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Reviews 8
Approval 87%
Soundoffs 41
News Articles 2
Band Edits + Tags 22
Album Edits 125
Album Ratings 39
Objectivity 25%
Last Active 04-22-12 3:09 am
Joined 06-20-10
Review Comments 3,183
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 | borealice on December 14th, net neutrality may very well be repealed. I am posting this to acknowledge that my reviews and comments on SputnikMusic.com are of my intellectual property and cannot be used for other people's profit. If you want to keep YOUR content as YOUR property too, copy and paste this comment
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 | Trebor. Make sure to vote for Kyary yeah
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 | Xenophanes It's gorgeous what are you talking about??
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 | silentpotato its ****ing good ya? not what i was expecting at all so it wasnt immediate for me but im lovin it more and more each listen
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| Trebor. Your Pamyu Pamyu Revolution review is mentioned on the wikipedia page lol
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 | FelixCulpa Thanks for the link balcaen. I guess Sleep In Bandcamp would be a pretty good thing to try and google but it didn't occur to me. I'm enjoying what I hear of twins so far. More than Pyramids and Carnival.
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| FelixCulpa Where did you get a hold of the new Sleep In record? I can't for some reason access enemieslist.net, at least not atm. Or is it even on there?
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| silentpotato you two queeny, hope you yours was even better than mine!
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| silentpotato finished my album; http://sudatsuga.bandcamp.com/album/blue-moon-saiyeed
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 | JJwins sry 4 being annoying Balcaen plz dnt h8 me anymore
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| silentpotato yeah it is, cuz everyone is chill with each other. dont mind packed local shows, i go to alot of local crust/grind shows at this house at vic and its always so ****ing packed, but i still prefer smaller intimate shows, especially when its not a local. everyone always just seems way more stoked and down to dance
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| silentpotato mostly kidding don't worry, frankly the ONLY way I'd go to Brand New is if it was free, regardless of my recognition of the Devil and God as a classic album. I don't like big shows usually.
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 | Graveyard im totally stealing the "bitches love deep lyrics" from you ;) hope you don't mind
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 | MalleusMaleficarum hahaha very good point. I'll have to step up my game.... nah I'm kiddin'. Totally won't harass you at all..
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| silentpotato i wouldn't call the knife a strictly rhythm base project but i see what you are saying. I am a percussionist, so rhythm is very important to me. it pains me to listen to musicians that dont have their rhythm down to a science (not necessarily perfect, sloppy rhythm can be a stylistic thing). man i miss stu he was always so ****ing amped at SF shows
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| silentpotato yeah ur a picky ****er ain't chya lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezut4049mcM listen to this song. I don't think even you can possibly deny how ****ing incredible this is. Also Fever Ray's self titled is way different than the knife, there is no disco s***, you might like it better. yeah ill send u it asap, why do u want it lol
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| Xenophanes hahaha, omg that sounds awesome. Hey at least it's an original way to have your government terrorized, I guess? The craziest we get is planes in buildings [poor taste idgaf]
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| Xenophanes I'm looking at a lot of places but will ultimately go where I am accepted because I am a terrible student haha. Just between you and me I would love to study anywhere in Canada because truth be told I'm beginning to hate America.
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| silentpotato your music taste is almost as hard to decipher as my own lol, i swore you were gonna love Girlfriends. What have you heard by the knife? and have u heard fever ray as well?
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 | AngelofDeath Thou and Hell just put out a split, and it's pretty rad: http://www1.zippyshare.com/v/93403684/file.html
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| silentpotato http://jjbrine.bandcamp.com/ this too. its like sorne meets the knife???????!!
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 | Wolfhorde You're welcome. Yeah, he's pretty cool.
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| Wolfhorde I hear you might want breakcore, you might want to check out Xanopticon, Terminal11, Datach'i, Venetian Snares (if you haven't already) and maybe Aaron Spectre aka Drumcorps.
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| silentpotato new infected mushroom is fun as **** tho! btw have u still not listened to girlfriends?
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| silentpotato its so ****ing bad man, the first like 4 or 5 tracks have Sole (a guy that has recently grown to parallel Sage Francis in wackness imo) rapping over top and so the first large chunk of the album is a complete write off, and it only gets slightly better once he's gone.
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 | Aids haha. if only...
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| Aids a 3 for Hop Along :( you and I are clearly not meant to be, how upsetting.
