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Blarobbarg · 06-12-2012, 09:26 AM

Your writing is great! This looks like it will be an excellent journal!

And my gosh, that cover was fantastic. Your voice is beautiful.

WWWP · 06-13-2012, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg

Your writing is great! This looks like it will be an excellent journal!

And my gosh, that cover was fantastic. Your voice is beautiful.

Thank you! I really appreciate the feedback.

Music I Found Through MusicBanter - Pt. 4/5

Arab Strap – Unchained Ballad

When I hear Arab Strap I imagine Aidan Moffat sitting in a dimly lit room with cracked wooden floorboards and lampshades thick with layers of accumulated dust. The room stinks of spilled booze, stale tobacco smoke and a perfume unique to the unwashed, bearded woodland creature that is Moffat. Overflowing ashtrays litter the room and there are used condom wrappers in the bin filled otherwise with empty, unlabeled glass bottles and sheets of paper crumpled and shredded in frustration. There is an open window but it only serves to push around the humid stench – the epitomized smell of misery and misanthropy.

Arab Strap albums sound like novels in which you follow an apathetic antihero through a plot-less, gritty, urban landscape. You can empathize with the protagonist's thoughts and you are both disgusted by and supportive of his experiences and actions. You hate how much you can identify but you love that you’re not alone. The colloquial storytelling that is each album contains tracks heavily ridden with verses of self-contempt, sex and infidelity, alcoholism and drug abuse. Each song is saturated with witty, amusing wretchedness. It is depressing and it is filthy and I fucking love it. Arab Strap is my favorite band of the moment, no question. Unchained Ballad sent me a song one day and I instantly clicked with the music - the lyrics, the style and structure of the song, Moffat's voice, everything about it was perfect. They are the band I've been wanting to find for months.

The first song I heard:

Current Second Favorite Song:
(I Would've Liked Me A Lot Last Night is still my favorite, but I want to keep with the structure of this theme thing... but actually it's a tie so never mind I'm going to fuck it up anyway. Fuck the system. Thug life.)

Current Favorite Album: It's another tie! Mad for Sadness is the best live album I've ever heard and most of the songs are really great ones from Philophobia, therefore I can't pick between the two.

Other artists Unchained Ballad introduced me to: Pulp, Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg

WWWP · 06-14-2012, 01:07 AM

Music I Found Through MusicBanter - Pt. 5/5

The Mountain Goats – Sweet Nothing

How do I love John Darnielle? Let me count the ways.
I love John Darnielle to the depth and breadth and height
His nasally ass voice can reach, when feeling out of earshot
For the ends of production and ideal grace.
I love John Darnielle to the level of every day's
Album consumption, by sun and laptop back-light.
I love John Darnielle freely, as men strive for gigs.
I love John Darnielle purely, as they turn shyly from praise.
I love John Darnielle with the passion put to use
In my own songwriting, and with my youth’s fangirlism.
I love John Darnielle with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost taste in shitty music. I love John Darnielle with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if he so choose,
I shall love John Darnielle until death.

Oh John Darnielle. You and your loveable ass face. You with your nasally ass voice and cute ass glasses. You with your incredibly clever, succinct ass, (auto)biographically honest songwriting – oh John Darnielle, the things I would do to marry you.

I really enjoy lo-fi; I really love shitty recordings of songs. The shitty, lo-fi recordings of The Mountain Goats cause me to imagine John Darnielle as one of those people who absolutely have to create. He doesn’t care about quality of production or the gimmicks that come with it, he just has to write and he has to record and he has to share his thoughts. Some may find this behavior narcissistic or even annoying, and understandably so, but personally this is my favorite form of music: songs that are more about raw expression that have an unabashed shouting out of lyrics that read like a scribbled down stream-of-consciousness, cathartic and satisfying.

That need to create reminds me of the Marquis de Sade a la the film Quills, writing his stories on the walls of his cell with his own excrement…… but that’s a terrible analogy. John Darnielle would probably not like that I just made that comparison. At least it’s original? My point is that I have a soft spot for people like John Darnielle who put out full-length albums recorded on boomboxes and distributed via cassette tape. I do still enjoy the later albums from the Mountain Goats, which tend to be more produced and feature a different tone than the rest of the band’s repertoire, but even on those albums Darnielle’s lo-fi roots seep through every now and then and I'll admit that I hold my breath for those moments.

The first song I heard:

Current Favorite Song:

Current Favorite Album:

Another artist Sweet Nothing introduced me to: Interpol

WWWP · 06-14-2012, 10:00 PM

Music I Found Through MusicBanter Mixtape

I thought it would be nifty to upload a mixtape featuring the bands I’ve talked about so far – I don’t know if anyone’s really interested or if this is a dumb idea but here it is in case it's not and you are. I’ve included the tracks I posted videos for as well as others that I enjoy from the various albums of each artist, in hopes that if someone hasn’t heard one of the bands/artists before they’ll obtain a little more insight as to what each of them sound like.

Also if anyone needs a link to any of the albums just send a pm and I’ll sort it out.

Tracklist

Elliott Smith

1. Angeles
2. King’s Crossing
3. Rose Parade
4. Waltz #2
5. I Didn’t Understand

The Olivia Tremor Control

6. Jumping Fences
7. I Have Been Floated
8. Paranormal Echoes
9. California Demise, Pt. 3
10. Dusk at Cubist Castle

Yo La Tengo

11. Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind
12. Damage
13. I Feel Like Going Home
14. The Story of Yo La Tengo
15. You Can Have It All

Arab Strap

16. I Would’ve Like Me a Lot Last Night
17. Packs of Three
18. New Birds
19. Here We Go
20. Pyjamas

The Mountain Goats

21. The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
22. Blues in Dallas
23. California Song
24. No Children
25. Tallahassee

Other Mentions

26. Mind Contorted – Daniel Johnston
27. As We Go Up, We Go Down – Guided By Voices
28. Two Dogs Dead - cLOUDDEAD
29. Dans Le Port d'Amsterdam - Jacques Brel
30. Untitled – Interpol

Download Mixtape

Blarobbarg · 06-15-2012, 08:11 AM

I love me some mixtapes. Downloading!

hip hop bunny hop · 06-15-2012, 12:05 PM

Too much sad music. Do you listen to anything upbeat that came out since 1990?

Dr_Rez · 06-21-2012, 11:02 PM

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That album cover.......................

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hip hop bunny hop Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,381	Too much sad music. Do you listen to anything upbeat that came out since 1990? __________________ Have mercy on the poor.