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 | kitsch hey man would you be interested in reviewing an upcoming split release i [assimilation] have with drekka? were both bloomington atmospheric industrial projects. we played a show together and recorded it. then we traded the material from each other's sets and remixed it. if you are interested, hit me back and i'll hook you up with a promo. you're the staff that i think would "get" this music the most.
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 | klap dubious i mean silveri isn't walking through that door
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| klap 100% agreed so why aren't you doing it again?
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| klap coming in HOT on irving
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| kitsch whats up man? you should trek down to bloomington next month and see me play with drekka
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 | pianotuna i find i appreciate this site most drunk and least hungover, yessir. writing for this site drunk is also my only mode of being staff anymore. that swans album is pretty ****ing intense, don't know if i can process it at the moment. folk punk is my life tho. although really i just live off ghost mice
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| pianotuna yes! ghost mice have been ruling my life lately. like AJJ but sincere. sounds like a good balance buddy. i'm exactly the same on the drinking side of things and as of today also on the work side, altho it's volunteer work so the drinking side may vanish soon. our lives are in sync obv
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 | X3ni92 5/5 for Perfume - GAME. May I ask why?
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 | Winesburgohio Thanks brah, w/r/t plot strands left untangled I would've expected those even had he completed The Pale King before eliminating his map for keeps. Infinite Jest kind of ambiguously alludes to resolutions in it's first segment but yeah it was all pretty vague. Plus I'm okay with it being unfinished-2666 was equally as stunning, if not more so, than 'Savage Detectives'. It was just whether or not he went overboard on the intellectual flourish thing that concerned me. ANYWAY Thank you very much, I
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| klap just started reading stoner, thanks for the rec baby. also picked up infinite jest
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| Winesburgohio Hey joshuatree, I see that you rec'd 'The Pale King' on the Klap4books list. What's it like? I live in New Zealand/ cultural wasteland and they're selling for 50 bucks a pop and the public library haven't ordered any copies. :'(. Is it worth the investment? I adore pretty much everything DFW has put his name too but idk it's unfinished so ARGH ADVICE PLZ
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 | chambered89 you rock as of late, near perfect ratings :]
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 | kanecooper "just saw your little comment thingy, and just realized you've already listened to both titus albums enough to make really s***ty opinions about them"haha i love you
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 | DaveyBoy Quick question on Titus. Your rating from album 1 to 2 jumped significantly. Why.
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| pianotuna you're like the guy i'd most want to hear grampa-simpson esque stories from. only now i just bother you relentlessly on this.
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 | plane i feel we are slipping apart. get on AIM more
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 | thebhoy and William Walton. Also, checkout some Antonin Dvorak, particularly Humuresque in G, Op. 32 and Yo-Yo Ma does a great version of his cello concerto no. 16 I believe. Also, Frederic Chopin's Serenade for Strings and Piano is lovely.
That should be a good start.
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| thebhoy hmm well in terms of choral music I don't have a very wide vocabulary. As for classical:
Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations is one of my favourite pieces ever, you would probably recognize Variation No. 10 (or 9? I forget) "Nimrod", famous in movies, etc.
Ralph Vaughan-Williams - A London Symphony, or Fantasia on a Theme from Thomas Tallis
Gustav Holst - The Planets
Check out my review of James Ehnes, a violinst who does a symphony each from Elrich Korngold, Samuel Barber (not Adeggio)...
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| pianotuna im having a really hard time listening to anything old/new really. id say i'm just obsessed with sufjan but i'm just at loss as to what to listen to. :( x what choo been doing?
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| pianotuna i am okay cam second name, thankyoou. about to go to work for the first time on a weekday, i feel the gloom seeping in. how have you been keeping? x
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| plane avey tare avey tare avey tare avey tareyou of all people please
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 | Enotron i actually have a really hyperbolic review for it as a 5, so by all means you should write one for it. my review is mainly just payin my respects and what not.
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| Enotron also in case you were wondering, massiveattack is a complete toolbag (js)
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| Enotron oh is it streaming? I've only heard the one track that I found streaming, but it was really great. almost sounded a little noise-rock influenced. if it's out there though, i'll be listening right when I get home.
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| plane i'm holding off to the release date. my friend and i are planning to go downtown to buy it so the trip home we can hear the whole thing. in the meantime i'm avoiding all deerhunter talk
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| plane bored. are you on fb?
