[I]Domestica [/I] might be my favourite album, ever.

[QUOTE=The Great Decay][I]Domestica [/I] might be my favourite album, ever.[/QUOTE]
I've been meaning to pick that one up.

[QUOTE=NachoChez]Television - [i]Marquee Moon[/i]

been a long time since I dug this out.[/QUOTE]

I love that album. Looooooove it.

Converge - Jane Doe
Converge - Petitioning The Empty Sky

I might be seeing these guys at the end of the month.

[QUOTE=NachoChez][i]Jane Doe[/i] is pretty much one of my favorite albums ever. Nothing has ever been louder.[/QUOTE]
You fanboy. It's not [i]that[/i] good.

Upon first listen I didn't like converge, but I've [I]really[/I] come around.

Hey Bread (late), I saw your friend at my gig last night. Freaked me out.

I have heard quite a bit about Converge but I have never looked into them. What do they sound like?

[QUOTE=Daniel!]I have heard quite a bit about Converge but I have never looked into them. What do they sound like?[/QUOTE]
Chaos.

[QUOTE=Luxor]Chaos.[/QUOTE]

Accurate description.

Picture spastic vocals and even more spastic guitar riffs. Now multiply that by 10.

It's also very draining to listen to. Amazing band.

[QUOTE=Tapeworm]Hey Bread (late), I saw your friend at my gig last night. Freaked me out.[/QUOTE]

:lol:

Was it Greg (GMac from the Aussie forum)? I told him to go to it. :cool:

Should I buy "Pushing The Senses" by Feeder?

I've been waiting for the She Wants Revenge album to come out on october 25th.... other than that i've been into Death Cab for Cutie (thats been going on for some time now though),
Genius - no official releases yet, but check out Break, Afraid and Everything's Fine.

Neve - older band, got dumped after their first album... never got to release their good stuff - the album colombia mad them release sounds like pop, but their other stuff has strong Depeche Mode/The Cure influences. They are scheduled to release a new album sometime next year... we shall see where that goes.

Oh and Forever in a Second... although I havent been keeping up on them recently. Check out Autobiography in Song if you can find it.

[QUOTE=The Great Decay]Accurate description.

Picture spastic vocals and even more spastic guitar riffs. Now multiply that by 10.[/QUOTE]

That's an accurate description.

Today I've listened to:

Cap'n Jazz
Dredg
Drive Like Jehu
Mission of Burma

Ulver - Blood Inside
My first real experience with electronicky Ulver. I can't work out whether it's a very good, well-crafted and thought out album, or a shoddy mess.

The Meads of Asphodel - The Excommunication of Christ
This has been much easier to figure out. It's taken me five years to finally get around to picking it up, but I'm loving it now. It's got the same brilliant mix of instrumentation and styles as it's successor ([i]Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua[/i]), and, despite the occasional puzzling inclusion of some - presumably unintentionally - fairground-esque keyboards, the songwriting's up to as high a standard as that album, too. Time seems it's only enemy, at the moment.

Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Finally got this album, having loved a few of the songs from it (notably Where Dead Angels Lie) for quite a while now. Where Dead Angels Lie is still my favourite for now (being one of the best songs I've ever heard), but the whole thing's great.

Nick Drake - Pink Moon sticks out in the group a bit I suppose, but that's what else I've been digging today. Almost certainly the one most suited to this forum, too.

[QUOTE=Bartender]The Meads of Asphodel - The Excommunication of Christ
This has been much easier to figure out. It's taken me five years to finally get around to picking it up, but I'm loving it now. It's got the same brilliant mix of instrumentation and styles as it's successor ([i]Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua[/i]), and, despite the occasional puzzling inclusion of some - presumably unintentionally - fairground-esque keyboards, the songwriting's up to as high a standard as that album, too. Time seems it's only enemy, at the moment.[/QUOTE]

Would you consider it better than [I]Exhuming[/I]? I've heard a few songs from it which were good but I don't know which of the two releases to get.

Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonalyst
DJ Shadow - Entroducing...
13 and God - 13 and God

DJ Shadow is by far the best of those three.

[QUOTE=Bartender]Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Finally got this album, having loved a few of the songs from it (notably Where Dead Angels Lie) for quite a while now. Where Dead Angels Lie is still my favourite for now (being one of the best songs I've ever heard), but the whole thing's great.[/QUOTE]

Ooh, I'm getting around to listening to that as well after a bit of Arsis, who kind of bored me. Today's been that and some Slackers.

