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koganbot's avatar

The greatest song that I can't find streaming anywhere is "El Pito" by The Swinging World Of Johnny Rios And The Us 4.

https://www.discogs.com/release/4848901-Johnny-Rios-And-The-Us-4-Nuevo-Boog-A-Loos-The-Swinging-World-Of-Johnny-Rios-And-The-Us-4-Nuevo-Boog

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George Henderson's avatar

The (potentially) greatest song I can't find right now is 'Place I Love' by Nina Persson and the Sounds of NATO, which I heard on the soundtrack of a truly awful (and I'm a fan) Todd Solondz film called A Dark Horse.

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koganbot's avatar

And of course all we've got of Haley Georgia's "Becky" is this snippet:

https://x.com/haleygeorgia/status/893882503915872256

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Dave Moore's avatar

Some of us have more than a snippet, but it's also weird to be the person to put the thing back on the internet after someone has taken it down.

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koganbot's avatar

Yeah. I agree. Seems to have been her decision.

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koganbot's avatar

But oddly, this isn't something I have a consistent position on, whether to spread or not spread a recording without the artist's go-ahead.

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George Henderson's avatar

Seeker is the Court of Last Appeal

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George Henderson's avatar

Even that snippet deserves the remix treatment, I'll check SoundCloud to see if anyone's done it

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C. A. McLaren's avatar

i love the memories you share of discovering music, and how that changed over time.

for me, it was -- whatever played at npr at night, my parents' book of cds, visits to barnes and noble with the communal headset on, sharing earbuds with other kids on the bus, then Tumblr viral songs (boss ass bitch, cash diamond rings swimming pools, LANA), then studiously listening to whatever Pitchfork said was good... trading burned CD mixtapes > downloading poor quality rips from Youtube > Spotify. oh, the nostalgia!

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George Henderson's avatar

The dumbest algorithms are indeed the best. The Spotify algorithm that told me that ppl who liked Lana Del Rey also liked Ängie changed my life and brought me here.

The algorithms supposed to make Spotify frictionless though, those are making it frissonless.

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Blair Fraipont's avatar

Regarding the celestial jukebox: everything is so clouded; the dust has yet to settle. Or will it ever settle? I've experienced many exciting new sounds via your weekly playlists and elsewhere, things that give me hope, well hope in the vaguest sense. Then, I'll also encounter things like seeing a Nepali trap video at a Nepali restaurant and aside from the difference in language and the Himalayan backdrop, it sounded just like dull American trap. But if lack of originality is my only gripe, it's not a bad one to have.

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Dave Moore's avatar

I’ve appreciated hitting upon a pretty universal “1% rule” for interesting new music — the other 99% usually isn’t that bad but it also isn’t very interesting.

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George Henderson's avatar

Still listening to New Problems compulsively - I'm reminded of another lost classic. Friend of mine recorded this, artist fell off the radar before it got noticed.

https://solamonday.bandcamp.com/album/the-swing-festival

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Dave Moore's avatar

this is great. one thing I'm being reminded of listening to 2001 indie is that there was real pressure for stronger and funkier drumming at the time, something I was noticing relistening to Dismemberment Plan and thinking about how I should write something about the percussion in Willow songs.

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