ITT: post a band you don't understand and other anons to

what's not to understand about QOTSA

it's roots rock, it's the Stooges, a bit of Roky Erikson...like what's not to get. it's not the velvet underground

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>>70478551
It's basically just mopey catchy alt rock

Now, pic related really stumps me. Who was meant to enjoy SYL? Anime-watching fedoralords in the early 2000s?

>>70478618
this. it's straightforward rock fun. you can't not understand it. either you like it or you dont.

>>70478551
They have really good melodies and do the 2000s hard rock thing way better than any of their contemporaries. Also check out their most recent album if you haven't, it's more accessible.

>>70478628
yes

>>70478650
This

Forgot to post one.

Spacemen 3
Galaxie 500
Spiritualized (kinda)

>>70478669
It's all basically sleepy, sad drug music. That's really it, there's no deeper meaning. Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized especially.

Sonic Youth
Built to Spill
Tool

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who the FUCK even listens to this kind of music. it's devoid of everything

>>70478628
still rustles me, how City is topping the Industrial Metal chart on RYM. over Godflesh. fucking pathetic.

Cannibal Corpse.

>Inb4 "They're raw and energetic"
Yeah they still sound like shit. Other reasons.

>>70478669
do non stimulant drugs or meditate and you'll get it

>>70478728
my ex-sponsor in AA loved "beach music" like Real Estate and Beach House. He was a pretty vapid, stupid person.

>>70478748
agreed. as somebody who's moderately into death metal, i've never felt any reason to listen to cannibal corpse.

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why is this praised ?
QUE ALGUIEN ME EXPLIQUE

>>70478696
>tool

the first two albums were minimalist rock with a King Crimson influence, kind've like Shellac with technical ability, and lyrics that are even more juvenile

>Built to Spill
cmon son, they're just great
>>70478748
edge, pure edge

>>70478763
Meditate while listening or post-meditation?

>>70478776
"muh feels"

it's generally agreed upon that the antlers are garbage hipster fodder

>>70478748
CC were many people's introduction to death metal. they're almost like the metallica of brutal DM

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I like metal a lot, and I don't get it.

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Type O Negative. Particularly the first two albums.

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I listened to Merriweather Post Pavilion and it was like listening to nothing. Like they just improvised the whole thing without any planning

>>70478696
Sonic Youth is my favorite band and I don't know how to explain why I love them so much.
I think it's because they are fun and have an incredible consistent discography. Their 80s albums are really interesting noise rock with a bit of post punk and art punk.

Have you tried their 90s albums?

>>70478883
look at them

look at their picture

a bunch of sweaty nu-males

that should explain it all

>>70478883
Some people find that feeling extremely appealing. Also catchiness and muh neat soundscapes
>>70478891
the only thing denser than those tracks is you bucko

>>70478883
Listen to it again, and pay attention. Alternatively, listen to Strawberry Jam.

>>70478883

yeah thats part of their thing is to get into these trancey and very textured/busy places so everything feels almost like it's naturally unfolding but everything is very planned out. try listening and thinking that these guys had a bunch of intention in making it and its very detailed thought out music. try picking apart individual layers if you can.

>>70478883
Merriweather is actually more structured than their older stuff. It's just so dense it's easy to get overwhelmed. You have to get immersed in it

>>70478787
meditate before or during listening to put yourself in the right mindset for it

>>70478551
Go on a long distance road trip, turn up the volume, and put on their discography.

>>70478851

Well for me it's just just crazy and chaotic

kind of like pure nihilism in music form

>>70478551
Fun, straightforward, and to the point. Takes the repetitive riffs and dry sound of stoner metal and adds it into alt rock.

Their newest album is perfect but I also am partial to Lullabies

>>70479029
those circumstances will make you accept almost anything

>>70478790
>CC were many people's introduction to death metal
...And??? That seems like a really bad way to introduce people into the genre? ANd it still sounds...terrible...

>>70479065
but noise/industrial music does that 10x better

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I wanna hear everything.

>>70478551
What makes QOTSA worth listening to is that they were the first ones who really took the stoner rock sound and then made it really mainstream by putting it together with the poppy hard rock sound of a band like Stooges or Guns N Roses. Their sound throughout their career has been basic stoner rock + hard rock with the percentage of each amount of genre per album being different. Era Vulgaris changes it up by also having this sorta synthpop influence in it.

>>70478628
SYL is for people who enjoyed the genrebending prog metal was doing around that time, but still wanted a more overall extreme metal sound. This one's for the fans of stuff like Opeth, Cynic, Dream Theater, Ne Obliviscaris, BTBAM, etc.

>>70478669
Have you ever felt so goddamn sad in your life that it just sucks all the energy out of you and you just don't feel like you can do anything at all? Those bands represent that in musical form.

>>70478696
>Sonic Youth
No Wave Sonic Youth is simple, but hard hitting visceral music. Not much else to it, turn up volume and go. Noise rock Sonic Youth is similar to the works of Glenn Branca with very subtle almost classical music inspired shit going on. Grunge era Sonic Youth is them sounding like a rawer Niravana honestly. Later stuff experiments around with various forms of these styles.

