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What are you listening to currently?  I thought this would be a great way to check out new music that I might not find otherwise.

I am a huge music fan and have a very broad range of tastes.  Currently my top five on the play list are:

1.  Ghostland Observatory
2.  Presets
3.  Sinatra (Live at the sands is ridiculous)
4.  The Clash
5.  Hayes Carll

Also trying out a new band-  Girls.  Sounds like Joe Strummer met Elvis Costello.  Interesting, but don't know if it will break into the play list.

I'm on a classic rock kick right now, so mostly:

Rolling Stones
The Who
Beatles
Led Zeppelin
etc

But also started listening to more electronica recently:

Royksopp
Nightmares on Wax
Thievery Corporation
DJ Shadow

And finally some other interesting music:

Xasthur
Apocalyptica

The only "new" band I'm listening to right now is Dead Confederate.

1. Dilated Peoples
2. Alkaline Trio
3. Jay-Z
4. A Perfect Circle
5. Incubus

Kind of on a 90's, early 2k kick lately.

I'm listening to Anthony and the Johnsons.
He is my sister and I love him.

Porcupine Tree - The Incident (released 3 weeks ago, just keeps getting better with each listen)
Gong - 2032 (early days, but another great album)
Oceansize - Feed To Feed (4CD, 3DVD set - everything they've released performed live - still digesting)
Hawkwind - Levitation (remastered, 3CD set including great live performance)
BLK JKS - After Robots (stunning psych/jazz/pop/world/rock band from South Africa)
Circle - Hollywood (another left turn from Finnish kraut-metalists, still digesting)
Guru Guru - Kanguru (great reissue of the most accessible of the great Guru Guru albums)
The Inner Space - Agilok & Blubbo (rare CAN precursor finally surfaces in full)
Sun Ra - Atlantis (great free jazz from the 60s)
Mastodon - Crack The Skye (finally got this, probably best album they've done)
Muse - The Resistance (totally fun escapade into Muse's take on 70s & 80s art-rock)

I'm expecting some good stuff in, so it'll all change soon.

Some stuff I've liked recently:

The xx - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHZVGqqf3gg
The Antlers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2XQGJcTgKU
Phoenix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IkcmsBIK3M


Yah. Is good.


Agree.

I went on a 90's radio pop excursion the other month. It was quite fun.

Groove Salad for finding new stuff, random ambient/lounge stuff otherwise.

I'm kinda digging some of the few screamo bands that draw more upon old metal maiden-ish/metallica shit. I care not to name them.  heh

edit: a redundancy

1. Slipknot
2. Cantiga
3. Count Basie
4. Derek Trucks Band
5. Muddy Waters
6. Susan Tedeschi

That's what's in the FJ's disc changer anyway. Also, woot for the new Mastadon, Righ. It motivated me to go to my mother's house and unpack my drums to set up in my basement. Fiancee is...less than thrilled.

If you like DJ shadow I would push you to try UNKLE and Burial; Burial in particular is my favourite artist of the moment. Ladytron and Trentemoller are worth a listen too.

Right now I'm listening to Rage against the machine though.

Been listening to a lot of electronica and Darkwave mostly kicked off by seeing VNV Nation live in concert a few weeks ago. Other than that it's been 90s alt rock and some instrumental stuff.

Albums on heavy rotation are:
Dream Tiresias! by Project Pitchfork
United States of Mind by Covenant
Rocket Science by Apoptygma Berzerk
Sky2 by Sky
Wave of Mutilation (Best of) by The Pixies
Unerotica by Rosetta Stone
What Starts Ends by Rubicon
Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden

Thanks, I'll take a gander. I noticed UNKLE coming up on my DJ Shadow station on Pandora, and I seem to remember liking some of 'em.

Immortal - All Shall Fall :Love_Letters:
Hypocrisy - A taste of Extreme Divinity
Vader - Necropolis

Listened to a little Fischerspooner "Odyssey" on the way to work today, along with some Black Grape.  Black Grape, for those of you that haven't heard of them, are the band that Shaun Rider did after Happy Mondays.  Pretty good stuff for getting ready to work on a Sunday.  

Also, Sky-  can you recommend any good Basie live albums?  I have Live at the Sands with Sinatra and it is fucking awesome.  Never been in to Basie much otherwise, but am looking to pick up some of his stuff.

I'm still pretty new to swing jazz, I have Finest Hour, which is a great album. I also have a multi-cd set (Combos Anthology) which features smaller groups than the full orchestra. I'd say start with Finest Hour.

Shiver me timbers, didn't know they had a new release, anything they released is a must have in my book.

Wow, i thought they were dead.

The Ben Folds cover of Common People with William Shatner, on auto repeat.  I'm on hour 87.

They did release Virus in 2006(?) so it's not that long ago. The new album is pretty good, in any case!

I've been in a 70's funk kick.  Ohio players, Commodores, Average White Band, Earth Wind and Fire, Sly and the Family Stone, Brick (love their old stuff), and a few others.

Other than that, the old standards: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and the Beatles with some Rush and Dream Theater for good measure. 

I have been taking a trip down the nostalgia route myself in terms of choons!

Depeche Mode, Ministry, NIN (halo 1-4), Pearl Jam   :awesome_for_real:
and then
Utah Saints, early Moby, The KLF, Altern-8, The Shamen, Orbital, Orb, Prodigy  :drill:
and sprinkle in some
Digweed/Sasha/Ralph/Van Dyke/Ocean Lab  :grin:

I may as well put this here - expect mixtape ready probably this coming weekend.

You gotta check out Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, man.  They kick ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOJUbiWC5M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOJUbiWC5M)

Not bad... but I prefer old school. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyBa862AxaE)

1.  Van Halen
2.  Joe Bonamassa
3.  The Cult
4.  Norah Jones
5.  Allgood
6.  Miles Davis

Pretty much all I've been listening to lately other than random crap on XM (Classic Vinyl and Alt Nation).

I don't listen to a lot of music, only thing I've even bought lately are "best of"s from Primus and Massive Attack along with a Spoon and Tricky album.  I got kind of bummed out when my CD collection was lost the last time I moved and I've been reluctant to rebuy any music.  :|

Given Peter T's lifestyle and love of the bottle your statement hits awful close to home.  The new album comes out in November but I got impatient.  He also has a one man side project called Pain that also released an album this year.   Has a duet with the new Nightwish singer (Anette) on it.  Pain is a very good band as well.  Check em out:

Follow Me:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRbv4O65vBo&yt
Shut your mouth (pretty funny video)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2gXMRoPv_M&feature=related

I am really liking the new AFI and Rancid albums (shock of shocks).  Besides that, just going around with the usual standards of Motörhead, Slayer, Type O Negative, and Rush lately.  Threw in some Tom Petty and Heart the other night just because I wanted to hear it.  The car music player is running through the Iron Maiden catalog from Soundhouse Tapes up to Seventh Son where I am now.

Joe's a local kid. Used to see him play when he was knee high to a skunk (I think he was 11 or 12 the first time I saw him). He's scary good and a really nice guy.

Uh, what? Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of grave alcoholics in the metal scene, obviously, however I've never heard that Tägtgren would be one of them.

Not bad... but I prefer old school. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyBa862AxaE)
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I see your  old school. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyBa862AxaE) and raise you older school. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ5bHts9dNA)

The albums I listen to the most right now:

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Joy Division - Closer/Unkown Pleasures
Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light
Covenant - United States of Mind (hay thar IainC)

Mostly I just listen to everything in my collection on shuffle.

Does anyone else absolutely despise most "classic rock"? 

My least favorite five:

1.  Eagles
2.  Doobie Brothers
3.  Journey
4.  Van Halen
5.  Police/Sting

I despite whatever is on the "classic rock" channels on the radio as they like the same 25-30 songs over and over again.  Luckily I don't listen to the radio anymore, so my hatred has calmed down substantially.

I can't remember ever listening to any of them on purpose.  Especially Journey who are really Foreigner who  are mostly Styx.   All three of them make me want to lose my resolve to die of natural causes.

Don't even fuck with Styx......

I like them all.  I listen to them all.  I least like the Doobie Brothers, but have to confess that I like the sound of Michael McDonald's voice.  He did some great backing tracks for Steely Dan, which is one of my favorite bands. 

Just a small town girl...

I just learned Long Train Running last week.

Add Little Feat to my list.  Been listening to a lot of Lowell George era Feat and I had forgotten how wonderful it is. 

Honestly, I am a huge metal head, and love some odd shit. Recently however, its all jazz from the 20's and 30's.

I just got a big band box set from Costco and am loving it. 

Name? Ill go take a look.

Nebu: have you watched any of the Yacht Rock stuff?

No.  If you could PM me a link to something, I'd be grateful. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTI8vg7A5U is a link to the first episode. Last I checked episode 8 had no sound due to one of those record company violation things. There are currently 11 of them. Silly stuff mostly, but some of it is hilarious.

Crap. Now I have to watch all of them, again.

Been listening to The Faint a little bit lately.  I like them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiNB0vL8eRk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiNB0vL8eRk)

My wife said that a lot of the music I'm listening to lately "sounds like what the Revenge of the Nerds guys would have sounded like with real instruments".  I laughed my ass off about that.

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs For The Damned And Delirious (avant-metal with operatic female vocals and a swing jazz jive)
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (brilliant new album from the Lips)
Robin Guthrie - Carousel (former Cocteau Twins guitar man does more of his layered jangly thing solo)
Still Light - Lything (very limited first CDR release by new psych folk band featuring Sand Snowman)
Amplifier - The Astronaut Dismantles HAL (noisy space rock band that I had the misfortune of seeing live first)

Some streaming shit:

http://www.22tracks.com/#/disco/1/

Track 1 - LCD Soundsystem - Bye Bye Bayou (Alan Vega cover)

If you flip over to rock on that site, you can hear some Flaming Lips and the BLK JKS that I mentioned in a previous post too. I keep meaning to get the new Alice In Chains, listened to a song form that too, it was okay.

Picked up the new Raconteurs album last night.  Jack White isn't for everyone, but damn this is good. 

Been listening to a Wolfgang's Vault of Muddy Waters in 66. Apparently Graham used to record a lot of the acts that played at his venue and there's a ton of stuff laying around. It's a mediocre performance, but still enjoyable.

Also have an mp3cd of the full Allman Bros show we saw this summer at CPAC, the stuff with Jimmy Herring sitting in is on fire. Warren and Derek had played a bit with WP in the opener and were all warmed up, the show starts with a hot version of Hot Lanta. The bass mix is really nice, thumps good in the truck, especially Liz Reed w/bass solo.

Finally, lots of Susan Tedeschi, especially Hope & Desire. She's such an amazing artist.

Oh, here's WV: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/

I pretty much listen to mostly, what is considered nowadays, classic rock and even the metal I do listen too is pretty much old stuff.  Like I won't listen to anything by Metallica after And Justice for All.  There is very little music that's came out in the last 8-9 years that has really appealed to me at all.  

On that list though, I'm not a huge Eagles or Sting fan.  

Most of my music lately is:

Rush
Grateful Dead
Phish
AC/DC
Tool
Iron Maiden

Her cover of 'Rock and Roll' blows my socks off. 

But pretty much anything she does has the same effect.

You can cut a few decent songs off subsequent albums, but they've pretty much sucked since then, so fair enough.


You're using nostalgic attachment to known music as self therapy for your clinical depression. That, or you're under a rock. Based on what you like, there's a lot of good music out there for you to discover. You seem to like your rock music heavy, with adventurous rhythm and you don't mind a bit of complexity. You might like many of the less symphonic or melodic progressive metal bands out there, you might like some of the post-metal bands. You are going to have to listen around - the music industry as we knew it no longer exists and you aren't going to hear newer rock bands on TV or radio unless they're already fairly sanitised by the major labels that essentially own the press.

That's pretty much how I feel too.  I didn't mind the Black Album, despite what it "stood for" in those days.  I didn't even mind some of the songs off of Load, but the album was way too damn long and Re-load just seemed like more of the same.  The most recent album is... a good try.  I don't hate it and it is a return to form, but something is missing that makes me want to really get into it.  I can't put my finger on it though.

I have often wondered why Phish are completely nonexistant outside the US.

I'm one of the only people who enjoyed the St Anger album. I think it's got some good tracks on it. Every Metallica album does, but the thing I liked most about Metallica was Cliff and what he brought to the table with composition. No more Orion, no more Call of Ktulu.

As far as modern music, there's a ton of great shit out there, you just have to go find it. Stuff like Pandora or YouTube or even listening to samples on Amazon can yield great results. Since you like heavy melodic stuff, I'd recommend the new Mastadon album, Crack the Skye. It's wicked. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xXJu-C7_fU -> dude's got the album up, but they'll take it down soon since they've got a tube channel. You can check all the tracks for now, though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzwYMRKBkkg

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/stevie-ray-vaughan/concerts/ripleys-music-hall-october-20-1983.html  :-o

I like the new Metallica album too, but I've not bought it (or stolen it!). My friends played it a couple of times, and I didn't roll my eyes. So I guess it's good.  :oh_i_see:

Mastodon went melodic? Well, I'll check out the new stuff. I like them, but I always associated them as sludgy Melvins like. Sometimes psychedelic. But not melodic. edit: It's cool.. Not sure if I'd call it melodic... Like in the Maiden sense. "New" melodic metal imo is the emo/warped tour shit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JtYlaPYh3w) I listen to. There are some sick, "melodic" guitar players in some of these bands.

Also, Trivium (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77RNv5xUXRA) is a cool newish metal band imo. So long as you don't mind the Sepultura-ish screaming.. He can sing when he wants though. And guitarwise, both are great.

[edit] Eh, since this is the "Music" thread, allow me to rant on metal for a sec..

I don't think either of these bands are emo. Really, I don't even know what "emo" is when it comes down to it. They're all just rock bands, some good, some not. The only reason I mention it in this context though is for sarcasm. A a lot self proclaimed "true metal" fans use the term. Just a lot of hate within metal circles in general.. And I swear, fucking metal fans can be the worst. They're like the Joan Rivers of music snobs. Very damning when it comes to image, regardless of music.

I think Kerry King wouldn't invite bands like Trivium (and Mastodon) to tour with him if they weren't "metal" though. Or Hetfield wouldn't call Sevenfold one of his favorite newer bands if it weren't the case.

I'm gonna say that the same applies to Dave Grohl while I'm at it... he writes better metal songs than just about anyone these days. Last great thing I ever heard from Lemmy or King Diamond or Cavalera were Dave Grohl songs! And his part in Pick of Destiny is about the most glorious bit of metal posturing I've ever seen.  :grin: Yet, he won't get the credit for it from genre fans.

OK, I'm finished. Thanks for reading ;)

I think "metal" (holy Moses, that's a fuzzy label) is an intent more than a genre, and that intent is to be extreme and edgy. Slayer was the crème-de-la-crème in metal twenty years ago, but now they're just pretty tired dudes. Corollary, a band sounding like Iron Maiden starting today doesn't necessarily have to classify as metal, because the genre has moved on. I'm not too big in general on labelling bands I listen to, but Avenged Sevenfold and Trivum (although I don't actually listen to either) are both bands I'd label as "rock with metal elements." There are simply SO MANY bands with dual guitars and screaming/whining today that just sticking them all in the metal genre is a little pointless, atleast if you're not placing them in individual subgenres like "death", "speed", "heavy" and so on.

Also, there's a huge disconnect between what you in the US relate to as metal and what Europeans typically call metal, particularily if they're from northern Europe. What we have over here are basically three major genres of metal, death (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-UbViuK4fY), black (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0zur7Jz0oU) and speed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUszotxuwGo). There there are the obvious subgenres of subgenres, like symphonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY-EOYJQMMY), thrash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-_taPk4SGo), grind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu_BRTn76Ik) et.c...

My point is that the only real common denominator for metal is "drums and distorted guitars", so saying "it isn't metal" is... well, both accurate and inaccurate. I don't know if it has too much with being "trve" per se. You can label pretty much any 4/5-piece rock act as metal with some creativity, it's just a really dated label and kinda pointless to do. Like I said, I don't personally call the previous bands (Trivium and Sevenfold) metal bands (atleast, that's not what I would say to a friend if I were to describe the music), but I can understand that some people do, because metal is just that regional and fluid a definition. Describing bands in metal (the supergenre) needs a better vocabulary than that, because even if there are still lots of border cases, they are better definitions.

PS.
My intention wasn't to define the bands I linked, merely provide examples. They are, obviously, as much subject to the fluidity as any band...

Heh.. Well apparently, the label they get is metalcore.. with the exception of Avenged Sevenfold branching off a bit into just hard rock territory. I find the whole Euro/USA distinction silly though in Trivium's case. There are plenty of bands that have similar riffage. The whole "Gothenberg"/melodic death metal sound, for instance. The Haunted (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW2cktOi-Kk) is Swedish.. yet they are not that different than what gets classified as American "metalcore". In fact, it's pretty much the same thing. The difference between these bands and, say, a typical black metal Euro band? The death metal/melodic/metalcore/gothenburg dudes can fucking play their guitars, and black metal dudes can not. That's the only distinction. One is good and the other is complete fucking monkey balls in shoddy kiss makeup.

Anyhow, labels are so tiring.. They're convenient to a point, but all of the subgenre category stuff gets tiring. Be it metal or electronic or whatever. Sometimes I'm not even sure if the "metal" category is necessary. The traditional reasoning is that some people want to differentiate the sound from anything resembling traditional blues based rock. On strictly a music theory note, yes, many metal bands don't even follow the same progressions and formulas as rock does - but then, you'd also have to write off a ton of "de facto" metal bands from being classified as metal too then if you were to follow that reasoning. Sabbath is bluesy as fuck. Are they not metal? Yes, they are Metal as fuck. Elements of both Metallica, Motorhead, and Maiden are blues-laden, even though they're among the bands that first started blending into something else. And occassionally, someone does come around and starts saying that shit (and I've heard it before).. like, "Sabbath and Motorhead aren't metal". No. They are metal and you are a fucking idiot (not speaking to you necessarily.. I'm just lashing out to the air here, don't mind me  :why_so_serious:). And any band that's taken some of the Sabbath sound, for that matter - say, like, Corrosion of Conformity - they are metal too. And goddamn talented.. Which is the important thing. If anyone is writing off talent because they've got their head too far up their "scene's" ass, or don't even talk about music at all, and just go straight for what fits an "image" in their mind, then they piss me off. It's really insulting. And these aren't even my bands! I'm just insulted because I know as a musician talent doesn't grow on trees.

Ask Lemmy if he thinks Motorhead are is  :ye_gods: metal.

Anyway, yes, I think the labels are necessary if you music is your business.  If it's your passion, call it anything you like because it doesn't matter.  

Oh, and I obviously suck at both sarcasm and rhetoric.

You obviously haven't heard the most recent album or the new one that is coming out in 2 weeks ;-)

He gets angry!  He insists they are rock and roll, which they really are with degrees of punk rock and heavy metal.  It doesn't get much more consistent than a Motörhead album though.  35 years and still putting out the same quality rock, couple of dud songs, couple of great ones, and good albums overall compared to modern music's trend of putting 1-2 hits on a CD and hoping you skip the rest.

There are plenty of good bands out there that are putting out quality music.  You just won't find any of it on the Top 40 radio stations or even on Amazon.com's bestseller list.  If you are interested in heavy metal, you really need to get involved or tuned in to the scene just like it used to be 25-30 years ago.  Friends recommending bands, trading tapes (CDs\MP3s now), album reviews websites NOT run by any label, and going to shows where 4-5 bands are on the bill in some shitty club.  Sure, there's alot of crap out there, but there is ALOT of good stuff if you dig deep enough and listen enough.  I never would have heard of bands like Angeldust, Crown of Thorns, Celtic Frost, The Distillers, Edge of Sanity, Frank Zappa, Testament, and Witchery if I hadn't been asking around and listening to other people's recommendations (I know, not all of them are new or even metal in some sense, but the point still stands that not a single one of those artists got radio play and I discovered them either through CD trading or a concert I attended).  I would have missed alot and been stuck with what the record labels want me to consider "hard rock" - Black Sabbath's first 2 albums, Ozzy's hits, Black album era Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Pink Floyd's The Wall\Dark Side Of The Moon (don't get me wrong, all decent bands with good songs, but rock radio sure likes to play the fuck out of their 4-5 "hits" and they treat Ozzy like he's some kind of metal god).

And yes, all Black Metal sucks after Venom ;-)

Labels are useful. They are almost always inaccurate, vulgar and simplistic ways to describe music, but they provide reference points that allow people unfamiliar with a particular artist to know roughly how they will sound. Obviously the ever more detailed subcategories will seem excessive unless you listen to a lot of music of that type - you not only need to know what black metal, death metal and the intersection between them sound like in order to understand what 'blackened death metal' is, but you need to know the differences in style between the bands that mix both death metal and black metal. So if you just happen to like a few exceptional bands under these labels, the more detailed subcategories seem absurd. However, they are (necessarily inexact) shorthand for useful distinctions, and you don't need the audience to learn music theory to 'get' them.