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 | robertsona i may have asked you this but im always wondering what ur opinion on the actual album the joshua tree is
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| Enotron http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/39002/Tera-Melos-Patagonian-Rats/ it appears the troof has been spoken good sir
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 | TMobotron "new album rules but i remember this being kinda gayy"This is about Tera Melos's untitled if you dont remember, but IDK what kind of music you're into, but that album is hands down the best math rock album ever IMO. It's instrumental though so liking Patagonian Rats doesn't at all mean you'll like that, but if you think you might be into it you should give it another listen.
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| chambered89 yeah it took about 4 months for me to really love leaves turn inside you but tonight i was walking home from my friends house in backwoods streets and i put it on and it was awesome thanks for showing me
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| chambered89 ur 100% correct about leaves turn inside you it's incredible ty
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| plane who cares about ratings everything's a 5!
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| plane musical neighbors 8)
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| klap sweet, it's really grown on me although i have no idea what to write haha
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| klap yeah i definitely like it better than zoomer but it still hasnt clicked yet i dk i need to listen more
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| klap hey man what are your thoughts on expo 86? im torn
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 | MichaelJordan Yeah, what I meant was that bands like Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, and Unwound strike me as a qualitatively different kind of indie than indie groups that came out after the indie explosion in the early 2000s
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| MichaelJordan Hey man yeah unwound is great. Back when indie was indie
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| kitsch im studying a lot too. got two finals tmrw. i live in terre haute, its about 80 miles east of indy. you got aim or sth?
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| kitsch hey man, whats up? you live in indiana right?
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| pianotuna cant find port entropy anywhere gimme gimme gimme
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 | Kiran have (and really like) hex enduction hour and this nations saving grace, my dad was a big fan :x and with smith always going off about pavement ripping them off, i was bound to check them out eventually
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| Kiran hows the new fall album?
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| Kiran its nothing ill really listen to past the summer but if youre in the mood for tropical, balearic dance stuff, its the best youll get. a bit like air france except with vocals that follow song structure (verse, chorus). fun though, puts me in a good mood. listen to "stay close", its a good indication of the rest of the album.
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 | hydeyomoney hey most played artist Ghostface Killah, awesome.
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 | SeaAnemone just scoured your ratings/decade list to find some new music... 90 Day Men is absolutely fantastic... To Everybody is easily one of my best discoveries in a looooong time
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| klap word, yeah i'm from florida but all my relatives are still in indy so i'm there a fair amount. IU is a sweet campus
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| klap yo fag i have a bunch of friends at IU, are you from indy by any chance? that's where they all come from (my family's from there)
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 | Skimaskcheck Sorry if you've had to explain this before, but how come you've got Hospice rated as a 1 now? That feels criminal hah!
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| SeaAnemone fixed the review up, that one you were an asshole on... check it out if you want, if not no biggie.
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| SeaAnemone seriously though Cam, thanks for the critique. I appreciate it. You're probably right... while I still stand by my opinions your observation makes me think they probably don't belong in the review.
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 | ck_ck yeh u beta undastood
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| ck_ck sundays used to be metal sundays but im gettn lazy.. thursdays are colored thursdays you know black s***, also don't really have to follow that. post as much as you like or as little as you like whenever you want. only rule i guess is dont post something you dont like.
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| ck_ck invite sent via world wide web
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| ck_ck send yr email to my last.fm
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| ck_ck you should join me in my quest to internet supremacy
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 | Bulldog O HAI CAM. yo dog, what be up?
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| ck_ck yo yo caminator what it do where yo blog at
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 | Aids "maybe if i didn't have a penis i'd like this more"
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 | Electric City i never understood the irony in rating an album you love a 1
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 | tigergolf06 Did you ever get to check out Discouraged Ones by Katatonia?
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 | YouAreMySilence Its cool, I found how to get .rar. Its sooo good, Im not sure about the rating yet though.
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| YouAreMySilence Hey broheim can I ask you the biggest favour? Anyway you can send me Brian McBride's When The Detail Lost Its Freedom for zip file? Cannot find it anywhere.
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 | anotherBriOnline I love the fact you got deerhunter and discharge in the same great category
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| plane i meant you've got me starting it again. i just obtained storm and stress' debut and it is weird.
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| plane now you've started it again
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| plane i have a similar issue
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| Aids So I just listened to Popular Songs by Yo La Tengo for the third time and after thinking "good not great" through the first two spins, I think I'm starting to get why you think it's so good. I looked up reviews while listening (obviously) and your praise intrigued me. Anyway, thanks for that.
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| pianotuna ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWr6Ep8N3OU this made me smile lots
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 | Waior where does one start his yo la tengo journey?