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| Trebor. I don't know they just look boyish to me, like not like a 19 year old woman legs. http://tokyofashion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Kyary-Pamyu-Pamyu-PONPONPON-002.jpg
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 | BaselineOOO plus ur taste is so superior to most sputnikers props for that
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| BaselineOOO hey i sincerely apologize for calling you a bitch one time, it was very rude of me! :(
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| Trebor. Did you ever notice Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has boyish legs?
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 | Tyrael 'i am disappoint in your low standards' please explain
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 | Deviant. Yeah I'm pretty lucky as well, I get to play whatever I want (in my office anyway haha). And no probs on the recs, hope you dig em
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| Deviant. Uh, just a few random albums off the top of my head: Roman Flugel - Fatty Folders (house), CHLLNGR - Haven (dubstep), 2562 - Fever (garage, house, dubstep), Cosmin TRG - Simulat (house), FaltyDL - You Stand Uncertain (house, garage), Sepalcure - Sepalcure (garage, dubstep) and Submotion Orchestra - Finest Hour (trip hop, jazz, dubstep). youtube some samples and see what you think. I can give you some more recs based on any of those that you may like
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| Xenophanes Dude I listened to that link you sent me when I woke up and it was like the most intense thing I've listened to in a long time. It kind of reminds me of an angrier, darker godflesh in a way. Needless to say it's definitely my bag. Kudos martine
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| Xenophanes Thanks mang. It's a satire on the typical soundoff, as I'm attempting to transcend criticism and become the post-modern transgressive voice this community needs loljk
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| silentpotato this is ****ing intense. reminds me of a more gothic and electro godflesh almost. and godflesh are amazing. the only thing i don't like is the programmed drums.
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 | ITsHxCTOASTER Of course, of course. I should give at a lot more listens then. You know, for science
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| ITsHxCTOASTER I definitely just listened to Moshi Moshi Harajuku two times in a row. Is it bad that I'm thinking 3.5?
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| Xenophanes Be that as it may, have you heard of the new Enemies List release, Dweler on the Threshold?
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| Xenophanes Aw s*** dude this is embarrasing. Sorry for spamming your wall : [[[[
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| Xenophanes Lol the joke is that everyone has heard of deftones
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| Xenophanes Dude every time I get drunk and get online I swear that I'm going to troll the fivlu out of Sputnik so LOOk OUT WORLD
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 | sonictheplumber hounds of love is the best one, you'd probably like side 2 the most cause it's weirder and artsier
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| ITsHxCTOASTER Oh okay haha, yep that's me. But I'm not sure what to think of the album. It's definitely awesome but I need more listens and more time to let it sink in. I wasn't expecting it to sound the way it did and definitely wasn't expecting that transition to hip-hop and just how diverse it is overall. Crazy stuff
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| ITsHxCTOASTER I don't know if you know who I am on facebook, but in your post about getting Alphabet. Alphabets. on vinyl you convinced me to check it out. I finally listened to it and all I can say is "whoa"
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 | aok nope - you came up with that conclusion all on your own ;]
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| aok every time i've been over there (~6 times over the last 4 months), smash is the only game in the console. they were polished players (one played a more wicked samus than i've ever seen) and despite not playing for a long while and losing with luigi, i took them all down with some kirby down airs. whoever said i was making analogical arguments? i just said i thought you should know, and was happy to see you were as defensive as i thought you'd be
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| aok so i walked into my pot dealer's place the other day and beat him his 3 friends at smash, even though i hadn't played in many months. thought you should know
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| Trebor. OK I listened to that song again and it's pretty good
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| Trebor. Right on, I didn't like her two newest songs that much, but I'm still looking forward to it
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| Trebor. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu full length next month
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 | BSX I love how it has deep views on the world despite it being a childerns book
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 | taxidermist Yeah, I might try and get on it later on tonight. Need to finish some homework and then go for a run with a bud, but I'll definitely start it. Go for reviewing though. You'll only get better. The video wasn't even bad, haha. Honest opinion.
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| taxidermist I'll try and get on that Psychic Babble review soon. I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN :p
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| BSX The Little Prince slays
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 | TheGardener No Problem! It's a bloody good record and it needs more attention on sputnik.
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| Tyrael well observed my dear, I still don't know what to do when I get to 10k though
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| silentpotato i think ud really dig it yee. its free on his bandcamp http://girlfriends.bandcamp.com/. lol well i can't really have a mezz queen who doesn't think im hot and is attracted to the wrong gender can i?
