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by dave quam » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:50 am
id say forever changes is one of the best albums ever recorded really. its one of the ones i consider a perfect album. ive only heard da capo of their other albums and that was great especially the b side 18 minute track. ive heard many good things about four sail though as well.
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by Brutus » Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:52 am
it just has tina turner and things on it, procol harum and phil collins, but also ub40 and joss stone, i stopped listening to it. i just like that tina turner song "i don't want to lose you," i'd never heard it before.
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by clit » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:05 pm
<!--QuoteBegin-Alaric731+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Alaric731)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Jesu - Justin Broadrick's (Godflesh, Final, Techno Animal, Ice, etc. etc.)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hey cocksucker!
Take the first "etc." out and then put Curse of the Golden Vampire in there!!
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->new one man band (well he's got Ted Parsons from SWANS on drums, so I gues two) Layers and layers and layers of guitar, samples, loops, mainpulated feedback, delayed multi-tracked vocals, drum machines tricked out to sound like real drums and real drums tricked out to sound like drum machines, etc, etc. Really heavy and oppressive but in a good way, the dummy comparision would be mixing My Blood Valentine with Swans with a touch of Mogwai thrown in. But it's swell, almost trancey stuff.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
thanx for da 411, i be jackn dat
Hey cocksucker!
Take the first "etc." out and then put Curse of the Golden Vampire in there!!
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->new one man band (well he's got Ted Parsons from SWANS on drums, so I gues two) Layers and layers and layers of guitar, samples, loops, mainpulated feedback, delayed multi-tracked vocals, drum machines tricked out to sound like real drums and real drums tricked out to sound like drum machines, etc, etc. Really heavy and oppressive but in a good way, the dummy comparision would be mixing My Blood Valentine with Swans with a touch of Mogwai thrown in. But it's swell, almost trancey stuff.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
thanx for da 411, i be jackn dat
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by Famous Mortimer » Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:26 pm
Pitchfork reviewed the remix of "Hate It or Love It" by 50 Cent and G-Unit, and I gotta say, they were so right to rave about it. It's probably the best rap single so far this year.
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by clit » Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:34 pm
[size=24]<!--coloro:purple--><span style="color:purple"><!--/coloro-->The Dresden Dolls<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
<!--coloro:deeppink--><span style="color:deeppink"><!--/coloro-->free live tracks, rare shit and covers<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
AFTER YOU HIT THE PIC, GO TO THE "Random mp3's" PART AND DOWNLOAD THE LAST SONG: "War Pigs (6-17-04)"[a Black Sabbath cover],THEN LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK,AFTER ALL OF THAT GO CRAZY AND LOAD WHATEVER YOU LIKE.. enjoy!
<a href="http://www.thebrigade.net/mp3.htm" target="_blank">
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I've been a Dolls fan for two years now.. so they can't fuck-up in my eyes.
Right now I'm blasting:
Mars Needs Women
KATE SULLIVAN and JAAN UHELSZKI
In their pursuit of Total Rock Heaviosity (and outstanding trousers), the Mars Volta embody something beautiful and heroic, even in failure. However, listening to Frances the Mute in its entirety is rough going, especially without meds. I wondered: Was there some emotional algebra to this music that, once understood, would unlock a new landscape of meaning? For insight I called esteemed rock babe and Mars Volta devotee Jaan Uhelszki. After 30 minutes of stream-of-consciousness smack, I had my answer: Freddie Mercury rules!
K: So, the Mars Volta. New record. Talk to me.
J: It’s the new Tommy.
Ah . . . Frances the Mute!
Yeah, Tommy’s mute — deaf, dumb and blind. It’s a guy who’s trying to figure out who he is — a search for self.
Except that guy at least played pinball.
Exactly.
I keep thinking Flannery O’Connor, and I have no idea why.
And I keep thinking Carson McCullers. It’s the same thing, this Southern gothic search for what is essentially human, what is a person, what is identity.
Right — the boy who found the diary. [Mars Volta band member Jeremy Ward apparently found a diary in the back seat of a car, and became enthralled with its story of an adopted man in search of his biological parents. Ward died in May 2003 of an alleged overdose; the album is inspired by both Ward and the diary.]
The songs are named after people in the diary. They’re really long, almost symphonic, atmospheric explorations into the subconscious of their fallen compatriot.
But even without knowing that, it’s clear that this is a search for self, and going into this heart of darkness to come out the other side. But what bothers me is, I feel like there’s no way out of it. It’s part Rush and part Freddie Mercury, but it doesn’t have that buoyancy that Freddie Mercury has.
Yeah, maybe this music is just a little bit too heterosexual!
It’s very heterosexual! And that usually doesn’t bother me, because I’m all about the MC5 and Led Zeppelin . . . But there’s no love in this, either. There’s no softness.
Well, it’s an album about the loss of the mother.
Very Metal Machine Music, but not as industrial. It’s almost like there had to be a Metal Machine Music, a Lou Reed, for them to pull something like this off.
