New Wave / Punk forebears...

[ticol07]

Ha ha so many songs I didn't know !! Great !

Yes, but music helps keep you young. I listen to a lot of current music also (mostly VERY heavy stuff, and a lot of instrumental things) but there is something about hearing something from the past. Hear a snippet of a song and it takes you back to being 16 and learning to skateboard while smoking headache-inducing dirtweed or whatever the memory may be.

Except I was snowboarding instead of skateboarding
It was the time I decided to play bass. And my main concern was to find straps long enough to hang my bass in front of my knees as my heroes. Except I didn't know how to play ...
I also listen to a lot of current music : heavy and not so heavy, but surely not mainstream
This one was a recent discovery for example :

Wow! I just remembered.. how could any of us forget ESG? These sisters were amazing.

Nice tune !

And nobody talked about the great Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds. Not so much hugely complicated basslines but the ones that make the songs be so great. What a great post punk band, no ?

 

[ticol07]

Did someone mention the gorgeously dissonant Sonic Youth ?
Just to be sure :

 

[Halabja]

Nick Cave! One of the greatest lyricists ever imo, and is still making great music today.

I absolutely adore his work in Grinderman, and this is one of the greatest performances I've ever seen on youtube. *some lyrics nsfw*

 

[ticol07]

Nick Cave! One of the greatest lyricists ever imo, and is still making great music today.

I absolutely adore his work in Grinderman, and this is one of the greatest performances I've ever seen on youtube. *some lyrics nsfw*

Warren Ellis and his electric mandoline !!! Great !!!!

I saw Nick Cave live twice, and there were ones the best shows I saw. All this guys with old fashionned suits alternating between sweet music and enormous noise.
I was at this one. Very happy when I saw they made a DVD of it after :

 

[Halabja]

Oh man! Immense!

Nick Cave in any form is definitely on my list of artists to see in my lifetime. I'm gonna watch that full concert tonight! Thanks for the link!

 

[Tom Bomb]

Oh man! Immense!

Nick Cave in any form is definitely on my list of artists to see in my lifetime. I'm gonna watch that full concert tonight! Thanks for the link!

Get ready!

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[ticol07]

Oh man! Immense!

Nick Cave in any form is definitely on my list of artists to see in my lifetime. I'm gonna watch that full concert tonight! Thanks for the link!

Hope you'll have the opportunity to see him for real. I never saw a singer who was so possessed by his songs. He's really fully involved as if every concert was the most important of his life.

 

[ticol07]

And as we talk about Nick Cave, what the apocalyptic band of his guitarist Blixa Bargeld (who left Nick Cave just a few years ago), Einstuerzende Neubauten :

Industrial post punk, I would say

 

[Halabja]

I see your Einsturzende Neubauten, and present to you This Heat!



I actually discovered post-punk in a backwards fashion. It was through industrial music that I had listened to in my teen years that I finally in my adult years discovered where everything I was listening to came from. So I took the journey backwards Industrial --> Post-Punk --> Krautrock. *don't listen to much Industrial these days however*

I've also read many books on both Krautrock and Post-Punk.

 

[Gluvhand]

Ultravox. I prefer them with Midge Ure.

 

[northbynorth]

Some older hometown heroes:

Forgot about this one. Impressed!

 

[northbynorth]

I see your Einsturzende Neubauten, and present to you This Heat!



I actually discovered post-punk in a backwards fashion. It was through industrial music that I had listened to in my teen years that I finally in my adult years discovered where everything I was listening to came from. So I took the journey backwards Industrial --> Post-Punk --> Krautrock. *don't listen to much Industrial these days however*

I've also read many books on both Krautrock and Post-Punk.

For sure, Can was mentioned why not This Heat.

 

[10cc]

Something new as in 2014 that fits the theme

 

[Halabja]

Viet Cong are great! Another modern day throwback I got is Protomartyr.



and Parquet Courts! *I strongly recommend all three of their LP's*



I also mentioned the band Ought back on Page.2 .. I can't stress enough how great their debut album is. I've listened to it multiple times a day for the past couple weeks.

 

[10cc]

Forgot about this one. Impressed!

Occasionally David Barbe would fill in on guitar. He also went on as the bassist for "Mercyland" and "Sugar" with Bob Mould. At the same time he also co owns Chase Park Transduction Studios in Athens Ga. We're he has produced the likes of REM, Son Volt, Cracker, just about everything by The Drive By Truckers and is also the director of the University of Georgia's music dept. really good guy and great to work with and kind of an unspoken hero here in Athens.

 

[10cc]

Viet Cong are great! Another modern day throwback I got is Protomartyr.



and Parquet Courts! *I strongly recommend all three of their LP's*

Don't even get me started on Parquet Courts. Big fan here. Found out about them two years ago in Thrasher magazine and they just came to town for the first time back in Nov.

Parquet Courts | TalkBass.com

 

[Halabja]

Don't even get me started on Parquet Courts. Big fan here. Found out about them two years ago in Thrasher magazine and they just came to town for the first time back in Nov.

Parquet Courts | TalkBass.com

haha nice! I seriously have had them in constant rotation (Light Up Gold, Sunbathing Animal, and Content Nausea) for months now, and still I am not even remotely tiring of them. Great modern band!

+1 to Thrasher. They and Slap were great sources of musical discovery for me personally.

 

[10cc]

The Homosexuals | TalkBass.com

 

[10cc]

Matt Osman - Suede


We should eventually graduate this thread into the nineties!

 

[10cc]

Dead Moon - Portland