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Blondie - What I Heard.
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Imagine Dragons- Demons
At a sports bar in an airport at 7 am. <_<
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Debussy - Interlude (Sonata For Flute, Harp And Viola L137)
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St. Vincent- Cheerleader
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Dropkick Murphys - Caps and Bottles.
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Dead Can Dance - Wild In The Woods
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Franz Ferdinand - Evil and a Heathen.
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Electric Six - Future Police
The future don't look like the one we got~
I expected more lasers and killer robots~
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Amy Winehouse - You Know That I'm No Good.
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Datsik & Excision - Vindicate.
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Congorock - Ivory (Bloody Roots Remix).
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Symphony X - Children of a Faceless God
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Arcade Fire: Games Without Frontiers
Arcade Fire really channeling their desire to regress to the eighties here.
So I was sure this album was never actually going to happen. A while back Peter Gabriel puts out a cover album, says dudes if you want to cover my songs too that'd be cool. Mostly they say yeah that'd be cool, but musicians, you know? I guess it took a while to get everyone in line. But here's an album, and they're mostly here, except Neil Young, David Bowie*, and Radiohead. Okay, the first two are old, I guess they've got an excuse (but come on Lou Reed's here and he's dead). Radiohead consciously absent because they decided to be twits after they didn't like what he did with their song.
Weird collection. A lot of the renditions are pretty sedate, which isn't a problem in its own right but does things to the pacing of an album. But I guess these different people working separately over a few years didn't exactly coordinate in that way.
(*Brian Eno showed up instead.)
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Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses.
Not even FO:NV related obsession.
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Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
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Battles: Atlas
Look I couldn't think of another Ulysses okay.
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Garbage: I Hate Love
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The Proclaimers - Then I Met You.
Beautiful.
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Dead Can Dance - The Arrival And The Reunion
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Datsik and Excision - Vindicate.
So on the way in to work today I was listening to this and came to a realisation. There is more dubstep that I like that isn't just trashy versions of House music. There is stuff like this which is music constructed out of sequences of loops and samples played in sequence but only a few at a time. It is a minimalist style that is putting a bunch of abstract sounds together into music.
That is some serious Kraftwerk shit right there and it really shows now that I recognise it.
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Metric - Collect Call
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Janelle Monae - Ghetto Woman
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Joe Satriani: The Power Cosmic 2000 - Part I
Satch is such a nerrrrd.
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Joe Satriani: The Power Cosmic 2000 - Part I
Satch is such a nerrrrd.
A clear sky is so blue during the day.
The Magnetic Fields - Desert Island
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Oh hey speaking of Magnetic Fields
Peter Gabriel: The Book of Love
Are Magnetic Fields a thing I should listen to
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Magnetic Fields are cool and weird and you should listen to them. Their seminal work is 69 Love Songs, a three-disc concept album containing... 69 love songs, 23 each. But it may not be the -best- idea to begin there, since it's so ambitious.
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Angus and Julia Stone - Here We Go Again.
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Devil Doll: Dies Irae
mama i'm collld
Obliged to restate amazement at this being a thing which exists.
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Millencollin - The Ballad.
This is not good. What lit most definitely just happens to be is High School. Not my high school experience. Just High School as a concept. This bands entire catalogue I have access to is High School. This song the most painfully obvious of course.
Listening to it because I listened to a review of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, so there is that.
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Goapele - Closer
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The Black Mages: Fight With Seymour
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Art Brut - Everybody Awants To Feel Sexy Sometimes
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Tyler the Creator - Yonkers
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Gigamesh - All My Life
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Natalie Maines - Silver Bell
Very southern rock. I like it.
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The Bloody Beetroots - Eat My Apple
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Queensryche: Eyes of a Stranger
Oh my god Operation: Mindcrime is just the best thing ever.
This isn't really news, I just happened to be in exactly the proper mood for it today. Rare to say it about an album with this many tracks, but I don't think there's a single unnecessary song in there.
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<3 <3 <3 <3
Allman Brothers - Rambling Man
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Flogging Molly - Black Friday Rule
Flogging Molly is always great when I'm in a low mood.
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Ciato, I think I found the Xandria album you own (Neverworld's End). What a difference from the first one I listened to earlier in the day. What I listened to earlier was from 2004, and they definitely put the decade to good use.
Xandria- Forevermore
This song is like dead-on for what I look for in music.
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Naruke Michiko - Dust of Hope
Somewhat late of me that I just found this out, but 2083 reprinted all of Naruke's Feedback albums! (although the 2nd was sold out) I missed her so much!
Speaking of which, I have to find a way to get this month's issue of 2083. I need that interview with Shimomura!!
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King Crimson: Starless
fucking boss man
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Henry Lee.
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The Magnetic Fields - Young And Insane
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Marie Fredriksson - Så Stilla Så Långsamt
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The Civil Wars - The Devil's Backbone
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Himanshu Suri - Womyn
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Blue Oyster Cult - The Red and Black.
Grabbed this album on a whim. It's not bad.
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Ayreon: Day Sixteen: Loser
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xx - Swept Away
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Ciato, I think I found the Xandria album you own (Neverworld's End). What a difference from the first one I listened to earlier in the day. What I listened to earlier was from 2004, and they definitely put the decade to good use.
Xandria- Forevermore
This song is like dead-on for what I look for in music.
Glad you like it. Not a huge fan of the new WT album btw.
