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Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:01 am
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Now isn't that a much better title?

These are some of the albums I've been giving a couple of listen-throughs to and I'll probably keep this topic updated.


Artist: Why?
Album: Alopecia
Track List:
1. "The Vowels, Pt. 2" – 4:04
2. "Good Friday" – 3:50
3. "These Few Presidents" – 3:04
4. "The Hollows" – 3:55
5. "Song of the Sad Assassin" – 4:13
6. "Gnashville" – 3:49
7. "Fatalist Palmistry" – 3:53
8. "The Fall of Mr. Fifths" – 3:16
9. "Brook & Waxing" – 2:35
10. "A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under" – 2:29
11. "Twenty Eight" – 0:44
12. "Simeon's Dilemma" – 3:33
13. "By Torpedo or Crohn's" – 4:04
14. "Exegesis" – 1:37

Hip-hop influenced depressing indie rock. The music I imagine myself making if I actually took that route instead. Songs rapped under heavy beats, filled with catchy yet nigh-incomprehensible lines that flow seamlessly and it's all absolutely depressing. And I love every bit of it.


Artist: Minutemen
Album: Double Nickels on the Dime
Track List: uhh....
1. "D.'s Car Jam"/"Anxious Mo-Fo"
2. "Theatre Is the Life of You"
3. "Viet Nam"
4. "Cohesion"
5. "It's Expected I'm Gone"
6. "#1 Hit Song"
7. "Two Beads at the End"
8. "Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?"
9. "Don't Look Now"
10. "your poetry from an Old Notebook"
11. "Nature Without Man"
12. "One Reporter's Opinion"
13. "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing"
14. "Maybe Partying Will Help"
15. "Toadies"
16. "Retreat"
17. "The Big Foist"
18. "God Bows To Math"
19. "Corona"
20. "The Glory of Man"
21. "Take 5, D."
22. "My Heart and the Real World"
23. "History Lesson - Part II"
24. "You Need the Glory"
25. "The Roar of the Masses Could be Farts"
26. "West Germany"
27. "The Politics of Time"
28. "Themselves"
29. "Please Don't Be Gentle With Me"
30. "Nothing Indeed"
31. "No Exchange"
32. "There Ain't your poetry on T.V. Tonight"
33. "This Ain't No Picnic"
34. "Spillage"
35. "Untitled Song for Latin America"
36. "Jesus and Tequila"
37. "June 16th"
38. "Storm in My House"
39. "Martin's Story"
40. "Dr. Wu"
41. "The World According to Nouns"
42. "Love Dance"
43. "Three Car Jam"

Punk with a heavy dose of funk. In your face and groovy. I don't know how that works but it does. And it's nothing new since this was way back in the 80's. ALL THE GOOD THAT THE 80'S DID, NOBODY KNOWS. oh and this where the show Jackass got its theme song from! The more you know!


Artist: Tom Waits
Album: Closing Time
Track List:
1. "Ol' '55" – 3:58
2. "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You" – 3:54
3. "Virginia Avenue" – 3:10
4. "Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)" – 3:40
5. "Midnight Lullaby" – 3:26
6. "Martha" – 4:30
7. "Rosie" – 4:03
8. "Lonely" – 3:12
9. "Ice Cream Man" – 3:05
10. "Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)" – 3:38
11. "Grapefruit Moon" – 4:50
12. "Closing Time" (instrumental) – 4:20

Tom Waits' debut album and man does he sound different. And by different, I don't mean "different" as he is now. I mean that its different from his experimental work he started back in the 80's [AGAIN REAFFIRMS MY THEORY] and continues to do now. His voice is clear and true, not the gruff and raspy "old-man's voice" he has now. It's all so bluesy and... sad. The piano is his main instrument and he doesn't deviate very much, if at all. He still does this kind of music every now and then but it's strange hearing the same thing for an entire album from him. This is a very nice sounding and very accessible album but I don't think it gets into the genius of Tom Waits. Still, it's a quality album and it takes a good look into the early part of Waits' career.


Artist: Man Man
Album: Rabbit Habits
Track List:
1. "Mister Jung Stuffed" 2:28
2. "Hurly Burly" 3:51
3. "The Ballad of Butter Beans" 4:28
4. "Big Trouble" 5:05
5. "Mysteries of the Universe Unraveled" 0:09
6. "Doo Right" 1:38
7. "Easy Eats or Dirty Doctor Galapagos" 2:24
8. "Harpoon Fever (Queequeg's Playhouse)" 3:19
9. "El Azteca" 1:43
10. "Rabbit Habits" 2:48
11. "Top Drawer" 3:26
12. "Poor Jackie" 8:23
13. "Whale Bones" 7:14

Ironically, this is what Tom Waits sounds like today! Hell, the vocalist here can pass for the man himself with his voice! Except this one's a bit "lighter" and more "frenzied" than Waits' usual fare, horns blaring and guitars jangling. "Manic vaudeville" is what you should be expecting from these guys.

