current favorite albums

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:23 pm

haha, I'm not sure why I clicked on a link promising Sunn/Merzbow. Needed more Butterfly.

omg these r all my fav songs ever! i saw puddle of mudd opening up for nickelback

you want to get "return of the funky man"

I definitely do. I didn't know Percee P was on it, that's awesome.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:17 pm

honey for petzi - man's rage with black ham
paul newman - reissue! repackage! reevaluate the songs
SWIMS - s/t
giraffes? giraffes! - more skin with milk-mouth

Pretty much listening to math rock these days. These are a few of the highlights.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:57 pm

MX7 wrote:
Boris: Smile

Pretty odd. Not sure what I think yet.

I really liked their Pink LP. How would you compare the new one to that?[/quote]

Very different indeed. Much more psychedelic. Still good fun, but more Acid Mothers Temple than Motorhead. Try bfore you buy

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:01 pm

Portishead: Third

Not a radical depature, but that's to be expected I guess. Amazing production though. I can see this getting a lot of plays.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:46 am

entombed - left hand path, wolverine blues

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:59 am

Popul Vuh:
-Einsjager & Siebenjager
-Letze Tage - Letzte nachte

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:29 pm

MX7 wrote:Portishead: Third

Not a radical depature, but that's to be expected I guess. Amazing production though. I can see this getting a lot of plays.

you've just got all the good shit before its released

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:44 pm

Looking for some good swing revival...

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:10 am

Jon wrote:
MX7 wrote:Portishead: Third

Not a radical depature, but that's to be expected I guess. Amazing production though. I can see this getting a lot of plays.
you've just got all the good shit before its released

Its been leaked online. Thanks for the heads up MX7!

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:12 am

professor ganson wrote:honey for petzi - man's rage with black ham
paul newman - reissue! repackage! reevaluate the songs
SWIMS - s/t
giraffes? giraffes! - more skin with milk-mouth

Pretty much listening to math rock these days. These are a few of the highlights.

I've discovered math rock recently and quite like it. The extent of my exposure so far is 65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math, Sleeping People - Growing, and by far my fave of the bunch: Battles - Mirrored. Which of your above would you recommend i check out next?

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:01 am

"Odd Couple" - Gnarls Barkley...I don't care if only one single has been released, its already my fav Album.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:47 pm

SXSW is this week and I'm mostly unprepared, music-wise. I'm trying to come up with a nice buffet of sounds, instead of the garage rock/metal feast I had last year (which was tasty, mind you...). So, drinking coffee and listening to a bunch of mp3's on their website to come up with some ideas. Not much help so far. Eh, some of the noisy rock bands from Columbus seem okay?

Some stuff I'm listening to in anticipation of bands I know I'll be seeing:

The Spits - homemade comp
Demon's Claws - Satan's Little Pet Pig
Weedeater - Sixteen Tons
Red Fang - Tour EP
Terrible Twos - s/t

...

and in my car's tape player:

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peel Session (2nd Session)
Skinny Puppy - Vivi Sect VI and Too Dark Park
Head of David - Dustbowl

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:16 pm

I can't believe that neither the Earaches nor the Valley could get it together for SXSW. Losers.

Anyhow, I have been playing guitar for three whole months now. I mostly listen to stuff I want to play:

Fu Manchu "In Search Of" Best album ever. I want to be Fu Manchu. (When they were good). I set a goal to learn all of Scott's parts by the end of March but that probably won't happen.

The Ramones "Ramones" I sing Judy is a punk to my dogs "JADEY IS PUNK! LINDA IS RUNT!"

Black Flag "Nervous Breakdown" This EP is the absolute shit. Dez pisses on Henry from high atop Punker Mountain.

Props to Rob for listening to Lord Finesse. "Funky Technician" has been a big fave since its release. Return of the Funky Man is extremely hit and miss and has some of the corniest skits known to man (just like every rap album after the CD was popularized). Percy P does help a little though.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:03 pm

unsane wrote:
professor ganson wrote:honey for petzi - man's rage with black ham
paul newman - reissue! repackage! reevaluate the songs
SWIMS - s/t
giraffes? giraffes! - more skin with milk-mouth

Pretty much listening to math rock these days. These are a few of the highlights.

I've discovered math rock recently and quite like it. The extent of my exposure so far is 65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math, Sleeping People - Growing, and by far my fave of the bunch: Battles - Mirrored. Which of your above would you recommend i check out next?

