What CD's you have been listening to this week (and why should I listen to them). - by Vivian
Para?noid on 8/2/2006 at 02:07
I find the Beach Boys, at least in England, to be quite deliciously underrated. I also find them to be shit, but that's another story!
Aerothorn on 8/2/2006 at 02:15
I've been listening to Deathray. I can't think of any persuasive arguement to listen to it; I'm not a musicphile and I'm not really into 'the scene' so don't know much about it, but even then they don't seem to be particulary unique or anything - just good indie pop/rock fun. That said, I am a music snob and I find it enjoyable - the weakness is the lyrics, which are nothing special, though they're also not that bad or anything (in other words, better then 90% of mainstream music). The strength is that 75% of their songs are under 3 minutes, which I love - so many songs have a good tune or something but are 5+ minutes and just drive themselves into the ground with repetition.
Aja on 8/2/2006 at 02:24
Not this King Crimson I'm listening to.
Noid's we read things thread led me to his King Crimson thread so I downloaded RED and I'm on the second last song.
The last one's supposed to be fucking amazing and it's 12 minutes long so I'm fucking stoked!
Shoshin on 8/2/2006 at 16:31
Quote Posted by BlackErtai
Beach Boys > you
Yep, for the moment there are more Beach Boys than there are me.
BlackErtai on 8/2/2006 at 17:01
*comic book guy voice*
Worst reference, evar.
*/comic book guy voice*
Para?noid on 8/2/2006 at 17:11
Quote Posted by Aja
The last one's supposed to be fucking amazing and it's 12 minutes long so I'm fucking stoked!
The last song is fucking amazing. It starts off as a kind of sad mope then turns into this brooding beast of utter cosmic violence.
Aja on 8/2/2006 at 18:56
Yeah, it was pretty good. Didn't mind the rest of the album either; I certainly liked it more than some other King Crimson I've heard.
Paranoid, I think you should listen to Opeth's Damnation album.
Don't roll your eyes at me, I know you downloaded some shit off their new album and didn't like it or whatever, but Damnation is not metal in any way. It's mellow and spacey without being meandering or pointless... I mention it because after I heard Red I had the urge to pull out Damnation and listen start to finish.
At the very least, download the song "Closure" and tell me the ending isn't one of the best things you've ever heard.
Scots Taffer on 9/2/2006 at 06:26
Quote Posted by Stitch
I just got <I>Twin Cinema</I> by the New Pornographers, and the jury is still out on that one.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Currently though, I'm really digging the most recent
Death Cab For A Cutie album ... which is something new for me, I feel they've changed very stylistically since the singer (and possibly more of the band members, songwriters etc) did
The Postal Service. It's much more melodic and less random.
I realised that this doesn't explain why it's good or why it's worth listening to for Uncle Bacon (who - no offence intended - writes the kind of music reviews that put me off talking about music as I feel remarkably uneducated about it all).
Plans by Death Cab takes the beauty and fragile lyrics about the harsh realities and joys of love and the loss of it (original, rite?) and wraps it around nice acoustics.
For the beauty in the writing, I would also recommend the venture of the singer/songwriter Gibbard in The Postal Service's album
Give Up which embodies many of the same ideals but is served in a shrink-wrapped electro-pop cover.
Para?noid on 9/2/2006 at 11:59
Damnation was that spin-off Opeth with loads of acoustic guitars, right? Fuck that! When I'm rich and I can afford to stop buying ambient records I'm getting Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries and that's it unless I'm convinced. A goddamn music-listening Picasso like me can't just cover every damn base.
ignatios on 9/2/2006 at 13:18
Totally getting back into Dream Theater itc. Rockin' out to the BEST prog metal band of the 90s, who have apparently been doing good things since Scenes From A Memory (1999), which is the last album of theirs that I bought.
Images and Words is the best place to start.
