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Social Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Jo'ou Ranbu on December 31, 2010, 06:45:33 PM
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It's like he's the only person who listens to music these days anyway.
Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - The Sweetest Punch
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I listen to music all the time. I just don't post about it much.
Speaking of which, mood music:
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
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I hesitate to call Kristin Chenoweth music.
Cocteau Twins - Violaine
Actual mood music, even if this isn't one of the Twins' inspired moments. Milk and Kisses is thoroughly competent and does the Cocteau Twins schtick well, but lacks the glimmer in their earlier works.
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I hesitate to call your ass music
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I do better than having Kristin Chenoweth as my ass, thank you very much.
Cocteau Twins - Serpentskirt
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Metric - Poster of a Girl.
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I do better than having Kristin Chenoweth as my ass, thank you very much.
If your ass were my dear Kristin, you'd be so sore.
Spring Awakening - My Junk
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Kaye-Louise Patterson - Astronaut.
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Metric - Poster of a Girl.
Probably the best song in Live It Out. Also, what the christ is a Kaye-Louise Patterson.
R.E.M. - Box Cars (Carnival of Sorts)
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Kaye-Louise Patterson - Puis J'Avoir Un Billet?
I have no idea, some CD I picked up for a fiver that is pretty fun down beat piano stuff.
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I am particularly fond of the title, "Grefter's Grotto." Nice.
Aiboforcen - NOT UNIQUE (DOS)
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MGMT - Someone's Missing.
Edit - I love this song, it starts off really mellow and then blossoms into full fanfare that is almost Glam in its decadence. Shades of early 70's Bowie musically there. Something like All The Mad Men.
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Super Robot Wars J - Fire Wars
Xer linked me to a higher quality version, which is good, but slower. And I think this song reaaaaally benefits from the faster tempo. Mazinger wins BGM for the game so far(which isn't very far in, I'll grant).
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Cocteau Twins - Calfskin Smack
I like this song far more than I objectively should. Also, these song names make this band sound like it should be some generic metal band sludge from a glance, which couldn't be farther from the truth.
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MGMT - Of Moons, Birds and Monsters.
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Gundam Wing: Rhythm Emotion.
I'm feeling nostalgic for late 90s anime.
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All India Radio - Let Me Remain.
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All India Radio - Let Me Remain.
wat
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Final Fantasy 10: Some day the dream will end.
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Cocteau Twins - Calfskin Smack
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MGMT - It's Working
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Vicki Leekz Mixtape - the first fifteen minutes of it
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MGMT - Lady Dada's Nightmare
Congratulations is so much more interesting and fun than Oracular Spectacular it's not even funny.
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All India Radio is a band (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Radio_%28band%29) as well as an Indian radio station, I was listening to the band.
David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy
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Anggun- Un Geste d'Amour
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Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Hadn't actually ever heard this song until about 2 days ago. >.>
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Cocteau Twins - The Itchy Glowbo Blow
You'd think a song with -this- title couldn't be haunting and intensely atmospheric within a short lifespan. You'd be sorely mistaken.
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Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Hadn't actually ever heard this song until about 2 days ago. >.>
You are missing absolutely fucking nothing.
Cage The Elephant - In One Ear
It's okay, though the lead singer doesn't work for me.
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Amy Winehouse - Rehab.
What? For fucks sake Super. Stop failing. If you haven't heard Stairway to Heaven then it means you have missed out on a lot of really amazing Led Zeppelin songs like Immigrant Song and Gallow's Pole.
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Ehhh, Robert Plant's BABYBABYBABY wailing got real tiresome after a while. You named some of the better ones, Gref, but for the most part their catalogue's something I'd rather not hear again.
Immigrant Song of course is awesome just for being unintentionally hilarious.
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Cocteau Twins - Violaine
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Flogging Molly - Requiem for a Dying Song
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Eurythmics - Was It Just Another Love Affair?
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B-side?
Eurythmics - English Summer
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Adam WarRock - Heroes Requiem.
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AC/DC: Thunderstruck
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Listened to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Murder Ballads (entire CD) while I was getting ready for work. Needless to say, the subject matter was fitting.
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Cocteau Twins - Seekers That Are Lovers
Milk and Kisses may not be the best offering the Twins have, but it -does- present the best ending songs as far as I know. Treasure Hiding and Seekers That Are Lovers make great album enders.
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Divinyls - Elsie
God -dammit-, Grefter.
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And you complained that they weren't dreamy pop music.
Metric - Rock Me Now.
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That's not the kind of dream pop music I meant!
Divinyls - Victoria
It -is- excellent pop, at least.
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Blue Oyster Cult: Godzilla
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Divinyls - Back to the Wall
God -dammit-, Grefter. This is setting my hipster transformation back at least six months.
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The Long Blondes - Erin O'Connor.
Anyway it was this stuff that reminded me of the DiVinyls and that you might like it. They definitely share that sexually aggressive female lead element to them which is delightful.
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Little Dragon - Looking Glass.
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David Bowie: Something in the Air
I think I got some weird bootleg version of Hours or something. The tracklist on the CD case lists twelve songs. Two of them are The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell. Neither of these are in the place they actually play on the CD. Actually, everything on the tracklist is completely out of order compared to what plays on the CD. There are no liner notes of any kind. There are fifteen tracks on the CD (five seem like remixes). But it has Something in the Air, so I won't complain.
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Not aware of a version of Hours that has 15 tracks. An album can only be improved by having more Pretty Things are Going to Hell though.
David Bowie - Cygnet Committee
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Divinyls - I Touch Myself
It had to happen some time. It's telling that this song is one of their worse entries in the world of new wave pop, though.
EDIT: Goddammit, Grefter, that's another six months pushed back on the Hipster Doomsday clock.
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Eh? I honestly consider that song really damned good. It is a case where the one hit wonder actually was worth the hype it gets. Even to this day it is one of the most openly frank songs about anything ever.
Little Dragon - Blinking Pigs.
This is the next one to get Snow. Edit - I think she was better live though honestly, her singing worked really well a bit more raw than the studio tracks. She was support for Gorillaz for anyone that cares.
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Eh? I honestly consider that song really damned good. It is a case where the one hit wonder actually was worth the hype it gets. Even to this day it is one of the most openly frank songs about anything ever.
I agree there. Just I'm very, very impressed by the band's pop acumen in both Desperate and Temperamental. Divynils is less impressive, although I Touch Myself is the best track in the album so far.
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Rush - Test for Echo
Been in a Rush mood lately. Test for Echo especially is getting stuck in my head constantly.
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Don Henley - The End of the Innocence
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Little Dragon - Runabout.
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Little Dragon - Turn Left
The combo of minimalism and acute pop sensibility just hits such a soft spot for my musical bias. Props, Gref.
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The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love
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Ergh The Darkness. Another The The The era band that was nowhere nearly as good as all the attention they got.
Battles - Atlas
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Oh come on, it's a fun song~ Fun to sing loudly and disturb your coworkers.
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They have a couple of alright songs, but they were yet another in a sea of mediocrity that came out around that time. I am especially bitter because of how much Australian music generated into that or supported the garbage that came from it.
Could be much worse though, it isn't Wolfmother.
Funkadelic - Promentalshitbackwashpsychosis Enema Squad (The Doo-Doo Chasers)
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Cocteau Twins - Summerhead
Even in an uninspired album like Four-Calendar Café, the Twins pull up a couple surprising songs. This is a pretty emblematic case.
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Augie March - There's Something at the Bottom of the Black Pool.
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Rush - Test for Echo
Been in a Rush mood lately. Test for Echo especially is getting stuck in my head constantly.
Also their last good album.
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Peter Gabriel: My Body Is a Cage
Usually I don't dig covers, much less a full album of them. But fuck, man, if you're going to do that, Scratch My Back is the way to go about it. Reinvent them all but in the same basic style. Remain very impressed with the album outside of a couple lackluster entries (the Neil Young song, ehhh).
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Cocteau Twins - Tishbite
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Iggy Pop: Repo Man
Not someone I normally listen to, but I'm obliged to like this song for obvious reasons.
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Augie March - City of Rescue.
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The Imperial March
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Divinyls - I'm Jealous.
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Terminator theme
Movie music tonight I guess.
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Adam Warrock - I am Him
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Tom Waits - Pasties and a G-String
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Damon Alexander and the Ten Cent Rentals: Robot Monster
Why am I just listening to this now.
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ToV-A Vow of Unity
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Street Sweeper Social Club - Shock You Again.
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No Doubt - Spiderwebs.
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The Long Blondes - In the Company of Women.
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If you're going to be campily lesbian, it's hard to go wrong with The Long Blondes
amen.
Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
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Lacuna Coil- Spellbound
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The Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent - Black Amplifier.
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Darby O'Gill - The Rattlin' Bog (Live)
There are no squirrels in this song~
Not even the Easter Squirrel.
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David Bowie - Loving The Alien.
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Pain of Salvation - Waking Every God
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The Mamas and the Papas - California Dreamin'
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Pet Shop Boys - Love Etc.
Such a prissy, superficial song. Love it.
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David Bowie - Loving the Alien.
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The Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent - Black Amplifier.
what the heck is this
Mumford & Sons - I Gave You All
I think this is the best emotional blackmail they pull in the album. That might have something to do about it being my favorite in it.
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Meat Loaf - Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
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It is some pretty cool garage rock from Indonesia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q7eNxemJUk I quite enjoy them and would like to track down some other albums.
Metric - White Gold.
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Los Campesinos! - Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats.
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Metric - Sick Muse.
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Los Campesinos! - This Is How You Spell, "Hahaha, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics"
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The Protomen: The Hounds
Just so Grefter can take a break.
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Kate Miller-Heidke - Blah Blah.
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I frickin love Ashin Kusher.
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Angus and Julia Stone - Wooden Chair
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Carbon Leaf - This is my song!
Somehow Pandora has managed to play this one multiple times before I realized I hadn't given it a thumbs up. That has been fixed.
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Pet Shop Boys - All Over the World
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Ghosts - The World is Outside.
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Eminem - Stan
The most cheerful song ever.
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Angus and Julia Stone - Santa Monica Dream
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Chris Cornell: You Know My Name
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The Beatles- Come together
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Duran Duran - Ordinary World
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Electric Six - Simulated Love.
Love this song~~
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Eric Bogle & John Munro - Progress
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Electric Six - The Newark Airport Boogie
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The B52s: Rock Lobster
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Precursors - Slylandro Probe - We Come In Peace!
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Precursors: Mortal Melee!
The only possible response.
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Halestorm- Rose in December
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WAXF - A Professional Villain Clad in Sand
WAXF - Mechanical Dancing Fight
Sora no Kiseki 2 - Silver Will
People were talking about XF music in chat, these two tracks struck me as awesome and I've been listening to them for about an hour along with the ever-awesome Silver Will.
Also, because Grefter should experience it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsMIGQfHZd0
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Why do they have Japanese ladies singing about vaginas over the top of some technically competent Happy Hardcore there? Also guys did you hear? Green screens are liek fun! Given how much there is with tongues sticking out I am assuming it is at least a song about Lesbians, which is always something I can get behind, though most of the ones I have a penchant for are sung by 40 year old white men (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Six).
In more important news
Mogwai - White Noise.