Check these albums out. Quality guaranteed!
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Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:07 pm
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I added a sample for each album so you guys can get a taste of what those albums offer. Maybe then you'll actually check them out!
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Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:19 pm
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Just a word to Joseph:



Youtube sucks Sad Damnit
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Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:22 pm
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If you're going to post a screenshot, make it at least readable.

What my good friend is trying to say is that audio in that video has been curtained by the Youtooths.

This video, however, hasn't.

I've listened to Tom Waits before the 50 billion cartons of cigs he has undoubtedly huffed, and the quality of his voice is otherworldly. This song specifically, like you said, isn't as brilliant as say, everything from Mule Variations, but it's still as bluesy as Wednesday Watering Hole at a 1920s speakeasy, with the wilting trumpets and Waits' unpretentious piano accompaniment. And his voice. God, his voice.

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I noticed before I read your post. And yeah, resized. Anywhere else you can get samples of the tracks?

Also. Note on the megaphone at the side. It stays at mute, and you can't change it...

Hmmm... I wonder... Twisted Evil

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OH YEAH... SCREW YOU YOUTUBE!!! HAHAHA!!! YOU MAY LEAVE THE PLAYER AT PERMA-MUTE, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU REMOVED AUDIO FROM THE ACTUAL FILE!

Yeah. Just feeling good about douching Youtube. I recommend FlashGot for all Firefox users.

Also, nice music Joseph. Any way I can listen to the whole album? Wink
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Ruled by a Cat wrote:
Also, nice music Joseph. Any way I can listen to the whole album? Wink


Which album? Closing Time? You can always search for it in the popular torrent search sites. Or Demonoid.
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:47 am
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Hmmm...because what you listen to matters so much it needs its own thread.

...awesome stuff, by the way.
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I'm just trying to share the gift of good music! Glad to know people are listening!

What exactly did you listen to, Cai? Don't take you as a "punk" fan nor a Tom Waits kind of girl AND you're not really into rap. MAN MAN THEN?!
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Update!


Artist: The Kills
Album: Midnight Boom
Track List:
1. "U.R.A Fever" - 2:16
2. "Cheap and Cheerful" - 2:26
3. "Tape Song" - 3:35
4. "Getting Down" - 2:55
5. "Last Day of Magic" - 3:21
6. "Hook and Line" - 2:03
7. "Black Balloon" - 3:46
8. "M.E.X.I.C.O.C.U." - 1:37
9. "Sour Cherry" - 3:07
10. "Alphabet Pony" - 1:45
11. "What New York Used To Be" - 3:15
12. "Goodnight Bad Morning" - 3:51

Attitude. This pretty much sums it up for me. The beats carry the album, the drums marching along with sinister bass-lines and catchy hand-claps spread throughout most of the songs. Guitar licks whip in and out tracks while vocals have that sing-songy quality that reflect the playful and, at times, apathetic "feeling" the male-female duo pretty much espouses throughout the album.

It is rather ironic that the strongest songs are the ones that show the most emotion as the beat-heavy quality of the album can be a bit tiring. It also ends on a completely different note from the rest of the album by slowing things down to a crawl in "Goodnight, Bad Morning", complete with what sounds like an acoustic guitar with piano accompaniment... which can be a bit jarring.

Still, this is a pretty fun album to "get down with" as Jamie Hince, the male constant of the band's equation, languidly puts it.


Artist: Deerhunter
Album: Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
Track List:
Microcastle
1. "Cover Me (Slowly)" - 1:21
2. "Agoraphobia" - 3:22
3. "Never Stops" - 3:04
4. "Little Kids" - 4:22
5. "Microcastle" - 3:40
6. "Calvary Scars" - 1:37
7. "Green Jacket" - 2:09
8. "Activa" - 1:49
9. "Nothing Ever Happened" - 5:50
10. "Saved by Old Times" - 3:50
11. "Neither of Us, Uncertainly" - 5:25
12. "Twilight at Carbon Lake" - 4:24

Weird Era Cont.
1. "Backspace Century" - 2:19
2. "Operation" - 4:04
3. "Ghost Outfit" - 0:33
4. "Dot Gain" - 3:19
5. "Vox Celeste" - 3:31
6. "Cicadas" - 2:30
7. "Vox Humana" - 2:32
8. "VHS Dream" - 2:33
9. "Focus Group" - 2:49
10. "Slow Swords" - 3:25
11. "Weird Era" - 2:40
12. "Moon Witch Cartridge" - 1:32
13. "Calvary Scars II/Aux Out" - 10:12

This is actually a double album (hence the gif!), with Microcastle being the main album while Weird Era Cont. is more of like a bonus disc.

This is music that will wash over you. Bleak and gloomy, the album will lure you in with its despondent quietness and silences and swallow you whole in the walls of sound it constructs. The vocals are almost haunting in their soft sorrow while the guitars reverb and resonate in their thickness.

There are a couple of "bright spots" in the album where the drums are upbeat and the guitars are in your usual zone of distortion, with a guitar solo thrown in for good measure, but the theme of the entire album still prevails in its grim outlook by just taking the titles like "Nothing Ever Happened" and "Never Stops" into consideration. The music lulls and drones, immersing you in the depressing atmosphere the band creates.

Even if you're not in the mood to be all moody, these two albums are still worth checking out for their sheer control over the highs and the lows one can make with music. At the very least, listen to Microcastle.


Artist: Fleet Foxes
Album: Fleet Foxes
Track List:
1. "Sun It Rises" – 3:11
2. "White Winter Hymnal" – 2:27
3. "Ragged Wood" – 5:07
4. "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" – 3:28
5. "Quiet Houses" – 3:32
6. "He Doesn't Know Why" – 3:20
7. "Heard Them Stirring" – 3:02
8. "Your Protector" – 4:09
9. "Meadowlarks" – 3:11
10. "Blue Ridge Mountains" – 4:25
11. "Oliver James" – 3:23

Folk at it's absolute finest.

With a tinge of pop and classic rock, the band manages to take a genre I never really found to be too interesting in its "complacency to simplicity" to the highest peaks of the musical mountains. And it is only fitting that I mention mountains as the entire album evokes all these images of nature with songs about the birds, mountains, and going back to your roots. Listening to the entire album will make you feel as if you were transported into the countryside, into the forests.

The guitars add to the purity and the restrained sadness of it all with its clean and melancholic. And the vocals, my god the vocals. Robin Pecknold, a name that is just perfect for this kind of band, leads the band with his clear, warm voice that just has enough of that kick to make you feel the music.

The rest of the band provides backup vocals and they never do it just to add fluff. The vocal harmonization is beautiful and majestic all at the same time, soaring and carrying the music to the aforementioned peaks. I just cannot find a fault in this album.

Pitchfork, that lovable alternative music site for hipsters everywhere, should be praised this time for hailing this as the best album of 2008. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not listening to this album in its entirety. It's that damn good.
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Update... which should've been here a week ago if not for your poetry internet connections! So to make up for it, here are 6 album "reviews" for you to not read for lack of interest. That's right! 6 albums to possibly listen to! S I X! 6 instead of the previous 3 and 4 from the previous month! And I've also decided to put in a track list! Yay for more useless clutter!


Artist: Mission of Burma
Album: Signals, Calls, and Marches
Track List:
1. "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" – 3:53
2. "Outlaw" – 2:33
3. "Fame and Fortune" – 3:35
4. "This Is Not a Photograph" – 1:53
5. "Red" – 3:37
6. "All World Cowboy Romance" – 5:13
7. "Academy Fight Song" – 3:09
8. "Max Ernst" – 3:04

After listening to Minutemen, I asked around the people who've been recommending music to me, Minutemen included, for some more punk akin to what the Minutemen were playing. "Post-punk" is what it's supposedly called though I have yet to find out what exactly differentiates it from "normal" punk. I guess it has to do with the fact that most of the songs here isn't as fast and in-your-face like most punk I've heard before (Black Flag and... Anti-Flag).

Aside from the blisteringly fast "This Is Not A Photograph" which clocks in just 3 seconds shy from the 2 minute mark, the usual length for most punk songs, every other song has some sort of build-up and "low" marks to it and some even have solos or what have you.

Anyway, Mission of Burma is supposed to be "classix" post-punk (this album actually being released back in '81) and all of their albums are highly acclaimed (according to Pitchfork, at least). I don't exactly know what makes a punk band good but from what I've heard in this album, I think I see how this band is hailed by punk enthusiasts. Raw sound, raw energy.


Artist: Toe
Album: Songs, Ideas We Forgot
Track List
1. "Leave Word" - 2:58
2. "I Dance Alone" - 4:10
3. "1, 2, 3, 4" - 2:34
4. "Path" - 4:06
5. "Yoru wa Akeru" - 5:47

Japanese instrumental prog-rock band Toe is a very recent recommendation from an old friend who is half-Japanese and is now actually living in Japan. It's not that a surprising rec coming from him since the guy is a guitar-freak. We were in a very short-lived band together with a couple of others back in high-school. It took him about 3 years to get to a really high-level of playing with very minimal formal training, most of it coming from him doing nothing but play guitar (the usual explanation for his awful grades). Even though the band was usually split as to what music we actually wanted to play and that we had a real awful first live experience, it was a fun experience nonetheless.

Well... what the hell does that have anything to do with this little EP here? Nothing really aside from the fact that it's a Japanese band and the guy who rec'd the album to me is half-Japanese! Just reminiscing on the good ol' days! Anyway, the music is proggy (ha) most of the time, complex guitar parts basically define the sound of this album. The guitars move almost seamlessly from driving riffs to melodic solos, with one guitar moving this way and another moving that way without sounding chaotic. The drums also actually play a very big part, giving most of the tracks that "oomph" whenever a cymbal crashes or the snare catches fire with its almost unbridled passion. And whenever the drums go silent, it highlights the excellence of the... guitarsmanship. It even feels a bit like post-rock at times with the build-ups and the crescendos especially with the last track, never mind the fact that its all instrumental.

This EP is great for people who are iffy about listening to post-rock or prog-rock with its pretty "straightforward" and complex (even quite catchy) instrumentals, giving you that post/prog-rock goodness without taking 10+ minutes of your time for just one song! (see, the track list actually has some use!)


Artist: Zero 7
Album: The Garden
Sample:
Track List:
1. "Futures" – 3:51
2. "Throw It All Away" – 5:22
3. "Seeing Things" – 5:11
4. "The Pageant of the Bizarre" – 4:23
5. "You're My Flame" – 3:17
6. "Left Behind" – 1:17
7. "Today" – 4:05
8. "This Fine Social Scene" – 4:29
9. "Your Place" – 6:03
10. "If I Can't Have You" – 3:24
11. "Crosses" – 6:41
12. "Waiting to Die" – 3:39

This is actually an old favorite of mine that I've just recently began listening to again. Zero 7, back when they first came out, was automatically compared to the French electronic duo of Air with their smooth, sultry, and soothing trip-hop/electronica, especially with Moon Safari. Basically, Zero 7 was called the "British Air". Today, the comparison doesn't hold at all, now that Zero 7 has gone the way of a soulful, spacey "chillout" sound while Air stuck with its roots of electronica although given a darker edge.

Zero 7's direction is very apparent with their choice to give their songs more fully to their guest vocalists, especially with how they build vocal harmonies through most of the songs (a la Beach Boys) with Sia Furler and Sophie Barker, long time guest vocalists from way back in their debut album Simple Things. It works for the most part but there are times when it feels a bit too over indulgent like the last part of Pageant of the Bizarre. The vocals are at their best when they're on the simpler side where one can sing along with the catchy finger-tapping melodies. Jose Gonzalez, a notable folk artist, guests here as well and he shines the most on this record. His voice is simple and clean and it melds fantastically with the guitars.

The instrumentals have been reduced to just 2 of the 12 tracks, a far cry from their debut album where the instrumentals took more than half of the 14 track album. Still, the core of the duo of Zero 7 is their electronica background so they still manage to come up with lush and spacey music that'll have you drifting to the stars, even with the vocals that are a bit over abundant.


Artist: Radiohead
Album: Kid A
Track List:
1. "Everything in Its Right Place" – 4:11
2. "Kid A" – 4:44
3. "The National Anthem" – 5:51
4. "How to Disappear Completely (And Never Be Found Again)" – 5:56
5. "Treefingers" – 3:42
6. "Optimistic" – 5:16
7. "In Limbo" – 3:31
8. "Idioteque" – 5:09
9. "Morning Bell" – 4:35
10. "Motion Picture Soundtrack" – 7:01

Kid A. The turning point for the band praised by the mainstream and the alternative audiences, although some would argue that OK Computer was the real turning point for this band, an argument I would've fully supported if I had never listened to this album after listening to Hail to the Thief and In Rainbows [and that's exactly what happened (yes I just listened to Kid A recently)].

The argument for this being the turning point musically for Radiohead is that they've basically done away with the whole "rock band" image and sound, replacing guitar riffs with electronica beats and synthesized... sounds. A change that completely turned off some old fans yearning for another "Creep" or "Just" and hooked in new fans from the industrial/electronica scene digging this new sound from a critically acclaimed band. This transformation was already in progress with OK Computer, hailed as the band's masterpiece with its "perfect combination" of rock music they were known for previously and the more experimental work they came to be known for later. With that in mind, it shouldn't have been a surprise that they went in this direction (although they did kind of go back to their roots with Hail to the Thief but that's another story).

So anyway, a popular interpretation of this album is that it's about the last kid on Earth who survived an apocalyptic meltdown of human civilization (although Thom Yorke himself said that the title of the album could refer to the first human clone but he didn't really have a concept or a story in mind). I went into this album with that "story" in my head... and man was it an aural experience. Eerie, haunting, sad.

You would think the record will be bleak all throughout with that concept of one lone kid in a dead world in mind but there are a couple of bright spots and there is a sort of soothing dream-like quality to some of the songs. The use of string arrangements, sampled harp melodies, double bass, the ondes martenot, and brass sections show the ambitiousness of the project and all of it never steps out of bounds (with the exception in The National Anthem where the horns intentionally go berserk by the end!).

The release was supposed to be a double album but the band decided to keep the other completed songs for later. An album that most would say is much much more darker than Kid A, which some fondly call Kid B. But that album review will come another time. For now, let me recommend you this electronic masterpiece.


Artist: Sunn O))) and Boris
Album: Altar
Track List:
1. "Etna" – 9:51
2. "N.L.T." – 3:49
3. "The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)" – 7:37
4. "Akuma No Kuma" – 7:52
5. "Fried Eagle Mind" – 9:47
6. "Blood Swamp" – 14:46

This music will crush you. The collaboration of drone/doom/sludge-metal band Sunn O))) and Japanese experimental/avant-garde/noise band Boris is an absolutely ear-numbing experience. I really don't have much to say about this album aside from it being one of the heaviest I've ever listened to. It's all the more impressive that it manages to be that heavy when it doesn't rely on the usual metal formula of really fast and really loud guitars and really fast and really loud drums.

There is a reprieve of sorts right before the middle of the album with the 2nd and 3rd track (where there are actual vocals in play). Mind you, besides the album being really heavy, it sports the usual track length of most ambient-heavy metal/post-rock music with all of the tracks (all 6 of them!) going past the 7 minute mark with the sole exception of the 2nd track which I've already mentioned to be the "quiet" before the storm. You're gonna need to put some concentration, some time, and yourself in a secluded space to fully appreciate the atmosphere.


Artist: Animal Collective
Album: Merriweather Post Pavilion
Track List:
1. "In the Flowers" – 5:24
2. My Girls – 5:41
3. "Also Frightened" – 5:14
4. "Summertime Clothes" – 4:30
5. "Daily Routine" – 5:46
6. "Bluish" – 5:14
7. "Guys Eyes" – 4:31
8. "Taste" – 3:53
9. "Lion in a Coma" – 4:12
10. "No More Runnin" – 4:23
11. "Brother Sport" – 5:59

I know I'm late to the party, seeing as how the much anticipated album from the "rockstars" of the alternative music scene already leaked to the internet way back in November(I think) and was officially released back in the very first week of this year. Well, what do I actually have to say about this album now that I've given it a couple of listens? This is a fun album. A fun album that I will be listening to a lot more for the coming weeks before I can really put my finger on it. Like most of AC albums I've listened to, I always have a hard time completely wrapping my head around them and this is no exception. FUN... will have to do for now!

IT ALSO HAS AN AWESOME COVER OOOOOHHHH MY EYES

And that's that for this... month, I guess, unless I hear something that's really good that I need to write about it sometime soon.
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Sir Pepoy Josepito wrote:
I'm just trying to share the gift of good music! Glad to know people are listening!

What exactly did you listen to, Cai? Don't take you as a "punk" fan nor a Tom Waits kind of girl AND you're not really into rap. MAN MAN THEN?!


So ' Bag Lady ' is Cai. Confused
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And here I was thinking "Wow, Carlo recognizes the music I listen to and just might actually like what I posted here?!"

Ruzela is Cheshire Moon.

But now that you posted here, thoughts on the stuff I posted?
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Not an update. Just put a couple more tracks to each album review for your listening (and viewing) pleasure.
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this won't be a "proper" update since my mind just isn't working properly right now but i don't want this month to pass without getting all these in here

just listing down the albums i've been listening to this month

words will come at a later date

probably

maybe

Artist: Tujiko Noriko
Album: Shojo Toshi+
Track List:
1. "Endless End" - 3:01
2. "White Film" - 3:35
3. "Bebe" - 7:39
4. "Marble Waltz" - 4:25
5. "Machi No Kakera" - 4:24
6. "Tokyo" - 4:28
7. "Girl Meets Boy" - 5:30
8. "Differencia" - 6:47
9. "Mannequin Surfer" - 5:59
10. "Porsche" - 4:47
11. "Anti-Newton" - 4:12
12. "Pop Skirt" - 4:15
13. "I Love You" - 2:18
14. "A's Travelling" - 4:19
15. "Robot Hero (Live In Rhiz 23.08.01)" - 5:13


Artist: The Boo Radleys
Album: Giant Steps
Track List:
1. "I Hang Suspended" - 3:57
2. "Upon Ninth and Fairchild" - 4:50
3. "Wish I Was Skinny" - 3:37
4. "Leaves and Sand" - 4:25
5. "Butterfly McQueen" - 3:28
6. "Rodney King (Song for Lenny Bruce)" - 2:45
7. "Thinking of Ways" - 3:48
8. "Barney (...and Me)" - 4:42
9. "Spun Around" - 2:31
10. "If You Want It, Take It" - 2:47
11. "Best Lose the Fear" - 4:12
12. "Take the Time Around" - 4:07
13. "Lazarus" - 4:38
14. "One Is For" - 1:36
15. "Run My Way Runaway" - 2:20
16. "I've Lost the Reason" - 5:17
17. "The White Noise Revisited" - 5:02


Artist: Portishead
Album: Dummy
Track List:
1. "Mysterons" - 5:02
2. "Sour Times" - 4:11
3. "Strangers" - 3:55
4. "It Could Be Sweet" - 4:16
5. "Wandering Star" - 4:51
6. "It's A Fire" - 3:51
7. "Numb" - 3:54
8. "Roads" - 5:02
9. "Pedestal" - 3:39
10. "Biscuit" - 5:01
11. "Glory Box" - 5:06


Artist: Medeski Martin & Wood
Album: Uninvisible
Track List:
1. "Uninvisible" - 3:37
2. "I Wanna Ride You" - 3:28
3. "Your Name is Snake Anthony" - 3:12
4. "Pappy Check" - 2:46
5. "Take Me Nowhere" - 4:06
6. "Retirement Song" - 4:47
7. "Ten Dollar High" - 3:42
8. "Where Have You Been?" - 3:37
9. "Reprise" - 0:35
10. "Nocturnal Transmission" - 6:37
11. "Smoke" - 2:46
12. "First Time Long Time" - 2:52
13. "The Edge of Night" - 3:53
14. "Off the Table" - 4:15


Artist: Sparklehorse
Album: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Track List:
1. "Homecoming Queen" - 3:36
2. "Weird Sisters" - 5:00
3. "850 Double Pumper Holley" - 0:36
4. "Rainmaker" - 3:47
5. "Spirit Ditch" - 3:24
6. "Tears on Fresh Fruit" - 2:08
7. "Saturday" - 2:27
8. "Cow" - 7:05
9. "Little manga by Kazushi Hagiwara!! Choo Choo" - 0:47
10. "Hammering the Cramps" - 2:49
11. "Most Beautiful Widow in Town" - 3:19
12. "Heart of Darkness" - 1:52
13. "Ballad of a Cold Lost Marble" - 0:45
14. "Someday I Will Treat You Good" - 3:42
15. "Sad & Beautiful World" - 3:33
16. "Gasoline Horseys" - 2:40


Artist: Josι Gonzαlez
Album: In Our Nature
Track List:
1. "How Low" - 2:40
2. "Down the Line" - 3:11
3. "Killing for Love" - 3:03
4. "In Our Nature" - 2:43
5. "Teardrop" - 3:33
6. "Abram" - 1:48
7. "Time to Send Someone Away" - 2:48
8. "The Nest" - 2:24
9. "Fold" - 2:55
10. "Cycling Trivialities" - 8:09


Artist: Copeland
Album: You Are My Sunshine
Track List:
1. "Should You Return" - 4:06
2. "The Grey Man" - 4:15
3. "Chin Up" - 3:19
4. "Good Morning Fire Eater" - 4:08
5. "To Be Happy Now" - 3:12
6. "The Day I Lost My Voice (The Suitcase Song)" - 4:40
7. "On the Safest Ledge" - 4:19
8. "Not Allowed" - 3:05
9. "Strange and Unprepared" - 2:50
10. "What Do I Know?" - 3:43
11. "Not So Tough Found Out" - 10:29


Artist: Beach House
Album: Devotion
Track List:
1. "Wedding Bell" - 3:55
2. "You Came to Me" - 4:05
3. "Gila" - 4:46
4. "Turtle Island" - 4:00
5. "Holy Dances" - 4:19
6. "All the Years" - 3:36
7. "Heart of Chambers" - 4:25
8. "Some Things Last a Long Time" - 2:32
9. "Astronaut" - 5:05
10. "D.A.R.L.I.N.G." - 3:18
11. "Home Again" - 4:09


Artist: Incubus
Album: Light Grenades
Track List:
1. "Quicksand" - 2:14
2. "A Kiss to Send Us Off" - 4:16
3. "Dig" - 4:17
4. "Anna Molly" - 3:46
5. "Love Hurts" - 3:57
6. "Light Grenades" - 2:20
7. "Earth to Bella (Part I)" - 2:28
8. "Oil and Water" - 3:49
9. "Diamonds and Coal" - 3:46
10. "Rogues" - 3:56
11. "Paper Shoes" - 4:17
12. "Pendulous Threads" - 5:35
13. "Earth to Bella (Part II)" - 2:58

all that and i'm still listening to "merriweather post pavilion"

goddamn what an awesome album that is
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Sat May 16, 2009 4:14 am
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hey look an update

stuff that i've been listening to since april

still no words

will have them back soon enough


Artist: Up Dharma Down
Album: Bipolar
Track List:
1. Blessed - 5:12
2. Clockwork - 5:00
3. Delayed Breathing - 0:34
4. All Year Round - 4:13
5. Taya - 3:36
6. Unspoken Definites - 4:13
7. The Cold is Warmth - 2:51
8. Two - 3:33
9. Sana - 4:40
10. Return, Saturn, Return - 2:00
11. Every First Second - 5:28
12. Furnace - 2:15
13. Silid - 3:39
14. Sugarcoats & Heartbeats - 15:45


