So, here I am, listening to the Cosmos soundtrack and strangely not stoned. And I realize that it’s been a while since we’ve had a random music recommendation thread. What’s the musical haps in your worlds, friends?
My hyper fixation for the last 4 years has been the band Lawrence. Eight-piece Soul Funk group with a brass section and two lead vocalists.
The musicianship is incredible. Saw them live last month and you could tell there was no click track as the band members improvised off each other and the crowd. They were having a genuinely good time on stage messing around and the energy was infectious. Genuinely the most fun I’ve had in years.
Also co-vocalist Gracie’s voice! I’ve heard their albums so many times and there’s still moments I find myself muttering blasphemy as she fucking belts it out.
As I get older my music tastes have definitely broadened from my relatively narrow range of Seattle Grunge and metal. Still with this band, my partner doesn’t quite know what’s happened to me.
Anyway, I recommend this live recording of Hip Replacement from last month.
@UnseriousAcademic @blakestacey this absolutely slaps. Vulfpeck meets Tower Of Power
I know Vulfpeck but not Tower - will have a listen.
I absolutely see it - solid stuff. There’s a good chance they’re a direct influence on Lawrence. In interviews they are constantly referencing artists way before their time like Stevie Wonder and Janis Joplin.
I managed to listen to this the day you posted it (and then got too goddamn busy) but wow
they’re a jam. must’ve been a phenomenal live gig! I’m jelly!
A reminder that Grimes is the Great Value version of Janelle Monáe
Janelle was gracious enough to put her on Pynk as well!
Fellow weeaboos (I know you’re out there), All That Jazz is a great album with jazz covers of songs from Ghibli movies.
Do you even need to be a weeaboo to love Ghibli these days? Because otherwise I need watch a lot more anime to make sure I can weeb properly.
this is a late follow-up from the topic in the last stubsack, but I do like the idea of a music sub. for now though, I think doing a variety of casual off-topic music threads in other subs is the right move, until we’ve got a good volume of posts and a cross-section of the types of threads we might want to post in a new sub.
(I’ll post some music recommendations in this thread when I get the chance later)
I’m also happy if we just have a variety of rotating off-topic threads like this. Part of the benefits of the smaller platform awful.systems has is (imo) being able to be a little more community-centered and less strictly focused. Like, sneer club should never start sneering primarily at my musical tastes but I’m honestly enjoying the more personal atmosphere here.
that’s a good point! it’s also quite a lot simpler to moderate too. a while ago I had some bad experiences with fascists using Reddit music recommendation threads to get people listening to subtly but definitely fash bands. my expectation is like the stubsack, our off-topic music threads will be mostly regulars. a dedicated music sub will definitely be more likely to break containment, so I’d like to have a dedicated moderator lined up for it who’s better at critical listening and knows more about the music industry in general than me (and I’d hate to start something like this just to have it fall onto @dgerard@awful.systems’s overfull plate, though he’d have exactly the right kind of skills for the role)
ahem ;p
but igwym re volume, gotta make it go to 11 first
oh my bad I just noticed it’s the same comment
yes, it’s that early. also not helped by my cat stabbing me on the nose far too early this morning
and here I was about to figure out what’s wrong with our permalinks! (which, there is at least one thing wrong with our permalinks, just not this time around)
I’ve never figured out why comments fail on iOS safari (in priv mode) but work in Fx (also priv), but also jank ahoy
I recently got The Secret Public on CD and spent yesterday evening listening to it. Plenty of interesting LGBT+ history and there are some really great songs on there - the 60s songs really appeal to me, especially the girl groups, but there’s also some good tough 70s funk and disco.
I don’t know if I’ve been listening to anything that’s relevant to Sneer Club.
A couple songs I’ve been obsessing over, in no particular order:
I don’t wanna be a wet blanket but one thing that struck me back in the Last.fm days was how little music taste correlated with how I got along with people (online and off). That said I’ll give these a fair shake but I’m an old man set in my ways when it comes to music.
FWIW I usually find what JWZ recommends/promotes to be ok.
Don’t judge me, I’m sensitive uwu Some tracks i’ve been bumping lately~
Jon Batiste - The Very Thought of You
Gillian Welch/David Rawlings - Elvis Presley Blues
So first off I want to share the playlist that’s been stuck in my head for the last few weeks since I remembered it exists. Baby Got Back Talk, a punk outfit out of NYC, were outraged that an article in Rolling Stone or somewhere about the “philosophers of rock” didn’t include any women or non-white people, so they assembled a bunch who they felt should have been featured.
If you prefer your music so-fresh-it’s-undercooked, you may also enjoy the podcast Jam Mechanics . Bug from Bug Hunter and Matt from The Narcissist’s Cookbook , two aggressively indie singer/songwriters, are prompted to make a song about something and then share the resulting demos ~4 hours later. A few of the songs from the first season have been actually finished into full tracks, but I like hearing the rough cuts and initial reactions because I’m that obnoxious guy.
It was Jann Wenner, former Rolling Stone owner/editor, who said that he only wanted to write about “philosophers of rock ’n’ roll” for a book he wrote called “The Masters”.
You know, Joni was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll. She didn’t, in my mind, meet that test. Not by her work, not by other interviews she did. The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock.
- “Jann Wenner Defends His Legacy”, web.archive.org
I’ve stopped listening to music because I realised it made me dissociate too easily. If I were getting back into it all, I’d probably start by playing this on repeat.
/jk: I’m dopamine fasting. That way I can enjoy genAI music in the inevitable future
Most of the time, if I’m listening to anything, it’s a playlist of Boards of Canada on shuffle - usually while I work.
Otherwise, my music taste is pretty stalled these days wrt new music. Unwound got back together and I saw a couple of their shows, one in LA and another in Austin. The Blood Brothers also reunited and I have a ticket to see them in Dec. Melt-Banana just released a new album I haven’t listened to yet.
My friend’s band, Yuppie Killer, released their discography on streaming sites. They’re a hardcore punk band of expats in South Korea from 2012-2017.
I play in a band, Constellation, and we’re sending our first album to be mastered this week. Kind of throwback to 90’s post-hardcore like Fugazi (yeah, we got cowbell) and Drive Like Jehu. Really excited about it.
I play in a band, Constellation, and we’re sending it to be mastered this week. Kind of throwback to 90’s post-hardcore like Fugazi (yeah, we got cowbell) and Drive Like Jehu. Really excited about it.
fuck yeah! please link this when it’s released in whatever accessible form your band prefers
@self @sneerclub Are we expecting something sneer-worthy?
If anything, it’s cringe rather than sneer-inducing. But fun anyway.
The Age of Adz by Sufjan Stevens, sorta related to sneerclub as it is about sci-fi eschatology, but has a lot of personal elements. Found this because it is his first album that is almost entirely electronic.
Got an extended edit of ‘meet the grahams’ that hits even damn harder than the original
new(er) shit:
- Clara Cuve - Control (2020)
- In Verruf - Frei (2023)
- X-Dream - March EP (2008) (they did psytrance before, broke up, then made something else decade later)
old(er) shit:
