help me rediscover melody!

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after months of listening to music with little to no melody, and either indistinguishable or nonexistant lyrics, i would love some suggestions of songs to sing along to.

current favorites, and proof that im soulless:
heldon
freeform
nurse with wound
magma
tim hecker

― emma cleveland, Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

Geir to thread

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

how many people were going to post what Johnny did?

I was!

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

Deerhoof.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

Whoo ees thees "Geir"?

― Unknown User, Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

im not too into deerhoof.
its not exactly singable either.
squealable though!

― emma cleveland, Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

p.s. i have no idea what "Geir to thread" means.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

If you don't mind being uncool by ILX standards, this Gomez track 'Catch Me Up,' has had me air-bass drumming (tapping my feet I guess) and singing at the same time for the past week.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

haha, ill take anything i can get.
some of my more pretenious friends have a gomez soft spot.
thanks!

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

animal collective "Winter's Love"
Feist "Mushaboom"

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, that animcal collective is hype. i love them. though live, melody is thrown to the wind, again.
never heard the other, but im on it.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

There's lots of melody on Tim Hecker's stuff!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link

yeahhh his jams are gorgeous!
but, i think i meant that summer makes me want to be able to sing along with songs without having to learn the words to the postal service or whatever "the kids are into". haha

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

The new N.E.R.D. has a bunch of sing-along-able melodies.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

from my recent and sort-of-recent singalong pile:
"not that social" by the von bondies
"i thought you were my boyfriend" by the magnetic fields
"where have all the rude boys gone" by ted leo
"redneck woman" by gretchen wilson
"fix up look sharp" by dizzee rascal
"meant to live" by switchfoot (a rather icky chrisian-rock nirvana ripoff but just try not singing along)

i am afraid however that none of these songs have much of anything to do with, say, nurse with wound or magma.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

junior boys have some melodic hooks that have been sticking around my dome

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

nerd are from my town. isnt the production on the new one bizzare? maybe i just slsked a strange version.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

haha yeah fact checking, im fearful that ill find out that rambling prog in french and singable pop tunes are mutually exclusive.
but id love to be proved wrong...

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

It's really lovely to sing along to every song on "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society," as I've been doing regularly for the past month.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago) link

(x-post)
if it helps for it to be in french, get france gall's "sacre charlemagne" at once! she isn't exactly proggy. bubblegummy and nursery rhymey is more like it. and she doesn't ramble. but she's french! and she's catchier than a fish on a hook.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

aw french isnt necessary, i was just laughing about even attempting to find a pop version of magma. thanks!

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

Mr. Geir Hongro, frequent ILX poster, champion of all that is melodic, scourge of all that is not.

Some of these are TERRIBLY unhip; but nevertheless, here's five pop/rock LPs overstuffed with tunes that'll never disentangle themselves from my brain:

1.Love, Forever Changes
2.Sam Phillips, Martinis And Bikinis
3.Stevie Wonder, Original Musiquarium
4.Moody Blues, Days Of Future Passed
5.Supertramp, Breakfast In America

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

I like this Emma person. Hi there!

I am currently listening to my Def Leppard greatest hits disc and goddamn, if you want melody there it is in spades. (There is nothing wrong with backing that up with some NWW or Current 93, though. "JESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSUSSSSSSSSSSS WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPTT!")

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago) link

current 93 'sleep has his house' has some lovely melodies.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

current 93 = CREEPED OUT DREAMS

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

no way, love is not unhip.
i saw arthur lee last winter, recreating forever changes and it was totally hip (even though he wore dark sunglasses indoors through the whole thing, and it was in a polish community center. haha!)

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

hi ned!
yeah, i dont intend to abandon my noisy roots by any means. just looking for something to sing out the car window without looking like a crazyass.
i mean i guess i could sing current 93 to passerbys but id sound like i just murdered someone.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago) link

cowboy song - thin lizzy

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

< geir> SUPER FURRY ANIMALS < /geir>

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

hi ned!

Hello! Anyway, you could do worse than to get the Rhino box set of Burt Bacharach songs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

'current 93 = CREEPED OUT DREAMS' but with hummable melodies.

also: MUMMY THE PEEPSHOW

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

nerd are from my town. isnt the production on the new one bizzare? maybe i just slsked a strange version.

