here goes! sometimes when i hear certain songs they remind me of others. no big revelation, most people, i think, are reminded of songs when they hear other songs. i had this idea to post a few of the songs that i feel would make a great mash up to produce another song.
heres a link where you can listen to the whole album...feel like im talking to myself :)
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=122&title=the_antlers_burst_apart_full_album_strea&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
the first song i got is from The Antlers latelst album, Burst Apart. It came out in 2011 and after listening to the entire thing off of nprs radio website i couldnt get enough. Fleet Foxes had an album that was also coming out around the same time, and although i feel that their first album, titled Fleet Foxes, was possibly one of the best of the decade, i just couldnt get into their second, Helplessness Blues. It might have had something to do with the way i was so enamored with their first album. I might do a comparison with them another time infact.
In any case, Bust Apart was playing constantly from my computer. I didnt have the album yet so i kept the npr station open all of the time and made sure to keep it playing all the time. this may have helped in slowing my computer down a bit actually. yikes. So i eventually got the album and listened to it even more.
What i enjoyed about the album, which i think is true of most people who enjoy an entire album, is that a majority of the songs are good. I dont really like using that word too often, id rather elaborate, but its true. I dont feel that there are many songs on Burst Apart that feel as though they are filler songs placed in between the hits. And the songs that would be considered filler, well i just like em!
Another lure for me was the sound of the album, which to me seemed like it had strong influences in other music and genres. i immediately heard an early 80s new wave sound to it. Now i know this is basically what current hipster tunes are sorta going for. But its great! New wave has some awesome sounds, to me it seems like a period in music when artists were working more with sound rather than instruments, because the synth came into mainstream. There were experimental musicians before new wave of course, but to me it seems like sounds rather than instruments were making more of an impact on the music, helping to create an atmosphere that is ...mmmsomewhat spacey? a lil futuristic, but i think mostly as though its on the edge of a breakthrough. as though new wave was an explorer and we were seeing glimpses of the future or new places that looked radical and cool. this is probably why new wave is a hit now too. because people felt like they caught a glimpse of something that they didnt completely get to grasp. perhaps thats another tempting lure to the new wave sound, that a good new wave song always leaves you wanting more and wanting to figure it out...er something.
The album also had an 80s flick soundtrack feel to me. Basically, i heard Neverending Story mixed with Spirits in the Material World by The Police.
In particular, the first minute or so of this one, before it gets into that goofy guitar part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYPl44RdKI0&feature=related
Mixed with this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBvdHXChNqY
When i first heard No Widows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsFVH8vBH9A thats what i heard, a mix of the two. It just feels like a perfect mash up of the two to create this song that i love. the soft and dull percussion sounds are just like Neverending Story song and theres a couple sounds, maybe the organ in No Widows that reminds me of the strings in Spirits? not sure. just has the same kinda feeling? actually it doesnt. it doesnt really have the same feeling as the Nevereneding story tune or The Police, well maybe a little bit Neverending Story, but really just the two mixed together is whats the same to me. Also i think theres times when the vocals sound similar, maybe the way they say certain things.
Well there ya have it! my first mash up. theres another song that i wanted to do, but to tell the truth, i kinda forgot what song it was :P Thats, another post (reference to end of Neverending Story)
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