Theme music for your life.

[irishslappop]

yeah its not too bass related..../shrug


but basically pick two albums that would constantly run as the background music for your life. if you really feel like it you can explain....

mine:
Mutopia - nuclear rabbit

and i couldn't choose between Pink Floyd - i wish you were here and Mellow Gold - Beck. i know they're completely different, but they both fit me well.

:smoke:

go to it :thumb:

[The Brad]

Not even a mixed tape could express how I feel.
/emo

But, let's try Type O Negative - World Coming Down
and Opeth - Morningrise

[Thonk]

CTTS - As the Roots Undo.

Slightly chaotic with a few mellow spots inbetween everything else that's going on. That's all I can think of at the mo.

[Linkinbassist]

RATM - Battle Of Los Angeles
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way

Both describe me well, i feel...I despise modern political operations, and the songs from by The Way are emotive for me. I would also have a Metallica album if constraints let me. Although, to be honest, my mood changes a lot. I have a lot of under-surface tension boiling beneath a calm and composed exterior. it'll blow one day...it won't be nice...

[irishslappop]

two good ones ^_^

[Efrim]

Blonde Redhead-Fake Can Be Just As Good.

[TheBassman238]

Fear Before The March of Flames - "Art Damage"(all i hve been listening to lately)

Flying Frog Brigade - "Purple Onion"

yeah my life is pretty mixed around now where its going.. which explains the randomness...

-TBM

[Dyslexic Magician]

OHH you said album, not song ok here we go


Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Majik
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Land
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Radiohead - OK Computer

Hey man, i've lived a long life.

[e p]

duran duran-hungry like the wolf

[bottlerocket]

Jane Doe - Converge

This album is exactly what happened between some girl and I. It's a long, heartfelt, and heartbreaking story. I shudder and come close to tears at the ending lines, "Run on, girl, run on" in the epic closing ballad, Jane Doe. It's is, without a doubt, the most meaningful album in the world to me and I love every second of it because it was like Jacob Bannon wrote it about Brittany and me...truly amazing and it's perfectly written.

Lyrics: http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/converge/janedoe.html#1s c

Tell All Your Friends - Taking Back Sunday

Their only good album was truly an amazing one. It's one of my favorite albums of all time, right up there about 5 or 6 others. From an amazing pop-punk band that infuses emotion with complicated yet catchy and simultaneously simple riffs, triple vocal attack, and heart-on-your-sleeve and tounge-in-chee lyrics, this album will have you shouting along the words. Once you listen for the first time, you're hooked. There is no boring spot on this album. It's solid from start to finish and it's a shame TBS sucks so bad now. :lol:


Honorable Mention:

Odd How People Shake - Fear Before the March of Flames

This album's got it all; it's goofy, upbeat, catchy, melodic, and yet hard and dark at the same time. The music will get you tapping your foot and singing (or screaming, as the case may be) along. It's awesome to just throw on this album when you're driving with friends and goof off.

I picked really mainstream-ish bands (by my scene, anyway) but I don't care...they're all awesome albums, especially Jane Doe and Tell All Your Friends.

-Gav

[BenJammin]

I think that John Frusciante's "Shadows Collide With People" is pretty much the theme album for my life. There's a song on there that represents every mood I've felt, all of my ups and downs. It's one of those albums that I always seem to return to all the time.

[The_Red_Death]

Brand New - Deja Entendu

It's like each song I can relate to my life in some way, especially many things that went on between various exes and friends over the past year and a half. I love this album, so much. Probably my favourite of all time, if not only for the music, but the meaning. Jesse Lacey is an amazing lyricist.

As for the second, I'm really not sure. I'm thinking either Vheissu or The Artist In The Ambulance, both by Thrice. Or maybe Taking Back Sunday's Where You Want To Be. Yes, I know, Tell All Your Friends was better. But that's beside the point.

To be honest, I've yet to really find a second album that can really speak for my life. There are periods of my life where certain albums seem like they were made for me, but those rarely last.