What I don't like are people who use labels as badges for their musical bigotry. If you disregard all music labelled as being hip-hop or related to it because you think hip-hop is crap, you're being intellectually lazy at best. There are forms of music which are dominated by music labels who are churning out by-the-numbers populist bullshit such as country & western, disco or hip-hop, but that doesn't mean that there isn't incredible and original music that fits the labels. It may not connect with you, but there is talent to be found in all forms of music - it's often underexposed, but its always there. However, it's worse when it's driven by banal fashion. As an artist, it is good to challenge the status quo and to try and gain popularity - often by condemning what came before you - while doing something different. It's fair enough to fall prey to those artistic condemnations when you are a teenager. If you're an adult and you still think prog is crap because you're into punk or vice-versa, you're an idiot. Labels are not taste indicators or fashion badges, they're just signposts.

This post typed while listening to Pure Reason Revolution (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7dXeT0W-hk).

A music thread? In my f13? etc etc

2009 will be remembered as a good vintage, I think. From the meteoric rise and rise of the return of Shoegaze and all it's lovely little subsidaries to some sparkling psychedelic pop and some hands down brilliant indie. Please excuse the following use of labels/genres, but as Righ says, there's not really a lot you can do about it these days.

My tune of the year so far goes to Memory Tapes, and to be honest 'Seek Magic' could quite possibly be the best album of the year for me as well. It falls under the Shoegaze/Electronica subclass Dream-beat (or Chillwave), but it's basically channeling that ethereal sense of nostalgia you find impossible to nail down but revel in the feeling all the same.
Here's the quite astronomically brilliant Bicycles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EgbtNMcdwM). Pay attention at about 3:30 in, when Mr Hawke unlocks the sonic genome for joy.

Neon Indian have also been bringing me much happiness, more of a Glo-fi/Funk feel to their stuff. Their album Psychic Chasms, again, surfs that nostalgic ocean, but is much more reliant on samples and a mixtape aesthetic. Check out Mind, Drips (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCSExocMKR4) for some trippy, heady funk. Killer synth bassline.

Washed out follow up nicely, breaching both the Dream-beat and Glo-fi sounds with a gorgeous little number called Hold Out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ6yyOlNJbQ)

On a totally different note, one of my favourite discoveries this year has been Emilie Simon, a french Chanson/Electronica artist who sort of resides in a little fluffy fantasy world floating somewhere between the psychic mindspace of Kate Bush and Björk. I haven't had the chance to listen to everything she's done so far, but I got hold of her album 'Végétal' and I was completely under her spell. It's mostly sung in French, and it's a language she plays with beautifully. Couple of youtube vids of note: Fleur de Saison (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMDunGVx7uU) (a promo vid) and a live performance of Rose Hybride De Thé (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFqymYiXv64).

On the French tip, if you haven't heard any of Phoenix' 'Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix' by now, it's time to join the party. Lisztomania (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJDNw7o6so).

Probably lotls more to come.

I'll take your word on the album being shoegazey, but that particular song is pure Low-Life period New Order. I have discovered one really good shoegaze album from this year - Engineers' Three Fact Fader. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjwDkuXLIys)

And of course the master himself is back to full strength, Robin Guthrie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgNnh2aDINI) put out an album and three EPs this year.

To be fair, Lemmy is the guy who got thrown out of Hawkwind for taking too many drugs. I'm not sure he should be a go-to guy for any kind of opinions - even on his own stuff.

EELS - That Look You Give That Guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wREjT7DlI7M) A most beautiful sad song and I do like me some beard in my sad songs.

Then there were these Germans who popped out of nowhere and made a song that somehow resonated throughout Europe. Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner - Sky And Sand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do5-PiJeKmA).

And when things got quiet, from the bowels of Europe an anthem rose. Deze neger komt zo hard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_N2Rp7IQYI). Without doubt a horrible local cult hit. And these are the best hits.

Good posts guys :)



Besides poppy emo metal, I discovered that Italian prog is most excellent prog. Le Orme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsHKca7SHU)


2009 albums.. I haven't listened to much new since summer. I think Jason Stollsteimer - more famous for getting his ass beat (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kjok10TvYqA/SYiT0OHkvHI/AAAAAAAAAI0/vRI9S6GKxU8/s320/JasonStollsteimerAbobo.jpg) by Jack White - writes much better than Jack White. There's nothing mind blowing or innovative about his music.. in fact, it feels like I've *sort of* heard these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hzF85-ZqdA) songs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSZ_xISJAdk) before in another time... But I can't pinpoint where. But that could just be a credit to his pop sense. You've probably heard the one minor hit he had a couple years ago (C'mon C'mon).

I also liked Metric's album... But probably not as much as Falconeer likes it.  :grin:

As probably the biggest Hawkwind nut here, I should point out that Lemmy was a speed freak - he would burn speed for a week and then take downers and sleep for days. Basically he was doing the wrong drugs, and it was making him very difficult to work with. He wasn't the band's favourite member by the time he got busted carrying a gram of speed across the border from America into Canada. It was a monumentally bad decision by the band, and it is telling that all parties involved blame each other rather than taking any credit for the decision.

And you're selling Lemmy short, he's a smart guy.

Oh, I can't forget discovering Dengue Fever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcdgLclFWOU). I feel like a pontoon pirate (the dirty, mean kind). Or maybe Asian James Bond. This shit reminds me of old thai pop I'd hear when I was a kid.... Except it's a bunch of brothers and whiteboys, and only one khmer chick.


edit: Oh, one more thing. Metal Inquisition (http://www.themetalinquisition.com/2009/02/metal-inquisition-investigative-report_20.html) is one of the funniest blogs I've ever come across that's music related. Some real hard hitting reporting here. Such as.. "King of Metal" Joey DeMaio living in his parents basement (http://www.themetalinquisition.com/2009/02/metal-inquisition-investigative-report_20.html) or just being clued in on the fact that all hardcore bands are pathetic wiggers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFcBy1aaBu8&feature=player_embedded).

The album isn't so much shoegaze as many of shoegaze's miriad little subgenres, but there are definate shoegaze elements abound on the album. But yeah, Bicycles is mightily New Order-ish at the midway point, and it's when that guitar and bassline kick in over the children's choir that just sends it off into the cosmos.

As for Engineers, 'Three Fact Fader' would have featured in my next post on here. I am a big fan of Engineers and that album has had a long hard struggle to see the light of day. If you've not heard it, I definitely recommend their debut album, 'Engineers'. Huge, wrought iron tunes. Few young bands ever sound so complete and majestic.

Exactly.  Sure, he does\did a ton of drugs, and drinks a ton as well.  Every interview I've seen him give he's been 100% coherent and made quite a bit more sense than almost any other "metal" musician.  While I don't exactly condone the lifestyle or think it's a great idea, it's quite impressive that he's still going on and on even at soon to be 64.

Though now there's probably a whole generation of kids out there who only know him as 'that guy who looks a bit like Killmaster'...

There seems to be a lot of shoegaze-y bands coming out of NYC, and they are all pretty good. They're older stuff is better though.. I've heard newer things from some of these bands, and it's gotten "cleaner" and poppier. Before it was more deafening Kevin Shields like stuff. Asobi Seksu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUHBP6eTnSk) or A Place to Bury Strangers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbLmB8mAYk) are good examples. Heard them Matt?

'The Earth Must Be Cleansed of Juggalos' (http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/10/horrorcore-is-bad-for-societyhumanity-horrorcore-must-die.html)

Is there is any kind of music that you truly, in your gut, should feel be destroyed? I feel like I can support censorship after reading Carles (also, another good blog btw.. although it's not always about music..).

 

What the fuck was that?

Goddamn I hope that I just missed the green or something here.

ICP is a combination of rap, angst, sadism, and fetal alcohol syndrome.  So no, there's no green there.  A friend used to listen to it, and at times I felt like I was a bad person for not beating the shit out of him for it.

You must not be familiar with Carles' schtick (which is the most hilarious/ironic parody of blogging and personal "branding" I've ever seen btw). Or if you just mean the content (not the blog itself) he's right... 'Juggalo's' (and 'Juggalettes') are useless. I thought insane clown posse was already bad.. But this is like a serious epidemic, masquerading as a music genre. Bad news.

No, you see, you can't really blame an epidemic for killing people and being cockgobblers with so little taste that their preferred form of music makes Eminem look like the height of art, because microbes don't really have a choice in the matter.  These assgoblins are so terrible that even rappers don't want to be associated with them.

No I'm familiar with ICP and the ilk and yes they are fucking terrible with no redeeming features whatsoever (the Juggalo baby funeral (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMv9d1pIoBA) is probably the most cringingly awful thing I have ever seen). I didn't know about Carles' and it just read like a terrible Myspace page with no real structure or point.

I don't want to click that link...  :ye_gods: :grin:

Carles is tongue in cheek. Mostly. Sometimes it's hard to tell. His point in every post is just analyzing the aesthetics of various "scenes" and subcultures/genres/brands/memes/marketing. He's pretty cynical, but goes about it in that strangely autistic kind of way. There was a guy I was used to argue with on the ESPN boards who used a deliberate array of verbage/dictation like that, where he always had to include the word "sample" in every other sentence. I can't even imitate it right now, but I just found it fucking funny. In Carles' case, he uses the word "bro" a lot (mostly with prefixes.. "tweenbro", "scenebro", "douchebro" etc; emphasizes with ' ___ ' quotations, and ends every post with inane rhetorical questions..

Anyhow, I believe he's fairly serious in that post though. Hating juggalos is something I can get behind.

Oh FFS. Just post music that you like. How fucking hard is it?

Well, combining anything with rap is an instant win, IMO.

Fair enough. I've been listening to a lot of Rubicon recently. They are basically the rest of the Fields of the Nephilim without Carl McCoy doing melodic alt rock that sounds a bit like Badmotorfinger era Soundgarden. No Youtube links because searching for 'Rubicon' just gets you hundreds of pages of videos about Jeeps or some shitty college band from Virginia. Being a big fan of the Neff's rhythm section it's nice to hear them trying out different sounds.

So Righ is downstairs listening to Dream Theater right now.  That's fine and usually when it comes to this sort of music, I aggressively try not to listen to the lyrics because they're almost always daft.  With The Count of Tuscany, however, it's hard not to listen because they're daft AND bizarre.  The soldiers in the wine?  lolololwutwut? 

Time for a nice herbal remedy and some System 7. 

Took me a couple days to remember my password to log in from home :P A Place To Bury Strangers...the linked video was pretty cool. Kind of a Pink Floyd meets 80s protogoth meets me sitting around the band room with an effects rack and some double-dipped blotter.

Trivium has some cool guitars, but the drums are kind of obnoxious HEY I HAVE A DOUBLE BASS PEDAL (I'm a total drummer wannabe, btw...stuff like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVTat27lkmM) gets me all lathered up). The singer completely ruins the band, I can't listen to someone just yell. If you're gonna yell, at least do it melodically like Phil Anselmo or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NewEBRKFwXg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA3VgO3Vz0

Love the Pepper Keenan, Deliverance is a great album, too. Superjoint just fucking crushes. Or even Zakk's yell style (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diGz5dmj4po) when he's not trying to cop Oz's style (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhGInxDT7DE).

Or you could just go for the modern Geddy Lee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZwFycBgUpI)  :grin:

Not a fan. I know a really good guitarist who used to worship DT. He was trying to get me to play bass in a new project he's putting together with our second drummer, based on something like Meshuggah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc), who I don't really care for either, so I passed. Might have been fun, but meh.

I think I was in some emotional state or something a few months back, and Zakk actually made me cry.. It might have been something really southern sentimental--- like a skynrd cover of simple man. Haha.. Can't remember now. It was a slow jam though, and his voice was low in it.

He might not be Southern, but he does it as well as Dime/Phil or Pepper. Hell, it might have been a tribute to Dime. Maybe that's why I was sad.

Pelican's new album is being streamificationified

http://www.myspace.com/pelican

I have been listening to this all weekend and will snatch this bad boy up as soon as it is released.
For those that haven't heard Pelican it is instrumental rock in the vein of, well I don't know what to compare it to.   They are on Hydrahead records if you are familiar with their stuff.

f'it just click the link and check out a song or two :oh_i_see:

Ever listen to Cynic or Atheist? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdwrOESDXxo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz4TkW7Q_GE&feature=related

Cynic's badass. I like these guitars in Pelican.. never heard of them before. Will check out more.

I don't think I could listen to a band named Atheist though. Not that I mind atheist bands. Just seems too obvious. It's kind of like I can't listen to that Death Metal band who had an album called "Death Metal".

Then again! Cynic's a pretty lame band name too, yet they are good.   :grin:

The Count of Tuscany is the best song Dream Theater have penned in a decade, even if it is somewhat reminiscent of a few Rush songs. The lyrics are the worst they've ever penned, and they have a history of bad lyrics, so they really had to pull out all the stops to write lyrics so dreadful.

Obzen is not a good place to discover Meshuggah. In an effort to be even more raucous than their previous efforts, they notched the speed of bass kicks and fills up so much that the polyrhythmic interplay between the drums and rhythm guitar are muddled. And when you cant hear the inventive polyrhythms, Meshuggah cease to sound so special.


Neurosis. :D

Petrucci's badass, but I don't get into the overall sound of Dream Theater either.. Too many chill jams.

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Gonna move to the guitar thread.

I'd tell you how awesome Black Sabbath is, but you already know.  Or you're subhuman.

Mettalica is pretty consistently awesome before they started going different places after Burton died.  People bitch and moan about Metallica after (or before) Black, but there's usually a few decent pieces in any given album, though sometimes it's completely different than what you'd expect out of a Metal band and you have to not be a snobby twat in order to appreciate it.

Apocalyptica is nice if you want to headbang to Cello. :awesome_for_real:  I really like Heat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3D_PrFruEo&feature=PlayList&p=F2BB867899BD2DD8&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=42), though every time I play it I feel like it would fit in equally as well in a Final Fantasy boss fight.

Then there's that really fucking cool song that appears during the Warlock duel in World of Roguecraft. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3iTfEF52kw)

Actually, there's something to be said here. The 2009 Sanctuary remasters represent the finest you'll hear the albums on CD. After endless dodgy remasters, they've finally put out CDs that are worthy of the music being presented. Didn't take long, huh? Yes, the Rhino box set from a couple of years ago was poor too. Links to Amazon UK because Amazon US import prices are stupid.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Sabbath/dp/B001TKMAGW/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paranoid-Black-Sabbath/dp/B001D2AYCI/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Master-Reality-Black-Sabbath/dp/B0023P1D8S/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Sabbath-Vol-4/dp/B002JIEYLW/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sabbath-Bloody-Black/dp/B002JIEYL2/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sabotage-Black-Sabbath/dp/B002JIEYLC/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Never-Say-Die-Black-Sabbath/dp/B002JIEYKS/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Technical-Ecstacy-Black-Sabbath/dp/B002JIEYLM/

Make sure you buy those ones if you ever decide to replace what you have. It's a minefield of bad sounding CDs out there.

Nice.

I stop at volume 4 though. Except for Johnny Blade. :grin:

And then Randy trumps all of it imho.

Anyone else like Ashley MacIsaac?

http://ashleymacisaac.net/

I love this kind of stuff.

Sabotage had some of their finest work!  ;-)

1. Iron Maiden
2. Metallica
3. Steely Dan
4. Cheb Khaled
5. Benjamin Britten

all are awesome

I'm going to have to pick up the new Fuck buttons album. It's not bad from what I've heard so far.

Getting excited about festival season in Aus. Got a whole bunch of bands I'm going to see for the first time. Particularly looking forward to:

Echo & The Bunnymen
Animal Collective
Wild Beasts
The xx (wondering how they'll be live, though)
The Very Best
The Middle East (twice!)
Jarvis Cocker
Paul Kelly
Dizzee
Mastodon (fuck yes!)
Faith No More
Isis (who were awesome last time I saw them)
Meshuggah
Anthrax
Sunny Day Real Estate

I mean, I don't have enough money for such things, but... music, right?

So yeah. All those I've mentioned I'm pretty keen on.

Head Phones President (new album) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX9IiYUG4vY)

Pretty cool... Not sure, but perhaps someone here might be interested in their older stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTWXQ3uRR1o) instead. They're slightly "folky"/the compositions seem to follow more unique cultural arrangements, in a way similar to how Euro countries adapt metal to their own folk music. I think they should get back to that.

Surprised these guys are still kicking.  I used to listen to them a bit. 

Note: some music it takes me a while to get into. I usually hate Tool albums when I first get them, until I can digest them. That said, Cynic has potential, but I don't care for the drums. Too much straight double bass drumming, and his fills are muddy. He's better in the slower sections, though. Singer isn't doing anything for me. They're almost there, but missing a certain groove factor.

I liked the Atheist track better. The bass is ridiculous in the mix, though. Sounds like an evil spring or something. Good bass line, just an awful mix. And the singer, another singer ruining a decent band for me. I like very few metal singers.
I see your Johnny Blade and raise you a Symptom of the Universe, one of my favorite Sabbath tunes. Randy obviously deserves his spot in the pantheon, but that doesn't diminish how great Tony was. Different styles, Randy was classical where Tony was bluesy.

We just saw a cool new (to us) band on MavTV over the weekend: The Legendary Shack Shakers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3IB4KwfUA4). Those motherfuckers kick some serious ass and I'd really like to catch them live. The frontman is certifiable.

Heh just to add, Cynic's been around for like 300 yrs. If they haven't reached potential to you yet, they might never do it  8-)

Randy could play Iommi's stuff better than Iommi imho.

Although I'm not sure I'd say the same Zack playing Randy's stuff. Don't want to get into a big guitar debate here though.

Yeah, I'm rather partial to Asobi Seksu's first album (and a few lovely remixes of said)! Don't know a great deal of A Place to Bury Strangers but I do like what I've heard. As I said, it's been a great time for shoegaze and its ilk, from Engineer's debut a few years ago to M83 - both early 'making music for lonely planets to make love to' stargaze and last year's John Hughes secret soundtrack 'Saturdays = Youth'

Also turning me on this year have been The Big Pink, who do a sort of mad, essential blend of shoegaze, noisepop and Stone Roses-era baggy. They're currently filling indieclub dance floors with the frankly immense Dominos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnNlQ-KNv4) (Youtube simply can't do the sound of this track justice)

speaking of shoegaze



Jesu- tired of me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VvH9_2KCEE

Jesu- the star that hangs above you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA4WtX7drzQ&feature=related

Jesu - Silver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBs-cZs9m8U&feature=related

and to think Justin was one of the founding members of Napalm Death

give it a spin

Napalm Death is awesome.  Well, was maybe.  I've lost touch.

Yes they sure were.  No idea what they have done any time recently though...  The last album review of theirs I don't recall favorably, but I can't remember when that was...

although they have zero original members left  :awesome_for_real: there 2009 album Time Waits For No Slave is a great slab of grindcore.  I am not a huge grindcore guy, but there recent albums have been great if you are into politically themed grindcore.  If memory serves, their 2nd guitarist basically went MIA then died do to alcohol I believe.  They have continued with just one guitarist with a much leaner and meaner sound.

I'm listening to a band called Steel Panther at the moment; they're not very PC. Fun music though  :drill:

Due to production delays, I'm still waiting for the 5x CD + DVD-A 40th anniversary box set of In The Court Of The Crimson King (http://theflickcast.com/2009/10/29/new-clip-from-this-weeks-venture-bros/) to arrive.

However, the new Senser album How To Do Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmLb5rszAh8) arrived at last! Hurrah.

We got a live CD at the Derek Trucks show, like to buy from the artist when possible. Great extended version of My Favorite Things.

Waiting for the second two Muddy Waters Blue Sky recordings, $7/ea so I snuck them into my Dragon Age order. The first Blue Sky (w/Johnny Winter), Hard Again, is an amazing album.

Just bought a few new albums.  We'll see how it goes

Fugazi-  the Argument
Decemberists-  the Crane Wife
Burial-  Untrue
Sufjan Stevens-  Illinois

This week, I have mostly been listening to;

Slayer - World Painted Blood. I think I prefer it to Christ Illusion, especially the handful of really fast songs.

Children of Bodom - Skeleton In The Closet. Although not all of it. I've only copied the metal covers and the Creedence Clearwater Survival song on to my ipod. Oh, and I don't care if they are doing it to be funny, Oops I Did It Again is an abomination.

Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague. CC is a good example of a band where I prefer their newer stuff. I don't know if it's down to the quality of the earlier recordings, or just that I prefer the crystal clear sound, tones and production you get from modern studios. (unless they screw it up post production but that's another discussion)

Lady GaGa - The Fame, because you can't sing along to George Fisher.

I've been listening to Band of Gypsys, DTB slipped into one of their tunes in the middle of an extended jam, so I've been in the mood for some old style jams. That and a bunch of baroque and renaissance stuff on guitar.

