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[gospel]

Sorry if this is a repeat. All the ones I saw are dead.


Okkervil River - The Stand Ins (192 VBR)

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01 The Stand Ins, One
02 Lost Coastlines
03 Singer Songwriter
04 Starry Stairs
05 Blue Tulip
06 The Stand Ins, Two
07 Pop Lie
08 On Tour With Zykos
09 Calling and Not Calling My Ex
10 The Stand Ins, Three
11 Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979

[Tom]

Yeah, mine's still working.

But seriously, if you don't have this yet download it and then buy it, if you can, when it comes out.

[gospel]

Anathallo - Floating World [2006] (192VBR)

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One of my favorite CD's from 2006. A good headphone album, if that makes any sense. It's along the same vein as Sufjan Stevens & the Polyphonic Spree. It's not as immediately palatable though. A grower for sure. Oh, and, Midwest music ftw

Anathallo: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=ANATHALLO&sql=11:hnfpxq8sldfe~T0
CD: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hzfuxqrdldfe

AMG:

Anathallo's Floating World is a convincing rejoinder to the notion that there's nothing new in the rock world. The band takes its name from the Greek word meaning "to renew or refresh," and the Mount Pleasant, MI, septet sounds not only, well, refreshingly new, but like little else in rock music -- "rock" being a very elastic definition in this case, since familiar elements from the genre play a minimal role in Floating World's musical tapestry. The record veers all over the shop, from post-rock freakouts, classical chamber group motifs, and avant-garde jazz to the hushed intimacy of Sufjan Stevens, the Decemberists' operatic inclinations, and the cut-and-paste machinations of the Books and Animal Collective. Self-confessed high-school marching band geeks, Anathallo rely on a host of off-kilter instrumentation to create slow-burn intros that blossom into full-throated crescendos, typically highlighted by complex vocal harmonies and counterpoint singing. The songs feature everything from melodica, glockenspiel, trumpets, and trombones (lots of trombones, actually) to Velcro peels and socket-wrench whirs. And these aren't just support accents, either, but often starring roles. There are more traditional elements, too, like guitars, piano, and a lead singer (Matt Joynt), but shifting styles and meters, restless tempos, and the kitchen-sink instrument approach preclude orthodox readings. There are moments when the mishmash of styles seems to take the place of actual songcraft, and the reliance on handclap percussion becomes annoying after the first dozen or so instances. You may also miss a good-quality bottom end from time to time. But when all the various elements coalesce, as they do on the four songs that make up the "Hanasakajijii" suite, the results manage the neat trick of being so inventive as to inspire the simplest joy. You can't dance to it, but when you need a break from 4/4 beats and standard rock fare, this Floating World is a good one to visit.

[blashco]

Hey guys, I have been using this place for a while and have finally decided to post.  I really hope I do this correctly.  Please be forgiving if something is messed up, I am not a veteran at message boards in any way.  Thanks.

What I got for you here is a brand-spankin' new band from Santa Fe formed of nearly 25 members.  They have guitars, strings, brass, woodwinds, fucking mandolins and banjos which kick ass and all the above.  An amazing folk orchestra that at times borders on Polyphonic Spree-like pop and at other times borders on emo-folk (if that exists).  The band's myspace claims that it's goal is to bring happiness and joy to the world via their tunes, and I feel they are doing a pretty damn good job at it.  A very enjoyable album consisting of 11 tracks, most over 5 minutes, some topping 10 even.  Enjoy my friends!

