The RPG Duelling League
Social Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Grefter on January 01, 2012, 05:30:16 PM
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Florence and the Machine - No Light, No Light.
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Broken Bells - The High Road.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peek-A-Boo
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Man, Snow, I can't stand that one. It's on the compilation I have and I skip over the track every time. I rarely do this with music.
Nier OST: Ashes of Dreams (German version. Which I think corresponds to the Kaine dies ending.)
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Ayreon - Comatose
My favorite Ayreon song, I think. Good stuff.
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Man, Snow, I can't stand that one. It's on the compilation I have and I skip over the track every time. I rarely do this with music.
That was a live version. Peek A Boo may be kinda bad at its base, but the band does some -amazing- live renditions of it.
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Succumb to the Wilderness [To the End of the Wilderness] - Level 99
And really, the whole of OCRemix's latest album, Wild ARMs Armed and Dangerous.
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Charge Group - Redcoats & Convicts.
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Rich & Flexin Ft Waka Flocka, Ludacris on 1.21 Gigawatts Mixtape: Back to the First Time
Yes. I listen to WAKA. FLOCKA. FLAME! He always mentions Clay Co, my home county... in all its ghettoness.
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Melty Blood Current Code: Archetype Earth Theme. Awesome stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWWeEJY3XM
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Melty Blood Current Code: Archetype Earth Theme. Awesome stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWWeEJY3XM
Ooooooooh. Nice. Aside from that, I'm listening to:
Mark Hadley, Song of Skaia (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/song-of-skaia)
The new Homestuck album, a $1 single. Pretty nice chillout music.
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Gotye - Seven Hours With a Backseat Driver.
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10,000 Maniacs - Eden
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Caribou ~ Hannibal
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Broken Bells ~ The Ghost Inside
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Gotye - Seven Hours With a Backseat Driver.
Gotye's been on my playlist. It's mainly because the radio plays Somebody That I Used To Know all the time, but whatever.
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His last couple of albums are pretty damned mind blowing.
The Jezabels - Prisoner.
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Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven.
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The Sweet - Ballroom Blitz.
I maintain that after all these years this is one of the most dancable beats around.
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Bon Iver ~ Perth,
I'm rotating between Broken Bells - Broken Bells, and Bon Iver - Bon Iver. What a reinstalled laptop means is a virgin iTunes (other music on external), and so far Broken Bells is given less credit for its earlier March release than it should. I am also in love with James Mercer's voice. Bon Iver, just started.
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Roger Waters: It's a Miracle
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Siousxie and the Banshees: Face to Face
Banshees + Danny Elfman. Yes.
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Florence + the Machine - Heartlines
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Jac Stone - Dress Shop.
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Duke Ellington - The Dicty Glide - Take 1
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inFamous 2 End Credits - Fade Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_2lcU_dt2E
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The 88- It's a Lot
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Duke Ellington ~ March of the Hoodlums
Reminded of Peanuts.
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Amorphis - Godlike Machine
Too many of their songs sound the same.
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Florence & The Machine - Shake It Out (Demo).
So much love for this song.
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Amorphis - Silver Bride
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The Barr Brothers - The Devil's Harp
Not a bad band. A little mellow for me but I like them anyway.
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Cocteau Twins - Millimillenary
Inexplicably gorgeous.
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FF13-2: Knight of the Goddess
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Nightwish - Slow, Love, Slow
Really digging this cd so far.
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Decided to pre-order Gotye's album. Whee.
ETA: Pre-ordered Making Mirrors, downloaded Like Drawing Blood.
Current favorite:
Thanks For Your Time
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I'm partial to A Distinctive Sound myself from those two albums. But I'm weird!
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Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag
I had to listen to it LadyDoor! I don't like the song so far. . . .
http://pitchfork.com/news/45060-new-magnetic-fields-andrew-in-drag/
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Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage
Listening due to thinking about doing an end of the year music that I've listened to review. Trying to decide between it and The Suburbs for the second-best Arcade Fire CD I listenrd to in 2011. <_<
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Castlevania: Curse of darkness- Insane Aristocrasy
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Florence + The Machine - What the Water Gave Me.
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Good one!
The White Strips - Seven Nation Army
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The Long Blondes - The Couples.
In shock and amazement I go back to listening to these guys. NEW AND EXCITING.
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The Long Blondes - Only Lovers Left Alive.
Yep, no matter how often I come back to them they still continue to amaze me.
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Bibio - Feminine Eye [Mind Bokeh]
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Blackmore's Night - Avalon
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Sarah Blasko - Hey Ya! (OutKast cover)
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TO PSP OST- Island Atlas
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LoH Trails in the Sky 2: Silver Will
Blame the Ys 7 soundtrack.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - There Is a Town
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The Animals - Baby Let Me Take You Home.
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David Bowie - Letter to Hermione.
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Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium
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Origa- Moon
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August Burns Red - Your Little Suburbia Is In Ruins
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Nightwish - I Want My Tears Back
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I love covers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d9NF2edxy-M
Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know
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Ciatos, I am baffled that you can post that without laughing out loud and notifying everyone of how hilarious it is.
Speaking of covers.
Sarah Blask - Hey Ya! (Outcast cover)
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?????
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Nightwish - I Want My Tears Back
Probably hands down the campiest Nightwish song I have heard.
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Well, I like it. <_<
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Of course you do. It is hands down the campiest Nightwish song I have heard!
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I personally think Scaretale is campier.
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I wish I had an angel crushes both for camp.
Nightwish- Elvenpath
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Concur with Super here too!
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Nightwish - Arabesque
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It is a bit different though. I Wish I Had an Angel is set solidly in their times with songs about death and dying and elves and dwarves and shit. I Want My Tears Back is like a Stabbing Westward song sung by this epic fantasy melodic metal group.
Stabbing Westward - Desperate Now.
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So.... what you're saying "this song is their campiest song ever, except for all those songs but that was a different time man"?
I understand now.
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The Barr Brothers - Devil's Harp
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Errr no? The songs that were once off high fantasy pieces of directionless melodrama (Such as the I wish I had an Angel track that is really just a song about wishing an old break up didn't happen so the singer could get some poon) are less camp than the serious track a good ways into the concept album that is tied into a film that involves people demanding their tears back NOW followed by fiddle noodling.
The context for the track goes a hell of a long way (and for all that you can't define an album by an individual track, a track most certainly is defined by the rest of the album when it comes from a concept album).
The Long Blondes - Guilt.
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David Bowie - Sweet Thing - Candidate - Sweet Thing (Reprise)
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David Bowie - Repetition
Songs about domestic abuse!
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The Black Keys - Mind Eraser.
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Apocalyptica: The Shadow of Venus
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Janelle Monae - Make The Bus
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Skrillex - Syndicate Remix.
If this remix is in the new game I will buy it regardless of how terrible it might end up.
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Janelle Monae - Come Alive (War of the Roses)
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Charge Group - Lunar Module.
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The Barr Brothers - Beggar in the Morning
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Cosmo Jarvis - Gay Pirates.
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Janelle Monae and of Montreal - Make the Bus
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Beck- Debra.
It was me and my ex-wife's song. In my defense her sister was hot.
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Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know.
Won the hottest 100.
And Met, I think the song that you asked about when I was off getting food would have been Matt Corby - Brother which is Australian. He is not bad. Otherwise the one after it was Black Keys - Lonely Boy, who are American and pretty damned awesome.
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Charge Group - Redcoats & Convicts.
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Amorphis - From the Heaven of Heart
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Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven.
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Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red
Talk to me two months from now. Lullabies for Violaine is basically eating up my music time.
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The Cranberries - Animal Instinct.
Watched video online that used Linger, now I have massive cravings for Cranberries, so might be fixated on this a little while.
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Nothing wrong with that.
Cocteau Twins - These Eyes, That Mouth
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Florence + the Machine - Blinding
A convincing argument for Lungs superiority.
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Apocalyptica: Peace
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Altas - Battles.
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White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
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The Naked and Famous- Punching in a dream
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Nightwish - Scaretale
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Redline OST - Yellow Line (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doEwWzMz99A)
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The Jezabels - Mace Spray.
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The Byrds - Psychodrama City
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Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues
I admit this song has totally grown on me.
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Utena movie soundtrack: A Round Dance ~ Revolution ~ Adolescence Rush
Why use one title when three will do.
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The Raconteurs - Carolina Drama
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Nightwish - Last Ride of the Day
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The Dead Weather - Jawbreaker
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Apocalyptica: Deep Down Ascend
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FF13-2 OST: Yeul's Theme (Engrish version!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGCOKEmkY40
"La la la, to SEEEE you shave~"
Cute, simple, and hilarious engrish abounds
(Infinitely less campy non-lyrical version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSoz0t622a4 )
Also, here's a track I'm affectionately calling
Deathmetal de Chocobo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJf5_y1Rl9A
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Allen Lande - Victory
This CD is so campy that I can't help but smile in embarrassment when I listen to it.
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Amy Winehouse - Between the Cheats.
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The Raconteurs - Many Shades of Black
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The Raconteurs - These Stones Will Speak
This is my favorite song on the album. Reminds me a little of myself, I guess.
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10,000 Maniacs - Verdi Cries
Interesting what songs stand out when you listen to something you haven't listened to in awhile.
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MGMT - Electric Feel.
This may be the sexiest song I know. Like not the most sexual song, but the most erotic (I have Divinyls for that with close runner ups in Long Blondes and Amy Winehouse). The sexual tension in constant references to electricity and how charged the singer's "electric girl" is and the effect she has on him is delicious. There is that slow driving drum line in the ever danceable 4:4 time (Edit - Apparently only the bridge in 4/4, so apparently I am shit at music. The rest is in 6/4) that you know everything ever is written in at pretty sure is damn close to 60 BPM if it isn't spot on. Very danceable stuff and given the content man I kind of hope it is a lap dance.
Then there is the slap bass and oh god I think my brain just came because Slap Bass is the sexiest thing in existence. With what is described above it is a seriously sexy song.
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The Black Keys - The Only One
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIYF9exhm-Q
NSFW. E-Rotic - Help Me Dr. Dick
The 90s was truly an era of music.
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of Montreal - Faberge Falls For Shuggie
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Star One - It All Ends Here
Kind of a depressing end song. Well, we realized the future sucked, but we already used up our time travel, so uh....damn.
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The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
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Devin Townsend Project - Pandemic
Holy crap this song is very heavy. I'm still trying to decide if I want this album, just hitting it up on Youtube for now.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Get Ready for Love
Could not resist the siren song of more Nick Cave.
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The Black Keys - So He Won't Break
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Star One: Earth That Was
It's a prog metal song about Firefly. It's a prog metal song about Firefly.
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Yup~ ^_^ Like them?
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I liked the handful I listened to (no huge surprise given I knew the guy was good from The Human Equation). Will have to pick up the album at some point (because the Cid is an anachronistic entity that must have everything on hard copy).
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I have the hard copy too, can't judge. :p
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Blondie - Wipe Off My Sweat
Edit - Panic of Girls is a pretty damned good album. Blondie still had it in 2011.
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Sigh No More, can't really stop listening to the whole album.
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Blondie - What I Heard.
Snow. This album. Now. Panic of Girls.
