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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 26, 2023 19:03:09 GMT -5
Oh, I actually recognized a lot of these songs just by the band name + titles and could hum the choruses of a bunch of them, which is a first here. I did NOT know the Lodger track, but in the interest of contributing to this thread I would like to ask Nude if he's heard a song by a group called "The Outline" titled "Shotgun," which I came across in the 00s watching Xiao Xiao-style "stick figure gangbang" videos with my brother and which apparently was the soundtrack to many, many, MANY an AMV back in 2006 and which I randomly get stuck in my head once a month. This does sound vaguely familiar. I think it might have been in some late PS2 or early PS3 era sports game I played but maybe it was just a thing I downloaded off an mp3 blog where someone posted it because it was featured on The OC or One Tree Hill or some shit and it will show up in this thread at some point when my iTunes decides that it is one of the 10 songs with the "UNSORTED BULLSHIT!!!" genre tag to add to my 10 song playlist for the week.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Oct 29, 2023 23:29:10 GMT -5
Oh, I definitely remember that Von Bondies song "C'Mon C'Mon". I was living in Seattle that year and I remember that getting played on indie/alt rock radio up there. It was the only one of this group that I remembered without needing to play the YouTube video. Only 2 of the others sounded familiar after I played the videos.
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Post by Celebith on Oct 31, 2023 21:56:34 GMT -5
Somewhere in my soon to arrive household shipment, I have an external drive with about 130GB of music comprising the CDs of everyone who worked in my office at the time (late 90s), plus other stuff I've added since - rather than argue about music choices, we collected everyone's and set it to random play.
My point to this is that I'd be willing to pick up a 2 TB or so drive, load my collection on it and send it to anyone else who wanted to add to it while copying the contents. Send it around a couple of times and we'll all have a lot of stuff.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 1, 2023 21:51:30 GMT -5
Week 8I kind of like doing this. I don't always have a lot to say about a given song (something that is going to be evident this week where the luck of the draw gave me a fairly unremarkable set of songs) but there's something kind of fun about revisiting this collection of songs that are largely by bands that didn't really amount to much (though there is one song in this week's collection by a band that somehow against all odds got huge) and then having something to seek out more of or revisit other albums that I haven't listened to in years. Katie The Pest - "Spit It Out" (2008)Noisy indie pop with a lady singing. Double tracked vocals! Tambourines! Handclaps! "Hey! Oh!" choruses. This is terrific! Easily the Greatest Song of All Time of the Week! Pretty Girls Make Graves - "The New Romance" (2003)Pretty Girls Make Graves are good early 00s indie rock with organs and shit. I own other albums by them but don't think I actually ever purchased this one because it came out shortly after I left the United States for Korea and the record store I went to didn't have much in the way of American indie releases. It's a pretty good song but not as great as some of their best stuff. Professor Murder - "Free Stress Test" (2006)Dance beats! Cowbells! Fart synths! Bass? Fat as fuck! Is this dance punk? Maybe. It's got all the hallmarks but the tempo seems a bit too slow. This is, at present, the best band named after a Mr. Show sketch I've ever heard. The Geeks - "What We Believe" (2004)Korean youth crew hardcore. You want a minute long song where a dozen plus dudes bellow the song title? The Geeks got you covered! Sunday Drive - "Torpedoes Kill Fish" (2002)accidentpronerecords.bandcamp.com/track/torpedoes-kill-fishEmo? Punk? Who cares? This sounds like a billion other bands I've heard before. If you like this kind of music you might like this. If you're not super into this kind of music nothing these cats do will cause you to start liking this kind of music. The Monolith - "43" (2004)themonolith.bandcamp.com/track/43This is terrific early 2000s indie pop. Lady vocals. Power pop guitar riffs. Rock organ! Sorry Katie The Pest, but this is the new Greatest Song of All Time of Week (the rock organ pushed it over the edge)! Please Inform The Captain This Is a Hijack - "Robot Rampage In Luxury World" (2003)Weirdo sample heavy leftist political punk from Sarah Kirsch of Pinhead Gunpowder and a mess of other folks. This is either the greatest shit ever or the most annoying thing you've ever heard. I actually own this record in full and their full length and that's pretty much how it goes across their entire discography. Shit goes super hard but is also obnoxious. Modest Mouse - "Interstate 8" (1999)I guess it's time for the hot take that I've kind of hinted at a couple times in earlier write-ups but I don't think ever came out and said. I don't care for Modest Mouse all that much. I should. Sonically they are very much in my wheelhouse. They were friendly with and toured with a bunch of bands I do like but they never did it for me. To be honest the only Modest Mouse I own (beyond this and a couple of other similarly downloaded off Epitonic in 2003 mp3s) is a collaborative album they did with 764-HERO who I absolutely love the shit out of. To me Modest Mouse