tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 6:45 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:yes, how millennial of me
was a joke
Millenials dont like being made fun of. @snowflakes
I don't know, I'm the one associating this stuff to memories, many of them not good, and getting all emotional about it. Maybe I'm the snowflake?
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 6:45 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Also, trag, big fan of Tortoise right here.
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 6:45 pm
by LoathedVermin72
tragabigzanda wrote:
Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Man, that kind of music just does absolutely nothing for me anymore.
Yea, me niether.
*neither
You don't like Sigur Ros either, trag?
I used to really enjoy them, in the early-to-mid 2000s. But I find it to be pretty dull music these days, not sure why.
Yep, same. I just don't have the patience for it anymore. I'm not impressed by that kind of "atmospheric" noodling. I'm much more into immediate, structured, efficient songs these days.
That is an understandable and acceptable millenial response.
Yea but he loves steely dan and the eagles. Awful.
I do think that "atmospheric" is the key word for me. I rarely play my Boards of Canada albums any more, ditto Brian Eno, ditto Mum. Yet I still love Tortoise and Steve Reich, both of whom take a more compositional approach to their creation of atmosphere...
Meanwhile, Electric Boogie continues to rock my world with their repetitive stoner riffs. There's just something about the Sigur Ros sound that now strikes me as quite boring, where I once thought it was really amazing.
Again, exactly the same here. I loved post-rock and ambient and all that shit as a teenager, but I just feel no emotional pull there anymore.
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 6:49 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 6:51 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
tragabigzanda wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Also, trag, big fan of Tortoise right here.
They are the sixth band I most want to see live, after Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, and Fugazi. What're your favorite Tortoise records? Least favorite?
Well, my friend gave me a copy of Seneca years ago, and that is the album that got me into the band, so that always has a special place in my heart. But I also really love:
Tortoise
Standards
It's All Around You
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 6:51 pm
by Strat
Sigur Ros is great skiing and yoga music
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 6:52 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Strat wrote:Sigur Ros is great skiing and yoga music
And seeing them live took it to a whole new level for me
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 6:52 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 6:53 pm
by Strat
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Strat wrote:Sigur Ros is great skiing and yoga music
And seeing them live took it to a whole new level for me
Me too, buddy. me too.
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 7:51 pm
by Kevin Davis
Sigur Ros never did anything for me either, though it's been a while since I've tried to listen to them and there's a good chance I missed out on most of what people consider their best albums. Back in the day there was so much buzz around that "Hopelandic" thing, and it just seemed like a level of artsy preciousness that I could never take seriously. I tried listening to their first couple albums, and some of it was pretty but it just wasn't my thing.
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 7:55 pm
by Strat
Watch their documentary. So beautiful.
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 8:32 pm
by chewm
I'd love to see Sigur Ros live as well.
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 8:50 pm
by CopperTom
Sigur Ros is the only time I had tickets in hand but couldn't make it to the concert.
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 9:21 pm
by matt reeder
At this point it's St. Vincent, maybe U2, and then a time machine. There are a lot of bands I'd love to see again, but I've seen everybody else I really love at least once, some 5x or more. Living in a major city with a thriving music scene and several excellent smaller venues helps this considerably.
Edit: I went to Sasquatch in 2007 and really enjoyed it, but only have memories of like 5-6 of the bands. But looking at this lineup now is surreal, since more than half the bands on the bill went on to become very popular, if not huge. But I managed to miss St. Vincent, who I did not know at all, because I was too busy grading papers at the Starbucks in Ellensburg.
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 9:30 pm
by Birds in Hell
I've never enjoyed Sigur Ros either.
Just not my thing.
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 11:43 pm
by doone
Strat wrote:Sigur Ros is great skiing and yoga music
Oh yeah? Want to put together a yoga mix for me?
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 11:51 pm
by Jorge
I love Sigur Ros. I think at their best (Takk) they come up with beautiful melodies and really nicely orchestrated arrangements. The more loosely-woven "atmospheric" side of their music is nice but not what they do best. Basically from Agaetis Byrjun up to that album with the naked butts on the cover they were great. I still marvel at the string arrangement for "Staralfur" from time to time.
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Thu February 16, 2017 11:58 pm
by Jorge
Strat wrote:Sigur Ros is great skiing and yoga music
Great, I hate them now
Re: Five bands you want to see live
Posted: Fri February 17, 2017 2:27 am
by Strat
theplatypus wrote:
Strat wrote:Sigur Ros is great skiing and yoga music
They are the sixth band I most want to see live, after Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, and Fugazi. What're your favorite Tortoise records? Least favorite?