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of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal
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Front Mission 4- Hostiles
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Amy Winehouse - Wake Up Alone
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Nature Boy
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Going back to studying French because I need it, soooooo...
Kamelot - Ne Pleure Pas
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Fable of the Brown Ape
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Sonata Arctica: Out in the Fields
The bonus track is the best thing on the album. (Not that the rest of it is bad. But a lot of the time I can't detect anything like song structure. It is a relief to encounter familiar ABACAB again at the end.)
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New(ish) Peter Gabriel album. Old songs reworked for symphonic instruments/piano. Would not have called wall of tubas a good match for Red Rain but it works pretty well.
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Is that a newer Sonata Arctica album? I stopped listening to them after buying one I thought was pretty bad. Forget what it was called.
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Unia. (I got it because I liked Paid in Full when I came across it through YouTube linkage.)
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Jamiroquai - She's A Fast Persuader.
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Like Melos - Lonely Way
Easily my favorite theme in J, and half the reason I use the Layzner cast so much. In My Dream pulls a close second...but no way I'm using the Brain Powered cast unless I have to, so not listening to that one as much~
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Is it any good, Ciddy?
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Jamiroquai - Two Completely Different Things.
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Blondie - Wipe Off My Sweat
what the fuck why did i hold off on listening to this for nearly a year this is completely hilarious
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The Tourists - Walls and Foundations
So, these guys are good too. Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart back when they were in power pop rather than dance pop.
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The Black Keys - Sinister Kid
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Is it any good, Ciddy?
I think it's decent. Some good songs, some others such a wall of guitars that I genuinely can't determine what the verse and chorus are. Despite earlier comments I would actually say Paid in Full is the best thing on there, so try that one.
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Amy Winehouse - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.
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Star One: Victims of the Modern Age
I've got this mostly sorted out:
Down the Rabbit Hole/Digital Rain = The Matrix
Earth That Was = Firefly/Serenity
Victim of the Modern Age = A Clockwork Orange
Human See, Human Do = Planet of the Apes
24 Hours = Escape From New York
Cassandra Complex = Twelve Monkeys
It's Alive, She's Alive, We're Alive = Silent Running? Possibly too obscure. Also only sorta fits. Not sure about this one.
It All Ends Here = Bladerunner
Obviously I can only salute any album that ends with a ten-minute metal homage to Bladerunner.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Hiding All Away
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Gotye - Puzzle With a Piece Missing
Man.
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Rage Against the Machine - Vietnow.
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Cowboy Junkies - Lay It Down
So these guys be good too. Cheers.
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The Raconteurs - Five on the Five
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
Hey Grefter-chu, which older Nick Cave album should I get? I really like Let Love In from what I've heard but if you think anything would be better then~
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I needed a song with over .45 BPS (that's Booty Per Second, a statistical breakdown of how often a song references asses) so my only choice was Bass-N-Effect - Booty (the Booty Call), which clocks in at an astonishing .49 BPS.
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I honestly just suggest working backwords through his catalogue until you start to dislike it. Tender Prey is a decent time jump if you feel like doing that, but you are around the point where I don't think you will see a huge jump in style (just slightly rougher songwriting and composition as he gets closer to his Birthday Party origins). I pretty much consider Red Right hand the pinnacle of that era of Nick Cave and Murder Ballads is the bridge between his earlier style and his newer more mellow stuff (not that he ever stops visiting his early dark themes and not that some of the themes in his mellow stuff wasn't ever touched on early in his solo career). So in short, yeah I would go with Let Love In and then just slowly keep working backwards like you have after filling in eclectic gaps.
Skrillex & The Doors - Breakn' a Sweat
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Skrillex - Kyoto.
Alright I had thought there was nothing worth caring about on the Bangarang EP I picked up. On a relisten this track is not bad.
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Chad Mitchell Trio - Friendly Neighborhood KKK
Another foreigner in the area tuned me into this group. If you like Tom Lehrer they're pretty great.
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AWOLNATION - Not Your Fault
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Well, I don't really like Murder Ballads, it's my least favorite of the four I've listened to, which is why I've gone forward instead of backwards for the most part. I'll try it though.
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Allen Lande - Just a Dream
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Other ones aren't so obviously death related. Pretty much if like Red Right Hand then grag Let Love In.
Julia Stone - Where Does The Love Go?
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The Black Keys - The Only One
I like The Black Keys well enough, but it feels like most of their songs are at least a minute too long and quite repetitive. Very little variation in the music from beginning to end and a little unexciting. Fine for non-active listening, not so great for active listening though.
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Cowboy Junkies - Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - O Children
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Cosmo Jarvis - Gay Pirates.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dysG12QCdTA
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Messiah Ward
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Mythos - Icarus
Randomly heard this on Pandora, liked it enough to look up more stuff by the band. This is still the best one, but liking most of the rest of it too.
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of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal
We want our film to be beautiful, not realistic.
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of Montreal - Cato as a Pun
Probably my least favorite song on this album.
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Tom Waits - Muriel
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Portishead - All Mine
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Really? Next you will be listening to Porcupine Tree. Not a direction I was expecting.
Tom Waits - Reeperbahn.
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Tom Waits - Just the Right Bullets.
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Really? Next you will be listening to Porcupine Tree. Not a direction I was expecting.
Mostly for scholarly purposes. Relistening to their albums, I can tell they may never really form an emotional connection here, but listening to Portishead has both artistic and historical merit.
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of Montreal - She's a Rejecter
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lyre of Orpheus
This song is so silly and chaotic.
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And Ciato makes with the having taste in music.
Of Montreal - I feel ya' strutter
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Does it Offend You, Yeah? - We are the Dead.
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I was trying to figure out another of their albums to buy, do you have a recommendation Zenny?
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The Protomen: Hope Rides Alone
We are also the dead.
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Hole - Celebrity Skin.
It's to early for that dress.
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Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel
This is a fascinating little album. Look at the secrets Norway keeps from us.
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Blackmore's Night - Can't Help But Falling in Love
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Iggy Azalea -- My World
Hey, don't care if she's Aussie, anyone who coopts "you a basic bitch," I give a thumbs up
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Marianas Trench - Haven't Had Enough
Randomly got stuck in my head the other day, had to look it up on youtube.
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Ayreon - Temple of the Cat
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Long Blondes - I Liked The Boys.
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Little Dragon - Brush the Heat
They released an album last year? Sheesh. I'm late.
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition ~ The Great Gate of Kiev
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Yeah Ritual Union isn't bad.
Blondie - Mother.
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Machine Dreams is better, yeah, but Machine Dreams is just fantastic. Speaking of which.
Little Dragon - A New
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Beethoven: 7th Symphony
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J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
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Harrr threw on that to listen to last night (Vanessa Mae version).
Hole - Jennifer's Body.
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Hole - Nobody's Daughter.
This song is Super.
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Amy Winehouse - I Heard Love is Blind
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Cocteau Twins - Great Spangled Fritillary
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Devin Townsend Project - Infinite Ocean
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Hole - Nobody's Daughter.
This song is Super.
I hope you get nasal polyps.
Deftones-Change
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Apocalyptica: Path Vol. 2
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Devin Townsend Project - Quiet Riot
=)
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Sara Bareilles - That Guy's an Asshole
I love you, Sara. Please marry me :)
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Devin Townsend - Things Beyond Things
I'm going to force myself not to buy music this month! Rather, I will listen to the shit I already have.
In other words, I dug up a dozen old Devin Townsend songs that I didn't give a fair shake.
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Vanessa Mae - Retro.
I should see if she has anything new.
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Vanessa Mae - Solace.
I am trying to remember now why I listen to any other music.
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Star One: It All Ends Here
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Michael Jackson - Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground).
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Devin Townsend Project - As You Were
A very relaxing song =)
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The Naked and Famous - No Way
Not bad.
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Utena: Akio Car
Sexomophoooone.
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Jarvis Cocker - I Will Kill Again.
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Pure Reason Revolution - Goshen's Remains
Did people here listen to PRR in the end? I was hyping them around the time I lost the net. If not, dooooo iiiitttt. They're very DL-taste. (By which I mean, I recently got really into Arcade Fire and the two are kinda similar.)
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Music topic is not remotely close to reflecting larger DL taste in music. This is just where all the hipsters come to talk about their music.
Blondie - Love Doesn't Frighten Me.
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Sons of Granville - April Song
They were playing outside the subway when I got onto the train, decided to buy their CD for the hell of it. Very beautiful stuff.
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MGMT - Kids
Speaking of hipsters. Also, how many people post in WAYLT besides me, Ciddy, Ciato, Grefter and sometimes the Duns again.
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Blackmore's Night - Locked Within the Crystal Ball
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The Black Keys - Elevator
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Skrillex - First of the Year.
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Lindsey Stirling - On The Floor Take Three
Other music exists so that people like Ms. Stirling can put it to violin and demonstrate how much better it could be.
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Apocalpytica featuring Doug Robb- Not Strong Enough
7th Symphony was underwhelming, but the couple of vocal tracks are catchy.
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of Montreal - Voltaic Crusher
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The White Stripes - The Denial Twist.
Get Behind Me Satan is probably the worst of the three White Stripes albums I have but it's still pretty good.
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Melissa Auf der Maur - Followed the Waves.
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Echo & The Bunnymen - The Game
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Melissa Auf der Maur - I Need I Want I Will.
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Foster the People - Color on the Walls (Don't Stop)
Holy -crap- this is great
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7th Symphony was underwhelming, but the couple of vocal tracks are catchy.
That is pretty much the opposite of how I felt about it. Not Strong Enough and Broken Pieces in particular strike me as the boring tracks on the album. Bring Them To Light somehow manages to be my favorite of the vocal tracks (I normally hate those kind of vocals).
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They are pretty pop rock, so I can see not digging them. They aren't on par with Anything but love/I don't care/Hope vol 2, but I still dug them well enough.
Brigandine Grand Editon- Esgares Empire map theme
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Julia Stone - Tell Her a Story.
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of Montreal - Faberge Falls For Shuggie
Love this album. I bought a second one at a used CD store this week, we'll see.
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Angus & Julia Stone - For You.
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The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines
This song kind of kicks ass.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - There Is a Kingdom
Not to make judgments too early, but Boatman's Call seems like it might be headed for my second favorite Nick Cave album. No More Shall We Part will take some effort to pass, though.
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Vitamin String Quartet - We Are The Champions
Arena rock played by a good string quartet. I like full orchestra better than string quartets, but this still makes me very happy. :)
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Metric - Empty
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Beautiful World - Utada Hikaru
i liked her before her music wwas in evvangelion
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Within Temptation - All I Need
This album in general is very different than Mother Earth. Mother Earth is a very overtly fantasy metal album and on average it's quite a bit more metal. This album's slower and more popish and has less songs about magic and ancient forests.
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Helmet- Unsung
I swear that the lead singer on this track is Ozzy Osbourne.
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The Civil Wars - My Father's Father
Very peaceful music. :)
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Art Brut - Sealand.
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Beautiful World - Utada Hikaru
i liked her before her music wwas in evvangelion
Most people did, BCB<G>
Nisemonogatari - Marshmallow Justice
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Speed Kill Hate - Setting Me Off.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Darker By the Day
This album is brilliant from beginning to end. Only song I'm not a huge fan of is No More Shall We Part, which is the album title. Ah well.