just came across as a less energetic version of 764-HERO which is a bad thing to come across as and when they are rockin' out (which does not really happen on this song at all) you still have to deal with Isaac Brock's whiney-ass vocal stylings. All that said, I do think it's hilarious that there exists a Kidz Bop version of a Modest Mouse song. King Joe - "Kung Fu (Feat. Red-Roc)" (2003)This is a Korean hip-hop song that samples the music from the NES game Kung Fu which is a hilarious concept for a song. Also hilarious is the fact that King Joe no longer exists because one of the dudes became a dentist and then married the singer and guitarist for one of the biggest Korean rock bands of the late 90s and early 2000s. Guided By Voices - "Everywhere With Helicopter" (2002)Guided By Voices are a weird band. I like them and own multiple albums by them (including the one that this random mp3 is from) but I don't think I could actually call myself a fan of them. Like any other band you own 4 or 5 albums and a couple 7" singles and you're probably a pretty big fan but with Guided By Voices that's extremely casual at best. I like this song (and the other songs on the GBV albums I own) so maybe one day I'll do a deep dive into the discography of one of the most weirdly prolific indie rock bands of all time.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Nov 2, 2023 17:53:03 GMT -5
The "Kung Fu" song is incredible. You don't even mention that it belongs to one of the greatest genres of song, "guy ineptly quoting Rapper's Delight" (see also "Bawitdaba" and "Asereje" and "Hotel Room Service"). And occasionally sampling the footstep noises is hilarious. Oh god, and that video!! Just the perfect ratio of ironic enjoyment to actually-pretty-good.
I have the Pretty Girls Make Graves record there on a hard drive somewhere. I feel like they're a good example of a particular type of indie band, the one that has all the hallmarks of great power pop (the aforementioned handclaps and punky riffs and neat guitar fuzz oh-oh-oh vocalizing) except for... like... any form of hook. Even a lyrical one. A D-tier indie rock act can definitely stick around in public consciousness as long as they write one killer hook - I mean, look at Grandaddy!! (Apologies to any Grandaddy fans but I suspect for 99% of the people reading this thread they really are just "the 'AM 180' guys," and that's really just a polite gloss on "the guys who wrote the DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO blarp-blurp-skizzurp synth riff that pops into your head every couple days." Assuming you are aware that "Grandaddy" is the name of a musical group in the first place.) Probably explains why these bands didn't make any hits, tbh.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 2, 2023 19:02:33 GMT -5
The "Kung Fu" song is incredible. You don't even mention that it belongs to one of the greatest genres of song, "guy ineptly quoting Rapper's Delight" (see also "Bawitdaba" and "Asereje" and "Hotel Room Service"). And occasionally sampling the footstep noises is hilarious. Oh god, and that video!! Just the perfect ratio of ironic enjoyment to actually-pretty-good. I have the Pretty Girls Make Graves record there on a hard drive somewhere. I feel like they're a good example of a particular type of indie band, the one that has all the hallmarks of great power pop (the aforementioned handclaps and punky riffs and neat guitar fuzz oh-oh-oh vocalizing) except for... like... any form of hook. Even a lyrical one. A D-tier indie rock act can definitely stick around in public consciousness as long as they write one killer hook - I mean, look at Grandaddy!! (Apologies to any Grandaddy fans but I suspect for 99% of the people reading this thread they really are just "the 'AM 180' guys," and that's really just a polite gloss on "the guys who wrote the DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO blarp-blurp-skizzurp synth riff that pops into your head every couple days." Assuming you are aware that "Grandaddy" is the name of a musical group in the first place.) Probably explains why these bands didn't make any hits, tbh. The "Kung Fu" was one of the first things I saw on TV when I first came to Korea. Either on the first night I arrived or the second it was just this amazingly weird music video that came on MTV or maybe MNet (Korea's MTV that isn't Korean MTV) so I have a weird sort of nostalgia for it. I actually went and listened to the sole King Joe album yesterday because of this song and it's honestly all pretty decent though this is easily the best track. Also fun? On the Korean Spotify knockoff I listen to the album on they made sure to let folks know that this song sampled the NES Kung Fu game's music which was wild. First time I ever saw a (Sampling: Kung Fu for the NES) type deal after the (Feat. Some Guy) bit on a song listing. I do own other Pretty Girls Make Graves records (their self-titled debut EP and Good Health) and yeah their songs are generally pretty oddly arranged. There are some hooks on that first EP but after that their songs are pretty disjointed which is kind of a weird songwriting decision to make. As for Grandaddy, "AM 180" will almost certainly show up here at some point unless the random mp3 download of it I had made it's move from the folder of unsorted mp3 downloads that got put on this ol' external hard drive before they got moved that the external hard drive.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Nov 2, 2023 21:43:54 GMT -5
