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Social Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Niu on January 02, 2009, 05:55:38 AM
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Last Remnant- Opening Suite
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Apocalyptica- Ruska
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Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_rWM0pczOw
I love this song. I don't recommend listening to it if you feel depressed, though. It's a pretty gloomy track. ;p
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Metallica: The End of the Line
Finally picked up Death Magnetic with my free Zune Store songs for the month. It's better than I was expecting from post-Reload Metallica - which isn't saying much, but it's mostly pretty listenable.
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It is pretty much a redo of ... And Justice For All. It isn't bad but it isn't inspiring either.
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Duca - Arigatou
I believe I was raving about this song in chat, but really, this is beautiful. Jokes aside, even if you don't particularly understand the lyrics, once you do, it's really quite something. Well, depending on what kind of person you are. This may seem really sappy and melodramatic though if you aren't that kind of person.
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"Starlight" by Muse
I love this band.
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Rage Against the Machine - Kick Out the Jams.
Because I can't easilly find my MC5 cd with it, but still I really want to listen to this song. It is like impossible to make a bad version of it.
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Rage Against the Machine - Kick Out the Jams.
Because I can't easilly find my MC5 cd with it, but still I really want to listen to this song. It is like impossible to make a bad version of it.
If the Presidents of the United States of America can do a good job of it, anyone can.
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Blind Guardian - The Script for my Requiem (Extended Demo Version)
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"Menouthis" - E.S. Posthumus
I find I enjoy orchestral soundtrack music even more when it's not attached to a specific film or game.
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P4: A New World Fool
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Music is a million times better when it isn't being either forced into the background, mixed to be background music or just plain written for it. Video game music is just substandard.
Empire of the Sun - Halfmast
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Ar Tonelico: Song of the Gentle Breeze
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X Edge- The Grand Design
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Roy Orbison - In Dreams
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Supercar - Strobolights
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - "Libera me" from Hell
No idea who actually sings it, but I love the piano in this piece. The choir overlayed with punk rap has a cool sound to it, also, which elevates it beyond 'nice piano', but honestly, it's the piano melody that I'm hooked on.
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Noriyasu Agematsu - Persephone IPCC 3927
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MC5 - Kick Out the Jams.
Found my CD while unpacking, so right now it is time to kick out the jams mother fuckers.
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X Edge- Wall of Crisis
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MC5 - Kick Out the Jams.
Found my CD while unpacking, so right now it is time to kick out the jams mother fuckers.
There's a PUSA by that name.
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There is many by that name, but MC5 is the original and they are all good.
Seatbelts - 24 hours Open.
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The Offspring- You're gonna go far, kid
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Continuing the super trend!
The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright
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Muse - Knights of Cydonia
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Til Tuesday- Voices Carry
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JAM Project: Marionette Messiah
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Isis - The Beginning and the End
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Dropkick Murphy's - The Green Fields of France.
Edit - Add in Vices and Virtues. I am still undecided on Dropkick Murphy's as a whole, but damn they do have some kickarse songs.
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Bye Bye Bye on loop for most of today. Because Bush is leaving office >_>. (Well...I like the song in the first place, but this gives me an excuse).
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Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name.
Because Bush is leaving office? Or because Obama is going in? No. For the sake of making that poor taste joke? Yes.
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Between the Buried and Me - Selkies: The Endless Obsession
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Stevie Nicks- Edge of Seventeen
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Uraken - Try Real! (Uraken Hardcore Remix)
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Aether / Hellion Sounds - Battle - Destruction Begets Decay [Yggdrasika]
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Toxic Holocaust - Nuke The Cross
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The X-Files theme, since my roommate has been watching it non-stop since last week.
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Electric Six - Graphic Designer.
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Deathstars - The Last Ammunition
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Megadeth - Grabbag (The Duke Nukem theme)
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Megadeth made the theme for Duke Nukem? O.o
Megadeth - Wake Up Dead
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Aimee Mann - Long Shot
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Electric Six - Be My Dark Angel
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Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
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Megadeth made the theme for Duke Nukem? O.o
Megadeth - Wake Up Dead
They did a version of it for what was supposed to be Duke Nukem Forever. This was over a decade ago now. If this game actually does come out, it better be the best damn game I've ever played...
Ennio Morricone - L'estasi Dell'oro (A.k.a. The Ecstasy of Gold)
Stupid Firefox Spell Checker, not recognizing either of Ennio's names. How dare they... >_>
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Mouth of the Architect - Harboring An Apparition
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Dolly Parton - Jolene
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Pearl Jam - Black
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Key Sounds Label - Mission possible ~but difficult task~
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Opeth - Sleep My Child.
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50 Cent - 21 Questions
Probably the only song by him I really like.
Also, am I the only one to notice that there is a typo in the word "listening" in the thread name?
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Don't mind it? :<
Kalafina - sprinter
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Augie March - Dogsday.
Should it be What are you litso to?
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Patty Loveless - You Don't Seem to Miss Me
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Three Days Grace - Animal I've Become
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Three Days Grace - Riot
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Three days grace- over and over (Who am I to deny awesome?)
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Nickleback - Sharp Dressed Man
The fact that they're solid enough musicians to do justice to this song puts me in total awe of how shitty their songwriting is.
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R.E.M. - Maps and Legends
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Give Leader of Men a spin, Shale. It's pre 'this is how you remind me', so it's solid.
Ace of Base- Cruel summer. Fliping through random late 90's pop songs. It's a lot of fun. Snow is still Eiffel 65.
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Between the Buried and Me - Blackened (cover)
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Sloan - The Other Man
And then the entire Discovery album by Daft Punk. That CD is <3.
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Give Leader of Men a spin, Shale. It's pre 'this is how you remind me', so it's solid.
Ace of Base- Cruel summer. Fliping through random late 90's pop songs. It's a lot of fun. Snow is still Eiffel 65.
You fail for listening to Ace of Base, but the last statement is very true.
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
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Ace of Base- I Saw the Sign IS the 90's to me. At least, the mid-90's. Reminds me of my childhood AND one of my favorite episodes of South Park. (The one where the guy from 1996 is found frozen in ice)
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Man you want to know what the 90's is? James Brown Is Dead by L.A. Style. Under the Bridge by RHCP. Voodoo People by Prodigy. Shit man, Self Esteem by Offspring!
1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. if you want more specific mid 90's. The era of Bush, Blur, Presidents! Sooooo much more than Ace of Base.
Edit - my giagantic music fag is showing again and also more meaning bigger and better infinitely. I really feel sad for people that the only thing they took out of the 90's music scene was like Spice Girls and stuff.
Edit 2 - OH SHIT. CRASH TEST DUMMIES.
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JEET SINGH (vocals by Fujisaki Chima) - Got a feelin'
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Late 90's rock for me? Higher, Warm Machine, Come out and play. Ace of base still fits for pop.
Three days grace- home
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Dude, I don't even LIKE Ace of Base. It's just very, very nostalgic.
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Oh I know you would have quite easilly taken something more from it, that was just an aside. Just.... sooooo much more that is the true body of 90's music than something as hideous as Ace of Bass >_>.
Edit - Almost all of that stuff was from early 90's by the way Super, 92-94ish generally for most of it for some reason. Late 90's is Korn and the like.
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Higher is creed, that's 97. Warm Machine's 98, that's Bush. Korn/nu metal also fits, as does Third Eye Blind.
Sum 41- Handle this
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Meh. I always delved deeper into Epitaph's label than Offspring. I never even was that into them. I preferred Bad Religion, NOFX, Pennywise and the like. That's the early 90's punk scene to me. (Yeah, Bad Religion was also late 80's, but still).
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I will now proceed to have no clue what any of you are talking about and simply hype
Bliss - Long Life To You My Friend
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Tai, you really should find out what we are talking about.
Yeah Bad Religion are good. This was also the more poppy stuff that was good (note the lack of Bowie hype even though he was still active and writing fresh compelling work in the 90's which is far more impressive than his successful 80's stuff). NOFX never really did it for me though. There is a bunch of more local stuff that you won't have ever heard of probably in there as well of varying degrees of pop.
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Pfffffffft. You all forgot the pure awesome known as Limp Bizkit in the 90's.
Also, the macarena. </sarcasm>
In the 90's (as I grew up between the ages of 0 and 10) I actually remember a lot of Ace of Base. Also, I thought "Ice Ice Baby" was the shit when I was 2-4 years old. I listened to it all the time on my parent's stereo. Dance Mix '91. Good times.
Also, U2!!!! I still think Achtung Baby is their best CD. Came out in 92 I think?
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U2 have no best CD, they only have a series of worst CDs.
Limp Bizkit had some alright stuff on their first album. Nookie if nothing else is catchy.
Macarena is also iconic, but fails in the same way that The Ketchup song does.
Empire of the Sun - Standing on the Shore.
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Daft Punk - Crescendolls
And before that, Still Alive from Portal, since Shale mentioned it elsewhere. XP
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U2 have no best CD, they only have a series of worst CDs.
U2 hate. Music to my ears.
Echo & The Bunnymen - A Show of Strength
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I could rant about how bad U2 are for hours. Sure it would be repeating the same 5 minute argument over and over and calling it a rant, but it would still be a fruitful 30 year career that makes millions and garners fans who think they are doing something for the world by listen to me argue while pretending the argument is about world peace and starvation and nuclear bombs.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!!
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I could rant about how bad U2 are for hours. Sure it would be repeating the same 5 minute argument over and over and calling it a rant, but it would still be a fruitful 30 year career that makes millions and garners fans who think they are doing something for the world by listen to me argue while pretending the argument is about world peace and starvation and nuclear bombs.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!!
...I'll give you that point. I still like a deal of their music though.
Barenaked Ladies - Pinch Me
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It is just jokes. Aggression is a form of humor (or is that the other way around?).
Stabbing Westward - Drugstore.
Haha, Stabbing Westward.
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Levelers - The Boatman
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Aggun- Snow on the Sahara. Love her voice and the imagery of the song.
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... I was listening to the 80's a lot in the 90's, despite being born in '89. My dad had lots of Van Halen, KISS (70's!) and Def Leppard. Sadly, Linkin Park wasn't popular until 2000.
Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine
This is also 90's!
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Electric Six - Bite Me
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Rolling Stones- Wild Horses
Guns and Roses did this better, but far as I know they never did a full version.
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Hail of Bullets - Red Wolves of Stalin
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Electric Six - Watching Evil Empires Fall.
This is just pure awesome.
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Information High
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Feist - I Feel it All
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Red Sparowes - Like the Howling Glory of the Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous and the Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts and Clutching Our Innocent Awe
That's actually not that long, believe it or not, for the title of a Red Sparowes song. ;p
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Crow's Claw - "This Illusion"
Neat band that does rock/punk/techno remixes of video game songs.
I'm still not sure what nationality they are.
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Electric Six - Dance Epidemic.
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John Murphy- In a heartbeat
I'm always going to think of Marsh when I hear this song. READ MISTBORN, SLACKERS.
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Crow's Claw - "This Illusion"
Neat band that does rock/punk/techno remixes of video game songs.
I'm still not sure what nationality they are.
Crow's Claw seemed kind of mediocre or worse from what I've heard. Though I don't think I've heard that specific song (but it's not really a good song originally so that doesn't help).
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Commentary! The Musical - Zack's Flavor
I think I'm enjoying this OST more than the one from the actual series.
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Various remixes and other wises of Flowering Nights from Touhou.
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Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - Broken Moon
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Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
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King Crimson - Epitaph
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Totally badass tracks, Ryogo/Piggyman.
Joe Satriani: The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing
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Iron Savior - Titans of our Time
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Boyz II men- It's so hard to say goodbye.
I dig Acapella.
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Atelier Iris II - Red Lucifer Rising
This song is sexilicious.
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Jimmi Hendrix - Purple Haze.
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Totally badass tracks, Ryogo/Piggyman.
Mhm, indeed. In The Court of the Crimson King no doubt ranks as one of my favourite albums ever.
Sleep - From Beyond
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Lost prophets- Last train home
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Wild Arms 4th Detonator - I Look Up At The Sky (English)
Why are English soundtracks of games always so difficult to find...?
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Apparently there isn't a market here for them or something, and the OSTs tend to be released near or before the game in Japan, so the English versions of songs aren't even around yet. That said, it's rare that the English version is superior (though it happens. See also Wings) which lowers the demand that much more. Only game I can think of with an english OST that had different versions of vocals is KH, but who cares. Utada fails.
Megadeth- Symphony of Destruction (been listening to it at work all week, missed it.)
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Apparently there isn't a market here for them or something, and the OSTs tend to be released near or before the game in Japan, so the English versions of songs aren't even around yet. That said, it's rare that the English version is superior (though it happens. See also Wings) which lowers the demand that much more. Only game I can think of with an english OST that had different versions of vocals is KH, but who cares. Utada fails.
If you know any place I could get hold of the OP and ED of WA4 in English (possibly other WA's? WA OP/ED themes always rock) I'd be much obliged. YouTube just doesn't feel the same.
Anyway:
Wild Arms the Vth Vanguard - The Day The Shovel was Named Invincible
I love WA's song titles.
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Jimmi Hendrix - Purple Haze.
Still listening to this.
But errrr why are you shocked that there is no market for Game music (RPG MUSIC MARKET DEMOGRAPHIC)? It is a tiny niche of an already niche market. Import is the answer, it isn't like you need the track list in English anyway.
Now why it is hard to find Cowboy Bebop CDs is a more pertinent question.
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HORSE the band - Big Blue Violence
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Only game I can think of with an english OST that had different versions of vocals is KH, but who cares.
Rhapsody.
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Ah, right, Rhapsody came with it's own OST. Or at least the songs.
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Only game I can think of with an english OST that had different versions of vocals is KH, but who cares.
Rhapsody.
WA4, too.
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Nooo, no, not what I meant. WA4 changed the vocals for the english release, but did not release the OST in english. Rhapsody came packaged with its OST, which changed the vocals to english, and Kingdom Hearts actually had its OST released over here. This is why you can readily find Simple and Clean or Thank You in English, but finding the US vocal of Wings involves arcane artes.
Noriyuki Iwadare (Grandia II)- Fight!! ver 4
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R.E.M.: Find the River
Best song ever written about dying.
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Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child.
Hey Shale, here come's the drums.
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Kalafina - sprinter
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Scissor Sisters - I Can't Decide
Grefter forced my hand.
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Oh my god, what a good song.
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Seal - Kiss From a Rose
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Oh my god, what a good song.
Indeed.
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Seal - Kiss From a Rose
ba da ba da da da ah ya ya
Romantic Mode - Precious Love
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Wild ARMS 3 - Wings (English Version)
FUCK YEARH. Now I just need to pull shenanigans and see if I can find an english version of Advanced Wind that's -FULL-, rather than the small cut for the opening.
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Gorillaz - 19-2000
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Gorillaz - 19-2000
Original or the Soulchild Remix? I've never been a fan of the original so much, but I like the Remix.
Flight of the Bumblebee.
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Daft Punk - Aerodynamic.
Was the Soulchild mix actually, not that I find them greatly different in quality to be honest, I like both Gorillaz and Blur a lot though.
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Daft Punk deserves another mention.
Daft Punk - Digital Love
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StripE - SINCLAIR (StripE mix)
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Daft Punk deserves another mention.
And again by me, since I listen to their Discovery album like, every 2-3 days at least.
Daft Punk - Veridis Quo
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Weapon Raid (FFVII OST)
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Daft Punk - Veridis Quo
Fuck yes.
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Daft Punk - Veridis Quo
Fuck yes.
Damn straight. It's an awesome song.
Daft Punk - Superheroes / Human After All / Rock n' Roll from their Alive 2007 album.
I would kill to see these guys live.
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BOOM BOOM SATELLITES - SHUT UP AND EXPLODE
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They still tour as far as I know, very worth it from all I have heard. Alive is also a large number of good times and is proof that Aerodynamic goes well with everything.
Gorillaz - Dare.
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Don't stop the Discovery!
Daft Punk - Voyager
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Blure - There's No Other Way.
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I need to get more Daft Punk. The only thing I have by them is Harder Faster.
On topic though...
Creed - What If?
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I need to get more Daft Punk. The only thing I have by them is Harder Faster.
Me too, although I have a few more... Of course, only the ones that everybody knows, and I'd rather get a few of the lesser-known ones.
To the topic:
All-American Rejects - Move Along.
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Cult of Luna - With Her Came the Birds
Perhaps one of the most depressing songs ever?
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I need to get more Daft Punk. The only thing I have by them is Harder Faster.
Me too, although I have a few more... Of course, only the ones that everybody knows, and I'd rather get a few of the lesser-known ones.
If you can get your hands on their Discovery album, its gold. Probably not too expensive either.
That and Alive 2007 are my favourite albums by them.
On Topic: Lupe Fiasco - Dumb it Down
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Led Zeppelin - In the Evening.
Pretty much and Daft Punk album is worth picking up and it isn't hard to find some random stuff in bargain bins.
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King Crimson - I Talk To The Wind
That entire album is just a beautiful masterpiece.
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Augie March - Sunset and Sails.
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Pink Floyd - Nobody's Home
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The Sailor Moon theme.
Because I'm awesome.
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Guano Apes - Plastic Mouth.
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Anggun- Snow on the sahara
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Agalloch - The Hawthorne Passage
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The Sailor Moon theme.
Because I'm awesome.
Because of this and his avatar, I decided to listen to the Lucky Star theme.
Because it's awesome. "Ii kagen ni shinasai!"
Before that, I was listen to 'Silver Will' from Falcom a lot. Addictive song, reminds me a lot of Chrono Cross' opening.
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The Sailor Moon theme.
Because I'm awesome.
Because of this and his avatar, I decided to listen to the Lucky Star theme.
Because it's awesome. "Ii kagen ni shinasai!"
Before that, I was listen to 'Silver Will' from Falcom a lot. Addictive song, reminds me a lot of Chrono Cross' opening.
I was listening to the Lucky Star theme earlier today too. I love the song (It's damned catchy!) and my brother hates it. So whenever he asks me to put something on he wants to listen to, I switch to that just to be an asshole.
Muse - Plug in Baby
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Lucky Star music is an abomination and you are horrible, horrible people for liking it.
Panzer Dragoon Orta: Anu Orta Veniya
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Lucky Star music is an abomination and you are horrible, horrible people for liking it.
But it has PUNS! Godly.
And yeah, echoing Ryogo - it's not a good song, but damn is it catchy. It grows on you. Like a fungus.
Anyway, I have a request.
I want to incorporate some American (or just English-language) music into some of my classes. Perhaps even have the students -learn- some of the words to a song.
However, I'm having difficulty figuring out what would be best to use. Ranging from modern pop/rock to classic musicals, I'm really not sure which direction to start with these kids.
So, I'm wondering what kind of music you guys would want young, impressionable children to hear as representative of the English-speaking world. Name as many tracks as you can think of that might apply.
The only stipulation is that the lyrics need to be somewhat simple (or very simple and repetitive, your judgment call). Something you think would be appropriate and accessible to someone learning the language.
Make a difference in the lives of young Japanese students! Maybe they won't grow up all weird.
-DJ
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The obvious answer is The Beatles.
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I'm guessing Tupac's not an option?!
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The first thing I'd avoid besides graphic content is garbled speakers. You want it to be as clear as possible, so that likely elminates a lot of rock music. Country music would work well for this. Usually not too graphic, vocals are usually very clear, and it's a different style than what they're used to hearing.
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I want to say show them an American version of a song they might know, one that was brought over here and was translated into English. If you can find one.
Ummm. Feist has some slower songs with easier words. "1 2 3 4" comes to mind.
The Beatles work well too, though I'm trying to think of newer music to use so they have more of an idea of what our music is like today.
Pink Floyd is slower and easier to pick out their words.
The Barenaked Ladies are the same too. Some slower songs, easier words, easier to pick them out.
Other than that, sadly, country music works well for the purpose that you're looking for. It pains me to say such a thing.
Also, what's the age range of your students? Just curious here. If I think of more music you might be able to use, I'll let you know.
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http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?pi=1&ps=20&sf=&sa=0&sq=&dm=0&p=70F29028524A1D78#
Masaaki Endoh singing the American Power Ranger's theme in English.
Djinn! You must!
... does Coldplay have anything simple enough? 3 Doors Down also has pretty clear annunciation in their music, though that's by my standards, I'm not sure if it's good enough.
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Song Ideas to Mess Up Japan in the Opposite Direction
by CmdrKing
Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles
Enter Sandman, Metallica
The Unforgiven, also Metallica
Jolene, various, esp Dolly Parton
Closer, Nine Inch Nails
Basketcase, Green Day
Spot the worst idea, win a bonafide No Prize.
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Song Ideas to Mess Up Japan in the Opposite Direction
by CmdrKing
Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles
Enter Sandman, Metallica
The Unforgiven, also Metallica
Jolene, various, esp Dolly Parton
Closer, Nine Inch Nails
Basketcase, Green Day
Spot the worst idea, win a bonafide No Prize.
Oddly enough, despite none of them knowing what it means, tons of Japanese teens know Bastketcase.
I'm teaching a large range of kids, from 5year-olds to 15-year-olds. So having a few options is a good idea.
Enter Sandman I might just do with my Elective English kids (the ones who like English enough to take EXTRA periods of it).
The Beatles are also surprisingly abundant in Japan, so I'll probably snag some of them as well. The other ideas so far I'm still seeking out the tracks and trying to determine if they're simple enough (and age-appropriate enough) for them.
Keep in mind what Japanese kids watch on TV regularly. If they can handle Naruto and Bleach (which, say what you will about the quality of these shows, they still handle some fairly 'adult' problems), they can handle a song about (insert X issue here that kids in America are always shielded from).
-DJ
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If they can handle Greenday's insanely thick singing accent and slur then you have a pretty wide berth here.
David Bowie. Pick anything really, but Man Who Sold the World is a good album if you want some funny Engrish to happen. Otherwise, go with classics like Space Oddity, pretty low use of Bowie's vocal range, spoken parts, clear lyrics.
Alternately because it is Japan and you need some 80's, Devo. Smart Patrol/ Mr DNA if you want the Engrish. Beautiful World if you want an easy song.
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...I'm inclined to say songs like Eyes on Me & Melodies of Life (FFVIII & IX respectively) would be good, but maybe that's just the association with Japan.
Otherwise... Some Queen couldn't go wrong, methinks. I'd imagine Don't Stop Me Now could be a good song for them to learn. And... maybe some Lost Prophets? It's generally pretty fast, but pretty clear as well. I'm specifically thinking Last Train Home here, but others would work too. (Or at least the ones I know would...)
At topic: Mitsurugi Reiji ~ Great Revival - Gyakuten Meets Jazz (Great Revival ~ Miles Edgeworth - Phoenix Wright Jazz Album)
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Djinn English teacher stuffs
Needs more Simon & Garfunkel. *Nodnod.* They're also pretty crystal clear on their pronounciation, so that's a nice bonus.
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...I'm inclined to say songs like Eyes on Me & Melodies of Life (FFVIII & IX respectively) would be good, but maybe that's just the association with Japan.
Finding songs by Japanese artists in English isn't as hard as you might think...
However, I'm looking for songs that are culturally significant in some way to the Western world because it's also my job to expose these kids to Western culture.
-Djinn
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Electric. Avenue. It synchs up perfectly with the zombie dance sequence from Thriller, you know.
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Electric. Avenue. It synchs up perfectly with the zombie dance sequence from Thriller, you know.
Actually... yeah. That really might be perfect for a class song/dance/cultural experience...
It's a little dorky, but... I'm thinking 3rd/4th graders would love it... Somewhat up-beat, easy lyrics, distinctly not a nursery rhyme song, repetitive. It makes it easy to learn and easy to cut it off in different places depending on how much time I have for class activities.
Also, well-known enough in America that I don't feel like I'm just teaching them useless things. If they ever go to America, there's sure to be a few people who know it, at least. Which is one of the main reasons I wanted to avoid most country music.
And yeah, I might make them learn the Thriller dance, too. For 3rd-grader dancing-zombie awesomeness.
-Djinn
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Are we talking about the same Electric Avenue here? Cause I'm no slouch in the English department and I don't understand what he's saying in any of the verses. Just the chorus.
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Are we talking about the same Electric Avenue here? Cause I'm no slouch in the English department and I don't understand what he's saying in any of the verses. Just the chorus.
Just talking about the chorus, incidentally.
I don't think I'm going to be able to keep 3rd graders attention on song lyrics in a foreign language long enough to even attempt a full verse that doesn't get repeated at all.
That's why I'm making them dance to it, too. My plan is flawless.
-Djinn
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Takes me back to when I took Japanese, it does.
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Lix - Geometric City (Metropolis Mix)
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Sepultura - Cutthroat.
Shooting the shit with Super, I remembered this one Djinn, should give it a spin. Edit - Oh yeah for Engrish option, BIOTECH IS GODZILLA for all your prepackaged Engrish needs.
Rio summit, 92
Street people kidnapped
Hid from view
to save the earth
Our rulers met
Some had other
Secret plans
No...no...no...no...
Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Say what?
Strip-mine the amazon
Of cells of life itself
Gold rush for genes is on
Natives get nothing
Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is godzilla
[Edit 2 - This fails to not a "Godzillaaaaaa Rarrrrrrrr" backing vocals here which is the personal highlight of the song.]
Mutations cooked in labs
Money-mad experiments
New food + medicine?
New germs + accidents!
Like cubatao
worlds most polluted town
Air-melts your face
Deformed children all around
Bio-technology
Aint whats so bad
Like all technology
Its in the wrong hands
Cut-throat corporations
Dont give a damn
When lots of people die
from what they've made
Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is a.i.d.s.?
Stop!!!
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John Murphy- In the house, in a heartbeat
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The Doors - Hello, I love you.
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Betweem the Buried and Me - Backwards Marathon
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Metallica - Whiplash.
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Masayoshi Minoshima - The Flower : Like The Fantasy
A. aurantiaca is godlike Alstroemeria Records
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Shoji Meguro - The Almighty (Persona 4 Original Soundtrack)
Man, tracks that are cool to listen to outside the game. P3 lacked these so bad.
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Mindless Drug Hoover - Reefer Song.
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Trivium- We are the fire
Not as good as dying in your arms, but good cheesy fun.
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10,000 Maniacs - Planned Obsolescence
Trying the random function on my full playlist for once.
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AT Hymmno Muscial Spica- EXEC_HYMME_MEGAREALICS/.
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Electric Six - Broken Machine
This experience is starting to creep me out.
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Broken Machine is one of the more frequently quoted songs when I am discussing thing with my brothers. It doesn't do anything, it just sits there.
Doctor Steel - Bikinigram from Satan.
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The Sword - Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians
God tier song title.
Great instruments, decent vocals.
I'm gonna go listen to this band a little more.
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The Sword - Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians
God tier song title.
Great instruments, decent vocals.
I'm gonna go listen to this band a little more.
EPIC WIN. That song is so intensely good. I am amazed anyone here but me knows it. *congratulatory applaud*
Eluveitie - The Somber Lay
Folk metal, anyone?
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EPIC WIN. That song is so intensely good. I am amazed anyone here but me knows it. *congratulatory applaud*
Eluveitie - The Somber Lay
Folk metal, anyone?
Funny thing is... I found out about it by being bored enough to browse Gaiaonline's metal forum. Since I've been bored enough to go onto the site more regularly than usual to begin with, wandered there... yeah.
The Sword - How Heavy This Axe
Also, I'll listen to that band you mentioned too.
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Rick Wakeman & Ozzy Ozbourne: Buried Alive
This song is such aiel-bait.
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A Perfect Circle - Brena.
This needed some class brought back to it.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Karn Evil 9.
Indeed.
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Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of your Life)
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Haruna Ikezawa - Basket Case
DUNEBAIT
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Elton John - This Train Don't Stop There Anymore
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Evergreen Terrace - Where There Is Fire, We Will Carry Gasoline
lawl, awesome title. Even more awesome band.
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Baten Kaitos Origin- Evidential Material
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French rap, particularly
Je Veux Te Voir - Yelle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsrN3qxX2Yw)
And yes I know what the lyrics are saying, and seem to enjoy singing along anyway.
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Explosions in the Sky - With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept
I'm becoming increasingly interested with the idea of post-rock/post-metal. ;p
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Lix - SkyRise II (Ether Mix)
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Orgy - Blue Monday.
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Astronaut Wife - Cape Canaveral
Okay, this -is- pretty good. I'm getting more of a feel for this album, and I definitely like it. Nice, if somewhat odd, stuff.
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Augie March - Angels of the Bowling Green.
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Cape Canaveral is definately the #2 song on the CD for me. Snake Charmer is what got me to buy the thing.
Blackmore's Night - Rainbow Blues
A bit different then thier usual sound, but still very good.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me Part 2
And the coins in my pocket go jingle jangle.
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Lia (AIR Original Soundtrack) - Tori no Uta
This song is so catchy it almost makes me consider watching an episode of AIR. Almost.
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Pink Floyd - Mother
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - O'Malley's Bar.
It was the light, it was the angle.
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Run Rabbit Junk - Yoko Kanno, GitS:SAC OST
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REACH OUT - Wada Akiko
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ALSO THIS
http://www.donkdj.com/remix/47978
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Alexi Murdoch - All My Days
One of my favourite acoustic singer-songwriters.
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Nine Inch Nails - Beside You In Time.
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Leona Lewis- Run
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Maximum the Hormone - Kyoukatsu
(Changed while I was typing to...)
The Black Mages - Hunter's Chance
Ah. A perfect example of a song that was completely ignored on the original playthrough, yet TBM did brilliantly. <3
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sampling masters MEGA - outer wall
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HORSE the band - Seven Tentacles and Eight Flames
lol, some awesome 'nintendocore', as they call it. ;p
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Daft Punk - Vietnam
Ehh, not one of their best, but it'll do.
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Young Dubliners - A Pair of Brown Eyes
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Iron Maiden- Run to the hills
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Heavenly - The Power and Fury
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Crushing Day - Joe Satriani
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Mogwai - I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead.
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High On Fire - Hung, Drawn and Quartered
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"Girl, Your Baby's Worm Food" by Weerd Science. Includes the brilliant lyric: "Bitch, if you really knocked up by my homie, I'mma punch you in the stomach."
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X Japan - Art of Life full live performance.
That was like... 24 minutes or something. Nearly half an hour for one song.
Yoshiki is the man.
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The Carpenters - Top of the World
~ Karen Carpenter, I love your voice~
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Explosions in the Sky - The Birth and Death of the Day
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J-HipHop : Egoist
Infectious Pop'n Music is Infectious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye5UbAoChhk
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They Might Be Giants - Another First Kiss.
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Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers
Ambient music. Not the most exhilerating tunes, but pretty relaxing stuff.
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Ultimate Lazy - Kanjite Knight
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Everything But The Girl - Angel
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Rise Against - Drones
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Dream Theater - The Dark Eternal Night
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Paramore- Decode
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Beck OST - Youkai Ningen Bem
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The Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent - New Generation.
Not bad album so far as part of the pick up a bunch of $5 CDs thing I am trying. 2 not bad albums listened to out of 4, so hopefully the last 2 are as alright.
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Yamazaki Maimi - We Are The Stars
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Type O Negative - September Sun
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Hahahahaha.
The Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent - Let it Go.
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Augie March - The Night is a Blackbird.
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Echo & The Bunnymen - My Kingdom
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Augie March - The Devil in Me.
Edit - Dropkick Murphys - Captain Kelly's Kitchen.
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Nena - 99 Luftballons.
I don't even know why I do these things anymore.
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Thrice - Hoods on Peregrine
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Björk - All Neon Like
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Meshuggah - Dancers to a Discordant System
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Princess One Point Five - Lolita.
SUP OK.
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Metal Gear Solid- Way to Fall
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Everything But The Girl - Imagining America
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The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
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Everything But The Girl - Low Tide of the Night
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Rokugen Alice - Chikai no Mangetsu
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Witchcraft - You Bury Your Head
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David Bowie - Looking For Satellites.
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Nirvana - Come As You Are
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Queensryche- Silent Lucidity
Blame ID.
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Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent - Horse.
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Apocalyptica - Ruska
Best song ever? Possible.
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Nah, it is just a good one. It is not even Five Years level though.
Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent - Soul Sister.
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Five years?
Default- Wasting my time
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David Bowie. It is a song about the world dying. It is the ultimate in song to listen to in a shopping center.
Electric Six - There is Something Very Wrong With Us So Lets Go Out Tonight.
Edit - Boots Randolph - Yakety Sax.
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Outkast- Bombs over Baghdad
I forgot how totally awesome this song is.
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Tom Waits - Burma Shave.
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Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent - New Generation.
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Asriel - Omoi no kakera to shinjiru kakera
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David Bowie - Lady Stardust.
This is how you write a great song.
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Andrew W.K. - Ai Senshi (from the second Gundam movie)
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Princess One Point Five - Lolita.
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Princess One Point Five - You.
No you.
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Spring Awakening - My Junk
So many levels here - a huge sexual reference, a cute love song, a sappy friendship song, a veiled insult...it's cool.
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The Devil Wears Prada - I Hate Buffering
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Daft Punk - Burnin'/Too Long.
Alive 2007 is stupidly good.
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Asriel - Koe wo ubawareta shojo
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Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
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Persona 4- Your affection
The only thing wrong with P4's OST is that it didn't have Battle for Everyone's Souls in it.
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The Mist is a decent enough replacement.
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God Is An Astronaut - Shores of Orion
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Augie March - Sunset Studies.
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Around the World by Monkey Majik and
My Way by Def-Tech.
Two pretty laid-back songs that are perfect for karaoke with the co-workers. In that they are both half in English and Japanese and fairly well-known. Good duet songs and keeps the drunken co-workers entertained.
Apart from their utility, they are also somewhat pleasant to listen to, as well.
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Princess One Point Five - Lolita.
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Asriel - Yasasii Uso
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Velvet Underground and Nico - Femme Fatale
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Beck - I Got a Feeling.
(Well Beat Crusaders, whatever). Still think this is a really good cover.
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Follow Me by err "Rocket Boys".
Yeah the best songs in Beck are honestly probably the covers/knock offs of stuff originating back to the 60's/70's. Still rest is mostly good (except for Lost Melody).
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SH2 - Anastasia ~ The Imperial Princess's Anxiety
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Spring Awakening - Totally Fucked
I just love the song's use of the word "fuck"
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Rocket Boys - Follow Me.
I just love the song's use of the word "fuck"
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Chickenfoot - Oh Yeah
New supergroup led by Sammy Hagar, YMMV.
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Soilwork- Spirits of the future sun
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City and Colour - Death of Me
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Iron Savior - Battering Ram
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Bjork - Violently Happy
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Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Passenger
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Bjork - The Dull Flame of Desire
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Beat Crusaders - Follow Me.
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Kraftwerk - Metropolis
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Lisa Loeb - Stay
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Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
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Theory of a deadman- Santa Monica
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Aphex Twin - 4
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand.
I need to steal the TV and use my sound system to listen to music more often. This kind of thing is the reason I keep bothering to eat. Nick Cave, fuck yes.
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Murder By Death - Brother.
Picked this one up purely because of the band name. Is alright.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - O'Malley's Bar.
If I have no free will the how can I be morally culpable I wondered?
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Johnny Cash - (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
Murder By Death - Brother.
I'm willing to bet the movie's better.
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It actually isn't bad stuff. Fairly folkish, but folk is cool.
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Yo-Yo Man.
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The Alan Parsons Project - Cask of Amontillado
Drinking the wine as we laugh at the time which is passing incredibly sloooow...
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It actually isn't bad stuff. Fairly folkish, but folk is cool.
The movie's awesome, though.
Joe Bonamassa - Woke Up Dreaming (Live)
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow.
An Australian who lives in Germany singing a song quite prominently featuring the Imperial system is quite quaint.
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Echo & The Bunnymen - Over The Wall
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Augie March - The Keepa
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Ghosts - Stay The Night.
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Peelander-Z - Manga Man
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Tiësto - In The Dark
Yes, I'm listening to awful trance music. Rant away.
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Tiesto of all things? Pardon me while I vomit. There is good techno, there is bad techno and then there is Tiesto.
Empire of the Sun - Country.
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Motoi Sakuraba - Bitter Dance
whatcha got whatcha got now
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Rent - What You Own
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Tom Waits - Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis
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Peelander-Z - S.T.E.A.K
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Tom Waits - Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis
That makes me happy to read.
Grand Salvo - In the Morning.
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Frozen Ghost - Ned's Mental
There we go, Gref, GOOD techno. ;p
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You will never please the Grefter.
Kraftwerk - Metropolis
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The Calling - Adrienne
This song always make me think of Adrian Andrews. ._.
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You will never please the Grefter.
Kraftwerk - Metropolis
Now that is a good piece of electronica.
Jez - All fall Down.
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Devin Townsend - Vampira
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Richard Swift - Dressed Up For The Letdown
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Alieson - Carousel Drive
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Wild Arms XF - Final Disaster
This song is so dramatic, but I love it.
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"My Silly Days" - Mana Khemia 2 OST
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KMFDM - D.I.Y.
Relatively unknown German music that's really not my normal style? Sure, why not?
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KMFDM - Bullets, Bombs and Bigotry.
Duck, wherever you are, I salute!
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White Zombie- Thunderkiss 65
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Electric Six - Rubber Rocket.
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Yuuki - inverse rainbow
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Queen - '39
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Win, Ciato. That's one of my favorite Queen songs. There just aren't enough folk ballads about interstellar travel.
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I'm on a Queen kick.
Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure
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Dream Theater- Peruvian Skies
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Nothing. My iPod broke.
Does this happen often? Should I hope that it fixes itself?
It's about 6 years old and the only problem it's ever had before was freezing up when it gets cold...
Anyone know anything about old iPods?
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Triumph - Fight the Good Fight.
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Beat Crusaders - Spice of Life.
Man, the more I listen to the collection of stuff here, I am glad they put out the album with the original band's playing these tracks. The originals are mostly better now that I have a bit of distance from the show. The Beat Crusaders' versions are all pretty good and really faithful (same Engrish even most of the time), but yeah, nice to get a chance to hear the originals.
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Little Non - Tatsumaki WAVE
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Yelle, Je Veux Te Voir.
Good stuffs and gotta continue to practice my french.
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Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September
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David Bowie - Let's Dance.
Under the Moonlight.
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Don Henley - The Heart of the Matter
My theme song for the day. At least the third verse.
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Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
I honestly can't decide if I'm fond of this song, or if I utterly despise it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eimgRedLkkU
It's worth a listen, regardless. ;p
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Electric Six - Dirty Looks
if we make love would be a mistake?
will the aftermath... be hard to take?
will the knots we tied... come undone?
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Lost Horizon - Denial of Fate
Solid power metal.
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Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
Man, you people need to pay attention to what I am saying months ago obviously. Check out the rest of the album if you can't make up your mind Piggyman. I bought it while I was undecided but couldn't get it out of my head and it was totally worth it. Damned fine album.
The Flaming Lips - You Have To Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil's Brain)
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Pennywise- Alien
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Augie March - The Night is a Blackbird.
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Augie March - There is No Such Place.
Fuck yes.
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Muse - The Small Print
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Tom Waits - Muriel.
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kotoko - 蒼-iconoclast
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Sonata Arctica - THE RUINS OF MY LIFE
;_______________;
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Sneaker pimps- Post modern sleaze
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Murder By Death - Dynamite Mine.
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Sena - ONENESS
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Sugar Ray - Personal Space Invader
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Santana ft. Chad Kroeger - Into the Night
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Quiet Riot - Winners Take All
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Hearts of Iron 3: March of Domination.
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Alexi Murdoch - Towards The Sun
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Mint - Good luck...
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Heavenly - Miracle
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The Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent - Live In New York.
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Dream Theater - Larks' Tongue in Aspic, Part Two.
King Crimson Cover.
Bonus disc (of two) on the new album. Very cool. One CD with 6 tracks, total playtime of 75 minutes. Second album is also 6 tracks of covers (They do a lot of covers on tour, because they are awesome and so on. Apparently if you catch the right shows they cover entire albums because they feel like it). Third album is instrumental version of the first one. This is kind of odd since it is Dream Theater and they have like 3 minutes worth of lyrics in those 20 minutes songs anyway, not that I mind or anything I fully support that kind of shit when I get it for free. Was totally worth it on Dark Passion Play as well.
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BoF4 OST- Raging Emperor's banquet
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Komar & Melamid/Dave Soldier - The Most Unwanted Song
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Ghosts - Over-Analysis
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Faith no more- Easy (like sunday morning)
This should be required listening on sunday mornings.
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Pink Floyd - Dogs
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Faith no more- Easy (like sunday morning)
This should be required listening on sunday mornings.
I think you just missed the meaning there just a tiny little bit.
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That has less to do with the song's lyrics and more to do with hearing it on sunday mornings as a kid. It brings back memories.
Coldplay- Yellow
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Kaye-Louise Patterson - Astronaut.
Well to be fair I guess the song does imply that Sunday mornings are easy. Just like... totally not what the song is about.
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Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
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Mogwai - I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead.
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Billy Joel - Piano Man
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Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking.
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Ayreon- Day Nineteen: Disclosure
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Kaye-Louise Patterson - Astronaut.
Well to be fair I guess the song does imply that Sunday mornings are easy. Just like... totally not what the song is about.
I know that now, but not at 10. Knowing what it means now doesn't change what it was then or the memories, so yeah.
Taking back sunday- Making damn sure.
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Green Day - Basket Case
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Mintjam - Angel Wing
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Ministry - Death and Destruction.
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Queen - Killer Queen.
Dynamite with a laser beam.
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Sukima Switch - ズラチナルーカ
I can't make heads or tails out of this katakana.
/me also notes to self: gnaw on Grefter about Steely Dan.
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Shadow Gallery - Roads of Thunder
Queensryche wannabes~
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/me also notes to self: gnaw on Grefter about Steely Dan.
Mehhhh to Steely Dan. I could never bring myself to like them. (No, having the wackiest band name ever does not automatically make them a good band.) Not a band I'd expect to get Snow hype, I must say.
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I'm just curious about them, that's all.
EDIT: Also, hearing about jazzy influences in a band tends to be a nice way to pique my interest. I think you stated before you go the opposite direction regarding that.
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KH Piano Collection- Another Promise
Is it just me, or are all the performers for this album likes to SMASH on the piano keys a lot?
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I'm just curious about them, that's all.
EDIT: Also, hearing about jazzy influences in a band tends to be a nice way to pique my interest. I think you stated before you go the opposite direction regarding that.
The Cid is indeed not a fan of the jazz music. I don't really dislike it (there certainly are genres that I do hate). It is just not for me.
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Speaking of jazzy!
Sukima Switch - Rasen
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Swing Holic Band - NEW LOCKED CITY
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Murder By Death - Boy Decide.
I need some more of this. I think I just have a weakness for Cellos, but this means nothing. Folkish music with cellos that knows when it is appropriate to use feedback as an instrument, this is great.
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Harvey Danger - Cream And Bastards Rise.
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Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch.
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Gyakuten Saiban Orchestra - Justice for All Court
Listening to this on my awesome new headphones, yeah. <3 These things are made of so much win. ^.^
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Pelican - March to the Sea
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Mach Pelican - Shit Off Your Face.
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Mach Pelican - Rock 'n' Roll Honesty.
It is wrong how much fun a good bit of punk is.
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The Cranberries- Zombie
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Murder By Death - Brother.
Think this week's $20 in CDs will just be another one of these guys.
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Semifinalists - D.C.
I should have listened to this a bit more often. More and more of these cheap CDs get better with a second or third listen as well.
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Emilana Torrini - Heartstopper.
Man I thought 6 of these 8 CDs I bought last week were things I had never heard of. Turns out I was wrong since I know this. Just this song, but yeah got a bit of airplay on Triple J. Is nice still though. Glad I got it since it is a song I liked when it was on, just had no idea who it was by. Now I know.
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Anggun- A crime
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Steely Dan - Do It Again
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Pedro The Lion - Arizona.
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Yousei Teikoku - Schwarzer Sarg
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Rinne Radio - Jori's Lumix
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Steely Dan - Do It Again
Only having listened to Can't Buy A Thrill so far, I can't say they've left much of an impression past this album opener. Upside? This opener is -very strong-. Willing to give this album at least a few relistens, it's hardly bad off a first.
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Aimee Mann - Humpty Dumpty
This MP4 kicks ass.
EDIT: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Okay, I'm beginning to dig this stuff more. There's a cool dissonance between the lyrics' contents and the music, which creates a jarring, but interesting effect. Not to mention the light, jazzy music is something I sorta appreciate to begin with. Also like the surprisingly layered melodies.
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Murder By Death - On More Notch.
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Green Day - Deadbeat Holiday
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Simon & Garfunkel - Leaves That Are Green
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Sukima Switch - Guarana
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Pixel Bee - Favourite
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EDIT: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Okay, I'm beginning to dig this stuff more. There's a cool dissonance between the lyrics' contents and the music, which creates a jarring, but interesting effect.
Please tell me you've looked up the origin of the band's name.
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Emilana Torrini - Nothing Brings Me Down.
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EDIT: Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Okay, I'm beginning to dig this stuff more. There's a cool dissonance between the lyrics' contents and the music, which creates a jarring, but interesting effect.
Please tell me you've looked up the origin of the band's name.
/me checks the name's origin, chokes in laughter a little.
Sukima Switch - Kimi Dori Iro no Sekai ~overture~
EDIT:
The Smiths - Miserable Lies
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Rascal flatts- Bless the broken road
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Everything But The Girl - The Language of Life
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Aimee Mann - Long Shot
EDIT: Steely Dan - Through With Buzz
Wow, Pretzel Logic has pretty amazing tracks.
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The London Apartments - Stories of Big Cities and Bigger Hearts.
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Sukima Switch - Furete Mirai wo
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Everything But The Girl - Shoot Me Down
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Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
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Simon & Garfunkel - Patterns (Bonus)
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Michael Jackson (With Fergie)- Beat it
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Aimee Mann - Invisible Ink
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The Super Insurgence Group of Intemperance Talent - Black Amplifier
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Jason Mraz - Butterfly
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VCR - Mega God Blast
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After the Burial - Fingers Like Daggers
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Astronaut Wife - Late Now
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Steely Dan - Bodhisattva
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Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
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Brahman from Digital Devil Saga
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Tenpei Sato - Flaxen Necklace
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Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Otherwise known as the most incomprehensible song ever. And it isn't just because the singer is virtually unintelligible (everyone I've met swears that the singer is saying "Wrapped up like a douche")--you can understand what's being said more clearly in the original Springsteen version and the words make no more sense there.
This isn't to say it's a bad song. The music's okay! Just, what the bloody hell is that man talking about?
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Mana Khemia - The Future of Dreams
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The Beatles - Octopus' Garden
I've been on a Beatles kick of late.
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Dierks Bentley - Leavin' Left to Do
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Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Otherwise known as the most incomprehensible song ever. And it isn't just because the singer is virtually unintelligible (everyone I've met swears that the singer is saying "Wrapped up like a douche")--you can understand what's being said more clearly in the original Springsteen version and the words make no more sense there.
This isn't to say it's a bad song. The music's okay! Just, what the bloody hell is that man talking about?
Oh, I know all too well what you mean. ^_^
The lyrics are a deranged chaos of inconceivable references by Springsteen. Still entertaining to listen to, if only for the kick I get out of how the disgruntled vocalist from Manfred Mann's Earth Band butchers the lyrics to an even more incomprehensible mess. ;p
Dream Theatre - The Count of Tuscany
New DT album hasn't let me down. Long epics ahoy.
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Same as Piggyman and yes, it's entirely because he mentioned it.
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I haven't bought any DT since Octavarium didn't really mesh right with me. How many CDs since then?
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I haven't bought any DT since Octavarium didn't really mesh right with me. How many CDs since then?
Two. 'Systematic Chaos' and 'Black Clouds and Silver Linings'.
The former is rather heavier than Octavarium, while the latter is more comparable to it. If you'd like to give DT another shot, I say check out a song or two on Systematic Chaos. It might grow on you, and Octavarium might not seem so bad after. ;p
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Octavarium is great, but Systematic Chaos did nothing for me from what I heard (Sure it was nice to listen to live, but meh, haven't bought it yet).
Black Clouds and Silver Linings though is fantastic, I will hook you up Ciato.
Murder by Death - The Devil Drives.
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REM- Losing my religion
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Toby Keith - Stays in Mexico
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Chesney Hawkes - I am the One and Only
Cheese? Cheesy music is epic. <3
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Everything But The Girl - Another Bridge
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R.E.M. - Harborcoat
Reckoning is a cool album.
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Tom Lehrer - Smut.
Thank you, supreme court.
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Everything But The Girl - Shoot Me Down
EDIT:
The Smiths - Well I Wonder
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Emiliana Torrini - Unemployed in Summertime.
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Ayane - Drive on dragoon
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Hail of Bullets - Red Wolves of Stalin
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Murder By Death - Steal Away.
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Everything But The Girl - Angel
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Simon & Garfunkel - A Poem On The Underground Wall
It never ceases to amaze me how beautifully written their lyrics were.
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The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
This song is so narmtastic it brings a smile to my face. I know it wasn't -supposed- to be funny, but god this is ridiculous.
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Aimee Mann - Lost In Space
Sexy album.
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Steely Dan - Show Biz Kids
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Astronaut Wife - Bird Astronaut
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Kate Miller-Heidke - Don't Let Go.
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The Smiths - Well I Wonder
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Green Day - The Grouch.
Oh hi other active threads.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - 92 Degrees
EDIT:
Everything But The Girl - Are You Trying To Be Funny
Feels like Grefter and I are the only people spamming this topic these days. Eventually my infatuation with the MP4 will be outgrown.
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Oh hey this topic.
Metroid Prime 3 OST - Rundas Battle
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Simon & Garfunkel - Patterns
Typical S&G lyric quality (i.e. poetic and beautiful like very few musicians I know), but amazingly evocative melody even for their standards. I love Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
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I love Sage.
Least shocking statement in the history of forever.
Kate Miller Heidke - Bored With Me.
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I love Sage.
Least shocking statement in the history of forever.
The Smiths - What She Said.
Cue Strago jokes.
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Interpol - PDA
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FF4 remix project- Eminence Griese (Surface of the moon)
The project's hit or miss. This is however a very nice take on the surface of the moon track.
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The Smiths - This Charming Man
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May'n & Megumi Nakajima - Nyan Nyan Special Service Medley (Tokumori)
The vocal collection has a longer version. Over twelve minutes long. I apologize for my madness.
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Explosions in the Sky - With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept
Instrumentals always have the best lyrics. ;p
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Ayane - DOLPHIN JET
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10,000 Maniacs - The Lion's Share
EDIT: Roxette - Crash! Boom! Bang!
SWEDISH CHEESE POWER BALLAD AW YEAH
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Q Lazarus - Goodbye Horses.
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Echo & The Bunnymen - Clay
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Belle & Sebastian - It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
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Björk - Play Dead
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Otis Taylor - Ten Million Slaves
Public Enemies was a decent movie.
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Maaya Sakamoto & Steve Conte - Garden of Everything.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Spellbound
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Echo & the Bunnymen - Gods Will Be Gods
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Jack Johnson - The News
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Belle & Sebastian - A Space Boy Dream
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Murder By Death - The Big Sleep.
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Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Voodoo Dolly
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Björk - All Is Full Of Love
You know, I think I like this version of the song better than the single rendition that was attached to the music video and the compilation. Funny, since I'd say the other way a couple years ago.
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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R.E.M. - Sitting Still
It's weird to have Murmur play after a Steely Dan album, but so you have it. I like this song a lot, though.
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Björk - Come To Me
While I find Homogenic the better album, Debut has more tracks I absolutely adore. Like this.
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Simon & Garfunkel - Roving Gambler
Can't have a complete Saturday morning without a Simon & Garfunkel album.
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I have been listening to the Chatterbox video game radio station from http://www.golgotron.com . It's interesting to listen to. I need to get into more gaming station episodes.
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Green Day - Homecoming
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Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years
EDIT:
Björk - I Miss You
Holy, this song is fantastic and I never noticed it until now.
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Aimee Mann - Columbus Avenue
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JAM Project - No Border
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10,000 Maniacs - Hey, Jack Kerouac
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Björk - I Miss You
Holy, this song is fantastic and I never noticed it until now.
How in the hell did you not notice that?
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Zoning out in the middle of an album. This happens if I don't listen to things with earphones, and I hadn't listened to Post in a while.
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Apocalyptica - Last Hope
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Asriel - Hokorobishi Hana
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Explosions in the Sky - It's Natural To Be Afraid
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10,000 Maniacs - Back O' The Moon
The Wishing Chair remains amazing.
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Emiliana Torrini - Nothing Brings Me Down
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Young Dubliners - The Foggy Dew.
This song has been stuck in my head for most of DLC for some reason.
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Sugarbomb - Hello
Damn you Van Wilder for getting me addicted to this song.
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For The Fallen Dreams - Smoke Signals
Insanely good drummer.
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Echo & The Bunnymen - My Kingdom
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I've been on some kind of weird trip-hop rampage lately. Which, I mean, I consider myself a hard rocker, so this is just an awkward jump for me.
Can be emphasized by
Lovage ~ Stroker Ace
What REALLY pisses me off is I can't fucking find this song. The album was discontinued, and while much of the album can be found on some music services I know of, this particular one is not. Infuriating.
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I've been on some kind of weird trip-hop rampage lately. Which, I mean, I consider myself a hard rocker, so this is just an awkward jump for me.
Can be emphasized by
Lovage ~ Stroker Ace
What REALLY pisses me off is I can't fucking find this song. The album was discontinued, and while much of the album can be found on some music services I know of, this particular one is not. Infuriating.
Well, if it's on YouTube (which it is), you can use YouTube Downloader to get the video and convert it into an MP3.
Just sayin'. =)
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Yoko Shimomura - Ruined Sparkling City (drammatica - The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura)
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Björk - It's Not Up To You
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Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
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Simon & Garfunkel - You Don't Know Where Your Interests Lie
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Carlos Santana - Soul Sacrifice
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Björk - The Modern Things
This song is also fantastic, but I knew that more or less by the first time I heard it. Really undersold Post.
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R.E.M - Maps and Legends
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The Smiths - A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
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Sukima Switch - Guarana
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Bomb The Music Industry! - Syke! Life Is Awesome!
I don't listen to much ska, but these guys have been growing on me.
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R.E.M. - The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
God, this is probably one of the most ironically depressing songs in R.E.M.'s discography.
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Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
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Roxette - Like Lovers Do
Man, this is -so incredibly cheesy-. I still love it.
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Errrrrr it is you and Roxette. I thought it was just kind of assumed because of the cheese. I mean that would be like you not liking Lou Reed - Andy's Chest.
VCR - Mega God Blast.
Punk aesthetic with synth and not like in a new wave or post punk type thing. Just ... yeah cool times.
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Errrrrr it is you and Roxette. I thought it was just kind of assumed because of the cheese.
Indeed. It's just that I've never understood it in such a self-aware light.
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You... you never knew? Dude. Alright I am going to draw you a picture.
Yugioh Abridged casting.
Yugi - Super.
Yami - Snow.
Kaiba - OK.
Pegasus - SNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOWSNOW.
Bakura - Clear Tranquil.
Marick - Snow.
VCR - On It's Way Out.
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Björk - Alarm Call
EDIT:
Roxette - Listen To Your Heart
This is like The Final Countdown for girls or something. Pure brilliance.
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The Cranberries - Twenty One
Good musicians, great singer. My sister's journal entries when she was 14 would make better lyrics than these on average, though. This is sorta problematic because you can feel they actually sorta take the lyrics seriously, so it's not as entertaining when the cheese hits the fan. Sometimes, the naivete works like a glove. Others, not so much. Oh well, you can ignore lyrics~
And wow, re-evaluating music as I relisten to it is sorta fun, if not terribly productive.
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You have Cranberries stuff? I should poke you to send, I generally like thier stuff.
Seven Mary Three - Punch In And Out
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..... DL and music fail, it should stop shocking me. Snow has tons and tons of Cranberries and has listened to it all the entire time he has been at the DL >_>
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You have Cranberries stuff? I should poke you to send, I generally like thier stuff.
Have all their albums up to Bury The Hatchet in .mp3 form, can gladly send 'em to you.
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rather gratifying to hear the Cranberries love. I like their stuff, but I didn't really think there was all that much love for them.
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Oh, I definitely like them. Great melodies. Their lyrics certainly didn't stand up to my growing past 17, but the instrumentation and singing work definitely did, so I keep their music handy even now. And, well, I like stuff like ROXETTE and THE SMITHS. Songwriting being below brilliant isn't a huge deal.
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*pitches in*
The Cranberries - Just My Imagination
EDIT: Actually, I need something harder than this right now.
Born of Osiris - Open Arms To Damnation
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Ornaments of Gold
R.E.M. - Ignoreland
Honestly the worst song in an otherwise daunting, spotless album. It's not a -bad- song, just feels... somehow out of place within Automatic For The People.
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Chrono Trigger OST - Ruined World
Hehehe, I don't know what's so appealing about this song to me, but it does a damn fine job at giving a post-apocalyptic atmosphere. ;p
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Simon & Garfunkel - Song For The Asking
EDIT:
10,000 Maniacs - Daktari
This is actually the Hope Chest version. The difference in recording quality between Secrets of the I-Ching/Human Conflict #5 and The Wishing Chair is staggering.
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Steely Dan - The Caves of Altamira
I so dig the instrumentation and lyrics. The singers aren't really all that great, but don't detract from the songs themselves much.
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10,000 Maniacs - Arbor Day
On the subject of The Wishing Chair...
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http://www.protomen.com/lightupthenight/
So, Protomen are going all Neil Diamond for their second album. Does liking this song and thinking it is rather well composed make me gay? No, all the cocks in the ass do, but this doesn't hurt. Or help. Whichever's funnier.
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all the cocks in the ass do, but this doesn't hurt. Or help.
Apparently there's a desensitizing lubricant for that sort of thing, but it's temporary, so it'll still leave you with what one might call an anal hangover. Hope that helps. Or hurts. Whichever.
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Real men use Bengay obviously.
A.R.E. Weapons - Fuck You Pay Me.
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The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
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King Crimson: The Night Watch
Because not enough rock bands write songs about Rembrandt paintings.
EDIT: Only now reading Cranberries chatter. Yeah, Dolores's lyrics are glurgetastic when she tries to write about anything remotely serious. Music is nice, though. No Need to Argue has some good tracks.
Re: Snow posts. Yeah, Ignoreland is the weak link of Automatic for the People. Probably because it is not all about dying like the rest of the album is.
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Re: Snow posts. Yeah, Ignoreland is the weak link of Automatic for the People. Probably because it is not all about dying like the rest of the album is.
I know this sounds really mean, but that was really the first thing that came into my mind when looking at it. AftP's themes may be very depressing, but damn if they're not effective.
(And if you people think The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite isn't a song about death, you've got something else coming for you)
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(And if you people think The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite isn't a song about death, you've got something else coming for you)
"The sidewinder sleeps on its back" is a clear signal of anxiety about being blown up in the middle of the night by heat-seeking air-to-air missiles.
So Ignoreland's the weak link, eh? I suppose it'd sound more in place with Monster, perhaps. Can't say I'm a fan of Monty got a Raw Deal either, but other than that, yeah, great album.
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AftP's morbid overtones are pretty hard to ignore. It's beautiful nonetheless.
The Cure: Just Like Heaven
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Aimee Mann - Just Like Anyone
The more I listen to these albums at work, the more I like them. Bachelor #2 is quite a little gem, although I still like The Forgotten Arm better.
EDIT:
Everything But The Girl - Cross My Heart
I can justify liking EBTG even less than Roxette.
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Rancid - Time Bomb
Yeeeeah. Much better than their new stuff.
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Roxette - Paint
cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese
EDIT:
The Cranberries - Daffodil Lament
Remember what I said about Cranberries and naivete? Yeah, this is one of the songs where it works. Dolores O' Riordan is at her best when she's hopelessly depressed about dating.
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Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard: Why So Serious?
Definitely one of the better movie soundtracks I've heard (it can't be the best because Conan exists).
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Rhapsody
10,000 Maniacs - Eden
This is quite possibly the most beautiful song the Maniacs pulled off that I know of.
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Franz Ferdinand - This Boy
This honestly feels like proto-Scissor Sisters.
EDIT:
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
Repeat of an earlier day, but Saturday morning Simon & Garfunkel is like a religion. This song's melody is incredibly poignant, and the lyrics don't fall behind. God, I love S&G.
EDITEDIT:
10,000 Maniacs - The Latin One
This is probably my second-favorite track in Hope Chest. Favorite, oddly, is Planned Obsolescence.
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Muse - Time is Running Out
Because they came from a town about a 10 minute drive from where I live, they're apparently doing a free concert there sometime next month. I should probably find out more information on that...
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Muuuuuuse~!
Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
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Less shit music please.
Ghosts - Stay the Night.
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Cyndi Lauper - True Colours
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Seven Mary Three - Water's Edge
Musically good stuff. The vocalist doesn't impress me much, but people who somehow vaguely sound like Eddie Vedder generally don't. Still worth listening to.
EDIT:
Aimee Mann - Humpty Dumpty
Strong opening for a strong album.
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Björk - Hunter
Homogenic is wonderful.
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Beck (anime)- Face
We'll see how this turns out.
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Augie March - The Slant.
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Everything But The Girl - Fascination
The Acoustic album is adorable.
Steely Dan - Third World Man
Let's see if Gaucho is solid. Aja was ridiculously good.
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1927 - Compulsory Hero
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Sukima Switch - Rasen
EDIT:
The Cranberries - Sunday
These lyrics are so naive, it's absolutely great. It's like reading the livejournal of a fifteen-year-old girl training to be an abused housewife. Music is still excellent.
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Meshuggah - New Millennium Cyanide Christ
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Roxette - Knockin' On Every Door
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Pink - Ave Mary A
The more I hear it, the more this becomes one of my favorites of her songs.
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The Cure - Secrets
Seventeen Seconds is moodier, more atmospheric than The Head on the Door, which has its own merits. Melodically also a lot less memorable, although Play for Today is good.
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Satisfy - TWEWY OST
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Collective Soul - Full Circle
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Echo & the Bunnymen - Ripeness
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Delta Goodrem - Innocent Eyes
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The Semifinalists - The Chemicals That Wait.
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Big Dipper - Ron Klaus Wrecked His House
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me
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Blackmore's Night - Loreley
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Beck - Hotwax
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Joe Satriani: The Forgotten (Part One)
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Sukima Switch - Kirei Da
EDIT:
Björk - Big Time Sensuality
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Brian May: Business
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Ayreon - The Truth Is Here
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King Crimson: Thela Hun Ginjeet
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Aimee Mann - Humpty Dumpty
/me beats the Ciddyman with Aimee Mann music.
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Oh yeah she was the chick in that band Til Tuesday right?
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I believe so, although I'd have to crosscheck my random trivia about people I listen to. I'm not sure if you'll like her, but if you didn't mind Beth Orton, I doubt you'll find anything bad about Aimee Mann, and she's a lot better. If nothing else, Magnolia soundtrack, man.
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Dammit, I was trying to troll you, Snow. Cooperate.
Yeah, I know who she is. Mostly from Magnolia, but my sister listens to her some too. (Also she totally does backing vocals on this one Rush song. >.>) Just never got around to listening to her.
Rush: Hemispheres
(No, that's not the one song.)
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Dammit, I was trying to troll you, Snow. Cooperate.
Denied. =]
Aimee Mann - Invisible Ink
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Bastard!
Rush: The Trees
Music theory geek alert! 12/8 -> 4/4 -> 5/4 -> 6/4 -> 4/4. Good times.
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I keep meaning to steal my father-in-law's Rush collection, but keep forgetting every time I'm down there. -_-
Flogging Molly - Tomorrow Comes A Day Too Soon
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I keep meaning to steal my father-in-law's Rush collection, but keep forgetting every time I'm down there. -_-
Flogging Molly - Tomorrow Comes A Day Too Soon
A good song! I approve.
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And despite having a 200+ song playlist on shuffle, it follows that up with:
Flogging Molly - With A Wonder And A Wild Desire
Y'know, the very next song on the list.
EDIT: No, wait, I'm blind. Within A Mile Of Home is between them. So it skipped 1 song down.
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I keep meaning to steal my father-in-law's Rush collection, but keep forgetting every time I'm down there. -_-
Do it, Gate. Doooo eeeet.
Yngwie Malmsteen: Liar
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Ghosts - Ghosts.
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Michael Land - Tales of Monkey Island Main Theme
Because it's that time again.
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Everything But The Girl - Meet Me In The Morning
EDIT:
The Smiths - I Want The One I Can't Have
[Grefter joke here]
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
EDIT:
The Cranberries - How
"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" rules and it makes me smile.
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"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" rules and it makes me smile.
First CD I ever owned. Makes me smile, but that title embarrassed me even when I was a mopey loser in elementary school.
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Less embarassing than Limp Bizkit album names.
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Haddaway - What Is Love
...I'm in the mood.
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Prinny- Asagi Metamorphosis
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Less embarassing than Limp Bizkit album names.
This says absolutely nothing.
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Natalie Merchant - I May Know The Word
I feel like taking up knitting.
EDIT:
Echo & the Bunnymen - Fuel
Now, I feel like strolling in a foggy night.
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10,000 Maniacs - Maddox Table
I don't think there's a single track in this album I am even apathetic to. Can't help but feel this is the Maniacs' magnum opus.
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The B-52's - Channel Z
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Little Sister
EDIT:
Sukima Switch - Kimi ni Tsugeru
one-minute songs aw yeah
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The Faceless - Legions of the Serpent
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Kao Michiru - Venus
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The London Apartments - Streetlights are Soldiers.
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Veil of Maya - It's Not Safe To Swim Today
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Kate Miller-Heidke - Ducks Don't Need Satellites
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I'm diggin' the weird song titles.
The Devil Wears Prada - Wapakalypse
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The Cranberries - Wanted
This album is fun and entertaining for all the wrong reasons in addition to the right reasons (I've said before how the music is pretty danged excellent before). The lyrics just make me smile wickedly to the point of giving me an idea for a drinking game, really. Every time Dolores says the boy she's whining about lied to her, take a shot! Take two if she says she's not in love with him anymore. Three if she says she can't stand to pee if he's not with her in the very next song. If she whines about the boy saying he wouldn't leave her alone but he did, down a bottle of Jack Daniels. If Linger plays, just skip straight to alcoholic coma.
EDIT:
Roxette - Pay The Price
Have A Nice Day is so incredibly weird. This is Roxette meets late '90s europop in a sedate lounge room. The results are very much unlike typical swedish cheese, but it still -works- and is fun to listen to. I have no idea why.
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Joe Satriani: Crystal Planet
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Gojira - The Art of Dying
French progressive death metal? :D
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The Cranberries - Linger
>_>
<_<
Yeah, I'll skip the alcoholic coma though.
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It's also one of my favorite songs in the album, Gate!
Sukima Switch - Kimi no Hanashi
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Crowded House - Mean To Me
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Rush: A Farewell to Kings
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Augie March - This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers.
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Arcade Fire - Neon Bible.
I was aware that Arcade Fire was great before. I am more aware of that now.
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Arcade Fire - Neon Bible.
I was aware that Arcade Fire was great before. I am more aware of that now.
Quoting for truth. Neon Bible > Funeral, in my opinion, though both are great.
Queen: Mustapha
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A.R.E. Weapons - Bad News.
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Sukima Switch - Nomi no Konai ka
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R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Since I listened to it a few minutes ago (same album, after all): I still have problems swallowing the fact that Shiny Happy People is supposed to be entirely unironic. I think that's the irony in it, and it's not like Kate Pierson backing vocals don't drive the strangeness home even further.
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Roxette - Looking For Jane
Roxette meets country pop meet the early 2000s while still being in the '80s spiritually. The results are as jarring as you might expect.
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Leona Lewis- Spirit
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Simon & Garfunkel - Patterns (bonus)
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme qualifies as their best album to me, hands down. Even though very few of my favorite S&G songs are in this record, the overall package is just ridiculously impressive.
EDIT:
Aimee Mann - Ballantines
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Björk - Enjoy
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Patti Smith - Ask The Angels
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Mekon - Boy Bitten.
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Yngwie Malmsteen: Far Beyond the Sun
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Belle & Sebastian - Is It Wicked Not To Care?
About as wicked as admitting that this album makes me want to spend time ironing clothes (this isn't derogatory).
EDIT:
R.E.M. - The One I Love
How stupid were all those debuttantes to not realize this isn't a love song?
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Probably somewhat more stupid than all the people who've chosen to play Every Breath You Take at their wedding because they never noticed that the song's really about a stalker.
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SEE ALSO: Playing "Born in the USA" at pro-war political gatherings.
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R.E.M. - Rotary Ten
Yeah, it's R.E.M. overkill tonight.
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Another dumb song choice: "California" as the opening theme of the OC. Never seen the show, but I'm guessing the line "Your shadow weighs a ton" -isn't- the image they were going for.
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Probably somewhat more stupid than all the people who've chosen to play Every Breath You Take at their wedding because they never noticed that the song's really about a stalker.
I love people that play Better Man at weddings. It sends such a great message. It kind of reached the point where Eddie Vedder has said the official meaning of the song is to now be about meeting up with a better guy instead of staying with one that beats you. Pearl Jam are pretty cool.
Beatles - A Day in the Life.
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R.E.M. - Crazy
This is the only Fables of the Reconstruction B-Side I really wish made it to the actual album. Amazingly moody and claustrophobic, fits the general atmosphere of that piece impressively well.
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The Cure - Fire In Cairo
The fact Robert Smith's downright spelling the song's name as the chorus amuses me to no end.
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The Sugarcubes - Fucking In Rhythm And Sorrow
Björk+insane icelandic pop rock. Yes.
EDIT:
The Cranberries - Bosnia
Quite possibly the Cranberries' most elaborate song musically. However, the lyrics glurge reaches critical mass here as well. Very ambivalent about this song, but it's an interesting listen anyway (and hell, can't say no to carpenter's saws being used as musical instruments).
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Princess One Point Five - Slow-lita.
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Isis - Garden of Light
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I'm listening to Dave Matthews Band again. I hear this is supposed to say bad things about me, my taste in music, my mother, etc., but eff that. I like storytellers and I like rock. (I also listen to Sting.)
Dave Matthews Band - Gravedigger
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R.E.M - Texarkana
Brutally beautiful.
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Stevie Nicks- Edge of Seventeen.
If you ever need proof that Lindsey lohan needs to be shot, listen to her attempted remake of this song. I've said this before, I'm pretty sure! It is still true. That remake was bad even by modern music standards.
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Simon & Garfunkel - A Poem On The Underground Wall
Wipes the floor with Lindsey Lohan.
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The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
Holy cow this song is creepy. Got a perfect folk/campfire song vibe, though.
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Aimee Mann - 31 Today
EDIT:
Björk - The Modern Things
I love how deranged the basic imagery of the lyrics is.
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Björk - I Miss You
EDIT:
Madonna - Love Don't Live Here Anymore
Man, Like A Virgin is like one of the best shameless pop albums ever.
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Nirvana - Come As You Are
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Godsmack - I Stand Alone
Yeah, blame super.
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Dave Matthew's Band is only an issue if you refer to them as DMB and... all the other shit that goes with them (They mostly only suck by being so utterly dull, nothing really interesting in their stuff). Just lots of wank.
Also I liked that Decemberist song better when it was sung by Nick Cave and only hinted at the narrator having killed the kids, he killed the wife as well and uses what is roughly the lyrical equivalent of the opening of Dexter except fairly sharp violent imagery instead of doing it a little on the sly. Listen to Murder Ballads in it's entirety right now (That one is the first track on the album, Song of Joy). Nick Cave is better at murder songs than most people out there.
Murder By Death - Dynamite Mine.
These guys though are pretty good at all kinds of death or dead ends in life.
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Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistable
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Belle & Sebastian - It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
I like how wicked old B&S lyrics can get, given how sedate the melodies are.
EDIT:
R.E.M. - Welcome To The Occupation
This was the last R.E.M. song to use the occupation of the USA after independence as its subject. Probably the best of their songs under this theme as well. Concentrated, choleric and pulls off quite effective imagery.
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Cold War Kids - Red Wine, Success!
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R.E.M. - 1,000,000
Steely Dan - Cousin Dupree
Whee songs about cousincest.
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The Cure - Foxy Lady
Early The Cure is... so crude, so unpolished. There's quite a strange charm to it.
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Eurythmics - Thorn In My Side
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The Coffee Protection Society - Just Trying to Make Music.
For the Snows (Note: Sadly not actually as cool as it would suggest)
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Kao Michiru - asterism
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Patti Smith - Gloria
Okay, I think I -was- kinda deprived for not listening to Patti Smith. Fixin' that.
EDIT:
Aimee Mann - Little Tornado
*Trolls the Ciddy.*
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Aimee Mann - Observatory
My favorite Aimee Mann song period, even after a much needed relisten to her entire discography? Quite possibly.
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Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out.
Hottest 100 of All Time is really good double album. I need to download the complete 100 sometime (Album only covers 36 of them)
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Whee Franz Ferdinand.
Madonna - Stay
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Pixies - Where Is My Mind.
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Madonna - Shoo-Bee-Do
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms.
Of all the Nick Cave stuff this wasn't the one I expected, but all good, it still is awesome.
The Prodigy - Breathe.
This song is still so completely definitive in its style. Flat out the best of the best.
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Mr. Bungle - Egg
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Massive Attack - Teardrop.
... Wow I totally forgot about this song and how good and effective it was. Best of all is how minimal it is. Fuck yeah. I should do better at remembering my music though.
Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning.
Meh Australian wank this being in hottest 100. It is alright at what it is, but sod it.
Augie March - One Crowded Hour.
If you have been paying attention to what I have been listening in the last 6 months you know this is fantastic and totally earns its place in spite of Australian wank again. Good band and should be checked out.
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Everything But The Girl - Shoot Me Down
Sadly, I think the only truly good songs in Love, Not Money are this, When All's Well and Angel. Oh well.
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Radiohead - Paranoid Android.
This deserves noting. Karma Police is probably better, but meh, not a huge deal overall.
Violent Femmes - Blister In the Sun.
Fun song, not best of all time material probably, but lots of fun and I don't mind owning it on CD.
Faith No More - Epic.
This song might be a giant pile of meaningless nonsense but FUCK YES. EPIC.
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army.
Delightful simplicity. This deserves its place.
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Belle & Sebastian - The Rollercoaster Ride
Less epic.
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New Order - Blue Monday.
Yeah this one is good also.
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Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
EDIT: zomg devil replies
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The Stone Roses - Fools Gold.
Giant meh.
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Faith No More - Epic.
This song might be a giant pile of meaningless nonsense but FUCK YES. EPIC.
I always liked Epic, despite not being a fan of any of its component parts. Strange little song that, yeah, is just fun nonsense.
What is this Hottest 100 thing you are working through, Grefter? (I mean, the idea is pretty obvious. I'm just wondering "Hottest 100 according to who?")
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Simon & Garfunkel - A Poem On The Underground Wall
Saturday morning S&G. Hells yeah.
EDIT:
Aimee Mann - Borrowing Time
EDIT2:
It's a compilation album he bought. Why are those 100 the Hottest and what kind of Hottest it is are beyond me, though, although, from what I gleaned, it seems to have been tailored by Kangaroo people.
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Daft Punk - Digital Love
Ahh, nothing better than waking up to Daft Punk in the morning. Except maybe sex. Maybe.
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Aimee Mann - The Moth
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It's a compilation album he bought. Why are those 100 the Hottest and what kind of Hottest it is are beyond me, though, although, from what I gleaned, it seems to have been tailored by Kangaroo people.
Huh. It'd have to be, for the Stone Roses to be on there (well, I suppose a British list might also include them), since they never had any presence stateside.
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Madonna - Angel
/me idly trolls the Ciddy with the pops.
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Ew, Madonna.
The Pixies: River Euphrates
Because Grefter reminded me that I hadn't listened to Surfer Rosa in a while.
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Belle & Sebastian - A Summer Wasting
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Alright, now that I can get onto the forums, Hottest 100 is a yearly contest performed by Australia's free to air broadcast "youth" radio station (it is how they originally got funded), paid for the by the government, is called Triple J. Every year people vote for their favourite song from the year and gets compiled into top hundred. This year as a separate thing in the middle of the year it was Hottest 100 of All Time. For every time they do it they release a double disc compilation of 30ish of the songs from the year (I think you can buy a cut back version that is one of the discs if you want now.
So it is voted for by the Australian (largely, voting is online, I assume there is some overseas contingent) public. Normally gets over a million votes, as far as I know it is still the biggest popular music contest in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hottest_100 For the wiki on it
http://www.triplej.net.au For the radio station, they have internet radio and a huuuuuuge archive of old broadcasts, I highly recommend checking out the J Files section, but their mix tapes and all kinds of stuff are good listens. Is where I picked up Tom Waits from.
Edit - Yeah obviously me not being able to reach the DL website for a bit killed my running commentary and I am not picking up where I left off.
Eels - The Longing.
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Rise Against - Paper Wings
Just found out I'm seeing these guys live in November. Wiiiin~
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Hmm. Interesting list. Bunch of stuff I haven't heard. Of the songs I know, there are mainly two I'd strike from any Top Anything list (Rage Against the Machine and that trashy Blur song). Amusingly, they managed to include the only two Rolling Stones songs I like.
The Pixies: Debaser
Rock songs about Salvador Dali movies. Yes.
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Wild horses is pretty good as well, Cid. I pretty much agree otherwise.
Guns and Roses- Wild Horses
Unshockingly their version of the song is better, even without much in the way of lyrics.
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Hmm. Interesting list. Bunch of stuff I haven't heard. Of the songs I know, there are mainly two I'd strike from any Top Anything list (Rage Against the Machine and that trashy Blur song). Amusingly, they managed to include the only two Rolling Stones songs I like.
While I on the other hand would have trouble coming up with a top whatever without Killing in the Name and Blur stuff on it.
If you don't know it, check it out. It is probably alright Australian stuff that won't take of anywhere else and that is a shame (Powder Finger, Augie March and Regurgitator being the big Aus ones on there from memory that didn't make it big overseas but are fairly ubiquitous in music types down here)
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UFO - Lights Out
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[IOSYS] ichigo - Sousei no Aquarion
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Because Grefter kicked me back.
-Franz Schubert - Impromptu in A Flat, D899 no.4
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UFO - Lights Out
UFO? Hitting the obscure metal today, I see. Any good? I've merely heard of them.
Yuki Kajiura: Nowhere
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UFO - Just Another Suicide
Very early metal. There's better, but Lights Out is a pretty great album. The stuff with Schenker on guitar is generally when they're at their best.
Actually only looked it up because my dad brought up Lights Out in the car the other day.
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The Cure - Subway Song
The screech at the end of the song startles me every single time. Fuck you, Robert Smith.
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David Bowie: Fashion
We are the goon squad and we're coming to town. Beep beep.
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Incubus - Make Yourself
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The Sugarcubes - Take Some Petrol, Darling
EDIT:
The Cranberries - I Just Shot John Lennon
GRANDIA PLOT
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Emilana Torrini - Lifesaver
Hooray for Bouke.
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Patti Smiths - Chicklets
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10,000 Maniacs - Noah's Dove
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Björk - Alarm Call
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Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
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Devil's Dance Floor - Flogging Molly
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R.E.M. - Hairshirt
The last few songs of Green underwhelm.
EDIT:
R.E.M. - Orange Crush
Fortunately, Orange Crush isn't one of the meh songs.
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Gyakuten Meets Jazz Soul (a.k.a. Phoenix Wright Jazz Album) - Swinging Zenitora (Furio Tigre's Theme)
...This song, alongside Fragrance of Dark Coffee, shows exactly why they made this album in the first place. Pure awesome. <3
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Everything But The Girl - Walking To You
Man, I need to listen to Amplified Heart more.
EDIT:
10,000 Maniacs - Few And Far Between
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Rascal Flatts- Bless the broken road
I get this song stuck in my head whenever I hear it on the radio.
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At least you're not getting Jennifer Lopez trash stuck in your head. Back when I was 15, I had "If You Had My Love" playbacking in my mind for a whopping six months.
10,000 Maniacs - Jezebel
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Explosions in the Sky - First Breath After Coma
Hey, does anyone know these guys? Everyone I have shown has actually been quite fond of them, and I have pretty diverse friends. I think they're definitely worth a look if you haven't heard them. They're entirely instrumental, and have really great sounds.
The song I'm listening to now -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0o8JCxjjpM
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I like sappy songs like that and some movies. The notebook is cool.
Silverchair- Ana's song
Still think of WA2 Ana with this, though it works better than Jane Maxwell for Diary of Jane. Man that does not fit.
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Roxette - Things Will Never Be The Same (Live)
Tourism is pretty neat.
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At least you're not getting Jennifer Lopez trash stuck in your head. Back when I was 15, I had "If You Had My Love" playbacking in my mind for a whopping six months.
I feel privileged to not even know what this song sounds like (other than shit, of course).
Yngwie Malmsteen: Icarus Dream Fanfare
Opener from the album he did with an orchestra. Neoclassical shred metal over baroque orchestration. It is all hopelessly melodramatic and I love it.
EDIT: Just noticed that I now have 2113 posts. I am very disappointed with myself for not using post #2112 to pimp out Rush.
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Explosions in the Sky - First Breath After Coma
Hey, does anyone know these guys? Everyone I have shown has actually been quite fond of them, and I have pretty diverse friends. I think they're definitely worth a look if you haven't heard them. They're entirely instrumental, and have really great sounds.
The song I'm listening to now -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0o8JCxjjpM
Heard the name, haven't specifically hunted any out though. Checking this piece out now.
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Meatloaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light
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Beethoven - The Fifth
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Explosions in the Sky - First Breath After Coma
Hey, does anyone know these guys? Everyone I have shown has actually been quite fond of them, and I have pretty diverse friends. I think they're definitely worth a look if you haven't heard them. They're entirely instrumental, and have really great sounds.
The song I'm listening to now -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0o8JCxjjpM
Huh. Not bad. Reminds me a little of Godspeed You Black Emperor (another instrumental band, who are capable of being completely awesome when they feel like it).
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Apocalyptica - I Don't Care
Did you know there is a huge difference between the version done by Apocalyptica and the version done by Apocalyptica featuring Three Days Grace's Adam Gontier? I like the latter one better. This one feels so... slow! The one with Gontier is great running music. I do like the harmony better on the Apocalyptica sans Gontier version, though. HRM!
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VP Covenant of the Plume - A Pronouncement from Hel
I like CotP's music considerably better outside the game, it seems. Some of that is the DS' sound system not getting along well with the style of orchestral style the soundtrack employs, and some is the fact that I'm not playing CotP. <_<
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Apocalyptica - I Don't Care
Did you know there is a huge difference between the version done by Apocalyptica and the version done by Apocalyptica featuring Three Days Grace's Adam Gontier? I like the latter one better. This one feels so... slow! The one with Gontier is great running music. I do like the harmony better on the Apocalyptica sans Gontier version, though. HRM!
Both versions have Gontier. The first version is much faster/harder and is better, yeah. Of course that isn't the radio cut. I think I sent you the radio cut when I sent you my Apoc music folder.
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Omoide wa Okkusenman! - JAM Project version.
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Omoide wa Okkusenman! - JAM Project version.
... JAM Project version?
Okay, I'll bite. Is there a link to a sample of this?
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni OST - Dread of the grave
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Apocalyptica - I Don't Care
Did you know there is a huge difference between the version done by Apocalyptica and the version done by Apocalyptica featuring Three Days Grace's Adam Gontier? I like the latter one better. This one feels so... slow! The one with Gontier is great running music. I do like the harmony better on the Apocalyptica sans Gontier version, though. HRM!
Both versions have Gontier. The first version is much faster/harder and is better, yeah. Of course that isn't the radio cut. I think I sent you the radio cut when I sent you my Apoc music folder.
Really? Well, whichever you sent me -- I think it was the radio cut, maybe, but language? -- is the one I liked better. This other version is the one Pandora played on my radio station.
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Darren Hayes - Crush (1980 Me)
Very much my kind of song.
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... JAM Project version?
Okay, I'll bite. Is there a link to a sample of this?
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni OST - Dread of the grave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU878RB7i_Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU878RB7i_Q)
Have a YouTubes.
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Thanks. Kept getting Live versions which, although nice (It's really something to hear the audience sing along, is NicoNico that popular?) just don't provide the same MP3-ify material as recorded material does. =P
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It's a bonus track on a Nico Nico Douga meme compilation CD, linked by /m/ or I'd have never found this version I imagine.
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Apocalyptica - I Don't Care
Did you know there is a huge difference between the version done by Apocalyptica and the version done by Apocalyptica featuring Three Days Grace's Adam Gontier? I like the latter one better. This one feels so... slow! The one with Gontier is great running music. I do like the harmony better on the Apocalyptica sans Gontier version, though. HRM!
Both versions have Gontier. The first version is much faster/harder and is better, yeah. Of course that isn't the radio cut. I think I sent you the radio cut when I sent you my Apoc music folder.
Really? Well, whichever you sent me -- I think it was the radio cut, maybe, but language? -- is the one I liked better. This other version is the one Pandora played on my radio station.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znhSLyuQt6w This is the non radio cut. The slower one is the radio one. Sadly.
Apoc- I don't care
I like Three Days Grace as is, and this was a great mixed effort. The Corey Taylor (I'm not Jesus) and Cristina Scabbia (Anything but love) collabarations were pretty damn good too.
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Everything But The Girl - Wrong
EBTG meets the '90s. It's a strange experience.
EDIT:
Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
The Royal Scam is insanely awesome.
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Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
mmmmmmmmmmmhm.
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Roy Shakked - The Exorcist
No idea what this is from, if it has any connection to the movie or what, but it's really nice.
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Björk - Hidden Place
I love Vespertine even though it's insanely subdued for a Björk album. I just like how oddly gelid its arrangements are.
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Bee Gees - World
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Kate Miller-Heidke - Shoebox.
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Astronaut Wife - Flying Saucer
EDIT:
Patti Smith - Ask The Angels
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Aimee Mann - Invisible Ink
Lost in Space fuck yes.
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Deerhoof - +81
Wee, absurdist music.
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Delain- Indivia
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King Crimson: The Devil's Triangle
This is what happens when Holst does acid.
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Empire of the Sun - Half Mast.
This is what happens when awesome.
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So, I mentioned this in chat the other day and got some responses, figured I should post here and look for a few more.
I'm currently downloading music like there's no tomorrow, due to a subscription to some download site a family member got. Having taken some suggestions from chat, I've probably already downloaded a good few hundred songs, and I've still got a small list to go, but I just wanted to see what people thought were essential artists to have listened to at some point. (Mostly looking towards Grefter here, seeing as he wasn't in chat and seems to know quite a lot about music.)
Oh, and to whoever suggested Astronaut Wife, the search for them returned no results. They're the only one I haven't been able to find on the site so far. :(
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Ask Gate for the Astronaut Wife album. They're pretty obscure, I don't even think they have more than one album at this juncture. I could send it to you as well if you need it, but you'll probably have to wait until tomorrow.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Mirage
This is fast, dirty and somewhat heavy. The first album they did is such a different beast from their others.
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10000 Maniacs
A.R.E. Weapons
Alice Cooper
Aphex Twin
Apocalyptica
Armand van Helden
Augie March
Beatles
Beck
Bjork
Blur
Bush
Chemical Brothers
Cold War Kids
Cranberries
Daft Punk
David Bowie
Depeche Mode
Devo
Dream Theater
Echo & the Bunnymen
Ed Alleyne Johnson
Einstürzende Neubauten
Electric Six
Emilana Torrini
Empire of the Sun
Floyd Thursby and the Definite Article
Funkadelic
Gary Numan & the Tubeway Army
Ghosts
Gorillaz
Guano Apes
Gusgus
Happyland
In Flames
Jane's Addiction
Jimi Hendrix
Kate Miller-Heidke
KMFDM
KOMPRESSOR
Kraftwerk
Led Zeppeling
Leonard Cohen
Liquid Tension Experiment
Lou Reed
Luomo
Megadeth
Mindless Self Indulgence
Ministry
Mogwai
Murder By Death
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nightwish
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
No Doubt
Opeth
Parliament
Pearl Jam
Pedro the Lion
Pet Shop Boys
Peter, Bjorn and John
Philip Glass
Pillows
Placebo
Porno for Pyros
Powderfinger
Primal Scream
Queen
Queensryche
R.E.M.
Rage Against the Machine
Regurgitator
Rob Zombie
Run DMC
Saliva
Semifilanlists
Sepultura
Sex Pistols
Slayer
Soundgarden
Sugarcubes
The Alan Parsons Project
The Broken Keys
The Cure
The Flaming Lips
The Fray
The London Apartments
The Prodigy
The Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent
The Velvet Underground
TISM
Tom Waits
Tool
Tylers Riot
Uriah Heep
Vanessa Mae
VCR
Violent Femmes
Weezer
White Zombie
William Shatner
Just from a quick flick through my music folder. Some of it is a little obscure, some of it not, but it is all generally pretty good.
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Okay, wow. I already had a fair few of those on my list of things to get, already got a fair few on my computer already, so...
...Wait, William Shatner? Seriously?
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William Shatner is pretty glorious.
Simon & Garfunkel - Barbriallen
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The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
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Seriously. Has Been is a fucking amazing album.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KIIqfI_vDw&feature=fvsr
Just saw this piece on PBS about a ballet set to Has Been. Awesome.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Mirage
This is fast, dirty and somewhat heavy. The first album they did is such a different beast from their others.
Makes sense since they came out of the punk scene and Siousxie herself used to hang out with The Sex Pistols.
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The Beatles - With a Little Help from My Friends
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Patti Smith - Easter
I want to make Ciato listen to this woman.
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Augie March - Good Gardener (on How He Fell)
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Patti Smith - Rock 'n Roll Nigger
I love this song for the title alone.
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Augie March - The Slant.
I love this song for the murder in the first 2 lines.
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The Bangles - Eternal Flame
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Patti Smith - Because The Night
I can't one-up Grefter, so I'll just resign to listening to music. >_> She really works out the vocal chords in this song, though.
EDIT:
Aimee Mann - Dear John
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Because the Night is badass. I should probably listen to her more.
Morrissey: Every Day is Like Sunday
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The best part is that it is an incredibly soft spoken light song.
Augie March - O Song.
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Aimee Mann - That's How I Knew This Story Would Break My Heart
EDIT:
Astronaut Wife - Are You For Real
Caffeine buzz+Astronaut Wife = ??
EDIT: Also, screw you forum smileys.
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Morrissey: November Spawned a Monster
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You have the Suedehead compilation, Cid? But I thought that album lacked Hairdresser On Fire.
EDIT:
Astronaut Wife - Windshield
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The compilation I have is simply called The Best of Morrissey. It does indeed have Hairdresser on Fire.
I've said this before, but Morrissey has the best song titles.
Siousxie and the Banshees: Fireworks
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R.E.M. - Second Guessing
Running albums backwards is funny. This means that the best few songs in Reckoning outside Little America will be played last. This album reminds me of Fables of the Reconstruction in that its first four songs are absolutely fantastic, and try as the remaining tracks may (and they try pretty damned hard), the rest of the album just can't keep up.
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Pretty Persuasion > the rest of Reckoning.
Siousxie and the Banshees: Melt!
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Pretty Persuasion > the rest of Reckoning.
Definitely.
R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion
EDIT:
Patti Smith - Ask The Angels
Two Patti Smith albums in a single day? Hells yeah.
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Siousxie and the Banshees: This Wheel's on Fire
I seem to only like Bob Dylan songs when someone else plays them.
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In fairness, Siouxsie makes that song sound utterly FABULOUS~.
Patti Smith - Patties
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They do good covers, yes. I usually find cover songs to be very bleh.
Siousxie and the Banshees: The Passenger
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Siousxie and the Banshees: This Wheel's on Fire
This is a very 80's cover. I'm not much of a Dylan fan to start with though. But eh.
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Patti Smith - Pumping (My Heart)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aylb94HLMg0
Stereophonics - Gimme Shelter
Does -everyone- do the Rolling Stones's songs better than they do? I've never heard of this band before this, but it's a pretty damn good cover job.
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After comparing Jumpin' Jack Flash in the original version with the Elite Beat Agents DS synth version, I feel sorely tempted to say "yes".
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You've not heard of Stereophonics? They were pretty big over here, quite well known. Got a fair few decent songs as well, definitely worth listening to.
And on the topic of Stones covers:
Guns 'n' Roses - Sympathy for the Devil
Much, much better than the original, IMO...
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They're a Welsh band, aren't they? (Stereophonic)
Guns N Roses is a far better band than Rolling Stones. I've talked about it here pretty recently but their version of wild horses is amazing.
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
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Stones hate makes me happy (for all that the original of Gimme Shelter is among the few songs I like by them). EDIT: Though, having said that, not real impressed by the version Super linked to. See: most covers falling flat with me, and it also lacks that female back-up singer who shrieks like the world's ending.
Siousxie and the Banshees: Face to Face
Beats the everloving fuck out of anything Prince wrote for Batman. Superior theme song for an inferior movie.
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They're a Welsh band, aren't they? (Stereophonic)
Think so, yeah. Think their biggest song was Have a Nice Day, but... well, I don't know too much of their's, so downloading an album now. =P
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Aimee Mann - How It Goes
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New Order: Sub-Culture
A perfectly average band with a handful of great songs. For all that Blue Monday is perfectly representative of them as a band, they've got a number of songs that I think are much better.
EDIT: like this one!
New Order: Bizarre Love Triangle
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Björk - All Neon Like
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R.E.M.: Harborcoat
This is Snow's fault, of course.
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Am I supposed to regret that?
Aimee Mann - Dear John
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R.E.M.: Don't Go Back to Rockville
All the answer that's needed.
EDIT:
R.E.M.: Oddfellows Local 151
This has been National Snow Fanservice Day. Thank you and good night.
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Madonna - Angel
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Patti Smith - Frederick
When I start listening to albums, at some point there's one that just sweeps me away from start to finish. With Patti Smith, the first one to ellicit this was Wave. Simply fantastic.
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Philip Glass - Heroes.
Because there needs to be more Bowie covers by his minimalist friends.
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Queensryche: Eyes of a Stranger
If I haven't said it before, Operation: Mindcrime is a fucking masterpiece.
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My work 1000, there is nothing I do that doesnt require my computer... Problem is when I work at home too... you can hear my family groan when I pull it out and sit down... hmmm... potentially addicted too? Its not all for work hehe
Oh but I do socialise occasionally ...so maybe 97 at home??
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Ok...
Roland Dyens - "Hommage a Villa-Lobos"
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Hi my name is Grefter an I am a workaholic. I like to shoot some dudes.
Wait what?
You are failing the turing test currently.
Beck - E-Pro.
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Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz
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Simon & Garfunkel: The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
Hello lamp post, whatcha knowing, I've come to watch your power flowing.
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Beethoven Symphony No.7
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Matchbox Twenty - Angry
Old favorite. Love the instrumentals in this song.
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Greeeen - Kiseki
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Patti Smith - Frederick
This sorta reminds me of Because The Night, but I like this song more. It's quite possibly even more haunting. God, love Patti Smith's voice.
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R.E.M. - Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Took R.E.M. forever to release an album that actually impressed me post-Bill Berry. Accelerate is like a successful attempt at the garage sound effect desired by Monster and New Adventures In Hi-Fi, lacking the borderline unlistenability of the former and the excesses of the latter.
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I need to get Accelerate
Panic! At the Disco - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage
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I need to get Accelerate
Panic! At the Disco - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage
Hit me up when I get on IRC tonight. I'll set you up with it.
Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
EDIT: Yes, I edit my posts when I put the wrong song name too.
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Accelerate's probably the best thing they've done since Automatic for the People. Not that it's of the same caliber as AftP, but it's definitely much more fun than most of what they've put out in the past decade and a half. (Not to badmouth their more recent albums, some of them are quite decent, just...yeah).
Monster's the worst album in their catalog, in my opinion. Funny since it was the first CD I ever got. New Adventures in Hi-Fi might trump it, I guess. Honestly, I've barely listened to that one.
Simon & Garfunkel: Fakin' It
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Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Lord's Prayer
FOURTEEN MINUTES? What were you smoking back in the '70s, Siouxsie?
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Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Playground Twist
And then, we have a sub-three minute song. The one that came -before- this one barely clocked in three minutes as well. Still, fourteen-minute song. What the fuck.
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Oh, pft. I listen Yes and Rush. Fourteen minutes is just a warm-up.
Simon & Garfunkel: Keep the Customer Satisfied
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Oh, pft. I listen Yes and Rush. Fourteen minutes is just a warm-up.
I am not the Ciddy. I like my songs lasting considerably less than ten minutes. [insert smiley here]
Björk - Play Dead
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Pansy. [insert smiley here]
Simon & Garfunkel: The Only Living Boy in New York
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Pansy. [insert smiley here]
Simon & Garfunkel: The Only Living Boy in New York
While I approve of the compilation (I think I have that one among my CDs), I can't help but feel tempted to send you all the S&G albums I have in .mp3 form.
Björk - Human Behavior
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You could, but that would take effort.
Simon & Garfunkel: My Little Town
"Nothin' but the deaaad of night back in my little town~"
Nostalgia this isn't.
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You could, but that would take effort.
Simon & Garfunkel: My Little Town
"Nothin' but the deaaad of night back in my little town~"
Nostalgia this isn't.
It would be less effort for you than it'd be for me, in fairness. I'd have to upload the albums and shit while you just click and - why am I offering to do this again?
Björk - Venus As A Boy
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I dunno, honestly.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Karn Evil 9
Departure from Snow fanservice was required. This has to be rock at its most bloated.
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I dunno, honestly.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Karn Evil 9
Departure from Snow fanservice was required. This has to be rock at its most bloated.
Every step you take away in fact brings you closer to listening to '80s Madonna. *Ukelele twang.*
Björk - Big Time Sensuality
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You keep telling yourself that.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Still Karn Evil 9
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Is that one of those fourty-seven hour songs?
Björk - Come To Me
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No way. It's only thirty minutes!
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Still at it?
Simon & Garfunkel - You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies
Okay, this is just funny.
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Not by this point, no.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: C'est la Vie
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Ah well.
Simon & Garfunkel - Fakin' It
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Steely Dan - King Of The World
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Lucky Man
You can really tell Greg Lake wrote this when he was fourteen. It smacks of someone just discovering irony.
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Dream Theater - Octavarium.
24 Minutes. Not quite EL&P but they are no slouches.
Edit - Worth noting that it is the eighth song on the album, shortest song is 4:29 and the next shortest is 5:33.
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King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man
Inevitable after listening to all that ELP yesterday.
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Aimee Mann - I Could've Hurt You Now
This song is even more entertaining when you interpret it as a song about someone stealing a kid's lunch money.
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Everything But The Girl - Take Me
The Language Of Life is probably my favorite EBTG album.
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Roxette - Secrets That She Keeps
aw yeah
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'Til Tuesday - Love In A Vacuum
I picked this up just because of Aimee Mann.
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Parliament - What Comes Funky.
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R.E.M. - Hollow Man
And pretty much the rest of Accelerate while I'm at it. This CD...I dunno. Nothing on it's bad at all. Just nothing stands out either, even after 3 full listens.
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R.E.M.: E-Bow the Letter
New Adventures in Hi-Fi is so...boring.
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And that's one of the best songs in the album, if nothing else because Patti Smith's haunting vocals actually help with the melody's haunt.
10,000 Maniacs - The Colonial Wing
This album, unlike NAiH-F, is not boring~
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R.E.M. -Sing For The Submarine
Hm, I think I'm beginning to see Gate's issue with Accelerate. I've noticed that a lot of the impressions I get from this album stem from direct comparison to Monster and NAiH-F, and to a far lesser extent, Up and Reveal. It's mainly a refresher on how they actually remember how to do their music, rather than an album that overwhelms on its own. Still find it very solid, though.
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Accelerate summary.
Exactly.
R.E.M.: Let Me In
Because even Monster has a couple good tracks. (Okay, so it's just this and You.)
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Patti Smith - Frederick
Fucking awesome. Wave may be the best rock album-turned-ode to motherhood I've ever heard, if I'm reading those lyrics right.
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(edit: reply to Cid)
Unusual choices for that album. I can't comment since I don't even remember either, but I do like one or two other songs from it. My memory of Monster is that a friend got it for me because I liked the singles released from it (particularly Bang and Blame) but then I was disappointed with most of the rest.
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They're not radio songs, so that doesn't surprise me much. I like them because they're at least moody; whatever the rest of the album was aiming for just wasn't for me. EDIT:
R.E.M.: The Great Beyond
Yeah, I'm pretty much just cycling through the 90's/00's stuff I usually don't listen to much. I like this track a lot, at least.
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To be fair, reading the track list a few of the non-radio songs spring to mind immediately and I can hum them; the two you picked out just made no impact on me, it seems. I do vaguely recall them being of the style you said, though.
The album was fairly all over the place in general.
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The Great Beyond is probably the best thing they did in the '90s after AfTP, so yeah.
And mmyeah, Monster has issues, particularly for the people who enjoy the moody/evocative verve in R.E.M. more than the rock. I'm in that field, and given the Ciddy's comments, I'd be surprised if he wasn't within that field as well. And Monster, while trying to aim for the rock part heavily, just didn't deliver (because they do very good rock - hell, look at Life's Rich Pageant and Document. Just tossing away the mood and atmosphere entirely doesn't work for them).
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A fun trivia, though: I bought and first listened to Fables of the Reconstruction and Monster in the same day. The dissonance was pretty fierce.
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R.E.M. - I'm Gonna DJ
This is the only song that stands out for me at all. And I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Every other song on the album just kinda blends into the next one to the point where it's hard for me to tell which song it's on without checking. DJ is just...different.
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Here Comes Char! - Andrew W.K.
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Patti Smith - So You Want To Be (A Rock 'N Roll Star)
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R.E.M.: Hope
Up has some good tracks. I liked it a lot when it came out (freshman year of college. Jesus Christ that was over a decade ago I'm old), not so much now. Still decent.
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I honestly think Up becomes less pleasant the more you listen to it. I like how it establishes a sedate, delicate yet oppressive mood musically, but even within that, it just fluctuates too much and meanders at points.
Patti Smith - Citizen Ship
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True. Strangely, I think it's at its best when it's being excessively optimistic.
R.E.M.: Why Not Smile
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True. Strangely, I think it's at its best when it's being excessively optimistic.
R.E.M.: Why Not Smile
That's because the insane optimism is also saddled by the moodiest melodies in the album. I like that.
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Mother/Oh Mein Papa
Skipping the 14-minute monstrosity today, thank you.
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'Til Tuesday - Winning The War
This is hilariously '80s.
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Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files~
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The Who: The Real Me
"I went back to my mother / I said, 'I'm crazy, ma, help me!' / She said, 'I know how it feels, son / 'cause it runs in the family.'"
So true. Pete Townshend is such a nutbar.
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Aimee Mann - Stupid Thing
I still can't believe that she changed from the tykish shriek that exhuded '80s in Voices Carry to -this-. I really like both, but maaaaaaaaaaaaang.
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Everything But The Girl - Imagining America
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Mouth of the Architect - No One Wished To Settle Here
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Patti Smith - The Jackson Song
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Emilana Torrini - Nothing Brings Me Down.
You should be downloading this now Snow.
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Emilana Torrini - Nothing Brings Me Down.
You should be downloading this now Snow.
That not in Fisherman's Woman? If not, what's the album name? I'll hit it up on torrentland tonight.
EDIT: Right, musaks.
Patti Smith - Up There Down There
Dream Of Life is also excellent.
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It is on Fisherman's Wife. You should be getting Me and Armini as well as Love in a Time of Science.
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'Til Tuesday - Looking Over My Shoulder
Glorious, glorious cheese.
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R.E.M. - Life And How To Live It
This >>>>>>>>> Maps And Legends >>>>> Feeling Gravity's Pull >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the rest of Fables of the Reconstruction. Given how high an opinion I have of the album throughout, this says a goddamned lot.
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Re:Birthe - Final Curtain of Light DISPERAZIONE -Despair-
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10,000 Maniacs - My Mother The War
The Wishing Chair rendition. Amazing how much more energy the redone songs from Secrets Of The I-Ching/Human Conflict Nº 5 have in this album.
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'Til Tuesday - Looking Over My Shoulder
Glorious, glorious cheese.
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R.E.M. - Life And How To Live It
This >>>>>>>>> Maps And Legends >>>>> Feeling Gravity's Pull >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the rest of Fables of the Reconstruction. Given how high an opinion I have of the album throughout, this says a goddamned lot.
Needs more Driver 8 hype.
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Driver 8 is actually after FGP for worth to me. Just those three are the dealmakers for me. I'd buy albums that had Maps and Legends, Life And How To Live It and Feeling Gravity's Pull if the rest of the tracks were nothing but the sounds of seventy-year-old monkeys munching on pieces of concrete.
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Empire of the Sun - Half Mast.
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Jason Mraz - The Remedy(I Won't Worry)
Fable's hype, eh? Dunno, couldn't get into that one myself. *goes to specifically listen to the named songs off of it to see if that changes anything*
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Spirit of the Cimarron: Fly Like An Eagle - HANS ZIMMER
I had forgotten why I liked Disney so much. Now I remember.
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R.E.M. - Driver 8
This and Maps and Legends are good. Feeling Gravity's Pull didn't grab me, and Life And How To Live It is pretty good but D8 and M&L are better.
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Fable's hype, eh? Dunno, couldn't get into that one myself. *goes to specifically listen to the named songs off of it to see if that changes anything*
Fables is insanely moody and somewhat dense. Not getting into it is hardly a crime, especially when I know you're not really into grim, atmospherically dense music. Fables is probably the hardest R.E.M. album to get into.
'Til Tuesday - Are You Serious?
I probably should send this album to you, it's so hilariously entertaining in that '80s pop way.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Green Fingers
By A Kiss In The Dreamhouse, Siouxsie really hit comfortably that weirdness/musicality mix that pervaded their downright dirty guitars in the early years. This might be my favorite SatB album nowadays.
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R.E.M. - Sweetness Follows
Automatic For The People, hell yeah.
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Seether- Careless whisper
Got this stuck in my head on the car ride to work.
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Aimee Mann - Amateur
I've been overdosing on Aimee Mann the last few weeks. I feel so guilty.
Not.
10,000 Maniacs - Eat For Two
I'm taking Blind Man's Zoo this week as the 10,000 Maniacs quota. I guess this qualifies as Gateservice.
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Emiliana Torrini - I'm A Bad Luck A Woman
What the fuck she has RANGE?
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Emiliana Torrini - The Man With The Golden Gun
What the fuck she has range.
ANOTHER EDIT:
Okay, this album is pretty hot.
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Yeah she is pretty fucking cool. No idea why I missed her for so long.
Gusgus - Very Important People.
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The 12th Man - Marvellous
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Yeah she is pretty fucking cool. No idea why I missed her for so long.
Gusgus - Very Important People.
Speaking of which, think you can acquaint me with Me And Armini and Love In The Time Of Science? Torrents have been very uncooperative.
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Dido - Sand In My Shoes
It's between this and No Angel for my favorite song of hers. Though I can't think of very many that I dislike at all.
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Björk - Hidden Place
Vespertine is probably the Björk album I like the most for the purposes of moodiness. It has this crystalline hermetism that she doesn't seem to capture in any other album, even though Post and Homogenic feel more complete.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Softly
Superstition is overproduced, nearly unrecognizable as a Siouxsie album and honestly sorta forgettable at times. However? It's also -really pretty- when it hits the right notes, and it's far more accessible than the rest of the discography.
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Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Animated Version: Where There's a Whip, There's a Way
Come on, you know you guys like this!!!
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Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Animated Version: Where There's a Whip, There's a Way
Come on, you know you guys like this!!!
Stop trying to drag perfectly healthy nerds into your outlandish, life-threatening obsessions. =|
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Silver Waterfall
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Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Loud.
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Mogwai - I love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School
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'Til Tuesday - How Can You Give Up?
Everything's Different Now is really a preview for Aimee Mann's solo career. Weird listening to something that balances itself between being '80s and sounding like Mann's typical work off the lyrics she'd usually churn out, but it's pretty damned cool.
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R.E.M. - Drive
I absolutely adore this song.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Softly
Superstition is overproduced, nearly unrecognizable as a Siouxsie album and honestly sorta forgettable at times. However? It's also -really pretty- when it hits the right notes, and it's far more accessible than the rest of the discography.
The singles from it (Shadowtime, Kiss Them For Me, Fear) are decent, at least. Can't speak for the rest of it.
The Who: Cut My Hair
Quadrophenia rocks faces.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Softly
Superstition is overproduced, nearly unrecognizable as a Siouxsie album and honestly sorta forgettable at times. However? It's also -really pretty- when it hits the right notes, and it's far more accessible than the rest of the discography.
The singles from it (Shadowtime, Kiss Them For Me, Fear) are decent, at least. Can't speak for the rest of it.
It's not -bad- at all, and I think you'd probably like it a fair deal. Just I keep comparing it to, say, Hyaena, and A Kiss In The Dreamhouse, and Tinderbox. Particularly A Kiss In The Dreamhouse. I can't help but feel that the Banshees were kinda bored in Superstition.
10,000 Maniacs - Headstrong
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Well, I think they kinda stopped making music after that, so that's probably a reasonable supposition.
The Who: The Punk and the Godfather
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They had one more album after Superstition and then split, so that's not far from the truth. I haven't even listened to The Rapture, I heard they were even more bored than on Superstition, which isn't a good thing.
EDIT: Right, musaks.
Emiliana Torrini - I'm A Bad Luck A Woman
Croucie D'oú Lá is goddamned sexy. Too bad it's so short, but it's high-quality.
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Godspeed You Black Emperor! - something. Iunno, Pandora.
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Oh, yay. Thoughts, Toro? I like the band a lot, myself.
The Who: Doctor Jimmy
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They are... Deerhoof -squeaky voice +length +serious. This is an even trade, which means I'm perfectly fine with them. >_>
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Patti Smith - Last Call
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Godspeed You Black Emperor - Providence
Okay this is pretty awesome.
Idly, Cid, is there a reason I still associate them with speed metal? I recall listening them to once earlier and getting that impression, but like fuck I remember what I was actually listening -to-.
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They are... Deerhoof -squeaky voice +length +serious. This is an even trade, which means I'm perfectly fine with them. >_>
Deerhoof? I know naught of this band.
And I dunno, Tai. The band name sure sounds like it belongs to a metal group, but for all that GYBE songs do occasionally have fast sections, I really don't think they qualify as metal.
The Who: The Rock
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Deerhoof is a whimsical music group that would qualify as indie of the indies, i suspect.
Then again, they gave me some of my favorite song lyrics ever outside of Tom Lehrer:
Tale of the traitors;
Pretty pretty twin sisters.
Be kind, be shy were all lies.
Witty wicked destroyers.
Tale of killers.
They're killers.
Showed my back and so long.
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I see. Sort of.
The Who: Love, Reign O'er Me
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Blackmore's Night - Rainbow Blues
Such a different sound from everything else on the CD. But still awesome. I need more of thier stuff.
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*clubs Gate with Highway Star. Just because.*
Pink Floyd: Learning to Fly
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Highway Star?
EDIT to stay on topic: Young Dubliners - Follow Me Up To Carlow
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Emiliana Torrini - The Man With The Golden Gun
Hot.
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Deerhoof is a whimsical music group that would qualify as indie of the indies, i suspect.
Heard of them from another country, not that Indie. But yeah, fairly prominent Indie group in the circles they move in.
Cam Butler - Same Old Tragedy.
Cid needs more Murder By Death.
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Highway Star?
It's a (completely awesome) Deep Purple song, Deep Purple being the band I typically associate with Ritchie Blackmore.
Foo Fighters: Learn to Fly
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Hey does anyone have Electric Six's Flashy?
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Firefly Opening - The Ballad of Serenity
God, rewatching Firefly into Serenity, and listening to this depresses me. Why did it have to go ;_;
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Björk - Unison
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Silversun pickups- Substitution
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me
This is a song about Jayne Mansfield's decadence and death disguised as a pop tune. You can tell how much I dig this.
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'Til Tuesday - Rip In Heaven
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Savior- Rise against
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Hey does anyone have Electric Six's Flashy?
Of course. I got it when it came out and bought it as soon as I could find it. I can find something/hook you up.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God Is In The House.
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Godspeed You Black Emperor: The Dead Flag Blues
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R.E.M. - Nightswimming
Nightswimming is impressively beautiful even for Automatic For The People's stunning standards.
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Maaya Sakamoto - Inori
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Soundtribe Sector 9 - Why don't more people listen to this. Look up "Instantly" on Youtube. Realize how awesome they are. DO IT.
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'Til Tuesday - (Believed You Were) Lucky
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Emiliana Torrini - The Dirty Dozen
I've said it before, but Croucie D'oú Lá is sexy.
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The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
Well, not listening to it right now exactly. Was playing Beatles Rockband at the Game Crazy today and this song got stuck in my head.
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Patti Smith - We Three
I don't like the "random" function when listening to music.
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Depeche Mode: It's No Good
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Hot Girls in Good Moods, by Butch Walker and the Let's Go Out Tonights.
I had it recommended to me by an associate who said of all the songs he'd ever heard, it was the me-est.
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decided to listen to all my music in alphabetical order.
311
3 doors down
ace of base
turns out a lot of musicians have a bunch of songs that all sound the same. fortunately I've landed on Aerosmith, which does not present that problem to a great degree.
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Ace of Base? Man, if there's a sound that I associate exclusively with 1994, it's Ace of Base. >_>
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Had Daughtry- No surprise stuck in my head most of the day. There is only one solution to that.
311- Down
Haven't heard a 311 song I like in the least besides this. And 90% of the value in this song is in the first 30 seconds or so and the repeat of that around 1:30 or so.
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311- Down
Haven't heard a 311 song I like in the least besides this. And 90% of the value in this song is in the first 30 seconds or so and the repeat of that around 1:30 or so.
That's kinda funny since the album that's on is so very repetitive.
Ace of Base? Man, if there's a sound that I associate exclusively with 1994, it's Ace of Base. >_>
Yeah! It's like the musical equivalent of Cheetos. But y'know, Cheetos are tasty every now and then.
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Long as it's better than Amber, Miki. That song sucks and sucks bad.
Tool- Schism. Good song that needed at least three minutes cut off on it. Didn't help that it got grossly overplayed on the radio when it came out.
APC's way better than Tool, outside of Sober.
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decided to listen to all my music in alphabetical order.
311
3 doors down
ace of base
turns out a lot of musicians have a bunch of songs that all sound the same. fortunately I've landed on Aerosmith, which does not present that problem to a great degree.
Did we listen to the same band? I've always been underwhelmed by Aerosmith, outside of a couple songs (principally Dream On). Granted, I suppose they're less guilty of this than the other bands you listed.
Ace of Base? Man, if there's a sound that I associate exclusively with 1994, it's Ace of Base. >_>
I think there was an entire South Park episode dedicated to making the same point.
Long as it's better than Amber, Miki. That song sucks and sucks bad.
Tool- Schism. Good song that needed at least three minutes cut off on it. Didn't help that it got grossly overplayed on the radio when it came out.
APC's way better than Tool, outside of Sober.
Agreed. Sober is the only Tool song I ever liked.
EDIT: Though, credit where it's due, that one song where they rant in scary German for four minutes and the lyrics turn out to be a cookie recipe was pretty funny.
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'Til Tuesday - The Other End (Of The Telescope)
Mmmmmyes.
Ace of Base? Man, if there's a sound that I associate exclusively with 1994, it's Ace of Base. >_>
I think there was an entire South Park episode dedicated to making the same point.
In fairness, South Park made the year 1996. But pretty much. Trey Parker and Matt Stone don't seem to like Des Moines much either.
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Sukima Switch - Kimi No Hanashi
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Painted Bird
A Kiss In The Dreamhouse is quite possibly the most elegant album in their discography.
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Coldplay - Viva la Vida
I still love the symbolism in this song. The video in particular makes it pretty epic.
--> Guns N' Roses - Locomotive.
I still prefer a lot of the lesser known GnR songs to some of the more famous ones. (That said, my favourite of theirs will probably always be their cover of Sympathy for the Devil, followed by November Rain, but ehh.)
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Coldplay - Viva la Vida
I still love the symbolism in this song. The video in particular makes it pretty epic.
As in Georg MDef epic?
Björk - The Modern Things
This isn't epic, but I still can't get over the imagery of a pack of cars standing over a mountain and looking down on dinosaurs as they frolic around eating other living beings.
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'Til Tuesday - The Other End (Of The Telescope)
Mmmmmyes.
Ace of Base? Man, if there's a sound that I associate exclusively with 1994, it's Ace of Base. >_>
I think there was an entire South Park episode dedicated to making the same point.
In fairness, South Park made the year 1996. But pretty much. Trey Parker and Matt Stone don't seem to like Des Moines much either.
They don't like much of anything, really.
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That's the underlying point, yes.
Björk - Isobel
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Godsmack - Keep Away.
Fits right now, will not fit in three hours when I am at the birthday party of the nephews. Augh.
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Wouldn't it fit -better- then? In any case, brooms are your friends. Your brother won't be afterwards, though, but you're dealing with children.
Björk - I Miss You
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Last time I tried a broom the younger one broke it.
Godsmack - Running Blind
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Man, they're good. You probably need actual war artillery then.
Björk - Cover Me
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The older one has inherited my ability to move quieter than most anyone else at crucial/funny moments and is also oddly strong despite being made of twigs.
The younger one will likely end up a football player and shows the capability to impact things with a ferocious power.
My solution will be leading them to another uncle and let him deal with them.
Nightwish - Poet and the Pendulum
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I really, really hope my nephews will inherit our side of the family when it comes to physical prowess. Your average toddler already beats me at armwrestling, I don't need one to be able to snap my neck with two fingers by accident.
Simon & Garfunkel - Song For The Asking
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Agreed. Sober is the only Tool song I ever liked.
EDIT: Though, credit where it's due, that one song where they rant in scary German for four minutes and the lyrics turn out to be a cookie recipe was pretty funny.
You both suck. Tool is really good and the length of the tracks is really good (they vary a lot with short and really long songs unlike other bands that go for the really long stuff). Lateralus in it's entirety is a fantastic album that should be listened in whole. 10,000 Days is pretty good as a whole also.
Die Eire Von Satan is fucking awesome though. Hash Brownies made without eggs.
Emilana Torrini - Birds
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Hey, it's not our fault Tool made boring music.
Godspeed You Black Emperor: They Don't Sleep Anymore On the Beach
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Nana Mizuki - Seven
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The Cars: Good Times Roll
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Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army - Cars.
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Patti Smith - Pumping (My Heart)
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Semifinalists - From Several To Many.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Into The Light
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Echo & the Bunnymen - With A Hip
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Ghosts - Mind Games.
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Avanstasia - Reach Out For The Light
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The Cranberries - Animal Instinct
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The Cranberries - Desperate Andy
This song is sorta something I wouldn't expect from the Cranberries ever, but it's pretty fun.
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Aerosmith - has a lot of music, most of which I own.
AFI - I think this is what I get for ripping cds from my roommate because they had cool art or something. lesson learned.
Ai Yori Aoshi soundtrack - is really rather dull.
Air Master soundtrack - is also rather dull, surprisingly, 'cept for the opening and closing songs.
Angelic Layer soundtrack - is not dull at all, has plenty of fun songs and good incidental music. go fig. Not unlike the show in general, it is unaccountably good when, really, it should be utter crap.
Which brings me to:
Arcturus Chamber Ensemble - which is my sister and all her buddies playing chamber music. Starting on Brandenburg Concerto no 3, then on to the Bartok. Fun stuff.
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AFI are like that yeah. Some of their stuff is a little catchy until you remember how old they are and catch how much they are having a giant whinge in the lyrics. Disappointed that you are starting in A's Jim, where is the bands who's names start with numbers?
Emma Heeney - Top Shelf.
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Cranberries- Zombie
I've listened to most of the CD's from, and this is the best track. I really like the Cranberries on their harder stuff, the softer tracks tend to wander into the backround noise range for me.
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Rush: Ghost of a Chance
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AFI are like that yeah. Some of their stuff is a little catchy until you remember how old they are and catch how much they are having a giant whinge in the lyrics. Disappointed that you are starting in A's Jim, where is the bands who's names start with numbers?
I started on 3 doors down and 311 (nine inch nails is under 'N'). You should reserve your disappointment, man. I'm sure there's plenty in here (or not, more accurately) to disappoint you.
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God, go AWAY Rush. Or at least Tom Sawyer. I never want to hear that song again.
Humm- Stars
Best song from the 90's? Possibly. It's either that or God of Wine. Too bad the band never made it big.
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Poem of Everyone's Soul
Wow. This song's surprisingly beautiful for a game song.
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Nobody's making you listen to 'em, aiel.
Ozzy Osbourne: Over the Mountain
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Soundgarden: Jesus Christ Pose
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Moi Moi - Oranges and Lemons ~ Tribute to Azumanga Daioh ~Live~
...I had no idea Azumanga Daioh had a tribute concert until a few hours ago. >_>'
Down, Down, Down to Mephisto's Cafe - Streetlight Manifesto.
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
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Maserati - The Language
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Nobody's making you listen to 'em, aiel.
Ozzy Osbourne: Over the Mountain
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Soundgarden: Jesus Christ Pose
The radio has a sick sense of humor and plays that song constantly. AFI are like that yeah. Some of their stuff is a little catchy until you remember how old they are and catch how much they are having a giant whinge in the lyrics. Disappointed that you are starting in A's Jim, where is the bands who's names start with numbers?
Emma Heeney - Top Shelf.
Gref, can you send me some of her stuff? I heard part of a song on youtube and it sounded pretty cool.
Lisa Loeb- stay
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Patti Smith - Gung Ho
Doesn't feel like a TWELVE MINUTE SONG.
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The radio has a sick sense of humor and plays that song constantly.
Always been a little bewildered at Tom Sawyer being their most famous song. It's not like it's one of their best songs. It's not even one of the best on its album.
A Perfect Circle: The Package
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Björk - Unravel
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Stars of the Lid - A Meaningful Moment Through A Meaningless Process
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Björk - All Neon Like
Homogenic would be worth buying even if All Neon Like was the only good song in the album.
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The Sugarcubes - Hetero Scum
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Emiliana Torrini - To Be Free
It's like each album of hers is an entirely different genre altogether compared to the other.
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IQ - Subterranea
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Emiliana Torrini - Unemployed In Summertime
Tons of mood in this album. <3
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Emma Heeney- Half alive
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Rush: The Pass
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Errr wasn't even aware she was noteworthy, she was one of my $5 CDs, just have the one. That said, Stars is a good song Super but fuck no, it doesn't even list for best of the decade. 1990's had a lot of amazing shit come out of it.
Considering even the good parts of the DL systematically seek to disappoint me Jim it was to be expected (and NIN starts with N so yeah that is fine).
Floyd Thursby and the Definite Article - The Thief.
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Machinae Supremacy - Fury
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Kate Miller-Heidke - Ducks Don't Need Satellites.
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Denki Groove - Niji
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Errr wasn't even aware she was noteworthy, she was one of my $5 CDs, just have the one. That said, Stars is a good song Super but fuck no, it doesn't even list for best of the decade. 1990's had a lot of amazing shit come out of it.
Considering even the good parts of the DL systematically seek to disappoint me Jim it was to be expected (and NIN starts with N so yeah that is fine).
Floyd Thursby and the Definite Article - The Thief.
Stars just perfectly fits what I want from a rock song as far as instruments go. The narcoleptic singing goes really well with it too. I like Zombie from the Cranberries for the same reasons.
Hum- Little dipper
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Part of that World - Little Mermaid
I blame #RPGDL
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Finally listening to that first batch of music I downloaded. 3203 songs in that section, came out at 19.4 GB. Not even halfway through Gref's list of artists, but I've got a fair amount outside of that as well.
Ayreon - Nature's Dance
- ...Odd. Not bad, but not great either.
R.E.M. - Half a World Away
- This, I like. But then, R.E.M. are good like that.
No Doubt - Beauty Contest
- asdfdhfdh. How did Gwen Stefani go from No Doubt, who were pretty awesome, to a crappy slutty solo career? Blaaah.
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Nature's Dance...? OH. Final Experiment. That's like from one of their first albums, not bad but not great would be how I describe it myself.
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Ahh. When it came to bands I didn't know, I mostly got one or two new albums and one or two old ones, assuming they had a lot of albums. So, uhh, I guess I'll get to the newer stuff eventually, although having Media Player set to random constantly means I get a nice mix of all the new stuff.
Or not so new in this case:
Metallica - Sad But True (S&M version)
- This album is just too awesome for words. I like Metallica as it is, but it just sounds so much better with STRINGS.
Pearl Jam - Given to Fly
- First Pearl Jam song I've ever heard, surprisingly. A damn good start, though. <3
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Like Metallica with strings? Try out Apocalyptica's older stuff, they got their start converting Metallica stuff to four cellos and branched out to hard rock from there. Awesome group in both regards, but.
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Apocalyptica was one of the bands I got stuff of! I think they were on Gref's list.
Rage Against the Machine - Without a Face
- ...Uhm. I'm hoping this is one of their worst songs, because that was pretty damn terrible.
Ayreon - Epilogue: The Memory Remains
- Yeeeess. I like this one a lot. Good stuff.
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...? Epilogue: The Memory Remains? Need to google that one, completely unfamiliar.
And good, Apocalpytica's good stuffs.
EDIT: Aaah, from Timeline, the mixed set. Coo. And... huh. Interesting, didn't even know that was out. >_>
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Want it uploaded?
10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days
- Liking this a lot. Listened to another one of theirs earlier - Noah's Dove - and definitely thinking they were a good choice. ^_^
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
- Wait, 25 minutes long?! It's... pretty bad for most of it so far. I don't see this going onto my main playlist. >_>
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Rage Against the Machine - Without a Face
- ...Uhm. I'm hoping this is one of their worst songs, because that was pretty damn terrible.
Nah, Rage Against The Machine is pretty much execrable. Also, I have the entire Maniacs discography until Natalie Merchant left the group.
'Til Tuesday - Sleep
The only way this album could get any more '80s would be if it had a Roxette cameo.
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"Fairytale of New York"
Christmas Song, I know...but...it came on, randomly, on a station. And is awesome: "You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot, Happy Christmas your ass, I thank God it's out last!"
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Simon & Garfunkel - Patterns
Short, but brilliant mood piece from fellows that were masters at establishing such. This song is stunning even for the standards set by S&G, but I think I've said this before.
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Ah, right. The Led Zep Moby Dick I was listening to earlier was a live version. The actual song is only 4 minutes. Hrm.
Black Sabbath - Iron Man (Live)
- ...Interesting. Not quite what I was expecting, and... ehh. Not bad, but definitely not great.
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Simon & Garfunkel - A Poem On The Underground Walls
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Augie March - Clockwork
- I can see why Gref hypes these guys. Nice song there, despite being pretty damn simple. (Also, I still love the album name "Moo, You Bloody Choir")
No Doubt - Bathwater
- Again, what happened to Gwen Stefani? This song's pretty damn good, although the lyrics are just ridiculous now.
Meatloaf - Dead Ringer for Love
- Heh, classic cheese rock. I love it.
Steppenwolf - It's Never Too Late
- Hmm, not bad. Not amazing, but just some good calm listening.
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Roxette - Dressed For Success
Remember, kids: it's not cheese unless it comes from the frozen wastelands.
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The thing that happened to Gwen Steffani was that she stopped working with the other guys from No Doubt who were pretty freaking talented.
RATM is pretty much all about Tom Morello, there is other pieces where the band members really shine, but Morello is the part that makes it. It is like listening to Slayer purely for the drums when they have Dave Lombardo.
Augie March are fantastic with mellow songs about all kinds of things.
Tell me you got some Murder By Death as well.
David Bowie - Bring Me The Disco King.
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Patti Smith - Ask The Angels
I so dig this.
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Gref: Yeah, but the image she had before was good as well. Now, the less said, the better. ¬_¬
Tom Morello? Really? I like Killing in the Name, but... Tom Morello is YAY SOUND FX and nothing else. It's a bit shit, really. (Also, bad comparison, I've never heard anything by Slayer ever.)
Haven't got Murder by Death yet, but I'm not finished with the downloads. Like I said, not even halfway through that list you gave me.
Chastain - Ruler of the Wasteland
- Ehh, not bad. A little generic, though.
Dream Theater - Stargazer
- ...I'm liking this a lot so far. Amazing opening, good vocals, brilliant drums...
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Pink - Save My Life
Pink really is one of my favorite female singers. She has alot of good stuff.
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Queen - Love of my Life
One of the best bands ever. <3
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Ehh, Pink's another one who sold out the image she had to become popular, in my opinion. Some of the older stuff isn't too bad, though.
And Bard, arguably -the- best band ever. Although that's not a song I know...
Black Sabbath - After Forever
- This is decent, I guess. Considering all I've heard about Black Sabbath, I'm really not too impressed by what I've heard so far. Maybe Paranoid is their only good song or something. >.>
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I find Pink's newer stuff a lot better than her older stuff, actually. I think it's the opposite of what you said, honestly >_>
Pink - "Sober"
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Patti Smith - Pissing In A River
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ASUS - sound of my laptop making very little noise at all.
What?
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Heh
And yeah, I'll agree with OK on her newer stuff generally being better. As for whether or not she "sold out" at all, uhhh, I dunno? I honestly don't bother with thinking about image and stuff like that so long as the music sounds good.
Anyway:
10,000 Maniacs - Eden.
Still possibly my favorite song ever.
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Eden is fucking badass, yes. That song alone makes Our Time In Eden my favorite Maniacs album, and they did The Wishing Chair. It's a tall order there.
Patti Smith - Chicklets
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Ah, right. The Led Zep Moby Dick I was listening to earlier was a live version. The actual song is only 4 minutes. Hrm.
Black Sabbath - Iron Man (Live)
- ...Interesting. Not quite what I was expecting, and... ehh. Not bad, but definitely not great.
Led Zeppelin live is a horrid abomination. Long songs are fine when they're actually structured properly, but Jimmy Page turning average-length songs into half-hour epics through drugged-out guitar wankery is just excruciating. Their live recordings just embody all the worst excesses of seventies rock. I'm not real fond of the band in general (Robert Plant's "BABYBABYBABY" wailing got tiresome a looong time ago) but live versions of their songs are to be avoided at all costs.
As for Black Sabbath, I always liked Ozzy solo much more. This is probably some kind of blasphemy.
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Echo & the Bunnymen - A Show Of Strength
I love the mood in Heaven Up Here. This song is an amazingly strong opener too.
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Saved by the Bell - Credits Transition Music
...why, I don't know, but I found a video of it on loop for a few minutes.
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Everything But The Girl - Don't Leave Me Behind
EBTG lyrics are always sorta strange to me.
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Sabbath is very much about context, they have other amazing songs than just Paranoid, but you have to find them amongst stuff that these days is kind of genericish (hint it is because people copied them).
Tom Morello is what brought the addictive guitar riff to Killing in the Name. If you like the good parts of that song it is all him. RATM is far from a band that the drums lead the shape and sound of the music (for king example of that, see Fear Factory). You should check out some Lombardo Slayer. Reign in Blood is pretty much the album for it, rest is kind of skippable. One of the best examples of Thrash out there.
Zep were a studio band and even then are a bit hit and miss. If you can't like anything on say Three though you are a tasteless hack. Gallow's Pole at least is fantastic. Immigrant Song is fun and probably for all the wrong reasons.
VCR - Really Something/Destroy.
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Muse- Uprising
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David Bowie - New Angesl of Promise
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Grandia - Two Old Men with Spoons and Pringles Cans
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Zep were a studio band and even then are a bit hit and miss. If you can't like anything on say Three though you are a tasteless hack. Gallow's Pole at least is fantastic. Immigrant Song is fun and probably for all the wrong reasons.
Immigrant Song is hilarious. "Valhalla, I am comiiing." I can't really hate a band that basically gave the world Spinal Tap.
The Smiths: This Charming Man
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The Smiths: This Charming Man
The first song from them I've ever listened to, and probably the one that sold me on them. Guess why and win nothing (hint: insert cock joke here).
R.E.M. - Little America
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I'll just assume the fact that it's awesome had something to do with it.
Beirut: The Bunker
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Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
- It doesn't matter that I was born just over two decades later than that. This song is still amazing.
Van Halen - Atomic Punk
- Probably the best of the older metal/rock bands that I got so far. I'm liking everything I've listened to of theirs so far.
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I'll just assume the fact that it's awesome had something to do with it.
That too. But The Smiths just pulled off a bunch of amazing songs about sexual confusion anyway.
Patti Smith - Frederick
I could listen to this song on loop for days.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - "Coming Out of Our Shells"
...god, I forgot this existed. AWESOME
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Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
That song was a little popular when I was in secondary school. A group even performed it on performance day.
So it's cools, mate.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - "Coming Out of Our Shells"
...god, I forgot this existed. AWESOME
... figures that the only entertaining thing besides the games to come out of TMNT is homoerotic subtext.
Patti Smith - So You Want To Be A Rock 'N Roll Star
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People's top 10 cartoon theme song lists on YouTube.
I am a sad, lonely man.
Doesn't stop the 90's Batman TAS opening theme from being awesome.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - "Coming Out of Our Shells"
...god, I forgot this existed. AWESOME
Just remember, I brought 10 CDs to give away for free to DL Con and they weren't taken, you brought this upon yourselves.
Murder By Death - Steam Rising.
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Out of curiosity, what CDs were they?
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I never heard about the free CDs, but I may have just been in a torocoma.
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Patti Smith - Glitter In Their Eyes
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Patti Smith - Lo And Beholden
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Emiliana Torrini - Easy
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Patty Smyth - The Warrior
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Belle & Sebastian - Me And The Major
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They were to be part of the prizes and yeah Djinn glomp happened so I wasn't exactly going to kick up a fuss. It was a random pile of CDs that I had accidental duplicates of or were just cheap and I picked up for whatever the fuck. Don't remember specifics anymore.
They are still at Meep's place to the best of my knowledge.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Spellbound
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I don't care if I'm not listening to it right now, I feel I need to talk about this.
Just back from a live gig of a local band called Livin' in a Valvestate, and holy crap how have they not been signed yet these guys are fucking amaziiiiiing.
They did about a 50/50 split of covers and their own songs, and just some of the covers (the ones I know) in their main set were: Wanted Dead or Alive, Crazy Bitch, For Whom the Bell Tolls. (They apparently did another by Pearl Jam, but I don't know which. Not listened to much Pearl Jam yet.)
Oh, and then they did an encore, which was Master of Puppets, done at least up to Metallica standards, if not higher, followed by Freebird, which included the lead guitarist playing part of the solo behind his head.
They've paid for and produced one album themselves before, and one of my friends has this, so I'm gonna be borrowing it to rip to computer soon, so expect lots more hype of these guys soon.
But seriously. Another local band has been signed recently (Dancing With the Enemy) and Valvestate are a thousand times better.
How. Have they not. Been signed? :|
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R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion
Best damn thing in Reckoning.
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Might have to look it up Yoshi (Listen to some Pearl Jam)
Augie March - Tasman Awakens.
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Steely Dan - Bad Sneakers
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Looked 'em up on MySpace Yoshi (It still has its uses!).
I like this a lot. I'd be perfectly willing to give them my money in exchange for plastic discs.
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Patti Smith - Frederick
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'Til Tuesday - I Could Get Used To This
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Beck - High 5 (Rock the Catskills)
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Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair/Canticle
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Saliva - Superstar
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Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia
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Ozzy Osbourne: Diary of a Madman
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The Chemical Brothers: The State We're In
I can't help but associate this with Lost in Translation now, even though I heard the song before the movie.
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Chemical Brothers - Elektrbank.
I can't help but associate this with AWESOME now, even though I heard the song before I knew what awesome really was.
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Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers
I need relaxation. ;o
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Sukima Switch - Nomi no Konai Ka
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Patti Smith - Going Under
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Cranberries - Linger
Dammit.
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R.E.M. - Feeling Gravity's Pull
Hmmmhm.
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VCR - Serious Drugs.
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Alice in Chains: Down in a Hole
AiC has to have been the gloomiest of the big grunge bands (no mean feat when Kurt Cobain is in the running). Still, they do sometimes make suicidal depression worth listening to.
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Michael Land - Tales of Monkey Island Main Theme
That time again.
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Aimee Mann - Humpty Dumpty
Yeah, I missed Lost In Space.
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Mell - Kill
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The Acadamy Award Winning 3 Six Mafiia(I will never be able to type that phrase without smirking.) : Some Bodie's Gonna Git It
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Everything But The Girl - Angel
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Emiliana Torrini - Crazy Love
Croucie D'oú Lá is my favorite album from her. Tons of range and tons of jazz/blues.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Cannons
Excellent.
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'Til Tuesday - J For Jules
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Soundgarden: Big Dumb Sex
Hilarious. Also probably contains more uses of the word "fuck" than I've ever heard in one song, though probably there are plenty of rap songs that outdo it in this regard (they probably don't have the decency to use it ironically, though).
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The Cure - A Strange Day
So far, it's the first song in Pornography that isn't rubbish. But listening to the album in reverse order is weird, I know it at least has The Hanging Gardens. The album namer is a waste of time, though.
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Patti Smith - Dream Of Life
Sexi.
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SO3: Highbrow
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The Cranberries - I Still Do
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? is way up there in the catchiness ratio. I can't believe I used to think Cranberries was music for depressed people. >_>
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R.E.M. - Feeling Gravity's Pull
Pretty interesting imagery they manage to pull off here.
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The Cranberries - I Still Do
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? is way up there in the catchiness ratio. I can't believe I used to think Cranberries was music for depressed people. >_>
The narcoleptic tone does that. That and Zombie/linger are pretty downbeat.
The cranberries- I still do
Edit- The flys- got you where I want you
One of the better one hit wonder songs of the 90's. The movie the video's based off of (Or was featured in) was utterly unremarkable but it had a couple of really memorable songs from it.
Katie Holmes has a hell of a smile.
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Katie Holmes? Ewww.
Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
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It is no secret that Super has horrible taste in music.
And Snow, when you are a depressed Teenager it is nice to think that the things you listen to are written for depressed teenagers, even if it is songs written by 30 year old men singing about rough angry sex.
The Cure - Catch.
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Joe Satriani: Dweller on the Threshold
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Aimee Mann - Humpty Dumpty
All the king's horses and all the king's men. For some reason, I like the original Humpty Dumpty.
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And Snow, when you are a depressed Teenager it is nice to think that the things you listen to are written for depressed teenagers, even if it is songs written by 30 year old men singing about rough angry sex.
What about Morrissey's solo career when he's not wishing he had the age to have gayngst? Granted, his are songs specifically about having rough angry sex with male delinquents.
Aimee Mann - The Moth
Humpty Dumpty, Invisible Ink and The Moth are the album pitches for me. I'd buy almost anything with these three songs in.
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Emiliana Torrini - The Man With The Golden Gun
Hot. Just hot.
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And Snow, when you are a depressed Teenager it is nice to think that the things you listen to are written for depressed teenagers, even if it is songs written by 30 year old men singing about rough angry sex.
What about Morrissey's solo career when he's not wishing he had the age to have gayngst? Granted, his are songs specifically about having rough angry sex with male delinquents.
That is different because Morrissey is crap and boring as all fuck. Irony being, I listened to music the same way you used to and it took me until I was in my mid 20's before I started listening to the Ramones properly. THE FUCKING RAMONES. WHO SING ACTUAL SONGS ABOUT BEING ANGRY YOUNG TEENAGER. And cover Surfin' Bird.
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And Snow, when you are a depressed Teenager it is nice to think that the things you listen to are written for depressed teenagers, even if it is songs written by 30 year old men singing about rough angry sex.
What about Morrissey's solo career when he's not wishing he had the age to have gayngst? Granted, his are songs specifically about having rough angry sex with male delinquents.
That is different because Morrissey is crap and boring as all fuck.
Can't argue otherwise. Besides about half of Viva Hate, Morrissey's music solo is a complete waste of time. I still like The Smiths, but at least then they were still close to their teenage years to make the whole thing less creepy back then.
Irony being, I listened to music the same way you used to and it took me until I was in my mid 20's before I started listening to the Ramones properly. THE FUCKING RAMONES. WHO SING ACTUAL SONGS ABOUT BEING ANGRY YOUNG TEENAGER. And cover Surfin' Bird.
I'd say something about that, but I used to take Alanis Morissette seriously when I was 13. Sad thing is she may still take herself seriously at this point.
EDIT: Right, musik.
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Land's End
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Insert joke about irony here.
Emilana Torrini - Heard it All Before.
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Yeah, I know. My music taste is constant self-parody.
/me pretends to not have missed the Alanis Morissette music joke off a first glance.
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Cannons
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There is layers of Ironic jokes there more than just the Alanis song (you caught those ones). First time in a long while one of my layered jokes has been able to just use one word though. So well done setting that up. Normally I have to slide in and out of sarcasm to get my 3 or 4 level jokes in.
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Alanis Morissette - Precious Illusions
<_<;
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Speaking of endless layer of unintentional irony:
The Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
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Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 OST - Monster Walk.
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I can't help but think this is another one of those multilayered poison jokes.
The Smiths - I Know It's Over
Dear god, Morrissey, just ask him out.
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'Til Tuesday - R.I.P. In Heaven
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Legião Urbana - Fábrica
Man, I'm so glad I only bothered to listen to this band after my twenties. At least -one- teenage band I skipped on taking seriously at some point in my life. Not that they're great anyway, but at least this album in particular I sorta dig because of the british post-punk sound influences.
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Pink - Oh My God
The term "suggestive" does even begin to cover this song.
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Mouth of the Architect - Generation of Ghosts
I'm a little silly for only noticing now, but my taste in music is far from any of yours, as far as I can tell. ;p
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Rise Against - Hairline Fracture
Hmm, not bad, not amazing... by Rise Against's normal standards. By average standards, this is a pretty damn awesome song. Still loving all the new Rise Against that I downloaded more than most. <3
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Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream.
Tell me you grabbed this.
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Stevie Nicks- Edge of Seventeen
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Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
- If I'm checking if I downloaded it, what better time to listen to it?
...Assuming Media Player doesn't crash. Screw you, Vista.
Edit: Ehh, not bad. Nothing special, though.
Ayreon - Abbey of Synn
- Now this is. About 10 minutes of utter awesome in here. Those guitar solos are especially amazing.
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'Til Tuesday - Have Mercy
EDIT:
Emiliana Torrini - Jungle Drum
What is it with Icelandic lady singers having absolutely hot crush songs?
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The Cranberries - Linger
[insert drinking game joke here]
EDIT:
Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive
Masterful guitar work.
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Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
- If I'm checking if I downloaded it, what better time to listen to it?
...Assuming Media Player doesn't crash. Screw you, Vista.
Edit: Ehh, not bad. Nothing special, though.
When you find something else like it, let me know. Also check out their album cover. These guys are pretty much a tribute to Dune and Space Opera in general.
Edit - Oh yeah no real need to do a new post for this after Piggyman.
Red Ghost - Brittle Times.
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Neurosis - No River To Take Me Home
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Madonna - Stay
Having Like A Virgin follow Fables of the Reconstruction is the best contrast in this week.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Sea Breezes
EDIT:
Everything But The Girl - Trouble And Strife
I'm just an '80s british music fangirl.
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Ayreon: Day Sixteen ~ Loser
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Starfucker - rawnald gregory erickson 2nd
Starfucker's a local band whom I saw last night. They are like if Arcade Fire and Animal Collective had a child and then that child was molested by Animal Collective's creepy Grandfather, Daft Punk.
http://www.myspace.com/starfuckerss
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Burst - (We Watched) The Silver Rain
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The Alfee - Star Ship
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Dream Theater - The Shattered Fortress.
This is actually probably the most generic sounding metal Dream Theater have put out for a while. The playing is still fantastic, but there is a lot of emphasis on up tempo drumming and repetitve guitar riffs. Still good stuff though.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Primary Phase, Fit The Fifth.
Whatever you're listening to is worse than this.
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They Might Be Giants - We Want A Rock
Woke up with this song stuck in my head for some reason.
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Joe Satriani: Borg Sex
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'Til Tuesday - Lovers' Day
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The Alfee - Last Stage
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R.E.M. - Sitting Still
Murmur isn't that interesting a debut, honestly, even if it's pretty decent, but I just love this song.
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VCR - Mega God Blast.
I can't really express how much fun these guys are.
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Emiliana Torrini - Next Time Around
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Evangelion 2.0- Beautiful World ~Plantib Acoustic remix~
Good, I LOVE the way the song starts, but the mixing is pretty awkward at times which prevents it from being as good as it could be.
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Soundgarden: Full On Kevin's Mom
Last night twice etcetera.
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That sounds fun.
Emiliana Torrini - Honeymoon Child
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David Bowie - 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
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Everything But The Girl - Driving
When did The Language of Life 360'd from the EBTG album I only plugged in for Driving to my favorite work from them? Oh well.
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Soundgarden: Uncovered
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The Cure - Give Me It
Christ, this is pretty trashy. The Cure is like a rollercoaster of love.
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No they aren't. The Cure is like being in the closet and that closet is falling off a cliff.
Cranberries - Hollywood.
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No they aren't. The Cure is like being in the closet and that closet is falling off a cliff.
I was trying to be nice to them. Regardless, The Top is a terrible album.
Aimee Mann - Dear John
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Steely Dan - Change Of The Guard
Hey look a good album.
EDIT:
Aimee Mann - 31 Today
Not one of the better songs in the album, but solid. Fuckin' smilers.
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10,000 Maniacs - Planned Obsolescence
Really, really good.
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Cowboy Mouth - The Avenue
Only song of thiers I like, but it's really good.
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Hitchhiker's Guide, Secondary Phase, Fit the Ninth. Still concentrated greatness. That Douglas Adams guy was pretty funny!
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No they aren't. The Cure is like being in the closet and that closet is falling off a cliff.
I was trying to be nice to them. Regardless, The Top is a terrible album.
*Looks up The Top's tracklist* Hah. The only song from that which made it onto the compilation I have (Staring at the Sea) was Caterpillar. If that's the best song on the album...
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No they aren't. The Cure is like being in the closet and that closet is falling off a cliff.
I was trying to be nice to them. Regardless, The Top is a terrible album.
*Looks up The Top's tracklist* Hah. The only song from that which made it onto the compilation I have (Staring at the Sea) was Caterpillar. If that's the best song on the album...
PRETTY MUCH. It's just awful. The other albums featured in that particular compilation are sensibly better, at least.
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Björk - There's More To Life Than This
<3
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Dragonforce - Soldiers of the Wasteland
I like having the new music, sure. But sometimes, I just need to go back and listen to something amazingly awesome that I know instead, like this. <3
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Simon & Garfunkel - Anji
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R.E.M. - Pilgrimage
I like this one a lot.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Rhapsody
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Dragonforce - Soldiers of the Wasteland
I like having the new music, sure. But sometimes, I just need to go back and listen to something amazingly awesome that I know instead, like this. <3
When do you do that exactly?
Crustaceans - Mary.
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The Cranberries - Daffodil Lament
Best song in No Need To Argue? Quite possibly.
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Agreed.
Holst: Mars, the Bringer of War
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Jars of Clay - Flood
Old favorite.
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Steely Dan - Do It Again
If you're into blues/jazz, Steely Dan is absolutely gorgeous. Excellent instrumental work, particularly on the guitars.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Obsession
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Joe Satriani: One Robot's Dream
After Super Colossal and Is There Love in Space? turned out so mediocre, I was all set to just ignore anything else he put out. But apparently his last album was called Professor Satchifunkilus and the Musterium of Rock, and I don't think I can say no to that.
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You probably will say "yes" and regret it, buy hey it's just an album.
10,000 Maniacs - Katrina's Fair
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Yeah, probably.
Peter Gabriel: Red Rain
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No no no, Satriani is awesome, but yeah sometimes he missed the spot by a bit much. Surfing With the Alien is awesome in a special kind of way and my method of picking albums based on the name of the album or the band (or both in the case of Murder By Death - In Bocca Lupo) has not really failed me yet. So Professor Satchifunkilus and the Musterium of Rock should be up there with Funkadelic - Une Nation Under a Groove.
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I figured it went without saying that I already had all his earlier albums, yeah.
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Bad Religion - News From the Front
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Continuing on with obscure bands that are likely universally disliked around here~!
Thy Light - In My Last Mourning
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Motoi Sakuraba - Motion Of Finishing Blow
Eh sure.
Also, I've been meaning to nod this for almost a week, but kept forgetting, because I pick up on Grefter's poisoned petit fours relatively quickly, but forget they exist shortly after for years:
No they aren't. The Cure is like being in the closet and that closet is falling off a cliff.
That was the videoclip for Close To Me, though (I think rather -literally- to boot. The part where the goddamned closet where the band members slides from cliff straight into the sea is something else). And The Head On The Door was actually pretty decent. Granted, the same furniture-based analogy could be said of Robert Smith's ambiguously fabulous act.
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Continuing on with obscure bands that are likely universally disliked around here~!
Thy Light - In My Last Mourning
Disliked? I think it's more that people just don't know them. Your music taste tends to be pretty obscure, even by DL standards. >.>
Machine Head - Slanderous
- This is bordering on the line for how heavy I like music. Somehow, I still end up liking this song a fair bit.
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Mana Khemia Soundtrack - Wind Festival
I picked such random MK tracks to have in my miscellaneous gaming music folder.
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Emiliana Torrini - Thinking Out Loud
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Everything But The Girl - The Language Of Life
I probably never did learn.
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Continuing on with obscure bands that are likely universally disliked around here~!
Thy Light - In My Last Mourning
Disliked? I think it's more that people just don't know them. Your music taste tends to be pretty obscure, even by DL standards. >.>
Hehe, well, the keyword's 'likely'. Assuming they actually did hear any of it. ;p
Although I do very much welcome anyone to listen to this music, if anyone's interested in finding something new.
Burst - City Cloaked
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AFI - The Missing Frame
- AFI... they're.. blah. They're really average, music-wise. But there's this odd sense of shame that seems to accompany listening to anything by them. :/
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AFI - I think this is what I get for ripping cds from my roommate because they had cool art or something. lesson learned.
AFI are like that yeah. Some of their stuff is a little catchy until you remember how old they are and catch how much they are having a giant whinge in the lyrics.
I have no idea how does AFI sound, but I think this convo done nearly a month ago fits this context very well, Yoshi.
'Til Tuesday - Are You Serious?
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Yeah, but... I don't mind the music, and I have no idea how old they are. So, uhh.. I still don't understand the problem I have with them.
Otomania ft. Miku Hatsune - Ievan Polkka.
- Fuckwhyamidoingthistomyselfwhatamifightingforrrrrr?
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/me reads a lyric of a random AFI song, blinks.
Jesus christ, this is like reading a thirteen-year-old depressed poser's livejournal account full of embarrassingly bad pseudogoth poetry. I think that explains the shame, Yoshi.
'Til Tuesday - Winning The War
The lyrics are about as bad, but being from the '80s makes everything funnier.
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Hmm. I've never really paid any attention to the lyrics. Maybe that's why I couldn't quite place it? Songs are still catchy and okay at times, but.. yeah. Shameful.
Chastain - Angel of Mercy
- <3
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Melotron - Weit Du Bist So Still
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AFI have been around for ages and ages in some form or another, but the one that picked up internationally was from early 2000 when I was in high school and yes you should be absolutely totally embarrassed to be listening to it, it is in the Green Day camp of 40 year olds singing about how hard life is as a teenager.
Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest.
That was the videoclip for Close To Me, though
That was the joke and Close To Me is awesome. If they ever tour near you Snow I highly recommend it. When I went it was over 3 hour concert with maybe one 10 minute break, no support band and none of that wait 2 fucking hours for the band to start shit like most concerts have (I loved Dream Theater live, but FUCK ME they took forever to start). They played really well live and Robert Smith is not exactly a slouch as a showman. One of the best value concerts I have been to.
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That was the videoclip for Close To Me, though
That was the joke and Close To Me is awesome. If they ever tour near you Snow I highly recommend it. When I went it was over 3 hour concert with maybe one 10 minute break, no support band and none of that wait 2 fucking hours for the band to start shit like most concerts have (I loved Dream Theater live, but FUCK ME they took forever to start). They played really well live and Robert Smith is not exactly a slouch as a showman. One of the best value concerts I have been to.
I honestly wish I could, but I have no idea if they even have plans for coming to Brazil again. The last time they've been here, I think I was still a toddler.
R.E.M. - Begin The Begin
I'd have endured the horrible failure of Rock In Rio in 2k1 for R.E.M. alone if I had gotten into the band at that point. Too bad I only started getting into their music when I was 18.
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Aimee Mann - Goodbye, Caroline
He could only really let you down.
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FF4 OCRemix album- Surface of the moon
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Yay, excuse for WAYLT spamming.
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Cocoon
EDIT:
Aimee Mann - Freeway
Fuckin' smilers.
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Cam Butler - The Sun'll Come Up Tommorow
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Roxette - Vulnerable
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The Sure-Fire Midnighters - Sure-Fire Adult Entertainment
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Patti Smith - Pissing In A River
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Underground Railroad - Cookies and Milk.
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Lia - Tori no Uta
So yeah.
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Björk - Human Behavior
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Acoustic Alchemy - Ballad for Kay
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Enigma - Return to Innocence
Another strange case of being completely undecided on whether I love or hate the band.
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Augie March - There is no Such Place.
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Maximum the Hormone - Zetsubou Billy
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Spiral Architect - Insect
This is about as technical as I've heard music get.
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Spiral Architect - Insect
This is about as technical as I've heard music get.
Dat Bass...
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Aphex Twin - 54 Cymru Beats.
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Utena: Absolute Delusion [Das Erotica]
Have I mentioned that Utena has the best song titles? I think I have, but it bears repeating.
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Motorhead - Stone Dead Forever
--> Saliva - Broken Sunday
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Warren Zevon: Lawyers, Guns and Money
The shit has hit the fan.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Killing Jar
Peepshow is fun.
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The Ocean - Isla del Sol
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Patti Smith - So You Want To Be (A Rock 'n Roll Star)
EDIT:
The Cranberries - Zombie
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Killing Jar
Peepshow is fun.
Excepting the title track, surely? I could never stand that one. Only song that I skip when listening to Twice Upon a Time.
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Warren Zevon: Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
It's exactly as awesome as it sounds.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Killing Jar
Peepshow is fun.
Excepting the title track, surely? I could never stand that one. Only song that I skip when listening to Twice Upon a Time.
Peepshow itself sorta needs work. In The Seven Year Itch (a live tour they did back in 2002, methinks), they pulled off a fucking brilliant rendition of it, though.
'Til Tuesday - What About Love
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Warren Zevon: Lawyers, Guns and Money
Again because it's just that badass. Found myself in possession of a Barnes & Noble gift card, so I got the new Satriani, Hunky Dory, and a Warren Zevon compilation today. Only listened to the latter so far.
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Emillana Torrini - Honeymoon Child.
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Patti Smith - Ask The Angels
EDIT:
Aimee Mann - Video
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Warren Zevon: Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
I can't stop listening to this.
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Mouth of the Architect - Wake Me When It's Over
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/me leaves a wad of Madonnanite near the Ciddy, hums.
Aimee Mann - The King of the Jailhouse
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Littering is illegal and tasteless, Snow.
Warren Zevon: Boom Boom Mancini
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It's not littering when it's strategically placed!
Emiliana Torrini - Lifesaver
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Take your postmodern art back to the rape tunnel.
Warren Zevon: I Was in the House When the House Burned Down
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I don't listen to Limp Bizkit.
Everything But The Girl - Get Back Together
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The Residents - Gingerbread Man.
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Ayreon - Computer Eyes
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Aimee Mann - The King Of The Jailhouse (Live At St. Ann's Warehouse)
Wow, the quality of these recordings is excellent.
EDIT:
The Cure - Play For Today
Seventeen Seconds actually is pretty solid.
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Madonna - Material Girl
Not as gloriously catchy as Like A Virgin, but fun bubblegum is fun.
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Philip Glass - The Hours, performed by Branka Parlic on piano.
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Aimee Mann - Little Bombs
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Pelican - Specks of Light
Awesome band. New album. Epic song. <3
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R.E.M. - Texarkana
The final stretch of Out Of Time has some of the best R.E.M. songs ever.
EDIT:
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Blow The House Down
Hyaena probably isn't as good as A Kiss In The Dreamhouse. But damned if it doesn't make a showing.
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Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
- Classic. ♥
Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror
- Mm, not bad. Pearl Jam are probably one of the better bands I downloaded stuff of. (The other contenders being Van Halen and Alter Bridge.)
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10,000 Maniacs - Back 'O The Moon
The Wishing Chair is absolutely brilliant.
EDIT:
10,000 Maniacs - My Mother The War
The Wishing Chair is absolutely brilliant.
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Aimee Mann - Deathly (Live at St. Ann's Warehouse)
Yeah.
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Weird Al - I Love Rocky Road
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Aimee Mann - Long Shot (Live at St. Ann's Warehouse)
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The Flaming Lips - Gemini Syringes.
New album. Not as good as Yoshimi, but that is to be expected. Nice in a my kind of music way.
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The Cure - A Reflection
This is basically an intermission piece. I sorta have to wonder why.
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Megadeth - Holy Wars... And The Punishment Due
One of the most awesome riffs ever created.
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'Til Tuesday - Have Mercy
Welcome Home has the nice little middle ground for 'Til Tuesday albums. But then, it's not that hard when a band only has three CDs.
To Grefter: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots will have to wait at least until the afternoon.
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R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People
Michael Stipe, are you absolutely sure this song is meant to be unironic? Even Kate Pierson backing vocals can only go so far. Oh well, it's still pretty good.
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Björk - I Miss You
But I haven't met you yeeet~
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Bjork - Dull Flame of Desire.
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10,000 Maniacs - Can't Ignore The Train
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Kill Hannah - Believer
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10,000 Maniacs - Back 'O The Moon
No second placers.
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Bjork - Violently Happy.
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Patti Smith - Space Monkeys
Easter rules.
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Devil May Cry 4- Shall Never Surrender
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Patti Smith - Easter
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Madonna - Over and Over
Ciddy fanservice, etc. *Flees~*
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Rise Against - Life Less Frightening
- This band seriously needs more love. Freaking amazing. ♥ (AND I'M SEEING THEM NEXT MONTH YAAAAAAAAY)
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After the Burial - The Fractal Effect
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Electric Six - Naked Pictures (of your mother)
I might like you better if we fucked together.
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The Flaming Lips - It's Summertime
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The Flaming Lips - Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Panitia).
Still best track on their best album. Forgot to say, but if you like this specific kind of track Snow then you should check out Mogwai.
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The Beatles - Dig a Pony.
No, I have not been listening to the Let it Be album over and over and over today. Okay yes I have. Probably my favorite Beatles record at the moment?
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DJ Roger Shah - Palmarosa
Now this was a good discovery. An excellent trance producer.
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Eurythmics - Your Time Will Come
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Dolorata. (Local girl group from San Francisco)
Usually I don't care for local groups, but they're really good.
music samples and stuff (http://www.dolorata.com/music.html)
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Elvis Costello - No Dancing
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Persefone - Fall to Rise
Oh man, I've dawned upon yet another amazing metal band. Dream Theatre meets Children of Bodom. It's awesome.
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Aimee Mann - Invisible Ink (Live)
Aimee Mann's live recordings are very good.
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10,000 Maniacs - Eden
Worth the whole album by itself.
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JAM Project - Yakusoku no Chi
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Everything But The Girl - Old Friends
Worldwide is adorable.
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Elvis Costello - King Horse
I really hope Get Happy keeps up the energy, because the first few songs are marvelous.
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Elvis Costello - Black & White World
Already over halfway through this album? Crazy stuff. Man, that's how you make a 20-track album not sound tiresome.
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R.E.M. - Maps And Legends
This is one of my favorite R.E.M. songs ever. Also, Get Happy ended -really- fast. Bah. At least it's very good Costello, and encourages me to get more into the music.
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Emiliana Torrini - I Really Loved Harold
Gref, did you get my PM with the link for those Emiliana Torrini albums?
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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/all-right-not-alright-if-you-ask-me/
Not music per se, but people reading here will probably appreciate this.
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hehehehehe.
Eurythmics - Aqua
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4MXFOMpVIw&feature=related
Phoenix - 1901. Pretty damn groovy.
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I did Snow. I wasn't going to but it is only 60meg.
Emilana Torrini - At Least it Was.
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I did Snow. I wasn't going to but it is only 60meg.
Emilana Torrini - At Least it Was.
Not to mention that good luck finding those albums in non-intarwebs form. Iceland-only releases woohoo. And I still can't find Spoon.
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I can import stuff and I have been known to spend a bit more than is reasonable on said imports.
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The Jackson 5- I Want You Back
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I have no idea how feasible even importing them would be, on the other hand. That's more on the fact that those albums seem so non-existant in general. In a vacuum, importing even would be sorta reasonable (and heck, I've done that for games myself multiple times), but those Emiliana Torrini works just seem mostly lost in a black hole outside random .rar files weakly scattered around Rapidshare. If you -do- find Spoon as an import, though, I want the songs too.
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They probably are not in print anymore would be the problem most likely. Out of print single country releases are pretty hard to find at the best of times.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - Halloween
Unrelated: Disintegration is fantastic.
EDIT:
Björk - Pluto
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Patti Smith - Beneath The Southern Cross
EDIT:
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
I have no shame.
EDIT2:
10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days
<3 the Unplugged.
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The Flashbulb - Vicious Circle.
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Emiliana Torrini - I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You.
Yeah Tom Waits covers are good.
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - The Imposter
Get Happy is hells yeah.
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Ethereal Blue - Despair
Yay, atmospheric death metal!
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R.E.M. - Good Advices
Mmmm, mood.
EDIT:
Emiliana Torrini - Premier Lovin'
I'm really biased towards blues/jazz.
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'Til Tuesday feat. Elvis Costello - The Other End of the Telescope
This is really great. I can't really emphasize enough how unorthodox and awesome Everything's Different Now is considering the band's evolution. I really have to wonder how would 'Til Tuesday have sounded if it didn't dissolve into the aether after this album.
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Murder By Death - The Organ Grinder.
Happiest cynical song with the man and woman being killed.
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Aimee Mann - Observatory
Happiest cynical song with a lesbian couple not being together.
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Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy
Happy cynical song about a homicidal maniac. I can't confidently say it's the happiest though, because Maxwell's Silver Hammer also exists.
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/me gnaws on the Ciddy out of habit.
10,000 Maniacs - Eden
I will never understand why this song wasn't in the Unplugged, given how they just went with "Our Time In Eden MTV Unplugged" as a concept. Yet, they played JEZEBEL. hurp.
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Electric Six - We Were Witchy Witch White Women.
No, this is the happiest cynical song with a lesbian couple not being together. It features the words "Strap on the dirty glove".
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I concede.
Elvis Costello & the Attraction - King Horse
I have no idea how I'll respond to the more ballad-like phase of Elvis Costello's music. His rock phase really appeases me, though.
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The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. II
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The Cure - Pictures Of You
If there's an album from The Cure that I'd recommend period, it'd be Disintegration. Very cohesive and rather beautiful. Equilibrium is a rare beast in this band's discography, but this one pulls it off.
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Emiliana Torrini - I'm A Bad Luck A Woman
And I CAAAAAAAAAAN'T SEE THE REASON WHYYY~
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Eurythmics - Never Gonna Cry Again
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Innersight - 9 & ?
Well, this discovery was just bizarre. It's like taking post-rock, ambient, and Pink Floyd, and shoving it in a blender. The song's appropriately 39:00 minutes long. ;p
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Savior- Rise against
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Electric Six - Newark Airport Boogie.
HAH COP THAT. Electric Six go out of their way to mock DLer fail.
New album came out a few days ago. Called Kill. It is alright. It isn't as good as Exterminate or Flashy (or... most of the others), but I need to give it a few more spins. No real stand out songs this time, but relatively strong all round. Bit odd for them that way really since they tend to have one or two tracks that really jump out.
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Savior- Rise against
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Opportunity
Pretty sexy. Get Happy rules.
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Persefone - Underworld (The Fallen & The Brutality)
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'Til Tuesday - Long Gone (Buddy)
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Echo & the Bunnymen - Rescue
Holyshit, Crocodiles is pretty fucking hot.
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Electric Six - Steal Your Bones.
Okay THERE is the stand out song of the album. Fuck this song is fun. It is just a lot more staid than their normal big blammo tracks (Considering the last album was Flashy that kind of covers everything there is to say there).
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Electric Six - Waste of Time and Money.
This is probably the other stand out one. Didn't pick it because it is second song on the album following on from Body Shot which is the flashiest song on the album, but not really brilliant and probably has the guitar mixed up a bit much and this song has a similarly mixed lead guitar part. There is pretty fun song hidden underneath it though.
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Between the Buried and Me - Prequel to the Sequel
Mathcore goodness.
EDIT: After the Burial - Fingers Like Daggers
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10,000 Maniacs - What's The Matter Here? (MTV Unplugged)
Better than the original, that's for sure.
EDIT:
10,000 Maniacs - Stockton Gala Days
Correct and pleasant, but not impressive. It still impresses me how this went from one of the most forgettable songs in Our Time In Eden to quite possibly my favorite musical virtuosism demonstration from this band in the Unplugged.
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - The Imposter
He's got double vision.
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Charlie Robison - Yellow Blues
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Electric Six - Body Shot.
Everybody be like HOOYEAH and everybody be like OH YEAH.
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The Faceless - Legions of the Serpent
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Show me your
Sexy trash
But don't go makin' moves
That agitate my raaaaaash
Electric Six - Sexy Trash
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Princess One Point Five - You.
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Between the Buried and Me - Disease, Injury, Madness
From their new album. I'm not amazed with it. I mean, it's still BtBaM, I'd still listen to it, but, in my opinion, it doesn't compare to their previous albums.
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Incubus - Consequence
I love one line from this song: "consequence is seen as being stranger then a gang of drunken mimes."
Whenever Jenna hears that line, she looks at whatever's playing the music and says "Liar! Nothing is stranger then that."
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Manowar - House of Death
It simply doesn't get more over-the-top. ;p
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Electric Six - Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart
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This song is addicting.
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - ... And In Every Home
Hmmmhm. More sophistication than the likes of Armed Forces and Get Happy, less swing. Balances out, though.
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Eurythmics - Missionary Man
Don't mess with the Missionary Man, girly.
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The Ocean - Mesoarchaean: Legions of Winged Octopi
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The Cranberries - Dreams
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Shiny Toy Guns - Burning For You
Really nice cover of a great song.
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High On Fire - Ethereal
The skill and mind of magick
Holding the mystic doors
Like moths to ancient light
Follow ascend in flight
Fall through the ether lakes
Dimension time and space
I knock on astral walls
Gliding through daemon halls
It's black wings wrap around me
Fires glow red and white
A metamorphosis
Until the end of time
Cocooned and made to slumber
The beings that come from darkness
A resurrection passage
Awakes the armies under earth
Quite possibly my favourite lyrics of all time.
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Incubus - Consequence
I love one line from this song: "consequence is seen as being stranger then a gang of drunken mimes."
Whenever Jenna hears that line, she looks at whatever's playing the music and says "Liar! Nothing is stranger then that."
You guys need to listen to more Electric Six.
This song is addicting.
It really is, amazingly good song. Flashy is a stand out album of awesome but you really probably have to have been on the E6 ride for the last 4 albums for it to really shine as brightly sadly. That said everyone should be on the Electric Six ride already. I have pimped Electric Six harder of the years than I have some really good games and the uptake is sadly about as good.
Bjork - Violently Happy
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Humans.
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Grefter: We don't have any Electric Six, nor does anyone we know that we can borrow CDs from. If you want to upload stuff and throw me a link or something I'll be happy to give it a listen though~
Trapt - Black Rose
Emmmoooo. Good song anyway, but so emo.
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10,000 Maniacs - Can't Ignore The Train
Not emo~
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We Came As Romans - Dreams
Screeeeeamoooooo~.
;p
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Honestly, I don't think I've ever heard an Electric Six song that I've liked. That said, I've only heard the really mainstream stuff and don't know anything that's not been released.
U2 - Elevation
I'm really torn on U2's stuff. Most of it is kinda meh, and then they pull out the odd really awesome song. Like this one.
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As a wise Grefter once said: there is no best U2 song, only a collection of worst songs.
10,000 Maniacs - Among the Americans
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Ehh, they have a best song. It's Elevation for most people I know. They just, uhh, don't have much past that.
Nine Black Alps - Ironside
- Yay.
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Even past the horrible memories involving Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, Elevation is pretty unexciting at best. But given U2 standards, "pretty unexciting" is like lavishing praise.
Patti Smith - Free Money
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A Hope For Home - Absolution: Of Flight And Failure
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Ahh. Again, I'm pretty thankful that I've never seen the Tomb Raider movies. But anyways, yeah, Elevation's decent enough. Not amazing, but good.
Disturbed - Down With the Sickness
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I never watched the movies either! Just the only contact I've had with Elevation involved the music video for it, and -that- piece of clinical retardation involved Angelina Jolie making faces that'd have a grown man crying and running for his dead mommy and Bono's unsalvageably genre-blind posse fighting their evil clones (I think half of them had goatees because, you see, they're evil) with the -Power of Rockz 'n Rollz- in an entirely unironic fashion. This was seriously made in the 2000s. Now excuse me while I bludgeon Bono's head with a 2x4.
Tangentially, I have to wonder if those world leaders who met him in their offices just turned on a laugh track to play every time he opened his mouth, because U2 Saves The World Variety Hour has about as much clout as the drunken hobo in the street that does sock puppet shows about the wonders of bong and touching your own special places at night. And, unlike U2, the hobo doesn't mean masturbation.
Aimee Mann - It's Not Safe
EDIT:
'Til Tuesday - What About Love
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Shades Apart - Raidioactivated
I like this band way more then it probably deserves.
Also, not a fan of U2 in general, but I will agree that Elevation is good.
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Elevation? Blah. I like some U2 songs, but anything past Achtung Baby (1991) is just dead dull.
RKS: Letzte Schlacht
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Digging a hole. Elevation!
Dear Bono, fuck you.
Gate, I must have stopped complaining enough about Australian internet. My upload speeds previously had been horrible at best. Now that I have moved out of home I get metered uploads. Ciato is the girl to see about transmitting Electric Six. I can provide other methods of acquiring, but I cannot send them.
If you have listened to Electric Six and not liked it then you do not like fun or music.
Ultimo - Wath the Sun Burn Down.
These guys kind of wanted to be Grinspoon. Nothing wrong with that because Grinspoon are pretty fucking cool.
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Grinspoon - Post Enebriated Society.
Another Song of Rob.
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Okay, I've heard enough. I'll go find them on YouTube...
Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage
Pffffhahaha awesome. Will listen to more later.
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... Duh. Let me put this into perspective here. I have been hyping them in the DL since their FIRST album came out. We are up to the sixth.
