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Cartilage Head:
The Dresden Dolls. The genre that they give themselves is "Punk Cabaret" or "Dark Cabaret". Their music is a delightful mixture of melodic to..almost thrashing sounds all brought to life with simply piano and drums perfectly synchronized (or not,depending on what they are aiming for).
Mix this with heavily emotional and sometimes highly,comedically satiric lyrics,and you have a pretty good idea of what The Dresden Dolls are.
Iron and Wine. Sam Beam has introduced an outstanding combination of light,lovely sounds with brilliantly insightful lyrics and fabulous intrumentalism. That's about all that needs to be said,I believe.
ShreddingMyNotes:
Hey coffee eyes. You've got me coughing up my cookie heart, making promises to myself. Promises like seeds of everything I can be.
If those lines don't say it all, nothing does.
greenMonkey:
This is a sweet thread.
So. Last year I was totally into the classic rock. But I didn't really enjoy it on a level that I enjoy music now. It was fun to listen to, and it could up my energy a little, or maybe calm me down a little, but other than that it didn't do much. I started getting bored and began to find my music choices limited. Anyway, the guy sitting across from me in my math class kept going on about this band he had heard of from his older brother. Sigger Roos or something like that. I was still pretty deep into my classic rock habits, so I didn't pay a lot of attention to him. But then I got another recomendation for the same band, from a completely different (and somewhat anonymous source). A website made by someone of my age who lived in my area recomended Sigur Ros. I think I decided to check them out because my best friend was getting deep into electronic music and the website touted them as somewhat electronicky, so I wanted to hear some good electronic music. I went to their website, and downloaded a few songs (http://sigur-ros.co.uk/media/). It was pretty good, so I made a mix and played it for my family when I got a chance. My older sister liked it, so I got a CD. ( ), the untitled album. It was okay...kind of boring, but the last song was golden. I listened to the last song over and over, and ordered Agaetis Byrjun off Amazon.com. Then I went out of town for a week and a half. When i got back, my sister had received the CD and listened to it. She said it was pretty good. Over the next few weeks I got to know the album by listening to it all the way through about every single night. It was PURE. FUCKING. BEAUTY. (In my opinion anyway.) The vocals mixing with the bowed guitar mixing with the strings mixing with the bass...just awesome. Agaetis Byrjun still makes me feel great, and Sigur Ros is still my favorite band.
Steely Dan. My dad introduced me to them when I was in 5th or 6th grade, and I still love them. Aja is probably one of my favorite songs, and Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are basically my favorite lyricists. The lyrics are so snarky and satirious, while the instrumentals are tight and perfect. Whenever I get bored of listening to music, I just put on some Steely Dan and I regain my interest. Plus, Steely Dan is the name of a vibrator. Tee hee.
SensoryOssuary:
--- Quote ---Do you have "Dead Man Walking"?
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I have a great boot of the whole show, but I haven't seen the official release yet, no.
--- Quote ---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
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Ooh, yeah, seen both of those. Have you ever seen the music video that's an extra on the Criterion release of Down By Law? It's a cover of Cole Porter's It's All Right With Me, which I guess he recorded for a benefit album. Cool stuff.
--- Quote ---Any love for his earlier 'grand weepers', like 'Time'? So very good
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Time isn't exactly his earlier stuff per se, since it was on Rain Dogs, which has a lot of his most "out-there" tracks too. "Time," et al. are real diamonds in the rough, though. I don't like his 70's stuff as much just because the whole bumbling alcoholic psuedo-hobo schtick wears a bit thin on me.
Johnny C:
Man, reading this thread is melting my face off with awesome. Beautiful, chaps.
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