Went to SXSW to see Lemaitre and CLASSIXX. Got to meet them all and express my appreciation for their talents. Didn't have a wristband or badge (had no idea they were mandatory for entry), but my friends and I had one of the venue's bartenders take $60 to usher the five of us in through a back gate. It was oddly fateful.
Thanks to ButterflyEffect's post in the music anhedonia post, I found this amazing song by the Mountain Goats: And also this one: After watching a 'Classical music is for everyone' thing on public television, I found some amazing classics that I knew but never knew the name of:
The other day I asked my facebook friends for some cool new rap that is not Chance, and got some pretty good suggestions (as well as some not so good ones). Here are my favorites Mac Miller's Watching Movies with the Sound Off
Joey Bada$$ - 1999
GZA - Liquid Swords. This one isn't new but i hadn't heard it yet, so i'm not complaining!
NPR Music and All Songs Considered linked to these guys called Future Islands yesterday, and while I've never heard them before, they were exactly what I needed. http://www.npr.org/2014/03/16/286898446/first-listen-future-islands-singles
Modeselektor - The First Rebirth Really digging this.
I've really been getting into solo piano and there's something about Andrew Shapiro that is very mesmerizing.
This is the week in which I gain a new found appreciation for Bob Seger, which is more important than almost anything else I've listened to this week.
This recent comment by ZenDog brought to mind the lyric, "some words when spoken can't be taken back" in this PJ song, Nothing Man: ZenDog's comment was this: Which when listening to, took me here: Because I was introduced to Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Yoshimi around the same time and they exist in a similar place in my heart/mind...whatever. If you've never listened to the full Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album before, take the time to do so. -So great. Thanks for the journey Zdog.
It was in response to me quoting a Wilco lyric from this great, great song: and words may flay like bullets
once unleashed neither may be taken back
Yoshimi is probably in my top ten (hell, maybe even five) albums of all time. The sounds and textures are so perfectly colorful and descriptive, i haven't been able to find anything quite like it. Maybe i'm alone here, but even the rest of the Flaming Lips' discography i find to be kind of dull in comparison.
Hmm, I wouldn't call the rest of their discography "dull" by any means, but I can see how it would be someones favorite. I happen to like the Soft Bulletin quite a bit and think it may be my favorite Lips album: There are a lot of Lips fans that will go with Clouds Taste Metallic: If I had to choose just one though, I'd go Soft Bulletin. Hard choice though, hard enough that I think calling their discography "dull" isn't apt. But that's just me.
I guess dull isn't the appropriate word. They just haven't made anything that i like as much as Yoshimi. I don't think it's something i could ever describe, Yoshimi touches me in a way their other music doesn't. Not to say that everything else they make is bad. There's the stuff i like, the stuff i don't really get, and Yoshimi. That's why i used the word dull... It's hard for me to listen to their other albums objectively, knowing that Yoshimi exists.
ZenDog -Shout out in the above comment. Sorry, I misspelled your name the first time and when you edit a "shout-out" they don't send a notification. So here you go!