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Acid King wrote:
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Isn't Mare on that? I could be wrong. Actually I think it is a Melvins tribute I'm thinking of.
Yeha Mare is on the Melvins tribute. I have yet to get that one, though I really want to hear the Eyehategod song on it. The bands for the Eyehategod cd are Dot, Unearthly Trance, Cable, Bowel, Alabama Thunderpussy, Deadbird, Kylesa, Rue, Brutal Truth, Byzantine, Buried At Sea w/ Kevin Sharp, Raging Speedhorn, The Unholy 3, The Esoteric, Total Fucking Destruction, Triac, One Dead Three Wounded, Halo of Locusts, Minsk, The Mighty Nimbus, Lair Of The Minotaur, Sourvein, Bloody Panda, Mouth Of The Architect, Left In Ruin, Watch Them Die, Ozenza, Swarm Of The Lotus, Ichabod, Kill The Client, Sow Belly, If He Dies He Dies and The Nain Rouge.
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Wipers - Youth of America
Led Zeppelin 3 -- Celebration Day! Out on the Tiles!
Burning Star Core stuff
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It's my birthday!

So I'm gettin' tore up and listening to:

Black Flag - Damaged
Maligno - s/t
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
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Blonde Redhead - 23. I'm not enjoying it half as much as Misery is a Butterfly, but it's still quite good.
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Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Rush - Snakes & Arrows
Thought Chamber - Angular Perception
Joseph Arthur - Let's Just Be
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edit, not quote! fuck.
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Sebadoh - III
Apples in Stereo - Velocity of Sound. I still maintain that this is good. Not fecksellent but ok

Every single song on Sonic Nurse (Sonic Yewth) is good. I'm gonna get it on vinyl too, since it has really nice coverart.

Been meaning to look into Public Image since they have Johnny Rotten and they're indeed good, check their myspace

Daniel Johnston - Fun
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-Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade

Not quite as good as their two later CD's, but still quite the interesting listen since all of their CD's are based on a Sci-Fi Comic Book story. I've been told they sound like Rush, but seeing as how I haven't listened to Rush, I can't say whether it's true or not.
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Been absent on this thread a while, mostly had my head in jazz.

Back again to Miles Davis--the great thing with his catalog is that it is so large and has so many periods you can find yourself coming back to it throughout your life, approaching it in different ways.

If I haven't mentioned the Miles Davis quintet box, this has turned into a real bargain. I scored mine for something like $40, and the thing covers "E.S.P.," "Miles Smiles," "Sorcerer," "Nefertiti" and "Miles in the Sky" plus at least a disc worth of alternate versions, never-before-released-shit etc.

And of course, My Funny Valentine is killer.

I'm messin' with the davis box sets (cellar door and bitches brew) but haven't dug deep yet so won't say more.

I've actually (as I think I mentioned above) been listening to a lot more traditional jazz--but am still stumbling as far as what to listen to by Monk. This is embarassing actually. I do really enjoy 'straight, no chaser', but some of the other titles I've heard didn't grab me right away. Perhaps some of the Monk fans want to step in and point the way toward greatness here.
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iatneH wrote:Manigance - D'un Autre Sang
Manigance - L'Ombre et la Lumiere
Better add this to the list:

Manigance - Ange ou Demon

Wow. What a strong rhythm and great melody, this one is the best of these three so far. I definitely have a new favourite band. Now I just have to order the remastered Signe de Vie once I can next month.
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Klaus Schulze - The Essential
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Goliath Bird Eater - Blood Venus

I've really been enjoying this album for a while now, it really knows how to rock.
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melt banana - bambi's dilemma (nothing too novel here, but superb all the same-- probably my favorite by them)

lightning bolt - wonderful rainbow

last of the juanitas - hawaii

black sabbath - sabbath bloody sabbath
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Left Banke - Walk Away Renee / Pretty Ballerina -- almost as good as The Zombies, falls off a bit after Walk Away Renee
Boredoms - Rebore vol. 0 -- best Boredoms I've heard
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Angel'in Heavy Syrup III -- dreeeamy
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Been listening to these while I wait for my Manigance CDs to get delivered...

Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night

I think I will go buy these tomorrow morning. Yeah I downloaded them like a dirty pirate.
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iatneH wrote:Been listening to these while I wait for my Manigance CDs to get delivered...

Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night

I think I will go buy these tomorrow morning. Yeah I downloaded them like a dirty pirate.
Did you get Unia yet? The new Sonata record is quite theatrical. It's pretty fun.
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Just the new Melt Banana album at the moment, but also an arcade fire album my g/f left in my CD changer. Is anyone here going to Glastonbury, BTW?
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Halo - Body of Light
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April 2007 has seen some good new releases:

the pAper chAse - Cntrl-Alt-Delete-U
thee more shallows - book of bad breaks
melt banana - bambi's dilemma

also enjoying:
dead meadow - howls from the hills
sebadoh - iii
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Green Milk From The Planet Orange - City Calls Revolution (Extremely good)
The Spits - s/t (Nickel and Dime) ("Unreleased versions", so nothing new here. But! Pink vinyl!)
Black Lips - Let It Bloom
V/A - Bedroom Ambience: A Collection of Home Recordings
Wire - Pink Flag
Creteens - "4-Track Blues" 7"
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
The Cramps - A Date With Elvis
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Spits, Black Lips and AC/DC. Man you always rock!

For me it's been:

Desmond Dekker "Rudy Got Soul"
Armitage Shanks "25 Golden Showers"
Armitage Shanks "Never Mind the Ballcocks"
Armitage Shanks "Urinal Heap"
Teengenerate "Savage"
Teengenerate "Smash Hits"
Jackie Mittoo and the Soul Brothers "Last Train to Skaville"
King Tubby "King Tubbys Meets Rockers Downtown"
Dirtbombs/King Khan and his Shrines "Billiards at Nine Thirty" split

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professor ganson wrote: the pAper chAse - Cntrl-Alt-Delete-U
thee more shallows - book of bad breaks
Nice finds both, at first I thought thee more shallows would be one of those headcoats side projects

Pa: bout time you showed back up, everyone missed you

MadSteel: Dirty Deeds was my first CD after a Weird Al one, possibly my favorite of theirs

Sorry to keep fellating everyone but Rob's recent post reminded me to check out the Wipers and they're the shit too, at least 'Is this Real'
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PaCrappa wrote:Spits, Black Lips and AC/DC. Man you always rock!
Right back at you, man. King Tubby and Desmond Dekker for the win.
Pa: bout time you showed back up, everyone missed you
Seriously. Seconded.
Dirty Deeds was my first CD after a Weird Al one, possibly my favorite of theirs
That is awesome, sir. It was the first true rock and roll record I ever saw, at my local supermarket when I was nine years old. Given my rather strict, conservative upbringing, the record reeked of pure evil. :twisted:

So of course, I was hooked immediately...

On topic: tonight, over dinner and drinks with the longtime ladyfriend:

Twilight Circus - Volcanic Dub
Zombi - Surface to Air
DJ Vadim - USSR Repertoire
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Neon wrote:Rob's recent post reminded me to check out the Wipers and they're the shit too, at least 'Is this Real'
Yesterday I ordered:
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I'm pretty certain this will be the best thing I buy this year, especially for the dollar. You've got to hear Youth of America and the title track from Over the Edge. Is This Real? is the one I haven't heard yet.
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Long story short: My daddy left in 1980 (the first time) when I was seven. Some time before I turned nine my best friend's stoner older brother gave me a tape with Dirty Deeds on one side and Back in Black on the other. And from that point on the Young brothers and Bon Scott became the strongest male influence in our house. Now look what's become of me:

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Total riff raff!

Anyways, glad to be missed :) I figured you'd seen my post in that guitar pic thread Neon.

And MadSteel, I had a look over this way a month or two ago and saw that you were still listening to the Earaches. Have you heard the first one, Fist Fights and Hot Love? That one has the best songs IMO.

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Rob wrote:
Neon wrote:Rob's recent post reminded me to check out the Wipers and they're the shit too, at least 'Is this Real'
Yesterday I ordered:
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I'm pretty certain this will be the best thing I buy this year, especially for the dollar. You've got to hear Youth of America and the title track from Over the Edge. Is This Real? is the one I haven't heard yet.
Wow! I think I'm the only one who enjoys the wipers but is not 'blown away' by them. I have that set and as I recall the first of the three albums is the best in the set.

Something is always nagging me with the Wipers--the feeling I've heard it all done better somewhere else, yet there's always (surprisingly) someone getting on the bandwagon with this band. I know they're obscure, but in my circles these guys have something of a following.
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Yeah, Wipers are one of a few semi-popular/cult bands I ignore for years and turn out to be just my thing when I finally hear them. Melt-Banana was that band for me last year. Feels great to strike obvious gold every now and then and buy up multiple albums.

Wipers sounds the most like the 90s indie rock I like aside from maybe Sonic Youth (but the only SY album I really like is Daydream Nation). I had been listening to Hot Snakes for years and they completely ripped off a number of riffs ("Over the Edge" -> "Bye Nancy Boy" for a major one). 80s rock of any type doesn't do much for me, so that helps a lot too.

Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido & Hall of the Mountain Grill -- This band's been slow to grow on me, but I love 'em now. I need more 70s rock, but I don't know what bands to check out. ??
Elliott Smith - XO
Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes -- I usually don't like Euro death metal much, but this is great.
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PaCrappa wrote:Image

Total riff raff!
That is beautiful, sir.
And MadSteel, I had a look over this way a month or two ago and saw that you were still listening to the Earaches. Have you heard the first one, Fist Fights and Hot Love? That one has the best songs IMO.

Pa
No sir, I have not. I just have Get the Revolution... and Time on Fire. I will definitely keep my eye out for that, though. Cheers!
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New Melt-Banana album... slightly disappointing, but some fine songs amongst the first 10. Agata is in top form, Yasuko O still a little annoying. To trim down to 15 minute EP.
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Currently listening to:

Stephen Stills (solo album)
Stephen Stills Live
Stephen Still & Manassas
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