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aeolianblues

@glorious-blackout The Mysterines are amazing! They're a brand new band from Liverpool, but you'd never know it by listening to them. They were a fave on my show when their album was coming out last year - debut album, and I had no idea until I properly looked into it because they sound so well done and well produced! They're a proper rock band :)

You would hardly guess that this was a first-EP song, would you?

Inhaler... I might not have recommended them a year ago, they were putting out fairly standard indie rock/pop in 2021... I think they were the first Irish band in a long time to top the UK album charts? With a debut album too! It was good stuff, but nothing new I guess. Their second album is on its way, and now I actually think the new stuff is worth checking out! (This is Bono from U2's son's band, and they were straying... a bit too close to U2 territory, but they're really finding their own sound now!) They're putting out some really playful indie pop; they want to be a pop band now, that's great, good for them!

(the new album's called Cuts And Bruises, I plan to sit and listen to it! I'm only speaking from having heard the singles released ahead of the album right now 😅)

Hives have been around for a while I think! I just never really listened to them 😅

aeolianblues

re: prev @glorious-blackout I’ve got to make to you a playlist now! Do you use Spotify?

In the meanwhile for Nova Twins - from Who Are The Girls (album 1) - Vortex, Devil’s Face, Bullet, Athena (in that order if you’d like!)

Their new album from last year is so so good! They brought in a bit more of their hip hop influences and it’s so catchy!

From Super Nova - Antagonist, Cleopatra, KMB, Choose Your Fighter, and with a slightly different but also really beautiful vibe, A Dark Place For Somewhere Beautiful.

Their look is just so iconic! Colourful and impactful as hell, they’re such a proper rock band. None of the slacker indie stuff with Nova Twins, they make the effort! I mean check this out:

With a similar musical vibe - heavy and amazingly distorted bass lines, vocals that go so hard and a completely punk ethos, you might also like Bob Vylan! I think they might just have put out one of the most vital albums of last year, Bob Vylan Presents: The Price Of Life.

Some songs I’d recommend if you are keen to check them out: Wicked & Bad (“Let’s go dig up Maggie’s grave and ask her where that milk went/Dow to storm those Downing doors, run inside and fuck em;/Eat the rich, eat the rich before they turn and eat your children”), Health Is Wealth, Pretty Songs. Also from their first album We Live Here. They’ve also done some cool collaborations with bands like Kid Kapichi and Laurie Vincent from Soft Play (the band that used to be called Slaves). Check out the Kid Kapichi one - New England.

glorious-blackout

I do have a Spotify! I also have a five-hour journey home tomorrow so the music recommendations are highly appreciated 😁

As for later Arctic Monkeys recs, it’s hard to narrow down songs I love on TBHC and The Car but I’ll try my best! I suspect you might like AM more than I do as well - the only song I really love from it is Fireside but the album is beloved by the fandom so it might appeal to you more 😅

From TBHC I can highly recommend the singles Four Out Of Five and Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (including the videos, which are so intriguing I’m still upset they only made two), alongside The Ultracheese, One Point Perspective and American Sports.

For The Car my favourites are Sculptures of Anything Goes, The Car, Hello You, Mr Schwartz and Perfect Sense. That being said, I genuinely love every song on that album - the lush, cinematic orchestrations alone make it my joint fave alongside TBHC 🥰

As a bonus I can recommend some TLSP songs seeing as Alex’s work with Miles seems to have helped inspire AM’s latter catalogue: The Age of the Understatement, The Meeting Place, Black Paint, Aviation, Miracle Aligner, Is This What You Wanted and Les Cactus (the latter is very silly which is why I love it so much 😉).

aeolianblues

I'm going to sit and listen to your recommendations! And ohoho I have made a Playlist. I may have got a bit overexcited :] (it is actually 5 hours long. No pressure!) It's stuff that we were talking about, but also some new-ish bands I figured you might like based on the fact that I know that you like Muse, Arctic Monkeys, the new Royal Blood album, the more experimental sides of both Muse and Arctic Monkeys, some amount of metal/heavier stuff like Ghost and Rammstein (did I spell their name right?), but also some less heavier rock stuff like Pink Floyd. (The playlist is perhaps a little heavy on Fontaines D.C. and Super Furry Animals...)

And I threw in some Canadian bands I love, as a fun little extra!

