Music Recommendations

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Playing through Vice City Stories on the PSP has just reminded me how great the series sound tracks have been....although GTA IV's didn't do it for me.

Is there a better game soundtrack than this one?

http://grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Grand+Theft+Auto+Vice+City/52168559

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I know any mention of Oasis tends to polarise opinion, but after Liam & Beady Eye's poor album I'm really looking forward to Noel's solo effort.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - The Death Of You And Me (LYRICS)	powered by Aeva

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This is amazingggggggggggg. 

Virtual Boy - Mass	powered by Aeva

It reminds me of a modern day version of the Parallax theme from the C64 days which is still my favourite game tune of all time.  It's stunning what they could get that SID chip to do in the C64 using whatever tiny piece of memory the coders had left them.

Parallax Commodore 64 Title Tune	powered by Aeva

[TheKhakinator]

That's really cool music.

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Yeah I've been listening to Virtual Boy none stop since finding that.  Love it.


Back to a bit more from Noel Gallaghers new album.  This is used on an advert over here which seems to be on TV every 5 minutes so I'll be sick of it before it even comes out.    Looking forward to the album though.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - AKA... What A Life!	powered by Aeva

[TheKhakinator]

Lately I've been listening to these two tracks rather heavily...
(get the feeling someone linked Silversun Pickups here ages back and I never paid attention)

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye	powered by Aeva

The Mystery Jets - Flash a Hungry Smile	powered by Aeva

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I like that Silversun Pickups track. 

Reminds me a hell of a lot of early 90's alt-rock indie bands.  Stuff you're probably too young to remember like the Pixies, Whale etc and most noticeably The Breeders...

The Breeders - CannonBall	powered by Aeva

[TheKhakinator]

I like that Silversun Pickups track. 

Reminds me a hell of a lot of early 90's alt-rock indie bands.  Stuff you're probably too young to remember like the Pixies, Whale etc and most noticeably The Breeders...

My band being a bit grungy, I'm familiar with the Pixie, having got into them after trying to grunge up the songs I was writing. Massive love for Where is my Mind and especially Alec Eiffel. In that track especially, do you notice a huge Smashing Pumpkins sound?

I've heard that Breeders song I reckon! Definitely see what you mean about the similarity there. This is definitely the kind of stuff I like.

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My band being a bit grungy, I'm familiar with the Pixie, having got into them after trying to grunge up the songs I was writing. Massive love for Where is my Mind and especially Alec Eiffel. In that track especially, do you notice a huge Smashing Pumpkins sound?

Top man.   I thought those bands might be a bit early for you, but you have great taste.  I love The Smashing Pumpkins especially their older stuff from Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream.

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And yes I'm still championing Puressence as the most criminally underrated band in the UK for the last 15 years. 

From their latest album...

Swathes of sea made stone puressence	powered by Aeva

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I'm liking the new Kasabian album.  A mix of classic Kasabian tracks and some stuff that's a little different for them and I think it works.

Kasabian - Days Are Forgotten	powered by Aeva

[TheKhakinator]

La Dispute - Such Small Hands	powered by Aeva

Loving this song by La Dispute - Such Small Hands

For me the meshing of guitar and vocals here is amazing. The lyrics, and the way they're delivered, is spine-tingling.

Only thing that bothers me is the ending; I'm a sucker for songs with dynamics (hence the love of grunge); this song builds and builds and then...! ends. Hunting through the rest of their album for more tantalising hits.

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Only thing that bothers me is the ending; I'm a sucker for songs with dynamics (hence the love of grunge); this song builds and builds and then...! ends. Hunting through the rest of their album for more tantalising hits.

I see what you mean. I was just getting into that and it ends.....search on Youtube for the "full" version and that is it.  Not sure about the vocals, but the instrumentation was great.

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Only thing that bothers me is the ending; I'm a sucker for songs with dynamics (hence the love of grunge); this song builds and builds and then...! ends. Hunting through the rest of their album for more tantalising hits.

Wait what... that was it? Well they've surely got the punk -style track lengths right.

The song sounded great, except that the lyrics were a bit ...funny. The vocals on the other hand were pretty good, given the style. Not perfect, but nice enough. Give them a couple years to master it and there should be a nice gem of an album.

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Only thing that bothers me is the ending; I'm a sucker for songs with dynamics (hence the love of grunge); this song builds and builds and then...! ends. Hunting through the rest of their album for more tantalising hits.

Wait what... that was it? Well they've surely got the punk -style track lengths right.

The song sounded great, except that the lyrics were a bit ...funny. The vocals on the other hand were pretty good, given the style. Not perfect, but nice enough. Give them a couple years to master it and there should be a nice gem of an album.

Only thing that bothers me is the ending; I'm a sucker for songs with dynamics (hence the love of grunge); this song builds and builds and then...! ends. Hunting through the rest of their album for more tantalising hits.

I see what you mean. I was just getting into that and it ends.....search on Youtube for the "full" version and that is it.  Not sure about the vocals, but the instrumentation was great.

Hahaha, yeah. Apparently it's the lead track off the album so I guess it's just supposed to be a lead in track. Will have to sit down with the CD I reckon.