The Swamp

The new Strand of Oaks is pretty awesome. Bummed we missed him in Austin, brian.

Need to pick that one up.

Giff wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 8:45 am The new Strand of Oaks is pretty awesome. Bummed we missed him in Austin, brian.

Just checked it out. Definitely agree. Forever Chords is an incredible song.

Do you get the impression he’s got some MGMT in him where he can make wildly accessible and popular music but it’s not the music he likes to make?

Had two people recommend to me recently. Just fantastic stuff here.





thanks pruitt

Pretty cool.

She sings good

She stole my heart with “Sweet as Whole”.

I don’t always jump on the latest hip hop stuff, but I listened to the new Quelle Chris the other day and it’s excellent.

Sirius/XM channel 30 is playing the top 500 songs of the 80s (in order, based on Billboard charting) on Channel 30 for the rest of the weekend. Countdown should be about to start over at #500 around 3:30 p.m. ET.

mister d wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2015 12:17 pm Foals are basically "good Coldplay". Its weird.

This still applies. I'd love an exercise where fans were given Total Life Forever as a leaked new Coldplay album and asked to opine.

Ryan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:46 am She sings good

She really does. I'd never heard of her before SNL, but she has a fantastic voice.

brian wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:00 pm Sirius/XM channel 30 is playing the top 500 songs of the 80s (in order, based on Billboard charting) on Channel 30 for the rest of the weekend. Countdown should be about to start over at #500 around 3:30 p.m. ET.

I still subscribe, but damn they pissed me off when they booted The Loft from their car radio format.

Spectrum is LCD garbage. XMU is being made to carry the load and that sucks.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:27 am

brian wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:00 pm Sirius/XM channel 30 is playing the top 500 songs of the 80s (in order, based on Billboard charting) on Channel 30 for the rest of the weekend. Countdown should be about to start over at #500 around 3:30 p.m. ET.

I still subscribe, but damn they pissed me off when they booted The Loft from their car radio format.

Spectrum is LCD garbage. XMU is being made to carry the load and that sucks.

Let it be noted that I also miss The Loft!

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:53 am

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:27 am

brian wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:00 pm Sirius/XM channel 30 is playing the top 500 songs of the 80s (in order, based on Billboard charting) on Channel 30 for the rest of the weekend. Countdown should be about to start over at #500 around 3:30 p.m. ET.

I still subscribe, but damn they pissed me off when they booted The Loft from their car radio format.

Spectrum is LCD garbage. XMU is being made to carry the load and that sucks.

Let it be noted that I also miss The Loft!

It's there in their streaming format (apps, website, etc). So I can still listen to it, but they did not replace that station with anything remotely comparable.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:25 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:53 am

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:27 am

brian wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:00 pm Sirius/XM channel 30 is playing the top 500 songs of the 80s (in order, based on Billboard charting) on Channel 30 for the rest of the weekend. Countdown should be about to start over at #500 around 3:30 p.m. ET.

I still subscribe, but damn they pissed me off when they booted The Loft from their car radio format.

Spectrum is LCD garbage. XMU is being made to carry the load and that sucks.

Let it be noted that I also miss The Loft!

It's there in their streaming format (apps, website, etc). So I can still listen to it, but they did not replace that station with anything remotely comparable.

Yeah, it is unique. We have Sirius/XM in my wife's car, so if I'm driving it, I lean to Underground Garage, Outlaw Country, XMU, or Deep Tracks. If I'm feeling lazy and just want comfortable stuff I already know, I listen to one of the classic rock stations or the 80's new wave station.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:30 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:25 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:53 am

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:27 am

brian wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:00 pm Sirius/XM channel 30 is playing the top 500 songs of the 80s (in order, based on Billboard charting) on Channel 30 for the rest of the weekend. Countdown should be about to start over at #500 around 3:30 p.m. ET.

I still subscribe, but damn they pissed me off when they booted The Loft from their car radio format.

Spectrum is LCD garbage. XMU is being made to carry the load and that sucks.

Let it be noted that I also miss The Loft!

It's there in their streaming format (apps, website, etc). So I can still listen to it, but they did not replace that station with anything remotely comparable.

