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[KharBevNor]

Judas Priest - Painkiller

This album is just one of the overall pinnacles of human achievment.

FASTER THAN A LASER BULLET
LOUDER THAN AN ATOM BOMB
CHROMIUM PLATED BOILING METAL
BRIGHTER THAN A THOUSAND SUNS!

\m/

[Kai]

The Velvet Underground - The Gift

[Mr u Suk]

Teardrop - Massive Attack.

Massive Attack is known for doing the themes to several TV series like (OMG FAV's!!!) House, PrisonBreak, (not favs) 24, and The West Wing. also they did music for Matrix (the first one i think).

anyway this song is the theme to House and Prisonbreak (im pretty sure its both, but it might just be House)

[Jackie Blue]

Massive Attack is known for doing the themes to several TV series

Actually I believe Massive Attack are known for being one of the first and most influential trip-hop acts for nearly two decades now.

[Scytale]

Cathedral - Equilibrium

[KharBevNor]

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

On vinyl. Great album. Just coming to the end of the first side.

[Skibas_clavicle]

Mogwai - R U Still In 2 It

One of the bes songs written by one of my favourite bands. I think everyone person should own a copy of Young Team.

[KharBevNor]

I like this song, it has a good beat to it, nice and always moving. Not something I'd play on a party though.

I'm reasonably sure that song was only written so that Cradle of Filth could get a record for the most times anyone says 'cunt' in a song. It's quite fun live, when the whole crowd chants it. Newer CoF albums tend to be pretty boring though. Its almost like they've fallen into the same trap as their fans and critics, ie, taking themselves too seriously. They've somewhat lost that mischeivous, decadent edge which was really the only thing going for them.

Dammit now I have cravings.

Cradle of Filth - Born in a Burial Gown

(watching it on youtube, because I have no Cradle on this PC)

I still think some of their lyrics are brilliant. The line 'Now she moves with a predators guile/beyond the fire lit circle of life' is awesome.

[Scytale]

Black Sabbath - Spiral Architect

Really underated Sabbath song, the strings are a realIy nice touch and the lyrics are really good...


Sorcerers of madness
Selling me their time
Child of God sitting in the sun
Giving peace of mind
Fictional seduction
On a black snow sky
Sadness kills the superman
Even fathers cry

Superstitious century
Didn't time go slow
Separating sanity
Watching children grow
Synchronated undertaker
Spiral skies
Silver ships on plasmic oceans
In disquise

Watching eyes of celluloid
Tell you how to live
Metaphoric motor-replay
Give, give, give!
Laughter kissing love
Is showing me the way
Spiral city architect
I build, you pay

[Runs_With_Scissors]

Sad and Lonely- Secret Machines

[Scytale]

Divine Eve - The Last of the Sunset Faded

Great American, doomy DM band, sound a lot like early Celtic Frost.

[David_Dovey]

Listening to Boris-Pink for the first time. I think I'm gonna have to give this a few more spins before I really appreciate it. It always does on albums with a more lo-fi approach.

[The extra letter]

Regurgitator - The World of Sleaze

The 'gurge have such an awesome mix of humour, cynical smartarsery and whatever to make me an avid listener of their stuff. Plus their music is totally rad. Pity they broke up.

[Toeofdoom]

A bunch of music, almost all of which has a major piano part, including ben folds, jet, charlotte martin, lily allen, muse, evanescense and whatever else Pandora chucks out. Too bad i dont have any of these pieces of music sheets or whatever. That would be cool...

[kallisti]

So what do you think of Lily Allen?

[Toeofdoom]

Pretty good music, i like listening to her so it passes that test. I dunno, i dont think too well at this time. But its cool anyway.

[The extra letter]

Love Spit Love - How Soon is Now?

Yeah, I know it was used in The Craft and as the title music for Charmed or whatever, but I still like this version. Mainly because it's sung by the guy from the Psychedelic Furs and I've got a huge musical hard-on for the Furs.

