The show must goooo onnnn.... Music thread

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[edit] Doesn't the presenter look uncannily like an older Joshtheater?

The material at the following links is slightly technical and lengthy, but very understandable and of critical import when discussing digital music.  

For many years, most of us have seen the flame wars between advocates of digitally recorded music and the relentless and very vocal detractors who clutch vinyl discs to their bosoms and insist that digital recordings ruin the pure analogue waveforms of the original performances.  I was long a sceptic, and if you believe in your heart that digital is inferior I urge you to watch the video.

A brilliantly conducted practical demonstration of many of the concepts from the below article, right on a tabletop!



A reasoned and patient discussion of why higher bitrate / higher bit depth digital recordings are not only an absolute waste of money, but in some cases can introduce noise and distortion

Full disclosure: a great many years went by before I became a convert and fully embraced the philosophy and unassailable math and logic of Saint Nyquist.  I have a couple of excellent recordings on vinyl, but still prefer the digital recordings I made from them because I edited out some of the worst clicks and pops.

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This song quickly became the theme song for this movie that I've already seen two times just out of pure enjoyment. Absolutely beautiful movie and absolutely beautiful song.

Belle & Sebastian - There's Too Much Love

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Recently I've been subscribed to an EDM Record Label on Youtube called "Monstercat", who publishes a bunch of different stuff from various EDM artists. From Glitch Hop to RnB, from Trap to Dubstep, and from Hard Dance to Electro they cover just about anything and everything that you can imagine modern EDM music being.

I've had their Electro songs on autoplay for about two hours now and there's some pretty good stuff lying around. Very good music for gaming, I must add. I'd recommend scoping it out...

Here's just a few good tracks that are pleasant to the ear (and the adrenaline):

Tristam - Till It's Over


Stonebank ft. Concept - Holding On To Sound


Astronaut - Rain (Stephen Walking Remix)

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Those are a bit different than the EDM I grew up with   The third one almost catches

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Alright, here are my top 50 albums of the year:

1. Titus Andronicus - A Most Lamentable Tragedy
2. Strawberry Girls - American Graffiti
3. So Hideous - Laurestine
4. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
5. The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
6. Native Construct - Quiet World
7. Make Them Suffer - Old Souls
8. Gorod - A Maze of Recycled Creeds
9. Between the Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic
10. Agent Fresco - Destrier
11. Dance Gavin Dance - Instant Gratification
12. Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase
13. Turnover - Peripheral Vision
14. Frontierer - Orange Mathematics
15. Silversun Pickups - Better Nature
16. Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
17. Veil of Maya - Matriarch
18. Baroness - Purple
19. Title Fight - Hyperview
20. An Autumn for Crippled Children - The Long Goodbye
21. Mew - + -
22. Intronaut - The Direction of Last Things
23. Coheed and Cambria - The Color Before the Sun
24. Eidola - Degeneraterra
25. And So I Watch You From Afar - Heirs
26. The Ongoing Concept - Handmade
27. Citizen - Everybody is Going to Heaven
28. August Burns Red - Found in Far Away Places
29. City and Colour - If I Should Go Before You
30. Leprous - The Congregation
31. The Crinn - Shadowbreather
32. Antimatter - The Judas Table
33. WRVTH - WRVTH
34. Rolo Tomassi - Grievances
35. Gallows - Desolation Sounds
36. Tesseract - Polaris
37. Thy Art is Murder - Holy War
38. Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emporer
39. Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
40. Vattnet Viskar - Settler
41. Pomegranate Tiger - Boundless
42. Viet Cong - Viet Cong
43. The Armed - Untitled
44. Mestis - Polysemy
45. Marriages - Salome
46. Envy - Atheist's Cornea
47. The Plot in You - Happiness in Self Destruction
48. Bay Faction - Bay Faction
49. Beach Slang - The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us
50. Menace Beach - Ratworld

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Jeeze, Beamer -- with all the music and movies and TV shows, how do you find time to eat, sleep, or work?

