Thread where you just post yr all-time favorite shit

SuperEffective

The Wire

Fatty Tuna Sashimi (an extra special treat)

Philp K. Dick 🐐

Game Informer Magazine

Joanna Newsom, Milk Eyed Mender

Monster Rancher 2

thiccnick

I love Dinosaur Jr’s performances on Letterman. On this first video, please enjoy 3 guitarists, 2 drummers, keyboard, and bells. Also some great choreography at 2:07.

On this 2nd video I love that the studio guitarists does an ok solo at 1:35, and then at 1:59 J just absolutely rips, the way a solo should be played.

JoJoestar

treefroggy Tokimeki Memorial Hospital

rejj

Has anyone else here followed (or been involved in) the demo scene?
Two of my all-time favourite demos are from the same group, Future Crew. As I understand it, some of the members of FC went on to found (?) or work at (?) Remedy.

Panic:

Second Reality:

In ’92 and ’93, seeing these run in real time on a PC (many years before there was any form of hardware graphics acceleration) was genuinely staggering.

I still love watching (and listening to!) these.

well-adjusted-guy

GigaSlime I’m a big fan of Ted Leo. Cool to see The Both mentioned.

rejj I remember learning about demoscene around the time Metroid Prime 2 came out. I’ve always been interested to learn more but I never could really find where the center of the community is if that makes sense.

billy Ah but let’s not forget Bowie’s greatest achievement of the 90s. Of course I’m speaking of genius David Cage’s Omikron: The Nomad Soul.

seasons This song is def gonna be played in a lot of future coming-of-age movies about the 2010s.

bodydouble

rejj I wasn’t in the scene but I ran a BBS in the early 90s in Seattle and made tracker music. I still have hundreds of .MODs that I need to turn into digital audio files some day. I remember staying up late one night while someone slowly uploaded Second Reality to my BBS. Those demos were unbelievable back then, far ahead of any games at the time. Some of the effects are still impressive to my eyes. Good shit.

seasons

billy

Favourite band: POLYSICS

I just love ’em. They’re also the best live show I’ve ever been to - they played in a tiny club in London in 2013 at the end of a short european tour, and were visibly taken aback and genuinely thankful when they discovered that the venue was filled with a small but dedicated audience who actually knew their music.

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Favourite album: CLOUDS TASTE METALLIC (The Flaming Lips)

Best lineup, best songs and comes right at the end of the band’s ‘first era’, right before the point they disappeared up their own asses (for the first time). They’re not my favourite band overall (they’re maybe number 2-3), but this album is for me the finest hour of music produced by one band.

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Favourite Bowie: 90s BOWIE

Bowie was at his best when he was just doing whatever the fuck he wanted, which is exactly what he did for most of the 90s. Outside and Heathen are my two favourite Bowie albums, and his band around that time (Gabrels, Dorsey, Alford, Garson, sometimes Alomar) was the best one he ever had.

The 1996 festival set above is absolutely fantastic. Please watch the whole thing if you can. Modern (for its time, still partly so), loud and fun, with emphasis on recent material and his actual favourite songs. When he did ‘play the hits’, he played them with no reverence for the original versions and let his band interpret them as if they were new songs.

Also glam rock is for sex offenders.

saddleblasters

billy Polysics rule

i was going to post some other stuff on here, but now i just want to think about the various shades of japanese synth rock (which I suppose is my favorite “genre” of all time, even if i haven’t yet scratched the surface of all there is to it (billy and others, if you have any recommendations (especially for post 2000s bands (my knowledge is mostly confined to the 80s and 90s)), i’d love to hear them~~~)):

(i am a massive fan of any and all rock bands that don’t have guitarists)

(i’ve posted about this band on this forum before, but they absolutely rule, so gotta keep posting)

3SuspiciousTurtles

billy oh man, between POLYSICS and my all time favorite, The Flaming Lips, you have great taste my dude.

milo

billy

Oh man, Polysics AND the Flaming Lips?? My friend let me borrow a Polysics CD a loooong time ago and it just infected me. I never did return it and now I’m gonna go dig it out of my collection for some fresh listening. And Flaming Lips were my absolute favorite band like ten years ago. They kinda got a little too weird for me, but it was fun while it lasted.

Anyway, here’s a bunch of King Gizz.

And some other stuff.

xct

billy

Hmm these Polysics fellas seem pretty keen, wonder if any of their song titles would make for a snappy forum username.

Speaking of Polysics song titles, here’s my all-time favourite shit, Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads.

kory

billy I used to listen to Polysics all the time! I haven’t been keeping up with them in recent years, but my favorite song of theirs is definitely “Black Out Fall Out,” which also happens to be on my favorite of their albums

MichaelDMcGrath

GuyOnline

MichaelDMcGrath Dang. Extremely varied picks, all really sick!

compositehiggs

seasons

the way he gets into it hot damn!

rejj

well-adjusted-guy Back in the 90’s it was all BBS’s and then some IRC. The scene was always largely Euro-centric, but there were still notable groups and populated communities around the world. Here in Australia there was a tiny but cool scene I discovered through friends at school and some BBS dialling.
I briefly flirted with joining a democrew, we made some cool effects and had some extremely talented musicians - but never got around to releasing a prod.

These days, a good place to start is over at http://www.pouet.net

well-adjusted-guy

rejj Thanks for the link. There’s a lot going on on that home page. Definitely gonna pore over that later tonight.

3SuspiciousTurtles

milo I think King Gizzard are my favorite modern band. It’s either them or IDLES.

whatsarobot-a-miserable-pile maaaan, R.I.P. to my favorite Rapper, MF DOOM. Crazy how he put out 3 absolutely stunning albums in the same year, his influence is undeniable too. With two of my favorite current rappers being heavily influenced by him, Tyler, the Creator, and Earl Sweatshirt

billy

milo Yeah, I can’t defend the recent ‘ropey drug jams’ phase. They’ve mostly come out the other side of that now though. New album is good!

whatsarobot-a-miserable-pile

The album cut of this song is incredible, but this live performance is a revelation. A lot of rappers aren’t great live performers, but De La and DOOM are experts of vocal and breath control. Magnificent.

wickedcestus

I love this guy. Kenji Ozawa. He was part of a duo called Flipper’s Guitar with Cornelius, who I think is more famous now? By listening to their solo work you can really see that the two have pretty distinct musical styles that synergize in an interesting way across Flipper’s Guitar’s three albums, which is pretty neat!

This is Flipper’s Guitar’s weirdest album.

milo

3SuspiciousTurtles

Duuuude me too. I’ve seen them in concert every year since I discovered them… Except for last year. I bought tickets for their 3 hour marathon show in Berkeley but the world had other plans… Hoping that can happen this year.

p3ters

the Insert Credit podcast and forums are my all time favorite shit!!