Is that a layered post too?epilogue wrote:Ah, well never mind then.washing machine wrote:It's a fairly layered post that I constructed specifically for trag.epilogue wrote:watwashing machine wrote:Its the old fruit that makes winetragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
I don't have layers, Reid.washing machine wrote:Is that a layered post too?epilogue wrote:Ah, well never mind then.washing machine wrote:It's a fairly layered post that I constructed specifically for trag.epilogue wrote:watwashing machine wrote:Its the old fruit that makes winetragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
Lady I know-know-know you don'tepilogue wrote:I don't have layers, Reid.washing machine wrote:Is that a layered post too?epilogue wrote:Ah, well never mind then.washing machine wrote:It's a fairly layered post that I constructed specifically for trag.epilogue wrote:watwashing machine wrote:Its the old fruit that makes winetragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
Easily the song that best represents Melissa Etheridgewashing machine wrote:Lady I know-know-know you don'tepilogue wrote:I don't have layers, Reid.washing machine wrote:Is that a layered post too?epilogue wrote:Ah, well never mind then.washing machine wrote:It's a fairly layered post that I constructed specifically for trag.epilogue wrote:watwashing machine wrote:Its the old fruit that makes winetragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
What a great quote pyramid...wasted.epilogue wrote:Easily the song that best represents Melissa Etheridgewashing machine wrote:Lady I know-know-know you don'tepilogue wrote:I don't have layers, Reid.washing machine wrote:Is that a layered post too?epilogue wrote:Ah, well never mind then.washing machine wrote:It's a fairly layered post that I constructed specifically for trag.epilogue wrote:watwashing machine wrote:Its the old fruit that makes winetragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
You knew the riskswashing machine wrote:What a great quote pyramid...wasted.epilogue wrote:Easily the song that best represents Melissa Etheridgewashing machine wrote:Lady I know-know-know you don'tepilogue wrote:I don't have layers, Reid.washing machine wrote:Is that a layered post too?epilogue wrote:Ah, well never mind then.washing machine wrote:It's a fairly layered post that I constructed specifically for trag.epilogue wrote:watwashing machine wrote:Its the old fruit that makes winetragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
High churn rate, enemy of riskepilogue wrote:You knew the riskswashing machine wrote:What a great quote pyramid...wasted.epilogue wrote:Easily the song that best represents Melissa Etheridgewashing machine wrote:Lady I know-know-know you don'tepilogue wrote:I don't have layers, Reid.washing machine wrote:Is that a layered post too?epilogue wrote:Ah, well never mind then.washing machine wrote:It's a fairly layered post that I constructed specifically for trag.epilogue wrote:watwashing machine wrote:Its the old fruit that makes winetragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
which sonic oof song is that fromwashing machine wrote:High churn rate, enemy of riskepilogue wrote:You knew the riskswashing machine wrote:What a great quote pyramid...wasted.epilogue wrote:Easily the song that best represents Melissa Etheridgewashing machine wrote:Lady I know-know-know you don'tepilogue wrote:I don't have layers, Reid.washing machine wrote:Is that a layered post too?epilogue wrote:Ah, well never mind then.washing machine wrote:It's a fairly layered post that I constructed specifically for trag.epilogue wrote:watwashing machine wrote:Its the old fruit that makes winetragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I'm just trying to get you to pay attention to me, Reid
Wowee Zowee & BtC are my 2 favorite albums but I picked this one because it has the noisiness of early Pavement while being melodic like their latter stuffwashing machine wrote:This is probably true, even if I personally relate with Pavement through Wowee Zowee and beyond.chewm wrote:Pavement - Silence Kid
nineteen pages in and you finally got there palepilogue wrote:Okay, so... I've been thinking this through since my Bowie post...
The song that best represents a band/artist.
To me, that's one song that if you played it for someone it would tell them what they needed to know about that artist. It doesn't mean everything that artist does has to be represented. It's the song that represents the group's essence. One song that would tell a novice whether or not they needed to bother digging deeper into a body of work.
With that in mind, I think Life on Mars? is my pick for Bowie. It's lush. It's weird. It's lyrical. It's catchy. It's character driven. It's dramatic and cinematic. It transports. All things I associate with David Bowie.
I agree.washing machine wrote:This is 100% true.Mickey wrote:Hmmtragabigzanda wrote:Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
Hey, I like all eras of SY! I obviously haven't been listening as long as you have (you helped guide me through my initial discovery of the band, after all), but I'm pretty familiar with all the albums at this point. If I had to pick I might even say "Shadow of a Doubt" is my favorite SY song period.washing machine wrote:I love KD and I love Washing Machine, but I just really don't think he's given pre-Geffen SY a fair enough shake on the board over the years for that to be a balanced take.
I am not sure I really relate to this criteria with SY -- I don't think there are any SY songs where they don't sound completely and utterly like themselves. I would say this about my pick, though: I like "Schizophrenia," and Sister, a lot. But as someone who really enjoys longform instrumental music, that side of SY's musical personality has been super important to my experience with the band. And even though "Schizophrenia" gives an elemental taste of what that side of their personality is like (or would be like in a longer-form piece), and certainly does so in a way that is right for that song, it's not the same; to me, music that unfolds over a long period of time creates an experience that is not sufficiently conveyed or represented by being reduced to a "capsule" version. If someone were to tell me that the definitive, most representative Miles Davis track was, say, something off Birth of the Cool (where all the songs are 2-3 minutes long, limited by the 10-inch 78 rpm format), right off the bat I would be skeptical, because that experience of hearing his music unfold over a longer period of time, of following his musical trains of thought (and those of his sidemen) over the course of 9-10 minutes, is something definitive to my experience with his music that can't be conveyed simply by showing me something that adheres to a similar aesthetic value, only in a more consolidated format. That just isn't how it works for me.washing machine wrote:But most importanly, and this is obviously subjective to no end, but Schizophrenia to me just sounds more like a SY song. It's slightly out of tune, it's unsettling but somehow ear candy too, it is full of texture, and when I close my eyes I can see dark NYC alleyways, clear as day.
Watspike wrote:nineteen pages in and you finally got there palepilogue wrote:Okay, so... I've been thinking this through since my Bowie post...
The song that best represents a band/artist.
To me, that's one song that if you played it for someone it would tell them what they needed to know about that artist. It doesn't mean everything that artist does has to be represented. It's the song that represents the group's essence. One song that would tell a novice whether or not they needed to bother digging deeper into a body of work.
With that in mind, I think Life on Mars? is my pick for Bowie. It's lush. It's weird. It's lyrical. It's catchy. It's character driven. It's dramatic and cinematic. It transports. All things I associate with David Bowie.