I'm also listening to this a lot at the moment. His debut album 'Burial' and several of his EPs just got added to Spotify, so I'm getting through them. I think I prefer 'Untrue' to 'Burial' myself.


I only came to hear about this in a roundabout way. A while back I was directed to a remix album by a producer called Tor. He had sampled and redubbed 7 tracks from the Illinois album with some of Rap's best MCs (Aesop Rock, Brother Ali, Outkast) to great result. You can down load the mixtape tracks HERE for free (http://www.illinoize.biz/index.html), it's worth taking a look in my opinion as it is done so well, and hey - free music!

Six Feet Under + Ice-T. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1lhyxRF-oo)


My current line up:

Pagan's Mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKQpcVYcCcY) + The New shit  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wc2rGHvbdM)

Gojira (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXfdRLPA9is) Adoration for None (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IQ40gnssOs)

GWAR, Duh. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n029uRM9w6Q)

A bit'o Human Remains (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xgzX4aLHIk) (oddly catchy isn't it.)

and a heavy dose of STRAPPING YOUNG LAD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeG-6bpeUkA)


Cannibal Corpse Lounge Music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-V3NYckOI)  :why_so_serious:

One of my all time fav CC tracks... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbb34jwEtHY)

Yeah, the Sufjan Stevens stuff is interesting.  Anyone heard Michigan?  I guess the guy plans on writing an album for each state.  Weird.

He's been having a bit of a breakdown lately, sadly. A heady mix of faith troubles and music exhaustion. Though he has also stated that the '50 States' project that Illinoise and Michigan belong to was a conceptual joke that got taken too far by the music press. Which is hardly surprising, really. Considering he's an artist who puts absolutely every fibre of his being into his albums proper, I doubt he'd ever manage to do it even if he continued releasing music into his 100s.

Thank goodness.  I would hate to hear what he would write about Kentucky and West Virginia.  There would be a high content of banjos and pigs, I suppose.

Cynic became Gordian Knot from 1999-2003, which is probably better than Cynic as it's less muddled with 'Am I metal or prog rock?' clumsiness...much more coherent, and damn cool.  I don't like their second album as much, but their first one is killer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2tIUzoQwcQ

Atheist on the other hand made one absolute masterpiece in Unquestionable Presence.  As far Elements, I find it's really mediocre and directionless compared to UP.  It has a much better production though, which was the only fault of UP, other than that...bleh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czMX7a30Rns&feature=related

And I'm glad that Jesu was mentioned.  Jesu killed shoegaze for me.   What's the point of anything after their initial EP and s/t?  Broaderick is a genius.

If you have not bought Slayer's "World Painted Blood" and claim to like metal, you are missing out.

My iPod broke, so I'm back to burning CD's instead of shuffling so much. I should just keep it this way.

Kind of "mainstream" rock listening lately.. Diggin' it though. Velvet Revolver, Green Day's new-ish album heh.

I broke out the old-school metal yesterday.

Best album you've never heard of  Mean Season- Grace.  

Followed by Fountainhead- Drain and Integrity- Those who fear tomorrow.

Great stuff.

Edit:  Probably just "old school" to me.  Old school probably means Deep Purple to most.

YES.  Add in Black Sabbath & Led Zeppelin. I've heard some consider Cream and Iron Butterfly to be originators as well.  

I'm listening to Cream right now... love that band.  

I finally got around to buying and listening to the new Rodrigo y Gabriela album (11:11). It is pretty fantastic stuff, much more funk-influenced than the first album.

Also, if you've never heard the Budos Band, you should check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc1-6xJohzA

I'm not sure I like metal any more. I used to be a big Slayer fan back in the day, but the vocals just don't do it for me anymore. I was looking through my Amazon recommendations for something to toss on the wish list to get into this week's sweepstakes and was sampling the older Mastodon stuff. I can see why the older fans don't like the newer stuff, I guess melodic vocals aren't the thing in metal, and that's pretty much all I care for there days. I don't mind a little yelling now and again, but the bulk of the material should be singing, in key and appropriate to the material.

Cream, I guess I like them but I'm not in love with them. We actually used to do a rough version of White Room, but for the most part I didn't listen to them much until recently, and they were more of a link between other stuff I was listening to. I guess the context is missing, there's a lot of stuff I like much more from that era, Hendrix for the power trio, Zep, Mac, ABB etc. I've got a great jam of Spoonful but still prefer Charley Patton's 1929 version. Clapton has moments, but he's never clicked with me, not sure why.

My fiancee just ordered Setzer's new album Songs From Lonely Avenue, there's a guitarist who clicks with me. Makes me vacillate between quitting or practicing for hours. In the truck I've been listening to Freddie King's Burglar (zomg), the ABB show from this summer and some Django. Stupid Mastodon CD doesn't like to go into my changer, so I'll have to burn it to another disc to get my metal fix.

Have you heard Heaven and Hell?  It's Dio!  And it's even pretty good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3clLf-L9oSo

Manilla Road is also still making good music, probably not as good as their 80's stuff but still solid in irrevocably epic.  The sound quality is pretty bad though.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCCktD-4G8

As far as death metal vocals go...good death metal would be pretty fucking hard to come up with any sort of melodic vocal track to.  Read impossible.  I could understand preferring no vocals over the vocals present though.  And as far as Slayer goes, I'd rather spin Hell Awaits or Reign in Blood another 50 times than listen to their new album. 

While usually screaming vocals don't bother me, this guy just sucks.  But the music is outstanding.  (Sadist s/t 2007)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGQ4pef5Lx8&feature=PlayList&p=DFF44CB832798A39&index=7

Just putting it out there, I'm about to make a huge order from hotstuff.se in the next few days. Excitement, assuming I ever receive product I order.

Yeah so my sister-in-law is turning 40 and we're having an "80s Prom" themed party.  

This has allowed me to turn up some long-lost gems such as

The Bird by Morris Day and the Time and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZHK73iwTk

Living in America by the big guy James Brown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHqUipinDyw

Any suggestions would be fun.

It's not like you won't have thought of 90% of these already, but I need a distraction from a splitting headache and Photoshop's creaking.
Apologies if any of these are not technically '80s' hits, but I associate the hell out of them with the 80s.

Huey Lewis & the News - The Power of Love
Huey Lewis & the News - Back in Time
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
Phil Collins - Sussudio
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It
Tears for Fears - Woman in Chains
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You
Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open the Door
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Toto - Africa
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Billy Ocean - When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
Billy Ocean - Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car
The Doobie Brothers - What a Fool Believes
Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night)
Lionel Richie - Dancing on the Ceiling
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Billy Joel - The Longest Time
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
a-ha - Take on Me
Ultravox - Vienna
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
The Smiths - Cemetery Gates
The Smiths - There is a Light that Never Goes Out
The Smiths - What Difference Does it Make?
R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know it
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
R.E.M. - Stand
R.E.M. - The One I Love

...yeah ok I'm done.

Just picked up the Russian Circles new album at their show, which was fantastic by the way.

I have heard their music called "post-metal" which sounds like something some fucker at pitchfork media came up with.  Whatever you wanna call it, if you like Pelican, Isis, Redsparows, type stuff check out the Rusian  Circles.

Also picked up the new Katatonia album "night is the new day".  Stupid album name aside, it is a great album.

I more than understand where you are coming from.  90% of the newer metal bands think growling or screaming is all that is necessary (combined with downtuning to drop D or C and using one finger to run up and down the fretboard for chords).  Well, I personally don't care for Cookie Monster in my ear, no matter how great the music is.  I put up with Carcass and Heartwork purely on the instruments, the vocals just made me cringe.  Slayer is as "growly" as I get these days, and even then I don't consider Tom's voice to be that horrible or bother me that much compared to many other bands out there.  Melodic vocals are big if you like falsetto in certain aspects of metal, but the bravado and falsetto drives my nerves too much to listen to that much (ala Dream Theatre).  Plenty of good stuff from bands with melodic singing has been released, but I'm not up on much of it anymore since it isn't popular and all the bands I liked imploded around 2004-2006 time frame.

This got me kicked out of friends houses in high school and called a tone-deaf asshole in college.  I liked Clapton all right and I like Cream as well.  But I am not a huge fan and something about Clapton just never clicked with me at all other than a few great songs he did.  Mostly I find his music to be quite boring and just don't care for it.  I can listen to it and appreciate it, but I don't go out of my way to listen to it or hunt it down.  And if it's on the radio I'll change it.

Have you heard it?  If so, that's perfectly fine as I still like those albums better than it anyways (not ever going to top them).  Not as great as their last, but definitely their best since Seasons.

I think it's the difference between Beethoven and Mozart.  I tend to be more of a minimalist when it comes to guitar.  I love Clapton and Gilmour while Vai and Satriana give me a headache.  I appreciate Setzer, but he tries too hard to fit Rockabilly into everything.  His new album sounds like a bunch of 50's detective show themes.  Great concept, but still too much guitar work for my tastes.  For me it's the difference in balancing melodic and technical.  I prefer the melodic end. 

You only need one song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAt_I3EIaM

Man, an actual opportunity to legitimately link Rick Astley. Those don't come up very often.

That one is good, I have to admit.  I think this one is better though, for obvious reasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH0SoZNdozs&feature=player_embedded#

k.

Too Shy - Kajagoogoo  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6I4pT_tVA)
Always Something There to Remind me - Naked Eyes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMAe31FFHbo)
Kids in America - Kim Wilde (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hWZqllm3mQ)
Turning Japanese - The Vapors (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4)
Guilty - Classix Nouveaux (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nawiQi1kNoI) (Hey look pop goths!)
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg) (You can't have an 80's bash without this song, dammit!)
She Blinded me with Science - Thomas Dolby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k&feature=fvst)
Church of the Poison Mind - Culture Club (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVzAH0FtNwg)
Cruel Summer - Bananarama (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGYNvx9lqDQ)
(I Just) Died in Your Arms - Cutting Crew (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fD5YcFmke4)
One thing Leads to Another - The Fixx (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIOKIB2Cilg)
Under The Milky Way - The Church (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mQyRuHIuA)
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHFjm_9iew)
Heart and Soul - T'Pau (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrYMWoqg5w) (Still find the name & origin amusing.)
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmxSL6H2QEg)
Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLEuWEvH5GI)


 :grin:

You are a bad man. A very bad man. Some 80's music is :drill: but all 80's music videos are  :ye_gods:

Nice lists, Merusk and Mattemeo.  Thanks for the ideas.

I noticed these gems was missing:

Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMICD3aMZpw

Oingo Boingo - Wild Sex (in the working class)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn1skoAr0Zk

Yaz - Only You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9DOmlfICGw

Til tuesday - voices carry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4pTMN3abw   (wow had forgotten how hot Amy is)

If anything for a 40th birthday you have to play Wild Sex

*edit*
Animotion- obsession
Culture Club - kharma chamelon what have you
Icicle works
Thompson Twins

I haven't seen any Queen in there.

At all.

I went to school with Andy Bell. He was pretty cool.

Yeah, Queen is definitely a must.  Probably not Bohemian Rhapsody, but maybe....... :awesome_for_real:

For an 80s music party, how about Anthrax's Metal Thrashing Mad, Iron Maiden Piece of Mind, Metallica's Master of Puppets, Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath, Slayer's Reign in Blood, Queensryche's Warning, Judas Priest's Screaming for Vengeance, Ozzy's Diary of a Madman...

Crazy Train will be on the list.

As much as I love the songs I just don't see Angel of Death or Damage Incorporated making the list for a woman's 40th birthday.   Although JP's You Got Another Thing Coming would work as it is probably something everyone has heard.

Sure, just making a commentary on where I was in the 80s :)

As in Erasure Andy Bell?  No way you're old enough to have gone to school with him!  I've seen your picture!  You look 30 on a bad day! 

Given that came out in '75 it would probably not be the most appropriate Queen song you could pick...

Oh I hear ya, if it was for me that list would have: Dead Kennedys, minor threat, bad brains, 7 seconds, uniform choice, agent orange, JFA, youth of today, Maiden/priest/the big 4 thrash bands etc.

Yeah, I was going for popular 80's.. not metal 80's or "college rock" or whatever it was called then. 

Also; Queen sucked in the 80's  all their good stuff is from the 70's.  :grin:

80's Queen: Flash Gordon Soundtrack, Highlander Soundtrack, the Hot Space funk album and I Want to Break Free (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hMrY8jysdg)  until 89 and "'I Want it All"

Yeah, no.

If only we could resurrect Freddy. Bet he had more in him. A lot of great 70's artists sucked in the 80's..

Ain't nothing wrong with Flash Gordon though.


OK, you're awesome.

Bad Brains is enough...

But JFA. I don't ever expect anyone to mention that one. My first skateboard was a JFA.  :grin: edit: Wait, I lied. First board was a Veriflex. Then a hand me down paisley JFA. Good times

Yeah, well if I was going to play my list from the 80s it would include some Social D, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Agent Orange, Clash and so on.  Instead, I have to do a party for screaming drunk women.  Not such a bad thing, but certainly not an Iron Maiden type shindig.

90's Social D > 80's Social D   :P

edit: Accidentally insulted Mike Ness.. Deleting that.  :grin:

I don't know... I am still a huge fan of Mommy's Little Monster.  Their 90's output has definitely been stellar though.  It was awesome seeing them play the entire MLM album all the way through at a show a few years back.

Mommy's Little Monster is absolutely excellent, but so is the later stuff.  It was essentially two different bands, really.  Ness developed a taste for country and Social D definitely benefited from it. 

Yeah, my "insult" was that he sort of became the punk rock Springsteen. hah.. But it's a compliment. Both are sort of working class hero dudes. I just didn't want it taken the wrong way. In fact, I think they have a lot of respect for each other or something.

Any Wim Mertens fans around these parts? If so, I have a question for you.

On my return, the following were waiting for me:

Ultravox - Vienna (remastered definitive edition)
Nosound - A Sense of Loss (CD + DVD-A special edition)
Amplifier - Eternity (limited edition of 500, individually personalised, and they threw in a promo copy of their first album too)
Red Snapper - A Pale Blue Dot (in an excellent hand-made sleeve with plastic and card tags)
North Atlantic Oscillation - Callsigns EP (debut EP by pure dead brilliant Scottish shoegazy-psych-pop band)
Bass Communion - Loss (super rare original vinyl pressing with hand cut perfumed cover)
Bass Communion - Litany (more rare vinyl)
No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts (limited edition vinyl with exclusive 7" single)

The last three I bought used from a collector who needed to sell some stuff. The box set of In The Court of the Crimson King still hasn't surfaced. A bunch of stuff was released while I was away - I need to get back on the case and order more good shit.

80s...screaming drunk women...I'm an expert in that field.  :drill:

Get you some Poison, Bon Jovi, Crüe, Warrant, etc. People slag Poison for the glam thing, but they are wicked party music.

On the topic of trying to find some new metal now that I'm apparently extremely picky about it, Amazon recommended Baroness based on my purchase of Crack the Skye, so I hit up the tube to listen to their albums. Both went directly to the wishlist, the Red Album (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRv90zFtADU&feature=PlayList&p=6084481F8EB46C0E&index=0&playnext=1) in particular was  :drill:

Get both Red Album and Blue Record. You will not regret it. The vast majority of metal leaves me cold, but there's something in Baroness' southern sludge/proggy sound that makes me crave it. They're fucking amazing, they know it, but they're humble enough to not beat you to death with virtuosity and instead write astonishingly great songs, something I wish a lot of competant but noodle-wankery obsessed bands would do.

Also, for a slightly more primitive/oldschool fantasy metal fun-time crossed with the above, check out The Sword. Here's a nice little riff-as-bludgeoning-tool number, Freya (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA-53uavtyA&feature=fvw)

Ok, so I have heard it. It is slayer. But it sounds like Reign in blood slayer with out the awesome tracks. IMO.

Eh, I like it better than anything they did since Seasons (except the last one).  Slayer fans are strange I guess...

Last.fm recommendations got me into them a while ago. That's as competent a summary of them as I've heard. Apart from the spelling of competent.  :grin:

Moving on from Slayer, I heard Them Crooked Vultures the other day and it's growing on me. John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme laying down a groove.

New Fang (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7_vH3H8LPI) is the only single thus far.

Wow, thanks for the heads up on that. Not the greatest stuff, but not bad (I'm not the biggest post-Kyuss Homme fan). It's so wicked to see JPJ having fun and being relevant! With Page off in who knows where, Plant doing adult contemporary (and Ann Wilson doing his Zep stuff better than he can), Jonesy is out there kicking ass. He always was the odd man out in Zep, so I guess it makes sense. And Dave back on drums, he's got to enjoy that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ISnz7LQDk&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EipCDJAlh_U

I listened to it, but it didn't catch me either. Then again, I've never been much of a Slayer fan. It's exceptionally (maybe even exceptional) Slayer, but essentially I think it's an album for the already converted.

Personally I'm currently listening to Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus, which is turning out to be a pretty great album. It's still not Diabolis Interium, but hey, that's kinda an unrealistic expectation. :wink:

The single, My Funeral (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEVodXzNmPM) is simply quite breathtaking.

I used to think Creed was terrible music and a bunch of pretentious fucktards that no one should be listening to.

Now I KNOW they are pretentious fucktards.

Long story short, for the past year, one of my tasks at work is to deal with DMCA takedown notices. In that year (previous to last week) I think I have seen 50 notices tops for music, most everything is movies and software. I have gotten no less than 20 notices come through per day for Creed's new album since the day after it was released.

I don't know what is worse: 1) the fact that people buy Creed albums willingly. 2) that people are downloading it to listen to it at all. or 3) That people are willing to let other people know they have Creed's new album by sharing it on the internet.

if you are digging baroness, it would be worth checking out Rwake... definately youtube it, as it is a bit of a stretch.. but Rwake is a great band. Oh and Clutch as well though they don't fit the bill as "metal".

hmmm  Amorphis and Katatonia are worth checking out as well... both released steller 2009 albums.

yeah Baroness is  :drill: X20 

Clutch, there's a name I haven't heard in years. I've seen them a few times, back when we were having festivals here and once when they opened for Limp Bizkit on their first or second album tour. Yeah, yeah Bizkit whatever, I liked them for a couple albums and their guitarist is/was amazing.

That was indeed awesome. Reminded me of something, cant put my finger on it.


Compulsory song recommendation. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owDk82Drd2k&feature=player_embedded#) (No, not the same genre)

Have another. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tmIi2fnsM)

One more for awesomeness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq3xBq92Jqo

Going to see TCV Saturday night in Seattle. So stoked.

Gah, Baroness is going to be in Buffalo sunday. Too long a drive, and I'll be in the front row of a Skynyrd show, anyway :) But I remember when metal bands played every shitty bar across the state, dernit.

my attempt to bridge Pagan's Mind and Dark Funeral with one song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mCJ0GWIrbw



Sky: if there is one Clutch album worth checking out it is probably either their s/t or Blast Tyrant

Speaking of hearing loss in useless conversation, I foolishly forgot my ear plugs when we saw Skynyrd over the weekend. Usually front row center isn't too bad at this venue, because the house speakers are way off to the sides shooting the big dbs past us. Actually the biggest problem with most front rows is hearing the house speakers at all, so keys and vocals are tough to make out, you mostly hear stage volume (which is great for guitar bands!). But Skynyrd both angled their house speakers and added some house in front of the monitor row, holy fuck did they crank it to ear-melting levels.

I've had ear damage for a long time, but this show fucked up my left ear but good. About double the level of tinnitus, three days later. So while you guys may not have put your ears through what I have in the past, make sure you wear hearing protection whenever you're around loudness. And don't sit in front of a full stack while you play guitar.

How was the Skynard show?  I used to listen to them a lot.  Not a huge fan of the new stuff, however.  Does the new "lineup" do the old stuff justice live?

The band is great. The singer isn't quite as good as his brother, but he does it justice. The new keyboard guy is phenomenal, which is good because Billy was my favorite from the original band. Gary is original, and the blond dude and Rickey are both great guitarists. I've got the set list at home, but it was all classics, no new stuff. Wicked fun show.

Got one of Gary's picks, my concert nemesis dude got all three guitarist's picks. He also got a Gregg Allman pick from the solo show a couple weeks ago. Bastard. I met him when I went for the Skynyrd tickets, he was already in line a couple hours before they went on sale.

Man I used to see the Allman Brothers a lot.  I've drifted a bit away from that type of music, but they were a hell of a show.  I may try a Skynard show next time they are around.  Four Walls of Raiford is still one of my favorite songs ever.

The current Allman lineup is at least as good as the original. What you lose in the country Betts tinge is more than made up for with Oteil/Derek jazz improv and Haynes killer chops and soulful voice. I love their last album (though it was like 2004 or something), some great tunes on there, and we always buy the live cd they press after the show.

Skynyrd is a fun show, but they pretty much play stuff as it was recorded. Given the choice between the two bands, I'd pick the Allmans every time. They're not frozen in time and their new stuff is as good as the old stuff. Desdemona (off that last studio album, Hittin' the Note) is probably my favorite ABB tune.

I can't stop listening to Wild Beasts. I think it might be my favourite of the year. Just got tickets to see them in early Feb, and seeing them in Jan too. Excited.

What's it like?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sxh5zMbNAo

Listening to Mike Ness- Cheating at Solitaire on the way home.  It's a goddam good album.

for the shoegazer types

new Jesu streaming in its entirety here:

http://www.myspace.com/caldoverderecords

much stronger than the past few releases

This is a little bit addictive, and I'm not sure if it is the video or the music, or both together. 

I think that's what I really like about Wild Beasts. At first, you're a little taken back at the strangeness of their delivery, the sparseness of the sound but the intense clarity of it, and the bafflingly odd feminised falsetto of Hayden Thorpe that seems both fitting and slightly displaced, not to mention the jolie-laide eroticism of the lyrics in that confusing purr. It pulls you in, somehow. My first listen provoked me to put it on again just so I could confirm what I'd just heard - it's not that I didn't like it or even that I loved it, it's that something was going on that I needed to hear again. And so I was entranced.

So, apparently (ok, wrong, October 27th, not sure how I missed it), the Misfits released 2 new tracks written by Jerry Only. They're fucking fantastic. Twilight of the Dead especially. Here, Linky to the vinyl getting released (http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=f13-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=B002T921B6) (cover is by the Marvel Zombies guy.

I really hope Jerry can put together a full album.

I've talked about how fantastic Phoenix' Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is earlier in this thread, but my attention has just been drawn to this fan-made video for Listzomania (http://www.youtube.com/user/Yvash#p/a/f/0/qtRQsCgYmtc), built out of 80s Brat-pack edits - it's such a thing of joy it has utterly slayed me. God knows I'm easily emotionally manipulated by sound and vision but this works on a level deep inside me.

Jose Gonzalez - Teardrop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B-h1EEsKDA&feature=related)

Song of the week for me

That was horrible. Actually it could have been very good and it still would have been horrible because it doesn't feature Liz Fraser. I went to the YouTubes thinking "I hope that's not Massive Attack's Teardrop". Imagine my disappointment. So cruel.


So I got a few CDs today, all 2009 releases, several of which are right up there for albums of the year. I have plenty of room, having decided that Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Animal Collective all did put out decent albums but are all over-hyped and pale in comparison to the AWESOME music of the year. That's right, I'm thinking about lists, and I'll be making some soon. In the meantime, here's today's recommended listening:


Makajodama (http://www.myspace.com/makajodama) - Makajodama

Four piece Swedish instrumental group comprising guitar, violin, cello, and drums. They also throw in some organ, bass and percussion between them. They have quite a mix of influences from jazzy Kraut & post-rock rhythms through psych & Canterbury leads and it comes together to make something contemporary and unique.

Octafish (http://www.myspace.com/doktorfleisch) - Doktor Fleisch

By their own description "industrial fake jazz". That's right, it's jazz rock, but it's unlike any jazz rock you've likely heard. There's synth arpeggios and sequences, programmed rhythm mixed with inventive real drums, bass and Chapman Stick playing. You don't need the tip-off title "Thxfz" to know that Frank Zappa's influence is in play. Jazz rock for the electro generation.

Amesoeurs (http://www.myspace.com/amesoeurs) - Amesoeurs

This is what les French call coldwave, and we'd call something between post-punk and post-metal. It's got that shoegaze shimmer, the death metal guitar sound and bass drum breaks, the post-punk bass groove and some great atmospheric vocals (mostly clean but limited cookie monster in places). Having made this great début, the band broke up due to artistic differences.

Eloy (http://www.myspace.com/official4eloy) - Visionary

Progressive rock in the Pink Floyd vein by one of the German greats. Wow, that was so easy after trying to describe the last three albums. If you know and love Eloy already you'll want this album, if you don't know them already, this isn't where you start (buy 1979's Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes or 1976's Dawn instead). Solid album, good playing by all, but Hannes Folberth's keyboard leads are stunning.

Oh... and one bit of vinyl...

Elizabeth Fraser - Moses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jb1xm-eCvc) (12" single)

Yes, her of Teardrop fame. Her first solo release.

(added MySpace links in case anybody's interested)

I'm a huge fan of the original (and a huge fan of Fraser/Cocteau Twins), but I think it's a lovely cover, as sensitive and respectful as they come without being a facsimile. And no, you really can't expect anyone else to sing like Fraser, because no one else can. Give it another chance. Better yet, try out his take on Kylie Minogue's Hand on Your Heart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmLGMWgHIgw). His delivery completely transforms a throwaway popsong into something utterly beautiful.

Elbow also do a great version of Teardrop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcYdICFTJuM) (this one's a live radio session recording), and they're very friendly with Massive Attack - Guy Garvey is doing vocals for them on their upcoming album, for example.

Now if you want a cruel disappointment, I suggest you youtube that assclown Mika murdering his way through Teardrop. Cause I don't have the heart to link it myself.

teenagersintokyo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMX-Yi6gxyo)


Not from Tokyo btw. Another Aussie band with a post punk/new wave thing going on. So many good ones coming from there.

Children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK7bDO4Da9Y)

[edit] Damn, that's like both one of the best and worst videos of all time.  :awesome_for_real:

That was nasty, really nasty.

Gojira - Satan is a Lawyer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3M22tudM-Q)

Gojira- Over the Flows (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGoS4SXXvG0)

Gojira - Remembrance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOu4TtZmm7U) Must add this for the break down at the end.  :drill:

Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF1vGXiZOoo)

Cavalera Conspiracy - Sanctuary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eokiuecctqw)

Gojira - In The Forest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWC0rXbs0g4)

Gwar - Fist Full Of Teeth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZrfOFXw3Ak)

This is pretty much the shit.....
very old school (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_hsp4SBwO4&feature=related)

Austrian Death Machine - Jingle Bells (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6w1uVPFPEs)

Moderat - Moderat came out much earlier this year and I kind of glossed over it a little with the surfeit of Chillwave in the last half of 2009, but now it's fully into Winter mode here in the UK, Moderat have crept in like a cat that's been missing for 2 months looking fatter and smugger than ever before. It was released at totally the wrong time of the year. This is music for crisp, frigid air, crunching snow underfoot, delicate, mesmerising dubstep/electronica.


Rusty Nails (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoxUiqUpkw4) is very much one of the tracks of the year for me - Brittle, affecting, hypnotic - and comes with one of the most visually arresting videos I've seen in a long long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8W4tslqVSg

Trent Reznor and Peter Murphy performing Bela Lugosi's Dead.

Damn why is that venue so small?? Those people got a treat.

[edit] And when did Murphy morph into my dad... Or Nick Cave. Either/or.  :awesome_for_real:

The intensity of this song is based on understatement and subtlety.  Reznor's two-handed gripping of the microphone and his constipated Sprinsteen croon doesn't work for me.

Peter Murphy never was understated.. If anything, the original was him at his funniest.

Peter Murphy and Nick Cave are both your dad.  They're the same age!

(except Nick Cave sucks)

He only sucks when he's not rocking out! Birthday Party was his great period, but he's gotten cooler now that he's a cranky old guy.

Grinderman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeRj8-tckM0)

Spent the early week doing some house cleaning/rearranging with live Ozzy on.  I found that I really don't care for Ozzy's voice all that much, but I love me some Randy Rhoads.   I also listened to "Let it be (Naked)" about five times in a row.  The redbook was remastered quite well and it seemed to stage pretty well on my system.

The other day we spent the evening watching the Iron Maiden: Flight 666 DVD.  It was good fun.  There aren't too too many bands I love as much as I love Iron Maiden.  The second DVD has a collection of each song in a different venue.  Bruce Dickinson sounds just the same and is as much a ham as ever.  And Steve Harris, well, what can you say about him?  Who DOESN'T love Steve Harris?  And he still hops around like a madman and shoots everyone with his guitar. 

I think I should one up you and buy the 666 Blu-Ray.

I should purchase more concerts in general.. Concerts are a pita to steal.

GET OUT.

Picked up Muse + Silversun Pickups tickets for their concert here in April. God damn second hand ticket vendors rape you too - 3 times! (premium for ticket + service charges + $15 mailing fee). Sigh.

Next time I think I will go break into someone's house and steal them, the jail time would hurt less.

I'd love to catch the modern Maiden in concert. Only time I've seen them was after Adrian had left (Fear of the Dark, iirc, at Irvine Ampitheater w/ Anthrax). There's a good early years DVD (http://www.amazon.com/History-Iron-Maiden-Early-Days/dp/B0006B29Z2) I mentioned a while ago. I like both singers, the Dianno years were so wicked.
I love getting shows at the casino, no fees, no taxes, pick up at box office. Not to mention I usually nab a pair of front row tickets for every show.

http://twitter.com/chriscornell/status/7259742335

Will be cool to hear... Thayil was the riffman. The band could still be cool, even if Cornell doesn't sing as powerfully as he once did.

They are awesome live.  3 guitarists really make the sound come alive.  Granted seeing them live 25-30 years ago would have been awesome too, but now is just as great a show as you can really ask for.

Doesn't != can't (and I don't really agree with your supposition anyway). Fuckin love Cornell. I've got him on my twitter thing, but I've never logged into it, so I missed that. Check out the youtube he links earlier in the month, some Beatles and Temple of the Dog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4aXgJN16KY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnuOl3qx1eM&NR=1

He's still not a bad singer, so I don't mean anything too bad about it. I like Audioslave. You can tell he's not the same Live though. I think smoking caught up to him. And he's not a trained wailer like Dickenson. Cornell was very throaty. That will wear on you.

Did you watch those clips? He exceeded the vocals on the album (one of my favorites), and the album was recorded in his prime. He can hit every note he used to hit, with the same level, but he's got way more nuance now. Still not a bad singer? Who is better? As far as range, control and emotion go, he's one of, if not the, best in rock.

I'll look at the clips in a bit, sorry. Some Audioslave performances I've seen almost came off like he was either lazy or in pain. Perhaps I caught it at a bad time.

Most of the live Audioslave stuff I heard I agree with you on.  I don't know if he was having problems or just wasn't in to it.

I  :heart: Soundgarden.

goodnews indeed about Soundgarden. 

I am looking forward to seeing the new Ministry documentary simply titled:  Fix

possibly NSFW (contains needles among other things)

http://www.fixtheministrymovie.com/

The docu was finshed quite some time ago, but Al was really uncomfortable with the footage, my understanding is that only now after being clean for a long time is he comfortable with people seeing him at his worst.   After seeing the trailer footage I can see why he was feeling more than a tad iffy about letting people see this.

Just putting it out there that I'm in the Peter Murphy is awesome while Nick Cave sucks rotten ass camp.

Murphy's acoustic concert was probably one of the best shows I've ever seen. Helped that it was in a tiny club.

Is there another camp to be in on this one?  Murphy is clearly much better.

Murphy's not fit to lick Cave's taint. Bauhaus are alright, but come the fuck on. The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds, Grinderman, his work with Warren Ellis. A body of work 5 times that of Murphy's in the same time span, and all vastly superior in every single imaginable way. And we'll not even get into how Cave is pretty much one of the most indisputable greatest living lyricists. I'm also English, so considering Murphy's a fellow countryman, you may consider that an unbiased opinion.

Also: The Sisters of Mercy > Bauhaus. Yeah. You heard me.

I quite like The Birthday Party, and The Bad Seeds and Cave's solo career have had their moments, but none of them hold a candle to Bauhaus. A large part of the appeal of The Birthday Party came from Rowland Howard's guitar work - sadly he died a couple of days ago. Even at their best, The Bad Seeds weren't as interesting as the least of Einstürzende Neubauten's output. Cave has a fine set of pipes and can write a decent lyric but that also describes half the finalists on Cowell's talent shows and I wouldn't choose to listen to them either. I'm also Scottish and admire the work of many antipodean mutants, so you may consider that an unbiased opinion.

In the malnourished brits of emaciated emotional development contest , Joy Division > All

Birthday Party era Nick Cave is something I can't even compare to Bauhaus... or even to "good lyricism". It's more abrasive and jazzy than anything Bauhaus did. They can sit by side on their own, like the difference between Iggy and Bowie.

I don't mind some of the Bad Seeds stuff, but I'm not a big fan. I can be objective and all that, and appreciate all the romanticism and introspection.. but imho he's more fun unleashing all the lunacy he has instead. That said, it's a bit unfair to compare even those romantic lyrics to something on a Cowell show. "I don't believe in an interventionist God... But I know, darling, that you do". Nobody else writes shit like that.

lol

Being prolific doesn't always translate into being brilliant.  Case in point:  Nick Cave.   (http://www.realitybbqforums.com/images/smilies/wicked.gif)

I'll just put this here.

http://media.npr.org/assets/music/news/2009/12/poster.pdf

My inner metalhead found 3 Inches of Blood. It's like being back in the 80s again!

IMO Henry's Dream is better than anything Murphy was ever involved in. I'm not actually a huge Cave fan but that album is brilliant.

The first half of your statement is very true. It's a shame you went and chose one of the most consistantly brilliant and critically acclaimed artists of the last 50 years to try and prove it though. There's a massive whiff of 'only ever listened to Murder Ballads' around here. Sadly, no one's going to convince anyone otherwise, nothing sticks harder than music nerd resentment.

Let's talk about Tom Waits and Can instead.

You know I was teasing you, right?  That's why I gave you an evil smiley face.   :why_so_serious:

Anyway - Can is wonderful! 

D'oh! Sense of humour failure on my part  :heart:

I'd like to know more about Can, they're one of those bands who've been on my radar for years but I've never had the time to investigate. I'm a Waits obsessive, on the other hand.

Buy/investigate the CAN discography in the following order:

Tago Mago, Future Days, Ege Bamyasi, Monster Movie, Soundtracks, Delay 1968, Soon Over Babaluma, Landed, Rite Time, Flow Motion, Saw Delight, Unlimited Edition

The last two studio albums before their split are poor by comparison to the bulk of their albums, Out Of Reach is essentially disowned by the band. Even they don't recommend it. Yep, I've got it anyhow.

CAN (some editions titled Inner Space), Out Of Reach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QLL2j8ZtxE

There have been a few albums of radio broadcasts released, of these Peel Sessions and Radio Waves are very good. But before you get this far (if indeed you do) you should start exploring the post-CAN work of the four core musicians and vocalist Damo Suzuki. Probably as soon as you have the first five CAN albums in the list (which are all just plain essential).

Wikipedia links to a supposedly extensive discography here:

http://all-blues.de/music/kraut/can.htm

It's not that extensive. I should probably start hacking up one myself. Czukay, Schmidt, Liebezeit & Suzuki are all still releasing albums and there are unreleased tapes being dug up and released too - this past year we've had CD releases of Agilok & Blubbo and Kamasutra, both soundtracks made by Irmin Schmidt and the rest of the band that would become CAN.

Of the recent stuff, I'm particularly taken by Jaki Liebezeit's collaboration with electronic experimentalist Burnt Friedman called Secret Rhythms. Last year saw the third CD from this collaboration. Great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6JubwDGc2g

Fuck yeah!  :drill:

I have tried a number of times to give a shit about Nick Cave's music, and have yet to find any reason to do so.

http://smashingpumpkins.com.s3.amazonaws.com/player/mp3/A-Song-For-A-Son.mp3

Pretty chill. Nice git playing too. People sometimes laugh when I say Corgan is the most skilled lead player of the whole 90's alt rock thing, but he is.

I heard it a few weeks ago. It just makes me feel sad. Not even the admittedly good guitar solo has any of that trademark oomph that made Corgan so special. He sounds tired, and so does his song writing. I think he pretty much lost it after Zwan. His solo album and the last Pumpkins record were pretty abysmal, but when you have everything from Gish to MACHINA II to be thankful for, you can overlook his decline.

Been listening to this some lately.  It's not bad.  Reminds me of Elvis Costello.

Girls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASE6X8DNaZY&feature=related)

How'd I miss a music thread?!Some good music in here!

I got myself some Frank Turner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfGLzDQ7e-k) lately.

And this thread is incomplete without beautiful female vocals:
Zero 7 - Home (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT8Wz1fa-_4)

Music for relief:

http://musicforrelief.org/

From that, Peter Gabriel sings "Heroes":

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2010/01/21/lkl.gabriel.heroes.cnn?hpt=C2

Death -The Flesh and the Power it Holds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_3sNRgPug)

Death - Spiritual Healing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn05D6OK_hE)

Korpiklaani - Vodka (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kJRGPgvRQ)

NSFW Lyrics. GRAVEDIGGAZ - DIARY OF A MADMAN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE-5Q_xyiwo) (Wish I still had this album...)

NSFW Lyrics. Gravediggaz - 1-800 Suicide (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWr4cFXRwkc)

NSFW Lyrics. Gravediggaz - Here Comes The Gravediggaz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrGAFSRfOfs)

King Diamond - Sleepless Nights (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NhhJ9DBR3o)

Secret Chiefs 3 - Asron (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKGcXGvqSnQ)

Seriously, seriously digging on Hot Chip's latest album, One Life Stand. I do love me some idiosyncratic electro-pop/neo-soul, and Hot Chip usually deliver in spades, but this new album is just somehow so much more affecting and euphoric than I was expecting, it makes me curiously emotional. Hot Chip are one of those bands a lot of people just don't seem to 'get', but I think they've got a good case for reappraisal from some of the doubters now.

Here's the single version of the title track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPXPIx1LlPY)

That Diamond tune sounds familiar, but seems to have been released after I stopped listening to him. I only had Fatal Portrait and Abigail. Mercyful Fate was a huge influence on my band.

Catchy tune.  Has a real "retro" vibe to it.  

Its off conspiracy, "Them" and "Conspiracy" are quite arguably the groups best work ever.

I like that Hot Chip album too. I really really like the new BT album These Hopeful Machines. It's more upbeat and dancefloor trancey than his last release, but it is still an epic composition that showcases his ability to develop remarkable complexities of rhythm using stutter and other techniques and still hold a groove.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpvmnNuGXCU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Lc8nioshw

SWASHBUCKLE - Cruise Ship Terror (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53A4GyB96RI)

Alestorm - Keelhauled (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99a6DaheLqs)

English Beat: "Save It For Later" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bM0wVjU2-k)

Top of the Hill - Harrys Gym (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIwIwk3j-jw)

I have been really enjoying this band's debut album this week. They're what Bat For Lashes wishes they were I think. For people with Spotify the album is available there.

Massive Attack's Heligoland is good. Not Mezzanine good, but what is? Will likely be one of the best of the year.

I'm reluctant to check it out. What I've heard so far has not been promising. It's just been so long since Massive Attack were something special. A relatively low-key 'solo' album from Del Naja and a bunch of limp soundtracks under other names in the 13 years since Mezzanine has made me think it's a project left on the respirator for too long.

That said, Live With Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO5jNePQ_qw) was slow-burn vintage Massive Attack brilliance - just don't understand why it's relegated to 'Best Of' bonus track status.

If you approach the album with an open mind, you may fall in love with it quickly. If you expect more like Mezzanine and 100th Window (their weakest album because they attempted to continue in the vein of Mezzanine) you may initially be disappointed, but it will likely grow on you with repeated listens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESYuyGJAUeA

It's growing on me; but you're right, you have approach it from a wholly different angle.

Haggard - Awaking The Centuries (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iTlu3STCdI)

Haggard - Awaking The Centuries (Live) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oyjmMzz3OM)

 :drill:

Haggard - The Observer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDiyzyKY5n4)

Haggard - The Final Victory (live) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdRS3y3y_2k)

Kneel before Zod! :rock_hard:

Gama Bomb - In The Court Of General Zod (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_c4KZYrKTA&feature=related)

That's very retro thrash. Not bad.

Here's a selection of some of the stuff that I liked from 2009:

North Atlantic Oscillation - from the EP Cell Count
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFYImUCbiGA

Aranis - from the album Songs From Mirage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nDMcznvDEc

Porcupine Tree - form the album The Incident
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8jm61vk2Ao

dredg - from the album The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSYQj3qM_HE

Peter Hammill - from the album Thin Air
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABHsex1xmv4

Pure Reason Revolution - from the album Amor Vincit Omnia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4kFJBr7Sg

Senser - from the album How To Do Battle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSfOk8_yJec

Still Light - form the album Lything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEFHwUqETRg

The Flaming Lips - from the album Embryonic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TamkQhPmgHU

Present - from the album Barbaro (Ma Non Troppo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO02f21-0HQ

Wolfmother - from the album Cosmic Egg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_GKBMi3c4U

BLK JKS - form the album After Robots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p39dhBLK1U

Umphrey's McGee - fomr the album Mantis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcwlDC6wLJo

Muse - from the album The Resistance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8OOWcsFj0U

Archive - from the album Controlling Crowds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcK0_O1atuo

Mörglbl - from the album Jazz For The Deaf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk6K-INYMe4

Eloy - from the album The Visionary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7saauRVslk

The Decemberists - from the album The Hazards of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpltQ5S4xxc

UKZ - from the EP Radiation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFlnG3AKOW8

Octafish - from the album Doktor Fleisch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHYMisatyBY

Mew - from the album No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEh9cELK5Os

Diablo Swing Orchestra - from the album Sing-Along Songs For The Damned And Delirious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZm_1EK73IE

Espers - from the album Espers III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNFQrCsXYNg

Amesoeurs - from the album Amesoeurs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sru69Xp4Fgs

Loch Lomond - from the EP Night Bats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40nL6z7fTOQ

Mastodon - from the album Crack The Skye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Vf5syTfmE

Cary Grace - from the album Perpetual Motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLTMUQ2c-xQ

Gong - from the album 2032
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU4pury_PNc

The Future Kings Of England - from the album The Viewing Point
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8a5mIzamvw

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I recently fell in love with a lot of "underground" beat producers.