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They actually let me listen to music at work.

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Goodness, how did this become so old?

An old, old friend of mine has recently been working hard on a psy-trance/minimal mix titled the "Perdition Mixtape", and has only just released Volume 1 as of today. So far, I'm genuinely impressed. I can't really explain what's good about it, so I'll leave it up to you guys to check it out.

https://soundcloud.com/itsjesseryan/perdition-vol1

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For a moment, I thought the link had "jerseyan" in it, meaning "Local Jerseyan", Nasty Pasty's bandmate



Kat, I listened to about half of it on my way into work this morning.  Not bad at all

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I saw one of my posts from three years ago claiming I like alternative guess what guys!! ITS STILL TRUE!!!

   Except when I'm angry, then I listen to hot dog water by limp biscuit or however they spell it.

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I believe the proper spelling is Lmp B1zc2t.

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Hey Shiny!

Off the top of my head, I'd guess that probably 1/4 - 1/3 of my music collection could be categorized as Alternative.  When I'm biking, listening to tunes (on a trail, not on the roads) boosts my average speed.  Really!  I have a tiny 2GB player and it's loaded with alternative, rock, blues, jazz, dance, pop, and even some trance.

No matter how tired I am, this track never fails to get me moving right along

[Kreo - Burn for You (The Cop 4 Club Mix) (2000)]




OH, I was playing poker last week and the host had some extremely soulful blues playing (on a very nice system).  I recognized the guitar work of Robin Trower but wasn't familiar with the songs.  The album playing was Trower's "20th century Blues", and he was kind enough to burn me a copy to check out.  Which I did, on my way into work the next day.  And though not every song is brilliant, several of them are, and it's on order from Amazon right now

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I haven't seen the movie, but this is a fantastic soundtrack!  It came this morning and I've been jamming to it off and on:

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Blink-182 is back together (minus Tom DeLonge, but whatever), and the music is good.

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Yeah that's a solid joke song but Bored to Death is shit. Nah, I don't think it's horrible but, like, they got rid of Tom for that? As if it's as good as anything on Neighborhoods or Dogs Eating Dogs. I'm hoping it's the shittest song on the new album but I find it hard to get too excited about it. The new Angels and Airwaves EP had legitimately better songs than Bored to Death. Yeah, that's right, come at me, internet.

Also new Modern Baseball album is out and it's fucken tops, yo.

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Monstercat and Tom Odell are publishing some pretty slick records at the moment. Indie Dance is grabbing my main attention on MC, and Tom's change of pop-style is warming my cockles. Some very interesting stuff there, lads!

I've also just discovered Amber Run, and they've got some pretty good stuff too.
Some links below just out of interest, to save spamming videos all over the page...

[Indie Dance] - LVTHER - Some Kind Of Magic (feat. MYZICA) [Monstercat Release]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzWk_I304Sg

Amber Run - I Found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj6V_a1-EUA

Tom Odell - Somehow (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_ZUQTW13I

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Awfully mellow stuff, Kat   But seriously, the "Indie Dance" seems to be missing the "Dance" part

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Yeah that's a solid joke song but Bored to Death is shit. Nah, I don't think it's horrible but, like, they got rid of Tom for that? As if it's as good as anything on Neighborhoods or Dogs Eating Dogs. I'm hoping it's the shittest song on the new album but I find it hard to get too excited about it. The new Angels and Airwaves EP had legitimately better songs than Bored to Death. Yeah, that's right, come at me, internet.

Make something better than, ya Cunt

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Blink-182 is back

They were shit at their height, and they're shit now.

Listening to this right now:



Blink182 will never be a quarter as listenable.

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Sounds somewhat Wagnerian

I don't have anything against Blink-182, but I never got the hype.

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Blink-182 is back

They were shit at their height, and they're shit now.

Dead to me.

Listening to this right now:



Blink182 will never be a quarter as listenable.