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
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Cake - Comfort Eagle
So apparently a pandora station seeded off of E6 plays a lot of Cake, Muse, Queen and Beck. Not...really sure what I think of Cake, to be honest. It's catchy and terrible at the same time.
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Bonnie Tyler & Kareen Antonn - Si Demain... (Turn Around)
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I hated Cake/Beck myself, Gate.
Smashing Pumpkins- Ava Adore
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Metallica: One
Much as I grew dead sick of the band somewhere around high school, been reading about Verdun lately and was reminded that this existed and yeah, they did make a couple good songs. (The other one is Fade to Black.)
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Electric Six - Skin Traps
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Oh My Lord.
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Lord Huron - She Lit a Fire
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Matraca Berg - Back in the Saddle
This song is so country. Love it~
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You can take the girl out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl.
*Shakespeare jokes*
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Himanshu Suri - Bad Bad Bad
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You sound like me dancing.
SPOILERS: You don't actually because Kompressor does not dance
The Jezabels - The Brink.
New album. Suck it Super.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan - When I Lost My Bet.
So I remembered they are playing a festival I go to this weekend and suddenly must listen to them even though there is new album from sexy band that I just bought.
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The Jezabels - Psychotherapy.
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I've been listening to a lot of speedcore lately 'cause it pumps me up. However, due to the immense amounts of stress I've been dealing with, I've swapped to classical (trying to avoid baroque). Lots of piano suites and strings.
Rachmaninov - Moments musicaux No. 5 Adagio sostenuto
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Fuse ODG & Wyclef - Antenna [Remix]
------ shedda do me whyyy oooooo, sheeeedda stropp mah munnie ooooooooooooo ----- *azontos* (love how I out-azonto nigerians at partieeez) *azontos* Learn azonto where it came from, GHANA YOU DO ME WHY OOO
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The Dillinger Escape Plan - The Threat Posed by Nuclear Weapons.
Just finished watching them live. I need to go down and lie down. I am so confused. They play live like they do on their albums. I don't understand. They kick and thrash around so much too. I just what how how how how.
The fans that were at that stage to see HIM seemed so baffled by what they were hearing, so at least I am not alone.
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You sound like me dancing.
SPOILERS: You don't actually because Kompressor does not dance
The Jezabels - The Brink.
New album. Suck it Super.
You dig the new album then?
Eminem- Stan
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It is good, I think stuff off their EPs was better and Prisoner is probably a stronger album, but it isn't bad.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Magic That I Held You Prisoner.
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The Brink is certainly -prettier- and more to the point than Prisoner, but it has less moods and I haven't recognized the fun lesbian overtones present in their earlier works here. I like the songwriting more than Prisoner's on average too, but it mostly has less punch and candor. But prettiness is pretty much what sells them to me, so I'm fairly satisfied.
The Jezabels - The Brink
The eponymous song at least is insanely pretty.
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Schoolboy Q - Gravy
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Ciato, I think I found the Xandria album you own (Neverworld's End). What a difference from the first one I listened to earlier in the day. What I listened to earlier was from 2004, and they definitely put the decade to good use.
Xandria- Forevermore
This song is like dead-on for what I look for in music.
Glad you like it. Not a huge fan of the new WT album btw.
Figures. They have a song with XHIBIT. I should probably actually listen to that though before making a judgement, but that just doesn't seem like a workable combination.
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Schoolboy Q - Fuck LA
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Davie Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
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billie holiday, singing abel meeropol's - strange fruit. it's a pity he's rarely credited.
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The Sword - Night City.
A good comfort track.
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Adele - Lovesong
My favorite song of Adele's.
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Sarah Blasko - New Country.
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Adele - Lovesong
My favorite song of Adele's.
Curiously, it's a cover from The Cure.
The Magnetic Fields - No One Will Ever Love You
69 Love Songs, what a piece of art.
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Marina & the Diamonds - Valley of the Dolls
Her stuff is all over the place on whether or not I like it. This one's good though.
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Adele - Lovesong
My favorite song of Adele's.
Curiously, it's a cover from The Cure.
The Magnetic Fields - No One Will Ever Love You
69 Love Songs, what a piece of art.
The universe is telling me to stop listening to Adele and start listening to The Cure obv
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Disintegration at least is an essential album if you have any semblance of love for gothically inspired post-punk era pop rock. It's also the album with Lovesong.
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Disintegration at least is an essential album if you have any semblance of love for gothically inspired post-punk era pop rock. It's also the album with Lovesong.
Seconding, truth, etc.
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I will add some generic hype for Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me because that is the album I am most familiar with, but yes, The Cure are great.
The Verve - Sit and Wonder.
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The Magnetic Fields - The Book of Love
~The Book of Love has music in it. In fact, it's where music comes from~
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Peter Gabriel: The Book of Love
~Some of it's just transcendental, some of it's just really dumb~
(Obligatory.)
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seed - Sweet Heart Come.
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Peter Gabriel: The Book of Love
~Some of it's just transcendental, some of it's just really dumb~
(Obligatory.)
I looked for a button to favorite that post and realized I'm not on Twitter. (By the way, you so should listen to the Fields. A good starting point would be The Charm of the Highway Strip.)
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Is that where you have been hanging out of late? You are missed.
William Shatner - You'll Have Time.
~Joey Ramone~
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The Cure - Fascination Street
yeah this album is excellent guys, thanks~
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Fascination Street is my favorite thing on the album. It's actually what got me into the band.