Grinspoon - Chemical Heart
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Still Alive. <3
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The Cure - Kyoto Song
The Head On The Door isn't Disintegration, but it's also very good.
EDIT:
The Smiths - Barbarism Begins At Home
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Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
This song has one of the best guitar solos ever.
EDIT:
Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving
Jesus christ, -listening to this- makes a person promiscuous.
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Stars of the Lid - A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaningless Process
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - The Long Honeymoon
Sexy.
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Chronic Xorn- Theory of Pain
Yes, this is a real band and a real song.
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I can tell they're posers 'cuz they have a "theory" of pain. Pain is something you should be able to inflict directly without needing to involve Science in it, even if science does make everything better.
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Chronic Xorn- Theory of Pain
Yes, this is a real band and a real song.
Where do you find those karmic jokes.
Eurythmics - In This Town
EDIT: Grefter, I vaguely remember you pimping Ben Folds at some point. Is that something I should bother with?
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Sukima Switch - Guarana
Why is this song named after one of the most popular drinks over here.
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Yes. He sings a lot of happy songs about dead things and being a total nerd and other stuff.
Emillana Torrini - I.
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Yes. He sings a lot of happy songs about dead things and being a total nerd and other stuff.
Emillana Torrini - I.
Okay, so I didn't download his discography yesterday while playing LFT for nothing. Will give it an actual listen once I get some time at home.
Also, I approve of that song, if only because I'm a complete Crouçie D'oú Lá fangirl.
10,000 Maniacs - The Colonial Wing
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Patti Smith - Gloria
G-l-o-r-i-a. Haven't listened to Horses in forever, and it's worth coming back to.
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Precursors: Yehat (Years Late Mix)
Hm. Not sure if I actually like it more than the original.
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There's an original?
'Til Tuesday - Lovers' Day
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The version in the original game, yes.
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There's a game?
'Til Tuesday - What About Love
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Dammit, Snow. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ (Just in case you're not just trolling me.)
Precursors: Mystic Shadows (Quasispace)
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... that's a game?
Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger
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Dammit, Snow.
Clearly your feeble mind requires pictures for comprehension. Fine. http://www.star-control.com/sc2/
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/me successfully trolls a Ciddy, gains +43 Experience.
Eurythmics - I Could Give You (A Mirror)
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Freedom Dub - Indy
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I am immune to internet sarcasm, so this is hardly an accomplishment. That's 1XP at best.
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I am immune to internet sarcasm, so this is hardly an accomplishment. That's 1XP at best.
Considering I function in a thirty-digit experience scale and that 43 is actually reversely cubic and fractionary, you're giving yourself too much credit. Regardless, it's me and old PC games. It's like asking a child to bludgeon a piñata full of candy. It's less about the person and more about the subject.
Eurythmics - The Walk
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Stars of the Lid - The Evil That Never Arrived
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BassX vs. Scott Brown - Pilgrim2000
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Clutch - The Mob Goes Wild
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Sepultura - Under Siege (Regnum Irae)
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Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild. <3
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Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone
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TM Juke - So good
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The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1.
- Still the best song on the album by far.
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La Rocca - Cross The River
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Nine inch nails- We're in this together now
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'Til Tuesday - Will She Just Fall Down
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Electric Six - Gay Bar Part 2
I used to dress in black every night
I used to dress in black every night
But something happened to me
Something happened to me and now
I dress in white
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They have a Gay Bar Pt. TWO?
Eurythmics - Missionary Man
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It is pretty ridiculous(ly catchy).
Stephen Lynch - D&D
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It is pretty ridiculous(ly catchy).
Stephen Lynch - D&D
I'm tempted to give Electric Six another go just for that (I found it fun enough, but it's just not the kind of band that I can listen to very prolongedly. I like my cheese madness girly). ALTHOUGH:
Eurythmics - The Last Time
Saying Annie Lennox is girly is rather questionable.
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The Ocean - Isla del Sol
Sometimes, I just get addicted to a song. It shows, especially when I've listened to a 10 minute song like this one over 30 times since I found it two weeks ago. ;p
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The Cure - The Baby Screams
I said it before, but The Head On The Door is great. Funnily enough, though, I think what I heard of Echo & the Bunnymen is more consistent and elaborate than what I've heard from The Cure. On the other hand, I only know what may well be EatB's best four albums, and I've listened to like ten The Cure albums, a fair deal of them being pretty uneven.
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The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
GLUUUUUUUUUUURGE
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Gay Bar part 2 is less about Gay Bar and more "Here is an awesome chain of references to the last 4 albums we have made, try to keep up". It is the opening track to Flashy. Flashy grabs you by the throat from the start and just runs with it. It is a very fitting album name and is generally pretty intensely music that is funny as all fuck.
As for girly, did you not see us talking of We Were Witchy Withcy White Women. Totally girly song.
Electric Six - We Were Witchy Witchy White Women.
I was on the inside looking out for you
You were on the outside looking in
We were a Witchy coven of White women
We knew a lot about original sin
We were protected by the police crimewave
Gangster computer with a bloody touch
There were
So many of us
But not enough
Maybe much, too much, too much, too much
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Sabaton - We Burn
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Interpol - PDA
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Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Man, these lyrics make no sense and it's completely glorious.
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R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion
THE reason to listen to Reckoning. And this is an album with nearly no underwhelming songs to start with.
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10,000 Maniacs - Daktari
I -really-, -really- like The Wishing Chair's renditions for Human Conflict #5's/Secrets of the I-Ching's songs. And My Mother The War's next.
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The Eagles - Hotel California
Under the many layers of incomprehensibility that is my taste in music, there does lie a few glimmers of hope such as this one. ;p
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Rob Thomas - Give Me The Meltdown
Jenna likes Gasoline and Fire on the Mountain better, but this is my favorite from the CD.
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Senkou no Ronde Duo- Bird Eye
Almost for got this OST came out. And nice track, reflecting onto Limitless Cinderella perfectly.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Where the Wild Roses Grow.
But my name was Eliza Day.
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Emma Shapplin - Spente La Stelle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYV1KDTAiMo)
Such an awesome song to play full blast.
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Rob Thomas - Give Me The Meltdown
Jenna likes Gasoline and Fire on the Mountain better, but this is my favorite from the CD.
Blah, Rob Thomas. Matchbox 20 was one of the most personalityless bands I've ever heard and their success remains an affront to good taste and common decency.
No offense Gate, just something I have to say whenever Rob Thomas is mentioned.
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The Flaming Lips: One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Swiped it from my parents' place yesterday (sister left it there. Her loss).
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Augie March - Pennywhistle.
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Matchbox 20 - Bright Lights
I now have something else to draw from for Cid-annoying Scene Change antics~
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Velvet Revolver - Fall to Pieces
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Apocalyptica - Life Burns!
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Insomnium - Down With The Sun
Like In Flames, but good!
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Ox - Soul
From MadWorld.
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Dragonforce - Valley of the Damned
Still one of their best by far.
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Head automatica- Beating heart
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Travis - Writing To Reach You
Man, blast from the past.
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Blank & Jones - Revealed
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Elvis Costello - Sunday's Best
Early Elvis Costello is like spending a day in a deranged British amusement park.
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Hellogoodbye - Touchdown Turnaround (Don't Give Up On Me)
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Travis - Writing To Reach You
I still think Travis are one of the most under-rated bands ever. They have some utterly amazing music, and I'm yet to hear something of their's I don't like.
Coldplay - In My Place
- Looove this song right now. Love the whole mood of this song and it just... wins.
--> HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR - Mizutama Ramune.
- An old favourite of mine. Definitely my favourite HaMC one still, although Haitoku no Jonetsu is a close second.
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Travis is pleasant, but ultimately not amazing. Pretty decent melodic bases (Coldplay sorta reminisces me of Travis. However, Travis doesn't have a vocalist as insufferable as Chris Martin. On the other hand, Travis lyrics are well below Coldplay for quality. Coldplay lyrics aren't great), but it's not much beyond sorta neat music for those days you feel like carryin' a raincloud over your head.
Elvis Costello - Senior Service
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Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs
HOLY SHIT, it's heaven up here. Piano nerdrock with absolutely hilarious lyrics and a competent enough singer? I'm reborn in Jeebus.
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R.E.M. - Texarkana
Godly.
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Augie March - The Slant.
Uh Travis hype? Don't see it. Not amazing britpop. I will take Coldplay with stuff like Clocks and Spies any day. Edit - THE SCIENTIST. THE. SCIENTIST.
Edit 2 - Well they are of course better than Oasis, but that is no achievement.
Also Snow, yeah this is why you should have been listening to Ben Folds. That is his radio friendly stuff also (As is Underground) which are fun, but his other stuff is great also. If you can track down live tracks they aren't bad either.
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Edit - THE SCIENTIST. THE. SCIENTIST.
Is pretty cool when Aimee Mann sings it, yeah.
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Drifter
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Augie March - Men Who Follow Spring the Planet 'Round.
Man, we listen to Bjork. I don't think we are in much of a position to really complain about someone having a difficult singing voice.
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I don't really find Chris Martin's voice difficult. I just find it insufferable. I know Travis' vocalist isn't a lot better, but I dislike Chris Martin's voice so much that it turns me off the band entirely, which sucks ass because the musicians are quite good and the melodic work is fine.
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Shadowtime
EDIT: The Ben Folds album I brought is a live album, actually, which is kinda weird, but I ain't complaining. Nice In Between Days cover opener.
EDIT 2:
Emiliana Torrini - Unemployed In Summertime
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Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Aurora Borealis
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Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair/Canticle
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The Dillinger Escape Plan - Sunshine the Werewolf.
Mostly screaming, but I can deal with that, the music underneath it is actually pretty alright and the band is called The Dillinger Escape Plan.
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Elvis Costello - No Action
Yeah, it's official, I'm a fan of Elvis Costello & the Attractions. It's probably time to check out his other phases, and I should definitely check his album with Burt Bacharach.
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Blackmore's Night - Castles and Dreams
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Elvis Costello - I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea
It's really funny to think about Elvis Costello singing these songs. Amazingly tongue-in-cheek and surprisingly acid breakup songs coming from someone as dorky-looking as him is downright brilliant (and heck, he looked -even geekier- when he was young. Eat your hands in jealousy, Rivers Cuomo). By the way, nice live performances.
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Everything But The Girl - When All's Well
Okay, I'm just a fangirl of british pop/rock.
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Susumu Hirasawa - Venus
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The Dillinger Escape Plan - Sunshine the Werewolf.
Mostly screaming, but I can deal with that, the music underneath it is actually pretty alright and the band is called The Dillinger Escape Plan.
*applauds*
Mathcore, technical metalcore, call it what you will, but DEP are awesome. ;p
The Ocean - Legions of Winged Octopi
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The Smiths - This Charming Man
I keep pretending I was a teenager in '84 Manchester.
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Patti Smith - Frederick
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Flogging Molly - Another Bag of Bricks (Acoustic Version)
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Elvis Costello - Poor Napoleon
I don't know the movie Napoleon Dynamite, but now I know where the title came from. I have to wonder.
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Aimee Mann - Invisible Ink
Beautiful.
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Ben Folds - Gone
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Mogwai - I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead.
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Mouth of the Architect - Baobab
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Gary Allan - Life Ain't Always Beautiful
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Elvis Costello - Two Little Hitlers
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Billy Joel - Vienna, with FFT in the background.
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Elvis Costello - Watch Your Step
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Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
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Elvis Costello - Shot With His Own Gun
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Ziggy Marley - Arthur Theme Song
YEAH. YOU READ IT RIGHT. This song is the definition of badass.
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The Eagles- Hotel California
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And I thought I liked limburger cheese music.
'Til Tuesday - Sleep
EDIT:
Elvis Costello - The Beat
Motherfucker, This Year's Model is one of the -best rock albums I've ever listened to-.
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Patti Smith - So You Want To Be A Rock 'n Roll Star
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I'm on a classic music kick right now. Iron Maiden- Run to the hills
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Elvis Costello - The Loved Ones
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Arctic Monkeys - 505.
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Happy Days - The Beginning
This song quotes Fight Club. Twice. No matter how bad you might think the song itself sounds, it's automatically good thanks to mention of Fight Club. ;p
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The Cranberries - Ridiculous Thoughts
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10,000 Maniacs - A Campfire Song
Probably my favorite song from In My Tribe.
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Elvis Costello - I Hope You're Happy Now
Welcome to the grim carnival. I know it'll hurt you more than it hurts me.
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Apocalyptica: Worlds Collide
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Elvis Costello - The Beat
God, fuck yes.
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Motorhead - Bomber
I still insist this song sounds like it's saying "It's Obama! It's Obama! Yeah!" ...It definitely sounds like it.
...whaaaat? >.>
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Motörhead was supposed to be understandable?
'Til Tuesday - I Could Get Used To This
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Between the Buried and Me - Swim to the Moon
New album. Not entirely impressed. It's BtBaM, mind you, but it doesn't compare to their previous albums.
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Panopticon - Aptrgangr
Bluegrass + black metal = Panopticon.
And no, the song's not misspelled. ;p
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Oasis- To Be Where There Is Life
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Of Montreal - I was a Landscape in your Dream
Wow. This band is Queen except in the late nineties to now. And if Freddie Mercury did a lot of acid. ...Well, more acid.
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Elvis Costello - You'll Never Be A Man
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Codes in the Clouds - Don't Go Awash In This Digital Landscape
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FFX Soundtrack - Ride ze Shoopuf?
I don't know what it is about this song, but I absolutely love it. Especially from around 1:00 to 1:24. I wonder what instrument makes that sound, or if the sound's just made through the keyboard. Likely the latter, but it's got me curious.
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It's pretty clearly a synthesizer, yes.
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Elvis Costello - Next Time Round
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Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again
You know. Eurythmics doesn't really do the "dance" part all that well. This would be a bigger problem if they weren't so -good- at mood.
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Blue October - Overweight
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KOMPRESSOR - KOMPRESSOR DOES NOT DANCE
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Emiliana Torrini - Today I Sing The Blues
Also, I'd have to play Roxette to get even halfway as self-parodic as Grefter right now.
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The Cure - In Your House
Seventeen Seconds does mood pretty decently.
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Ben Folds - Bitches Ain't Shit
/me cracks up. This is so wrong.
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Beanbag - Whiplash.
Ben Folds is fun like that Snow.
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The best part is he's a pretty damned good musician. The lyrics are just completely hilarious and tongue-in-cheek and it's glorious.
Eurythmics - I Am Never Gonna Cry Again
In The Garden is beautiful, haunting and completely unlike everything else Eurythmics did. Mind, I like their later work, but this debut is just... so unique. This ethereal, subtle musicality was something they never pulled off again, and I have to wonder if they'd have kept this style through were they breaking through a decade later instead of going more dancey from Sweet Dreams onwards. Although I think it worked fine, since they always managed to pull off effective atmospheric music throughout their career.
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Snow: The answer is no. They would've broken up if it weren't for Sweet Dreams happening at the last minute. Such was the story I read, at least.
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What I meant was something else, though. What I sorta wish is that In The Garden was their breakthrough album instead of Sweet Dreams.
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Njiqahdda - Of Beasts and Blossoms
Atmospheric ambient black metal. C'mon, I KNOW you guys wanna check it out. ;p
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I WAS listening to the Tossers on Pandora. Then I reached my free listening limit. ;_;
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Note to self: send In The Garden to Gate and see if he likes it.
Eurythmics - English Summer
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28 days later soundtrack- In the house, in a heartbeat
This is unsurprisingly good biking music.
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Simon & Garfunkel - You Can Tell The World
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Clubland
Okay, me likes this.
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Subterranean Masquerade - Wolf Among Sheep (Or Maybe The Other Way Around)
Some weird mix of jazz, psychedelic rock, death metal and prog. C'mon, I KNOW you guys wanna check it out. ;p
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C'mon, I KNOW you guys wanna check it out. ;p
I swear you add this on to the end of every post, if only because you KNOW we don't want to.
Since I'm downloading more new music, I figured I'd best go back to listening to and sorting out the last wave of stuff I got.
Tool - Pushit
- ...Meh. Not bad, but not worth listening to for the whole 10 minutes.
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Megadeth - Coming Home
- Holy crap. This is Megadeth? I like them normally, but I know that they have a distinct style. This is almost on the same sort of "Holy crap, this is THEM?!" level as Disturbed - Darkness, which is... yeah. Anyways, amazing song, and definitely more standard DL fare, methinks.
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Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Ocean Rain (the album) really emphasizes a lot of what makes EatB so damned good. I think I can say pretty safely that, at their best, I find them superior to The Cure when they're on their game as well. More consistency, stronger songwriting and superior atmosphere building.
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Björk - Army Of Me
It's on.
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Angela - Shangri-La
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Björk - Cover Me
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Ben Folds - Rent A Cop
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Bush - Everything Zen.
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Aimee Mann - Dear John
EDIT:
Emiliana Torrini - Merman
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Flight of the Conchords - Rambling Through The Avenues of Time
These guys just own.
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Eurythmics - Thorn In My Side
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Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
This song continues to justify their existence to me.
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WoW - Bronze Jam
I... what... the whole of Icecrown music tracks is just so... Normally I don't care but seriously, these tracks are goddamn weird.
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Anyone actually listens to WoW music? Raid music even?
VCR - Scaredofvcr.com
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Anyone actually listens to WoW music? Raid music even?
VCR - Scaredofvcr.com
I only did it because someone I knew mentioned it.
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Owl City - Hot Air Balloon
Indie synthpop electronica of sorts. C'mon, I KNOW you gu-*shot*
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You're pimping random metal stuff at the DL. I think most here are more likely to pick up STDs from cartwheeling into the ocean than to actually check those things out. Ask Grefter's opinion about the DL and music if you want to see mad australian rants. >_>
(I personally won't ever even give a minute of my day to check it out, but I -loathe- prog rock and metal with all my midgety might. <_<)
(EDIT: I know you're kidding, kinda! Just I feel the nagging need to point out the glaringly obvious sometimes)
Echo & the Bunnymen - Silver
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I'm fine with metal up to a certain point. When I really tune out is when I hear that guttural roaring that death metal bands do instead of singing. I hate that sound.
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I also sorta wanted to nag that it's not just metal that receives the apathy from the DL, generally. Music sorta isn't one of the group's DL nerdery focus areas.
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Oh, no worries, I understand completely. I don't mean to try and push my taste in music onto any of you (lord knows -my- taste in music is about incomprehensible as they come). I was just sarcastically pointing out that fact myself by bringing them up, because what I DO know is that you guys would likely never look this stuff up anyways. ;p
Hehe, in fact, I'd be shocked myself if I brought -any- of you to listen to the clusterfuck that is my music. ^^;
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You never know, though. I mean, Grefter's hype -eventually- got me listening to some of the stuff he pimps, but then, Grefter's ecletic enough to dabble in almost everything and he figured out my musical biases by this point.
R.E.M. - Old Man Kensey
EDIT:
Eurythmics - Never Gonna Cry Again
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Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage
Giving E6 a listen, but not too terribly impressed so far.
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Oh, no worries, I understand completely. I don't mean to try and push my taste in music onto any of you (lord knows -my- taste in music is about incomprehensible as they come). I was just sarcastically pointing out that fact myself by bringing them up, because what I DO know is that you guys would likely never look this stuff up anyways. ;p
Hehe, in fact, I'd be shocked myself if I brought -any- of you to listen to the clusterfuck that is my music. ^^;
Pushing things on others is part of the fun of the Internet. <3
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Mother Vocal OST -
PollyanaBein' Friends
Somehow these songs make me feel all happy inside. why did i not discover this ost sooner
I was just sarcastically pointing out that fact myself by bringing them up, because what I DO know is that you guys would likely never look this stuff up anyways. ;p
I think that goes for just about any song here? I can't imagine someone looking up each and every song posted.
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It would be fine if you people didn't hear a piece of background music constructed entirely on synthesizer and bust a nut about how it is BEST SONG EVER while I am here busy trying to find the latest thing to involve someone playing hand made instruments built out of power tools. The horizon is just so big and you never even see it.
There is room for a man and his synthesizer to make music, but when they are just emulating a 5 piece String group with it I fail to be excited. I would rather a spectrograph image of the artists face encoded into tones (This is an actual song). Or shit even something as simple as Pi to a billion decimal places with an individual tone for each digit was more interesting than most video game music. I need to find that website again.
That said, corrupting individuals with your music works much better than widespread approach. Some of them even do you proud and spread it around themselves or start to find stuff for you.
Between the Buried and Me - Bicycle Race.
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Electric Six - Jimmy Carter
Alright, it's definately picking up.
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Yeah they are like that Gate. They get better as you get further into their career I find, but you really need to have listened to the older stuff to really get some of the stuff off their album before this new one. (Flashy is chock full of callbacks to the first few albums on the first track on it)
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There are several hard rock/metal fans here, Piggy.
SSH- Zeromus's battle theme (Remix)
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DL has trend towards a strong distaste for GRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL though which is a common occurrence in some of the stuff Piggy has put up here >_> It is a shame that the genre is trying so hard to be accessible these days amongst newer groups that are doing some really cool stuff instrumentally. More than one or two that are in the In Flames mold of interesting but need to be able to handle growl.
Between the Buried and Me - More of Myself to Kill.
Edit - This is pretty much a textbook example. Start of the song is ROOOOOOOOAAAAARRRRRRRRR and then you hit the middle and it is the kind of thing that everyone can handle, it is like Opeth mated Damnation with the rest of their stuff (Pro Tip - Damnation is their best album by far and you should have it).
Edit - Whoops accidentally said Deliverance when I meant Damnation, big difference in the kinds of albums they are.
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Delerium - Euphoria (Firefly)
And most of what you mentioned two posts prev. sounds cool, Grefter, even if I don't know I'd get into it in practice.
/me doesn't... mind GROOOOOWL but eh, can't take songs full of it.
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Well, I'll admit, the whole growling/gutteral vocals thing is an acquired taste. But don't get me wrong, metal isn't all I listen to. My library is extensive and eclectic, and I'm -more- than certain I could find a band for each and every one of you to fall in love with. ;p
Evergreen Terrace - Chaney Can't Quite Riff Like Helmet's Page Hamilton
The way the band sings in unison at the beginning is pretty intense.
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Sure I can do the growl when I feel like it, but it is utterly repulsive when it isn't what you are after and it honestly is not what the majority of people are after.
Between the Buried and Me - Ad a Dlgmut
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The Eagles - Journey of the Sorcerer
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On the other hand you have people like THAT who enjoy music to tacky you can almost taste the glitter and sequins.
Toto - Africa.
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It's not my fault that song is permanently associated with HHGTG.
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Kate Miller-Heidke - The One Thing I Know
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Did I hear something about glitter and sequins?
Elvis Costello - Clubland
Maybe this cue would've worked better with Roxette instead of Costello.
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The Cure - Play For Today
Hmmm. Good song, good album.
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Ben Folds - Rent A Cop
The next song in this album is called "Get Your Hands Off My Woman", which is a rather skillfully played piano rock piece. Oh, and its chorus adds a sound "MOTHERFUCKER" to that inspiring ditty. Ben Folds is funner than a barrel of monkeys. He makes me impressed with the strong balance between pop catchiness and instrumental acumen while making me crack up with the retardedly tongue-in-cheek mundanity of the lyrics.
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R.E.M. - Crazy
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Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
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Richard Cheese - Down With the Sickness.
This was kind of inevitable.
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Apocalyptica- Hope Vol II
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Rage Against the Machine - I'm Housin'.
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There's a band called Hacksaw to the Throat. I -really- wish I could like these guys. I'm always so disappointed when a band with a neat band name ends up being so terrible.
Fifths of Seven - Echoes From A Wandered Path
Atleast these guys kinda live up to the awesomeness of their band name. ;p
EDIT: Hacksaw to the Throat - Insurrection
Wow, anything I said about these guys being terrible was a lie. These guys are intense.
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Patti Smith - Ghost Dance
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Elvis Costello - Battered Old Bird
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Elvis Costello - This Year's Girl
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Alexi Murdoch - Slow Revolution
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MXPX- I'm ok,, you're ok
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Princess One Point Five - And Then We Stopped Breathing.
Yay found another CD by one of my $5 winners that was pretty good. Winner name, not sure how good the track is going to be though (Should be good)
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Larry and his Flask - Swing.
These guys opened for Dropkick Murphys when they came to Bend last week. I have never seen a man go that crazy on a slap bass before.
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How were the Murphys live?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Pachuco Cadaver.
Fun in a proto Tom Waits kind of way. Definitely where he got his voice after he stopped piano ballads (more so this album than the other one I have), but Waits goes that step further with it. Beefheart doesn't get nearly as close to the same kind of Gypsy feel and he lacks Wait's range to use the voice to sound anything from Satan himself to a sailor to a worn out drunkard in his middle age who has had his entire being crushed ooooorrrrrrr a sweet singing voice.
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Crystal castles- vanished
Was randomly flipping around youtube and pulled this up. That type of weird music's not usually my thing, but it's interesting to listen to at least.
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10,000 Maniacs - Like The Weather
I heard this playing in a Starbucks a couple days ago and realized that I had somehow managed to not put it on any of my primary playlists. This glaring error has been fixed, of course.
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Eurythmics - Room 101
For The Love Of Big Brother is a very interesting album as a stand-alone Eurythmics piece. As a conceptual work based on 1984, though, I'm still mulling over it.
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How were the Murphys live?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Pachuco Cadaver.
Fun in a proto Tom Waits kind of way. Definitely where he got his voice after he stopped piano ballads (more so this album than the other one I have), but Waits goes that step further with it. Beefheart doesn't get nearly as close to the same kind of Gypsy feel and he lacks Wait's range to use the voice to sound anything from Satan himself to a sailor to a worn out drunkard in his middle age who has had his entire being crushed ooooorrrrrrr a sweet singing voice.
Quite awesome. Their show went for... six hours? Something like that. Three opening acts and then they played a good two dozen songs or so after that. Also I got to see someone get tossed by the bouncers for trying to climb OVER people to get to the front row.
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Cult of Luna - Owlwood
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Patti Smith - Ghost Dance
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Roxette - I Could Never Give You Up
Delicious cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese.
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Meshuggah - New Millennium Cyanide Christ
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Eurythmics - English Summer
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Breaking Benjamin - Without You
I didn't really notice much about this song the first time I heard it until the very end, but it's a really strong ending.
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Eurythmics - For The Love Of Big Brother
Mmmmm, the more I listen to this album, the more I like it. Eurythmics are at their best when they're exercising their atmospheric sound muscles, and this one is almost as focused on that facet as In The Garden. Grefter, have you given this a whirl?
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Cult of Luna - Ghost Trail
Atmosludge. *two thumbs up*
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Eurythmics - Doubleplusgood
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Theory in Practice - Colonizing The Sun
Technical death metal. In case the name interested you enough to look them up. ;p
But I guess it's expected from me at this point? Haha, I suppose I can still -hope- to intrigue one of you.
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Electric Light Orchestra: Fire On High
I like this probably more than I should.
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Eurythmics - Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
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Electric Light Orchestra: Fire On High
I like this probably more than I should.
Nonsense, that song is the definition of sex.
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Close, but not quite.
Deep Purple: Highway Star
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Theory in Practice - Colonizing The Sun
Technical death metal. In case the name interested you enough to look them up. ;p
But I guess it's expected from me at this point? Haha, I suppose I can still -hope- to intrigue one of you.
Checked it. I will stick with my Dream Theater stuff with much more emphasis on the technical perfection (this is GOOD though) and with LaBrie singing. Again, the Growl is overplayed in metal at this point. Would work better as instrumental. Is kind of DT meets Thrash metal. If you know what this means and that appeals to you then you should check it out.
David Bowie - Saviour Machine.
This is more how I prefer my 1984 inspired stuff Snow, but I haven't given most of Eurythmics stuff a good spin. I more knew they would be you than something I listen to heaps.
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Spineshank - Malnurition.
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Procul Harum: Conquistador
The orchestra version of this song is so badass.
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Much appreciated that you had a listen, Gref. =)
If there's ever any bands you'd like to share, I'm more than willing to listen.
Explosions in the Sky - First Breath After Coma
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Neil Young: Like a Hurricane
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This is more how I prefer my 1984 inspired stuff Snow, but I haven't given most of Eurythmics stuff a good spin. I more knew they would be you than something I listen to heaps.
I even figure, but I'm mostly curious due to your bigger interest in concept albums and all. For The Love Of Big Brother, as a conceptual, 1984-inspired album, kinda doesn't do it for me, but I find it somewhat fascinating as a stand-alone piece.
Elvis Costello - You Little Fool
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Yume Bitsu - I Wait For You
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'Til Tuesday - Will She Just Fall Down?
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Eurythmics - Revenge
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Blotted Science - E.E.G. Tracings
Hey, any of you love technical death metal, but hate death metal vocals? Blotted Science = instrumental!
