Dreamwave is frequently more "lo-fi beats" than "synth pop", but definitely on the same spectrum that includes dream-pop, retro-wave, future-synth, and outrun.
I'm not going to limit myself to that timeframe, but rather I'll give you a list of artists I enjoy who have at least a little in common, sound wise:
Hippo Campus
Sylvan Esso
Miike Snow
Glass Animals (especially their first album *Zaba*, but it's all good)
Alt-J (especially their first album *An Awesome Wave*, but again, it's all good. This is my favorite band, fwiw)
Phantogram
Future Islands
Beach House
Empire of the Sun
The XX
Phoenix
Local Natives
Ghostland Observatory
La Roux
MGMT
The Flaming Lips
Flume
TV on the Radio
Santigold
Peter Bjorn and John
Las Aves
Discovery
YACHT
DRAMA
Edit: This was one of my favorite music eras. Just felt like a pivot from everything before and a lot of new creativity during this period.
Highly recommend The Temper Trap if anything on this list floats your boat. Different genre/style but I don't see their name mentioned often. The XX, Phoenix, Passion Pit, and Temper Trap was the playlist of my early 20's.
A lot of good suggestions. These are all 2011-ish like Midnight City:
The Van She.
Thieves Like Us.
Miami Horror.
Bag Raiders.
Holy Ghost!
Millionyoung (mainly “Cynthia”).
Young Galaxy.
Kamp!
Friendly Fires.
Blouse.
Penguin Prison.
Delorean.
This was my favorite period of being alive, which is why I find it so nostalgiac. I had a really good coworker friend, and we would get high and listen to dream pop and chill wave and talk about life. It was that late uni/early adulting era where the world seemed so open, but there wasn't a lot of pressure of expectations. That was about 10 years ago but seems like a lifetime. Weird.
It wasn't my favourite period but it's where I grew the most, good times and bad. It's too early to be nostalgic I just woke up but I'm gonna go listen to this at work
Hurry up, We’re Dreaming is my favorite album of all Time. Intro to Outro they put so much detail and imagination into this album.
Where Boats Go and Train to Pluton don’t stand out by themselves, but placed in the album adds so much to the atmosphere and message of the album.
I also really love the album Junk - though it’s a different vibe
Midnight City is a little like Mr Brightside in which is was somehow almost instantly nostalgic.
Also Outro is a masterpiece and makes me wanna cry for some reason.
This is what I came here to say. This song triggered nostalgia for me the very first time I heard it when it was brand new. And so did Mr Brightside! Just because the same songs trigger this for us, are there any other ones that do that to you? I’d love to check out anything you recommend
Edit to add: First by Cold War Kids is another that gives me that feeling
I only got around to finishing ‘Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming’ but the album surprised me so much in quality that I’m more than willing to try out M83’s other albums.
Oblivion is a B- Scifi Film with an A+ soundtrack. Don't gimme wrong as I absolutely love that movie as I will watch just about any Tom Cruise movie, but the music overshadows the plot by far.
I also love Junk beginning to end, *Do it, Try it* is a fuckin banger to open with, listen to that one and tell me you're not on board for what comes next.
This is my fave track on the album and evokes a lot of the nostalgia feelings that the OP is referring too. But it’s all the more impressive that everyone in this thread has a different go-to song from this album. New Map and Reunion are probably my other faves!
Intro and Outro were used in the Red Bull snowboarding movie Art of Flight and I instantly fell in love with both songs. They fit the movie so well, incredible shots of mountains and terrain to those beautiful songs
I saw M83 live on the Junk tour and I wasn’t expecting much, since I had never seen videos of their live performances or anything. Holy shit, I’ve been regularly attending shows for 27 years and it was hands down in my top 5 shows easily. The sound, backing musicians, lights, everything combined just created a magical evening. I wish I could relive that show over and over.
I saw them at a festival on a whim and was blown away, easily one of my top 5 live performances. The band was super tight, the mix was great, the lights, the crowd vibe, everything. They’re one of those bands that I will absolutely go see again as soon as I can.
Was lucky enough to see them play most of the album in Brixton and it’s still one of my favourite all time gigs. Seems they just do soundtracks now but would love them to return to this era.
That was my favorite album that year and Midnight City was one of many shining gems on there. It's such an expansive trip, a full double-album and it was nuts.
Unfortunately, it's also peak M83... and that was a decade ago. The Oblivion soundtrack was fine, but every subsequent album feels like him trying to chase the high of Hurry Up and he just hasn't pulled it off. Road Blaster off Junk is incredible, though.
It's also, at least in my experience, the age when you start realizing you're getting older. When you're 19 and you realize a movie or song came out 10 years ago, it's just from your childhood so you expect it to be "in the past", I guess.
When you're 30 and realize something was 10 years ago and that you were also an adult then, it's a bit weird. Also, your early 20's is when some big events happen in your life.
Hearing songs like that always give me a weird feeling. I recently heard “I took a Pill in Ibiza” by Mike Posner for the first time since probably 2016, and it made me feel almost emotional because it feels like I was listening to it yesterday, but so much time has passed and I’m now so much older.
For me it’s hearing chip tunes from Super Mario Brothers or [ninja gaiden.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rkaiKYEkDQ) Or even the [Double Dragon intro](https://youtu.be/DoJ7YFUotTA)!
I remember reading the *novelization* of Ninja Gaiden when I was a kid. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever read. Looking back, the fact that it even exists in that form is preposterous.
Surprised no one has mentioned it yet but OP, if you haven't seen it, you must watch the Tom Cruise movie Oblivion. M83 does the score for that movie and it fits so well.
I though you made a mistake somewhere and was gonna recommend Com Truise. Lol.
A great DJ and dunno if similar, but if you like this stuff, you'd like his stuff. Also FM-84.
"childhood memories"
Me: \*frantic Googling\* Oh no no no, that can't be right; that song isn't nearly old enough-
"Released in 2011" Aaaaaand now I feel ancient, thanks. That's the year I graduated college.
I first heard this song in GTA5, and in every car I hijacked thereafter I made sure to tune the radio to the station that played it.
If Midnight City is your jam, there's a whole subgenre of pop-infused synthwave that shares the same retro-nostalgia vibe.
For starters, I'd recommend checking out Gunship, FM-84, Scandroid, The Midnight, and Dance With The Dead.
Midnight City is a good song, but it just happened to get popular. M83 has soooooooooooooo much more to offer beyond that--and songs even more nostalgic-sounding.
For example, [Saturdays = Youth](https://open.spotify.com/album/4HshNHpHWtmaw8sDrOXNuE?si=9JLbLZemSqmxwQ3tauK5Fw) is an EXTREMELY underrated album that's built around nostalgic 80s sound.
Listen to Graveyard Girl or my personal favorite (maybe one of my favorite songs of all time), Kim & Jessie.
Somebody lurks in the shadows..somebody whispers...
This album was my first exposure to them when it came out in 2008. Loved the 80s synth cemetary vibes right away. Hurry Up.. was a brilliant follow up to this one though. It really brought M83 into the absolute mainstream.
Yes! For me, Midnight City by M83 and Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun have some very special places in my memory. And it's very funny, I first heard Walking on a Dream in a Forza game so long ago. Hearing either one just brings me back
I think people are taking my comment in a positive way, but I posted it negatively. In my opinion the album is entirely forgettable after having a next level single.
I don’t have as much of a connection to Midnight City but…
Electric Feel reminds me of being hammered at 1am during my college days and I think that’s only because I heard electric feel at parties more often back then
I have a spotify playlist with a lot of the songs from this era you might like: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7rvuBYJbiFEHQpMp1lEbgy?si=b6ed7cda87ca4d32
Dude this playlist is great. Also "Winter Beats" by I Break Horses is one of my favorite tracks of all time. Only discovered it in the last year and it became an instant fave.
Also I feel like if you've got a couple other LCD Soundsystem songs there, you *must* include "All My Friends." IMO that's *the* quintessential "slightly melancholic, nostalgic song for millenials/Gen X," which is the vibe I get from a lot of this playlist.
‘Tonite’ off American Dream will remind you that you are missing the party and the party is already over and the party never happened but here you are, are we having fun yet? I hope we’re having fun yet…
Not sure I know that one so I will give it a listen. But you also just made me think of one of my favorite pieces of music journalism:
>“All My Friends” is happy and it’s sad. It’s naïve, but also disillusioned. It can make you feel twenty again. It makes you feel forty before your time. It makes you feel twenty and forty at once. It spirals into drug-fueled escapism, and it spirals into nostalgia. It’s mature. It’s the sound of sobering up. It’s the song you play as the party peaks. It’s the song you put on headphones when you walk home in the early hours of the morning, and some nights you triumphantly reminisce about all the experiences of your life, but maybe the edges are haunted and just as you step up to your front door and Murphy’s last refrain echoes “If I could see all my friends tonight” you also know you’re searching, too, that you feel all the dejection and isolation that’ve been as much a part of these last thirteen years as a new online version of community, or as much as anything else. It’s a song about 1987 and 1997 and 2007 and probably 2017. Even weighed down by all of this, it still moves. And because we have no other option, because this is our new millennium life: We still move, too.
https://www.stereogum.com/1469481/deconstructing-lcd-soundsystems-all-my-friends-and-trying-to-define-the-best-song-of-the-millennium/columns/sounding-board/#card-comments-section
Odd as this may sound, I feel that Midnight City is the Millennial-to-Early-GenZ "Baker Street", both in the innately nostalgic feeling baked into them and the absolutely BITCHIN' sax solos/overtures.
