Music can send you down a trip on memory lane, it’ll make you remember a loved one or a fun time in your life or maybe even that one night with that special someone… you know what i’m talking about. We at 1833 are no different and want to celebrate the past with our weekly segment THROWBACK THURSDAY’S; check below to see what era our contributors are stuck in this week and come back every thursday to find out what songs you forgot you missed.
Martin:
Fall Out Boy used to make me cry about getting my heart broken long before I even knew what getting my heart broken felt like. Now they just make me cry because it doesn’t seem like they’re capable of recreating anything nearly as good as their records of the early 2000s, but they won’t give up trying. I know I’m not the only one who remembers where they were the first time they saw this music video – and if I am I feel rather creepy.
Zach:
Spaceghostpurrp could have been a legend g.
Alexy:
I’ve been stuck on Saba’s ComfortZone for the past two weeks. I bump that tape every morning now if I need a boost. He’s easily one of my favorite emcees to arise in the past few years.
Donshining:
I would not have gotten through high school without this band. Post Rock essentially saved my life and mellowed me out to be able to enjoy the still side of things. Listening to this band takes a lot of patience but the payoff is worth it at the end. Highly recommend these guys and if you need an introduction into the post rock world hit up your boy.
Brandon:
Hot damn, all six songs off Warpaint’s debut Exquisite Corpse EP are so unique and intricately original. The LA quartet seemed poised for a huge career when the EP was released in 2009, and arguably they’ve had one, but six years later they still aren’t generally in the conversation about interesting “rock” groups to emerge in the last decade, although they most certainly deserve to be.
Their two Rough Trade albums, while not immediately flashy, built off the tense, psychedelic-meets-garage sound they introduced with Exquisite Corpse.
When I first heard “Beetles” circa 2009 I was just beginning college, so obviously I gravitated to anything sounding “arty.” And it absolutely still holds up all these years later. The chorus seems to build off an implied breakdown, manifested through angsty, alternating tempos and layered acoustic and electronic riffs that you would think may be a jam song if it weren’t so exquisitely arranged. “Beetles” is moody, wobbly and demanding of your anxious attention, whether you’re a college freshman facing your first semester or not.
I’m not prepared, I just gotta gotta get there
Where am I, why can’t I just get it together?
Fuck it, where’s my shit?
Oh my God I’m mad at it
Oh my God I’m mad at it
Mama Sims:
Mulherin and Jon Waltz both dropped new singles this week so their music has been playing at my place. “Royalty” was the track that made me a fan of the New Orleans twin brothers that make up Mulherin. Be sure to listen to their latest, “Amnesia,” and Jon Waltz’s first release in 7 months, “Anna.”
Juttin:
Radiohead is a band that I absolutely did not like nor understand growing up while my pops considered them one of his favorite bands of all time. He even made my mom, brother and I go see them in Milan when we vacationed to Italy in the summer of 2007 (looking back, so raw of him). It took a bit of psychedelic research/experimentation for me to start to understand how awesome of a band Radiohead is, and I finally became a lifetime fan of theirs when I saw them again my first year at Bonnaroo in 2012. This song in particular has always been a piece of music I admired for its build and for the scene it creates. It’s almost as if I can imagine the film that this song was supposedly written for without any prior knowledge of its plot. Some type of dramatic, action-prone Cold War picture with a tint of romanticism involved. It also comes from my favorite Radiohead album, OK Computer, which I tend to put on heavy rotation whenever autumn rolls around.