Nudeviking - I think this might have been after or around the time you would've left the country, but "Float On" was genuinely a significant hit, and is the one song of theirs that made an impression on pop culture at large. It is worth noting that it was off the album where they had a major shift in sound to being the sort of band that could have a commercially successful hit. I didn't know that "Float On" made it onto Kidz Bop, however, and I've got to say, the one Kidz Bop guy and the chorus of children backing him's rendition is much worse than Isaac Brock's. Kidz Bop, in retrospect, is a really weird concept to begin with.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Nov 2, 2023 21:47:53 GMT -5
The "Kung Fu" song is incredible. You don't even mention that it belongs to one of the greatest genres of song, "guy ineptly quoting Rapper's Delight" (see also "Bawitdaba" and "Asereje" and "Hotel Room Service"). And occasionally sampling the footstep noises is hilarious. Oh god, and that video!! Just the perfect ratio of ironic enjoyment to actually-pretty-good. I have the Pretty Girls Make Graves record there on a hard drive somewhere. I feel like they're a good example of a particular type of indie band, the one that has all the hallmarks of great power pop (the aforementioned handclaps and punky riffs and neat guitar fuzz oh-oh-oh vocalizing) except for... like... any form of hook. Even a lyrical one. A D-tier indie rock act can definitely stick around in public consciousness as long as they write one killer hook - I mean, look at Grandaddy!! (Apologies to any Grandaddy fans but I suspect for 99% of the people reading this thread they really are just "the 'AM 180' guys," and that's really just a polite gloss on "the guys who wrote the DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO blarp-blurp-skizzurp synth riff that pops into your head every couple days." Assuming you are aware that "Grandaddy" is the name of a musical group in the first place.) Probably explains why these bands didn't make any hits, tbh. Rosa, if you like guys ineptly quoting "Rapper's Delight", you'd probably love David McNally's 2003 popular buddy comedy film Kangaroo Jack.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 2, 2023 23:32:02 GMT -5
Nudeviking - I think this might have been after or around the time you would've left the country, but "Float On" was genuinely a significant hit, and is the one song of theirs that made an impression on pop culture at large. It is worth noting that it was off the album where they had a major shift in sound to being the sort of band that could have a commercially successful hit. I didn't know that "Float On" made it onto Kidz Bop, however, and I've got to say, the one Kidz Bop guy and the chorus of children backing him's rendition is much worse than Isaac Brock's. Kidz Bop, in retrospect, is a really weird concept to begin with. I'm pretty sure that "Float On" was after I left America but I was aware of it and the fact that it was a hit which was just weird to me because they weren't really a commercial band ever. And yeah Kidz Bop is a wild-ass concept and it's kind of hilarious to be in a Toys R' Us and hearing some studio musician and a bunch of children singing "I crashed my car into a cop car the other day! HEY!" which is how I actually first encountered the Kidz Bop version of "Float On."
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Nov 3, 2023 13:24:54 GMT -5
The "Kung Fu" song is incredible. You don't even mention that it belongs to one of the greatest genres of song, "guy ineptly quoting Rapper's Delight" (see also "Bawitdaba" and "Asereje" and "Hotel Room Service"). And occasionally sampling the footstep noises is hilarious. Oh god, and that video!! Just the perfect ratio of ironic enjoyment to actually-pretty-good. I have the Pretty Girls Make Graves record there on a hard drive somewhere. I feel like they're a good example of a particular type of indie band, the one that has all the hallmarks of great power pop (the aforementioned handclaps and punky riffs and neat guitar fuzz oh-oh-oh vocalizing) except for... like... any form of hook. Even a lyrical one. A D-tier indie rock act can definitely stick around in public consciousness as long as they write one killer hook - I mean, look at Grandaddy!! (Apologies to any Grandaddy fans but I suspect for 99% of the people reading this thread they really are just "the 'AM 180' guys," and that's really just a polite gloss on "the guys who wrote the DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO, DA-DA-DEEE-DO blarp-blurp-skizzurp synth riff that pops into your head every couple days." Assuming you are aware that "Grandaddy" is the name of a musical group in the first place.) Probably explains why these bands didn't make any hits, tbh. Rosa, if you like guys ineptly quoting "Rapper's Delight", you'd probably love David McNally's 2003 popular buddy comedy film Kangaroo Jack. I do, in fact, love Kangaroo Jack.
Or rather, I love the idea of Kangaroo Jack.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Nov 3, 2023 14:45:40 GMT -5
Rosa, if you like guys ineptly quoting "Rapper's Delight", you'd probably love David McNally's 2003 popular buddy comedy film Kangaroo Jack. I do, in fact, love Kangaroo Jack.
Or rather, I love the idea of Kangaroo Jack.
Rosa, what is your opinion of Kangaroo Jack 2: G’Day U.S.A., or rather, the idea of Kangaroo Jack 2: G’Day U.S.A.?
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Nov 3, 2023 14:50:36 GMT -5
I do, in fact, love Kangaroo Jack.
Or rather, I love the idea of Kangaroo Jack.
