I always liked War On Drugs! They sound like "Wilco, except good" to me
― kelis navidad (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
"Lust For Life" is an amazing song but I didn't really understand why people loved Girls so much beyond that. I got in an argument once about how "I wish I had a pizza and a bottle of wine" was a great lyric and I still maintain that it's a great lyric
― kelis navidad (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
I like them as background music in Argentine churrascerias and Spanish tapas joints and when colleagues make no grand claims for them: a solid minor band. Compare them Wire Train or something (or maybe CMJ or whoever made grand claims for Wire Train too?).
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
My jam on that first album was "Hellhole Ratrace"
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
what tame impala? that dude was talked about a lot at one point. haven't seen much action lately.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
*what about
New album in a couple months iirc
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
maybe that will remind everyone of the previous hype*. . . but not soon enough to make the end of decade lists.
(*hype i never understood, tbh.)
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
to me, the early part of the decade was characterized by following a lot of bedroom pop that I don't see super heavily represented in these lists, but felt like they were talked/blogged about a lot. I get it; a lot of it hasn't aged the best and is mostly a genre where a lot of those artists cut their teeth rather than make their best stuff, but I still find a lot of that stuff to be charmingly economical but serious songwriting. a lot of the buzzy guitar bands are also less represented than I thought they'd be but I wouldn't say written out (cymbals eat guitars, cloud nothings, that kind of thing)
― be the cowboy dan, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 01:40 (four years ago) link