What I've Been Digging Lately

[Little Man being Erased]

I can't get enough of Pinkerton lately. I friggin love it.

Right now, though, I'm listening to Massive Attack - Mezzanine.

[Zappa]

Lots and lots of Mogwai
Johnny Cash
Bark Psychosis

[The NPC]

Lots and lots of Mogwai
Johnny Cash
Bark Psychosis

Mogwai, oh what a silly guy.

[pixiesfanyo]

EiTS - The Rescue
Hella - Acoustic Tour EP
Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky (Not that pussy *** remaster.)

[Okonkwo]

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys
Entertainment! - Gang of Four
Closer - Joy Division
Bad Brains - BAD MUTHAF***IN BRAINS

[Daniel!]

Husker Du - New Day Rising
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Beck - Mellow Gold

[Sound Boy]

I can't get enough of Pinkerton lately. I friggin love it.

Right now, though, I'm listening to Massive Attack - Mezzanine.


both of those albums kick serious tush

[Luxor]

Re-kindling my love for Modest Mouse.

[morrissey]

Portishead.

[Robert Crumb]

Random music listenings:

Television Personalities - The Painted Word
Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind
Sun Ra - Super-Sonic Jazz
Beanie Sigel - The B. Coming
Yo La Tengo - Painful

[br3ad_man]

Stars
Sigur Ros
Mourning Tide

[OrbDragon]

dEUS - Pocket Revolution

It's growing on me.

[Bukowski]

Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Husker Du - Everything Falls Apart

[Tomahawk]

I'm a bit obsessed with Astral Weeks right now.

I've also been listening to some Neil Young, the Pop Group, Neu, and Peter Gabriel. But mainly Van Morrison.

[Bukowski]

the Pop Group

Excellent band.

I've stopped listening to Husker Du, and am now listening to Stereolab for the first time. My first impression is quite good.

[The NPC]

Husker Du - New Day Rising
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Beck - Mellow Gold

That's my favorite album out of their catalogue.

[Interstate]

The Clash - London Calling
Shawshank Redemption OST

[Spectrum]

I've just got back into Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans again, possibly the single most conceptual and cerebral album of all time. However, when the whole band entered for the first time, I literally had goosebumps and the hair on my arms was standing right straight up.

[el doctor]

I've just got back into Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans again, possibly the single most conceptual and cerebral album of all time. However, when the whole band entered for the first time, I literally had goosebumps and the hair on my arms was standing right straight up.
The beginning of the Revealing Science of God is awesome. It takes quite a bit of effort to take in all of the album in one sitting though.

[Spectrum]

That's very true... there are moments of pure genius and musical euphoria, but the album as a whole is a little overwhelming.

[Interstate]

Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence
Poison The Well - You Come Before You
Converge. (I really need to get one of their albums soon but I don't know which one to get. Should I get Jane Doe or You Fail Me?

Yeah my ears have taken a good battering tonight. :cool:

[The Great Decay]

Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence
Poison The Well - You Come Before You
Converge. (I really need to get one of their albums soon but I don't know which one to get. Should I get Jane Doe or You Fail Me?
Yeah my ears have taken a good battering tonight. :cool:

Jane Doe would be a pretty good introduction. But after that I recommend you work backwards. You Fail Me is a good album, but their older works, in my opinion, are better.

[Happymeal]

Bardo Pond(neo-psych/stoner band with post-rock length songs)
the usual Strung Out
The Living End

[The Great Decay]

Fair enough. By older works I meant specifically When Forever Comes Crashing and Petitioning The Empty Sky. You Fail Me is definitely a good album, but comparitively speaking its not the best, especially not for an introduction to Converge.

[Bartender]

Bardo Pond(neo-psych/stoner band with post-rock length songs)

They sound good.


Lots of Manowar
Alex Drosen - Sit and Melt
DJ Spooky vs Dave Lombardo - Drums of Death
Lots and lots of Talking Heads

[Daniel!]

This morning:
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground and Nico

This afternoon:
Black Flag - Damaged

[Luxor]

I respectfully disagree. Jane Doe and You Fail Me are absolutely brilliant, When Forever Comes Crashing is great, Petitioning is alright and Caring and Killing is pretty weak.
Eugh...

You Fail Me is garbage. Just complete garbage.. it's not even worth the time taken to actually listen to it. I feel like I've lost something after listening to that album.

Get Jane Doe, or Petitioning The Empty Sky.

[pixiesfanyo]

Eugh...

You Fail Me is garbage. Just complete garbage.. it's not even worth the time taken to actually listen to it. I feel like I've lost something after listening to that album.

Get Jane Doe, or Petitioning The Empty Sky.

I vote Pet tit ing.

[Happymeal]

I love You Fail Me. The performances are great, the songs are great, it's all great. Different strokes for different folks.

Yeah same. Some older fans can appreciate it, some won't.

[Luxor]

I vote Pet tit ing.
I'll take ape tit for 500

[BillCosby]

I'll take ape tit for 500


or how about jap anus relations for 200

[robot]

Sonic Youth
Patti Smith
Husker Du

[Zappa]

I just saw the movie You and Me and Everyone You Know.

I am getting the score on CD, for sure. It was written by Michael Andrews, whose first project was the score for Donnie Darko. I have now decided he is the man.

