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I like Merriweather Post Pavilion as much as the next person, but this just screams album of the year. Godly.
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
QUOTE (Michael K. @ Feb 15 2009, 03:59 AM) 
Phantom Limb (Pig Destroyer)
I'm not a grindcore fan by any means, but this album is pretty much perfect. Like a fucking onion with its layers.
I'm not a grindcore fan by any means, but this album is pretty much perfect. Like a fucking onion with its layers.
Have you heard The Inalienable Dreamless?
QUOTE (Richaod)
'Feb 15 2009, 09:22 AM'
I like Merriweather Post Pavilion as much as the next person, but this just screams album of the year. Godly.
I like Merriweather Post Pavilion as much as the next person, but this just screams album of the year. Godly.
lol
QUOTE (throughsilver @ Feb 15 2009, 08:51 AM)
QUOTE (Michael K. @ Feb 15 2009, 03:59 AM)
Phantom Limb (Pig Destroyer)
I'm not a grindcore fan by any means, but this album is pretty much perfect. Like a fucking onion with its layers.
I'm not a grindcore fan by any means, but this album is pretty much perfect. Like a fucking onion with its layers.
Have you heard The Inalienable Dreamless?
nope. good?
QUOTE (Michael K. @ Feb 15 2009, 07:37 PM)
QUOTE (throughsilver @ Feb 15 2009, 08:51 AM)
QUOTE (Michael K. @ Feb 15 2009, 03:59 AM)
Phantom Limb (Pig Destroyer)
I'm not a grindcore fan by any means, but this album is pretty much perfect. Like a fucking onion with its layers.
I'm not a grindcore fan by any means, but this album is pretty much perfect. Like a fucking onion with its layers.
Have you heard The Inalienable Dreamless?
nope. good?
Generally considered the best album in grindcore history.
I prefer Sounds of the Animal Kingdom, but ...Dreamless is the more instantly gratifying.
QUOTE (Badger @ Feb 15 2009, 06:41 PM)
That's a fucking chore.
i was just playing 'cop' and 'young god' the other day. swans music just takes the life out of you, doesn't it?
but yeah, 'soundtracks' might be the most draining release of theirs. mostly because it's so fucking long though.
pretty cool album, anyway.
but yeah, 'soundtracks' might be the most draining release of theirs. mostly because it's so fucking long though.
pretty cool album, anyway.
QUOTE (James Iha @ Feb 15 2009, 07:57 PM)
i was just playing 'cop' and 'young god' the other day. swans music just takes the life out of you, doesn't it?
They weren't much for subtlety. Their live shows through the late eighties were absurdly heavy. I don't exactly buy into the PAIN of it all but, like you said, it's too cool.
Shout Out Out Out Out -- Reintegration Time
So I really loved SO4's debut album that came out a few years ago, but I can admit that their songs had a lot of flaws (mainly that they were lengthy and took entirely too long to reach their climax).
With this, though, there's a lot more consistency. They're structured in a way that they are still lengthy, but for the most part, they climax at appropriate points. I am quite surprised at how good this is and think it's worth checking out for anyone in to indie-electro-dancey-pop crap.
Started out listening to this on Cd,But mine was skipping(Back when I wasn't serious about my music collecting I kept them in one of those binders.Bad idea.) so I listened to my vinyl copy of this for the first time.I don't know if I'll ever listen to this on CD again.It just sounds so fuller on vinyl and all the instruments come out in the mix better(Can someone point me in the direction of a vinyl rip for this thing.I've looked for the past hour and nothing.).
QUOTE (James Iha @ Feb 16 2009, 12:57 AM)
'soundtracks' might be the most draining release of theirs. mostly because it's so fucking long though.
pretty cool album, anyway.
pretty cool album, anyway.
I could do without the shouty Jarboe bits but I find it pretty otherworldly for the most part. Hypnotic without being oppressive.
Was struck yesterday by the narrator on 'I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull' having very similar mannerisms to Heath Ledger's Joker.
np
Why do I always get cravings for 80's Madonna after 12 a.m.?
Anyway, you know you love it. Surely the greatest mainstream pop singles run in history?
(another question: am I the world's only straight male Madonna fan?)
