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Old 01-23-2018, 05:54 PM   #11 (permalink)
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[*]Hum - Stars (1995)
This is one of my favorites too! :o


Off the top of my head:

Dirty Beaches - Lord Knows Best
Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl
Chris Knox - The Outer Skin
Polaris - She Is Staggering
Sparklehorse - Apple Bed
The Magnetic Fields - Queen of the Savages, Long-Forgotten Fairytale
Low - Murderer, Point of Disgust, Walk Into the Sea
Mount Eerie - In the Rain, Clear Moon, Ravens, Moon I Already Know, I Walked Home Beholding
Tall Dwarfs - Crush, This Room Is Wrong, Thought Disorder
King Dude - Spiders in Her Hair, Holy Water, Lucifer's the Light of the World, A Little Bit of Baby Gonna Make Me Wanna Live Again
Mercury Rev - Little Rhymes, Goddess on a Highway
Willis Earl Beal - Wavering Lines, Evening's Kiss
Hum - Stars
Neko Case - Things That Scare Me, Runnin' Out Of Fools, City Swans, Blacklisted, Deep Red Bells, This Tornado Loves You
Strawberry Switchblade - Little River
Elliot Smith - Roman Candle
Chromatics - Shadow
PJ Harvey - Shame
Blonde Redhead - Elephant Woman
Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)
The Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted
The Mountain Goats - Moon Over Goldsboro
Sharon Van Etten - Your Love is Killing Me
Anna Calvi - Wolf Like Me
Vetiver - Lon Chaney
Cranes - Beautiful Friend
Kelley Deal 6000 - When He Calls Me Kitten
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Old 01-24-2018, 08:00 AM   #12 (permalink)
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^ Thanks for such a bunch of recommendations, rubber soul

I've chosen this one as a kind of "whatare you listening to now" clip because Wilco have been on my To Do list for some time, mainly because of their connection to Uncle Tupelo:-


And right at the end of your lists, yes! I really like (most of) Spacemen 3, who caught my attention when I heard those two "walking with Jesus" songs.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is such a damn good album. You know, they're supposed to be alt country or folk or whatever, but this album sounds so advanced and not like anything else I've heard in the genres they're typically associated with. I love albums that do that.
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Old 01-24-2018, 08:10 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is such a damn good album. You know, they're supposed to be alt country or folk or whatever, but this album sounds so advanced and not like anything else I've heard in the genres they're typically associated with. I love albums that do that.
I think they were considered alt-country when they first came out, probably because of the Uncle Tupelo connection, but they kept changing their sound as time went on. I'd prefer just to consider them Americana. They're one of my favorite bands these days.
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Old 02-13-2018, 06:38 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is such a damn good album. You know, they're supposed to be alt country or folk or whatever, but this album sounds so advanced and not like anything else I've heard in the genres they're typically associated with. I love albums that do that.
Agreed. "Jesus, Etc" is my favorite song off that album. The lines "skyscrapers are scraping together / your voice is smoking" towards the end are just so good
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Old 07-02-2018, 07:49 PM   #16 (permalink)
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All time? Hmm.. Hard. Got to be more, but a few amazing ones:
1. Ben Folds Five - "Boxing"
2. Mac DeMarco - "Chamber of Reflection"
3. Dispatch - "The General"
4. Bright Eyes - "The First Day of My Life"

Like I say, so many more... haha too many too think of and post tho

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HOW could I forget Joanna Newsom?! So many good songs, I just say her entire first three albums.
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Old 10-06-2018, 07:39 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Nice to see Strawberry Switchblade get a mention. Lots of great Glasgow indy music over the years, see if you can find The Wake, an early 80s Glasgow band thats pretty much forgotten.
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Old 12-06-2018, 04:43 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Smile Favorite Alt/Indie Songs
Garbage "Only Happy When It Rains"
"Stupid Girl"
Dandy Warhols "Bohemian Like You"
Divine Fits "Would That Not Be Nice"
Siouxsie & The Banshees "Kiss Them For Me"
Metric "Dressed To Suppress"
"Help I'm Alive"
Spoon "Rent I Pay"
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Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers
Radiohead - Airbag
Sleater-Kinney - the Fox, Burn Don't Freeze, Rollercoaster, Jumpers
The Breeders - No Aloha, Cannonball
Pixies - Debaser, Dead
Blonde Redhead - In Particular
Pavement - Range Life, Heaven is a Truck, Loretta's Scars, Rattled by the Rush
Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
Eels - Going to your Funeral
Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever
Björk - Army of Me
Super Furry Animals - Demons, Gathering Moss, Hermann loves Pauline
the Auteurs - Showgirl
the Boo Radleys - I Hang Suspended
the Flaming Lips - A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
the White Stripes - The Air Near my Fingers, Fell in Love with a Girl
Built to Spill - Twin Falls
Belly - Untogether
Beck - Lord Only Knows
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Of Montreal - So Begins Our Alabee
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (Adult Contemporary Version)
The Amps - Pacer
The Josephine Wiggs Experience - Arizona
Eyes Adrift - Alaska
Sweet 75 - Fetch
R.E.M. - Gardening At Night
The Pixies - Gigantic
Dinosaur Jr. - The Wagon
Cowboy Junkies - Speaking Confidentially
Skiploader - Synonym
Belly - Now They'll Sleep
Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are
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