Help me find more music that sounds like this 90s lofi indie rock song.
August 29, 2017 1:08 PM Subscribe
Can you point me to songs that sound like "Anytime You Want" by Eric's Trip? This is a short, fast, fuzzed out punk song with contrasting vocals on a poppy hook, a prominent low end, a few drum fills, and pretty crappy production. That's what I like about it! It also lacks a guitar solo, but I could go either way on that.
Eric's Trip has maybe two more songs like this on their "Love Tara" album, and another example could be "My Head" by the related band, Elevator to Hell.
There's a lot of almost-but-not-quite: people compare them to Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr, but I actually don't love either band, and most of their songs are not in this vein. The Burger and Lauren Records kids seems to have been raised more on Jay Reatard than Rick White. Guided by Voices has a few songs this arena.
Anyway, I'm looking for songs that sound like this song, from any decade, though it's a decidedly 90s sound.
Eric's Trip has maybe two more songs like this on their "Love Tara" album, and another example could be "My Head" by the related band, Elevator to Hell.
There's a lot of almost-but-not-quite: people compare them to Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr, but I actually don't love either band, and most of their songs are not in this vein. The Burger and Lauren Records kids seems to have been raised more on Jay Reatard than Rick White. Guided by Voices has a few songs this arena.
Anyway, I'm looking for songs that sound like this song, from any decade, though it's a decidedly 90s sound.
Can't link right now, but have you checked out The Olivia Tremor Control?
Have a listen to the songs Fireplace, Holiday Surprise 1-2-3, Jumping Fences...
posted by wats at 1:24 PM on August 29, 2017
Have a listen to the songs Fireplace, Holiday Surprise 1-2-3, Jumping Fences...
posted by wats at 1:24 PM on August 29, 2017
Before I clicked through to the details of your question, I thought of Dinosaur Jr., in particular Freak Scene.
posted by Leontine at 1:35 PM on August 29, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Leontine at 1:35 PM on August 29, 2017 [1 favorite]
The Front Bottoms make some songs that sound like this.
Yuck's Get Away sounds a little like it.
Japandroids Wet Hair
posted by cnc at 2:01 PM on August 29, 2017
Yuck's Get Away sounds a little like it.
Japandroids Wet Hair
posted by cnc at 2:01 PM on August 29, 2017
This probably isn't what you're looking for – but as far as the enjoyably crappy production goes, it reminds me of Doleful Lions. (They're not punk, though – more folky paisley-pop.)
posted by escape from the potato planet at 2:20 PM on August 29, 2017
posted by escape from the potato planet at 2:20 PM on August 29, 2017
It reminded me a bit of Bug-Nug by the band Pep Squad. I always liked their music.
It takes about 30 seconds to get started as an actual song.
posted by tacodave at 3:05 PM on August 29, 2017
It takes about 30 seconds to get started as an actual song.
posted by tacodave at 3:05 PM on August 29, 2017
Response by poster: she's not there, I am!
I love the Ramones. And they certainly have some of the elements I'm looking for, except in the songwriting itself. I can't think of any song of theirs that sounds like the Eric's Trip song I linked.
posted by kensington314 at 3:59 PM on August 29, 2017
I love the Ramones. And they certainly have some of the elements I'm looking for, except in the songwriting itself. I can't think of any song of theirs that sounds like the Eric's Trip song I linked.
posted by kensington314 at 3:59 PM on August 29, 2017
Um... Lemonheads, Soul Assylum, Dinosaur Jr., early REM...
posted by Nanukthedog at 4:23 PM on August 29, 2017
posted by Nanukthedog at 4:23 PM on August 29, 2017
Best answer: FWIW, the song you linked brings to mind the following for me:
Angel Olsen - Forgiven/Forgotten
Ash - Jack Names the Planets
A lot of early At the Drive-In, e.g. Alpha Centauri or Shaking Hand Incision
Boris - Ibitsu
Fig Dish - Quiet Storm King
The Flaming Lips - Kim's Watermelon Gun
Fugazi - Facet Squared
Perfect Pussy - Driver
Sloan - I Am the Cancer (and thus, necessarily, My Bloody Valentine - Sueisfine, but Sloan's stuff is more often in that vein than MBV's)
Swervedriver - Rave Down
Triplefastaction - Revved Up
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
posted by sinfony at 4:29 PM on August 29, 2017
Angel Olsen - Forgiven/Forgotten
Ash - Jack Names the Planets
A lot of early At the Drive-In, e.g. Alpha Centauri or Shaking Hand Incision
Boris - Ibitsu
Fig Dish - Quiet Storm King
The Flaming Lips - Kim's Watermelon Gun
Fugazi - Facet Squared
Perfect Pussy - Driver
Sloan - I Am the Cancer (and thus, necessarily, My Bloody Valentine - Sueisfine, but Sloan's stuff is more often in that vein than MBV's)
Swervedriver - Rave Down
Triplefastaction - Revved Up
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
posted by sinfony at 4:29 PM on August 29, 2017
Seconding Dinosaur Jr., in particular songs like The Lung.
Also Sebadoh (Lou Barlow from Dinosaur Jr.'s band), for instance Got It.
posted by saladin at 4:46 PM on August 29, 2017
Also Sebadoh (Lou Barlow from Dinosaur Jr.'s band), for instance Got It.
posted by saladin at 4:46 PM on August 29, 2017
Also there's definitely a bit of the 90's Chapel Hill sound here... Superchunk in general might be worth checking out, and also Archers of Loaf, Polvo, and Erectus Monotone.
posted by saladin at 4:50 PM on August 29, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by saladin at 4:50 PM on August 29, 2017 [1 favorite]
Pretty much anything from The Gerbils' Are You Sleepy album.
They don't quite have the same mid-90s fuzz sound, but Nana Grizol's first album Love It Love It has the same feel for me: Circles 'Round the Moon
posted by scruss at 6:09 PM on August 29, 2017 [1 favorite]
They don't quite have the same mid-90s fuzz sound, but Nana Grizol's first album Love It Love It has the same feel for me: Circles 'Round the Moon
posted by scruss at 6:09 PM on August 29, 2017 [1 favorite]
I was also going to mention MBV's Sueisfine. And your song recalls for me Flaming Lips' "Staring at the Sound."
posted by Leontine at 7:17 PM on August 29, 2017
posted by Leontine at 7:17 PM on August 29, 2017
Mr. Mitten recommends Love of Diagrams, a present-day Australian band that he thinks sound a lot like Eric's Trip.
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:40 PM on August 29, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:40 PM on August 29, 2017 [1 favorite]
Early Thrush Hermit and the whole 90's Murderrecords scene including the abovementioned Sloan (and on preview, the Inbreds)
The Wrens "Meadowland"
And I used Anytime You Want as a Spotify Radio seed and it suggested the Lilys which is really similar sonically
posted by Gortuk at 7:37 AM on August 30, 2017
The Wrens "Meadowland"
And I used Anytime You Want as a Spotify Radio seed and it suggested the Lilys which is really similar sonically
posted by Gortuk at 7:37 AM on August 30, 2017
late to the party, and you mentioned them in your post, but this is one of my all time favorites of this type: Motor Away, Guided by Voices
posted by gorbichov at 10:46 AM on September 2, 2017
posted by gorbichov at 10:46 AM on September 2, 2017
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