Artist: Colleen
Album: Everyone Alive Wants Answers
Track List:
1. Everyone Alive Wants Answers – 3:31
2. Ritournele – 3:09
3. Carry-Cot – 1:53
4. Your Heart On Your Sleeve – 2:46
5. Goodbye Sunshine – 2:48
6. One Nights And It's Gone – 3:42
7. Long Live Mice In The Metro – 2:50
8. I Was Deep In A Dream And I Didn't Know It – 2:56
9. Babies – 3:34
10. Sometimes On A Happy Cloud – 1:55
11. A Swimming Pool Down The Railway Track – 4:14
12. In The Train With No Lights – 2:02
13. Nice And Simple – 4:20


Artist: The Flaming Lips
Album: The Soft Bulletin
Track List:
1. Race for the Prize – 4:18
2. A Spoonful Weighs a Ton – 3:32
3. The Spark That Bled – 5:55
4. Slow Motion – 3:53
5. What Is the Light? – 4:05
6. The Observer – 4:10
7. Waitin' for a Superman – 4:17
8. Suddenly Everything Has Changed – 3:54
9. The Gash – 4:02
10. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate – 5:17
11. Sleeping on the Roof – 3:09
12. Race for the Prize (Mokran Remix) – 4:09
13. Waitin' for a Superman (Mokran Remix) – 4:19
14. Buggin' (The Buzz Of Love Is Busy Buggin' You) – 3:16


Artist: Mastodon
Album: Crack the Skye
Track List:
1. Oblivion - 5:47
2. Divinations - 3:39
3. Quintessence - 5:27
4. The Czar: I. Usurper - II. Escape - III. Martyr - IV. Spiral - 10:54
5. Ghost of Karelia - 5:25
6. Crack the Skye - 5:54
7. The Last Baron - 13:01


Artist: Beirut
Album The Flying Club Cup
Track List:
1. A Call to Arms - 0:18
2. Nantes - 3:50
3. A Sunday Smile - 3:36
4. Guyamas Sonora - 3:31
5. La Banlieue - 1:58
6. Cliquot - 3:52
7. The Penalty - 2:22
8. Forks and Knives (La Fκte) - 3:34
9. In the Mausoleum - 3:11
10. Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route)- 2:51
11. Cherbourg - 3:33
12. St. Apollonia - 2:59
13. The Flying Club Cup - 3:05


Artist: The Decemberists
Album: The Hazards of Love
Track List:
1. Prelude - 3:04
2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone) - 4:19
3. A Bower Scene - 2:09
4. Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) - 4:07
5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All) - 4:26
6. The Queen's Approach - 0:29
7. Isn't It a Lovely Night? - 3:39
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid - 6:27
9. An Interlude - 1:40
10. The Rake's Song - 3:16
11. The Abduction of Margaret - 2:07
12. The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing - 3:56
13. Annan Water - 5:12
14. Margaret in Captivity - 3:08
15. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!) - 3:22
16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise) - 1:31
17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) - 5:57


Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Album: It's Blitz
Track List:
1. Zero - 4:25
2. Heads Will Roll - 3:41
3. Soft Shock - 3:53
4. Skeletons - 5:02
5. Dull Life - 4:08
6. Shame and Fortune - 3:31
7. Runaway - 5:13
8. Dragon Queen - 4:02
9. Hysteric - 3:50
10. Little Shadow - 3:57


Artist: !!!
Album: Myth Takes
Track List:
1. Myth Takes – 2:24
2. All My Heroes Are Weirdos – 3:04
3. Must Be the Moon – 5:56
4. A New Name – 4:54
5. Heart of Hearts – 6:02
6. Sweet Life – 3:46
7. Yadnus – 5:13
8. Bend Over Beethoven – 8:06
9. Break in Case of Anything – 3:39
10. Infinifold – 5:11


Artist: Metric
Album: Fantasies
Track List:
1. Help, I'm Alive – 4:46
2. Sick Muse - 4:17
3. Satellite Mind - 3:42
4. Twilight Galaxy - 4:53
5. Gold Guns Girls - 4:05
6. Gimme Sympathy – 3:54
7. Collect Call - 4:46
8. Front Row - 3:34
9. Blindness - 4:26
10. Stadium Love - 4:13