>>70478748
But they are raw and energetic, plus they write good riffs. Their earlier stuff has a lot of very interesting set of riffs that are nowhere near as straightforward as their later stuff nor as straightforward as rock music in general. Like pay really close attention to what's actually being played.

>>70478851
This band's closer to punk and noise rock than it is metal honestly. They are far more primitive than the band they used to (Conqueror) and thus have completely lost out on having any real sense of progression through riffs.

>>70478776
It's sad music delivered in a grand format. If you actually go through tough times and listen to this at that time, you'll get it.

>>70479078
>tfw the Vampyre of Time and Memory and I Sat by the Ocean

>>70479092
>but noise/industrial music does that 10x better

i like industrial and noise but the "better" part is subjective. I mean revenge aren't my favorite band but I do enjoy them quite a bit

>>70479109
>Their earlier stuff has a lot of very interesting set of riffs that are nowhere near as straightforward as their later stuff
Send me an example of this.

>>70479092
Nowhere near close close being as visceral as Revenge though.

>>70479109
>I wanna hear everything.

You listen to all 4 of the albums in your picture. How hard is that?

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>>70479159
>tfw I Appear Missing and Like Clockwork...

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>>70479226
>tfw Vampyre perfectly describes how you feel right now about your depression and the girl you love
>tfw "I survived, I speak, I breathe, I'm incomplete, I'm alive, hurray, you're wrong again cause I feel no love"

>>70478891
Just imagine the cover while you listen to it. Took me a few months. Other than that, go track by track starting with Only Shallow and When You Sleep.

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I've listened to the album start to finish 3 times now, and I still for the life of me don't understand why it's so highly regarded.

>>70479285
If you decide to try it again don't listen to it as a passive activity. Break out your best headphones and just get immersed in the textures

>>70478917
I didn't sense any catchiness at all (admittedly I never seem to notice catchiness until the third listen or so). More of a wall-of-sound feeling to be honest

>>70478945
I'm gonna try and just lie down on my bed and listen to it eyes closed.

It's not even that I think it's "boring" or anything like that. I'm a pretty big Sunn O))) fan, so things like soundscapes and subtle texture should be no problem. I try to pick apart and isolate the layers, but so far it has felt like I'm playing an old video game while two neighbours are testing their stereos at the same time.

>>70479177
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNhN6lT-y5U

Radiohead's Paranoid Android is composed of four main riffs (including a small bridge one) within six minutes, this track is composed of five main riffs with variations within four minutes. Isn't all straight up minor key stuff either like their later stuff. Still pretty tame in terms of death metal, thus pales in comparison to the genre's best, but still far from awful.

>>70479201
I meant that I wanna hear all your explanations for what makes them good.

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>>70479285
Yeah, can't seem to get into this at all. Doesn't sound terrible (and I quite like My Girls and Summertime Clothes) but I don't see the whole appeal of it. Last time I tried immersing myself in it I passed out.
Oh well, time to try giving it another listen.

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i like the stuff the did on and after children of god, but the first two records just sound like bland noise t b h

>>70479109
When I listen to Joy Division, I feel like I'm sitting in the back of a bus at night in a large city I'm unfamiliar with, thinking depressed thoughts while looking at people through the window. It gives me that exact feeling of urban solitude with a thin layer of melancholy on top.

Then I realize that all musicians are more popular than me and they have awesome lives and they will never truly relate to how I'm feeling and I turn it off.

>>70479575
Listen to Confusion Is Sex and Bad Moon Rising by Sonic Youth It helped me.

>>70479575
This is prime physical exertion music

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It just sounds kind of milquetoast on the surface to me. I'm sure there's some deeper complexity I haven't noticed yet but it's hard for me to find it interesting.

>>70478883
Fuck MPP, start at their first two albums STGSTV and Dansee Manatee and you'll get them and have fun exploring their interesting musical path and decline that starts in some places on Strawberry Jam.

Pink Guy

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wtf does "tago mago" mean anyway ..

>>70479637
fucking this
i first listened to it at the gym and i couldn't believe how perfect it was for those feelings

>>70478551
So I hated Qotsa for a long time. It sounded to me like popular rock, with a gimmick.
Then at work I started to burnout, but I still felt obliged to work. I put some Qotsa on and it was after that the soundtrack of my life. It is a perfect album for a struggle.
Struggle does come out in many aspects with this band. The juxtaposing of going forward and having too much to handle, thrills me when I struggle.
Going forward aspects for example:
>Sounds like a march
>Sounds like Josh Homme has balls
>Humoring themselves
Having too much to handle aspects for example:
>Whiny lyrics(Still has balls)
>Sounds deserty and sweaty.
>Disorientated
Had too much to handle aspects for example:
>Cold
>Reserved
>Sounds like in control now


I like the first three albums the most.

