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SensoryOssuary:
Tom Waits.
Bone Machine was the first album I bought with my own money, and it's still my favorite. I've never experienced such excitement discovering a song, album, or artist, as I did with that album.
A lot of people I talk to about Waits will say something about how Beefheart did it better, or at least first. While it's true that Waits made Swordfishtrombones as a direct result of his future wife giving him Trout Mask Replica, he took the idea of musical surrealism to a much more earthy, folk-lorish place that experimented not only in theory, but in timbre. And he can write an absolutely beautiful ballad.
I've spent more time/money on him then any other musician, having all of his albums, the out-of-print Big Time VHS, and a signed press picture that someone from his label got for me once *swoons*. I've never seen him live, but he's doing a tour this summer, so I'll probably make it out, despite his tickets always being damned expensive.
Hmm, I'm being curt so as not to ramble, and I guess that's it.
timehat:
For me, Voivod and Thought Industry.
Voivod are generally labeled as "progressive thrash", and I think this is pretty much appropriate. I don't think it paints a complete picture by any means: Anacrusis and Coroner also fit under that category, yet neither sound like Voivod. I think the most important aspect of Voivod's sound comes from their late guitarist Piggy. He played in a metal style, with heavy distortion and lots of palm muting, but what made him stand out was his chord vocabulary. The harmonic content of a Voivod riff is probably closer to jazz than anything else, really, and it's just completely wonderful. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to me like Piggy was all that influential, because the standard harmonic fare of metal guitar playing still mainly consists of power chords and triads, which is fucking boring, if you ask me. Even the jazzy technical death metal bands like Cynic and Atheist seem greatly limit their harmonies in their "heavy" riffs. There's a lot more to say about this band, but I'll stop here.
Thought Industry whose extreme obscurity really does not make sense to me. They aren't even popular in the underground metal scene, somehow, and are far better than nearly all of the bands therein. Thought Industry changed their sound very heavily over the course of their career, but maintained a great level of creativity and consistency throughout, which is very appealing to me. Many bands change for the worse, but not Thought Industry. Early albums blast your ears with bombastic and ambitious prog metal, sometimes resembling Voivod. It seems like with every album, they stripped down their sound further and further, leaving more and more space and bare-boned songwriting, culminating in their penultimate work Black Umbrella which barely retains any semblance of metal, being much more alt-rock than anything else. For their last album Short Wave on a Cold Day, they had finally shed the last shreds of metal influence and, using their last album as a launching point, created an insanely lush and beautiful pop album. Weird ones, for sure, but amazing.
La Creme:
--- Quote from: SensoryOssuary ---Tom Waits.
Bone Machine was the first album I bought with my own money, and it's still my favorite. I've never experienced such excitement discovering a song, album, or artist, as I did with that album.
A lot of people I talk to about Waits will say something about how Beefheart did it better, or at least first. While it's true that Waits made Swordfishtrombones as a direct result of his future wife giving him Trout Mask Replica, he took the idea of musical surrealism to a much more earthy, folk-lorish place that experimented not only in theory, but in timbre. And he can write an absolutely beautiful ballad.
I've spent more time/money on him then any other musician, having all of his albums, the out-of-print Big Time VHS, and a signed press picture that someone from his label got for me once *swoons*. I've never seen him live, but he's doing a tour this summer, so I'll probably make it out, despite his tickets always being damned expensive.
Hmm, I'm being curt so as not to ramble, and I guess that's it.
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Do you have "Dead Man Walking"?
The Eyeball Kid:
--- Quote from: SensoryOssuary ---Tom Waits.
Bone Machine was the first album I bought with my own money, and it's still my favorite. I've never experienced such excitement discovering a song, album, or artist, as I did with that album.
A lot of people I talk to about Waits will say something about how Beefheart did it better, or at least first. While it's true that Waits made Swordfishtrombones as a direct result of his future wife giving him Trout Mask Replica, he took the idea of musical surrealism to a much more earthy, folk-lorish place that experimented not only in theory, but in timbre. And he can write an absolutely beautiful ballad.
I've spent more time/money on him then any other musician, having all of his albums, the out-of-print Big Time VHS, and a signed press picture that someone from his label got for me once *swoons*. I've never seen him live, but he's doing a tour this summer, so I'll probably make it out, despite his tickets always being damned expensive.
Hmm, I'm being curt so as not to ramble, and I guess that's it.
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Have you seen any of his movies? Down By Law is good, Shrek 2's cameo is really random, and i haven't seen the others
I <3 Tom Waits. I stole this username from a guy who runs a Tom Waits board who stole it from a Tom Waits song
Any love for his earlier 'grand weepers', like 'Time'? So very good
Le Creme, the Sugerplastic sound like exactly the band i NEED. I'm searching for them now (not that i don't like Mr Bungle and The Eels)
the Hold Steady
Not much to tell, really. Heard 'My Little Hoodrat Friend', loved it, and saw them live. The show was INTENSE, but too loud to hear the lyrics. Chris Finn was like a man posssessed.
Got 'Seperation Sunday', their latest album.
5 months later and i'm still listening to, quoting it in my head and planning RPG campaigns based on the lyrics. its just amazing... brilliant, heartfelt clever funny streetwise lyrics a Springsteen/Elvis Costello sung/rapped blues style... just spit out all one after the other. The band's great, all classic rock swagger, and the lyrics are a great story... tottally specific and kinda universal too: "City centre used to be the centre of are scene/now city centres over/no one ever goes there/We used to hang out under this railroad bridge/sometimes the cops wouldn't even go there there were too many people"
I LOVE them. They're the best Catholic bar band retro rockers ever
The Fiery Furnaces
Amazing live show.
I interviewed Matt last week and it was great. I almost mentioned QC. My first real itnerview I was nervous, but i got through it... got published on a website. Things started to turn around; i got a job and i'm seein them next week.
I've written so much about them and its hard to write more now.... i will after their show
Ernest:
At the Drive-In
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