Mogwai have a new album out. There are amazing and now is the perfect time to acquaint yourself to them and their awesomeness. For everyone that doesn't like Instrumentals you need to hear how well music can be structured without the limitations of a vocal line. For those that do, if you don't know who Mogwai are then you need to check them and their entire catalogue out immediately.
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Mogwai - Killing All The Flies
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Anime OP contest noms opened up and now I'm listening to a ton of songs that I was in love with from high school. Of those that I'm not embarassed to have liked, there are two I'd like to mention here.
Orphen TV Opening - Ai Just on my Love
-Really high-energy jazz number and the singer's voice is really good.
Gad Guard TV Opening - Boomerang Boogie
-Instrumental Jazz without any lyrics that just hits a lot of nice points and has a lot of variation in the pacing of the song.
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Emiliana Torrini - Honeymoon Child.
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Beethoven: #9
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Empire of the Sun - We Are The People.
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Empire of the Sun - We Are The People.
You ever notice how if you hear the same song more than twice at a gangbang party, you never hear it the same way after?
On another note, The Briggs- Mad Men
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Honestly can't say that I have.
Art vs Science - Parlez Vous Francais?
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Ar tonelico - Requiem's Melody
What can I say? I like bad spelling in my music~
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David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Thing.
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Just copped Toro Y Moi's new Underneath the Pine via iTunes. Would have picked it up in SuckBuy or Farget or Wally World but none of them have it. I blame it on being in the South.
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Ten Years After: I'd Love to Change the World
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The Chemist - End of July.
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Goddammit, Anime OPED contest...
Overman King Gainer OP theme.
Friggin' earworm
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Los Campesinos! - Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are re-issuing albums. Worth mentioning, as Grefter suggested their Murder Ballads.
Listening to Bibio - The Palm of Your Wave.
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Soundgarden: 4th of July
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Most of Nick Cave's backlog is worth checking out, Murder Ballads is amazing, but if you like more mellow stuff then Nocturama and his other post Murder Ballads stuff is very listenable. If you want the album with Red Right Hand in it because that track is totally bitching you want to pick up Let Love In which is also great as an album and has one of his well known tracks.
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
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Pulp - Pencil Skirt
So I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Pencil Skirt. It is a damned good looking piece of fashion that certainly turns heads and raises eyebrows. It is just a damned shame that they are so impractical.
The song though is pretty damned awesome.
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White Stripes - My Doorbell.
I decided to randomly try out some more WS stuff. I like White Blood Cells quite a bit better than Icky Thump, I think Icky Thump is too fast-paced and I think they are better when they are being funky and slower.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Song of Joy
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Sky Sailing - Captains of the Sky
It's what Adam Young did before he did Owl City but hadn't released until now. Good stuff~
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Little Dragon - Test.
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Jac Stone - Drive Me Home.
So last year I bailed on Powderfinger final tour concert I went to, but had a support act that I really liked that was having her first EP come out soon. It hit iTunes a few days ago. She is good, young and someone I really hope has it take off. No relation to the other Stone familly that has taken off here in Aus as far as I understand.
You can find her stuff on the youtubers here http://www.youtube.com/user/brumbyjac00 Reccomend it.
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Sky Sailing - A Little Opera Goes a Long Way
This CD has been on loop all day~
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Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring.
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White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
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Pigeon Detectives - Keep On Your Dress.
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I will be listening to All Tan Everything - tonight - live @ the Drunken Unicorn. Heck yeah!
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Freddie Mercury - Under Pressure
I really wish I could even approach the level of talent in this man's voice.
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The Long Blondes - Once and Never Again.
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Pet Shop Boys - Beautiful People
Pet Shop Boys dudes being in their 50s weirds me out. He sounds quite young to me.
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The Macarena, Cupid Shuffle, and The Beatles' Hello Goodbye.
All for the lesson on English Songs and Dances for my students. They are all catchy and stick in your head. I'm not particularly thrilled about this result... >.>;;
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The Knife - Behind the Bushes.
I am disappointed that you didn't teach them the ways that they are unable to come into contact with things.
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I don't think that is something Djinn can teach them.
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Melissa Auf der Maur - Isis Speaks.
Okay so this album is like possibly one of the best paying off purchases I have made so far this year. It really is growing on me amazingly well.
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Georg Thorogood and the destroyers- I drink alone
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Pet Shop Boys - King of Rome
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The Long Blondes - Madame Ray.
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AWOLNATION- Sail
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Jarvis Cocker - Fat Children.
Last night I had a little altercation
They wobbled menacingly
Beneath the yellow street light it became a situation
Well, they wanted my brand-new phone with all the pictures of the kids and the wife
A struggle ensued and then fat children took my life
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Jarvis Cocker - Running the World.
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Filter/crystal method- can't you trip like I do
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Stephen Lynch - Grandfather
Such an evil song.
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The Happy Hollows - Turtle and Hare.
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Electric Six - Pink Flamingos
I need to get thier CDs that I'm missing.
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Electric Six - Future Police
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Pulp - Help the Aged.
I forget that sometimes pop can be about something other than dongs in meat wallets. Pulp has been great.
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The Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane
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The Doors - Love Me Two Times.
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Melissa Auf der Maur - Willing Enabler
Blame/credit Gref~
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Electric Six - Step Sister
The only woman Dick Valentine ever turned away.
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Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #4 - (7 Kettles)
It hurts my soul to know that I spent all my life without knowing these guys when they've been out for eight years minimum now that I'm listening.
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I've been telling you to listen to them for years you sdfkhdjkghfk.
Anyway give me a verdict when you've heard all the albums. Personally like Neon Bible most.
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In fairness, Arcade Fire's been in the back of my mind as something to actually look for for like two years. Only really bucked down and picked 'em up today, though.
So far, only listened to the self-titled EP and Funeral. Funeral I consider a downright masterpiece so far, though. Been listening non-stop to it since 6PM.
EDIT: Also, I think you understand Grefter's frustration with me better now.
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 - Tunnels
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I learned with the Talking Heads that it sometimes takes you a few years to pick up on awesome things. Doesn't make it less frustrating!
Tunnels is the best thing on Funeral, I think.
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I cave in eventually. And, in all fairness, regarding the Talking Heads, the very first time I listened to them I simply didn't have the musical sensibility needed to evaluate them, let alone enjoy. Three-four years do wonders for your musical maturity.
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
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So. Saw the "Distant Worlds" Final Fantasy music concert on both Friday night and Saturday night. Yes I am a huge geek. They had a somewhat different repertoire between the nights, so it wasn't total craziness - they had the choir on Friday, and the solo guitarist / soloists for the FF6 Maria & Draco opera. Who amusingly enough were actual Met Opera people currently playing in Tosca.
My only complaint- and I should preface this with having been a trumpet player in high school - was that the high brass was just plain off their game on Friday night. I dunno what it was but they just weren't driving the pieces when they were the melody as much as they should have been. Low brass was better but still didn't quite pull their weight. At least the piano / strings / woodwinds / choir were all solid. Saturday, I guess the trumpeter was feeling better or something? Maybe somebody had to call out on Friday? Who knows.
Friday's music, with some comments:
FFVII: Prelude
I missed it. Stupid Google Transit saying Lafayette Avenue was an A stop... sure it is... late at night... followed by me misisng my stop after already having sailed right past the station on the A twice.
FFVIII: Liberi Fatali
And I missed the first part of this too. Damn it, because Liberi Fatali is probably in my top 3 of video game music ever. Still, pretty solid. Well done, except for the brass, which is a big problem. I listened to the Indianapolis orchestra try and do this piece at Video Games Live 2010 at GenCon, and while they clearly needed more practice (it's a hard piece! Don't play it once then try it in front of an audience!) their brass at least had the chutzpah to give their parts energy. The Brooklyn Academy of Music people they had felt more technically on the ball but also wimping out a bit. The brass, anyway. I'm picky.
FFVIII: Don’t Be Afraid
This still translates great to orchestra. Hurray.
FFXI: Memoro de la Stono - Distant Worlds
Susan Calloway is a great singer. Very well done.
FFVIII:The Man with the Machine Gun
Not quite as good a fit as Don't Be Afraid, but it still works. They're both orchestrations straight from the original FF8 Fithos Lusec orchestrated disc, but hey, they're good, so.
FFX: Suteki da Ne
I recalled not liking the English version of this before, but Calloway *nailed* this. One of my favorites of the night.
FF VIII: Fisherman's Horizon
Surprisingly great. Very nice for a town theme with the whole orchestra there, who did a good job. Again, it's off the orchestrated FF8 CD, but it's really good, so not complaining.
Chocobo Theme
They used an FF14 Chocobo theme for the opening, which actually was pretty sweet orchestrated. Switched into Swing de Chocobo after
FFVII: Opening - Bombing Mission
Good pick from FF7. Visuals got a little lost toward the end when it became random cool stuff from FF7 rather than fitting the Bombing Mission. Are we going to blow up the Gold Saucer?!
FFIV: Navigator’s Glory ~The Theme of Limsa Lominsa~
Okay for the first 3 minutes, didn't really go very after that. Also why does FF14 have an exquisitely animated video of adventurers hacking up a Malboro. That money could have been used to make something actually plotty in a real FF. Sigh. (Amusing endpoint, though, they stop with Our Hero being strangled by a Malboro with a log falling on him. Game Over?)
FFXIV: Answers
Yeah, Susan Calloway is still awesome. The conductor proved himself something of a flake here in hyping the lyrics as philosophical, when they're nonsense, but whatever.
http://www.ffxivorigin.com/videos/final-fantasy-xiv-ost-answers-22.html
If you're not familiar with it. It worked quite well with the challenge / response deal between the choir and the soloist. I also still don't know how this could possibly tie into FF14, but whatever.
FFXIII: Fabula Nova Crystalli (= The Promise)
FFXIII: Blinded by Light
These were the two disappointments of Friday, though they got much much better on Saturday for some reason. They just plain looped both pieces rather than do anything neat, first off. Secondly, the tempo dragged for Blinded by Light, and the brass just plain failed to show up. Volume problems too when the piece was supposed to really get going and release tension (1 minute in on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7lD184dV8U ), they couldn't really mike the strings or increase volume, so it actually went DOWN in energy. Not that it could ever keep any. Bah. At least Saturday was better as noted.
FFX: To Zanarkand
FF VII: J-E-N-O-V-A
Whose idea was it to put these two of all pieces back to back? Whatever. To Zanarkand was solid but it's, if anything, better with a solo piano, so the orchestra only helps so much here given a good pianist. JENOVA had a good first 2 and a half minutes, but what they came up with for after the loop had finished didn't really work for me.
FFXII: Kiss Me Goodbye
Calloway is still a good singer, shock. This still isn't THAT special a piece, I'd have picked other stuff from FF12 to use if at all possible.
FFV: Clash on the Big Bridge
Solid. Didn't try and play it too long either, which I respect. Should have brought in more FF12 version hype, though.
FFVI: Terra's Theme
Doubled as the credits, so the looping was less noticeable with all the applause after the first time through. Still a nice piece for closing with.
FFVII: One Winged Angel
Though of course they had to play this one with a choir there. Needed less random Advent Children loser extra villains in the visuals but I don't care because the choir nailed this.
Saturday, no choir as noted, and mixed up the order some (They opened with Opening-Bombing Mission for example, rather than holding that for after the intermission). "Blinded by Light" was done much better, as noted. They also did To Zanarkand -> Don't Be Afraid, which was less jarring. New stuff:
FF V: Dear Friends
FF IX: Vamo' alla Flamenco
These were the pieces for the guitar soloist. They were well done, but I'm not really a fan of either piece. They're okay.