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| silentpotato have you heard dis http://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=59150
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 | Irving So, Balcaen - I posted my Good Old War review...where's yours? ;)
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 | Samizdat looks like it's gonna be SMiLE, then. n.tourniquet soon after. both will be compared to skrillex, in keeping with the culture, ya dig
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| aok you're too young to be wallowing in glass ceiling -- go out and do stupid stuff while you can get away with it. o and revel in the fact that you can drink for free at the bat of an eye
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| Samizdat stop whispering, start shout(box)ing; i don't feel like waiting for a noctournistream, so it's either kindred or one of the weeknds. opinion?
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| aok so i just noticed josh seems to be jealous of you. another classic case of internet boy feeling trumped by internet girl
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 | iFghtffyrdmns yeah ever since my super rough childhood growing up as an upper-middle class straight white male i've just really had it out for hugs.
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| iFghtffyrdmns 4 for the new GOW? i thought you had high standards balc c'mon now
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 | Activista anti-MTV balcaen, you are a respected user. i respect u 4 this. what shud i listen to atm?
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| Irving Got a promo copy a month ago from their publicity company :) Sadly, I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would.
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 | WashboardSuds I heard you like Kyary, and I think you should give Perfume a try: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x-eL4Nvy9s
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| Trebor. My pie chart is pretty, except I really hate goldenrod
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| Trebor. If she puts out a full length my head will explode
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 | Tyrannic uhhh, pick a date to watch something and make a list for the conversation? as much as i'd love to tinychat, everyone just staring at a screen... lol
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| Tyrannic film club it is then, can we get phlebas in on this? i bet he's got all the good ones
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| Xenophanes Golden Death Chant is like the best thing ever
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| Xenophanes no I was probably high or something lol. I don't joke around too often so you're probably not the only one who though that : /
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| Trebor. That Kyary Pamyu Pamyu EP is so good
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| aok wellyea mang
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| Xenophanes Totally tried it before. Will try again because I hear it's great.
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| Xenophanes I've been meaning to check it out. I tried downloading it once and something went wrong. Got discouraged and gave up.
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| Xenophanes Cool looking profile pic where's it from?
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 | Polymath The guy below me is a creeper, freakshow, trust me Balcaen, TRUST ME!
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| aok i'm proud of you for admitting you made a mistake. just like i someday hope to cause it would be really hot if you beat me as ness
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| aok 4.5 for lateralus, 2.5 for aenima and a poster for 10000 days? i think you got your tool mixed up
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 | Hep Kat just so you know, despite you retarded like of that one cobra starship album, you are one of the most original and interesting users we've had in years. and i say that as a married man.
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| Tyrael oh yeah avery, he denied my friend request once... but thanks for clearing that up :]
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| Tyrael so, what's the reason you and sonic are always bickering? :]
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 | devious I texted John and told him what you told me to tell him....he says back, and I quote, "Tell her she can crash at my place if she wantsta come party. But only if she can recite the first verse and chorus of Chop Suey."
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 | sniper thanks nigga, much obliged :)
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 | Urinetrouble alright thanks. The vocals on it are great the band is lacking as ****
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| Urinetrouble you should def up that album for meyou like Mars Volta? new songhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qb2VuifIig
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| Urinetrouble Sweet. add me on FB and post about the "death" of Terry Crews m/ https://www.facebook.com/Roodymcpoopoo?ref=tn_tnmn
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| Urinetrouble I think i's pretty good. Zack and Avery are being ****s but yeah its worth a listen or two. Actually wanted some recs but forgot it about it earlier, hence the uncharacteristically boring "sup."
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| AngelofDeath Well, I have my moments, but I still think flannel is for lumberjacks and PBR tastes like s***.
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| AngelofDeath Hey, no need for name calling lol. It's just hard to find because of the unoriginal name. http://www.mediafire.com/?01i954ec63siuvv
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 | AlecBaldwin Hey, I remember reading your TKDE review and thinking it was great! Do you still review regularly?
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| Urinetrouble nvm review is done and will be posted tomorrow when im at school
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| Urinetrouble if i feel like it. I already do enough writing as it is. it'll take me about another full listen or two.
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| sonictheplumber i had no idea you dug music i enjoyed this is crazy! also yeah justinjordan is dumb as hell
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| AngelofDeath Well, you could... If you were cool... Anyway, here's two sludge albums: Meth Drinker - Meth Drinker; Hell - I.
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| AngelofDeath Lol. Fair enough. Would you like some sludge or some black metal?
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| AngelofDeath Good deal. You should check out Bacchus' self-titled debut from last year if you haven't already. It's not really metal, but pretty good crust/melodic hardcore.
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| silentpotato born gold is like baths with awful cheesey vocals and synths i ****ing love it
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 | feanaro lurkin. didn't really post at all until earlier this year on the occasional metal or indie review.
