Donnie Darko has one of, if not the, most beautiful scores i've ever heard. i seriously could just listen to it all day. what about you? do you have a favorite?
By the way-- I know you've talked to RT about music on the show-- I really keep thinking he should check out using some Ted Leo & The Pharmacists on the show. Their music just seems like it'd be really perfect.
I've heard of them, but I haven't heard anything by them. How do they distinguish themselves among the sea of Cool Indie Bands these days? Besides the fun name.
Hmm. I'm not sure how to describe them-- there's some punk influence, except they're really easy to listen to, great lyrics and the songs all hook you from the get go.
Here's one of my favorites from their album The Tyranny of Distance: Biomusicology (http://download.yousendit.com/6A9B67FE6C7F48D8)
I had the fortune of seeing them live over summer, and they were fantastic. Sound exactly the same live as they do on the studio versions.
You're right, they do sound somewhat like Spoon. They're one of the few bands where I can listen to their albums all the way through and not really want to skip tracks.
And hey, you know, I know it's not "cool" to love Nirvana the most out of the Seattle grunge scene (yes, okay, Mudhoney and Soundgarden are great, but Nirvana was always my favorite), but I *still* adore Kurt Cobain hardcore for that fact-- their live covers sound so much like their studio versions.
It's not cool, really? Because I love Nirvana. I like a few Soundgarden songs a lot, and the only thing I know about Mudhoney is that they were in the Chris Farley/David Spade movie Black Sheep.
*puts on live version of "Negative Creep" acquired a couple weeks ago, despite never having heard the album version or, nay, even having heard of the song before*
Oh, I was once told I didn't really "understand" the grunge scene if I truly believed Nirvana's overhyped influence on music. WHATEVER, PRENTETIOUS SCENESTERS! I still like them a lot, even if I don't listen to them nearly as much as I did in my fourteen-year-old self's "no one understands my wounded soul like Kurt Cobain!! tears tears vomit!!!!" stage.
I kind of shifted from the 90's stuff (Nirvana, Hole, Garbage, Oasis) to the old school punk (Sex Pistols, The Clash, New York Dolls, etc), then to 60's rock (Joplin, Hendrix, the Stones, Pink Floyd), then to political hip hop (Talib Kweli, KRS-One, etc) and currently I have a mental boner for Ted Leo, Wolf Parade, Arctic Monkeys, Metric, Elvis Costello, Sam Cooke, and a ton of other random stuff. My taste is fickle and varied.
In a strange bit of amusing coincidence, on my way to the dentist, the radio was doing a "Survivor" thing where they pitted different genres together, and I was treated to half an hour of...yes, grunge. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains.
I love Metric. Currently, I'm addicted to, let's see...M.I.A., OK Go, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Silversun Pickups. Fickle and varied taste is the best taste.
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Date: 2006-09-23 06:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-09-23 06:49 pm (UTC)Here's one of my favorites from their album The Tyranny of Distance: Biomusicology (http://download.yousendit.com/6A9B67FE6C7F48D8)
I had the fortune of seeing them live over summer, and they were fantastic. Sound exactly the same live as they do on the studio versions.
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Date: 2006-09-23 06:55 pm (UTC)Sound exactly the same live as they do on the studio versions.
That's always awesome. Incubus is like that.
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Date: 2006-09-23 07:04 pm (UTC)And hey, you know, I know it's not "cool" to love Nirvana the most out of the Seattle grunge scene (yes, okay, Mudhoney and Soundgarden are great, but Nirvana was always my favorite), but I *still* adore Kurt Cobain hardcore for that fact-- their live covers sound so much like their studio versions.
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Date: 2006-09-23 07:12 pm (UTC)*puts on live version of "Negative Creep" acquired a couple weeks ago, despite never having heard the album version or, nay, even having heard of the song before*
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Date: 2006-09-23 07:35 pm (UTC)I kind of shifted from the 90's stuff (Nirvana, Hole, Garbage, Oasis) to the old school punk (Sex Pistols, The Clash, New York Dolls, etc), then to 60's rock (Joplin, Hendrix, the Stones, Pink Floyd), then to political hip hop (Talib Kweli, KRS-One, etc) and currently I have a mental boner for Ted Leo, Wolf Parade, Arctic Monkeys, Metric, Elvis Costello, Sam Cooke, and a ton of other random stuff. My taste is fickle and varied.
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Date: 2006-09-23 11:41 pm (UTC)I love Metric. Currently, I'm addicted to, let's see...M.I.A., OK Go, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Silversun Pickups. Fickle and varied taste is the best taste.