[robot]

)) <> ((

[Zappa]

)) <> ((

Yes!

There's no smiley to respond to that. But I'm glad you too have seen the film.

[AK47]

Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice

[JPage54]

Torrented 2 Nick Drake records recently. Bryter Layter and Five Leaves left.

[br3ad_man]

I love You Fail Me. The performances are great, the songs are great, it's all great. Different strokes for different folks.

I agree. You Fail Me is genius, I like it as much as Jane Doe and it took way less effort to get into.

[Zmev]

or how about jap anus relations for 200

I'm leaning towards anal bum cover. 300 plz.

[rbv]

^refl classic

I recently discovered The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's... and BB King|Eric Clapton - Riding with the King

Both excellent albums.

[The Musician]

Circa Survive's Juturna and Dredg's Catch Without Arms.

I'm a happy camper. :D

[Iai]

I'm a bit obsessed with Astral Weeks right now.

I've also been listening to some Neil Young, the Pop Group, Neu, and Peter Gabriel. But mainly Van Morrison.
Got Moondance yet? It's better, I think.

[Jack_500]

has to be maximo park - the album is awesome.
best tracks are aplly some presuure and graffiti. anyone else heard of them?

[Tangy zizzle]

I bought the Paper Chase's album the other day. It's real strange. They have stale, "weird" lyrics and very very odd composition. i don't know if I like it yet.

[Dave de Sylvia]

^refl classic

I recently discovered The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's... and BB King|Eric Clapton - Riding with the King

Both excellent albums.
Meh, I sold Ridin' With The Kind. Bar a couple of tracks it bored me.

I did an awesome review of Sgt. Pepper though :cool:

Today:
Nirvana's Greatest Hits
Misfits
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory OST

[Tomahawk]

Got Moondance yet? It's better, I think.
Yeah I've got Moondance. It's really good, but I kinda connect more with Astral Weeks.

[asymm]

I just saw the movie You and Me and Everyone You Know.

I am getting the score on CD, for sure. It was written by Michael Andrews, whose first project was the score for Donnie Darko. I have now decided he is the man.
The score for this movie really delightful. Very fitting and has a vital impact on the general mood of the entire film. It was a very enjoyable film. When I saw it in the theatre the audience consisted of me and two elderly couples. It was quite odd.

[Luxor]

The score for this movie really delightful. Very fitting and has a vital impact on the general mood of the entire film. It was a very enjoyable film. When I saw it in the theatre the audience consisted of me and two elderly couples. It was quite odd.
When I went to see the Motorcycle Diaries it was like that as well. There was my girlfriend and I, and another couple in the theatre, I've never been in a movie theatre like that before. Deserted. It was a good movie too.

[Tomahawk]

It was the same way when I saw the Power Rangers movie.

[Interstate]

Thanks for all the recommendations about which Converge albums to get guys. :)

Today:

Glassjaw - EYEWTKAS (again)
Poison The Well - You Come Before You (again)
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2

[Jawaharal]

Yeah I've got Moondance. It's really good, but I kinda connect more with Astral Weeks.
Finally another person who thinks Astral Weeks is better than Moondance.

[Electrocution]

Joshua Fit for Battle.

[Little Man being Erased]

Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Alex Drosen - Sit and Melt
Elliott Smith - "Basement II" Demos
Billy Bragg - Back to Basics
Nada Surf - Let Go


It was the same way when I saw the Power Rangers movie.
:lol:

[Zmev]

I just saw the movie You and Me and Everyone You Know.

I am getting the score on CD, for sure. It was written by Michael Andrews, whose first project was the score for Donnie Darko. I have now decided he is the man.

Cool movie.

[br3ad_man]

It was the same way when I saw the Power Rangers movie.

:lol:

Oddly enough, it was that way when I saw Zoolander. No one liked that movie at first, I swear. It's only funny after you watch it anyway.

[Zappa]

Alex Drosen - Sit and Melt


Have you gotten a chance to listen to it on better speakers? If so, what do you think?

[Daniel!]

Pretty much all I have been listening to over the past few days is Gorilla Biscuits, Black Flag, and some Refused. I only have one album by each. I need to listen to more bands like them. Any reccomendations?

[Electrocution]

Youth of Today
Minor Threat

EDIT: to Daniel

[homerthegreat]

Pink Floyd.

[JonM]

That's one of the best done Halloween avatars yet. Well done, sir.

If you like Pink Floyd, you should be listening to Elbow right now. That's what I've been digging lately. And for the last two years.

[Anxious]

Bush Tetras-Boom in the Night

And the song, Minutemen-Little Man with a Gun in His Hand. I learned it on guitar & bass, and Imust have listened to it 20 in the past few days.

[br3ad_man]

That's one of the best done Halloween avatars yet. Well done, sir.

If you like Pink Floyd, you should be listening to Elbow right now. That's what I've been digging lately. And for the last two years.


I think I'll go grab A Cast Of Thousands from upstairs.

[JonM]

I think I'll go grab A Cast Of Thousands from upstairs.
A good damn call. I just listened to Asleep In The Back, though. I was reading Mojo last night, and they called AItB one of the best British rock albums of the last 20 years, and they said that CoT was a weak release, scrambling to catch up! I couldn't understand it! I always liked CoT better, and not that I think AItB is bad (it's one of the few records in my library with a 5/5 rating, as are the other two Elbow records), but best British rock albums of the last 20 years? I don't know. I'd certainly say that about CoT though.

