Great year for experimental music: Eno: Discreet Music, Evening Star Neu!: 75 Harmonia: Deluxe Tangerine Dream: Rubycon Jan Hammer: The First Seven Days Miles Davis: Agharta, Pangaea Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanicby Nightdrive
I love this take about Black Flag, although I do think Damaged is a classic.by Nightdrive
Christian Riese Lassen - Oneohtrix Point Neverby Nightdrive
It was the end of an era. My theory is that 1963-1987 was the golden era of pop music/culture. 1975 is about the middle. So 1974 is the wrapping up of old guard glam, hippy folk, baroque, etc and the start of the new era Laurel Canyon, punk, electronic krautrock, Reggae, Jaws, Taxi Driver, etc. Obviously things don't appear out of nowhere and there is over lapping.by Nightdrive
Yeah like Mr Fab said, the 2010's were a huge boom for cassettes on bandcamp. I got into collecting them just to support young artists. Tapes were cheap and beautifully designed. I saw them more as pop art and a throw back but eh just got sick of collecting, something I generally don't like to do.by Nightdrive
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I think the raw, amateurish ethos of punk sort of blocked alot of that. Having said that, SST's roster back in the day had a lot of instrumental punk music, with house band BF doing it but obviously stuff like Negativeland being a noted one. Now here me out: Early post hardcore and emo like Fugazi, Quicksand, Jones Very (and later Sunny Day, Appleseed Caste, Pop Unknown) etc had alot of instby Nightdrive
Skate punk was definitely its own thing. The pop-punk boom of the 90s fazed it out. Computer music is totally a thing. James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual sort of kicked it off but you could go back to Jan Hammer's Beyond The Mind's Eye. Obviously Eno gets a huge credit. Videogame music especially Chiptune or 8 bit. That genre is enormous. Mallsoft is an ambient subgenreby Nightdrive
Episode 164 White Light White Heat by The Velvet Underground This is a pretty solid 3 hr and 20 minute look at the VU. The narrator is excellent and it is told like a Ken Burns doc. I put off checking out this pod but I am impressed. I am not sure if anything new is said, I seem to remember most of it. The presentation is top notch.by Nightdrive
Love the SPOT sound. Bury those vocals.by Nightdrive
I went through a huge Yardbirds phase as a kid, common for guitar players in the 80s. Pop culture has tucked them away for now I think. I remember finally seeing Blow-up after years of hearing about it. One day Stranger Things will use Over Under and they will be all the rage again.by Nightdrive
Christmas at Crystal Valley Mall by モールFUTURE/PAST a chill vaporwave/mallsoft Christmas album.by Nightdrive
Netflix and film reviving old punk and Alt: Btw has anyone seen Halloween Ends? The song Halloween by DK is used at a major point. I would equate this stuff with Wes Anderson reviving 60's rock in the 90s. Boomer rock like the Stones and Bowie were kinda played out in the 80s. They weren't popular in Alt circles (not including elite music people like you guys) because you had so much grby Nightdrive
Sault - Bow This song was huge when it came out.by Nightdrive
Bip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Agree with Steevee. I have access to ‘Pistol’ but > can’t for the life of me get myself to watch it. > Much rather see the real thing. > > Do I really want to see a kid less than half my > age try to show me how he thinks one of my musical > heroes might respond in a given situation? > Bullocksby Nightdrive
zoo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nightdrive Wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Meatmen > > - One Down, Three to Go > > Oh, I forgot about that one! I think we can all agree the Meatmen are best forgotten.by Nightdrive
Meatmen - One Down, Three to Goby Nightdrive
It depends what types of music you're gonna play in that niche. These song titles would make good names and fit wide variety of styles: George Benson - Breezin' Cameo - Feel Me Shakatak - Streetwalkin' Lonnie Listen Smith - A Garden of Peace Nina Simone - Fine and Mellow The Jets - Private Numberby Nightdrive
Johnny Jewel put out a few records on Italians do it Better back when the Chromatics did the third season of Twin Peaks with Julee recordings. There is still some Cream vinyl of the demos for Floating, Falling and The World Spins. All are more ethereal and ambient than the final products that we have all know and love. Three Demosby Nightdrive
Mazzy Star and Spiritualized are like cosmic siblings. Throw in Opal and shuffle it all. Billy Bragg, The Wallflowers and Jackson Browne all put out albums last year. Sonically it all sounds like one band with three different singers.by Nightdrive
I have not kept up on her but I guess I should. This excellent.by Nightdrive
Survivor are so good though. Van Hager and Night Ranger all put out some solid tunes. Sometimes a little douche rock hits just right.by Nightdrive
CMD094 makes this shoegazy fuzzy ambient music. I highly recommend. He has made some of my favorite music since he started. He has his cult following. CMD094 - 1992by Nightdrive
Jordan Joy Division Bip sorry for my mid-life crisis ramble, but here is some more. I think we are post-alternative. Now, the person in marketing or the bro in accounting for big business X has a sleeve and collects vinyl. There is nothing alternative about alternative. Coachella is for rich people. Punk now is just retro cosplay... which in a way thats how it was started by 4 awkward geeks inby Nightdrive
We are in the age of the Unknown Pleasures t-shirt. And even if you try and talk to someone about the music they wear, you are a patriarchal hegemony.by Nightdrive
Bruce and the Dems are a match made in heaven. Both are false iconography. Bruce carries the mantle of Guthrie and Seeger on yachts and mansions with a net worth of 1/2 bil. While the Dems support the working class buy driving every last dollar to executives and shareholders for world destroying, international large businesses. By making George Floyds and pretending to save and care. I canby Nightdrive
He was a hipster up until the end. He sorta became a cult hero (3rd or 4th time in his life) a few years ago for repping Vaporwave to Rolling Stone. He called them up and said they need to cover it. Haha. A lot of young electronic artists got a huge kick out of this. Michael Nesmithby Nightdrive
The Floating Points album hits such a sweet spot and has such an instant classic sound. It nails what it does perfectly. I hope they do more albums.by Nightdrive
Alternative and punk haven't been progressive nor ideological since the 80s. After the early 90s it just became a normie thing where Father John Misty's and Mac Demarco douches hit on sorority chicks. They ain't reading trouser press.by Nightdrive
Culture stopped changing after the internet. From about 2001 to now its all the same. It fucks with your head as far as how time passes. Having said that, 2020-2021 might have bumped us into a new thing.by Nightdrive