Yeah, it is unique. We have Sirius/XM in my wife's car, so if I'm driving it, I lean to Underground Garage, Outlaw Country, XMU, or Deep Tracks. If I'm feeling lazy and just want comfortable stuff I already know, I listen to one of the classic rock stations or the 80's new wave station.

Simon & Garfunkel, PJ Harvey, Phosphorent, Stephen Malkmus, & The Lovin' Spoonful have been featured in the past hour or so.

The Loft was basically your local public radio station's DNA merged with college radio. They took it away to make room for horse crap generic band dedications. Muh.

This is excellent.

Yes it is!

This ain't half bad either.

Wow do I hate the new Beck song "Saw Lightning".

I'm not sure if I like this or not, but it's certainly impressive.

Reality Winner

So, 14 hours in a car with a college freshman* in charge of the Aux introduced me to a lot of new music. I'd heard some Childish Gambino and Janelle Monae before, but listening to extended playlists of them was good. Really liked both of them. Same for Kendrick Lamar. Didn't care for Lil Wayne as much. Only overlap in taste was Kacey Muscgraves, whom I liked before daughter knew she existed probably.

But the one that I absolutely loved and had no idea existed was Lizzo. That is some fun stuff, and she can sing and rap in equal measures. Really really enjoyed her stuff.

EDIT: *-Excuse me...college SOPHOMORE.

A_B wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 9:10 am So, 14 hours in a car with a college freshman* in charge of the Aux introduced me to a lot of new music. I'd heard some Childish Gambino and Janelle Monae before, but listening to extended playlists of them was good. Really liked both of them. Same for Kendrick Lamar. Didn't care for Lil Wayne as much. Only overlap in taste was Kacey Muscgraves, whom I liked before daughter knew she existed probably.

But the one that I absolutely loved and had no idea existed was Lizzo. That is some fun stuff, and she can sing and rap in equal measures. Really really enjoyed her stuff.

EDIT: *-Excuse me...college SOPHOMORE.

Agreed on Lizzo. I haven't listened to it too much yet, but really did enjoy the first two run-thrus of it.

Whenever I could turn off my asshole brain saying "this is a Prince impression", I really liked what I heard off Monae's latest.

mister d wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 11:56 am Whenever I could turn off my asshole brain saying "this is a Prince impression", I really liked what I heard off Monae's latest.

Yes, there is a heavy Prince feel for sure, but I still think it worked.

Shit's pretty tight.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 9:41 am Shit's pretty tight.

There may be some nightmares later...

Hearing there's a new album by some group called The National today.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 11:56 am

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 9:41 am Shit's pretty tight.

There may be some nightmares later...

I only wish I were still into hallucinogenics...

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 12:10 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 11:56 am

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 9:41 am Shit's pretty tight.

There may be some nightmares later...

I only wish I were still into hallucinogenics...

Yeah - when I was a teenager and into my mid-20s, I listened to a lot of stuff that would break my brain if I put it on now.

I mean, I listened to "Ummagumma" many times.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 9:41 am Shit's pretty tight.

Mark Davis wrote:Sweet haircut!

John Walker Lindh being released from prison on Thursday.

EdRomero wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 11:15 pm

#teamportman

The fact that he felt the need to rebut her comments is, well kinda creepy. And also, kind of pathetic.

You've been humming in a daze forever ...

Sirius XMU is doing one of those top 500 countdowns this weekend. I used to love listening to those on old fashioned classic rock radio back in the day, even if everyone knew it was going to end up with Stairway to Heaven.

It’s not clear what the criteria are here but I guess it’s anything that you might have ever heard on the station going back to the beginning. They just played a Pavement song so I guess they consider the 90’s to be part of the era. So I thought of 2 questions which I’ll pose to the group:

1) When does “indie” actually begin as an era?
2) What is the #1 here? Is there a Stairway in indie rock yet? I’ve been thinking about it for about 20 minutes and my guess is Seven Nation Army. It’s the most iconic non-hip hop, non-pop song of the century, if only because every soccer team in the world uses it.

Obviously mr bright side.