What other non-xiu-xiu-ish bands do you listen to?

[iamthemillmtnstar]

Aside from Xiu Xiu and a handful of other bands, I really listen exclusively to hardcore and hip hop. So it's kind of odd that if it came down to it, Xiu Xiu could very well be my favorite band. Does anyone else listen to a lot of music that is not at all like Xiu Xiu?

[Animals! So Weird]

yeah kind of. immortal technique has to be my second favorite, begind xiu xiu. but they are both outrageous and political, so maybe they are more alike than i thought.

[patsy neville]

basically all i listen to is the paper chase.
and bluegrass now and then; hillbilly at harvard on the local radio station is so awesome.

[SINISTER FUNKHOUSE]

isn't this the third thead like this?

anyway. other bands/musicians i'm also hugly obsessed with other than the shoe:

the rolling stones
radiohead
daniel johnston
the arab strap
pinback
cat power
gord downie/the tragically hip

lately?

fleetwood mac
the hidden cameras
chad van gaalen

[Animals! So Weird]

no he means like, if you listen to dionne worwick or olivia newton john or something. something thats not associated or even thought of as sounding like or belonging to the xiu xiu music "scene". (as lame as that sounds.. i cant word it any differently)

[SINISTER FUNKHOUSE]

oh! well in that case, i still stand by everything i said. minus radiohead. radiohead can be compared to xiu xiu in some ways.

but daniel johnston and the rolling stones. so un xiu xiu. and still my favourites.

[Animals! So Weird]

i just got sticky fingers on vinyl from a thrift store for fifty cents! no scratches!

[SINISTER FUNKHOUSE]

that's awesome. during brown sugar, at the end, take three shots of anything.

during the woo woo woo.

and can't you hear me knocking has to be the best song to do drugs to.

AND wild horses was the first song i ever sang and got paid for.

that album means a lot to me.

[lysine]

i listen to lots of early synth music from the late sixties on. a big part of my life is old synthesizer obsession. i.e. Space, Cardboard, Fun Fun, Tink, Telex, Kraftwerk, .. and as the list gets longer we get closer and closer to the end of the 70s, when pretty much everything had been created.

ive been a huge belle and sebastian fan for a looooong time. they were one of the first bands i ever loved. i own every release except for a few rare 7" and a 10" and the new single (not crazy about it).

so other then fancy avant-garde pop, i listen to those two a lot. also: bjork.

[todd]

smashing pumpkins
iron & wine
placebo
kimya dawson
the pine
sinaloa
madonnnnnna
cap'n jazz/owls/owen/joan of arc
okay
microphones/mount eerie

[Veck]

I like Shakira

[booksoutloud]

refused
american nightmare
bane
modern life is war
at the drive-in
the mars volta
bear vs. shark
bandits of the acoustic revoloution
streetlight manifesto
gimp
give up the ghost
lucero
minus the bear
scholastic deth
panic at the disco
saves the day
the pillows
the pogues
the bronx
thrice
the thermals
katamari damacy soundtrack
songs:ohia

[dr. strangelove]

veck said:

I like Shakira

i love shakira! well, i love her old stuff... now that she's singing in english, and the music is more techno/disco, it's not as fun

[bignothing]

okkervil river, leonard cohen, built to spill, simon & garfunkel, adam green, broken social scene. stuff like that.

[Veck]

strangelove said:

veck said:

I like Shakira

i love shakira! well, i love her old stuff... now that she's singing in english, and the music is more techno/disco, it's not as fun

anything with her voice I can dig, but the Spanish stuff I've heard is so much better than her English stuff.

But Hips Don't Lie is so damn cool, and I liked Don't Bother too from her new album