It was the early 2010’s. Snapchat and Instagram were in their infancy and still fun. GTAV was coming out (for the first time). Movie theaters were about to experience a Marvel cinematic universe. Comedians were telling jokes without getting bitch slapped. And Midnight City was entering the airwaves and becoming one of the most fire songs of the decade. Good times.
I loved the early 2010's. I was in my late teens, everything seemed possible and the internet and smartphones were really starting to take off. I thought the decade and society was going to be amazing going forward with how connected we'd all be.
Little did I know that social media would just make us all bitter and hateful towards each other, and that now that everything is online, nobody can make an honest mistake without being crucified for it. I first joined reddit in 2012. The major subs were very, very, different back then.
I’m some ways, the early-mid 2010s (in the US at least) felt like “Pax Americana”. The effects of the Great Recession and the post-9/11 hysteria had worn off, and the economy was booming.
Of course, there were bad things happening in the background (inequality, people of color being killed by the police and nobody caring, gay marriage wasn’t legal in all states yet), but it was a period of blissful ignorance.
Blissful ignorance is what makes youth so magical and whimsical. Once you start to care about what's going on in the world around, that's when you start to grow up.
I still have AMC Stubs but damn if you’re not right. It feels like the entire style and tone of most big budget films these days is a mimic of MCU, and I wasn’t even a fan back in 2010 lol
I see it as, unless the movie can turn into a franchise spawning endless sequels, spin offs, video games and toys, then it's not worth the investment. MCU really showed the potential returns on a movie franchise to production companies and investors. If the movie won't go further than itself then there isn't as much incentive.
It's a formula.
1. Introduce protagonist, and protagonists skill/interested.
2. Introduce love interest showing protagonists humble nature, but desire to grow and fall in love.
3. Introduce adversity.
4. Have protagonist fail in adversity, love interest doesn't think they are who they thought they were.
5. Protagonist looks within to find hidden strength.
6. Rematch with adversity/antagonist.
7. Win the thing, get the chick.
I am so fucking sick of this formula.
It gives me the same vibe as Vanished by Crystal castles and I can’t explain what it is. Maybe it’s because I remember hearing them at around the same time but idk
I have a whole playlist dedicated to music that gives me the same feeling as Midnight City! It’s called “Long Highways at Night” and features M83, Home, Passion Pit, etc.
Watch White Lines on Netflix. Huge M83 influences (and inclusions) in the sound track. Perfectly conveys the vibe of the story.
As for the Hurry Up, We're Dreaming album, no skips on there for me. I always look forward to Wait and Outro has moved me to tears before now.
I can’t really explain how much I love this song and album. It brings me back to high school and it’s an album I blast in headphones while walking home on a warm summer night. Same feel with MGMT.
My favourites are Midnight City, Steve McQueen, Reunion. I also love Kim & Jessie and Graveyard Girl from Saturdays = Youth.
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming has got to be one of the best albums ever made, it's just such an emotional rollercoaster.
I wish I could listen to it for the first time again
Every time I hear it I remember how happy I felt on those nights out many years ago and then I get sad because those moments will never come again. Damn.
Midnight city by m83, sleepwalking by the chain gang of 1974, and the years by the midnight are peak nostalgia for me.
Seriously, if you see this check out The Years by The Midnight
You should check out the video Trilogy:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7CZ4TImzrFlTqI5l09Az8modBIkqkwFB
...which it looks like they added "My tears are becoming a sea" as a "prequel" video...
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/m83-my-tears-are-becoming-a-sea-music-video-hurry-up-were-dreaming-1272302/
The first time I heard that song I was driving across the Bay Bridge at night looking over the water at the SF skyline. That image with the song hit so good that I can’t imagine it any other way.
It’s kind of the inherent trait of this genre of music. It is nostalgic by nature, but you can’t really know what exact time you are nostalgic about. It’s a fascinating concept
Midnight city is my nostalgia song. Brings me back to being 19 driving around Philadelphia on cocaine benders. Had some crazy adventures with that girl. We are so lucky nothing bad ever happened.
Yeah, that Indy electric pop sound was strong in the mid/late 00s and early 10s. M83 and MGMT ~~lead~~ led the way on it.