[Misereatur]

I'm honestly curious, how the heck did it take you "ages" to find a copy of Loveless?  Do you live in Antarctica?

I took me some time to find a copy of Loveless.
But I think I have a good excuse.


Low - Sunflower

[kallisti]

Love Spit Love - How Soon is Now?

Yeah, I know it was used in The Craft and as the title music for Charmed or whatever, but I still like this version. Mainly because it's sung by the guy from the Psychedelic Furs and I've got a huge musical hard-on for the Furs.

How odd. I was just talking about this cover in the thread about bands that shouldn't be covered.  I like this version too.

[The extra letter]

Love Spit Love - How Soon is Now?

Yeah, I know it was used in The Craft and as the title music for Charmed or whatever, but I still like this version. Mainly because it's sung by the guy from the Psychedelic Furs and I've got a huge musical hard-on for the Furs.

How odd. I was just talking about this cover in the thread about bands that shouldn't be covered.  I like this version too.

Don't mind me, I get fixated on cover versions.

Now it's

Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust

The best of both worlds, Bauhaus covering a Bowie song. My favourite cover version Of All Time, no matter what anyone else says.

[KharBevNor]

Talking of covers

Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - Dio N'arap (Black Sabbath's Paranoid)

This is just fucking bizarre, but unbelievably brilliant.

"Finished with the dark side
If no longer helps me with my mind,
Still Saturn's rites connect us
Black-dressed I am falling back from time to time...
All day long I think of things
But nothing seems to satisfy,
I cannot bear the dead stand-still,
The blind search, unable to find my own life...
Can you help me?
Who will set me free?
I need someone to show me
The things in life that I can't find,
I can't see the things that make true happiness
I must be blind.
Make a joke and I will sigh
You might laugh but I will cry,
Happiness I cannot feel
And love to me is so unreal.
And so as you hear these words
Telling you now all of my state,
I tell you to enjoy life,
I wish I could,
Soon it might be too late...!!!"

And now I'm on to Tabor C'alan O'itana (A National Acrobat). Anna-Varney needs to release a whole disc of this shit.

[David_Dovey]

Pain of Salvation- Beyond the Pale.

So good.

[kallisti]

RE: Bauhaus cover of Ziggy. 

Yes indeed. THAT is a good cover of a Bowie song.  Bauhaus also cover "Telegram Sam" which makes me happy as I love me some T.Rex.

[KharBevNor]

Bauhaus also covered 'Spirit in the Sky'. I can only pray they shot up a bucket or two of heroin before that. It's strange.

[kallisti]

whoa I never heard that. finding now.

Lullatone - wake up wake up

this makes me really really happy and peaceful for some reason.

[The extra letter]

RE: Bauhaus cover of Ziggy. 

Yes indeed. THAT is a good cover of a Bowie song.  Bauhaus also cover "Telegram Sam" which makes me happy as I love me some T.Rex.

Telegram Sam is also an awesome cover, as is Third Uncle, the Eno cover. Hell, Bauhaus just ROCK at doing covers (not that I'm biased as a Bauhaus fanboy or anything).

I really liked the Placebo cover of 20th Century Boy, but I'm also a Placebo fanboy too.

Sorry for the constant digressions, I've been overindulging with the public holiday in these parts.

Ok, back on topic:

PIG - Hello Hooray (regular)

I just love the way Raymond Watts hams it up (pun intended).


Hokay, new post alert thing.

Bauhaus also covered 'Spirit in the Sky'. I can only pray they shot up a bucket or two of heroin before that. It's strange.

I don't think I've heard that one...

[Scytale]

Modified paranoid lyrics

Those are great, what other Sabbath songs has she done.

1349 - The Blade

Love this track, the Harmonium is so creepy and those whispers, give me the shivers. Lyrics are well done too, really add to the disturbing aspect of the song.


