Every time somebody asks me what kind of music I listen to I am at a loss for words. When I start naming bands, most people haven’t a clue. It’s not Alternative, as few alternative stations would or have ever played any of the bands I like. I don’t like any of the music that the alternative stations would actually play. I have found others who listen to the same music I do, and the band names are usually the same. So perhaps someone here would be able to help me answer the question, “What kind of music do you listen to”, the next time someone asks me.
Here are some bands I listen to:
Pavement
Belle and Sebastian
Elliot Smith
The Flamming Lips
Sebadoe
Grandaddy
Built to Spill
Apples in Stereo
Mercury Rev
I agree with Mouthbreather. All those bands would be indie rock bands. Sebadoh and pavement are two of my favorite bands.
My taste vary from indie rock (pixies, pavement etc), to punk (dk, swiz, circkle jerks), to jazz (miles davis, john coltrane), to emo (hot water music, get up kids, cursive). Classical? Yup.
Basically I like ALL music with the following exceptions; Led Zeplin - Too much “BABY BABY BABY!!!” Lynrd Skynrd - I don’t even have to justify this one.
also,
Skijumper: check out sebadoh. They are exactly the kind of music you are describing.
I’ve always wanted to. I’ve heard some of Lou Barlow’s solo works. Pretty cool. Which album do you recommend?
If you like The Pixies and Pavement, you might like to check out British bands like Blur (‘Blur’, ‘13’), Suede (‘Dog Man Star’) and The Verve (‘No Come Down’).
“If you like The Pixies and Pavement, you might like to check out British bands like Blur (‘Blur’, ‘13’), Suede (‘Dog Man Star’) and The Verve (‘No Come Down’).”…
err, no don’t… all these Brit bands, except on occasion Blur, are shite and will never be as essential as Pixies or Pavement.
Anything up to Bakesale. Bakesale is a GREAT album and good place to start. Then bubble and scrape. Smash your head on the punk rock kicks ass too. The earlier stuff is a lot more underproduced and noisy.
I just recommended the Flaming Lips in this thread. Pavement and Elliott Smith are great too. I think I might have to check out the rest of your list. Well, except for Belle and Sebastian. I find them a little too…how do the British put it?..Twee.
If you like Elliott Smith, be sure to check out Michael Penn and Aimee Mann. Both of them are superb singer/songwriters (married, too).
YOW!!! Shudder used to be one of my favorite bands, but pony express!?!?! I would pick any album BUT pony express.
Tenspot, funeral at the movies, and especially get your goat. Actually the band I previously mentioned, swiz, featured a bassist that later became shudder to thinks guitarist.
And I am may I say, I had no clue that Michael Penn and Amiee Mann were married.
I like the university kid who tells you the name of his/her “favorite” band, and then rejoices when you haven’t heard of them. i think some people choose to follow obscure bands just for the sake of “ownership.” there is good music that receives airplay. get a life, kiddies.
hegel, just because you can’t be bothered to look past what gets played on the air to find some interesting, independent artists who are making music that doesn’t fit into the current radio playlists, don’t belittle those who do. I spend a lot of time tracking down bands that really, honestly speak to me, personally, because my taste is different than most people’s. That’s how personal tastes are; they vary. Coming into a thread and denigrating people for appreciating music you’ve never heard of is petty and smacks of enormous insecurity.
And to the rest of the thread…
Wheat
Jets To Brazil
Clem Snide
Red House Painters
Lullaby for the Working Class
There’s some amazing music going on out there these days.
Sure, there’s some good music that gets airplay, but we’ve already heard it. I’d never begrudge Tool their mainstream success because, dammit, they’re talented. By the same token, nobody will ever convince me that Creed is anything more than mullet-headed grunge-lite.
However, there’s a far greater variety of good music that doesn’t fit onto radio’s increasingly restrictive teeny-bopper/classic rock playlists. A big part of the joy of music is discovering something new and turning others onto it. In fact, we are “sharing” not claiming “ownership”.
Insecurity over music choices? Please. I never labeled the whole indie scene as worthless or lacking in musician-ship. Rather, I shared my beef with some university students. Nice straw man there, MrVisible . . . are you always that artistic?
Hegel, so you just popped into a thread where people are discussing some pretty mainstream music[sub]hell, Ive heard of these bands. And I’m not exactly the heppest cat around daddio[/sub], in order to complain about a totally unrelated “university student.”