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| pianotuna nope, im in what we call 'college' which is essentially the last two years of high school (so ages 16-18 basically). i go to uni next september but have to choose my course like now which is ugh. so yeah im young stuff on sputnik =( i imagine american uni like yours is all frisbees and um that 'frat' word everyone always uses ;)
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| pianotuna been good, sadly pretty much nothing happening in lame south england right now, hence minor influx of reviews and obsession with getting back on da sputnik ball. hows indiana/some other college place you live??
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| pianotuna sounds like i'll learn to love it a.k.a this is ****ing weird
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| pianotuna i cant find this sisterworld album =(
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| klap let's just say that i should probably stay away from all stimulating substances for the foreseeable future
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| klap haha thanks, i still feel like s*** and predict a massive comedown lasting all week. thank god for martin luther king jr.
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| klap hey man waffles just opened up invites, e-mail me your e-mail account (make sure spam filter is off) at rklapper@usc.edu. my email is being gay atm but i should get it later. i'll let you know
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| Electric City "blurbs" for 26-50, but I'll probably write a soundoff anyway
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| klap ironic that you should ask me - i have 2, one is going to kirgasm and the other is going...to cam? anyways waffles closed down invites for a bit but it'll be back in a week or two
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| Waior going to be counting all night basically, woo
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| klap cam i'm still confused as to why you disliked phoenix so much. enlighten me
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 | Minus The Flair okay well i should have two reviews out in the next fortnight - sunny day in glasgow and washed out. haven't heard much of the former but the latter is really cool.and last.fm is crazy mad with ipod scrobbling, though i do ****ing love that album.
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| Minus The Flair why is finding good new music before other people so hard this year? last year was easy. this year, no. now all the good stuff already has good reviews.**** it, i'll probably just review a record from seven years ago that no one cares about just to get back into the swing.
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| pianotuna so i was listening to to everybody and was like... i need some elite recs xx
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 | StreetlightRock Dude if you're not on to Pyramids With Nadja yet I suggest you get your s*** in order son.
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 | Kashmir09 I know I'm with you; I feel even though it gets recognition, Popular Songs is still criminally underrated. My favorite is still in question, it could literally be any of their five newer albums. I even love "Summer Sun", kaboom
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| Kashmir09 What's your favorite Yo La Tengo record? And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out?
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 | KILL3 u frontin or playin cant tell
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| Kashmir09 Your top 2 on last.fm make me very happy =) Popular Songs and Embryonic both own 2009 like nobody's business
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| klap they all rule **** :/
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| klap yeah cam i almost put xo over the s/t because about 4 of my all-time smith songs are on xo, but overall i just couldn't do it. sweet adeline, waltz 2, baby britain...i could go on
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 | Tits McGee yeah i've been pretty busy with uni and all that s*** as well. i'm assuming fall break is a thing for northern schools cause my friend at Notre Dame has it but we don't down here
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 | Roach you are my musical neighbour and i am your musical neighbour this is so nice i feel tingly in my peni
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| pianotuna up that lips rating you douche etc. miss you =(
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 | holyroach Whose this unholy roach ****er below me?
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 | breesuschrist just wanted to tell you personally that Love Tara is amazing and I pretty much only have your review to credit this discovery to. So thanks much. Know of a site with its lyrics by any chance?
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 | Essence zipper that happened... in february or whatever? no promises cam
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 | Zip Yeah I'm really slow... lol
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| Roach "its a 4 really but kane sent it to me over msn so i want to seem appreciative so sshhhh"lol i gave that album a 4 anyway
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| Zip holy s*** staff now? Cool
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 | Bsmith7 You have the best profile picture on Sputnik.
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| pianotuna yeah idk they're no robert pollard. should i check out bonnie "PRINCE" billy by the way?
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| pianotuna its a 4 really but kane sent it to me over msn so i want to seem appreciative so sshhhh
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 | fanofmusic now this is my account hey cam im your fan
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 | danse underoath's drummer
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 | rasputin yeah dude im digging the album so hard right now, charlesfishowitz rec'd me it and it's just ughhhhhhh
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| rasputin Trespassers William - Different StarsBedhead - WhatFunLifeWaswas gonna rec you incantation BUT YOU ONLY GAVE IT A 3Ataraxie - Slow Transcending AgonyExtortion - DegenerateThe Van Pelt - Sultans of Sentiment
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| danse coheed and CAMbria os***
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| pianotuna CAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMetc
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 | shindip your wheel thing looks cool its like half blue and half blackey-brown
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| Roach i hope it dies out by tonight
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| Roach *not to mention i cant spell feel oh shi
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| Roach he didnt know what was good for himself yo dig? this is weird having shoutboxes it makes me ffel like i have to comment otherwise i'm gonna look like a not cool user
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