current favorite albums

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:59 pm

Pig Destroyer - 38 Counts of Battery -- while playing Silent Hill (perfect match!)
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood

CMoon wrote: I could never see myself enjoying death metal much,

Why's that?

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:29 pm

Rob wrote:
CMoon wrote: I could never see myself enjoying death metal much,
Why's that?

*shrugs* Always seemed inaccessible and stupid to me. But honestly, a couple years back I wasn't listening to metal and now I'm listening to all kinds of metal. I guess it's all just music, isn't it?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 11:27 pm

Have you heard Cryptopsy's None So Vile? If not, you should.

Brigitte Fontaine - Brigitte Fontaine est folle
Yoshida Tatsuya & Imahori Tsuneo - Territory
Earth - Extra-Capsular Extraction/Pentastar
Derek Bailey - Aida
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:05 am

Maritime - Heresy and the Hotel Choir
Maritime - We, the Vehicles
Health - s/t (dunno if I like this yet, but it is strange)

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:22 am

Haunted George - Pile O' Meat
Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory
Possession + African Dub (Bill Laswell with V/A) - Off World One

Oh, and over Thanksgiving dinner (the parents did me the favor of coming up to visit...*shudder*):

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue and 'Round About Midnight
John Coltrane - Blue Train

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:28 am

the Hives - Black and White Album

It's good, but at the same time you're sort of embarrassed to like it, partially due to the lyrics. It's 2007's Van Halen.

v/a - c86

Overhyped, even the Pastel's contribution is less than stellar

http://myspace.com/dirtytactics

http://www.myspace.com/linkwraysraymen

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:08 pm

I recommended Burial's self titled on here before, he's put out another excellent album called "Untrue" I love all the woodblocky rhythms and the cymbaly parts that sound like used clips from a gun falling to the ground. Driving around to it in the cold is awesome...

I'm Alec · Post by **I'm Alec** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:32 am

recently,
Mavado-Gangster for Life

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:25 pm

szycag wrote:I recommended Burial's self titled on here before, he's put out another excellent album called "Untrue" I love all the woodblocky rhythms and the cymbaly parts that sound like used clips from a gun falling to the ground. Driving around to it in the cold is awesome...

I found the new one to be a great listen while you're sick for some reason.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:55 pm

CMoon wrote:
*shrugs* Always seemed inaccessible and stupid to me.

Death metal is good when you're a somewhat angry, confused young teen. Once you get a little more mature, it starts sounding pretty goofy. Whenever I hear it now I usually burst out laughing, it just sounds so funny to me with all the stereotypical screaming and/or super low, coarse-voice vocals and double bass drum rhythms.

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:09 pm

EOJ wrote:
CMoon wrote:
*shrugs* Always seemed inaccessible and stupid to me.
Death metal is good when you're a somewhat angry, confused young teen. Once you get a little more mature, it starts sounding pretty goofy. Whenever I hear it now I usually burst out laughing, it just sounds so funny to me with all the stereotypical screaming and/or super low, coarse-voice vocals and double bass drum rhythms.

I guess i'm weird then cuz i never liked it until i was 30.

More likely though, is that people just never give it the amount of work necessary to actually know what it's about. If you haven't listened to a death metal album literally 10 times, you aren't allowed to judge it. Before then, it just sounds chaotic and inaccessible. Once your brain starts recognizing familiar spots, a whole new world opens up.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:27 pm

haha, EOJ traded in his Cannibal Corpse tapes for shoegazer. I enjoy death metal like any music. For the sound.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:27 pm

EOJ wrote:
Death metal is good when you're a somewhat angry, confused young teen. Once you get a little more mature, it starts sounding pretty goofy. Whenever I hear it now I usually burst out laughing, it just sounds so funny to me with all the stereotypical screaming and/or super low, coarse-voice vocals and double bass drum rhythms.

Of all the death metal shows I've been to I've only seen probably a half dozen confused young teens. The rest were pretty well adjusted adults.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:52 pm

Rob wrote:haha, EOJ traded in his Cannibal Corpse tapes for shoegazer.

Can I like both?

Nah, metal was just a stupid hurdle in my musical development I should have gotten past a long time ago. Nothing wrong with death metal as far as I can tell other than waiting until I was in my mid-30's to 'get it'.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:34 pm

I think I pretended to like death metal when I was in high school, just so I could be a rebellious teen different from the rest of the good Chinese kids. I owned a few Cannibal Corpse CDs and downloaded crap like Morbid Angel and Obituary and whatnot. But I don't think I ever actually enjoyed listening to it.

