<p>Earilmadith, I love Muse!</p>
<p>I tend to have only snippets of a band’s work, just a few songs, so it’s kind of hard to narrow it down. I really like a lot of music, pretty music, acoustic-y, singer-songwriter, indie pop or rock, just anything that sounds nice or has wonderful lyrics.</p>
<p>btw, we had a sub the day we discussed ghosts. our real teacher probably would’ve never allowed it. other random topics we discuss : browning 50 caliber balistics, making lightsabers, and intergalactic travel</p>
<p>off to work now, be back in 3 hours (this thread will probably break 90 pages by then!) lol</p>
<p>I have to sneak a copy of their new(er? I’m not sure when it’s from) album from the computer at school. I have and love Absolution and I love Starlight from the new one, and a few songs from their older work. It’s great when I’m just feeling a little angry or angsty and I need to get into the electric guitar… It’s got great emotion. I’ve been hooked since I heard Hysteria. It makes me want to wear grungy clothes and mosh, which is so not me at all. It’s fabulous.</p>
<p>it’ll be wonderful when and if we make it to tasp. there really wont be that weird getting aquainted period. it can just spark immedietly. </p>
<p>earilmadith: that’s mostly how i grade music but those are the ones i find i have the most music from. i dont really like country though. and what does
“earilmadith” mean?</p>
<p>I’m back, ate quickly! I guess I’ve got different tastes: Flaming Lips, Matt and Kim, Guster, vampire weekend, modest mouse(90’s mm, not now).</p>
<p>Anyone a fan of solo singers like iron and wine, st. vincent, or sufjan stevens?</p>
<p>My Spanish teacher tells us stories about how her boyfriend’s dorm was haunted in college…I love that class; we do absolutely nothing.</p>
<p>I love how we’ve added about 7 pages in one day so far.</p>
<p>but we are no where near the length of last year’s tasp thread. that ish was like 500 pages</p>
<p>Type faster!</p>
<p>then we’ve got some discussin’ to do!</p>
<p>and really i feel sooo mainstream. you all are prattling off bands and artists i have never even heard about (except modest mouse, that’s throwback though).</p>
<p>The Earilmadith Music Tirade:
First off, I’m just a little snobby about my music. It’s not like if a band I like has more than five listeners, I’d never listen to them again, but if any of my less musically selective friends started liking my bands, I’d say it might be time for some fresh stuff they’ll hate. I kind of love/hate myself for it. It’s foolish.</p>
<p>For heavier, rock types things, I love Muse (they do great high-energy and low-energy stuff, it makes you want to dance. They’re delicate when they need to be, but aren’t afraid to rock out when they need to. They have a tendency to be very catchy with their best songs.). Straylight Run is great rock-type pop (They think things through, have good lyrics, slightly chill-er than Muse. Super catchy at their best.) The best descriptor I have for The Postal Service is electro-indie pop. They’re electronica inspired, depressing pop. Great lyrics, and, you guessed it, catchy. All my favorite music gets caught in my head so bad. It’s wonderfully awful. Death Cab For Cutie: Gotta love their ballads. Passenger Seat, to me, is such a wonderful description of the comfort of real love, between friends or lovers or families, whatever. Feist is beautiful and wonderful and strange- Brandy Alexander has been on repreat on iTunes so many times for me. It’s wonderful.</p>
<p>I have few Sufjan Stevens songs. I love Man of Steel. It’s so great. My sister likes Guster, I think. I only have Careful, but it’s so wonderful to listen to. I also have a little Iron and Wine, but I have to say, I like The Postal Service’s Such Great Heights a lot better. Naked As We Came is great, though.</p>
<p>you love what others hate. isnt that a bit too purposeful? you should like what you like no matter what. and for me i always dance to panic! at the disco. catchy, upbeat but snide in a way. its wonderful.</p>
<p>It’s not that they hate it, though, it’s that they’ve never heard of it. It gives indie kids a thing to feel elite about.</p>
<p>haha nice.</p>
<p>That’s really it. It’s also a great thing to argue about, music.</p>
<p>It’s also funny, because the perfect indie band is the one that no one has ever heard of, so it can’t actually exist. I bet you could have a lot of fun making up bands in a super indie forum and make the other posters feel inferior because they haven’t heard it, or even better, having them lie and say that they liked their earlier work better or some rot.</p>
<p>Earilmadith, I agree about iron and wine. You can sniff out a real fan by seeing if they like I&W’s such great heights, which is one of his least original songs, it is a cover after all.
I’m totally like you too. I gauge whether a band has any originality left in it by how many people like it. If a band makes it big, more likely than not, they’re gonna start catering to the lowest common denominator by only playing stick- in-your-head pop songs.</p>
<p>supermassive black hole… :P</p>
<p>so political affiliations? rooting for anyone for prez?</p>