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Emiliana Torrini - Unemployed in Summertime.
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Amy Winehouse - Fuck Me Pumps.
You don't like players.
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Sevendust - Headtrip.
Brother pulled this off the shelf the other day to do random trivia about tracks. I love this album.
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Within Temptation - What Have You Done
This song is very Stabbing Westward.
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Arcade Fire: We Used to Wait
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coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/colours-and-mayhem-universe-a)
The Homestuck fan musician album. I was disappointed a friend of mine didn't get on this until I heard the album they actually put out. Now I understand why. The Ancestor side is much more to my taste than the player side, but both seem very, very good.
Within minutes of the album's release, it became clear that two of the tracks were ripped off directly from Frozen Synapse's OST, so they were of course pulled. One wonders how anybody thought they could get away with that in one of the largest fandoms on the internet. :P
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LCD Soundsystem - Throw.
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Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance
Can't listen to Thrice's stuff any more. It's just nothing special. This is about the only one I'll listen to now, and only for the lyrics, really.
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Blur - No Distance Left to Run.
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Arcade Fire - Half Light II (No Celebration)
Suburbs is my least favorite of the three AF albums I've listened to, but it's still solid.
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The Jakes- Cough Syrup
Edit: On a slightly different note, listening to Natural Born Killaz from Dr Dre.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - West Country Girl
I guess I've been in the mood for gloomy music. Thanks, Nick Cave.
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Arcade Fire - Half Light II (No Celebration)
Suburbs is my least favorite of the three AF albums I've listened to, but it's still solid.
You are an awful person.
Arcade Fire - Mountains Beyond Mountains
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Angus & Julia Stone - Black Crow.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Sorrowful Wife
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Solace Lost- Fading Regrets
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The White Stripes - Little Bird
Old stuff~
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Tom Waits - Kentucky Avenue.
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The Black Keys - Hell of a Season
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Skrillex - Right In.
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First Aid Kit - I Found a Way
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Emiliana Torrini - Telepathy.
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Fiona Apple - On the Bound
Because I've been listening to a lot of bands with female vocals lately.
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The Kills - Satellite
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Yoko Shimomura- Aya's theme
PE really, really, *really* needs a modern remake, damn it. If the rest of the game's aesthetics were updated and matched the quality of the OST.... mmmmm.
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If I have to say it, having a full ochestral arrange for Femmes Fatalae would be more important.
And on the topic of Shimomura....
KH3D - L'Oscurita dell'Ignot
Who think it is a good idea to put the game on 3DS? The handheld's audio does not do Shimomura justice!!!
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The entire PE OST is fantastic. One of Shimomura's best works.
The Kills- The Last Goodbye
Edit: The Kills-Damned if she do.
Like the latter much more than the last goodbye.
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Augie March - The Keepa.
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Arcade Fire - City With No Children
Finally got round to picking up Suburbs, it's damn nice. Hasn't had a chance to grow on me yet, so not quite up to Neon Bible standards, but definitely good. Empty Room's probably the best I've heard so far.
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The White Stripes - Hello Operator
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Sarah Blasko - Planet New Year
Please ignore the girl giving birth to a piano.
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The Kills - Future Starts Slow
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The Beards - Why Having a Beard is Better than Having a Woman.
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Art Brut - Clever Clever Jazz
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The Beards - Why Having a Beard is Better than Having a Woman.
What, you need a whole song to explain it?
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The Kills - Sour Cherry
I really like this band. Very fun :). Girl sounds like she smokes waaay too much. (I read her Wikipedia page and apparently she chain smokes during concerts. So yeaaah.)
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I don't need it, but I am glad there is someone out there educating others through music.
Mogwai - Kids Will Be Skeletons.
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radiant historta- an earnest desire of grey
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Beyond the Laybrinth - Decayed Edge
Well, Sakuraba finally starting to do somethign right after sucking for so long.
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diVinyls - Hard On Me.
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Portal 2 OST: I AM NOT A MORON
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Warren Zevon: Things to Do In Denver When You're Dead
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Melissa Auf der Maur - Lightening Is My Girl.
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Blackmore's Night - Diamonds and Rust
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Hole - Celebrity Skin
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Austra - Darken Her Horse
Holy crap this is so -strange-.
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The Who: We're Not Gonna Take It
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Austra - Shoot The Water
Strange, charming and wonderful. I already love this band. Canada's trying pretty hard to apologize for Alanis Morissette and Justin Bieber.
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What about Bryan Adams?
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They haven't gotten that far yet.
Austra - Darken Her Horse
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And what exactly do you think Metric and Arcade Fire were for?
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - It's a Wonderful Life.
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Arcade Fire and Metric justify Justin Bieber and Alanis. It's taking more than a third gorgeous one for Bryan Adams, though.
Austra - Lose It
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Black Keys - Just Gotta Be
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Justice - Tthhee ppaarrttyy
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Queensryche - Spreading The Disease
Damn, I love this album. Channels the Occupy Wall Street movement better than OWS did... in 1989.
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Jack White - Missing Pieces.
I need to give this a good listen. It was good the first couple of times through, but stillneeds more spins.
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Jim Keays - Whiskey Woman.
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Queensryche - Revolution Calling
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Also, yeah, I've been tearing through the Jack White album. It's good listening for the lab. Title track is probably my favorite.
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Alter Bridge - The End is Here
This one took a while to grow on me, but it's pretty awesome. Creepy tone is done well, and Tremonti is still amazing.
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Hole - Boys on the Radio.
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Devin Townsend Project - Disruptr
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Third eye blind- God of Wine
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Divinyls - Open Window.
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Arcade Fire - Intervention
<3 This song is in my top three favorite AF songs, at least.
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Tom Waits - Blue Valentines
Too much cheerful music. Need more Tom Waits.
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Bjork - My Favourite Things.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Loverman
~
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Skrillex - First of the Year.
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Little Dragon - Little Man
Ritual Union is so whimsical and eerily playful. I really like the atmosphere they got going - like a festive tin cacophony doused in color and legos.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Jangling Jack
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lay Me Low
I finally feel well enough to listen to music again! Hooray.
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Cairo Knife Fight - Origin of Slaves.
So Rob, if you pop through here, I was watching the film clip for this today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-fd5qcRjtE and someone agreed with me. We figured the guitarist here is pretty much what you would be like if you were in a band.
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Silversun Pickups - Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings)
Forgot to say they have a new album out. It is okay. Growing on me on second listen.
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Queen: The Show Must Go On
One of my favorite songs. Hell of a way to close out a career.
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Pure Reason Revolution - Deus Ex Machina
Very electro-y. very good. ...Even if they do say 'machiner'.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lyre of Orpheus
I think this album may have be the best put together album that I've listened to of Nick Cave's, but it doesn't have the cohesion and moodiness of No More Shall We Part.
This particular song is still great.
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Castlevania: Curse of Darkness- Legion and Nuculais
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Young Sam - Fly Nigga
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Meco - Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk.
Disco remix of Star Wars tracks. Pretty amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ3kV3Icm28 10/10 would listen again.
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Arjen Anthony Lucassen - I'm The Slime
Metal version of Frank Zappa. I approve, I think.
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Asriel - 双翼風雅
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Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Social Recluse
This has been an odd CD. It's basically about a guy who was cryogenically frozen and is learning about the world he's woke up in. The first half is the main storyline, the second half is an odd mixture of setting fleshing out (like this song!) and covers of reasonably appropriate songs (Welcome to the Machine, Veteran of the Psychic Wars) and it ends with a very creepy rendition of I'm The Slime. High concept albums are always an interesting listen.
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I showed some of my friends that Disco Star Wars and they all instantly hated it....this coming from a group that all liked the series (some of them even liked the NEW movies somehow >_> )
Anyways, I have been pumping a lot of Dance Gavin Dance in my car. Jonny Craig has such an amazing voice, its a shame that people who don't like screamo type music don't get to enjoy his singing, because it is so awesome!
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I like screamo! (Hell, I listen to Brokencyde). Gunna DL this ASAP.
Finished my book. Going to the cemetery for a walk. First song that's playin' on my iPod as I write is:
Hands on the Wheel - FT A$AP Rocky; Schoolboy Q.
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Deftones- RX Queen
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Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Loving this song right now. By which I mean 'my playlist is down so I put this on Youtube Repeater and it's been playing for the last hour and a half.'
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Pumpkin Party In Sea Hitler's Watery Apocalypse - Homestuck Volume 9 (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/homestuck-vol-9)
Technically listening to the whole album, but that track title deserved to be the one posted. ^_^
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Mumford and Sons - I Gave You All
Definitely an odd album, but it is growing on me.
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Queensryche: Anybody Listening?
Somewhat related, earlier today listened to Hear in the Now Frontier for the first time since the nineties. My recollection was of a mediocre album with a couple decent songs. This was in error. It is a bad album with a couple mediocre songs. I don't know if this was just a band out of ideas or a deliberate attempt at grappling with the barren, blasted, post-grunge musical landscape, but the result is uniformly uninspiring. Some of this crap could've come off a Creed record. No wonder Chris DeGarmo left the band after that tour. And it's not even their worst album! So sad when formerly good bands don't know when to quit.
(Ciatos should totally listen to Promised Land if they haven't yet, it's their last good album.)
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I haven't even listened to Empire all that much, honestly.
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Dropkick Murphys - Vices and Virtues
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Lit- Miserable
Lit is so very 90's, and hasn't aged well. I still like this song though.
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The Black Keys - Psychotic Girl
TBK don't exactly have lyrical depth, but it's good listening for work.
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Metric - Lost Kitten
Makes me dance like a silly person.
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The Smashing Pumpkins - Panopticon.
New album, pretty good. Very 90s and has aged well.
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Metric - Synthetica
I like this band ^_^
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Devin Townsend Project - Juular
Finally caved in and bought the fourth CD of the DTP set. It's much sillier and chaotic than the others.
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Cairo Knife Fight - The Origin of Slaves
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3 Inches of Blood - Night Marauders.
Holy crap. Thrash still isn't dead apparently. It just moved to Canada.
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The Cure: Disintegration
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Disintegration is like one of the few albums from The Cure I still go back to from time to time. The sonic depth in those musical landscapes is something that it took the Cocteau Twins to encapsulate.
Aimee Mann - The Moth
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First time I'd listened to them in years. You know, I still love the music whenever they get the guitar army in gear, but it just must be absolute misery being associated with Robert Smith in any way.
Electric Light Orchestra: Fire On High
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Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Snow the musical.
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Various pop music as I drive to and from work.
Probably the best thing on the radio right now, that I'm guessing isn't on the radio outside of LA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II8NM4sE8TU
Not even sure why I like it so much. Not exactly a style I tend to like. Just really well executed I suppose....
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That is actually alright. Not really understanding it probably helps though. Could use a bit more? Weird to complain after all this time of a pop track not being overproduced. Maybe another instrument? Not sure.
Metric - Dreams So Real.
Highly recommend this on the other hand. Metric continue to be doing more of the same, which is to say they are fucking amazing and have been from day 1 it seems.