Oh, watch out, establishing musical dominance! Listen to how serious this music sounds!

Make something better than, ya Cunt

I already did! Also the new song is out and it's better but it still feels like there's something missing. Also Brohemian Rhapsody was cool but you can't really fuck up a thirty second joke song, can ya?

Also I finally started listening to BTMI after years of Books and Josh going on about it and it's pretty fucken tops, yo.

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Make something better than, ya Cunt

I already did! Also the new song is out and it's better but it still feels like there's something missing. Also Brohemian Rhapsody was cool but you can't really fuck up a thirty second joke song, can ya?

Where's the album, tosser?

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Oh, watch out, establishing musical dominance! Listen to how serious this music sounds!

Serious? You didn't listen to it. It's a lighthearted frolic through the dark lands.

If you want serious, then you should listen to this:

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A couple of months ago I put nearly all of my music on a flash drive and plugged it into my car.  I picked a fave album at random (the first Garbage album) and have been listening to them sequentially ever since, with a few repeats of great albums.  On my way to lunch today a song came on that I didn't recognize.  The vocals and style were reminiscent of the Creed/Stone Temple Pilots/UPO style... and I liked it!

Imagine my shock and horror when I glanced up at the display and realized that it was one of the most reviled bands in modern times!

At the risk of becoming a pariah, I will admit that it was Nickleback.  Breath, from the album The State.

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Make something better than, ya Cunt

I already did! Also the new song is out and it's better but it still feels like there's something missing. Also Brohemian Rhapsody was cool but you can't really fuck up a thirty second joke song, can ya?

Where's the album, tosser?

Up ya bum.

Anyway yeah the new Tom-less Blink album sucks. Pick any Angels & Airwaves album and it's better than the new Blink album. Good to know that, this whole time, Tom was the only thing holding them back from making a really shitty pop album.

In more optimistic news, the new NOFX song is pretty cool.

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Make something better than, ya Cunt

I already did! Also the new song is out and it's better but it still feels like there's something missing. Also Brohemian Rhapsody was cool but you can't really fuck up a thirty second joke song, can ya?

Where's the album, tosser?

Up ya bum.

Anyway yeah the new Tom-less Blink album sucks. Pick any Angels & Airwaves album and it's better than the new Blink album. Good to know that, this whole time, Tom was the only thing holding them back from making a really shitty pop album.

In more optimistic news, the new NOFX song is pretty cool.

At least we can agree NOFX is punk as fuck. Not Blink-182 punk, but like, thrashing in a club's basement with 30 people punk.

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NOFX is a million times the band Blink-182 ever was.

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NOFX is a million times the band Blink-182 ever was.

Nobody's arguing that. Except for me, because I so enjoy sewing discord in tight knight communities.

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* Tachy ponders... should he rise to the bate?

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It feels like this album only came out maybe 8-10 years ago, and I do a mental double-take each time I realize that it was released in 1994!

But it holds up amazingly well.  I put all my music in my car a year ago, and when the "V"s came around last month I think I had this on repeat for a week

Believe it or not, I've been listening to music since the early 1960s and have heard a lot of music come and go over that time.  And of course there have been good songs from every year, but I've gotta' say that the 1990s were far and away the best years for awesome music.  (maybe '85-'05 for me, personally).  So far, at least  




I'd put a link to Youtube, but the quality of the links I sampled at random are pretty crap.

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1994 you say?  I like the 90s, but I think I've missed all the benefits of participating in any particular decade.  It's like I got transplanted to this planet, and I'm always sitting quietly in the background.

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been listening to a lot of Jonathan Coulton lately





he good

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Wasn't sure what to expect...  that's different, and a bit catchy.   The first one reminds me a lot of the Foo Fighters for some reason.

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And of course there have been good songs from every year, but I've gotta' say that the 1990s were far and away the best years for awesome music.  (maybe '85-'05 for me, personally).  So far, at least 

1994 you say?  I like the 90s, but I think I've missed all the benefits of participating in any particular decade.

