I was resting, smoking a little bit of weed, just tired and at ease when the algorithm suggested The Smiths 4th May 1984 Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany. The thumbnail looked good, Morrisey looked good tbh, and I started listening watching the performance, something just clicked. The disposition, the sweet gloomy romanticism of it all. So good, it made my previous general dismissiveness of their most well known work unexplainable, I still don't understand why I'm more attuned to it now than before when my highschool friends where all over it.

I don't care really I just feel that this new sense is expanding, unfolding this new horizon of music I had been instinctively recalcitrant to get into. I associate this sound with a lot of stuff I had avoided as well but that now I feel I will understand with my heart, stuff like Pulp (thanks to Chris Wade), New Order, Joy Division, are they all New Wave acts? I don't know anything about this scene, maybe you can help me find more stuff to love.

I feel that I should also mention that I really like Interpol and that I had years of getting my ears full of shoegaze. Now I listen to wallpaper music mostly.

  • PapaEmeritusIII [any]
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    4 years ago

    I love New Order. In addition to what others have recommended, I’ll also recommend The Cure (Disintegration is such a great album and it is peak gloomy romanticism), Echo and the Bunnymen, Siouxie and the Banshees, and Depeche Mode.

    Also don’t read anything about morrissey unless you want to be very disappointed. Ignorance is bliss