I'll tell you what bands I like, and you tell me what I should like.

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I'm super picky and no longer have time to go through tons of lists and sites to find the bands I like. Also Last.fm's recommendations aren't doing it for me.

I like:

The Clientele
The American Analog Set
Midlake (Bamnan and Slivercork)
Sam Prekop
The Sea and Cake
The Shins
Vitesse
Brittle Stars
The Radio Dept. (But not their new album)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti

Also,

Astrobrite (But not the new album)
Electro Group
Pia Fraus (But not the new album)

So in the first list we have a lot of, like, small indiepop, with a small sound. lo-fi, mellow, and the other common thread is the vocals are usually not that crisp or in-your-face, sometimes with ambient effects (like Clientele and Radio Dept.)

The second list are just noisy Shoegaze bands. But I'm more interested in Indiepop bands along the lines of the first list. I really like stuff that sounds like demos, I like four and eight-track producers, I like synth/keyboard accompaniments. Maybe a bit on the twee side, but good pop songs are a must. Can someone help me out?

― Public Radio (public_radio), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

the pin group

strapping fieldhands

cerberus shoal

uncle wiggly

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

bizarros

rubber city rebels

pere ubu

devo

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

the misunderstood

juicy lucy

high tide

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

felt

denim

go-kart mozart

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

toe fat

blossom toes

heads hands & feet

fifty foot hose

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

katatonia

anathema

my dying bride

paradise lost

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Are we talking only new-ish stuff? Or anything that you didn't mention?

Voxtrot
Camera Obscura
Aberfeldy
Oh No! Oh My!
The Figurines
The Lucksmiths
Jens Lekman

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Whitehouse

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

what you *should* like has nothing to do with what you like, silly

it has to be major label music involving black ppl obvs

― xave (xave), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

the research

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Saturday, 2 September 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

The Negro Problem
The Channel
Julieta Venegas
Cibelle

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 2 September 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

This isn't Pandora.

― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 3 September 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

lilys, obv

― noizem duke (noize duke), Sunday, 3 September 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

michael f. gill
shimura curves
fake accents
momus
fake fictions
bunnybrains
mountain goats
ui
matmos
american altitude
tugboat

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― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 3 September 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

get it, cuz he said he wanted a "small sound"! hahahahahaha! get it, they are little dollz!!! hahahahaha! oh god, do i have fun.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 3 September 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

The Clientele- flower machine is a total copy of the clientele but they aren't very good, maybe the moles/cardinal would suit you better
The American Analog Set - they're really dull, lots of bands fit that description
Midlake (Bamnan and Slivercork)
Sam Prekop
The Sea and Cake
The Shins-they are an inferior version of mid-late 90s lilys
Vitesse-magnetic fields circa holiday
Brittle Stars-estelle from brittle stars has a new band elephant parade
The Radio Dept. (But not their new album)- puh their new album is fantastic, i'd say the legends but i am assuming your name is a legends reference, maybe sambassadeur
Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti- i dunno

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 3 September 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks guys, this is great!

scott seward, your contemporary picks are pretty dead on but I must say your other suggestions are leaving me scratching my head after previewing a few of them. I'm afraid I don't see the connection.

― Public Radio (public_radio), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

that's his schtick

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

keyth, I'm checking out your suggestions now. I'm excited that estelle from brittle stars has a new band! My name isn't a Legends reference but I should give them another shot. You like that album, though? I felt like all the special sauce was missing. All the great big drum sounds, the razor sharp quitar leads and the nice studio effects are out the window now, and now it's just like a guy and his sequencer/keyboard, and even that isn't used effectively. I think about that song 'I don't need love, I've got my band' when I listen to the new album and wonder if he doesn't got his band no more, like they all walked out on him and he's still trying to make it work.

― Public Radio (public_radio), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

(the album i'm referring to is Pet Grief)

― Public Radio (public_radio), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

"that's his schtick"

NO! I just posted the names of a bunch of bands that i like. i have never heard ANY of the bands that he listed except for the sea & cake. i like the sea and cake. wait, i might have heard the american analog set once. they were dreamy, right? i used to work with a guy who loved American Analog Set. He also loved The Hood and the Olivia Tremor Control. Stars Of The Lid would be a good pick for Public Radio. And Space Needle! I love Space Needle!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I kind of suspected you were just posting bands you like. I guess I should have specified, tell me what I should like BASED ON my list.

But you nailed it with The Lucksmiths and Camera Obscura. I already know those bands, though. I'm still digging through the others.

― Public Radio (public_radio), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

late Unrest
Air Miami
Aden
etc

seems like you are a Teen Beat guy...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

The Boy Least Likely To?

― mike leonard (quickbrownfox), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

You may already know these bands, but just in case...

Rogue Wave
Field Music
The Delays
Dolour
Pernice Brothers
Matt Pond PA
Pinback

― darin (darin), Friday, 8 September 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

skynyrd

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 September 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Tean Beat records seems worth checking out... Lots of good stuff here. Thanks for all of this guys! I'ts going to take me a while to sift through it.

Right now I'm totally hooked on MIDLAKE! This is so right up my alley it's ridiculous. Banman and Silvercork, and The Trials of Van Occupanther are totally different and they both scratch me right where i itch.

― Public Radio (public_radio), Saturday, 9 September 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

But you nailed it with The Lucksmiths and Camera Obscura.

Hey, that was me.

Also, listen to The Little Ones.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Saturday, 9 September 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

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