/lit/ - Literature

Another example, arguably obvious

>>5588310
oh come on

>>5588326

? what's up, anon?

>>5588302
this is the average /lit/izen + talent

>>5588329
you were most definitely right when you said "arguably obvious"

Dean Blunt gives me the same feels I get from reading Adorno

Arcade fire
Animal Collective
Vampire Weekend
Owl City

Aka all the bands I like to listen to while reading John Green and drinking a chair tea latte
:p

>>5588310
this.
also if we're talking electronic music, How to Dress Well has always seemed strangely literary to me

>>5588373
chair tea latte

>>5588352

Yeah, I didn't wanna start the thread off with OPN, but it would have inevitably come up. What would you say the intersect between /mu/ and /lit/ is?

Confession: this whole thread is essentially an attempt on my part to virtually interact with the contingent that browses both /lit/ and tinymixtape interviews,

But I'm also interested in what music people enjoy that relates to similar themes and exists outside of my self reflexive hipster blogosphere addled head

>>5588379
Auto correct on my iPhone is silly.

Nick Cave's the obvious one

>>5588383
I don't know, really. It's not somethink I think about a lot. Pic is something that immediatly came to mind though.

But honestly I doubt there's that much /lit/mu/s intersection going on (at least when it comes to users). Idk.

>>5588468
>somethink

weee, I'm on a roll today

>>5588302
Kode9 has a philosophy pHd and wrote a book about sound and warfare or something similar
Leonard Cohen is a pretty respected poet and his first two albums are some of the best popular music ever recorded

John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats... he's been nominated for the National Book award, hasn't he?

>>5588302

This faggot tries to copy body language of zizek and talk like him. Its so cringy that i cant watch this video for a second time. If theres a one example for pseudo-intellectualism and try hard faggotry its this guy :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4b0c7bdzfg

Gareth David from Los Campesinos! is the only right answer.

The singer has a Ph.D. in French lit.

Dylan
John Darnielle
Late 60s/ early 70s Bowie
Tom Russell

>>5588603
it's john maus

were you expecting anything else?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLVpZme0kRQ

kevin barnes of Of montreal?

>>5588603
>>5588627

I mean, the dude has a phd in political philosophy and named his album after a badiou koan

that he actualized his studies into some of the best pop music of the last decade is the furthest thing from "try hard"

>>5588645
i like the music

doesn't stop me from thinking he's a little pretentious at times

>>5588645

hes just another consumer. having a phd doesnt mean anything and naming your album after some faggot is just like the namedropping hipsters do all the time. so fucking what?

>>5588645
>the dude has a phd in political philosophy
Irrelevant. Stop sucking his cock, you massive faggot.

jesus...

Suicide
Terry Riley
Faust, Can, Harmonia, Cluster, I guess NEU!
Sandy Bull
Beak
Yma Sumac
Mort Garson
Bruce Haack
Spacemen 3
Tangerine Dream
John Hassell
Silver Apples
Isao Tomita
Gyorgy Ligeti and assorted classics, better if it's modern or experimental

>>5588688
yep, this is the /mu/ patrish post that I was expecting the whole time, right down to the condescending start

>>5588626
all bowie come on m8 (at least up to through the berlin trilogy)

>>5588626
>Dylan
eh, maybe John Wesley Harding

>>5588390
This guy gets it!

>>5588373
>Animal Collective
dont you dare

>>5588302
pete doherty
alt+j
the dandy warhols

paul banks from interpol has a degree in english literature

the guy's a huge reader, the band's named after a line in a Virginia Woolf story. lyrics are full of literary references

>>5588791
>pete doherty
>the dandy warhols

wut

>>5588807
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQN_dlUKtsg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3mc0yvRNk

the smiths mention keats and yeats in the song 'cementary gates'

>>5588688
>le I'm new to serious music face

>>5588688
>>5588697

Bingo. None of these are really lit. They just fit into whatever bastardized "patrician" pastiche this posturing anon considers modish.

And that "jesus" line at the start is so try hard that it's lamentable. Seriously pathetic shit.

Lil Ugly Mane i know you heard of me
i'm rocking Burberry and i'm down for burglary

>>5588800
Agreed. The Lonesome Crowded West in top 5 for me, I still sometimes mumble Styrofoam Boots when I'm just walking around.

Her. Monkey and Bear is basically a short story dressed up like a song.

XXs latest album is one of the best contemporary poem made in a long time

>>5588940
Yup, LCW is my favorite album of theirs as well, but I do honestly love everything they've done. Brock's pretty unique as a lyricist, I think. Most great songwriters are some variation of folk, but Modest Mouse is heavy musically and in a lot of songs you can't even hear what Brock's lisping off.

On the way to god don't know
my brain's the burger and my heart's the coal
I'm trying to get my head clear
i push things out through my mouth i get refilled through my ears
i'm on my way to god don't know or even care
my brain's the weak heart, and my heart's the long stairs
Inland from Vancouver shore
the ravens and the seagulls push each other inward and outward
inward and outward
in this place that i call home
my brain's the cliff, and my heart's the bitter buffalo
my heart's the bitter buffalo
we tore one down, and erected another there
the match of the century: absence versus thin air
on the way to god don't know
my brain's the burger and my heart's the coal
on this life that we call home
the years go fast and the days go so slow

>whatever pleb crap I like: the thread

Phil Elverum

>>5588830
>the smiths mention keats and yeats in the song 'cementary gates'

this, what other singer's book is a Penguin Classic?

