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Last Active 09-26-19 3:01 pm
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| REC ROULETTE ROUND 11 -- Butcher Breakout
lungsandgills, tippergoreics, closedrcircuitverse.. | | 1 |  | Big Boys
Where's My Towel / Industry Standard
This round, I want driving music.. rec me an album perfect for a long drive.. not speed necessarily, i want mood projection, mental vistas, atmosphere settings.. you can rec one whole album or put together a mixtape.. | | 2 |  | Ichiko Aoba
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Frippy
If there is an album perfect for riding a bike through autumnal Paris while being super duper Japanese, this may be it.. Precious and pretty in place, and starkly pensive in others, I like it, but also don't for reasons that may be just the same.. her bijou voice also gave me an eerie feeling that i murdered a pile of drunk teenagers in a remote cabin.. ultimately, the beautifully frail compositions overshadowed her horror film child voice.. also i do not ride bicycles, nor do i want to.. 3.5/5 | | 3 |  | Casualties of Cool
Casualties of Cool
gilly
Daddy kicked this off in grand road trip fashion.. from then on, it proceeded to intermittently dive into the sort of epic soundscapes that made it seem like i was driving on less a road trip, and more off a cliff Thelma and Louise grand finale-like.. which isn't a bad thing in itself.. there were a lot of cool sounds happening here and it took quite a few listens for all of this album's secret treasures to start surfacing.. overall, out of all the Townsend you've rec'ed me, gilly, this is the by far my favourite.. a colossal epic that's just low-key enough to appeal to my primitive punk proclivities!! 4/5 and ZEE WINNER!! | | 4 |  | Odonis Odonis
Post Plague
Uni (who actually made a mixtape, you lazy fucks..)
Needs
starts off a little too aggressively.. it's a road trip, not a ride through an acid barrel.. | | 5 |  | Pop. 1280
Paradise
Pyramids on Mars
a decent, spooky little industrial number.. the chanted vocal are goofy (disney tm).. | | 6 |  | Wax Idols
American Tragic
Goodbye Baby
alright, this is more like it.. gloomy and propellant, but hits the right spots.. overall though, you're gearing for a much more intense drive than what i had in mind.. | | 7 |  | Tempers
Services
Strange Harvest
post-punk disco with detached female vox? yes, please!!! | | 8 |  | Marnie
Crystal World
The Wind Breezes On
cloying electronica with half-involved female vox? no, thank you!!! | | 9 |  | Cliff Martinez
Drive
College + Electric Youth - A Real Hero
as a young band(s), if you're going to worship and plunder the 80's, why not venture into the more interesting, daring genres that were cropping up around that time? huh? HUH!?!?!? | | 10 |  | Minor Victories
Minor Victories
Scattered Ashes
hmm... | | 11 |  | She Past Away
Belirdi Gece
Rituel
yes!!!!!! hell yes, amazing tune!! | | 12 |  | Drab Majesty
The Demonstration
Too Soon to Tell
hmm part 2 electric bugaloo | | 13 |  | The KVB
Minus One
Radiant Hour
given how many imitators try to ape Joy Division, i'm honestly baffled by how much airy neutered male vox dominate that niche.. does no one remember how ragged and fucked off Ian Curtis sounded through the whole thing? decent tune, i suppose.. | | 14 |  | Horrid Red
Nightly Wreaths
Where are the Bluebells?
pretty fucking great! some nice patient work here.. night drives galore! | | 15 |  | Babel 17
Celeano Fragments
Darkest Years
I do applaud you for seeking out so many post-punk bands from across the globe, but we both know that genre was born and died in the gloomy smog of England.. also, naming yourself after a Delany book is lame, since the best novel he ever wrote was not sci-fi (The Mad Man, a filthy and sweeping homoerotic epic, and a fucking amazing book to boot!!) | | 16 |  | All Your Sisters
Modern Failures
Come Feel
the little breakdowns after the verses salvaged the tune.. some decent effects | | 17 |  | O. Children
Apnea
Holy Wood
a much better rip off of Depeche Mode and JD's Atmosphere that it has a right to be..