>>70479844
The moment that made this album into my top 5 was the moment, when I was studying math and I was like eh... this is kinda backgroundish music, let's try this one. Suddenly the album start to get my attention, because it was so hard to define. It seemed like water; the guy doesn't make sense, wtf does "tago mago" mean anyway; oh boy and the songs are broken or some shit going wacky and all. So disorienting, yet so fun. It was great to study math with it as it was so disorienting, so I would doubt myself all the time and get curious and was jamming all the time in my head.
I listen the album, when I notice I am overly categorizing everything. It starts from a point, then after disorienting me and surprising me it ends in different place. This album also show how one should repeat themselves as they basically makes it sound progressive.
This was actually second band that I felt had any other meaning than hedonism >>70479979 <-- this was first one.

>>70479844
>>70480396
Oh yeah, one should get familiar with a lot of music before this one as this one "breaks the music". I had a phase, when I was sick of catchy music, because I listened it so much.

>Warning: not for plebs

>>70479658
Try Summerteeth

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Someone explain this to me. I genuinely don't understand the praise

>>70478859
You have to have average or better testosterone levels to get it. Otherwise it'll fly right over your panties.

>>70479285
This was the album that really got me interested in exploring music deeper than before. The first time I took LSD I listened to this record. When this came out I'd never heard anything like this before. If you've listened to very much "experimental" music before listening to MPP I guess it might not have the same effect. Idk how to explain the appeal, My Girls rules.

>>70479575
I never enjoyed this album until I went through a really bad time. I was having some girls problems at the time, then the place I worked at went out of business, then my best friend moved all the way across the country. For a while I was feeling a strong mix of anger, depression, and nihilism and this album really fueled me. It was like wallowing in the music version of exactly how I felt at the time. FLEX YOUR MUSCLES.

Ironically, I don't understand/enjoy any Swans material after 1986.

>>70479844
Listening to Tago Mago is like regressing back to the dawn of civilization. The first half strips away 'intellectual' songwriting and reduces it to a strong groove that, for me at least, you can't help but bob your head to. Then you get all this negative space with Aumgn with ritualistic, primitive groaning and tribal drumming. Then you get the, quite frankly terrifying, Peking O with schizophrenic gibberish which completely destroys any semblance of intellectual pretension. Even the title is gibberish (well technically Tagomago is a random island off of Spain but it has like no bearing on the album itself). It's a solely visceral experience. It's like with a lot of modernist art, if you spend too much time trying to hang on to meaning then you're missing out on the swirl of emotions you feel from it. Don't fight confusion, embrace it.

Listen to Halleluwah again and if you don't like it, then listen to the Future Days album and come back to Tago Mago. And if you don't like that either, then move on.

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Please and thanks.

>>70483036
Gotta be chugging beers

>>70478551
It's Kyuss for teenagers and manchildren

>>70483074
To be fair, 3's & 7's is a really good song. Pretty much a one hit wonder from what other stuff of theirs I've listened to.

>>70483036
Gotta be chugging pepsi

>>70483209
Nice try, she wouldn't give it to me

>>70483053
Never tried listening to them drunk, guess I'll give it a go.

>>70483209
I may not like ST but I love this meme to death.

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>>70479266
>tfw "I never loved anything until I loved you"

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>>70479226
>not everything that goes around will come around you know

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I'm planning on listening to them in the near future. I would like to know what to expect, given that they get much praise here.

>>70478859
Steeles voice and sellf depreciating humor. That huge, thick bassd tone. The grandiose orchestration. The lengthy, atmospheric, huge sounding songs. The hooks. The fact that they were one of the most unique meetal bands ever.

>>70483163
Really? THAT'S the song you chose as a "hit"?

>>70479285
It's just a pop album done by hipsters.

>>70478891
Wait a few years and you'll see.

>>70482578
JEEEESUSSS CHRISTT I LOOOOVE YOUUU

>>70482578
here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Petbz3o14

>>70478551
Bob Dylan

>>70478728
It's simple, comfy and accessible and acceptable to nearly all groups of people as background noise.

>>70478789
t. 14 year old edgelord

>>70482578
>primitive but not unpleasant music
>batshit insane lyrics "with deep meaning"
>obscure cover art
>eccentric unpopular artist
It's literally the ultimate Pitchfork hipster album in every respect and appeals to teenagers desperately trying to stand out, which is about 146% of /mu/, which is why it's the one meme to rule them all. Altogether it's pretty catchy and fun, though.

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Kanye West

>>70489138
NOW IF I

>>70489173
FUCK

>>70489394
THESE

>>70484228
No one?

>>70490085
>le spooky skeleton hand

>>70490145
How surprising...

>>70489567
ASIAN PUSSIES

>>70478551
god i can't stand them

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I really want to understand the appeal of this shit,because it's labeled as math rock but it's noise rock so uninspired, also,if i want to listen repetitive stuff i would go with ambient records or even drone

>>70479266
dont worry, being 15 yo ends fast

>>70478728
It truly is completely devoid of personality