Cradle of Filth from 2004 and back has bad ass lyrics. Even if you can't stand the screaming, the prose is awesome.

belle and sebastian mention dostoyevsky >:)

>>5589083
That is pretty funny. I didn't read his bio, and I don't know if i'm going too, but it's funny it was released as a Penguin Classic.

I want to read his autobio to see if he's serious or not, but I doubt he is giving accurate accounts about events. I think I understand his humor, but sometimes I just don't know. I want to know a lot about him, but I dont think ANYBODY really knows.

Anyone a Ben Gibbard fan?

>>5589158
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49lPGmnYDw4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXVVy4mWEXw

>>5589302
that dude in the first one is so sweaty

>>5589209
you are beautiful, but you don't mean a thing to me.

>>5588373
>vampire weekend
Mah African American brother

I like MC Ride

He's evolved into a pretty damn good lyricist over the course of his work with Death Grips, and I just really enjoy his very uniquely esoteric, schizophrenic, steam-of-consciousness lyrical style. He also excels in his ability to characterize this intense, visceral portrayal of physical violence and mental illness through his songwriting and performance (with help from Zach Hill and Andy Morin).

I'm not entirely sure what "/lit/ tier" means exactly, but if I could compare DG to something /lit/ related, I'd say their songs kind of remind me of a weird mixture of Notes from Underground and Blood Meridian, or other books in a similar vein to those two, as far as their lyrical content and atmosphere go.

>>5588373
C'mon, leave Animal Collective alone, dude.

Nick Cave

>>5589135
which song?

No Swans?

Gira's lyrics seem pretty /lit/ to me...

>>5591257
>Swans
Kill yourself.

>>5588373
muh hipsta

/lit/ talking about music is aways so painful to witness

>>5588373

>Animal Collective
>That post

7/10 ramshackled my jambos.

They aren't "literary", but comparing them with Vampire Weekend and Owl City is just too much

>>5591332
You should check out /mu/ talking about literature.

Science fiction + space ambient and a little bit of weed as secret ingredient
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Jon Hallur
Stellardrone

please /mu/, get out
you did a lot of bad to this board...

>>5591348
or illiterate /pol/tards talking about philosophy.

Chopin
Bach
Dj Krush (breakbeat mixes)
DJ Spooky
Avalanches
Vivaldi

well, this thread is shit, I will post


The call of Ktulu of Metallica is really /lit/ because has no lyrics and you can think in the sotry when you hear it

>>5591427
>this thread is shit,
>Metallica

>>5591431
yes, this thread is shit, and metallica is shit too.

And people think thqt Bob Dylan diserved the Nobel

>>5588302
David Berman, who is the singer/songwriter for his band the Silver Jews. I can't think of a single songwriter that even comes close to being as gifted a wordsmith as him.

>>5591464
>wordsmith

>>5588688

I hate you and your stupid post.

>>5588302
If you're looking for continental/postmodernist ideas, check out Malice Mizer

also postcolonial arguably

>>5591348
>>>/mu/50689935

>>5588951
sure but that doesn't mean it's good short story

>>5591464
>wordsmith

>>5591465
>>5591583
wordsmith as in wordusingguy

Blixa Bargeld is the only correct answer.

musical literature and literary music is usually the worst of each category.

stick to classical and classics.

>>5591265
Why?

>>5588302

>>5591864
seconded

Stephen Morrissey

>>5588690
>>5588951
>>5591699
Good taste.

Why did the cunt mod delet my post about Ben Hubbard

>>5592239
Gibbard* (phone autocorrect)

>>5588800
>>5588940
>>5588966
You two are my niggahz. And I sing Styrofoam Boots aloud all the time.

>Well all's not well but I'm told that it'll all be alright - you'll be drowned in boots like mafia, but your feet'll still float like Christs's. Well I'll be damned.....they were right

>Modest Mouse
>Vampire Weekend
>Neutral Milk Hotel
>Andrew Jackson Jihad
>The Antlers
>Arcade Fire
>Godspeed You! Black Emperor
>Bon Iver
Basically just whatever I like is automatically /lit/ :)

>>5591699
In German, sure.

>Über den Schaltzentralen
>Über dem Stoppelfeld aus Beton
>Über den heimlichen Bunkeranlagen
>die nicht wegzukriegen sind
>Marlene go home!
>auch über dem Marlene-Dietrich-Platz

>die neuen Tempel haben schon Risse
>künftige Ruinen
>einst wächst Gras auch über diese Stadt
>über ihrer letzten Schicht

His lyrics in English are usually pretty awkward and cringe-worthy. I wish he'd stop writing in English.

None of the VU nonsense. It's all about his solo work.

>>5591558
oh these guys

>>5592254
Where did you buy that standard 20 year old first world white college kid that just got into indie music taste?

>>5591257
He is an avid reader and has wrote his own stories.

>>5592335
Damn son, you were so close. I'm a 19 year white college guy. And "indie" isn't a genre, man...

But I mean I kind of just got it from /mu/ (though I'm not obscure enough for them) and random shit I like that I saw on youtube - I'm not particularly concerned with impressing strangers with my musical tastes, I just like to listen to what I think sounds neat.

Whitehouse and Consumer Electronics. Philip Best has a Ph.D in English Lit.