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Beethoven: 9th symphony
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Star One - It All Ends Here
Four years of living in fear, four years, death is near, four years disappeared, can't believe it all ends here.
What depressing ass sci-fi movie is this based off anyway Ciddy?
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Bladerunner (four-year lifespan~ Painful to live in fear, isn't it?) Which you should totally watch if you have never done so.
Holst: The Planets ~ Mars, Bringer of War
So boss.
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I've been meaning to recruit my sci-fi loving buddy to watch the movie together.
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Get on that, it's an old Cid favorite.
Holst: The Planets ~ Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity
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Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
One of my favorite PSB songs. I like the strange nostalgia/sadness of it.
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Make Erek watch it.
Augie March - Mugged by the Mob.
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The Magnetic Fields - A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
~Eligible, not too stupid/Intelligible and cute as Cupid/Knowledgeable, but not always right/Salvageable, and fit for a night~
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Mumford and Sons - I Will Wait
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Queensryche: I Will Remember
And we wonder how machines can steal each other's dreams~
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What is Magnetic Fields? Ciato-baity at all?
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The band has a song about falling in love with a guy in drag. It's totally Ciato-friendly.
EDIT: Case in point: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf_l3EGQvL8
While we're at it, have some The Nun's Litany: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OA3ozYhgFs
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Nena - 99 Luftballons.
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Reba McEntire - Fancy
This is pretty much an all-time favorite at this point. A lot of country I listened to when I was younger I find quite boring now, but this one's still great.
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The Magnetic Fields - Epitaph For My Heart
~Caution, caution, caution, to prevent electric shock/Do not, do not, do not remove cover/No user-serviceable parts inside/Refer servicing to qualified service personnel~
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Let the Bells Ring
I am all in my feels today.
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Ugly Kid Joe - Goddamn Devil.
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Grinderman - Electric Alice
:D
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Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues
Springsteenian~
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Murder By Death - Spring Break 1899.
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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Come in Please
I'm on the corner, singing sentimental lies
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Halestorm- The Strange Case of album
I really like the band, though they are pretty mainstream as far as lyrics go. I just really dig Lzzy Hale's voice.
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Dixie Chicks - Voice in my Head
I enjoy songs about nostalgia
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Los Campesinos! - You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing.
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Queensryche - Revolution Calling
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Devin Townsend Project - Disruptr
Oh wow this album. So much weird nostalgia for the boat trip I took in 2010.
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cashmere cat - wedding bells
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I heard The Cure playing at a gas station. What Twilight Zone did I walk into?
(It was "Why Can't I Be You?" for reference.)
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Good choice on their part.
The Magnetic Fields - Three-Way
An instrumental song about a menage à trois. Stephin Merritt, you weird little fellow.
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Rush: High Water
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Billy Idol - Mony Mony
Apparently I am a Billy Idol fan and never knew it. His stuff keeps popping up on a pandora station and I find myself hitting thumbs up every time.
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Billy Idol's a lot of fun.
Halestorm- Don't know how to stop
Been listening to the strange case of pretty much nonstop since last week.
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Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee
It took me several tries to not type Dark of the Manatee.
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Rush: Countdown
This song is about the space shuttle. Nerrrrrrrrds.
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Electric Six - We Were Witchy Witchy White Women.
The greatest lyrical achievement of our lifetime
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Grinderman - Depth Charge Ethel
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Queen: Hammer to Fall
The rockingest song about the inevitability of decay and death that I know.
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Electric Six - Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart.
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Blue Oyster Cult - In Thee
How utterly un-BOC like. Reminds me more of a softish rock than the weird fantasy metal that BOC usually does.
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Halestorm- Familiar taste of poison
Going to have to see them live at some point, they are seriously talented even with the so-so songwriting.
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Electric Six - Jam It In the Hole.
This song is 1000% Ciatos.
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What's the market value of a soul?
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Blue Oyster Cult - In Thee
How utterly un-BOC like. Reminds me more of a softish rock than the weird fantasy metal that BOC usually does.
BOC's weird enough to occasionally do things that are weird for them.
~
Depeche Mode: Never Let Me Down
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Kate Miller-Heidke - Lose My Shit.
Edit - This is a Snow song just FYI.
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Chvrches - By The Throat
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Well that was unexpected. Didn't know you were into the hard stuff Twil.
Garbage - Vow.
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Solas - Darkness, Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeFcdrnFD6Q
Really pretty. Can't think of anything I've heard by Solas that I dislike, though.
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Fiona Apple - Better Version of Me
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Grinderman - Go Tell The Woman
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Shoji Meguro - Heroic Battle.
I have worked out why I like DDS 1/2 and other SMT soundtracks in similar vein so much more than normal video game OSTs, they are essentially just like Joe Satriani albums.
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The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore
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Rush: motherfucking Cygnus X-1
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Electric Six - Dirty Looks.
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Electric Six - Face Cuts.
This song is hard to listen to. It is harder to walk away from.
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No Doubt - Bathwater.
Superior to sleeping like I should be.
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Within Temptation - Summertime Sadness
This is my favorite song on their new album. :)
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Toto - Africa.
Someone somewhere is masturbating to this song right now and that makes me happy (it isn't me).
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Alan Parsons Project: In the Lap of the Gods
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Alan Parsons Project: Shadow of a Lonely Man
tl;dr, life was great and now I'm dead.
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Man, I keep forgetting how impeccable your taste is.
Bjork - Modernt Things.
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Amon Amarth - Guardians of Asgard.
