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A thread where you can enlighten me with your song recommendations.
According to Batty I have Pitchfork taste, which is pretty accurate; attempts to broaden my horizon are appreciated (but success is not guaranteed)
Book and film recs are cool too

I don't know what you might or might not like, so here's just three tracks that I personally was very impressed by. If you only wanna bother with one video at a time, the most important one is the one posted at the top:

Barbara Morgenstern - Brain****

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUr2Rq3moKI

The composition and audio layering in this one is fantastic. I love the video as well. Really hypnotic, and goes very well with the music.


Judie Tzuke - Girl without a name (The cat is out, 1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obcKZYlSUBE

Total 80's overload here, but in a good way. It really scratches an itch for me. I love Judie Tzuke, I love this album, I love this song.


Waltari - The Stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9S5fPaO_8

This is the wildcard pick. I love this band, but I don't expect anyone else to like it. Don't hold back if you think it's crap. It's ok!

Frownland - I feel enlightened already
Unitron- awesome, sort of L7 vibes but different. Love the rythm thing near 2:00
Oriphiel - love it, reminds me of Kleenex <3
Grindy - just started listening, the instruments have me hooked already. Voice like Tom Verlaine on steriods
MicShazam - whoa, I'm definitely getting to all af them

this is all awesome so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nFCl-5PqUc

^Great album cover!

Great album.

I don't even remember what it is. I'm thinking 90's alt rock or grunge due to the cover.

Self proclaimed Lounge Rock/Nu Metal-ish. The singer and his dog (the one in the pic) died in a car wreck. I got to see them at Ozzfest in 98 a few months before all that happened. I was trippin my brains out that day.

Gonna check it out. I'm not scared of the nu-metal tag. Also: :( :( :(

MicShazam - love the beginning of the first one, from the moment the voice and more 'airy' instruments kick in it's less my thing, but I still like it. The rythm is nice, and you're right that it's well layered, the different parts complement each other nicely
The second one is too 80's for me, that beat and those sythesizers hahaha
I can appreciate the chorus of the third one, but that kind of slow rapping irks me
Plankton - Hell yeah. Not something that I would regularly listen too, but great headbanger

I recommend every single thing I've posted in my own journal lol

According to Bat I too am white bread so idk how broadly your horizons will... broaden. Unless you let me rec you hiphop.

I remember you mentioning liking L7 before, so I knew you'd like it. I'd be surprised if Girlschool wasn't a big influence on them.

and for your next rec, Girlschool was one of these guys' favorite metal contemporaries:

Thanks for giving them an honest try. If I post more, I'll try and make sure it covers different ground. Actually... there's this thing I just posted in my journal:

Gaye Su Akyol - Hemşerim Memleket Nere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtSJVtkwho

Just whenever you got time. I'm spamming too much here. I promise it's something different than the ones I posted last.

Film rec: The Wicker Man (1973)
Album rec: the soundtrack and film score

WWWP - yeah I should delve through your jounal recs, I saw a bunch of things I liked there and your Yo La Tengo cover spoke to me. Hiphop would be interesting because I know nothing about it, I only know and like a few songs by Public Enemy, Princess Nokia, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar
Unitron - I never tried Motörhead because I discarded it as 'probably too metal' but I actually really like this, it sounds very grunge
MicShazam - Spam away hon, you have a very contagious kind of enthouiasm when it comes to your music. I first thought this song was ok but not really for me but then I found myself bopping my head to it, which means it got to me.
Zantheimi - This is really nice, beautiful and playful. I remember finding cool things in your journals too
Edit: just when I thought it was cool enough I came to the bagpipe part, man I love bagpipes so much
Anteater - I don't care about the vocals but I like the dynamics and melodies, especially the instrumental parts. I'm intrigued

Grindy's on my wavelength, as usual. Niicee

The second I posted it I thought you might dig it and it would be suited for your rec thread. :beer:

A lot of grunge is basically metal, and I shall convert you. (I'm gonna lol if I get you into metal before Bat.)

About Unitron's Motörhead pick: Like Lemmy would always say "we're Motörhead and we play rock'n'roll". They're very popular among metalheads, but should really be considered a rock band. I don't know what Unitron would say, but I think "Overkill" and "Bomber" are two faultless albums by the band.

https://pitchfork.com/search/?query=wibutee

hehe

Duh.

The whole point of this thread is to ween Maria off of P4k-core.

Just pointing out that pitchfork is a good resource

I respect Lemmy's opinion on them just playing rock 'n' roll, but I do consider them metal. Black Sabbath didn't consider themselves metal either. Overkill and Bomber are good albums, though my favorite Motorhead album is the underrated Sacrifice.

Take this as a rec as well:

They definitely had some stuff that could be called metal, but I'd hold that a good 80-90% of their discography was just punk/hard-rock/rock'n'roll influenced music with an in-your-face sound and Lemmy's vocals + the band's imagery giving them a feel that was palatable to metalheads. Sabbath have metal riffs, Motörhead mostly have rock styled riffs. You can't even find that many palm muted riffs in Motörheads discography and palm-muting is like a metal staple. Very, very few, probably.

You're like a kid pretending he didn't just piss in the teacher's coffee 5 minutes ago.

I’m like the teacher that drank his piss. Literally.

I get what you're saying, but I have pretty unique definitions of what makes something metal. I consider there to be quite a bit of metal before Sabbath, despite most people disagreeing. So I'll just say we're both right.

Btw: Sacrifice is probably the closest to undeniably metal they got.

I'm probably thinking of metal being a bit more of a strictly defined thing. I don't even consider at least the first Sabbath album metal. It's borderline and influential, but really just a bunch of blues rock with darker tones.

But I think I get how you look at it and I don't really have a horse in that race. I just personally think of certain musical properties when I think metal.

Agreed. It's their heaviest album by far.

Windsock - like the rythm and groove and the way the sounds interact. After a while it could use some more variation on first listen, but this is interesting
grindy - love it, also wonderful rhytmically and sonically it sort of tickles your ears
unitron - I don't really care for the cosmic psychos song, but I like Black Sabbath a lot. It's the only 'metal' band I'd given a chance besides Led Zeppelin. I like the second Motörhead song less than the first, the engine-like guitar drone and vocals sound more metal in that way I've never cared for. I did really enjoy the guitar solo part though