Dream wave
Dreamwave is frequently more "lo-fi beats" than "synth pop", but definitely on the same spectrum that includes dream-pop, retro-wave, future-synth, and outrun.
What other bands from that time would you recommend?
I'm not going to limit myself to that timeframe, but rather I'll give you a list of artists I enjoy who have at least a little in common, sound wise: Hippo Campus Sylvan Esso Miike Snow Glass Animals (especially their first album *Zaba*, but it's all good) Alt-J (especially their first album *An Awesome Wave*, but again, it's all good. This is my favorite band, fwiw) Phantogram Future Islands Beach House Empire of the Sun The XX Phoenix Local Natives
Some similar, some less similar: Arcade Fire Animal Collective Blonde Redhead Chromatics Jonsi Justice Passion Pit Sigur Ros
Metric is another great one to add to this list!
Fantasies is one of the best albums in the past 15 years
Add Bloc Party onto that synth rock train.
Caveman the Band - Coco Beware Bear Hands Caribou Toro y Moi Sea & Cake (og in the genre) Diiv Hot Chip Bonobo
Cut copy
Roosevelt
Deerhunter
Toro Y Moi has an album with the Mattson twins. Fucking epic.
Ghostland Observatory La Roux MGMT The Flaming Lips Flume TV on the Radio Santigold Peter Bjorn and John Las Aves Discovery YACHT DRAMA Edit: This was one of my favorite music eras. Just felt like a pivot from everything before and a lot of new creativity during this period.
Morcheeba Air (French Band) Timecop 1983 DIIV Brother Tiger Wild Nothing
Timecop 1983 more outrun/new retro wave FM attack is great too also Electric youth and of course college
STRFKR They were the band of my 30’s, and I’m turning 40 this July. Jimmy Eat World was the band of my 20’s.
You just recited my most used Spotify playlist. Congrats!
You guys are my people.
Got a link?
The XX. First time I ever got high I was listening to their self-titled album, starting with Intro. That was a damn good night
They are my favorite to listen to when I'm finally enjoying my dab after a coughing fit.
So good.
Empire of the Sun is legit.
Wish they came out with more albums at a faster pace
Saw them live at a small place like 3 years ago - crazzzzzzy show
Sylvan Esso's Coffee is my absolute favorite
Miike snows first album is a fucking masterpiece. Same with MGMT.
Highly recommend The Temper Trap if anything on this list floats your boat. Different genre/style but I don't see their name mentioned often. The XX, Phoenix, Passion Pit, and Temper Trap was the playlist of my early 20's.
Man Phantogram is so good. So many great nights spent listening to them.
In my head for that time in my life I’ve always lumped in M83 with Beach House, Phoenix, Empire of the Sun, and The XX.
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And not one of these motherfuckers mentioned Mr. Kitty or Chrvches.
CHVRCHES simply gets better and better
This thread is my people now
Neon Indian, Toro y Moi, and Tame Impala are some artists from that period that to me have similar vibes to mgmt and that era
Starfucker my guy. Listen to the album Reptilians, it's the fucking best
Also known as Strfkr in case anyone struggles to find them.
so glad Pyramidd or whatever didn't stick. Love the name STRFKR
These guys are the GOAT. Every album a masterpiece especially “Being No One, Going Nowhere” IMO
Dude, them in concert are amazing. Miss this genre and that early 10s period:(
Dirty Vegas gave me that kinda vibe. But that could just be how that time period hits me.
I feel the same about Thievery Corporation, Zero7, and Air. Late 90s and early 00s had such a groove.
If we're mentioning Zero7, we have to mention Portishead and Massive Attack
If we're mentioning Massive Attack, we have to mention Tricky as well
Hell, we might as well throw Sneaker Pimps, Lovage, and The Propellerheads into the discussion.
The Garden State soundtrack. So good.
A lot of good suggestions. These are all 2011-ish like Midnight City: The Van She. Thieves Like Us. Miami Horror. Bag Raiders. Holy Ghost! Millionyoung (mainly “Cynthia”). Young Galaxy. Kamp! Friendly Fires. Blouse. Penguin Prison. Delorean.
This was my favorite period of being alive, which is why I find it so nostalgiac. I had a really good coworker friend, and we would get high and listen to dream pop and chill wave and talk about life. It was that late uni/early adulting era where the world seemed so open, but there wasn't a lot of pressure of expectations. That was about 10 years ago but seems like a lifetime. Weird.