Right, it feels to me almost like music about music. I think that’s why their biggest fan is John Frusciante. It’s music for musicians.
Oh, I know, you’re dying to deconstruct it. It’s so anal. Talk about doing gink work! Little guitars and layers and bells and things that sound like cell phones on top. There’s an OCD quality, repetitive guitar solos that don’t go anywhere, kind of masturbatory shredding for the sake of shredding.
That kind of music, you really have to be on drugs to really enjoy.
I know! It doesn’t work in a normal situation. I was driving and listening to it, and I was driving faster — I felt like I was trying to drive away from it.
Great art can do a couple things — and I do think this is great art, even if I don’t like it. There’s an anxiety inherent in the culture, and great art reflects the culture. If things were different, they might have made a different record. Maybe I’m reading too much into it.
But maybe the record isn’t a true vision of our culture, and the Bush era, but actually a part of it. They’re both from Texas, and in a sense they both have this gothic, biblical sense of grandiosity and impending doom. And maybe that’s why this music doesn’t feel like it offers a way out.
I think that’s true . . . This guy from Texas told me, the thing about Texas is, they just don’t give a fuck. They don’t care what you think.
The Mars Volta don’t care if anybody buys this record. Why else would you make 13-minute-long songs? Who’s going to play that on the radio? They don’t care.
Nobody really does that anymore.
Nobody’s done that since maybe the Moody Blues.
And they say this isn’t a concept album!
I bet you any money Flea is on “Miranda That Ghost.â€
You bet me Eddie Money?
I bet you Eddie Money.
Yeah, he does play trumpet on there.
<!--coloro:deeppink--><span style="color:deeppink"><!--/coloro-->free live tracks, rare shit and covers<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
AFTER YOU HIT THE PIC, GO TO THE "Random mp3's" PART AND DOWNLOAD THE LAST SONG: "War Pigs (6-17-04)"[a Black Sabbath cover],THEN LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK,AFTER ALL OF THAT GO CRAZY AND LOAD WHATEVER YOU LIKE.. enjoy!
<a href="http://www.thebrigade.net/mp3.htm" target="_blank">
</a>
I've been a Dolls fan for two years now.. so they can't fuck-up in my eyes.
Right now I'm blasting:
Mars Needs Women
KATE SULLIVAN and JAAN UHELSZKI
In their pursuit of Total Rock Heaviosity (and outstanding trousers), the Mars Volta embody something beautiful and heroic, even in failure. However, listening to Frances the Mute in its entirety is rough going, especially without meds. I wondered: Was there some emotional algebra to this music that, once understood, would unlock a new landscape of meaning? For insight I called esteemed rock babe and Mars Volta devotee Jaan Uhelszki. After 30 minutes of stream-of-consciousness smack, I had my answer: Freddie Mercury rules!
K: So, the Mars Volta. New record. Talk to me.
J: It’s the new Tommy.
Ah . . . Frances the Mute!
Yeah, Tommy’s mute — deaf, dumb and blind. It’s a guy who’s trying to figure out who he is — a search for self.
Except that guy at least played pinball.
Exactly.
I keep thinking Flannery O’Connor, and I have no idea why.
And I keep thinking Carson McCullers. It’s the same thing, this Southern gothic search for what is essentially human, what is a person, what is identity.
Right — the boy who found the diary. [Mars Volta band member Jeremy Ward apparently found a diary in the back seat of a car, and became enthralled with its story of an adopted man in search of his biological parents. Ward died in May 2003 of an alleged overdose; the album is inspired by both Ward and the diary.]
The songs are named after people in the diary. They’re really long, almost symphonic, atmospheric explorations into the subconscious of their fallen compatriot.
But even without knowing that, it’s clear that this is a search for self, and going into this heart of darkness to come out the other side. But what bothers me is, I feel like there’s no way out of it. It’s part Rush and part Freddie Mercury, but it doesn’t have that buoyancy that Freddie Mercury has.
Yeah, maybe this music is just a little bit too heterosexual!
It’s very heterosexual! And that usually doesn’t bother me, because I’m all about the MC5 and Led Zeppelin . . . But there’s no love in this, either. There’s no softness.
Well, it’s an album about the loss of the mother.
Very Metal Machine Music, but not as industrial. It’s almost like there had to be a Metal Machine Music, a Lou Reed, for them to pull something like this off.
Right, it feels to me almost like music about music. I think that’s why their biggest fan is John Frusciante. It’s music for musicians.
Oh, I know, you’re dying to deconstruct it. It’s so anal. Talk about doing gink work! Little guitars and layers and bells and things that sound like cell phones on top. There’s an OCD quality, repetitive guitar solos that don’t go anywhere, kind of masturbatory shredding for the sake of shredding.
That kind of music, you really have to be on drugs to really enjoy.
I know! It doesn’t work in a normal situation. I was driving and listening to it, and I was driving faster — I felt like I was trying to drive away from it.