Flying Lotus recently became my favorite artist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKa2sHBJSiU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CybO7XtYpdU

Fat Jon is also high on my list
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ask9YrnztvU

As is DJ Krush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVjgRlto8PI

And of course J Dilla

No longer underground since he signed to the legendary Warp Records. He'll have a new album out this year. I'm interested to hear more from their new signing The Hundred In The Hands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2rh_-nDcrU

Very dance-punk. Which reminds me, new LCD Soundsystem due this year too. This Alan Vega cover won't be on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZNkDcGtrt8

I'd have this on my 2009 list for sure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WEn1rWptp0 (hard to pick a single track though)

also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2h68VyvH64

I've always had a soft spot for the Stones song 'mother's little helper' but this honest cover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi8E4rTfx4A) drives the song home.

Something else (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rrYrTQUlY0) by the same guy which has an unique quality to it.

On another note, Nantes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCkT4K-hppE) something I wished I made myself had I had any musical talent.

Good stuff.

I've been lsitening to a lot of EBM recently, particularly Destroid and their recent Silent World EP. Really liking their cover of Lucretia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnn4ANPeC_g).

I'm so excited for Flylo's new album.

I'm probably a too big a Sisters fan to think this is a better version but really I love where they took this song. Here is the original. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuezNswtRfo)

Also much love for this post for it somehow reminded me of She's in parties (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VyWNDxQQxM). Which in turn reminded me of that blissful insanity that is youth and the icebears (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhtxqvAlIpo) we were.

Stop talking about bands not on Pandora!  :sad:

Hah I'd forgotten about that original video. Did Andrew Eldritch really think we needed to see his chest?


Patricia Morrison however is more than welcome to wave her chest around as much as she likes

that was a monster list.   Not digging the new Porcupine tree as much as earlier releases, but a fine album regardless.   I dug the Aranis song, and will dig around for some more of their stuff.  Sounds like something I could work to, which I am need of.

Mastodon is pwning my drumkit right now. I am humbled and frightened. Amazing metal album.

Brann Dailor is, well I have typed and retyped trying to say just how amazing he is but basically it just comes down to  :Love_Letters: I would rather listen to him and/or watch him play over any other metal drummer currently.   

I believe that was her primary role. Most of the (clearly synthesizer) bass lines were laid down in the studio by Eldritch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZVCD6y-LNM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ShfiU64U0

Dusted off my Dälek cds this weekend and have been in a serious... uhmm dark hip hop phase?

If you have never heard Dälek you owe it to yourself to at least check out this guy.  Very dark atmospheric hip hop.... shit the dude has toured with Isis.

Dälek-We Lost Sight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YA7R3ugWUs&feature=related

Dälek-Paragraphs Relentless (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctWUaLl8htk&feature=related

Dälek - Asylum (Permanent Underclass)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyWYc7ZmJ2M&feature=related

Just wanted to inform the metalheads around here that the new Dark Tranquillity [sic] album, We are the Void, is fantastic. :awesome_for_real:

Her Silent Language:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S52i6gIaRuo

my f'in mp3 collection is toast. its a long story... so i've rebuilt it with just Queen and the Misfits. Not even sure what else I want on here (My Chemical Romance...heh). There was a Danzig song I came across that for the life of me, can't remember even hearing it in all the 20 yrs I've been a fan (When Death Had No Name (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT2ReyllFL4)... killer opening chords). I keep listening to it, so I should put it on here too.

Anything you think I might like, feel free to recommend :) [edit] Basically, catchy (psychotic/horror) punk or Operatic Rock. Fire away. Especially shit that I probably never heard of.

Where is Zog? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQPJ88l3OC8)

Wonder if Zod and Zog are related :)

They almost seem the same entity, perhaps different planets recollection?

Some unknown/unheralded black metal.

Kvist.  Only released one album in 1995, but it's good.  I wish more black metal bands had followed their example in that regard.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73S4JWkBVsU&feature=related

Averse Sefira.  One of the better bands still working in today's generally lifeless and unimaginative genre.  Tetragrammatical Astygmata is by far their best work.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMo2h1uO2RA

Sorcier des Glaces.  Youthful inspirational music.  Brilliant production.  Ok, only one of the two previous statements is true.  But luckily production isn't too important in black metal, where streaming melodic development is king, and rhythm is used primarily as ambient forward motion.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIrPe3mgEmQ&feature=related

Auzhia.  Epic.  Requires a long attention span.  But really cool in it's unorthodox style.  Doesn't mind being vague, and features long melodies that often will force one to wait a long time before reaching resolution.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQWhg1_FAGA

Hah, the music thread.
Since everybody is posting obscure stuff in here and 106's sig made me reminiscence of times long gone by...

When we were kids, our radar only showed rock and pop.
I suppose we were into the generic stuff, I can't really remember.

Then there was Front 242. And shit started changing.

It wasn't until 15 minutes ago I realised how horrible their videos were. But fuck that, they were awesome on cassette!

You probably won't be interested in this unless you have a soft spot for the sounds that, among many others, birthed industrial and electronic music almost 30 years ago.

Front 242:
Headhunter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPpUFBVSyWs)
Funkadhafi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jPsYAkKzjw)
Controversy between (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPSwGj45gxM) paying respect to those who were first.
Happiness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMnE9SG-bHM&)
And, of course, a lot more (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=front+242)

Cathedral : Grim Luxuria (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDRGA8MhEe0)

Cathedral - Midnight Mountain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v73zQ8aAVyc)

Cathedral - Ride (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-08wmIm440)

Cathedral - Reaching Happiness, Touching Pain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M1p1wYqdmo)

Cathedral - Enter The Worms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiLlCMRPmAw)

This thread is great with the links to the music.  Makes it easier to determine whether something is any good or not.  Much better than reading Amazon or FYE's CD recommendations...

This is pretty cool (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6VcyTcDr4)

Bunch of kids playing Cowboys from Hell, the singer is 12 and he just rocks it out.

They're playing some of the Sonisphere festival on Palladium HD. Some good stuff, the new Alice in Chains, Metallica doing Hit the Lights. Bullet for my Valentine is ok, but they do have a bit of the evil cookie monster shit. Really liked Machine Head (couldn't believe they're still touring), their newer tune (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vnoPISHI4k) was really good (Halo off the Blackening).

Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium is one of the best albums in metal history IMO.  Nice post.

I said above somewhere that I'm rebuilding my music collection. I'd like to rant one more time about what a lost opportunity the Misfits are/were. Kind of re-listening to everything Danzig/Misfits atm.

Danzig really sucks. Since IV, I mean. He's almost as hackneyed and cliched as Black Metal. I'm starting to think that Jerry Only is a better songwriter now. :ye_gods: At the very least, it seems like he was a big help.. or something.. in how Glenn used to write. Only still writes goofy horrorpunk comic book shit - just not as well as Glenn did. Should revisit it. Why the hell did he get so serious...

That isn't to say that Samhain/early Danzig sucked though. Even though he was serious, those albums kind of have a cool theme on being torn between good and evil. He never wrote about being evil, but being fucked up. Having a "Twist of Cain", asking "Am I Demon", etc.. After IV though, seems like he decided he was actually evil. And I don't think anyone can pull that shit off successfully. Not Oz, not Danzig. Just look at the cover of Satan's Child, and you realize the guy's a dork. It was probably good that he got sucker punched.

Anyways, like I said.. "rant". Gonna move on to Morrissey now.

You got further than I did, I think the last album of Danzing I ever really enjoyed was How the Gods Kill. The next album, and everything after, lost some sort of magic.

Really? It's decent sludgy music, but the "singer" is comically bad. You're on record with that being as good as Reign in Blood or Abigail or Master of Puppets or Black Sabbath? Hm.

Agreed.  When he was writing cool material (ala Samhain and I-IV) it was a little goofy at times, but still good music and catchy songs.  Now?  It's laughably bad.

I forgive goofy\bad singers considerably when the music is catchy and the songs are well written.  When it isn't cookie monster-vocals, I can tolerate a LOT of bad singing (like say, Venom or The Darkness).  And this is metal, we all rabidly agree and disagree on favorites to the death ;-)

You sir, are out of your mind.  :grin:  You have to consider the time frame of its release (1991), and who comprised the band (Protip: that singer, yeah, NAPLAM DEATH would be his other band). Forest of E, and, for a change of pace The Ethereal Mirror sent shock waves through the scene.

It was some of the best, and is now considered a classic quintessential bridge between so called "doom" and the rest of the metal world.  I personally fell in love with the "hippy/doom/good times" sound they created. Some of the ones I linked were my favorites, but the two first albums, were masterpieces. I would recommend listening to them. However forest of E, is quite possibly one of the SLOWEST albums ever made, some of those songs the tempo can't be quantified, as stark contrast to the sounds of the time.
 
Also, "One of the best albums" does not replace other, awesome albums. However, Abagail? Pifft, it never held a candle to "them" and "conspiracy"!


Next on: When metal heads fight!

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Because you liked it so much! More!

1991, Forest of Equilibrium:
Cathedral - Picture of Beauty and Innocence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxMPDTQn1gE)
That goes right into:
Cathedral - Commiserating the Celebration (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45U_-3HjeqA)
Cathedral - A Funeral Request (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4F3bSIIbq0)
Cathedral - Equilibrium (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-CLHuRNznE)
Cathedral "Ebony Tears" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsHtMCs6Lww)

1992
Cathedral - Autumn Twilight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkVw6_VTi2A)

1994
Cathedral - Cosmic Funeral (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2lCd68fw60)

Much more recent:
Cathedral "Stained Glass Horizon" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCvAxvbgIfs)

I just can't get all metalhead about a band named Cathedral. I grew up around Cathedrals, and all they summon to mind is wobbly old ladies, warbling priests and the soul crushing smell of incense and boredom.

It is true that I know nothing about the metal scene in the late 80s/early 90s  :why_so_serious:

I still love you.

Hey, be thankful!  You got to go be bored in a huge ornately carved building with statues and gilded shit to stare at while the priest drones on.  When I got dragged to church, we only had a simple cramped wooden building where it was just you, the preacher, and Jesus.  Oh how I envied the catholics and their idol worship.

I never like ranking albums like that.  Clearly in context RiB and Black Sabbath are the best out there.  However, not in context, I think the best modern death metal is in many ways a superior version of reign in blood. Since it's entirely building off RiB though, how do I rank them?  I don't like ranking music for this reason.

And I really like Abigail!  I think Don't Break the Oath is better though.

But, anyways, the reasons I like Forest are probably the exact reasons you don't like it.  But regardless, I think if you concentrate on that album from start to finish, which I think is important as it is clearly constructed as an album not as just a collection of songs, you will have gone on a fucking trip the likes of which are rarely seen in music in any genre.  One of the particular things it did was actually make me literally sick to my stomach at one point...and then somehow, paradoxically given the tempo, manage to almost spiritually uplift me at another point.  And it is still capable of getting into quite the groove despite the unconventionality...It's a weird, weird experience. 

Candlemass had some good sabbath inspired albums sure (and I think some later cathedral falls in this category as well) but FoE is the first time I think doom really attempts something past Black Sabbath, which is a big deal.  Unfortunately, later Cathedral gets kind of bland and predictable to me tbh.

Agreed and agreed.

Oath is one of the albums that had a huge influence on my band's style, though. Fate, Sabbath, Metallica, Maiden, Van Halen, Queen and Queensryche would probably be the main influences we had, with a bit of Slayer, Exodus Bonded by Blood, Overkill Feel the Fire and Savatage The Dungeons are Calling.

so...was your band fates warning?  : )

But seriously, that's a very cool list of influences.  Albeit one that I would guess many bands from the 80's were operating with, but correctly so.

Oath is amazing.  The melodic guitarwork in those fate albums kicks the balls out of recent 'melodic death metal', thats for sure.

IV has the ironically titled Cantspeak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCXak-hAO-4) and Let It Be Captured (which is the same riff as Cantspeak, but in reverse). After that he could neither sing as well or write.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Kz8Nxb-Bg

Those zebra finches were better than the last page of this thread.  I used to have zebra finches when I was a kid.  Dr. Feathers and his wife, Marshmallow.  They also make songs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI9sJzNNCww&feature=related) of their own.  Yea.  Way better than Danzig.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kBdMF41O5o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kBdMF41O5o)

Reminds me of my days in Istanbul, smoking waterpipes and just laying on my back in a huge sofa with other friends, listening to music, sleeping or playing a bit of backgammon, all day long. Memorable mention goes to the people at the waterpipe cafe under the Galata bridge. Oh how I miss those days..

Right, forgot about that one. That single is decent Danzig. But still, lost the magic comment still stands.

I got an order of CDs from Projekt over the weekend, and they included a free sampler CD. I listened to it on the way to work.

Why the fuck can't goths learn to sing?

The male singers are particularly bad, but every goddamn song is full of hysterical yelps, weedy Internet Tough Guy growls, plain overemoting, or bad imitations of Siouxie Sioux or Peter Murphy.

For the Metal Heads, Armenian/Assyrian black metal  their past two albums are amazing... Melechesh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZprzPj7CkU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7baRD7SrfM&feature=related



note: I might have pimped this band before...as a fanboi of melechesh I reserve that right.

I'm currently bouncing between 3 bands:

1. Riverside

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhXWzads9YI

2. Pure Reason Revolution

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhQaPT6CS08

3. Bigelf

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4dZAJojwVM

I don't remember if I've linked to Wolfgang's Vault (http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/) before, but the place rocks. Last week they had a Texas sale, I missed ZZ Top day but got a 1984 performance by SRV for $6 (FLAC, $4 for mp3). They stream a bunch of stuff for free.

I'm a big fan of Peter Green-era Mac (http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/fleetwood-mac/concerts/roundhouse-chalk-farm-april-24-1970.html), if you like guitars and only know the Rumors bunch, check it out.

Anyway, been listening to that SRV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9oymWJXp68) disc, Mercyful Fate's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHPZwQXu3Ng) Don't Break the Oath and some Charlie Patton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyIquE0izAg).

I have been in to this guy recently.
Warren Suicide. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gykHR6WVvlo) Electronic.

GWAR "Hello Medley Video" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neVTOKnU1vM)  :drill:

This is kind of a cool way to hear new music and such (and lawl, it has daily quests):

http://www.thesixtyone.com

Fair warning, a lot of the stuff on there is shitty.

The Break (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0p9DyBSzU4)

Australian surf rock featuring most of Midnight Oil plus the bass player from The Violent Femmes.

Cool. All are bands that I've championed in these forums in the past. You may also like Lunatic Soul, which is Riverside singer/bassist/primary songwriter Mariusz Duda's solo project.

I'll be seeing Riverside (again) at this year's NEARfest (http://www.nearfest.com/). Saw PRR there a couple of years ago. There's only around a dozen tickets still left if anybody here wants to go. Bigelf are supporting Porcupine Tree in the USA on their April/May tour, but they aren't playing around these parts, presumably to help sell tickets to the BIG DEAL Porcupine Tree concert at Radio City Music Hall (http://www.radiocity.com/events/porcupine-tree-910.html) in NYC in September. That will be a special "evening with" show where the band will very likely play things they don't usually play live or that they haven't played for many years.

My "on heavy rotation" list looks something like this just now:

North Atlantic Oscillation - Grappling Hooks (Kscope, 2010)
Scorpions - Sting in the Tail (Universal, 2010)
Big Block 454 - Bratislava (private press, 2008)
Iron Kim Style - Iron Kim Style (Moonjune, 2010)
Electric Orange - Krautrock From Hell (Sulatron, 2010)
Orphaned Land - Never Ending Way of the ORwarriOR (Century Media, 2010)
Shearwater - The Golden Archipeligo (Matador, 2010)
Hawkwind - Sonic Attack (Atomhenge, 2010) *
Colosseum - The Valentyne Suite (Sanctuary, 2004) *
Radio Massacre International - Time & Motion (Cuneiform, 2010)

Radio Massacre International will be playing locally next month. Yay. Scorpions will be playing their farewell tour in these parts at the same time as NEARfest. Boo.

* remasters of older albums, 1981 & 1969 respectively

I'll definitely look into Lunatic Soul. Porcupine Tree/Bigelf are coming through Dallas on the 20th of April. I can still get tickets, but I'm not sure I can get the night off from work. I'd sure love to go though.

I'll check out some of the other stuff you've got going there. Just a quick listen to North Atlantic Oscillation and I like what I hear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8uSjOpHHe4

There's a free heavy metal MP3 sampler album up on Amazon courtesy of the folks at The End Records. It'll be gone in a couple of days though, so act now:

http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Metal-Sampler/dp/B00393AI0M/

Thanks for this, it's great (and on Spotify)! I would also like to point out that the frontman looks like Kratos.

Holy crap, actually a decent band on there between the cookie monsters and emotards. Die Apokalyptischen Reiter is pretty badass.

Early Man was decent old school, but kind of repetitive and the vocals weren't great. Several bands were pretty good, but had half decently sung vocals and half cookie monster (Borknagar). Dio and Dickinson should smite some motherfuckers imo. Wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't so hard to find something melodic and heavy with great vocals, and someone like Mastodon moves in that direction and catches shit from fans.

Thanks to The Sixty One, I discovered Drugstore Fanatics (http://www.drugstorefanatics.com/). I like them. Heavy, yet melodic.

CRYPTOPSY - Worship Your Demons (OFFICIAL VIDEO)  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_wCYF4BCM)

I could get into that Cryptopsy song, if the singer wasn't screaming\growling like that and the snare drum wasn't SO DAMN HIGH in the mix that it overpowers everything else.  Seriously, was there any bass or guitar outside of a few noodles here and there?

In the producer's defense, Flo (the drummer) is the only reason to listen to Cryptopsy anymore. :-P

Edit:
Oopsie-daisy, I should get my vowels straight.

I'm not a fan of the vocals as well.

And now for something completely different (but timely -- warning, strong religious overtones):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz9akqofziE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz9akqofziE)

I've had this melody stuck in my head for days.  It's like 15th century pop music.

The VNV Nation show I just went to at Elysium here in Austin is probably one of the best shows I've ever attended. Also 6th street was :awesome_for_real: tonight.

My ex is going to see that this Sunday.  Supposedly it will be a good time.

Digging the new Jonsi solo bit.  It's amazing how far he and Sigur Ros have come in the 10 years I've been listening. 

For my birthday I got tickets for Guy Davis, an amazing acoustic blues guy, and a gypsy jazz group who's name escapes me just now. Both at the local art cafe. Also coming up: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (always a fun show) and Johnny Winter and James Cotton at the Egg (the best venue acoustics I've heard).

I wish I didn't live in the cultural gap between the Lakes and Capitol. Just heard about this show (http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004448E6396AA7). Fiancee is definitely not interested, which sucks because we'll be vacationing that week. A normal work week, I'd just use a personal day and stay over.

Good Death Metal is the greatest thing ever made.  A total inversion of pop music, a delicious obsession for absurdist melodic development, and utter romanticism.  It's like if Schubert fucked Berg and then decided to make fun of the beatles (bach might be in there somewhere too, dont tell anyone). 

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness.  This is simply taking the premise Slayer laid out in RiB, and then saying hey, lets pretend like we're romantic composers on top of it.  It's a mini-symphony.  And this is when metal gets really damn fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti4VuHAVzn4&feature=related

Gorguts - Obscura:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gri3tjKktdI

Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP0zs_El4Oo

Incantation - Onward to Golgotha:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcPVF2jd6X0

Immolation - Close to a World Below:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g8wtYRMGYA

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

Due for US release May 18th. Whole album streamable:

http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening/index2.htm

Early reports coming in that Pete Steele died last night of heart failure (http://geeksofdoom.com/2010/04/15/type-o-negative-frontman-pete-steele-has-died/) at a staggeringly young 48 (http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.Net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=138519).

This year is just getting worse and worse for music. I can still barely come to terms with Mark Linkous' suicide as it is, and now another favourite musician is gone.

Well that sucks, I was close to going and seeing them last time they came threw for old times sake, I really should have I guess.

Rush playing Moving Pictures in its entirety? Oh hell yeah.

Ticketmaster fucking things up so tickets go on sale 7 minutes late and I only get 26th row? Dammit!