The Faint - [I]Wet From Birth[/I]
Black Sabbath - [I]S/T[/I]
The Commodores - [I]Greatest Hits[/I]

Daniel Johnston - [I]Fun[/I]
Mark Hollis - S/T
Television Personalities - [I]They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles[/I]

I bet a lot of people here would enjoy Daniel Johnston. He's a lo-fi singer/songwriter type artist and he's done collaborations with such artists as Half Japanese and Jason Trachtenburg. I just checked his website and he doesn't have any samples but catch me on AIM sometime and I can send a few tracks or a full album to anyone interested.

Is Daniel Johnston one and the same as Silverchair's Daniel Johns? I've read some things saying it is so and the whole thing confuses me.

[QUOTE=Interstate]Would you consider it better than [I]Exhuming[/I]? I've heard a few songs from it which were good but I don't know which of the two releases to get.[/QUOTE]

So far I think I still prefer [i]..Yeshua[/i], but that might be just because I've had it a couple of years longer. Understandably the earlier album seems less refined - a lot of the same elements that are on [i]..Yeshua[/i] are already present (acoustic guitars, little bits of electronics, the general Middle Eastern feel to a lot of it), just not done as well. Only the metal riffs seem to be up to the same standard. But that's just based on listening to it a couple of times.

[QUOTE=Happymeal]
Ooh, I'm getting around to listening to that as well after a bit of Arsis, who kind of bored me. Today's been that and some Slackers.[/QUOTE]

I'm not too keen on Arsis either, so far.

Exhuming is a really good album, the only one I've heard from that band.

"Randy Described Eternity" by Built To Spill is a genius song.

Daniel Johnston makes me go weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. And no, Daniel Johns and Johnston are two different guys.

Things I'm listening to:

[I]Tiny Lights - Hot Chocolate Massage[/I]

I read about this album on allmusic.com (they gave it four and half stars); these guys have a sort of lo-fi orchestral indie funk-pop thing going on. First track is this baroque number, track 3 is all guitar solos and stuff. Last track is called "Tuesday Afterdinner (Free Improvisation)" but I haven't got that far yet. It's like the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing a couple Nick Drake covers from Bryter Layter with a Dusty Springfield imitator on the vocals. It's probably a [B]C[/B] right now.

[I]Red Krayola - God Bless the Red Crayola and All Who Sail With It[/I]

I've had this on vinyl for some time, dying to find it CD. Mayo Thompson is the feckin' man. He invented post-punk in 1968, which obviously makes no sense at all. But the proof is in the pudding. It's not a perfect album, sometimes it's just too weird, but not in a good weird way, more in a, "ok, stop that," kinda way. But enough of it rules to make it fantastically good. Definitely more my cup of tea than what I've heard from [I]Parable of Arable Land[/I]. [B]B+[/B]

Hopfully later today, I'll be digging the new Alex Drosen joint. I don't have the last couple tracks and he's not at home to send 'em to me and I don't want to start listening to it until I've got the whole thing. :(

Been listening to Yesterday's New Quintet and Coheed & Cambria recently.

[QUOTE=Robert Crumb]Daniel Johnston makes me go weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. And no, Daniel Johns and Johnston are two different guys.
[/QUOTE]

What's this guy on about then, for example;

[url]http://www.intoliquidsky.net/site/music_reviews/vexred_swasapd.html[/url]

("Abbot's singing resemblance to Daniel Johnston of Silverchair is uncanny") ?

Is he just wrong?

The guy in Silverchair is Daniel Johns.

Yeah, I know. I was just wondering whether he might also be Daniel Johnston, as I'd heard he started doing solo stuff since the trouble with his wrist/fingers/arm.

[QUOTE=Bartender]What's this guy on about then, for example;

[url]http://www.intoliquidsky.net/site/music_reviews/vexred_swasapd.html[/url]

("Abbot's singing resemblance to Daniel Johnston of Silverchair is uncanny") ?

Is he just wrong?[/QUOTE]

Yep.

[URL="http://www.meloncolonie.com/exhibit/Johnston.jpg"]Daniel Johnston[/URL] vs. [URL="http://www.silverchair.nu/sc_nu/theband/bilder/daniel-1.jpg"]Daniel Johns[/URL].

Yeah, Daniel Johnston could probably eat Daniel Johns.