FF IX: Melodies of Life
Not really a fan of Melodies of Life either, but Susan Calloway nailed it, so sure. Incidentally, I suspect that Eyes on Me will never make these concerts, because there's already so much FF8 music that works great for an orchestra, but you'd want a poppier singer / accompaniment to do it right.
FFVII: Aeris's Theme
Yeah, with an S, that's right. Not much to say, it's a string heavy piece which means it translates great to an orchestra.
FF1-3 Medley
They did the Prelude, Matoya's Cave, Bridge Crossing theme, Aria, Maiden of Water, and the theme of the Rebel Army. Meh to Aria, though, it required Meeple in chat for me to identify it. Worked, I guess, though I'd totally have canned Aria for The Boundless Ocean as far as the FF3 pick. Alternatively, the Dark Crystals or the final battle.
FF11: Ronfaure
Seemed like the instrumental version of Memoro de la Stono - Distant Worlds, but I'll grant this is a piece that translates well to orchestra and feels like it was written for a lot of strings. Solid.
FF14: Navigator's Glory, Twilight Over Thanalan
Navigator's Glory was the same. Twilight was... dunno. Didn't make a huge impression. I liked the FF11 pieces so I'm going to blame FF14 here.
FF VI: Opera "Maria and Draco"
The male singers were excellent - very clear, good bassist, all that. The female singer was also good, I guess, but I couldn't make out the lyrics at all from that opera "style" of singing. Oh well. Also they decided to close out as the actual opera probably would have sans octopus interruption. This was also the only visual section they bothered to re-record from the English version of FF3/6 rather than using the Japanese versions prepared for Distant Worlds concerts in Japan. (Okay, Terra's Theme / credits had English too). But yeah, pretty cool, I liked it.
They "closed" with Terra's Theme again, which fit better when coming right after Maria & Draco I thought, but wasn't sure what they'd do for an encore with no choir. Turned out it was One Winged Angel again.... the sing-along version. Okay! I feared it'd be terrible but the prompts were pretty good and I could hear some actual singer who could keep pitch singing loudly, so was pleasantly surprised.
All in all, pretty cool. Recommended if it stops by your area.
EDIT: And oh yes. Nobuo Uematsu was there himself, and wearing a silly bandanna / head scarf thingy on Friday. He joined the choir for OWA, which was pretty amusing. Technically irrelevant but hey. Picked up both the Distant Worlds CDs and a separate CD by Susan Calloway (her own music I guess), though not the DVD that theoretically has the newest Distant Worlds music because screw the DVD format for music. I've pirated enough music that I'll do my bit for supporting game music with actual purchases.
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EDIT: Also, I think you understand Grefter's frustration with me better now.
This is my frustration with everyone with pretty much everything.
Also congratulations on finally taking the steps back towards your hipster transformation.
New Young Pony Club - Architect of Love.
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Arcade Fire - [Antichrist Television Blues]
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Melissa Auf der Maur - Lead Horse.
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Reel Big Fish - Somebody Hates Me
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Arcade Fire - Black Mirror
After a couple listens to Neon Bible, I have to say I'm a bit less taken by it than I was by Funeral. -On the other hand-, Funeral is a "holy shit this might just change -yet again- the way I listen to music" album, and I hardly expected an album from the 2000s to do it. The last one I came across that was this good was Treasure, from the Cocteau Twins. And before that, like a month before, Fear of Music, from the Talking Heads. This is basically "one of the best albums of the decade" against "one of the best albums in my goddamn life" talking here.
Funnily, 2010 was a pretty spectacular year for musical discoveries for me.
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Murder By Death - Dead Men and Sinners.
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MGMT - Future Reflections
Easier to appreciate MGMT's first offering after having digested Congratulations entirely.
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Hole - Jennifer's Body.
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Just remember I have to ask this: Snowfire, what did they used for encore in the English concert?
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Arcade Fire - Black Mirror
After a couple listens to Neon Bible, I have to say I'm a bit less taken by it than I was by Funeral. -On the other hand-, Funeral is a "holy shit this might just change -yet again- the way I listen to music" album, and I hardly expected an album from the 2000s to do it. The last one I came across that was this good was Treasure, from the Cocteau Twins. And before that, like a month before, Fear of Music, from the Talking Heads. This is basically "one of the best albums of the decade" against "one of the best albums in my goddamn life" talking here.
Funnily, 2010 was a pretty spectacular year for musical discoveries for me.
Neon Bible is good but not nearly as good as Funeral. Listen to Suburbs. It's got a few great tracks in there, is probably worse than Funeral but still Arcade Fire.
Protomen - Father of Death
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Niu: One-Winged Angel both nights. They played Terra's Theme with credits, took a bow, then followed it up with the OWA encore. Only difference was the choir sang it on Friday night and everyone sang it Saturday night.
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Hole - Violet
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Queensryche: Roads to Madness
This is totally a Lovecraft protagonist after he's learned That Which Should Not Be Learned and seen That Which Should Not Be Seen.
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Queensryche - Roads to Madness
Decided to check out what Cid was listening to. It is pretty damn awesome. (Okay, that and because I have been listening to Operation Mindcrime a lot lately and wanted to listen to other stuff of theirs~)
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Dream Theater - The Count of Tuscany
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Queensryche - Roads to Madness
Decided to check out what Cid was listening to. It is pretty damn awesome. (Okay, that and because I have been listening to Operation Mindcrime a lot lately and wanted to listen to other stuff of theirs~)
The pre-Mindcrime albums are extremely goofy lyrically. They're kind of fun to listen to just for that. Songs are mostly about robots or the end of the world and sometimes they get really crazy and write about robot apocalypse.
Queensryche: NM 156
Like this one! This is basically Terminator: the rock song. I like The Warning a fair bit as an album--Roads to Madness is a great album-closer and one of my favorite songs by them. Rage for Order after that, eh, it's okay. Has some good songs but really strikes me as too slick and polished. Self-titled album is basically a demo tape. (Listen to it anyway if you like the band, though.) They were always an extremely skilled band technically anyway, though, so still plenty fun to listen to even when they were still figuring things out.
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At this point I should probably also turn in my prog rocker card and admit I've never really listened to Dream Theater and where do you start.
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They've got the campy opera rock thing going on, I like it. I have Empire as well, it's decent but not as good as Mindcrime.
(http://www.guitaralliance.com/guitar_lessons/silent_lucidity/queensryche.jpg)
(Oh come on Ciato, these guys couldn't possibly be campy!)
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Yeah, Rage for Order is the band at their most aggressively eighties. Then they said, "Fuck it, let's torch the Reagan era already," and made Operation: Mindcrime. And it was good. Rage for Order and Empire are both defined by a few excellent songs with a bunch of okay ones to round things out, I think. They're fun enough, but the band never did anything else as consistent O: M. Although I personally like Promised Land a lot. It's a very moody album and sports a different sound for them but is still recognizably their style. After that, well, we don't really talk about Queensryche anymore. Hear in the Now Frontier was mediocre and then Geoff Tate got sick and I think messed up his voice and Chris Degarmo left (Wikipedia tells me he's a commercial pilot now. How weird is that?) and Q2K? Man, you can tell just from the title that's gonna be sludge. Apparently they made an Operation Mindcrime II at some point, but I can't bring myself to listen to it.
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Ciatos, you didn't do the recommendation like you should have!
Cid, DT place to start is pretty much agreed to be Awake, at least from memory of discussion with other people that listen to them. It was the last album before they got the current (awesome) key board player Jordan Rudess on board, but don't let that really influence you on anything. It is just a really strong album. Stuff after it is great as well, but Awake is a good jumping on point (not that you really need to be eased into the whole Prog thing).
Doctor Steel - Lullaby Bye.
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Queensryche - The Lady Wore Black
:)
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Arcade Fire - Black Mirror
You know, I don't think I need to listen to Belle & Sebastian ever again.
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Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
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Mogwai - Like Herod.
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Queensryche - The Lady Wore Black
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So I bought the CD that Roads of Madness was on. It's pretty good.
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Yes it is.
Paul Simon: My Little Town
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DT- Endless Sacrifice
Edit: Listening to a change in seasons. I need to listen to DT more. They're awesome to have on in the backround.
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Do you have Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?
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A Perfect Circle - The Noose.
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I think you sent it to me ages ago, Ciato. Don't think I have it any more.
Dream Theater- The count of Tuscany
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Arcade Fire - Windowsill
Neon Bible honestly grows on you as you listen to it more. Antichrist Television Blues still isn't all that great for their standards, though. A bit too Springsteeny for me tastes.
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Allo Darlin' - The Polaroid Song
Twee pop in the wake of 2010? What is this insanity?
EDIT:
Allo Darlin' - If Loneliness Was Art
Ooooooooooooh this album is actually pretty interesting! Pop sensibility is definitely there, and the singer, while not being exactly gifted, is pleasant and can definitely walk the innocence/sarcasm line naturally. They could be pretty cool to watch grow, but still early to tell with one album.
EDIT (who the hell am I, Grefter?): Also, a song that uses "sha-la-la" shamelessly as a vocal hook in freaking 2010 without sounding exceedingly retro (although -definitely- retro, this -is- tweepop) deserves props.
EDIT (I'm worse than Grefter): Speaking of Grefter, the singer is also Australian. Man, Grefter, your people churn out good popsters like they grow on water and Australia decided to oversea market boomerangs, kangaroos, that dead showhunter and Crocodile Dundee instead? What is wrong with you?
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Don't forget Yahoo Serious.
Queensryche: Prophecy
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Gaelic Storm - What's the Rumpus?
This song has no point to speak of, but man does it do a great job of getting stuck in my head.
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Allo Darlin' - Dreaming
The eponymous song by Blondie is obviously superior, but this is certainly charming on its own merits.
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Arcade Fire - The Well and the Lighthouse
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Augie March - Here Comes The Night.
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Allo Darlin' - My Heart Is a Drummer
This song is the highlight of the album. There's this marvelous little guitar and "oooh-aaaah" ditty that starts at 1:40 and then sweeps my pop senses off my feet. And that's not to mention the adorable "my heart's as strong as a drummer" vocal hook.
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Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues
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Probably my least favorite thing on Neon Bible right there. That and Windowsill are the tracks I don't really dig. Intervention/No Cars Go/My Body Is a Cage > others. Speaking of:
Peter Gabriel: My Body Is a Cage
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Probably my least favorite thing on Neon Bible right there. That and Windowsill are the tracks I don't really dig. Intervention/No Cars Go/My Body Is a Cage > others.
Windowsill is excellent. Antichrist Television Blues is the odd little duck, though. Would be right at home in a Bruce Springsteen album, and isn't Arcade Fire in any sense of the word.
Arcade Fire - Rococo
Wait a minute this isn't rococo.
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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Preliminary Assessment: Funeral > The Suburbs > Neon Bible. I sorely need to work out The Suburbs further, though, especially since it's -too goddamned long-.
EDIT: The album namer is amazingly strong, however. Win Butler just gets better at modulating his voice and playing it into the hook game, and it remains just as emotionally piercing and characteristic as it always was. The arrangements are also more elegant than Arcade Fire's ever been while still being diverse - a bit further away from the wall-of-sound mentality they often sport, but still clearly in line with the layered, rich sonic textures I fell in love with in the first place.
