That song does a bit, yes. But they're too Beatles-ish as you can see here:
Pretenders
It would be impossible for me to pick a favorite debut. In the 60's alone you got Are you Experienced, In The Court of The Crimson King, Procol Harum's self titled, Phallus Phei, Spirit, The Piper at The Gates of Dawn, Santana's self titled, Led Zeppelin's self titled, The Doors' self titled, etc. Too many to count.
I don't think I could pick a favourite debut either. But a few at the top for me from across the last 50 years would be:
Greetings From Asbury Park ~ Bruce Springsteen
Velvet Underground and Nico ~ Velvet Underground
Hallelujah All the Way Home ~ The Verlaines
Are You Experienced ~ Jimi Hendrix
The Doors ~ The Doors
Entertainment ~ Gang of Four
Unknown Pleasures ~ Joy Division
My Aim is True ~ Elvis Costello
Funeral ~ Arcade Fire
The Smiths ~ The Smiths
Is This It ~ The Strokes
XX ~ The XX
Piper at the Gates of Dawn ~ Pink Floyd
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I really liked these Lizzy Mercier Descloux tracks. Especially the second one. Never heard of her before. Will have to go back catalog and find out more.
I'm always a little behind on some of the non-English rock talent, but I love the stuff. For example, lately I'm a couple years behind on the Spanish band of My-Bloody-Valentine-knock-offs, Odío Paris
I may be one of the few ones here who knows what you're talking about.
I'm a pretty good fan of the Verlaines and the Chills and that ilk.
Glad to find another fan of The Verlaines and the like. New Zealand had a really interesting music scene in the 80s and early 90s around Dunedin. Every time I come across a new band from there, it seems I find some great songs.
Check out Lizzy's album
Press Colour. It's got quite the selection of songs from her catalog. Interesting girl. She did that spoken word with Patti Smith of Rimbaud's
Drunken Morning over some pretty atmospheric background music.
Never heard of Odío Paris. Certainly reminds of My Bloody Valentine.
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It's not a matter of liking heavier stuff. On the contrary, I'm a sucker for good melodies as i said above. But I'm very particular about indie bands and how they all sound alike.
It's a revival of all things lately, there's barely anything fresh. Most "alternative" bands of today (which hurts me to say since Alternative rock was really interesting in the 90's and really $#@! after that) are either going for that popish synthitized 80's and/or a modernish 60's sound.
I remember when I still cared to find new music not so long ago, i'd listen to playlists and playlists of Alternative/indie artists i've never heard before in the chance of finding something interesting, out of a 100 I might have find 1. And the rest was the same pop $#@! with the boring uninteresting melodies using with the same uninteresting chords. Actually melodies? Where the $#@! did they went? What's with the weird $#@! just for the sake of weirdness?
Krautrock was extreme experimental music yet interesting, avant-garde and revolutionary. These bands? meh.
Anyways, in one of those lists I found this, which as i said, is nothing but band trying to sound like they're in the 60's but at least they write clever music. ]
I've always been a big fan of Conny Plank, for the work he did in sound engineering and production of Krautrock stuff. The work he did with Dieter Moebius on his Kluster (and then Cluster) albums was fantastic. As were the Cluster--Eno collaborations.
From America, in that same realm of innovative, early Brian Eno was very good, from his strange looping experiments on
(No Pussyfooting) with Robert Fripp, to his art rock on
Here Come the Warm Jets to his transition/hybrid album
Before and After Science to his ambient on
Music For Films to his more experimental, heavily sampled
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts with David Byrne. The man was a genius in my opinion, and was a musical pioneer.
Even his strange collab album with Lady June.
Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy... Reminds me of Piano Magic a bit, now that I think of it. Piano Magic is one of the more interesting bands of the last 20 years. But here is Eno and Lady June.
Still, I think you underrate post-2000 music a little bit. Arcade Fire's first album
Funeral was absolutely genius, and very original. They turned into a crap, or at least much more run-of-the-mill indie band after that first album, but that doesn't change how good that first album was. In my opinion, it's the best "rock" (or associated genres) album to come out of Canada ever. It's got that great combination of being like nothing one has heard before, but at the same time feeling familiar. Broken Social Scene's
You Forgot it in People is another excellent album of the 00s out of Canada, again from a band with several other albums that never quite lived up to that one. Brian Jonestown Massacre had a couple very good post-2000 albums. The Flaming Lips
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is excellent. The compilation album by David Lynch, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
Dark Night of the Soul. The Strokes
Is This It. The XX -
xx was an excellent debut.
And then insanely talented musicians like Matt Elliott, Kishi Bashi, Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) who have done some brilliant things. Matt Elliott's three mid-2000 albums
Failing Songs,
Drinking Songs,
Howling Songs are genius.
And Shakey Graves. I saw him live a couple years ago, and then again this past August in Vancouver. The man is a fucking good musician.
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I do get your point, as there is a crazy amount of terrible, banal dreck to sift through to find good music now, but it's out there, being made still, imo.
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