You know who's good? That Courtney Barnett who sings that "Avant Gardner" song. That's a good song.

EDIT: Also Congoes suck(s)

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Charismatic front man with shit songs.
If they were playing in a dive bar you could walk home from
after getting shitfaced on a hot August night, you might think
you just saw the greatest show of your life. That's the impression they give me.

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Courtney Barnett is awesome. Kongos are terrible. And if I hear that fucking Riptide song one more time, I'll set fire to a ukelele factory.

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I know Kongos is terrible, I don't know the other 2.

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Vance Joy or McCoy or whatever sucks.

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Oh god, I shouldn't have asked.
47 seconds of the video, I had to quit.

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Here's the Courtney Barnett song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnIhzaDTd0

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Courtney Barnett is probably a really really cool person.

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I concur.

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I like the comment on the YT video -
she's the female Australian Stephen Malkmus.
I'll have to give it a shot when I can turn it up, but I liked it.

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I love me some Courtney Barnett. Great songwriter. She has another album coming in 2015.
She should keep writing songs, because she's good at it.

Sam, you only know that one song by her or just using that as reference?

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Yup, just that one, but I am on board. I am woefully behind the times, spank.

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In that case, check this one out. It's (swoon) fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6_G5PlEXdk

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Pretty much everything on A Sea of Split Peas is good. "History Eraser" and "Out of the Woodwork" are right up there, too. Go get.

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Completely agree.

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That's the only song of hers I've heard too. That deadpan vocal style immediately reminded me of Lisa McGaughran, who played in a band with some women I used to know in Memphis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCrcu1PyGE

Lori sings this one. It's probably more up spanky's alley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-TjPoNOMpc

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Don't take it personally.

i find that i can't really get too excited about a lot of new music...the indie stuff either sounds like derivative of pete yorn, derivative of 80's new wave, or derivative of sonic youth.

and i'd rather listen to the originals of all three.

What I heard/liked from 2014. Still quite a bit I've yet to check out:

the war on drugs
sharon von etten
caribou
broken bells
ty segall
st. vincent
angel olsen
reigning sound
beck
the new pornographers
jack white
conor oberst
spoon
elbow
robyn hitchcock
real estate
ex hex
guided by voices - motivational jumpsuit
pixies
da'angelo & the vanguard
bryan ferry
alt-j
ryan adams
the rural alberta advantage
woods
the twilight sad
wild beasts
wussy
bishop allen
elliott brood
king khan & the gris gris
afghan whigs

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Furious, have you heard woods' debut cd, Songs of Shame? I think that record is a quiet little masterpiece.

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that is a good album, but i kinda checked out on them after that. not a whole lot there

GBV


also i can't understand how anyone could like Broken Bells, that is about the blandest, white bread shit anywhere

but solid list otherwise

Negative, TM. Never heard the band until about 3 weeks ago on KEXP. I will eventually be all over the back catalog, but I need to get on Tindersticks first so I can give my boy Curious Hair some feedback. What do you think of Sun & Shade? I was going to give that a listen first.


I figured you would appreciate the GBV inclusion. That's where I first heard about Ty Segall.

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Also, Broken Bells is just an enjoyable album throughout. The songs are strong.

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-Hank Kingsley

i like to call bands like them 'festival rock'
Foster the People fits in this category as well

just non-offensive songs with big, loud , catchy choruses that play perfectly in front of 35,000 people

I think there's more going on with BB than FtP. I like that "Coming of Age" song, but not really down with them otherwise. The disco/syth pop/lite rock aspects just appeal to me in the context of the songs.

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"No Matter What You're Told" has a good little synth riff. The rest of their album was a little boring.

Foster the People is completely boring.

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I think War on Drugs has scratched my itch enough to download.

"Pumped Up Kicks" is both one of the catchiest and one of the most insipid songs ever written.

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Tom Petty with a drum machine

Really?

I don't hear much Petty in a song like "Red Eyes."

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