Meanwhile, they gave the new one a bloody 3. Ridiculous.

[br3ad_man]

I've only heard the first two. How does the new one compare?

[JonM]

Awesome. It hasn't had as much time to grow on me as CoT, but it probably will. Imagine the emotional high points of CoT, the furious, crashing, exploding crescendos. One of my favorite things about that record is how those were the peaks and the pace and emotion of the record started right in the middle and slowly built up and then slid back down and went all the way to the opposite end and then slowly came back up. On the new one, we start off closer to the top, and it never goes down as far. So you get a lot of the power of the second record, just as fully, but not as much of the variation, which may have given some of the peaks of CoT their power.

I'll clarify if that was too hippie for you.

[br3ad_man]

Nah I get it. I'll check that one out soon for sure.

[Daniel!]

Youth of Today
Minor Threat

EDIT: to Daniel

I'll check out Youth of Today. I already greatly enjoy Minor Threat. Thanks.

[JonM]

Rogue Wave - Out Of the Shadow

this is a pretty fun album.
Oooh I like that record, too! "Fun" is the word I'd use to describe it, too.

[asymm]

Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Archer Prewitt - Three
Plus other random tidbits scattered here and there.

[Daniel!]

Is the new one any good?

They have a new one? What's the title?

[JonM]

I haven't heard it. I'm not too into them. "Fun" isn't a big word in my musical vocabulary. But I do like Out Of The Shadow.

[asymm]

They have a new one? What's the title?
Descended Like Vultures (http://www.subpop.com/bands/rogue_wave/descended/index.html)

[Daniel!]

Descended Like Vultures (http://www.subpop.com/bands/rogue_wave/descended/index.html)

I might get that.

[JonM]

Well fun, but catchy too.
Yeah, that's the other word I'm unreasonably averse to.

[Anxious]

Unknown Instructors-The Way Things Work

Joe Baiza of Saccharine Trust, Mike Watt and some other random people make good music together.

[JonM]

They're abrasive, atonal and painfully depressing.
Now THAT is what I have been DIGGING lately!

[The Great Decay]

Now THAT is what I have been DIGGING lately!

Emo kid.

[asymm]

Shining - In The Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster

while I pwn n00bs in ut2k4 :upset:

[incubliss]

Actually been listening to some String Quartet Tributes (especially Muse and Mars Volta) really adds a new scope on the records, and breathes new life.

Really need to get their cover of OK Computer. Wonder how they would do Kid A?

[Anxious]

I like the Sonic Youth String Quartet Tribute alot.

[incubliss]

Wow, of what album?

Edit: Is that just of one album, or of select songs. As the Mars Volta tribute is of just De-loused.

[JonM]

Emo kid.
Hey, you watch your ****ing mouth, kid!














Nah just kidding. I hate emo though. I find anything that can even be remotely classified as "emo-ish" totally unlistenable.

[Anxious]

I think its an album, i found it on myspace once, but it sees to have dissapeard.

[incubliss]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006FFS2E/qid=1130463112/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl/026-0855711-2886041

Holy f*ckin' sh*t sticks. IDIOTEQUE...I dare to think what it would sound like, but i'm getting that right now.

[Zesty Mordant]

It's recently occurred to me that Iron & Wine is pretty ****ing sweet.

Plus, the new albums my Thrice and Propagandhi are just plain superb, even the alt/indie likes would enjoy them.

[incubliss]

Thrice new album is my top pick of the year. F*cking class album.

Propagandhi tho, I really didn't find anything in it to make me groove. It just didn't light any fuses for me, I found it too boring. Lyrics were good tho, of what I read. That's the only positive thing I can say about it, oh and I guess i've heard worse.

[The Great Decay]

Iron & Wine are, in fact, amazing. I've only heard the single from the new Propagandhi, but I liked it and I definitely need to check out that album. Couldn't care less about Thrice, though.

[JonM]

It's recently occurred to me that Iron & Wine is pretty ****ing sweet.

:wave:

[incubliss]

Iron & Wine are, in fact, amazing. I've only heard the single from the new Propagandhi, but I liked it and I definitely need to check out that album. Couldn't care less about Thrice, though.

Vheissu is really not conventional Thrice man, check it out. You will probably be pleasently surprised.

3 of my friends utterly despised Thrice prior to the release of Vheissu and now absolutely love them. It's acted as a segway to most of their other stuff. Vheissu is so great.

[The Great Decay]

I suppose I should give it a shot, but their old stuff didn't appeal to me at all.

[Little Man being Erased]

Have you gotten a chance to listen to it on better speakers? If so, what do you think?
Yeah, I did.

I like it. It's quite different to a lot of the stuff I usually listen to. Bearing in mind that I've still only listened to it twice, I found some little bits and pieces slightly annoying at first. But even by the second listen I have become accustomed to the sometimes strange sounds. It makes an interesting listen. The length is perfect too.

I can definitely see myself listening to it again.

[Zappa]

Yeah, I did.

I like it. It's quite different to a lot of the stuff I usually listen to. Bearing in mind that I've still only listened to it twice, I found some little bits and pieces slightly annoying at first. But even by the second listen I have become accustomed to the sometimes strange sounds. It makes an interesting listen. The length is perfect too.

