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« Reply #220 on: October 11, 2014, 11:00:44 AM »
Fax Wang is my fabourite
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« Reply #221 on: October 11, 2014, 07:04:54 PM »
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets: This was pretty damn good, not sure if I liked it more or less than The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Probably a bit less, but I dunno. “Set the Controls” was gorgeously atmospheric. “Corporal Clegg” was awesome with decent lyrics. “See-Saw” was pretty. The two tracks I really loved were “A Saucerful of Secrets”, which was amazing and all over the place and just wonderful, and “Jugband Blues”, which was sort of Syd’s farewell and was just great. I love the build-up to a length of loud sounds nixed by an abrupt cut near the end, followed by a serene final verse. Makes me really sad that Syd left and faded into obscurity so early on.
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« Reply #222 on: October 12, 2014, 10:33:30 PM »
Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity: As a synth fanatic I was told this album was a necessary listen for me, and I’m pretty glad I took it up. The massive abuse of vocoder was actually pretty great, and Giorgio Moroder is a pretty damn great producer if nothing else. The synth was wonderful, the strange vocal effects and weird sounds were wonderful, and the songs were catchy and great. I like. My favourites were "Lost Angeles" for the wavering synth, horse-cops and distorted vocals and "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" for the fact that it sounds like a K.K. Slider tune.
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« Reply #223 on: October 12, 2014, 10:48:23 PM »
I haven't listened to that one in a long time. I remember people recommending it to me because I like synth too, and it was pretty impressive for its time.

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« Reply #224 on: October 13, 2014, 12:34:00 AM »
listen to wax fang-majestic. pls
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« Reply #225 on: October 13, 2014, 08:49:43 AM »
^ Is Majestic an album?


Charli XCX - True Romance: Last.fm has been recommending Charli XCX to me for years, and since I liked her in Icona Pop’s “I Love it” and Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy”, I figured I’d finally give her album a listen. The verdict is…I don’t know. The album is equal parts great and amazingly generic. It swings back and forth between those two extremes with a finesse I have never seen before. “Nuclear Seasons” is very interesting musically with ‘eh’ lyricism, then “You (Ha Ha Ha)” comes in and is absolutely wonderful, followed immediately by the greatly generic “Take My Hand”, and it goes on that way for a while. Anyway, I find the best songs on this are the ones where she sings incredibly bluntly about love. On “Set Me Free” she equates love with such violent imagery that I’ve never seen before and it’s magnificent in a sort of painful way. It’s not a happy song, but it’s great. “Black Roses”, possibly my favourite (tied with “You (Ha Ha Ha)”), is another one that’s heavy on imagery for the better. It’s a very, very hopeless song and is beautiful because of it. The only other really noteworthy song is the closer, “Lock You Up”, which is incredibly poppy but I find it to actually be a great ending. It’s a very genuine song about the fickleness of love, how being wonderfully in love today doesn’t guarantee that the love will last, no matter how real it is, and the desire to be able to just lock it up exactly how it is and keep it that way forever. But yeah, anyway, the album is very 50/50 and I don’t know whether or not to recommend it because it’s so all-over-the-place. When it’s good it’s really good, but when it’s generic it’s really generic. Just listen to tracks 1, 2, 4, 10 and 13 and you’ll be good to go.

White Lung - It's the Evil: So damn. I’m a big fan of punk music, but I don’t as much like the pop punk that’s been branded as ‘punk’ for a long time now. I’m fascinated by the Sex Pistols and love The Clash’s earlier work, and after hearing that this band was the first band in a long time to do “real” punk I had to check them out. And, man, I think that’s a pretty fair assessment. They definitely have the attitude and the sound to pull it off, not giving a damn (probably even enjoying) if things are harsh and grating, alternating between shouting, singing and screaming as necessary and always keeping emotions running high. I don’t know how to pick favourites, I literally loved every single song on this album. I love that it forgoes choruses in favour of 1-3 minutes of pure punk rush. Choruses are terrible. Anyway, the two I loved the most would probably be “Psychoholic” and “Like Dad”, at least in the moment.

White Lung - Deep Fantasy: This one didn’t have as many moments I loved as “It’s the Evil”, but it was much more consistent. Because of that I really can’t pick favourites, I liked all of the songs basically the same.
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« Reply #226 on: October 13, 2014, 10:31:41 PM »
I think there is a creepy baby on it.

Edit: It's called la la land.

But I think I'd rather recommend king of the kingdom of man

Edit: No la la land is better.
Edit: due to the nature of the connotation of your genitalia you'd probably  like mirror mirror best.

Edit: You may find the guys voice annoying at first 
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« Reply #227 on: October 14, 2014, 04:06:05 AM »
My recommendation was almost 2 years ago, the Atmosphere one.
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« Reply #228 on: October 14, 2014, 06:46:31 PM »
The xx - xx: This was a whole lot more minimalist than I expected, but it’s definitely a very pretty album. It was very hushed and each song sets a pretty specific tone and manages to set itself apart from the others fairly well, in my opinion. Romy and Oliver make a very good duo, and you can tell how close their friendship is just through the way they trade lyrics and work off of one another in the songs, it’s really just interesting to observe. But anyway, I can’t say I *loved* the album but I definitely enjoyed it a lot. The songs I did love, though, were “Basic Space”, “Infinity” and “Stars”. It’s worth noting, as well, that I was very fond of their lyrics and will probably be listening more for that, too.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!: Man, this was all over the place. Not quality-wise—it was very consistently very good—but in terms of sound. “Synthpunk” is generally a good descriptor, but it also manages to be really fun and really gorgeous. “Soft Shock” is vaguely reminiscent of The Postal Service, mostly just the background noises and overall sounds, how sort of quaint and bloopy they are. “Runaway” is great, and my fav fav is “Little Shadows”, which is just insanely gorgeous and I have a weird obsession with shadows and the idea of shadows, particularly as imagery and in music. But yeah, this was a pretty damn wonderful album and I highly recommend to anyone who is a human.
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« Reply #229 on: October 16, 2014, 06:40:53 PM »
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box: I think I like this more than First Issue, but there weren’t any songs on this I loved as much as “Fodderstompf”, which is still my favourite Public Image Ltd. song by far. I can definitely see how this could be considered post-rock’s progenitor, it has many of the same qualities, though more punk-y and in smaller doses (which I’m kind of grateful for, since post-rock albums go on for infinity+ hours). It was really great. My favourite songs on it were “Socialist” and “Radio 4”, followed by “Chant”, “Memories”, “Careering”, and “Bad Baby”.
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« Reply #230 on: October 27, 2014, 07:13:21 PM »
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« Reply #231 on: October 28, 2014, 10:40:29 PM »
listen to mouse rat

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« Reply #232 on: November 05, 2014, 05:04:04 AM »
Listened to this weeks ago and forgot to post:


Thin Lizard Dawn - Thin Lizard Dawn: I was actually really impressed with this. A lot of the songs are extremely catch while also being genuinely really good songs, and the instrument work and production is pretty fantastic. It’s hard to describe their sounds since their songs are pretty all-over-the-place, but it is, at the very least, alternative rock. I’m not very wordy today so forgive the lack of description and the succinctness of this review, but it was really good. Some songs I wasn’t as fond of (“Weed” and “Say What You Want”, for example) because they’re pretty straightforward while most of the album has set the precedent of being rather unpredictable and willing to switch it up in the middle of a song, but anyway. “Killing Charlie” is my second-favourite track, followed by “Happy/Loonies”, “Anesthesia” and “Power Intro” all tied for third. My favourite, however, is the closer, “Heavily Addicted”. It’s essentially a short song followed by 17-ish minutes of silence followed by what are basically five or so unrelated, almost experimental songs. And all of them are wonderful. I’d love to have them individually but, alas, it looks as if they’re meant to be in one track. Anyway, it was very gud.
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« Reply #233 on: November 20, 2014, 01:03:29 AM »
Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien: The verdict is in, and…well. I had good expectations of this album because I’ve been a pretty hardcore My Chemical Romance fan, and I like Gerard. I was really upset about their break-up and figured this was the closest we would get to new MCR, though that it wouldn’t live up to their albums. And, well…never thought I’d say this, but…if MCR breaking up gave us this album…I can actually accept the break-up. The album is really, really, really freaking good. Like, I actually like it a lot more than “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” and “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys”. “The Black Parade” is still one of my all-time favourites, but I actually enjoyed this more than most of MCR’s work. That’s a beautiful thing. Wikipedia classifies the album as “alternative rock, brit-pop & post-punk”, and post-punk is the most applicable of the three. It’s borderline noise-rock or noise-pop and I love it. There’s so much going on, so many little flourishes and screeches, emotion and pure noise, layers and distortion and just overpowering sound. “The Bureau” was a good start, and the ending of “Millions” deserves a song of its own, but “Juarez” is where it gets really cranked up to 11.

Lyrically this is all less bleak than MCR’s work often is, but it’s just as dark, if not darker. “Get the Gang Together”, for example, deals with old friends dying, fading away, leading new lives (one undergoing a gender transition, even) and things like that. Others deal with love, life, etc. There’s hints of MCR throughout, but overall this is very, very much Gerard Way. If you’re listening just for more MCR, I probably wouldn’t bother too much. That said, it does continue the My Chemical Romance tradition of ending albums on an optimistic note, with an anthem worthy of “Famous Last Words” or “Vampire Money”. Personally I would have ended with “Millions”, because that finish would have left a wonderful taste in my mouth, but…ah well. Anyway, my point is this album is absolutely wonderful and actually (IMO) better than most of what My Chemical Romance did. And that’s saying something, because I love them to death. My point is, Gerard’s got a hell of a career ahead of him, and I can’t imagine a better start than this. Count me in.
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« Reply #234 on: November 20, 2014, 01:10:08 AM »
I hate MCR, but this album interests me. Seems like most of my favorite genres rolled into one. I'm still a bit hesitant though. No pun.