Rosa, what is your opinion of Kangaroo Jack 2: G’Day U.S.A., or rather, the idea of Kangaroo Jack 2: G’Day U.S.A.? I was unaware this film existed and thus have no opinion on it.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Nov 3, 2023 14:58:02 GMT -5
Rosa, what is your opinion of Kangaroo Jack 2: G’Day U.S.A., or rather, the idea of Kangaroo Jack 2: G’Day U.S.A.? I was unaware this film existed and thus have no opinion on it. It’s apparently both a critically panned film and regarded as significantly better than its predecessor.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 3, 2023 19:25:07 GMT -5
I was unaware this film existed and thus have no opinion on it. It’s apparently both a critically panned film and regarded as significantly better than its predecessor. I'm a huge fan of "It's terrible but it's way better than Thing XYZ," reviews.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Nov 3, 2023 21:07:01 GMT -5
Nudeviking - I think this might have been after or around the time you would've left the country, but "Float On" was genuinely a significant hit, and is the one song of theirs that made an impression on pop culture at large. It is worth noting that it was off the album where they had a major shift in sound to being the sort of band that could have a commercially successful hit. I didn't know that "Float On" made it onto Kidz Bop, however, and I've got to say, the one Kidz Bop guy and the chorus of children backing him's rendition is much worse than Isaac Brock's. Kidz Bop, in retrospect, is a really weird concept to begin with. I'm pretty sure that "Float On" was after I left America but I was aware of it and the fact that it was a hit which was just weird to me because they weren't really a commercial band ever. And yeah Kidz Bop is a wild-ass concept and it's kind of hilarious to be in a Toys R' Us and hearing some studio musician and a bunch of children singing "I crashed my car into a cop car the other day! HEY!" which is how I actually first encountered the Kidz Bop version of "Float On." What’s so weird to me about it being a Kidz Bop song is that I associate Kidz Bop with stuff like, I dunno, “Sk8er Boi”, which I remember being in a commercial for a Kidz Bop CD. And that makes sense because it’s the sort of music that’s aiming for a young (albeit presumably primarily middle school/high school) audience, and I guess there was a market for versions of these songs sung by young kids. But like, “Float On” is lyrically about concerns facing adults from the perspective of an adult, like getting laid off from one’s job on the same day as one’s romantic partner. It’s weird.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 4, 2023 21:00:16 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that "Float On" was after I left America but I was aware of it and the fact that it was a hit which was just weird to me because they weren't really a commercial band ever. And yeah Kidz Bop is a wild-ass concept and it's kind of hilarious to be in a Toys R' Us and hearing some studio musician and a bunch of children singing "I crashed my car into a cop car the other day! HEY!" which is how I actually first encountered the Kidz Bop version of "Float On." What’s so weird to me about it being a Kidz Bop song is that I associate Kidz Bop with stuff like, I dunno, “Sk8er Boi”, which I remember being in a commercial for a Kidz Bop CD. And that makes sense because it’s the sort of music that’s aiming for a young (albeit presumably primarily middle school/high school) audience, and I guess there was a market for versions of these songs sung by young kids. But like, “Float On” is lyrically about concerns facing adults from the perspective of an adult, like getting laid off from one’s job on the same day as one’s romantic partner. It’s weird. To me "Sk8r Boi" being a Kidz Bop song honestly makes less sense since I always assumed the raison d'etre of Kidz Bops was to sort of bowdlerize songs that weren't exactly kid friendly but were in the zeitgeist and make them palleteable to parents who didn't want their kid to hear the word "ass" or "damn" or whatever. "Sk8r Boi" was already designed for 10 year olds and didn't need any such work done on it.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 9, 2023 3:06:01 GMT -5
Week 9
Hello friends. Here are more words about ten more mp3s selected at random by iTunes from a collection of long forgotten mp3 downloads.
Audio Karate - "Nintendo 89" (2002)
This is the good shit! Just early 2000s punk tinged power pop with killer riffs and drum beat that makes you want to drive a million miles per hour and minor guitar heroics. This is another mp3 that caused me to buy the album in question. It's been awhile since I've given it a listen though and might have to dig it out.
Jeremy Enigk - "Been Here Before" (2006)
Sunny Day Real Estate was one of my favorite bands when I was in college. Heck, I'd still probably put them in the top 50 of all time for the song "Rodeo Jones" alone but this solo effort from Sunny Day frontman, Jeremy Enigk doesn't really do it for me even if it does just sound like an outtake from The Rising Tide. It's not bad or anything but it's not really what I want out of a song by the guy that wrote "In Circles."
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - "Your Worst Is The Best" (2004)
I think these guys were another one of those bands that Pitchfork got hard as steel for initially and then stopped giving a single solitary fuck about but maybe I'm wrong. I don't really have anything to say about them. They play real generic early 2000s indie rock. It's not bad. It's not really good either. There are thousands of bands that sound like this and I will never remember that this song is a I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness song.