I can definitely see myself listening to it again.

I'm glad you've had some positive experiences with it.

[Happymeal]

Halo Benders(Doug Martsch + Calvin Johnson)
Stars(songs from Heart)
Get Up Kids live

[Tangy zizzle]

So... has everyone (who likes them) heard new Lightning Bolt yet? Yes? isn't it just so juicy? good stuff team, good stuff.

I watched Under Blackpool Lights again the other day, and boy, aren't those two Whites great. I just can't wait to see Cannon played live man, I just can't wait.

I've developed a large boner for Prefuse 73, I reckon that dude could make the perfect soundtrack to a skating video. Him, TVoTR and Mastodon. righteous!

[br3ad_man]

Yeah the new Lightning Bolt is badass. I'm listening to The Books right now.

[Tangy zizzle]

The Books make me laugh. It's a good laugh, but it's still a laugh.

[badassbassist]

Man, I have been listen to this guy named Joe Purdy go look him up along with another underground band called Spenceracuff

for Joe Purdy look on Myspace.

And Spenceracuff google it

[pixiesfanyo]

The Mars Volta - Scabdates

[Electrocution]

Joshua Fit for Battle
Orchid
Saetia
Indian Summer

What a good genre.

[The Great Decay]

I've heard a lot about Joshua Fit for Battle, Orchid and Indian Summer but I have yet to check them out.

[Zesty Mordant]

I'm starting to like David Kilgour. Cool laid-back New Zeanland indie is ace.

[Sound Boy]

Broken Social Scene - s/t
Minus the Bear - Menos El Oso
Elbow - A Cast of Thousands
Walk the Line - Soundtrack

[BillCosby]

Elliott Smith - XO

[Interstate]

James Brown - The Godfather Of Soul (Greatest Hits Compilation)
Various Artists - Funk Soul Brothers (Compilation)

[br3ad_man]

Joshua Fit for Battle
Orchid
Saetia
Indian Summer

What a good genre.

Tell me about Orchid, I've been meaning to hear them for ages. I'm listening to CTTS this morning, I'm in a good mood for it.

[The Great Decay]

Embrace - Embrace

gooood shiiiiiiizzle.

[The NPC]

Rites of Spring
One Last Wish

[Happymeal]

Tell me about Orchid, I've been meaning to hear them for ages. I'm listening to CTTS this morning, I'm in a good mood for it.

I find their singer more intense than most, and their cd's cover art's are quite groovy too. Cool band.

[br3ad_man]

Musically, they're way better than Hot Cross as well, who seem to be the second most celebrated screamo band around mx.

[Happymeal]

I actually referred to Orchid on my post, but I guess it also applies to CTTS. There's only so much Hot Cross I can listen to before I put down my earphones; I don't really enjoy them as much as everyone else does.

[br3ad_man]

Oh ok, that sounds good then.

[OrbDragon]

The Delgados
Thomas Dybdahl
Jesus Lizard
Beck
Jill Scott
Yo La Tengo

I will keep pimping The Delgados and Thomas Dybdahl on these forums. Just to annoy you all some more :evil:

[Electrocution]

That's good stuff.

Did you ever hear the Death to False Screamo compilation? All those bands (except Indian Summer) plus a lot more.
Do you have it? I want.

I like Heroin, too. The drug, not the band.

[The NPC]

Peter Gabriel

[3rdplanet]

Been listening to Talk Talk and K'naan.

[asymm]

It arrived today.

Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities

[Interstate]

Been listening to Talk Talk
I had the chance today to pick up one of their albums (don't know which one it was) for real cheap today but I didn't because I've never heard any of their stuff. How would you describe their sound?

[el doctor]

Avant-garde/jazz masterpiece? I don't think that's a very accurate description.

As for me:
Masada - Live In Middelheim
Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head

[guitarded_chuck]

Dusted off and am listening to Dinosaur Jr - Bug.

[Interstate]

Their first few albums were very new-wave pop influenced, but their last two are pretty much avant-garde/jazz masterpieces.

Sounds pretty awesome to me, I'll have to pick one up sometime.

Diggin' The Good, The Bad And The Ugly soundtrack right now.

[The Great Decay]

What does Melt-Banana sound like?

[Happymeal]

What does Melt-Banana sound like?

Fast and furious noise-punk with Deerhoof-ish girl vocals. That's what I thought of Cell Scape anyways.

[The Great Decay]

The fast and furious noise-punk helps, and intrigues me as well, but I've never listened to Deerhoof before either.

[Happymeal]

Deerhoof's vocals are very high pitched, and it helps if you like how Japanese girls sing in English.

[morrissey]

I really, really disliked Deerhoof the one time I listened to them. I really, really don't want to try listening to them again either.The vocals are just intolerable.

Air

[Happymeal]

It's an "Asian thing" I guess.

[YDload]

The Chameleons are a neat band.

[Electrocution]

I just put on some Johnny Cash. I'm enjoying it.

[Daniel!]

I just put on some Johnny Cash. I'm enjoying it.

I'm gonna copy you.

[robot]

Sonic Youth - Washing Machine

[br3ad_man]

The new Pelican album is pretty sweet.