Helicopter forever plz
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Bjork - Declare Independence.
Damned colonists.
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Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God.
Been lifting. Want to sleep. Want to listen to this forever. Pumps me up so I don't want to sleep.
If this is hell it is a pretty good place to be.
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Janelle Monae - Many Moons
I like this album. The first of her three albums with the same central theme. Cyborgs~
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Bertie Blackman - Tap.
Ciatos, did I give you this? snow?
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Man, I keep forgetting how impeccable your taste is.
Then listen to this if you haven't already because holy crap how is this something that actually exists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FBPahhsU6E
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Blondie - Screaming Skin
So, 1999 was a really good year for Blondie.
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Garbage - Automatic Systematic Habit.
Snow.mp3
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Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Some Other Time
Cover of an Alan Parsons song. Been thinking about grabbing the album.
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That is from I, Robot. It is my favorite thing from the AP catalogue, definitely worth checking out.
APP: Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32
Man creates robot, robot inherits the Earth?
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Frozen - Let It Go
Haven't seen the movie. Actually first heard it (well, the Japanese version anyway) on the radio because apparently Disney songs get broadcast radio play here. Looked up the English version, English version is better. Legitimately good song. Definitely keeps in step with musicals' villains' songs being the best songs of the movie/musical. ... presuming this is the villain's song and that there isn't a better one on the soundtrack, both of which I'm going to go ahead and bet on having not seen the movie at all.
It is a nice mix up from listening to the Dead Kennedeys' Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables on repeat in my car, which has also been a thing.
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The 6ths - Kissing Things
Apparently, I've been listening to Stephin Merrit songs since I was 11 and never knew.
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Pet Shop Boys - Rent.
This has become the second most Snow song by Pet Shop Boys.
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The 6ths - Aging Spinsters
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The Gothic Archies - In A Cave
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song.
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Future Bible Heroes - Hopeless
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The Pet Shop Boys - Love Is a Bourgeois Construct.
This was what became the most Snow song.
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Future Bible Heroes - She-Devils From the Deep
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No Doubt - Push and Shove.
Did I want Gwen Stefani with some Reggae/Dub? Yes. Yes I did.
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The 6ths - Pillow Fight
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Bass Hunter - Sverige.
If you see this then chances are it means I have had a rough day at work.
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Monster Magnet - Space Lord
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Amy Winehouse - Help Yourself
We've all become what we once hated.
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The new Little Dragon album is out if you weren't aware Snow.
Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong.
If you don't read Met's weekly music then I would note this is from her and is amazing (you should read it. She is better at keeping up on new music than I am these days!)
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Xandria - Soulcrusher
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The Magnetic Fields - Give Me Back My Dreams
Dear god, their live performances.
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Massive Attack - Ringson
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Casualties of Cool - Forgive Me
Donated to the Kickstarter for this. Not disappointed.
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Enya: Boadicea
It'd been a while okay.
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Sarah Blasko - The Garden's End.
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Casualties of Cool - Mountaintop
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My Bloody Valentine - (Please) Lose Yourself In Me
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So I discovered a new amazing thing by accident today.
Versailles - SFORZANDO
I can't hate Visual Kei any more.
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Martina McBride - Independence Day
I am amused that Glenn Beck decided to use part of this song as the intro to his show, considering that it is about spousal abuse and murder/arson, not patriotism.
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Lyrical content didn't stop the '84 Reagan campaign from trying to exploit Born in the U.S.A. for similar purposes either (protip you guys it's about how much Vietnam sucked and that we totally fail at taking care of our veterans).
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I can see why you'd channel this song into a Tea Party anthem since it has this lyric "Let freedom ring/let the white dove sing/let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning" (The reckoning is just, well, fire.)
Casualties of Cool - The Bridge
Ki + Ghost in a blender with a female primary singer. I can get behind this.
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My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Maybe I like this shoegazing music thing. Just maybe.
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The Cure - Lullaby
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Garbage - It's all Over but the Crying
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Solange - Cosmic Journey
May have beaten her brother-in-law with a shoe, but has good music~
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Melody's Echo Chamber - Some Time Alone, Alone
When the Cardigans meet AIR and shoegazing.
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Pain of Salvation - Healing Now
And even though I can't forget the many times I've cried
And even though I can't forgive the many ways I've died
I'm healing now~
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Sex Bob-omb - Threshold.
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Emiliana Torrini - When Fever Breaks.
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Pet Shop Boys - Twentieth Century.
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Electric Six - Mr. Woman
Turning people into product is easy.
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The 6ths - All Dressed Up In Dreams
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Monarchy - Living Without You.
yeeeeeeeep more mc music I am listening to the week after discussing it.
Is a good track!
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Sunday's Slave
So following the Nick Cave quote Twitter makes me want to buy every Nick Cave album. Noted.
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King Crimson: Dangerous Curves
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Dixie Chicks - Silent House
I've always felt like this album was a bit of a messy mix between their anger at the country music industry for shunning them and a more average country/rock album. I think ultimately I enjoy it but it took me a while to warm up to it.
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Suikoden 2- Gothic Neclord
Been listening to the game's OST in bits and pieces. It has some of my all time favorite boss themes in here.
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Gothic Neclord was the only thing in the game that stood out to me, but then Suikoden music barely ever registered for me.
Peter Gabriel: Down the Dolce Vita
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Los Campesinos - I Just Sighed, I Just Signed, Just So You Know.