Angels of Light - We Are Him
QUOTE (Mr.Nobody @ Feb 16 2009, 12:39 AM)
Started out listening to this on Cd,But mine was skipping(Back when I wasn't serious about my music collecting I kept them in one of those binders.Bad idea.) so I listened to my vinyl copy of this for the first time.I don't know if I'll ever listen to this on CD again.It just sounds so fuller on vinyl and all the instruments come out in the mix better(Can someone point me in the direction of a vinyl rip for this thing.I've looked for the past hour and nothing.).
Maybe it's your equipment.
So much attention is paid to LP gear, yet people are surprised when they don't get the same quality sound from a $50 CD player.
Stillwell - Don't Face a Problem... Burn It (recorded 2002)
The Tie That Binds - Half Past Heroes (recorded 2001)
Rye Coalition - Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet (recorded 1996)
All weekend and all of today. My dad was around my age when this came out and he tells me that he was so disappointed when he bought it. Remembering that it followed Country Life by only a year, I can sort of understand why. But thirty-five years removed from that, it doesn't sound like such a crazy departure to me. About half of these songs are flawless.
QUOTE (James Iha @ Feb 14 2009, 07:46 PM)
fuck yeah
Sometimes I listen to this when I wake up in the morning to make me a little more bright eyed and bushy tailed.
As for me:
this is great
Death - "Politicians In My Eyes" (...For the Whole World to See)
mp3s
Death - "Politicians In My Eyes" (...For the Whole World to See)
mp3s
QUOTE
Dusted Reviews
Artist: Death
Album: ...For the Whole World to See
Label: Drag City
Review date: Feb. 9, 2009
Death - "Politicians In My Eyes" (...For the Whole World to See)
Every time a reissue of a remarkable, lost record comes out, it’s difficult to resist the temptation to compile an amazed laundry-list of bands it mysteriously prefigures. Death’s …For the Whole World to See provokes such a response. Some licks sound like Husker Du. Some quivery vocals evoke H.R. of Bad Brains.
But better, perhaps, to view Death’s seven-song oeuvre as the logical bridging of a lacuna rather than a before-its-time aberration. Of course it makes sense that, in mid-’70s Detroit, three black brothers (Dannis, Bobby and David Hackney) might have gotten as into the Stooges and MC5 as into Funkadelic, that they might have synthesized the sounds of FM rock radio just as their white peers ransacked soul and funk. The Hackneys released a single, recorded and shelved an album, and then moved to Vermont with their family. They morphed into a reggae band. Time passed. The EP slowly acquired a cult record-collector following. Tapes were unearthed, and here we are.
Death’s music falls somewhere between ’70s hard rock and the more stripped-down, straightforward garage rock one might deem proto-punk. Obviously influenced by Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, most of their songs span multiple parts and time signatures. “Let the World Turn” even features a drum solo. With the exception of that song, a reverby slow-jam, the album stays uptempo. It’s replete with wonderful, memorable moments, like “Freakin’ Out,” which mixes a classic-sounding garage riff with an unexpected chorus that sharply repeats the title phrase over a snare beat. “Rock-N-Roll Victim” avoids hard-rock cliché by augmenting the drums with handclaps.
There’s not a bad song in the bunch, but the songs from Death’s only official release are the clear highlights on …For the Whole World to See. “Keep On Knocking” is a simple, catchy rock song that gets all the elements right, particularly Bobby Hackney’s urgent vocals and David’s spot-on guitar solo. “Politicians In My Eyes,” the EP’s A-side, is masterful. Form meets content as Bobby alternately spits out and wails lyrics decrying hypocritical politicians. David’s guitars and Dannis’ drums, similarly, sound angry, accusatory. Fiercely energetic, it sounds so rooted in such a particular time and place that it has a kind of canonical familiarity, like something that’s been played on the radio for years.
Artist: Death
Album: ...For the Whole World to See
Label: Drag City
Review date: Feb. 9, 2009
Death - "Politicians In My Eyes" (...For the Whole World to See)
Every time a reissue of a remarkable, lost record comes out, it’s difficult to resist the temptation to compile an amazed laundry-list of bands it mysteriously prefigures. Death’s …For the Whole World to See provokes such a response. Some licks sound like Husker Du. Some quivery vocals evoke H.R. of Bad Brains.
But better, perhaps, to view Death’s seven-song oeuvre as the logical bridging of a lacuna rather than a before-its-time aberration. Of course it makes sense that, in mid-’70s Detroit, three black brothers (Dannis, Bobby and David Hackney) might have gotten as into the Stooges and MC5 as into Funkadelic, that they might have synthesized the sounds of FM rock radio just as their white peers ransacked soul and funk. The Hackneys released a single, recorded and shelved an album, and then moved to Vermont with their family. They morphed into a reggae band. Time passed. The EP slowly acquired a cult record-collector following. Tapes were unearthed, and here we are.