Azure Ray - "Sleep" (2001)
Fuck. When I started doing this goofy thing I assumed it was going to be just me laughing at bad pop-punk covers of 80s radio hits and indie bands no one remembered. I didn't think I was going to randomly stumble across a song that immediately made me think about loves lost and emotional baggage and shit but here we are...listening to Azure Ray again and wondering how my life would have turned out had things gone a little differently in the early 2000s.
Moneen - "The Passing of America" (2001)
Thanks Moneen! I needed to get out of that funk and there you were with dumb guitar riffs and anthemic choruses and three note garage band guitar solos to wipe all that shit from my mind. I don't know anything about these cats but this song fucking rules. OH FUCK! THERE WAS A FAKE OUT ENDING BEFORE THEY CAME BACK TO ROCK THE FUCK OUT WITH WEIRD MATH ROCK GUITAR RIFFS!!!! A+ SONG RIGHT HERE LADS!!! This is The Greatest Song of All Time of the Week!
Junior Senior - "Move Your Feet" (2002)
LO-motherfuckin'-L. Why in the shit did I download this? Like this is not the kind of music I fucked with in the early to mid-2000s and yet it's kind of not terrible. The singers are pretty awful and it's repetitive as heck but I don't hate it.
Idiots! - "Send My Senses" (2007) I couldn't find this on YouTube or Spotify or Bandcamp. Hell, they don't even have a listening on Discogs but this is your mid-2000s dance punk song of the week! As is always the case with these things if you like Hot Hot Heat and drum machine handclaps and fart synths you might dig this but it's not really doing anything a billion other bands from 2006 weren't also doing.
Houston - "I'm a Girl" (2003)
It's amazing that bands that sounded like Sub-Pop bands from 1992 were hanging on until 2003. I mean I shouldn't really be surprised since Creed was still about as were Chevelle and shit like that but it's still kind of weird to hear something so dated (and not in the same way that everything I listen to here sounds dated on account of being from 2005). Anyway it's a dude singing, not a girl so I'm guessing the title is ironic or something. It's okay. I probably would have loved the shit out of this when I was 14 years old which I wasn't in 2003 which is probably why this is the only Houston song I have.
Innerpartysystem - "Don't Stop" (2007)
I kind of love this. It's like 50% straight up rave electronica, 50% Downward Spiral era NIN, and 50% powerpop and 100% rad.
Alice Donut - "Cost" (2003)
Alice Donut were one of those bands that I will never not associate with doing mail order record purchases in the 90s. Like them in Gas Huffer were in every shitty punk mail order catalogue thing. I'm pretty sure that's where I got my copy of Donut Comes Alive from. This song is not off that album but rather their 2003 comeback(?) album, Three Sisters. I don't own that record but this song's not terrible if a bit less weird than the Alice Donut of a decade earlier.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Nov 9, 2023 10:07:36 GMT -5
Week 9Hello friends. Here are more words about ten more mp3s selected at random by iTunes from a collection of long forgotten mp3 downloads. Audio Karate - "Nintendo 89" (2002)This is the good shit! Just early 2000s punk tinged power pop with killer riffs and drum beat that makes you want to drive a million miles per hour and minor guitar heroics. This is another mp3 that caused me to buy the album in question. It's been awhile since I've given it a listen though and might have to dig it out. Jeremy Enigk - "Been Here Before" (2006)Sunny Day Real Estate was one of my favorite bands when I was in college. Heck, I'd still probably put them in the top 50 of all time for the song "Rodeo Jones" alone but this solo effort from Sunny Day frontman, Jeremy Enigk doesn't really do it for me even if it does just sound like an outtake from The Rising Tide. It's not bad or anything but it's not really what I want out of a song by the guy that wrote "In Circles." I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - "Your Worst Is The Best" (2004)I think these guys were another one of those bands that Pitchfork got hard as steel for initially and then stopped giving a single solitary fuck about but maybe I'm wrong. I don't really have anything to say about them. They play real generic early 2000s indie rock. It's not bad. It's not really good either. There are thousands of bands that sound like this and I will never remember that this song is a I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness song. Azure Ray - "Sleep" (2001)Fuck. When I started doing this goofy thing I assumed it was going to be just me laughing at bad pop-punk covers of 80s radio hits and indie bands no one remembered. I didn't think I was going to randomly stumble across a song that immediately made me think about loves lost and emotional baggage and shit but here we are...listening to Azure Ray again and wondering how my life would have turned out had things gone a little differently in the early 2000s. Moneen - "The Passing of America" (2001)Thanks Moneen! I needed to get out of that funk and there you were with dumb guitar riffs and anthemic choruses and three note garage band guitar solos to wipe all that shit from my mind. I don't know anything about these cats but this song fucking rules. OH FUCK! THERE WAS A FAKE OUT ENDING BEFORE THEY CAME BACK TO ROCK THE FUCK OUT WITH WEIRD MATH ROCK GUITAR RIFFS!!!! A+ SONG RIGHT HERE LADS!!! This is The Greatest Song of All Time of the Week! Junior Senior - "Move Your Feet" (2002)LO-motherfuckin'-L. Why in the shit did I download this? Like this is not the kind of music I fucked with in the early to mid-2000s and yet it's kind of not terrible. The singers are pretty awful and it's repetitive as heck but I don't hate it. Idiots! - "Send My Senses" (2007)I couldn't find this on YouTube or Spotify or Bandcamp. Hell, they don't even have a listening on Discogs but this is your mid-2000s dance punk song of the week! As is always the case with these things if you like