… the Jace Lasek one I’m kinda unsure if it’s specifically his voice or just the production aspects. It reminds me of Brian Wilson/Beach Boys, but with heavier backing music.
@jake4480 she's got that smokey raspy voice... I guess I'd place it somewhere along a spectrum between Janis Joplin and Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star). So good.
@skullvalanche it definitely has a Mazzy Star feel more than Janis 😂 man, my dad loves her and I just can't do that voice. I was also getting a little That Dog maybe or Garbage - something slick and cool like that, I've always been a big Lisa Loeb, Sheryl Crow fan too- I'm picky about female voices (I guess? I also like Amy Winehouse, a ton of old Motown stuff..) but wow. Gonna listen to more of her stuff
@skullvalanche yeah, still not a Peter Murphy fan haha. But Soul Coughing - wow. I think I've been missing out ignoring them all these years. Also, look who's in the list after them 😂 GET OUTTA MY HEAD
@skullvalanche ohh wow yeah musicians and drugs, right haha. You really have to look out for it, it's EVERYWHERE, I definitely saw a lot when I played haha. Avoided the hard stuff, I can't imagine. It's probably because at the time, all the bands with Soul in the name could get confusing, Soul Asylum, etc.. hahaha.
@skullvalanche another thought - Doughty's voice also has a kind of Cake feel. It also reminds me maybe of like, Fountains of Wayne or how I imagine Pavement would sound if they learned to write good hooks (I hate Pavement haha)
@skullvalanche okay for the Besnard Lakes.. it's GOOD when it kicks in around the 2 minute mark (the intro is too long! hahaha), kinda reminds me of Polyphonic Spree or maybe like Flaming Lips if Wayne Coyne wasn't exhausting me by trying so hard. 😂
@skullvalanche Oh man. Hahaha. The Hives are something special. They definitely have songs that I don't re-listen to but when it gels (it usually does) they're ridiculous. The new album gets a little weird in the middle but it blasts out of the gate with like, 4 or 5 bangers right off the bat.
@skullvalanche I'm thinking of more. Maybe Beck. Today I was listening to Tuff Guac in the morning (the side project of the Belgian guy from Moar) and my wife goes 'it sounds like garage rock Beck'. Which it kinda does. And I told her that actually old Beck WAS pretty garagey lo fi stuff hahaha - yeah, I guess really it's all the same kind of stuff I like.
@skullvalanche I think I'm kinda like a Beck fanatic too haha. The old stuff is fun but I'm fairly picky about the songs I listen to a lot of, I have so much on my phone and everything else, I love old to new, but these 6 are a fun kinda chronological romp, I even like a lot of his new stuff. Wow is very divisive as I understand but I instantly kinda loved it, and I can still repeatedly listen to it, too. Dreams, in my opinion (THIS mix) is a masterpiece.
@jake4480 I tend to treat "Sea Change" as a single track. It's a masterpiece, but definitely requires being in the right mood. I guess similar to Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock" album... you hafta be in a mood to appreciate it. Not a party album. :blobcatlaugh:
@skullvalanche Sea Change is one I didn't take to that much. I love Mutations though. That's a full listen. Sea Change I do like Sunday Sun and Little One though. I often sing Little One to my cats and wife hahaha (she only recently discovered it's a Beck song, she just thought it was something I sang 😂 )
@skullvalanche oh man and every time I see this damn bear from the Cellphone's Dead video, I laugh. Beck's videos are always epic but this one shot kinda sums up everything I want in my music. 😂
@skullvalanche oh, and there are SO MANY other Beck songs obviously that are amazing other than these 6, but I just thought it was wild to take Beercan (my fave of his older ones?) to the brand new.
@skullvalanche oh man Tuff Guac is insane (someday I'll be able to write a song as great as Friskoman), the guy (Rafael) that also does Moar.. one of my favorite living songwriters. Not many misses. Pretty much every Moar album I can do front to back too. It's wild
@skullvalanche Pat DiNizio from the Smithereens instantly came to mind. I mean, they ARE my favorite band forever, and as you might've seen via my (tiny) vinyl collection, I'm a bit of a fanatic. Pat (RIP) even made this weird low-budget movie with him just like, walking around, being an odd sleazeball? And it IS just him talking about random nonsense the whole time. And, at the time, I even pre-ordered it. I mean, it's here in my desk. So.. yeah. 😂
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