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PianoMap
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<3 this thread.
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PianoMap
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:12 am |
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Currently bustin' out a Mr. Children-It's A Wonderful World/The Decemberists-Castaways and Cutouts/Modest Mouse-This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About megaplaylist.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:23 am |
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| Focus wrote: |
| Also: A bunch of Deerhoof. I don't know why, either! |
Deerhoof has some strange powers. I used to think that The Runners Four was their best album yet, but I just heard Reveille and I don't know anymore.
Joanna Newsom's "Ys" is pretty great. I didn't know what to think of it at first but it's growing on me really quickly.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:22 am |
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Camera Obscura
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:35 am |
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Donovan - Season of the Witch
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:34 am |
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I saw these guys play live in my town a few weeks back, and let me tell you: they are well on their way to becoming alt. rock gods. The four of them look like they just crawled down from some backwater cabin on a mountain where no one shaves, and spend every night writing stoned lyrics, slamming guitars and screaming to the heavens.
Their 'produced' sound feels a bit more watered down on the stereo, but they're got a sincere and organic edge that they draw incredible power from.
The album [their debut] sags a bit energetically with a few pensive [but still quality] tracks that feel they belong somewhere good; just not that spot on the CD, or maybe on a B-side. The real rocking gold is in songs like "My Old Jacknife", or the slow-to-heat-up "New Joker."
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:38 am |
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| Wall of Beef wrote: |
I saw these my brothers open for Black Mountain last summer, and they were awesome. Totaly cool dudes too, they hanged out for the other bands and got wicked drunk, and I talked to the lead singer dude for quite a while.
Live they shred, but yeah the album does not capture their on stage spirit. If I remember correctly he yells and screams more on stage, and the lyrics on the album are just straight singing. So the bits of the album I heard I was disapointed with. See them live though. |
Yeah at this show most of the band hung out with other folks and newfound fans in their giant beater van and the lead singer hung around to check out the other bands and was quite a nice conversationalist!
Seeing him on stage, though. That was some religious stuff. Sweat flying and spit flopping into the mic; dude's neck veins looked ready to pop. After the set I was moved enough to turn to some random guy next to me and comment that "that was some fucking rock and roll."
ps - oh yeah i just found out that they met up and formed in Vancouver but they're all originally from my town, Kelowna!
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:46 pm |
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So, I totally missed when it came out, like, a couple weeks ago, but The Birthday has a new album, "Teardrop", out! Anybody gotten a chance to hear it yet?
Torrents? Sendspace? Something? I am at a loss :(
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:37 pm |
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oh hey forgot about this thread!
My play list these days has mostly been skipping a needle on The Blue Hearts - Young and Pretty, though this has been on my mind too -
Isobel Campbell - Milkwhite Sheets
This puts me in kind of a weird place. It's got part of the somewhat aloof style of her first solo album, though it's got all the foreboding and creeping creepiness of all the Gentle Waves and her collab. with Mark Lanegan put together. It's often just as, well, beautiful, I guess!
This, too! It smacks of a whitewashed bit of... something around sometimes bland points, but I can't put my finger on it. It's pretty goddamn lovely is what it is though, overall.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:27 am |
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Ladyhawk's new album, Shots, is out today. A couple months ago or so, I gave it a few intense listen-throughs, and now, anticipating today, I've given a few of the tracks several dozen more consecutive listens.
So far most of the impressions/descriptions I've read are kind of hilarious, and I'm writing a review right now that's kind of hilarious as well, though with more emphasis on vague feelings. I guess I'm hoping that they'll at least be vague feelings shot with a gun from a specific place, to a specific target.
"...Compared to their first album, Shots contemplates less on the day-to-day miseries and escapisms of the common man, seemingly lamenting in hindsight. If their first album was a cry out in the night from a man dying alone, then Shots is like the wailing of a banshee from purgatory. Duffy Driediger has a voice with an all-knowing quality to it. Like a prophet of doom. The message isn’t necessarily one of fear, though. There’s an underpinning of sadness..."
So yeah, I haven't been disappointed. Some of the stuff on this has got me as pumped up as the first album, though it's tighter, and maybe even more mature. Every time I hear "Faces of Death" my stomach clenches and muscles lock up.
also - I totally forgot Sambomaster had a new album out. Snagging that torrent right now. And I think the title sort of roughly translates to: "Music's Children are All that Sing"?
ps - the ladyhawk cover really reminds me of the vampire weekend one. hrm.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:27 am |
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| Wall of Beef wrote: |
| I saw Ladyhawk open for Black Mountain a few years ago, and I really liked them. But when I heard their debut release, it was nothing like the live show. At the live show the lead singer guy managed to slip on a skateboard and biffed it on the concrete pretty hard. No one had any idea whose skateboard it was, and there was like 5 people at the show by that point. He was also really trashed. |
Yeah when I heard Duffy Driediger screaming his neck veins into near-explosion and just sort of marveled at how the guitarists could all thrash about like that eyes closed and spit and sweat flying without smashing into each other on such a small stage... hm. The first album was just that, I guess. This new one is at least a few notches higher, though. It's got a lot more variety to it, as opposed to the kind of catchy-slow-catchy again thing the first album did.
So far the only song that really blows me away is 'Faces of Death', though yeah, that's also the most mellow song on the album. I fucking love his delivery and lyrics, though. I'm really really god damned excited to hear them play "S.D.H.T" and "Ghost Blues" live, if anything. They're back here in Kelowna with Black Mountain April 2nd.
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| this is the fourth (of four) sambo albums where the title has directly referenced another album or piece of music! |
good to know! and FUCK YEAH THE BIRDMEN
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:08 am |
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| slipstream wrote: |
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| I really want one, but I just can't make the purchase due to the price. It seems too steep. |
FM3 has the loops available for download, but you don't get the kitschy plastic and speaker entropy. |
I kind of really like the cheesy loopboxes! The AM Radio speaker adds some nice fuzziness to it from the ones I've heard. I'd love to get one myself. It seems a nice little art project. There's elements of the iPod Shuffle and this crappy puke-green plastic fan I bought one really hot summer at a garage sale for 10 cents.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:40 am |
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| Capt. Caveman wrote: |
| Every time I try to listen to Shots I just wind up listening to the first track on repeat a billion times. |
I did that too, and then with Faces of Death, and so on. Today I think I truly heard Ghost Blues for the first time.
That first track, though. Yeah. Fuck yeah.
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:19 pm |
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I have their "good" album. They're coming here pretty soon [or, they just played here. not sure]. Not really getting into them. Not sure why. Maybe they'll grow on me later.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 6:25 pm |
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| Capt. Caveman wrote: |
| Yeah that's a good one. You know, pitchfork.tv ain't half bad so far. There's a really good live Black Mountain set on there. |
Oh man I hadn't heard about this place this is really neat.
bonus points for Black Mountain
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:11 am |
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I'm surprised at the quality of the videos all around, pretty much.
edit - the descriptions are kind of irritating, though
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:07 am |
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Listening to Trans Canada Highway for the 1,000th time ITT.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:13 pm |
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I just realized The Blue Hearts are pretty danceable! A friend who I've incidentally discovered is actually into them blasted Linda Linda on his open Jeep on a downtown corner. The fun bit was Kohmoto dancing and drunk people from the sports bar spilling over to make it a dance party.
Does anybody have some good dance party stories?
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:03 pm |
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The only two folks that I've heard Midlake name-drop are Radiohead and Jethro Tull. [Radiohead being what they're good at and Jethro Tull what they wish they were as good as.]
I could listen to Branches all day long, though the overall story is just as great.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:34 pm |
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Who here has heard King Khan? I've just been introduced to "King Khan and his (Sensational) Shrines" and I'm loving every moment of it. Especially "Took My Lady to Dinner."
Also the MGMT album is nice but is also kind of wobbly for me since there's only two or three songs I really like.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:21 am |
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| glossolalia wrote: |
now mgmt, there's a band that deserves a cynical eye
the way they just kinda toss everything from the 70s in a blender along with the typical wobbly indie vocals and semi-ironic sense of distance, the overcompressed, overreverbed production, even the name sounds more like an insidious conglomerate than a band
but "electric feel" is pretty catchy |
'A cynical eye' is a good expression for this band, yeah. "Kids" is great, and I listen to "Electric Feel" at least once a day, but their other single, "Time To Pretend" completely falls under all the criteria you listed for me. I don't feel any power behind it.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:08 am |
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Yeah they were "The Management" to start and they definitely do seem like cool dudes.
To reiterate here is a early video of them doing umm one of my favorite songs of all time, yeah.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:48 am |
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Oh god yeah when he starts dancing with the lamp in that huge suit.
God that whole movie is fantastic. Best version of Take Me to the River for me, too.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:11 pm |
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So - is anyone else enjoying the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs as much as I am? [other than Toptube who does not like it] Seriously every other song I reflexively turn the volume up again. It's such a big art-poppy change it makes Show Your Bones seem like boring indie rock by comparison.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:03 am |
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NOOO!!
I mean, dang.
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