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Halestorm- I'm not an angel.
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A Perfect Circle - Passive.
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Arcade Fire - Black Mirror
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Northern Kings: We Don't Need Another Hero
Ciato if you're looking for campy metal you should totally listen to this.
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Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Wrong Time Wrong Planet.
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Our Riotous Defects - Of Montreal
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Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
I'm still not sure what I think about this CD, but it is good paper-reading music.
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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Still heavily mulling over this album. The Suburbs (the CD itself) is uneven, way too long and somewhat hard to digest in the short term. However, this is the work that -intrigues- me the most, and it has a chance of being my special AF album, even though Funeral's still cleanly the best. Not to mention The Suburbs (the -track-) and Ready to Start are, in my opinion, two of the fundamental tracks to -get- Arcade Fire in their nucleus. Amazing mood and pop sensibility within their musical proposal (Ready to Start, for starters, at the very least borders on immaculate in terms of pop craft). Not a small feat for an album that's supposed to be the ugly little duckling.
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Bjork - Headphones.
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Arcade Fire - Intervention
Probably my favorite song on the CD~
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Intervention is pretty good stuff. That organ taking the forefront sets the mood very well.
Arcade Fire - We Used to Wait
Annnnnnnnnnd here's the third all-time gem in the album.
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Pulp - Glory Days.
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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Still heavily mulling over this album. The Suburbs (the CD itself) is uneven, way too long and somewhat hard to digest in the short term. However, this is the work that -intrigues- me the most, and it has a chance of being my special AF album, even though Funeral's still cleanly the best. Not to mention The Suburbs (the -track-) and Ready to Start are, in my opinion, two of the fundamental tracks to -get- Arcade Fire in their nucleus. Amazing mood and pop sensibility within their musical proposal (Ready to Start, for starters, at the very least borders on immaculate in terms of pop craft). Not a small feat for an album that's supposed to be the ugly little duckling.
Yes to pretty much everything about The Suburbs (it is definitely too goddamn long, yes. I really don't think you need more than a dozen tracks to make a great album. Ten's usually plenty, really). I gave it the first listen in a few months last week and I like it better than I did at release, but it could still easily lose three or four songs (I'm looking your way here, Rococo). The album is basically nostalgia in a can. I don't mean that in a bad way. I dislike nostalgia on principle, but The Suburbs never feels like a cheap cash-in on childhood memories. It's more general amazement along the lines of "This is where we came from, I wonder where it all went? Let's get it all down in writing before we forget." At it's best, the album feels like sincere contemplation of how times change by people who are now old enough to have seen it happen. We Used to Wait is really the shining example of that (who writes letters anymore?)
And yes, you've picked out the best tracks on the album there. I'm quite partial to Suburban War as well, but otherwise agreed.
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Daft Punk: Superheroes
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Funnily, Rococo is one of the tracks I wouldn't lose. The weirdass Radiohead/Cocteau Twins/The Cure acid trip sonic density going on they do there is cool. I'd personally yank both Half Lights, The Suburbs Continued and Wasted Hours. Maybe Sprawl I, but I hesitate on that. I feel cutting Sprawl I would cause the loss of Sprawl II by default, which blows because Sprawl II is gorgeous and gaudy like only Arcade Fire can be and I will take any opportunity to hear Régine taking the helm of a song I can.
Speaking of which!
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Will Be Mountains)
EDIT: Also, agreed on the assessment about The Suburbs being a nostalgia trip. I'd also add that it has a very contemplative, somber mood that mixes in with colorful undertones. Very intriguing result, and worth studying and deciphering.
EDIT 2 (I am Grefter's ex-wife): I believe God himself passed down that the heaven-touched pop masterpieces last somewhere between 40 and 45 minutes, 50 at the very most.
EDIT 3 (holy shit I have nothing better to do): Suburban War is quite good, yes. I think it's hurt by being slammed in the middle of the most poorly paced lump of the album, though. But for other music:
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
I could listen to this song on repeat for -years-.
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New song calls for a new post.
Michael Jackson - This Place Hotel.
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It really does.
The Alan Parsons Project: Damned If I Do
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Melissa Auf der Maur - Lightening Is My Girl.
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Public Domain - Operation Blade.
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Murder By Death - Spring Break 1899.
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Golden Earring: Twilight Zone
I got this song stuck in my head for one simple reason. That reason is here: http://www.williamshatner.com/Article419.phtml
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That looks like it should be a fun album, hope it is well produced as the last one.
Ghosts - Over-Analysis
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Queensryche - The Lady Wore Black
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Beautiful World - Say Goodbye.
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Pain of Salvation - Used
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Amy MacDonald - This Is The Life
Can't remember if I've hyped this one yet or not(or if someone's beat me to it!) and too lazy/tired to look it up. So here's a link to the song~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MRYLWJb1o&feature=channel_video_title
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Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game.
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Bob Seger - You'll Accompany Me
Felt like something a little softer today. :)
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Little Dragon - Twice.
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Pet Shop Boys - Legacy
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Adam WarRock vs DJ Empirical - P.B.R.
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David Bowie: Heathen (The Rays)
So Heathen's pretty great. I still don't really dig the covers (though is that a theremin in the background on I Took a Trip On a Gemini Spaceship?) but all the original material is gold. Would put it up there with Scary Monsters for best albums of his that I've picked up. It helps that my favorite (see above pimping) is saved for last. Most of the best albums do that, I've found. Pacing!
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Dammit Cid, now I need to listen to songs off it. I personally totally dig the covers though. They are mostly Bowie going back 20 or more years to pay homage to old friends. Insert obligatory goddamn how many years have I been shilling this album as great and you only pick it up now etc.
If you like Heathen you really have got to pick up ... hours and Reality as well.
David Bowie - 5:15 The Angels Have Gone.
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I got it last year sometime, so minus one from quantity of Grefter bitching. Picked up ...hours and Reality around Christmastime largely on strength of Heathen being awesome. ...hours is pretty good, Reality I still haven't entirely processed. And it might just be me not being fond of covers in general for those tracks. Cactus is the best of those because hey, Pixies (I saw him play that live once and he castigated the audience for not buying more Pixies albums--"Then they wouldn't have broken up!"), but the Neil Young song really underwhelms. It's rare that I'm blown away by a cover song, really; can't think of many good examples outside of the last Peter Gabriel album (which pretty consistently knocks it out of the park).
The Alan Parsons Project: The Ace of Swords
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Hm, I think I've found a new source of music; My Little Ponies fan videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1FE7yHGcAw
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Cocteau Twins - When Mama Was Moth
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Electric Six - The World's Smallest Human Being
Everybody's wondering how you're making love to the world's smallest human being
You say he walks and talks like everybody else and baby he got feelings
It's not who you are... it's who you know
Not how tall you are but how you grow~
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Franz Ferdinand - Well, That Was Easy.
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Arcade Fire - Winter For A Year
Kay, now time to try the demos.
FUN FACT: My brain fell in love with The Suburbs. But my heart fell in love with Funeral.
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Motorhead - Overkill
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Cog - Sharing Space.
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Divynils - Pleasure and Pain
Man, Divynils is like the AC/DC of bubblegum '80s pop.
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Pulp - Joyriders
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The Jezabels - Mace Spray.
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Q Lazarus - Goodbye Horses.
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Arcade Fire - Haiti
Nothing really epitomizes how gaudily wonderful Arcade Fire's music can be like this song. Reginé singing "Guns can't kill, soldiers can't see" like she had just learned how to faintly modulate her voice a day ago is just impossibly charming, and she -always- sounds like this.
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Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Dear god, this may be the fucking best song in this. Cathartic, cheerful, paranoid, frightened and unsettling all in the same package, and just as sensible and well-constructed in popcraft as any of Funeral's highlights. If this isn't one of the best damned albums I've listened to since I began enjoying music (it's actually not that long ago!), I don't know what is.
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Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers
Breathtaking falsettos, indeed.
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Pulp - My Lighthouse
That time again.
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Electric Six - You're Bored
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Electric Six - Gay Bar.
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Ayreon - Day Twenty - Confrontation
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Skitchin' - Sniff.
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Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch
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Skitchin' - Blowout.
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The Jezabels - Old Little Girls.
Snow, get the stuff these guys put out.
One thing I love is their album covers, specifically this one though for The Man is Dead
(http://www.freakenergy.ru/uploads/posts/2010-01/1263296269_1.jpg)
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Second band you get me to listen in a week? Who do you think you are, my mother? >_>
The Jezabels - Dark Storm
Okay, so you are.
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The Jezabels - Disco Biscuit Love
These girls are pretty good stuff. How come Australia doesn't export its popcraft expertise more often?
EDIT:
The Jezabels - Sahara Mahara
Really good stuff. Lush, gorgeous guitars with a charismatic singer and very professional pop acumen in spite of five/six-minute long songs up the ass. That's no mean feat.
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The Jezabels - Dark Storm
These girls are like 2011's Metric for me.
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Celtic Woman - The Voice
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Pulp - Love Is Blind
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The Long Blondes - Once and Never Again.
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Jimi Hendrix: All Along the Watchtower
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The Jezabels - Disco Biscuit Love
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Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Holy -fuck- is this live album good.
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Stop Making Sense? Watch the movie if you can, at least for Big Suit Byrne. The man's some kind of strange wind-up toy.
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Queensryche - Before the Storm
And it is loud because the landlords are gone~
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Stop Making Sense? Watch the movie if you can, at least for Big Suit Byrne. The man's some kind of strange wind-up toy.
Actually, The Name of This Band is Talking Heads is the album. Holy shit that's a lot of live awesomeness. The band manages to go above and beyond its studio acumen live.
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Arcade Fire - Windowsill
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Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Ciato get Funeral.
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Pulp - Fear
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Brian Eno - Mother Whale Eyeless
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Silverchair - Pure Massacre.
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Divinyls - Pleasure and Pain
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The Jezabels - Dark Storm
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Dropkick Murphys - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya.
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Arcade Fire - Black Mirror
This song just gets more haunting the more I listen to it.
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Rob Zombie - Demonoid Phenomenon.
So Dragula was being used in a sports show this weekend and I have been on a Zombie kick ever since. Holyshit I love this stuff.
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Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Jesus christ this is the essence of catharsis and sensibility in a pop song. The re-recording of this song for Neon Bible just brings the polyphony in the melody to a lush, gorgeous experience.
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Til Tuesday- Voices Carry
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A Comparison:
Fuck You, by Cee Lo Green (and the clean versions) vs. Forget You by Glee (Gweneth Paltrow)
..man. Glee songs I usually think are on par at least with the originals, sometimes better.
This really isn't the case at all with this. This is one of my favourite songs - the full, profane version. I think it matters - the emotion is so much stronger with "Fuck" than "Forget" or "FU". It was the first version I heard, and while the other versions are still good...seriously, profanity really makes the song that much more meaningful. You can tell that someone pissed him off and hurt him when he was younger - and now, he's the winner, and gets to gloat. You can FEEL it. That's what makes the song powerful.
Gweneth Paltrow has an excellent voice. But she does not have emotion for the song. No passion. No GUSTO. This is particularly evident at the end of the 2nd verse. Cee Lo's last line is, "I really hate your ass right now". The line for Glee? "I really hate you right now" It's not really sung, it's just SAID. So little emotion, so little energy outside of saying the words. It feels so weak.