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Rush: The Analog Kid
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Bastion OST. I have taught some of my students "Build that wall" because it's short, catchy, and it amused me.
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The Magnetic Fields - Yeah, Oh Yeah!
~What a dark and dreary life, are you reaching for a knife? Would you really kill your wife? Yeah, oh yeah!~
Well, I can spot the Broadway musical origins of 69 Love Songs right there.
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Precursors: Didn't You Mean to Ask About Flowers?
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - There is a Town
Nocturama is a bit of a disappointing album overall, but this song is excellent.
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Portal 2 OST: Cara Mia Addio
Turret operaaaaaa
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Kate Miller-Heidke - Share Your Air.
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Kate Miller-Heidke - What Was I To You?
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Ayreon - The Sixth Extinction
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Born of Osiris - Illusionist.
Some pretty amazing metal that is Egyptian themed and uses all kinds of instrumentation. I am really digging this.
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Born of Osiris - Machine.
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I wanted to like it because ancient Egypt metal, but I just can't deal with the growly vocals. Sorry man.
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You might want to check out Nile. They are also in my to listen list for Egypt metal. No idea if growl or clean vocals though. Edit - is growl.
I get a lot of my metal at the moment from friend in a growly metal band, so that is why it comes up a lot. Also of course the fact that that I like growl doesn't hurt.
Do recommend checking out Equilibrium - Wirsthaus Gaudi though El Cid that metro if linked the other week. It is growl that you should enjoy.
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Grinderman - Man on the Moon
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Fiona Apple - Waltz (Better than Fine)
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Bertie Blackman - Television.
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Born of Osiris - Machine.
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Electric Six - Future Police
Tangentially related to Xenoblade.
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Is the new Spiderbait album any good, Gref? Have you heard?
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Was at a Beethoven concert tonight. Apparently some conductors keep a spare baton up their sleeve in case they lose control of one and it flies off into the horn section.
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of Montreal - Obsidian Currents
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Pulp - F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
Snow talking through Nitori as music.
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Yelle - Bouquet Final.
Because this is what I do now. Listen to music that mc links.
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Pop Evil- Torn to pieces
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Asa - Be my man
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The Protomen: Here Comes the Arm
Might be fatigue and/or work-induced stress implosion influencing this bold statement, but I am presently inclined to call Act II my favorite album. There's not a note out of place on this thing, but perhaps more significant is that it so eagerly embraces the one trait most endearing to me in music (and in other media, but most especially in music): treating with deathly seriousness things which conceptually could and probably should be very silly indeed (such as, in this case, using Megaman as a forum in which to ruminate about the potential for individual action to effect change in a climate of overwhelming fear).
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Utena movie OST: I Want to Be Your Fiancee
Discooooooo
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Blue Oyster Cult - I Love the Night
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Joe Jones - You Talk Too Much.
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Kate Miller-Heidke - What Was I To You?
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Bertie Blackman - Mercy Killing.
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The New Pornographers - Falling Through Your Clothes
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Los Campesinos! - We aware Beautiful, We Are Doomed.
I taught myself the only way to vaguely get along in love
Is to like the other slightly less than you get in return
I keep feeling like I'm being undercut
<3
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The Cure - Last Dance
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Christina the Astonishing
Pretty standard Nick Cave fare - atmospheric and bizarre.
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Ayreon - The Sixth Extinction
Stop the machines, prepare to diiiiiiiiie!
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Eurythmics: The King and Queen of America
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Tetsuko Kaneko & Masaki Kurokawa - Persona Mambo.
Mambo mambo.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - When I Came to This Town
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Princess One Point Five - The Long Drive Home.
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2Mello - An Encore in Time (Chrono Trigger vs. Jay Z) (https://soundcloud.com/2mello/2-mello-an-encore-in-time-jay)
Add an extra kick drum and the Zeal theme is in like flint.
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Casualties of Cool - Broken
Still need to get to listening to the bonus album that I bought with this, but the original album is just so good.
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Brian Dewan: The Cowboy Outlaw
Was randomly linked in the Infinity Engine game thing duckman linked. It's pretty boss.
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Daisuke Ishiwatari: Awe of She
May or may not be relevant for Saturday morning gaming
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Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Don't Switch Me Off
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Emiliana Torrini - The Boy Who Giggled So Sweet.
#justSnowthings
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The Gothic Archies - The Abandoned Castle of My Soul
How deliciously juvenile.
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Xandria - Soulcrusher
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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes - Come In Please
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The Magnetic Fields - Kings
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Belle & Sebastian - A Summer Wasting
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The 6ths - Rot In The Sun
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The Black Keys - Turn Blue
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Blue Oyster Cult - Fireworks
This album is a little less out there than Fire of Unknown Origin but less normal than Mirrors sounded like it was. I enjoy this song, Celestial the Queen, and I Love the Night a lot, as well two songs I already liked a lot in Nosferatu and Godzilla. Good stuff. R U Ready to Rock seems like it should be some generic 80's song but for some reason it talks about reincarnation.
Still need to pick up Imaginos though.
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Los Campesinos! - We Are All accelerated Readers.
And the opposite do of true love is as follows.
Reality!
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The Death March - Price of Freedom -I Want To See You Smile-
Thank you Ishimoto, thank you thank you thank you thank you for providing us this massive yaoi fuel to us Zack/Cloud yaoi slashers.
This is the love song from Cloud we always wanted.
Just why Stephanie has to be such an uninspiring singer?
