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Ok boomer.

I've just gotten way into the Talking Heads all of a sudden. When I was fourteen or so and first started posting on SOMB, I think Paves turned me onto Fear Of Music. There are some funny pictures of me as a pimply teenager listening listening to that album on like the first ever iPod classic while in Naples with my extended family. Even though I ended up diving head first in Eno's catalog and always loved that one Talking Heads album, I never listened to them much beyond the obvious singles.

They are a really fascinating band. The earlier stuff sounds a lot like Television. I didn't even realize they used to play at CBGBs. Just a really great band. They somehow have both a distinct sound while also being incredibly eclectic and diverse in just a decade of making music together. Can anyone suggest some David Bynre solo material as well, at least while I am still in this groove?

My life in the bush of ghosts.

It’s byrne and eno together. Deeply funky.

how have I just ignored this band my whole life

I've been digging this old Signaldrift track a lot this year, just listening to it like every other day. Had no idea where the voices were sampled from until now!

There's a Bark Psychosis feeling to this but this was 10 years before Hex.

This might be the first time I've knowingly heard "Party in the USA."

Not quite what I was expecting.

Still fucking hate that song and will never understand those who don't.

Was made to listen to a She & Him Christmas album and it confirmed all my feeling about She & Him and Christmas music.

it's been too long since I last heard this

I'm listening to The Byrds.

I swear yesterday I posted about listening to the new Vivian Girls album. Just popping in to re-post, because this is not unimportant.

That record has really grown on me. They're a buncha grown ass women now, 66.6% of them are mothers, so it wasn't gonna be the raucous bullshit from the aughts, but they really do bring it here.

Not exactly uncharacteristic of me to discover something like this three years after it happens but I'm enjoying this a lot and will probably listen to it when jogging in the future

I wanted to listen to something instrumental that I could zone out in the background while I do homework. I put on The Caretaker's An empty bliss beyond this world, which I hadn't listened to in forever, and I can't tune it out... it is distractingly good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P26C2VVb-4I&list=PL0OR3E7vP7kuB5dFwddAwoINysJplPGQP

I made this playlist a couple years ago for that exact occasion.  

It starts out with a BGwaves track that I uploaded to YouTube without his permission but that was the only way I could listen to it when I was in the library at school. (Will delete upon the artist's request!)

I am always honored whenever someone enjoys my music. I approve 100%

Been listening to a lot of Destroyer in the lead up to his new album. Dan Bejar is the poet laureate of our times. Fuck man, albums like Kaputt, Rubies and Poison Season are incredible with the layers of sound he wraps around his lyrics.

But even his older stuff like Streethawk, Your Blues and This Night are still fresh sounding to me and bring back memories of where I was when I first heard each. I was obsessed with Your Blues when it came out. Probably racked up 100 posts on SOMB for that alone!

I know this sounds like a weird statement and this is generally the opposite of how I operate but Kaputt is so perfect I never felt the need to seek out a second Destroyer album. The individual songs I did hear didn't have any of the saxophones or synth washes I love so much so I never felt super compelled. Are any of his subsequent albums more similar?

^I just made a thread about this exact sort of weird statement the other day. I don't think it's that weird. In fact, I think it's the sort of curio attaché that becomes almost requisite for an opinionated music lover without ALL the time on their hands.

I think Nick's way more familiar with the whole oeuvre - I've listened to This Night and Streethawk a bunch, but I always get them confused in my head; don't really know anything before Streethawk; have ignored Trouble in Dreams and Your Blues - but Ken has some echoes of Kaputt to it. So does Poison Season. The latter's more bombastic, the former with more a "Boys of Summer" vibe, but they're definitely informed by what Bejar did on Kaputt. But yeah, there's nothing *exactly* like Kaputt. It's perfect. Check out Ken though - it's short and has a sweet lounge-y vibe that feels, to me, like the seaside version of Kaputt's hazy cityscape.

Here's some more music I never got around to listening to... not even going into this with any idea of who they are or what their music might sound like and I think I thought they were American for some reason. Enjoying it a lot, should probably get around to I Want to See the Bright Lights asap (lol I originally typed Turn on the Bright Lights)

Saw him like a month ago. He plays guitar good.

These are two random albums that I had a wonderful time listening to today:


Superhumanoids - Exhibitionists. This stuff reminds me of like... cut copy or the junior boys or something.


Suga Free - Street Gospel. This album is an absolute all time motherfucking summer jamz classic.

Hell yeah, Suga Free.