Music that some people know about

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Pouring one out for Tsubaki from the IRC channel, wherever you are. He introduced me to Psy・S, the band Masaya Matsuura was in before he was involved in video games. Pretty comfy stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SEoV48LvIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouJjSvp6n_M&t=0s

And now for something completely Canadian: Doug and the Slugs. A random Youtube discovery some years back. Apparently they did well in their homeland but never quite made it in the US. Every song can be entirely different from the next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT-QfCgaTfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCZhv41fmAI

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I found out about yoshimi iwasaki through one of those Twitter bots, and her vocal attack on this song is super cool, and she sort of looks like she might actually be having fun performing this!? One way or another I find it compelling. Plus, that brown outfit!! Wow

https://youtu.be/mfNYh5POEZ4

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@“treefroggy”#p68451 ccing @milo for this one

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@“exodus”#p68474 Nice vocals and that big band behind her makes it something else (fuck I miss real bands with diversity being common). Looked her up and apparently she ended up pursuing her masters in Business Administration at 60 due to anxiety from having her 40th anniversary shows cancelled due to the `rona.

You can see enjoy her brown outfit better in this clearer video. I would anticipate lots of berets in her wardrobe. She apparently adores France.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wVNBk716rg

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Thanks for making this thread.

When I first heard this song it was in a show that I dearly love, maybe one of my favorite show of all time, _**Lodge 49.**_ I can't possibly recommend it enough. It is about magic, loss, and connection.

The entire soundtrack is phenomenal and I vibe on it a lot, but this one really stands out the most:

https://youtu.be/sEY4UlTU4TU

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@“treefroggy”#p68451

@“exodus”#p68475

Hahaha this is brilliant!! They nailed it, and really captured their sound, especially from their new album.

And since we're on a psych kick now I'll throw out thia Japanese psych band called Kikagaku Moyo. They are on their final tour and are about to release what will be their final album. They've only been around a decade but they say they've done everything they want to do with their music and would like to go out on a high note. I can respect that but I am bummed because they make such interesting music and I was excited to see where they would keep going.

https://youtu.be/egmECvOCZ8Y

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@“milo”#p68743 Kikagaku Moyo.

Saw them live in 2019!
They are great!

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@“treefroggy”#p68451 I love this. Coincidentally, I'd been on a King Gizzard kick lately.

To keep the psych thing going:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw6enPsUD64

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@“Herb”#p68755

I am permanently on a king gizzard kick. 🐊

Seriously I love them and see them play every time they roll through my area.

@"穴"#p68746

Nice!! I would have loved to see them at some point. The final show in my area got sold out almost instantly.

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Whenever Selda Bağcan comes up on shuffle I have to carve out a chunk of my day to listen to her whole self-titled album. I hope you all enjoy a bit of Anatolian rock today!

https://turkofongmbh.bandcamp.com/album/selda-2

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i recently learned people cooler than me don't know about makeup and vanity set

i hadn't paid attention in a while, and damn if they haven't been making albums like the dickens. i'll have to catch up, but i can vouch for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhefRKYjhAM&list=OLAK5uy_kPiKfiCYdv-oJyW4XtXbVO9Oc6W9_IifY

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I found this band Giraffes? Giraffes! A couple years ago, fell in love, and have had some serious baader meinhoff effect with them since then.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ50UBCkwl0

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I keep trying to convince all of my friends to become massive fans of New Pants, and none of them listen to me. HOWEVER I just found an interview of them with English subtitles that summarizes the contents of their book, so I guess it’s time to once again make the rounds:

https://youtu.be/98eDUknwVyQ

To me, they are such an incredibly “Insert Credit” band. Perhaps that is arguable, since it’s not like they’re obscure — they are one of the biggest rock bands in China right now (though I feel like people just like their newish stuff, which is conventionally good, and therefore less exciting. (they’ve gone Nintendo!)) What I mean though is that they take things that seemingly no one could possibly care about, then pour an inordinate amount obsession into creating some massive edifice out of it that only sort of makes sense, but which sticks in the soul for a lifetime. I want to someday write some definitive (as in I’ll never have to write another) 20,000 word essay about them, because they are this quasi-bottomless well of ideas and concepts that are very difficult to put into words without talking about literally everything they’ve ever done. Just listening to any one of their songs (or even albums) totally misrepresents them.

That video makes them sound like an 80s revival band. Trust me! They’re not. Even if there are a bajillion references to everything they loved about the 80s (and 90s (and 70s)), the references are never the point.