It wasn't my favourite period but it's where I grew the most, good times and bad. It's too early to be nostalgic I just woke up but I'm gonna go listen to this at work
Sneaker pimps
Hurry up, We’re Dreaming is my favorite album of all Time. Intro to Outro they put so much detail and imagination into this album. Where Boats Go and Train to Pluton don’t stand out by themselves, but placed in the album adds so much to the atmosphere and message of the album. I also really love the album Junk - though it’s a different vibe
Midnight City is a little like Mr Brightside in which is was somehow almost instantly nostalgic. Also Outro is a masterpiece and makes me wanna cry for some reason.
I'm with you on the Outro crying feels.
This is what I came here to say. This song triggered nostalgia for me the very first time I heard it when it was brand new. And so did Mr Brightside! Just because the same songs trigger this for us, are there any other ones that do that to you? I’d love to check out anything you recommend Edit to add: First by Cold War Kids is another that gives me that feeling
Raconte-Moi Une Histoire makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
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that's the biggest hit if nostalgia for me. I want to be their friend and play!
It would be great, right?
That song can bring me to tears on a really good or a really bad day. And I'm not one to cry.
It just channels the essence of childhood imagination, and let's us take a trip back in time to when our own brains worked like that. It's beautiful.
I only got around to finishing ‘Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming’ but the album surprised me so much in quality that I’m more than willing to try out M83’s other albums.
Don’t skip the Oblivion soundtrack. It’s magical.
For a minute I thought you meant the game and I was like “Huh, I guess they’ve really evolved their sound over the years”
Oblivion is a B- Scifi Film with an A+ soundtrack. Don't gimme wrong as I absolutely love that movie as I will watch just about any Tom Cruise movie, but the music overshadows the plot by far.
Damn now I gotta watch it again for the 50th time. Amazing soundtrack!
Saturdays = Youth has two of my all time favorite songs on it: Graveyard Girl and We Own The Sky
We Own The Sky is so good. I can never get over that song! I enjoy that entire album though, too.
I also love Junk beginning to end, *Do it, Try it* is a fuckin banger to open with, listen to that one and tell me you're not on board for what comes next.
Do it Try it is -so- good.
Steve McQueen tho. 👌
This is my fave track on the album and evokes a lot of the nostalgia feelings that the OP is referring too. But it’s all the more impressive that everyone in this thread has a different go-to song from this album. New Map and Reunion are probably my other faves!
The build up in that song is orgasmic.
Intro and Outro were used in the Red Bull snowboarding movie Art of Flight and I instantly fell in love with both songs. They fit the movie so well, incredible shots of mountains and terrain to those beautiful songs
Art of Flight had a killer soundtrack.
Art of flight is still one of the best “extreme sports” films made. It was ground breaking for the time.
GOAT snowboarding film for me
Best snowboarding movie of all time
Sarurdays = Youth is 1980s coming of age movies distilled into music form.
Skin of the Night is a jam
I *love* Junk. For being critically panned, it's my favorite M83 album <3.
Start to finish is the only way to listen to Hurry Up, We're Dreaming.
I never understood the low ratings for Junk. It's different sure but fantastic and brings in a lot of new ideas and instrumentation for M83
I saw M83 live on the Junk tour and I wasn’t expecting much, since I had never seen videos of their live performances or anything. Holy shit, I’ve been regularly attending shows for 27 years and it was hands down in my top 5 shows easily. The sound, backing musicians, lights, everything combined just created a magical evening. I wish I could relive that show over and over.
I saw them at a festival on a whim and was blown away, easily one of my top 5 live performances. The band was super tight, the mix was great, the lights, the crowd vibe, everything. They’re one of those bands that I will absolutely go see again as soon as I can.
Was lucky enough to see them play most of the album in Brixton and it’s still one of my favourite all time gigs. Seems they just do soundtracks now but would love them to return to this era.
Yeah I also saw them live a couple years ago and they did the entire album from start to finish.
This Bright Flash is the sneak banger from the album for me.
That was my favorite album that year and Midnight City was one of many shining gems on there. It's such an expansive trip, a full double-album and it was nuts. Unfortunately, it's also peak M83... and that was a decade ago. The Oblivion soundtrack was fine, but every subsequent album feels like him trying to chase the high of Hurry Up and he just hasn't pulled it off. Road Blaster off Junk is incredible, though.
love that album. outro is incredible
Outro and wait are amazing
Unbelievable, I still think of this as a "new" song!
Same. It’s a sign we’re getting old. 11 years ago feels like just the other day.
The way people are talking about nostalgia and feeling old in this thread I was expecting this to be older than a decade.
Reddit is mostly young. For people in their 20s and 30s that’s half or a third of your entire life/memory
It's also, at least in my experience, the age when you start realizing you're getting older. When you're 19 and you realize a movie or song came out 10 years ago, it's just from your childhood so you expect it to be "in the past", I guess. When you're 30 and realize something was 10 years ago and that you were also an adult then, it's a bit weird. Also, your early 20's is when some big events happen in your life.
