Random fashion thoughts

something always bothered me about Lonesome Crowded West.

I've never listened to Modest Mouse.

By the way, anyone have some music they can recommend? I don't mean "I heard this and it was pretty cool." I mean "This whole record is incredible and it changed me to the core of my being and for the first time in my life I feel like a whole person." You know what I mean. I typically don't care much about hip-hop, so that's probably not the direction to head. I've probably listened to the obvious stuff—Neutral Milk Hotel seems to always come up as a response—but if there's something kinda under the radar feel free to throw it out there.

i liked whale song even though it was on a later album



pickpackpockpuck said:

I've never listened to Modest Mouse.
By the way, anyone have some music they can recommend? I don't mean "I heard this and it was pretty cool." I mean "This whole record is incredible and it changed me to the core of my being and for the first time in my life I feel like a whole person." You know what I mean. I typically don't care much about hip-hop, so that's probably not the direction to head. I've probably listened to the obvious stuff—Neutral Milk Hotel seems to always come up as a response—but if there's something kinda under the radar feel free to throw it out there.

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Here are some super popular ones that most people have heard but you might not have! I give these a spin pretty regularly even though they are all old. I think The XX is the latest release


The XX - Self Titled
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Self Titled (I might get **** on for this one but I love this album through and through; not a fan of any of their others)
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (One of my favorite records of all time, For Reverend Green > Fireworks might be my favorite back to back tracks ever)


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pickpackpockpuck said:

I've never listened to Modest Mouse.
By the way, anyone have some music they can recommend? I don't mean "I heard this and it was pretty cool." I mean "This whole record is incredible and it changed me to the core of my being and for the first time in my life I feel like a whole person." You know what I mean. I typically don't care much about hip-hop, so that's probably not the direction to head. I've probably listened to the obvious stuff—Neutral Milk Hotel seems to always come up as a response—but if there's something kinda under the radar feel free to throw it out there.

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This is a huge can of worms, but really - name one or two albums that you felt changed you to the core of your being / changed your perspectives on music and it's easier to go from there.

I look back over time and there are distinct albums I downloaded or stumbled across for whatever reason that really opened **** up to new/different genres than I would have experienced otherwise, but this introductory albums usually hold a sentimental place in my heart even if they aren't the "best" in their genre.

I mean going back to what we were posting about in that other thread - 1998 - Come to Daddy - I was 11 years old, I saw that infamous music video on MTV, thought it was badass (i was listening to like Rob Zombie and **** like that) and hopped on Napster and downloaded the album. Realized none of the other tracks were like that one but I loved them all, so I wnated to find more stuff like that. Downloaded everything else that user on Napster had (remember when you could do that?) and it was all stuff like Autechre, Bogdan Raczynski, Venetian Snares, Jega, etc. Lots of stuff from Warp Records, and Rephlex. My mind was blown.

Shortly after that was Boards of Canada's Music Has the Right To Children. Well **** me. This changes everything again. Then came like Phillip Glass and Brian Eno. William Basinski.

99/2000 Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

2001 was Mogwai's Rock Action, also Prefuse 73 which started to get me back into hip hop

And then does everyone remember Coheed and Cambria releasing The Second Stage Turbine Blade that got me back into rock and so on and so forth

edit after bows: AnCo's best is Feels and there is nothing you can say to change my mind! that was a huge album for me in 2005, and that's skipping a bunch of years in between since I gave up after writing about music after 2001. I mean I could write pages on influential albums that I downloaded on a whim that opened up new avenues of music. Can't think of much post 2008 or 2009 though.. Andrew Bird is cool music that white people like?

I love being a child of the internet

TWHEN WILL THE XX RELEASE ANOTHER DAMN ALBUM


Also, The Smiths

The Smiths are for chubby girls that wear vintage and self-identify as some synonym of "unique"



tween_spirit said:

The Smiths are for chubby girls that wear vintage and self-identify as some synonym of "unique"

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Don't you box me in like that- I'm my own woman



tween_spirit said:

The Smiths are for chubby girls that wear vintage and self-identify as some synonym of "unique"

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easy, some of us grew up on that stuff



tween_spirit said:

This is a huge can of worms, but really - name one or two albums that you felt changed you to the core of your being / changed your perspectives on music and it's easier to go from there.
I look back over time and there are distinct albums I downloaded or stumbled across for whatever reason that really opened **** up to new/different genres than I would have experienced otherwise, but this introductory albums usually hold a sentimental place in my heart even if they aren't the "best" in their genre.
I mean going back to what we were posting about in that other thread - 1998 - Come to Daddy - I was 11 years old, I saw that infamous music video on MTV, thought it was badass (i was listening to like Rob Zombie and **** like that) and hopped on Napster and downloaded the album. Realized none of the other tracks were like that one but I loved them all, so I wnated to find more stuff like that. Downloaded everything else that user on Napster had (remember when you could do that?) and it was all stuff like Autechre, Bogdan Raczynski, Venetian Snares, Jega, etc. Lots of stuff from Warp Records, and Rephlex. My mind was blown.
Shortly after that was Boards of Canada's Music Has the Right To Children. Well **** me. This changes everything again. Then came like Phillip Glass and Brian Eno. William Basinski.
99/2000 Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
2001 was Mogwai's Rock Action, also Prefuse 73 which started to get me back into hip hop
And then does everyone remember Coheed and Cambria releasing The Second Stage Turbine Blade that got me back into rock and so on and so forth
edit after bows: AnCo's best is Feels and there is nothing you can say to change my mind!

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I saw Coheed and Cambria live by accident when they were opening for the Used embar right after SSTB and it blew my mind. Definitely got my music taste back on track.

Tween - I love SJ/F/ST/ pretty equally, but SJ has a special place in my heart cause thats the first one I heard

some dude asked to take a picture of me yesterday as I was walking to meet my girlfriend.......



bows1 said:

I saw Coheed and Cambria live by accident when they were opening for the Used embar right after SSTB and it blew my mind. Definitely got my music taste back on track.
Tween - I love SJ/F/ST/ pretty equally, but SJ has a special place in my heart cause thats the first one I heard

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haha that's awesome, I've always missed out on seeing them live, and always for weird reasons each time.

but yeah as I sort of alluded to earlier I went through middle school listening exclusively to music that had no lyrics whatsoever, which I guess is kind of weird for those developmental years. Probably should have been listening to the smiths but then I was over a friends house who was on the verge of being whatever the equivalent of a "scene" kid was at the time. He played a few tracks off SSTB and it blew my mind so hard, it shook me up in the right way and I got back into rock, among other things.

And same as you, Feels has a special place in my heart because it's the first one I heard and Freshman year we used to smoke weed on this little grassy area hidden behind our dorms with the guy in the room next to me and that's where I made out with my first ever (proto)hipster girl. She was from Philly and we were sitting on the grass and The Purple Bottle was playing and she had bangs and big glasses and I'm falling in love all over again as I'm typing this



aether said:

exactly SVB! impeccably tapered jeans, sleek boots, aviation influences, vests, those hats, good color palettes too. cremeing my panties over here.
noctone, that's what I'm saying. The runway stuff has very minimal branding, more akin to subtle workwear ID tags, but whenever I see stuff in stores it's always got stupid ass stenciling and **** on it. do they sell the runway stuff at higher end stores or something?

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maybe the stores buy the gaudy stuff because it sells. i find it weird that gstar has runway shows

oneeightyseven said:

some dude asked to take a picture of me yesterday as I was walking to meet my girlfriend.......

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thats flattering

^^
it was a little bit, but I was cold as hell (was during one of the breaks between those random sporadic snowstorms yesterday) and I was just like naaa. he said it was for a blog, didn't bother to ask which one.

You know I was being sarcastic about the "it changed my life" thing, but some records I really loved...

When I was 14-16 I listened to Op Ivy's "Energy" and Rancid's "And Out Come the Wolves..." more than anything else. People like to make fun of these, but I don't care. I didn't even think of it as punk rock so much as just rock n roll. It was awesome when I was a kid. I still like good chunks of both.

"OK Computer" blew me away when it came out. That opened me up to a whole lot of other music. It's probably the album I've listened to more than any other.

"Sanctuary" by Arvo Part had a big influence on me. It's a selection of Part's work. It introduced me to minimalism and opened up the world of classical music to me.

I guess I can add Neutral Milk Hotel's "In The Aeroplane Over the Sea" to the list. It's probably the last record that I really felt that kind of connection with. That was a few years ago. I was obviously late in finding it, and it's really not the type of music I normally gravitate to, but I really liked it.

There's been plenty of other stuff I've really liked along the way, including Nirvana, Minor Threat, selections of Joy Division and New Order, Led Zeppelin (haha, Zeppelin always makes me laugh), Jean Sibelius, The XX

I should probably give more of a chance to Godspeed. Mogwai I always kinda liked but never really got into.