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The Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Wanna Be Like You
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Hell yeah- Thank You
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The Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Wanna Be Like You
Digging into full Alan Parsons Project* albums, or just random songs?
The Chemical Brothers: Surface to Air
(*which I think was some sort of hovercraft)
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I grabbed I, Robot and the Tales of Mystery and Imagination. They are weird but fun.
Kamelot - Prodigal Son
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I can't recommend Eye In the Sky enough. One of my favourite albums from when I was younger.
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Yeah, those three are great. Pyramid is okay, The Turn of a Friendly Card is definitely good. I think I always liked I, Robot best because it's so easy to maintain a mental narrative with that album. APP was one of those bands that habitually held one of their most evocative songs for the album-closer, a practice that I am a pronounced sucker for.
Can't really comment on the post EinS 80's albums because I haven't listened to them. Usually heard disparaging things from comparative fan comments.
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Aversions Crown - Glass Sentient.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tFYdzSB8bI
I should have linked this Friday when it hit. New song by friend's band. Album coming out November. I don't know if it hits anyone's taste here but holy fuck is it good if you are into this kind of thing. Lyrics video this time if it helps anyone that wants to follow along with a son about an all powerful alien being coming in and classic the entire planet.
Drums are fucking sick and the song writing has got much tighter from the last album (which was written like 4 years ago now...)
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Monster Magnet - Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
10000% nineties.
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Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire
Because of Excal.
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Genesis: Watcher of the Skies
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Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire
Because of Excal.
I call bullshit on this. Odds are on the exact opposite.
The Prodigy - Firestarter
Because of Excal.
100% likely.
Mumford and Sons - Timshel
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of Montreal - Fugitive Air
I decided to pick up their newest album. It's pretty cool.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - When I First Came to Town
This song is weird and twisted and makes me want to write stories.
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Ambeon - The Temple of the Cat
Been listening to the bonus album that did remixes of Ayreon songs. :D
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Datsik - Bonafide Hustler.
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Aversions Crown - Vectors
So I missed this coming out (whoops). Another new track, this with video. Album due out in a couple of weeks. Sooooo pumped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKAu9V5-TDk
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Pink Floyd: Welcome to the Machine
Did you know the music industry strangles creativity and cruises on that cushy mediocrity gradient? Learn all about it in this educational video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qEsTCTuajE
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The Alan Parsons Project - The Voice
Also thumbs up for Welcome to the Machine. I really like the song (even if I think it is a little too long).
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My definition of "too long" is basically Tales From Topographical Oceans, which is apparently the album that determines precisely how much of a Yes fan a person is; I listened to it once and concluded I wasn't that much of a fan.
Welcome to the Machine is a real old favorite; Pink Floyd was my first favorite band when I started listening to rock music (before that became Rush a couple years later, as it's generally stayed since with occasional competition from Queen). It is a long song, but it's dwarfed by two other tracks from its same album! (Both of them have the same title, because Pink Floyd.) Also by
Pink Floyd: Echoes
which is pretty goddamn special.
Point of obscura: Alan Parsons started his musical career as an engineer at Abbey Road studios, where he worked on the album of the same name as well as Dark Side of the Moon, which I'd say is a pretty goddamn great way to get a start in the music industry. (I actually don't like Dark Side of the Moon that much, though.)
And I never know what to make of The Voice. It's just so goofy.
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Yeah this is why I stopped listening to Dream Theater. It felt like the longer they made music, the more obscenely long they decided to make their songs. Tales From Topographical Oceans looks like it beats DT in their sleep for length, though, after checking its track length.
I still like Welcome to the Machine (probably my third favorite PF song after Mother and Nobody Home), but I generally prefer songs to be 6 minutes or under. Probably why it's the only song I've listened to much on that PF album!
The Alan Parsons Project - Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)
Speaking of Dark Side of the Moon, this song kinda reminds me of a song from that.
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You are speaking like Octovarium isn't one of their best albums Ciatos! (I am kidding I know it is the one we are most polar opposite on).
I am not listening to anything right now but the sound of some piece of hardware alarming in the server room I am next to (that I don't have access to). This is the second day running of 2 second beep 1 second silent intervals.
The window is looking appealing.
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It's been a while since I listened to anything after Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence in a long time, so maybe I'd feel differently if I tried again. I just find a lot of the new stuff pretty samey compared to Train of Thought, which is a fine enough album but I find myself zoning out while listening to subsequent albums.
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I definitely think there is going to be tracks you would individually like and pick and choose from, but no specific albums scream CIATOS quite as much as specific tracks (like "The Count of Tuscany" from Black Clouds and Silver Linings). The camp melodrama of that song about meeting a creepy guy :o doesn't mesh well with Portnoy writing another track about overcoming his crippling alcoholism.
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Star One - It All Ends Here
Still need to watch Blade Runner.
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Still need to watch Blade Runner.
ITSSOGOODWATCHIT
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Has no one told you that it is a Mega Man X movie or something?
Mumford and Sons - White Blank Page.
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Still need to watch Blade Runner.
ITSSOGOODWATCHIT
yeahwhatareyoudoingreadingthisshitwatchitalready
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I'll do it at some point. >_>
First Aid Kit - Heaven Knows
Love these girls. :)
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The Asteroids Galaxy Tour- Rock the Ride
Someone on twitter linked this to me, it's pretty cool.
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Rocky Horror Picture Show - Time Warp
Just a jump to the left...