I like the David Bowie-esque album cover.

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« Reply #235 on: December 01, 2014, 09:32:30 PM »
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother: This was…interesting, to say the least. In a good way, but not a particularly amazing way in my opinion. “Atom Heart Mother” and “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast” were interesting to listen to, but aren’t really tracks I feel any desire to listen to again. That’s not to say they were a bad experience—they were quite good—but mostly as a sort of curiosity. “If” was really pleasant and “Summer ‘68” was very nice as well (not as much so lyrically, but who cares), and surprisingly I preferred those two to the two big tracks. I definitely preferred The Piper at the Gates of Dawn to this album, though, and probably A Saucerful of Secrets as well. So yeah.
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« Reply #236 on: December 02, 2014, 08:48:51 PM »
I've been listening to Hesitant Alien today. I'm liking it so far, but I think it's going to be one of those albums that I'll have to listen to a few times before I get the full experience. It's much more mature than his work with MCR, which I appreciate.

Speaking of Pink Floyd, I think the first track on Hesitant Alien uses the same dial tone phone noise used on Pink Floyd's The Wall.

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« Reply #237 on: December 04, 2014, 11:06:33 AM »
^ It is ver good


Pink Floyd - Meddle: I definitely prefer this to Atom Heart Mother, but I don’t like it as much as either of their first two albums. I really think Syd is my favourite member of the band, without him the music just isn’t as appealing to me for whatever reason. It might be more technical and the band members may be far improved, but it’s just not as different and idiosyncratic as before. It sounds like a whole lot of prog. rock now. Granted, “One of These Days” is an amazing track and one of my favourite Floyd tracks, and “Echoes” is really good as well, but everything between ranged from “eh” to “that was pretty good”. “A Pillow of Winds” and “San Tropez” are the two “that was pretty good” tracks, and they were, well, pretty good. This was mostly worth it for having the original version of “One of These Days”, rather than a recording by a certain forum-goer, “One of These Doctors”.
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« Reply #238 on: December 07, 2014, 10:28:40 AM »
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today: This did not have a promising start, but a few songs in I found myself acclimating to Ariel’s unique blend of lo-fi aural textures and lack of any real attempts at any normal type of singing. I’m listening to this partly out of curiosity, but mostly to get some context for my eventual listen of his latest solo release, “pom pom”, which has piqued and maintained my curiosity for quite a while now. It’s a good album, that’s for sure. Great? I don’t know. It could be, but it feels like, through the middle, it hits a point and sound and more or less stays there. The tracks are all consistently good, but none very stand-out in the frame of reference of the entire album. Some have sections that do (“L’estat (Acc. to the Widow’s Maid)” becomes glorious near the end, for example), but as a whole it’s sort of a blur. Until the last few tracks, at least. “Reminiscences” isn’t much better than the rest before it (which, I want to clarify once more, is still praise), but it signals the start of change, even if it only lasts a few songs. Second-to-last is “Menopause Man”, which I figured would be the highlight as it’s eventually chaotic and much more varied than the tracks before it, but the final track, “Revolution’s a Lie”, is just amazing and great and I like it very much and it’s good. Hopefully the next album is even better, because I feel like this really had potential to blow me away that it didn’t quite reach. ver gud band gud abum 7.74/10.001
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« Reply #239 on: December 07, 2014, 12:41:10 PM »
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes: Well, that was much more of a ride than the last album. On the plus side, many of the songs were far, far better than anything on Before Today. On the downside, several were far worse than anything on Before Today. It hit higher highs and lower lows, much more variant in quality. I’ll take it, though, because we get amazing songs like “Is This the Best Spot?”, “Mature Themes” and the gorgeous “Nostradamus & Me”. We also get (comparatively) shitty tracks like “Driftwood” and “Baby (feat. Dam-Funk)”, but it’s a tradeoff I’ll take. The group’s musical ability has clearly improved as has the breadth of their scope in general, what sorts of sounds and music they want to tackle, and it’s at least a great experience track-to-track seeing what they’re going to do and how they’re going to do it. So while this doesn’t really leave an overall as-good impression as the album prior, when it’s good it’s so good that I’d take it over the other any day. His lyrics vary so much between interesting (“Mature Themes”, “Early Birds of Babylon”), so stupid they’re amusing (“Schnitzel Boogie”, “Symphony of the Nymph”), and stream-of-consciousness retardation (“Driftwood”), and I can’t tell if I like it or not. Next up, pom pom
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