Music makes me feel like...
June 9, 2011 12:07 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for audio of people saying interesting things about making or listening to music -- movies, youtube videos, hip-hop albums, tv shows, doesn't matter. I'm especially interested in people talking about how music or dancing makes them feel or why they make music, more than details of how they make it.
I don't know if you've seen Das Racist on why they made their first mixtape…
posted by yaymukund at 12:29 PM on June 9, 2011
posted by yaymukund at 12:29 PM on June 9, 2011
**warning: pretentious**
This may not be what you're looking for, but Destroyer and Sunset Rubdown are two bands that make a lot of music about making music. Their lyrics are pretty cryptic, but (the way I interpret them, anyway) they say interesting things about art.
Some examples:
Loscil - The Making of Grief Point [the music is by Destroyer's drummer, the words and vocals by their frontman]
Sunset Rubdown - The Taming of the Hands that Came Back to Life
The albums Random Spirit Lover (Sunset Rubdown), Thief, and Streethawk (both by Destroyer) take music as one of their main themes.
posted by flawsekno at 12:46 PM on June 9, 2011
This may not be what you're looking for, but Destroyer and Sunset Rubdown are two bands that make a lot of music about making music. Their lyrics are pretty cryptic, but (the way I interpret them, anyway) they say interesting things about art.
Some examples:
Loscil - The Making of Grief Point [the music is by Destroyer's drummer, the words and vocals by their frontman]
Sunset Rubdown - The Taming of the Hands that Came Back to Life
The albums Random Spirit Lover (Sunset Rubdown), Thief, and Streethawk (both by Destroyer) take music as one of their main themes.
posted by flawsekno at 12:46 PM on June 9, 2011
Mogwai - Punk Rock
(with Iggy Pop talking about Punk Rock, making of)
posted by Kafkaesque at 1:59 PM on June 9, 2011
(with Iggy Pop talking about Punk Rock, making of)
posted by Kafkaesque at 1:59 PM on June 9, 2011
Music by Andrew Zuckerman 50 musicians are interviewed about their craft and the book comes with a 1 hour DVD, Trailer.
posted by Lanark at 2:56 PM on June 9, 2011
posted by Lanark at 2:56 PM on June 9, 2011
The documentary The Heart is Drum Machine is right up your alley. Here's the trailer on YouTube. It's streaming on Netflix as well.
posted by camcgee at 3:55 PM on June 9, 2011
posted by camcgee at 3:55 PM on June 9, 2011
Used on DJ Shadow's "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt" on Endtroducing...
"George Marsh on Drums: Interviewed by Terry McGovern" from the LP Music Makers Percussion, released by the Chevron/Standard Oil Company of California
It's a classic.
posted by TheNewWazoo at 4:31 PM on June 9, 2011
"George Marsh on Drums: Interviewed by Terry McGovern" from the LP Music Makers Percussion, released by the Chevron/Standard Oil Company of California
It's a classic.
posted by TheNewWazoo at 4:31 PM on June 9, 2011
http://www.mlfilms.com/productions/bach_project might float your boat.
Check out the filmmakers YouTube channel for tons of clips.
posted by kjell at 6:18 PM on June 9, 2011
Check out the filmmakers YouTube channel for tons of clips.
posted by kjell at 6:18 PM on June 9, 2011
Watch me post the same bands I always post
Ida Called You Woody, Joe - The Gaslight Anthem A song about listening to The Clash for the first time, and how that gets the singer through the day and helps him write his own music
Certain Songs - The Hold Steady 'Certain songs they get so scratched into your soul'. One of the cornerstones of their philosophy
We Can Get Together - The Hold Steady 'Heaven is whenever we can get together/sit down on your couch and listen to your records
There's also a little speech they do at the end of every show that ends with 'There is SO MUCH JOY in what we do here'. You can find it on most live recordings
Dance Music - The Mountain Goats How music can help you deal with living with an abusive stepfather
John Darnielle sometimes does a speech before Best Ever Death Metal Band about how listening to metal can help you
Sing Along Forever - The Bouncing Souls 'Give me a reason to care and I'll sing along forever'
Trusty Chords - Hot Water Muisc Covered by pretty much every folk-punk band
Henry Rollins talking about seeing The Ramones
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 7:25 PM on June 9, 2011
Ida Called You Woody, Joe - The Gaslight Anthem A song about listening to The Clash for the first time, and how that gets the singer through the day and helps him write his own music
Certain Songs - The Hold Steady 'Certain songs they get so scratched into your soul'. One of the cornerstones of their philosophy
We Can Get Together - The Hold Steady 'Heaven is whenever we can get together/sit down on your couch and listen to your records
There's also a little speech they do at the end of every show that ends with 'There is SO MUCH JOY in what we do here'. You can find it on most live recordings
Dance Music - The Mountain Goats How music can help you deal with living with an abusive stepfather
John Darnielle sometimes does a speech before Best Ever Death Metal Band about how listening to metal can help you
Sing Along Forever - The Bouncing Souls 'Give me a reason to care and I'll sing along forever'
Trusty Chords - Hot Water Muisc Covered by pretty much every folk-punk band
Henry Rollins talking about seeing The Ramones
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 7:25 PM on June 9, 2011
The Fugazi documentary "Instrument."
Long story short, Ian MacKaye thinks making music is the only cultural space where true political freedom exists.
posted by bardic at 11:12 PM on June 9, 2011
Long story short, Ian MacKaye thinks making music is the only cultural space where true political freedom exists.
posted by bardic at 11:12 PM on June 9, 2011
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