Paz on 8/12/2006 at 20:59
Quote Posted by Tonamel
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Joanna Newsom - Ys[edit: haha, take that, Paz! Also, I have the Espers' self-titled album, and I don't really get a Newsom vibe from it. Is that one closer?]
I can't really make a comparison with the self-titled, because I've only heard
II. I'm loosely grouping it with Newsom because it's freaky-deaky "folk" and seems like it wants to be swanning around in peasant skirts while saying FORSOOTH and wandering along sing-song narratives that last seven minutes - that kind of thing.
You're quite right about
Ys of course, it's entirely a love/hate thing. I invested far too much time trying to get beyond her voice and it just drove me up the wall every time, so there we go. It was doubly annoying because musically I think I'd have liked it a lot.
So yes, that engrained some furious hatred and now anyone who champions it is dead to me :mad:
Vivian on 8/12/2006 at 21:02
I feel pretty well exactly the same way about the Pipettes. Change the dresses for gods sake, they must stink by now? Oh, and Shampoo said they wanted their whole schtick back if you were quite finished with it.
Stitch on 8/12/2006 at 21:14
Quote Posted by Uncle Bacon
Mastodon - Blood Mountain. Songs about abominable cyclops-snowmen that sound like if Rush were in Machine Head. Yeehah! This entire album reminds me of beer and shouting and festivals.
It's been years since I've given a shit about anything remotely metal but the buzz about this album has been so overwhelming that I've contemplated picking it up.
Speaking of not really giving a shit about anything remotely metal, has anyone heard the new Deftones? After their last disc it's difficult to imagine they have anything to offer the modern world but stranger things have been known to happen.
Schattentänzer on 8/12/2006 at 21:19
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
Totaly rocks my world at the moment, album of the year. And that's it for me with new albums - my money went on classics I just had to have:
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 2
Radiohead - OK Computer
Beethoven - Piano Concertos
I should really check out the new Beck...
OnionBob on 8/12/2006 at 22:22
Quote Posted by Paz
I can't really make a comparison with the self-titled, because I've only heard
II. I'm loosely grouping it with Newsom because it's freaky-deaky "folk" and seems like it wants to be swanning around in peasant skirts while saying FORSOOTH and wandering along sing-song narratives that last seven minutes - that kind of thing.
You're quite right about
Ys of course, it's entirely a love/hate thing. I invested far too much time trying to get beyond her voice and it just drove me up the wall every time, so there we go. It was doubly annoying because musically I think I'd have liked it a lot.
So yes, that engrained some furious hatred and now anyone who champions it is dead to me :mad:
Quite liked Ys even though it's more pitchfork than dr frankenstein's driveway at harvest festival
st.patrick on 9/12/2006 at 00:17
I PROVE YOU ALL FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG
Laibach - Volk
Cradle of Filth - Thornography
Foo Fighters - Skin and Bones
Moonspell - Memorial
My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings
Honourable mention: P.O.D., Ramones, Type O Negative for all the BO's that made my life easier.
Most anticipated '07 album: Therion - Gothic Kabbalah (werll, I heard it already but the CD isn't out yet and I want to get the booklet)
Risquit on 9/12/2006 at 01:09
1. Katatonia--The Great Cold Distance
2. Burst--Origo
3. Enslaved--Ruun
4. The Twilight Singers--Powder Burns
5. Scott Walker--The Drift
TheGreatGodPan on 9/12/2006 at 02:45
I've been told by many that I have awful taste in music, but at least I've never praised anything by Justin Timberlake.
I can't really answer the question, but I think randomly picking five King Crimson albums would probably not be much worse than anything I'd come up with if I spent a lot of time thinking about it.
I agree with regard to Tom from Celtic Frost wearing a stupid hat. It looks to me like a snowcap yet he'd always seen wearing it when no one else next to him indoors seems dressed for cold. Trying to convey the idea of being grim & frostbitten in homage of Northern Moon Forest? Going bald but uncomfortable with displaying that fact? At least he's not making another Cold Lake or dabbling in techno/electronica nonsense.
Despite liking metal, I'm probably as out of the loop as Stitch if not moreso. I think Mastodon is capable of making really good songs, but I'm not fond of the XTREME metal stylings with awful vocals that require me to turn down the volume during those portions and then back up during the instrumental sections. But speaking of metal and instrumentals, the more I think about it the more convinced I am that Hematovore are at a musical local maximum from which no improvement is possible provided they don't take a radical change of direction. They don't have the imagination and wit of The Fucking Champs, but I could listen to them non-stop for much longer without tiring of them.
PigLick on 9/12/2006 at 02:55
I dont really have any albums to mention, but I gotta agree with Stitch about Justin Timberlake. Man, you guys have no ear for amazing production if you cant see the merit in his album(well most of it). Timbaland(sp?) is all over the shop at the moment, pretty much defining a lot of what current r'nb is about.
SD on 9/12/2006 at 03:13
Quote Posted by Paz
Pet Shop Boys - FundamentalGetting back with Trevor Horn was a Good Thing™ You've got pulsy electro-pop, orchestral sweepers, mid-tempo sob-fests tinged with politics and pretty much everything you'd expect from a Pet Shop Boys album, except you'd really have no right to expect that in 2006 because my god how old are they now. Still brilliant though, apparently. Great lyrics too: "in the crowded court of your love / I became a supplicant" haha, nice. IT'S THEIR BEST RECORD SINCE THE LAST RECORD OF THEIRS YOU LIKED.
This is my Album Of The Year anyway. Political pop that isn't preachy. Just a shame they are pigeonholed as an 80s band here and as a gay 80s band in the US.
Sorry, I haven't listened to enough stuff to justify a top 5, although given the responses in this thread, I probably ought to give the Muse one a whirl.