The allure of the song is the passion and the story behind it. You can FEEL Cee Lo telling someone to fuck off. That's what makes the song work. Particularly the 3rd verse, where he's reminiscing, and you can feel the transformation as the song builds to the finale. I don't get that with Paltrow. Good voice, no passion. I can't imagine her telling anyone to fuck off, and that depresses me. The profanity isn't the issue, although it really helps - the problem is she adds no passion. Cee Lo's clean versions still have the passion - this one does not.
And that is sad, for as I said, females swearing is hot. ;_;
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Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Jesus christ this is the essence of catharsis and sensibility in a pop song. The re-recording of this song for Neon Bible just brings the polyphony in the melody to a lush, gorgeous experience.
I was waiting for this.
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The Dead Weather - Gasoline.
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Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Jesus christ this is the essence of catharsis and sensibility in a pop song. The re-recording of this song for Neon Bible just brings the polyphony in the melody to a lush, gorgeous experience.
I was waiting for this.
... >_>
Arcade Fire - Black Mirror
Un! Deux! Trois! Dis: Miroire Noire!
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Arcade Fire - Windowsill
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The Cure: In Between Days
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Deviations Project - Pavanorama
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Does it Offend You, Yeah? - Wrestler (This is the Dance)
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The White Stripes - Offend in Every Way
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Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost
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Does it Offend You, Yeah? - John Hurt.
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Shaman, by Santana.
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Sonata Arctica: Out in the Fields
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Apoc- Hail to the Mountain King
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The Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres.
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Warren Zevon: Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
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Angus & Julia Stone - The Beast
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Pulp - Love Is Blind
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Depeche Mode: Photographic
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Arcade Fire - Windowsill
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The Jezabels - Disco Biscuit Love
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Devin Townsend - Things Beyond Things
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Arcade Fire - Haiti
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Mogwai - I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School
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Aimee Mann - The Scientist
See, that's how you make Coldplay songs good: put someone who sings instead of Chris Martin on the vocals.
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Allo Darlin' - The Polaroid Song
Check out that charming little flute speck filling out the guitar-rhythm hook. I love this album.
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Phil Collins- In the air tonight
I blame The Hangover.
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You are shit.
The Jezabels - Violent Dream.
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The Mountain Goats- No Children.
Jess and I used to tell people this was our song. A lie, of course. Our song is "Debra" by Beck.
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Nice, Mountain Goats aren't bad at all.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Fix Your Face.
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Quad City DJs vs TYPE-MOON - Crimson Slam
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S'il suffisait d'aimer - Celine Dion
I'd forgotten how much I loved her songs as a child, and I'm not afraid to admit I still enjoy her songs. Pleasant surprise to rediscover this CD.
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German female rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTFor_fTz5w
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Rush: 2112
Title fairly close approximation of the length of the song, yes.
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German female rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTFor_fTz5w
That actually was pretty decent.
The Pigeon Detectives - I'm Not Sorry.
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Apocalyptica: Path Vol. 2
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Electric Six - Step Sister
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German female rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTFor_fTz5w
That actually was pretty decent.
Yeah, I really like Killah Queen, for all that she has like...pretty much one song.
Who else...let's see...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-C78T_HwkQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF4BnK5FF6Y
Lumaraa has a lot of quite good stuff. So far I'm usually preferring the more aggressive-butch style rappers, but Lumaraa is just high-quality even if she leans more on the femme side; but eh, there's others who go a lot further than her, too, in terms of femmy sex-symbol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kcrNWJx-jo
Miss Mine is...eh...decent. I...dunno, can't really make up my mind on her. Sometimes I like her, sometimes I'm like "I heard her take a breath! That ruins my sense of immersion!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzEw4fJsiKQ
Jamilla is pretty solid. Giusy just...doesn't do it for me--I'm not sure if I feel her timing or the sound of her voice is just kinda off but...bleh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HepZ8Rv6QrM
Haven't listened to a lot of Tanuscha yet, but I really like her sampling choices from the songs I've tried so far (and samples are...honestly at least half the point of hip-hop to me). And she seems at least decently strong vocally as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l7lSC4gK7I
Kitty Kat...I can't seem to form a consistent opinion on; like I'm having trouble getting a common thread of her style between songs; she's signed by Universal, though, so it might just be that different songs are done by different producers. Consistently high production values, of course.
There's more, but those are the ones I took enough note of to remember.
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I will have to spend some time tonight catching these. Thanks Met.
The Pigeon Detectives - You Better Not Look My Way.
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Arcade Fire - Crown of Love
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omg wake up is amazing
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
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Rush: YYZ
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omg wake up is amazing
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Wake Up is a fucking anthem and one of Arcade Fire's most cathartic and polyphonic pieces. I find it astounding, and it only isn't the best song in the album because Tunnels and Rebellion (Lies) exist. Says something about Funeral, really.
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Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Such a sweet song :)
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Rush: Fly By Night
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Korn - Got The Life.
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Vampire Weekend - M79
Holy shit M79.
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Arcade Fire: Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
Yeah, I'm hooked.
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Princess One Point Five - I Dare You.
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Arcade Fire: Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
Yeah, I'm hooked.
<metroidcomposite> YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
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Queensryche: Eyes of a Stranger
The greatest albums save the best for last.
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David Bowie - Rock 'N Roll Suicide.
Yep.
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Arcade Fire - Wake Up
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Emiliana Torrini - Telepathy
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Posh.
Cocteau Twins - Know Who You Are At Every Age
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Kinky -"A Dónde Van Los Muertos?"
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I'm glad you people are starting to develop taste.
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
EDIT: Arcade Fire - Intervention
Neon Bible is pretty cleanly their worst album but it's still amazing. Seriously, hell's wrong withyall.
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Brunatex - These Nights.
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I'm glad you people are starting to develop taste.
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
EDIT: Arcade Fire - Intervention
Neon Bible is pretty cleanly their worst album but it's still amazing. Seriously, hell's wrong withyall.
Who's arguin'?
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I'M ARGUING, OK
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
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Cog - Open It Up.
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Aldous Snow - Going Up
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I'm glad you people are starting to develop taste.
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
EDIT: Arcade Fire - Intervention
Neon Bible is pretty cleanly their worst album but it's still amazing. Seriously, hell's wrong withyall.
Who's arguin'?
Zenny just wants friends.
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Joan Jett and the Blackhearts- Crimson and Clover
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Beethoven: 3rd symphony
Ciato what is your sig from (I assume it is a song).
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Electric Six - I am a Song!
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Electric Six - Dance Epidemic
baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaby looks like a dance epidemic to me
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Eye of the Tiger, as interpreted by the London symphony orchestra.
It is magnificent.
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Yuki Kajiura: Salva Nos
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Willy Chirino: Soy Guajiro
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Ghosts - Stay The Night
This song is memorable for having its beginning chords sound almost exactly like the first notes in Duck Tales' OP.
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All India Radio - Let Me Remain
This is very relaxing and elegant chilling music. It feels like this is somewhat akin to what Dido could have been if Dido wasn't utterly devoid of personality.
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Apocalyptica - End Of Me
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The Beatles - She's So Heavy
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Daft Punk - Touch It/Technologic (Live)
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Devin Townsend - Kawaii
Holy crap this is easy listening.
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Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
lolololol Ciatos, if we go back to that CD shop I will totally buy one of their albums, this shit is amazing.
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We can go tomorrow.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Oh My Lord
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The B-52's - Planet Claire
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Empire Of The Sun - Standing On The Shore
Ahahahahaha oh wow Grefter just reads me like a book.
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Empire Of The Sun - Tiger By My Side
Definitely good stuff. They really remind me in a sense of MGMT with the gorgeous decadent atmosphere of post-post-modern glamulation, but they have superior songwriting and far more diversity. On the other hand, MGMT has the smarmy attitude, hilarious lyrics and solid theatrics. In the end, I still gravitate more towards the songwriting/diversity, but things could change either way on other albums. Still, I approve.
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Electric Six - Escape from Ohio
WHY DO ALL THE CITIES NAMES START WITH C
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The White Stripes - The Union Forever
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Little Dragon - No Love
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GREFTER!!!! MY MUSIC SOULMATE IS BACK!!!!
Gorillaz - Amarillo
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Melissa Auf der Maur - Lightening is my Girl
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Gorillaz - Bobby in Phoenix
Trying to try out all the new CDs. Today is Gorillaz!
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In Flames - Superhero of the Computer Rage.
Actively being to lazy to listen to new albums.
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The White Stripes - The Union Forever
This song is has a fun beat and has the 'man who who rejects being money-driven' thing. Like it.
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Nirvana - Come As You Are.
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Empire of the Sun - Tiger by my Side
So nonsensical, yet so irresistibly catchy. Two distinct hook passages in the same song off a fun base is how you do a nearly six-minute song in pop if you absolutely have to.
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In Flames - Trigger.
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Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings.
So my little brother was watching the last season of Daria (you know the one that actually starts working on an emotional level), made me all nostalgic.
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Within Temptation - Our Farewell
Wooowwwwwwwww. Love it.
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Jarvis Cocker - Angela.
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Amy Winehouse - I Heard Love is Blind
Ms. Winehouse taught me that it's not cheating if you bang a dude who looks like your boyfriend.
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Only if your boyfriend isn't in town and you think of him while you are doing him.
Kaye-Louise Patterson - Puis J'Avoir Un Billet?
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Air - Modular Mix
I like French accents in my synthesizers.
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Amy Winehouse - Amy Amy Amy
<3
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AC/DC- For Those About To Rock
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Brunatex - This Day.
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Melissa Auf Der Maur- Willing enabler
Hatbotted a random song from the thread, came up with this (Gref, March of this year). Pretty good.
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Queen - Under Pressure.
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Pet Shop Boys - One More Chance
Old PSB is very different. I'm not sure if I like it yet. >_>;;
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Nick Cave - Oh My Lord
I like this song because it slowly builds up anxiety and desperation as the song goes on with the music and the singing.
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Angus & Julia Stone - Draw Your Swords.
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N.E.R.D. - Hypnotize U
How I missed a new N.E.R.D. album is beyond me, but the CD is great as expected.
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Angus & Julia Stone - I'm Not Yours.
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Electric Six - One Sick Puppy
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Pendulum - Fasten Your Seatbelts.
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Emiliana Torrini - Jungle drum.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Love Letter
I decided to have a Nick Cave marathon, because I love sadness.
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Beirut: Scenic World
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Emiliana Torrini - Bleeder.
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Ricky Martin - Livin La Vida Loca
my god why do we have to have the radio on at work oh gods burn it ._.;;
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Melissa Auf der Maur - Taste You.
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Ricky Martin - Livin La Vida Loca
my god why do we have to have the radio on at work oh gods burn it ._.;;
You could always ask them to turn it off. Some people will actually do this when they realize their awful taste in music is hurting someone.
Unless this in loudspeakers throughout a store or something, then you're screwed.
Yuki Kajiura: Indio
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Bjork - Bachelorette
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Pet Shop Boys - One More Chance
Tangentially, B-52's debut album? Gooooooooooooooooooooooooood stuff.
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B-52's - Dirty Back Road
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Tangentially, B-52's debut album? Gooooooooooooooooooooooooood stuff.
I was waiting for this.
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White Stripes - The Union Forever.
Sure, I'm Charles Foster Kane, but you've gotta love me.