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Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Snow the musical.
And I don't even really like Joy Division. Sigh.
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You don't really like your life story either, so it fits.
Metric - Gold Gun Girls.
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I hate it when you're right. Should hunt for the new Metric album as well.
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It's good stuff.
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Amy Winehouse - He Can Only Hold Her.
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Heart- magic man
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Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow
I can't help but think of FF2 when I hear the term Wild Rose. Curse thee, FF2.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Sorrowful Wife
<3!
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Aversions Crown - No Salvation.
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Don Henley - Everything is Different Now
She said I don't care what you do for a living
I don't care what kind of car you drive
All I wanna know right now is what you believe in
What it means for you to be alive
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Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now
Dammit, Ciato.
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Daft Punk: Too Long
So are non-Discovery Daft Punk albums worth picking up y/n.
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<Grefter> yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Yes, all Daft Punk is amazing. Some of the earlier stuff is a little weaker, but whatthefuckever it is still good. If you are going to skip any do the Tron Legacy soundtrack. Highly recommend Alive 2007 if you are just going to grab a little bit. It will teach you that Aerodynamic mixes with anything.
Cairo Knife Fight - The Violence of Action.
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Yes, all Daft Punk is amazing. Some of the earlier stuff is a little weaker, but whatthefuckever it is still good. If you are going to skip any do the Tron Legacy soundtrack. Highly recommend Alive 2007 if you are just going to grab a little bit. It will teach you that Aerodynamic mixes with anything.
Cairo Knife Fight - The Violence of Action.
I dunno, I still think tron legacy is one of the best music videos out there!
As for what I am listening to....
http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/zTi6vcfmEg0&loop=1&autoplay=1
so...like........old school I love it. Can't even describe how much this hits on things i like (also what a hottie!)
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Daft Punk always seems like the one thing that everyone ever likes and you should always be listening to.
Alter Bridge - All Hope is Gone
Goddaaaamn, I still love this album. Prefer other songs from their previous two albums, but AB3 just has so many fantastic songs and a general atmosphere that is incredible. So glad they've said they're continuing with this sort of trend in the next album.
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Angus Stone - It Was Blue.
I am having trouble telling if this is Lou Reedish or not. New album is good though.
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of Montreal - Gallery Piece
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Pure Reason Revolution - Deus Ex Machina
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Call me crazy, but for some reason every time I hear this song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-dUtILcTtU
I can't help but think of Wild ARMs.
Fast forward to around 0.40 in this instrumental to see what I am talking about!
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Arcade Fire - Sprawl I (Flatlands)
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Malajube, Synethésie
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Animals as Leaders - On Impulse
Have to thank Piggy for this one. Beautiful instrumental track that changes so much over the course of the song, yet manages to be quite clearly connected throughout and is just pretty amazing.
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Devin Townsend Project - The Mighty Masturbator
This album has a few too many absurdly long songs for me but it's pretty cool and chaotic.
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Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed.
You feel terrified at the thought of being left behind
Of losing everybody, the necessity of dying
Oh, WE KID OURSELVES THERE'S FUTURE IN THE FUCKING,
BUT THERE IS NO FUCKING FUTURE
I'm just practising my accents, picking at old sutures
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Dream Theater- In the name of god
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Bjork - Hunter
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Joe Satriani: I Am Become Death
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Murder By Death - One More Notch.
Oh look this old thing has come back around for more play.
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David Bowie: Saviour Machine
My logic says burn
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Silversun Pickups - Waste It On.
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The Beatles: Love You To
Hanging out with Ravi Shankar phase
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PSY really got me into a kpop kick, this time with more kpop boy bands (SHINEE, NU'EST, Super Junior, and a little bit of EXO...so...lots of SM Entertainment groups). Outside of the SMEnt boybands, I've actually started to acquire a taste for 2NE1, and have been listening to some of PSY's older stuff.
Also, I'm starting to learn how to phoenetically read Hangul; don't quite know the whole alphabet yet, but I'm getting there.
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David Bowie - God Knows I'm Good.
I love this song, but some days I kind of would like to know exactly why he did it.
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Tom Waits - Blue Valentines
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Deep Purple - Highway Star
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Rage Against the Machine - Freedom.
What does the billboard say? Come and play, come and play. Forget about the movement.
RATM's disdain for this kind of thing is good advice for those of you who are bad at balancing entertainment and your endocrine systems.
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La Roux - Bulletproof
And like 5 remixes thereof. I wind up thumbs upping every version of it that comes on the pandora station.
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Cranberries - Zombie.
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omg, Pet Shop Boys album came out! trying to make me broke >:(
:) The Black Keys - I Got Mine
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The new album is officially out? Fuck that's going into the queue.
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Metric - Twilight Galaxy
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Ciatos, I have it on good authority that the new Devin Townsend Project album is pretty good.
Deadmau5 - Cthulhu Sleeps.
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Which one? There were two released simultaneously about a year ago.
EDIT : Ooooh the new new one that hasn't come out yet that is coming out this month?
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That would be the one. It is floating around the internets already (as most albums do these days).
Justice - Genesis
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The Kills - The Heart is a Beating Drum
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Miike Snow - Burial
One of my friends on this boat let me listen to this a lot. I quite like it.
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Rob Zombie - Dragula (††† Remix).
So hey you can take a high energy track like Dragula and make it really somber. It is still awesome because it is Dragula.
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Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage
I like this song. Should listen to the original at some point.
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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home
<3 <3 <3
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Bjork - Wanderlust.
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Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage
I like this song. Should listen to the original at some point.
Bwuh? Original? It's not written by them? It is quite probably my favorite song in their catalog. (Also obligatory "Peter Gabriel version is great and should be listened to by people" goes here.)
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Mm, I thought Peter Gabriel sang the song first, but I guess it's a different song? That makes me happy, actually!
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It is the same song, Peter Gabriel just did a cover version later pretty much just because Arcade Fire is awesome.
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Ah, awesome!
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Speaking of which, did Arcade Fire signal anything about a new album lately?
Cocteau Twins - The Spangle Maker
Been on a Twins kick for the last few months. Wonder if that'll stop.
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Mumford and Sons - After the Storm
Such beautiful music. I preordered the new album!
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When is it out? I've been kinda longing for the kind of high-voltage emotional blackmail those guys do oh so well.
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Speaking of which, did Arcade Fire signal anything about a new album lately?
Not that I am aware of. It was three years between the previous albums, so probably not anytime soon. It's always a little curious to me how prominent bands tend to have several years between albums nowadays, whereas in the 60's/70's it was closer to a yearly basis (even more frequently for prolific freaks like The Beatles). Probably this is just the expanded storage capacity of CDs making the expected duration of an album longer and therefore more trouble to produce, but it always seems weird to me that it's worked out that way given the general shortening of our cultural attention span in the internet era.
Of course, most of this is academic since only fossils like me even think in an album format anymore.
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It's September 25th, I think, Snow. I am shipping it to my parents house so I won't get it for a while (bought my mom a birthday present on Amazon but I wanted the free shipping so I tagged the new album on with it.).
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Om Nashi Me
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It's September 25th, I think, Snow. I am shipping it to my parents house so I won't get it for a while (bought my mom a birthday present on Amazon but I wanted the free shipping so I tagged the new album on with it.).
Crafty of you. Also, yay!
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Mumford and Sons - Dust Bowl Dance
Probably my favorite song on the album.
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Pet Shop Boys - Absolutely Fabulous
Quick Ciato bring the Givenchy and Lagerfeld
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I feel so fabulous~ (I had no idea what that was until I looked it up. :p)
Pet Shop Boys - Early Stuff
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Cocteau Twins - Plain Tiger
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A Perfect Circle - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
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Metric - Youth Without Youth
Oh wow they -did- improve upon Fantasies' winning formula. This is both charming and dangerous.
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A Perfect Circle - Passive.
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JayZ - 99 Problems.
So yeah I really enjoyed the Black Album, 99 problems definitely the crown jewel in a great album though.
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Metric - Lost Kitten
I was looking for a hooker when I found you~
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Rage Against the Machine - Kick Out the Jams.
Because hey MC 5 are that awesome.
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Julia Stone - I Want to Live Here.
Oh by the way Snow. New album.
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Living Colour - Cult of Personality
Been going through some old music again, finally getting round to sorting stuff about 4 months after my computer was fixed. Currently in love with this song.
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So Wiki says the album came out in May? I hadn't seen it until now and I do check that section at music stores a bit... but whatevs.
The Killers - Flesh and Bone.
Hoping this album is better than the other two albums I have. They both have some good tracks on them, but as albums are weaker.
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Metric - Youth Without Youth
It's 2010 all over again. I really dig this album - it has the slick, glossy production values of Fantasies shaved of its excesses, and I don't think Metric has ever covered as many distinct approaches in a single album. I never knew Metric could actually sound elegant without feeling weird.
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Motörhead - Ace of Spades.
The only god I need.
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Lost Kitten is my favorite song on that album! It's so cute and catchy.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Come In Please
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Lost Kitten is definitely one of the highlights of the album. The vaguely glamorous feeling of decadence and charmingly disdainful sarcasm Metric learned to hone throughout the years is sharpest in that one. In fact, all of Synthetica feels like the band finally found a perfect balance between their intelligence and their pop sensibility. Love Youth Without Youth and Speed the Collapse as well, but all the songs are quite good.
EDIT: Also, "I was looking for a hooker when I found you", given context, is one of the best lines in an album chock-full of juicy one-liners. It definitely feels Emily Hayes' lyrics-writing hit a good new height here.
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I'm not quite as enamoured with Fantasies, but I listened to it after Synthetica.
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Honestly, I agree. Fantasies is cool in that arena rock way with powerfully catchy songs, but it's noisy and excessive often. Synthetica is just far more polished and about as acutely pop. It's plainly a danged well-written and recorded album overall.
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Any other Metric albums worth a listen?
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All of them. They are all equally good in my opinion. I honestly don't even differentiate Fantasies from stuff like Grow Up and Blow Away.
JayZ - 99 Problems.
Thinking of doing DL casting of albums. Had been thinking of a few before this, but Black Album might be first.
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All of them.
Yes. To elaborate: Metric's albums generally have a consistently solid minimum quality line and all their albums past add to the band's comprehension, even if they -do- vary in quality. Grow Up And Blow Away is verrrrrrrrrry '90s, but once you get past it being heavily attached to its own time, it has the highest quota of highly memorable songs in their catalog and some of the biggest winners in their career (the eponymous album opener, On The Sly, Hardwire, for instance). Old World Underground is high-energy and veers into the more interesting things they actually do with their new wave roots, along with being one of the best in terms of pop sensibility they have. Live It Out is very uneven, but its ambition is notable and while it's the height of Metric's excesses, sporting some horrible misses, the hits are just glorious. Think of it as an embryo for the lengths they'd reach in Fantasies and Synthetica.
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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Carries On
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Allo Darlin' - Neil Armstrong
They released a new album too!?
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The Dillinger Escape Plan - Chinese Whispers.
There's a chemical weapon made from all your broken dreams.
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Metric - Lost Kitten
Just the right amount of cleverness, sleaze and charm.
By the way, Mumford and Sons' Babel is -an amazing album-. Just thought you guys should know.