Caress me, gently
I feel your bite
The slithering motion
so serpentine
Cold
The river
Crimson
Pain floats away

The kiss of steel

The streams of life
Scarifaction art
Conceive the skin
Draining mortality
Drain all life
Enchanting the blade
to an exhorting play.

[kallisti]

Placebo's cover of 20th Century Boy is indeed great.

You know what I hate, and hate to admit to hating?  Bowie's cover of "Across the Universe."   I like Fiona Apple's cover though.

[KharBevNor]

Those are great, what other Sabbath songs has she done.

Just Paranoid and a National Acrobat. They're tucked away on the 'Like a Corpse Standing in Desperation' boxed set, which has a lot of cool unreleased stuff, and loads of demo and instrumental versions of her songs. As far as I know they're the only covers she's done.

Best cover of Across the Universe is Laibach's

As we've mentioned The Smiths and Placebo, can I put in a good word for Placebos cover of Bigmouth Strikes Again? It's like an endless vortex of pouting camp, but it's awesome.

I'm pretty sure I picked up the Bauhaus cover at random from a folder on some guys DC. It also had loads of great live covers by the Sisters of Mercy, stuff like Comfortably Numb and Silver Machine.

@Scy: Early 1349 shit is AWESOME. Do you have the track 'Riders of the Apocalypse'?

[Scytale]

Yeah 1349 are pretty good, I own all their albums (not their first ep though...) Riders of the Apocalypse is off "Liberation" not there best album imo... My favorite song of theres is the title track from "Hellfire", I just love the build up and the long sustained riff (incidently or perhaps not, the track goes for 13 mins 49 secconds...), reminds me a lot of Nargaroth, which is a good thing...

[David_Dovey]

Freezepop- Here Comes a Special Boy

Freezepop did a song about Achewood... Joy. You can download it from their website

[Jackie Blue]

Pink isn't a lo-fi album whatsoever.  I think you're confusing lots of distortion with lo-fi.

[Misereatur]

It is lo-fi, man.


Erik Truffaz - Mantis

[Jackie Blue]

It is lo-fi, man.

No.  Lo-fi generally means poor recording or production quality.  Pink is very well produced.  It just happens that it is well produced and noisy.  The two are not mutually exclusive (see: Sonic Youth's Goo).

Early Sebadoh or Pavement are lo-fi.  Pink is not.

[Misereatur]

I see your point, youre right.
Still, I cant help but think that Boris wanted to sound lo-fi on Pink.

Kayo Dot - A Pitcher of Summer

[Mr u Suk]

Modern Day Cowboy - Tesla, im screaming the lyrics right now

speaking as prolly the only person who likes hair metal and isnt over 25, TESLA ROXX!!

[David_Dovey]

No.  Lo-fi generally means poor recording or production quality.

I disagree. To me, "lo-fi" and "well prodced" are not mutually exclusive terms. To me, lo-fi is something that is under-produced, raw, and generally lacking any sort of "sheen" to it... Pink is this.

I generally have to get used to these things because I generally don't listen to much music that is produced this way, and it takes me awhile to get past the production and appreciate the songs on their merits.

[sk8brder40]

You're Not Alone - Saosin

Yeah... I like that kinda music xD

[IronOxide]

"Treehouse" - I'm From Barcelona

This band writes such good songs with so few words.

[Scytale]

Darkthrone - To Walk the Infernal Fields

Low-fi excellences thy name is "Under a Funeral Moon", one of the best produced albums ever...

[Jackie Blue]

To me, "lo-fi" and "well prodced" are not mutually exclusive terms. To me, lo-fi is something that is under-produced

Right.  And Pink is not "under-produced".  It is very deliberately produced.  It is deliberately produced to sound messy and noisy, it's true, but it's not under-produced.  Pink was crafted very deliberately.  It may at times sound "sloppy", but it sounds that way on purpose.  That is the difference betweeb "lo-fi" and "not lo-fi".

