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Ringo~Bingo · 2009.04.26, 02:53 AM

Noel Gallagher - Listen Up (from the recent Albert Hall show)

TeslaGuy · 2009.04.26, 04:23 AM

The Cars - Heartbeat City

mizer_unmei · 2009.04.26, 04:37 AM

My mum has played the Cars music since I was born, but I always thought they were really boring and too simple. But after listening to a whole best of album one time, they really grew on me. I do need to listen to them more.

Blonde Redhead - Silently

I love the Blonde Redhead love here! I just got this CD on a whim and it's really grown on me. I definitely want to pick up another one of theirs soon.

TeslaGuy · 2009.04.26, 08:14 AM

Cars producer Roy Thomas Baker intentionally kept their sound simple.

From an interview in Mix magazine:

(Mix) With The Cars, you had this band with a sparse rhythm section and a unique singer in Ric Ocasek, but when the harmonies kicked in, it was a wall of sound.

(Baker) They came at a time when rock radio really needed some freshening up. I was going through my own little demons at the time. I had been doing Queen, which was kitchen sink over-production, which I loved. But in the same way that we had the alterna-music thing in the early '90s, the end of the '70s had the punk era. I would run into the Sex Pistols, because they were working over at Wessex. They were saying the usual, "All you bands are going to be gone because you're over-produced and you're all fags," and all that. [Laughs] It was really funny. I thought, "Maybe there is a point where I should be a bit more sparse." So when I did the first Cars record, we purposely did it very sparse, but when the harmony vocals come in, there are as many vocals there as there were in a Queen record. The only difference is it was in and then it was gone. "Good Times Roll" is a classic one for that. When they sing those words, it's huge and then it's gone, and everything is back to sparse again. I was able to put big vocals on a sparse, punkish background, sort of inventing post-punk pop.

lazer85 · 2009.04.26, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by mizer_unmei

My mum has played the Cars music since I was born, but I always thought they were really boring and too simple. But after listening to a whole best of album one time, they really grew on me. I do need to listen to them more.

Blonde Redhead - Silently

I love the Blonde Redhead love here! I just got this CD on a whim and it's really grown on me. I definitely want to pick up another one of theirs soon.

I am so against Japanese girls singers in American indie rock bands. They are SO gimmicky and almost never talented. The one exception to this is Blonde Redhead, she is such a rockstar and so talented. I missed a chance to see them for free and interview them. Stupid huh? I'm really only into their latest 2 albums though. I can't wait for a new one.

ShinjiPG - I am actually not a fan of Korean music but I'd like to become one. The problem is that I hate music that is easily catogorized and that isn't made (at least to a large extent) by the artist/band themselves. I'm sure Korea has a lot of good music but everyone I've talked to has pointed me towards large pieces of horse dump in the shape of platinum selling pop albums. I'm open to suggestions if you are kind on my ears, as in please nothing that an average 13 year old likes.

Maou · 2009.04.26, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by lazer85

I am so against Japanese girls singers in American indie rock bands. They are SO gimmicky and almost never talented. The one exception to this is Blonde Redhead, she is such a rockstar and so talented. I missed a chance to see them for free and interview them. Stupid huh? I'm really only into their latest 2 albums though. I can't wait for a new one.

Erm, Blonde Redhead is OK. Misery is Butterfly is their only really good album. Asobi Seksu smashes them to pieces when it comes to the Japanese-American indie band gimmick.

CLT: fra-foa - higurashi

lazer85 · 2009.04.26, 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by Maou

Erm, Blonde Redhead is OK. Misery is Butterfly is their only really good album. Asobi Seksu smashes them to pieces when it comes to the Japanese-American indie band gimmick.

CLT: fra-foa - higurashi

I guess to each their own. Seeing them live, to me, was kind of like my half hour walk home from work, certainly not the most awful experience of my day but pretty much completely unmemorable. I knew I'd get some people mad at me with that comment though.

cjhobbies00 · 2009.04.26, 09:23 AM

I"m livid with you as well, sir. There's nothing gimmicky about the greatness that is Asobi Seksu.

Maou · 2009.04.26, 09:27 AM

Asobi Seksu is a purely studio band. I don't think any band could successfully pull off their sound live with only one guitarist and fill-in musicians on bass and drums.

ShinjiPG · 2009.04.26, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Maou

Asobi Seksu is a purely studio band.

Whereas Blonde Redhead isn't!
Seeing them live was probably one of my best live experiences, and they had sound problems.
Unfortunately, I couldn't go to the Asobi Seksu show, during my Citrus hype days, but from what my friends told me I didn't miss anything because it was loud noise shoegaze and I think I can skip that.

2009.04.26, 04:37 AM	#4953
mizer_unmei Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 808	My mum has played the Cars music since I was born, but I always thought they were really boring and too simple. But after listening to a whole best of album one time, they really grew on me. I do need to listen to them more. Blonde Redhead - Silently I love the Blonde Redhead love here! I just got this CD on a whim and it's really grown on me. I definitely want to pick up another one of theirs soon. __________________ last.fm

2009.04.26, 09:23 AM	#4958
cjhobbies00 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,873	I"m livid with you as well, sir. There's nothing gimmicky about the greatness that is Asobi Seksu. __________________ The man who does not listen to good music has no advantage over the man who is deaf. -bastardized Twain quote. http://www.last.fm/user/cjhobbies00

2009.04.26, 09:27 AM	#4959
Maou Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Happy Valley Posts: 3,226	Asobi Seksu is a purely studio band. I don't think any band could successfully pull off their sound live with only one guitarist and fill-in musicians on bass and drums. __________________ I'd rather have a life of "oh wells" than a life of "what ifs"

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Ringo~Bingo Banned Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 3,222	Noel Gallagher - Listen Up (from the recent Albert Hall show)

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TeslaGuy apathy enthusiast Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2,307	Cars producer Roy Thomas Baker intentionally kept their sound simple. From an interview in Mix magazine: (Mix) With The Cars, you had this band with a sparse rhythm section and a unique singer in Ric Ocasek, but when the harmonies kicked in, it was a wall of sound. (Baker) They came at a time when rock radio really needed some freshening up. I was going through my own little demons at the time. I had been doing Queen, which was kitchen sink over-production, which I loved. But in the same way that we had the alterna-music thing in the early '90s, the end of the '70s had the punk era. I would run into the Sex Pistols, because they were working over at Wessex. They were saying the usual, "All you bands are going to be gone because you're over-produced and you're all fags," and all that. [Laughs] It was really funny. I thought, "Maybe there is a point where I should be a bit more sparse." So when I did the first Cars record, we purposely did it very sparse, but when the harmony vocals come in, there are as many vocals there as there were in a Queen record. The only difference is it was in and then it was gone. "Good Times Roll" is a classic one for that. When they sing those words, it's huge and then it's gone, and everything is back to sparse again. I was able to put big vocals on a sparse, punkish background, sort of inventing post-punk pop.