[pixiesfanyo]

Rise and Fall of Ziggy.

goood ****

[Happymeal]

Murder City Devils - In Name and Blood
Fantomas - Director's Cut
Broken Social Scene - s/t
Wire - Chairs Missing

Bucketloads of awesome.

[br3ad_man]

Dredg - Catch Without Arms
City of Caterpillar - s/t

Both amazing. I listened to CoC 5 times on repeat tonight.

[Electrocution]

A bit of folk. Does anyone have any John Jacob Niles they want to send me?

[Bukowski]

Sonic Youth - Washing Machine

This is one of their best albums, I think. The Diamond Sea is such a great song.

I've been diggin':

Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Swell Maps - Trip to Marineville
Ramones - Rocket to Russia

[Anxious]

I love listening to the Diamond Sea while going to sleep. That whole album is worth buying for that one song.

[Daniel!]

Mission of Burma - Vs.
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Black Flag - Who's Got the 10 1/2?
Dead Kennedys - FFFRV

[Anxious]

Mission of Burma - Vs.
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Black Flag - Who's Got the 10 1/2?
Dead Kennedys - FFFRV
10/10

[Daniel!]

10/10

I win!

[Anxious]

You win.


Whose got the 10 1/2 is better than all of their studio albums I find.

[Daniel!]

You win.


Whose got the 10 1/2 is better than all of their studio albums I find.

I downloaded that and In My Head and I think Who's Got The 10 1/2 is much better. Damaged is still my favorite, though.

[Bukowski]

I love listening to the Diamond Sea while going to sleep. That whole album is worth buying for that one song.

It is a great song for relaxing. I love the dreamy guitar work.

Vs is one of those albums I never tire listening to. I hadn't listened to it for quite a while, but I've played it about 5 times this week. Mission of Burma are phenomenal.

[Anxious]

In My Head is hilarious cause Ginn mixed Rollin's voice way down in the mix, cause of their little fight.

It is a great song for relaxing. I love the dreamy guitar work.

Vs is one of those albums I never tire listening to. I hadn't listened to it for quite a while, but I've played it about 5 times this week. Mission of Burma are phenomenal.

I concur.

[The NPC]

Consonant

[pixiesfanyo]

Botch - We Are The Romans

[The NPC]

props 2 u

Yep, I haven't jammed out to ol' Clint in some time so it's happy time.

[Tomahawk]

Been listening to a whole heap of Motown. Especially the Temptations and the Four Tops.

And today I've also been listening to the Beatles, Pantera, Charles Mingus, and the Velvet Underground. I actually really dug VU + Nico for the first time, after owning it for years. I still hate the Nico tracks, but the rest is a lot better than I remembered it being.

[The NPC]

Been listening to a whole heap of Motown. Especially the Temptations and the Four Tops.

And today I've also been listening to the Beatles, Pantera, Charles Mingus, and the Velvet Underground. I actually really dug VU + Nico for the first time, after owning it for years. I still hate the Nico tracks, but the rest is a lot better than I remembered it being.

Motown is good times.

[asdf]

I've been listening to a lot of the Rocky Horror music.

[Electrocution]

maudlin maudlin of of the the well well

[Luxor]

City Of Caterpiller
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You
Dead Kennedy's
Explosions In The Sky

yum

[Robert Crumb]

Bruce Haack - Electric Lucifer

Electronic music pioneer creates homemade musical devices to tell epic tales with much Judeo-Christian imagery. Mostly terribly goofy, but there are some really cool sounds here. I first saw it mentioned in an interview with Madlib and it definitely sounds like something he'd sample. I spent a while looking for a band called Electric Lucifer, only to find out it was an album. Wacky synths, some funky bass lines, general oddness. C

Television Personalities - The Painted Word; Closer to God

I really like this band. Messy pop tunes, strong mod rock influences, a guy who tends to write horribly maligned lyrics and sings with a voice that makes Dylan sound like choir-boy at times. The Painted Word came out in '84 and sounds a bit like it. Very dour, depressing psychedelic stuff, typical post-punk and a few oddities thrown into the mix. I'm not fond of the album but there are a couple songs I absolutely love like, "A Sense of Belonging" and "The Girl Who Had Everything," and the best songs here might be better than anything I've heard the band do, which really isn't a lot. Paul Weller and Morrissey reviewed "A Sense of Belonging" on some British music show or something back then and panned it basically. D

Closer to God is much more accessible. It's not better because it's more accessible but it helps. I really wanted to buy Priviledge instead of this but they didn't have any more copies so I settled. There are some really nice tunes, the production is superior to other TVP releases I've heard but (this was a '92 release) there's some hokum ****, too. Happens when a band has been around for over a decade I suppose. "Razor Blades and Lemonade," "Honey for Bears," and the title track stood out in the couple of listens I've given it so far. B-

[Interstate]

Today:

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Jasper Carrott - Back To The Front Volume 2 (Insanely funny)

[Spectrum]

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

I just secured myself a copy yesterday, and at the present moment, I love it.

[asymm]

Today:

The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
Sun Kil Moon

[Dog]

The Mekons - The Mekons Rock 'N Roll and Curse Of The Mekons

[Bukowski]

Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider

Brilliant, brilliant album.

[Daniel!]

Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Live at the Wetlands
fIREHOSE - If'n

[BillCosby]

Pere Ubu
Danger Doom

[el doctor]

Live at Wetlands is a pretty cool album. The band's performance on Austin City Limits last year was great, so much energy.