Don't know when the Philly tickets for the Rush 'Time Machine' tour are going on sale. I won't be looking to buy seats up front if they're $150 + fees like in some other venues though. I saw "The Camera Eye" live back when they last played it... on the Signals tour. They've played everything else off Moving Pictures in the last few tours.

I haven't listened to Rotting Christ since the mid 90s and back then they did nothing for me.  Flash forward ~15 years and holy Pork Souvlaki these Greeks have evolved.  I just picked up their two most recent albums and they are amazing.

Title track of latest album:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hOfNukY6Og&feature=related

closer with Diamanda Gala on vocals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGR27sF61BQ&feature=related
what a stunning way to close an album. I could never get into her stuff, had Plague Mass at one point but this just blows me away.

The Broken Bells album (self-titled) is incredible. It's James Mercer of The Shins with Danger Mouse (doing all the instruments except the strings section). Buy it.

What!  How did I miss this!   :uhrr: 

Bah no shows in Chicago though, means I'll have to try and get Milwaukee Summerfest tickets.  I've seen them tons of times, be nice to see all of Moving Pictures done in it's entirety though.

Blows. Very funny dude with entertaining music.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.

Don't mistake a lack of talent for genius.

SUFFOCATION - "Abomination Reborn"  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6nrglujp1U) Still kicking it old school I see.

NILE - "Sacrifice Unto Sebek" HD  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09dFfqdVDi0)

And just because I had not listened to them in forever Human Remains- Human NSFW lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSDScRovM4c)


And OMG:  Nocturnus - Lake of Fire  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCjpKsBf44)

Mortician - Zombie Apocalypse  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiOJ2P_jvnU)

I feel the old now.

Clutch - "Minotaur"  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYTXNyZrqYo)


Clutch - "Burning Beard" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eepsCXpLY4)

Scrubs (the show) is truly awesome. It made me finally check out DevilDriver, which I now feel I should have done sooner, eventhough Coal Chamber was completely meh.

DevilDriver - Resurrection Blvd (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAmdBJ1Yohw)

...

I'm kind of predictable with my music choices. ;D

Been listening to the hell out of 'Die Apokalyptischen Reiter'. What a great band. All 3 of their latest albums are good. I've just recently went further back into their catalog and it's not bad either, but I've only listened to them once each so that needs more listens.

'Riders on the Storm' (absolutely not a remake of 'The Doors' song)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnhxo_hfEnw

I love Cathedral, although their slower more played-straight Doomy stuff bores me to tears. Midnight Mountain is probably my favorite track of theirs just because it's so fun and ridiculous, the last couple minutes of it always put a huge smile on my face.

Damn you are the first person I have ever seen mention them/know of them.  I have just have one of their albums called All You Need Is Love,   have you heard that one?  If you have based on that album what else do you recommend by them?

That is one I haven't listened to all that much yet. I also haven't listened much to 2003's 'Have a Nice Trip'.

After that one, 'Samurai' came out in 2004. It's excellent. In 2006, 'Riders on the Storm' came out and it's even better. In 2008, 'Licht' came out and while I don't consider it as good as 'Riders on the Storm', I still love it. I would say that as you work your way closer to present day in their discography, they move towards a more melodic sound that I actually prefer. They have a new album supposedly coming out later this year too. I'm really looking forward to it.

cool will look for those.

cheers


*edit*


Just rediscovered this on me tubes as my tape died years ago:

Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy  - damn I had forgotten how f'ing amazing they were, politics, social awareness great beats, they had it all.

tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J_qa...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAkOifDeSw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvBzq5raGIw&NR=1

This Australian band Cloud Control are the support act for Vampire Weekend's tour. I reckon they're going places.

Worth a listen:
Death Cloud (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQsu1m_DuZ4)
Gold Canary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDULAuG8FgA)

:awesome_for_real:

Wrestling with our utter hate of festivals. Some good stuff this year in Ottawa and Rochester. I really want to see Old Crow Medicine Show open for Derek and Susan.

Been listening to Demis Roussos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nZKMm-nOsc) lately.

Muusicaah

Old Crow Medicine Show has been rolling around my Pandora rotation lately because of a Felice Brothers add I put in there.  I'm liking them a lot so far.

From his best album, when he was in a psychedelic/progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child with Vangelis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=selfqEH-JnY

Never been really big on psychedelic rock. I think my parents did a good job of burning that out of me when I was a young age (like at six), which is odd as they took me to my first concert when I was two (Beach Boys), music tastes always change.

Also <3 Namie Amuro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOx3VKFu-LQ)

I just started listening to Blackfield. It's like Stupid Dream/Lightbulb Sun Porcupine Tree. I dig it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dyMp99Q5ss

With a couple of exceptions (such as that track) I find most of Blackfield pleasant but low on repeat value. Probably my least favourite Wilson project.

Here's the first offering from Trent Reznor's new band How To Destroy Angels:

http://pitchfork.com/news/38686-how-to-destroy-angels-a-drowning/

And here's a track from Anathema's upcoming album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea1gtXccCB0

Any good suggestion for what to listen to while ill?

Currently listening to Nujabes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O0kuoiAm2A&playnext_from=TL&videos=5_CVE1adeMw

but pretty much open for any kind of suggestions, as long it isent to loud and metalic..

Cat Power, husky breathy female vocals that really relax me.   I listened to her a lot last time I had strep.  /shrug.  Never thought of "what is good sick music" before.   LUcinda Williams?  Chris Isaak, Al Green? Isis?  Nada Surf?

If you are trying to sleep/rest while sick, Kitaro has some great stuff for falling asleep to.   Hope you feel better.

Ah yes. That's the folks that did the cover of "Space Oddity" for a Lincoln commercial. I wish they had done an actual full version that they'd release.

Apocalyptica actually does a few soothing melodic pieces.  Farewell is a good example.

Anita Baker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adfl0_iM-IY&feature=related)

Also good for cleaning

Thx for the input guys

I have always found music as a fine way to distract myself from all the symptoms of being sick..

I like it, although what separates this from NIN is pretty hard to see.

Oooh darn, you beat me to posting that. I like it, a lot. Retains some classic NIN flavour while moving on to a more neo trip-hop/dubstep territory, which he was threatening to do back with Year Zero anyhow. Mariqueen's voice is pretty much a perfect feminine facsimile of Reznor's quiet voice.

This reminds me, we haven't done an f13 mixtape in a while.  "Listen while ill" is a great album name.   :awesome_for_real:

It really depends on the illness:

Common Cold:  Chopin
Syphilis:  Schubert
Necrotic Tissue from bite or flesh-eating disease:  Goregrind, perhaps Carcass?
Brain Tumor (or at least you'd have to have the symptoms to enjoy this):   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5886Nb_psg

My music taste mutated a bit again and now I'm listening to the new Cypress Hill album. I don't know if I like it, even though on paper it's full of talent.

wow....that is different.. did some wiki fu, and I had their first album serenades back in the day, and haven't listened to them since the mid 90's quite the change in style.  I will definately check this out, thanks for putting them back on my radar.  If you like this, I assume you listen to Amorphis?

Got to see Band of Horses open for Pearl Jam in Columbus tonight.  Friend had third row tickets from being a Ten Club member for nearly 20 years now.  Pearl Jam just simply rocks, each and every time I see them.  But to me, Band of Horses was my highlight.  Perfect mix of indie rock with a bit of country twang and somberness.  Excellent driving music. 

I was into some spring-time rock stuff for a bit, Moving Pictures (for obvious reasons) and some early VH. Now I'm back into my Cab Calloway thing, I've got some 2-disc compilation in the truck. Love being able to burn both as an mp3 cd; my old truck had a tape player...6 cd changer full of mp3 cds is a nice little luxury (and of course a direct input for ipod, but without integrated controls it's a bit clunky and I always forget to turn off the ipod).

We've been seeing Big Bad Voodoo Daddy a couple times a year for a few years now, much like the blues I've been doing a bit of mining the past of bands like them and the BSO. A lot of the big band stuff can get schmaltzy for me, so far the only one I've really dug into was Count Basie, until I (re)discovered Cab. He's kind of the punk of the big band scene, it's really great stuff.

Saw Lecherous Nocturne, Skeletonwitch, and Cannibal Corpse last night with two co-workers.  If you like metal, you will like Skeletonwitch, simple as that.  I can't remember the last time I saw a band that was so clearly having the time of their life while onstage.   Cannibal Corpse, never been into them, don't have any albums, but after seeing them live I can understand why they are so popular, although there drummer looks like he is barely able to play at the speeds required.

All in all: go see skeletonwitch live if you get the chance. While they might not be doing anything new, what they do they do so well.

some of the songs they played last night
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQlLYfgUtOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHxr6fP22MM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DEyPFi0N1Y&feature=related

The band is great. But.

(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7040/cookiemonster2.gif)

 :oh_i_see:

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/james-brown/concerts/newport-jazz-festival-july-06-1969.html

Soul Brother Number One.

coookieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

yeah there are several bands that I wish I could just get the Karaoke version of their albums.

Those guys remind me a ton of Witchery in sound for some reason.  I was able to get into that band despite the vocals (which didn't bother me too much for some reason) so maybe this band deserves a chance.  I do like that it's not the same plodding chord and boring riff structure over and over again (to the exclusion of anything else).  If anything, being creative and not dropping to D to speed along with one finger deserves some support these days...

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter doing a cover of 'Ghostriders in the Sky':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGtIOv6uH2A

Good times.

Ronnie James Dio just died (http://www.ronniejamesdio.com/).

Damn shame.

That it is.  I had seen him live a few years back and he still had his performance top notch, even in his 60's.  Sad day.

He was still incredible last year. We just lost a great.

I saw him in Heaven and Hell (awesome) and was hoping to see him on the Dio tour. The original Rainbow album was the first rock album I ever listened to, and something both my Dad and I liked. Damn.

Fuck. One of the greatest metal singers of all time.

I didn't even realize he was sick though. :(  That's too sad.

Jack black will be pissed.

Fuck. I'm getting old.

Still remember when I saw Rainbow in concert, back in the late 70s, when I was not even a high school lad yet, probably 14 at the time… …at the old Stanley Theater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedum_Center) in Pittsburgh… …Ronnie Montrose and Gamma was the warmup act, and they kicked ass too.

You fly with the Dragons now Ronnie

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/dio/concerts/san-jose-civic-auditorium-october-05-1983.html

I forgot how amazing Vivian Campbell was in the day. I imagine Def Leppard pays more, but damn was he a hell of a guitarist with Dio.

Billy Bad Ass  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2WZf57McSo)

Blackfield - End of the World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6FvSra1TeM

Set to HL2 footage. Nice.  :awesome_for_real:

Original version, set to...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qpiXilDI1eY

King Crimson - Happy with what you have to be happy with  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NadA3lzDjtw)

I run hot and cold on Belew as  a singer and or lyricist but my love for everything else Crimson makes it easier to take.

I've been listening to a lot of P.U.T.S.

Schooled in the Trade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfaHhIB43jI)

San Francisco Knights (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFYR4XI9Itw)

The L.A. Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc7H3SrK4DM)

Has anyone ever heard of Alamein (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf7efKqfm34)? I first heard them a couple of years ago, but apparently they only released on very short EP, and I can't find any other info. Is it a side project? Or just someone dabbling?

A couple of slightly different things by this thread's standard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cckkzRDBAo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws25EyTGdTg

Woah! Liquid Liquid on Fallon recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWDP019Irg

(if Liquid Liquid aren't familiar but you know this groove, it was sampled here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ChjLMbXVrU)

The Sharon Jones track is awesome.

RIP Paul Gray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK6Mpuix2FA&feature=related

I didn't expect to see that headline when opening the Guardian website this morning :/

Back on subject, I've been listening to old skool hardcore, drum and bass and breakbeat for the last few months. http://www.choons.net is a great website for downloading DJ sets. The Faydz sets are excellent, especially if you spent your youth at various raves around the M25 :D

Not enough Spiral Tribe:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3vwy_spiral-tribe-sp23-breach-the-peace_music

version without the cool video but with the cool naughty words intact:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdOAUjbWjxI

Deadboy & The Elephantmen - Otherworldly Dreamer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E47IN4yLUM)
Dax Riggs - Waking Up Insane (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUPJxNc2VPs)
Agents of Oblivion - The Hangmans Daughter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt1ZkqPsBQc)


Hell, anything involving Dax Riggs.  Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion, Deadboy, or his solo stuff.

I get a chuckle out of the amount of stuff I own from the GTA soundtrack. I jacked a car last night that was tuned to The Journey and it was playing a track off the Aphex Twin's double ambient cd. I don't really listen to the electronic stuff any more, but I love that set.

it involves some people who were associated with Acid Bath (doesn't sound much like it), but have you checked out Goatwhore?  And I agree Dax Riggs is well :rock_hard:

I just got this (http://www.byorecords.com/index.php?page=one_band&aid=69) in the mail today. Two red vinyls, a CD with the contents of said vinyls, a DVD documentary, and a 100 page book of punk rock awesome. Gotta love birthday money; my mom couldn't have bought me a better gift.

For those who don't click the link, Let Them Know is a great look into the punk scene from a record company that was involved since 1982. When I was a DJ at my college radio station, I got tons of great stuff from BYO, largely on vinyl. The brothers Stern are the real deal.

I find myself listening to more stuff like this lately (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9xFTiYz5_Q)

Like someone in the Youtube comments mentions this sounds a lot like something from the recently passed Nujabes.

Listening to some 'Indukti' lately. It's pretty good stuff. I really dig this particular song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzsOZIS7wq4

"Hawk kills chickens. Hawk kills rabbits. But the hawk won't kill Tusan Homichi. Monster hawk will surely die."
 :awesome_for_real:


Oh and a band called 'Lazuli' from France. Good prog rock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAkTcvAUm_Q

Mostly been listening to a Cab Calloway compilation (http://www.amazon.com/Cab-Calloway-Company/dp/B000002WRC). Also a couple discs I got off Wolfgang's Vault. They do a daily download for $4 ($6 for FLAC), I got a couple nice shows from SRV and Freddie King. I think I've mentioned it before, but if you like music you should at least check out their streaming section, tons of concerts.

Most :awesome_for_real: moment is probably early Sabbath covering Blue Suede Shoes.

Indukti & Lazuli are good. I saw Indukti at NEARfest too... :)

I got my copy of Porcupine Tree's Anesthetize yesterday - the special edition with Blu-ray, DVD and 2 CDs in an impressive clothbound book. It's my first Blu-ray. I wouldn't say that live music is a showcase for the format but it is a good concert video and the higher resolution is welcome. This a very well recorded, filmed and edited live performance. They excel at performing live and this movie captures it well without much gimmickry in the presentation. Hell, the drumquake shots are cool too. The standard BD/DVD package will ship in late June, initially in a limited digibook run, then in super jewel case. The DVD-only version is available now - it's been available for a couple of weeks in fact - BD production involves longer lead times and delays at the moment, it seems.

I love HD concerts, if it's a good transfer or whatever. Being able to see with better clarity what the musicians are doing, especially guitar fingerings or peeking at effects boards really enhances shows.

Been listening to the '40s station on Sirius and also Band of Horses.  Sure, they're trendy but I did their stuff. 

Funny, I'm listening to Lorie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rikhbi9rQBw&feature=fvw

And Hotei

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0rp6Re-Bro

Tomorrow's download deal on Wolfgang's Vault is UFO from '75. Michael Schenker tearing it up, great concert. Nice mid-70s rock with some boogie piano and great proto-metal guitar playing. Just sick loud marshal tone the way it should be. As I mentioned in my last post, the daily deals are $4 mp3/$6 flac, great deal for a rocking concert.

UFO is one of those proto-metal bands for some reason I never heard in my formative years, so catching up is nice. I always read metal bands citing them as an influence, should've cracked them open long ago!

Anything you can recommend from them?  I've heard a handful of songs on XM over the last few years and nothing particularly struck me, so I've pretty much not done anything beyond that.

The standard recommendation would be any of the Schenker albums from Phenomenon through to Obsession with Lights Out being the strongest, but the smart place is the live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aatjerFCRP8) Strangers In The Night (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018YIW4S/). You could check out their space rock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh7zcgjgCdI) roots in UFO 2 Flying. Also good.

Or the $4 mp3 live show (http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/ufo/concerts/record-plant-september-23-1975.html).  :awesome_for_real: Schenker has some off notes, but for the most part it's pretty smokin' (and cheap). The tone....mmm...as a blues fan, I have a much higher tolerance for the occasional off-note, though. You can stream it first to see if you like it, I was listening to it most of the day yesterday.

Queensryche is doing a show at the local casino, but with all the shows that have cropped up this summer, I don't think we have it in the budget. I guess it's a sign of the times when I'm holding out for Buddy Guy tickets at a venue 4 hours away rather than get front row QR tickets right around the corner. We did splurge on some Derek & Susan tickets, I'm very excited to see them together. Going this weekend to see a gypsy jazz trio, then later this month is the rescheduled Johnny Winter and James Cotton show at the Egg.

Live show recordings are extremely hit or miss for me.  I've ragged on some bands who have put out horrible live albums and just do nothing for trying to get me excited or interested, especially when they have good studio albums (and are good to see live).  Not to mention I still like physical media rather than downloads =P

FLAC to AIFF, burn to cd. Then I FLAC to AAC for my ipod. The UFO show definitely has a few rough spots, but overalll it works and is some great Deep Purple-eqsue asskickery. I mostly bought it for the excellent version of Built for Comfort, a Dixon tune I have in several forms, favorite being Howlin' Wolf's. I totally want to rip off the UFO version with someone.

I'll have to check out the official live album, four more years of polish for Schenker. But I'm pretty forgiving of live shows, I'd rather hear passionate and spontaneous than clean and well-articulated (for rock and blues, anyway).

Like I said though, just stream it for free :)

Saw the gypsy jazz trio I mention, last night. Holy shit. Kruno Spisic is the fucking man. That kid plays so fast (but also some heartbreakingly beautiful slow numbers), with such precision and sweet note choices, amazing tone and also has a great singing voice (the cougars were purring). Several of the best area guitarists in the crowd and we were all humbled. If you have a chance, get out to see Kruno play, you will not be disappointed! This was his last date on this tour, but keep an eye open.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdT2UO85Nsg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tji0YEc15yY

Let Me Hear You Scream - Ozzy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5JJy8Z4dNM)

Ozzy FTW!   :hulk_rock:

Cathedral - Black Robed Avenger  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdE3VVvQNE0)

Johnny Winter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytdsPVkNCOM) on a 12-string. Going to see him and James Cotton in a couple days.

It appears as though Porcupine Tree's non-limited Blu-ray edition has already sold out across all US distributors in advance of the sale date. My days in the front row may be numbered.

NEARfest was good. Steve Hackett and band (including bassist Nick Beggs of Kajagoogoo fame wearing a leather kilt and waistcoat and sporting pigtails) were my favourites. They played quite a few Genesis numbers as well as some current and older Hackett songs. Firth of Fifth was jaw-dropping.

That link to the Ozzy video didn't work outside the US, according to two friends, one in Germany and one in England Ironic, seeing as Ozzy is a brit. Anyone got a link to the video of Let Me Hear You Scream that's playable outside the US?

Ok, don't go see Johnny Winter. It's the first show I can remember walking out on. The backing band was tepid, they warmed up with an instantly forgettable number. Johnny came out and played an instrumental. And by played I mean he hacked the shit out of it. Fine, he's old and I know the struggles he's had the last fifteen years. Maybe he'll warm up. Three numbers later and his blaringly loud guitar played like a rank newb in a guitar center began driving people out. Tore my heart out to see a legend in that state, and again to actually get up and go. There were thirty people waiting for the elevator, so we weren't alone.

Luckily, James Cotton and his band were smokin' hot. Weak point was his white guy singer, but one of his guitarists channeled mid-60s Buddy Guy and was worth the price of admission alone. Bass player had impressive funk chops (Les Claypool meets Duck Dunn in a half black half somoan), the band sounded like a Burglar-era Freddie King band, or maybe the Stax guys. So we felt like we got our money's worth.

But word of warning to any classic music fans: avoid Mr. Winter. He can't play anymore, and the intimacy of the egg and his blisteringly loud amp drive that point into your skull.

That's a shame about Johnny Winter losing it.  I had a really old vinyl of his that I loved  (along with both Anthology of British Blues, both of which my ex-brother in law stole when my sister dumped him).  Anyway, at least he's not a Scientologist like his brother.  Not that it should account for fingers, but it's something, right? 

Having said that, I like their hair.

Wow... Was part of Funny picture thread or so I thought..


Edit
I guess having multiple windows open in Firefox may post to an incorrect thread now... That's cool.

Fans of bluegrass, you have the opportunity of a lifetime! The best of extreme metal, just the way YOU want it!

Blinded by Bluegrass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85rRNICYOn0&feature=related)

More here. (http://www.sotb.se)

The new Ozzy album is good. I find it funny he removes Zakk Wilde because he doesn't want to sound like Black Label Society, then gets a guitarist who sounds a lot like Zakk Wilde, at least on this album. Still worth a listen though.

