rvi

6y

crying at a day in the life of a tree

so beautiful and the music perfectly fits the lyric

pro environment lyrics >>>>

ithaka

6y

this is probably the best beach boys song from the 90s you’ll ever hear that is actually not a beach boys song! elvis said this song is a tip of the cap to the beach boys and that he was listening a lot of holland and surf’s up while recording it

he even puts so tough and holland in his top 500 albums to hear (with of course pet sounds)

pretty sure he did the liner notes for the cd of holland and goes in full depth about his love for it too

i reckon you can hear their influence on him way back on the first track of his first (still best?) album:

@Elric @Noir

Elric

6y

First off all This Years Model s***s all over My Aim Is True

Elric

6y

Truly one of the goat albums

Too busy to check that song rn

ithaka

6y

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i love it but i think the first one is his blue album which reminds me i should collect all the weezer references for a post itt

Elric

6y

Rank your favourite top 10 dusty bands and artists please

ithaka

6y

oh man this is hard uhh so how dust we talking? like some dust on top of the furniture u can brush of like the 90s or moist decomposing dust where s*** is all cracked and falling apart from the 60s onto the 70s?

Elric

6y

70s and older

ithaka

6y

here’s two recommendation you might have never heard of because they are extremely obscure - way beyond the smoke

first is the toms: a diy one man by a guy named u guesssed it tommy marolda whos first project came out in 1979, flawless run of beatles turned up power pop:

the other one is rodney allen: in the 80s some manager of a local label goes to a pub and hears a kid do a set, he signs him right away, that is rodney allen, he records his album in about one or two session, just him and his guitar and sometimes some saxophone notes but that’s it, he is only 16 when he writes and records and releases this album, it didn’t take off, he did however do decent as a guitarist for the blue areoplanes (which as a uk im sure you’ve heard of) but was never used for his songwriting skills or beautiful voice again and that’s a crime because his only solo album is my little treasure, one of my all time fav, there was only one vinyl pressing it hasn’t been reissued so the only recordings you can find arent hq rips but it brings a charm to those songs, all of the record is amazing

there is very little to nothing to be find about rodney, no “rodriguez” resurfacing it documentary happy ending none, after his short run with the blue areoplanes rodney went to drive trucks and stick to that, the only reasons there is more google searches results poppin up these days is because he finally got back on stage last year for some show to what looks to be around a max of 30 people, the rest of infos you can find are as good as what im writing, hell probably less since i had to do extra digging over the years (the video above is a 5yo upload and only had 100 views)

@RVI @Noir

rvi

6y

these look promising, especially the Toms album gonna peep

ithaka

6y

ok so like dust where the house is about to crash down

mmm

beach boys
black sabbath
tom waits
bob marley
neil young
kiss
christophe
françoise hardy
ramones

and last, idk tbh

impossible to keep it to ten lol
otis redding, james brown, temptations, supremes, ronettes, donny hathaway, delfonics, the jam..

cheat code: metallica (since it’s pass 70s)

and you?

ithaka

6y

the toms has had resurgence over the years and picked decent views on yt bc of blogs about power pop, but it’s still a gem that you won’t really find on rym lists etc

the rodney still remains a great diamond that no one talks about

Elric

6y

Ah right you're French. I listened to lots of Francoise when I was travelling over there method tourism

Bob Dylan
Neil Young
Kinks
Bowie
Stooges
Beatles
Stones
Byrds/Gene
Beach Boys
Lee Scratch Perry
P-Funk
Roxy Music/Eno

Egyptian sarcophagus tier dust:

Elvis
Buddy Holly
Bo Diddley
Chuck Berry
Everly Brothers
Little Richard
Ricky Nelson

rvi

6y

its on 65 lists on rym

ive always been meaning to get more into power pop

ithaka

6y

is that a lot? i actually don’t use rym, i was just making a point lol

rvi

6y

nah but more than i was expecting , like its obscure but the real ones/genre enthusiasts know about it. if i was crawling through RYM lists about power pop id probablu run into it eventually buried in someone's list. people giving it really high praise on there and someone even said he sounds like Rivers Cuomo

for comparison weezer blue album is on 2157 lists. and the rodney allen album is on just 2.

ithaka

6y

ah bowie that goes without saying, kinda like the beach boys, was silly of me to include the later (in a thread like this) but not the first, ive wrote ridiculous lenghty posts about bowies trivias over the bowie thread here, bigger than stuff ive shared itt about the bbs

dead at “sarcophagus” you beat me

ithaka

6y

ah bowie that goes without saying, kinda like the beach boys, was silly of me to include the later (in a thread like this) but not the first, ive wrote ridiculous lenghty posts about bowies trivias over the bowie thread here, bigger than stuff ive shared itt about the bbs

dead at “sarcophagus” you beat me

Elric

6y

Ah nice was wondering who else you stanned on that level

Top 5 Bowie deep cuts ?