https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QK8RxCAwo

Boston reportedly aren't exceedingly fond of this song, because it's such a clichéd all-time rock classic, and near enough the only song that the band is remembered for by wider audiences, outshining most of the rest of their back catalogue.

Still a cracking song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv9CfAintE0

>>15517
Absolutely dreadful vibes, just going off the thumbnail.

>>15517

purple Disco Machine is kind of a one-trick pony. Yes, he has perfected a certain kind of early to mid 1980s post-disco retro dance soundscape laced with a few modern beats and other elements, but all his tracks more or less sound the same. He's good, maybe even very good at making that kind of music, but not much else.

>>15520

Apparently there's a weird word filter on here that turns an upper case letter at the beginning of the word "purple" into a lower case letter. What gives?

>>15521
The mods give themselves names like purple, green, and maroon. Purps is in charge.

>>15520
I think you're giving him too much credit. That track sounds more like one of the many, many forgettable pieces of '80s pop that never made it anywhere near the cherrypicked greats of the era. Well, that's part of it, with the other part being the fact it sounds more noughties than eighties. The vocals especially sound a lot more 2007 than they do 1985, in my opinion.

Fuckin' shite, man/10.

>>15523

I'm not disagreeing with you. Thing is, if you hear one of his songs for the first time, you'll be like, hm, nice retro 80s groove. But then you realise that everything by him sounds almost exactly the same.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kU5r2TXQM4

The 80s are a trope that never really fully went away in contemporary popular music. Every other synth pad or stab you hear in today's pop songs more or less harkens back to the way that kind of thing was done back then. Which is fine. I like 80s music. But there comes a point where just permutating through 80s sound elements is no longer creative music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8XqTOhST-I

This is really quite impressive for a small YouTube channel where she's doing everything herself. But she might just know how to get my attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3fMX32PRrA

I've been listening to my God Speed albums lately. late into the night, doors and windows wide open with a cold, heavy breeze running across the floor. The occasional burst of rain acompanied by siren drones.

Recommend other artists? I've heard of Mogwai but nah, their artwork doesn't align. Quality elevator music, but I've not listened extensively.

And this. This is also good shit;

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

>>15529
That song reminds me a bit of Godspeed You Black Emperor; have you heard of them?

>>15529
> my God Speed albums
Hang on. I might have just made the dumbest recommendation of all time. Oh well; Explosions in the Sky are another similar band, but I don't know much about them. And the genre is called "post-rock", which was allegedly pioneered by the later Talk Talk albums after their guy went a bit funny, so you could listen to Talk Talk's later albums and see if you like those.

I have just listened to one of Talk Talk's weird albums all the way through, and yes, I think you would like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy4q-Dpe_SE

Chris Isaak's blend of country, rockabilly and blues rock is really enjoyable at times.

>>15529
>>15531
As someone who spent their teenage years being a pretentious post-rock enjoying hipster I am perfectly suited to answering this question.
Silver Mt. Zion is a side project of Efrim Menuck, a core member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, so it's no wonder you're loving their music. Another band that's related to GY!BE is Set Fire to Flames so chances are you'll enjoy them too.
If you like the other lad's Talk Talk suggestion I'd recommend checking out Bark Psychosis and .O.rang as both bands are projects by former members. Mark Hollis, the frontman, also released a solo album that is well worth checking out.
Sigur Rós is a relatively popular band, personally I'm not fond of them but I still feel like I should give them a mention.
If you end up liking Explosions in the Sky some other bands I'd suggest would be This Will Destroy You, Caspian, 65daysofstatic, Do Make Say Think, Mono and We Lost The Sea.
And for some more "classics" in the genre you'll have to check out Slint, Swans and Tortoise.
Post-rock is a really weird genre, to be honest. Lots of variety on the more experimental side of things while also having a lot of people copying each other with so called "crescendo-core".

>>15532
Full listen with headphones and ripped out of Youtube, was great to hear where it started. There's s lot of Porcupine Tree in the first half, also some Cat Empire (particularly the jazz) and even a little Elton John toward the end.
I'll check out Explosions tomorrow.
Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIVGuhOn-Y4

This was on the radio yesterday. Always surprises me to hear deep cuts like this on the stations that usually only ever play the one or two biggest hits by a given band, and even then, I've never heard Budgie on the radio in my life.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpKwA7-FE-0

I didn't get to sit and listen to it because I'd just pulled up at a customer's address and I think they'd find it a bit weird if I just sat on their drive for ten minutes before getting out.

>>15536

I'm very ambivalent about this band. In theory I should really like them, and this is one of the songs where I do. There's a lot in it that reminds me of Dandy Warhols or Kasabian's early stuff that I liked in the 2000s psychedelic indie rock days. But despite having so much variety in their sound, a lot of it is just shit and manages to sound, ironically, pretty generic.

They've got loads of albums though, which ones would you say are best?

>>15538
I prefer their earlier work, like Eyes Like the Sky and I'm In Your Mind Fuzz, but as you say their sound varies a bit. I'm in Your Mind Fuzz is by far my favourite.

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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFNdbINKqi4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOoqfxLL9Hc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYVDdnt0RUg

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

Just bought two more used CDs off eBay. The first is R.E.M.'s "In Time", their greatest hits album from 2003. And the second one is The First Of A Million Kisses by Fairground Attraction.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA2V7fIzoOY

I've always wanted to know what Nightswimming sounds like on my hi fi system, and Fairground Attraction is one of those bands that were barely more than a one-hit wonder at their time, but which were somewhat influential. Chances are you've heard some pub singer's rendition of a Fairground Attraction song more times than you'll ever know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk3pumxZtVU

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

>>15547
I like this dudes energy. The first half was best.