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Deadmau5 - Maths
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Pet Shop Boys - Ego Music
This song is so smarmy.
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Muse - Madness
No idea whether this is a "good" song or not, but I love the feel of it.
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3 Inches of Blood - Trial of the Champions.
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Imagine Dragons - It's Time
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Metric - Dreams So Real
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Fever Ray - Now's The Only Time I Know.
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Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow
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Los Campesinos! - Light Leaves, Dark Sees pt. ii
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The B-52's - Rock Lobster
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Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Eeeeeeeemmmmmmooooooooo. I love her stuff anyway, but man.
Just got a bunch of new CDs today(ordering shit I heard on Pandora and liked~), this was one of them.
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The Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
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Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know
Every time I listen to this, I can't help but think of the parodies. :(
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Los Campesinos! - Miserabilia.
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Alexander - Truth
Fun little experimental album.
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Allo Darlin' - The Letter
Europe sounds almost exactly like the debut. How much of a sin is it when this also means the new album sounds just as gorgeous as the first, though?
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Susanne Sundfor - Diamonds
Holy -fuck- I need to mull this album over for a few years.
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Daft Punk: The Brainwasher
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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - 40 Day Dream
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Angus & Julia Stone - Santa Monica Dream.
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Devin Townsend Project- True North
How do you make an album called Epicloud and make it neither epic nor loud??? (still good though!)
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Angus & Julia Stone - Choking.
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The Cardigans - My New Cuckoo
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Pet Shop Boys - Early Stuff
The album is a bit too much about the music industry for my personal taste, but it's decent despite that.
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Most relevant thread- Went on a Nightwish concert on Friday, was shocked when I had no idea who their singer was. Turned out they switched on October 1 halfway in the middle of a tour! The new one was actually a much better singer than Annette though, so it worked out quite well.
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Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone
I heard your mother, now she's going out the door~
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They switched during the tour because Annette got sick, yeah. I want to go to Nightwish concert as well but they are only going to Seattle.
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Halestorm- All I want to do is make love to you
Lzzy hale is my favorite modern female vocalist, I think. anyone who can credibly cover Heart songs is pretty damn talented as a singer.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - More News From Nowhere
This song is both mellow and a little sinister. I like it.
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Susanne Sundfor - Among Us
This darkness. This darkness.
<3
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Angus and Julia Stone -On the Road.
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Angus and Julia Stone - Fooled Myself
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Amy Winehouse - Amy Amy Amy
=)
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Augie March - This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers.
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Devin Townsend Project - More!
This album is definitely more old Devin Townsend than any of the other DTP ones.
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Mumford and Sons - Whispers in the Dark
WHILE WE ARE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUNG WHILE WE ARE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUNG
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Fun. - We Are Young.
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Amy Winehouse - Stronger Than Me
Amy wants her gender roles defined.
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You know I never could tell if she actually did or not.
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Not sure either!
Ayreon - The Sixth Extinction
The new iPod has allowed me to put more space opera on my playlist~
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Basshunter - Vi Sitter I Ventrillo Och Spelar Dota.
I assume this track, variations, remixes or covers are 90% of Trance's music collection.
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Susanne Sundfor - Diamonds
This track is a very fitting synthesis of the entire album, and hands down the best out of this work. A complex and haunting melodic pavement saddled by a claustrophobic, downright poisonous atmospheric density. It's both an aesthetic pleasure and an intellectual delight.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Idiot Prayer
One of the highlights of Boatman's Call. More about the love/religion/death that Nick Cave loves singing about than Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! which is the Nick Cave I've been listening to lately.
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Kasabian - Fire
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The White Stripes - The Same Boy You've Always Known
Bitches be annoying.
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Everything Changes, by Eytan and the Embassy. Pretty awesome song.
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Pet Shop Boys - Ego Music
I'm not sure who this song is about, but it is very smarmy.
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Pet Shop Boys, smarm, pick forty-seven.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Darker With the Day
In a bit of a solemn mood today.
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The answer is Snow obv.
Angus & Julia Stone - Walk It Off
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Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running
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Of Monsters And Men - Little Talk
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Elvis Costello & The Attractions - The Beat
It takes two to tumble, it takes two to tango.
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Depeche Mode: Here is the House
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The flys- Got you where I want you
I am listening to a lot of 90's and darker/more emotional rock here, since everyone listens to shitty dance music here.
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The Beatles: Run for Your Life
Oh wow this song is warped. I can't figure out whether they were just fucking with everyone or whether someone just wrote one too many love songs and said what the hell, let's record a paean to domestic abuse.
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Justice - Phantom Pt.2.
This is probably the best I have felt all day.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
In a soup queue, a dope fiend, a slave, then prison, then the madhouse, then the grave
Oh poor Larry
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Ayreon - Liquid Eternity
Sci-fi nerd music gogo
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Aimee Mann - Fifty Years After The Fair
What? It's sci-fi nerd music.
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I can play this game.
Rush: Cygnus X-1
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The Byrds - Mr. Spaceman
I like this game.
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Queen: '39
Because there aren't enough songs about the relativistic effects of space travel and their deleterious impact on romantic relationships.
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Rob Zombie - Dragula.
Still awesome after all these years.
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Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars
I guess psychic wars could be in sci-fi. Or just in fantasy. <_<
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Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime
And you may say to yourself, "My god, what have I done?"
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Lady of the Sunshine - Lady Sunshine
This is Angus Stone. It is good.
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R.E.M.: Unlisted track at the end of Life's Rich Pageant
I AM SUPERMAN AND I KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING
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Angus Stone - Wooden Chair.
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Arcade Fire: Wake Up
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - 666 Conducer.
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Arcade Fire: Rebellion (Lies)
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Deep Purple - Space Truckin'
Old musics.
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Deep Purple: Highway Star
Nobody gonna take my car, gonna race them to the grouuuuund
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Stop.
It sounds older than it is!
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Creedence Clearwater Revival: Who'll Stop the Rain?
Possibly a few days late on this one.
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R.E.M.: Unlisted track at the end of Life's Rich Pageant
I AM SUPERMAN AND I KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING
That track's named Superman.
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Fucking hipster.
Blondie - Wipe Off My Sweat.
The Snowiest song on Panic of Girls? Probably.
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I will join in with the general Ciddy gnawing topic again.
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Proud Mary
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Snow Patrol - Make This Go On Forever.
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Of Monsters and Men - From Finner
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Death Is Not the End
So when I find out something is a cover, I usually look up the old song. The singing in the original (by Bob Dylan) is even bad by his standards. My god.
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The Gossip - Keeping You Alive
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Blue Oyster Cult - Sole Survivor
Good stuff.
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Jay-Z: 99 Problems
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Julia Stone - Let's Forget All The Things That We Say.
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Susanne Sundfor - Diamonds
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - 666 Conducer.
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The Pixies: Crackity Jones
Evidently about the worst roommate ever (insofar as Pixies songs are about anything). I'm afraid you'll cut me, boyyyy!
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Animal Collective ~ My Girls
A soooolid souuuuuul, and blood I bleed~
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Angus & Julia Stone - Private Lawns.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Shuffle Your Feet
This is uh kinda good.
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NO FUCKING SHIT.
Angus & Julia Stone - Wasted.
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NO FUCKING SHIT.
I love how you still get yelly and vaguely angry-like even after all these years.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Promise
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Sarah Blasko - For You
Apparently, she's got a new album. Got your hands on it yet, Grefter? If so, is it any good?
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I have, it is more of the same but less good than here last album, but that album was awesome so still worth checking out.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Stop.
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Placebo - Battle for the Sun.
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Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red
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Apocalyptica- Hope Vol 2
Think this has surpassed I don't care as my favorite vocal track they've done. Matthias Sayer is very good.
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Ghosts - Something Hilarious.
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Mumford and Sons - After the Storm
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Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me
This is so -odd-.
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If Siousxie and the Banshees aren't producing odd music, something has gone wrong.
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Well yes. Just, you know. This is a '90s pop rock glam song by Siouxsie and the Banshees. About Jayne Mansfield's death.
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Placebo - Post Blue.
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Blue Oyster Cult: Astronomy
Ah, so this is where Ciato's old title came from. You know, these guys deserve better than playing the county fair circuit and getting assaulted by cowbells everywhere they go. It's sad.
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Blue Oyster Cult is kinda cool in a really weird way, really. There's a fair deal more than Don't Fear The Reaper coming from them. It's sad indeed.
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David Bowie - Underground.
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Astronomy is an amazing song. It was my favorite song in high school and I still think it is great.
Blue Oyster Cult - Joan Crawford
I bought Fire of Unknown Origin a couple of weeks ago. Not really disappointed, even though it is very early-80's.
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Yeah, I was bouncing through their catalogue a lot over the weekend, had not really looked much beyond the radio songs before. I will be grabbing Fire of Unknown Origin at some point just because Joan Crawford is not on the secondhand compilation I have.
Also I had zero expectation of BOC being a Snow-approved band. Surprised!
Blue Oyster Cult: Nosferatu
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Also I had zero expectation of BOC being a Snow-approved band. Surprised!
So did I. So did I.
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Placebo - Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth)
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10,000 Maniacs - Eat For Two
Nowadays, I consider this one of the best songs the band pulled off in its career period. It's incredibly easy to botch a song about unwanted pregnancy, but Natalie Merchant manages to get both the urgency of the lyrics and the tension in the songwriting with her performance. Then, there are the deliciously paranoid guitar jangles.
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Nightwish - Last of the Wilds
Such a beautiful song. :)
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Warren Zevon: Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Debating whether it would be productive to recommend Warren Zevon to the Snows.
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Warren Zevon: Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Debating whether it would be productive to recommend Warren Zevon to the Snows.
Depends on how much time are you willing to wait.
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I think I waited like four years for you to pick up on Arcade Fire, so apparently quite a while.
Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
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I think I waited like four years for you to pick up on Arcade Fire, so apparently quite a while.
Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Then sure!
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - O'Malley's Bar
This song is pretty creepy even by this album's standards.
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Of Monsters and Men - Dirty Paws
Tangentially: I'm noticing you listen to a lot of creepy songs, Ciato. >_>
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grefter's fault
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grefter's fault
that's what you said when we were smuggled across the texas border
The Tourists - I Only Want To Be With You
Dusty Springfield + Annie Lennox = ?????????
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I started her on later Nick Cave and told her to work her way back, took 2 or 3 years to get her in to Murder Ballads? Worth the effort.
Nightwish - Dead Boy's Poem
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Well, it was not quite in that order...
No More Shall We Part (2001) -> Nocturama (2003) -> Abattoir(2004) -> Boatman's Call(1997) -> Let Love In(1994) -> Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!(2008) -> Murder Ballads(1996)
I clearly am not very good at going back in sequential order. :(
At some point I will try Grinderman.
Also
Ayreon - The Dream Sequencer
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Spencer Nielsen - Gotham City Streets
This is a weird piece from the 16-bit generation.
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Devin Townsend - Depth Charge
Put some old DT back on my iPod after I got one with more space~
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Of Monsters And Men - King and Lionheart
i blame the ciatos for their fault in this
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Still working in eras Ciatos.
Cairo Knife Fight - The Violence of Action.