VA Beach? The production doesn't seem very bizarre on the CD version that I have. Maybe that's some alternate version on slsk.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

im from chesapeake, actually. 15 minutes between norfolk and vb.

(my brother tom and friend brock get on this board a lot and now i know why theyre addicted. i never get to have musical discourse!)

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

i bet burt bacharach is pretty awesome.
i love that jim o rourke cover of 'something big' on eureka

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

Hurrah even more for Emma! Stick around. There's a couple of "Introduce Yourself" threads you should post to, search for those in the archive (as well as for anything else you might want to talk about, there are plenty of good discussions already archived).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

i love that jim o rourke cover of 'something big' on eureka

One of the only pieces of music that upon hearing it, I outright LAUGHED. In a good way. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

ned has a crush on emma

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago) link

and that album also has the semi-ironic pink floyd sax solo too. hahah!

jim o is such a sexpot. really.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

oooo. k-i-s-s-i-n-g!

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

ned has a crush on emma

Bah! I crush myself only, my overweening ego demands no less.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

I've been singing along to Galaxie 500 quite a bit lately.
And since summer is here, that means it's perfect for Buckingham + Nicks era Fleetwood Mac.
Fleetwood Mac's "Greatest Hits" (the 1988 release) is one of my all time fave summer albums.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

i was so in need of melody that i went straight to hall & oates.
i cant go for that, noooo.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

cutty i hope your crush accusations didnt kill my thread! haha

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

emma - try some French pop

rearrange the letters of heldon and you get: holden. A good french band with melodies

too twee for you? then check out the collections of 60s Psych-pop, gogo and novelty records on the Pop à Paris compilations on EMI France. All wonderful.

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

um. i love the noises birds make and hums of factories and the 3 wavering tones a train makes when it stops. but i'm listening to propagandi right now and they melodically sing things like "fuck religion" "stick the flag up your fucking ass" and such.

― mike keane, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

Okay, so Deerhoof may have been off but you should seriously considering trying a band from Portland, Maine, called the Ponys. Not the same as Chicago In the Red artists The Ponys that do a garage punk thing. These guys are pure heavenly melody with three guitarists and devestating hooks. A little bit whimsical, but they keep it in check. on Time-Lag records.
http://www.theponys.net/
Try their mp3's, I love these guys. Singer has a wonderful voice.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

i got that ponys record into my radio station in june, coincidentally. havent listened though, since i do the "jazz/experimental" department and it didnt look like it fit the genre.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

Heh, I was thinking of that Time-Lag Ponys bunch the other day. It's a good album, worth a whirl, though I dunno if I'd call them the most immediately memorable.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

I just love the personal touch on all of their work. Each memeber of the band contributes to the design and art of their releases, which are usually gorgeous. I helped them put together a show in my town in March and it went well. Also, three of the songs on their tour ep were recorded live on a good friend's radio show. All these things contribute to them being very memorable. For me.
Emma, everything else on the time-lag label would fit in with your specialty format. The Ponys are something of a misfit on that roster.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

I just heard the Ponys album a few days ago ... quite good ... similar to BRMC, I guess, but I like the Ponys sound more. It's a "fuzzy" kind of lo-fi, a less jangly 1986-7 MBV, and less of the balls-out rock that BRMC strive for.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

The Ponys! Going to check them out live next sunday.

on topic: David Bowie - Hunky Dory !

― willem (willem), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

legendary pink dots, cans of kitto

― kephm, Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

legendary pink dots arent exactly melodic but then again they have 450373 albums so maybe im hearing the wrong stuff.
they are playing dc tonight i think.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

Are LPD touring again? Must go see them, all three times I've caught them have been great shows...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, i was wondering if they wuold be good or geriatric...
i heard mixed things about the fall, for similar reasons

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

4 of emma's last 5 posts have been immediately followed by a ned post. i think there's something to this crush thing! (sorry if i'm interrupting the romance with this post!)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link

thanks for the statistics fact checking.
keep me posted on the game.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

rambling prog in french and singable pop tunes: the first thing I thought of when I saw this was the Family Fodder, though they're not exactly "rambling prog." Nevertheless -- Savoir Faire: Best of the Family Fodder.