Hope you enjoy it, safe travels! 😊

glorious-blackout

One five-hour journey later and my Liked Songs playlist now consists of considerably more Nova Twins, Fontaines DC, Super Furry Animals, Gwenno and Bob Vylan! Thank you so much for this 🥰💖

aeolianblues

Those are exactly the bands I was most excited to introduce you to! 😄 And I’m more than happy to pass your more of their stuff—although I suppose given they’re all so new (barring Super Furry Animals of course, who were huge in the 90s and 00s too, most of the other bands you mentioned are at most 3 albums in) and all of their albums so far have been quite good! So you may enjoy diving into their discographies, but I'm also happy to highlight more songs from their albums.

Gwenno’s really cool, her first solo album is a concept album based on a 60s Welsh-language sci-fi dystopian novel, which was one of the only ones of its kind available back in the day! That album was in Welsh, her second was her foray into Cornish language music, and her latest, which is mostly in Cornish except for one Welsh song I think, kinda leans into the sound of Cornwall and then blends that with her signature smooth synthpop, she’s so very very cool. When her second album came out, it singlehandedly caused a 15% jump in the number of people the Cornish board said were sitting Cornish language exams! This was in 2018. And it was quite bold of her at the time to make an album completely in Cornish because there were about 600 speakers of the language in total. She was also in the Pipettes, and she’s done (and hosted i think?) the Celtic Eurovision. She’s very cool! (As for SFA? You know I could go on all day :P)

I’m really excited that you liked Fontaines D.C.! Their singer Grian Chatten’s dad made him memorise and recite poetry as a kid, in exchange for getting him football stickers, and over time he really came to love poetry on his own (and I think you can hear that in his singing)! They’re a band that formed at uni, they went to music college in Dublin, but they fell together over a shared love, for not music, but Irish literature and poetry! (In fact their first release as a band, which I don’t think is available anymore, was a poetry book. Not set to music.) They write so well, and they’re also really good stage performers! I was lucky to see them in a 2500 cap theatre in Montreal last year, I doubt they’re going to be playing shows that small for very long! They’ve opened for the Strokes and I think the National last year? They’ve done a daytime Pyramid stage slot at Glastonbury and Main stage at Reading last year (still on the BBC Youtube hopefully because they were mesmerising performances :) ), and they’re opening for Arctic Monkeys this summer in North America, which is where I’m hoping to see them again… but this time, playing to 16,000 people! I would totally recommend them as a live band! When I saw them, their guitarist decided the stage alone was too boring, and climbed up the speaker and vaulted onto the top to play directly to the balcony, all while pretty much playing his guitar parts.

(That’s him up there) Also, their singer Grian is the guy singing on the Leftfield song I think I also added to the playlist. It’s good fun, they’re a great band!

Actually these are all bands I would highly recommend seeing live if you can, we have some really good live bands right now! (I missed Nova Twins this autumn and I’m still regretting it… hopefully they come back this year!?)

Oh, and fun fact about Bob Vylan: they are totally independent. They run their own label, do their own press and distribution; when their album came out last year they spent the whole morning driving and shipping their records to shops across the country. And they made it into the top 40 albums!

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Photo courtesy of my mom, who has seen the Mysterines open for Awolnation

trueshredguitar

have you guys ever used that subreddit stats tool to look up kink subreddits and deduce which seemingly arbitrary groups of people have certain kinks. i’m a scientist

trueshredguitar

my findings (thanks to this tool, subredditstats)

the two non-porn subreddits that overlap in userbase the most with /r/breeding is /r/elderscrolls and /r/liberalgunowners
there is significant overlap between /r/hentaibreeding and /r/exjw. this overlap is not present in the RL breeding-related subreddits. curious
/r/hentaibreeding also overlaps heavily with /r/greysanatomy. i do not know why
/r/furry’s userbase overlaps with — beyond anything else besides /r/furry_irl — /r/hazbinhotel and /r/helluvaboss
the only non-porn subreddit with an overlap score over 8 for /r/bdsm is /r/residentevil
users of /r/feetpics are 19 times more likely than the average reddit user to be active in /r/maturemilf
this isn’t relevant but i just found out there’s a subreddit called “verifiedfeet” and it made me laugh
/r/moviescirclejerk has negligible overlap with porn subreddits as opposed to other “fandom” related subreddits which just goes to show you kino before hoes ALWAYS
/r/marvelmemes users are 51 times more likely than the average redditor to visit /r/thickdick and 11 times more likely to visit /r/ratemycock
the only sex-related subreddit besides /r/sex that /r/civ users are more likely to use is… /r/deadbedrooms
there’s a pretty high overlap between /r/armpit and /r/politicalhumor
users of /r/consentacles overlap with /r/socialistra (socialist rifle association) to an absolutely insane degree.