EmeritusReviews 153Approval 98%Soundoffs 25News Articles 7Band Edits 24Album Edits 104Album Ratings 56Objectivity 56%Last Active 05-19-13 7:28 pmJoined 01-27-07Forum Posts 347Review Comments 4,043
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 | Irving "Objectivity 57%". Lawl.
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 | klap there's that robin 4.5 i know and love
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 | MisterTornado thanks, i'm glad you feel as strongly against boba as i
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| klap hey where'd all your ratings go
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 | PuddlesPuddles My most favorite musical mackerel. How is the course of life?
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 | silentpotato indeed mon frere. i like your folk taste tho ;]
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| silentpotato haha word that happened... well i mean im sure weve spoken on multiple occasions considering uve been here even longer than me but i think our tastes keep us from crossing paths too regularly
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| silentpotato lol well i guess i retract that statement as i am officially speaking to you. nice blue hawaii review/rating btw
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 | greg84 Thanks. Hah. I thought you guys get paid over there at popmatters. Anyway, the site looks really professional. They're in the habit of publishing plenty of year-end lists, which is a neat idea, especially for someone who wants to catch up with new stuff.
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| greg84 Hey. I've come across your reviews at popmatters.com Mad props. It's a really cool site. I especially like reading their movie write-ups.
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 | Voivod Yeah you are probably right I guess, thanks a lot man, really appreciate it.
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 | Aids what is with every person who has ratings that I actually care about wiping theirs lately? bro, what do I 4.5?
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 | robertsona not a promise or a threat or an ultimatum?
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 | barcafan21 your avatar wahhhhhhhhhhhh i love it so much
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| Irving Therein lies the problem. I had forgotten. In the midst of my excitement. The album's not out yet. I don't think it has leaked either. And you can only hear three of the songs here http://airreview.bandcamp.com/ Do you still heart me? =(
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 | porch it's good! also, farewell :(
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 | Ire staff keeps getting more poopy damn rip robin
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 | RosaParks i was having a bad night. don't mind me
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 | Ponton I read popmatters sporadically and enjoy the variety of things they cover. I hope it goes well
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| Ponton our graduating class didnt last long :(
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 | Iluvatar i'm on a mission to never agree
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| Irving BAD ROBIN :3 But seriously album's pretty good. Not AOTY material, but definitely worth a gander :)
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| porch i haven't listened yet actually,gonna wait till i get a physical copy. been hearing positive things about it though
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 | Spare http://www.mediafire.com/?vos57x6rbgr65kf
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| Spare dood have you listened to hop along
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| klap source tags and codes man
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| porch can't complain, had a good summer but looking forward to getting back to college now
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| Ponton I don't know. I'm stuck
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 | Deviant. Try Jon Hopkins - Opalescent, Desolate, The Invisible Insurrection, Lawrence - The Absence Of Blight, Zomby - Dedication (bit of an oddball, but by the end of the album you'll know why I chose it), Martin Schulte - Close You Eyes And Listen and BvDub - Tribes At The Temple Of Silence. Give those a try and see what you think
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 | Electric City i submit that lovelock record which is the least abrasive thing ever and is a 4/5 and you should check it out
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 | joshuatree yeah it's a good balance in a way. it feels like my life is a japandroids song, with all that implies, right now. honestly the only times i actively use this site is while really ****ing drunk after i get home from a party. but yeah that ghost mice record is amazing. it got me to dl all these punk-folk records, by ajj and defiance ohio, but the seer has dominated my listening the past few days, it's so good
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| joshuatree hey man, not too much. basically working all the time and drinking all the time, not really having a whole lot of time to do much else. ready for college to start again. yourself? also i finally dl'd that ghost mice record, so good
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| Deviant. I always make a concession for Robin!
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| Irving Thanks a huge huge bunch Robin - I'll try my damned hardest not to let any of you guys down =) Shouldn't be hard though, really - two 5.0 St. Vincent reviews for you, a shameless 3.5 write-up for the new Boys Like Girls album, plus a few gratuitous mentions of teenage sex for the Adam Downer in all of us and I should be home free.
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| Irving CELEBRATORY ACTOR REVIEW!!!!!
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| silentpotato thanks dude! yeah, i take a picture, upload it onto my computer, plug in my pen tablet (google that if u dont know what it is, you'll see a picture and be like ah i see), then basically edit the photos on photoshop (colors, manipulation, removing/blending, taking animal skulls and pasting them on top of peoples faces etc) and then put them through a corel program i have where i literally draw and paint on the rest.