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All India Radio - Persist
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Ayreon - The Truth is Here
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David Bowie - Thursday's Child.
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David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy.
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Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
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Bjork - Pagan Poetry.
So Bjork is doing something new and strange with the iPad. Do I fanboy it up enough and end up getting one to check it out? That might be more of an investment than I am prepared to make.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Hallelujah
I turned to the woman and the woman was young...
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Gorecki: Symphony #3
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Pantera- Cemetery Gates
This song gets in my head every time I play FM5. This isn't a bad thing, it's an awesome song.
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Electric Six - She's White
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Hallelujah
Yeah, I'm hooked. Apparently people disliked this CD or something. Proving that people are lame.
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Some 70s mix of Jenna's that I am entirely too lazy to walk across the room and turn off despite the fact that she left it running when she left the room like two hours ago.
Alot of Elton John though, so it's got some good points.
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The White Stripes - Rag and Bone
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White Stripes - Fell in Love With a Girl.
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Amy Winehouse died today. Now I am recalling me and Grefter walking down Vancouver streets discussing where her career might go after this.
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Los Campesinos! - ... And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison.
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Procul Harum: Conquistador
Have I mentioned how badass the orchestra version of this is? Because it is, a lot.
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Devin Townsend Project - Ghost
Very light and breezy~
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Kate Miller-Heidke - The Day After Christmas.
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The B-52's - Party Out Of Bounds
Sheesh, Wild Planet (9) is even better than the debut album. Less weirdly fresh, but only slightly less so, all while being far better on songwriting and creative musical structures and hooks. Sooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooood.
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The White Stripes - I Wanna Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart
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Art Brut - Clever Clever Jazz.
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The B-52's - Nip It In The Bud
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Freelance Whales - Generator^Second Floor
holy shit this album is wonderful!
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Art Brut - Ice Hockey.
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The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
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Does it Offend You, Yeah? - John Hurt.
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Does it Offend You, Yeah? - Wrestler (This is the Dance).
Snow I am pretty sure I gave this to you. Listen to this.
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The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
It might sound silly for me to think childish thoughts like these
But I'm so tired of acting tough and I'm gonna do what I please~
Let's get married in a big cathedral by a priest
Because if I'm the man you love the most you could say 'I do' at least
Well-it's-1-2-3-4-take-the-elevator at the Hotel Yorba I'll be glad to see you later~
This song is so cute.
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Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Attack of the 60 ft Lesbian Octopus.
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Augie March - One Crowded Hour.
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The White Stripes - Ball and Biscuit
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Art Brut - Martin Kemp Welch Five-a-Side Football Rules.
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Somethig about angels wanting to wear red shoes. For the third time today. I question the musical choices in starbucks sometimes.
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Melissa Auf der Maur - Taste You.
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Augie March - There is No Such Place.
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Going to the local Warped Tour tomorrow. I'm not too familiar with most the bands that will be there, but it should be fun.
Right now I am trying to get a feel for some of the bands my friends are hyping...such as:
Dance Gavin Dance, We Came as Romans, The Word Alive, Miss May I, Attack Attack, Woe is Me, Pepper, Devil Wears Prada, Less Then Jake and some others.
Actually the only bands I know a decent amount of are The Expenables, Against Me, and Paramore.
It should be fun!
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Electric Six - Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart
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All India Radio - Shimmer.
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A wild CT appears in the music topic!~
I was recommended to Gate and Grefter for music suggestions and I must say they have good taste -
I have been listening to these -
Owl City - Honey and the Bee
Owl City - Galaxies/Official HQ
**
Justice - Genesis
Deadmau5 - Ghosts n Stuff (!)
Pendulum - Through the Loop
Also for the Grefters from the Grefter - Aphex Twin: Windowlicker :)
I quite like them all ;o Mainly been listening to Owl City and Pendulum while playing FF5~
(thanks again guys for the links >=))
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The Knife - The Captain.
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Low flying planes go overhead. Between last night and this morning, there are alot more of them then usual. Kinda wondering what's up.
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Air - Venus
Man, I liked Moon Safari, but Talkie Walkie is simply -gorgeous-. So much depth and dimension to its sound textures, and it's just as rich in moods and colors. Simply a feast for a synaesthete.
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Amon Amarth - Where Death Seems to Dwell.
I suppose this could be where he dwells? Maybe it is. I suppose.
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Amon Amarth - Once Sealed In Blood.
So apparently all I wanted in metal lately is slightly thrashy guitar, a good application of double kicks, growl and lyrics about Norse myth/Vikings. It is pretty decipherable growl as far as growl goes as well so that goes a long way.
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Amon Amarth - Varyags of Miklagaard
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Aziz Ansari - Craigslist.
Gooooooood comedy album. I should have bought some sooner. Going to hit up Lous C.K. next.
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diVinyls - I'm Jealous.
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Within Temptation - Mother Earth
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Delerium - Euphoria (Firefly)~
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Queens of the Stoneage - Mexicola.
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Pet Shop Boys - Two Divided By Zero
Holy -hell-, Neil Tennant's voice is wonderful. I'm also impressed the games they play with basic pop structures. I often wish the synth reliance wasn't so excessive, but the songwriting is inventive, especially for bubblegum pop standards. And, of course, that amazing amazing velvet voice singing ironic, delicately venomous amenities. So good.
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Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue.
From the Iduns.
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/me gnaws on the Iduns.
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http://iwfyls.tumblr.com/
This is also from the Iduns, I suggest you check it out.
Silversun Pickups - There's No Secrets This Year.
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The Who: We're Not Gonna Take It
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Nick Cave- Eating Right Out of Your Hand
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Kid Rock- Cowboy
*Hangs head* Guilty pleasure.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Shuffle Your Feet.
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Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin
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1990s - You Made Me Like It.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Shuffle Your Feet.
Howl is one of my favorite albums.
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Honestly when I picked it up they were different than I was expecting. Quite the pleasant suprise.
Murder By Death - Boy Decide.
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Pure Reason Revolution - Bloodless
Oh ffs. One of my friends showed me these guys a few weeks back, and they're.. basically a less creepy but overall better version of Ayreon, IMO.
So, naturally, they announced yesterday that they're stopping after their tour later this year. Typical. >.>
Still, if nothing else, I'm totally getting myself a ticket to one of those stops, if not several. These guys are amazing. <3
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - We Came Along This Road
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Honestly when I picked it up they were different than I was expecting. Quite the pleasant suprise.
When I'm drunk enough the guitar riff in Ain't No Easy Way makes my blood sing in my veins.
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Arcade Fire - City With No Children.
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A Perfect Circle - The Noose
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That is my favourite original APC song. Nice.
Metric - Ending Start.
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Pet is mine I think. Still need to listen to Mer de Noms though.
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Pet Shop Boys - The End Of The World
Oh dear, Behaviour is so -good-.
EDIT: "It's just a boy, or a girl, it's not the end of the world..."
EDIT 2: Neil Tennant's voice is probably one of the best in the world of pop music in the last twenty-five years or so. Without his pristine modulation and gorgeous elegance, so much of the decadent charm of the music would be lost.
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Devin Townsend Project - As You Were
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Silversun Pickups - Common Reactor.
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That is my favourite original APC song. Nice.
Ditto. As for Mer de Noms, I always found it half of a great album. I love the first six songs, but after that my interest drops precipitously.
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It is weird for a band I consider to have such great talent involved I love their cover album best.
A Perfect Circle - Passive.
Specifically this track, which kind of almost counts maybe kind of? Cover of stuff from a band that never actually put out anything that Maynard was part of with Trent Reznor and a bunch of other talented types. I don't really know what to even classify it as, but the rest of the album just sits better than most of the rest of their stuff as well.
Emotive is really good.
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Elton John: Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
This is one of those songs that, when I first started listening to classic rock, really made me sit up and go, "What the hell is that?" Of course, it's a meandering, eleven-minute long magnum opus. With castanets. I just wish Goodbye Yellow Brick Road didn't have so much filler in between the great songs. Did not need to be a double album.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Oh My Lord
I hate them all for what they went and done to you.
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David Bowie - Little Wonder.
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Murder By Death - One More Notch
It's like folk and metal had a paranoid little baby. Good stuff, but that's also mostly because it emphasizes the instrumental and folksy aspect over the metal music cliches, which suits me better.
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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Back to being a fucking hipster.
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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Back to being a fucking hipster.
YAAAAY!!!
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ZZ Top- Legs
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Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
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Justice - Newjack.
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Augie March - There is No Such Place.
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Shaman's Harvest- Dragonfly
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Björk - All Neon Like
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Roxy Music - Sea Breezes
I definitely can learn to love this. Will take some time, though.
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Augie March - Angels of the Bowling Green.
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Diplo - Horsey (Original Mix).
*madly thrusts hips* *dutty wines* *breaks neck*
*decidedly calls out of work**
** if only.
. . . .
*begins thrusting hips again*
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VCR - Rad.
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VCR - DVD.
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Art Brut - Sexy Sometimes.
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Electric Six - Clusterfuck!
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Electric Six - Talking Turkey
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Electric Six - Kukuxumushu.
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Matraca Berg - Back in the Saddle
Very country. >_>
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FF13- Blaze Edge
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VCR- Rad
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Art Brut - Clever Clever Jazz.
You might say Amateur hour, but you'd be wrong. We play for nine minutes, we've got two songs.
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I Luv Hamburgers - Bust A Groove Soundtrack
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Art Brut - Sexy Sometimes.
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VCR - Rad.
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Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show-Me State; or Letters From Me to Charlotte.
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Nightwish- Seven days to the wolves
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Amy Winehouse - Wake Up Alone
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Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye.
I could wait a couple of songs and be less cliche, but there is a reason when I want to listen to Silversuns it is because this one is in my head, it is a great song. Then of course I listen to all the stuff that you know hasn't been on 50 million Rockband games.
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The Who: Doctor Jimmy
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Justice - D.V.N.O.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - We Came Along This Road
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diVinyls - I'm Jealous.
I absolutely love this song. It is enaging and so much fun, then 20 seconds later the rhythm guitar starts and I get goosebumps and it is completely hypnotic. Pretty much everything I love about the band in one song.
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The Long Blondes - Heaven Help the New Girl.
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Pet Shop Boys - Absolutely Fabulous
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Los Campesinos! - The Year Punk Rock Broke (My Heart).
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Franz Ferinand- Can't stop feeling
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Michael Jackson - Dangerous
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Electric Six - Electric Demons in Love
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Art Brut - Slap Dash For No Cash
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Brave Fencer Musashi OST- Far into the sky
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Pure Reason Revolution - Goshen's Remains (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRu63J4NfeA)
Going to see these guys live in November for their final tour ever. Definitely DL-tastes, and one of the best bands I've heard in a long time. (For those who know them, these guys are kinda like 65daysofstatic.)
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Shaggy - Forgive Them Father.
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Dream Theater - The Great Debate
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Nier OST: Ashes of Dreams
There needs to be another music tourney just so I can nom this game repeatedly.
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Anthrax - I Am the Law
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Nier OST: Ashes of Dreams
There needs to be another music tourney just so I can nom this game repeatedly.
I actually bought that album. I was legitimately impressed with its quality of composition. I think my favorite song is probably The Dark Colossus Destroys All.
Anyway:
The Mountain Goats- The Old College Try. Amanda says this song is "super-romantic." We're kind of fucked up like that, she and I.
