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.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
Bossanova - The Pixies
Humbug - The Arctic Monkeys
Places Between (Best Of) - Doves
Quoting years at random since 1975
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
Quoting years at random since 1975
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
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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)
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
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?
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.
Quoting years at random since 1975
'69. Lots going on around it, inside and outside the band.
"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.
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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.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlXzZyTYbEc
zombie/thread killer..
Great band. Prefer the Prowler in the Yard album tho.
Insect Warfare are quality too.
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.
zombie/thread killer..
hahaa i love it, you look down at your watch and think, only forty minutes to go!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.
zombie/thread killer..
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).
Im loving Sleep going to look into getting a couple of albums
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