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Puretones - Addicted to Bass.
14 years after this was a crossover hit I am stunned people act like Dubstep is an abomination to god that came out of nowhere. Where things like Aphex Twin show the roots musically this one shows the potential for strong bass dance tracks to cross over and chart.
Also still a fucking awesome track.
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Adele - Lovesong
I was listening to Arcade Fire while working in the lab this afternoon. I really like the first four songs and the last four songs on The Suburbs. We Used to Wait -> Sprawl(I) -> Sprawl(II) is a series I am particularly fond of. There is some less awesome stuff in the middle, but still not bad.
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Murder by Death - Fuego!
Baby it's been so long, even the rose's hips are turning me on.
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The Animals - Boom Boom.
The presence of this on the Skyfall Soundtrack makes this the best Bond flick for music, even if Adele is entirely inferior to some other bond songs (Garbage one for example).
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From what I hear, The World Is Not Enough (the song) is the only good thing to come out of that flick.
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Stealth Catamaran with full optic camo but from memory still has a visible wake is a thing if I remembering the scenes properly.
The Animals - I'm Gonna Change the World.
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From what I hear, The World Is Not Enough (the song) is the only good thing to come out of that flick.
Yep. One of the best Bond songs, in one of the worst Bond movies (unquestionably the worst I've seen, but I haven't seen all of them. At least I can laugh at Moonraker. TWINE is just boring.)
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I dunno, I at least rather liked the plot twist involving the surprise reveal of one of the villains. TWINE's not amazing but I'd still rank it third of the Brosnan Bond films because Tomorrow Never Dies is just that bad. I also probably like it better than quite a few of the older movies but I don't think many of those have aged terribly well.
Live and Let Die gets my vote for worst I've seen due to that weird-kinda-racism thing it has going, plus voodoo nonsense, plus my finding Roger Moore's Bond the least charismatic, plus not being a good movie on any other front. Though, like TWINE, it too at least has an excellent song.
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Rage Against the Machine - Know Your Enemy.
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E6- Gay Bar
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In the realm of real concerts. Doing my part to support game music concerts by attending Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses despite suspecting that one could make ~10 or so unique Final Fantasy music concerts before starting to reach down to the amount of good material Zelda has available. It was fine, and certainly worth the admission, but unsurprisingly had trouble measuring up to say Distant Worlds (the Final Fantasy concert) or even your average random selection of games concert, which have much longer and more richer music to draw from that translates to an orchestra better. Zelda does okay at its capital-A-adventure themes, but misses out elsewhere.
Also, since Zelda is chock full of shortish loops and area music, by necessity they were forced to do a ton of medleys, rather than the more typical (and better) "pick one song, do it straight, then do another loop with some extra frills added." Wind Waker & A Link to the Past ended up the best game arrangements. (Okay, the Majora's Mask arrangement ended up pretty good too.) No, really, I was surprised, that isn't just SNES nostalgia, they picked songs from LttP that translated to orchestra well like the opening castle raid music. Wind Waker mostly coasted on the excellent "Ocean" music which is among the best adventurey music Zelda has created with some solid support (never mind that I never actually played WW...). Twilight Princess & Ocarina of Time's medleys were kind of meh, really, which is a shame, because Twilight Princess at least certainly has some solid music in it, but among the parts I liked, they only included the TP opening which is too short. Ocarina of Time I just never was in love with the original and the arrangement didn't redeem it. They also did a medley of early Zelda dungeon music which was mostly meh (Palace music in Zelda 2 was the only saving grace), some Ocarina tunes orchestrated (okay), Kakariko Village (this actually did translate decently), Gorudo Valley (for some reason the fanbase loooves this track; it's decent, for sure, and a good pick, but still not amazing), and Ballad of the Wind Fish (pretty great, actually, best single song they presented - I wish they'd done even more with it).
Also amusingly enough, the arranger was Chad Seiter, a name I recall since I was downloading his Final Fantasy arrangements from RPGamer back in 2000 or whatever. Apparently he's actually composed for video games & movies & stuff now, so guess one of the geeky game music remixer types eventually did make it in the real world, which is kind of cool.
The weird but thankfully irrelevant part: the show's organizer/promoter rambled a bit about how this was a "Symphony of the Goddesses" with "Movements" and such (lies, the Movements were blatantly per-game medleys), which included practically being an evangelist with some comment about needing to think "on all the 3 goddesses have done for us." Um. Very little, thanks, and as for what they've done for Link, it's mostly been "empower some pyscho to conquer the world with monsters repeatedly." They even lampshade this a bit in Twilight Princess when the Twilight Realm elders complain about the cruel jape of the gods that one of the blessed chosen ones of the goddesses was a crazy dude who killed them all and did evil crap! Makes for a good adventure game setting for sure, but I'm really not getting in line to worship 'em, thanks.
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http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/11/please-advise.html
for your amusement.
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Opeth - Windowpayne.
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Zelda symphony stuff
As someone who went to last year's 25th Anniversary Zelda Concert and has been to both Distant Worlds in London, I feel like I need to comment on this.
First things first, I know that I - and, judging by reactions at the start of the month at Distant Worlds, most people - definitely prefer medleys. This might be more because it's a lot of nostalgia instead of just one song but, with the FF example, there aren't many people who want to listen to 5 minutes of Aerith's Theme when they could be listening to a minute of that followed by several other cool tracks that aren't just a dull loop.
At the 25th Anni Concert, Wind Waker definitely got the best medley. There was also a boss medley that was surprisingly awesome - I didn't even remember the miniboss battle from OoT, but they did it damn well. Twilight Princess kinda sucks on the whole for me (got bored of the game in an hour) so the music just meant nothing to me and was very LOOK WE'RE TRYING TO BE OMINOUS GUYS without actually doing anything. OoT medley was too much nostalgia and not enough awesome, although Gerudo Valley -is- a good track. We didn't get Ballad of the Wind Fish (:() but did get Great Fairy Fountain, which was pretty nice.
Distant Worlds 2011 > Zelda 25th Anni > Distant Worlds 2012 (FF 25th Anni), as a thing. They opened DW12 by saying "We're gonna do a lot of medleys so we can cover the whole series!" then proceeded to do at least one song from each game and then two medleys - a Chocobo one and a battle theme one, with the Battle Medley being the best thing they did over the whole night. >.>;
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Placebo - Every You Every Me
Another song about blatantly abusive relationships I'm pretty sure I heard played in weddings.
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Placebo - Special K
I probably started listening to this band about a dozen years too late to form an actual emotional connection to it. They're still very solid musicians, though.
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Parkway Drive - Wild Eyes.
This new Parkway album still holding up over multiple listens. Do recommend it to anyone who likes heavier stuff.
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Parkway Drive - Dream Run.
Yeah definitely give this one a look Ciatos and Super.
Edit - Actually comparison point for others who I don't have a good grasp on to recommend directly. In Flames, if you know and like them then check these guys out. New album is called Atlas.
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Yoshiken: Well, a few medleys are fine. And like I said, I think the arranger is kind of stuck with that for Zelda music because there are a lot of catchy loopy tunes that may not hold up particularly well on their lonesome closely examined, but can be lightly referenced with a nod. That said? For me at least, entirely disagree on medleys for a series like Final Fantasy, which has long and rich songs that can stand on their own (and don't even loop that much!), no need to lightly touch on a song for 60 seconds then gallop to the next. Give me Suteki da Ne in its full glory (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug7KNoiT2xU) over an FF10 medley, or Liberi Fatali over some kind of FF8 medley.
They actually did play the Fairy Fountain music as well, I'd forgotten that since it was pretty short (it was the post-Intermission icebreaker).
(There are some tasteful compromises to be had, for sure. Distant Worlds did two songs in FF13 with The Promise directly followed by Blinded by Light. Each a tad short on their own, but they worked well enough back-to-back, which makes sense since lots of pieces have to be able to chain into Blinded by Light in-game.)
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Parkway Drive - Dark Days.
Soooo this is going to sound really dumb to people not into metal but, this is a really good song about the death of humanity. Not sure of it is an anti-war song or a green song but either way it is way more heartfelt than growly metal really calls for.
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Blue Oyster Cult: Black Blade
It is a rock song about Elric of Melnibone (co-written by Michael Moorcock!) This is definitely the geekiest thing I've heard in a while.
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Adam WarRock and Tribe One - 5 Fists of Science.
Rap song about this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Fists_of_Science) comic book which is a Steampunk comic by Matt Fraction starring Nikola Tesla, Mark Twain and Bertha von Suttner.
Boom.
Edit - If it helps it is a recording of them rapping over the top of their own album version.
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I should've known that someone would have something even nerdier on hand. (And that that someone would be Grefter.)
VAST: You
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It is also really pretty awesome.
Empire of the Sun - Standing on the Shore.
With these guys had put out another album.
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Blue Oyster Cult: The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria
You know, for a record that was almost in practice a solo effort by a former band member, apparently resulted in some acrimonious personal disputes, and bombed so badly that the band got dropped by their label? Imaginos is surprisingly a very good album.
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of Montreal - An Elurdrian Instance
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Kanto Symphony (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv1EAqcvJFuG-CMLxveY7eNEcse3xXm1a) - Beyond Rock Tunnel
So going on from the orchestral gaming concert conversation before, this is pretty fantastic. I should listen to more orchestral gaming stuff, I think.
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Quad City DJs: Every song ever.
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Metric - IOU
trying one of their older albums :)
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IOU is great, and so is the album it's on in a general spin. Succexy also feels kinda youtastic, if you may, but I suspect the Math Song might appeal to your dork sensibilities. >_>
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Unrelated but I had a blast from the past watching a TV show that had the lead singer from Killing Heidi and was reminded of them. They are an okay Australian pop rock group that were around 10 years ago or so. Not stand out for me but might hit you weak points Snow.
DoesIt Offend You, Yeah? - Wrestler (The Dance)
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Pure Reason Revolution - Bullitts Dominae
Ciato/Snow/Gref, not sure you ever checked this band out when I last mentioned them. Seriously recommend things like this, Nimos & Tambos and Goshen's Remains (in fact, especially Goshen's Remains).
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Cocteau Twins - Oomingmal
Victorialand is -gorgeous-.
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Electric Six - Rip It!
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Explosions In The Sky - Welcome, Ghosts
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Cocteau Twins - Fluffy Tufts
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Amon Amarth - Guardians of Asgard.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8-uYmumlDY
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Cocteau Twins - Sultitan Itan
Butterflies.
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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
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King Crimson: Red
How the fuck have I not heard this after listening to these guys for fifteen years. Oh well, discovering new old stuff~
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King Crimson has like seventeen million albums, no?
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Nah. I want to say it's like a dozen. It's had various periods of being inactive/broken up/Robert Fripp deciding to go work under a different name or something (functionally his band, only person there for every incarnation).
EDIT: I don't count live albums, which...look like they outnumber the studio work. What the hell.
Would it be constructive to point out that they stole Adrian Belew from the Talking Heads for the eighties albums. (Probably not, you would hate 99% of the band's output, but Discipline might just be tolerable.)
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Functionally, Robert Fripp -is- King Crimson. By the way, should I listen to King Crimson based on his -amazing- guitar work in Blondie's Fade Away and Radiate?