[Son of Magni]

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity

Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior

Can I have three?
Any good recording of the Verdi Requiem

[BenJammin]

As for the second, I'm really not sure. I'm thinking either Vheissu or The Artist In The Ambulance, both by Thrice.

Amazing album. I was only a casual Thrice fan before this album, and this just changed everything. They're really just getting better with each album.

[IPolkaLikeThis!]

Porcelain by Sparta

or


One Time Bells by The French Kicks

both very great albums.

[irishslappop]

im glad to see this is working well :thumb:

The GAV: who cares if they're mainstream or not, if the feel of the music describes your life, its alllll good :thumb:

[bottlerocket]

im glad to see this is working well :thumb:

The GAV: who cares if they're mainstream or not, if the feel of the music describes your life, its alllll good :thumb:

Yeah, I got other albums and stuff but I think those 2 or 3 you'd be most acquainted with. :thumb:

-Gav

[The_Red_Death]

it's a shame TBS sucks so bad now. :lol:


I disagree. I thought Where You Want To Be was worse than Tell All Your Friends, but Louder Now sounds like it's going to be great. I've heard half the songs so far, and I love them all. Tell All Your Friends is without a doubt one of the greatest pop-punk albums ever, but I love the new sound they have on Louder Now and parts of WYWTB, like Set Phasers To Stun and The Union.

Although, one the reasons I like Where You Want To Be so much is because of A Decade Under The Influence, another song I have a major attachment to, personally.

[Jake=Suck]

children of bodom- are you dead yet?
mudvayne-the end of all things to come

[Led_Zeppelin678]

Not even a mixed tape could express how I feel.
/emo

But, let's try Type O Negative - World Coming Down
and Opeth - Morningrise

Morningrise is spectacular.

What I'm going to do instead is pick an album or two from ever part of my life up until now. Makes much more sense to me, as people change a lot over time.

Ages 0-7: Gentle Giant's Three Friends
Ages 7-16: King Crimson's Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Ages 16-20: Extol's Undecieved, Genesis' Foxtrot (very different, but I've been through a lot in the last few years)

[The Brad]

Morningrise is spectacular.

Indeed it is, it's because deaths and depression make for fantastic albums.:chug:

[fingis]

a northern chorus - bitter hands resign

the flaming lips - the soft bulletin

[Led_Zeppelin678]

Indeed it is, it's because deaths and depression make for fantastic albums.:chug:

The bass playing is incredible too. The melodic playing on To Bid You Farewell and the tap/slap on Nectar is some of the best metal bass playing I've ever heard.

[Bassinator89]

Grateful Dead-American Beauty
Jack Johnson-In Between Dreams

I dunno, probably just where I am now, laid back and looking for love. I really don't think I could sum my life up in albums, more indavidual songs but this will do.

[Son of Magni]

Morningrise is spectacular.

What I'm going to do instead is pick an album or two from ever part of my life up until now. Makes much more sense to me, as people change a lot over time.

Ages 0-7: Gentle Giant's Three Friends
Ages 7-16: King Crimson's Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Ages 16-20: Extol's Undecieved, Genesis' Foxtrot (very different, but I've been through a lot in the last few years)
Excellent choice with Lark's Tongues! Don't know Three Friends, but Gentle Giant was an amazing band, Free Hand, Octopus, just the tune So Sincere is such a classic...

[The Brad]

The bass playing is incredible too. The melodic playing on To Bid You Farewell and the tap/slap on Nectar is some of the best metal bass playing I've ever heard.
Yeah, it truly is a masterpiece. But the raw emotion of the album is what gets me.

[RJDBass]

Vaya EP - At the drive-in

Happy songs for happy people - Mogwai

[e p]

one song.

snoop dogg-gin and juice.

[Led_Zeppelin678]

Yeah, it truly is a masterpiece. But the raw emotion of the album is what gets me.

