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the local sports talk morning show used to use a short clip of “step into the freezer” and the gorgeous vocal harmonies filtered through lofi AM radio band caused me to assume it was some doobie bros or csn deep cut

Wow I wish I knew you people in my twenties <3

drugs enhance music for sure, but ime none of that effect has to do with their impact on my short-term memory, except for maybe like the first few times i smoked weed. i particularly take issue with the suggestion that repetition requires drugs to be enjoyable, a lot of the best music is built on loops that can go on forever

A lot of people can't bear that kind of repetition without chemical assistance.

I don't think I would listen to anything that required not being sober to enjoy it. Like, that's a pretty clear message your brain is sending your way. "This music is bad, listen to something else." Or, "that's enough of that, put something else on."

I mean, it's a fool's errand to defend Phish around here and I'm not really motivated enough to try anyway, but with reference to recent tangents, I've seen Phish multiple times stone cold sober and enjoyed the show just as much as I did when, uh, less than straight edge.

You need drugs to like Phish is just such a lazy complaint at this point anyway. Believe me, there are many fully legit complaints about those four goofballs and the corny ass music they can make, no one needs to lean on that old saw.

(also, fuck the nitrous mafia, an absolute scourge on the scene)

fuck the nitrous mafia

otm that is some scary shit (speaking as someone who enjoys a whipit every so often)

Was it in one of those All Gas videos where someone (Lance Bangs?) describes Phish as "children of dentists selling meth to buy coke?" Anyway, joke or no: dentists, Phish, nitrous, it all adds up.

if phish didn't sing they'd be doing the superbowl is how i break it down to an extant.

Ivy's Phish Odyssey: Phish C/D

(xps: sorry, really should have said above that I did talk to the jam cruise guys in line and they were nice guys, don't want to unfairly place them, whatever else was going on)

Music in general is just something to keep us entertained when we can't find anything new in superior mediums such as stand up comedy.

or if we are waiting for the pickle ball court to open up.

wait i've got a contro/op! THE ONLY 21ST CENTURY INDIE GUITAR BANDS WORTH LISTENING TO ARE ALL FROM AUSTRALIA. its true. dune rats. rolling blackouts. violent soho. hockey dad. drunk mums. total control. the uv race. raw balls. dick diver. lace curtain. rat columns. dag. blank realm. NEED I GO ON??? not to mention famous people like courtney and amyl.

pretty much the only modern indie rock i listen to. everything else is lame. how do they all make their guitars sound so cool and fun? and why does it look like they are having so much fun? aren't all the koalas on fire over there? down there. so infectious. AND NOT JUST THAT SMOKO SONG. they can't ALL be related to the Go-Betweens.

i'm a little behind though. i need to find some new kangarockers.

(i'm listening to the song "dive deep" by rolling blackouts right now and i think could marry the entire band. so good.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=628gXZn-zYw

not to mention Billiam, Gee Tees, R.M.F.C., Busted Head Racket, Tee Vee Repairman, Hagol, etc etc etc

and Terry, and EXEK, and The Lewers

Maybe if you include Canada too. Some of the indie guitar bands from up north: Dumb, Kiwi jr., Ducks Ltd.

ooh yeah aussie recs for me here please. i started a YT playlist ages ago but i should update or create a better one. plus its an old account of mine that i don't use anymore. WOOLEN KITS!

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4uJu4UGWv-Rn0YA53IvBEQTcxQ2E0u1n

SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING RULE. i have one album by them. so great.

i never look at my old account. this is still the best thing i've ever put on the internet probably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFHPsThGQ1E

see also

Lothario
TGRX
Tombeau

"children of dentists selling meth to buy coke?" Anyway, joke or no: dentists, Phish, nitrous, it all adds up.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 5:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Actual LOLs because the biggest Phish phan I knew at aforementioned college was the son of a dentist studying to be a dentist who also happens to be the only person I've ever done whipits with so that tracks.

xpost Tropical Fuck Storm

Power Plant too, forgot them

Feel like there would even be at least one King Gizzard record scott would dig too.

for sure, gotta be at least one lol

i'm a little scared of them. they aren't the phish of stoner rock are they?

they kind of are

Powerplant are from London

hey random ilxor if you have never heard this song and you like the sound of electric guitars..........................ahhhhhhhh!! LUV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93J8FKmrn0

xp thank you CP! my mistake

if there is an indie band that sounds as good as RBCF in this godforsaken country i ain't never heard them.

most of these are more punk than indie but some more Aussie recs: Ausmuteants, Alien Nosejob, Civic, Soakie, Private Function, Cold Meat, Ubik, Enzyme, Straightjacket Nation

love Civic

i'm a little scared of them. they aren't the phish of stoner rock are they?

I mean, yes and no. Similar in that they have a massive dedicated live following and really bring out folks with the collector's bug. But also, no, they don't ever really sound like Phish and are all over the place from stoner rock to thrash to kraut to prog and all points in between.

i haven't done a deep dive but i don't really like how their records sound, recording wise

Physique

i will check out the gizzard guys sometime. i mean i know i must have heard something online at some point.

lol i just remembered I made this meme for some friends in a fb chat a while back

https://i.postimg.cc/90jDfB5y/aussiepunk.jpg

Physique are from Olympia

lol ums

if there is an indie band that sounds as good as RBCF in this godforsaken country i ain't never heard them.

Have you heard Big Thief? They're pretty good...

my kid loves big thief. my kid turns me on to cool stuff. i like Wednesday! and my kid rufus turned me on to the wednesday guitarist's stuff and i dug it. it almost sounded australian!

i like turnstile lollllzzz but i kinda do. don't know why really.

i like western mass indie rock. my friends. its chill. my pal mikey turner had an awesome band called Huevos II but he moved to england :(

and my friend adam had an awesome band that i loved called New Parents but he moved to Philly and now he plays with kurt vile :(

and my pals clarke and wednesday (no relation to the band) had an AWES0ME band called Pigeons but they don't play anymore :(

but my friends patrick and wes have a new band that is awesome called Creative Writing. look out for them.

and my friends rob and bev have an amazing folk/psych band called Stella Kola and their album is one of my faves of recent times. that's online.

but maybe i like them so much because they are my friends. New Parents were SO great live.

hahaha, no way, my kid - whose band is awesome by the way and if you are ever in montreal check them out *Rufus Cesspool* - just sent me this insta message!!

"I'm joining another band with an aussie singer
Get ready for montreal's finest Courtney Barnett -core"

also: i am cleaning and pricing an Exploding White Mice record right now to take to the record show this weekend.

Scott here's a good Aussie band for you to check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjz2DaiMzOU
Featuring a founder member of Warped. (who has sadly since passed away)

They are called 'The Glycereens' btw.

its nice that other than one vote for canada nobody disagrees with me about australia. it must be true! there's something in the water. i listened to so much of that stuff during the pandemic. shit, that reminds me of a thread i wanted to start.