Five Musical Genres You May Have Forgotten To Miss - Idolator Comments

Five Musical Genres You May Have Forgotten To Miss

Desidirius — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:36:14 EDT

@SuperUnison: Download NPR's podcast of Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew at DC's 930 Club. Not only do they cover Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. back-to-back, they even regularly buddy around with J. Mascis (sp?).

Desidirius

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Big Gray. — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:17:27 EDT

@DavidWatts: Yeah, it's cool to take advice from people who use the word "retarded."

Big Gray.

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brownham — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:05:45 EDT

wait isn't the hold steady shitty 80s bar rock? I thought it was alive and well thanks to those shlubs....

brownham

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txavier — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:28:59 EDT

I agree with the Taylor Hicks/Robert Palmer statement. I also think Michael Johns could tear up some Robert Palmer and step it up another notch.

txavier

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CarsmileSteve — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:28:00 EDT

MOAR GREBO! although viewers in the west midlands can still buy tickets to see Carter, EMF and half of PWEI playing the birmingham academy later in the year (not that carter were grebo, obv, but y'know shorts and hair and stuff).

also speed garage is totes back, have you lot not heard any bassline yet?

CarsmileSteve

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natepatrin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:16:24 EDT

Can't that song DIE, and leave a man in peace with his drink?

Maybe. Does the Maytals' version get an exemption?

natepatrin

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AcidReign — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:13:12 EDT

I'd welcome the return of 4 for 1, cheap Long Island Teas, the smoke machine, and space-rock like:

Note the young Rick Derringer playing guitar... Mopey drunken excess like:

And of course, with the smoke theme:

One of my main gripes about bars in the 1970s was walking in, and at least half would crank up "a-Louie-Louie! Oh, yeah. We gotta go now.." Indeed. And unfortunately, it is STILL happening in 2008. Can't that song DIE, and leave a man in peace with his drink?

AcidReign

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Reidicus — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:50:33 EDT

Bring back acid house. As soon as I scared up about $10,000 for a vintage 808 and TB-303, I could score some club hits. And my musical "skills," frankly, suck ass.

Reidicus

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Halfwit — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:07:40 EDT

@whoneedslight: Though even Huey Lewis has bastardized this. I heard a live track on Pandora, and now he sings "Too hip to be a square", which just friggin' KILLS me inside.

Halfwit

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SuperUnison — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:25:20 EDT

@whoneedslight: Their earlier work was a bit "new wave" for my taste...

@Dick Laurent is dead.: Please direct me. I need to hear bands that own Dinosaur Jr. records.

SuperUnison

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worldsfair — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:19:21 EDT

dude there is so much more to Cornershop than Brimful of Asha, and it was and still is on a whole other level than Animal Collective kin... that i quite frankly prefer:)

worldsfair

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dippinkind — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:59:26 EDT

OH, and i totally overlooked the #1 under-utilized genre: Dickie Goodman-style cut-in records (e.g., Mr. Jaws, Energy Crisis '74, etc.)

dippinkind

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Big Gray. — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:45:20 EDT

@Bob Loblaw: You beat me to this.

Big Gray.

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Handsome Pete — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:04:31 EDT

I'm ready to let Speed Garage and Happy Hardcore back in the clubs.

Handsome Pete

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iantenna — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:59:53 EDT

@Thierry: sounds like i need to add toronto to my ever growing list of places to travel to for record shopping.

iantenna

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sisymay — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:54:52 EDT

I really miss late 70's, early 80's pop.

BTW, I do like Taylor Hicks music, even though the music on his self titled CD released after he won Idol is for the most part NOT his type of music. He was told by the powers that be with AI what to record.

His own songs on 2 previously recorded CD's are more soul like, not 'pop' like his newest release.

I do wish some of the songs on his new CD would 'fit' into some type of genre on radio, some of the songs are really good like
1. The Runaround
2. Dream myself awake
3. Heaven Knows
4. Give me Tonight

sisymay

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DavidWatts — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:44:52 EDT

@jmb112485: that's like, totally what i was referencing, for realz.

DavidWatts

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natepatrin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:28:28 EDT

I know it's all been used before, that you'd be referencing earlier rap hits rather than actual funky drummers.

Unless you're Ghostface and you've got some fairly recent El Michels Affair records. (See also: Kanye looping Sharon Jones' "Pick It Up, Lay It in the Cut" for Rhymefest's "Brand New".)

I'd almost nominate Big Beat as a genre that needs a comeback, but I think Justice sort of halfway beat me to it.

natepatrin

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Captain Wrong — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:27:14 EDT

Oh and can I mention, I just downloaded The Definitive Newcleus and I completely forgot how much I LOVED electro-hip-hop back in the day. How about digging up Egyptian Lover for a record Kanye?

Captain Wrong

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Bob Loblaw — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:23:53 EDT

Horrorcore, pls?

