Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
It does sound very "'80s."
I don't know what it is, but '80s music (and '80s-influenced stuff like M83) always makes me think of high school. Yet I went to high school in the late '90s / early '00s.
What's up with that? :conf:
I have to note how the high school in the clip looked very '90's-like (early '90s too). Great video (cheesy end though), good song, although the whispering during the breakdown = no good. And did I see ceiling cat in there?
M83 rocks! Shoegaze ftw
PETRAN
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Sound quality is atrocious. Nice song, though. Love the voice pad thing.
Great Great! I'm a crazy fan of M83 albums like "DCRS&LG" and "Before The Dawn Heals Us" although these had a stronger instrumental post-rock influence. "Before The Dawn Heals Us" actually sounded like a mixture of post-rock (Mogwai anyone?) and shoegaze (My Bloody Valentine anyone?) embedded in an "80s new-wave/neo-romantic" (A Flock Of Seagulls anyone?) night-like atmosphere which had a massive emotional result, at least to me. This album seems to be even more "new-wave" and judging from the two songs i've heard, its going to be great!
As for "Graveyard Girl" yes ai also love the voice-pad myself. I thing that the synth-riff of the current tune sounds like a classic new-wave/synth-pop tune- "She is Leaving" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (you know...the guys that had hits like "Enola Gay" and "Electricity"!...).
Here is a soundclip in Youtube, soundquality is not the best but it will give you an idea...
OMD- "She Is Leaving"
whiskers
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Originally posted by PETRAN
Here is a soundclip in Youtube, soundquality is not the best but it will give you an idea...
OMD- "She Is Leaving"
kind of sounds like The Cure
Lebezniatnikov
Liked it quite a bit actually. I adore New Order, so I'd love to see more releases with them as an influence. :o
PETRAN
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Originally posted by whiskers
kind of sounds like The Cure
Indeed it sounds like the Cure, especially the voice of the guy. Although i don't know who influenced who (who came first) since both of these bands (OMD and The Cure) were big during the same period (early 80s). The Cure used to produce much darker post-punk music during that period though (early 80s) with albums like "17 seconds", "Faith" and "Pornography" (these albums are considered to mark the beginning of Gothic rock)whereas OMD were on the more mainstream-new-wave-synth-pop-neo-romantic style. All these genres were related though (everything was categorised as "New-Wave" back then!).
Anthony Gonzalez (M83) himself had stated that he was influenced by the 80s work of The Cure, so it is possible that he was also exposed to OMD and stuff. Listening to the riff of "Graveyard Girl" again strengthens my impression of similarity to "She is Leaving", especially if you listen to the original version as featured in "Architecture and Morality" album (great album by the way!). As you said though, "Graveyard Girl" has a more ethereal shoegaze feel.
Early-mid 80s was an AMAZING period for music. I don't understand why everyone refers to the 80s in a deteriorative way. In addition to giants like The Cure, Joy Division, U2, The Smiths etc. the period had some really great underground/underrated bands like The Sound, Comsat Angels, The Chameleons, Echo and the Bunnymen etc. Despite their dodgy names these bands had some amazing music, usually with dark minimalistic synths, dreamy reverberated quitar and usually powerfull vocal performance. Its not that i lived the period and hence im biased towards it (i was born in 1981), its the music itself that attracts me. All these bands had this deep and dark atmospheric fat sound which was lost as the 90s approached (well, except for the shoegaze movement which had its own ethereal sound). Here is a clip by the criminally underated band that was The Chameleons. They have this dreamy and deep shoegazey post-punk sound before shoegaze existed. I believe that they had a great influence on 90s shoegaze bands such as Slowdive and Lush. Here is a clip:
The Chameleons - "Swamp Thing" ("Strange Times" album)
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
It does sound very "'80s."
I don't know what it is, but '80s music (and '80s-influenced stuff like M83) always makes me think of high school. Yet I went to high school in the late '90s / early '00s.
What's up with that? :conf:
i think its because we got hooked on "American Psycho" j/k
MrJiveBoJingles
LOL. Maybe.
How do you like "Graveyard Girl," by the way? I thought you might enjoy it.
Ek0nomik
BoJingles: Probably because of The Breakfast Club.
IpLaYWiTLiGhTs
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Originally posted by PETRAN
OMD- "She Is Leaving"
Thanks for that...
PETRAN
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
It does sound very "'80s."
I don't know what it is, but '80s music (and '80s-influenced stuff like M83) always makes me think of high school. Yet I went to high school in the late '90s / early '00s.
What's up with that? :conf:
Well, thats easy, because all the 80s teen movies have been imprinted on your long-term memory, so everytime that you thing of your high school years, your brain automatically recalls/associates the soundtrack/atmosphere of that movies with your real life! Its called memory distortion it happens all the time...thats some crazy cognitive psychology !
Acton
i would just like to take this opportunity to show my appreciation for this album, its fantastic :D
graveyard girl is one of my favs on the album along with kim & jessie and skin of the night. the rest of the album is still immense though.
but i still prefer before the dawn heals us, it just feels more epic than the newer album, which is the style of M83 i like the most