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Nier OST: Ashes of Dreams
There needs to be another music tourney just so I can nom this game repeatedly.
I actually bought that album. I was legitimately impressed with its quality of composition. I think my favorite song is probably The Dark Colossus Destroys All.
Ditto (first time I've bought a game OST in many years), except that my favorites would be Song of the Ancients ~ Fate and Shadowlord. It's always the boss themes with me.
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I always liked how the Song of the Ancients faded in and out in the village based on how close you were to Popola. It was a very nice touch.
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Art Brut - Clever Clever Jazz.
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Jorn - Hellfire
Going all out in the camp department.
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Kyrie- Mr. Mister
You called for cheese, Ciato?!
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I love the collection of misheard lyrics for that song. "Carrying a laser down the road that I must travel~"
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Shaggy - All Virgins
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I always liked how the Song of the Ancients faded in and out in the village based on how close you were to Popola. It was a very nice touch.
Devola, I thought. Popola hung out in the library. But yeah, it was a nice touch, as were the various environmental songs that changed tone when shades were around. Organic, unobtrusive way of shifting background music.
Joe Satriani: Bamboo
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Devola, I thought. Popola hung out in the library. But yeah, it was a nice touch, as were the various environmental songs that changed tone when shades were around. Organic, unobtrusive way of shifting background music.
This is correct.
And yeah, NIER used its music well. And had awesome music on top of that.
Speaking of which:
Freesscape - A sign of affection
Same vocalist as NIER. Amazing album (called Now is the point at which I touch eternity).
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Star One - Digital Rain
Because I needed more space opera rock in my life.
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Regurgitator - Virtual Life.
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Art Brut - Summer Job
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Shaman King OP
Cheesy, but I still like it.
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Rammstein - Mein Teil.
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A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Nº 6 Karman Street
This is so fucking -weird-.
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A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Our Change Into Rain Is No Change At All (Talkin' About Us)
This is still fucking weird. But there are some -gorgeous- soundscapes in motion here once you get through the walls of sound in this song. Need to listen to this more.
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My favorite kind of song is one someone writes about me, so...
3 Songs in 3 Days- The Ballad of Chuggernaut T. Stampede, Esq.
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Drake- Trust Issues
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Shaggy - Soon Be Done.
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Pendulum - Slam.
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Electric Six - You're Bored
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Shaggy - Midnite Lover.
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Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues
Bought this album and Uriah Heep's greatest hits yesterday. DL music tastes are invasive, what more can I say?
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Los Campesinos - Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats.
They do? You should get into Los Campesinos! They are local for you. Check them out.
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Los Campesinos - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
I also tried You! Me! Dancing! and Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats but, as much as I like the music, I'm not a fan of the male vocalist. That said, this song has pretty decent vocals for the chorus, at least. I can see this being something I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to, but wouldn't complain hearing it now and then.
Edit: It is enough for me to at least download an album or two. Hm.
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Amy Winehouse - Just Friends.
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R.E.M.: Life and How to Live It
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No Doubt - Don't Speak.
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A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Wake Up, Pretty
yeeeeeeeeeeeah, the textures and melodies are definitely kicking into my head now. Grefter, if you enjoy dream pop in any form, this is definitely worth picking up.
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Arcade Fire - No Cars Go~
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Pure Reason Revolution - AVO
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Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!
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Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime
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A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Nitetime Rainbows
EDIT:
The The - Giant
O_o?
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Los Campesinos! - ... And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes In Unison
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Apocalyptica: Hope Vol. 2
Despite generally preferring the instrumentals, I'm pretty sure this is my favorite song by them.
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Art Brut - Bad Comedian
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Art Brut - What a Rush
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The Jezabels - Long Highway.
They finally put out an album.
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The Bird and the Bee: Polite Dance Song
Music like this normally gets to me, but this one I enjoy for some reason.
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Apocalyptica: Hope Vol. 2
Despite generally preferring the instrumentals, I'm pretty sure this is my favorite song by them.
Good man, it is a fantastic piece. It's a shame their latest album had such unremarkable vocal tracks.
Castlevania OST- Wicked Child
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Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage
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Apocalyptica: Hope Vol. 2
Despite generally preferring the instrumentals, I'm pretty sure this is my favorite song by them.
Good man, it is a fantastic piece. It's a shame their latest album had such unremarkable vocal tracks.
I liked Bring Them to Light, at least. End of Me was okay. The other two were thoroughly mediocre.
The Protomen: Due Vendetta
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The Jezabels - Long Highway.
They finally put out an album.
FUCK YES.
The Jezabels - Trycolour
Yeah, not wasting any more time.
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Castlevania HoD OST- Nothing to lose. Awesome remix of CV1's final boss theme.
End of me's passable enough, but it can't compete with Anything but Love/I don't care/I'm not Jesus.
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I'm actually not that fond of those, either! (I'm Not Jesus is okay for having what sounds like some genuine anger behind the singer, I guess.) All of them fall into the trap of having the band just be a rhythm section pumping out regular chord changes in steady eighth note beats. They can be a lot more inventive than that and it makes them sound like some normal radio band.
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Kings of Leon - My Party.
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Is Kings of Leon any good?
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For me, sure. Maybe not for you. Very rock oriented.
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody.
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Jenna loves Kings of Leon. I...honestly don't. Dunno how much that means for you though, Snow.
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Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
EDIT: I'm not that into Kings of Leon. Their songs are all right I guess, but they're not anything to write home about.
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Electric Six - Bleed for the Artist
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Blondie - One Way or Another.
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Charge Group - Lullaby for the Apocalypse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3SdOyv69bk
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Tom Waits - Bad As Me.
oh gods tom waits is going to eat me
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Justice - Civilisation.
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Electric Six - We Were Witchy Witchy White Women.
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Crowded House - Into Temptation
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Oingo Boingo - Capitalism
what the fuck
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The naked and famous- Punching in a dream
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Crowded House - World Where You Live
Welp, back to the '80s. Oingo Boingo is funner, though!
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The Sounds - Painted By Numbers
Think I've said this before, but you get some really interesting stuff when you seed a Pandora station off of both Metric and Rush.
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The Sounds - Rock 'N' Roll
I am really beginning to dig this band.
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Art Brut - Alcoholics Unanimous
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Star One - Digital Rain
Because I love campy space opera metal.
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Neon Indian - Future Stick
Idun tunes.
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Homestuck Volume 8 - Calamity
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Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails, Red Wine.
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Dead Confederate- Goner
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Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
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Florence + the Machine - Only If For A Night
New album is out!
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Electric Six - Hello! I See You!
I'm pretty sure this song is about playing hide and seek with Satan.
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Star One - 24 Hours
God, this song is so campy that I can't not smile when I listen to it.
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Triplepost!
Pet Shop Boys - Only the Wind
Comparing Actually and Behaviour, Behaviour is just so much moodier and less happy. I like it a lot, but the styles are very different even among CDs made in a similar time range. I find the new PSB CDs hard to compare to the old ones; the old ones are very 80's and the ones made in this century are not (which is good). :P
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Justice - Civilisation.
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Florence + the Machine - Seven Devils
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Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues
Very Springsteen.
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I told you.
Florence and the Machine - No Light, No Light
Current obsession? Maybe.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Sweetheart Come
If he touches you again with his stupid hands his life won't be worth living~
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new copped ep: Baby Style by keepaway;
listening to Family of the Son. It's psychedelic music.
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I have no idea how. Bad it is, but just bought new Lou Reed and Metallica cd.
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Double post because goddamn this album is worth it.
Lou Reed and Metallica - Iced Honey.
I am so glad I bought this album before I read any reviews. If I had read this (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15996-lou-reed-metallica/) before I got it I would never have bought this album. It was absolutely worth buying because it is so amazingly well mixed. Seriously whoever produced this is pretty fucking masterful. They somehow managed to put together something that is straight up nearly unpublishable into something that at least could be put on the market.
Album is so very very bad. Lou Reed sings well like Lou Reed does 30 years after his prime (Velvets are great, but Lou was still going strong right into the 80s). As it is, this sounds like someone's grandfather sort of rambling over the top of Metallica just sort of tuning up their instruments. Sometimes James Hettfield will come in when he is in his countryish stuff. There certainly isn't anything like Unforgiven snarly growl here.
The best part is that it is a double disc album and I didn't realise. I had looked at the track list and saw 10 tracks. Little did I know that these were 10 very long songs. Nearly 90 minutes of music in 10 tracks . I still have the second disc to go so maybe it is better. I am not holding my breath, but that is mostly because I am laughing so fucking hard.
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Hahahahahahahaha oh gods this album. This is amazing. It is so bad it is hilarious.
And yet for all of it. There was a pretty cool guitar solo (from Metallica! A single cool guitar solo!) that was actually pretty Velvet Undergroundy (so James Hettfield plays with Lou Reed and channels John Cale).
I am banging my head and laughing out loud at the same time. This is some experience.
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Yeah I can't stop laughing. One track to go.
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So the last track sounds like it could just be okay. Not good, but okay, something that would be filler on almost any other album. Then the lyrics just go batshit insane again. Then there is like 4 minutes of strings playing the same chord.
Pretty fucking rad album. Certainly an experience I don't regret having. It is bad and not something you should buy at all. Worth a listen though if you are a music nerd and want a real good laugh.
If you want a good album from this month though you should check out the new Tom Waits, Florence and the Machine, or Justice albums. Also very very noteworthy from a few months ago that I am only just on the bandwagon for is the new Gotye album which is pretty fucking astounding.
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I was eyeing that on Pitchfork yesterday, but I'm glad to use you as a surrogate experience.
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So basically he made Metal Machine Music Vol. 2? Except not deliberate trolling? (Probably?)
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I'm pretty sure Lou Reed+Metallica conceptually counts as the most deliberate trolling to be pulled off by renowned musicians since Metal Machine Music.
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It is much better produces than that though. El Cid should totally give it a listen. Snow should listen to Gotye instead.
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Gotye - Save Me.
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A Fine Frenzy - Rangers
This one is nice. didn't catch my attention until about halfway through the song, but after I started paying attention it really clicked with me.
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Back to the Future OST - Alan Silvestri
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Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
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Chemical Brothers: The Private Psychedelic Reel
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Jorn - War of the World
Why save the world when you can rule it?
Why touch the ground when you can flyyyyyyyyyyyyy over it?
Both valid questions.
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Bjork - Dark Matter.
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Electric Six - Psychic Visions
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Florence + the Machine - Heartlines
Okay, after listening to this album essentially non-stop for nearly a week, I think I can assess it more calmly. For starters, Ceremonials is very, very consistent. The songwriting is strong all around - no instant winners like "Howl" or "Rabbit Heart", sure, but there isn't a single song in the album I can call pure filler.
Every composition has some interesting, unique detail that sets it apart from the others - from the constantly changing tempo, the heart melting chorus and electricity in "What The Water Gave" to the strange and seductive synth-fiddle mix of "Spectrum", passing through the vigorous percussion in "Heartlines" and the lush swing in "Lover to Lover". Even the worst song in the album, "Seven Devils", has the haunting backing vocals (which are just -top notch- throughout the album to begin with) and that plangent piano line creeping in as the main melody, which are more than worth your time.