Opeth is one of the only modern bands I even listen to. They're one of the few popular, talented bands in modern music. The Christian/Prog/Metal (not prog-metal...prog and metal, seperately) band I started recently is trying to go for a sound that's a bit (not too much...don't want to copy them...) like Opeth, but with a little King Crimson, Yes, and Genesis, and Tool mixed in.

[The Brad]

That would sound so weird if you took a member from each of those bands and locked them in a room to record an album, Down II-style.

[bottlerocket]

I disagree. I thought Where You Want To Be was worse than Tell All Your Friends, but Louder Now sounds like it's going to be great. I've heard half the songs so far, and I love them all. Tell All Your Friends is without a doubt one of the greatest pop-punk albums ever, but I love the new sound they have on Louder Now and parts of WYWTB, like Set Phasers To Stun and The Union.

Although, one the reasons I like Where You Want To Be so much is because of A Decade Under The Influence, another song I have a major attachment to, personally.

WYWTB sucked. I hated it. Louder Now will suck, too, I bet...I've heard the demo. I hated it. :(

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. :chug:

You're still the man.

-Gav

[Led_Zeppelin678]

Excellent choice with Lark's Tongues! Don't know Three Friends, but Gentle Giant was an amazing band, Free Hand, Octopus, just the tune So Sincere is such a classic...

Free Hand is my favorite so far. I only have a few. Nice choices yourself, too. Mahavishnu Orchestra is incredible, and even though I've only heard The Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant (or something like that) I really like Return To Forever.

[Led_Zeppelin678]

That would sound so weird if you took a member from each of those bands and locked them in a room to record an album, Down II-style.

Down is one of the greatest bands ever. They don't have a bad song on either of their albums. I freaking love them.

But yeah...

Mikael Akerfeldt, Rick Wakeman, Trey Gunn, Steve Hackett, and Danny Carey...

I'd LOVE to hear that.

[Left Shoe]

catch for us the foxes - mewithoutyou
give up - the postal service

no real explanation there
honorable mentions:
thursday , any album
ctts
tbs old cd

[The_Red_Death]

WYWTB sucked. I hated it. Louder Now will suck, too, I bet...I've heard the demo. I hated it. :(

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. :chug:

You're still the man.

-Gav

Thanks man. :p But yeah, people are bound to have different opinions on things like this. What can you do? :thumb:

[The_Red_Death]

catch for us the foxes - mewithoutyou
give up - the postal service

no real explanation there
honorable mentions:
thursday , any album
ctts
tbs old cd

I totally forgot about Thursday. Full Collapse is a great album.

[Munky_Jam]

Small Change/Real Gone - Tom Waits
Giant Steps - Coltrane
Self Titled/Evil Empire _ RATM
Vitalogy/No Code - Pearl Jam
LA Woman/Morrison Hotel/Waiting For The Sun/Self Titled/Soft Parade/Rarities/Strange Days - The doors

I really tried but pick any two from there as long as one of the two tom waits is in there


ps Cream - Disreali Gears

[Thonk]

I totally forgot about Thursday. Everything they've put out is great.
Yup.

[Manticore Guy]

Weather Report- Heavy Weather (specifically a remark you made)
John Coltrane- A love Supreme

I like albums that can show emotion with music, thus these are the choices for me right now. Could/Will change though

[Criss Frantic]

The Bends/ Kid A - Radiohead
Entertainment! - Gang Of Four
The Doors/LA Woman - The Doors
London Calling/Combat Rock - The Clash
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Yeah it's a little more than 2 but so what?

[janyeno]

the rocky story - various artists
guns n roses - appetite...

[Jaded]

Brian Eno- Another Green World

[muthafunkabass]

The Dillinger Escape Plan- Calculating Infinity

Gran Duo Concertante- Giovanni Bottesini


I know, completely different. The D.E.P. album is death metal at amazingly weird timings, while the Concertante is a classical piece made for two virtusuo double bassists (one was later written for a violin).