Artist: The Doors
Album: The Doors
Track List:
1. Break On Through (To the Other Side) – 2:29
2. Soul Kitchen – 3:35
3. The Crystal Ship – 2:34
4. Twentieth Century Fox – 2:33
5. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) – 3:20
6. Light My Fire – 7:06
7. Back Door Man – 3:34
8. I Looked at You – 2:22
9. End of the Night – 2:52
10. Take It as It Comes – 2:17
11. The End – 11:41


Artist: The Beatles
Album: Magical Mystery Tour
Track List:
1. Magical Mystery Tour – 2:51
2. The Fool on the Hill – 3:00
3. Flying – 2:16
4. Blue Jay Way – 3:56
5. Your Mother Should Know – 2:29
6. I Am the Walrus – 4:36
7. Hello Goodbye – 3:31
8. Strawberry Fields Forever – 4:10
9. Penny Lane – 3:03
10. Baby You're a Rich Man – 3:03
11. All You Need Is Love – 3:48

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Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:58 pm
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Wut about dem 'proper updates', amirite?
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Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:20 pm
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tell you what

if i don't put up a proper update next week, you can strip me of my admin powers
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Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:37 pm
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We don't really do much as admins, Joseph.
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i thought the cost matched the effort
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Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:55 am
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hey look an update


Artist: The Antlers
Album: Hospice
Track List:
1. Prologue – 2:35
2. Kettering – 5:10
3. Sylvia – 5:27
4. Atrophy – 7:40
5. Bear – 3:54
6. Thirteen – 3:11
7. Two – 5:56
8. Shiva – 3:45
9. Wake – 8:44
10. Epilogue – 5:25

Ever since I graduated from high-school and all the teenage angst and anxiety that came with it, I haven't been touched by an album so much that it actually made me tear up. Until I heard this album. It's a concept album meaning the album follows a certain theme and tone that basically sets everything up. So the entire thing revolves around a story of a man who works at a hospice (hence the title) wherein he falls in love with a bone cancer patient who he subsequently marries. Of course, this love doesn't last long and it's filled with anguish, despair, and a helluva whole lot of commitment to boot. So yeah, just taking from that little "plot summary", you know you're going to be in for a very depressing ride.

And what a ride it turns out to be. From the haunting instrumental that starts in Prologue, consisting mostly of what seems to be soft white noise that soon splinters the ears, falling into a dissonant buzz with somber keys falling into place in measured spaces as voices cry out slowly in a chilling chorus, all of which bleeds into Kettering where vocalist and guitarist Peter Silberman narrates in a tiny sad falsetto how the persona first sees the patient and decides to commit his life to taking care of her. Guitars reverberate along the wailing...

Machine noise drills us in the beginning of Sylvia which explodes in cymbals and harsh riffs as the persona pleads for Sylvia to get her head out of the oven, alluding to the famous deceased poet whose answer to life's heartless grasp on her was noxious fumes, a fate that the persona here would rather avoid for the beloved, wanting the fighting, the arguing, the screaming, the abusive relationship as it is better than cold and lonely oblivion.

Atrophy continues this trend in more hushed tones, although the words don't get any nicer. "In your dreams I'm a criminal, horrible, sleeping around. While you're awake I'm impossible, constantly letting you down. Little porcelain figurines, glass bullets you shoot at the wall. Threats of castration for crimes you imagine when I miss your call." But loyalty wins out in the end, even in the face of such anger and the inevitable coming of death, sonically personified with the growing humming of what I can only describe as helicopter blades soon breaking into a thousand shards of glass tinkling into silence. An acoustic guitar strums into place as the persona calls for help while the beloved screams.

And I just lose it on the next track. Bear. My favorite track. Where it takes a little break from the main narrative. A song about abortion and all the stupid decisions young people in love make, scared your poetry of consequences. There is nothing mind-blowing about the song structure or the use of instruments here. Just a simple song with the most emotionally charged lyrics.

There's a bear inside your stomach.
The cub's been kicking from within.
He's loud, though without vocal chords
We'll put an end to him.

Well we're not scared of making caves.
Or finding food for him to eat.
We're terrified of one another.
And terrified of what that means.
But we'll make only quick decisions.
And you'll just keep my in the waiting room.
And all the while I'll know we're careless whisper.
And not getting careless whisper soon.

We're too old.
We're not old, old at all.
Just too old.


I'm going to stop there and I'll just let you guys finish the rest of this amazing journey. When I first listened to this album, I didn't give it as much attention but it still gave me chills just from the music. After giving it a close listen, reading the lyrics as they were sung, it just hit me like a ton of bricks. This album deserves a very focused listen through. Do that and I believe you, too, will see this for the masterpiece that it is.
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