Frank Zappa - Zappa in New York
Beat Happening - Jamboree
The United States of America - s/t

[Dave de Sylvia]

It's been a glam week :)

1 Mötley Crüe 106
2 Therapy? 29
3 Warrant 28
4 Misfits 26
5 Bon Jovi 25
5 Manic Street Preachers 25
7 Marvelous 3 24
8 Hanoi Rocks 19
9 Guns N' Roses 18
9 Velvet Revolver 18

[morrissey]

Every week is more or less the same, it just varies in numbers based on how often I'm home.

1 The Smiths 409
2 Pulp 150
3 The Smiths (Covers) 117
4 Blur 91
5 Billy Bragg 74
6 Alanis Morissette 73
7 Bob Dylan 57
8 Blondie 52
9 Bob & Tom 51
10 Dashboard Confessional 46

[Daniel!]

10 Dashboard Confessional 46

omg emo

[morrissey]

screamocore

[Daniel!]

screamocore

no thats mcr

[robot]

alot of dna, melt banana, and boredoms.

[Anxious]

DNA kickass. As well as Melt Banana.

[AK47]

Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat

[The Great Decay]

Weekly Top Artists: Oct 23 - 30

1. Propagandhi - 16
1. Comeback Kid - 16
3. Bright Eyes - 15
3. At The Drive-In - 15
5. Elliott Smith - 14
6. Dead Kennedys - 13
6. Rise Against - 13
8. Modern Life Is War - 11
9. Minor Threat - 10
9. Refused - 10
9. Neutral Milk Hotel - 10
9. Against Me! - 10

[Dreww]

Talking Heads are genius.

[Little Man being Erased]

Weekly Top Artists
Sunday Oct 23 - Sunday Oct 30

1 Billy Bragg 42
2 Nada Surf 24
3 Alex Drosen 22
3 Elliott Smith 22
5 Massive Attack 19
6 Ryan Adams 15
7 Eskimo Joe 10
8 Oh No! Oh My! 3

And, my two new purchases:
Pixies - Doolittle
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

[Daniel!]

And, my two new purchases:
Pixies - Doolittle
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Those are both great albums.

[Dreww]

I wonder why Doolittle seems to get more attention than Surfer Rosa. Surfer Rosa always seemed like the better album to me.

[Daniel!]

Because people have different opinions.

[Dreww]

Obviously. But why is Doolittle widely considered the greater of the two? No reason to answer like a smartass, I'm actually curious.

[Dog]

Oct 23 to Oct 30, 2005
1 Hug 32
2 Hüsker Dü 23
3 Billy Bragg 22
4 Tom Waits 19
4 Dr. Octagon 19
6 Crippled Pilgrims 14
6 The Beatles 14
8 Arto Lindsay 13
9 Sun Kil Moon 11
10 Cows 8

[morrissey]

I am love love loving all the Billy Bragg on the lists. B-)

[Little Man being Erased]

Those are both great albums.
Yep, I seem to find myself agreeing.

[Little Man being Erased]

I am love love loving all the Billy Bragg on the lists. B-)
Thanks to your persistence.

[Dog]

I am love love loving all the Billy Bragg on the lists. B-)
The recent thread on him helped me re-realize how great he is. Good stuff indeed.

[pixiesfanyo]

I wonder why Doolittle seems to get more attention than Surfer Rosa. Surfer Rosa always seemed like the better album to me.

I agree.

[Luxor]

Weekly Top Artists
Sunday Oct 23 - Sunday Oct 30

1 Elliott Smith 68
2 I Would Set Myself On Fire For You 44
3 The Get Up Kids 37
4 Modest Mouse 34
5 Dredg 31
6 Sufjan Stevens 30
7 Cursive 26
8 On the Might of Princes 20
9 Comeback Kid 19
10 Explosions in the Sky 14

Elliott's always top notch.

[pixiesfanyo]

Weekly Top Artists
Sunday Oct 23 - Sunday Oct 30

1 Elliott Smith 68
2 I Would Set Myself On Fire For You 44
3 The Get Up Kids 37
4 Modest Mouse 34
5 Dredg 31
6 Sufjan Stevens 30
7 Cursive 26
8 On the Might of Princes 20
9 Comeback Kid 19
10 Explosions in the Sky 14

Elliott's always top notch.

Same with I Would Etc.

Good album.

That riff at the end of track 2, is so hot.

[Luxor]

Same with I Would Etc.

Good album.

That riff at the end of track 2, is so hot.
I like yo style nigga

[The NPC]

They owe Albini alot of credit though because he basically created that "Original Pixies Sound". With their later albums you can actually hear what they really sounded like, they were a far more lush sounding band which wasn't captured on Surfer Rosa.

[The NPC]

Maybe Albini captured what they really sounded like, not the other way around.

Not at all, listen to the compositions of their other albums and listen to their live performances. They were never a stripped down band in the first place.

[Ornery Cephalopod]

I got a few songs from the new HORSE the Band album.

Dig.

