The Music thread

[ghost]

Devo is pretty awesome.  It's even more awesome that they're from Akron. 

[Sky]

By 'he told me' do you mean 'the court ordered me' :)

I was bouncing around the tube checking some recommendations from That Metal Show and the full cut of Stained Class showed up. I still love this album so much, it doesn't get much mention compared to Victim of Changes or British Steel, but it was a really solid album. Even the weaker songs have a bridge that rocks or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdNHjFyzmR0

[Ingmar]

I   Devo!  They're so much fun live, too.  And those are planters on their heads, no?

Energy domes!

http://devo-obsesso.com/html/dome.html

http://www.swag-inc.com/shop/devo/devo-energy-dome-red.html

[Mrbloodworth]

I don't really see a difference between Slkpknot costuming and a torch singer in a long, slinky dress.  

There is no difference. Like I said, all bands use a measure of theatrics, some are just better at it than others. The good ones get mimicked or inspire all its fans to conform. Music is entertainment after all. For some, an identity locked in time, and all that come after are just copying or silly.

Not sure how someone can point to a band who nearly copyrighted Red white and blue circles, British flags and this shit:


As not Silly costumes or theatrics. The world would suffer from frills for decades to come.

I mean:





 

[murdoc]

New NIN

https://soundcloud.com/nineinchnails/came-back-haunted-2013

[HaemishM]

I thought he'd thoroughly killed off NIN. Track sounds good.

[Sky]

That was so awful I thought it was Daft Punk for a minute.

[Hawkbit]

Awful is a bit strong, but I thought it was fairly boring.  The other track is really flat, too.  Then again, I haven't been impressed by much he's done since downward spiral. 

[sickrubik]

I thought he'd thoroughly killed off NIN. Track sounds good.

He did, but apparently got energized at some point about a new album.

I am not entirely sure how I feel about the new track, yet. I listened to it off of my iPhone last night for the first time. Listening to a second time with a pair of circumaural headphones that make me feel a bit better about the production. There is a lot of this that feels a bit like an alternate universe album that exists somewhere between PHM and Downward Spiral.

Awful is a bit strong, but I thought it was fairly boring.  The other track is really flat, too.  Then again, I haven't been impressed by much he's done since downward spiral. 

True story, a LOT of NiN is fairly boring. Also, what other track?

[Sky]

I liked The Fragile a lot, probably listened to that more than anything other than the Quake soundtrack by Reznor.

A lot of the electronic end of my taste in music is completely gone. I used to love painting to the Aphex Twin Ambient double disc set.

I also smoked a ton of pot.

[sickrubik]

For me, Fragile was the last album that I enjoyed, but it was still a fraction of what I enjoyed about the earlier Halos. I went through many many many copies of  Broken, Fixed and PHM as a kid.

[HaemishM]

I really dug Year Zero but Ghosts is one I never listened to all the way through. The Slip was decent though not nearly as memorable as the earlier stuff. How to Destroy Angels feels like he's basically trying to build traditional NIN songs but without any real instrumentation you can hang on to. The arrangements are "traditional" but the instruments are all manufactured sounds as opposed to traditional instrumentation that's been electronically altered.

[Sky]

The Fragile reminds me of Mechanical Animals, another follow-up to a massively successful album that kinda got less stellar reviews. And I think MA holds up really damned well after all this time. I think I need to add Speed of Pain to my acoustic setlist just to make people scratch their heads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pKyTfS45io

Downward Spiral, most of those tracks I liked better as later remix releases.

[sickrubik]

The Fragile reminds me of Mechanical Animals, another follow-up to a massively successful album that kinda got less stellar reviews. And I think MA holds up really damned well after all this time. I think I need to add Speed of Pain to my acoustic setlist just to make people scratch their heads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pKyTfS45io

Downward Spiral, most of those tracks I liked better as later remix releases.

Actually, I may have listened to Further Down the Spiral more than Downward Spiral.

[Sky]

You made me go look it up. Yes, that one and 'March of the Pigs'. I didn't even own a copy of Downward Spiral until years later.

[sickrubik]

You made me go look it up. Yes, that one and 'March of the Pigs'. I didn't even own a copy of Downward Spiral until years later.

I was at a print industry convention in the Bay Area in 1995 when it came out and I bought some fancy tin packaging.

This one in fact http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2532697

[sickrubik]

Speaking about throw back music, the current trend of post-punk revival makes me quite happy. While there's a lot of crap out there, one bright shining light is Savages new LP, Silence Yourself. Phenomenal Stuff. It feels like early Siouxsie backed up by Joy Division.

http://open.spotify.com/album/0aMC5DDAF86GvYNPaivEKd

[Fraeg]

new National album is super spiffy

http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Trouble+Will+Find+Me/8868614

and that NIN song sounds like someone struggling to find a new sound... while keeping one foot firmly in what he has been doing for awhile.