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 | Maniac! "videos reviews are for an ADD audience who like to have their opinions validated." hahaha. Sounds like a mostly s***ty audience
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| Xenophanes The more they produce the higher they rank with me. "Giles Corey" last year, paired with the pretty good Mamaleek made for a great year imo. And as always, the stunning Have A Nice Life. There are some really cool artists there that sadly not many people know about.
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| Xenophanes Haha, I should. I downloaded it when they posted it on their facebook. I thought it was a joke until I actually checked it out.
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| silentpotato not to say that i didn't tell him exactly how i wanted it to sound tho mwuaaahahah
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| silentpotato i can agree to that. the only part of patchouli i like is the first almost half. it kinda got chaotic. haha man i can't take credit for that part. my buddy recorded me on his hd-16, i just made le music :p
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| silentpotato thank ya i love woven hand. i can't tell what word you were using because it turned into '****' but Patchouli Sonata is by far my least favorite. its the first one i did, my first ever shot on doing music by myself ya know so i feel like i still did alright that being the case. the other two i am quite proud of though. it was really cool picking up instruments i didn't know how to play and trying to put something together haha. and i love singing now, i've been practicing a lot.
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| Maniac! I was thinking about attempting a video review. Any tips?
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| silentpotato mezz queen listen to my solo ep, link in soundoff http://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=88999
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| AngelofDeath I think I can oblige such a request. Maybe we can continue things with the demo I just reviewed.
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 | Yuli That's just the way it's gotta be for peoples like us. Friends ask me who my favorite bands are, and I'm just like -_- thinking I don't want to sound annoying as hell, but I really doubt they've heard of Trophy Scars, Mew or ORBS
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| Yuli Hello there; you have exceptional taste in musics! Just wanted to say :]
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| Xenophanes Haha, no, thank YOU. I always enjoy hearing from you in regards to my reviews and such, especially when we both like the album in question : 3 Great end of year list btw. Also, I remember you saying that you're specializing in entomology (correct me if I'm wrong), and I got an actual tarantula for xmas lol. Not sure if arachnids are where your interests lay or not, but you gotta admit theyre a fascinating group. Science nerd talk over
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 | Samshine Haha, yep yep. No, yours looks great tho. I'll post ya a picture when i get mine!!
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| Samshine Dude thats sick. I really like it, and i like the placement aswell. I know, i'm pretty pumped. I'm not doing the octopus idea anymore. I dated this guy for 4 years of my life.. s*** got pretty messy between us, but he basicly stole the idea and went and got it. It looks like s*** tho. So, i've changed it up and decided that i wanted "Looking for Atlantis" with the true north logo at the end of it written on my arm.
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| Samshine Your first yesterday hey? What did you get?? Ahh, i know im really stoked. This will be my first too. I don't know why i've waited this long tbh.. Send me a pic girrl!!
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| FelixCulpa Cool, cool. I do like their S/T more but Gangs is no doubt a ton of fun. Would have seen them play some of the songs live which I can only guess might even be better than the recordings but unfortunately there was a 20 age limit at the show :/
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| taxidermist Yeah it's the only movie editing software I know, haha. And I agree. Most people just jack off Fantano anyway and agree with everything he says. The comments never have anything to with the music anyway. It's always just 'yay it got a good score' or 'please do a review of x album!' I'd rather just write a review and discuss the music itself (though I don't write many reviews anyway lol).
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| taxidermist Oh yeah, that was the worst part of having those videos. It just attracted the whole Fantano crowd and everyone thought you wanted to be him, lol (well that seems to be the case with ANYONE who does video reviews). If you do want to do that without attracting all the people expecting music, you'd probably have to drop the Balcaen name D: I took multimedia classes in high school and was very good at using imovie, but when I got my laptop and it had imovie, everything was different so I suck at it
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| taxidermist 3.5 is the lowest I'll go, but a 4 is preferred, haha. And I honestly thought you sounded just fine. Though you do write pretty well, too. And why deeleete (retarded way of saying de-lete since that word isn't visible on sputnik, lol) your channel if there wasn't anything on it anyway? :p
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| taxidermist Haha, fair enough. He's an awesome writer. I expect no lower than a 3.5, though :p And why? You were able to speak about it in front of a camera pretty good.
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| taxidermist Ikr, looks like we have to get the word out. Write a review!
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| Deviant. No, I live in New Zealand - can't travel all the way just for that!
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| Xenophanes Holy s*** dude thats awesome. I was straight up bio until I switched. I work at my campus' biodiversity museum and we have a huge insect collection. It's great. I wasn't aware you had an interest.
