Recommendation

Here in South America it can be pretty difficult to buy good alternative (you are all allowed to criticize the term, but still, make some recommendations) music. I need to download good music from soulseek. Any recommendations for someone who likes bands such as Pixies, Pavement, The Doors, Arcade Fire, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Talking Heads, Jonathan Richman, Kings of Convenience, Ballboy, Grandaddy, Fleetwood Mac and other similar bands (feel free to criticize my musical taste, but don't leave the thread without making suggestions).

Guided by Voices

:D

i'll think about it

the 5 bands i cant stop listening to this month:

Built Like Alaska
Mercury Rev
the Features
Arab Strap
Dead Meadow

Sonickteam2, thanks for the recommendations, will look into those.

Jadatree, I was thinking about Foo Fighters as well. Really, there was one song in the album "Do the collapse" that I liked, but still had to use that album as a gift.

do the collapse is the worst gbv album. try alien lanes or bee thousand or under the bushes under the stars

Originally posted by Barcelona:

Jadatree, I was thinking about Foo Fighters as well. Really, there was one song in the album "Do the collapse" that I liked, but still had to use that album as a gift.

DTC was one of the weaker efforts in the Pollard cannon IMHO mainly due to Ric Ocasek's overbearing presence in the studio. If you really want to give GBV a chance try Alien Lanes or Under the Bushes Under the Stars as a starting point. Edit:yeah,what GS said. I'm a slow typist

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
do the collapse is the worst gbv album. try alien lanes or bee thousand or under the bushes under the stars

it was a just a joke suggestion, he has a long dislike of GBV based on a concert experience

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
do the collapse is the worst gbv album. try alien lanes or bee thousand or under the bushes under the stars

Maybe that's why I don't like them, that's the only album I got from them.

Originally posted by ratioci nation:

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
do the collapse is the worst gbv album. try alien lanes or bee thousand or under the bushes under the stars

it was a just a joke suggestion, he has a long dislike of GBV based on a concert experience

Concert experience and that specific album, maybe it's the altitude in the Bolivian highlands, but I am willing to give them a second chance, best album?

Originally posted by Barcelona:

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
do the collapse is the worst gbv album. try alien lanes or bee thousand or under the bushes under the stars

Maybe that's why I don't like them, that's the only album I got from them.

- Doves
- the National
- Sea Ray

Originally posted by Barcelona:
Concert experience and that specific album, maybe it's the altitude in the Bolivian highlands, but I am willing to give them a second chance, best album?

asking a GBV fan to name a favorite album is asking for more opinions than you want, I will say Propellor though

non worshipers seem to like the greatest hits album released last year

The new Josh Rouse album is good…the only album I've purchased in the last month and a half. You can listen to three of his songs by going to his website.

Personally, I think if you don't enjoy Alien Lanes then they're just not your cup o' tea. As for best album, we could debate that one endlessly.

i was in santiago de chile last year and there were some pretty good record stores. i suppose in a huge city like that it's not too surprising, but they had lots of the "big indie" stuff from the states.

in any case:

the ponys
neutral milk hotel
spoon
jesus & mary chain
dinosaur jr.

are five random things that popped into my head.

Originally posted by BookerT:
i was in santiago de chile last year and there were some pretty good record stores. i suppose in a huge city like that it's not too surprising, but they had lots of the "big indie" stuff from the states.

in any case:

the ponys
neutral milk hotel
spoon
jesus & mary chain
dinosaur jr.

are five random things that popped into my head.

Good suggestions. As for NMH, have you heard Graham Smiths new one? He's definitely got a NMH vibe going.

i second the ponys

Good suggestions. As for NMH, have you heard Graham Smiths new one? He's definitely got a NMH vibe going.

my g/f is probably the biggest graham smith fan in the country. seriously. i like him a lot as well. as someone who didn't really dig his last couple kleenex girl wonder albums, i think "final battle" is a pretty damn great record. there is definitely a NMH feel to this one, whereas there was a definite GBV feel to his earlier stuff. although graham's a lot funnier than jeff mangum ever tried to be. actually, we have an interview with him on our blog, if you want to check it out.

Originally posted by ratioci nation:

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
do the collapse is the worst gbv album. try alien lanes or bee thousand or under the bushes under the stars

it was a just a joke suggestion, he has a long dislike of GBV based on a concert experience

Then let me only half jokingly add,the one and only, JANDEK

I'll second Sea Ray. Very nice.

yeah spoon is a good one. girls can tell, kill the moonlight
mountain goats maybe
built to spill