[Left Shoe]

im pretty sure DEP is not death metal

[The Brad]

Yeah, they call themselves mathcore or something like that

[muthafunkabass]

I just call bands what they sound like to me. Their little "mathcore" bullshiit is stupid. I don't really name anything screamo or metalcore, I just say Death Metal...meh, whatever.

[FunkMetalBass]

Barenaked Ladies: Stunt

[FunkMetalBass]

Yeah, they call themselves mathcore or something like that
MATHCORE?! Are you serious?

Never heard of it before.

Is that like, Tool or something?

[Left Shoe]

MATHCORE?! Are you serious?

Never heard of it before.

Is that like, Tool or something?
no its just lame, bass virtuoso can tell you about it. their whole thing is the time signatures for their songs have to add up to something, i cant think of any examples of mathcore bands right now.

[Led_Zeppelin678]

no its just lame, bass virtuoso can tell you about it. their whole thing is the time signatures for their songs have to add up to something, i cant think of any examples of mathcore bands right now.

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. What a way to categorize yourself.

[FunkMetalBass]

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. What a way to categorize yourself.

What's next?

PETCOre? Have to be a PET Co. employee, own three dogs, allude to endangered species in every song, and play in tempos that are in a phi ratio to a cat's heart rate...

[The Brad]

Petcore = Canninus

[I<33myOLPmm2]

Sleep- Sleeps Holy Mountain
Om- Variations on a theme.

Om is a drum and bass band and they are the rythm section of sleep.

[ebe9]

Third Eye Blind - Out Of The Vein

Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles

[Chris K]

Rush-How it is

[Led_Zeppelin678]

Rush-How it is

THE Rush song that I can relate to most is probably Subdivisions.

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone

In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out

Any escape might help disprove the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

[Tryxx]

Kaddisfly - Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You A Unicorn.

The lyrical content just flows, along with the instrumentation. There's just so many things to connect to all the time, from:

Left is no more important than right
As right is not undoubtedly the correct way
Distance can be a line
Though the space amid two points is often a sphere

A man can plot evil on his line and win
Though as he traverses the line he discerns
that his way leads to his death
A fate not matched by his opponent
who traveled the distance instead

Flat is a concept that disregards round
And circular nature has us in a linear realization

As those humble in nature will also die
Though will never cease to exist
Not to say there is a correct fashion
But there is a correct line

they say love can move a mountain
they say love there is no other way
I say that its love that made those mountains
I say that love made us human

This message was brought to you by a human being


to,

We make the oceans sometimes, our sea
While poised aloft every swell, blindly
we’re in the same boat and we all share the same oars
We still stake our claims at stern, bow, port, or starboard

Just wait for others, holding offers
Make way for mothers, holding daughters
Wait for brothers, holding lovers

we’ll all at once burst from within
waves of light in human skin
Arguing its only life, we’ll live again
above the waves that tears have since formed
unabridged, en masse

We capsize our minds sometimes, by thinking
And throw the world overboard, wondering
If our ship stays divided and we don’t fast together
We will surely lay waste when there is inclement weather


and,

My diction’s for you with your mind for these words
Whether you act in subversion or progress in vast herds
You may find contentment in quarters unseen
Or you may chance upon solace
through an inchoate dream

And all your vices, all your trails, your intention and denial

Everything, means nothing,
without the words, without the meaning
If all you want is all I have, then all you need is all I’ll give
If everyone could understand
then everyone would lend a hand

My address is for you both awash and converged
You with your crowns and your wits for these words
My refrain is for you with your heeds and your hearts
My life is for you as from subsistence we’ll part

And all your laughter, all your style,
synchronistic hands and smiles

If everyone could understand then
everyone would (make amends)


There's many, many more. (I also love the bass tone and work on the album :smoke:)

Edit: My favourite Kaddisfly song isn't on that album though...that's odd. It's on their EP in my avatar. <.<

When I see a sunset, I see the past as the future
I see the rotation of the earth and all the angles of the wind
I notice lives unchanged and come to grips with all we are
and all we are never meant to be