The Apple Miner Colony - The Heat Haunted Fever

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Anathallo - Floating World [2006] (192VBR)

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?odfxpcizgjm
One of my favorite CD's from 2006. A good headphone album, if that makes any sense. It's along the same vein as Sufjan Stevens & the Polyphonic Spree. It's not as immediately palatable though. A grower for sure. Oh, and, Midwest music ftw

Anathallo: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=ANATHALLO&sql=11:hnfpxq8sldfe~T0
CD: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hzfuxqrdldfe

AMG:

Anathallo's Floating World is a convincing rejoinder to the notion that there's nothing new in the rock world. The band takes its name from the Greek word meaning "to renew or refresh," and the Mount Pleasant, MI, septet sounds not only, well, refreshingly new, but like little else in rock music -- "rock" being a very elastic definition in this case, since familiar elements from the genre play a minimal role in Floating World's musical tapestry. The record veers all over the shop, from post-rock freakouts, classical chamber group motifs, and avant-garde jazz to the hushed intimacy of Sufjan Stevens, the Decemberists' operatic inclinations, and the cut-and-paste machinations of the Books and Animal Collective. Self-confessed high-school marching band geeks, Anathallo rely on a host of off-kilter instrumentation to create slow-burn intros that blossom into full-throated crescendos, typically highlighted by complex vocal harmonies and counterpoint singing. The songs feature everything from melodica, glockenspiel, trumpets, and trombones (lots of trombones, actually) to Velcro peels and socket-wrench whirs. And these aren't just support accents, either, but often starring roles. There are more traditional elements, too, like guitars, piano, and a lead singer (Matt Joynt), but shifting styles and meters, restless tempos, and the kitchen-sink instrument approach preclude orthodox readings. There are moments when the mishmash of styles seems to take the place of actual songcraft, and the reliance on handclap percussion becomes annoying after the first dozen or so instances. You may also miss a good-quality bottom end from time to time. But when all the various elements coalesce, as they do on the four songs that make up the "Hanasakajijii" suite, the results manage the neat trick of being so inventive as to inspire the simplest joy. You can't dance to it, but when you need a break from 4/4 beats and standard rock fare, this Floating World is a good one to visit.

This is amazing.  I love this band a ton.  Do NOT miss this download

[redphoenix11]

So, since there's been  > 200 downloads for the first Killing Joke self-titled, I skip ahead and bring you...

Killing Joke - Killing Joke [2003]

It's got Dave Grohl on drums, the guitarist of Gang of Four producing, and it rocks harder than pretty much anything else the Joke ever did. Seriously, if you like the first one, you need this album.

It's best to takes notes as lead singer Jaz Coleman calmly reads a list of provisions ("Put on your masks/And animal skins") because Killing Joke's second self-titled album is about to take over. Moments after Coleman's stoic opening, Geordie Walker's guitar chugs into action and awakens Killing Joke's most threatening juggernaut of an album in years. Bass players Youth and Paul Raven are both back (although Youth's stint in the group looks to be temporary) and Dave Grohl guests on drums, perhaps paying the Joke back for adapting the killer riff of "Eighties" for Nirvana's "Come as You Are." Grohl's drumming is suitably intense and tribal when need be, while Andy Gill's production miraculously makes sense of the band's thunderous sludge. Still the Coleman/Walker partnership is the star of the show as they play off and push each other like a doom-and-gloom Jagger/Richards. It sounds like Coleman is sitting in the dentist chair with one of those little vacuums sucking out the words on "Total Invasion," while Walker patiently waits his turn to blast out his own brand of stately mayhem. "Asteroid," "Blood on Your Hands," and "Loose Cannon" are all highlights with the band sounding as inspired as when they started, adding the advantage of years of interaction, and "You'll Never Get to Me" presents a brand new shimmering and yearning angle to the group. While Killing Joke's discography has more than its fair share of awkward and overly ambitious albums, they've once again returned to the fury and focus of their classics.

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Personally, I like "The Death & Resurrection Show", "Loose Cannon", and "You'll Never Get to Me" the most, but the whole album is solid.

Also, I have some early Killing Joke singles, including "Turn to Red", which was in GTA4, and "Pssyche", which I think Nouvelle Vague covered if anyone's interested.

[harbinger]

Ponytail - Kamehameha (Creative Capitalism, 2006)



Genre - Noise Pop/Punk

It may take some time to adjust to singer Molly Sigel's shrieks, meows and yelps, but it's hard not to feel uplifted by the poppy crunchy guitar melodies soaring over double-time drums. A fun band to see live too. This is their debut album, let me know if you're interested in the newer one.