Also, deliberate tricks like the chamber-like echo permeating every track just give it a very distinctive and personal flavor. In that regard, it ekes out ahead of "Lungs", where it had a bunch of filler and was kind of all over the place at times, though held together by the songwriting (particularly the vocal songwriting: Florence's vocal skill applies to both modulation and melodic acumen to an astounding degree, and it's what makes the sum of the bands' parts -work- like they do). This time, the songwriting is less prominent, but more consistent, and the entire machine gets to shine too. Nice follow-up, even though it may leave some fans of the first album cold. There's a definite atmospheric cohesion going here, and I -like- it.
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Florence and the Machine - No Light, No Light.
See I on the other hand liked pretty much all of it at first. Didn't need time to work up to it.
What struck me the second time I listened to it was how amazingly morbid the album is in general.
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Props for all the darkness, by the way.
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Jezabels - Prisoner.
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Florence + the Machine - Landscapes
This is the best B-side in the deluxe album for sure.
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Electric Six - We Use the Same Products
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Justice - New Lands.
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Gotye - Hearts A Mess
hmmmmmmm.
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Florence + The Machine - Only If For a Night.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - There Is A Town
An interesting song. Very somber, hits the right note with me.
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The Naked and famous- Girls like you
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Bjork - Virus.
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Florence + the Machine - Landscape.
So my favourite song off the new album is a demo that comes with the special edition. It is the only song on there that is really fairly upbeat and most closely resembles something off of Lungs. None of that is why I like it though. I think it is just the best song there. Generally the demos on the special edition were pretty good.
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Peter Gabriel: Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Was never a big fan of Radiohead. Consequently, I like most of the other tracks on Scratch My Back better than this. Still, even with a couple ho-hum songs, it's a great album. Grefter did you listen to the Heroes cover.
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Haven't picked up either of his new albums (or his old ones honestly). Will keep it in mind though.
Looks like there was a second one (that one being from 2010, first one in like 8 years) got released last month.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Stop.
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Florence + the Machine - Landscape.
So my favourite song off the new album is a demo that comes with the special edition. It is the only song on there that is really fairly upbeat and most closely resembles something off of Lungs. None of that is why I like it though. I think it is just the best song there. Generally the demos on the special edition were pretty good.
Word. Landscapes is the best of the demos, although honestly I feel it'd be a great fit in Ceremonials too. Bright enough to bring a bit more texture and variety to the album, but not to the point that it'd detract from the bleak atmosphere of the work.
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Pulp - Mis-shapes.
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Haven't picked up either of his new albums (or his old ones honestly). Will keep it in mind though.
Looks like there was a second one (that one being from 2010, first one in like 8 years) got released last month.
...He has another album already? Didn't hear about that. Because he's kind of in the habit of putting something out once a decade and I wasn't expecting another one yet. That is pretty cool. Kinda sounds like the follow-up to Scratch My Back (wherein the people Gabriel covered play his songs) is not likely to happen as an album, but at least a few people came through:
David Byrne: I Don't Remember
Admirably weird.
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Art Brut - Sexy Sometimes.
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Florence + The Machine - Landscape
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Gotye - A Distinctive Sound
Distinctive Sound indeed.
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Charge Group - Redcoats & Convicts.
Gave up and bought their stuff on iTunes. Is as good as I was expecting.
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Dream Theater - The Big Medley
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Gotye - Thanks For Your Time
Like Drawing Blood is like really really good.
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Street Sweeper Social Club - Somewhere in the World It's Midnight.
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Blackmore's Night - Morning Star
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The Animals - Hallejulah I Love Her So.
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Dixie Chicks - The Long Way Around
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Charge Group - Morning of Superheroes.
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Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues
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AC/DC- Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
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Jamiroquai - Corner of the Earth
I think I have neglected spamming his stuff at people for years now assuming everyone went through high school with him consistently releasing the best dance tracks you had heard.
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You assume right.
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
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Silversun Pickups - The Royal We
Holy -FUCK-.
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Silversun Pickups - The Fuzz
Because tripleposting is the new Hipster Ariel.
-Jesus-. This is obviously not really the kind of music I usually enjoy, but these guys are damned -good-.
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asdasfgdshgfdjhgdjfy.
Okay. Saw Pure Reason Revolution last Thursday. That was absolutely fantastic, their guitarist is insane, and they played the entirety of The Dark Third, which is a beautiful album that everyone should listen to. We had a spare ticket, grabbed a friend along the way who'd never heard of them until then. Halfway through their 3rd song, he tapped me on the back and told me that there was no way anyone could possibly dislike this. We ended up meeting the band, I bought the Dark Third and got it signed, and sdfgsdhgfsh that was amazing.
Last night? Alter Bridge. Support was Theory of a Deadman and Black Stone Cherry, neither of which were amazing, but Black Stone Cherry were decent enough. But then Alter Bridge oh god oh god their singer is awesome. My sister said the amazing line at one point of "Yoshi, Mark Tremonti is waving at us. Wave back." They filmed the whole thing for DVD and I am definitely buying that when it's out because holy shit that was a hell of a show. Feeling the heat from the flames at the start of Metalingus/Ties That Bind was insane, and I was nearly crying when they played I Know it Hurts, followed by Blackbird, followed by acoustic Watch Over You and Wonderful Life, having everyone get out phones/lighters during Wonderful Life and lighting up the stadium. Oh, and Open Your Eyes and Rise Today as an encore.
Needless to say:
Alter Bridge - Come to Life
(or pretty much anything they played last night)
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Queensryche: Eyes of a Stranger
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Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
Paranoid, slightly bleak and catchy. So good.
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Rush: Everyday Glory
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Blackmore's Night - Spanish Nights (I Remember It Well)
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Fucking ;laksdjf;laksdfasd SNOW. HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SHOW YOU AND TELL YOU THINGS ARE GOOD.
Charge Group - Lullaby to the Apocalypse
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As many times as your keyboard mangling makes me giggle. =3
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The Pipettes - A Winter's Kiss
And now, back to deliciously trashy girlpop.
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Halestorm- O Holy Night
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The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn
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Forence + the Machine - No Light, No Light.
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The Byrds - I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
I guess it was a matter of time until I -really- got into a '60s quintessential band. I could do much worse than The Byrds for that.
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The Byrds - Eight Miles High
Holy -shit-, this is sensorial heaven.
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Blondie - Dreaming.
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Queensryche - Speak
Good thing the complaints in this song are totally outdated these days.
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"The cops get paid to look away as the 1% rules America."
I have no idea what you're talking about, Ciato.
EDIT: Wait that's from Spreading the Disease. Oh well.
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The system we learn says we're equal under law
But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall
Let's tip the power balance and tear down their crown
=)
Spreading the Disease is probably even better, though. I listened to it right afterwards.
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Cocteau Twins - The Itchy Glowbo Blow
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Blackmore's Night - Under a Violet Moon
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Blackmore's Night - Locked Within the Crystal Ball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsQgcNI8Xqg&feature=related
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Blackmore's Night - Morning Star
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Florence + The Machine - Strangeness and Charm.
Just finished reading math article. Now I am listening to this. I think I am about to break due to excess happiness.
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Dillinger Escape Plan - Variations on a Cocktail Dress.
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The White Stripes - The Denial Twist
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The White Stripes - I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)
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Falconer- Busted to the Floor
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Flogging Molly - A Prayer for Me in Silence
Short but good.
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Augie March - The Slant.
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Florence + the Machine - Hurricane Drunk
Niiiice. This CD is so different than Ceremonials. Only thing it feels like it has in common is Florence's voice.
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Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls.
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Final Fantasy 13 OST- Sunleth Riverside
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Florence + the Machine - Girl With One Eye
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Cocteau Twins - Cicely
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Gotye - Hearts a Mess
I decided to go through the topic and listen to random stuff I saw posted.
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=)
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I think All India Radio and Augie March were both pretty rad. There was a third but I forget who.
The Sounds, yes!
Anyway
Electric Six - It Gets Hot
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Apparently, I -do- need to check out The Sounds. Third person who I remember talking about it.
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Florence + the Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)
On a random note, you and Grefter like weird 80's girl bands too much. <_<
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Dance of Thorns - Joren "Tensei" de Bruin
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I talk about them so much because Snow is an 80s girl band.
Blondie - Atomic.
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I talk about them so much because Snow is an 80s girl band.
Blondie - Atomic.
Couldn't be any better than this other than Blondie being a '70s band.
Also, Blondie is not a girl~
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My playlist today:
1. Mux Mool - Ladies Know (Live Edit)
2. Storm Queen - It Goes On (Vox)
3. MIA. - F.C. (Factory City Elektropunk Remx)
4. Azealia Banks - 212
5. Adele & Jamie XX vs Cecile, Mr. Lexx & Timberlee (The Heatwave Refix) - Rolling in the Heat
6. Joker - The Vision feat. Jessie Ware & Freddie Gibbs
7. Zomby - Natalia's Song
8. Four Tet - She Moves She
9. Cookies - Wilderness Tips
10. Purity Ring - Lofticries
11. Grimes - Vanessa
12. The Internet - Cocaine (Little Dragon Remix)
13. Polica - Wandering Star
14. The Knife - Rock Classics
15. Cities Aviv - Coastin
16. King Krule - The Noose of Jah City
17. Balam Acab - Oh, Why
Way better than the random, unreliable holiday mix I had been listening to.
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Amorphis - Silver Bride
My friend from Oklahoma recommended this band to me. They aren't bad.
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Nick Cave - There is a Town
This song is definitely a bit more somber than most of Nocturama. I think I'm going to listen to Murder Ballads soon.
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Hugh Laurie - St James Infirmary.
Hell fucking yes.
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Sarah Blasko - Is My Baby Yours?
This actually reminds me of Emiliana Torrini. Pretty solid anyway.
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Sarah Blasko - Always Worth It
Wow, this girl is better than I gave her credit for. Tasteful arrangements, very solid songwriting, elegant vocals. If you haven't grabbed anything from this girl, Grefter, wouldn't hurt at all.
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Yes Snow, I have stuff from the Australian folkish female singer.
The Fiery Furnaces - I'm in No Mood.
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You bunch of useless twats. I rely on you people for one thing. Just one single thing. Then you drop the ball something fucking chronic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginaerum
New Nightwish album. Been out for just shy of three weeks. I rely on you people to be fanboying over this enough to be able to spread myself out and check out other cool shit.
Then you miss it by three weeks and I have to wait until I spot it totally at random myself.
And it is a CONCEPT ALBUM.
You have failed me completely.
Amy Winehouse - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.
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The Black Keys - Lonely Boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST8 Here is the clip for the Iduns. Unabashed public dancing at its best. I have decided that this should be Laggy.
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Don't look at me, I never gave a whisk about Nightwish. >_>
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Yeah, I knew about it, just poor. <_<
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Amorphis - Silver Bride
My friend from Oklahoma recommended this band to me. They aren't bad.
I swear I had prodded you about them like back in 2002.
Amorphis- Captured state
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I don't remember, Aiel! That was too long ago.
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Empire of the Sun - We Are The People.
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Art Brut - Am I Normal?
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FFX OST- To Zanarkand
Blame Brandon Sanderson. He had this playing when finishing writing the WoT today.
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Jarvis Cocker - Running the World.
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Arcade Fire- we used to wait
To mellow self during airport shenanigans.
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Eurythmics - Sing-Sing
I wonder if I can find something by The Tourists.
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Florence and the Machine - Strangeness and Charm
Think this is my favorite one off the new album.