Modern Rock - what do you like???

[BruceH]

Hey, when I first got into Wire, they were NEW, man, BRAND NEW!!

Yes, I'm old.

[Shawn]

My faves:

The "Josh Homme Family" of bands:

Kyuss

Desert Sessions

Queens Of The Stone Age

Eagles Of Death Metal

The "King's X" Family of bands:

King's X

Platypus

Poundhound

The Jelly Jam

Jughead

Supershine

Ty Tabor

Jerry Gaskill

[Jazz Kat]

This music makes me naucious.

[tonym]

This music makes me naucious.

Which music? If you don't mind me asking.

[md655321]

One absolutely fantastic CD from last year is Arcade Fire - Funeral. Sorta iniesh lo-fi rock, but with delusions of grandeur. Its fantastic.

Personally, I think rock music is better now than at any other time since 1970. I will second the previous mentions of Death Cab for Cutire and Postal Service.

Other great bands from the last decade or so:

Mars Volta

Sparta

The Waifs

The Shins

Iron and Wine

Ben Harper

John Butler Trio

Wilco

Flaming Lips

Radiohead (of course)

Jack Johnson

Jeff Buckley

Damien Rice

Muse

Modest Mouse

Polyphonic Spree

[GregK]

Uncle Tupelo, even though they imploded far too soon into two lesser bands

[Jazz Kat]

This music makes me naucious.

Which music? If you don't mind me asking.

I'm going to be vague, but modern rock. I cant name bands, I just know from what I have heard. I dont see any creativity in it.

[md655321]

So you cant name any bands and you dont see any creativity there (which clearly means you havent listened to enough of the music) but you still feel the need to say this music makes you feel nauseous?

There are no bad genres of music and it always quite dangerous for any music fan to simply dismiss that which they clearly know very little about.

Go buy some Wilco or some Radiohead. It might do you some good.

[Chuck Nessa]

[GregK]

So you cant name any bands and you dont see any creativity there (which clearly means you havent listened to enough of the music) but you still feel the need to say this music makes you feel nauseous?

There are no bad genres of music and it always quite dangerous for any music fan to simply dismiss that which they clearly know very little about.

Go buy some Wilco or some Radiohead. It might do you some good.

What's wrong with recognizing what you don't like??

[Jazzmoose]

So you cant name any bands and you dont see any creativity there (which clearly means you havent listened to enough of the music) but you still feel the need to say this music makes you feel nauseous?

There are no bad genres of music and it always quite dangerous for any music fan to simply dismiss that which they clearly know very little about.

Go buy some Wilco or some Radiohead.  It might do you some good.

What's wrong with recognizing what you don't like??

Because it's dangerous! Um...your head might explode or something, I guess...

[GregK]

Because it's dangerous! Um...your head might explode or something, I guess...

yeah, I guess so. I didn't know I, or anyone else, had to like everything!

[md655321]

There is a difference between recognizing what you dont like and dismissing music which you know nothing about.

If you like music, and I imagine that all of us do, you are doing yourself a terrible disservice to avoid entire genres based on limited exposure.

Additionally, it serves no purpose to say that the music makes you "nauseous." Thats fine if it does, but there is no reason to post in this thread then.

[wolff]

Additionally, it serves no purpose to say that the music makes you "nauseous." Thats fine if it does, but there is no reason to post in this thread then.

Yep!!

Keep them coming guys. I'm way behind on the new stuff and will be buying 5 or 10 LP's soon to get re-started.

Nice to see many new releases on vinyl, which is what I will be getting.

On my short list:

Shins

Postal Service

Iron and Wine

Modest Mouse(do not like their last one)

[Jazz Kat]

There is a difference between recognizing what you dont like and dismissing music which you know nothing about.

If you like music, and I imagine that all of us do, you are doing yourself a terrible disservice to avoid entire genres based on limited exposure.

Additionally, it serves no purpose to say that the music makes you "nauseous." Thats fine if it does, but there is no reason to post in this thread then.

There's a reason I dont buy all the albums and find out all the information. I heard it. And do not like it.