[br3ad_man]

1 Death Cab for Cutie 39
2 Explosions in the Sky 32
3 The Magic Numbers 25
3 Sigur Rós 25
5 Mogwai 21
6 dredg 20
7 Stereolab 19
8 Pelican 17
9 Jimmy Eat World 16
10 The Books 15

[rbv]

1 At the Drive-In 13
2 the pillows 9
3 Sigur Rós 7
4 A.C. Newman 6
4 Air 6
6 Windsor for the Derby 5
7 HEADPHONES 4
7 M83 4
7 ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead 4
10 Pink Floyd 3

[pixiesfanyo]

1 Elliott Smith 69
2 Queens of the Stone Age 34
3 Neon Blonde 26
4 Explosions in the Sky 20
5 Minutemen 18
6 David Bowie 16
7 Maudlin Of The Well 15
7 Converge 15
7 Q and Not U 15
10 Bright Eyes 14

[Tangy zizzle]

Pixies
the Make-up
Can
Prefuse 73

That's good stuff right there.

[robot]

Weekly Top Artists
Sunday Oct 23 - Sunday Oct 30

1 Sonic Youth 33
2 Broken Social Scene 29
3 Built to Spill 22
4 Deerhoof 21
5 Sigur Rós 17
5 Bell Orchestre 17
7 The Locust 16
8 DNA 15
8 The Books 15
10 Fugazi 12

[OrbDragon]

Motorpsycho
Sonic Youth
Murder By Death
Mew

Among others.

[Zappa]

1 Mogwai 44
2 Alex Drosen 24
3 Pavement 18
4 Bark Psychosis 13
5 Silver Apples 11
6 Johnny Cash 10
6 Oscar Peterson 10
6 Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares 10
6 Nick Drake 10
10 Wire 8

[br3ad_man]

What's your favourite Mogwai album Alex?

[pixiesfanyo]

Not at all, listen to the compositions of their other albums and listen to their live performances. They were never a stripped down band in the first place.

Come on Pilgrim sounds like Surfer Rosa.

[Smackers]

Sir Millard Mulch - How to Sell the Whole F#@!ing Universe to Everybody...Once and for all!

[Bandaid]

Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Nebula - Atomic Ritual
Nomeansno - Wrong (it is as good as everyone was ranting on about)

[Dreww]

Come on Pilgrim sounds like Surfer Rosa.Exactly.

[Kyle]

Nebula - Atomic Ritual
Beast of an album. Although not as good as Charged.

[Interstate]

Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight

[The NPC]

Come on Pilgrim sounds like Surfer Rosa.

That's not the arguement, who remembers Come on Pilgrim anyway? Unless you're a fan no one does. SR is the album people remember and it's Albini's production that put it on the map. The producers of CoP along with the members of the Pixies were well aware of the stripped down sound that Albini and various other bands were coming up with in the 80s. This can be said because of their late enterence into the Indie world and the diverse and sonic sound that was popping up in Boston or had already occured. Also as we well know the Pixies reached the sound they were looking for later on in their career after they were done trying to emulate other bands that came before them.

[The NPC]

Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight

You have just earned NPC Power Points.

[Dreww]

That's not the arguement, who remembers Come on Pilgrim anyway? Unless you're a fan no one does. SR is the album people remember and it's Albini's production that put it on the map. The producers of CoP along with the members of the Pixies were well aware of the stripped down sound that Albini and various other bands were coming up with in the 80s. This can be said because of their late enterence into the Indie world and the diverse and sonic sound that was popping up in Boston or had already occured. Also as we well know the Pixies reached the sound they were looking for later on in their career after they were done trying to emulate other bands that came before them.
You are full of information.

What I'm diggin right now?
Cedric Bixler's voice.

[el doctor]

1 The Olivia Tremor Control 21
2 Stereolab 17
3 Squarepusher 16
4 Ride 15
5 Tiger Trap 12
5 My Bloody Valentine 12
7 Swervedriver 11
8 The Mars Volta 10
8 Damien Rice 10
10 Faust 9

I could've sworn I listened to more than that.

[Bukowski]

Two Gallants - The Throes
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
Angry Samoans - Inside My Brain

Last week:

1 Mission of Burma 87
2 Rites of Spring 78
3 Minutemen 44
4 Johnny Cash 42
5 Operation Ivy 27
6 Minor Threat 23
7 Robert Plant and the Strange Sensations 19
8 Sonic Youth 18
9 Dead Kennedys 16
9 Propagandhi 16

[Tangy zizzle]

Wow, how fitting. I've scored number 10,000. This should be closed, and I'll do a mach II of it.

TEN THOUSAND POSTS IN THIS THREAD.

[Tangy zizzle]

Now I'll take the 10,000th reply aswell.

I dug the Beatles and Ornette Coleman last night. This morning I played Worst Case Scenario by dEUS quite loud so everyone around me could here it. In a few minutes I'm going for a walk to buy some books and a new CD, I'm not sure what album I'll play. I'm not sure if I'll take music with me at all.

[OrbDragon]

Tom Barman: coolest artist in the Benelux.

[The NPC]

Now I'll take the 10,000th reply aswell.

I dug the Beatles and Ornette Coleman last night. This morning I played Worst Case Scenario by dEUS quite loud so everyone around me could here it. In a few minutes I'm going for a walk to buy some books and a new CD, I'm not sure what album I'll play. I'm not sure if I'll take music with me at all.

Ornette makes me happy.

[Tangy zizzle]

I was hoping he'd make me sleepy, but it didn't work. So the task was all up to Abbey Road, and **** did it fail man.

