Guitarry shit please

grizzleb

grizzleb

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I don't have a clue about geetar music as I spent my adolescence avoiding it pretty much. Realised that there's probably loads of good shit I'm missing out on. Anyone got any good ideas? Lo-fi sort of stuff would be good.

I like this:

 
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jimitheexploder

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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
hmmmmmmm... taking the stuff that's more indie and less about processed guitars (which I'm figuring you may well know more of), I guess start with stuff like Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, Husker Du, Royal Trux, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, etc. Loads of post-punk actually. And Krautrock.

The Hype Williams sounds like a combination between 80s Sonic Youth and 60s garage rock to me. It's good.
 
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Gombreak

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Also, hype williams have got a bootload of those kind of things stored for free online which you may or may not be aware of


a lot of it is p. terrible but i think MyOhMyILetYouDownUponTheGroundEp is ok?
 
Leo

Leo

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speaking of sonic youth, lee renaldo has a new solo album coming out soon on matador. i always loved the one track he had on each SY album, and his new band (w/ alan licht and steve shelley, among others) is pretty hot. not experimental like lee's other solo stuff, this is a rock band a la SY. saw them last month, the album could be really strong. pitchfork is streaming a track from it.
 
nomos

nomos

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NOTE: fucking vbulletin fucking logged me out so i have to start all over again :mad:

some mainstays for me were fugazi, husker du, drive like jehu, and rocket from the crypt. jehu shared some people with rocket but were more unhinged with occasional lovely melodies. rocket started out well but got more kitschy-rockabilly when they got picked up by mtv

jehu

all systems go is a good place to start with rocket

you can't really go wrong with fugazi. from the first EPs to 'red medicine' is some of my favourite music... http://www.dischord.com/band/fugazi

husker du - started out doing mental hardcore and eventually helped invent emo and american indie. i like the early-to-middle stuff like metal circus, zen arcade and new day rising. everything falls apart and more has great parts too. they were hugely prolific...
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i liked the swirlies a lot. they were a blatant my bloody valentine rip off at first but they went more lo-fi and synthy after a while.
tall ships pancake
first swerverdriver record. this was in the first batch of 'guitar music' that a friend lent me when i started getting annoyed with hip hop. i liked it because some of the guitars sounded like synths. the later albums are increasingly tedious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD6ZGsdYSkw

(alt-)country wise, this is amazing. it's the guy from uncle tupelo who didn't start wilco.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNTQ2DuJKtU
 
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alec.tron

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I'm not very literate when it comes to indie/guitary stuff for a few reasons... but I just thought of these while listening to your example.
Somewhat similar in some areas, but generally quite different, from the one you posted... might or might not be something.

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (from the 60s...at times amazingly good, other times, cringe-worthily hippiesque...)
Suppose They Give A War (And No One Comes)

Sun City Girls (a wide field... just one example of their recent album...)
Blue West

Wooden Shjips - Lazy Bones

AU - Solid Gold

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Edith. Also, since there already is no coherent line in the above I posted, and you didn't specify guitar in what sense... these 2 need to be mentioned when it's about guitars...:
Leo Kottke - Last Steam Engine Train

Black Sabbath - Iron Man
 
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connect_icut

connect_icut

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MY. BLOODY. VALENTINE.

Nothing comes close. Everything else is a joke by comparison.

http://bubblegumcage3.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/09-loomer.mp3

http://bubblegumcage3.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/03-slow.mp3

http://bubblegumcage3.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/13-dont-ask-why-1.mp3

http://bubblegumcage3.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/03-emptiness-inside-1.mp3

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(But it's nice that so many people have mentioned Husker Du, a band who were a huge deal at the time but seem tragically under-appreciated these days. I've really been feeling Flip Your Wig recently.)
 
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simon silverdollar

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when i was a teenager there were a few really excellent, big(ish) indies that put out 'buy on sight' guitar music - dischord, touch and go, may be Chemikal Underground.

I guess some of those are still going. But are there equivalent new labels? i don't mean people putting out noise stuff - but rather, truly 'alternative' rock music.
 
luka

luka

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im still avoiding it and im 32. oasis had some good singles. have you heard wonderwall? thats a good song. drunken singalong.
 
connect_icut

connect_icut

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trilliam said:
husker du gets a mention but no love for the replacements?
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I think Husker Du's stuff is more appealing to people who like electronic music because they had more of a noise/psychedelic edge, whereas The Replacements were basically a really good barroom rock band.

Surprised that Hype Williams feature so prominently here. I don't recall ever hearing a single guitar on any of their records. It's all toy keyboards and low-res samplers, isn't it?

And finally:

MY. BLOODY. VALENTINE

All you need.
 
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alec.tron

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connect_icut said:
MY. BLOODY. VALENTINE

All you need.
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What if I just want to punch each of them when they open their mouths & "sing" ?
Then I don't need anything ever ?
Awesome.

No offense, it's just a subjective opinion & lots of friends are...ehm... frantic... about them & since you mentioned them once on each page. But they never really worked for me... at least when they sing...
0.02 cents in music-opinion currency.
c.
 
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