Topic: The New Music Thread

[Spinnzilla]

What I'm listening too:

Dolly Parton: Greatest Hits

So I picked up Dolly Parton's greatest hits a few days ago and was completely blown away by a lot her songs.  For starters, she has an amazing voice.  Second, she sung "Jolene" which is one of the greatest songs ever.  I'm serious.  It's beautiful.  "Love is Like A Butterfly" is another very pretty song, but it's not bitter like "Jolene".  So is "Coat of Many Colors", which is based based on a true story.  Of course she has more popy songs like "9 to 5" which is so damn catchy.

Great stuff, I really recommend her. 

Barry White: Greatest Hits

Yeah, I know another greatest hits but man this guy has some great hits.  His study of classical music really shows in some of his recordings.  He writes like EPIC sexy time songs.  His ultra-low, ultra-awesome voice just sounds completely awesome.  Songs like "Never Never Gonna Give You Up" and "I'm Just Gonna Love You a Little Bit More, Babe" are GREAT.  I love soul/r&b music, i really do.

Andre 3000: The Love Below

I haven't really listened to the Speakerboxxx section, save for "The Way You Move".  But, WOW ...this album is FANTASTIC.  I've only listened to the "The Love Below" section of the double album, but my god it's amazing.  It's just one huge fusion of several music genres.  One track will sound like funk song, the next a Lou Rawls track and another sounds like something Phil Collins would write.  Awesome variety in this album.  It's really hard to pin down a central sound of this awesome, but dammit I love it.

The track "Dracula's Wedding" is soooo good.

Andre 3000 is really under credited as a great artist.

Daft Punk: Discovery

I love the Techno duo from France.  This is their famous album that has the songs "Harder Better Faster Stronger" and "One More Time", which are both really, really awesome.  But a bunch of the album is really good too, like the melodic  "Digital Love" and the "Aerodynamic which has one of the coolest synth solos EVA.  I also think "Face to Face" deserves some credit as it's one of the best tracks from the album that nobody ever talks about.

[EasyCure]

I like the song "Jolene" but i've never heard the original, just the version by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. They're an all-around awesome cover band by the way.

I have many a special memory where Daft Punk's "Something About Us" was playing in the background.. hehe

[D_Average]

What I'm listening too:
Daft Punk: Discovery

I love the Techno duo from France.  This is their famous album that has the songs "Harder Better Faster Stronger" and "One More Time", which are both really, really awesome.  But a bunch of the album is really good too, like the melodic  "Digital Love" and the "Aerodynamic which has one of the coolest synth solos EVA.  I also think "Face to Face" deserves some credit as it's one of the best tracks from the album that nobody ever talks about.

Have you heard their live album "Alive 2007"?  I just picked that up a month ago and it is absolutely amazing.  I listen to a ton of electronic albums and this is one of the finest mixes I've ever heard.  Here's the first track, they all blend together quite nicely.

[Plugabugz]

Janelle Monae is an artist who doesn't quite fit into any genre. I have her EP and its incredible, because its not quite anything specific.

Here's her video for Many Moons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZyyORSHbaE

[bustin98]

I've been trying to decide what I think of Seether's Careless Whisper. It starts off kinda weird, not as strong as the original. Then it goes into some strong guitar riffs and does a great job of translating the song. But its one of those songs that has such a tangible connection to my childhood that hearing the cover is jarring. Most of you guys won't have the same feelings as I do, and I bet the original was released before you were born.

[EasyCure]

i cant imagine anyone doing a cover of that.. Were talking about George Michaels Careless Whispers right?

[D_Average]

Janelle Monae is an artist who doesn't quite fit into any genre. I have her EP and its incredible, because its not quite anything specific.

Here's her video for Many Moons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZyyORSHbaE

BeYond!

[Spinnzilla]

What I'm listening too:
Daft Punk: Discovery

I love the Techno duo from France.  This is their famous album that has the songs "Harder Better Faster Stronger" and "One More Time", which are both really, really awesome.  But a bunch of the album is really good too, like the melodic  "Digital Love" and the "Aerodynamic which has one of the coolest synth solos EVA.  I also think "Face to Face" deserves some credit as it's one of the best tracks from the album that nobody ever talks about.

