Beautiful, beautiful album. Soundtrack of trembling nights in dark rooms with impossibly perfect girls.

Here's some similarly atmospheric stuff to carry you through your hangover. Won't use the "sh-word", since I think it sucks. Enjoy!

Celia's Dream - Slowdive

Suddently the Trees Are Giving Way - Ulrich Schnauss

These are both great, felix! (And I've never heard of Ulrich Schnauss before...)

Really? I never know with this place. Everybody's tastes are so interesting and so deep, I always feel about three steps behind.

So I'll send you his best song, the one that made me go out and buy everything I could. From A Strangely Isolated Place:

Gone Forever

Word is that he has a new album out now, but I haven't seen it yet. And since we're in that vein, have you heard From Here We Go Sublime by The Field? I just got it and it's lovely. Worth drinking yourself into a hangover just to recover with it.

This is excellent- sounds like a cross between the Cocteau Twins and Sigur Ros.

And no, I haven't heard of The Field, either, but I'll definitely look them up!

How did you guys know I have a hangover???????

I'll add something to the hangover mix:

Tin Hat Trio: The Clandestine Adventures of Ms. Merz

Tanghetto: Alexanderplatz Tango

Heh, these are both cool, too, taz! Tin Hat trio esp., because it sounds like the soundtrack of an old French film.

I always LURVED the Cocteau Twins. I listened to those songs on a loop when I was in art school. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

*clicks link*

pufry hair? French word in band name?

*runs*

itunes just loaded up Carolyn's Fingers and I got a big smile on my face. THANK YOU. Just what I needed on a cranky "I need to go to work now-ugh" kind of morning. That song brings back some really, really great memories for me. :)

And yes, jonmc... run!!!!! RUN FAST! It's fruity art school stuff! Be careful or it might get on you! Aaaaahhhhh!

(lynnster, The Who and Mott The Hoople and T-Rex and Husker Du were fruity art school stuff too, but I love them. For some reason the 80's variety of it gives me hives. (not casting asparagus on your tunes, BoPo, since I've never listened to the Cocteau Twins, just spinning randomness))

Someone say Husker Du? Here are some of my favorite Husker Du lyrics:

Punch Drunk

Take a look around this bar
take a look around this place
take a look around this hall
Think it's a fucking gym?
Kick and punch and kick and punch and
kick and punch and kick and punch
Who's your friend? Who's your friend?
Who's your friend? Who's your friend?
Your enemy.

Take a look around this bar
take a look around this place
take a look right in the mirror
What are you a fucking queer?
Kick and punch and kick and punch and
kick and punch and kick and punch
Who's your friend? Where's your friend?
He's over there, he's gonna fuck it up
for everybody

Kick and punch and kick and punch and
kick and punch and kick and punch
Who's your friend? Who's your friend?
Where's your friend? I guess he'd rather be punch drunk.

From the Gut

The gut, from the gut
It hurts, hurts so much
The same, quite the same
You know, know too much
It's yours, yours no more
It's mine, for the time
That I'm without you.

New Day Rising

New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising,
New day rising.

I will have to take exception to your calling Husker Du either 'fruity art school stuff' or 'non-80s', jon.

These tunes will be getting me laid sometime this week, so thanks all.

Damn skippy, dano. On all counts.

dan-o: what I was basically saying was that the Huskers were liked by the arty kids and (at least some of) the rocker kids, too. and there were very few bands who managed that back in those days.

My what an interesting turn this thread has taken. But since we're on the subject of Hüsker Dü, I was about 10 years too young to have seen them live. And I never got my shit together enough to see Bob Mould when I lived in Minneapolis. But I saw him about 3 years back at a solo show at the DoubleDoor in Chicago. Opening band came on, played like opening bands do, then left. The crowd turned away from the stage while a stagehand came out and started setting up for Bob. Setting up guitars, taping down cables, setting out bottles of water.

When the "stagehand" reached down and took a swig from one of the bottles, the crowd about fell over themselves turning around. Bob picked up a guitar and proceeded to fuck us in the ears for about two straight hours. No backup. Balls out. Then he sat at the edge of the stage hocking CD's (Loudbomb...don't bother) and signing autographs for another 45 minutes. Bob Mould is a hero.

If i had to choose between Hüsker Dü and the Cocteau Twins, I'd chose the Twins. Sonically, they had something that these ears had never heard before. That far-out guitar sound! And Liz Fraser's voice makes my brain come. The Dü, though I haven't listened to them in forever, and seems to me in the end, were just a good band that sang good songs. I believe I've read Bob Mould saying as much. They did punk-pop right, but damn them for influencing a thousand horrible bands.

damn them for influencing a thousand horrible bands.

I feel that way about the Beatles.

yeah, and I'll add The Clash and The Pixies while we're at it. Of course, it's not their fault...

You know who's a good influence? Wilson Pickett.

Depends on how you look at it. Maybe he taught my parents to shag...

He's the ultimate underplayer, taking virtuosity and brilliance and normalizing it, attenuating his creative greatness. Low ego, high appeal. More bands should act like Wilson.

Those are definitely qualities that'll keep you around...lack of ego shows confidence. The Duke comes to mind as well.

Here's my addition to the hangover recovery: Le Moulin off the Amelie soundrack, by Yann Tiersen.