Getting the spins

[mister d]

It’s weird he could go 100 deep without repeats and I can still come up with a dozen omissions that I would have been sure would make the list: Frightened Rabbit, Sufjan (which he said), School of Seven Bells, Okkervil River, Metric, Beths, Passion Pit (esp with phoenix included), Warpaint, Girls, Small Black, Woods, Baker/Dacus, Japanese Breakfast …

[The Sybian]

It’s funny, music from 2000-2025 seems like a small, homogeneous period of time I view as “after I stopped paying attention to new music.” Mind blowing that it’s the same amount of time from 1995 -1970. That feels like numerous radically different eras of music to me.

[brian]

The new Deafheaven album is great.

[govmentchedda]

The new Deafheaven album is great.

Need to give it a listen. I always enjoy them, but I never think of them. I don't listen to much else anywhere near that genre.

[Steve of phpBB]

[Rush2112]

Yesterday was the anniversary of their first performance (as a yet-to-be-named band.)

[mister d]

The further out we get, the more I’m convinced they’re severely underrated in terms of being top tier american greats.

[The Sybian]

The further out we get, the more I’m convinced they’re severely underrated in terms of being top tier american greats.

I think the problem is their commercial success came off what I’ve heard fans say are their worst albums. Shiny Happy People and Stand are just fuckawful irritating bubblegum pop. People whose taste I trust say they are a great band and I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. I liked Losing My Religion, not sure I know much else from them.


ETA: Shit, I know a lot more of their songs! My bad. Just never got into them, but yeah, lots of commercial hits.

[Nonlinear FC]

The issue many of us have with REM is that we had that one friend that really REALLY wanted to tell us how great REM was because they knew about them before we did and that's a thing certain types of people do.

So fuck REM.

(Not really, just fuck the 2 or 3 ppl in my life that were insufferable about a band that was pretty good but could also be annoying as fuck, especially when they overplayed songs like the ones mentioned and It's the End of the World to the point you wanted to punch a wall when it came on the radio.)

[A_B]

In 20 years, on TadpoleHole.com, swamp kids will bemoan how annoying Jason Isbell fans were.

[Rush2112]

Was big into REM in HS (right after my Ozzy/Sabbath period) but gave up basically at the Shiny Happy People mark, though Automatic For The People has some fantastic songs.

[Steve of phpBB]

The issue many of us have with REM is that we had that one friend that really REALLY wanted to tell us how great REM was because they knew about them before we did and that's a thing certain types of people do.

Heh, REM is the only band where I can say I knew about them before others did. Ground floor, baby.

But I also stopped listening around Automatic for the People. Not for any REM-specific reasons, but because for many years I didn't have the money to buy tapes or CDs. I only started listening to the "new" (post 1992) stuff a few months ago. It turns out there's a bunch of good stuff there too, but definitely not "best band ever" material.

[mister d]

Shiny Happy and Radio Song are both really fucking awful. I know they were done on purpose, but unless the whole world is in on the joke and one doesn't become inexplicably popular, the joke doesn't work.

[mister d]

Its very possible my biases are showing and a U2 or Pearl Jam superfan would lose it reading this, but lets say every major band of that 80s/90s era put together a greatest hits album made up of all their most popular and well known songs and then a second album of their actual best songs that never blew up. I think REM would dominate the shit out of everyone.

(As a note, I don't believe this about all bands, its not like "oh my favorite bands popular songs are shit and the deeper cuts are the best". Bloodbuzz Ohio is both one of the very best and one of the most popular songs from The National. Alvvays consistently releases their best as the singles, same with Yeah Yeah Yeahs and probably most others. Maybe it was the MTV-ing of the era, but REM's best shit isn't their most well known and not because their most well known is the most accessible. A lot of REM's best and would be most popular songs never actually got out there as airwave saturating singles.)