Hot Hot Heat and drum machine handclaps and fart synths you might dig this but it's not really doing anything a billion other bands from 2006 weren't also doing. Houston - "I'm a Girl" (2003)It's amazing that bands that sounded like Sub-Pop bands from 1992 were hanging on until 2003. I mean I shouldn't really be surprised since Creed was still about as were Chevelle and shit like that but it's still kind of weird to hear something so dated (and not in the same way that everything I listen to here sounds dated on account of being from 2005). Anyway it's a dude singing, not a girl so I'm guessing the title is ironic or something. It's okay. I probably would have loved the shit out of this when I was 14 years old which I wasn't in 2003 which is probably why this is the only Houston song I have. Innerpartysystem - "Don't Stop" (2007)I kind of love this. It's like 50% straight up rave electronica, 50% Downward Spiral era NIN, and 50% powerpop and 100% rad. Alice Donut - "Cost" (2003)Alice Donut were one of those bands that I will never not associate with doing mail order record purchases in the 90s. Like them in Gas Huffer were in every shitty punk mail order catalogue thing. I'm pretty sure that's where I got my copy of Donut Comes Alive from. This song is not off that album but rather their 2003 comeback(?) album, Three Sisters. I don't own that record but this song's not terrible if a bit less weird than the Alice Donut of a decade earlier. Viking, if the video games company Nintendo had followed up the Nintendo 64 with an actual Nintendo 89, a system with an 89-bit CPU, instead of a system with whatever capabilities the Gamecube had, what do you think that would have been like? How noticeable do you think the improved graphics abilities would have been, for instance?
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Post by ganews on Nov 9, 2023 10:54:44 GMT -5
I couldn't have told you the name of the band or song that is Junior Senior - "Move Your Feet", but I sure know that song. Who could forget such a solid Michael Jackson imitation?
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Post by monodrone on Nov 9, 2023 11:36:26 GMT -5
Move Your Feet was a mainstream hit here, peaking at number 3 on the UK singles chart so you still hear it kicking about as a nostalgia song. I saw them play an early slot on the main stage at Leeds Festival in 2003 - it was good when they played Move Your Feet and forgettable for the other 30 minutes. Weird slot for them as they were sandwiched between two ascending groups in The Darkness (who would go on to headline the main stage the following year) and a temporarily Pete Doherty-less The Libertines who were on their way to being among the most popular bands in the country before everything rapidly fell down again for both acts.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Nov 9, 2023 11:40:14 GMT -5
Azure Ray - "Sleep" (2001)Fuck. When I started doing this goofy thing I assumed it was going to be just me laughing at bad pop-punk covers of 80s radio hits and indie bands no one remembered. I didn't think I was going to randomly stumble across a song that immediately made me think about loves lost and emotional baggage and shit but here we are...listening to Azure Ray again and wondering how my life would have turned out had things gone a little differently in the early 2000s. Those who read my posts around here won't be surprised to learn I was a bit of a musical snob in my early-2000s college years. It somehow worked then in that people were compelled to win me over with mix CDs instead of just ignoring and Azure Ray was a constant presence, particularly on the discs from girls. This is almost certainly the first time I've listened to the group since those days. Now as in then, I fear I'd just damn with faint praise.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 9, 2023 18:52:39 GMT -5
Week 9Hello friends. Here are more words about ten more mp3s selected at random by iTunes from a collection of long forgotten mp3 downloads. Audio Karate - "Nintendo 89" (2002)This is the good shit! Just early 2000s punk tinged power pop with killer riffs and drum beat that makes you want to drive a million miles per hour and minor guitar heroics. This is another mp3 that caused me to buy the album in question. It's been awhile since I've given it a listen though and might have to dig it out. Viking, if the video games company Nintendo had followed up the Nintendo 64 with an actual Nintendo 89, a system with an 89-bit CPU, instead of a system with whatever capabilities the Gamecube had, what do you think that would have been like? How noticeable do you think the improved graphics abilities would have been, for instance? The graphics would have been 25 better.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Nov 9, 2023 21:36:36 GMT -5
I couldn't have told you the name of the band or song that is Junior Senior - "Move Your Feet", but I sure know that song. Who could forget such a solid Michael Jackson imitation? I appreciate Nude's shame, but we all know he has the whole soundtrack from White Chicks memorized.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 10, 2023 0:24:40 GMT -5
I couldn't have told you the name of the band or song that is Junior Senior - "Move Your Feet", but I sure know that song. Who could forget such a solid Michael Jackson imitation? I appreciate Nude's shame, but we all know he has the whole soundtrack from White Chicks memorized. Just as a goof I went to look at what actually was on the White Chicks soundtrack and honestly about 75% of it is songs I actually do know and out of the remaining 25% there are multiple songs that I might actually know but not know the name of.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 16, 2023 0:32:05 GMT -5
Week 10
Here we go! After this installment I will have reviewed 100 random-ass mp3s I downloaded in the early to mid 2000s and promptly forgot about. It's more of the same so get ready for me to write "it's generic indie rock" 10 more times this week! Aw ye ye!