Bob Loblaw

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jmb112485 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:13:40 EDT

@DavidWatts: Yeah it was, like, totally in the San Francisco Weekly or something. No Joke. "A Very Special Concert: The enduring bond between Huey Lewis and the developmentally disabled"

www.sfweekly.com/2005-08-03/news/a-very-special-concert/1

jmb112485

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nulldevice — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:09:14 EDT

I still dig out my old grebo discs from time to time. Ned's Atomic Dustbin, we miss you.

PWEI's "Can U Dig It?" is one of the nerdiest songs ever recorded. I love it.

I also miss the madchester sound. Perhaps I am hopelessly mired in the early 90's.

nulldevice

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Thierry — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:01:26 EDT

@iantenna: I'm with you on both counts, though here in Toronto people like Twilley, the Shoes, the Records or the Rubinoos are still a staple of the dollar bins I frequent (which makes me happy to have a turntable).

Thierry

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Thierry — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:58:05 EDT

Also, Miami bass. Time for a Quad City revival!

Thierry

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Thierry — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:56:52 EDT

@PopIsNotDead: FTW indeed.

Thierry

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dippinkind — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:56:33 EDT

@radio1: i always considered Rubber Rodeo more "New Cow Wave"... which would also be a fine thing to resurrect!

dippinkind

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whoneedslight — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:36:03 EDT

@DavidWatts:

Whatever, it's hip to be square.

whoneedslight

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radio1 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:32:08 EDT

@dippinkind: Cowpunk = Rubber Rodeo

and

@dippinkind: Bubblegum all the way!

radio1

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DavidWatts — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:21:05 EDT

@whoneedslight: If you like Huey Lewis, odds are you're retarded.

DavidWatts

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Captain Wrong — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:20:26 EDT

I miss ethereal pop like Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Pale Saints, etc. I know people still make it (I'm in a band like that myself) but seems like at least once it was closer to the mainstream.

Oh and I'll give you #2 and raise you Native Tongues hip hop, jazz samples and basically anything that isn't about drugs, shooting people or conspicuous consumption.

Captain Wrong

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dippinkind — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:19:30 EDT

1) bubblegum, honest-to-god bubblegum of the late 60's/early 70's Kasenetz-Katz variety.

2) Cowpunk, ala Flesh Easters, Tex & the Horseheads

3) whatever you'd call the 'genre' represented by two tracks on Sir Mix-A-Lot's Swass LP, "Buttermilk Biscuits" and "Square Dance Rap"

dippinkind

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PopIsNotDead — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:11:39 EDT

New Jack Swing FTW.

PopIsNotDead

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whoneedslight — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:59:19 EDT

I saw Huey Lewis play a corporate gig a few years back. It was actually pretty fun, all irony aside.

whoneedslight

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Sara Sherr — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:39:34 EDT

I would like to see a return of the kinds of bands who would call themselves Holly & The Italians, Martha & The Muffins, but I'm the only person who liked Morningwood.

Sara Sherr

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iantenna — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:36:18 EDT

1. pub-rock. sure brinsley schwartz were just on some grateful dead/the band tip but there was something distinctly british to their approach, same with duck's deluxe and their '50s rock'n'roll/r&b filtered through '70s glam. howlin' rain can't carry that torch alone.

2. limp power-pop. shoes, pezband, dwight twilley band, the quick, 20/20, bram tchaikovsky, they all seem to be working their way out of the dollar bin into the pricier racks above (though what vinyl isn't these days) but ain't nobody making shit like that anymore. i want shaggy hair and skinny ties and shamelessly cliche lyrics about girls.

iantenna

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Anthony Miccio — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:33:09 EDT

@Jack Fear. Eep! My apologies to Tjinder. And re: The Big Music, there is always the Arcade Fire.

Anthony Miccio

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raihala — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:31:55 EDT

Grebo? P-W-E-I! PWE - I! I loved that shit when I was in high school.

raihala

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Ned Raggett — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:25:24 EDT

@Jack Fear: Try the Helio Sequence.

Ned Raggett

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Jack Fear — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:20:30 EDT

Tjander? Tjinder, surely.

Anywez: Whatever happened to The Big Music? 'twas all the rage in '86-'87: then the Waterboys went all Oirish, U2 discovered irony, the Alarm turned into pub-rock, and suddenly starry-eyed soaring cathedrals of sound went out of fashion.

Jack Fear

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noamjamski — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:16:52 EDT

I miss trip hop and funk metal.

noamjamski

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Chris Molanphy — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:16:00 EDT

The problem on No. 5 is that 2002's Handcream for a Generation sold like ass, which basically destroyed Cornershop's coolness. Which is too bad, because that album's mad underrated. I still put it on, which is more than I can say for most of what I played in '02.

Chris Molanphy

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Dick Laurent is dead. — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:06:59 EDT

I really don't think number 4 went anywhere as it's still pretty status quo in the midwest, meanwhile whatever Morphine was doing, more of that please.

Dick Laurent is dead.