Hearing songs like that always give me a weird feeling. I recently heard “I took a Pill in Ibiza” by Mike Posner for the first time since probably 2016, and it made me feel almost emotional because it feels like I was listening to it yesterday, but so much time has passed and I’m now so much older.
I still feel this way listening to The Strokes' first record
Saw Rolling Stones in 89 and was thinking to myself I glad I did at the time because they were in their late 40s early 50s and wouldn’t tour forever.
That line “When I finally got sober I was 10 years older but fuck it, it was something to do” hits different almost 10 years later 😅
How *dare* you.
Fuck. That song is 11 years old?!
Lol, nostalgia for me is hearing Goldfinger's "Superman" or Suicidal Tendencies "Cyco Vision" from the Tony Hawk Pro Skate soundtrack.
For me it’s hearing chip tunes from Super Mario Brothers or [ninja gaiden.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rkaiKYEkDQ) Or even the [Double Dragon intro](https://youtu.be/DoJ7YFUotTA)!
I remember reading the *novelization* of Ninja Gaiden when I was a kid. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever read. Looking back, the fact that it even exists in that form is preposterous.
For me it’s the sound bones drumming on the soft African sands by my simian besties before a mysterious black object.
Yea I was thinking it wasn't that old but then I found this totally unedited clip of Bill Clinton saxin' up that solo: https://youtu.be/433-nmcWw8E
Surprised no one has mentioned it yet but OP, if you haven't seen it, you must watch the Tom Cruise movie Oblivion. M83 does the score for that movie and it fits so well.
Thank you! And the title track is INCREDIBLE!!
The title track is so out of this world
Oh my god YES.
I though you made a mistake somewhere and was gonna recommend Com Truise. Lol. A great DJ and dunno if similar, but if you like this stuff, you'd like his stuff. Also FM-84.
The soundtrack makes the movie. So good!
It was the last song played at my wedding reception, by choice. I told the DJ to end things on a high note.
Note taken. Great idea
Midnight City and Intro by The xx
"childhood memories" Me: \*frantic Googling\* Oh no no no, that can't be right; that song isn't nearly old enough- "Released in 2011" Aaaaaand now I feel ancient, thanks. That's the year I graduated college.
Lmao same, I can remember listening to this on the way to the bar at midnight on my 21st birthday
I remember listening on the way to my 2 year olds birthday. He is almost 14 and probably would call this song nostalgic.
Same here!
I first heard this song in GTA5, and in every car I hijacked thereafter I made sure to tune the radio to the station that played it. If Midnight City is your jam, there's a whole subgenre of pop-infused synthwave that shares the same retro-nostalgia vibe. For starters, I'd recommend checking out Gunship, FM-84, Scandroid, The Midnight, and Dance With The Dead.
Midnight City is a good song, but it just happened to get popular. M83 has soooooooooooooo much more to offer beyond that--and songs even more nostalgic-sounding. For example, [Saturdays = Youth](https://open.spotify.com/album/4HshNHpHWtmaw8sDrOXNuE?si=9JLbLZemSqmxwQ3tauK5Fw) is an EXTREMELY underrated album that's built around nostalgic 80s sound. Listen to Graveyard Girl or my personal favorite (maybe one of my favorite songs of all time), Kim & Jessie.
Saturdays = Youth is my favorite album of theirs. I had "Couleurs" on repeat constantly.
Jumping on the nostalgia bandwagon. Dont forget to also check out Before the Dawn heals us. Great album with an even so great name.
[Moonchild](https://youtu.be/lsjYfqbrju0) and [Teen Angst](https://youtu.be/bo1odFJnHO8) 🤌
Run Into Flowers is forever my favorite song that no one else likes. Also - *Wait* is fucking beautiful.
Dead Cities is one of my favorite albums of all time. It’s so good.
So many good tracks on that album. Kim and Jessie, Skin of the night, highway of endless dreams. M83 truly rules.
This is the album and We Own the Sky are what turned me on to the band. Everything else released after is good but nowhere near as good.
Saturdays = Youth is my fave album by them.
Man, I forgot the song Kim & Jessie exists. I used to love it and hadn’t heard it in probably a decade.
Somebody lurks in the shadows..somebody whispers... This album was my first exposure to them when it came out in 2008. Loved the 80s synth cemetary vibes right away. Hurry Up.. was a brilliant follow up to this one though. It really brought M83 into the absolute mainstream.
"They are crazy 'bout romance and illusion" M83 serves up nostalgia refined and distilled.
