Amanda Palmer fucking OWNS jesus CHRIST. WKAP is probably one of the best albums of 2008; there, I said it.
If you combine Amanda Palmer with the Dresden Dolls, it would be the third most played artist on my lastfm.
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Music, Preferably the Sort You Like
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RabbiVole
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The first two are Crystal Castles and You Love Her Coz She's Dead, both of which sound like plugging a gameboy colour into an amp.
There are a lot of people who do that sort of thing, actually.
You'd be astonished at the sort of things people can do with old computer hardware.Demoscene music rules.
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kjw004
MemberThe first two are Crystal Castles and You Love Her Coz She's Dead, both of which sound like plugging a gameboy colour into an amp.
There are a lot of people who do that sort of thing, actually. You'd be astonished at the sort of things people can do with old computer hardware.Demoscene music rules.
I hear Crystal Castles steals from 8bit-collective.
Don't listen to enough of either to know if it's true, I just heard.
Sigs are for squares. That being said, I'm really lazy.Posted 1 year ago # -
I hear Crystal Castles steals from 8bit-collective.
I've heard Crystal Castles steals from a lot of places. The first I ever heard of the band was over this debacle. If all this is true someone needs to tell them that they're not that obscure anymore and people will figure it out if you steal from others.
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I hear Crystal Castles steals from 8bit-collective.
Don't listen to enough of either to know if it's true, I just heard.
I haven't heard that, but plagiarizing demoscene music isn't unheard of.
/edit: Shit, this and this seem to verify your story. Dammit, I can't abide by that sort of bullshit. I have no problems with sampling, if the work is properly attributed and the wishes and licensing terms of the artist are honored. And the fact that it's being done to people releasing their music for free by commercial artists galls me even more. I know more awesome musicians in the demoscene than I can count, and have a lot of friends among them, so when something like this happens it pisses me off something fierce.
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i have had this song stuck in my head for a few days now.
it's from the 80's animated movie "Rock and Rule" which starred Debbie Harry, Lou Reed, and the dude from Cheap Trick.Posted 1 year ago # -
"Bella Ciao", by japanese Ska band "Doberman". I like it when people take a well-known song and turn it into something else.
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Oh, man, Japanese ska is the cutest goddamned thing in the world.
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kjw004
MemberOh, man, Japanese ska is the cutest goddamned thing in the world.
That video made me smile. I'm watch that whenever I'm bummed.
Also, I love this guy. He's most noted for the song "Alice" which I also recommend.
Pogo-Expialidocious
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So, apparently, ukuleles are sort of A Thing, now. A lot of hipsters are playing them, or trying to play them, or talking about how much they want to learn to play them. not that i mind, really; some of these kids are really good.
Sarah Vincent from the UK's original composition, "The Object of the Game." Too bad she leaves on a bunch of crap at the end where she answers a friend's text message.
Charley in the bathtub, singing a song about broken promises and mortuaries.
There is always room for comics!Posted 1 year ago # -
If this is going to be about ukes, we need King Kukulele !
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Also, I've been looking for this video everywhere, looks like it's been pulled off Youtube, and it's not on any site that allow embeddation on this forum, so I'll just leave the link here :
"Wishful Thinking", by the Ditty Bops.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=9374202
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Apparently, Akira Kurosawa invented rap back in 1957.
From The Lower Depths. I'd really love to know if this style of music is part of a pre-existing Japanese tradition. Because, seriously, WTF.
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Summer's rolling into Seattle, so I've been in the mood for some good humid, sticky, dirty music.
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Abandon
MemberWe have actually been seeing the sun this week in Ireland, too, so I have been keeping cool with some acoustic Pumpkins:
An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. You must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. You must never let them take it from you.Posted 1 year ago # -
fishcake
Memberwww.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ
man I am too young to be listening to this but I don't care
E: Embedding disabled, apparently. It's kraftwerk fyi
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Fortunato
Memberhttp://www.mediafire.com/?xzqmzjmjrv2
I am making music these days.
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Nonsense, fishcake, Kraftwerk are amazing.
Flee thee, icy Lucifer.Posted 1 year ago # -
http://www.mediafire.com/?xzqmzjmjrv2
I am making music these days.A capella, chiptunes and Flowbee references all in the same song? Welcome to my MP3 player!
My friend Gwilym Wogan is doing a project called The Daily Refrain, where he's trying to write a song every day for as long as he can muster. He's hilarious and talented, and the more attention he gets the better. Start from the very beginning and work from there.
Also, I do music too, but it's not nearly as humorous. If you like ambient, electronic or drum&bass, though, it should be right up your alley.
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Welcome to to Vitamin records, home of the Vitamin String Quartet.Posted 1 year ago # -
cthulku
MemberThat is good and all-- I love 'classical' arrangements of popular music-- but there's no way that's just a string quartet. Sounds more like a full orchestra, or at least a modern chamber orchestra.
Good tune though
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OK, time for some french 80's nostalgy : Les Rita Mitsouko !
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maecrab
MemberSpike got me into Clutch via ustream lately, so I was excited to learn that they're touring in my neck of the woods in a couple of weeks...the day I fly back to Austin. I definitely second amanda palmer and the Dresden Dolls; I've also been listening to a lot of elliott smith lately. I hated him and his voice for a long time, but he eventually got to me. Favorite songs are: "a distorted reality is now a necessity to be free", "twilight", "fond farewell to a friend", "kings crossing", and "in the lost and found(honky Bach)".
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fishcake
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In the vein of "orchestral versions of other music", Metz and I just got back from Distant Worlds: The Music of Final Fantasy performed by the Seattle Symphony. I lost it when they played the encore performance.
The conductor didn't even have to introduce the song.
One Winged Angel with a full orchestra and choir accompaniment--with NobuofuckingUematsu joining the choir for the one song--is absolutely godlike.
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listless_luna
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"Rawhide", as played by Los Carayos, French alternative-punk band from the 80's :
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Nick Drake, the English musician who, despite his talents, knew very little success during his life, an experience that left him devoid of self-worth and confidence. (it probably didn't help that he was clinically depressive as it was.) He OD'ed on his antidepressants at age 26, but his work has gone on to influence countless singer-songwriters in the past 30 years.
Such is life.
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