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The Who: Getting In Tune
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Tom Waits - Blue Valentines
That's why I'm always on the run, that's why I chaaaanged my name
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Pink Floyd: Sheep
Animals definitely not a Ciato-friendly album.
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I have Animals but I've never really listened to it.
Star One - Set Your Controls
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Meh to that, I say listen to The Animals instead. Superior.
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The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Legit.
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London Symphony Orchestra: House of the Rising Sun
Bond villain swagger style.
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Devin Townsend and Che Aimee Dorval - Glass World
I'm listening to the bonus album that came with the main album. I generally find that bonus albums are kind of weak (mostly because they tend to be scraps of stuff that weren't good enough for the regular album...), but this one's a bit of a mix between alternative versions of the songs on the first album (different lyrics, same music), rejected stuff from this album, and a few tracks from a scrapped album idea. Of course, the scrapped album idea is a sequel to one of my favorite things of all time, so I am happy that the bonus album exists~
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Within Temptation - The Whole World is Watching
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Van Halen - Runnin' with the Devil
Never listened to much Van Halen before. Just knew dad liked them, and dad's taste in music ain't bad.
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Oh dear, you are about to open up an amazing world full of Cocaine and joy. David Lee Roth is an amazing individual and I can't speak highly enough for 1984
Van Halen - Panama (http://youtu.be/OIBcGJxV_Ic)
This for example makes absolutely no sense but is more 80s packed in one place than a room with Flock of Sea Gulls, Depeche Mode and Dead or Alive.
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David Lee Roth's official explanation is that because music critics complained he only wrote songs about hot chicks, he wrote a song about cars instead.
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I honestly couldn't tell you that Panama was about cars. I also couldn't honestly tell you that most of his other songs were about hot girls either.
I thought everything was an allegory for "give me more nose candy".
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Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat
Stolen from the topic of MC.
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Aversions Crown - Hollow Planet.
The album dropped. I know this one and the next single, but still fucking pumped. Can't tell if this track was mixed better on album or if Youtube compression was the problem but still fucking sick.
Not that I expect anyone else to be into the genre, but if you like breakdowns, blast beats and technical metal still check them out. I prefer The Glass Sentient to this track if you want a starting place on this album.
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Gref, catch me up on metal from the last fifteen years please.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - When I First Came to Town
I think I've listened to this song more than any other song this year. And it was released in 1992! I am totes hip.
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Sen no Kiseki II OST MASTER - Phantasmal Blaze
This is just TOO good.
Who would have guessed by making Final Decision into Phantasmagoria can be this awesome.
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Well that really depends on what you are after Gourry. Like I don't think I can do justice to all the things that happened over the years. I can give you a cliffs notes though on stuff I know about and what has really hit me.
The short of it though is that what happened was even more and.more branched sub genres. A lot of them were technically around in early 2000s but they were fringe things. You were clearly around when we were back and forthing on the symphonic and prog metal scene of Nightwish and dream Theater etc. That stuff never really went away (Within Temptation noted above is the jumping back on point), but we have had a more revival and return to what people joke about being "Cookie Monster vocals" as there has been a movement of *core genres (substitute * with Death/Metal/Math etc). Those tend to focus a lot on your heavier bass and guitar lines, along with that has pretty traditionally come the aggressive growl vocal delivery, so we are seeing that again but at least these days you are seeing a lot more range to it instead of just one tone/octave. They also tend to have an emphasis on technical playing or at least cool riffs , so you will see a lot of pretty fast playing that if not well done at least tends to sucker in the people that think of Thrash as technically impressive. The last few years we have also seen a push towards some production effects in the music as well (for more than just fixing up shitty playing and regular mixing).
For the example of where that finally is for example from this Aversions Crown album The Glass Sentient (http://youtu.be/-tFYdzSB8bI) is a good example. The opening sequence is muted for effect in the mix (not a great example of production in songs, but there it is). The song has a killer beat and those opening drums are super aggressive, the lead guitar is fast playing, but to hit that perfectly live is pretty killer. The vocalist is the same one the whole song, but you can see three distinct variations on the growl, his lows and middle tone is pretty standard and the higher pitch "pig squeal" has become more prevalent in the last decade or so.
There is movement in other spaces as well though. The symphonic stuff hasn't gone anywhere, Europe still has an industry full of black metal bands and stuff. There has even been a resurgence of Thrash. One of he bigger movement that is getting traction is proper old Hard Rock/heavy Metal bands. You will see them come up a bit in mc's music topic since she seems to have an affinity for metal that sounds like Iron Maiden and that ilk. Hell even outside the edges of Metal I found a rock band that I love because their sound is straight up Black Sabbath.
When I am not posting from an iPad I can dig up points of reference for these,but the short of it with naming names to look up I would say the evolution goes something along these lines (noting that these are just guys I like and are probably just popular, not necessarily pioneers).
Early 2000s we had In Flames, then the kind of stuff Dillinger Escape Plan do picked up. What they do is essentially destroy everyone's brain in a 2km radius so things like Parkway Drive because popular because regular people can actually listen to their stuff and understand "time signature" and "rhythm" and "not having band members bleed on them during shows" (so you know, lame people who hate fun). That takes you through 2000-2010 really, then there is stuff like Suicide Silence building up a scene where stuff gets a bit heavier. Then you have stuff like Bring Me the Horizon crossing over as well and there is a real scene with that production influencing your album a lot and that gets you to this year really.
