Survivor PD
Confessionals of the Fallen => Lennie Briscoe => Topic started by: Lennie Briscoe on July 12, 2020, 02:05:01 am
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I thought it would be fun to include stuff I had recommended to people or happened to be listening to during the game. since I didn't think of this until now I'm doing catchup so this is just stuff I mentioned previously.
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Galactic Cowboys were so fucking good, I'm not a Christian but even their more-or-less-explicitly Christian stuff can be amazing. Why Can't You Believe In Me is pretty straightforward thematically but honestly it's wonderful. nobody else could really combine melodic harmonized vocals with serious riffs the way they could (except maybe King's X but they're super close and GC clearly listened to more Metallica)
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I feel like backpacker rap from the early 00s is viewed as like, headphone listening, like it doesn't go hard, it doesn't slap, or whatever fucking kids say today, but the beat on this Aesop Rock track is so good and honestly I always dug his flow even if it's sort of that cram-a-million-words-in-and-be-sure-to-use-a-thesaurus style
It's weird, this Pharcyde track about unrequited love is borderline corny but it's so earnest it always brings a smile to my face
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re: Galactic Cowboys maybe I'm just a fan of metal songs about Christ regardless of pro or con
also seriously Nocturnus wrote a song about going back in time to kill baby Jesus, that rules
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Judy actually liked Opeth and wanted more recommendations, and I kind of went overboard on something where the answer is "well nobody really sounds quite like them"
So Opeth occupies a kind of unique space with having the mix of melodic and harsh vocals but having a fairly "produced" sound, and sort of proggy song structure. They also grew and changed a lot, so Blackwater Park (the album Bleak is off of) was followed by a pair of albums, Deliverance and Damnation, where Damnation is all soft/acoustic and Deliverance is all harsh, but then after that they gradually sort of grew into more of a prog rock sound. I'm more of a fan of their earlier work, like Blackwater Park is probably my favorite, but Still Life; My Arms, Your Hearse; Orchid; and Morningrise are all great too (maybe Orchid and Morningrise are a little sloppier)
So that all said, for recommendations, the first one I think of would be Katatonia, who Mikael Åkerfeldt (lead singer for Opeth) was with briefly and worked on production for them. they started sort of as doom/death but trended away from that quickly I haven't listened to them a lot so I'm stabbing in the dark a little, here's a track with Åkerfeldt:
and one I've listened to a bit more from a few years laterr when they're more in a gothic metal/hard rock sound with just clean vocals:
Another recommendation I'd make which isn't necessarily super similar to Opeth but was similarly a gateway band for me would be In Flames, a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg. So the metal bands you pasted earlier are "metalcore" which owes a lot to the Gothenburg sound, the later In Flames albums start to converge a lot with the metalcore bands, with more clean vocals and the like. But for me the gateway was more the riffs in their earlier work, and the growls were kind of tepid/inoffensive.
And here's another of the Gothenburg bands, Soilwork, this is one of the earlier examples of harsh verse/soaring clean vocals on the chorus:
And last I should mention Porcupine Tree, which is a prog rock band led by Steven Wilson who produced and worked with Opeth a lot and was very much responsible for their sound and ultimate trend towards prog rock (also you heard him doing harmonized vocals on Bleak). Porcupine Tree - In Absentia and Fear of a Blank Planet are both great albums
Okay I realize that's a lot, no need to listen to it all to respond
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sent these to Lucifer. both Florrie and Little Boots don't really have the most compelling voices but I love their production and composition. Florrie was like the in-house drummer for Xenomania and I love how prominently that comes across in her music
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I've been trying and failing all day to find this Lumsk track that's running through my head but here's another one, they're folk metal w/ a female vocalist who has a very pretty voice
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Wobbler - Rites at Dawn is seriously one of my favorite albums. Prog rock very much in the vein of 70s prog rock (this is the sort of thing that some folks argue isn't "progressive" because it's copying a previous style but fuck those dumbasses). There are really very few albums that can bring me to tears but this one has just such an emotional response from me purely based on the music, not really related to the lyrics at all
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El-P's verse on this is so good but it's all good
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This song has been serving me well ever since 4th grade.
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This song has been serving me well ever since 4th grade.
if only I'd been more familiar with it I would have gotten that question about the two yemens right last season
BTW Rumskib's first album is an amazing shoegaze album, albeit with programmed drums
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this isn't relevant to the game at all but something elsewhere reminded me of it
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rip Malik B
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so this is not a great Rush album or song but for some reason it went through my head (and no this is not commentary on the game at all)
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God, Ceremony was so good and it's such a shame that a hardcore band with the same name is vastly better known, Disappear and Rocket Fire are classic albums
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like who gives a shit that it's a drum machine, this is so good, just let it wash over you
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this is less noisy but also very good
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much more electronic but in the same vein, reverb-drenched
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I invariably think of this song whenever I play this game even if it's not actually how I perceive the game (the bridge yes but the chorus/verses no)
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two great tastes that taste great together
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God Maserati is so good, post-rock can be so goddamn boring at times but their first album is decent and this one just knocked it out of the park, no Explosions in the Sky boring pretty crescendos, there's a sense of unease and urgency that just pervades this track/album
edit: RIP Jerry Fuchs
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god I totally forgot about this album but it was in the recommendations after Maserati, it's funny I listen to more krautrock-influenced stuff than I do actual krautrock
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speaking of which
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Death was so good, RIP Chuck Schuldiner
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Saw these guys at Maryland Deathfest years ago, they killed it
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Electronic/sort of maybe dream poppy but not poppy/reverby but not exactly shoegazey? If you like this check out Antarctica, a prior project that's similar
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God just bury those vocals so low in the mix I love it
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This is so very 80s pop (?) and so very serious and god the hair but I still love it
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This Morn' Omina could be so bad conceptually but they're so good in execution. "tribal" industrial/electronic/trance, they rule
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Juju & Jordash - Techno-Primitivism is an amazing album and just really straight up techno despite what you might think from the track I just posted above
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this is me and Poirot in the game
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Saw the title and was sad it wasn't this.