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The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« on: 26 Jan 2007, 01:37 »
Here's a fun idea:
Whenever you hear an album for the first time, or are hearing an album for the first time, discuss what you think of it!

Right now I'm listening to Jeff Buckley's Grace for the first time based on recommendations from everywhere. I'm really floored by his singing voice, it's one of the most emotional I've ever heard. I'm only on track 4, but this is shaping up to be one of the better albums of my year so far. That's all I got to say about that.
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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #1 on: 26 Jan 2007, 02:01 »
This offends my reviewer mentality but I'll bite.

Fjernsyn Fjernsyn - Fjernsyn Fjernsyn(2005)
Danish jazzy noise rock(or vice versa) whose name means Television Television or literally distant-sight distant-sight. I like it. The sax reminds me of John Zorn's in his most disjointed moments on Naked City but more laid back, which is true of the whole album. Most of the time it alternates between restrained chaos with sax and slow noisy mood bits.The playing is so unorthodox that it could easily be mistaken for dilettantism on a first glance.
It might be actually seeing as how they are part of prolific jazz Avant-Garde collective in Denmark called yoyooyoy.

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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #2 on: 26 Jan 2007, 02:32 »
I listened to Return to Cookie Mountain for the first time earlier today because I've decided I should at least hear all the albums which topped everyone on the internet's lists, and I thought it kind of sucked.
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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #3 on: 26 Jan 2007, 02:48 »
Quote from: grrraham on 26 Jan 2007, 02:32
Return to Cookie Mountain kind of sucked.

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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #4 on: 26 Jan 2007, 02:52 »
Ben I am considering killing you because of your username.

I'm about to start Listening to "The Broken West- I can't go on, I'll go on." Let you know.
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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #5 on: 26 Jan 2007, 03:26 »
This is a good album. Not great, but it is good.
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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #6 on: 26 Jan 2007, 03:30 »
Another thing about Grace, I really wish I hadn't seen Shrek because it kind of spoiled Hallelujah for me. And:

Quote from: Johnny Katz on 26 Jan 2007, 02:52
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Don't  :cry:
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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #7 on: 26 Jan 2007, 03:43 »
Got a live bootleg by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, it's horrible quality, but the first song (the only one I got through, all eighteen mintues of it) was obviously fantastic, just barely audible.
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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #8 on: 26 Jan 2007, 03:56 »
Quote from: Ben yayayayayayayay on 26 Jan 2007, 03:30
Another thing about Grace, I really wish I hadn't seen Shrek because it kind of spoiled Hallelujah for me. And:

Quote from: Johnny Katz on 26 Jan 2007, 02:52
Ben I am considering killing you because of your username.

Don't  :cry:

Okay now I am killing you for sure. Hallelujah is not a Jeff Buckley song. It's a Leonard Cohen song. He does the best versions of it. He wrote it. Blargh.
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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #9 on: 26 Jan 2007, 04:01 »
I know it's not a Jeff Buckley original, it was just the first time I heard it in its entirety and on headphones. Sorry should've explained myself better before, I was just too overwhelmed with fear. Please just don't.  :cry: :cry:
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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #10 on: 26 Jan 2007, 04:19 »
I listened to Boris' Pink for the first time last night/today (I am allergic to hype) and I have to admit, in this case, everybody is right.  It really is one of the best albums of last year, if not the best, and that's coming from someone who doesn't really like any other metal at all.  No, not even Mastodon.  What's so great about it, besides the first song and the other shoegazy touches, are the Motorhead riffs, the Sonic Youth feedback squall, the vocals (no growling whatsoever!)... really, just everything.  They deserve to be worldwide superstars for making something this unabashedly good.

Now I am eagerly awaiting hearing their collaboration with Kurihara from Ghost, because Ghost is one of my favorite bands.
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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #11 on: 26 Jan 2007, 04:59 »
I got that album last week but have been putting off listening to it. You just bumped it to the top of my list, gold star!
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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #12 on: 26 Jan 2007, 07:41 »
Quote from: Valdemar on 26 Jan 2007, 02:01
Danish jazzy noise rock(or vice versa) whose name means Television Television or literally distant-sight distant-sight. I like it.
Randomly, I feel the urge to point out that the English word "television" means "distant-sight" too.

I prefer the Chinese approach: ELECTRIC EYE.


Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna

I just finished listening to a download of this because a friend said he thought I'd like it.  There were some things I liked about it, I guess, but I found the songs really lame and the singer quite annoying.  I think it was recommended to me because I like a lot of electronic pop stuff, but I don't really like the electronic bits of this either.  Anyway, I'll give it a few more tries, but I doubt I'll be buying it.
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Re: The "First Time Listening To" Thread
« Reply #13 on: 26 Jan 2007, 08:39 »
I just listened to a band called "damn seagulls."

If you took the afghan whigs, made them poppy, made them retarded, and sucked all of their musical talent out through their assholes in a gay felching extravaganza, they would sound like this terrible terrible music.
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