[Scytale]

Limbonic Art - In Mourning Mystique

Moon in the Scorpio is one hell of an amazing album

[Misereatur]

Right.  And Pink is not "under-produced".  It is very deliberately produced.  It is deliberately produced to sound messy and noisy, it's true, but it's not under-produced.  Pink was crafted very deliberately.  It may at times sound "sloppy", but it sounds that way on purpose.  That is the difference betweeb "lo-fi" and "not lo-fi".

zerodrone, stick around the forums, I'd hate to see you disappear like some other new people.


Sleater-Kinney - Anonymous

[Jed]

Aavikko - Seoul'88

[Scytale]

Limbonic Art - The Dark Rivers of the Heart.

[fish across face]

Pink was crafted very deliberately.  It may at times sound "sloppy", but it sounds that way on purpose.  That is the difference betweeb "lo-fi" and "not lo-fi".

Here's a quote I always liked from an interview with Bruce Russell, one of the New Zealand "noise" guys from the band the Dead C and other stuff.  Thought it was pretty appropriate.

There's an enormous amount you can do with a 4-track. My personal obsession is live stereo or even mono, god forbid. There's no reason it shouldn't sound good. The first Handful of Dust single was called 'A Little Aesthetic Discourse' because I imagined it as a lesson. There was nothing lo-tech about the recording. It was me in a bona fide studio recording with two Neumann microphones, a couple of grand each, on a Studer 2-track. But it was direct, and a recording was of what was in the room.

The fact that it sounds 'lo-fi,' as people love to call it, is simply because my equipment is lo fi. My amp makes a storm of noise even at rest. People mistake that for a hissy recording. No, it's a very clear recording of a very hissy sound and that's something people have trouble grasping. Theres no reason why the kind of strategy I'm talking about needs to be lo-fi, it's not about trying to record badly, on the contrary, I'm very interested in recording sounds faithfully, it's just the strategy you adopt and the sound that you are recording. In my case it's a sound in a room that you are recording faithfully

It's nice to see the "(and discuss it)" part of this thread's title in action.

Listening to:

Nine Horses - Seratonin (Burnt Friedman Mix). 

I always feel a bit guilty listening to David Sylvian, but I still love him to bits.  There's something strange about listening to a guy in his 40s doing a song which I can only imagine is about pilling... "Thoroughly wasted / My mind's hallucinating lucidity" Gah, he's so fucking earnest.

[Caspian]

Arcturus- Sideshow Symphonies.

Loving this album very much. Awesome spacey symphonic black metal. Kind of. Anyway it's really good, with some parts that are real cheesy but lots of good stuff. I would recommend!

[kallisti]

clap your hands say yeah - yankee go home

I am really not sure how I feel about the new album. This song does not impress me. I have yet to sit down and listen to the whole album from start to finish though. I've just been skipping around idly because I'm not really in the mood.

[David_Dovey]

Arcturus- Sideshow Symphonies.

Loving this album very much. Awesome spacey symphonic black metal. Kind of. Anyway it's really good, with some parts that are real cheesy but lots of good stuff. I would recommend!

Sideshow Symphonies is probably their weakest album. I'm assuming that this is your first taste of Arcturus? Check out The Sham Mirrors. For one thing it has Garm singing on it.

Zerodrone, you're right. My usage of the term "under-produced" was misleading, I think we are more or less in agreement, but we're coming at the issue from different angles, and are basically arguing about semantics. I think we should just both agree that Pink is rad and it sounds exactly like it should sound. Like I said, to me the term "lo-fi" does not mean badly produced. It is a deliberate and legitimate decision made by an artist or producer in the making of an album, a decision made to produce a certain aesthetic. I just thought that point was worth clarifying.

[KharBevNor]

Thee Maldoror Kollective - Rhythmagick Disturbance (Embodiment Cell)

Fuck this slays! What an awesome discovery. If we're going to be judging how cool tracks are going to be by their titles, I am very much looking forward to 'Rigid Pulse Starfire (93)'.