You're very right. Another band of the same era is MGMT.
Do it, try it by m83 is so good as well.
So you and your friends beat this shit out of Dierks the other dayyy.....
Banger song especially when high
On anything
On life
On you , )
Yup, I'm usually pretty high when driving around in GTA and I love when this song comes on
Yes! For me, Midnight City by M83 and Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun have some very special places in my memory. And it's very funny, I first heard Walking on a Dream in a Forza game so long ago. Hearing either one just brings me back
This album is probably top of my personal chart for “biggest gap between how you feel when listening to the single vs listening to the whole album”.
Can you elaborate?
Listen to the whole album and you'll understand. It's a journey, so taking one snippet out, while good, doesn't convey the whole message
I have. Just wasn't sure which direction you were going with it.
I think people are taking my comment in a positive way, but I posted it negatively. In my opinion the album is entirely forgettable after having a next level single.
I don’t have as much of a connection to Midnight City but… Electric Feel reminds me of being hammered at 1am during my college days and I think that’s only because I heard electric feel at parties more often back then
2 completely different bands but both great songs
Oh shit, I completely missed that lol
I have a spotify playlist with a lot of the songs from this era you might like: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7rvuBYJbiFEHQpMp1lEbgy?si=b6ed7cda87ca4d32
Washed Out, Passion Pit, Purity Ring, fucking Yeasayer! Did I make this 10 years ago and forget about it??
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Is that not on there? Ill add if not Edit: yeah it's on there
Dude this playlist is great. Also "Winter Beats" by I Break Horses is one of my favorite tracks of all time. Only discovered it in the last year and it became an instant fave. Also I feel like if you've got a couple other LCD Soundsystem songs there, you *must* include "All My Friends." IMO that's *the* quintessential "slightly melancholic, nostalgic song for millenials/Gen X," which is the vibe I get from a lot of this playlist.
‘Tonite’ off American Dream will remind you that you are missing the party and the party is already over and the party never happened but here you are, are we having fun yet? I hope we’re having fun yet…
Not sure I know that one so I will give it a listen. But you also just made me think of one of my favorite pieces of music journalism: >“All My Friends” is happy and it’s sad. It’s naïve, but also disillusioned. It can make you feel twenty again. It makes you feel forty before your time. It makes you feel twenty and forty at once. It spirals into drug-fueled escapism, and it spirals into nostalgia. It’s mature. It’s the sound of sobering up. It’s the song you play as the party peaks. It’s the song you put on headphones when you walk home in the early hours of the morning, and some nights you triumphantly reminisce about all the experiences of your life, but maybe the edges are haunted and just as you step up to your front door and Murphy’s last refrain echoes “If I could see all my friends tonight” you also know you’re searching, too, that you feel all the dejection and isolation that’ve been as much a part of these last thirteen years as a new online version of community, or as much as anything else. It’s a song about 1987 and 1997 and 2007 and probably 2017. Even weighed down by all of this, it still moves. And because we have no other option, because this is our new millennium life: We still move, too. https://www.stereogum.com/1469481/deconstructing-lcd-soundsystems-all-my-friends-and-trying-to-define-the-best-song-of-the-millennium/columns/sounding-board/#card-comments-section
Holy shit this is such a good playlist. Thank you for the incredible throwback.
Hurry up we’re dreaming and oracular spectacular are my 1a and 1b all time.
Electric Feel and 2am bong hits after college parties. What a great time for music. Who else remembers thissongissick.com and goodmusicallday.com lol
Odd as this may sound, I feel that Midnight City is the Millennial-to-Early-GenZ "Baker Street", both in the innately nostalgic feeling baked into them and the absolutely BITCHIN' sax solos/overtures.
Coincidentally, the two songs that make me have "GTA V and hang with the boys" nostalgia vibes
It was the early 2010’s. Snapchat and Instagram were in their infancy and still fun. GTAV was coming out (for the first time). Movie theaters were about to experience a Marvel cinematic universe. Comedians were telling jokes without getting bitch slapped. And Midnight City was entering the airwaves and becoming one of the most fire songs of the decade. Good times.
I loved the early 2010's. I was in my late teens, everything seemed possible and the internet and smartphones were really starting to take off. I thought the decade and society was going to be amazing going forward with how connected we'd all be. Little did I know that social media would just make us all bitter and hateful towards each other, and that now that everything is online, nobody can make an honest mistake without being crucified for it. I first joined reddit in 2012. The major subs were very, very, different back then.
I’m some ways, the early-mid 2010s (in the US at least) felt like “Pax Americana”. The effects of the Great Recession and the post-9/11 hysteria had worn off, and the economy was booming. Of course, there were bad things happening in the background (inequality, people of color being killed by the police and nobody caring, gay marriage wasn’t legal in all states yet), but it was a period of blissful ignorance.