Peng Lei, the singer/guitarist, is my idol. Other than music, he’s also a [director](https://youtu.be/n7_X5bUnwa4). He went to film school, and for awhile just directed music videos, until at some point he saw Jia Zhangke’s movie [Platform](https://youtu.be/9ejZiIL3rak), which he described as [me paraphrasing from memory] “An extremely long movie about the most boring stuff imaginable, made into something impossible to look away from,” so he thought he could make movies too. I don’t actually agree with that characterization of Platform! But I think it definitely applies to the two full Peng Lei movies I’ve seen, [Equal Love (野人也有爱) ](https://youtu.be/RcAEObBTmas) and [Follow Follow](https://youtu.be/j71fv5SwhNg) (this one has English subtitles). Maybe I’m just a weirdo, but Equal Love in particular is laser etched into my brain, and despite how dumb and goofy is, it has all these moments that I keep contemplating over and over, perhaps unable to fully comprehend them. It also features a bunch of Peng Lei’s paintings. Painting is the other one of his weird talents.

Please await the day when I’ve mustered the energy to actually say something meaningful about this band, instead of talking around them because I’m too baffled to think clearly.

[Some](https://youtu.be/e4dv1vupiN4) [music](https://youtu.be/6VIqAhrROlU) [videos](https://youtu.be/Be2irUqep8M) [for](https://youtu.be/80gbYcQxaDc) [your](https://youtu.be/wl0IHt4i6lw) [perusal](https://youtu.be/XAxKpqqsIXU).

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@"DenRaigo"#p68565 looove broadcast. Noise Made By People and Haha Sound are incredible albums. There aren't really many other bands that sound like them either!

I'm a bit too plugged into certain music subcultures, so I'll be honest I don't know what is and isn't "well known". Anyway, that said, here's my favourite song off my favourite album by the Parquet Courts - a band that is pretty established in the indie rock world, but idk I wouldn't judge you if you didn't know them either! I love how they've developed as a band, and have expanded their sound while retaining their post-punk roots. Love Adam Salvage's lyrics. They make me feel a certain way. I appreciate on this album that are willing to slow down and get into more of a groove, rather than be hyper high-strung _all_ the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D6-8eXlMV4

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@“milo”#p68743 i‘ve had the new kikagaku moyo album on repeat over here since it dropped yesterday, absolutely bummed that they’re done but what a note to go out on.

since that post is from before it's release here's a bandcamp link for the full record (out now!): https://kikagakumoyoggb.bandcamp.com/album/kumoyo-island
i think it's a great place to start for anyone unfamiliar w/ the band. excellent stuff

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@“golok”#p69119

Fantastic!! I keep forgetting this is out already. Gonna get it today so I can listen on the way to work tomorrow.

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@“saddleblasters”#p69079 you might not be able to convince your friends, but you convinced me. I‘m starting from the beginning and going through their discography now. I’m already loving 我们的时代. I‘m trying to learning mandarin and I’m constantly looking for Chinese rock/pop groups that I connect with to try to immerse myself more into the language, so if you've got more up your sleeve let me have them!

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@“kotojo”#p69182 A music discovery “hack” you could try is just listening to random bands on Modern Sky (which is also New Pants’ label). Most of that I’ve listened to have been at least interesting, ranging from poppy stuff like Hedgehog to “weirder” stuff like Second Hand Rose. They’ve made a lot of the music available on Western streaming services, which is very convenient, since the Chinese streaming services tend to not work outside of China unless you use a VPN.

I found out about New Pants in the most boring way possible: [They were featured on 乐队的夏天](https://youtu.be/lte0aFb3sdI)*. You could try watching that if you haven’t already! I only like around 10% of what plays on there, but it’s useful for understanding “what the kids like.” It’s on iqiyi, which now has a Western version that accepts paypal and non-Chinese credit cards, and works without VPN. There’s a lot of other TV shows on there you might enjoy/find useful too, e.g. 奇葩说, a goofy debate show I feel might as well have been systematically designed for helping intermediate-to-advanced Chinese learners.

*anecdote about 没有理想的人不伤心: Peng Lei said he noticed a lot of super popular Chinese songs on the radio these days were quiet and gentle during the verses, then get all loud and angry for the chorus, so he thought “maybe I should write one of those,” and of course it became a massive mainstream hit.

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@“chakan”#p68457 heck yeah Doug and the Slugs. Norm used it for his show

https://youtu.be/XOryOwQiM9Q

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If I get talking about Dean Blunt I‘ll never stop so I’ll just post a couple of tunes.

https://youtu.be/neWzHZ5j0Wg
https://youtu.be/cWRD7M6XGW0
https://youtu.be/P98mcy1Ii4I
https://youtu.be/TXoeFJZQIGc
https://youtu.be/ChWdnPGVjhM
https://youtu.be/6WwbgkRVQ_g
https://youtu.be/0Ej4j4IjYeg