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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
Scandanavian War Machine:
--- Quote from: michaelicious on 12 Jan 2009, 11:45 ---I am just going to listen to some Major Organ and sulk.
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impossible!
Cire27:
JAWBREAKER
Unfun
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--- Quote from: All Music Guide ---Jawbreaker could be easily described as a pop-punk band with more of a dark side. Not that this isn't true, but it just wouldn't do this trio any justice to their poetic lyrics and complex song structures. With Unfun, a very influential record way ahead of its time, they make a name for themselves -- not as your run-of-the-mill punk band with a verse-chorus-verse style, but rather as a band that provides fitting background to the personal side that they're not afraid to show. For example, take one of the more energetic songs on the album, "Busy," in which the person offers a helping hand to a friend on the verge of mental collapse ("When nothing seems to be quite worth it and sleep becomes the only sure thing/I'm here to help you out of it/Come and see me for a lift"). But two tracks later, self-doubt and guilt are present in "Wound": "Feel my burning rash/Old scabs on my back/Deep red welts from hating myself/I was once, once so strong." Quite an emotional roller coaster, but at the same time it gives Unfun its edge and originality.
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Bivouac
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--- Quote from: All Music Guide ---Listening to Jawbreaker is likely to get you thinking about countless other grunge/thrash pop bands, from Nirvana to Sugar to Helmet. That shouldn't scare you away from Bivouac...Guitarist Blake Schwarzenbach is a ferocious string mauler who adds deft twists and turns to his ultra-loud rush of chords, vocalizing in a scream/sing/shout manner...Bivouac is for the most part a faster and louder proposition defined by speedy guitar raunch and smart (smartalecky?) songwriting. "Chesterfield King" is a wonderful boy-meets-girl story rife with understated awkwardness and sexual tentativeness, while "Tour Song" succinctly and accurately sums up the pros and cons of gigging...
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24 Hour Revenge Therapy
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--- Quote from: All Music Guide ---More trials and tribulations than an average episode of Melrose Place, Jawbreaker continues to explore their personal struggles on their third album, fittingly titled 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. Continuing on the Jawbreaker tradition of poetic lyrics that provide a mental image to each song, the band deals with their endeavors through music instead of wallowing in them, making this record not entirely bleak. "Do You Still Hate Me," for example, has the persona dishing out the friction of a relationship gone sour through talking to the person in question: "I wrote you a letter/I heard it upset you/How can I do this better/We're getting older/But we're acting younger." Being critiqued and ostracized from their scene during the height of their popularity was another headache singer/songwriter Blake Schwarzenbach dealt with around the time this album was released (their previous album, Bivouac, provided them with a huge cult following). This no doubt inspired the song "Indictment," which talks about not caring what anyone thinks of their songwriting ("I just wrote the dumbest song/It's going to be a singalong/Our enemies will laugh and be pointing/It wont bother me, what the thoughtless are thinking"). Providing the perfect flow of temperamental pop to go along with these stories is proof enough that 24 Hour Revenge Therapy is the pivot of Jawbreaker's creative output.
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Dear You
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--- Quote from: All Music Guide ---1995's Dear You finds Jawbreaker cleaning up and streamlining their punk-pop sound and coming up with a sleek, slick punk-grunge classic that relies as much on clever songwriting and restrained emotions as it does on the group's trademarked high-energy attack. From the opening chords of the anthemic "Save Your Generation," Blake Schwarzenbach's vocals are the star. He was coming off of throat surgery that robbed him of a lot of his vocal power but gave him a smoky intimate sound that gives the feeling that he is whispering right in your ear. On songs like "I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both" or "Jet Black," he sounds wounded in a way that screaming could never convey. The album is a powerful mix of jumpy punk-pop like "Bad Scene," "Everybody's Fault," "Fireman," and the aching "Chemistry" and mid-tempo tracks like the amazing "Jet Black," "Million," and "Basilica that escapes being tied to the time of grunge-by-the-numbers by being melodic and heartfelt without going over the top, by being just punk enough to be real and just epic enough to rise above the often boringly earnest approach of too many punk bands. Along with Weezer's Blue Album, Dear You is one of the cornerstones upon which emo and late-'90s punk-pop were built. Certainly Jimmy Eat World wore out their copy, as Bleed American sounds like a less produced younger brother, and Dashboard Confessional's whole oeuvre sounds like a lesser version of Dear You's acoustic "Unlisted Track." Depending on how you feel about emo, there is either a lot to blame Jawbreaker for or be thankful for here. Either way, Dear You is one of the best rock records of the '90s and a fitting last testament to a great band.
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That's every album except Etc. and Live 4/30/96. I tried to upload Etc. but it's over 100MB and I don't really have enough time split it up and upload it again. I don't have the live album.
michaelicious:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 12 Jan 2009, 14:18 ---
--- Quote from: michaelicious on 12 Jan 2009, 11:45 ---I am just going to listen to some Major Organ and sulk.
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impossible!
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I soon found that out! It was never a combination I had tried before.
MusicScribbles:
--- Quote from: Pogotross on 24 Dec 2008, 00:56 ---Number Girl - School Girl Distortional Addict
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I just noticed that this had been posted a little while ago and would like to bring it back to your attention.
Why? This CD is a testament to the Japanese music scene.
Number Girl, a band of the 90's in SGDA, took its influences from quite an array of bands. They drew from Sonic Youth, the Pixies, and Hüsker Dü, among others. (Read: track 2 Pixie Du)
Before I tell you about the other CD's which I've uploaded, I'm going to give credit to Pogotross for uploading this album. It's one of my favorites.
Number Girl - Sappukei
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Number Girl - Num-Heavy Metallic
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Sappukei came after School Girl Distortion Addict, and Num-Heavy Metallic followed Sappukei. All amazing albums in their own right. Then, suddenly, Number Girl split.
From there singer/guitarist Shutoku Mukai went on to form mathy punk band Zazen Boys. Here is their second release.
Zazen Boys - Zazen Boys II
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I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.
memann:
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--- Quote from: memann on 11 Jan 2009, 17:41 ---The Elephant 6 Orchestra Live at Chicago Oct. 21 2008
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Whoever you are, I love you.
EDIT: Except the songs aren't tagged properly. Oh well, better than nothing.
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Put them into itunes. The song info is there, I just realized i forgot to name the actual files themselves.
I love you too.
EDIT: Yes it is taken straight from the NPR site, but I separated it into 40 tracks, instead of just one big fucking one.
Heres some background info: (from here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96105602)
--- Quote ---October 27, 2008 - It was a magical and historic night for indie-rock. For the first time in more than a decade, the founding members of the widely adored and influential Elephant 6 Collective, including Robert Schneider (The Apples in Stereo) and the famously reclusive Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel), took the stage together for a sprawling live performance. The group, which featured 15 artists from 10 different bands, served up more than three hours of joyous, psych-tinged singalongs under the glow of the rainbow-colored lights at Chicago's Bottom Lounge on Oct. 21, 2008.
The Elephant 6 Collective "is definitely back," tour organizer Julian Koster (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Music Tapes) said after the show. "Somehow, everything's happening for us now. I don't know why we were ever interrupted, and why all this is happening now. But we're all just so happy. It just seems like a fact now. [Elephant 6] is back."
After forming in the early '90s and releasing a number of acclaimed albums, The Elephant 6 Collective — a large family of likeminded bands — eventually dissolved, as members moved on to other projects or went on indefinite hiatus. Though loose configurations of the group have given a handful of one-off performances since, most recently in 2005, the current tour marks a new beginning.
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