*edit* looks like you will have to cut and paste my link, too late and too tipsy to try and outsmart the webz

[Brofellos]

This is what I posted today in a music facebook group I'm in, figured you'd all approve as well:

So Rusite is one of the best producers out there. His 2012 BBC Essential Mix is regarded by many as a major turning point for modern electronic music, bringing a lot of unique sounds out of the underground and into the public eye.  More specifically, the interesting merger of hip-hop and electronic sensibilities.  (also he was the first person to put me on to Cashmere Cat, who is a master)

https://soundcloud.com/rustie/essential-mix-bbc-radio-1

[Hawkbit]

Did someone post something earlier about Daughter?  Newish-4AD group.  I found this KEXP clip today, thought I'd share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y79jZVdokuM

[Sky]

I'd like to see the full set of this. Metallica booked a set on the shit stage of Orion Fest under a fake name and played Kill Em All in its entirety.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krvcqoo-644

[Wasted]

The Fragile reminds me of Mechanical Animals, another follow-up to a massively successful album that kinda got less stellar reviews. And I think MA holds up really damned well after all this time.

Thats pretty much how I feel too.  My favourite NIN and MM songs are both from their earlier albums but The Fragile and Mechanical Animals are both the albums I listen to the most as a whole.

I just listened to the new NIN song and I don't mind it, I think it will grow on me.

[Sky]

Manson is a really talented dude, doesn't get a lot of respect due to the schtick. I had a friend who's a really good singer that turned me onto Portrait right after it came out. We saw Manson at a little club in the area, place was totally mobbed and it was so raw and energetic. The next time I saw him was in a hockey arena for Antichrist, such a dramatic change without losing what made the first album great (though I really dig Daisy as a guitarist). Think I still have part of the flag he wore in the show, we had a kid with (appropriately) a prosthetic arm cut it into ribbons to share.

[Wasted]

About the time of the Smells like children EP I traveled interstate and saw him in a small club in Melbourne and yeah it was fantastic, Portrait is still a pretty fresh sounding album.  Him having the crowd all spit at him while he tries to catch it in his mouth was a bit  though.  That and how much he plays with his crotch.

When I next saw him at a festival during his tour for Mechanical Animals it was just good, I hate the quick sets at festivals and being swamped in an ocean of people.

[ghost]

Manson is a really talented dude, doesn't get a lot of respect due to the schtick. I had a friend who's a really good singer that turned me onto Portrait right after it came out. We saw Manson at a little club in the area, place was totally mobbed and it was so raw and energetic. The next time I saw him was in a hockey arena for Antichrist, such a dramatic change without losing what made the first album great (though I really dig Daisy as a guitarist). Think I still have part of the flag he wore in the show, we had a kid with (appropriately) a prosthetic arm cut it into ribbons to share.

His Sweet Dreams remake is pretty decent. 

[Engels]

Speaking of old fogies, new Sabbath album released yesterday. Sounds Sabbath-y. Good news for some, I guess.

Title track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0W91FrTlYk

[HaemishM]

Spotifying it now. I like the "End of the Beginning" song.

[Sky]

I have to say fuck Sabbath for this one. Cut Bill Ward some royalties, you cunts. Nobody's getting any younger and Bill still rocks on the kit.

[Selby]

I have to say fuck Sabbath for this one. Cut Bill Ward some royalties, you cunts. Nobody's getting any younger and Bill still rocks on the kit.

I'm feeling the same way, only with more Ozzy dislike because I can't really stand him anymore.

[HaemishM]

Their fights over money are not my problem. I wish Ward could have come along but I don't know exactly what happened and there's too much he said, he said for me to give enough of a shit to care.

The music is pretty good, and reminds me how good a bass player Geezer Butler really is.

[Sky]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fTPS9rHrLk

Anyway, yeah. Geezer is absolutely the most influential bassist and musician on my playing. I can hear some of him in almost everything I play. Followed pretty closely by Cliff Burton.

[Sky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGHnXCcwY-M#!

 

[K9]

Yea, Zetor's stuff wasn't half bad.

For some reason I'm quite particular to Eyedea & Abilities at the moment.

I like them, too.  On the same lines (and even shared members), there's THIS which I gravitate towards a bit more.

I'm kind of getting into this sort of strange hip hop.

I like it, it reminds me a lot of Aesop Rock

[K9]

Also, I've had a listen to Yeezus and it's equal parts  and 

I don't think I like it, but at the same time the way he makes it work is really pretty impressive. It's really dark, you'd find it hard to see the guy who made The College Dropout making this.

[Brofellos]

Dunno if any of you are into hardcore/metalcore but I just found out that No Bragging Rights made an album last year and it owns.