[Electrocution]

1 Joshua Fit for Battle 51
2 Orchid 49
3 Minor Threat 39
4 Radiohead 22
5 Johnny Cash 18
6 Pavement 15
6 Modest Mouse 15
6 Saetia 15
6 Sonic Youth 15
10 Mogwai 14

Four 6s :eek: I am the spawn of satan.

[6Stringer]

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Catch 22 - Keasby Nights

[pixiesfanyo]

That's not the arguement, who remembers Come on Pilgrim anyway? Unless you're a fan no one does. SR is the album people remember and it's Albini's production that put it on the map. The producers of CoP along with the members of the Pixies were well aware of the stripped down sound that Albini and various other bands were coming up with in the 80s. This can be said because of their late enterence into the Indie world and the diverse and sonic sound that was popping up in Boston or had already occured. Also as we well know the Pixies reached the sound they were looking for later on in their career after they were done trying to emulate other bands that came before them.

I wouldn't say the Pixies ever really had a distinct sound.

Surfer Rosa has the most consistent feeling though.

[The NPC]

I wouldn't say the Pixies ever really had a distinct sound.

Surfer Rosa has the most consistent feeling though.

I'll agree with the last statement.

[pixiesfanyo]

I'll agree with the last statement.

Me too. :)

[Daniel!]

Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Misson of Burma - ONoffON

[Zappa]

I can't decide if it really is time for What I've Been Digging Lately, part 2 or not.

[The Great Decay]

It would've been better to stop it at 10,000.

[Zappa]

You know, I can delete 14 posts in less than 5 minutes.

[The Great Decay]

Good call.

[The NPC]

Just let it run to 15,000.

[el doctor]

I wouldn't say the Pixies ever really had a distinct sound.

Surfer Rosa has the most consistent feeling though.
I think that's why I always liked it better as an album. I think Doolittle has some better songs, but Surfer Rosa as a whole just feels right.

Fantômas - The Director's Cut

just to fit in with the Halloween atmosphere.

[Zappa]

Just let it run to 15,000.

Better idea.

[Tangy zizzle]

No, delete some posts, and then kill it.

Then I'll make a part deux.

[The NPC]

No, delete some posts, and then kill it.

Then I'll make a part deux.

Not yet, just sit tight. Your day of glory will come.

[Tangy zizzle]

It's not glory. I feel glorious/glorified already.

[The NPC]

It's not glory. I feel glorious/glorified already.

No you don't.

[YDload]

You Need the Glory

tap tap tap bum bum boom boom alalalalala boop a doop

[Dreww]

When you were young
You were the king of carrot flowers
And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees
In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet
And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder
And your dad would throw the garbage all across the floor
As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for
And this is the room
One afternoon I knew I could love you
And from above you how I sank into your soul
Into that secret place where no one dares to go
And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking
And dad would dream of all the different ways to die
Each one a little more than he could dare to try

[asymm]

Today:
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Low - Curtain Hits the Cast
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight

[The NPC]

Today:
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Low - Curtain Hits the Cast
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight

NPC Power Points to you.

[Robert Crumb]

I got Think Differently Music: The Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture today. It's ok. Ras Kass damages every other MC on there. But the Del tha Funkee Homosapien/Aesop Rock track is pretty cool, too.

[The Great Decay]

Bane - Give Blood

****ing throw 'em up.

xMOSHx

[asymm]

This evening has been:
Born Heller - Born Heller
It's a very interesting little folk record. It feels very fitting as I sit here about to sleep. link. (http://www.locustmusic.com/bornheller.html)

[br3ad_man]

I just heard some Cave In songs, they were quite cool. I might buy that album they're selling for $10. Today I dug Dredg and Ryan Adams.

[Iai]

Right now, I'm digging this Hum album I've had for months but never listened to for some reason.

[Clunge]

New Amplifier and Oceansize albums.

[Luxor]

Six Organs Of Admittance - School Of The Flower
Me likey.

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
The first 4 tracks are great, but the rest of it just goes downhill from there.

[Bartender]

I just got Amateur Transplants - Fitness to Practice in the post. Since I got something like 99 plays out of just three tracks from it, I can see it getting a lot of play in the near future.

[Tomahawk]

Tons of Beatles today, with a focus on Revolver, but a bunch of everything really. Listening to the Anthology set now.

[Doctor D.]

I got Think Differently Music: The Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture today. It's ok. Ras Kass damages every other MC on there. But the Del tha Funkee Homosapien/Aesop Rock track is pretty cool, too.

"Fragments" strikes me as the oddest thing Del has ever done.

[Interstate]

Today:

Bob Dylan - The Times, They Are A-Changing
KT Tunstall - Eye To The Telescope

[guitarded_chuck]

Sloan - Smeared

[Little Man being Erased]

Pixies - Doolittle
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Bill Hicks - Rant in E-Minor


Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
The first 4 tracks are great, but the rest of it just goes downhill from there.
I am afraid you are mistaken, kind sir.

[Interstate]

ZZ Top :beard:

[Dog]

Jay Munly - Jimmy Carter Syndrome
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
Liliput - s/t

[Happymeal]

I've been sifting through dEUS's Pocket Revolution and I'm starting to like it. It's kind of a mix of pop and Girls Against Boys-ish rock.

[The NPC]

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