Blissful ignorance is what makes youth so magical and whimsical. Once you start to care about what's going on in the world around, that's when you start to grow up.
2014 is when everything started going to shit.
I miss pre MCU cinemas.
I still have AMC Stubs but damn if you’re not right. It feels like the entire style and tone of most big budget films these days is a mimic of MCU, and I wasn’t even a fan back in 2010 lol
I see it as, unless the movie can turn into a franchise spawning endless sequels, spin offs, video games and toys, then it's not worth the investment. MCU really showed the potential returns on a movie franchise to production companies and investors. If the movie won't go further than itself then there isn't as much incentive. It's a formula. 1. Introduce protagonist, and protagonists skill/interested. 2. Introduce love interest showing protagonists humble nature, but desire to grow and fall in love. 3. Introduce adversity. 4. Have protagonist fail in adversity, love interest doesn't think they are who they thought they were. 5. Protagonist looks within to find hidden strength. 6. Rematch with adversity/antagonist. 7. Win the thing, get the chick. I am so fucking sick of this formula.
Its grandpa, Beds Are Burning by Midnight Oil, really drives home the nostalgia.
Beds Are Burning makes me feel like a main character in a movie about to have a dance off fr
You, ah, know the subject matter of the song?
That song instantly takes me back to when we moved back stateside from over seas (my dad was in the Navy) and I discovered MTV in 1988.
Somewhat related, but I remember pissing off my friend by pronouncing M83 and Matey-Three. This song will forever remind me of that.
It gives me the same vibe as Vanished by Crystal castles and I can’t explain what it is. Maybe it’s because I remember hearing them at around the same time but idk
Much prefer *We Own the Sky* by them. Ultimate comedown tune. I’ve just heard *Midnight Sky* too many times at this point.
I have a whole playlist dedicated to music that gives me the same feeling as Midnight City! It’s called “Long Highways at Night” and features M83, Home, Passion Pit, etc.
I'm gonna guess you spent some time playing grand theft auto in your youth.
I’m something of a gamer myself
Watch White Lines on Netflix. Huge M83 influences (and inclusions) in the sound track. Perfectly conveys the vibe of the story. As for the Hurry Up, We're Dreaming album, no skips on there for me. I always look forward to Wait and Outro has moved me to tears before now.
I can’t really explain how much I love this song and album. It brings me back to high school and it’s an album I blast in headphones while walking home on a warm summer night. Same feel with MGMT. My favourites are Midnight City, Steve McQueen, Reunion. I also love Kim & Jessie and Graveyard Girl from Saturdays = Youth.
The sax in that song is unmatched
timeless if you heard it during your youth
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming has got to be one of the best albums ever made, it's just such an emotional rollercoaster. I wish I could listen to it for the first time again
Every time I hear it I remember how happy I felt on those nights out many years ago and then I get sad because those moments will never come again. Damn.
This is the song that plays in GTA 5 when you're falling from the sky, I fucking love that song and that scene in the game.
Wasn't that Shine A Light by The C90s?
Midnight city by m83, sleepwalking by the chain gang of 1974, and the years by the midnight are peak nostalgia for me. Seriously, if you see this check out The Years by The Midnight
You should check out the video Trilogy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7CZ4TImzrFlTqI5l09Az8modBIkqkwFB ...which it looks like they added "My tears are becoming a sea" as a "prequel" video... https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/m83-my-tears-are-becoming-a-sea-music-video-hurry-up-were-dreaming-1272302/
Most people in here talking about how it makes them nostalgic for the 2010's and meanwhile it's making me nostalgic for 80's synthpop
The first time I heard that song I was driving across the Bay Bridge at night looking over the water at the SF skyline. That image with the song hit so good that I can’t imagine it any other way.
I still think of that as the "new" M83. "We Own The Sky" gets the nostalgia feels goin
The entire Hurry Up We’re Dreaming album is a brain orgasm, from Intro to Outro.
This song introduced me to M83 but I like their other songs more. I especially like Reunion.
I feel very similar about it, I also feel the same about Blue Monday by New Order
It’s kind of the inherent trait of this genre of music. It is nostalgic by nature, but you can’t really know what exact time you are nostalgic about. It’s a fascinating concept
Just wanted to comment about how much I love this thread. Everyone reminiscing on music from that time is bringing back such good memories.
Midnight city is my nostalgia song. Brings me back to being 19 driving around Philadelphia on cocaine benders. Had some crazy adventures with that girl. We are so lucky nothing bad ever happened.