Have you heard their live album "Alive 2007"?  I just picked that up a month ago and it is absolutely amazing.  I listen to a ton of electronic albums and this is one of the finest mixes I've ever heard.  Here's the first track, they all blend together quite nicely.

I was actually drooling over the live-mix of "Harder Better Faster Stronger" the other night.  I'm planning to get the album ASAP.

[Plugabugz]

Janelle Monae is an artist who doesn't quite fit into any genre. I have her EP and its incredible, because its not quite anything specific.

Here's her video for Many Moons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZyyORSHbaE

BeYond!

VERY! She is so weird and quirky.

[EasyCure]

oh man, what a weird coincidence.. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger has been in my head ever since Spinzilla's post and this weekend when browsing my phones app market, i downloaded a Daft Punk soundboard so now i can play the words along with the song like a dork!

[D_Average]

Janelle Monae is an artist who doesn't quite fit into any genre. I have her EP and its incredible, because its not quite anything specific.

Here's her video for Many Moons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZyyORSHbaE

BeYond!

VERY! She is so weird and quirky.

Indeed she is!  But did you catch the reference?  They plugged her on the Podcast Beyond show on IGN a few weeks back and everyone invaded the YT video with comments  "Beyond!"  She loved it as it drove up the viewer and vote count.

[Spinnzilla]

I'm currently listening to Shooter Jennings. I need to buy his albums again, as I lost them. 

[NWR_insanolord]

I recently started getting into Blues music and have been doing a pretty good job of finding good stuff through iTunes Essentials and Pandora but if anybody has any suggestions they would be appreciated.

[vudu]

Over the past week I've had to visit 4 Targets and 3 Best Buys in order to finally locate the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD.  Retails complain that people don't buy music anymore, but they don't bother to stock CDs for us to purchase!

I don't want to buy the fucking Kanye West disc.  Sell something else.

/end random rant

[Spinnzilla]

I recently started getting into Blues music and have been doing a pretty good job of finding good stuff through iTunes Essentials and Pandora but if anybody has any suggestions they would be appreciated.

Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Bo Diddly are absolute essitentials. 

[Plugabugz]

Janelle Monae is an artist who doesn't quite fit into any genre. I have her EP and its incredible, because its not quite anything specific.

Here's her video for Many Moons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZyyORSHbaE

BeYond!

VERY! She is so weird and quirky.

Indeed she is!  But did you catch the reference?  They plugged her on the Podcast Beyond show on IGN a few weeks back and everyone invaded the YT video with comments  "Beyond!"  She loved it as it drove up the viewer and vote count.

No i didn't get that one LOL. Do you have the link to the IGN podcasty?

[D_Average]

Janelle Monae is an artist who doesn't quite fit into any genre. I have her EP and its incredible, because its not quite anything specific.

Here's her video for Many Moons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZyyORSHbaE

BeYond!

VERY! She is so weird and quirky.

Indeed she is!  But did you catch the reference?  They plugged her on the Podcast Beyond show on IGN a few weeks back and everyone invaded the YT video with comments  "Beyond!"  She loved it as it drove up the viewer and vote count.

No i didn't get that one LOL. Do you have the link to the IGN podcasty?

Here's a link to the Beyond mob in the comments section, and here's a link to the show.  Not sure which one it was though, it was about a month ago.

[EasyCure]

Over the past week I've had to visit 4 Targets and 3 Best Buys in order to finally locate the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD.  Retails complain that people don't buy music anymore, but they don't bother to stock CDs for us to purchase!

I don't want to buy the fucking Kanye West disc.  Sell something else.

/end random rant

THIS! This is one of the reasons i stopped buying cd's and started aquiring my music by other means which we can't discuss. If I hit up a store the Tuesday a new album I wan't is supposed to be there, and its not, i say **** it and go home to fire up my computer.
I used to love collecting albums on cd's and flipping thru the artwork or reading thru the liner notes (some bands have personality and had some weird **** put in there) while listening to the album for the first time. But the lack of new releases that ISN'T Top 40 material makes it hard for me to do that anymore.

