your recent musical discoveries

[metaphorge]

[Poll #1074196]
Feel free to expand upon your answers, with links et cetera, as a comment.

An encapsulation of my musical taste:

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[tsuyokunaritai.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. And "Still Alive" by Jonathon Coulton, which is the ending song for the game Portal.

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

That's the second time that "Still Alive" has come up on my flist today, and you two that mentioned it don't even know each other. Hmmmmmm.

[tsuyokunaritai.livejournal.com]

It's a really great song! My girlfriend has fallen in love with it and doesn't even have the context of having played the game; if you're willing to risk spoilers for the game definitely look it up on youtube :)

[redshrike.livejournal.com]

heya - i'm the other-person-on-flist metaphorge was walking about, and i haven't played the game, either...

i got gleeful descriptions of gameplay from my husband over the past week, culminating in his playing the song for me last night, whereupon it got stuck fast to my brain. it really is the catchiest thing since "rest in peace" from buffy's once more, with feeling.

(oh, and someone on my twitter-following-list this morning posted: "i miss the weighted companion cube." hee.)

[tsuyokunaritai.livejournal.com]

Weighted Companion Cube is my bff!
It's a stunning game, and well worth a playthrough if you have a spare 3-4 hours.

[redshrike.livejournal.com]

it was a big toss-up between shearwater and beirut.

oh shit, and there's antony and the johnsons, i think i finally got around to loving them this year. and regina spektor? panda bear would be in there, too, but i appreciate the music more than i love it, you know?