Crispin Hellion Glover - The Big Problem...

Anybody else going to one of Crispin's screenings of "What Is It?" at the Music Box?

Was listening to this ...


and thought I should go back and spend some time with this ...


Classical guitar or flugelhorn ... which do I prefer?

I was just listening to a bootleg of in-studio Led Zeppelin rehearsals. Pretty cool stuff.

Ha, I downloaded a few songs off of this album about a year ago. "Clowny Clown Clown" is one terrifying little ditty.


Whoa! When are these? I should tell my friend who was telling me all about how badly he wants to see this.

In other news...



I DON'T WANT NO TUTTI FRUTTI
NO LOLLIPOP
COME ON BABY
JUST ROCK ROCK ROCK!!!

This album didn't grab me by throat the way Leviathan did right off. But I just finished listened to "Crystal Skull," and that track at least is pretty fucking cool.

It started tonight at the Music Box, but there are screenings Sat and Sun night too. It's at 7:30 each night and Crispin will be present to show a slide show after the movie. I guess the ticket also gets you into a midnight screening of a Werner Herzog film. Tickets are available through ticketweb.

For more info:
http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/

Tickets:
http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=xxx&...sic+box&x=0&y=0

it's nice to just remember how much you love an album, and then dig it out and listen to it nonstop. "Loretta's Scars" is perfect. I got through the first disc of Luxe and Reduxe about three times while I was sitting in traffic.

That'll be the Scott Kelly influence...

And I just stuck 'Her Lips Were Wet With Venom' on the Death Deck. Stupidly good, and solidifies Altar as my AOTY.

So do I need to know more about Tribes of Neurot & Blood and Time? Endarken me.

So it seems like I may have seen this discussed around here before, but are there different versions of this album? The rip I have doesn't have that track.

"Her Lips Were Wet With Venom" is the song on the bonus disc of the limited edition of the album.

Awesome, awesome song. I love the parts with Dylan Carlson and his new-fangled country hoedown guitar playing style. Really jumps out at you, and makes you say, "Fuck yeah."

Tribes of Neurot is something else entirely. I've not really kept up to date with that side of things, but it's their ambient side (well, technically, Neurosis is just one element of Neurot, but I'm talking musically). They did an album called Silver Blood Transmission in 1995, which was them exprimenting with non-guitar sound creation in preparation for Through Silver In Blood really. 1998's Static Migration was a cool little deal, with a 16 minute incredibly noisy centrepiece. They also did an album that was three vinyl discs of various sizes, called Adaptation and Survival. It was all insect sounds, and represented the peak of their hippy dementia. They did something else last year, but I haven't got it yet.

It's telling that their best album was the one mixing the ambient side of things into the Neurosis framework.

Blood & Time is kinda the equivalent to the Steve Von Till solo albums - music that is quiet, beautiful and a bit disturbing. Their Angels of Light, if you will.

I'm hyped because, apparently, Scott Kelly has been going round saying that the next Neurosis album will be their heaviest since Through Silver In Blood. It's heartening that he referred specifically to that album. Maybe he saw what his band wrought (most Hydra Head bands) and decided it was time to show everyone who the daddies really are...


Yeah, it's officially the Altar 'Prelude' and the inclusion of Carlson makes it into essentially sunnO)))/Boris/Earth. Only 5000 copies in the world - but then I have three t-shirts of a run of 100 designed by O'Malley, so I'm quite exclusive as it is.

Would someone mind upping that track?
Unfortunately, I guess I just got the standard edition.

I need to get Altar, because I just heard "The Sinking Belle" and it's great. I'm guessing it's not representative of the album at all, but whatever.

Sort of, and sort of not. What's with everyone no-selling my review.

It's certainly the 'nicest' track, but it fits well with the rest of the disc.

Again because me and throughsilver are going to see them tonight, good times.

here's what I listened to today:


I saw this in the poll and thought I'd break it out again. Great album.
It was probably a bad idea to drive to work listening to it, though. Not exactly
wake up music.

That solo on "they punctured my yolk" is amazing! Love those bells in xmas at the zoo, too.

finally bought a cd upgrade of this. It sounds fantastic. Man, I just love this cd!
a perfect soundtrack for a bizarre evening.

this is great background music, but not very deep at all for me. It doesn't engage on the level
that I've come to expect from artists within the genre. But its still enjoyable to listen to.

it's been such a long time since I'd heard this one, it was like a knock in the head.

Loscil are great, but check out First Narrows, much better

Enlighten me--what is the genre?

oh, sorry, it's ambient music.

Giving these guys a chance today:



the appleseed cast. People tell me I'd like them. sounds alright so far.

Yeah those are two pretty strong albums. Low Level Owl has a lot of dull music to drudge through but there are some great moments, especially "Milemarker".

I'm enjoying the guitarwork on much of these, but the vocals and transitions can be
a little predictably standard heartfelt emo.

also on my plate:

I haven't heard this in ages. I'm digging it! Love how the first three tracks
just bleed into each other seamlessly.

Rob, you were right. This is fantastic, no joke.

chris herbert -- mezzotint

just checked this out, because of the Idlewild thread. This is R.E.M. It's uncanny. I wasn't expecting Document with stronger production, but that's exactly what I'm getting. Not bad.

Whoa, I'm listing to this right now. I was half-way through the album when I clicked on this thread. It' seems perfect for a mild, Fall Sunday evening.

Brendan Benson - Lapalco

I'm Brendan, what's your name?

so cute.

just can't get enough of these two lately:

For me, the Klang album is easier to admire than love.

I guess part of the problem is that I was expecting something more along the lines of Donna's contributions to Elastica, or at the very least like the great (albeit) unfinished solo demo ("Faking") that was one of the bonus tracks on the Japanese release of The Menace.

just got my hard copy!

Yeah, I could definitely see how if you went into it with those expectations you would be disappointed. It's a whole diferent animal.

I had managed to completely ignore this band until the guy in the office next to me insisted I had to hear it. I can't say I feel like I was missing anything.

Desperately trying to understand the love for this:



But not getting it at all. The arrangements are really great, but the voice and lyrics are too big of a stumbling block for me, I'm afraid. Maybe it'd be easier to take if she'd shut up once in awhile and let the music breathe.

Guided by Voices - "Propeller" (Scat vinyl reissue)

[looks very similar to my Recent Purchases post]

Fuck the haters, this is great:



Second best rap album of the year? I still think Fishscale is better.

I heard Lord Willin' the other day and I really only like the singles. Disappointing.

I easily prefer Hell Hath No Fury to Fishscale. I found the Ghostface to be pretty disappointing. Still looking forward to hearing a decent version of the Clipse that doesn't have glitches all through it.

Sweet, so it's not just my copy. That thing is littered with digital hiccups.

As far as I know, there's no better version out yet. I'll be picking it up next week but since I'm listening to it every day I want a skipless version to soothe my addiction.

these hold up

Hot.


Whoa - what's with that cover?

- thrslvr, obsessive.

I'm really not sure if there are any released versions with that cover. Just found the image somewhere.

I like this a lot.

The Residents' River of Crime!

Well, it's a bit more user-friendly than Tweedles.

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Is that new too?

Tweedles was pretty hard to take. I don't think I ever got through it, in its entirety.