Got the new Korn playing in my ears right now. Haven't liked them much after the first album, but this one is pretty good.

We finally got in the Kruno Spisic (http://www.amazon.com/Kruno-Gypsy-Guitar-KRUNO-SPISIC/dp/B000F6YXEI) album we ordered. The one we bought from him is a duo with an accordionist, which is cool but not mind-numbingly amazing like the one we just got, which is mostly his trio with a few guests later on. Playing it in the office yesterday, a coworker (and Grappelli fan) thought I was listening to a Django album. Kruno is that good.

Also listening to a lot of Cab Calloway still, in the truck. At home I've been in bluegrass mode (not metalgrass, heh) while working in the yard and stacking wood and whatnot. Also had on the best of Rev Horton Heat, some great tracks on there.

check out Gus's band Firewind Haemish.  From what I have heard from the new album (which I admit is very little) Gus sounds like he is just playing songs that were already written and is contributing very little of his own touch.... IMO

firewind:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHy-OVlijsQ

as for Korn  :oh_i_see:

As for myself: currently been on a Lucinda Williams kick bought her newish album Honey and uhmm another earlier album... I just love her harsh voice and some amazing lyrics.   

The new Ozzy album was already in the can when Gus joined. He recorded the solos and then Oz let him go back and track the rhythms but they're all Zakk-written. Oz got rid of Zakk more because Oz is clean again and it wasn't working out with Zakk drinking. Rumor has it Zakk is cleaning up his act, who knows, just going on an Oz interview in the newest Guitar World.

Firewind sounds like a lot of 80's guitarist projects. Riffing and soloing is cool, but the band is a simple support act. Drummer had a couple interesting things with the basses, but take that away and yawn. Oz is creating such generic rock crap, makes me sad. This (http://www.youtube.com/user/mastodonmusic?blend=2&ob=4#p/u/3/_TQooWXC8Z4) is how you take what could be a mediocre song and elevate it with amazing drumwork.

well no fair playing the Brann Dailor card.   He is one of the most interesting drummer out there that I am aware of in *metal*

I see your brann and raise you a derek roddy for making a ho hum song amazing, well the first 50 seconds then it becomes a blastfest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESbqky0i8-8

Yeah, after :50 it just gets silly, one of my least favorite thrash type beats. Nice tom work though, I'm trying to learn how to do rolling tom beats in my non-existant spare time. Nice thing about it being 95 degrees out, it's 65 in my basement where my drums are! I suck so bad at drums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJxSng0N_4

I have a Pandora station set up for just this stuff (him and others), great stuff to work to.


I don't hear it. Sounds rather run of the mill to me. They guy isn't Gene Hoglan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQLDi_6e8-0).

I dont get the fascination with mastodon, I mean, they make well constructed songs, nothing overly complicated and are indeed fine musicians, but most of there stuff is so dam bland, i don't get the "awesome". Perhaps ill listen to more, any recommendations of albums or songs that really shine for you?

EDIT: After sampling more, they do have a nice soothing sound going on, rather reminiscent of older days, kinda grimy, kinda cool. I need someone to recommend the best album.

I hated Mastodon at first for the Cookie Monster vocals, but as I listened to their latest album more and more, it really resonated with me, to the point I was able to listen to their earlier albums and appreciate it. I don't find them mediocre musicians at all - I think their song construction is fantastic. Their weak point was vocals, but with Crack the Skye, they really found the sound. I'd recommend starting with that album and going backwards.

As for Korn, well I loved their first album, and have felt meh about everything up to this latest release.

Yer not a moosican r u. If I had a double bass pedal I could play that song, it's almost all straight beats played quickly (stamina ftw, though). Btw I met Gene a few times back when he was in Dark Angel, gogo 80s thrash metal scene. Got pics with me and him back when Ler Lalonde was in Possessed (now in Primus). He's a good drummer, but Brann is transcendant. Imo, of course, people will complain about Brann's reliance on snare fills and rolls but I like that more than straight beats, which also goes to some of the better swing jazz with the rolling tom beats.

Anyway. I wish I was a drummer :)

Agree with Haem, I like stuff off all their albums, but Crack the Skye is where they have really begun to shine. My other favorite drummer in modern rock music (Thomas Pridgen):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH11YFqMoB0

:facepalm:

Well, just like I should not be judging mastodon by the few songs I have heard, comparing this guy to Gene Hoglan is using one track in one band is not good.

Keep in mind, Gene Hoglan is/was the drummer for: Devin Townsend Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcfDxq8Zw5A), Dethklok, Dark Angel, Death, Testament, Strapping Young Lad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwuReRw23_0), Fear Factory, Meldrum, Opeth, Unearth, Zimmers Hole, Pitch Black Forecast, Forbidden, Pitch Black Forecast, Phantasm, Mechanism, Fall of Olympus and Old Man's Child (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9FYIkuNnKc).

You're continuing a disagreement based on stylistic preferences.  :oh_i_see:

Hell, Testament was the band we used as an example of what not to sound like when we were auditioning drummers in San Francisco. And I'm not basing it on a couple songs I've heard, I'm basing it on sitting and watching him play vs other drummers I've seen play in a style I enjoy more.

Yes, he plays fast. Good for him. Good for you. What I've heard of the bands you listed I don't like. There are many technically talented people creating music I think sucks. You don't like Mastodon (or probably The Mars Volta). That's ok.

The end.

I don't think I said I didn't like them. There are lots of good drummers in the world, style aside, I just don't agree with your "transcendent" comment. Its not just that he plays fast, hes fast, extremely accurate and quite varied. I also really enjoy some Richard Christy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEPWdMw9SZo).

But it seems like your only criticism, as a musician (  :awesome_for_real: ), is that they can play fast and use double base pedals, so its like, talentless or something, some drummers/bands I agree, thees guys, hell no.

Also, I have a more eclectic taste than you are implying here, that list I posted was simply his past works and credentials.

ANYWAY, I'm going to pick up that album recommended by HaemishM, you guys talk about them so much, I should check it out, I need something new anyway.

Their first album is what I would check out based on the other music i have seen you link.   Live they are the kind of band to lock into a monster riff and just beat you to a pulp with it (in a good way).  They have a live dvd from a tour with D. Escape that demonstrates this rather well.

As for cookie monster vocals.. *edit* - glad you came around Haemish, but for serious cookin monster read on.....  I suppose it is all relative to me cookie monster vocals are something like Nile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy-HtLCQw_k&feature=related

Sorry to be nitpicky but Old Man's child is a favorite.   This is Nicholas Barker on the album In Defiance of Existance (ex- Cradle of Filth, ex- Demon Burger).  Gene was on the earlier album Ill Natured Spiritual Invasion.. which is a great album nonetheless.

/nitpicking off

Indeed it is. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiBpdB2McYk&feature=related) Ill-natured Spiritual Invasion and earlier The Pagan Prosperity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNZtwWjURaw) is seriously some of the 90's best MDM.

Nick Barker got a bad rep for some reason I'm not aware of. Sure, he's maybe a little too fond of triggering and may be a dick off-stage (no idea), but he can seriously lay down a brutal beat. He's fast as a motherfucker.

What the fuck is that monkey banging horse shit? Not only does someone need to punch that "singer" directly in his balls on general principle, they need to take the producer of that recording out and have him shot for being a moron. The mix on that is TERRIBLE.

Am I the only one here that starts to listen to some variety of Walrus Rock (death, dark, slightly musty metal), enjoying the drums, the harmonically sync'd guitars going full speed, and then is instantly dismayed at the ridiculous singing style?

/raises hand

Right here with you.

I wouldn't say dismayed, but it's hard to do anything other than laugh when most of these people do whole verses of death growling. Of course, if the lyrics are embarrassing anyway, it doesn't really matter if they growl or not. Yes, I'm looking at you Dream Theater. (http://lyrics.wikia.com/Dream_Theater:The_Count_Of_Tuscany)

Nope. There is a ton on run of the mill crap, I tend to gravitate to the ones that have a uniqueness, but mostly, for a lot of bands, its just another layer on the sound of the song for me. Really depends on the band though.

and lol @Walrus Rock. Had not heard that one before.


Woops. - 10 metal cred for me  :grin:


LOL! Nile is perhaps one of the most fundamentally based death metal bands with a large Egyptian theme. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ2pimhQkR0) A good portion of the riffs sound as if written as to be played on a sitar (hence the high treble range).  They are a highly acquired taste. Anyway, if we are out cookie monster here, I don't think mortician can be topped.

Mortician - Slaughterhouse  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9om3hxUNd7U) 100% pure horror themed death metal. Yes, he is doing vocals in that.
More modern: Mortician - "Audra"  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZrlnEyDjzg)

EDIT: runner up: Six Feet Under - Sweet Leaf (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcACwCH3IZM)

Mastodon has a guest singer on Crack the Skye who is cookie, but it really fits the track. I really didn't care for it at first, but on repeated listens it's a nice break and I think the fact that it's limited to that track helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_cCEUPInFs

But really...where are the young Dickinsons and Tates? So many great bands and then the "singer" opens his trap and ruins it. Back in the day there were a few cookies, but mostly it was guys yelling (Slayer style) or singing (Overkill's first album, Exodus, Fate, etc).

Dream Theater, ecch. A whole 'nother category of suck. Technically great, but ecch.

Pagan's Mind - Spirit Starcruiser  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wc2rGHvbdM) An amazing singer and a amazingly varied progressive metal band.

Posted a few of my favorite songs by them a few times, not sure if thats what you are looking for.

More Dickinson like:

Nevermore - Believe in Nothing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxUm1hzYWCA)

Nevermore - I Voyager  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP_EhEpPHjY)

Musically Nile is amazing... I saw them with Krisium and Immolation a few months ago.  I actually ended walking out of Nile's set because the vocals were just too much.  Their drummer george kollias is simply out of this world.... but in the end the gurgling was too much.

As for cleaner vocals, not a halford or bruce by any stretch, but a lot cleaner, not really my bag, but I know a lot of people who are into them:

Symphony X
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUn4jXZko5E

*edit*
The Walrus has spoken, and I have been out gurgled by a long shot :ye_gods:  

Mike Patton apparently has a new album out... seriously what can't this guy do.   I will buying this tomorrow

Mondo Cane tracks 1-3 live in Holland

1  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkhyyESYE5I
2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q69UuQxBZUY&feature=related
3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blE7jOssfqU&NR=1

Just saw Trucks and Tedeschi down in Peekskill over the weekend. What an amazing band they've put together, both Burbridge brothers (Kofi from Derek's band and Oteil from the Allmans), Mike Mattison from Derek's band doing backing and some lead vocals, didn't recognize the drummers or the second 'backing' singer. So much talent on stage though, it's just amazing to watch. Even though some bitch grabbed the set list out of my hand. I hate the NYC area, what a pit of douchebags and assholes (and this is a half-hour north...or ten minutes for NYC drivers).

Steel Attack - Diabolic Symphony  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCoxAWbUk84)

Necrophagist- Stabwound  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9RJXWxth5g)

EDIT: Necrophagist - Stabwound - Keyboard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laR3dZexeLc) Playing it on a piano makes the classical influence way more evident.

If you like Neil Young, beautiful women, Women with amazing voices, Trumpets, Satch, boll weevils,  sweet tone, etc.   you should check out this jaw dropping cover of Neil Young's Cortez the Killer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paeNnR33i5Q&feature=fvw

avec:

Grace Potter
Joe Satriani
Steve Kimock
Reed Mathis
Willy Waldman
Stephen Perkins

Note: now I know why Joe alwayws wears shades when playing live.

I think Wiki is lying to me about the drummer:  Stephen Perkin's is the former drummer/percussionist for the band, Cannibal Corpse. He also played one-off shows with Tito, Seth Sentry and Mumford & Suns. He currently resigns in a City in East Mexico. He plays as a temporary percussionist for a local Mariachi band.

Or the drummer of Jane's Addiction. That was awful, her voice is flat and Joe overplays the shit out of everything. (ok, on a second listen her voice picks up as the tune goes on, the early part is tough to sing...still not a Satch fan).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCiLCo-LoUg

Also, when it comes to lady singers, I'm biased, I have a serious thing for Susan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_3BFGyztNM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSZ7IV3lJYg

Although Corrine is pretty awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zf1eu7_s4w

Fleet Foxes. 

They're fairly mellow, but pretty good, ala Band of Horses.  Also listening to a little Phoenix.

I have recently discovered Clutch.  Their music is all over the place, depending on the album, though I like the bluesy-rock with other touches.  The frontman also has a Badass Beard.

Clutch, Burning Beard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eepsCXpLY4
Clutch, 10001110101: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdYKTek5N1Q&feature=related
Clutch, Electric Worry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab6lr2b66Ig&feature=related
 (This song has been in a couple of commercials)
Clutch, The Mob Goes Wild:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z78PjvfCVTQ&feature=related
Clutch, 50,000 Unstoppable Watts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDoKyzHzP14&feature=related

Edit:

It is obvious, though, that Clutch will be first against the wall as collaborators for the upcoming Machine Revolution.

Welcome to the fold! Clutch is one of my all time favs. If i may :)

Clutch-A Shogun Named Marcus  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tIzP3Te05E)

CLUTCH "SPACEGRASS"  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTuo1sSxCM4)

CLUTCH The Regulator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0HUBWdDkU)

Clutch - Green Buckets (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG1QFIZW8xs)

I didn't really like the harder stuff.  The bluesy-rock or Texas rock influenced stuff is great, though.

I saw Clutch on their first couple tours. Their fans are pretty loyal, we had a librarian here by way of Long Island who adored them.

These two are mandatory:

Blast Tyrant (2004)
Clutch (1995)

lots of other great stuff, but these two are special

Clutch and elephant riders are my special ones.

And on a completely different note...

A slice of heart-in-throat electro-pop passion from a swedish pixie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TlwcQn5eBI

So many TV performances are just dead-eyed, by numbers affairs. Robyn's sheer fierceness in the face of the song's overwhelming vulnerability blows me away. Fucking astounding song, fucking astounding performance.

You may all get back to the metal now.

One of my closet bands I listen to is V.A.S.T.

I am only partly ashamed.   :awesome_for_real:

V.A.S.T. Touched Official Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S_R13jV11Q)

VAST I Don't Have Anything (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RE1wtLVAwE)

VAST - Pretty When You Cry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOZ6ptqcbUc)

VAST Somewhere Else To Be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sLSg3cWbg8)

It gives me my 80'like fix. Cant say I followed them much after the first album though.

don't be that guy is/was amazing at times

As they say there is no accounting for taste.  Corrine's vocal style just leaves me flacid.  Sure she might technically be a great singer, but her delivery does nothing for me.  When something like this comes on the radio/tv/friends house I simply cringe the entire time.  To me this is the vocal equivalent of vai wanking (well not that bad).

Ok I dig Susan, but Grace is more Hawt and thats what really matters with female musicians isn't it?? but seriously...

Yeah Satch goes ape towards the end... but the trumpet player!!! I will admit I don't know too much about the Trumpet the only trumpet heavy music I own is Miles D... but that guy blew me away.

As to whether or not she is flat, at this point I am quite confident your ear is far better than mine, but I dig her voice.

I don't think you can help but be flat singing the early parts of that shit song. I like Neil Young, but what a hippy pile of shit that song is, lyrically. Because there was peace throughout central america before spain landed  :oh_i_see:

Agreed on the trumpet, the guy kinda stole the song.

a lot of neil is the hippy dippy stuff (old man take a look at my life)

Have you heard his double live album Weld? came out in the early 90s

That is what changed things for me, basically it is him playing lots of his classics with a big ass fender stack with everything turned to 11, gnarly tone and feedback drenched songs.  The version i have includes Arc which is ~30 minutes of feedback/solos.   This album borders on the Sabbathesque at times.

I listened to a lot of Meshuggah about five years back, so imagine my surprise when my Spotify travels took me to ObZen, their latest album that I had completely missed. Holy shit they're in top form. It sounds so alien and yet so familiar.

Getting tickets to see Unheilig, VNV Nation and Apoptygma Berzerk on the same bill at the Rothaus Arena in Freiburg. Show is in December and I cannot wait.

Saw volbeat play in Boise, Idaho (was in town for a week for work)

A mix of Elvis, meets Johnny Cash, meets Social Distortion, meets metal.

They are good live, they frontman has charisma, the audience was into them bigtime.. but it really did nothing for me. Left after about 45 minutes.  The whole time I was there I kept thinking "I wish Social Distortion was actually playing"

They did however play this kickass cover of a Bay City Rollers song:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts19Nn-xyGs

Thursday.

Rush.

Happy.

Don't Be A Playa, Haiti (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNX8HXfKqt8) Just wrong for a number of reasons.

I like this sort of stoner metal.  A bit faster than usual, but not afraid of introspection, chill and energetic at the same time.  It's good.  Droids Attack : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOyb6zUktWI

Almost as good as nunslaughter!  These guys have way too much fun.  And write some damn good riffs along the way.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWGuYpRDj88  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5aYqtPfqVE

Today Arcade Fire released this HTML 5 'video' that is pretty freaking cool.  It's pretty damn interactive and only works in Chrome/Safari. 

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

Tomorrow.

Slayer, Medadeth, Testament.  Now I just need to make sure my sinus infection is gone by tomorrow night.

I was about to go to that when it rolled through, but those tickets are expensive.

I saw that show about twenty years ago at Wembley. Suicidal Tendencies and Pantera were also on the bill as I recall.

That should be a fun show. I dislike Testament alot, though. I once sat outside a bar with Green Jello smoking pot watching Testament through the plate glass window. Skolnick knew we were out there and kept playing to the window, it was funny. Megadeth always puts on a technical masterpiece, Dave is some kind of modern Ozzy with finding good guitarists. And Slayer, they just deliver the old school goods, first saw them in our local metal bar of awesomeness with a brutal concrete pit.

I am going to this in 1.5 months.  A chance for a young metalhead like myself get a taste of metal history, even if at this point its probably old and wrinkled.  Let me know how the show is!  I certainly hope Slayer in particular plays their old stuff.  I'll be rocking the hell awaits shirt, but I doubt they will reach that far back.  It's a shame though, it's really their best album, just needed a rerecord.

They rocked Aggressive Perfector, which I thought was about as "old" of Slayer as you can get.  They are playing the entire Seasons In The Abyss album right now.  Not too much time for other stuff, but it was still a damn good show.  Last time I saw them in 2007 they played Show No Mercy, Die By The Sword, and Captor of Sin, so they mix in old stuff quite often.

Grimwell and I had a great time despite the sheer amount of cigarette and mary jane smoke going on around us.

Setlist for those who are interested:

2010/08/31

Testament:
Eerie Inhabitants
New Order
Practice What You Preach
The Persecuted Won't Forget
Into The Pit
DNR
3 Days In Darkness
Formation of Damnation

Megadeth:
Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
Hangar 18
Take No Prisoners
Five Magics
Poison Was The Cure
Lucretia
Tornado of Souls
Dawn Patrol
Polaris
Trust
Headcrusher
A Tout Le Monde
Symphony of Destruction
Peace Sells
My Last Words (Lars' request to Dave "in spirit of getting the big 4 together in the US")
Peace Sells (conclusion)
Punishment Due solo & outro

Slayer:
World Painted Blood
Hate Worldwide
War Ensemble
Blood Red
Spirit In Black
Expendable Youth
Dead Skin Mask
Hallowed Point
Skeletons Of Society
Temptation
Born Of Fire
Seasons In The Abyss
South Of Heaven
Raining Blood
Aggressive Perfector
Angel Of Death

I was a little disappointed in Testament's set choice, no Hail Mary or F.E.A.R. (which is arguably the best song from their new album, the 2 they did play were not the best selection of material) and it was a short set.  They were in fine form though, I could see why Sky doesn't care for Skolnick as he does kind of showboat but they still did a good job despite being an opener to a stadium that wasn't even remotely filled.  Megadeth were pretty damn amazing, not missing a single beat or note the entire night and playing an interesting set in addition to the entire Rust In Peace album (they barely stopped between songs).  Slayer was the band everyone came for, the place was filled to capacity (Grimwell and I debated why Megadeth was #2 on the bill and Slayer #1, it was obvious when Slayer took the stage that everyone came for them).  An interesting note was that Jeff's guitar was turned up higher in the mix than Kerry's, which has always been the opposite of when I've seen them.  So I could hear his playing better and since he solos more interestingly, it was nice to finally hear it live.  Sure, the tickets were not the cheapest ($45) but I've paid $25-30 just to see Slayer and some shitty local bands, so $45 for 2 top tier metal bands that deliver is a deal for me.

They are up words of 70$ here.

Well, that is pricey I do agree.  They were $35 at the show or $45 online and since I didn't want it to be sold out, got mine online.

