Topic: What are you listening to (and discuss it). (Read 916788 times)

[El Cynico] · « **Reply #2300 on:** 28 Jan 2007, 08:51 »

Quote from: zerodrone on 26 Jan 2007, 16:31

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

I don't really know why it was so hard to get hold of a copy. HMV seem to be pretty hopeless when it comes to anything that's not current chart music. And no, actually I'm in England.

And so i'm on topic, I'm listening to:

Talk Talk - Desire.

Jed · « **Reply #2301 on:** 28 Jan 2007, 11:36 »

The Hives - Deglare Guerre Nucleaire

Very punk!

Kai · « **Reply #2302 on:** 28 Jan 2007, 12:12 »

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - We're All In Love

I'm in love with something that I can't see

Scytale · « **Reply #2303 on:** 28 Jan 2007, 22:48 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 28 Jan 2007, 07:36

Quote from: Caspian on 28 Jan 2007, 06:19
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.

Arcturus are comming to Aus in March, only reason I haven't bought ticket was because I didn't get into Sideshow Symphonies at all... La Masquerade Infernale is my fav Arcturus cd...

Caspian if you're interested in Spacey BM I sugest checking out the following albums

Samael - Passage \ Eternal
Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio\ In Abhorrence Dementia
Odium - The Sad Realm of the Stars
Covenant - Nexus Polaris
Enslaved - Isa (Viking metal in space!!!)

I'm currently playing:
Samael - Infra Galaxia

The extra letter · « **Reply #2304 on:** 28 Jan 2007, 23:46 »

Manic Street Preachers - Take the Skinheads Bowling

I quite like the original of this, and I am a complete Manics fanboy. The cover definitely does justice to the original, which is good to see (or should that be hear?)
So yeah, I approve.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #2305 on:** 28 Jan 2007, 23:54 »

Quote from: Scytale on 28 Jan 2007, 22:48

Arcturus are comming to Aus in March, only reason I haven't bought ticket was because I didn't get into Sideshow Symphonies at all... La Masquerade Infernale is my fav Arcturus cd...

Caspian if you're interested in Spacey BM I sugest checking out the following albums

Samael - Passage \ Eternal
Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio\ In Abhorrence Dementia
Odium - The Sad Realm of the Stars
Covenant - Nexus Polaris
Enslaved - Isa (Viking metal in space!!!)

I'd add a Borknagar album to that list. I've only heard Empiricism and a few tracks off of Origin, but Empiricism suits the criteria pretty damn well.

Scytale · « **Reply #2306 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 00:26 »

Borknagar are ok I'm digging Origin a fair bit, Archaic Course was ok... I dunno though nothing Borknagar has done seems really essential to me, their just one of those bands I have a lot of trouble getting fully into.

Myrddraal - Falling Sky

David_Dovey · « **Reply #2307 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 00:29 »

I'm listening to Greg Graffin from Bad Religion's solo album "Cold as the Clay"

It's basically a lot of folk and banjo and what Dr Greg himself calls "old-time" music. I always figured his vocal style was very suited to folk, he almost has a Celtic kind of lilt to his delivery.

Also, his backing band is 3/4 of the Weakerthans... Will I enjoy the Weakerthans if I love this?

Scytale · « **Reply #2308 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 03:16 »

Judas Iscariot - Portions of Eternity to Great For the Eye of Man

Another take on William Blake's "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" not as good as Ulver's take on it but pretty interesting non the less...

"Prisons are built with stones of law,
brothels with bricks of religion."

gaah typos

Misereatur · « **Reply #2309 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 03:27 »

Soft Machine - Kings and Queens

Patrick · « **Reply #2310 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 05:11 »

"Please Bypass This Heart" - Jimmy Buffett

How he managed to do this song in an entirely serious manner is beyond me. Now it's

"Dance, Dance, Dance" - The Beach Boys

Always a good band for singing along to, especially in my crappy falsetto. And in the time it took to write that (I'm lazy today) it has switched to

"Little Brown Jug" - Glenn Miller and His Orchestra

Yay for '40s song titles that make references to alcohol use.

Scytale · « **Reply #2311 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 05:33 »

Nile - Immortality Through Art

Eyptian mythology meets death metal...

Valdemar · « **Reply #2312 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 10:08 »

I should buy a Nile album really, is there an album a bit less corpulent than In Their Darkened Shrines? Great album but also quite long.

Ulver - Nattens Madrigal

I think it is amazing how they manage to make it relatively accessible despite the harshness.
There is some catchy guitarwork if you look pass the white sheet of noise.

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #2313 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 12:48 »

The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack (sans tracks 1 and 7, because they are for some reason lost amid my other music on my other computer...).

Danny Elfman is a god. That's all.

Mr u Suk · « **Reply #2314 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 14:09 »

Queen of The Reich - Queensryche

because there are few things i like more in my life than ass kickin' 80's metal, sadly i am alone in my views.

Misereatur · « **Reply #2315 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 14:23 »

Lungfish - Cleaner Than Your Surroundings

KharBevNor · « **Reply #2316 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 14:56 »

Quote from: Mr u Suk on 29 Jan 2007, 14:09

because there are few things i like more in my life than ass kickin' 80's metal, sadly i am alone in my views.

Dude, if you think you're the only person on these forums who listens to Queensryche, you are sadly (gladly?) mistaken.

I'm currently listening to an instrumental version of a national anthem I am composing for a prospective British Republic. It is more exciting than normal national anthems. It has a steel drum and a trance break in the middle.

!!!CPAOI!!! · « **Reply #2317 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 15:16 »

Immortal- Pure Holocuast

I have no idea why it took me so long to finally get ahold of this. It is sort of blowing me away. Oddly enough I think it might sound better with death vocals though.

Tyler · « **Reply #2318 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 15:35 »

The City That Day - Matt Skiba

Now I must prepare for the inevitable Alkaline Trio listening.

IronOxide · « **Reply #2319 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 17:04 »

"Susan's House" - Eels

That and the Antiques Roadshow, and as much as I love Eels, the roadshow must take precidence.

SilentJ · « **Reply #2320 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 17:27 »

A cover of Daft Punk... a capella.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQVEPFzkhaM

Patrick · « **Reply #2321 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 17:59 »

"DC to Baltimore" - me

Trying to decide if this song is shitty or not. I've decided on yes. I kindof like it anyway though. It'll be better if I put in the drum beat that's going through my head right now.

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #2322 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 18:04 »

You Took the Words Right Outta My Mouth, Meatloaf.
...Meatloaf is another godlike being. He's flippin' fantastic! I could listen to the Bat Out of Hell CD for days on end. I think in my family, we've gone through like...two tapes, and at least three CDs, since the album came out.

Ernest · « **Reply #2323 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 21:06 »

Yo La Tengo- Little Eyes

KharBevNor · « **Reply #2324 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 22:44 »

The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again

Man, I love the Smiths.

Scytale · « **Reply #2325 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 03:20 »

Quote from: !!!CPAOI!!! on 29 Jan 2007, 15:16

Immortal- Pure Holocuast

I have no idea why it took me so long to finally get ahold of this. It is sort of blowing me away. Oddly enough I think it might sound better with death vocals though.

Pure Holocaust is my absolute favorite Immortal album, I'd rate it as one of the 10 best BM albums ever made. Little known fact is it's actually Abbath, not Grim playing the drums...

Darkthrone - Sempiternal Sepulchrality

DM Darkthone, Fenriz comes up with some great lyrics from time to time. The imagery this song conjures up is pretty powerful.

Oh, once again, I kneel before this altar
Out in the moist chilly forest I proclaim
The Autumn leaves that fell
And those still attached to the trees
The Breeze that blew my hair
The one I've known through all these years...
The songs I never forgot -
A past that is now Lost....

Mr u Suk · « **Reply #2326 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 04:04 »

Don Ross - Afraid to Dance

serriously this is the tightest thing done with acoustic guitar...evar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsgKVkTVX_E

Scytale · « **Reply #2327 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 04:41 »

Bolt Thrower - Through the Eye of Terror

Holly shit, I love this song.

Apparently the guitars are tuned to A on some parts of the record, I had no idea guitars could even go that low _shrugs_ anyway it sounds fucking heavy.

Valdemar · « **Reply #2328 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 09:18 »

Waylander - The Light, The Dark and the Endless Knot

It is a bit samey and the growling and singing is not totally convincing. Pretty cover though.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #2329 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 11:54 »

I seriously don't know what happened to Waylander on that album. If you can, get a copy of their first one 'Reawakening Pride Once Lost', it's a truly brilliant album.

Valdemar · « **Reply #2330 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 13:14 »

No harm done, it was very cheap. While listening to it, I wondered whether there were any irish metal bands who used native instruments like bodhr?n? Cruachan perhaps?

amok · « **Reply #2331 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 16:52 »

Celtic Frost - Obscured

Seeing these guys with kreator in a couple months \m/ fuckin' A.

Will · « **Reply #2332 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 20:28 »

Jesu - Conqueror. Found it on OiNK the other day. It's pretty damned good.

fish across face · « **Reply #2333 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 21:19 »

Luther Vandross - Never Too Much

When I was first getting into soul I used to fucking hate the big shiny 80s stuff, used to really offend me. Now I kinda love it. Unabashedly joyful music about nothing but joyful joy is reasonably OK by me. (Joy.) Next up M'tume's Juicy Fruit!