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| Xenophanes You are correct. Zoology to be exact. And you, if I may be so bold as to ask?
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| Xenophanes Haha, that's ****ing awesome. I played the s*** out of white when it dropped in the spring. Yeah, uni has been pretty lame for me as well, but sadly I still end up hear often : /. I was creepin' around and noticed I haven't seen you around too often, but those are pretty decent reasons.....I suppose -_-
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| Xenophanes I'm stealing that link ITsHxCTOASTER left for you, and there's nothing you can do about it...
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| ITsHxCTOASTER No problem, there's plenty of other great stuff worth checking out there too
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| ITsHxCTOASTER Check here for Tycho http://byenduranceweconquered.blogspot.com/
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| aok yea. it's a huge moneysaver and you meet lots of interesting people. also it's way cooler to eat at the happening $.70 food stand than some makeshift $14 fusion food.
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| aok **** s*** ass that's some bulls*** . wayy too many messed up people out there. **** s***
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| aok hehe - i meant you left the fb group a long while back. also wanted to make sure you were ok with being tagged even though your tags were pretty harmless. i hear you've had worse s*** go down recently
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| aok you were bleeped out a bit there .. what was it you were saying?
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 | F0RBES I got a DECO man bobble head when I handed my stuff in. So awesome! And good job rating WDNTW a 3.5, and not a 1. Because of when it came out, it's definitely still in my top 5 all time albums.
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| aok http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/balcaen in case you didn't see . dunno where you went =/
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| Aids haha aww I miss you too buddy. I was actually just thinking of our calgary meet-n-greet today. You gotta come to BC when I'm back home and Graham, you and me can kick it old school. seriously, I wanna hang out with you again haha I'll come to calgary if I have to I'LL DO IT
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 | BikeInPond but not really. controversiality is admirable.
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| BikeInPond SCUMBAG BALCAEN: rates angels and airwaves higher than cynic, don cab, flying lotus, godspeed!, nurse with wound, and my bloody valentine. Add me to your collection of butthurt sputbuds (lol,
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| Trebor. Yeah, but not as good as regular Sabrepulse
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| Aids nice, yeah I'm not crazy on it either, though I'm not a big Wilco fan to begin with. I haven't even heard Sky Blue Sky :/ great live band though, and YHF grew on me, I used to think it was crazily overrated but I really like it now.
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| Maniac! explains how we have the same personality/interests/taste in music
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| Xenophanes I'm fully aware, I greatly dislike the heat myself. Even though I'm only like 2hrs away from Canada it gets pretty ****ing hot...but we don't have tea in america, I don't know what that is. We only soda and beer lol.
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| Xenophanes But don't you live in the barren tundra that is Canada??
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| Xenophanes Yeah, Tim Hecker has put out two awesome records, and A Winged Victory for the sullen just dropped a really great album as well. Nobody ****ing cares though, cause Devin Townsend made a new age album!!!
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| Xenophanes Well I try not to associate myself with the 'metalhead' scene haha, because yes they probably do find that album to be the most relaxing and ****ing beautiful thing to ever grace their ears. Idk, I though Deconstruction was awful and Ghost was only okay. Because your soundoff is ****ing great.
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| Aids oh and I'm pretty curious to see what you think of the new Wilco album.
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| Aids seriously though I used to be insanely good at Melee and Brawl. I was into the competitive scene for a while (yeah yeah yeah, nerd alert etc.) Next time I come to Calgary (or you come to Vancouver) we will throw down. Also I don't give a s*** about your objectivity rating haha I just remember you being "I have the highest obj. on sputnik" when we met so I thought I'd bust your chops. But s*** man that Oberst album is terrible. And thanks for caring about muh blog mang.
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 | wabbit dude and man are fine (it is funny that you say it in essentially every thing you post here) It's just http://www.broslikethissite.com/ you aren't that so you shouldn't be saying it. And all my wisdom is on that site
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| wabbit only bro. Cause you're not a bro. It's like a white guy saying nigga to a black guy.
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| wabbit no of course not, I'm f ucking charming and awesome and have many friends who love me
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| Aids dude a 4.5 for Conor Oberst's s/t? man I knew I was going against the grain when I gave it a 2 but I thought at least YOU would be with me. (holy s*** objectivity is wayyyy down what happened to you?) also re: aokuneff's comment, I would destroy you all in any version of smash bros. bring it ****er.
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| aok ok. if i played as yoshi, jigglypuff, mario, donkey kong or samus you might be able to beat me
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