Eluveitie - Inis Mona (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQGIB8Wrlxs)

 :awesome_for_real:

Just got back from Rush, what an amazing show. A few newer songs that were meh, a middle-older songs I'd forgotten (90s), and a whole slew of awesome. Fiancee was hoping for more 70s stuff, she called it a 'fan setlist'. Well...ok! I mostly wanted to see YYZ, La Via Strangiato, and Temple of Syrinx, all were performed. They put on such a fun and technically amazing show.

Also found out the Allmans band is going to be at the Palace Theater in November, considering camping out tickets for that one. Seeing Louis CK at the same venue next month  :heart:

Ghostland Observatory is coming out with a new album soon.  Can't wait for that one. 

DeVotchKa - How It Ends (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfi1UQ_PKQI)

Mostly remembered from the GoW 2 commercial.

Soundgarden + Deathklok?  Okay! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K913KVe3kH8&NR=1)

That was awesome.

When the Stars Are Right, Soundgarden and Deathklok will join forces to oppose the Eldritch Abominations using a giant energy mech.

New GWAR album, "Bloody Pit of Horror" first track released. (http://www.metalblade.com/gwar/)

New music discovery. A progressive rock band called 'Haken'. This song starts out so damn happy, but the second half is darker. It's great:

Haken - Streams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJpy84ZiGk)

'Sylvan' is a prog band I've seen recommended in quite a few places. So, I gave them a try and I really dig this song so far:

Sylvan - One Step Beyond (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jZgVnYicFU)

I "ran into" this band while driving home late last night, good stuff:

http://www.reverbnation.com/#/romanfunerals (Alternative / Indie Rock / Folk Rock)

GWAR - Pepperoni  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF_cSKL6BQ4)

GWAR - "Zombies, March!" 10/28 Fallon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl_i1FD1zUY)

Sony is going to quit making the Walkman. Also the end of the Technics turntables but I think that Panasonic. The turntable one was somehow more surprising.

No more Technics 1200/1210s?

Even though quite a few DJs I know have switched to MP3 mixers, it still is suprising, they are the defacto standard for DJ'ing, and more or less achieved design perfection on release. The first batch still work after 30 years+ of constant use, the second hand market has always been high and new ones still sell, despite the price hardly dropping in decades. The second hand vinyl market (house/hardcore/jungle/drum and bass) is still strong too.

It is Panasonic, btw

They stopped making the 1200s?

I hope they don't stop making replacement parts. I still need to fix the tonearm on one of mine and get some new headshells!

EDIT: fuck, just saw they are stopping making parts entirely for them too. Going to have to spend some moolah as soon as I get a job it looks like :(

The new Ghostland Observatory album comes out tomorrow.  You can preview it here  (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041MXA14?ie=UTF8&tag=ghostlandobse-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0041MXA14)at Amazon.  


Edit:  And FYI, it sucks.  Meh. 

GWAR‘s latest masterpiece “Bloody Pit of Horror” will be in stores on November 9th

Second track released.

GWAR - KZ Necromancer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYCsicr6Kus)

I wish there was more GWAR in this thread.

http://www.mapofmetal.com/#/home

Sheer awesomeness. 

I've never heard of Unblack Metal, we always called it White Metal. But good job otherwise. Several of those categories are basically my album collection when I was a young musician.

Apparently I love me some "Tech death". Thats a good chunk of my CD collection right there, even nocturnus.

Scala & Kolacny Brothers - Underneath it All (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKJh504tnU&feature=related)

I always wanted to know where to classify Neurosis. 

Soilwork - The Crestfallen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEdE2PzlAQc)

Kanon Wakeshima

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wns8QmaTNoU

Not sure what I just watched, but the imagery was awesome.

I pulled out all my old Charlatans UK albums yesterday.  They were seriously talented dudes.  I can only handle so much of it though, before I get tired. 

Big Fat Teddy. Enough said, you guys need to check this out and spread this guy around, let's help him achieve the fame he so clearly deserves! Let's get those 94 views to 94,000!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIvzpV0hewQ

I found this pearl while looking for the better of the two Willie Nelson versions of Midnight Rider.

You're welcome for introducing you to this much awesome.

Ugh.  I have never played a guitar but I think I can do better than that. 

I guess you have a point, but I couldn't tell over the amazing singing.

Also, check out his cover of Cash's cover of Hurt.

I got nothing.  Sadly, I've seen worse.  I love love love me some open mic nights. 

That's one reason why I don't hit up our local open mic. It can be great, but there are between 3-6 regular acts that are about that quality. The SAME 3-6, and it gets old fast. Also, why does everything in my city start at 10pm on Thursday night? These people need to get jobs. Thirdly, hanging out in a bar when you don't drink is boring as fuck.

Wait, we are linking shitty covers now? You asked for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0

And to make up for that, here's a cover that DOESN'T suck:

http://soundcloud.com/dianebirch/this-corrosion

The irony of having the word MUSIC hanging over their heads is strong.  The bass player was exactly 20% of what was wrong with that band.  But he was the first 20% responsible. 

Seriously.  When my friend's band plays, once they are done I book it.  Sitting around not drinking is boring when everyone else is or is too drunk to carry on coherent conversations.

Can anyone recommend some good less-mainstream Alternative bands?

Currently listening to The XX and thinking of picking up some Arcade Fire (not exactly indie) and Middle Class Rut.

:awesome_for_real:

If they didn't suck so bad, I'd say there might be a monitor issue, they can't seem to hear each other. But...yeah. Some time I need to upload some tunes from the kid who I bought this house from. They used to practice here in this living room. So, so, so bad.

Arcade Fire is great. 

Check out Tame Impala... Innerspeaker is their latest.  Hard to get here in the states in physical format, but it's like $7.00 on Itunes or the like.  One of the best albums I've listened to in a long time. 

I always extol the virtues of the Flaming Lips, if you're not familiar with them (but you should be..).  Their last three albums at least are a series of magical experiences. 

If you want to get more folk, Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper, Band of Horses, Bon Iver.

Older Mercury Rev albums are great (See you on the other side). 

Early Verve albums (Storm in Heaven, EP, Bsides) are, well, excellent. 

Mainstream at this point, but it never seems that way because I've been listening since 2000... but Sigur Ros is awesome.  Explosions in the Sky, also. 

Worse when you went to high school with half of them and they're still talking about the exact same shit. I once said it feels like I stepped outside for a minute in 1987 and walked back into 2010. Hey, why is Fred bald?

Even worse, most of the musicians have the same bad habits they had before. That drummer still fucks up his timing when he does fills, this bassist still dominates the stage and plays stuff nobody else wants to, clearing the place out until he leaves.

When it works, the place is purely magical. When you get in a bunch of pros who can sit in and jam out some stuff, it's great. The last time I played alongside the best blues guy in the area, trading songs and vocals and solos, we closed the place after playing for a couple hours and nobody wanted to leave. But to get  :drill:, you have to endure a whole lot of  :oh_i_see: and some  :ye_gods: and even a  :why_so_serious:

You like the airy/spacey stuff it seems. I like my folk music to be a bit more rock-y but there is some interesting stuff in there. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll dig through the rest.

In my browsing last night I ended up with:

The Heavy - The House that Dirt Built  ... similar to the Black Keys below, but a bit more heavy on the rock and hardly any country influence
Silversun Pickups - Swoon ... didn't realize they had a new album out, so snagged it when I saw it
The Black Keys - Brothers ... interesting mix of rock, blues, and some country twang
Roman Funerals - Six of Us ... folky alternative, nice harmonizing, simple songs with a good tempo
Royksopp - Senior ... electronica/dance, enjoyed one of their previous albums
Daft Punk - Tron Legacy ... nuff said

I'm totally behind the times again. Didn't realize until now that Melechesh had put out a new album in October.

\m/>.<\m/

RIP Captain Beefheart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSPf5Viwd0

I have been listening to mixes by DJ LobsterDust for the past few months.  

http://djlobsterdust.com/ (http://djlobsterdust.com/)

He samples from a wide variety of genres and mixes them all together.  Some of my favorites:

Alone Wit Chu (Air vs. Queens Of The Stone Age)
DeCexyLong (All American Rejects vs. Le Tigre vs. Rod Stewart)
Epic Black Rock (Faith No More vs. Queen vs. ACDC)
Everybody Do It Again (Jay-Z ft. Amil vs. Missy vs. The Chemical Brothers)
PapaKill-R (Timbaland vs. The Temptations vs. Adamski) (+Seal)
Shut Up And Give Me Some Pie (Warrant vs. The Ting Tings)
Smash My Bitch Up (Smashing Pumpkins vs. Prodigy)

GWAR - Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fkDsjuoQSc)

CHRISTMAS CAROLS With Gwar  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig1HmGXX_aY)  :grin:

GWAR: the Glen Cooks of the music thread.

May be a repost, since I don't follow this thread normally, but I thought this was rather good.

Love Lost by The Temper Trap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTPKKt-pMs)

You might also enjoy Wax Audio then (http://www.waxaudio.com.au/).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdfBA1dpcFE

That Smells Like Teen Spirit/Final Countdown mashup was very well done and a pretty perfect blend. Loved it.

Hey Ya! Shake It Like A Polaroid Cover Version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paoFmPW8lLo

Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dW6aNAZGTM)

I'm beginning to suspect we have some different musical tastes :p

King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Loy55z4GpA)

I have a rather wide, odd, range. Pandora occasionally reminds me of great songs, so I post'em here.

I see your basseiness, and raise you.

Infectious Grooves - Therapy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4eqC3DX_oE)

Infectious Grooves - Borracho (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ijUUnNk9I)


Unrelated awesome:

Secret Chiefs 3 - Zulfiqar III  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W29MjxHkB0s)

Secret chief 3 - Blaze of the grail  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htrVQ2XfvQ8)

Infectious Grooves........

That is a major blast from the past. 

Haken is most excellent. I've mentioned this before, but every time their album comes up in the shuffle, it reaffirms this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ql8biMF62o

When amazing music and amazing visual art have the rare opportunity to mingle:

The Avett Brothers - Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEr9gMYdkHI

The artist ripped off that painting style, the animated single canvas thing. Not a fan of the music, either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kentridge

That's like saying anyone who did just about anything animated post-1970 ripped him off.  Art is either plagiarism or revolution, and all that.  Everything copies pieces from something else.

But I know you like decent music, so you get a pass on that comment.  Surprised, though.  Some of the Avett stuff reminds me of a mellow, poppy Old Crow, which I thought you were into. 

It's not bad, and I could probably get into it if I spent some time listening. Not a rejection due to talent, but of taste, so no biggie.

Right now I'm mostly listening to classical guitar, renaissance music, swing jazz and funky r&b (like the King Curtis clip I linked, to see some of the guitar stuff I'm listening to and playing, hit up the guitar thread :)).

Giving this my first listen now.  It's pretty damn good.  Quite chill, sometimes reminds me a bit of 80's prog metal.  Sometimes kind of like if Nile and Fates Warning combined.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le3ORwNklkU

That was cool....up until the vocals kicked in. Fuck you, cookie. Fuck you. Stop being silly.

sweet jesus, that was good, thanks for linking that.


The boys from Ireland are still kicking ass

Therapy? - Crooked Timber

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtP4-dJak8Y

No, it was rather awesome all the way through.

Maybe if you got the master recording, dropped the faders on the vocals, resurrected Ronnie Dio and had him lay the vocals. Then I'd be right there with ya. I hear that stupid growly garbage and all I can see are the silly face-painted juggalo-looking retards. Go learn to sing and cut out the silliness. You want to hear an evil-sounding motherfucker, go listen to Peter Steele (RIP, can't believe it).

Sorry. I know you like the cookie. I know you know I don't. It's just difficult for me, because I was, you know, in a metal band for a living in the day and now metal is pretty much completely ruined for me because of these chucklefucks. Partly from having a singer who was half Tate, half Dio and half Dickinson, I guess.

What was the name of your band?

You never heard of us. We didn't make it, eh. Drugs and guitarists with high paying day jobs dissolved what could've been one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Sucks.

Don't be modest Sky, plenty of people have heard of Anvil.  :grin:

I hope you're joking.

Edit:  So yes, I have heard of Anvil because some musician friends of mine were talking about the movie.  I have a hunch that Nebu is pulling my leg, but if not that was a pretty damned cool experience, Sky.  I just looked up some of their stuff on iTunes and did a test run through them.  Not my cup of tea, but still pretty neat. 

Just picked up the solo album of Sigur Ros's singer.

Jonsi - Go

great great uplifting album.  I enjoy sigur ros, but they can be a bit much at times, this is more stripped down with some really cool percussion in some songs.  I am really digging this album.

I've been listening to primarily ambient recently.  Biosphere was my first love, but recently I've found Loscil which is also quite good.  Biosphere - Substrata is still in my top 10 albums ever.

Highly recommend headphones for these

Biosphere - Poa Alpina  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q-u_tIzJAY&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q-u_tIzJAY&feature=related)
Loscil - Triton    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SjLqdnv2Zc&hd=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SjLqdnv2Zc&hd=1)


Jesu and Ras Algethi have similar effects on me despite not technically being ambient.  Wonderful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQzT0HpSwn0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x7gsUjDuIE

Stuff like this makes me happy to be alive.

Definitely in my top 5 of 2010.  So pissed I missed him live.

If you like ambient music, you have to check out this slowed version of the Jurassic Park theme I ran into on slashfilm.

http://soundcloud.com/birdfeeder/jurassic-park-theme-1000-slower

Why have I not heard of Mumford and Sons until recently?  What rock have I been living under?  Now I must have their album.

White Blank Page (Bookshop Sessions) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Od0PJp6GI)

The Cave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkUeRPjc-Y)

Little Lion Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9qJHR3E) - album version, not the censored radio version, just FYI.

Winter Winds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCg_QEHtkY)

I've been video hopping YouTube for a bit now...

Yeah, Mumford and Sons have put out a very nice album.  There are a lot of groups out right now that fit that same mold:  Avett Brothers, Fleet Foxes, Ray Lamontagne are just a few.  

Edit:  And if you like those guys, you would love GWAR.  And the Black Company is good too, I hear. 

Hard to say 'mold'... Mumford and FF are very, very different music.  Unless you want to wrap them all under a folk listing, but even that isn't quite right.  I'm a huge FF fan, not so much on the Mumford group (good songwriting, just a bit too poppy for my tastes). 

The only Fleet Foxes song I've heard is White Winter Hymnal, which I love not only for the music but for the words once I really listened to them.  Unless of course I'm hearing wrong, but something about hearing "with scarves of red tied 'round their throats, to keep their little heads, from falling in the snow" just makes me giggle.  It's so insiduous, IMO. 

I have no problem listing a lot of these bands under the "folk" moniker.  Sure they're different, but that's what makes music good.  Variety is nice. 

Mumford & Sons seems more David Matthews than folk. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

There's not anything wrong with that?  Haha. 

I always have felt they were closer to Arcade Fire, who I consider folksy as well. 

I can see that, but the difference is that Arcade Fire seems to achieve its effect through a whole lot of musicians who can all play their instruments well, but not very well, whereas Mumford seems to have a lot of compact talent. Still not my thing, but I can totally see why people love them.

Baroness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9KMlf7p78) is my favorite metal band atm imo. Good for bike riding.. :)

Danzig is still awesome. :rock:

Ever since he left Rick Rubin, his vocals haven't sounded as good, but the new album is better. He also did a duet with Melissa Auf der Maur that's pretty cool (I would just recommend Auf der Maur in general too).

Father's Grave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUIAwHydpKQ)

if you like baroness, check out Kylesa

As for danzig's voice, saw him a month+ ago, and we walked out after about 4 or 5 songs.  His voice is shot, and he sounded horrid.  Probably due to years and years of singing with poor technique.

this always makes me smile Danzig Plus Shakira
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzxDCflZb_E&feature=fvst

In the studio recordings he always sounded all right, but every bootleg live recording I've ever heard has had pretty terrible vocals.  I couldn't tell if someone was flubbing the mix or if his voice just wasn't that great live.

Moon Safari is an interesting band. They can all really sing and they're technically prog rock, but it's pretty light with lots of vocal harmonies.

A couple of songs. The first is much more proggy. The second isn't very proggy at all.

The Ghost of Flowers Past (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiFylvM7iqQ)

New York City Summergirl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-bEAxPLfCw)

Heavenly Damnation - Haggard (Awaking the Centuries) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJh6AQ3q-s)

Age of Nemesis - Meeting with the Unbelievable  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFq5Nxotpm4)

The Haggard started out good, got silly in the middle and then the cookie monster showed up, as I knew he would.

The other one is decent enough, if no soul. And the keyboard player needs to be stabbed to silence.

It's been so difficult to find a metal band that kicks as technically with soul the way that Mastodon or Mars Volta does. Just the sheer amount of groove, melody and brutality both bands exhibit is where I'm at with metal these days (though MV does wander into chaos a bit much for my tastes).

Promo vid of Oblivion (http://www.youtube.com/user/MastodonMusic?blend=1&ob=5) up on Mastodon's tube channel from their forthcoming live cd/dvd  :drill: Brann.... :Love_Letters:

I may be something of a  rhythm section whore (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LY1l6-EapQ), though...

I hear a lot of good things about Mastadon and keep meaning to pick up one of their albums. 

Crack the Skye is an amazing album. Their older stuff is tougher for me to get into because they've moved more toward singing on Skye, and I find non-singing music pretty unlistenable, even if it's really good music. The goofball cookie monster shit is a show-stopper. Hell, even my fiancee likes Coheed and Cambria until he starts his little tiny voice shit.

That is good information.  I will check Crack the Skye but, as with you, I really hate crappy vocals.  It is likely I would have been turned off by their earlier music.  

Decapitated - Nihility  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWfqhKl3E4)

Necrophagist-Advanced Corpse Tumor  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2W7h3a0iMw)

Amon Amarth's new album is coming out in March!  :drill:

There's a couple of of preview songs out there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD1pPweJ5ws

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/uncategorized/streaming-amon-amarth-slaves-of-fear-worldwide-exclusive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+DecibelMagazine+(Decibel+Magazine)

Turisas - The Great Escape  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TQDxSKecgo)





Gary The Impaler teaches you the alphabet (http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/6346/the-alphabet-song-gone-black-metal)  :ye_gods:

Today's Wolfgang's Vault deal is a monster: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-dirty-dozen-brass-band/concerts/twiropa-may-01-2003.html - $5 mp3, $7 FLAC for non-members. Almost two hours of funk horn hotness.

My fiancee got me a membership for valentine's day, it's $48 for a year of unlimited streaming (today's deal would cost me $3.50 mp3, $4.90 for FLAC), discounts on normal pricing and a $50 Vault credit.

So far I've gotten a smokin' James Brown 69 show, and I'll probably pick up today's deal. Tomorrow is Aretha 1971 and Friday is Band of Gypsys 1970. If you like classic rock, blues, funk, jazz, country and/or folk, it's a great deal. Less downloadable stuff in heavy rock/metal, but they do have some old Sabbath and others, I got a live UFO 75 show that's pretty wicked. I've also bought some old Santana with Schon, I think it was just before they hit the studio for Abraxus.

Is this thread just metal now?  Here's an eclectic mix of stuff that are about as different from each other as you can get.

In the early days of this thread, someone mentioned Sufjan Stevens.  His newer stuff is a departure from the folksy Illinoise, but I still find the new sound very interesting.  Sufjan Stevens - I Walked (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25OC3m5QdYY)

Next there's Spiral Beach, which is who I always think of when someone mentions indie rock. Spiral Beach - Kind of Beast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Rl2tslMOA)

Crystal Castles can be difficult to listen to, but Celestica (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZokZRtgf6bU) is one of the exceptions.  It's pure  :heart:

And finally, some noise pop.  Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJ05P-71gY)

Wow.  That's amazing, Sky.  I love JB.  I'm going to check that out for sure.  Thank you. 

As for the metal bent of the thread, I think it's pretty weird how many of the folks here are heavily into metal.  I used to like it, but my tastes have mellowed significantly.

I like metal just as much as I used to, but I tolerate crappy metal considerably less than I ever did when younger.  If it has cookie monster vocals it's 98% automatically out the door, I don't care how great the instrumental section is.  Certain bands that still produce good music ala Judas Priest and Iron Maiden still get bought, listened to, and regular rotation.  I just vary my tastes around to different bands I hear about that "you really should listen to, man!" and have been discovering quite a bit of good stuff, albeit some of it is 70's vintage since that's what I've been finding lately in the CD stores.

Marcus Mumford  = Tim Tebow

if you like the recording, make every effort to see them live. Amazing show.

I find myself drifting back to a lot of music I liked back in my high school days-  Social Distortion, The Clash, Echo and the Bunnymen, Simple Minds.  I just can't take that much guitar.  I like Tool and from time to time will pull out Integrity, Slayer, Mean Season, Snapcase or something else pretty intense, but for the most part I'm just not into that as much.  I tend to go back and forth between some electronic selections, old shit and folky stuff.   :geezer:

What your favorite classic rock band says about you (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/24peck.html)
 :heart:

I am not a fan of classic rock, as a rule. 

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