Great art can do a couple things — and I do think this is great art, even if I don’t like it. There’s an anxiety inherent in the culture, and great art reflects the culture. If things were different, they might have made a different record. Maybe I’m reading too much into it.
But maybe the record isn’t a true vision of our culture, and the Bush era, but actually a part of it. They’re both from Texas, and in a sense they both have this gothic, biblical sense of grandiosity and impending doom. And maybe that’s why this music doesn’t feel like it offers a way out.
I think that’s true . . . This guy from Texas told me, the thing about Texas is, they just don’t give a fuck. They don’t care what you think.
The Mars Volta don’t care if anybody buys this record. Why else would you make 13-minute-long songs? Who’s going to play that on the radio? They don’t care.
Nobody really does that anymore.
Nobody’s done that since maybe the Moody Blues.
And they say this isn’t a concept album!
I bet you any money Flea is on “Miranda That Ghost.â€
You bet me Eddie Money?
I bet you Eddie Money.
Yeah, he does play trumpet on there.
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by Bastard Wisher » Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:21 pm
The Mars Volta are fucking terrible. At the Drive-In were great, but everything those guys have done since then just blows.
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by Alaric731 » Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:49 am
clit wrote:[quote=Alaric731]Jesu - Justin Broadrick's (Godflesh, Final, Techno Animal, Ice, etc. etc.)
Hey cocksucker!
Take the first "etc." out and then put Curse of the Golden Vampire in there!!
dammit, let a dude live! I just didnt feel like typing anymore band names, he's too fucking prolific
I've got both of the COTGV records. The first one was probably the noisiest shit I had ever heard to that point (and my old roommate used to play WHITEHOUSE. EVERY, SINGLE, FUCKING NIGHT) and the second was.. well, equally noisy. good house-emptying music. anyhow, get that JESU record, as it smokes everything "heavy" that's out right now. cept maybe EARTH or SUNN O)))))).
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by Alaric731 » Sat May 07, 2005 8:39 pm
It's all about Foetus right now baby. The new album, "LOVE" just dropped. fantastic, brothers and sisters, just fantastic.. thisman needs to be scoring movies right now.
here's the vid by Karen O and Spike Jones (sigh...)
<a href="http://www.foetus.org/kovid/" target="_blank">http://www.foetus.org/kovid/</a>
here's a review with a sample:
<a href="http://www.splendidmagazine.com/review.html?reviewid=1112151319995359" target="_blank">http://www.splendidmagazine.com/review.htm...112151319995359</a>
plus he's got a nice interview inthismonths WIRE
here's the man with the Steroid Maximus symphony orchestra in danube
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here's the vid by Karen O and Spike Jones (sigh...)
<a href="http://www.foetus.org/kovid/" target="_blank">http://www.foetus.org/kovid/</a>
here's a review with a sample:
<a href="http://www.splendidmagazine.com/review.html?reviewid=1112151319995359" target="_blank">http://www.splendidmagazine.com/review.htm...112151319995359</a>
plus he's got a nice interview inthismonths WIRE
here's the man with the Steroid Maximus symphony orchestra in danube
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by nameman » Sun May 08, 2005 3:36 pm
Over the past month, I've been digging:
Ariel Pink – Worn Copy (Paw Tracks, 2005)
Bjork - Essential Bjork (self-made mix disc)
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Multiples (Kranky, 2005)
Neko Case – Essential Neko Case (self-made mix disc)
Akron/Family – Akron/Family (Young God, 2005)
Alva Noto - Transall (collection of 3 EPs) (Raster Noton, 2005)
Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan - Prospect Hummer EP (Fat Cat, 2005)
Birchville Cat Motel – Vespertine (Last Visible Dog, 2001)
Ernesto Rodrigues - Prisma EP (Stasisfield, 2005)
Giuseppe Ielasi – Gesine (Häpna, 2005)
Goldmund – Corduroy Road (Type, 2005)
KLF – Chill Out (TVT, 1990)
Marion Brown – Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (ECM, 1970)
M.I.A. – Arular (XL, 2005)
Ariel Pink – Worn Copy (Paw Tracks, 2005)
Bjork - Essential Bjork (self-made mix disc)
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Multiples (Kranky, 2005)
Neko Case – Essential Neko Case (self-made mix disc)
Akron/Family – Akron/Family (Young God, 2005)
Alva Noto - Transall (collection of 3 EPs) (Raster Noton, 2005)
Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan - Prospect Hummer EP (Fat Cat, 2005)
Birchville Cat Motel – Vespertine (Last Visible Dog, 2001)
Ernesto Rodrigues - Prisma EP (Stasisfield, 2005)
Giuseppe Ielasi – Gesine (Häpna, 2005)
Goldmund – Corduroy Road (Type, 2005)
KLF – Chill Out (TVT, 1990)
Marion Brown – Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (ECM, 1970)
M.I.A. – Arular (XL, 2005)
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