Bon Iver

"For Emma, Forever Ago," the Blood Bank EP and his most recent self-titled. Pretty much all of it. You might also check out Gayngs, which is more of a collaboration thing and not much like Bon Iver, but he is part of that collective.

Congratulations to Justin Vernon for winning a Grammy, and congratulations to his label, Jagjaguwar. It was so surreal to see someone from Jagjaguwar win a Grammy. They have lots of wonderful talent.

 

best new artist? hasn't bon iver been around for 4 or 5 years now?

 

Glad to see him win.

 

They do this all the time. I think the lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish got a best new artist nomination a few years ago, you know, 15 years after Hootie and the Blowfish won the same award.

 

Christopher Cross.

 

I was responding to another post in your thread. I didn't realize internet etiquette required me to respond to you and you alone. More interesting is the fact that you felt the need to start a thread asking for suggestions on where to start listening for a band that has a grand total of two studio albums. Perhaps you could, I don't know... start there, or maybe some live Youtube recordings. I bet if you looked really hard you could even find some sort of online encyclopedia listing all of their major works, and you could use that resource to locate a recording relevant to your inquiry.

These are all things I would do before starting a thread asking for suggestions. Interestingly enough, you decry the Grammy Awards (can't argue with you about that one) and make a thread related to the best new artist winner, an award for what you call a scripted, joke reality show. The timing of this post and you're declared distaste for the award show is curious to say the least.

 

Under the name Bon Iver he only has 2 LP's. For Emma and the self titled one from last year. Plus the Blood Bank EP. It's all good stuff, but For Emma is one of my all time favorite records.

 

Would it have killed the guy to rent a tux? Really? a suit from Salvation Army?

 

Careful, this isn't on point to the original topic of the thread...

 

Yes, please don't be the first person to derail a thread......

 

Yes, this is a discussion board. A previous contributor raised the point that Bon Iver is not a new artist. I responded. Hence, we discussed.

You proceeded to rail against me and at least one other poster for commenting on his statement, and then went off on a tangent about your dislike of the Grammy Awards in the same thread in which you ask for listening suggestions for an artist you likely just discovered through those awards. That made me chuckle, but if you feel like you're earning cool-music-guy cred for dissing the Grammy Awards, have at it.

All you had to do was ignore what you considered to be irrelevant responses, and that would've been the end of it. If anyone "derailed" your thread, it was you. More than that, I turned around and gave you some suggestions on where to go for finding some Bon Iver tunes in my second post, which should have put your moronic thread right back on track. Hell, the band is a whopping 4-5 years old tops. They have very few recordings. It's not that hard to figure out what to listen to. If this was your first discovery of Bob Dylan or the Stones or anyone with more than a handful of songs, I'd understand asking for advice. You do not need advice to find Bon Iver recordings.

My mistake. Looks like we've decided to stay off topic. lol And yes, Ultron, I agree. But the man wrote "Perth," so I'm going to give him a break (love that song).

 

I'm from Arkansas. I see that you're from Louisiana. Where are we going with this?

 

Anyone who digs the Bon Iver stuff might like the drummer's solo work.

S. Carey-

 

Nerd Rage over Bon Iver? Whodathunkit?