EDIT: As Winter Burns White - I Speak From A Tragedy
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I'm sorry, am I too in love with music? ;p
Flight of the Conchords - Rambling Through The Avenues of Time
She reminded me of a winter's morning
(What, frigid?)
Her perfume was Eau De Toilette
(What does that mean?)
She was comparable to Cleopatra
(Quite old?)
She was like Shakespeare's Juliet
(What, 13?)
Eeeehehehe, oh, this song is too good.
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2nd Storm
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Blotted Science - EEG Tracings.
Yeah okay I will probably buy some of this. After a night of modern Synth Pop (did you know they are doing this again? I didn't until I spent an entire night listening to modern pop and could count on one hand the number of songs that weren't almost entirely Synthesized and about HALF of them were quite distinctly sung through synth. FUCK modern pop music so fucking much.) this is exactly what I wanted. Some cool aggressive guitar riffs (SEE I GOT TO LISTEN TO A MUSE SONG TONIGHT AND FALL OUT BOY! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY GUITAR fuck modern pop music. I got to listen to a couple of songs off the new Powderfinger album, which were good).
So yeah I might just be perfectly in the mood for this, but sod it, buying it anyway.
Edit - Oh yeah and every post I make here is a suggestion.
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After a night of modern Synth Pop (did you know they are doing this again? I didn't until I spent an entire night listening to modern pop and could count on one hand the number of songs that weren't almost entirely Synthesized and about HALF of them were quite distinctly sung through synth. FUCK modern pop music so fucking much.)
what
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Echo & the Bunnymen - The Cutter
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Owl City - Umbrella Beach
Probably the happiest song I currently have on my iTunes.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Sweetest Chill
EDIT:
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Cannons
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R.E.M. - I Believe
I believe in coyotes.
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When you have a singer who sings through a synthesizer to a 4 bar repeated beat with a fake snare and base drum the entire fucking song in Synth work and this is what pop music is. Thus Synth Pop.
Nena - 99 Luft Balloons.
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When you have a singer who sings through a synthesizer to a 4 bar repeated beat with a fake snare and base drum the entire fucking song in Synth work and this is what pop music is. Thus Synth Pop.
I understand that. I just sorta don't really get why you tried it.
EDIT: oh right muzik
R.E.M. - What If We Give It Away
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I didn't, office Christmas Party so I didn't have much choice and my friend who organized that kind of thing specifically told me she was going to do it as well since it would stop the majority of other people complaining because if there is something you can say for highly produced music, it is carefully manufactured not to offend while still being softcore porn. It was a Christmas Party, I was just happy it wasn't carols and took it as a win, it was far from the most important thing to organise (there was a great deal of alcohol for other people to imbibe).
Underworld - Born Slippy.
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Makes sense.
Eurythmics - English Summer
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Interpol - Say Hello To Angels
EDIT: Stars of the Lid - Don't Bother They're Here
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Emiliana Torrini - Beggar's Prayer
Did Ciato actually get her hands on Emiliana Torrini? </gratuitous innuendo>
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Black Mages - Assault of the Silver Dragons
- One of the best from Darkness and Starlight. <3
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Elvis Costello - Night Rally
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Clutch - 10001110101
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COG - 1010011010
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Eurythmics - Revival
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311 - Beautiful Disaster
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Flogging Molly - Life in Tenement Square
Picked up Swagger today~
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Bleed the Sky - Minion.
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Stars of the Lid - A Meaningful Moment Through A Meaingless Process
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Crustaceans - Telecaster
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Clutch - Guild of Mute Assassins
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Turisas - Rex Regi Rebellis
- Finnish Battle Metal? Wiiin. Although One More is still their best song. ;o
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Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
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Paramore- Decode
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Pelican - What We All Come To Need
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Fly High from Gunbuster. Because I can.
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Emiliana Torrini - Dead Duck.
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Boards of Canada - Hey Saturday Sun
EDIT: Interpol - Hands Away
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Elvis Costello - I Hope You're Happy Now
Blood and Chocolate is slightly mean-spirited.
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Iron Maiden - Brave New World
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Stars of the Lid - Requiem For Dying Mothers
I think these guys have made their way to my top 5 bands, alongside Explosions in the Sky, Cult of Luna, Mouth of the Architect and Pelican. Their music is slow, minimalistic, beatless atmospheric ambience. If you dig that, check it out. Otherwise, you'll probably get bored of it pretty quickly. ;p
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R.E.M. - Moral Kiosk
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Elvis Costello - From A Whisper To A Scream
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Utena: Dona Dona
Dammit, why do I still not own this show.
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Because it's anime, they don't expect anyone to want to BUY it, so it's not available.
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Back when I had my very own anime club, I pulled off the coup of having the Utena cow episode on the same night that we watched the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode using the same song (my favorite episode of that excellent show - the one featuring Batou and the boxing instructor). Ah, life's little victories.
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Echo & the Bunnymen - Show Of Strength
I wonder what people think when they see the band's name at a first glance. It's definitely weird seeing such a strongly nuanced and atmospheric sound strapped to this nomenclature.
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Dollhouse meets Revenge of the Weasel Queen (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070905)?
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Don't tempt me at work!
Echo & the Bunnymen - It Was A Pleasure
EDIT:
Everything But The Girl - Anytown
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Ratatat - Loud Pipes
Err... kinda like... instrumental electronica-meets-hip-hop with awesome guitars? Ish.
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It's not a band of singing Rattatas? Disappointment of the millennium.
Eurythmics - Sing-Sing
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Astronaut Wife - Flying Saucer
EDIT:
Astronaut Wife - Snake Charmer
Hypnotic little song.
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Roxette - Neverending Love
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Rome - Swords to Rust, Hearts to Dust
Badass neofolk band. Lyrics and vocalist are awesome.
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Everything But The Girl - Flipside
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Mouth of the Architect - Harboring An Apparition
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KOMPRESSOR - DER TODESSYNTHEISIZER
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Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Love For Tender
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Secondhand Serenade - Pretend
I take back anything bad I said about Piggy's suggestions before. -Some- of them can be good, it seems. ;)
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Richard Cheese - Girls Girls Girls.
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God Is An Astronaut - Beyond The Dying Light
EDIT: Stars of the Lid - Requiem for Dying Mothers
I'm officially obsessed with this song. I am at my happiest with this song to my ears.
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Everything But The Girl - Before Today
Hmmmm.
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Pelican - Specks of Light
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Patti Smith - Revenge
EDIT:
Elvis Costello & the Imposters - Turpentine
Holy, Momofuku is pretty hot.
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David Bowie - Dead Man Walking.
Earthling is still a fucking awesome album.
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Evol Intent - South London
D&B at its finest.
EDIT: Explosions in the Sky - It's Natural To Be Afraid
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Castlevania Curse of Darkness- A Toccata into a blood soaked darkness
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Floyd Thursby and the Definite Article - The Thief.
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Metallica - The Unforgiven
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Iron Maiden - Revelations
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Everything But The Girl - Sean
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Explosions in the Sky - With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept
EDIT: Hacksaw to the Throat - Obsidian Sun
This song does not sound like something made by a band called Hacksaw to the Throat. With that said, it sounds beautiful. ;p
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Across Tundras - Tectonic Shifts
Described as progressive psychedelic stoner doom rock.
lol, curiosity got the better of me. ;p
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Kaye-Louise Patterson - Puis J'Avoir Un Billet?
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Hacksaw to the Throat - Obsidian Sun
Different than what I was expected based on their other songs, I'll say that.
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Blue October - Jump Rope
Up~ Down~ Up~ Down~
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Dream Theater - As I Am
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Travis - Driftwood
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Gojira - A Sight To Behold
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Alter Bridge - Before Tomorrow Comes
Have I hyped these guys here? It's the singer from the Mayfield Four and the rest of the members from Creed. Utterly -amazing- to listen to - for best results, listen to Blackbird (utterly amazing song, powerful singing for a 40y/o >.>) or Open Your Eyes (somewhat louder, although both are slow. They have faster songs, but these two are by far their best.)
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Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A.
This song...won't...leave...my...mind...
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Amon Amarth - Friends of the Suncross
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Accidents Will Happen
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members from Creed.
No.
powerful singing for a 40y/o
Bitch, go listen to some Tom Waits. Age has so little to do with a singing voice it ain't funny.
COG - Silence is Violence.
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Pfft, I actually know nothing of Creed. All I know is that Blackbird is the most amazing song I've heard in a long time. And that includes all those bands you suggested I listen to - Alter Bridge > any of those, at the very least. ;o
As for the singing, I know there are other older singers who are better. Doesn't change the fact that it's pretty amazing to hear, considering how much voice -can- deteriorate with age.
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
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I randomly open this topic for the first time in months to see Alter Bridge hyped. I approve. Coming Home is by far their best though.
Yousei Teikoku - Destrudo
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Alter Bridge - Coming Home.
So uh this hype is over generic rock? What the fuck? I liked this better when it was done originally in the mid 90's when Faith No More were busy making a song that made no fucking sense and rocked about twice as hard.
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Pfft, I actually know nothing of Creed.
And you have no idea how lucky you are.
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<_< Man, Creed was one of my favorite bands in HS. Still like them, though I haven't heard anything more recent then Weathered.
And on that note,
Creed - Faceless Man
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Speaking of bands we liked in high school...
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
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Bands we liked in high-school? I can play this game too.
The Cranberries - I Still Do
EDIT:
Madonna - Holiday
ahahahahahahaha this is too much fun.
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NahemaH - The Perfect Depth of the Mermaids
Weird band. I find myself hard-pressed to label them. Some weird clusterfuck of prog and extreme metal, but it's not as simple as calling it progressive metal. ;p
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David Bowie - 5:15 The Angels Have Gone.
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Accidents Will Happen
You used to be a victim, now you're not the only one.
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After the Burial - Fingers Like Daggers
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Astronaut Wife - Snake Charmer
Still a fantastic song, no matter how many times I listen to it.
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Cult of Luna - Dim
My search for salvation has begun
To find a place where our hearts beat as one
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Deviations Project - Frogger
It's an Axel F remix/cover/something. With strings. It's awesome.
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Graveworm - Fear of the Dark (Iron Maiden cover)
One of the best covers to a song I've -ever- heard.
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Doctor Steel - The Dr. Steel Show.
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Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain.
FUCK YES DREAM THEATER CONCERT TOMORROW.
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Echo & the Bunnymen - Happy Death Men
Mmmmyeah, definitely like Echo & the Bunnymen more than The Cure now.
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Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
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Everything But The Girl - Come On Home
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Electric Six - Be My Dark Angel
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Agalloch - The Hawthorne Passage
lol
Ok, guys. Listen to this.
I was listening to this song, and, as I was listening, I started thinking "Wow, this is a really good song! I should check out the lyrics."
So I tried to Google the lyrics. For like, 10 minutes straight, I couldn't find them. I was getting a little perplexed. Do these guys hide their lyrics or something? So I tried another song. Found those no problem. I listened to the song again.
...The Hawthorne Passage is an instrumental song.
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Roxette - Knockin' On Every Door
Joyride is a borderline bubblegum pop masterpiece.
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Cult of Luna - And With Her Came The Birds
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Cranberries- Zombie
Nothing else on the CD stands out like this song. It's a bit more uptempo/heavy than their normal stuff.
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Steely Dan - The Boston Rag
Haven't listened to these guys in a month. Countdown to Ecstasy is pretty excellent.
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Eurythmics - English Summer
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Rome - To Die Among Strangers
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Apocalyptica: Worlds Collide
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Miracle Man (Live)
Fucking glorious.
EDIT:
Roxette - Physical Fascination
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Guano Apes - Diokhan.
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High On Fire - 10,000 Years
What a sexy riff.
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Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough.
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King Crimson - The Court of the Crimson King
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Daft Punk - Television Rules the Nation /Crescendolls mashup. Alive 2007 might be a better album than Discovery.
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Fame. By David Bowie, yes.
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Blue October - Overweight
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Austrian Death Machine - I Am A Cybernetic Organism, Living Tissue Over Metal Endoskeleton.
Holy fuck this is awesome.
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Eluveitie - Omnos
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Austrian Death Machine - You Have Just Been Erased.
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Austrian Death Machine - Get To The Choppa.
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So I guess everything this band does is based on an Arnold movie? I don't really like the music, but that's pretty amusing.
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Austrian Death Machine - I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle.
Yes, yes it is. And it is just bonus points that I enjoy the music as well. It isn't just based on Arnold movies, they are pretty much all just chain Arnold quotes one after the other (Where you can make them).
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The Eagles - Hotel California
Why is this song so GOOD?
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And I thought I liked cheese.
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Accidents Will Happen
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You like it because it is a good song.
The Broken Keys - Redlight
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Aimee Mann - Goodbye Caroline
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Austrian Death Machine - Who Told You You Could Eat My Cookies?
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - I Hope You're Happy Now
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Austrian Death Machine - I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, And Your Motorcycle.
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Andromeda - Chameleon Carnival
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Blotted Science - The Insomniac
EDIT: Blotted Science - Amnesia
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Masterplan - Dark From The Dying
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Jordan Rudess - The Silent Man
Ohhhh my goooood, one of the best musicians -ever-.
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The Delgados - All You Need is Hate
Probably a good theme song for someone.
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Jordan Rudess - The Silent Man
Ohhhh my goooood, one of the best musicians -ever-.
Indeed. So very much.
Joe Satriani - New Last Jam
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Eluvietie - Omnos
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Guano Apes - Open Your Eyes
Tonfa, did I ever tell you how awesome your taste in music is? ;o Got any more good suggestions?
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Guano Apes
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Just from a quick flick through my music folder. Some of it is a little obscure, some of it not, but it is all generally pretty good.
Sadness.
Princess One Point Fice - Harsh Light of Day.
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Joe Satriani - I don't know what but I've been listening to like fifty of his songs in a row on Pandora and I would like to confirm both Grefter and Pandora's excellent taste.
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The Delgados - All You Need is Hate
Probably a good theme song for someone.
Delgados hype = yes. Too bad they fractured after putting out one good album.
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Guano Apes
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Just from a quick flick through my music folder. Some of it is a little obscure, some of it not, but it is all generally pretty good.
Sadness.
He'd already suggested them in chat before your post~
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Paranoia Agent OP. Theme music for people laughing at thermonuclear explosions.
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Paranoia Agent OP. Theme music for people laughing at thermonuclear explosions.
Forces, by the same artist.
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Turisas - Land of Hope and Glory
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Chemistry Class
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Still took you 3 months after that to get there.
Bad Religion - Generator.
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Eluvietie - Omnos
=D
Eluveitie - The Somber Lay
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Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again
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Explosions in the Sky - Six Days At The Bottom of The Ocean
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Breaking Benjamin - Wish I May.
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That was actually kind of shit by the way.
Sevendust - Headtrip.
This now. This is good.
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Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Hip Hop Improv
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Apocalyptica feat Max Cavalera & Matt - Repressed
New stuff from Sevendust? Don't know that song.
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Breaking Benjamin - Wish I May.
That was actually kind of shit by the way.
Things like this are the reason I've stopped trusting your opinion so much. Well, that, and the fact that you hyped Faith No More and White Zombie.
Megadeth - Angry Again
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Less Than Zero (Live)
Things like this just emphasize how much Clover really couldn't stand up to snuff when accompanying Elvis - and how much The Attractions were a match made in heaven with Costello. Goddamn, those songs begged for the keyboard player's insane organ arranges. And they somehow grow madder live and I love it.
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Breaking Benjamin - Wish I May.
That was actually kind of shit by the way.
Things like this are the reason I've stopped trusting your opinion so much. Well, that, and the fact that you hyped Faith No More and White Zombie.
Megadeth - Angry Again
I'm forced to agree with Grefter. I looked up the BB song in question and it was just like all the other low-energy, over-distorted sludge that's characterized mainstream rock for far too long. Shit, people, if all you're gonna do is slather on the overdrive, at least act like you're having some fun with it.
Faith No More: From Out of Nowhere
Like that.
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Everything But The Girl - Sugar Finney
Because a non-rock stuff is fine too.
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Yes. Yes it is.
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
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Eurythmics - English Summer
Man, I love In The Garden.
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Yeah it was that specific song. I had a long list of Breaking Benjamin on and that was on when I posted. It was generally kind of generic, but listenable, that specific song was not great.
Faith No More is all about specific songs and White/Rob Zombie is all about being stupidly ridiculous (Other than Dragula which does indeed genuinely rock pretty fucking hard).
Bjork - Sun In My Mouth.
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Eurythmics - Your Time Will Come
Although the particular Björk album containing Sun In My Mouth is hanging around my mp3 player currently.
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Megadeth - Five Magics
Oh man. Rust in Peace is arguably one of the best metal albums ever conceived.
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Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
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Aimee Mann - This Is How It Goes (Live)
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Bo Bice - You're Everything
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Litany for the Whale - Lord of the Gallows
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Killswitch Engage- Arms of Sorrow
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Electric Six - Randy's Hot Tonight.
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Across Tundras - Badland Blues (live @ Grand 'Ol Opry)
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Björk - All Neon Like
EDIT:
Emiliana Torrini - Unemployed In Summertime
Mmmmmm.
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Pelican - Australasia
EDIT: Pink Floyd - Dogs
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Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream.
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Kenoma - The Nature of Empire
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Everything But The Girl - The Future Of The Future
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Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
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Everything But The Girl - Temperamental
Huh, this is worth listening. I underestimated the house/dance vein of the group.
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Austrian Death Machine - Come On, Do It, Do It, Come On, Come On, Kill Me, Do It Now
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Starsailor- Love is here
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The Cure - Disintegration
EDIT:
Aimee Mann - This Is How It Goes
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Cult of Luna - To Be Remembered
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Elvis Costello & the Imposters - There's A Story In Your Voice
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea
This Year's Model is just fucking brilliant.
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Roger Shah - Palmarosa
One day, I -will- go to Ibiza.
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Everything But The Girl - Downhill Racer
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Tropical Gorilla - Big Muff.
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Conjure One - Manic Star
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)
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Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity
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The Dead Texan - When I See Scissors, I Cannot Help But Think of You
Another case of 'not what I expected a band/song with that name to sound like'.
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Husking Bee - Brightest.
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Listening to the Beck OST?
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Fairly frequently still, yes.
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Left 4 dead 2- Tank's theme
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The Dead Texan - A Chronicle of Early Failures
And I've fallen in love with yet another minimalistic ambient soundscape band.
EDIT: Eluvium - Indoor Swimming At The Space Station
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Augie March - The Good Gardener (On How He Fell).
I cannot for the life of me work out what this song is about.
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The Brilliant Green - Angel Song
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Alter Bridge - Blackbird.
Yeah. I listen to this song a lot. There is a VERY GOOD REASON for this.
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Dream Theater - As I Am
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10,000 Maniacs - Scorpio Rising
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Gojira - Wolf Down The Earth
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10,000 Maniacs - Daktari
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Hebrew Melody by Achron, performed by Clara Rockmore. So yeah, I'm listening to theremin music.
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Watch Your Step
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Madonna - Beautiful Stranger
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Ion Dissonance - The Surge
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Emiliana Torrini - Unemployed In Summertime
So fucking badass.
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Psychotic Waltz - Spiral Tower
Delicious prog metal.
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Thy Light - A Crawling Worm In A World of Lies
From 4:00 to 4:30 = orgasmic.
I have never heard more heart-wrenching, pain-ridden screams.
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The Flaming Lips: One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
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Stravinsky - Berceuse played by Clara Rockmore.
Which is to say, Theremin FUCK YEAH. Hard copy of The Art of the Theremin Ultradude or just a downloader like myself?
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Ultimo - Like a Disease.
Shame these guys are broke up, would have liked to see how they panned out after more than one album.
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Stravinsky - Berceuse played by Clara Rockmore.
Which is to say, Theremin FUCK YEAH. Hard copy of The Art of the Theremin Ultradude or just a downloader like myself?
Just watching crap on YouTube, honestly. Though probably worth a download.
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There is actually a CD of her stuff put out in 2006 that should be quite easy to locate if nothing else.
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This may be a good addition to my online purchases for myself...
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The Unicorns - Sea Ghost
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Everything But The Girl - I Don't Understand Anything
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The Postal Service - Sleeping In
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Everything But The Girl - We Walk The Same Line
This is deliciously melancholy.
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Appalachian Journey - Hard Times Come Again No More
This is more melancholy. I say this having actually heard your song. (It's close, tho.)
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Can't say either way on my end there. >_> But Amplified Heart is pretty downbeat in general as an album, and it's all good.
Everything But The Girl - Disenchanted
The previous song was a song about Djinn's birthday.
EDIT:
Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
Godly.
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Austrian Death Machine - Let Off Some Steam Bennet.
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Well, since it's being mentioned...
Agalloch - The Melancholy Spirit
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R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion
He's got it alright.
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Prince - When Doves Cry.
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Cult of Luna - Dark Side of the Sun
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R.E.M. - Crazy
mumblemumblemumble HEAD SHAKING AND YOUR ARMS ARE SHAKING AND YOUR FEET ARE SHAKING 'CAUSE THE EARTH IS SHAKING mumblemumble
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R.E.M. - All The Right Friends
I like Dead Letter Office more than it deserves.
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Interpol - Leif Erikson
EDIT: Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
Man, this song. It's like... even though I still listen to it, I -still- can't decide if I like it or not. ;p
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Aretha Franklin - I Say a Little Prayer
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Grab the entire album and decide then Piggy. It is good stuff ultimately I decided (was easier to decide than it was with Cold War Kids).
Joe Satriani - Just Like Lightnin'
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Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Tokyo Storm Warning
For all we know and all we care, they might as well be martians.
EDIT:
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - I Want You
I honestly would want to hear this song played at a wedding just for the jarring effect. It'd make "Every Breath You Take" look perfectly innocent and appropriate for a ceremony.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Crow Jane.
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Empire of the Sun - Standing on the Shore
Ok, yeah. These guys own. ;p
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Yep, pretty much the reaction I had. Some of the later songs on the album can throw you a bit, but ultimately with stuff like Half Mast and We Are the People it is a good album.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God is in the House.
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Everything But The Girl - Missing
Man, if I ever want to feel like I just turned into a widower, I'll just plug this album.
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Explosions in the Sky - Inside It All Feels The Same
Still in my top 3 bands/artists of all time.
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Austrian Death Machine - You Have Just Been Erased.
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Interpol - Pace Is The Trick
EDIT: Yume Bitsu - I Wait For You
I notice lately I've really been liking relaxing, ambient tunes.
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Gaelic Storm - Bare in the Basin
Pure instrumental, but really great at it. Catchy~
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Everything But The Girl - The Future Of The Future
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Eluvium - I Am So Much More Me Than You Are Perfectly You
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Florence + The Machine - Kiss With a Fist.
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Florence + The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up).
Snow, this is another one for us. You should get it.
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The name certainly looks intriguing enough. Will look at that after work today.
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The Chasm - Callous Spectre/Vehement Opposition
Pretty neat stuff. S'like good death metal.
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The Cure - At Night
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The Fiery Furnaces - The Garfield El.
I am kind of undeceided on these guys. It is nice, but I don't know if it is good.
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Florence + The Machine - My Boy Builds Coffins.
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Explosions in the Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone
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Dragonforce String Tribute - Revolution Deathsquad.
...not bad. Works well for what it is, which is something to make you go "Holy shit, Dragonforce played by an orchestra!"
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Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas
Christmas season and no one listens to Christmas songs? Really?
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That's because we're pelted with them every time we walk into any store ever. I'm so damned sick of christmas music by the time Christmas actually hits that I would never listen to it of my own volition.
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The only music I ever hear in the shops I frequent is the sound of grumpy old ladies arguing and bickering over the shriveled up tomatoes. Would that they played a Christmas song f'ronce that I'd visit them a lot more than just twice a week to get the necessary groc'ries.
'course, you get these radio stations that play the same damn song thrice an hour, 'n I'm not a fan of those either.
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There's also the problem that most Christmas-related songs tend to forget to not suck while reminding people that it's Christmas time, and I'm, for one, not going to listen to music that grates my ear into a bleeding wall just because of a season.
R.E.M. - Gardening At Night (Acoustic)
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Well, since it was mentioned...
The Pretenders - Blue Christmas
Fun tune.
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Eurythmics - Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves
I'm gettin' out of the kitchen~
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That's because we're pelted with them every time we walk into any store ever. I'm so damned sick of christmas music by the time Christmas actually hits that I would never listen to it of my own volition.
Yyyyep. I don't think there is such a thing as good Christmas music that isn't recorded by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Well, no, my parents have this old Muppets Christmas album, which is awesome by definition since it's the Muppets. But this is an exception which also benefits massively from nostalgia value.
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It also hurts that Christmas Music tends to be shit. Drummer Boy is the worst song ever written.
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Dragonforce String Tribute - Revolution Deathsquad.
...not bad. Works well for what it is, which is something to make you go "Holy shit, Dragonforce played by an orchestra!"
You know what is better? When the same kind of thing is played better on Cellos and features original songs. This is why you should be rocking the fuck out to Apocalyptica (which was originally a Metallica cover band, but doesn't matter so much these days unless you dislike Trapped Under Ice or something else is similar good fun).
Kate Miller-Heidke - Words.
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It also hurts that Christmas Music tends to be shit. Drummer Boy is the worst song ever written.
Gref, you're not secretly my uncle are you? You two need to get together sometime so you can be curmudgeonly about music together. I don't know that your taste in music is similar at all, but I'm quite certain your disdain for music is perfectly matched.
I love Christmas music myself. This is partly because I try very hard to avoid stores that play that syrupy shit they seem to think will get people in a buying mood. Mostly, though, it's because Christmas music to me means the music you sing with your friends and relatives. Simplicity is key. O Little Town of Bethlahem, Silent Night, Good King Winceslas, The Holly and the Ivy, The Wassail Song, Joy to the World, Lo how a Rose e'er Blooming, Wassail Wassail, O Holy Night...these are wonderful songs as long as you don't schmaltz them up (except for O Holy Night, which you pretty much need to).
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Cult of Luna - Leave Me Here
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Everything But The Girl - Rollercoaster
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The Crystal Method - Falling Hard
Maaang.
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Hooked on Everything But The Girl, now. >_>
As a change, decided to listen to some Christmas music myself.
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
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Dream Theater - Octavarium
Long songs are generally better than short ones, I'd say.
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R.E.M. - Gardening At Night
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Green Day - Give Me Novocaine
EDIT: Opeth - Bleak
Blackwater Park's a pretty interesting metal album.
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The Protomen - Give Us the Rope
They certainly went for a different style this album. Alternates between reminding me of Elton John, David Bowie, and a bunch of other styles I can't place my finger on. It's a good album but I'm pretty sure I liked Act 1 more.
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Evoken - Antithesis of Light
Oh man, listening to this on my new headphones I got for Christmas is aweeeeeesome.
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Semifinalists - Show The Way
Edit - What brand heads?
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They're Bose headphones. My mother refuses to tell me how much they were, but I have to guess that they weren't cheap. ;p
Mar de Grises - Sleep Just One Dawn
Melodic doom metal, anyone?
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Eurythmics - English Summer
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COG - Resonate.
Bose do very nice pieces.
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The Protomen - The Hounds
Can't... stop... listening... to... song... over... and... over.
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Everything But The Girl - Rollercoaster
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Delirium - Underwater
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FFX Soundtrack - Wandering Flame
Honestly, this doesn't sound too, too far from the ambient stuff I normally listen to.
EDIT: Ayreon - The Truth Is In Here
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Echo and the Bunnymen - Silver
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The Sugarcubes - Motorcrash
Deliciously childlike and bizarre.
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Two-Mix - Last Impression Orchestral Version
Very pretty.
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Great Big Sea - Ordinary Day
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Eurythmics - Caveman Head
Fuck, this album is just so damn gooooooooooood.
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10,000 Maniacs - Grey Victory
Yes, we can has The Wishing Chair.
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The Protomen: The Sons of Fate
Mm. Yeah, this is pretty cool.
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The Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song.
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Koh Otani - Refrain Of Memory
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The temptations- You keep me hanging on
I blame Glee on in the backround.
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Everything But The Girl - Five Fathoms
Amazingly addictive.
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The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony.
Such a fitting title. Bitter sweet like not making any profit off your most famous song.
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Elvis Costello - Glitter Gulch
Hmmmm. King of America is an interesting album so far. Elvis Costello still manages to be manic and virtuosistic in his viciousness even without having The Attractions as backup. I miss the astounding organ work, but this is great stuff.
EDIT:
Elvis Costello - The People's Limousine
You know, this is like Get Happy!!: The Folk/Country-Influenced Edition, only less claustrophobic and more textured sonically. Quite a good listen indeed.
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Björk - Hyper-ballad
so good
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Electric Six - My Idea of Fun