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New direction, a lot less of the strings, church organs and despair... but a real mix of styles, Month of May is quite punkish and Wasted Hours is quite a chilled out strum along. Sprawl II verges on disco and it's amazing. There's two two-part epics (if that makes sense), Sprawl and Half Light. Countless highlights, but it's best to let the album grow on you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
Bossanova - The Pixies
Humbug - The Arctic Monkeys
Places Between (Best Of) - Doves
Decade - Neil Young
Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol
Different Gear, Still Speeding - Beady Eye
The River - Bruce Springsteen
The Promise - Bruce Springsteen
Essential Bob Dylan (2010 re-issue) - Bob Dylan
Dynamite Steps - The Twilight Singers
Blues for the Red Sun - Kyuss
Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond
The new lot this week include:
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
LCD Soundsystem - The London Sessions
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Happy Birthday: The Best Of Altered Images
Animal Kingdom - Signs And Wonders
Soledad Brothers - The Hardest Walk
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Beth Orton - Pass In Time
The Pine Hill Haints - The Cold Cold Hand (Alabama Ghost Country Music)
Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! (follows on from Seldom Seen Kid, pretty good)
REM - Collapse Into Now (back to their best!)
Radiohead - King of Limbs (took a while, but sinks in, very atmospheric, especially the last three tracks)
DJ Shadow - Entroducing (listened to it for the first time, brilliant stuff)
Great album thats bookended at the beginning and end with two absolute classics - "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Gets What you Want". Complete genius for, what year?? - 68? 69?Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Could have been a Hat-trick if they left the "rock" version of "Honky Tonk Women" on the album.
May I heartily recommend "Sticky Fingers", "Exile on Main Street" and "Beggars Banquet" also.
'69. Lots going on around it, inside and outside the band.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
"Gimme Shelter" is one of my favourite songs of all time. Heard or read a great line about it some time ago, something about Richards' guitar intro wheeling like a malevolent vulture circling the corpse of the sixties. Nice.
"Midnight Rambler" is another top, top tune.
Not as much of a fan of Sticky Fingers as it goes, but slot in Out Of Our Heads instead and you'd pretty much have the best four Stones albums there though.
going over this thread in search of some good music - big thanks for Tegan and Sara - they are awesome:DQuote:
Originally Posted by jebus
I once chased Tegan and Sara, inadvertently around Australia. Melbourne, Adelaide and then Perth. Missed their gigs by one day each time. Got to see Les Savy Fav instead. That rocked all kinds of bawlls.
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Magrudergrind - 62 Trax of Trash
and a Luke Kelly CD my friend made. He is a truly great singer
you might like pig destroyer? phantom limb is one monstrous album:Quote:
Originally Posted by cornflakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlXzZyTYbEc
Great band. Prefer the Prowler in the Yard album tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by ken foree
Insect Warfare are quality too.
cool thanks, must check both. do you like the norwegian b. metal stuff (xasthur, leviathan, etc.)? i'm into some of it and lately a few bands like esoteric and weakling. also a soft spot for all that newish doom/drone metal (e.g. sunn)Quote:
Originally Posted by cornflakes
Wouldn't be too into Black Metal, I like Immortal, haven't listened to much thoQuote:
Originally Posted by ken foree
Ya I like a bit of doom. Electric Wizard, Weedeater, Khanate, Eyehategod good bands
I prefer grindcore and death metal. I like it fast
funny, slower the better for me! (sunn are god's b0ll0cks.) but i see we share some taste in stoner stuff like e. wizard and khanate. SLEEP? (OM and high on fire guys' first band) are probably my favorite from this "scene" or "genre" or whatever. their 65 minute dopesmoker song is epic, an overused word these days, but very true in this case. that insect warfare link is pretty insane alright, i could get into some of that no problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by cornflakes
Just listened to the first twenty minutes of "Dopesmoker", brilliant stuff. I think you could convert me to a die hard doom fanQuote:
Originally Posted by ken foree
hahaa i love it, you look down at your watch and think, only forty minutes to go! :D great stuff indeed. on the other end of the spectrum, i was checking out the 'prowler in the yard' track lengths yesterday, they're all like a minute and a half long! if you really like that sleep album, check out 'holy mountain' by them. chugging and sabbathy in the vein of electric wizard.Quote:
Originally Posted by cornflakes
Ya some of the best grindcore albums are really short, Napalm Death's "Scum" album has 28 songs in 33 minutes. If you want to get into grind listen to bands like Assuck and Discordance Axis. Theres even a grindcore band called Drogheda (Not that good tho).Quote:
Originally Posted by ken foree
Im loving Sleep going to look into getting a couple of albums