I would recommend that you listen to Don Caballero next. That's the band that pretty much defines the genre. They are consistently good. Try:
What Burns Never Returns, Don Caballero II, American Don

I've listened to well over 100 math rock albums and am constantly trying to improve my knowledge. I'd be more than happy to recommend more.

Now listening to:

Paul Newman (passim)
June of '44 (passim)
and two mixes by Rob

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:14 pm

unsane wrote:
professor ganson wrote:honey for petzi - man's rage with black ham
paul newman - reissue! repackage! reevaluate the songs
SWIMS - s/t
giraffes? giraffes! - more skin with milk-mouth

Pretty much listening to math rock these days. These are a few of the highlights.

I've discovered math rock recently and quite like it. The extent of my exposure so far is 65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math, Sleeping People - Growing, and by far my fave of the bunch: Battles - Mirrored. Which of your above would you recommend i check out next?

If you like Battles you should check out Foals and The Edmund Fitzgerald. A tad poppier but still fine in my opinion. Foals are massive in the UK at the moment, even more so than Battles.

As far as Math Rock (or post rock as we call it over here) goes, you should check out Mono (the greatest post rock band of all), Explosions in the Sky and mid period Pelican.

If you're willing to go for something a bot more abstract, you should check out a band my girlfriend has just fallen in love with called Fuck Buttons. Growly, noisy, but with a strangely mellow. The kind of sound like the kind of kraut rock that's just been popularised by Battles mixed with the hevey digital fuzz of bands like Xinlisupreme.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:27 pm

MX7 wrote: As far as Math Rock (or post rock as we call it over here) goes, you should check out Mono (the greatest post rock band of all), Explosions in the Sky and mid period Pelican.

I think it is impossible to say this without being a horrible nerd so here it goes: these aren't the same.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:33 pm

Rob wrote:
MX7 wrote: As far as Math Rock (or post rock as we call it over here) goes, you should check out Mono (the greatest post rock band of all), Explosions in the Sky and mid period Pelican.
I think it is impossible to say this without being a horrible nerd so here it goes: these aren't the same.

Ah, OK. I don't really care about the names of genres, I was just trying to recommend some similar music that Unsane might like.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:58 pm

Post Rock?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:06 am

I don't like HS football soundtrack-rock either.

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:12 am

Saint Anger 'round my neck!

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:14 am

You flush it out, you flush it out

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:18 am

That part always gives me a few extra reps.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:23 am

Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Gorguts - Considered Dead

I'm madly in anger with you!

TigerCraneFist · Post by **TigerCraneFist** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:39 am

Blood Tsunami- Thrash metal

charlie chong · Post by **charlie chong** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:02 pm

a homemade edit i did of the faust tapes so all the unlistenable stuff is gone but i kept the flowing feel..
i have done a similar edit of the first 2 soft machine lps as well..
some albums just need this!!! mebbes i should try a trout mask replica edit next

@parappa agreed the skits suck but when are they are ever good ..certainly a lot better than the "awakening" lp that followed.. still nothings gonna beat "back to back rhyming " off the first lp for me

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:35 pm

Jon wrote:Post Rock?

Mogwai wrote: Isn't post rock going for a pint after a gig?

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:42 pm

MX7 wrote:As far as Math Rock (or post rock as we call it over here) goes, you should check out Mono (the greatest post rock band of all)

No way!!! Don Caballero simply has no rival. Everything else is just good or bad imitation. Or else it's something else (not math rock).

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:11 pm

^^^Damon Che can pound the drums like no other. A Minor Forest is another good band worth checking out that I have always put in the math rock catagory.

Listening to:

Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
Baroness - The Red Album

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:19 pm

professor ganson wrote:
MX7 wrote:As far as Math Rock (or post rock as we call it over here) goes, you should check out Mono (the greatest post rock band of all)
No way!!! Don Caballero simply has no rival. Everything else is just good or bad imitation. Or else it's something else (not math rock).

Ah, now I see what you mean by Math Rock. You should check out a nottingham band called You Slut! they're awesome, if unlikely to ever break out of Notts. Sigh.

http://www.myspace.com/youslut1

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:52 pm

Thanks, I'll check them out. I hope it's obvious that I'm not slighting Mono or Mogwai.