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[MrBlu]

Hey, can someone help me out? Someone posted at Wu Tang Clan album, but only posted a picture and didn't say the name...
If anyone knows where it is, or who linked it, can you like... Repost it, or... Sumn...?

[Tom]

Snowman's Bio

Of course, it never snows in Perth.

That's just the start of the intricacies when considering Snowman.

You might also dwell on that tired old cliche about Perth being the most isolated city in the world. A fact that makes it all the stranger that four kids from the most scattered backgrounds... Olga, Icelandic... Aditya, Indonesian...Ross, Italian... Joe, British... should wash up in this townon the edge of the Indian Ocean and band together...in a band.
It's a turn of events that reads like a Joseph Conrad novel about banished ex-pats huddling together on the edge of the colonial world, safe in each others company and hatching a desperate plan to get the fuck out of here.
 But maybe the magnetic forces (more than evident within the band and its music) which have drawn them together veil less obvious truths.
Like the fact that amazing music can be made in any town in any part of the world if the right crew of disparate characters collide with each other in the middle of the night.
Or the hidden benefit of operating outside the glare of the spotlight that beams on a handful of global media hubs, allowing Snowman to secretly develop their own sense of logic, their own aural landscape, their own code of conduct and rules of engagement. It's this that makes Snowman stand aside from the standard fare that trundles down the production lines of mass marketed music.
One listen to The Horse, The Rat And The Swan makes it more than evident that this is a far from ordinary album. There is a ferocious urgency here, a dark energy at play, almost to the point of obsession or mania. This is a work evidently expunged from the band's collective psyche... extracted whole, writhing and coated in a primordial slime. It's the sound of the band desperately capturing their ideas as if they fear they may escape them, as if they fear they will never have this opportunity to seize and encapsulate this moment again.
This is a record that expects you to engage, make an effort and stop being a passive recipient. Yes it's a busy world and finding time to pay attention, unravel, unfold, reveal and comprehend is difficult for all of us, but not everything should be pre-processed and pre-masticated for our convenience, should it?
Snowman have travelled some distance since their self-titled debut album two years back. Along the way there have been sweat stained, sold out gigs, $500 videos, inferences on Pitchfork that they are Australia's greatest band, WAMI Awards and kind words but all of this is now flotsam, floating in the wake of The Horse, The Rat And The Swan.
This is a ground zero moment. There is a flow here, a long hidden path to be uncovered, running through the album's dense, overgrown vegetation.
We Are The Plague sounds like a final message picked up on the scanners of a post-apocalyptic, galactic battleship... Daniel Was A Timebomb careens on a fucked up rockabilly riff that reminds us that this is now an ancient music of a desperate, disenfranchised underclass... A Rebirth an She Is Turning In To You are exactly what they say, transfigurations, the sound of a band mutating, breaking out of its chrysalis and taking on a new form... The Horse (Parts 1 and 2) is pure ritual; possessed and frenzied, (say hello to Mr Conrad again, deep in the heart of his darkness and wondering if the apocalypse is now or later) in the week)... Diamond Wounds sees Snowman finally emerge, dwarfed by their own imposing (and dare we say progressive) sonic architecture, into a cavernous underworld of their own creation.

Snowman - The Horse, the Rat and the Swan (2008)

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Snowman - s/t (2006)

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http://www.mediafire.com/?gemgc2t8ptq

[wesleyv]

thx for the anathallo album , gonna check that out.

[Trynant]

Wow, a ton of great, great material here. After all the downloading I've done I guess it's time to upload one of my purchases. Kudos to John for posting this in Yelling About Music.

Sondre Lerche & The Face Downs - Phantom Punch

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I cannot give this album enough love. "The Tape", "Phantom Punch", "Face the Blood", "Well, Well, Well", and "After All" are must-listens. In fact, the entirety of Phantom Punch is excellent. I hope the link works. The more people that listen to this the better.

[WriterofAllWrongs]

This thread is becoming classy guys

[MrBlu]

Isn't it great?

Needs another Jazz streak tho'.

[pwhodges]

ADVERTISING!

VoiCE - Demo



This is a demo recording I made last autumn for a group of three young singers in the UK who call themselves VoiCE (Vicky, Clemmy and Emily are their names).  They sing a capella - madrigals, folksongs and that sort of thing.  If you like them enough to want to offer them a gig, they'd love you forever.  Meanwhile, just enjoy some really sweet singing.  (If you only listen to one track, make it the Macedonian Dance.)

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[michaelicious]

call themselves VoiCE (Vicky, Clemmy and Emily are their names)

All them initials are in that band


name.

[lauraelise204]

this might sound really dumb to most of you who have uploaded lots on mediaf!re, but how the crap do i make zip and rar files?  it's just up loading them as individual files.  i can't just select the album folder and up load it as one thing (if that makes sense).  you're probably thinking holy crap is she really asking this, but yes..... help please!

[pwhodges]

Google the programs Winzip and Winrar; they are cheap but not free.  Or 7zip, which is free (and will unpack the few 7z files in this thread), but has a crankier interface.  Also Windows has zipping built in (it's a right click then "send to" option on a folder, if I remember correctly).  I note that you can now set Mediafire to give you a link to share a folder, as well - but it's probably best to stick to zipping.

Someone else will have to make Mac suggestions.

[harbinger]

this might sound really dumb to most of you who have uploaded lots on mediaf!re, but how the crap do i make zip and rar files?  it's just up loading them as individual files.  i can't just select the album folder and up load it as one thing (if that makes sense).  you're probably thinking holy crap is she really asking this, but yes..... help please!

If you're using a Mac, it has a built-in archiving function as well. Just right-click (or ctrl-click) the album folder and choose “Create Archive of...” and your .zip file will appear in the same directory.

[Albatron]

This page needs metal

Doomsword - Resound the Horn



from allmusic

Italian heavy metal bands tend to be a bit dramatic and overblown (to put it mildly), with leading examples such as Rhapsody and Labyrinth pursuing the symphonic, operatic, or at the very least progressive ends of the compositional spectrum; so the relatively unadorned doom metal championed by the aptly named Doomsword sounds surprisingly refreshing. To be sure, their albums (including a self-titled debut from 1999, 2002's Resound the Horn, and 2003's Let Battle Commence) still contain ambitious lyrical themes dealing with both ancient history and mythology, but vocalist, guitarist, and guiding force Deathmaster has generally resisted many of his countrymen's excesses throughout the band's career and ever-revolving membership.

[Beast]

Dr. Dre - The Chronic

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Yeah...

Hell yeah...

Naa'm sayin'?

[wespeakinmidi]

this is definitely one of my favorite threads, and i've also been another who has been too lazy to contribute myself.  so here's my first contribution, and my first post...



one of my favorite authors, i remember seeing a few audiobooks on here before this thread got rid some pages a while back.  i hope they're still welcome, i'm just trying to mix it up.

From Publishers Weekly
Palahniuk's audacious ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. The story begins with Mr. 600—the pornosaur who introduced Cassie to the business—as he describes the other 599 actors awaiting their moment on screen. The perspective then shifts to Mr. 72, an adopted Midwestern 20-something who is one of the many young men claiming to be Cassie's long-lost son. Mr. 137, a has-been television star hoping to revive his career, wants to ask Cassie's hand in marriage so that the two can star in a reality TV show. But for a novel centered around a gargantuan gangbang, there's surprisingly little action; the small amount of narrative movement takes place backstage, where the characters attempt to get a sense of one another while waiting for their number to be called. There are sharp moments when Palahniuk compassionately and candidly examines the flesh-on-film industry, but mostly this reads like a cross between the Spice Channel and Days of Our Lives.

snuff audiobook:

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this is simply one of my favorite albums.  period.  and also a supposed rare album to come by, and even harder to find a real description about the album, just download it. Lee moses was a pioneer who was way ahead of his time, and brought soul and rock and roll together like no one i've ever heard before.  i highly, highly recommend this album even if you are not big on soul, you will appreciate the soul versions of songs like "California Dreaming" and "Hey Joe". 

lee moses - time and place:

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one of my favorite albums for many reasons, and one  of the best albums from the 90's, relive it!

In Utero is the third and final studio album by the American grunge band Nirvana, released on September 21, 1993 by DGC Records. The album's abrasive and aggressive sound was a departure from the polished production of the band's breakthrough second album, Nevermind (1991), due in part to the selection of recording engineer Steve Albini. The subject matters of the songs included dysfunctional family, cancer, issues of privacy, and abortion.
"Heart-Shaped Box" was the first single released from the album, followed by "All Apologies/Rape Me", which was released as a double A-side single due to the explicit nature of the latter song. Both singles topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States. "Pennyroyal Tea" was intended to be released as the third single in April 1994, but was cancelled after the death of the band's frontman, Kurt Cobain.
While In Utero did not sell as well as Nevermind, it was a commercial and critical success. The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America by the end of 1993; it was most recently certified 5x platinum, and now ranks in the top 100 bestselling albums in the US.

Nirvana - In Utero

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a great album, and a quick download!

The first release from this six piece folk/rock band including both male and female vocals and great songwriting.  The use of many different instruments including both acoustic and electric guitars, as well as slide guitar gives the band a very original sound.  their ability to play in many different styles leaves them in a category of their own, and makes comparing them to other bands that much more difficult.  The album varies from very mellow soothing sounds, to more upbeat parts that will surely make your ears happy.

Necktie Party - Restland

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[Edible]

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The Angelic Process - Coma Waering
                             - Nothing If Not Fragile Ep
                             - Sigh EP
                             - We All Die Laughing
                             - Weighing Souls With Sand

Not my upload so sorry for the megaupload.

Ed~

[fatty]

I love this:

The Best of Miles Davis and John Coltrane (1955-1961)

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[minkles]

Akron/Family- Akron/Family (2005)

Akron/Family's self-titled debut for Young God has its share of opaque psych-folk weirdness. "Part of Corey," for example, is two minutes of tape splicing and hiss before a gentle ballad rises above the wind noise. This penchant for matching squelchy electronics to analog instruments will land them immediately with a New Hippie tag, if their beards don't do it first. But the quartet isn't limited to that sound. They integrate it with an indie rock aesthetic (Flaming Lips, Palace), and songs like "Italy," "Afford," and "Before and Again" are plucky, even mostly catchy, and having that bit of structure takes Akron/Family a long, long way. It's not off-putting when the twining, weeping guitars in "Afford" suddenly start alternating with heavy reverb and field recordings of birds — if anything, the experimentation makes the song stronger.  "Running, Returning" is strong, too — with its melding of animalistic percussion, layered voices, pleading melody, and hints of electronic noisemaking to the lo-fi aesthetic, it's a pretty solid primer for the record's overall feel.

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[imapiratearg]

Link is no good.  :'[

[piratemike]

Link is no good.  :'[

Try this:

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[minkles]

Thanks.  Fixed.

[imapiratearg]

Yaaaay!

[jimbunny]

Elizabeth Bishop (The Voice of the Poet series)

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I'm sure she won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I love her poetry. She wrote in the middle of the 20th century, alongside poets like Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, and Randall Jarrell. Her style has been characterized as 'modest' and may seem flat and unexciting at times, especially as her career progressed (though her output was famously small). However, somewhere at the center of things there's a tremendously interesting personality, choosing to clothe itself in layers of craft and description. I find listening to her readings alternately comforting and rewarding.

[Albatron]

Sweet, poetry. Thanks man.

[Beast]

we need some funk up in hurr, naa'm sayin'?


Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove

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[gospel]

Denki Groove - VOXX (electronic, house, "techno")

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example songs:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK9FkutYTAI , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj8KAEGxicU

One of the FEW techno bands I can listen to. Their stuff is really a big throw-back. This album is a bit less stylistic than their later stuff and a bit more raw. It's your standard fair of beat machines, loops, spoken word (in Japanese), mixing, sampling, etc. It's a lot more quirky than most of the techno you'll find nowadays. Nothing less from the Japanese.

Note that I had these mp3s ripped like 6+ years ago when a friend was in Japan.

If you ever want more of their stuff I'll be happy to put up more.

Band:

Denki Groove (the first word in Japanese means "electricity") became one of the more successful techno/dance bands in Japan in the late '90s, with an experimental, sometimes poppy style that earned them fans above ground and underground, from the charts to the clubs. Beginning as something as a four-piece but slimming eventually down to the primary duo of Takkyu Ishino and Pierre Taki, Denki Groove has always been about a playful mixing of styles, genres, and influences. Their very first album, 662bpm by DG, was released on indie label SSE in 1990 and contained earlier versions of songs they would later go on to rewrite. They also paid their debt to Yellow Magic Orchestra with a cover of "Cosmic Surfing" -- and in a way, DG spent an early part of their career picking up where YMO left off, blending Eastern and Western sound and adding a big dose of self-aware, self-deprecating humor.

They were soon picked up by Sony and in 1991, released Flash Papa, a British-engineered effort that showed a bit of the influence of such media-sampling popsters as Pop Will Eat Itself. By the end of 1991, a third album, UFO, introduced new member Yoshinori Sunahara to the mix and was one of their most polished, most strictly techno albums. The dub-influenced Karateki followed in 1992 and then a remix album Flash Papa Menthol in 1993. Vitamin marked something of a breakthrough in 1993, with layered, funky workouts that sampled disco and drum'n'bass often in the same song and produced a minor hit in "Happy Birthday," sounding like Stevie Wonder on acid (house). The strange Drill King Anthology came next, similar in idea to the Turtles' 1968 album Battle of the Bands, where Denki Groove pretended to be eight different groups for one track each, dipping into thrash metal, enka, and rock & roll. They got back to techno basics in 1994 with Dragon, then took a break to release solo projects -- Ishino turning to very aggressive techno, Sunahara indulging in lounge-pop. Taki, on the other hand, focused most of his attention on video and art installations (his work is often part of DG's live shows). In 1997 they released the single "Shangri-la," built mainly around the disco instrumental "Spring Rain" by Silvetti. It was their biggest hit, selling over half a million copies and broke the band into the mainstream charts. An album, A, followed and soon after, Sunahara left the band to explore his lounge leanings. (Surprisingly, it was Sunahara who snagged American distribution). The Denki Groove duo released a very '80s-sounding album, VOXXX, in 2000 and continue to record.

CD:

Voxxx is a trip back in time for Denki Groove to a full early-'80s techno-pop revival, drum machines and all. Their first album as a duo (Sunahara had left to pursue lounge-ish solo albums), DG create a thick stew of dance beats and vocals, and since the album is called Voxxx, explore the human voice with much electronic manipulation. On the single "Nothing's Gonna Change," vocoder voices chant and loop over a Moroder-esque beat; on "The Homerun Tiger in a Bush," call-and-response from a live rally is cut up and scratched mercilessly. On the other hand, the album is much too long, with obvious filler. A fine track like "TKO Tekno Queen" can get lost bookended by such noodling. And the reliance of spoken word samples in Japanese means that most non-speakers will just wish for the instrumentals and songs.

[Christophe]

Mister Metaphor- Mister Metaphor EP



When I was in high school, I saw this band play an all-ages club. They were nothing short of amazing. Cauterwauling vocals, clinically insane drumming, the epitome of that music-review standard phrase "interlocking guitars"... Every song they played was a perfect fusion of post-punk/indie-prog/math-rock madness, and opened the doors for me to bands like Q and Not U, Don Caballero, Boys Life, and the like.

Unfortunately, they broke up about six months after I saw them play live. In the years that followed, they would eventually reunite to record this EP, a free self-titled affair for their fans, bitching and moaning over the lack of recorded versions of some of their live cuts. Every song on this EP (save for the hilarious vocal outtakes track "That Was A Bunch Of Shit") matches the intensity of their live show (I still kick myself to this day for only seeing them once), and progressively builds in complexity from the first track "The Observer", right until it hits the breaking point in the chimingly beautiful "This Is How The Day Goes".

So, yeah. Download this EP like your life depended on it.

Their lead singer, Mike Sparks, still sings and plays guitar in the band By Sunlight (formerly known as Bridges), and they too are rad and I have seen them live about twice now.

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Sorry if this is a repeat. All the ones I saw are dead.

Okkervil River - The Stand Ins (192 VBR)

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01 The Stand Ins, One
02 Lost Coastlines
03 Singer Songwriter
04 Starry Stairs
05 Blue Tulip
06 The Stand Ins, Two
07 Pop Lie
08 On Tour With Zykos
09 Calling and Not Calling My Ex
10 The Stand Ins, Three
11 Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979

Wow, thanks for the introduction to this band...these guys are awesome and it's the first time I've ever heard of them

[morca007]

Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger perhaps is the strangest blockbuster country produced, a concept album about a preacher on the run after murdering his departed wife and her new lover, told entirely with brief song-poems and utterly minimal backing. It's defiantly anticommercial and it demands intense concentration -- all reasons why nobody thought it would be a hit, a story related in Chet Flippo's liner notes to the 2000 reissue. It was a phenomenal blockbuster, though, selling millions of copies, establishing Nelson as a superstar recording artist in its own right. For all its success, it still remains a prickly, difficult album, though, making the interspersed concept of Phases and Stages sound shiny in comparison. It's difficult because it's old-fashioned, sounding like a tale told around a cowboy campfire. Now, this all reads well on paper, and there's much to admire in Nelson's intimate gamble, but it's really elusive, as the themes get a little muddled and the tunes themselves are a bit bare. It's undoubtedly distinctive -- and it sounds more distinctive with each passing year -- but it's strictly an intellectual triumph and, after a pair of albums that were musically and intellectually sound, it's a bit of a letdown, no matter how successful it was.
5/5 stars

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[Andrew Fleming]

May's well start off on the board with a contribution.



Wooden Wand And The Sky High Band - Second Attention
This is a brilliant and endearing  folk album with a bit of psychedelic flourish by an artist whom Search tells me isn't discussed terribly often.

Folk/Psychedelic Folk

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[pwhodges]

Er, using a PNG for the cover art isn't a clever idea - you should perhaps change it for a JPG to help keep the forum bandwidth usage reasonable.

[gospel]

Wow, thanks for the introduction to this band...these guys are awesome and it's the first time I've ever heard of them

Yeah, they really are, aren't they? The Stand-Ins hold a lot of number 1 spots on this board, I think. Certainly mine at the moment. Make sure you check out the first part of the set as well, The Stage Names, which is nearly as good and lets you appriceate The Stand-Ins even more. Black Sheep Boy is a damn fine album as well.

From earlier in the thread.

down the river of golden dreams hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z2QQTW8M

black sheep boy hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=8BKYMGP3

the stage names hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=VDBY9NFO

Not mediafire, but eh.

Oh, and I really like Down The River of Golden Dreams. It's probably my second favorite album of theirs (previous #1).

[Clintaga]

Well Yo-De-Lay-Hee-Hoo!

Ever been listening to Coheed & Cambria and been thinking to your self "Hey Claudio, I really love what your trying to do there, what with clamping your balls in a vice grip and whatforth, but I just wish someone did it without all the Prog-Alt-Metaliness... And maybe less Sci-Fi, Political overtones..." well then the Philadelphia native Anthony Green and his band Circa Survive are right up your alley.

Actually I didn't think any of that, I was chilling with my brother and he was like "Whoa dude, you live in Philly, well, my favorite singer is from Philly, check him the heck out."

As it turns out, I had already seen Circa Survive live, opening for Thursday, and had been fairly impressed. I grabbed all their tunes last night on a micro binge and wanted to share them, because I really love all three discs a lot.

1st we have:



The Inuit Sessions

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2nd:


Juturna

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Lastly:


On Letting Go

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I honestly couldn't tell you which of the three I like the most, but I do enjoy all of them. And if anyone has any opinions on any of Anthony Green's other projects, please lemme know if they're worth checking out, these certainly are =).

[Pyrofyr]

Er, using a PNG for the cover art isn't a clever idea - you should perhaps change it for a JPG to help keep the forum bandwidth usage reasonable.

Please don't put people down based on what format they use, especially when they're wrong.

First of all depending on the compression rate, it's quite easy for PNG to become better than JPG, not to mention it looks good in both high-quality/many color situations like JPGs and lower-quality/less-color situations like GIFs. Also, PNGs now offer transparency without taking away a color/using a random program.

One more thing to note is that since all images are uploaded on imageshack nothing is paid for by Jeph as far as bandwidth differences in images or even uploaded music.

I have no problem with people who know about computers or even people who know a LITTLE about computers going around telling others, but blatantly not knowing and telling someone else 'what to do' is illadvisory.

[pwhodges]

Please don't put people down based on what format they use, especially when they're wrong.

(a) That gentle comment was hardly a putdown (and I expanded on it to the poster elsewhere).
(b) I am not wrong.  An image of 800kB is not reasonable.

I have no problem with people who know about computers or even people who know a LITTLE about computers going around telling others, but blatantly not knowing and telling someone else 'what to do' is illadvisory.

Eggs; suck; teach - I was writing image processing programs in the early 1970s.  And your comments on the different formats are sadly muddled.

[Tom]

If you intend to stay here, Pyrofyr you should respect your elders 'cause sometimes they're awesome..

[Pyrofyr]

Elders? That's hardly a way to put down someone's age you don't even know. And don't even point at my profile, because I put that up directly before posting this.


As far as writing image processing, if you did, you'd know there was no problem there, and honestly if anyone is still using dial up (the only people who have a problem with 800kb images) they won't be downloading music most likely.

I admit, it wasn't that harsh of a way to put it, but you were quite vague.


By the way, if you had the experience that you claim, you'd know that the main reasons for it's size were it's dimensions and compression.

[Tom]

Elders? That's hardly a way to put down someone's age you don't even know. \

I meant that as a term of respect, in total reverence. If you think "old man" = elder then you are sorely mistaken.

[Pyrofyr]

Elders? That's hardly a way to put down someone's age you don't even know. \

I meant that as a term of respect, in total reverence. If you think "old man" = elder then you are sorely mistaken.

Although I'm 100% for respecting anyone you don't know, and not being disrespectful unless you pretty much KNOW someone is an ass, that sadly does not work well on forums, and perhaps never will.

In any case, respect your elders wouldn't be the best way to put this, the only thing he has over me is a post count, and "OMG" he has a postcount higher than me on one random site on the interwebz! He must have infinite wisdom over me.

In any case, it was a poor choice of wording, and I was merely putting that out. Although I understand what you mean, as in that I should not disrespect others, it's not exactly what the phrase itself was ever meant to mean or does.

[imagist42]

In any case, respect your elders wouldn't be the best way to put this, the only thing he has over me is a post count, and "OMG" he has a postcount higher than me on one random site on the interwebz! He must have infinite wisdom over me.

pwhodges is sixty-two, dude.

[E. Spaceman]

I really doubt you'd be older than Paul, but that isn't what this is about. If he only had  "a postcount higher than me on one random site on the interwebz!", while you are at that particular site you should maybe pay a little more attention and behave a little.

All that aside, it is a silly internet argument and you'll stop it and we can probably all get along fine.

[Tom]

I'm going to up load the new Arcade Fire album.

[Pyrofyr]

I have no qualms with him in particular. I was simply stating that to tell someone not to use pngs is stupid. PNGs are great, and it's not the reason the file is so large.

Also, even on that website, postcount is no way to measure anything, especially wisdom. There are always ways to get postcount without being helpful, and when people join have a big impact on it as well. For instance, I joined today, so my postcount is quite low, and it'll probably never be too high because I've pretty much given up on the internet for now.

In any case, I have a question regarding this thread. Anything goes with music uploaded as long as in full albums correct? Any genre? Etc?

[E. Spaceman]

any genre, anything.