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Smogon's favourite music?
- Thread starter The Leprechaun
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My favorite music is the rage of the poor suckers who lose to my OU Liepard team.
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a few things...
i'm pretty big on hip-hop — some of my favorites are the wu-tang clan, a tribe called quest, lil ugly mane, darc mind and nujabes. more recently i've been getting into 'noise rap,' e.g. clipping., death grips (exmilitary is one of my favorite albums of this decade, while midcity is a fairly strong contender for my album of the year). oh and also pretty much anything that mf doom touches is good in my books. aesop rock can be enjoyable too. spaceghostpurrp isn't a good lyricist but he's a lot of fun and the instrumentals are almost always great. i also really like the stuff that's coming out of the black hippy collective; kendrick's obviously put out some great stuff in the past few years but i was pretty fond of control systems.
maybe 'indie rock' is a pretty generic term, but i really dig stuff like why?, built to spill, women, grooms, titus andronicus, pavement, the dismemberment plan, etc. also going through a noise rock/post-hardcore phase at the moment, from the more post-hardcore end of the spectrum (young widows, the jesus lizard) to stuff like boredoms, melt-banana, etc.
i halso ave an affinity toward music with really noisy and very repetitive beats and i think that might be why i'm more of a fan of early swans than later swans. sometimes when i'm feeling morose or vaguely angry i just listen to a few songs from filth and it's strangely cathartic for me.
a couple of miscellaneous favorites:
foetus - hole
have a nice life - deathconsciousness
flying lotus - cosmogramma
slowdive - souvlaki
i'm pretty big on hip-hop — some of my favorites are the wu-tang clan, a tribe called quest, lil ugly mane, darc mind and nujabes. more recently i've been getting into 'noise rap,' e.g. clipping., death grips (exmilitary is one of my favorite albums of this decade, while midcity is a fairly strong contender for my album of the year). oh and also pretty much anything that mf doom touches is good in my books. aesop rock can be enjoyable too. spaceghostpurrp isn't a good lyricist but he's a lot of fun and the instrumentals are almost always great. i also really like the stuff that's coming out of the black hippy collective; kendrick's obviously put out some great stuff in the past few years but i was pretty fond of control systems.
maybe 'indie rock' is a pretty generic term, but i really dig stuff like why?, built to spill, women, grooms, titus andronicus, pavement, the dismemberment plan, etc. also going through a noise rock/post-hardcore phase at the moment, from the more post-hardcore end of the spectrum (young widows, the jesus lizard) to stuff like boredoms, melt-banana, etc.
i halso ave an affinity toward music with really noisy and very repetitive beats and i think that might be why i'm more of a fan of early swans than later swans. sometimes when i'm feeling morose or vaguely angry i just listen to a few songs from filth and it's strangely cathartic for me.
a couple of miscellaneous favorites:
foetus - hole
have a nice life - deathconsciousness
flying lotus - cosmogramma
slowdive - souvlaki
http://last.fm/user/loveyoulikealie
I can't believe I'm doing this again. I made one before, but I eventually concluded making another would be less effort than digging it up again. I limited myself to one album per artist; obviously I'm a huge fan of the other Crystal Castles albums too, and picking between Show Your Bones/It's Blitz! and The Soft Bulletin/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is really, really hard for me. Going through this list + my last.fm to check that I didn't miss anything, I realised I really gotta listen to some of this stuff more, lol. Oh, yeah, this site was really fuckin' buggy for me, but just functional enough.
I listen to a fair amount of edm as well but it's not really well represented in my albums list for various reasons, heh. And I mostly listen to it on yt. I really enjoy catchiness so I listen to a lot of upbeat pop (incl. Korean and Japanese), but it depends on my mood what I'll seek to listen to. I can appreciate good acoustic music but I definitely prefer synth-heavy music with high-pitched sounds and it makes up a good amount of my music library now.
I can't believe I'm doing this again. I made one before, but I eventually concluded making another would be less effort than digging it up again. I limited myself to one album per artist; obviously I'm a huge fan of the other Crystal Castles albums too, and picking between Show Your Bones/It's Blitz! and The Soft Bulletin/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is really, really hard for me. Going through this list + my last.fm to check that I didn't miss anything, I realised I really gotta listen to some of this stuff more, lol. Oh, yeah, this site was really fuckin' buggy for me, but just functional enough.
I listen to a fair amount of edm as well but it's not really well represented in my albums list for various reasons, heh. And I mostly listen to it on yt. I really enjoy catchiness so I listen to a lot of upbeat pop (incl. Korean and Japanese), but it depends on my mood what I'll seek to listen to. I can appreciate good acoustic music but I definitely prefer synth-heavy music with high-pitched sounds and it makes up a good amount of my music library now.
