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By Rowlfe on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 06:33 pm:

    There hasnt been much music discussion as of late, so maybe this can get someone going.

    1.The Darkness - Permission to Land
    2.Steve Burns - Songs For Dustmites
    3.Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
    4.The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn!
    5.The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
    6.The Rapture - Echoes
    7.A Mighty Wind - Original Soundtrack
    8.Junior/Senior - D-D-Don't Don't Stop The Beat
    9.Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
    10.White Stripes - Elephant
    11.OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
    12.The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
    13.The New Pornographers - Electric Version
    14.Strapping Young Lad - SYL
    15.Constantines - Shine A Light
    16.The Mars Volta - De-loused In The Comatorium
    17.Fun Lovin' Criminals - Welcome to Poppy's
    18.Keith Caputo - Perfect Little Monsters
    19.Tomahawk - Mit Gas
    20.Blur - Think Tank
    21.Eels - Shootenanny!
    22.Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution
    23.Korn - Take A Look In The Mirror
    24.Ween - Quebec
    25.Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
    26. Libertines - Up The Bracket
    27.The Strokes - Room On Fire
    28.British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
    29.Mojave 3 - Spoon And Rafter
    30.Rufus Wainwright - Want One
    31.Tangiers - Hot New Spirits
    32.Raising the Fawn - By the Light of Your Flame EP
    33.Flaming Lips - Fight Test/Ego Tripping EPs
    34.The Distillers - Coral Fang
    35.Liam Lynch - Fake Songs
    36.At the Mercy of Inspiration - A Perfect Way to Kill an Evening
    37.Mike Doughty - Rockity Roll EP
    38.Burning Brides - Fall of The Plastic Empire
    39.Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me
    40.The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site


By patrick on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 06:46 pm:

    meh.

    nothing really rocked my cock out last year, except maybe the Outkast, but im even tiring of that.


By semillama on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 07:08 pm:

    Well, now I have a great excuse to put all my CDs away- I can review the ones that came out in 2003 and post properly tomorrow about it. I will say that 9, 11, 22, 24, and 28 on Rowlfe's list will be on mine as well. Is yours in any order? I may just list all the albums I have from 2003 and discuss what I thought about each.


By eri on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 12:18 pm:

    The funny thing for me is that I only recognize 4 of the bands on that list. So the majority of the stuff there I have never ever heard of.


By Spider on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 12:45 pm:

    The best album I heard this past year was Radiohead's Hail to the Thief. Every song on there is gold. Well, I don't like "Go to Sleep," but that's not a reflection on the quality of the song.


By dave. on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 05:11 pm:

    browser crash ate my post. it's not important.

    i can sum up:

    i'm feeling grouchy again.


By semillama on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 08:29 pm:

    Shouldn't that be "still"?


    The 2003 albums I acquired:

    in no particular order

    Primus - Animals should not try to act like people - EP of new material accompanying the DVD:
    I got this for xmas. I really like this EP. Nothing against Brian Mantia, but it's just not Primus without Tim Alexander. Hopefully a good preview of things to come.

    Radiohead - Hail to the Thief: I still have some trouble getting deeply into this band. However, I think it's definitely the best of their albums that I have heard. Pretty good, but I think they haven't hit their prime yet.

    Jane's Addiction -Strays: Not their best album. There is nothing wrong with it, really. But it just lacks an edge. I think maybe it's Navarro's use of countless overdubs. He's not very good at it.If they make another album, the producer should lock them in a studio with only an 8-track and let'em go. I'm sure that if they recorded this album that way, it would have been way better.

    OutKast -Speakerboxxx/The Love Below: pretty damn excellent. Best hip hop I've heard all year. Makes me keen to see what they do next though.

    Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3
    The more I listen to this album, the more I like it. The guitar work is great, the vocals are great, the songs are fantastic.

    Anthrax - We've Come For You All: It's a good Anthrax album. Nothing groundbreaking or anything. I think they are trying to figure out where to go next though, and are trying to get their stride back.

    The Heavils: these guys are nuts. They make their own versions of electric guitars and basses. Very aggressive. kind of reminiscent of Duh meets Nomeansno meets QOTSA. or not.

    Metallica - St. Anger: much better than anything since the Black album, but that's not saying much. Hate the production, think it's a total insult to Jason Newsted that the first album they make with out him, you can hear the bass. I do like "Frantic" but the rest is just ho-hum. Some one should lock these guys in a room with "...And Justice For All" until they get the point.

    Iron Maiden - Dance of Death: Not as good as their last album, but still really solid work. fantastic guitar work. Nice use of strings. Great driving music.

    The Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution: I can't stop listening to this album. This guy has the best voice in rock right now. The music is really good too.

    Voivod: This was the album I couldn't stop listening to for the first half of 2003. But I'm an immense Voivod fan. Jason Newsted is a great addition to this band. I wish they would come through here on tour though.

    Killing Joke: This is another album i had a hard time putting away. Very aggressive, more than I expected. A lot of heavy bands out there now could learn a lot from these guys. Dave Grohl's drumming is so damn fierce, it's nearly the highlight of the album, but that as usual goes to Geordie's guitar playing. I want that man's tone.

    We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones
    There are way too many stinkers on this for a tribute album, but there are some great versions as well, including "Havana Affair" by RHCP, "I Believe in Miracles" and "Daytime Dilemma" by Eddie Vedder and Zeke, "Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio?" by Kiss, "Something to Believe in" by The Pretenders, and the highlight, "Return of Jackie and Judy" by Tom Waits.

    Ziggy Marley - Dragonfly: Pretty interesting foray away from straight up reggae into what sounds a lot like stuff my friend Bernie writes - R&B influenced pop with reggae undertones.


By semillama on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 08:34 pm:

    i forgot to add Ween - Quebec: which is really great music to listen to at work. Who would've thought from GODWEENSATAN that these guys had such beauty in 'em?


By semillama on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 08:51 pm:

    i also forgot about

    British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power: An album I bought by accident. Oh happy accident. Spider, have you acquired this album yet? You really need it.

    Charlie Hunter Quintet - Right Now Move: pretty standard Charlie Hunter stuff. The more people he adds to his group, the less interesting his music becomes. But it's still damn good anyway

    Pila Seca - Afrodisiaco: this is the funk band Kazu and I saw in a bar in San Miguel. They rocked our socks off, so we bought the album and discovered that they have a real strong disco influence that doesn't come off in the live set. Great booty-shaking music.


    So far, there is only one album I am looking forward to in 2004, and that's Probot, Dave Grohl's thrash metal project. I hear it's the SHIT.


By Rowlfe on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 10:07 pm:

    go on Kazaa and look for "centuries of sin", which they've released arleady...

    its POSSUM


By Spider on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 12:41 am:

    Yep, Sem! I downloaded the Decline of British Sea Power and will buy a real copy soon. I like it lots.

    Am downloading 4 Devin Townsend Band songs as we speak and am listening to the intro to "Away."

    Will look for Centuries of sin.


By Spider on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 12:42 am:

    Uhh...*was* downloading 4 DTB songs. Bastard cut me off.


    My problem with lists like these is I can't remember when I acquired what. And what year [whatever I'm thinking of] was released.

    Like Beck's Sea Change. When did that come out? I dig that.


By Spider on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 12:44 am:

    Oops, forgot to ask: which Devin townsend songs in particular should I look for?


By dave. on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 07:13 am:

    yup. still.

    buttface.


    every day, week, year there's a new crop of bands. just like there's a constant flow of barely legals getting into porn. some are raunchy, some have excellent tits, some seem to really enjoy themselves. at the end of the day, it's just more of the same. fucking on film.



    strap on that there jammy pac
    if hypnotize won’t do
    stings you like a heart attack
    van winkle say fuck you
    never made me no supper
    quite like she needed to
    so strap on that there jammy pac
    it’s time to pay your due.



    2003 was musically anemic.


By Rowlfe on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 10:17 am:

    Devin Townsend songs from various albums

    * indicates the best song off its respective album

    "slow me down" *
    "Suicide"
    "Storm"
    "Traveller"
    "Life"
    "Night" *
    "Down and Under" *
    "Nobodys Here"
    "Canada"
    "Christeen"
    "Bad Devil" (This is probably his most popular song among the most audiences)
    "War" *
    "Colonial Boy"
    "Jupiter"
    "Kingdom" *


    from other Devin Townsend releases
    Strapping Young Lad

    "SYL" *
    "Cod metal King"
    "Detox" *
    "Underneath the Waves"
    "AAA"
    "Dirt Pride"
    "Bring on the Young" *
    "All Hail the New Flesh"
    "Oh My Fucking God"
    "Room 429"
    "In The Rainy Season"

    from the album he did with Steve Vai
    "In My Dreams With You"

    from Punky Bruster (fake punk band, comedy album)
    "Fake Punk"


By Rowlfe on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 10:20 am:

    "anemic"

    Actually, I'd classify 2003 as the best year in years and years. You'd just never know unless you have the proper word of mouth and dont listen to the radio.

    I have the word of mouth thing from another msg board i'm on, and I go to pitchforkmedia every other day and get a song based on what they review (even if its a a bad review, pitchfork are snobs)... they have plenty of free music downloads on their site. its like having a subscription to CMJ without the crappy magazine.


By dave. on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 03:29 pm:

    i also read pitchfork regularly and i scour the newsgroups daily. damn near every album released makes it to the newsgroups, usually weeks before its street date. as i've said before, i'm constantly looking for something new as well as new releases from bands i've enjoyed before. but when i go through the mental list of stuff i've liked to listen to recently, it's all 02 and 01.

    i think i've allowed a certain perception of rock music to creep into my head which makes it hard for me to listen to a new band or album without this perception taking over and ruining it for me. and that perception is that it's just a bunch of guys wanking off with each other and their instruments. "look at me! i can make my guitar go wheedly-wheedly! i can make the drums go dukka crash dukka doom! i can make my words go whoooo-groan-woooo! c'mon, man! buy into our spiel so we can traipse around the country and world and pick up chicks! on your dime! la lala lala. . ."

    something like that.


By sarah on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 10:29 am:


    janes addiction
    white stripes
    patti griffin (live)
    galactic
    spearhead
    drive by truckers


By patrick on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 02:11 pm:

    There's this band i see a lot on the teley.

    The Distillers?

    more than making instruments go whirly whirrrr its like there's some underground competition with "punk" band singers and who can make the fat pouty lip snarl more than the others. I want to punch her everytime she pops on to the screen.

    I know Im a cyncical bastard. I see dopes out and about, girls who look like brittany and I want to call out "Hey, Brittany. Hey! Stupid!" And then i see people that look like that Stefani chick from that snooze group. And its like...."Hey, Stefani! Get a haircut!"


    now that i think about it, there wasnt shit that came out this last year that i know of that really rocked my socks off. people don't try anymore.


    im grumpy for sure.


By Lapis on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 02:44 pm:

    I do like No Doubt a little. Their songs, for the most part, make me smile a bit; except for that stupid "Don't Speak" which they played on the radio all the time when I was a freshman in highschool. That song I don't like a'tall.

    Outkast "Speakerboxxx/Love Below"
    Lifesavas "Spirit in Stone"
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Fever to Tell"
    Raveonettes "Chain Gang of Love"
    Ween "Quebec" (My first day at Hollywood I was singing 'Zoloft' while a coworker was doing Britney Spears songs)
    Underworld Soundtrack
    Blur "Think Tank"

    Hrm. I will have to dwell on this then return.


By Rowlfe on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 05:49 pm:

    No Doubt can kiss my ass



    I have no problem with the Distillers because they are Hole without the guilt.

    I could give two shits if Brody snarls or if shes punk or how tall her hair is. The album is a straight ahead rock record, and a good one.


By Spider on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 05:52 pm:

    I think that girl's hot.


By wisper on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 06:03 pm:

    me two.


    She's like Courtney Love, but good.
    And possibly herpes free.


By patrick on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 07:10 pm:

    her name is brody? HA!

    why does that fit.


    Hole has always sucked ass. But im still fucking grumpy.

    I still think no one tries very hard and our standards are water thin.




    The Unicorns rowlf?

    see? standards gone out the fuckin window.

    Hey, check this video out. Im curious what you think.
    http://punkcast.com/257/









    Speaking of grumpy, have i mentioned how I want to destroy the polyphonic spree and all 75 versions of that god damn happy song that is being overkilled everyfuckin where?




By semillama on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 07:23 pm:

    Somebody needs their diaper changed.


By dave. on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 08:03 pm:

    i have to agree with patrick. everything's so commoditized now.

    rowlf, you know how you hate kids? that's kinda how i feel about 18 to 24 yr olds. especially scenesters. the ones i know and like are ok, it's the crowds en masse that i loathe.


By patrick on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 08:11 pm:

    i was talking to some one who recently went to a Unicorns show in NYC and how bad they sucked.

    Its like kinder core with casios.

    Hell, you have to wonder if they pass out scratch and sniff stickers at this show.

    I dont the obssession with acting like you're in elementary school again, when it comes to music.


By kazu on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 08:11 pm:

    "how i feel about 18 to 24 yr olds. especially scenesters"

    dave. I wish you could hear some of my friend Shannon's rants on detroit scenesters...you guys could be friends. I was pleased with the ratio of scenesters to non-scenesters at the Elliot Smith tribute I went to on Saturday. Not a good place to play hipster bingo though.


By Spider on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 08:51 pm:

    Hey, you know who else sucks, beside teenagers and scenesters? Grumpy old farts. Booooring.

    I recently discovered this guy that puts out music under the name Four Tet. The music combines organic and electronic instruments in a really nice way -- the sound is warmer than most other electronic acts, and the songs are good and pretty. ("My Angel Rocks Back and Forth" is a good example.) Here is a review/bio and some other downloads and videos.

    I'm also really excited to finally download an album (Edsel's "Everlasting Belt Co.") that I've been looking for for 7 years! I'm almost afraid to listen to it.


By Exploding vagina on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 09:02 pm:

    exploding vagina


By dave. on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 09:13 pm:

    i really don't need any encouragement, kazu.

    the "punk" scene is so safe now. the same types who liked journey and the scorps back in the 80s are listening to the strokes and jet now. all the tats and piercings and carefully scuzzy appearances are so fucking contrived. the scene used to be a refuge from normalcy. now, it's a shrine to it. analogous to the mega-church incorporateds peddling salvation through donations, or republicans promising a better america to poor, southern baptist types, the scene today delivers a mass-marketed, homogenized deviance peddled by reptilian svengalis . . . gaaaaah! stop me!


By Rowlfe on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 09:17 pm:

    "i was talking to some one who recently went to a Unicorns show in NYC and how bad they sucked.

    Its like kinder core with casios. "

    I met them at the Toronto show they did with Hot Hot Heat. Was this show you speak of in December? I think the Toronto show was the end of their tour.

    They talked about how they got sick from the French Kicks and how it had been hurting their shows.

    Either way, their live show even at its best probably cant match their album. their album has lots of little weird things going on that make it good.

    yeah theres keyboards, but theres also like, recorders, whistles, off key singing, coughing, bizarre rocking, bits of falsetto. Theres no way they could capture how good their album is with just 3 people.

    Kindercore? you have no idea what you speak of. If you like Ween, Beck, or Weezer's Pinkerton album, you will like the Unicorns' album. Great lyrics too.

    http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/u/unicorns/who-will-cut-our-hair-when-were-gone.shtml



    I cant stand scenesters. I dont go to shows much anymore because of them. I think I make more gig posters than I go to gigs. They're the types of people with the Sonic Youth tees who have all the Sonic Youth albums... but dont listen to Sonic Youth.

    And I hate them because most of them are in denial of how emo they are. I am in agreement that one of them can be ok, but once they're in a group it becomes a contest. I was at this one party recently and there was like, only two scenesters there, and I was talking to one of my friends about some bands he should search for (because he tends to look to me for such things and i cant talk about much else with him)... and all this one guy can do is butt in and get loud and talk about how this sucks or that sucks and he has such bizarre reasoning, all of which had nothing to do with the actual music.

    and I think most of us are more scenester than we think we are. I can see snobbery amongst us all, myself included.

    I think what makes the difference between a scenester and a hardcore fan is whether or not you're trying to spread around stuff you like, or if you're just using your record collection to play dressup. If you think of your Rapture CD as you think of your trucker hat, its likely that Rapture CD will be in a used CD store within a few months. if you spend as much money on your clothes as you do your CDs, you have a problem. if you agree with everything Pitchforkmedia says rather than half the time going "ah, you're an asshole", you have a problem.


    I'm thinking of moving more and more into the Andrew WK look. I dont like to shower and I dont like to do laundry. I shall make him my road guard.



    Trying hard? I think they're trying hard now than they were in the mid-late 90s. its harder to make a name with the state of radio, I think most of the good groups that have broken through have stepped it up a notch to survive.


By dave. on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 09:21 pm:

    i like four tet. i also like dntel and telefon tel aviv. and dj alias' album, "muted".

    i'm waiting for lali puna and mum's new albums coming out in the spring.


By Rowlfe on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 09:34 pm:

    "and I think most of us are more scenester than we think we are."

    I meant to say, musicsnob, not scenester. Totally diff'rent


By agatha on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 10:37 pm:

    People's people. Shaddap, Dave.


By J on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 01:49 am:

    Costello's North was a real disappointment to me.He married again.


By patrick on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 01:29 pm:

    no, the show was last week, in Brooklyn.


    I listened to about 5-6 Unicorn songs on their website, songs from Alien 8?

    Look at their site and tell me they dont make a serious effort to be 8 years old?

    Meh.

    Im so out of the loop, admittedly, so what im hearing is heavily filtered these days. LA is a buzz with a new radio station. Indie 103. There is no DJ, and the commercials are next to non existant. I think they sell 12-15 second spots an hour and do them all at once. They only do station ID as required by the FCC, once every 15 minutes or so.

    Everyone is going nuts, because this station is playing the shit. The thing, its owned by the corp. Clear Channel. Im not sure who they are though.

    But its a radio station that is making headway by playing an ecclectic mix (much like many people's record collection, mine included). You could be hearing vintage b-52's one minute, X the next, television the next, de la soul the next, johnny cash after that. total hipster, scenester radio station.

    i wish i knew my way around the news groups because my time and funds are just so limited, i need new music.

    you know what ive been rockin out to lately?

    someone gave me this erykah badu cd for xmas? come to find out it was made in 2000. It rocks. but its old.


    i was a grump yesterday because i had a minor tummy virus that kept me in the can more than i wanted to be and I was cranky for about 7 other reasons of which are too personal to go into here.


By sarah on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 04:05 pm:


    too personal for sorabji? bah.




By Rowlfe on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 08:46 pm:

    "Look at their site and tell me they dont make a serious effort to be 8 years old? "

    yeah, but just saying "kindercore" is really selling them short IMHO

    I didnt like the album the first listen, but now I'd probably even rank it higher than you see above... Its especially better on headphones, where you can hear all the 'secret' things going on in the background


By kazu on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 09:36 pm:

    but "kindercore" is such a fun word. Actually, when I first read it it sounded like kinder-core in my brain as in nicer, not-very-mean core.


By dave. on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 11:13 pm:

    this could be pretty good, too. scott herren makes good music.


By wisper on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 12:28 am:

    "Look at their site and tell me they dont make a serious effort to be 8 years old?"

    ya ever heard of a theme?

    when i get my business site up, it will look much like that.
    :)


By J on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 01:51 am:

    Red Hot Chili Peppers!


By beta on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 01:52 am:


By Dougie on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 01:09 pm:

    Anybody try the Let It Be Naked yet?


By patrick on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 01:20 pm:

    ha!

    scott herren used to be in our band in atlanta. talented mother fucker for sure. anything he does is solid.


By Antigone on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 01:21 pm:

    Hey, J. Send me e-mail. I'll be in Phoenix next week.


By dave. on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 02:41 pm:


By patrick on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 02:54 pm:

    delarosa yes. that was a project of his simultaneously while playing in our band, mostly keys, and mixing the 8 tracks. accustat was more like a side project of his but we loved having him because he had some kick ass vintage synths and was the most talented producer around.

    i had heard he was the shit big time, since he parted from us and we left the city. last i heard, several years ago, he was working a lot with Chicago's John McIntire, of Tortoise.


    Let me check out some of these links.



By dave. on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 03:08 pm:

    he's pretty fucking amazing with the mpc.

    i need to hear the new fall lp.


By dave. on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 03:24 pm:


By patrick on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 04:09 pm:

    thats fuckin amazing. i had no idea he because such a subdued rockstar.

    i should drop him a line.


By patrick on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 04:22 pm:

    dude im just raping pitchfork of their free mp3s.

    whats mpc?





    holy cow poster children are still around.


By dave. on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 04:37 pm:

    mpc

    i like the russian futurists, found on pitchfork downloads. at least i did when i heard them. things may have changed.


By patrick on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 04:39 pm:

    im probably going to hit the record store at lunch. im liking a lot of what im finding.

    but again, im starved but im easy.

    but im certainly going to go find some prefuse73. scott, like my friend "christopher exit" (the group ghost exits, whose video i linked a day or two ago, above) have a good taste for hip hop and know how to infuse it into their generally white, homogenized up bringings. way more dope than any of the mainstream hip hop people are doing.



    so thanks, again, for being the catalyst to help me pull my head out of my ass. sometimes it so easy to just turn off, but im thinking im missing a lot, though its easy for me to say im not. i just need to try a little.


By patrick on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 04:48 pm:

    last time i saw scott, he rocked out with one of these a crumar
    one these

    a Rhodes electric piano, a far out italian farfisa and a xylephone.


    thats a cool reference site. i was able to locate the synth and moog we still have.



    thats funny, i just downloaded 3 Russian Futurist songs and wrote them on a post-it that im taking with me to the store.


By Rowlfe on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 06:15 pm:

    the MMJ album is good, but it gets boring after a while, and you start seeing why Dave Matthews likes them...

    Didnt a few of them leave the band the other day?



    make sure you get the Tangiers mp3 from pitchfork





By patrick on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 06:17 pm:

    so i went out and bought scott's first album. I was debating between the Russian Futurists, Denali and Sleepy Jackson.

    I ended up with sleepy jackson because i think the wife will dig em too. she cant stand blonde redhead, in particular the vocals, so i was sure she would be crazy about denali.


    too bad my frickin CDRom decided to die on me.


By Rowlfe on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 06:55 pm:


By patrick on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 08:01 pm:

    dave have you heard of this label?
    http://www.thesocialregistry.org/

    apparently, one of the founders of the Social Registry started Table of Elements label. A label that im unsure if exists anymore but came out some with some really studios experiemental shit by faust, tony conrad, john cale and john fahey.


By kazu on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 08:32 pm:

    patrick,

    the forty fives are playing on the 30th at the echo lounge. Are those the guys you wanted me to go up to and say that patrick and nico-the-hottie-red-head in LA say hello?


By patrick on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 08:43 pm:

    yes.

    maybe they will remember. maybe not. give it a shot. or not. you might feel kind of stupid. those guys are touring machines so they probably see a lot of people and its been nearly two years since we last saw them. but go see them, they rock in a clean honest way.

    my friends band Black Love there is playing on Sat 1/31.

    All this talk of new music, shows, and my recent thoughts of playing music sure has me nostalgic.

    i really need to get that carpet rolled out and some time on my kit again. but its like i have X amount of time in a day. If i do that. that cats go hungry. if i decide to do a couple hours in the darkroom, the bathroom goes uncleaned for another few days.

    arghhhh



By kazu on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 08:52 pm:

    I don't know if I can go to both, but I might anyway. Maybe I won't talk to the forty fives.

    Where is Black Love playing? Can I say hi to your friend in that band without feeling stupid?


By dave. on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 12:40 am:

    never heard of any of those bands or that label, patrick. i remember you posting some video or something and i was gonna go back later and check it out but never managed to.

    i've wished lately that i didn't care about music. y'know, take it or leave it. whatever. not worry about missing something great or being let down by not finding it yet. *sigh*


    i have some bss somewhere. i should dig it up.



    i put this on the list that was eaten. fuck that reviewer, it's a great album. what does he expect, fired up? dumbass. sometimes, the best music just provides atmosphere. background sounds to do other things to. or to do nothing to. it doesn't give, it doesn't take, it just hangs out with you.


By dave. on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 01:51 am:

    this makes me smile. it's actually a pretty good note-for-note cover.


    ok, that's all. goodnight.


By Spider on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 09:14 am:

    I liked that cover.

    Patrick, my brother's got a few Denali albums and they're decent but boring if you listen to them more than a couple times. Engine Down is better.


By dave. on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 11:49 am:

    elmer fudd sings bjork!


By sarah on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 12:21 pm:


    has anyone ever heard of Supagroup? they're a cock rock band.



By patrick on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 12:37 pm:

    was it someone else that mentioned Sleepy Jackson here?

    It sounded familiar when i went to the record store yesterday. They had it qued on the sampler. I listen to a few songs. Sounded ok. And its just that.

    Ok. Nice background music.


    Im gonna hit the store again today.

    dave do you have prefuse73's first album. I listened to that several times, late last night playing playstation. its super nice.


By dave. on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 01:07 pm:

    never heard no supagroup. kyuss do a song called "supa scoopa and mighty scoop". prolly not the same thing, though. . .


    yeah, patrick. i think i like "vocal studies. . ." a bit more than "one word extinguisher. that was the first thing i heard that got me into the whole scott herren thing.

    so keep it tight as can be, a'iight?


By patrick on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 04:50 pm:

    dig on Cathari much?

    i kinda like the few songs they have pitchfork


By patrick on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 06:35 pm:

    so i went and blew more money i dont really have. i picked up a disc by Seekonk and Explosions in the Sky. I dug the mp3's . I also picked up 9(finally) Interpol's latest and an older disc from And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead.


    if only this fucking CDrom worked.


By kazu on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 02:59 pm:

    food or music...food or music...food or music???


    obviously, you all want me to starve.


    I love explosions in the sky, Patrick, how do you like the album?


By dave. on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:52 pm:

    food AND music!

    i got a hold of lali puna's new album from the newsgroups last night. the shit leaked out 3 months early, i guess. i like it. it's sounding a lot more notwist-y. guitars and stuff.

    see?


By Skooter on Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 09:39 am:

    Hmmm. Well, I'm not sure if any of these albums came out last year, but I live in the boondocks. We have no decent record stores here.
    These are some of me my favorites though.
    In no order whatsoever.
    1.Superjoint Ritual-A Lethal Dose off American Hatred. (This album makes the last few Pantera's sound weak at the knees. The lyric sheet reads like it was written by Charles Manson. Scary, brutal stuff).
    2.NERD- In Search Of- (This album is hella funky. Like an updated P-Funk with Hip-hop sensibilitys. I've been jamming to it non-stop).
    3. A perfect circle-13th Step. (I still maintain that taken as whole piece it's powerful and moving. At least to me. And all the other addicts.)
    4.Radiohead- Hail to the Thief (Long album, pleanty of different moods. Great for chilling and being a sad bastard man.)
    5. Serart- (Serj from SOAD's side project with Arto Boyician. It's moving, epic, ethic and wonderful. Like a new age SOAD.)


By Rowlfe on Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 12:25 pm:

    The Serart album is interesting, but gets old after a few listens


By Skooter on Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 02:52 pm:

    I really like the Serart. Being a drummer myself, I find the riddim's to be off the heezy. For sheezy.


By dave. on Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 04:09 pm:

    i like what i heard from serart but i don't think i could listen to it more than 10 or 15 times. but it is good.

    i actually went outside last night. took cleo and went to tacoma to see the decemberists. they sound exactly like the albums, which is cool because cleo really didn't want to go because she thinks live music never sounds like the recording. it's true -- britney spears, no doubt, etc. don't sound at all like the album.


    this was a pretty good show. i was impressed by the drummer. most girl rock drummers are all wap wap wap wap and whale on the cymbals to hide their fuckups. she wasn't like, all technical and shit like herb or brain from primus, but she was on time and showed finesse and skill even while singing backup. and it wasn't just wap wap wap wap.

    cleo fell asleep ½ way through but it was getting late and i kind of expected to have to take her to my brother's house anyway.

    i'm glad i went. thanks to agatha for urging me on. she tried to see them the night before in portland but it was sold out.


By patrick on Monday, January 26, 2004 - 01:17 pm:

    kazu, the Explosions album is ok. Ive only listened to it once or twice. So can't comment more than that.


    dave based on the one tune i dig the new lali puna, neither more nor less than the old stuff. though the old stuff was cool because i dont listen to a lot of the electronica bleep beep doop whoop whoop shit, at least not like that and like it, especially when its good.

    sat. we were listening to see seekonk, i was helping the wife with this arts and crafts project, a tapestry for eva's room and she said it reminded her of TeenBeat bands like Unrest and Eggs. In otherwords, inmature. And I understand why she is saying that and at times, it seems thats the bigges,t most noticable difference in music i listen to. A sense of maturity. Listening to the And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead album this morning, thats what I kept thinking. Immature. You can tell by the drum beats, by the guitars and drowned out vocals. And thats cool, I like it. It brings an angst to mind, a pilot light that i need to keep lit in me at all times. Sometimes though I wish I didnt notice it, because it makes me feel old.


By Rowlfe on Monday, January 26, 2004 - 03:31 pm:

    I just got the new Air album and its incredible


By TBone on Monday, January 26, 2004 - 03:41 pm:

    Explosions in the Sky are cool.
    Air is fantastic.
    I like Her Space Holiday too.
    Ethel isn't bad, neether.


By kazu on Monday, January 26, 2004 - 05:12 pm:

    I ordered Broken Social Scene based on some listens, the pitchfork review, and Rowlf's recommendation. I also passed the name on to my strokes-weenie friend who needs more new/newish bands to listen to...desperately.


By Spider on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 10:22 am:

    Look for Four Tet, too.


By TBone on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 11:38 am:

    Yeah, I liked Four Tet also.


By kazu on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 11:48 am:

    I like Four Tet. And it's on my list of CDs to acquire, however, probably not until late next month.


By dave. on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 01:45 pm:

    patrick, i think you (and nico) are on to something with the maturity thing.


By dave. on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 11:39 pm:

    air is totally good. i mean . . . daaag.

    what the fuck is up with soulseek and why didn't i know about it before? i thought it was just another gnutella client. it's actually the best thing since napster.


By dave. on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 11:45 pm:


By Spider on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 12:33 am:

    Soulseek bugs me, how it doesn't let you stop your search without closing the window and how it doesn't let you specify between a search for an artist and a search for a song, like Kazaa does. But other than that, it's great.


By Rowlfe on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 12:36 am:

    whats up with that video?


By dave. on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 03:16 am:

    maybe one of my least favorite songs on the album. it sounds like tatu on lithium.

    good, but sad video.


    i see what you mean, spider. i like it for the quality of the files.


By patrick on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 01:31 pm:

    ive never paid much attention to air as nothing ive heard before really grabbed me but that video certainly makes me reconsider and thats more to the credit of the director than Air.


By Spider on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 02:05 pm:

    How do you open *.cbz files? Are they movies or images?


By dave. on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 02:48 pm:

    i dunno. filext is down. rename it to .mpg and give it a try.




    after you scan it for viruses, of course.


By dave. on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 02:52 pm:

    patrick, the new savath + savalas is pretty dang good. it's like a latin stereolab, only way mellow. it's totally not what i was expecting but that's a good thing in this case.


By patrick on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 03:30 pm:

    noted.

    pitchfork has some nice things to say about it as well.

    sounds like my kind of gig.


By dave. on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 04:09 pm:

    heh. funny pitchfork review of new mum album:



    Múm: "Weeping Rock, Rock"
    Welcome to Iceland, my son. Everyone here is babies. Come, let me to show you the elfin twynklefaerie. She is sing la-la from amongst the dew-droppes in (gasp!) moss-covered cave! Is so delightful! She whisper to gay children of Sigur Rós, who is making out with love in... (gasp) uhhh.... snow-covered... hillside! Listen, fair song. Ssssshhhhhhhhhh! Can you hear?
    laaa-la-luh-la... laaaaaa-la-luh-la... laaaaaaaaahhh...

    If you can to make her emerge from cave, she may restore your hearts. Faerie, come. Come...

    laaa-la-luh-la... laaaaaa-la-luh-la... laaaaaaaaahhh...

    And what is this we hear, which is accompanying krystal-throated nymph? Clacking of drums and magick of flutes and drone of organ... eh, is okay. This we have heard many times before. But the faerie... she is unique.

    laaa-la-luh-la... laaaaaa-la-luh-la... laaaaaaaaahhh...

    She closens! Touch her, just to touch her! She is unseen by so many. Gentle now, gently.

    OH GOD THAT FUCKING FREAK NOISE!!!! JESUS CHRIST SHUT IT UP!!! SHUT IT UP!!!!! OAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHRRRRR!!!!!!

    Whaaaa, do not to stab faerie in thee throat! Whyyyyy!

    [Ryan Schreiber; January 28th, 2004]




    everyone here is babies!


By patrick on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 04:23 pm:

    thats a bitchin review.


By kazu on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 06:25 pm:

    My broken social scene CD came today. I'm listening to it now.


By Rowlfe on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 06:51 pm:

    you made sure to get "you forgot it in people" and not "feel good lost", right?


By kazu on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 06:53 pm:

    yes.


By Dougie on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 07:01 pm:

    Heard a review on NPR today about a band called Stella Star. Sounded pretty good -- driving pop rock. Anybody heard of them? I'll check them out on amazon later.


By Dougie on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 10:11 pm:

    Guess not. BTW, for all you classical music lovers, Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia" is really a gorgeous piece. Just heard it on the way home. Must procure it.


By dave. on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 10:58 pm:

    i have never ever heard of such a band called stella star.

    i should like to recommend "ten" by clouddead.


By kazu on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 11:55 am:

    Rowlfe! I love this Broken Social Scene CD. Have you seen them live?

    stellastar reminds me of all the stuff I used to listen to in high school. Sort of an amalgam of whatever it was they were playing on the alternative station between the years 1989-1993. I might liken them to interpol in that way, but interpol feels a little more...I don't know...solid. I have Interpol's CD, but I wouldn't bother with stellastar.



By Rowlfe on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 06:41 pm:

    I havent seen them live. Since they're from toronto, whenever they play it doesnt make big news and theres not much advance notice, so usually I end up finding out after its too late, or i find out and since I know they'll be back again I dont go...

    Their other CD "feel good lost" is good too, but its not the same. its almost all instrumental, somewhat atmospheric music. Could be considered disappointing to most.


By patrick on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 10:43 am:

    what a lovely subtle sunrise.

    i think some spiritualized in order.


    uh oh. i think hear my teething slobber/snot monster singing to her self in her crib.


By kazu on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 10:03 pm:

    ROWLFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


By Rowlfe on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 10:08 pm:

    guh?


By kazu on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 10:11 pm:

    i can't stop listening to this album.


By dave. on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 11:11 pm:

    do i just need to hear it a few more times?

    i'm not yet convinced.


By dave. on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 11:11 pm:

    eleven eleven!!


By kazu on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 11:21 pm:

    ahdunno, dave. it only took me about two listens...it's not genius, i just think it strikes a particular chord with me.


By dave. on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 12:06 am:

    i dunno either.

    but--

    the real new fall lp. mark e. smith in effect.


By Rowlfe on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 01:49 am:

    I think what makes Broken Social Scene really work.. their secret... is how many people are involved, how they can just pluck one out and insert them with someone else... theres 10 members of the group and then theres guest musicians... and the lineup apparently keeps revolving...

    its a new format for 'band' i guess... it would be neat to see one band that was committed to stay around for decades and decades with members constantly coming in and out with no one person as a constant over the whole period... i guess similar to Saturday Night Live's changing casts...

    "not ready for stadium rock players"


By kazu on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 02:09 am:

    yeah you're prowbabry right


By kazu on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 12:16 pm:

    I listened to Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl last night over and over again...it's something about the strings. It's rare that something grabs me because it's catchy AND keeps me listening.


By kazu on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 01:33 pm:

    That last line was regarding the whole album. I've been known to listen to songs over and over and over again.


By eri on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 01:53 pm:

    I am bad about listening to the same songs over and over. Lately it has been Evanescence. But at work it is quiet as can be and the sound of my fingers on the keyboard seem to make too much noise. So I have the weirdest songs just stick in my head for hours while I am working. I wish the rule about listening to headphones at work applied all week and not just on Saturdays.


By Rowlfe on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 02:18 pm:

    WARNING
    I'M A SNOB


    Evanescence makes my blood boil...




    mainly because there are two bands from Europe that are 'goth-metal' that do that same formula. The Gathering, and Lacuna Coil. The Gathering have pretty much eliminated loud guitars in the last couple years though...

    and I guess Lacuna Coil aren't going to break through with a single called "Heavens A Lie" when Linkin Park Plus Female are doing whats supposed to be a spiritual thing


By Rowlfe on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 10:04 pm:


By dave. on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 10:30 pm:

    nuh-uh. . .


By Rowlfe on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 10:38 pm:

    you heightist bastard!


By Rowlfe on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 12:25 am:


By Spider on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 08:56 am:

    Whoa, that was frightening.

    It has a sample from "The Thin Red Line." ("This great evil, where's it come from?" etc)


By Rowlfe on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 12:01 pm:

    I've been spending a lot of time this morning using insound.com to get a bunch of indie mp3s


    check out Surfjan Stevens' "holland"
    are weapons "fuck you pay me"
    the books "lemon of pink"


By wisper on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 06:41 pm:

    who wants a cute Spongebob comp wallpaper i just made?

    tell your screen settings (800x600..etc) and i shall make a link.


By Spider on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 07:01 pm:

    Ooh! I'm at 800x600.


By wisper on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 07:39 pm:

    simply right-click the following link and choose 'Save Target As'

    :)

    "Quite mild, yes"



By wisper on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 08:05 pm:

    i hope it works out, i had to shrink it down from my original 1024 x 768.


By Spider on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 08:45 pm:

    Success!

    What's Patrick holding?


By wisper on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 09:22 pm:

    a martini glass.
    He's trying to make polite conversation.
    thus, the tie.


    it's from the episode where Spongebob tries to have a big party but gets locked out of his house halfway through. It's very funny, and you get to see Patrick do this crazy dance.
    eee hee heee


By c on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 10:41 pm:

    friday night I saw a great band called smoosh, a duo, two sisters, 9 and 11 years old.


By dave. on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 11:23 pm:

    i read about them recently.


By Rowlfe on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 12:34 am:

    Isnt "Smoosh" the name of the band thats supposed to represent Oasis in a Mr. Show episode?


By Rowlfe on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 12:38 am:

    Today I bought Cibo Matto "Viva! La Woman", because of the Michel Gondry DVD. Have only listened to part of it but its quite good.

    I also got The Postal Service - Give Up. Its the side project of Death Cab for Cutie, and I think I actually like them more. Great shit, took me forever to find because everyones picking up the copies soon as they hit the shelves. Sub Pop has been going through one hell of a resurgance as of late.


By dave. on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 01:28 am:

    uhh, postal service is a side-project of dntel, dcfc's singer did vocals on his last album and lali puna did a nice remix of it. not like it matters, i'm just feeling like an argumentative little bitch.

    speaking of remixes, boards of canada did a great remix of dead dogs two, by clouddead. right here


    cibo matto are super cool.


By dave. on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 01:40 am:

    i should have said, "dcfc's singer JUST did vocals ON ONE SONG on his last album."

    there, now it's even more bitchy.


By Hubris on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 10:49 am:

    Dave Matthews- Some Devil


By wisper on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 06:01 pm:

    music nerd fight!!!!!


By kazu on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 05:25 pm:


By Rowlfe on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 06:01 pm:


By wisper on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 06:17 pm:

    the baby GnR cover band is wrong for so many reasons. *shudder*


By dave. on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 07:06 pm:

    all request ween is an excellent, live-in-the-studio performance.


    what's next? mini-gwar?


By Rowlfe on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 08:21 pm:

    band of the day

    !!!

    how do you pronounce "!!!"

    it's "chick chick chick" or "knock knock knock" or any clicking or knocking noise three times. Weird.

    Anyways, go to insound.com and under the mp3 section find "chick chick chick" and download the song "the step"

    it is fan-foogoo-tastic


By dave. on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 02:21 am:

    yeah, soulseek is down. even down, it's better than gnutella.

    when it comes back online, splorch splorch splorch.

    semillama and scooter, are you guys yoopers?


By dave. on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 02:59 am:

    look what happens when you google !!!


By moonit on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 04:19 am:

    Kazu thats hilarious. But damn you 56k modem. The sooner we get out of this house and get jetstream the better.


By Spider on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 09:21 am:

    Hey, my brother downloaded a !!! album....grrrr, but now I can't find it on our harddrive.

    And Soulseek's still down.


By semillama on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 10:20 am:

    All the way, dave.

    I'm going out and picking up Robert Randolph's cd this weekend.


By dave. on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 11:33 am:

    i downloaded this the other day after reading a couple of reviews. it's pretty good, especially considering its potential to be so bad. if someone wrote a piece like this about puget sound and tacoma -- some place i have a connection to -- i'd probably like it even that much more. it kinda has that feel of mike watt's opera about his dad in the navy except it's not mike watt and it's about michigan.


By J on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 12:12 pm:

    I went to the Grammy site to see if they really 86'd Janet Jackson looks like they did.I found a link to an Elvis Costello and the Imposters concert at the House of Blues in L. A. Joy:) http://media.yahoo.com/blueformusic/


By Skooter on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 06:32 pm:

    I'm what you call a transplanted Yooper. Where I was born in dowstate Michigan, makes me a Fudgie.
    Fudgies wear sandles, visit Mackinaw Island and are generally annoying to "Yoopers."
    I've now been up here 15 years, so that's better thn half my life in the UP.
    I enjoy the serenity and quiet, the fact that you could drink the water right out of the lake if you had too as well as keeping the small music scene alive and active.
    By the way Sem, did you check out my album yet?
    Any favorites? Great to see you man.
    In don't enjoy the dark, the cold (-39 windchill!), the isolation, no decent movie theaters or indie record stores within 100 miles. And the mosquites and blackflies suck also.


By semillama on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 07:25 pm:

    I have listened to it, and I like it. No favorites yet, and once I get my burner fixed, I'm going to send a copy to Ivan Stang.

    Of course, you could do that as well. His mailing address is up on SUBSITE: www.subgenius.com
    I'm pretty confident that it would get played on the national radio show.


By patrick on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 07:31 pm:

    you know whats fucked up about that recent Costello show? You could only go if you had an Amex card and used it to buy the tickets. How suckyshit is that?


By Dougie on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 07:34 pm:

    Not very cuz I've got an Amex card.


By c on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 10:23 pm:

    it's a brilliant marketing ploy, one I'm sure we'll see a lot more of in the future.

    smoosh used to have their good songs on their web site, and now they less good ones.

    is the postal service that record I think is really awful? the one where the death cab singer does songs about how his dad left his family and how much he dislikes his ex-girlfriend and stuff?


By c on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 10:27 pm:

    oh, never mind, that was an actual death cab record. "photo album."


By sarah on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 12:56 pm:


    death cab comes through austin like every three months it seems.



By kazu on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 01:17 pm:

    Broken Social Scene will be in Atlanta on March 23rd.


By J on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 02:45 pm:

    Elvis Costello will be preforming at the Grammy's with wife number 3 Diana Krall and others for a tribute to Sting.He'll be on the Late,late.late show tonight.


By Dougie on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 02:58 pm:

    He's married to Diana Krall? Get outta here. Are you serious?


By J on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 03:13 pm:


By patrick on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 03:27 pm:

    thats old new yo.


    get with it dougie.


By kazu on Monday, February 16, 2004 - 10:29 am:

    yo what four tet album should I get?


By Rowlfe on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 10:23 pm:


By kazu on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 11:53 am:

    Rowlfe,

    I drew the card "Go See Broken Social Scene Go Directly to Broken Social Scene Do Not Pass Go Do Not Collect $200"


    It's tuesday. I will be able to get all my work done. I don't have any presentations or anything I have to be "alert" for the next day. And if that were the case, they are also having an early in-store appearance at the record store up the street from where I live. It's like I'm destined to see them or something.



By Rowlfe on Monday, March 22, 2004 - 12:01 pm:

    I just got their b-sides album off of Soulseek. I havent listened to it yet, but the reviews are you know, "Its a b-sides album"

    Apparently "marketfresh" is the song to look for.


By kazu on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 11:59 am:

    So I got the Four Tet Rounds CD yesterday. I ordered it through Amazon since I needed to order some books for a paper I am writing.

    So I got the proper CD, but the liner notes are for Delirivm Cordia by Fantomas.

    I was utterly confused by the juxtoposition of wicker chairs and pictures of surgery.


By wisper on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 06:47 pm:

    lol

    as a younge thing, i got a Megadeth album, but the cd actually had all classical music on it. The artwork was all correct.


By Spider on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 08:02 pm:

    I once ordered Man or Astroman?'s "Project Infinity" album from the record label, and when I put it in the stereo, I found that while the CD cover was correct, the CD itself was the "Destroy All Astromen!" album.

    So I sent the thing back to the label with a nice note saying in essence, damn, I knew all their songs sound the same, but this is ridiculous. The label sent me the correct CD and about 7 band posters, which was nice.


By Spider on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 08:07 pm:

    Aw, that U.N.K.L.E. video Rowlfe had linked to upthread is gone. :(


By kazu on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 08:35 pm:

    I also got Rache's *Music for Egon Schiele* There is no way to screw up this CDs packaging without screwing everything up. It's like a wedding inviation I recieved once, thick paper folded funny with other paper inserted and then all held in by thicker paper...no plastic.

    I really like it and as soon as I can, I'm going to get the one that you recommended Spider.

    It reminds me of Philip Glass...not because it sounds like him, which I wouldn't really know because I don't own much of his...but it reminds me of what I wish he sounded like when I do hear him. Does that make ANY sense? Maybe not. I'm severely musically challenged so don't pay any attention....


By Spider on Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:06 am:

    Did I recommend Rachel's "The Sea & the Bells"? If not, I recommend it now. That's probably their most cohesive album.


By kazu on Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:24 am:

    Yeah. That's the one.


By Rowlfe on Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 12:03 pm:

    I just got the TV on the Radio full length. Very good, but the EP is better.


By jack on Sunday, August 7, 2005 - 10:40 am:

    funny thread. i'm wondering if people's opinions have changed on the subjects discussed.


By V on Sunday, August 7, 2005 - 03:15 pm:

    jack,v is the boss in this place,you are nothing,just piss off.


By V on Sunday, August 7, 2005 - 04:03 pm:

    jack,v likes to lick out the anal cavaties of goats and then let them piss while v jacks off.


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