Caspian · « **Reply #2334 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 21:31 »

Quote from: Will on 30 Jan 2007, 20:28

Jesu - Conqueror. Found it on OiNK the other day. It's pretty damned good.

I'm listening to that too. Album of the year already?? Quite possibly.

Scytale · « **Reply #2335 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 23:10 »

Moonspell - Opium

Will · « **Reply #2336 on:** 31 Jan 2007, 07:05 »

"Conqueror" is quite good - not as pretty as the Silver EP, but still excellent of its own right - but ight now my Album of the Year is very solidly looking to be the upcoming "Blessed Are The Bonds" by the Pax Cecilia. The full album isn't out just yet, but you can check out two of the songs; "The Progress" and "The Tragedy" are available on Myspace. I'd suggest to everyone here that you at least give them a listen and see what you think.

Valdemar · « **Reply #2337 on:** 31 Jan 2007, 09:28 »

It is not my cup of tea. "The Tragedy" meanders while "The Progress" is too metalcoreisque for my taste. The vocals bug me, they have this generic feel. For this sort of thing I prefer Kayo Dot. That is my initial impression anyway.

Amon Tobin - The Foley Room

It is a tough nut to crack. I think my verdict is veering on the following: It has some good songs but it is also uneven because he frequently neglects the compositions in his hunt for strange noises. But when everything comes together, he is quite something.

Misereatur · « **Reply #2338 on:** 31 Jan 2007, 11:51 »

The Smiths - Hand In Glove

fish across face · « **Reply #2339 on:** 31 Jan 2007, 16:06 »

For the hundred millionth time I'm listening to a mix called ?Blogaritmos! 11: ?Another Crunk Genealogy?, part of the absolutely mindblowing Blogariddims podcast. I basically never come across DJ mixes anywhere near as adventurous and informed as this, especially not ones that sound good.

One that might be more to the taste of bods here is this monster mix of avant garde, industrial, Kraut rock, jazz and ambient action. Often the blends happen over the course of several minutes, so tracks I knew still have all these gorgeous surprises spring up when I least expect them.

FUCK. SO EXCITED.

Kai · « **Reply #2340 on:** 31 Jan 2007, 19:18 »

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

IronOxide · « **Reply #2341 on:** 31 Jan 2007, 19:34 »

"Mars" from The Planets - Gustav Holst

One of my all-time favorites.

Jed · « **Reply #2342 on:** 01 Feb 2007, 02:02 »

Jori Hulkkonen - Lo-Fiction

Jori Hulkkonen is one of the best electronic artists I know.

Scytale · « **Reply #2343 on:** 01 Feb 2007, 02:14 »

Accept - Fast as a Shark

Udo is the man

Fast as a shark he'll cut out of the dark
Hes a killer - he'll rip out your heart
On a one way track and you're not coming back
'cause the killers on the attack

*air guitars*

David_Dovey · « **Reply #2344 on:** 01 Feb 2007, 02:48 »

Yes. YES. Fast as a Shark is metal encapsulated. YES.

Scytale · « **Reply #2345 on:** 01 Feb 2007, 03:19 »

Fuck Yeah accept are damn awesome

Angel Dust - Bleed

It must be German Metal night tonight on my pc...

This is some of the best power metal I've heard, pretty unknown band too, lyrics remind me a lot of the Slayer song "Jesus Saves", all bout the influence of money on religon.

Gotta meet the priest
and ask for his help
Will the collection
heal my soul
Can money clear the temple
of prejudice and lies
Can I reach heaven and enter paradise

Will · « **Reply #2346 on:** 01 Feb 2007, 06:32 »

Hopesfall - The Satellite Years. This is one of the few albums that fall under the metalcore umbrella that I can use the adjective "beautiful" to describe. Granted, they dropped a ferocious study in utter mediocrity with "A-Types" a few years later, but for a while, this band was gold.

Valdemar · « **Reply #2347 on:** 01 Feb 2007, 09:43 »

A Tribe Called Quest - Butter

I do not normally appreciate rap and I have a feeling that Quest won't change my mind.

Vanilla Gorilla · « **Reply #2348 on:** 01 Feb 2007, 09:45 »

nikola sarcevic "lock sport krock" and "roll roll and flee"

strange swedish acoustic folk love music. check it out. very interesting.

Misereatur · « **Reply #2349 on:** 01 Feb 2007, 11:06 »

Amon Duul II - Soap Shop Rock

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