Death’s music falls somewhere between ’70s hard rock and the more stripped-down, straightforward garage rock one might deem proto-punk. Obviously influenced by Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, most of their songs span multiple parts and time signatures. “Let the World Turn” even features a drum solo. With the exception of that song, a reverby slow-jam, the album stays uptempo. It’s replete with wonderful, memorable moments, like “Freakin’ Out,” which mixes a classic-sounding garage riff with an unexpected chorus that sharply repeats the title phrase over a snare beat. “Rock-N-Roll Victim” avoids hard-rock cliché by augmenting the drums with handclaps.
There’s not a bad song in the bunch, but the songs from Death’s only official release are the clear highlights on …For the Whole World to See. “Keep On Knocking” is a simple, catchy rock song that gets all the elements right, particularly Bobby Hackney’s urgent vocals and David’s spot-on guitar solo. “Politicians In My Eyes,” the EP’s A-side, is masterful. Form meets content as Bobby alternately spits out and wails lyrics decrying hypocritical politicians. David’s guitars and Dannis’ drums, similarly, sound angry, accusatory. Fiercely energetic, it sounds so rooted in such a particular time and place that it has a kind of canonical familiarity, like something that’s been played on the radio for years.
QUOTE (Badger @ Feb 15 2009, 11:41 PM)
Nice one Badger.
Friend Catcher now on ignore. What a fucking waster.
I didn't say it wasn't any good, I said it was a chore. It's kind of funny that one joke about rap and metal made you flip out. Truly the warrior spirit is within you.
QUOTE (throughsilver @ Feb 17 2009, 11:37 AM)
QUOTE (Badger @ Feb 15 2009, 11:41 PM)
Nice one Badger.
Friend Catcher now on ignore. What a fucking waster.
Yeah, that's a great album.
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Alice Cooper - Killer & Love It to Death
QUOTE (simakos @ Feb 15 2009, 10:43 PM)
Have you seen THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA: HARRY SMITH’S ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC?
It has been playing a bunch on OVATION the past week or so.
the new BLACK DICE is awesome, guys.
QUOTE (biggie mcsmalls @ Feb 17 2009, 03:05 PM)
QUOTE (simakos @ Feb 15 2009, 10:43 PM)
Have you seen THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA: HARRY SMITH’S ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC?
It has been playing a bunch on OVATION the past week or so.
yep. just saw it for the first time last week... Ovation has quickly become a favorite lately.
I can't believe I never heard this one!
QUOTE (simakos @ Feb 17 2009, 05:07 PM)
QUOTE (biggie mcsmalls @ Feb 17 2009, 03:05 PM)
QUOTE (simakos @ Feb 15 2009, 10:43 PM)
Have you seen THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA: HARRY SMITH’S ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC?
It has been playing a bunch on OVATION the past week or so.
yep. just saw it for the first time last week... Ovation has quickly become a favorite lately.
Excellent...I watched it a couple times over the weekend, along with the Alan Streets documentary while sippin' on some liquid Tylenol 3 w/ codeine.
QUOTE (biggie mcsmalls @ Feb 17 2009, 07:47 PM)
sippin' on some liquid Tylenol 3 w/ codeine.
save me some?
really loving these guys (and gal)
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
David Bowie - Low
Aerosmith - Rocks
Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
This kinda feels like the Nachtmystium of 2009. And that is a wonderful thing.
The White Stripes - Elephant
One of a couple things I wanted to listen to again before I finished my all-time albums list. How did I forget how great this album is? And the weird thing is that I obsessed over it it right when it came out, but somehow have gone like three years without listening to it. "Ball and Biscuit" is still my jam.
so fucking good
Reviewing some hun'erd candidates:
Absolutely wonderful album from beginning to end. Listened to it all the way through about five or six times in the past week and it just never seems to get old. Seems like every time I listen to it I become aware of one more thing that makes this album fantastic.
QUOTE (Michael K. @ Feb 19 2009, 01:22 AM)
Reviewing some hun'erd candidates:
I fucking love "Bed For The Scraping" from this. It's so crazy.
it's all about "target."
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