How did he do the video editing to get his chin layered over the paint bucket? Some sections look like they're zooming his face.

I just need a dense noise wall to tune out the brain interference. Sometimes Igorrr works, sometimes it does not.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhywIyJ-sog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTyud3MzKKc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWca1X7nFGo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRfhNx9pJzk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu63VIeVXiU

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qnx3yVGzg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyb1Mc0s6mI

My R.E.M CD arrived today. The album "In Time" sounds really good on my system, and especially the track Nightswimming. Very clear and transparent, with great dynamics.

Which I've found is not a given. You'd think that CDs all sound the same, but some albums are just better mixed than others. Even on my vintage higher-end system not a flex made up of components from the 80s to late 90s, you can tell the difference. Among the more disappointing albums I've bought recently is Seal's Greatest Hits compilation. You'd think that Trevor Horn as producer would know what he's doing, but comparing it to the R.E.M. CD and others like it, the mid range and treble on much of the Seal album sound flat and muffled. At least on my system. I'll still give Horn the benefit of doubt that it sounds good on other kinds of systems, but again, that was a bit of a disappointment.

>>15555

I'd recommend you read a couple of books such as The Art of Sound: A Visual History and Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology. Even grab a copy of something like The Recording Engineer's Handbook if you want to have a look in from the more professional side of the subject.

I can tell you have a great enthusiasm for the subject but you have that thing I always sense in audiophiles where you want to speak about it as if you know what's going on, but you really don't, and it might as well all be voodoo magic to you. You will enjoy them and you'll be able to appreciate all the well produced records so much the greater when you have more of a sense what it took to make them sound that way.

>>15556

I wouldn't call myself an audiophile. Just somebody who enjoys a good hi fi system and spending time actually sitting down and listening to music, which is kind of a dying pastime nowadays. Where music is always in the background, and people never quite stop and take time to appreciate it. I do love spending an entire evening just going through my music collection and listening to it, for the sake of listening to it.

If I was a true audiophile, I probably wouldn't make do with hi-fi components that are older than some lads on .gs. To me it's a compromise; I've inherited most of my system from somebody with a discerning taste in hi-fi, it sounds quite decent, and I know that I'd have to spend a considerable amount of money today for something that will sound better than what I've got, or at least justify the extra cost. Also, I just like old technology. The way it's much more robustly built and serviceable, and as such will probably still outlast 50 percent of what's on the market today.

You don't have to go all gatekeeping, lad. Do I know a lot about sound recording? No. not really. I just know when a music recording sounds good. And not in a younglad oomph-oomph way.

>>15557

It was a good faith recommendation mate, not intended to patronise. Furthering your knowledge of the field will heighten your appreciation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c6sMntanTQ

>>15559
I had to look up this AFI, to see if they were the same AFI that I've heard of. And they are! This is the second time the bastards have stung me, after 2003-4 when I discovered a song of theirs from the late '90s, and told everyone they were amazing, blissfully unaware that they had since turned into a lame emo band that all my friends hated. And this was before YouTube, so there was no way to hear how they used to sound and prove my point. AFI must really love fucking with people in terms of genres.

Uh .. babe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DWB22SHdRs

>>15560
For me, AFI peaked with Sing the Sorrow.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yzu-4kJg6g

Holy Visions sounds more like one of Davey Havok's side projects than AFI.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qs7D__wg_4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj_fc6bG8aE

>>15561
Women are so cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZuYS-9qaw

The video was shot right after Billy Idol had a motorcycle accident where he was badly injured. The inserts where he appears in the video were filmed from the waist up because he was in a wheelchair at the time with his one leg in a cast.

The accident also prevented him from taking on the role of the T-1000 in Terminator 2, for which he had already signed. It was only because Idol was obviously too weak to play a quite physical role in a sci-fi action movie that the part then went to Robert Patrick. That's right, if it hadn't been for the accident, Billy Idol would have gone down in pop culture history as the face of the T-1000 instead.

Have you ever wished Dire Straits made more songs that sounded exactly like Sultans of Swing? Well, they did!

>>15565

It's just the Sultans at home, though, isn't it. My favourite Dire Straits song that isn't Sultans of Swing is Six Blade Knife.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRN04uR9kcc

They are really one of those bands where only their first couple of albums are worth listening to. I don't care how much hi-fi lad tries to stan Brothers in Arms, it's shite.

Sorry I'm just in a bad mood because I've had to listen to Radio 1 all day. Jesus I can't believe some of you cunts think shite like Niki Minaj and Charlie XCX is actually good music, you need to have your heads examined.

Have some more Denpa. Despite a jarring discord on a few of the chimes, I'm loving this. Particularly this sped up version, it's darling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f78W2nJlNXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v470OTkI5rs

Kind of a nondescript girl pop song, but to this day I still enjoy listening to it when I'm on holiday and driving to an actual beach.

>>15568
I'm not sure that you can call All Saints nondescript.

Why did we surrender this genre of music to Korea? Come'on lads, let's get a pizza in, do each others nails and watch Hocus Pocus on VHS.

>>15569

Girl bands were a dime a dozen in the early 2000s, all more or less copying the Spice Girls formula, with varying degrees of success and quality. Just as cookie cutter boy bands had been dominating the second half of the 90s after Take That and East 17 had paved the way.

Pure Shores is still a song that takes me back, if just to fond memories of past summer holidays, so it gets a pass from me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7if6HFZMAiQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlL0jdj0wE4