let me know what you think of untitled #6 on niandra, love it so much haha

Album Rating: 4.4

Haven't got to DC EP either yet but Shadows is really cool so hyped for that. Also freakily nice timing man I just got Untitled #6 then, it's sweet as.

yeah it's similar songwriting style to shadows but the production is stripped way back, him and josh made all those 2004 albums in like four or five days each

dc ep is a real gem man, just four very good songs

Album Rating: 4.4

Sweet I'll make sure to check that out as well. Untitled #8 is a bit of wtf though.

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh man DC EP, such a soft spot for that one

yeah untitled 8 is dicks

11, 12, 13 are cool

Album Rating: 4.4

Liking 12 a lot, love those tripped-out lyrics. His vocals are so all over the place though, sometimes they're great like on his later stuff and sometimes they're just ear-wrenching. Guitarwork is phenomenal as always though.

Album Rating: 4.0

Heroin

Album Rating: 4.4

Pretty much, he sounds like he was well and truly fucked up on those albums. Surprisingly I liked Smile quite a bit, not as hard to listen to or bad as people make it out to be. It really could have done without Nigger Song though, that was just shit.

most of niandra was recorded before heroin though

smile rules a lot yeah, life's a bath is fucking incredible

Album Rating: 4.4

I really liked the title track, raw as fuck. Once you get past that bad upper register he had on that album there's really little to complain about. And I listened to that Estrus EP and oh man, if he'd put on Outside Space instead of Nigger Song, that shit would've been fucking amazing.



Anyway on From the Sounds Inside now and so far I've been enjoying it way more than Water. Water just didn't grab apart from a few songs for some reason.

he made sweet instrumentals then (ramparts, murderers, with love)

Album Rating: 4.4

Yeah agreed but idk I just didn't dig it that much. I'm a vocals-centric guy so I think I'll always like his later releases more just cos he improved so much on those ones.

yeah man his singing improved so so much around 01, them backing vox on by the way

Album Rating: 4.4

He was even great in '99 on Californication, fuckin Right on Time man. Still prefer Klinghoffer on vocals but I could say that in comparison to most artists, not a dig at Frusciante.

yeah klinghoffer is one of my absolute fave voices, really unique and really really awesome

love when he just slurs the fuck out of his words, esp tunes like communique, at your enemies, another etc

Album Rating: 4.4

Yeah dude probably my Top 5 singers but not sure, need to check out some live stuff from him cos I dunno if he uses effects on record or not. But yeah I know what you mean with the slurring, normally it would annoy me cos I can't understand the lyrics but it just works so well with him especially with Dot Hacker, just sort of takes away the need for verses or choruses and blurs it into one giant line, it's amazing. I think Communique is my favourite song by him and Frusciante, counting DH and Frusciante solo.

effects on record? you mean on his voice? i don't think so, perhaps a lil bit of reverb here and there but otherwise no

i remember reading that on 'another' he was trying to make his voice sound like it was being altered by synths without actually adding any effects, pretty cool idea

yeah communique is just insanely unfairly good like wow

live version of communique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZE6bKE6av0

sounds pretty similar to the record (no vocal effects)

Album Rating: 4.4

Yeah I meant on his voice, I read an interview where he said he was really nervous about just putting his vocals and lyrics out there (understandable) so he used effects to sort of hide that a bit, not sure if he was referring to Dot Hacker though. I can never tell whether there's reverb or not, I showed some of my friends his part on "Meet Me at the Corner" and they said it had heaps of reverb but I can't tell. Cheers for the live version though that was just what I was looking for, sounds amazing.