And I will always second any recommendation of France Gall; Poupee de Son is probably the best of the comps I've heard. (Albumwise the only one I ever see in the U.S. is Baby Pop, which is also quite good; for some reason Poupee de Son only picks up on its more childish tracks, which along with the Serge Gainsbourg ones tend to be Gall's worst.) Only problem with singing along to France Gall: actually, there is no problem, even if your French is really poor. You just make appropriately squeaky noises until she tries her hand at scat.

I still always go to the Trash Can Sinatras' Cake when I'm feeling particularly melody-starved.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, I've Seen Everything more than Cake. Though Cake is probably better. Just more dated.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago) link

welcome to our world sibling.

ps. i dont think ned likes me because i may have made fun of my bloody valentine or the cure or something once.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

dont worry thomacina, ill make him apologize.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

Conspiracy!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link

andrew WK

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

because hes like e-putty in your e-hands.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

Ee-yew.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

(personal to emma: he's up to 5 of 7, though you did sort of bait him this time.)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

i only joined ilxor to narc out ned for e-statutory.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

the dots are on tour, they just played boston with THE DRESDEN DOLLS!opening.

emma, you might enjoy the Dresden Dolls. a warped cabaret-punkish duo, but still plenty of melody.

― kephm, Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

check out their link on brainwashed.com for free songs

― kephm, Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

yeah im debating going tosee lpd tonight, but probably wont.

saving up for:
jazzkammer on sunday.
acid mothers in a week.
minnesota freefolk fest.
atlanta lollapalloza for lee perry, wolf eyes, and well...morrissey. ha

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

25 Bubblegum Classics from Rhino Recs!

Also, Call and Response.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

michigan! i meant michigan folkfest. ha
(northerns are all the same)

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

The Shins. Listen to it. Now.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago) link

i seem to be the only one trumpeting World Standard and Wechsel Garland's The Isle, but it shore iz purdy.
Ned, didn't you allmusic it?

― andybeta, Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

(sorry andy, but ned can't respond to you on this thread unless your name is emma.)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago) link

Tangentially related to one axis of the weird with which you are familiar: Marc Almond: Mother Fist and her Five Daughters. Great melodies, fun to sing along with. I believe Ned will support this choice.

(Also fun to sing: some Foetus, e.g. "The Throne of Agony")

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago) link

for melody, i have recently been turning to the lemonheads

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

I believe Fact Checking Cuz needs beatings.

Ned, didn't you allmusic it?

I did indeed, rah!

I believe Ned will support this choice.

I will indeed, rah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

*makes like salman rushdie and goes into hiding*

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago) link

Melodiousness galore:

Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
Bardo Pond - Dilate
Black Forest/Black Sea - Forcefields & Constellations

Though I think you're making a huge mistake, and are better off buying a bunch of limited edition noise tapes from RRR.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

*makes like salman rushdie and goes into hiding*

I dunno, am I an ayatollah?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago) link

*says nothing; remains in hiding; quietly admires ned's effort to coax me out so he can administer beatings*

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

Yay! I mean, wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

*while in hiding, listens over and over again on his ipod to tommy james and the shondells' "i think we're alone now," the catchiest melody in pop history*

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago) link

I find Squeeze eminently sing-along-able.

who the hell is that under the stairs?....CUZ!!!

― Buster (mokey), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:26 (twenty years ago) link

run!

― Buster (mokey), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:27 (twenty years ago) link

[extreme X-post]
Absolutely right, Emma: No WAY Love are unhip! I was referring to Moody Blues & Supertramp.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

http://l300.myspace.com/00130/00/38/130078300_l.jpg

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

That is totally the best Bacharach solo LP.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Where did emma go :((((((

― JW, Friday, 17 June 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link

emma you should holla at my friend brian heuay; he's a 2nd semester senior at jmu. \//\ represent!!!!!!!!!!!111

on topic, new order's brotherhood is kinda kicking my ass melodically now. the understated vocals on some of the songs make you listen harder for the inextricable catchiness, especially 'way of life'

― jake b. (cerybut), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

good lord. i forgot about this!
i just listen to italo-disco now to cure the melody problem. ha

jake, i dont know your friend. i just graduated too. hmm.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Saturday, 18 June 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

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