Lync - "Two Feet In Front" (1997)
Lync were great and it's a shame that they only ever put out one proper album and a mess of singles that got collected in an odds & sods collection. That odds & sods album is where this one comes from (though I guess it was also on a 7" single before that) and it honestly might be my favorite Lync song since it does a perfect job of encapsulating both the prettiness and ugly noise that the band trafficked in.
The Copyrights - "Over It" (2006)
Two minutes of pop-punk. Bouncy bass. Three chord guitar riffs. Lyrics you could bellow along to. Nothing here is innovative or unique but if you like bands that were on Fat Wreck Chords in 2001 you'll probably enjoy this.
Liam Lynch - "Fake Pixies Song" (2003)
That sure is a fake Pixies song. Lynch does a good job of aping the guitar sound of the Pixies and Frank Black's vocal ticks but it's a novelty song and once you know what the joke is it kind of loses its luster.
Five Iron Frenzy - "Wizard Needs Food, Badly" (2003)
I think this might be the first ska band to show up here. Like there have been some punk bands that dabbled in ska but this is probably the first band with a horn section to show up here. This is probably the greatest ska song ever written that uses the video game Gauntlet as a metaphor for a terrible romantic relationship.
Page France - "Junkyard" (2005)
Glockenspiel and acoustic guitar strumfuckery. This sounds like something that would have been used in a commercial for some sort of medicine in 2006 that has explosive diarrhea as a potential side-effect. I don't like this at all and have no idea why I would have downloaded it.
Unwound - "Caterpillar" (1999)
OH FUCK YES!!! THIS IS THE GOOD SHIT RIGHT HERE!!! WINNER OF THE COVETED GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME OF THE WEEK AWARD! In all seriousness I love Unwound best when they're noisy and punky as opposed to when they're more experimental and thoughtful and exhibiting growth as both musicians and people so this song is 100% my shit in a way that a lot of Leaves Turn Inside You never was.
Feel - "Come on Down" (2002)
This is just really well done powerpop. It's not anything special but knows exactly what it's supposed to be doing and does it well.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Kurt Cobain's Cardigan" (2008)
Twee as fuck indie pop. I guess every generation needs their own Tullycraft. It's fine I suppose.
Creeper Lagoon - "Dear Deadly" (1997)
It's weird that Creeper Lagoon was briefly a thing right? Like they had a song in that one Tom Cruise movie and another one in I want to say either Orange County or School of Rock...some Jack Black jawn at any rate. This song's from one of the one billion albums they put out before their brief shot at the big leagues. It's okay late 90s indie rock bullshit. There are drum machines and noisy guitars and stereo phaser pedals and honky tonk piano parts and a singer who can't sing.
The Intelligence - "Telephone Wires" (2004)
Noisy-ass indie rock for weirdos. I think this song rules and I'm pretty sure I own the album this song came off of because I loved this song so much but also recall being really underwhelmed by the rest of the album because none of them went as hard as this did but maybe I'm wrong. I should go digging in my binder of CDs and see if I still have this.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Nov 16, 2023 19:00:53 GMT -5
I distinctly remember a magazine in 2009 describing The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's debut album as "the best Smashing Pumpkins album in fourteen years," which is Adore erasure but whatever. Re: the Liam Lynch song. I was going to ask you if you'd ever heard Weird Al's take on the Pixies, which isn't called "Where Did He Hide?" and about a game of hide-and-seek gone wrong or whatever but rather a pastiche of the band called "First World Problems" (which is actually very good, IMO, other than the Kim Deal imitator who sings in the chorus not getting the diction right and that being very distracting), and it turns out, guess who directed the song's video? That's right, Liam Lynch! Dude got around.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 23, 2023 3:35:43 GMT -5
Week 11
Disaster strikes! In a weird turn of events the external hard drive that housed my actual mp3 collection ate shit this week. It seems like I'm not going to be able to save it which means at present the ONLY mp3s I have access to are all these long forgotten-ass mp3s downloaded from mp3 blogs in 2008. So here are the ten songs I listened to while ripping CDs I bought in 1996 back onto my computer.
