This thread is dumb. There is always good music. Ten years ago people were saying the same thing about the stuff that was out then, and they were saying the same thing ten years before that, and so on.
I hate this thread, but will now post. May God have mercy on my soul.
Always loved theSTART, it’s a shame they weren’t more popular, and also that they broke up a few years ago.
Couldn’t find the songs I wanted on YouTube, so you’ll have to settle for this live video- but you can totally see pokey nipples behind the lead singer’s dress, so I hope that makes up for it.
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Speaking of people who should be more famous, Brendan Benson is the guitar player/backup singler for The Raconteurs, and he’s been releasing stuff on his own for over 10 years. I heard Life in the D about 10 years ago at Launch.com (bought and gutted by Yahoo Music a few years later- but was an early and great internet radio site), and it made an impression.
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I remember going to some sort of big swap meet thing and buying some CDs on the cheap, not realizing that they were bootlegs. One of them was Power in Numbers by Jurassic 5, which was well worth the $3 or whatever I spent:
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This was the other. I’m not gonna pretend to be Mr. Cool like I wasn’t into Linkin Park, but I will go the extra mile and still vouch for the remix album (Reanimation) because it was sick as fuuuuccckkkk (and also holds up pretty well).
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I was also big on Vanessa Carlton at the time. She rubbed my angst, and she rubbed it good.
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Speaking of people who love pianos, the .hack//SIGN soundtracks are godly. There are so many different kinds of songs that fit different moods of different scenes perfectly- it took me a while to realize that a big part of the reason I liked the show so much was how the music was making me feel. It was also the first time I realized that some anime/shows had, like, real actual composers creating the soundtracks.
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THIS IS THE BEST BEAT EVER.
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(Injected (above, only one album!),New Found Glory, Hot Hot Heat, The Vines, etc etc)