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| klap oh mah gawd i can't believe you remembered. i don't know what national british day is but....i'll be thinking of you
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| PuddlesPuddles Actually that's better than forcing, y'know? Let the songs... find youu
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| silentpotato haha yeah i definitely go for the eerie feel. glad you enjoy man thanks for takin a look. im starting a visual arts program on van island in september so hopefully ill have some even better stuff up in a while
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| silentpotato word dude, well you can see the full sized version of it along with some of my other stuff on here; http://sudatsuga.deviantart.com/ i do it all on a computer using photos as a base
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 | AliW1993 I probably won't be doing a review, but I was pleasantly surprised, especially after LGETF. Maybe it was low expectations...
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| PuddlesPuddles That's what I look forward to with each of his albums, each a different medium channeled through.. Seriously one day soon sit down and listen to To Record Only Water for Ten Days. It's a beautifully lonely album. Really makes a home in your head.
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| PuddlesPuddles Chore - The Hitchhiker (early 00's alt rock) Seafood - This is Not An Exit (possibly a simpler Dismemberment Plan, a sound you will fancy) Illogic - Celestial Clockword (Hiphop)...
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| PuddlesPuddles Ohhh, the pressure. I'll be natural! So here are songs I obsess. Perchance you may not have heard them and this will spark interest into full albums: Chris Smither - Train Home (Folk) Benjy Ferree - Leaving Nest (Folk Rock) Deftones - Sex Tape (very beautiful) Liars - No. 1 Against the Rush (smooth) Treepeople - Something Vicious for Tomorrow/ Liquid Boy (grunge punk) John Frusciante - Wind Up Space. The Mercury Program - Tequesta (soothing post-rock)
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 | aokuneff i think (hope?) you'd enjoy the Anais Mitchell track, 'coming down' , but i've been wrong about you before
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 | AggravatedYeti grouper, yes? beach house, no? Sometimes I get confused it seems.
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| PuddlesPuddles I like to think myself a classy user, until I start typing ;)
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| Spare wait there's a new ghost mouse record?
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 | wabbit ya he's quickly becoming my favourite person in music. And his discography has this really cool arc in it which you almost never see.
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| wabbit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8YHVQGfFLs check 'em out. It's like AJJ with better lyrics
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| AggravatedYeti would you punch someone if they said: "will sheff sucks?"
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| klap hahaha i figured it out. i think i'm offended but i'm not sure
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| klap testy this morning sir. what pre-black sheep boy okkervil river should i absolutely get
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 | plane you're the one doing it wrong
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| klap got a copy boom
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| klap hey brit do you have a link to that cate le bon album
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 | Timmons i really like the opening paragraph to your review of merriweather post pavillion :)
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| robertsona shut up you fatface i'm doing well you know just pushin on by listening to some bad music glad to see you like vashti bunyan and the avalanches
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 | kitsch hey man long time no chat. hows things?
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| AliW1993 I'm giving it a second spin and I'm enjoying it slightly more, but it's still not exactly great :(
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| AliW1993 Will you be reviewing Guided By Voices by any chance?
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| PuddlesPuddles Nvm, read your 2011 list and no doubt will be drowned with the albums I haven't heard from there, thank ye
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| PuddlesPuddles Tuna :'-) I haven't been able to trace new music in a couple of months now, what did I miss?
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 | Gyromania can't get enough of bee thousand lately =]
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 | Enotron dig that you dig the world is a beautiful place!
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| klap hey new G-Side what's the verdict
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| klap song of the year or what
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| robertsona http://www.mediafire.com/?ikwgutjyrum so completely essential/youll loveit/you dont even KNOW man
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| aokuneff a dubstep remix of the bees? if zeds dead can do pyramid song you may be onto something
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 | DaveyBoy If u r a soccer nut. 369566-239495 - fantasy.premierleague.com
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| wabbit Mr. Smith you should review that Tim New Viking album because it's really friggin' and the kids need to know.
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 | Minus The Flair that entire scene where gus stays silent right up until he walks out the lab is one of the most badass/tense scenes ever.
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| Minus The Flair i don't think i'll be able to see til tomorrow night either as it's the premiere tonight so probably won't be up til tomorrow and i'm working the day. i've just remembered the ending to season 3, now i really am distraught at having to wait. it's been too long since pinkman's pretty face has graced my screen.
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| AggravatedYeti oh no s***? I was unaware. thanks for making my day even better robin.
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 | Baumer Glad to see another Beirut lover. The new album is incredible. You digging it?
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 | Kiran i looooooooove beirut, they're all i've been listening to lately
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| Kiran you're digging beirut!
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| klap BAHAHA foiled again
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| AggravatedYeti both really, it is funny but also purty good. blackalicious is a great find too. Blazing Arrow is such a wonderful record. You should check out De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest eventually. If you like Backalicious you'd probably eat those up too.