As someone whose musical interests (or interests in other entertainment media, for that matter) are for the most part not contemporary, I have occasionally wondered what my own "best year for music" would be. I mean, really the present day should be that answer because there's whatever music is new plus the accumulation of everything that has come before, but my question would be: if I were both alive and actually listening to the albums of all the bands I like in the years they released those albums, in what year would I have been most satisfied with their combined new musical output? For example, off the top of my head I can think of only two albums in my CD collection that came out in 1994; although one is pretty darn good and the other is my all-time favorite, that's way too little new music to be able to say that would be my best year! Of course, there may well be a difference between whether I'm looking at the year that spawned the largest number of albums that I now own or I'm looking at the year that would be the most enjoyable one overall, but in my case either the quantity or quantity question appears to yield a result from somewhere in the 80s.

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What sorts of music do you like Tedward?  For example, what are the two 1994 albums?


That said, wanna go travel through time and be a part of a few musical scenes as they develop in progress?  Time traveling hobos is a wonderful game.  

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While I must respectfully decline your time travel invitation, I will answer your other questions. My 1994 representatives are Weezer's blue-covered debut and They Might Be Giants' John Henry. Those aside, however, the majority of the music I like appears to be classifiable as "new wave." That doesn't cover all of it, nor would I necessarily like everything that fits in that category (I find that I tend to be more interested in particular bands even as they change styles over time, rather than in one particular sound that multiple groups in the same genre might achieve at one moment), but that's a fair starting point. Also, I am quite fond of a lot of video game soundtracks.

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Also, I am quite fond of a lot of video game soundtracks.

Have you been following Localjerseyan's efforts along that line?  She has put together a gaming symphony orchestra(!) and is its lead conductor.   They did a live netcast a month or two ago.  Unfortunately I managed to catch only the tail end of it.  And I'm pretty sure she's released some covers of game tunes.  She's also active in video game music composition and design, though I confess I'm not certain of the distinctions between the two.

Those aside, however, the majority of the music I like appears to be classifiable as "new wave."

I distinctly recall my first encounter with New Wave, around 1985.  I was terribly ignorant and close-minded back then, when my wife brought home a new album (vinyl LP) and cranked up the first song she played from it, "Saved by Zero" by The Fixx.  My first exclamation (accompanied by a pained and puzzled expression) was "What the fuck is this shit?!".

* Tachy sighs *

I of course adore a number of their songs now, and own a couple of albums, including Reach the Beach.

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Wasn't sure what to expect...  that's different, and a bit catchy.

Had you really never heard his stuff before? He's a nerdy comedy musician, sort of in the vein of They Might Be Giants, but in my opinion more musically talented and more diverse in the musical styles he uses. He's got tons of material worth checking out, I bet you'd end up liking him a lot.

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Also, I am quite fond of a lot of video game soundtracks.

All the best people are.

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Also, I am quite fond of a lot of video game soundtracks.

Have you been following Localjerseyan's efforts along that line?  She has put together a gaming symphony orchestra(!) and is its lead conductor.   They did a live netcast a month or two ago.  Unfortunately I managed to catch only the tail end of it.  And I'm pretty sure she's released some covers of game tunes.  She's also active in video game music composition and design, though I confess I'm not certain of the distinctions between the two.

Those aside, however, the majority of the music I like appears to be classifiable as "new wave."

I distinctly recall my first encounter with New Wave, around 1985.  I was terribly ignorant and close-minded back then, when my wife brought home a new album (vinyl LP) and cranked up the first song she played from it, "Saved by Zero" by The Fixx.  My first exclamation (accompanied by a pained and puzzled expression) was "What the fuck is this shit?!".

* Tachy sighs *

I of course adore a number of their songs now, and own a couple of albums, including Reach the Beach.

Lol, you and your wife must have been great good friends.