Julian Cope - Sunspots This song popped up on some compilation, somewhere, sometime. Whenever I want to introduce someone to The Chameleons, this is my starting point. Lyrically, the song is very doom and gloom yet it doesn't feel that way. The guitars are perfect, the atmosphere is just fantastic. HOWEVER, "Swamp Thing" is just a fucking beast. The Chameleons - Swamp Thing Strange Times constantly flips between being my top album or number 2 (the other album being The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers). The damn thing grooves, and is so wonderfully psychedelic. Everything about that song's sound just won me over. It turned me into a true Kevin Parker believer. I sat at my desk at worked and listened to that sucker on repeat. My buddy sent it to me as a birthday present. Tame Impala - Sundown Syndrome This was the first song I ever heard by them. I'm probably forgetting a few (I blame being at work on a Friday).so let's see. I don't know if it would be possible for me to listen to this song and not move somehow. Started dancing in place with my soapy hands, dripping everywhere. Almost like a mashup of techno and flamenco. I was washing dishes and had the spanish MTV station on and heard a song unlike anything I'd ever heard before. This band rocks.' We've been major Muse fans ever since. I called my wife over about 30 or seconds so in, and said 'you've gotta hear this. At that time I thought it was like a modern-rocking Queen. And I couldn't really figure out what style they were, but loved it. When the song came on, I was thinking 'This is a killer groove.' and as it continued on, I was amazed at the power of the band. My wife had some of her girlfriends over, and I was just chilling on the couch watching SNL and this song came on. I imagine for people who heard punk the first time, or rock and roll, (all before my time) it was the same kind of feelings. It was so different from anything I'd heard before. We all stopped talking, and were like 'whoa', and simply listened to the song. ![]() I don't remember us paying attention to it until the point about 17 seconds in when the distorted guitars stop and then those two notes ring out. At the time we were talking, and there was the typical pre-concert music playing, and then the song came on. ![]() I was with two of my best friends, and we were at a small ballroom waiting for the industrial group Nitzer Ebb to come on. For me these are the three that really grabbed me. I may hear a new song, and enjoy it, but then occasionally you hear a song for the first time and it immediately connects with you.
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