Now I look back and LOL.

It's all power/prog metal for me now. Which is still LOL but in a different way, especially those fantasy-themed stuff, dragons and swords LMAO. At least I find the melodies to be much better composed and it still charges me with energy.

Currently spinning illegally downloaded Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth (OMG there's a dragon on the cover LAWL). I'll buy it once finals season is over and I have some time to leave campus to do other things.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:40 pm

CMoon wrote:
Rob wrote:haha, EOJ traded in his Cannibal Corpse tapes for shoegazer.
Can I like both?

You may, but I wouldn't advise Cannibal Corpse. Actually... I still haven't heard a CC album.

Current favorites:
AFRIRAMPO - SUUTO BREAKOR -- finally got it 2-3 months from its release
Slayer - Reign in Blood

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:57 am

Rob wrote: You may, but I wouldn't advise Cannibal Corpse. Actually... I still haven't heard a CC album.

If you do hear one, the Bleeding should be it.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:03 pm

Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Wire - Read and Burn EPs 1 and 2

New Portishead album to be released this April

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:53 pm

Jon wrote:New Portishead album to be released this April

Just five more months, just five more months....

scrilla4rella · Post by **scrilla4rella** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:30 am

Daft Punk - Alive 2007

Great live album. Maybe part of the love is because I was able to see their show in Osaka last year. The mash-ups that they do for their concerts are great. The best large statium-sized show I have ever seen!

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:52 am

the Fire Engines - Hungry Beat
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Knights of the Baskervilles (new favorite Headcoats song, 'This Wondrous Day')

AFRIRAMPO - SUUTO BREAKOR

oh em gee, you found it?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:15 am

Right over here. It's worth it. It's Afrirampo at their spaced out-iest and prettiest. Kind of mix of the last 2 albums + Acid Mothers Afrirampo (except much better than the last - I thought that one was just OK, not enough Oni and Pika).

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:49 am

For the past couple weeks I have been ripping my CDs onto my HD. I've got 225 in and have just now finished at least ten days on nothing but hiphop. Nearly 200 straight rap albums. It's funny listening to stuff that sucks and realizing that I was pretty caught up in the early 90s. Luckily there was only about a dozen that had no good songs whatsoever. The most noteworthy thing is how much I like EPMD's "Strictly Business" now that I'm all grown up. I was mostly into Ice-T and Eazy E and stuff like that when it came out and I just didn't think it stacked up. For years I'd see it hailed as the greatest hiphop album of all time and I thought the magazine people must've been high. But now? Holy shit. They were right. Best album ever and it features the coldest rap cut ever recorded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyjDaOAbfNM

I'm going to just listen to music like normal for a couple days and then it's on to the rock department for another 100 or so.

Neon wrote:(new favorite Headcoats song, 'This Wondrous Day')

I can't think of it at the moment (just listened to a shitty E-40 double disc and I feel like a mongoloid) but I'm looking forward to running into it pretty soon on this ripping mission.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:31 am

Waylon Live
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

SteevTee · Post by **SteevTee** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:52 pm

Athlete - Beyond the Neighbourhood

Edit:

Also Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:50 pm

I just bought the Kamelot - One Cold Winter's Night concert DVD a few days ago and watched it a couple of times. Looked like one Hell of a show and I wish I was there, but LMAO at the shots of the fans, they look like such dorks.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:19 am

Not too much new at the moment. Here's what I'm loving most:

sleeping people - growing
mastodon - remission

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:45 am

iatneH wrote:I wish I was there, but LMAO at the shots of the fans, they look like such dorks.

Screengrabs please!

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:57 am

Ayreon - 01011001

I'll probly be listening to this one exclusively for a couple weeks.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:20 am

Rob wrote:
iatneH wrote:I wish I was there, but LMAO at the shots of the fans, they look like such dorks.
Screengrabs please!

It's even better in motion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4wV4rxTqfU
At around 3:03...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Z_OOEt0W8
At 3:10, this is the best one on the entire DVD, he shows up again a few seconds later.

Overall, the DVD needs more shots of the chick...

I guess if I was there, I would be making just as much of an idiot of myself as the rest of these people...