My Music Roots...
My most recent concert was Vampire Weekend. It was excellent. I have been thoroughly enjoying their new self-titled full length CD. It is quite a masterpiece to round off their sound. My favorite has to be the song 'M79' from their CD. Their concert was full of energy and they were very tight in their sound too. I was impressed. Anyway, I have lately been inspired to explore more of the musical roots of alternative, indie, post-punk. Most of these bands can be traced back to punk and even before that the Velvet Underground. Specifically, I have been listening and buying a lot of music from the 70's where a lot of these bands developed. Here are some of the bands I have purchased recently:
T. Rex
The Buzzcocks
Television
Wire
The Jam
The Specials
Roxy Music
Bauhaus
Velvet Underground
I find myself fascinated how the different music styles started. For instance, imagine in the midst of the hippie movement of the late 60's some of the forerunners of the punk sound, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges breaking the "peace and love" with their crashing guitar... It was ushering in a music era of punk... And thus the forerunner of all indie/alternative music! Pretty exciting, huh?
posted by Kmo @ 11:30 PM
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Fascinating - I just got Velvet Underground Nico and T. Rex 72-77 in the mail within the past few weeks. Also, the Kinks are great too! I also started getting into The Replacements again. It takes a little bit of time to get into them but their material is great.
Oh, and on the Vampire Weekend tip, I love the CD but Kathleen is very against the "Punk" song because she says it reminds her of the ska stuff from years ago that she hated. It figures they made that their video even though I feel the lead track, "Mansford Roof" is just pure gold.
Another great compose soundtrack that turns 10 years old this year is the First Love, Last Rites Soundtrack. I rediscovered it and it's just very classic sounding even those the songs are composed by Shudder To Think who were simply influenced by the 60's stuff.
Eric
Funny coincidence there. I think after a time it is only natural to start looking at the roots of what you listen to. I have a few of the Kinks albums as well. They a very influential band especially in British music.
I don't know if I agree on "A-Punk" being too much ska sounding. They really don't even have horns in the song like other staple "ska" bands. I think that song has somewhat of a ska beat that is pretty catchy too.. Overall, I think it is completely different sound from the ska revival bands of the early 90's.
I'll have to check out that soundtrack. Sounds good..
I forgot to mention that the First Love, Last Rites soundtracks has tons of guest appearances on it (Jeff Buckley, Nina Pearson, John Doe, the couple from Low - can't remember their names right now, Billy Corgan and more). I that's why I bought it back then - for Jeff Buckley and Billy Corgan's contribution.
I agree "A-Punk" is a good song but you're right - it's not straight up ska like we heard in the 90's.
Another 70's band that I got into not long ago that influenced more punk and garage rock is Radio Birdman from Australia. "Burn My Eye '78" is great!
E.
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