Alternative Weekend: Unconvincing Artists
It’s Saturday, well almost… and that means weekend and that means Alternative Weekend again!
Yet another chance for me to post on my community of almost ONE, where few dare to look and fewer click the links.
Post an article that highlights THREE great songs that are progressive, punk, metal, goth or alternative, just NOT mainstream.
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Be creative, let us know what this or that song reminds you of, who the band is trying to plagiarise, why you think they should be more popular or why you want to shag the hot vocalist.
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This weekend I present you with THREE artists I'm unconvinced about, but the individual songs are decent. I like to explore a band or artists' back catalog, but that doesn't always work.
My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow (Loveless – 1991)
I missed My Bloody Valentine the first time around which would have been around 1991. Maybe they were too underground for me to notice, me being a more mainstream kind of guy then.
'Only Shallow' did attract some attention in the United States but failed to make an impact over here (the UK). The vocal holds my attention but the album it originates from failed to captivate me.
Call me strange but I have a thing for monotony combined with female vocalists who strum guitars pretending to be zombies.
The Strokes – Soma (This Is It – 2001)
Here’s another band that have yet to convince me of their great musical abilities.
‘This Is It’ is supposed to be their pinnacle of music creativeness but despite many listens, only Soma sticks out. Is it the melancholy undertone that does it? perhaps.
Their music comprises of quite short tracks, but not mainstream by my ears.
Why does he sound like the dude from the Buggles, Video Killed the Radio Star anyone, or is it just me?
Riverside – Second Life Syndrome (Second Life Syndrome – 2005)
After the first two rather lightweight songs, I thought I had better add something with a little more meat. Around 15 minutes is what I would call substance.
Riverside; everyone in the prog world seems to rave about them but again I’m not hearing most of it, just some of this track.
There’s some Pink Floyd in there but on the heavier side at times. Around 6 minutes in there’s a decent section but it doesn’t last.
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Parts of Second Life Syndrome (the album) are really good and yet other parts I find bland. This is proper prog and @steevc will likely have heard of this band and other songs from their library.
Maybe I will have to resort to the auto-play thing again and hope something settles into my brain.
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I can't say I've listened to much My Bloody Valentine although I was aware of them. It's the sort of thing John Peel would play, but I didn't listen to him that much. I was more into Annie Nightingale and Tommy Vance in my late teens, but this would have been a bit later. I think there are periods of music I skipped whilst listening to my Genesis and Pink Floyd albums.
The Strokes were okay, but I just heard the singles.
I've heard of Riverside, but not listened to any albums. I used to listen to some prog podcasts a few years back and they probably got played on those.
I'll have a hunt through my collection and see what I can come up with.
BTW Some of these would play direct from this page in Steempeak, but I looked them up on Youtube.
I should have listened to and watched more whistle test in those days. The last ten years have had me enter this weird phase and into strange bands.
The playback issues appear to be browser related. They all work using good old internet explorer and steemit. Not that anyone uses that combo anymore!
I don't listen to much radio these days, but there is some good stuff on 6 Music. Bugger all on TV apart from BBC4. The internet is my main source of new music now. I just don't find time to listen to much new stuff.
I'm using Brave which may block some stuff.
I do like those specials on BBC4 late at night. Occasionally I hear something new too, an added bonus!
There's one on Slipknot tonight. I may watch on catchup as I'm knackered tonight. Had a late night at a gig on Wednesday.
I saw the Strokes in concert when they were first getting popular. The opened for the White Stripes down in Detroit. It was a great show. Besides "Last Night" I can't really say as though I enjoy much of their songs.
I don't even know that track, though it may be on 'This Is It'.
Lol, me too!
There's not many around, we need more My Bloody Valentine's I say!
These days we certainly do!
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