me (at least not consciously--I suppose they probably do, deep down!), but the feeling she puts into them sure does. I love it very much, but then again, I love a lot of her music. She has a great voice and there's a kind of magic to her songs and sound.
The Cranberries - Zombie. RIP Dolores O'Riordan.
Joyride - I'm gone pretty awesome if you got a Z906 or the like
The fuck, she looks exactly like an ex of mine. A bit shocking at first how much they look alike.
clipping. - The Deep
clipping. is an experimental hip hop group, featuring Daveed Diggs of Hamilton fame on vocals. The Deep is an immensely interesting single released by the group in 2018. I highly recommend reading along with lyrics as you listen, as there is an impressive amount of world-building, clever wordplay, and allusions packed into these five and a half minutes.
I thought I was the only person on the planet to listen to clipping. You should also listen to Air 'Em Out, Isombard - clipping. remix, or their story songs. It's very different from The Deep, but they're still lyrical masterpieces.
The story series is some of their best work IMO; I'd love for them to release a vinyl of the whole series in sequence. My favorite clipping. song right now is Club Down from their newest album!
Toro y Moi - Ordinary Pleasure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgowvFGzIvA