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[iliveinsalemor]

Alright, i had forgotten the names of those two beck albums. but it took me all of 2 minutes to find them.

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http://4megaupload.com/that is an awesome website if you don't know about it. some people have trouble with it, but thats how i just found those albums.

beck:
Western Harvest Field by Moonlight

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=evbqkgf5
Golden Feelings

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=tjid6vrt

i know how i feel when i find music i have been wanting for a long time. so i like to try and help people find it. i do not think its a bad policy.

REMIND ME TO FUCK YOU!!!! THANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOU!!!! SOOOO MUCH!!!@@$#*(%()*^$($&*@#(*&!!

[sean]

Is anyone interested in having Caspian's ep and tour demo thing? I have them both and I'll uppy them if anyone cares.

[Ocarina654]

More Caspian is a go in my book.

[_yoda]

Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron

And now for a third completely unrelated album ...

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Wow, this is amazing - I have GOT to find me a copy of this! Thanks!

[Christophe]

REMIND ME TO FUCK YOU

I would not see a band called this.

[iliveinsalemor]

REMIND ME TO FUCK YOU

I would not see a band called this.

HAHAHA!!! Thats funny. (I'm not being sarcastic)

[pilsner]

Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks

With its jagged guitar lines, taut grooves and oblique lyrics, Spoon's second album, A Series of Sneaks was probably never going to sell a million copies. Still, their label, Elektra, never waited around to find out, dumping the band four months after releasing their frazzled 1998 gem. Now reissued by Merge with two additional tracks, Sneaks hasn't lost any bite. "June's Foreign Spell" is nothing less than savage -- a furious stomp of harrowing riffs and Cro-Magnon beats, punctuated by frontman Britt Daniel violently proclaiming, "I feel like a rat." But on "Reservations" and "Metal Detektor," the trio deftly balances its bile and aggression with poise and craft. The reissue closes appropriately, with a two-song harangue directed at Spoon's former Elektra A&R man, Ron Laffitte. Ironically, "Laffitte Don't Fail Me Now" and "The Agony of Laffitte," which were originally released as a single, might be the most melodic things here. Somehow that only seems to enhance their vindictive kick and make Spoon's last laugh resonate a little louder.

DAVID PEISNER
(June 4, 2002)

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[jma13]

Port O'Brien -- The Wind and the Swell

Port O'Brien whip up a hazy, beautiful narcosis on The Wind and the Swell. This album is actually a compilation of sorts, pulling together the best tracks from the self-released efforts of Port O'Brien, the brainchild of northern Californian and sometimes Alaskan fisherman/boat hand Van Pierszalowski (though the project has evolved into an actual band). This collection is clear evidence that Pierszalowski's idiosyncratic alt-rock/weirdo folk deserves the same kind of attention paid to Will Oldham (Palace), Jason Molina (Songs: Ohia), or even M. Ward, who named Port O'Brien his favorite new band the same year this album came out (2007). The loose and spastic gang-singing of "I Woke Up Today," which is pitted against only acoustic guitar and inconsistent percussion, yields up a surprising richness and weirdness that is evocative of Broken Social Scene's more orchestrated, technologically tweaked efforts. The pretty, loose acoustic pop of "My Eyes Won't Shut" melds Pavement-like oddball prettiness with the warped, edgy sensibilities of Neil Young circa On the Beach, while "Five and Dime" proves that there are some real solid, straightforward folk writing chops beneath all of the strangeness. This is a rich and original collection of catchy and brainy folk-pop.  AMG 4/5

i haven't found their upcoming may release 'all we could do was sing' but there is a new version of 'i woke up today' on there that sounds even better. akron/family-esque.

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[ImADimetrodon]

Well I've been trying to post these for a while, but my internet is still being shit.

I don't know if anyone really liked the chiptunes stuff but I have some more. These are some of my favorites...

Covox

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i, cactus

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She

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Chrono Trigger Mixtape

This isn't really chiptunes...well it kinda is. It's songs from Chrono Trigger mixed with rap vocals. It's pretty tight.

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[sean]

Caspian - You are the Conductor and Caspian - Tour (ep)

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No pic for the tour ep thing. They're packed in the same folder, for simplicity. And no AMG for either.

Next up is some Rachel's and maybe some Clogs, if I can goddamn find it.

[roulettescars]

Chrono Trigger Mixtape

This isn't really chiptunes...well it kinda is. It's songs from Chrono Trigger mixed with rap vocals. It's pretty tight.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?2nd9inwel95

Sounds like the gnarliest thing I could imagine. Thank you, before I even listen.

[imapiratearg]

Caspian - You are the Conductor

So good!  Caspian are slowly becoming my favorite post-rock band.

[De_El]

So, I've got some Emperor for you folks

In the Nightside Eclipse

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Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

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Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise

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I was gonna upload IX Equilibrium, but I looked at it and the quality was so spotty it wasn't worth it.
That said, I think the quality is a little variable, mostly 128-160, and I'm sorry but there may be a few m4as. Mostly mp3, though.

[bff]

As mentioned in the latest ska-related thread, I give you Mephiskapheles:

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[Ocarina654]

Haha, that Chrono Trigger Mixtape is hilarious and awesome.  The rest of those albums are awesome as well.

And thanks for the Caspian!
And Mephiskapheles!

And since its available, I might as well check out that Emperor as well.  Which of those three albums would you suggest first?

[coldenginelogic]

Fans of Morricone, Soundtrack music or Patton music in general will dig this  wonderful ride through the mental record collection of Mike Patton-certainly not an everyday listener but solid

Mike Patton- A Perfect Place OST

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[Trillian]

In A Cave by Elf Power

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The Athens, GA-based Elf Power emerged as part of the second wave of bands linked to the Elephant 6 Recording Company collective, a coterie of like-minded, lo-fi indie groups -- including the Apples (In Stereo), Neutral Milk Hotel, and the Olivia Tremor Control -- who shared musicians, ideas, and sensibilities. Formed by singers/multi-instrumentalists Andrew Rieger and Laura Carter, Elf Power debuted in 1995 with the self-released Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs, followed a year later by the Winter Hawk EP, which heralded the additions of bassist Bryan Helium and drummer Aaron Wegelin. The excellent When the Red King Comes appeared in late 1997, and two years later the group returned with A Dream in Sound; also in the spring of 1999, a series of live dates with the Olivia Tremor Control yielded the tour-exclusive EP Come On. Winter Is Coming followed a year later. In 2002, the group released the conceptual record Creatures (which saw the amicable departure of bassist Bryan Helium) and Nothing's Going to Happen, a collection of covers ranging from Gary Numan to the Misfits. Two years later, the group returned with Walking with the Beggar Boys, a decidedly more straightforward offering that included new members Eric Harris (formerly of the Olivia Tremor Control) and Craig McQuiston (formerly of the Glands). After switching to Rykodisc, Elf Power issued their eighth album, Back to the Web, in 2006.

Sorry that I was kind of lazy and just posted the crappy artist description from AMG.  In regards to the actual album, it is good and you should listen.

P.S. 

Rules:

No hotlinking images or albums. You can rehost images at http://imageshack.us.

Ensure your tags are correct and that you have specified both Artist/Album in your post.

Upload your files in either a .zip or a .rar archive to mediafire.com, in multiple parts if the album is over 100mbs. The reason for this is that we know Mediafire is safe and efficient, and allows multiple downloads. The ads on other sites, such as Sendspace, are known to contain viruses on the page. Get yourself checked out.

Post your link using code tags. It's the # icon above the policeman emoticon. This prevents the links from being traced back to the forums, lowering the chance that the wrong people notice the thread, potentially threatening Jeph with legal action.

Also, please do NOT request albums.

Repost the rules at the top of each new page.

[valley_parade]

Coming up...tonight? Tomorrow morning? Sunday?

Kaki King - Dreaming Of Revenge

[karl gambolputty...]

Now it is time for some Bedhead.  You should all listen to it so that I will have more people with whom to yell about how criminally under-appreciated they were.


What Fun Life Was

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AMG: It didn't seem like it at the time, but with the appearance of this, Bedhead's debut, and Low's own first album some months later, the zeitgeist of post-grunge indie rock started to shift toward something more reflective and restrained. Not that WhatFunLifeWas doesn't steer clear of loud moments, to be sure; many of the songs use swelling transitions from quieter to noisier performance and back, all while avoiding the abrupt soft-loud-soft cliché of the time. However, even at the band's most explosive, there's less a sense of getting ripped out of your head on sound than there is a tension between steady, careful performance (drummer Martinez especially so) and more wide-ranging power. The various comparisons to the Velvet Underground, Joy Division, and Spacemen 3 all make a certain sense, but even at this early stage of the band's life, Bedhead have much more of an individual sensibility, something that fuses and looks beyond rather than simply rehashing. Things sometimes can be a touch more playful than expected -- "To the Ground" is almost jaunty -- but otherwise the moods are calm and often blue, and a large part of that lies in the singing. Matt Kadane's soft, understated semi-drawl doesn't slot easily into comparisons, and its contrast with the band's music is often striking. "Haywire," an epic guitar blast with an almost giddy surge to music and performance, gets additional intensity against Kadane's barely-there vocals. In the quieter moments, like the openings of "Crushing" or even more so, the flat-out lovely "Powder," the intensity level is ratcheted even higher; the overall performance is not so much easy listening as it is a prompting to listeners, who must lean forward to catch everything. Add the intertwined guitar work of both Kadane brothers, who combine power and control excellently, and listeners need ask for little more.

Beheaded

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AMG: Beheaded opens with the deceivingly dark title track. One of the group's most awkward melodies frames the soft-speaking vocalist who hides among the guitar tones. After crawling through this territory, "Beheaded" opens up into a typically angelic melody. "Roman Candle" and "Withdraw" (both adding shades of slide guitar) recall the stripped-down sound of the group's 4-songEP19:10 (1994). On Beheaded, however, any inconsistencies and small shortcomings have been removed in the studio. Thankfully, Bedhead has always sounded like a group of five musicians in a room together, and Beheaded engineer Adam Wiltzie maintains that atmosphere throughout. Bedhead's sophomore full-length represents another stop on the road to slow-burning, soaring, indie rock/pop perfection.

Transaction de Novo

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AMG: Bedhead used simple elements, making Transaction de Novo seem effortless, yet when a band like this comes along, there is no denying how special it is. This was the quintessential indie rock band because it delivered some of the best the genre is capable of: workaday vocals that actually work, gorgeous melodies (though uncommercial, this music doesn't have to be indigestible), and dynamics that could crush the listener. Unfortunately, Bedhead broke up shortly after Transaction de Novo, though it's hard to imagine the group perfecting this sound much further.

EP's to follow

[michaelicious]

New Animal Collective ep, motherfuckers!

Water Curses

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[karl gambolputty...]

Crap, quote != modify.

Uhh, new Animal Collective Ep whoooo!

[Tom]

It appears the link is for Transaction De Nevo and not Water Curses.

What I mean, is that they are the exact same link.

[gh-ap]

YEAH
 
BEDHEAD
 
GOOD WORK
 

[ptownblazer]

Jim Noir - Tower of Love



amg (4.5/5):

On his debut album, Tower of Love, Jim Noir proves himself to be a first-class mix-and-match master, blending the cheesy drum machines and bubbling synths of indie electronic, the lo-fi guitars and adult-child vocals of indie pop, and the full-bodied and harmony-drenched arrangements of chamber pop into a swirling, soothing, and truly lovely Technicolor pop confection. Noir also proves himself to be an able student of great outsider pop of the '60s, '70s, and 2000s . . . You will be hard-pressed to keep from walking around all day grinning like a fish once you give the album an airing. In fact, doctors should prescribe a spin of Tower of Love to chase the blues away. The only problem with the record is that it paints Noir into a corner, as it will be hard to top. Chances are the effort will be worth hearing though, and if it is half as good as Tower of Love, you will want it in heavy rotation.

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Thanks for the Bedhead. 

this turned into the world's lamest post.  i took down joggers, islands, and yo la tengo (president yo la tengo/new wave hot dogs) because they are protected.  i completely spaced it.  i am going to repost (not islands of course) the others without the protection.  i apologize if you wasted your valuable time downloading one of those.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

that Islands album is from iTunes. therefore; it is completely useless to me.

i appreciate the thought because Islands are awesome but maybe don't upload things you bought from iTunes? 

[Liz]

Would you like the Islands album? I have it as well and did not buy it from iTunes.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

i would like it very much pleaseandthankyou.

i'll try to repay the favor this weekend with some stuff.

[Liz]

Okie dokie, I'm compressing to an archive now, will upload in a moment.

EDIT- Done!

Islands- Return to the Sea

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[Scandanavian War Machine]

THANKS! 

[Trillian]

Thank you muchly for re-upping that Islands album.  You rock. 

[michaelicious]

It appears the link is for Transaction De Nevo and not Water Curses.

What I mean, is that they are the exact same link.

Woops, sorry. I had just downloaded that and I guess I forgot to copy-paste the new one. I fixed it.

[_yoda]

OK, I've discovered so much awesome music through this thread, it's time for me to give back. So far:



Django Reinhardt - The Very Best Of

Jean-Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt (January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Belgian Sinto Gypsy jazz guitarist. He was one of the first prominent jazz musicians to be born in Europe, and one of the most renowned jazz guitarists of all time.

This dude is pretty much the man - if you've never heard his work, you're in for a treat. If his style of music isn't your thing, focus first on what he's actually doing (and consider that he's doing it with two fingers on his left hand, as his hand was crippled in a fire), and then work your way up from there. It's mindblowing stuff.

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Bruce Cockburn - In The Falling Dark

From AMG:

With every album he released during the first half of the '70s, Bruce Cockburn continued to evolve and show signs of greatness, and with his seventh, In the Falling Dark, he makes good on these promises. As a whole, this record trumps anything that its predecessors had to offer, almost to the point where it's difficult to imagine that it followed the release of Joy Will Find a Way by only a year. The sound that was merely suggested on his previous recordings is fully realized here: check out the flute and trumpet interplay on the jazz inflected instrumental "Giftbearer," the hypnotic "I'm Gonna Fly Someday" with its irresistible flute, horn, and voice line, and Fred Stone's flügelhorn on "Silver Wheels." Furthermore, the songwriting is without a doubt his most consistent; "Lord of the Starfields" and the evocative title track are the pinnacle of his Christian mysticism, whereas the aforementioned "Silver Wheels" is one of his keenest social observations to date. There's still the occasional slide into the sort of hippie-ish sentiments that have plagued his recordings from time to time, but even at its most mawkish, there's a sweetness and warmth to the material. His first U.S. release since 1972, In the Falling Dark may not have made Bruce Cockburn a household name, but it did mark his emergence as an important artist.

Excellent folk singer/songwriter album with a bit of depth and some really interesting sounds. I dig it.

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Still to come:
VAST - Music for People
Pivot - Make Me Love You

[ptownblazer]

Sorry about the Islands album.  I guess I used to actually pay for my music    I forgot about that.  Obviously I'm not trying to upload protected music, your tone was a little smart-ass but I suppose I can forgive you.
I'll even try and make it up to you. 

Of Montreal: The Gay Parade.



amg (4.5/5)

The Gay Parade is indie pop's very own Sgt. Pepper, a richly detailed, grandly ambitious concept record which forgoes the ponderous pretensions the phrase implies to instead exult in the simple joys of everyday life. Kevin Barnes' songs radiate a childlike wonder and boundless enthusiasm, discovering beauty in the most unlikely of places; his lyrics suggest psychedelic nursery rhymes, populated by absurdist characters (each and every one depicted on the jacket art) sketched in Crayola across a series of majestic melodies and ornate arrangements which belie the record's surface naïveté. For all of The Gay Parade's effervescence and whimsy, there's also a melancholy that pervades songs like "Jacques Lamure," "The Autobiographical Grandpa," and "My Friend Will Be Me," recalling the lovelorn hues of the previous Of Montreal record, The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy; far from deflating the euphoria, however, these moments simply acknowledge the necessity of sadness and loss to the human experience, and deem them worthy of celebration as well. These are songs in the key of life, Zen-like expressions of simplicity and innocence resonating with remarkable complexity and wisdom.

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Unwound: Leaves Turn Inside You



Pitchfork (9.0)

What the fuck?: the one question any great album should elicit from you, involuntarily, like a musical doctor's mallet to your mind's knee. Ha, that's terrible! But, see, that's just it. A great album should have you grasping for horrible metaphors that come nowhere close to describing that ineffable whatever that makes good music so much more than just casual entertainment or pleasant background. Yes, the really good ones make you ask, "What the fuck?" with conviction. They extort feelings of reverence, awe, and respect from you.

No doubt, you've heard that saying about the Velvet Underground-- you know, the one that claims that, though next to no one actually heard their debut album when it came out, everyone who did went out and started a band of their own. I'd like to be able to say something similar about Unwound, but strangely enough, it's to their credit that I can't. They do have the obscurity thing in common, though I suspect that Unwound sells a hell of a lot more albums than the Velvet Underground did in the Factory days. Still, while anyone with a stringed instrument and opposable thumbs could have taken a respectable stab at emulating the Velvet Underground's brand of frenzied noise, the same cannot be said for Unwound.

disc 1:

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William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops II & IV



The Disintegration Loops II

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The Disintegration Loops IV

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Pitchfork (9.4)

You are slowly being destroyed. It's imperceptible in the scheme of a day or a week or even a year, but you are aging, and your body is degrading. As your cells synthesize the very proteins that allow you to live, they also release free radicals, oxidants that literally perforate your tissue and cause you to grow progressively less able to perform as you did at your peak. By the time you reach 80, you will literally be full of holes, and though you'll never notice a single one of them, you will inevitably feel their collective effect. Aging and degradation are forces of nature, functions of living, and understanding them can be as terrifying as it is gratifying.

It's not the kind of thing you can say often, but I think William Basinski's Disintegration Loops are a step toward that understanding-- the music itself is not so much composed as it is this force of nature, this inevitable decay of all things, from memory to physical matter, made manifest in music. During the summer of 2001, Basinski set about transferring a series of 20-year-old tape loops he'd had in storage to a digital file format, and was startled when this act of preservation began to devour the tapes he was saving. As they played, flakes of magnetic material were scraped away by the reader head, wiping out portions of the music and changing the character and sound of the loops as they progressed, the recording process playing an inadvertent witness to the destruction of Basinski's old music.

The process may be the hook for this sprawling four-disc set, but the loops themselves are stunning, ethereal studies in sound so fluid that the listener scarcely registers the fact that it's nothing but many hundreds of repetitions of a brief, simple loop that they're hearing. I imagine that life within the womb might sound something akin to these slowly swelling, beauteous snatches of orchestral majesty and memory-haze synthesizer. The pieces are uniformly consonant, embellished with distant whalesong arpeggios and echoing percussion.

In essence, Basinski is improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, and the result is the most amazing piece of process music I've ever heard, an encompassing soundworld as lulling as it is apocalyptic. A piece may begin bold, a striking, slow-motion slur of ecstatic drone, and in the first minute, you will notice no change. But as the tape winds on over the capstans, fragments are lost or dulled, and the music becomes a ghost of itself, tiny gasps of full-bodied chords groaning to life amid pits of near-silence. Some decay more quickly and violently than others, surviving barely 15 minutes before being subsumed by silence and warping, while the longest endures for well over an hour, fading into a far-off, barely perceptible glow.

There is another, eerier chapter to the story of the Disintegration Loops-- that Basinski was listening to the playbacks of his transfers as the attacks of September 11th unfolded, and that they became a sort of soundtrack to the horror that he and his friends witnessed from his rooftop in New York that day, a poignant theme for the cataclysmic editing of one of the world's most recognizable skylines. Removed from the context of that disaster and transposed into the mundane world we live in every day, The Disintegration Loops still wield an uncanny, affirming power. It's the kind of music that makes you believe there is a Heaven, and that this is what it must sound like.

I know there is much hate for Pitchfork.  Sorry for quoting them if you hate them.  Heartbreaking and beautiful albums though, especially taking the context.  If anybody has Loops I & III that would make my month.

[michaelicious]

Nope.

[onewheelwizzard]

Here's some stuff.  EDIT: Misconceptions requested this singer in the Sexiest Voices thread and I didn't know until after upping the first one of these, so I'm putting up more.

Mark Lanegan!



Fucking incredible singer (I described him in the "Sexiest Voices" thread as "dirty, sweaty, whiskey-soaked, tobacco-smelling sex with the best lover you've ever had in your broken, subtly tragic life.")  Non-solo projects include Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Desert Sessions, The Gutter Twins (with Greg Dulli), and some duet work with Isobel Campbell.  Here is some of his solo stuff.

If you only get one, I recommend Field Songs, although his cover of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" in The Winding Sheet (featuring a pre-Nirvana Kurt Cobain at that) makes that one worth the download alone.

I also have the albums Scraps at Midnight, I'll Take Care of You, and his debut CD with Isobel Campbell, if anyone would like them.

Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum

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Mark Lanegan - Field Songs

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Mark Lanegan - B-Sides and Rarities

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Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet

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[pat101]

I'll have I - III up today

[plyphon]

that was amazing.... (page 50 to 77)... *jigs

thank you all...

will give back soon...

[ptownblazer]

I'll have I - III up today

thank you thank you thank you.

ps

MBV- Isn't Anything (Files are in .ogg format)

IMO, this is almost as good as loveless. Songs like 'Lose My Breath' and 'When you Wake (you're still in a dream)' are freaking amazing. Ignore the first song though, It's terrible.

I just noticed this on an older page and had to say that I couldn't disagree more about the first song on Isn't Anything.  I think it's fantastic.  Right at the top with their best songs imho.


oh, and for the man man , thanks man.

[destructotroninator]

Hey guys so I found this on the internet! If I had to guess I would say that some people will probably like this maybe.

Man Man - Rabbit Habits

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No but seriously, it's fucking awesome. Just trying to spread the love here.

[roulettescars]

AHHHHHHHH!! thank you so much.

[Christophe]

STRONG FUCKING BOARDING

Dude, thank you muchly for the Unwound. And for the Disintegration Loops, though I'll give them a listen once I'm done with Leaves Turn Inside You.

[Liz]

Here's some stuff.  EDIT: Misconceptions requested this singer in the Sexiest Voices thread and I didn't know until after upping the first one of these, so I'm putting up more.

Mark Lanegan!

SO goddamn good. Thank you very much!

EDIT: Megaupload is being a bitch and not letting me download The Winding Sheet. Also when I try to get Bubblegum I only end up with two tracks. Is this my problem or yours?

EDIT 2: He just did a show in my area a week ago. I am sad.

[ptownblazer]

TheletterM - thank you for the pat on the back.  I appreciate it a lot. Here's another album.  In honor of the new Why? album (it's pretty f-in good huh?)  This is tangentially related.

Subtle - A New White

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How about some Talk Talk.  One of those overlooked and oft forgot bands.

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock



amg (5/5)

Virtually ignored upon its initial release, Laughing Stock continues to grow in stature and influence by leaps and bounds. Picking up where Spirit of Eden left off, the album operates outside of the accepted sphere of rock to create music which is both delicate and intense; recorded with a large classical ensemble, it defies easy categorization, conforming to very few structural precedents -- while the gently hypnotic "Myrrhman" flirts with ambient textures, the percussive "Ascension Day" drifts toward jazz before the two sensibilities converge to create something entirely new and different on "New Grass." The epic "After the Flood," on the other hand, is an atmospheric whirlpool laced with jackhammer guitar feedback and Mark Hollis' remarkably plaintive vocals; it flows into "Taphead," perhaps the most evocative, spacious, and understated piece on the record. A work of staggering complexity and immense beauty, Laughing Stock remains an under-recognized masterpiece, and its echoes can be heard throughout much of the finest experimental music issued in its wake.

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as a side note: track number 2 (ascension day) ends very abruptly.  no, i did not cut off the track early or give a partial track. 

[bulldawg982]

The Everybodyfields - Nothing is okay

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http://www.sendspace.com/file/1wbnch
too bad i don't have plague of dreams or Halfway There: Electricity and the South (esp this one) or i would post it...

[ptownblazer]

Here are a few (the better ones) Primal Scream albums.

Primal Scream - Screamadelica



amg (5/5)

There's no overestimating the importance of Screamadelica, the record that brought acid house, techno, and rave culture crashing into the British mainstream -- an impact that rivaled that of Nirvana's Nevermind, the other 1991 release that changed rock. Prior to Screamadelica, Primal Scream were Stonesy classic rock revivalists with a penchant for Detroit rock. They retained those fascinations on Screamadelica -- one listen to the Jimmy Miller-produced, Stephen Stills-rip "Movin' on Up" proves that -- but they burst everything wide open here, turning rock inside out by marrying it to a gleeful rainbow of modern dance textures. This is such a brilliant, gutsy innovative record, so unlike anything the Scream did before, that it's little wonder that there's been much debate behind who is actually responsible for its grooves, especially since Andrew Weatherall is credited with production with eight of the tracks, and it's clearly in line with his work. Even if Primal Scream took credit for Weatherall's endeavors, that doesn't erase the fact that they shepherded this album, providing the ideas and impetus for this dubtastic, elastic, psychedelic exercise in deep house and neo-psychedelic. Like any dance music, this is tied to its era to a certain extent, but it transcends it due to its fierce imagination and how it doubles back on rock history, making the past present and vice versa. It was such a monumental step forward that Primal Scream stumbled before regaining their footing, but by that point, the innovations of Screamadelica had been absorbed by everyone from the underground to mainstream. There's little chance that this record will be as revolutionary to first-time listeners, but after its initial spin, the genius in its construction will become apparent -- and it's that attention to detail that makes Screamadelica an album that transcends its time and influence.

This one was like 115mb.  Sorry I have to do it in two parts but if there is only one Primal Scream album you grab please grab this one.

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Primal Scream - Vanishing Point



amg (4.5/5)

Primal Scream found themselves in danger of losing their hip audience in the wake of their misconceived trad-rock record, Give Out but Don't Give Up. As a reaction, they returned to the genre-bending, electronic dance-rock of the seminal Screamadelica for Give Out's follow-up, Vanishing Point. Instead of recycling the dazzlingly bright neo-psychedelia of Screamadelica, Primal Scream reaches deep into cavernous dub and '60s pop. Vanishing Point is a dark, trippy album, filled with mind-bending rhythms and cinematic flourishes. The addition of former Stone Roses bassist Mani to the Scream gives their music an organically funky foundation that had been lacking. Over those rhythms are samples, reverbed guitars, and synthesizers that echo spy movies, Southern soul, and the Stones. Above anything else, Vanishing Point is about sound and groove. Words remain a weak point for Bobby Gillespie, who only manages cohesive lyrics on the swirling "Burning Wheel" and "Star," but that is a secondary concern, since Primal Scream is at its best when working the rhythms. Songs like "Kowaliski" and, in particular, the extended instrumentals of "Get Duffy" and "Trainspotting" illustrate that the group is still capable of creating exotic, thoroughly entrancing sounds, which is what makes Vanshing Point a remarkable comeback.

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Primal Scream - XTRMNTR



amg (4.5/5)

Whenever indie music seems lost in its own self-righteous, unchallenging, inoffensive fundament, Primal Scream rides in to try and save it all. So just as Screamadelica tried to encapsulate the importance of ecstasy culture, or Vanishing Point tried to exorcise their own insanity, here XTRMNTR is a nasty, fierce realization of an entire world that has also lost the plot. The album starts with a gloriously vindictive sample of a kid commanding "Kill All Hippies," and this roughly states the album's modus operandi. There are songs shouting with furious, feedback-splayed anger ("Blood Money," "Exterminator"), songs of club-based revolt (both house-influenced versions of "Swastika Eyes"), and songs of utterly manic desperation ("Accelerator"). The album only lurches when lead singer Bobby Gillespie's weedy vocals can't keep up with the black noise of the music. "Insect Royalty" meanders and mumbles with a blank approach. "Pills" is a half-realized hip-hop song, with Gillespie diminishing its power on every verse (it only saves itself when it caps the song off with the album's central theme: "Sick f*ck f*ck sick f*ck f*ck sick f*ck"). Thankfully, Scream's highs, such as the gentleness of "Keep Your Dreams" (sounding like the third sibling to 1991's "I'm Coming Down" or 1997's "Star"), as well as the inversely monstrous and apocalyptic "MBV Arkestra (If They Move, Kill 'Em)," shower down with purely visceral poise. The album is not the flawless statement against complacency the band seemed to strive for, but it succeeds at tearing heads off, shooting fascists, and quickly asking questions later with unbelievable fury. For these reasons alone, it easily serves as one of the band's highest marks. These aren't the aggro-simpleton maneuvers of bands like Rage Against the Machine or Korn; the implosive production and sheer political belief prove that ingenuity must come hand in hand with "statement" if an idea is to come across effectively. XTRMNTR is simply a protest -- sonically as well as lyrically -- and maybe this would be a fine time to once again rally behind something worthwhile.

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Primal Scream - Riot City Blues



amg (3.5/5)

This is late-night drunken rockism. It's not carefully crafted; it's throwing something at the wall because it's there to throw. Riot City Blues is not an "album as event" as many past Primal Scream records were; this is an "album for its own sake" recording. It's an offering where it really seems that Gillespie doesn't care if he loses his hipster following -- all that matters is that Riot City Blues rocks . . . It's a given that Riot City Blues, issued in 2006, is easily the most unhip record Primal Scream have ever issued. The songs are little more than dressing for the riffs, but they have lots of humor and cleverness and they lack the snide hipsterism of the times. It doesn't matter. Listened to with an open mind, it's a refreshingly retro rock & roll album that uses its waste-oid imagination in capturing every fantasy that entered Bobby Gillespie's teenage mind. Get it.

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[breakfastcake]

Plants and Animals - Park Avenue

AMG (3.5/5)

Arising from the same musical tree as fellow Canadian Patrick Watson, Plants and Animals are a very sophisticated, arty group that meld a wide arrange of influences. The bombastic, orchestral opener "Bye Bye Bye" could be considered a melding of the Polyphonic Spree, Devendra Banhart, and the Beatles, but the band nails the song perfectly. Walking such a fine tightrope though for an entire album could be a mistake, so fortunately the group offers up a panoramic plate of styles, especially on the groovy, prog rock feel of "Good Friend" that recalls a mellower version of the Flaming Lips. The lone snag with the track might be how string-laced and rich it becomes to close. The first true taste of classic, hippie-tinged prog rock is "Faerie Dance," a slow, plodding track that might be the yin to Black Mountain's yang. The group are quite adept at changing moods, especially on the roots-riddled "Feedback in the Field" that sounds to be heavily influenced by early Neil Young. The record has a sizeable amount of drama or gravitas as well, evidenced by "A L'oree Des Bois," which changes into a rather ethereal effort three-quarters of the way in. One of the highlights here is the nearly eight-minute waltz-rock approach behind "New Kind of Love" which screams to be covered by the Arcade Fire. Probably the biggest disappointment is the messy "Mercy" which veers from a dance-driven Afro-beat format into some haunting guitar instrumental à la Explosions in the Sky. They more than atone for it with the majestic and regal "Keep It Real."

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Guys, it's really good.

[imapiratearg]

I feel I haven't contributed enough, lately.  So here's an EP by a band I saw open for Brand New and Anathallo a year ago.  They're really awesome, and are coming out with a new album in April which (according to the merch guy at the show a year ago) sounds kind of like Deerhoof, but without an Asian woman on vocals.

Anyways, enjoy:

Colour Revolt - Colour Revolt EP

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[michaelicious]

I think it's out already, actually.

Oh, I just checked. You can get it from the internet, but not an actual physical copy yet.

[imapiratearg]

I was hoping there was a leak, 'cause I want to hear it.  I checked Wikipedia, and it made no mention of one, so I was discouraged from looking.

EDIT - Oh, it's released on eMusic.  I see what you mean.

[ptownblazer]

boy mediafire is smoking right now (600k).  Thank you so much for the The Plants and Animals.  I'm curious to check out the Colour Revolt ep too.  I think I'm going to do some Beulah next.  I ran a search and saw that Yoko (ehhh, a big let down in my opinion) was available earlier.  It looks like When Your Heartstrings Break used to be available but is now an expired sendspace (or one of those) link.  Seems a crime there was a post of Yoko but not The Coast is Never Clear (my fave).  So how about that album and a working When Your Heart Strings Break.

Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear



amg (4.5/5)

After the dazzling reception of 1999's When Your Heartstrings Break, Beulah wasn't concerned with following things up with something fashionable. The bandmembers were near masters of crafting the perfect pop song -- for themselves -- and quite comfortable with the process. The Coast Is Never Clear captures Beulah's classy cool indie pop, akin to what came before. Singer/songwriter Miles Kurosky's quirky lyrical rants are spry, and the personal experiences behind each song allude to Beulah's unabashed nature. From the twangy licks of the bittersweet "Popular Mechanics for Lovers" to the psychedelic soul tinker of "A Good Man Is Easy to Kill," Beulah gives way to a breaking heart. Sulking and wistful, the theme works and it's not beyond measure. The pop melodies are relaxed; the harmonies are solid. "I'll Be Your Lampshade" is Beulah's country take, with sweeping horns and a sad, pathetic harmonica wallowing over a lost love. It's not necessarily fit for tears, but The Coast Is Never Clear isn't necessarily joyless. The band is sarcastically sweet on "What Will You Do When Your Suntan Fades?," while emulating what everyone has faced in the role of eager, adoring wooer. Beulah's indie cred cannot be tarnished with The Coast Is Never Clear. It's not strict rock music -- it's basic. And it's good.

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Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break



amg (4.5/5)
No review listed.  If you know how good this is, you probably already have it.  If not, get it.

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