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Arcade Fire - Suburban War
This is pretty Ciddyish.
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Point A: yes, he absolutely is.
I'm hesitant to seriously recommend them to you because most of their material is seriously anti-Snow. Listening to that track...yeah, that is the quintessential Fripptone employed when he feels like being melodic (and then other times he's just all like, you know what, fuck it, let's invent heavy metal).
I dunno, see if this does anything for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlsAjke94Xc
By comparison, this is the other end of the spectrum, probably what I think is the coolest thing he wrote and which I'd be amazed if you could listen to straight through: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu6Lux24-iM
Discipline has a lot of the Talking Heads circa 1980 guitar sound if that helps any.
EDIT: Suburban War is one of the best songs on the album, yes.
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King Crimson - Fracture
This is weird as -fuck-, but not in the way I thought it'd be.
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I'm not sure what to make of that.
Generally I imagine the song as a wordless narration of someone's descent into madness.
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I'd have to listen to it more to actually get a feel for the atmosphere conveyed. I will just leave it out that I don't regret trying either song at all. Amazing melodic acumen. Not sure I'd -actually listen to that kind of music regularly-, but I'll readily bow to good songwriting and musicianship when I hear it.
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(http://www.futurediarywiki.com/images/thumb/c/c5/Yuno-Portrait.png/300px-Yuno-Portrait.png)
Y U NO PROG WHEN WE TELL YOU TO PROG FOREVER AGO. SATRIANI AND DREAM THEATER ARE LIKE RIGHT THERE WAITING FOR YOU.
Shonen Knife - The Queen of Darkness.
I need to get more of this. What is this, good music from Japan? Oh it is a 3 piece band that play classic indie/punk rock stuff and have been doing it for 30 years? They toured with Nirvana in Europe after Nevermind was released? Why have I not heard of them before? OH I have in passing? Okay, why didn't I try them out sooner?
Good stuff and a reminder that there is actually a decent rock scene there if you poke the right places.
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Y U NO PROG WHEN WE TELL YOU TO PROG FOREVER AGO. SATRIANI AND DREAM THEATER ARE LIKE RIGHT THERE WAITING FOR YOU.
Thank you, Ciddy.
Also, Dream Theater is a bit too much cheese even for me. And I admit to liking Roxette.
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You say that like either of those things is a bad thing (Also Dream Theater got nothing on Amon Amarth) Edit - IN THE CHEESE DEPARTMENT OF COURSE.
Shonen Knife - Rock Society.
More of the album done the more I like and respect this.
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Hugh Laurie - St James Infirmary.
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You say that like either of those things is a bad thing (Also Dream Theater got nothing on Amon Amarth) Edit - IN THE CHEESE DEPARTMENT OF COURSE.
It can be. Serious vibrational dissonance in Dream Theater's case.
EDIT: King Crimson also has better musical acumen anyway.
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Sacrimony (Angel of Afterlife) - Kamelot
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Mumford and Sons - Holland Road
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You say that like either of those things is a bad thing (Also Dream Theater got nothing on Amon Amarth) Edit - IN THE CHEESE DEPARTMENT OF COURSE.
It can be. Serious vibrational dissonance in Dream Theater's case.
EDIT: King Crimson also has better musical acumen anyway.
Too theatrical (DT) vs. analytical (KC) it sounds like. A lot of prog does skew heavily towards the former. Never thought about it before, but I guess there is a pretty sharp distinction between KC and other prog on that account. I say this having never listened to Dream Theater, mind. (*flees Grefter at high speed*)
King Crimson: Starless
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King Crimson is smarter than many things. Dream Theater is one of them.
Snow is also not known for liking SMART music. Especially over cheesey music.
Shonen Knife - I am a Cat.
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That quip certainly intrigues me more towards King Crimson.
Also, Grefter pretty much ignores everything I listen to besides the cheese. <_< Either that or I don't post in this topic when I'm not listening to pop.
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Tell me when you have started listening to Residents (which is smart enough to be stupid) or are down to try some Fiery Furnaces.
Or better yet, jump straight into Satriani. (Protip: Even smart music is often shallow, stupid and cheeses in its way).
Mumford and Sons - I Gave You All.
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Aimee Mann and Elvis Costello off pure lyrics writing merits, for instance. Talking Heads are also pretty damned bright musically, even if a fair deal of it comes from muscle memory. R.E.M., especially in their pre-Life's Rich Pageant period. I'm also kinda shocked you don't acknowledge Blondie, at least pre-Parallel Lines, although they fit squarely into sounding dumb as well. It's not quite mathematical and precise like a few guitar heroes, but You underestimate how much I'm capable of appreciate a cerebral - or at least minimally thoughtful - approach to music.
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What was that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of Kraftwerk.
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The chemist - When the Morning Comes.
I keep forgetting this guy isn't part of your lexicon Snow. Remind me to send his stuff to you.
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What was that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of Kraftwerk.
I like Kraftwerk. <_< I even went to a concert of theirs this year!
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Consciousness Killer.
I'm a conscious killer.
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Van Halen - Panama.
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Vampire Weekend - California English.
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Pain of Salvation - No Way
Weird band. I have three different albums and they are all quite different. There is a connecting thread in all of them, but they feel like they are made by spinoff bands of eachother.
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The Chemist - Things Have Changed
Grefter, your country is slightly unbalanced.
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The Chemist - End Of July
This is pretty much another example of the archetypical power pop song that I fall in love with quickly.
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Grefter Augie March - Drowning Dream
(http://www.futurediarywiki.com/images/thumb/c/c5/Yuno-Portrait.png/300px-Yuno-Portrait.png)
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Why am I not doing what?
Shonen Knife - My Magic Glasses.
Edit - And if you want the most Grefter out of Augie March you want The Slant.
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The Byrds - I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better (Alternative Version)
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Allo Darlin' - Neil Armstrong
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Blondie - Atomic.
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Blackmore's Night - Gilded Cage
Weakest of the three albums of theirs I have listened to, but still pretty fun.
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King Crimson: Dangerous Curves
The Power to Believe would be goddamn impressive as an album even before taking into account that it came out 30+ years into a band's career.
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Descending - Big Boi ft. Little Dragon
if you don't know me, by now~~~~~
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Castlevania Harmony of Despair- Ryukotsuki (Chapter 11 boss music)
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Little Dragon - A New
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Allo Darlin' - Europe
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The Gossip - Bones
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of Montreal - Touched Something Hollow
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King Crimson: Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With
WE'RE GONNA NEED TO HAVE A CHORUS AND THIS WOULD SEEM TO BE AS GOOD AS ANY OTHER PLACE
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Speaking of which, Ciddy, would it be a good idea to work King Crimson chronologically?
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Uh, possibly. The albums I like most are scattered all over their catalogue. The first (self-titled) album is consistently great, but also much closer to the symphonic prog you probably expected than what I've previously linked you to (the singer for the first two albums was Greg Lake, who went on to found the poster child for prog-rock pomposity: ELP. They also have lyrics by Pete Sinfield, who just never makes any goddamn sense and would also emigrate to ELP). The second album (In the Wake of Poseidon) is almost note-for-note patterned after the first, but since it is copying an outstanding thing it's still pretty good. I cannot comment on the third/fourth albums because I have not listened to them. Apparently they borrowed the singer from Yes for one of them which, well. I mean, I like Yes, but.
The mid-seventies records are probably the most recommendable stuff. Starless and Bible Black has Fracture and would therefore be outstanding even if the rest of it was forty minutes of dead air (fortunately it also has Lament and Night Watch. I'm of mixed opinions on the other songs, but generally don't give a damn because the standout songs are so excellent). Red is amazingly good even before considering the band was in the process of collapsing. All of this is much closer to the direction Fripp followed for the rest of his career than the first albums are, too.
Eighties revival onwards has Adrian Belew, which is awesome, but I've only checked out a couple of these records: Discipline (good) and The Power to Believe (great).
In any case, I'm still rather amazed you're asking the question.
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Smashing Pumpkins: Blank Page
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If I'm ever going to listen to any prog rock, I may as well pick the seminal band that covered pretty much the vast majority of relevant possibilities in that niche, and I know KC pretty much went -everywhere- in prog rock.
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Fuck you go listen to Mogwai you shitbiscuit.
The Jezabels - Mace Spray.
Edit - So apparently I have had a shitty week at work.
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Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red
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Pain of Salvation - Sleeping Under the Stars
A very silly song, which is pretty damn unusual for this band.
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Cocteau Twins - The Itchy Glowbo Blow
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The Gossip - Keeping You Alive
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If I'm ever going to listen to any prog rock, I may as well pick the seminal band that covered pretty much the vast majority of relevant possibilities in that niche, and I know KC pretty much went -everywhere- in prog rock.
Yeah, I don't think there's anyone else in the genre I would even jokingly recommend (as much as I love Rush, that's just hahahaha no; a lot of post-Genesis Peter Gabriel actually strikes me as distinctly Snowstyle, but he is not really prog anymore at that point).
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King Crimson: Fallen Angel
Red is still awesome, in related news.
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Shabazz Palace - Swerve...The Reeping of All that is Worthwile (Noir Not Withstanding)
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If I'm ever going to listen to any prog rock, I may as well pick the seminal band that covered pretty much the vast majority of relevant possibilities in that niche, and I know KC pretty much went -everywhere- in prog rock.
Yeah, I don't think there's anyone else in the genre I would even jokingly recommend (as much as I love Rush, that's just hahahaha no).
I've heard Rush before. All the cows in the world could disappear overnight and they would still be able to nurture the planet's cheese stocks without anyone noticing a difference.
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Satriani. Dream Theater. Fuck just look at some Malmsteen if you really want.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Gold Tooth on a Bum.
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Not really seeing how Satriani's a recommendation for prog? But he's awesome so who cares.
Queen: Don't Stop Me Now
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Yngwie Malmsteen: Far Beyond the Sun
Grefter's fault.
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You don't see how amazing guitar wankery is related to Prog? 7 minute pieces that are built around guitar work are prog. Satriani is kind of like the epitome of that (and better than any prog group all built into one dude).
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If asked to do so, I would generally classify him as "hard rock" (just better at it than most people). Extended songs are also a distinct minority of his catalogue, want to say they only show up on a couple albums. But whatever, arguing about labels. As a great man once said, "If you label me, you negate me." Doesn't make him more or less awesome for being filed somewhere else (although I would probably stop short of agreeing with your parenthetical).
Joe Satriani: Musterion
Speaking of, I apparently forgot I had this album. Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock. Yes.
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I think it is like maybe his best? A terrible thing to forget (well the songs is different than forgetting the title but still a shame because it is a wicked album name).
Skrillex - Kyoto.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan - when Acting as a Wave.
See even stuff like this I consider touching on Prog. It is short and experimental as hell. If you can get into Dillinger then they are not a bad place to look for some of the more Avant Garde directions in the roots there. Super technical and uncompromising.
Edit - That example is short instrumental.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan - Black Bubblegum.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan - Parasitic Twins.
Obv a song about Snow and his twin (Bitchy Snow).
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The Animals - House of the Rising Sun.
For the Sopbros.