[Steve of phpBB]

Its very possible my biases are showing and a U2 or Pearl Jam superfan would lose it reading this, but lets say every major band of that 80s/90s era put together a greatest hits album made up of all their most popular and well known songs and then a second album of their actual best songs that never blew up. I think REM would dominate the shit out of everyone.

(As a note, I don't believe this about all bands, its not like "oh my favorite bands popular songs are shit and the deeper cuts are the best". Bloodbuzz Ohio is both one of the very best and one of the most popular songs from The National. Alvvays consistently releases their best as the singles, same with Yeah Yeah Yeahs and probably most others. Maybe it was the MTV-ing of the era, but REM's best shit isn't their most well known and not because their most well known is the most accessible. A lot of REM's best and would be most popular songs never actually got out there as airwave saturating singles.)

It always took me a few listens to get into new REM albums. I think I was disappointed with almost every one at first. Very few of their songs were catchy.

Plus their lyrics were incomprehensible.

[Shirley]

I might have been one of those insufferable REM fans. They're an odd band because they were pretty huge in the college radio days with their first 4 albums all being outstanding but getting very little national attention. That started to change with Document, and completely changed after that. But they also greatly changed their sound. They were still quirky, but way more radio friendly with actual lyrics that you could understand.

TBH, I never really got into the post-IRS REM albums even though they made them one of the biggest bands in the world. When I think of and listen to REM, its still always Reckoning and Murmur era REM.

[The Sybian]

The issue many of us have with REM is that we had that one friend that really REALLY wanted to tell us how great REM was because they knew about them before we did and that's a thing certain types of people do.

So fuck REM.

(Not really, just fuck the 2 or 3 ppl in my life that were insufferable about a band that was pretty good but could also be annoying as fuck, especially when they overplayed songs like the ones mentioned and It's the End of the World to the point you wanted to punch a wall when it came on the radio.)

I was 12 in 1988, so I didn’t have that issue. I first new them through Stand, which annoyed me.

[sancarlos]

The further out we get, the more I’m convinced they’re severely underrated in terms of being top tier american greats.

I agree with this.

[sancarlos]

The further out we get, the more I’m convinced they’re severely underrated in terms of being top tier american greats.

I think the problem is their commercial success came off what I’ve heard fans say are their worst albums. Shiny Happy People and Stand are just fuckawful irritating bubblegum pop. People whose taste I trust say they are a great band and I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. I liked Losing My Religion, not sure I know much else from them.

Sybian, this is a great compilation album that includes many of their best early songs.

[DaveInSeattle]

I might have been one of those insufferable REM fans. They're an odd band because they were pretty huge in the college radio days with their first 4 albums all being outstanding but getting very little national attention. That started to change with Document, and completely changed after that. But they also greatly changed their sound. They were still quirky, but way more radio friendly with actual lyrics that you could understand.

I was definitely one of those REM fans. Heard "Radio Free Europe" on MTV's 120 Minutes and was sold...jangly guitars and three part harmonies are right in my wheel house. They were definitely my favorite band all through college.

Their sound changed when they signed with Warner Brothers...for the Green album. And yes, "Stand" and "Shiny Happy People" are pretty lame songs, but Green, Out of Time, AFTP, and Monster are all great albums.

They really should have stopped after Bill Berry had to retire following his brain aneurysm.

[Steve of phpBB]

WXRT just kicked off their Album-Side Saturday for Record Store Day. They started with Reckoning.

[rass]

More annoying affected voice - Billy Joel in that one part of Big Shot or Tom Petty for the entire first verse of Breakdown? It's like the exact same approach and I have no idea what they were going for.

“I hoid it…”

[Nonlinear FC]

The cast of The Penguin was channeling that pronunciation.

[The Sybian]

The further out we get, the more I’m convinced they’re severely underrated in terms of being top tier american greats.

I think the problem is their commercial success came off what I’ve heard fans say are their worst albums. Shiny Happy People and Stand are just fuckawful irritating bubblegum pop. People whose taste I trust say they are a great band and I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. I liked Losing My Religion, not sure I know much else from them.