Eighteen Visions - "Tower of Snakes" (2004)
TOWER! OF! SNAKES! BREAKDOWN!!!!!!!! GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME OF THE WEEK OF THE CENTURY!!!!!!!
Deerhoof - "Giga Dance" (2004)
Deerhoof are another one of those bands where I have like five albums and some 7" singles and compilations that they show up but don't feel like I can actually call myself a fan of theirs since that's like maybe 5% of their total discography. This is off Milk Man which seems like the one Deerhoof album everyone owned. It's good. There's still enough recognizable structure to the song that it doesn't collapse into annoying noise the way some of their other songs can.
Thunderbirds Are Now! - "The Veil Comes Down" (2006)
I kind of miss these guys. They weren't as good as Les Savy Fav but that scratched that same sort of "Weirdos Playing Synth Heavy Indie Rock" itch decently enough. I don't think this is their best song or anything but it's a solid little tune.
Eels - "The Sound of Fear" (2000)
Knock-off late 90s Beck-ass nonsense. It's kind of wild that these cats just kept putting out records after "Novocaine for the Soul." Did anyone give a shit about them after that song? Like is there someone out there who would claim Eels as their favorite band or get real excited to hear a new Eels record was coming out?
Mikrofisch - "Let's Kiss and Listen to Bis" (2007)
I 100% found this song while trying to find songs by Bis, who for my money are one of the greatest bands Scotland has ever produced. This is not as good as anything Bis ever put out but few things are. This is some twee nonsense that's very clearly done by one dude in his bedroom with a Casio keyboard and a drum machine recorded with Garage Band or whatever.
They Shoot Horses Don't They? - "Emptyhead" (2006)
Bunch of bullshit. Drums that sound like trash. Dying synthesizers. Discordant horns. I have no idea what caused me to download this. This might be the worst song to show up in one of these things. I hate it. Fuck these guys for being among the mp3s I have while bands I actually like I are gone...until I pull CDs out my high school CD binder.
None More Black - "Genuine Malaise and Misery" (2004)
This was the band the dude from Kid Dynamite was in after Kid Dynamite. It's a pretty good punk band but not as good as Kid Dynamite or the other band the other dude from Kid Dynamite started after Kid Dynamite, Paint It Black.
Silversun Pickups - "Well Thought Out Twinkles (Radio Edit)" (2007)
It's a Silversun Pickups song. It sounds like every Silversun Pickups song. If you like Smashing Pumpkins but think Billiam Corgan is a joyless prick they're probably a decent substitute. I don't really have anything else to say about this song except for the fact that it's funny that I somehow ended up with the radio edit instead of the album version. I honestly wonder sometimes with random mp3 downloads how many are radio edits or weird alternate takes that someone got out in the wild. I know there have been albums I've purchased where the version of the song on the album sounded way different than the mp3 I'd downloaded earlier though sometimes that might just be due to the fact that it's not a 64kbps mp3.
Agnostic Front - "Gotta Go" (1998)
Gotdamn brocore anthem right here. If you're in a band you better have at least one song that sounds almost exactly like this with choruses everyone can shout-sing tunelessly. Shit rules.
Hey Willpower - "Hundredaire" (2006)
Mid-2000s indie bands really wanted to be 80s synth-pop musicians didn't they? This is fine I guess but not anything I haven't heard a billion other Midnight Vultures era Beck aping bands do.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Nov 26, 2023 20:44:39 GMT -5
I saw Silversun Pickups open for... someone? I cannot remember who. It was definitely back around that same time. All I remember about them is that I thought they were horrible live.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 26, 2023 20:54:00 GMT -5
I saw Silversun Pickups open for... someone? I cannot remember who. It was definitely back around that same time. All I remember about them is that I thought they were horrible live. Sounded awful live? They truly did rip off every single thing from the Smashing Pumpkins! It's honestly kind of impressive.
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Post by monodrone on Nov 27, 2023 5:49:01 GMT -5
I've been missing out on this Eighteen Visions outfit. Good chugs.
On Eels: I was that guy, the one who was excited for more Eels songs. Can't say I listen to them much these days but back in ~2002-07 and they'd be up there for me. I saw them live a couple of times during that period and they were fun shows! The 4 years between Blinking Lights and Revelations (2005 (if memory serves, it's a good one!)) and Hombre Loco was too long though, I'd moved on by 2009 and haven't listened to a dang thing they've put out since.
I got really into Silversun Pickups for a few years there too as a result of being in a band with a Billy Corgan And His Smashing Pumpkins obsessive who wrote similarly toned guitar riffs. That album (Carnavas) and the one after it (Swoon) are still in semi-regular rotation here but they got a lot less fuzzy guitared and more bleeped and blooped as time went on so I've stopped paying attention to their newer stuff.
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