Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

[noname219]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

Done. I've already listened to it a few years ago, a bit underwhelming but there was some goods songs (Godspeed, The White Flash, Sucker Pin).

[rayword45]

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If you don't mind telling, which of my recommendations have you heard?

[noname219]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

You're probably the one that I recognized the most of your choices. (trumaestro, rushyrulz and ymia also)

Heard it all :
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (yep)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Heard some of it :
Big Star - #1 Record
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium

Know who they are :
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man
Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Big Star - 3rd
Big Star - Radio City
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Earth - Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version
Melvins - Houdini
Mr. Bungle - California
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Sleep - Dopesmoker
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
Ween - The Pod

Don't know anything about them :
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain

Even for Lightning Bolt, I think I've heard their name somewhere. edit : oh that's right, I've added them on one of my lists (#1282)

[noname219]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

Day Twelve - December 12th, 2013
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Lumière Obscure by Lemongrass (recommended by L.B.D.D.)

1. Dreams Are Real
2. Comme Toujours
3. Take a While
4. Underwater
5. The Bell
6. Flying Objects
7. Fine Time
8. La Fille Avec Cheveux Oranges
9. What a Night
10. Dream Your Dream Awake
11. Once Along the Way (Goodbye Mr. Grimmenstein)

Lemongrass (also known as Roland Voss) is a German music producer, having worked under the label Mole Listening Pearls before creating Lemongrassmusic, his own label. His music can be describe as downtempo with trip hop, nu jazz and dnb influences. Lumière Obscure was his second album, released in 1999.

It's soft, smooth and spacey. There's a good amount of diversity on this record, starting slowly with Dreams Are Real and Comme Toujours. Incorporating more complex drum beats on Take a While and tribal elements on Underwater. A bit of spoken words on The Bell with some touches of piano. Flying Objects and Fine Time are too long even if they have some interesting moments, they could be better shortened. La Fille Avec Cheveux Oranges gets progressively better and evolves into a jazzy-lounge song. Once Along the Way and Dream Your Dream Awake have a slower bpm, they drag a bit but are mostly very nice.

The beats are what makes the music substantial. They are complex, but non-agressive. They have a good balance and they blend well with everything else. You don't feel submerged so you can't really lost track of what's going on. I found nothing to hate on this album, it's solid, too long at times, but I didn't fell in love with it.

My rating : ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

[EzExZeRo7497]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

The Bell is top-notch, glad you bolded it

[rayword45]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

man fuck the randomizer, it takes too long for it to get to me XP

[noname219]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

Haha, choof has 42 and Crazyjayde has 22 recommendations each, and I reviewed nothing from them yet. Maybe tomorrow I will, who knows ?

[EzExZeRo7497]

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I'm scared what you would rate the albums I recommended lmao, I'm only expecting one album to get 8 or more

EDIT: Checked your ratings on RYM, yeah we have somewhat different tastes so rip

[rayword45]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

I'm scared what you would rate the albums I recommended lmao, I'm only expecting one album to get 8 or more

I'm expecting some pretty bizarre reviews for some. If someone takes consistency into account, the magic of 69 Love Songs is lost.

Then there are the actual weird albums like The Pod and Here Comes The Indian.

EDIT: Also checked RYM.

wtf man where's all the lo-fi avant-garde stoner noise pop? That's like 8 of my SHORTLIST recommendations gone.

Based on your ratings for folk music, I predict a 6 for All Hail West Texas if you get past the heady voice/lo-fi cassette tape quality.

[noname219]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

I'm scared what you would rate the albums I recommended lmao, I'm only expecting one album to get 8 or more

EDIT: Checked your ratings on RYM, yeah we have somewhat different tastes so rip

I like most ambient music. If it's quality stuff, has a good atmosphere, you shouldn't worry about that.

Had to remove a lot of my past ratings on RYM btw (went from 2500 to about 500), so most of my remaining ratings are what I have left in my iTunes pratically.

EDIT: Also checked RYM.

wtf man where's all the lo-fi avant-garde stoner noise pop? That's like 8 of my recommendations gone.

Based on your ratings for folk music, I predict a 6 for All Hail West Texas if you get past the heady voice/lo-fi cassette tape quality.

Yeah, I haven't listen to a lot of lo-fi stuff besides early Elliott Smith, very few of Guided by Voices, early Modest Mouse, The Microphones or Natural Snow Buildings (that counts). I can handle crappy black metal recordings, so it shouldn't be a problem for me. ^^

[blindreper1179]

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The delicious bread collection- Tales from the yeast side.

[t-rogdor]

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Natural Snow Buildings (that counts)

respect

nsb are good

[Jonlovesddr]

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John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Freddie Hubbard - Backslash
Art Blakey - Moanin'
Art Pepper - Living Legend
Cannonball Adderley - African Waltz
Mike Richmond - Blue in Green
Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet
Vince Guaraldi - Cast Your Fate to the Wind: Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
enjoy these jams

[XelNya]

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To-Mera / Transcendental
Manic Bloom / Manic Bloom
Nevermore / This Godless Endeavor
Trivium / Shogun
無力P / Eschatology

If I had to pick one, it'd be a tie between the bolded ones.

[noname219]

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Won't be able to review anything tonight on time, I need sleep more than anything else atm and I won't wake up until tomorrow morning. This means two reviews tomorrow.

@ XelNya : not sure about your birthday, is it July 30th ?