I see the false emptiness and overflowing joy of life
I see much more than the stars much more than the sky
I become the earth as it breathes through me
I learn that through our symbiotic coexistence we can thrive

I realize that all facts are fiction while the earth tells no lies
I see more in the world through believing in the world

I see sunsets solve quandaries, only brought about by our bodies
I see infinite constraints only bound by their conception
I wonder if you have ever really seen a sunset
If you were to look deep you would see yourself
You would see the world as the earth breathes through you

And you will see that you are the sun, the earth,
and everything you’ve been looking for
By leaving your mind open, you may stumble upon doors
that have been passed over

I understand that not many people
will come to see a sunset in their current lives

have you ever seen a sunset?

[IPolkaLikeThis!]

^smoking is bad. :chug:

and to elaborate on my earlier post, and to try and get you to like the French Kicks

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XNyXo3kdYhM&search=french%20kicks


You make a pretty fine memory Ohh
Once you find out next to me Ohh
Just in time now wait and see Ohh
If they're cryin' out for you or me
You wanna live right over the time
Gimme everything I know oh everything I know
You wanna live right over the time
Gimme everything I know oh everything I know
Close to modern close to modern
Oooh you watch you're so pretty
And you never stop givin'
Till we get lost everytime
My baby don't ever stop hangin' on me
What I think of you oh we get lost everytime




Got you on the wrong side of me
Went and had my mind made up so suddenly
And it's being hungry when you can't take the fall away
Got you on the phone guiltin' me
Thinkin' how you looked at me so eagerly
But it was some of them kids in the city
Ended up at home on empty with the windows down
Tryin' to say everything but knowin you
I'd hate to see you lookin' so down
Wish you weren't so tied to me but you are
Sooner than it happens to all that you are
Right on my way home
Still in my mind won't you give us a call?
Summer's so fine I don't need you at all
Right you so said
Yeah
Ended up at home on empty with the windows down
Every time I look at you
I see you just like lookin' through the windows downtown
Ended up at home on empty with the windows down
Tryin to say everything but knowin you
I’d hate to see you lookin so down
Got you on the wrong side of me
Went and had my mind made up so suddenly
And it’s being hungry when you can’t take the fall away
And it saw this willin to kill the rest of the day
I try to look at you that way it drives me hey oh ah
Ended up at home on empty with the windows down
Every time I look at you
I see you just like lookin through the windows downtown
Ended up at home on empty with the windows down
Tryin to say everything but knowin you
I’d hate to see you lookin so down

[Shinobi_sniper]

|----------------------|-------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
|--5----------5--------|--5----------4-----|
|------5---------5-----|------5---7--------|

Over And Over And Over

[Jaded]

Om is a drum and bass band and they are the rythm section of sleep.
I didn't realize Sleep had rhythm.

[PaulR]

Petcore = Canninus
Or Hatebeak. :)


Mine would be:
Explosions in The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth... because its beautiful.
Butch Walker - Left of Self-Centered because its witty.

[the101er]

Nuclear Rabbit - Vicuna
Primus - Frizzle Fry


Trust me, they are the two albums I only listen to anymore, with a couple of Dusty Springfield songs

[apacherosepeacock]

The Libertines - The libertines
The Prodigy Experience - Liam Howlett (prodigy)

not because they really relate to me at all, just what i think are two of the greatest albums ever and have been to me for at least 5-6 years now

[BassPlayingPineapple]

Pink Floyd - The Wall. Sometimes i just sit down and listen to the whole album from start to finish.

[-The Frank]

A tyranny of souls- bruce dickinson

[Chris K]

Gran Duo Concertante- Giovanni Bottesini


Dragonetti>Bottesini (just to start an arugement!)


Just joking, good choice, Bottesini rocks!

[muthafunkabass]

:lol: I was ready to fight.;)

[Chris K]

Now now, it has to be the longest running musical rivalry ever!

