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deborah:
--- Quote from: zekterellium ---anything by cursive, far or rival schools will kill all music you've ever heard before. completely and utterly awesome. also slowdive, swervedriver, eels, appleseed cast and sounds like violence make beauitul music in one way or another.
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holy crap i forgot swervedriver even existed until i saw this. mezcal head is the album to get.
Spencer:
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Matranga has the same problem as Schreifels in that both of them have been in steadily worse bands all their lives. So Far and Gorilla Biscuits are essentials, New End Original and Project X are good but you don't need anything after that (okay, maybe Quicksand for Schreifels). Particularly not Gratitude or whatever that godawful new thing Schreifels is peddling is called. Walking Concert maybe? Whatever, they're bad, avoid. Listen to Start Today a lot instead, and remember the days when he had talent.
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*GASP* Allow me to disagree vehemently over the inner nets! While I will agree that New End Original isnt Jonahs best work (though a number of his best songs, including "14-41" and "Hostage" came from this period), onelinedrawing is the Pinnicle of the jonah experience, as it is just him and R2D2 on stage. If you havent seen Jonah solo, you have not lived.
BUT!
I really cannot grasp how you could say Gratitude is not good. I mean really, I am dumbfounded. I am not one to argue with one about their own personal taste in music, but really the only thing i can think of is that you are a fan of Far, and not Jonah Matranga (in which case, have you checked out Shaun Lopez' new project, The Revolution Smile?). Gratitude is, in my opinion, Jonahs best work to date. Comparing Gratitude to Far musically is just stupid, cause thats like comparing Apples to Quanum Probability Theory, but in regards to Jonah and his singing and songwriting, I think he is just as good, if not better, than he was in the Far era.
zekterellium:
--- Quote from: deborah --- holy crap i forgot swervedriver even existed until i saw this. mezcal head is the album to get.
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good call. and honestly, i know it's a personal thing but united by fate by rival schools is in my top five albums ever, it's completely immense and wonderful. best post-hardcore band ever.
a pack of wolves:
My friend said he wanted to show me a really hideous video by some band on Launch, and that they apparently had some big emo scenester in them. The video started up, and I was just saying that whoever this guy was he could never have been in anything good to make such bad cooker-cutter pop-rock when he said it was "some guy called Jonah Matranga"... I mean, Onelinedrawing, I didn't think that was much cop but I certainly never cringed at the thought of them. But Gratitude's a whole new level of predictable and bad. Not comparable to Far in terms of style, I agree, but in terms of quality... sorry, but he's just sunk to a massive new low for me with this one.
But hey, Tin Cans With Strings To You. Not everyone gets to write a record that good, so it's not like the guy's wasted his life.
KharBevNor:
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Judas Priest - British Steel
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No Priest? :D
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Duuuuuuh
Master of Reality is great. Hell, Children of the Grave is probably my favourite Sabbath song with Ozzy on vocals.
Also, Jesus wept, but I don't know what you people see in Cursive. The best Cursive song I ever heard was a 6/10 in the style (Forced Listening thread on another forum. Some dude set them THREE TIMES). Not really a good band imo, but then I don't really like any of that cra...stuff.
Also, I think everyone in the world should own 'Speak English or Die' by Stormtroopers of Death. Even if they totally hate metal. And 'Chemical Invasion' by Tankard. I mean, fucking hell, the title track is a call for the purity of German Beer! What more could you want?
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