Score -- going with post-punk was a pretty good choice, however, i'd have much preferred some older stuff rather than a slew of modern revivalists.. still, some great tunes there and a few artists i will be checking into..
3.5/5 | |
butcherboy
10.26.17 | go on then, pagans.. | Papa Universe
10.26.17 | If I were to put together a mixtape, what would be the track limitation? 10 as always? | butcherboy
10.26.17 | 10 as a minimum, but you can go as long as you fancy.. | SandwichBubble
10.26.17 | "rec me an album perfect for a long drive"
if one of you doesn't say This is a Long Drive, it's lights out | Papa Universe
10.26.17 | shit ill make you a mixtape for 6 days interstate drive baby | Papa Universe
10.26.17 | Drive OST could also work | butcherboy
10.26.17 | yea, i really didn't like that movie, that actor or that director, so I would gauge this in a different direction, Uni.. | bgillesp
10.26.17 | I love neurosis for driving personally but lemme dig for something you'd like | Frippertronics
10.26.17 | going to rec either Ichiko Aoba - 0% (atmospheric, 90 minute live album, very calming at some points, other more busy but never overwhelming)
or
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth (you know what to expect) | Frippertronics
10.26.17 | have in mind, both will fulfill the long drive aspect as both are double albums | butcherboy
10.26.17 | I'm taking ichiko, and putting a two round moratorium on you rec'ing sylvian.. In the name of getting more recs, godammit!!! | bgillesp
10.26.17 | Would you take Calsualties of Cool- s/t including the bonus 2nd disc? It's like 2:30 together | Frippertronics
10.26.17 | damn right, but you'll never stop me!!! you cannot evade a god for so long, you know! | butcherboy
10.26.17 | gill, sure will.. if you decide to put a mixtape together, I'm keeping this open for a bit.. But yea, that rec is cool with me.. | butcherboy
10.26.17 | Fripp, I'm going to spend the next two days listening to everything by him so you can't rec him anymore! | Frippertronics
10.26.17 | do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | bgillesp
10.26.17 | It would be fun to, but I've got way too much going on right now for that. I'll stick with the concept journey that's already built | Papa Universe
10.26.17 | It's kind of a mixed bag, but whatever
Odonis Odonis - Needs (from Post Plague)
Pop. 1280 - Pyramids on Mars (from Paradise)
Wax Idols - Goodbye Baby (from Amerian Tragic)
Tempers - Strange Harvest (from Services)
Marnie - The Wind Brezes On (from Crystal World)
College + Electric Youth - A Real Hero (from Drive OST)
Minor Victories - Scattered Ashes (from s/t)
She Past Away - Rituel (from Belirdi Gece)
Drab Majesty - Too Soon to Tell (from The Demonstration)
The KVB - Radiant Hour (from Minus One)
Horrid Red - Where Are the Bluebells? (from Nightly Wreaths)
Babel 17 - Darkest Years (from Celeano Fragments)
All Your Sisters - Come Feel (from Modern Failures)
O. Children - Holy Wood (from Apnea) | butcherboy
11.05.17 | results for this bad boy tomorrow.. | bgillesp
11.06.17 | Neato! I'll be surprised if you dug Devin but whatever | Frippertronics
11.08.17 | three days later... | Papa Universe
11.08.17 | We need a DLC for this. The Dirty Liar Couteriniciative. | Frippertronics
11.08.17 | he's taking after me !