[Jazzmoose]

Personally, I don't see that listening to anything and everything that comes down the pike is either admirable or wise. There's being openminded, and there's being vacant. From a distance, they seem pretty close.

Mind you, I'm not saying that whatever music I don't like is "bad"; I only like circular logic in political discussions. But I don't feel any need to listen to every 'mini-genre' to the point of familiarity before deciding whether or not I'm interested. It's a good thing, too; there's just not that much time in life.

[Chrome]

For me, it's a question of both limited time and limited $$ ... one of the few non-jazz musicians I still consistently spend money on is PJ Harvey.

[tonym]

Hey Chrome, is your new avatar a PJ Harvey disc?

[AfricaBrass]

Hey Chrome, is your new avatar a PJ Harvey disc?

That's the cover of "Dry", isn't it?

I haven't heard that album in years, but I really liked it at the time.

[Brandon Burke]

So you cant name any bands and you dont see any creativity there (which clearly means you havent listened to enough of the music) but you still feel the need to say this music makes you feel nauseous?

There are no bad genres of music and it always quite dangerous for any music fan to simply dismiss that which they clearly know very little about.

Go buy some Wilco or some Radiohead. It might do you some good.

Yes and no.

Clearly, it is foolish to write off an entire genre of music (or film, or style of food, etc) without even giving it a try. At the same time, though, there's only so much effort one can put into that familiarization before the process becomes tedious and, frankly, a waste of time.

For example, it doesn't matter how many times I hear your examples, Wilco and Radiohead, I simply don't think there's anything that special abouyt them. I'm sure they're nice guys and all. And I by no means think they're terrible or anything. But I just don't find anything particularly groundbreaking or innovative about either of them. Normally that wouldn't be a legitimate criticism -- of anyone. I mean, as I see it, it's not everyone's job to push boundaries. But that seems to be the only thing anyone ever talks about when either of those bands is the topic of discussion.

Radiohead and Wilco both sound like re-hashed Gastr del Sol to me; albeit with echoes of their former selves. Brit Rock in the case of Radiohead and Roots Amerciana in the case of Wilco. This would be all well and good if Gast del Sol themselves weren't re-hashed Morton Feldman, Derek Bailey, Luc Ferarri, John Fahey, etc....

[Chrome]

Hey Chrome, is your new avatar a PJ Harvey disc?

Yep, yep ... as BFrank mentions, it's the cover of Dry!

[.:.impossible]

I never thought of Gastr Del Sol when listening to either of THOSE bands.

Wilco has continued to grow on me, whereas Radiohead's most recent releases have not.

Sam Prekop has a new album coming out under his name this year. Highly anticipated in my household for sure. His s/t is so great to me. I've also been enjoying O'Rourke's Drag City stuff lately. And Califone is always playing on a stereo nearby.

I got a copy of a Tortoise show from 2003 recently. Never saw them live, but this disc just reminded me of how cool their music was. Not too heavy, not too serious, and usually in some sort of a pocket. Gastr was usually out of pocket, which can also be good, but only when I'm in that mood. Usually that mood is devoted to albums like Too Beautiful to Burn, or New York Art Quartet. I never think of Gastr anymore, for some reason. Any recommedations to get me back on the wagon?

[John B]

off topic just a bit, but Drag City just reissued Bastro's Sing the Troubled Beast and Diablo Guapo as a twofer cd. Blue Cathedral (a subsidiary of Drag City) just issued Antlers:Live 1991, a collection of live recordings of Bastro.

Bastro was David Grubbs' band prior to Gastr del Sol.

Edited March 14, 2005 by John B

[Sundog]

[Brandon Burke]

I never thought of Gastr Del Sol when listening to either of THOSE bands.

Don't get me wrong.

I'm not saying it's enough to slap you in the face or anything. But when you think about it, no one really gave other than a passing damn about either of those bands until they started to employ jagged, cut-and-paste, "blip-bloop" post-production. And -- at the expense of generalzing, of course -- you can pretty much thank Gastr del Sol for turning anyone under the age of 35 (who wasn't already a music threory major) onto that stuff.

Which is to say nothing for the fact that most people under the age of 35 probably "discovered" John Fahey in the mid-90's as a direct result of O'Rourke...