Listening to Swell Maps makes it very clear what"modern"bands lack:ALMOST EVERYTHING!
There are many kids/teenagers here on YouTube who curse the god +world that they were NOT young in the 70s/80s+even parts of the 90s+ in1998 VIACOM came along +started killing independent music+music business. I don´t know if it´s exactly true, but i heard that record sales today are about 1/3 of the sales in the 80s/first half of the 90s+it´s the OWN fault of all the "companies" trying to ban uploads on YT !
@MrSKINFLICK dont sound too old now. I love maps as much as anyone, discovered them in the mid 80s when I was a teen. I just bet you (and I) dont have the time to chase young indie bands anymore now. So the maps werent top 10 in their time, thank god, and neither will be indie bands that are as good as them now. You'll never hear of them unless you live and breathe the scene as we did as young men 25 years ago. They still exist tho.
These guys certainly listened to early Eno...
kaupokallerdis 3 days ago
you couldn't post enough Swell Maps. it's just not possible.
ZeronUnit 2 weeks ago
I loooooove this song!
marziafrate 1 month ago
Huge. So influential, consciously or unconsciously.
keoma76 4 months ago
Listening to Swell Maps makes it very clear what"modern"bands lack:ALMOST EVERYTHING!
There are many kids/teenagers here on YouTube who curse the god +world that they were NOT young in the 70s/80s+even parts of the 90s+ in1998 VIACOM came along +started killing independent music+music business. I don´t know if it´s exactly true, but i heard that record sales today are about 1/3 of the sales in the 80s/first half of the 90s+it´s the OWN fault of all the "companies" trying to ban uploads on YT !
MrSKINFLICK 1 year ago
@MrSKINFLICK dont sound too old now. I love maps as much as anyone, discovered them in the mid 80s when I was a teen. I just bet you (and I) dont have the time to chase young indie bands anymore now. So the maps werent top 10 in their time, thank god, and neither will be indie bands that are as good as them now. You'll never hear of them unless you live and breathe the scene as we did as young men 25 years ago. They still exist tho.
sizone 4 months ago