[The Brad]

Or Hatebeak. :)
Hatebeak is a good one too, I just couldn't remember the name.:p

[Polyamarous]

This is more emo than a Funeral For a Friend concert

[Chris K]

Mission by Rush is pretty good too, very good in fact.

And why not throw Hair in there too.

[Carpe Noctis]

CTTS - As the Roots Undo.

Slightly chaotic with a few mellow spots inbetween everything else that's going on. That's all I can think of at the mo.

Ah! That'd have to be one of my choices as well, it's cool to find someone else who's heard of them and appreciates their music.

Other than that...Peter Gabriel's - UP. :chug:

-elric

P.S. after further contemplation I'd have to add John Frusciante's - Inside of Emptiness.

[BassPlayingPineapple]

Also, Everything went Numb - Streetlight Manifesto.

[The Brad]

Other than that...Peter Gabriel's - UP. :chug:
SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDGEHAMMER!:chug:

[Thonk]

This is more emo than a Funeral For a Friend concert
I'd agree. Seeing as Funeral For a Friend aren't even emo.

BPPineapple: That's an amazing album.

[JeffLoomisIsMyHomeboy]

Until 14 - Thunder In the East - Loudness
15 - Pink Floyd - The Wall (Only in relation to "Mother" really, as recently my parents have become extremely protective/into my personal life, as I live in a city now, as in, having emails, phone calls, and internet conversations monitored, being followed outside of home and school, ect. ect., I'm guessing that's what they meant by "build the wall so high")
I'm trying to think of better albums to use, but I own very few whole albums.

[Headless Bassist]

Stevie Wonder - I ain't going to stand for it :naughty:

[bottlerocket]

This is more emo than a Funeral For a Friend concert

Funeral for a Friend isn't emo...like...at all. Man, you're not even close on this one.

-Gav

[BassVirtuoso]

Revolutionary Volume 2- Immortal Technique

[Jaded]

Funeral For a Friend, as in the Elton John song?

[bottlerocket]

I think he means the not-too-decent pop-punk band from England.

-Gav

[neo1587]

I would say A Love Supreme by John Coltrane for my faith and Frances The Mute by The Mars Volta for the high energy contrasted by the low energy (that is the highs and lows).

[baggagebassman]

John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

[Efrim]

Interstellar Space? Fair enough, your life is a twisting, turning mass of insane free jazz?
Wow. :thumb:

[Son of Magni]

I would say A Love Supreme by John Coltrane for my faith and Frances The Mute by The Mars Volta for the high energy contrasted by the low energy (that is the highs and lows).
Ya know, a lot of the most amazing music that's been recorded since the early 70's could never have been conceived of if it hadn't been for A Love Supreme. That recording opened the door for so many "inovators" like McLaughlin and Miles... if you look at the history of it, it's really mind boggling.

And Mars Volta, I'd forgotten about them. What CD should I get???

[willibassist]

erm
probably:
ratm-self titled
and
children of bodom-hatebreeder cos i love it:)

[Bass_swede]

At this stage of my life it is:

Foo Fighters - Everlong
Matisyahu - WP+king without a crown

[Carpe Noctis]

And Mars Volta, I'd forgotten about them. What CD should I get???


Get either one really, De-Loused has slightly more cohesion, whereas FTM is a bit more spaced out.

[Chris K]

Dune Tune by level 42 is awesome...loving that one.

[spinal_remains]

lol i would play like the theme song for team america....

[Deacy]

The Libertines - The libertines
The Prodigy Experience - Liam Howlett (prodigy)

not because they really relate to me at all, just what i think are two of the greatest albums ever and have been to me for at least 5-6 years now

The Libertines hadn't even released Up the Bracket 5 years ago.

[Trevo]

I would have to say:
Pearl Jam-Ten
Metallica-Black album

[Polyamarous]

Funeral for a Friend isn't emo...like...at all. Man, you're not even close on this one.

-Gav
I'll have you know I went to a funeral for a friend concert, enough emo people to occupy paris