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6A9 Ace Matador
veni, vidi, vici, VERSACE, VERSACE VERSACE
i forgot gregory isaac's - extra classic & captain beefheart & his magic band's - safe as milk (the latter idk how).
edit: also forgot pixies - surfer rosa, beirut - elephant gun, chic - c'est chic, francoise hardy - comment te dire adieu
also i forgot more but i dont remember that ive forgotten them yet. i also tried to include albums that ive listened to and enjyoed for quite a long time instead of just my current favourites
rodans is the best so far btw
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This was so hard and I know that it's miles off perfect as is but oh well
a few of these are on there more due to sentimentality attached to them rather than greatness
also I've never got all the neutral milk hotel hype at all, I'm going to listen to them again now though
edit: nope... of the two songs on it which I liked enough to consider listening again to (the eponymous song and Holland, 1945), one was based on maybe the most unoriginal chord sequence ever and I didn't like the production of the other one. I don't like his voice much, it's all 'too american' if that makes sense (this makes me sound like a silly anti-American British snob but I can't think of a better way to say it... maybe what I mean is too folky?) and I don't get it :(
also why on earth is Oh Comely so long, it's probably the weakest song anyway and 8 minutes of it is ridiculous
also I've never got all the neutral milk hotel hype at all, I'm going to listen to them again now though
edit: nope... of the two songs on it which I liked enough to consider listening again to (the eponymous song and Holland, 1945), one was based on maybe the most unoriginal chord sequence ever and I didn't like the production of the other one. I don't like his voice much, it's all 'too american' if that makes sense (this makes me sound like a silly anti-American British snob but I can't think of a better way to say it... maybe what I mean is too folky?) and I don't get it :(
also why on earth is Oh Comely so long, it's probably the weakest song anyway and 8 minutes of it is ridiculous
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6A9 Ace Matador
veni, vidi, vici, VERSACE, VERSACE VERSACE
^ try listening to them when you have literally nothing else to do. you can actually appreciate king of carrot flowers, comely etc. and their crazy cool lyrics. i agree about overrated tho, theyre like radiohead overrated
for a while i thought the same thing. i didn't really get into neutral milk hotel till i gave them a legit shot. but to this day i can't get into radiohead. i find all their music bland and overrated as hell, and i've tried getting in them multiple times.
fuck i'm on the wrong forum
6A9 Ace Matador
veni, vidi, vici, VERSACE, VERSACE VERSACE
no no, i've heard them many times & understand why people like their sound, i just don't think it's revolutionairy or great. also thom yorke is a whiny bitch, and i would probably enjoy the band more if it weren't for that.
mkizzy
formerly kenny
check out my last.fm if you want http://www.last.fm/user/HOAGLVND
im mainly into hiphop but enjoy a lot of other things as well
as of lately my favorite albums have been:
Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Beach House - Bloom
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D City
Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of The Day
ASAP Ferg - Trap Lord
theres also a music channel on synirc :)
im mainly into hiphop but enjoy a lot of other things as well
as of lately my favorite albums have been:
Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Beach House - Bloom
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D City
Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of The Day
ASAP Ferg - Trap Lord
theres also a music channel on synirc :)
Ash Borer
I've heard they're short of room in hell
oh damn, that's a speed metal masterpiece? Know anything else like it?
nothing really comes to mind (although not for the want of trying) other than 'the privilege of power' (i.e. their next album) which is has grown on me a lot once I got past the ridiculous synth horns
Honorable Mentions:
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
Meshuggah: Koloss
Mutemath: Armistice
Gnarls Barkley: St. Elsewhere
Ozzy Osbourne: The Essential Ozzy Osbourne
Eminem: Curtain Call
The Beatles: Rubber Soul
Flyleaf: Memento Mori
Most of these actually just represent the bands that I like the most. I would've been comfortable posting any NIN or Mastodon album, I just felt like I should only do 1 per artist.
EDIT: I'd also like to say that everyone here has posted at least one album that I really like. That's pretty cool.
I'm a big fan of different / raspy voices as you can tel by my top 5 (no particular order)
Tom Waits
Simon & Garfunkel
The Clash
Bob Dylan
Captain Beefheart
Tom Waits
Simon & Garfunkel
The Clash
Bob Dylan
Captain Beefheart
Had to limit this list to one album per artist to show diversity, but it still barely scratches the surface of my musical tastes.
re: renosaur
the kooks - inside in / inside out
the kooks - konk
the new pornographers - electric version
the strokes - is this it
bombay bicycle club - i had the blues but i shook them loose
the wombats - a guide to love, loss and desperation
mystery jets - twenty one
phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
mewithoutyou - brother, sister
broken social scene - you forgot it in people
the dismemberment plan - emergency & i
interpol - turn on the bright lights
built to spill - perfect from now on
the antlers - hospice
the microphones - the glow pt. 2 (maybe)
minus the bear - this is what i know about being gigantic
sorry if any of these are in your chart i just typed out my favorite "indie rock" albums / indie rock essentials
the kooks - inside in / inside out
the kooks - konk
the new pornographers - electric version
the strokes - is this it
bombay bicycle club - i had the blues but i shook them loose
the wombats - a guide to love, loss and desperation
mystery jets - twenty one
phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
mewithoutyou - brother, sister
broken social scene - you forgot it in people
the dismemberment plan - emergency & i
interpol - turn on the bright lights
built to spill - perfect from now on
the antlers - hospice
the microphones - the glow pt. 2 (maybe)
minus the bear - this is what i know about being gigantic
sorry if any of these are in your chart i just typed out my favorite "indie rock" albums / indie rock essentials
I honestly only listen to EDM, and for some reason I have something against pop music. I don't know why, just I absolutely despise it with all my being. Kill me.