Oh and vudu thanks for the heads up, i just got into the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and had no idea they had a new album out. I gotta give it a listen, the new Depeche Mode was dissapointing and I need a new music fix.

[decoyman]

Spinnzilla, et al - Ever see the "hand dance" to Harder Better Faster Stronger?

OH MAN YOU HAVE TO SEE IT

Insanolord, try out Indigenous. They're a native american blues band, from (I think) South Dakota. Got a mean guitar player, they do.

[EasyCure]

I've been meaning to bump this with a new post for a while now, but a google search was fruitless. I had to hunt this down the old fashion way, and since I did my rounds in the forum extra early today, figured now is the best time to do this.


^Weezer 8-bit tribute album!

I read about this a few months back on gonintendo but didn't get around to downloading this album until just a few weeks before the Weezer/Blink182 show I attended. I'm a sucker for chiptune style music, and not having listened to Weezer in some time, I was very excited to hear this album and frankly it didn't dissapoint!

All the tracks are remixed by various artist, and while the majority of the tracks are enjoyable, I find myself doing what I always do when it comes to Weezer; Listen to the Blue albums material almost exclusively. Then again, "Why Bother" has a really good version of it so that gets a lot of plays as well. It's pretty much a straight up cover that stays true to the original, with some 8-bit noises in the background (mainly heard in the intro).

Definately recommended for fans of Weezer, but it might be worth it to check out if you just like chiptunes in general

FYI: The version of Buddy Holly on here is completely isntrumental, and sounds a bit like a techno/industrial remix of the Tetris theme, but maybe thats just me. It's really good though!




This album came out in Aug. '08 and somehow its taken me this long to add it to this thread. When the album first came out, it was so different for what the band has done prior (their previous album before this was different too but this is new one is something else entirely) that it took a long time to get in to. Over time though, it's grown on me and I feel confident saying this will be one of my all time favorite albums.

Starting off as an indie guitar-rock band from the UK, Bloc Party have grown significantly from and their roots. Ironically though, their sound now is more in line with the seeds that grew those roots, with songs that sound like their influences would in modern day. (Influences range from the The Cure to Joy Division to The Clash to Radiohead)

Some tracks are still heavy on the guitar riffs (with some of the heaviest sounds theyve produced) while others are big on the electric side of things, from drums to synth. You've got your loud, energetic tracks, to dancey sounding ones, as well as your slow and deep ones. This album is good from start to finish, and thats that.

Favorite tracks:

Mercury, Talons, Biko, and the most epic song on the album; Zephyrus. Definately check 'em out.

[vudu]

^Weezer 8-bit tribute album!

That entire album is horrible except the totally awesome rendition of El Scorcho.

[EasyCure]

Once again, vudu reaffirms his suckiness.

[D_Average]

Datarock, the band NWR recently interviewed has a new album.  Its fantastic, and CHEAP!.  Here's one great track dedicated to the one, the lovely, Molly Ringwald  --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUlSb4qxgAI

[BranDonk Kong]

I listened to a few of the 8-bit Weezer tracks a while ago, and I agree they're mostly horrible. Most of them are a little too detailed to be something you'd hear on the NES or GameBoy, especially any of them with lyrics. I didn't see the post about the Seether Careless Whispers cover. I think it's a fucking great cover, it's so fresh that it almost sounds like a brand new (rock) song, written in the 2000s instead of the 80s.

[EasyCure]

I listened to a few of the 8-bit Weezer tracks a while ago, and I agree they're mostly horrible. Most of them are a little too detailed to be something you'd hear on the NES or GameBoy, especially any of them with lyrics. I didn't see the post about the Seether Careless Whispers cover. I think it's a fucking great cover, it's so fresh that it almost sounds like a brand new (rock) song, written in the 2000s instead of the 80s.

Still haven't checked out that cover, I gotta get on that..

With the tribute album, I guess I'll just say "to each his own". I don't mind that its "too detailed" or anything, because I'm not expecting it to actually come out of an NES or GB, I simply just like the style. Even MegaMan 9 had a more advanced soundtrack than any of the original NES games but I still love it because it recreated the style.