Sybian, this is a great compilation album that includes many of their best early songs.

Gave this a listen. Other than the two commercial hits I knew from that compilation, they had a different sound than I expected. Several songs had like a Rockabilly sound to it. I think I would have been into them if I was older and exposed to them early.

[mister d]

You know bands that you're sure have already made your favorite stuff by them? That's where I slot CYHSY. I'm content with what they did on their first two albums being the only ones in their library.

Maybe one of the secrets to my more welcoming view of artists' later material is that most of them I never got into when they made their classics. I didn't even really get into DMB until right before their 3rd album came out.

The first CYHSY is an all-timer for me. You're in for a treat, Giff.

Guess who had to sell their tickets to the album show in a few weeks because their wife is away and the kids both have softball games that night?



(Absolute best case scenario is a very early rainout and I can find a ticket last minute. Really, really wanted to see this one.)

[The Sybian]

You know bands that you're sure have already made your favorite stuff by them? That's where I slot CYHSY. I'm content with what they did on their first two albums being the only ones in their library.

Maybe one of the secrets to my more welcoming view of artists' later material is that most of them I never got into when they made their classics. I didn't even really get into DMB until right before their 3rd album came out.

The first CYHSY is an all-timer for me. You're in for a treat, Giff.

Guess who had to sell their tickets to the album show in a few weeks because their wife is away and the kids both have softball games that night?



(Absolute best case scenario is a very early rainout and I can find a ticket last minute. Really, really wanted to see this one.)

Go to the show and let Rass or Cerrano take your kids to softball. It takes a village, right?

[mister d]

Shockingly, neither offered.

[A_B]

Shockingly, neither offered.

That you sat outside with the kid in the back seat waiting for them to come out and offer was weird, you have to admit.

[mister d]

If they kept their blinds open I wouldn't have to wait outside.

[DSafetyGuy]

Guess who had to sell their tickets to the album show in a few weeks because their wife is away and the kids both have softball games that night?



(Absolute best case scenario is a very early rainout and I can find a ticket last minute. Really, really wanted to see this one.)

Go to the show and let Rass or Cerrano take your kids to softball. It takes a village, right?

Good thing you don't live close by.

[The Sybian]

Guess who had to sell their tickets to the album show in a few weeks because their wife is away and the kids both have softball games that night?



(Absolute best case scenario is a very early rainout and I can find a ticket last minute. Really, really wanted to see this one.)

Go to the show and let Rass or Cerrano take your kids to softball. It takes a village, right?

Good thing you don't live close by.

I’d love to help but I’m washing my hair that week.

[brian]

Operation:Mindcrime by Queensryche was one of the best albums of the 80s and I absolutely will not argue this but Empire was a pretty underrated follow-up. The title track is a banger.

[Giff]

Operation:Mindcrime by Queensryche was one of the best albums of the 80s and I absolutely will not argue this but Empire was a pretty underrated follow-up. The title track is a banger.

Silent Lucidity, while obviously a Comfortably Numb knockoff, is fucking great.

[brian]

Operation:Mindcrime by Queensryche was one of the best albums of the 80s and I absolutely will not argue this but Empire was a pretty underrated follow-up. The title track is a banger.

Silent Lucidity, while obviously a Comfortably Numb knockoff, is fucking great.

Totally agree.

[rass]

Heard The Replacements three different times today on three different radio stations (2 terrestrial, 1 satellite).

[DaveInSeattle]

Heard The Replacements three different times today on three different radio stations (2 terrestrial, 1 satellite).

Hearing the Replacements is always a good thing...

[rass]

Totally not complaining. Three different songs, too.

[sancarlos]

I’ll guess - I’ll be you, Bastards of young, and Can’t hardly wait.

[govmentchedda]

I'd go Left of the Dial, Bastards, CHW.

Radio stations love to play a meta song.

[rass]

Can’t Hardly Wait (Live at Maxwell’s (of Hoboken)), Favorite Thing, Within Your Reach