Your song of the moment (Part 1)

spacetown · April 16, 2018, 8:49pm

been a minute since I had a song of the moment but:

also

meauxdal · April 17, 2018, 1:12pm

Bee · April 17, 2018, 2:11pm

I don’t know if I’ll ever fully understand the phenomena of people who listen to no metal except Amon Amarth. Or like, one Christan metal band and Amon Amarth.

They really are a step above any other melodeath band, tho

spacetown · April 18, 2018, 4:59pm

la_ciel · April 19, 2018, 1:29am

VastleCania · April 19, 2018, 4:23pm

this is very much my kinda thing

SONNICK · April 19, 2018, 5:40pm

OneSecondBefore · April 20, 2018, 4:36am

The 90’s trip-hop band Splashdown had wild potential, but they got screwed by their label EMI, who shelved their excellent 2nd album permanently. The band broke up over the stress of it, but they made the very cool move of putting their unreleased album up for free on Napster.

They’re a little cheesy, and they’re very of their time, but god… I love this band. Their songwriting is top notch and their vocal harmonies are beautiful.

I wish things hadn’t totally fallen apart for them. They had a song used in an episode of Charmed, and another song on the soundtrack of Titan AE. They coulda been a Portishead! Or at least a Morcheeba.

Also, I’m watching a video of them performing live back in 2000 and their singer had the best style:
splashdown splashdown2
Also, their Mondo 2000 ass keyboardist, lol: splashdown3
That dude’s doing a solo set in Boston soon that I’ll probably go to. I wonder if he still has that hairdo.

LWJoestar · April 20, 2018, 5:06am

I was in the chinese supermarket earlier and heard this really good jazzy, poppy girl-group-sounding number but my phone couldn’t hear it well enough to look it up, so I can’t find it. Have this instead, which is nothing like it.

american2004 · April 22, 2018, 6:01pm

u_u · April 22, 2018, 6:25pm

this is cool, it kinda reminds me of the coolest M83 songs

american2004 · April 23, 2018, 3:03am

oh big BIG mood

Mikey · April 23, 2018, 12:09pm

The youtube video I’d posted of this got spiked and it’s still my song of the moment so here it is again

sponkmonkey · April 23, 2018, 6:48pm

sleepysmiles · April 24, 2018, 10:23pm

Mothra · April 25, 2018, 3:40am

I’m getting pretty desperate for the new CRJ album to finally fucking come out.

Started checking out the b-sides for Emotion and boy howdy are they bangers:

eska · April 25, 2018, 5:15am

i can’t believe it took you this long to check out side B

but yeah i love how everything on that album is super depressing and forlorn EXCEPT then you get the hypest banger on either side:

(ok it probably doesn’t beat Run Away With Me but still)

Felix · April 26, 2018, 2:26am

OneSecondBefore · April 27, 2018, 2:49am

I have a serious soft spot for soft 80’s pop, I stop for sentimental synthpop.

Prefab Sprout is some of the best.

But wait… This album came out in 2013? There is absolutely no reason why a 2013 Prefab Sprout album would ever be worth listening to, except… it is. And this is the best song on it. Ignore the corny video though.

Brooks · April 27, 2018, 2:56pm

Prefab are a cut above

I don’t like any of their LPs entirely more than Swoon but there’s always a couple good numbers on the others and even not being a lyrics person I dig theirs in general