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| Deviant. I'm still a little in shock that I can now associate Robin with electronic music
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| Electric City not yet, but over half the album is out in one way or another. you should definitely listen, probably to "L Y F" (with the video). There's a good chance they'll be huge.
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| joshuatree if you haven't heard the unicorns - who will cut our hair when we're gone? then you need to get on that, i'm like positive you'll love it
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 | BluRain that rating saddens me greatly...
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| porch yeah i've been intending to give that okkervil river album a listen, only heard black sheep boy by them but i remember it being pretty cool. and i need some new stuff to listen to. congrats on finishing school, i've got exams coming up soon as well but trying not to think about them right now because ****
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| porch hey robin, pretty good, just chilling and visiting family this weekend. probably gonna spend a while setting up a new turntable i just got as well. how are you?
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 | Superbus really digging GBv's Bee a Thousand, what should i get next by them?
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| Deviant. Its not even "proper" dubstep so you're safe on that front http://depositfiles.com/en/files/5k2u3nttu
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| Deviant. Cheers Robin. You should check it out, and then we can be dubstep buddies and get messy together and all that
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| Aids yeah thanks, I had already downloaded Bee Thousand but I'll check out that other one for sure if I end up liking Bee Thousand
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| DaveyBoy Pie charts only take into account love. You know that. 3.5 and above I think.
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| Ponton you have isolation drills at 3.5 :(
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| Ponton cannnnnttttttttttttt Under the stars and isolation drills (GBV 4s)
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| Ponton Until I get it, I can't breathe, climbing high upon the rocky cliffs, we fly with surgical focus
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| DaveyBoy I love indie pop more than you. Look at our pie charts.
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| DaveyBoy I swear you need to be tested for ratings steroids of late Robin.
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| Ponton counter tomboy please =)
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 | kingsoby1 i'll have something up by official release at worst, will be a 3.5/5
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| kingsoby1 listening to tvotr right now, might hammer something out tonight. veering towards 3.5ish. yes yes get the weeknd right now
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| kingsoby1 sup. yeah im having a hard time forcing myself to listen to it for the review. it's solid, but i'm obsessed with weeknd and panda bear right now.
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| plane vivian girls or james blake? because both seem unlikely. james blake is nothing short of the rating i feel it deserves
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| plane we share the joy 8)
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| plane get me new vivian girls
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| robertsona also, i sort of just realized the amazingness of michael jackson. maybe.....
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| robertsona will do! i only have one prefab sprout album but it's pretty much perfect front to back. my favorite songs by them are "appetite" "goodbye lucille #1" and "when love breaks down"
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| robertsona i will if u prefab. not even positive youll like it because youre such a wild card but yes it is amazing i will fight you if you dont like it :)
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| robertsona Hay hay in china rn leave me a gift when i get back and listen to that prefab sprout xoxoxoxoxo
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| Enotron for real tho did you hear those crazy ass guitar harmonies in "let me back in"? sputnik doesn't enjoy funnn
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| Enotron new explosions rulllles what is everyones problem !?
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| robertsona beatles are the only band i would allow you to hold off a rec for
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| robertsona http://www.mediafire.com/?qzydrp4s35rw3wo made it easy for ya
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| robertsona if you listen to prefab sprout - steve mcqueen i will listen to galaxie 500 until i five it
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| PuddlesPuddles Still alive my man, just busy with some recordings and kidnappings.I mean... educations :o
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| porch yea i'm good thanks, been kinda busy with looking for a new apartment and other s*** recently but will probably be back living life vicariously through sputnik soon enough. just added u on lastfm if you're wondering who newestindustry is
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 | Yotimi hey man I have a special rec for you cuz I heard you were in need: Le Loup - The throne of the Third Heaven of the Nation's Millenium General Assembly
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| porch how are you mr smith
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| AggravatedYeti I can't stop listening to PJ Harvey, Braids and Stricken City. I'll be back with some recs, or I'll blog-o-fy you something. I still need to make a post for Kirsy anyways. I can double up! But for now. Slowdive - Souvlaki and Al Green - Let's Stay Together
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 | natey thanks for telling me about Mermaid (Okkervil)! it's splendid
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 | Grignard Ha yeah my buddy showed me Tarkus from Emerson Lake and Palmer a while back
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| AggravatedYeti if you still need a copy by tomorrow I can always just doctor you something up. Give a shout if you do. I may even still have it saved in my mf account.
