Wait, no “No Children”?
Making the unusual decision to post the live version, because this one is so great.
Also, I’m going to see them next month!
I would also have a look at Sleater-Kinney’s The Woods. It just technically misses your ten-year mark, being released in 2005. No real bad tracks on that record, but I’ll nominate:
If you want to strictly stay within the 10-year limit, they did release an album last year. I’ll recommend Surface Envy from that one. It’s a great album, too, but The Woods is perhaps their crowning achievement.
It’s really hard to pick a favorite. 
That’s a great live version of that song. Have fun at the show!
Those are really great tunes tunes in the OP. I’ve listened to 20 of these newer ones and I don’t see any comparison or even similarities. Esp Todd’s, and George’s.
It would seem that, given recent events at Trumps rally I should have linked to this song from To Pimp A Butterfly instead. Alright.
As I (mis)wrote in my initial reply (I should have written “subjective” rather than “objective”), the quality of music is really in the ear of the beholder. Of the OP’s songs, there are only two that I would really miss if for some reason I would never hear them again; I would really miss the seven that I posted.
Consider that for every “Can We Be Friends” from the 1970s, there is at least one “Afternoon Delight.” There’s (subjectively) great music being made every year, and there’s (subjectively) awful music being made every year.
I am somehow unsurprised.
Well, of course i agree…but i appreciate everyone’s efforts. And I would put that Natalie Prass song up there.
And i can see how the seven i posted arn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Except for Brothers Johnson they DO seem linked musicwise sorta.
And seriously…I’m just glad BANDS that play REAL INSTRUMENTS still exist and manage to impress people with new music. Even if they don’t get top 40 airplay.
GU: These things are obviously true and come up in every aesthetic discussion. But I don’t want to throw out the little baby here that is why I asked:
There were specific songs cited and asked to come up with good analogs. Not just your faves. I have heard a lot of this now and it seems repetitive and not melodic enough to be comparable.
A comparison of CWSBF with AD is not logically attached to my question. If fact we all know that there were more like 100-1000 bad songs for every good one then and now. We are trying to name the good ones here, not apply symmetries or claim equalities.
I like this thread, and appreciate the time everyone took. I ask the question not to be a prick but because I am looking for the same thing as the OP.
(PS I have found it but every time I do time passes by so damn fast it doesn’t freakin qualify: I love Fleet Foxes, Magnetic Fields, but 69 love songs is 1999! and so on)
Sorry I just think it pays to really picky about new music. and listen to a lot of Jazz and older music. (;0)
Well there is a computer survey in another thread where they have determined that real instruments are not influential anymore. Waaah
Based on the OP might I suggest you try Judee Sill? She was the first Asylum artist and died a long time ago. A lost treasure.
I am taking this as a song title and I don’t care what you say! And it will be an 80s style song too.
Ok, you like Magnetic Fields, so we have some point of commonality there with somewhat modern music. Have you listened to Arcade Fire? I would think you would have found them pretty goddamned amazing. I’ll be honest–they’re not really one of my favorites, but they are deep musically and lyrically and they seem like a band that would be up your alley. Funeral is a pretty much a perfect album (although that 2004, so just outside the OP’s range), and The Suburbs, from 2010, comes close. Just a beautiful album from theme to lyrics to musicality to arrangement. The only reason I’m not a bigger fan of them is that I tend to like my music a little “dirtier.”
I’ve tried and I’ll put those in the bin for another spin. It hasn’t grabbed hold yet. I know Bowie was a big fan.
I’m going to go back to the new pornographers of the bands here to see more.
I’m sure that everyone here has experienced the “grade inflation” in record reviews and public opinions. It’s hard to get through it with so much product. When I “got” the Fleet Foxes after hearing them by chance on the radio, a year after I listened to the first LP, it just about put me on the floor. I worry important stuff just gets lost. But someone thinks everyone is important.
The Fleet Foxes are great. The stuff in this thread is a bit all over the place. Have you lisented to Bon Iver? Or Manitoba? Grizzly Bear? They occupy the same space in my brain as Fleet Foxes.
Edit: when I posted Manitoba I meant Of Montreal, Manitoba are good too but different.
Here’s another one for you drad dog. How about Tame Impala? Once again, not exactly my cup of tea sonically. The big single here was Elephant. It’s a little more psychedelic than my tastes, but musically quite rich and interesting.
I guess this is as good a place as any to recommend:
A John Carpenter album of “Music made for movies never made”
Which isnt to say he made the music intending it to for movies that just didn’t get produced. They just sound like…John Carpenter music.
I do want to say that some of these songs vocals are hard to make out without really listening. I’m not a lyric guy so i need my musics lyrics to really grab me.
For instance that Leon Russel song…I really don’t know the lyrics, so it’s the style and piano and poignancy that grab me.
Todd Rundgrens lyrics jump out on the song i posted…but man he is so prolific that his other songs rarely do.
Another example…Beck’s Sea Change is great but i’ll be damned if i know more than the chorus on the songs.
So that Arcade Fire album? If you guys say it’s great I’ll give it a whirl a few times, but my first impression was…"I can’t understand what they’re saying without shutting out the rest of the song.
I do like a lot of old country cause there’s a lot of wordplay.
Funeral is amazing and best if listened to as an album in order.
My GF is friends with Horse Thief
A band operating out of OKC right now. I like them, but another example of the vocal using effects…at least i think it is.
Vocal melody is the most important thing in a tune for me, unless it’s instrumental. If there is newer music where the vocals are hidden and there is just a vamp going on I get really impatient really quick with this. You can’t hide a melody, and you cant make one if it’s not there to begin with.
I like a lot of older basic riff songs, with muddy vocals, but if I hear them done again and again under different names over the years I’m going to faze out and call it unoriginal. Whereas somebody who hasn’t heard all of that may like it. Everybody here knows what it’s like to hear Gloria rewritten. Depending on when you were born (and whether you play guitar) at some point you will just not even hear it.
Check out this live acoustic Todd Rundgren. I can’t imagine greater mastery over composing and playing. And he’s drunk here.
This is John Fahey instr music that I was knocked out by.