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Cocteau Twins - The Spangle Maker
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Pink Floyd: Dogs
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10,000 Maniacs - Eat For Two
I've been relistening to Blind Man's Zoo a fair deal for the last couple weeks. It was always my lowest-rated Maniacs album, but nowadays I find myself liking it a lot more. I guess a lot of the merit stems from -this single song-, which I'm beginning to believe as the goddamn best the band churned out (stuff like the Unplugged rendition of Stockton Gala Days notwithstanding, but Stockton Unplugged is more of a matter of sheer instrumental acumen), but still.
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Eat for Two as the best 10KM song? I mean, it's good and all, but I don't really see it. Prolly wouldn't even be in my top 5 of their songs, if I sat down and thought about it.
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Pink Floyd: One of These Days
This was basically my introduction to Rock That Is Not R.E.M., a very long time ago.
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Eat for Two as the best 10KM song? I mean, it's good and all, but I don't really see it. Prolly wouldn't even be in my top 5 of their songs, if I sat down and thought about it.
This isn't in a pure musical sense, mind, or even mostly musical. In terms of melody and instrumentation depth, most of Our Time In Eden's tracks beat it flat, for instance. But there's a whole context, timing and appropriateness surrounding it. It's a song that I can't picture being pulled off without sounding really stupid by pretty much anyone, but Natalie Merchant hits the exact balance between cynicism and feeling it needs to -work-. Not to mention the musical atmosphere is superb, creating a paranoid, tense message along with the one conveyed in the lyrics. It pretty much ends up a lot bigger than the sum of its parts.
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The Animals - Baby Let Me Take You Home
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Emeli Sandé, Where I Sleep.
I have to ask CT about her!
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Genesis - Land of Confusion
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Pulp - Joyriders
I totes need to get the rest of their discography.
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Pulp - Babies
His 'n Hers is pretty much the -funnest- album I heard from Pulp so far. Best one musically so far by a fairly wide margin, which is -good-, since my one issue with Pulp is that sometimes their pop sensibility needs work. Granted, it's worth sticking with them just for Jarvis Cocker's -amazing- theatrics and incredible showmanship.
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Genesis - Land of Confusion
WHAT'S GOING ON
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Emiliana Torrini: White Rabbit
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Genesis - Land of Confusion
WHAT'S GOING ON
What, it's pretty decent. Also, blame Grefter and that awful, awful cover he posted on G'morning. ALSO ALSO, the original video is far more unsettling than -anything- Disturbed could come up with and it doesn't even particularly try to be. I blame Chucky Collins.
Emiliana Torrini: White Rabbit
WHAT'S GOING ON
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Random YouTube linkage.
Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit
There, that make more sense?
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Notably.
Cocteau Twins - Plain Tiger
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Emilana Torrini always makes.
A Perfect Circle - Gravity
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Genesis - Where The Sour Turns Sweet
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Genesis - In The Wilderness
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Genesis - Looking For Someone
GUYS
PETER GABRIEL IS WEIRD
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Genesis - White Mountain
GUYS
PETER GABRIEL IS WEIRD AND THIS STUFF IS PRETTY FUCKING GOOD
Goddammit, Snow.
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Shitdisco - I Know Kung Fu.
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Genesis - The Knife
Suddenly, just suddenly, Kate Bush suddenly makes A GODDAMNED LOT MORE SENSE.
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Snow begins to understand the appeal of Bush, suddenly he loses his Brazillian citizenship.
The Knife - She's Having a Baby.
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The Knife - Minerals.
Okay wow. I had forgot this album was a thing that happened. Tomorrow, in a Year is fucking weird even for The Knife.
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MGMT - Time to Pretend.
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MGMT - It's Working
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Genesis - White Mountain
GUYS
PETER GABRIEL IS WEIRD AND THIS STUFF IS PRETTY FUCKING GOOD
Goddammit, Snow.
Mostly I'm just amazed. This is not a thing I would ever have predicted, Snow voluntarily listening to Genesis and digging it? Granted, the earliest Genesis I've actually listened to is Foxtrot (a couple albums past these tracks). I decided I'd had enough after that and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. It is possible they let their pop instincts have more free reign in the first years?
*Cid listens to The Knife*
Well, no, this doesn't sound all that different than what I'm familiar with. I dunno, man.
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I guess I just like Peter Gabriel being weird. It's pretty ridiculous, honestly. I can't really -discern- separate songs in their first few albums - not yet, at least - but I can't help but like how well-written many individual passages are. Plus, Peter Gabriel is really really fucking weird. (GUESS WHAT: SNOW LIKES WEIRD)
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I guess I just like Peter Gabriel being weird.
Well at least I was right about something. He is honestly one of my favorite musicians, but that's principally for his solo material. I am actually just now listening to Trespass for the first time. It's less ridiculous than I'm used to hearing from 70's Genesis and I'm actually more impressed by it so far than by the two albums I'd bought and got tired of listening to years and years ago.
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I.e. I totally should hunt his solo discography too. But then, I've known that for -years-, just uh lazy.
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Cid is stunned that Snow likes the guy behind Sledgehammer.
I am stunned at people's inability to read Snow. He is as transparent as a sheet of glass.
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I assumed Snow would like Peter Gabriel. I'm just surprised that he likes him in association with Genesis in its prog-rock heyday.
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Snow is not so discerning as to let more than one dude get in the way of loving someone.
Aversions Crown - We're Not Safe.
Mmmmmm dat local band.
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Cold War Kids - Red Wine, Success!
More like Red Win, Success!
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Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up to Dry.
Mission to make the music thread the most active thread in the DL success. Relevance to 2% of the DL also achieved. Needs more Ciatos and Dunies to complete the Music circle of jerks though.
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Jeff Dyck - Cheese Grater.
Skitchin' soundtrack? More like Bitchin' soundtrack. Bitchin' in the good way. Not like those noises Snow makes constantly.
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Jeff Dyck - Chug Wagon.
Gods I wish I could find a real instrumental version of this.
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Allo Darlin' - Tallulah
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Metric - Youth Without Youth
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Metric - Combat Baby.
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Genesis - Fireside Song
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Metric - On a Slow Night.
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Genesis - The Serpent
<PeterGabriel> Hay guyze my band's debut album is a concept work about STORYTELLING AND THE BIBLE u mad
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That's about what happens when you give a gang of English private school kids a record contract.
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Too bad the album kinda loses it after The Serpent. I like Trespassing significantly more.
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I can't wait until you get to the really ridiculous records.
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I started on Nursery Cryme, if this tells you anything. Holy -crap- what the fuck The Music Box.
EDIT: Also, I can't help but suspect you're enjoying this far more than you should.
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Have to get my laughs from somewhere.
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I'm entirely unsure of what the hell this means.
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Madonna - Dear Jessie
It's...so cute.
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Genesis - The Musical Box
That's it, guys, we lost. Prog is geekier than anything the Internet could come up with.
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Genesis - The Fountain of Salmacis
Nursery Cryme managed to grow SIGNIFICANTLY NERDIER. Seriously Peter Gabriel what the fucking Jesus.
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Allo Darlin' - Capricornia
The tug of the heartstring is the line that pulls you home~
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Genesis - The Fountain of Salmacis
Nursery Cryme managed to grow SIGNIFICANTLY NERDIER. Seriously Peter Gabriel what the fucking Jesus.
And you still haven't heard Supper's Ready.
I would actually conclude that Rush's Hemispheres is the nerdiest song I have ever heard, however (discounting the collected works of MC Frontalot because seriously). Twenty-minute debate between the merits of LOVE and REASON, as personified by Apollo and Dionysus. Ultimately the matter is decided by the appearance of an astronaut who fell through a black hole. I find being able to present something this absurd with absolute seriousness oddly endearing.
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It'd be more insulting if Nursery Crime wasn't an excellent work. Christ.
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The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun.
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King Crimson: Level Five
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Parkway Drive - Snake Oil and Holy Water.
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Blue Oyster Cult - Flaming Telepaths
As always, the paragons of balance.
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The Jezabels - Mace Spray
This is the lesbianest song I know about abusive relationships.
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Parkway Drive - Sparks
You bring the matches, I'll bring the gasoline.
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Allo Darlin' - Europe
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London Symphony Orchestra: House of the Rising Sun
Grefter's recent Animals kick reminded me this existed.
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Genesis - Dancing With The Moonlight Knight
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So you are on...Selling England By the Pound?
London Symphony Orchestra: The Final Countdown
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Was. I decided today's not really the day for prog.
10,000 Maniacs - Eden
Man, I think this is probably the apex of the Maniacs in pure musical plastic beauty.
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Obligatory query re: whether Supper's Ready exceeded your weirdness tolerance (it certainly does for me).
The Who: Christmas
Went out for dinner after work, this was playing on the restaurant intercom when I walked in. Not exactly the cheery banality I expect to hear in public circulation, wonder if whoever picked the lineup paid any attention to the lyrics. (No complaints though, I might actually not hate Christmas music if it was all The Who.)
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At least you don't have to listen to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQaX20KvHNg).
10,000 Maniacs - Poison In The Well
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That is really the worst Christmas Music you could come up with Snow? That isn't even a bad Jingle Bells level let alone Drummer Boy.
Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream.
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That is really the worst Christmas Music you could come up with Snow? That isn't even a bad Jingle Bells level let alone Drummer Boy.
Every Christmas song is the worst Chrismas song.
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They really aren't. There is distinct degrees of shittiness.
Empire of the Sun - We Are the People.
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Blondie - Dennis
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Cocteau Twins - When Mama Was Moth
Tangentially, I hate when Grefter is right (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a_Y1wAJ2MU).
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That isn't a song. That isn't anything. It is the sound of 2000 years of defecation recorded and played back at high speed.
The Animals - Boom Boom.
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I am right.
Allo Darlin' - My Heart Is A Drummer
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The Verve - Judas.
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The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
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The Knife - You Take My Breath Away.
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The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health.
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Atlas - Battles.
So I visited my parent's yesterday and they were playing Little Big Planet so this was in my head again.
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Parkway Drive - Snake Oil and Holy Water.
So yeah when I first said I wasn't sure I Dark Days was an environmental song or not I clearly hadn't absorbed the rest of the album. The album is called Atlas and it really is about the Earth in that Green way. It is right there on the cover and I hummed and hahed over it. Of course it was. This is a metal album, it isn't going to be subtle.
Still a fantastic album.
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Parkway Drive - Dream Run.
And man if it wasn't for a single line that mentions "Dear Girl" this would almost be Brofist as music.
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The Knife - Pass This On.
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The Cure - Six Different Ways
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Bertie Blackman - Favourite Jeans.
Fuck yes. 20% off CDs at JB. $50 gift card. All the Bertie Blackman purchased and another Black Keys album.
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Bertie Blackman - Take Me Away.
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Natalie Merchant - Nursery Rhyme Of Innocence And Experience
The 19th century was a weird place.
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10,000 Maniacs - Tolerance
It's all about the aesthetics, babe.
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Bertie Blackman - Mercy Killer.
This track is the one that will get Snow hooked.
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Cocteau Twins - Plain Tiger
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Bertie Blackman - Television.
I kind if want to feed this to CK. Ciatos need it though.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wajMXmjHLw8 ?