I thank @Rudie for introducing me to this album I’ve listened to front to back twenty times because it’s one of the best trans vibes things I’ve every encountered
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think this is basically divinely inspired
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my favorite full album, I have this burned onto a disc and play this while driving my MR2, Outrun IRL
if you listen closely you’ll hear a bit of Magical Sound Shower in there at around 18:30
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kinda forgot all ab this guy but found him again when TIDAL put him on after i’d been listening to some teebs. used to listen to this a lot for comfort. it’s still nice now. it nice track names that i can related to ( first saturn return ) and honestly kept me from the brink earlier in the morning yesterday ( silver lining ). glitch hop kinda boomed i guess between 2013-15 and this was always one of the standouts for me at least.
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this reminds me a bit of this artist/album that i like that also mixes electronic textures/beats with jazz stuff:
i guess it’s kind of a whole subgenre but i’m not super knowledgeable about the stuff
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I’ve been listening to Drexciya a lot. Holy cow. I kept thinking “I should post this in Song of the Moment. Wait, I should post this in Song of the Moment.” I think it’s best to just put the whole album up instead.
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Feel like someone here will like this:
Something something Akira Soundtrack
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Something something same band
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One of the comments implies this was an alternative soundtrack to the movie but I’m not clear on how true that is
all their stuff is really great
the comment you read is misleading, I think. you posted the first album in a trilogy, the second album is the actual Akira soundtrack and the third is
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Spiderman Of The Rings by Dan Deacon
Had to make this playlist myself. I recently relistened to this album a couple of times and holy shit I love this album. I don’t think anything I’ve heard Dan Deacon do after this quite reaches the heights of this.
I was trying to decide why I like this and I think it’s because it’s hugely childish in a way that’s hard to vocalize. There’s the obvious stuff with lyrics like
My dad is so cool
He is the coolest dad in dad school
He does not break any dad rules
He would pick you up if I asked him to
But I think that it’s a lot more deeply embedded into the fabric of the music. It seems like every song is a loud kid banging on pots and pans, but refined through the lens of an adult’s sensibilities and experience. Overwhelming, loud, always joyful, never easy to listen to, never cynical.
One of the phrases that sticks with me from the Frank Book is “Innocent but not noble,” which is used to describe Frank. And I think that works here too - I’m not sure there are noble intentions here but there’s an innocence to the sound. Music made for a party of likeminded idiots, with no regard for what it actually sounds like, only the feelings it evokes.
I think the last song (Jimmy Joe Roche) is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard, and it’s completely fucking unlistenable. It feels like it was made for me only.
His later stuff is a lot more listenable which is good and bad. This song always makes me cry:
And the earth looked at me and said “Wasn’t that fun?”
And I replied “I’m sorry if I hurt anyone”
And without even thinking cast me into space
But before she did that she wiped off my own face
She said better luck next time don’t worry so much
Without ears I couldn’t hear I could just feel the touch
As I feel asleep softly at the edge of a cave
But I should have gone deeper but I’m not so brave
But the rest of the album doesn’t really do anything for me. It doesn’t have that harsh, unlistenable, childish and overwhelming quality that I love so much.
Anyway this is me evangelizing an album that I assume everyone already knows about, but it’s in my top 10 of all time so I gotta do it. I can’t believe I forgot how good it is!!
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I think a lot about how whem Dan Deacon played MaxFunCon he apparently yelled “Dance like a grown up Bart Simpson.”
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you might like the album YOU WISH I WAS CHANNELING YOUR SPIRIT by treasure mammal
tried to link whole album playlist but youtube changed on my phone and I can’t figure out anything
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I will find it!!
hell yeah, dan deacon!
it’s been so long since i listened to him
thanks for bringing him up in the thread
something ab his music is so soothing and just like gives me hope ab being alive
sorry for being corny i will leave now lol
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i 100% agree, i think it’s extremely hopeful music filled with, like, the joy of having sensory input? like, i dunno how to describe it better than “it makes me happy to be able to experience things”. it’s good stuff
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This is what living in Baltimore can do to you.
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I remember listening to Wham City a bunch in my early 20s- me and my friend pressing the rewind button on my car’s cd player feverishly as we tried to learn the lyrics.
I think I anecdotally heard that he passed out the lyrics at some show and had everyone sing it all together. I’m at a pretty cynical/low point in my life rn so it seems a little silly or naive in it’s prettiness. But I think that falls more on me than Deacon.
Just listened to it again and I stumble over the words more than I used to, but my head still remembers how to bob to the “ma ma ma ma ma” part. Gosh, what nice sentiments tho
Our buildings burned and highways gone
I love my friends and everyone
but we’ve had our chance let’s move aside
let time wash us out with the tide
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