OT: Self

[Ron Moses]

I don't know how many of you have heard of the band Self, but they're pretty fantastic. I'm tempted to describe them in "if blah-blah and blah-blah had a mutant love baby" terms, but I can't list enough people to really get the point across. I'll just say that they (he, really...it's sort of a band in name only from what I can tell) have an accessible yet out-there thing with touches of Steely Dan, Prince, Rundgren (at his most wasted), maybe a bit of Joe Jackson, I don't even know. See? List-of-people fail.

If you have the time, give my Spotify playlist a spin. I think you'll dig it...
http://open.spotify.com/user/ronmoses/playlist/0fJaa7hhDEf1i79tk1pmtc

Feel free to sample any of my other public playlists while you're there. And post yours if you have any!

ron

[mrnewit]

I will second the recommendation of Self. I first heard about Matt Mahaffey's music from a Beller blog about "Subliminal Plastic Motives" and then the world in its grand benevolence allowed me to find the album that day at the local used record store. Absolutely love all of his work.

And, if I were to add to the list of things I hear when listening to him, I'd add Queen. There are some really spot on Brian May guitar lines and pure bombast. Also a bunch of Beck which makes sense as he is often in his band.

Really, Mahaffey is my answer to the question of "what should pop music sound like." That he isn't on the radio at all times is a perplexing tragedy.

I mean, really, how the hell does this not go platinum?

andy

Post by Ron Moses
I don't know how many of you have heard of the band Self, but they're pretty fantastic. I'm tempted to describe them in "if blah-blah and blah-blah had a mutant love baby" terms, but I can't list enough people to really get the point across. I'll just say that they (he, really...it's sort of a band in name only from what I can tell) have an accessible yet out-there thing with touches of Steely Dan, Prince, Rundgren (at his most wasted), maybe a bit of Joe Jackson, I don't even know. See? List-of-people fail.
If you have the time, give my Spotify playlist a spin. I think you'll dig it...
http://open.spotify.com/user/ronmoses/playlist/0fJaa7hhDEf1i79tk1pmtc
Feel free to sample any of my other public playlists while you're there. And post yours if you have any!
ron

[Ron Moses]

Post by mrnewit
I will second the recommendation of Self.

I suffer from an almost constant state of earworm - not an actual worm in my ear, ewww - where there is something musical stuck in my head from the moment I wake up to the moment I fall asleep. It isn't fun, in fact it's a major contributor to my chronic insomnia. If I don't have an external audio source going, chances are I've got some bit of music hammering at my skull and it won't stop.

For the past two weeks, at least, it's been Self. I've been tracking what song is in my head when I wake up, kind of like a dream diary, and it's been Self for twelve days running now. It's there right now. I can't get rid of it, though I do seem to have some control over what song is playing. I'm at the point where I've had to stop listening to them for a while just to let something else into my head.

Which is my way of saying, their stuff is catchy as hell. And I can think of way worse things to have stuck in my head.

ron

[mrnewit]

Post by Ron Moses
Which is my way of saying, their stuff is catchy as hell. And I can think of way worse things to have stuck in my head.

I cannot tell you how many times that my morning earworm has been "Manic Monday" or the theme song to "The Facts of Life". God is a vengeful God, he is.

andy

[Hagrinas Mivali]

Post by mrnewit

Post by Ron Moses
Which is my way of saying, their stuff is catchy as hell. And I can think of way worse things to have stuck in my head.

I cannot tell you how many times that my morning earworm has been "Manic Monday" or the theme song to "The Facts of Life". God is a vengeful God, he is.
andy

The easiest way to get it out of your head is to play some other music.
Take your smartphone and add an MP3 of the Smurfs theme song. It will
jump into your head and push the other tunes out.

[Ron Moses]

Post by Hagrinas Mivali
The easiest way to get it out of your head is to play some other music.
Take your smartphone and add an MP3 of the Smurfs theme song. It will
jump into your head and push the other tunes out.

Status Back Baby works wonders. I have a number of friends who use it for that purpose.

My problem is not getting a specific song to stop playing in my head, it's getting music to stop playing entirely. Just leave me alone for a while! Sure, music is a magical thing. So are blowjobs, but I don't want one that lasts 18 hours every single day. At some point it's like, come on, you're not paying me *that* much, mister.

or something like that,
ron

[v***@gmail.com]

Post by Ron Moses
I don't know how many of you have heard of the band Self, but they're pretty fantastic. I'm tempted to describe them in "if blah-blah and blah-blah had a mutant love baby" terms, but I can't list enough people to really get the point across. I'll just say that they (he, really...it's sort of a band in name only from what I can tell) have an accessible yet out-there thing with touches of Steely Dan, Prince, Rundgren (at his most wasted), maybe a bit of Joe Jackson, I don't even know. See? List-of-people fail.
If you have the time, give my Spotify playlist a spin. I think you'll dig it...
http://open.spotify.com/user/ronmoses/playlist/0fJaa7hhDEf1i79tk1pmtc
Feel free to sample any of my other public playlists while you're there. And post yours if you have any!
ron

As this has been seconded, I'll third it. About seven years ago my husband and I drove across country listening to Porno Mint and Grime. FUCKING AWESOME.

[Ron Moses]

Post by v***@gmail.com
As this has been seconded, I'll third it. About seven years ago my husband and I drove across country listening to Porno Mint and Grime. FUCKING AWESOME.

I've only just started listening to the various free stuff he released (available here http://web.archive.org/web/20060615054917/http://www.selfies.com/media/). It blows my mind that in addition to releasing four albums that are each better than 99.9% of anything else out there, he gave away just as much music for free, and it's all just as amazing.

ron

[Mike Keneally]

He is out-of-hand awesome. I have Beller and Travers to thank for introducing me to Subliminal Plastic Motives in 1996. I need to hear that stuff again.

[Hagrinas Mivali]

Post by Ron Moses
I don't know how many of you have heard of the band Self, but they're pretty fantastic. I'm tempted to describe them in "if blah-blah and blah-blah had a mutant love baby" terms, but I can't list enough people to really get the point across. I'll just say that they (he, really...it's sort of a band in name only from what I can tell) have an accessible yet out-there thing with touches of Steely Dan, Prince, Rundgren (at his most wasted), maybe a bit of Joe Jackson, I don't even know. See? List-of-people fail.
If you have the time, give my Spotify playlist a spin. I think you'll dig it...
http://open.spotify.com/user/ronmoses/playlist/0fJaa7hhDEf1i79tk1pmtc
Feel free to sample any of my other public playlists while you're there. And post yours if you have any!
ron

Didn't they once tour with Other?