@TheBrandedSwordsman@Voltan I’m no Spoon expert, and every one of their albums really does do something a little different while still being great, but as a starting point, if your looking for something:
balanced - They Want My Soul
raw - Transference
pop/rocky - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
sonicly layered - Hot Thoughts
Any of those are pretty good jumping off points from the top of my head depending on mood. Also, nice post of Snarky Puppy!
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” C.S. Lewis
@Jimmer-jammer Listening to Transference now - I guess the main guy does a lot of acoustic guitar-related stuff? Kinda reminds me of Dwight Yoakam, completely different-sounding guy, but also similar in a sense, simply because they are both acoustic guitar singer-songwriters who play with a band on their albums, although all Dwight's albums are credited to Dwight rather than to a band. Saying all that, though ,I am only assuming that the Spoon singer is also the acoustic guitarist in the band? Just a wild guess, off the top of my head, but I am assuming that I am right, right?
"Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation." - Alasdair Gray
@TheBrandedSwordsman not only is he the guitarist, but I believe the main songwriter as well. Daniel and Eno (drums) have been the only two consistent members throughout the band’s lifetime. One of the things I appreciate is how, even when plugged in, Daniel never loses the percussive qualities of an acoustic guitar and is in fact a defining quality of their sound for me.
@nessisonett in as much as rappers are far more "regular people" than their celebrity sports star counterparts*, it's interesting (and saddening) to see what I theorize to be the result of what is known as "weathering" playing out behind these deaths. Which is to say these rappers are likely the most visible representations one will get of this phenomenon where being black is just downright harder on your health. I mean here you have pampered famous people dying before hitting retirement age. It kinda breaks my heart.
Anyway don't mean to start an argument or get too controversial; just seems like this must be at least partially a factor.
*Genetically speaking, which might explain why you don't see black athletes dying at similarly young ages... but come to think of it there's quite a lot of that too.
"One of the unloveliest and least enlightening aspects of contemporary discourse is the tendency to presume that whatever one disagrees with must be very simple—not only simple, but also simply wrong." - Elizabeth Bruenig
@zupertramp There’s probably a lot of truth in that to be honest, a lot of these guys are dying in their 50s from ‘natural causes’. It’s just plain sad to see.
@Jimmer-jammer I imagine you would already have heard of Teenage Fanclub due to their association with Kurt Cobain, but just in case you haven't here is one of their best albums, according to the internet, and I imagine you won't be looking back!
And here's Bon Iver, in case you're unfamiliar, as well.
@TheBrandedSwordsman@Jimmer-jammer Hahaha Teenage Fanclub are from about half an hour away from me! The Glasgow C86 scene was really great in the 80s though, a lot of good bands came out of that period.
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