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| robertsona cool. thanks a lot! i promise i won't tell you to check out anything more, but "sleeping on the plane" from the Cinema One album is my version of Julianna Barwick...just fyi! (it's also the only song i'm involved in from that album)
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| robertsona well i mean shady lane already has a pretty...um...malkmusy???...vocal line on it. we've sort of spread out our sound from dragonboy but who knows. send me yr s***! also, may i get an opinion on "university hospital" from strictly business? has been divisive so far
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| robertsona sweet. it's pretty weird stuff, i've just realized. comes naturally???
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| AggravatedYeti eeesh. find yourself a good DL and buy it...eventually. Album is killer on LP though. My buddy let me borrow his a few months back--so ****ing crisp with some nice headphones. But yeah, f that price tag.
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| AggravatedYeti worth it. so worth it. maybe even vinyl............................
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| robertsona http://stringerbarksdale.bandcamp.com/album/stevedores-2IF YOU ARE BORED...me and an irl friend jammin out. me singing on tracks 3, 7, 9, 10!
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| Grignard Man that Supper's Ready song was WAY too long hahah! Obviously Floyd is pretty renowned and King Crimson is tight as well, but do you know of any other 70s prog worth listening to?
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| Deviant. Season2 is where the show really starts to come in to its own, but I think s3 is the best season. After you watch the very final episode we can get into a healthy debate regarding its ambiguous ending, depending on what side of the fence you may end up on
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| AggravatedYeti hey bbcakes. if you were give me one album to listen to, say tomorrow--what would it be? Just collecting some single recs from various sources.Think of it as a birthday present of yours given to me. Also i'm not sure that post card is going to make it before tomorrow : (
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| Grignard The reason why it caught my attention so much is b/c I have a friend who lives for 70s prog regardless of whether it is unique or sounds like everything else. Strikes me as odd sometimes when they seemingly sound so much alike.
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| Grignard Hey, I read your review of The Suburbs and was interested to hear you briefly mentioned thoughts on prog music.
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| klap g-side's street team re-tweeted your review on klap haha
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| Electric City youre absolutely right about the new strokes song. love this
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| Deviant. I was always slightly more partial to Parklife, but that whole trilogy of albums (Modern Life being the third one) was essentially my first foray into anything non metal or hip hop when I was a wee slip of a lad
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| Deviant. Which will always be the greatest of connections
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| Kiran hes a great player and all but it comes to a point where 35m is just a stupid sum for a striker whos barely proven himself in the prem
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| Kiran im developing a bad habit of only listening to shuffle so ill regularly move from pure ariel pink joy to more than life hxc crybabies in mere seconds, my hormones cant handle it
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| Kiran we def got the same link cause i had to dl track 7 again as well. just keep listening to 'round and round' on repeat otherwise cause that chorus might be the best thng ever
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| Kiran also, just noticed you rated the latest love is all, its so so great
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| Kiran frog eyes - pauls tomb: a triumph. only thing ive wanted to listen to lately when ive had the time to sit through anything.
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| Kiran you're digging a hip hop album, you alternative bastard!
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| AggravatedYeti Their albums really just get better over time I think. The more I listen to each one, the better it gets. imo Starshipz totes their purest sound, but The One is easily the most progressive and full-bodied they've been. Each record just has so many layers
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| natey yay robin I'm so glad.
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 | BigTuna Nothing much, just digging my new record player and vinyls. And school. Yourself?
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 | SeaAnemone at the point I realized I knew every word and it had some of my most-played songs ever I knew it wasn't worth resisting and 5'd it :) It's like the definition of infectious to me
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 | Knott- i once got given a mixtape with about 5 okkervil river songs on it alongside probably 3 fleet foxes tracks and ive not played it since
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 | conradtao do you have AIM/google talk, by any chance?
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| conradtao I'm really hoping you come around to loving the new Deerhoof as much as I do because my 4.5 feels very lonely at the moment...
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| PuddlesPuddles I have like 3 different versions of the same song spanned out 3 genres. I'm the most indecisive, though most determined, puddle ever.
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| Minus The Flair vienna and prague, can't complain with that. they'll definitely be on my route. shame about moscow though, ****ed up. a drunken haircut on the other hand, that sounds genius. i hope you, or somebody else, shaved some weakerthans lyrics into the back of your head.
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| Minus The Flair gonna be one cryptic review. the comments will just become our new shoutbox. i've been freakin bored lately, my workload has just ceased after my hectic three deadline week, and basically being fired from waterstones (really i was just released as a temp but i prefer the drama of fired). my birthday came and went in a very unspectacular fashion. but good news is i should be travelling europe with my brother at the end of the year (hopefully). how's yourself?
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| Minus The Flair ugh, i really need to come out of the woodwork don't i? like jacob before season 5. gonna write a review for is terrified though. how does one feel about this?
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