That is just the stuff I know, there is huge gaps. I was out of following metal for a while this last decade or so as well. Making friends with people in the scene has bout me back into it.
Oh the highlight for craziness though is if you liked or knew Sepultura back in the day, listen to their new single blind without checking out there other stuff. It is amazing how it is clearly Sepultura but is also nothing remotely close to their old stuff in tone.
Sarah Blasko - Planet New Year.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYfGx1b58Qo
call me naughty farmer
i grow str8 freaks
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The Daysleepers - Moonfrost
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Vangelis: Blade Runner (End Titles)
It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?
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Beyonce - Flawless
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Halestorm- Daughters of Darkness
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Kamelot - Veritas
Probably the single best track on my playlist for writing the villain scenes for my story. :D
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what story what story
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I've been writing my hand at story writing. It's a work in progress. :) And it always needs good music to accompany it.
Blue Oyster Cult - R U Ready to Rock?
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Janelle Monae - Q.U.E.E.N
Hey brother can you save my soul from the devil?
Say is it weird to like the way she wear her tights?
And is it rude to wear my shades?
Am I a freak because I love watching Mary?
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That Janelle Monae album was my favorite release from last year. Now I've listened to it twice because of you Ciato thanks a lot.
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The Electric Lady is a fabulous album. Q.U.E.E.N. is probably my favorite song on it, but there's a lot of other good stuff on there. Like...
Janelle Monae - Sally Ride
I'm packing my space suit
And I'm taking my shit and heading to the moon
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Bertie Blackman - Strangers In a Moment.
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Devil Doll: The Girl Who Was...Death
Because album-length songs about The Prisoner are a thing.
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Arcade Fire: My Body is a Cage
Would easily be their best song of Intervention didn't exist. That one makes it an actual competition.
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No Cars Go wants to have a word with you.
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Do you mean on Neon Bible or in general? I'd say Intervention is my favorite song on Neon Bible, but definitely not my fav AF song overall.
And why not...
Arcade Fire - Intervention
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In general. But I also find Neon Bible to be notably better than their other albums. I really only dig about 50% of Funeral; Suburbs is cool but has too much chaff; at least half of Reflektor is disposable and the remaining half is merely decent by their standards.
(Snow that's just as easily my #3 on the album. Still amazing, mind.)
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Angst about suburban life is not really my all-time favorite subject. Mountains Beyond Mountains is good though.
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Ciato needs the darkness, someone please cut the lights~
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
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Sarah Blasko - For You.
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Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
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David Bowie - Memory of a Free Festival
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Semifinalists- D.C.
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David Bowie - The Width of a Circle
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Ray Parker - Ghostbusters.
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Eminem - Just Lose It
This song is utterly idiotic and I love it.
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Tresspassers William - Surrounded
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Within Temptation - And We Run
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Chapterhouse - Feel The Same
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Excision - Execute
I should have got over my need for physical media and bought digital copy of this stuff ages ago. Fucking delicious album. Frustrating that it is hard to find stocks of Dubstep artists locally though.
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Listening to some more from the same album, thinking daaaaamn this is a killer track. Fucking aggressive as shit beat. Has some serious swagger to it. Look at title... Well fuck.
Excision - Sexism (Original Mix).
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Apocalyptica: Fight Against Monsters
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Excision - Sexism.
I hate how good this track is.
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The Black Keys - Turn Blue
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Excision & Datsik - Deviance.
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Excision - Existence.
Are you cool yet?
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Within Temptation - And We Run
I bought this song...and edited out as much X-hibit as I could.
Ancient Bards- Showdown.
This band's every song is about a crappy fantasy world they made up.
This is how the lead singer describes the plot of one of the songs:
"The kings have fallen in the Dark Wizardʼs trap. Dorus, himself, was posessed by Sendor! The wizard lets the fellowʼs body fall lifeless: after having defeated the three kings, thanks to the Crystal Sword, he will restore his soul back to life. The casket is now open and Sendor can grip the Black Crystal Sword.
The battle starts and Sendor’s superiority is clear from the beginning: his arm is now stronger, the swordʼs power now surpasses even his mind. He mercilessly strikes the three kings, he rails on them with the fury of a tornado, they try to get up and react to leave no stone unturned and to prove they are worthy of the glorious duty they were called to fulfill, protect the world, but Sendor knocks them down one by one. Shena, still in shock, at first didn’t take part in the battle, but now that her companions are on the ground it is her time to fight. The queen fearlessly defends herself from her former lover, convinced that there’s nothing she can do to save him, and that the only way to stop her heart from aching is to end his life. But the dark wizard is very strong and repels all the attacks with ease, his mind is obscured and the sword makes him do whatever it wants: there is not even a shred of humanity in the wizard, he’s a monster with an implacable thirst for blood and destruction.
After a few minutes the scene is devastating: the hall is destroyed, the doors torn off and the bodies of the kings are lying around exhausted, dying: the supremacy of the sword is undeniable and its victory inevitable."
This isn't even the damn song, this is just a storyline it follows.
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I do not comprehend.
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
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Man that isn't even scratch the barrel of crazy that is concept albums or bands that like that is all they do. Have you ever looked at what Coheed and Cambria is all about (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coheed_and_cambria)? The short of it is that it is about characters from a comic book that the lead wrote, so now we have 7 albums full of space opera/Star Wars fanfic that is actually really pretty good Prog Rock.
Excision - Existence.
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That sounds cornier than Sonata Arctica.
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady