current favorite albums

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:47 pm

High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings

powerfuran · Post by **powerfuran** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:37 pm

My week fav's are

Death - Human
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
Queen - Innuendo

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:01 am

Cult of Luna - [all 4 albums] (post-metal)

Post by **spadgy** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:34 pm

I'm getting a feeling that while we all have eclectic musical tastes, a love of fast, heavy waves of bullets and a love of fast, heavy guitar noisiness seem to go hand-in-hand.

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:44 pm

buttrock

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:57 pm

Soon, everyone will know I have great taste in musik

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:58 am

Neon wrote:Soon, everyone will know I have great taste in musik

Oy... Daniel Johnston... Eh, don't get me started.

Ya know, the record store (Sound Exchange) that was in that space was really great. They had shit tons of...just about everything. They also had a display of Daniel Johnston tapes near the register that no one ever looked at. It was truly a sad day when that shop closed up to make way for...a California-themed fast food joint. *retches violently and uncontrollably*

Heh, sorry. Ignore the old man's rants. On topic:

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Goatsnake - Trampled Under Hoof
Mickey and the Soul Generation - Iron Leg

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:16 am

MadSteelDarkness wrote:Ignore the old man's rants.

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

Rants are always good, and I also loved this album this week.

My favorite thing this week was a daily listen to:
Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry -- hated it when I first heard it, now I think it's amazingly good. That doesn't happen too often.

JoshF wrote:buttrock

That's the real stuff.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:42 am

Call Florence Pow - The Strange Situation (produced by Matt Mahaffey)

I hate when bands re-from into worse bands. It's not even a full album, just an EP. Right when they werre getting great they had to go and fuck it all up!

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:20 pm

unsane wrote:Cult of Luna - [all 4 albums] (post-metal)

Nice one.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:56 pm

The Strawbs - Ghosts

Mostly for the track, 'The Life Auction', the rest of the album is very dodgy (but that's typical for The Strawbs'.)

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:52 pm

Änglagård - Hybris. I'd almost forgotten how great it is!

Octopod · Post by **Octopod** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:19 pm

Currently...

World Burns to Death-Sucking of the missile cock(i like this lp better than the newer one.)
Crow-Bloody Tear
Age-The Spider 7"
And Black Flag-Damaged.This one always get played.

Octopod · Post by **Octopod** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:30 pm

captain ahar wrote:
Jon wrote:
I still like Jane Doe the most out of all their albums. Pretty tight band to see live too.

my favorite still stands at forever comes crashing.

they recently opened for mastodon right near me, but i couldn't get the night off work. one of the few shows coming through my city that would have been worth seeing too

stuff i'm listening too:

69 eyes - angels / devils : really lame, and kinda fun

catharsis - passion : can't believe how great they are

unsane - lambhouse : compilation, but i can't find the full length albums, so this will do for now

celtic frost - morbid tales : fun as hell, i like to sing on the walk home from work

voivod - war and pain : really like it, its a terrible mess

agoraphobic nosebleed - pcp tornado : fun, quick listen (crazy about the bonus tracks) "thinning the herd" is a favorite

venetian snares - hospitality : really enjoying it. wondering if anyone can give me some guidance as far as highlights of his catalogue

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also looking for some high-quality classical "best of" compilations of particular composers, i know i like some of the obvious ones (mozart, chopin, and blah). welcoming any suggestions as well.

gracias chums
capt

I recommend Wagner if you like opera.Shady guy but he made great music.

MOSQUITO FIGHTER · Post by **MOSQUITO FIGHTER** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:53 am

Current favs:

Cornelius – Sensous
Black Francis – Bluefinger
De La Soul – The Best Of
The Tuss – Rushup Edge
Battles – Mirrored
Thurston Moore – Trees Outside The Academy
Dr. Dog – Easy Beat
Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
New Order – Technique
Panda Bear – Person Pitch
Mike & Rich – Expert Knob Twiddlers
Nico – Chelsea Girl
Public Image Limited – First Issue
Smashing Pumpkins – Pices Iscariot
DJ Girl Talk – Night Ripper
Siouxsie & The Banshees – The Best of Siouxsie & The Banshees
Bjork – Greatest Hits

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:48 pm

Octopod wrote:
captain ahar wrote: also looking for some high-quality classical "best of" compilations of particular composers, i know i like some of the obvious ones (mozart, chopin, and blah). welcoming any suggestions as well.

gracias chums
capt

Classical is really big. Far less approachable than jazz even. The biggest problem is getting a grasp of the whole picture--namely what the different periods sound like--and then beginning to hone in on artists. No single collection is going to be of much help in that regards, plus, crappy/cheap compilations are often of little good if you end up hearing a sub-par performance and disliking based on that, rather than on the actual quality of the composition.

I have recently seen a whole run of 3 disc sets (I think on EMI) that are significant recordings (often good introductory pieces) by a lot of great composers. If I new nothing about classical, these would make a nice entry point, though it would still cost a couple hundred dollars to pick up all of them (in the world of Classical, that's pretty cheap.)

A more thrifty alternative is to either go to a library with a listening station or even directly to music stores that have listening stations and keep listening until you find a sound that is getting close to what you like.

Yet another alternative would be to read a book ('not a magazine, not a sport's page'...haha, I jest) as there are many good primers to classical. These can often serve as check-lists or give you hints as to what artists you might consider exploring.

Then there is the only real solution, and that is that you pick yourself up some Bach because you can't go wrong with Bach and anyone who tells you they don't like Bach are gay. Bach had like 17 kids so he was kinda like the kind of man that other men are made from and set the standards way the hell up there such that the rest of us rather insignificant in comparison. Well, the truth is that picking up his sonatas and partitas for for violin, goldberg variations, well-tempered clavier (all three parts), and the mass in b minor to boot wouldn't be a bad, micro introduction to the brilliance of Bach.

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:17 am

Callisto - True Nature Unfolds (sample)
Callisto - Noir (sample)

More post-metal, this is more chilled out than Isis and Cult of Luna. Has a small Brokeback vibe, very nice.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:58 pm

Down tomorrow night.

High on Fire, A Life Once Lost and Car Bomb on saturday.

My Own Victim - Burning Inside
Commit Suicide/Misery Index - Split

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:33 am

Boris and Merzbow - Rock Dream
Embryo - Steig aus

Good combo for finally wrapping up FF12.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:30 pm

Down was pretty great. Played for two hours. Quality.

Dead Horse - Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 3:45 am

If any of you want to download Cat Power's Moon Pix free+legally, here you go. Only good for one, so first come only serve. It's awesome.

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J-Manic · Post by **J-Manic** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:34 pm

Zuntata Rare Selection Vol. 3 "SWORKS"
Megadeth "Rust In Peace"
Iron Maiden "Live After Death"

Been listening to these three alot lately.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:43 am

Ensiferum - Iron
Wintersun

circuitface has some nice taste :)

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:01 am

Blue Cheer - Outsideinside
Fleshpress - Pillars

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:45 pm

Cesaria Evora - s/t
Teengenerate - Wild Wild and Out of Sight 7"s
The Doors - s/t
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach - Money Jungle
Funkstorung - Multiple Grammy Winners EP
Joy Division - Still
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Like Someone in Love
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!
Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two - Original Golden Hits Volume III

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:51 pm

High on Fire was real swell. I missed Car Bomb though.

Slayer - Live Undead
Slayer - Haunting the Chapel

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:17 pm

Presently discovering My Dying Bride's discography. In an alternate universe this is what Metallica now sounds like instead of having veered off course since Load.

Latest faves:
- The Dreadful Hours (sample)
- The Angel and the Dark River (sample)

It's Doom Metal, but the name is misleading, it's pretty soft music. The linked Dreadful Hours song is incredible. It gives me goosebumps, and gets me to the verge of tears. It's exceedingly rare for music to be so beautiful to me as to have the latter effect.

JJG · Post by **JJG** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:50 am

MOSQUITO FIGHTER wrote:Current favs:

Black Francis – Bluefinger

I just bought this today and I'm really really liking it.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:59 pm

Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
Billy Childish - 25 Years of being Childish

powerfuran · Post by **powerfuran** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:37 pm

Nile all the time, working on the final part of my thesis.