the horror... | Papa Universe
11.08.17 | Wait a second, don't you have two rounds of your own shit to finish? | Frippertronics
11.08.17 | I did listen to Mess, if that counts for anything | bgillesp
11.17.17 | So are you actually leaving the site or just taking a break from responsibilities to travel? You've been one of the best users on this site, so you'll be missed if you do leave. Hate that you didn't like your situation at work, but I hope stuff works out | butcherboy
11.17.17 | nah, i'll be around while I travel, though perhaps not so actively as before.. cheers though, gill, appreciate it very much.. i WILL get this round done in the next day or so regardless, shameful that I put it off for so long! | bgillesp
11.17.17 | Whenever is cool. Im no longer worried about the timeline for this thing, haha. Enjoy your galavanting about! | bgillesp
11.17.17 | Also you might dig parts of the list I just posted | butcherboy
11.21.17 | DONE!!!!!! | Papa Universe
11.21.17 | at least nobody can say i'm half-assing it, aye? | butcherboy
11.21.17 | sorry, Uni. will definitely be listening to more Horrid Red and She Past Away | Papa Universe
11.21.17 | just out of curiosity, could you listen to this playlist b-side? Get Well Soon - Staying Home | butcherboy
11.21.17 | yea, that's not bad at all.. | Frippertronics
11.21.17 | Hmmmmmmm | bgillesp
11.21.17 | Yeah, go Devin! | bgillesp
11.21.17 | Ghost and Ki are his closest albums to this but I doubt you'd like them as much | bgillesp
11.21.17 | I believe Fripp requires a break, so do y'all want to set a return date? | Papa Universe
11.21.17 | I propose on this day in a week (28th or 29th maybe). Then on to the final 4 rounds (so that we have 15 done) and bag it up. | butcherboy
11.21.17 | a week sounds alright.. i'll be just gearing up to leave the continent though, so my things will be coming in intermittently.. | Papa Universe
11.21.17 | where you headed? | butcherboy
11.21.17 | a week in barcelona for a friend's wedding, then going off to bosnia, slovakia, see where it takes me from there.. | Papa Universe
11.21.17 | interesting | butcherboy
11.21.17 | going to drown in rakia, turkish delight, arak coffee and slavic pussy.. | bgillesp
11.21.17 | Cool! I wanna hit Sweden, Iceland, and Germany at some point | butcherboy
11.21.17 | other side is ten times cheaper and ten times looser.. hahaha | Papa Universe
11.22.17 | been there, done that. also had to hit the obligatory malaria/std-treatment spas in switzerland afterwards, but it was worth it | butcherboy
11.22.17 | the penicillin years.. | Papa Universe
11.22.17 | Mark Lanegan - Dry Iced would have fitted nicely, but you have surely heard that already. | Papa Universe
12.04.17 | I need to have this said, I don't know if you've heard, but I just found out that that atrociously cheap Roadside Picnic pilot was cancelled by AMC, so they won't be making it. Victory at last! | butcherboy
12.04.17 | Good.. preview looked horribly misinformed, and that book is a sacred slice of my young adulthood.. Not to be debased | Papa Universe
12.04.17 | The pilot was directed by Alan Taylor of the Terminator: Genysis infame. | butcherboy
12.04.17 | never saw it.. But that show was always doomed.. If they'd stuck to the original writing, it'd be too dense and moribund for average viewers and get cancelled.. If they diluted it, it'd be utter shit and get cancelled.. The book is pretty known internationally as both an important piece of Cold War literature, and as a science fiction staple, but it's also very much a book a lot of people claim to love, having not actually read it.. | Papa Universe
12.04.17 | Well, the pilot was only technical, ie the thing you make and show to the producers and they'll then decide if they want it or not.
As for the book, I am usually not all that against adapting things into television format, because I lot of the time you can get a lot of interesting things out of it, without being too pedantic in the following of the source material (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency be my proof). However, even I do admit that some things are better kept untouched. Although I myself have previously toyed with the idea of reusing certain Strugatsky plots and ideas under a different setting or interpretation... | butcherboy
12.04.17 | I think a book like forsaken city by them would make a more digestible show in the west.. Holistic detective show was ducking stellar indeed! is there a second season coming soon? | Papa Universe
12.04.17 | The second season has now 7 episodes out already. | butcherboy
12.05.17 | oh shit!. yess!!! | Papa Universe
12.20.17 | Dirk Gently got cancelled... | Papa Universe
02.05.18 | So are we doing this again or what? | bgillesp
02.05.18 | Still gonna wait but it'll happen eventually |
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