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[Kai]

Bingo.

[Switchblade]

...but I LIKE the C-people.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

I would do Mew but I have only heard Frengers, anybody wanna do them for me?

[La Creme]

I am just now hearing an Aphex Twin song called Log N Rock Witch and have decided that I might want to be getting into them. Aphex Twin reveiw: GO!

[Johnny C]

I had to review an LCD Soundsystem track ("Tribulations") this week, and I friggin' loved it, so if anyone could do a write-up for them I'd be grateful.

[sjbrot]

Band Name: LCD Soundsystem

Genre: Electronic, Indie Dance

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9

Best Album: The one and only LCD Soundsystem

Songs:
- Best All Around: "Losing My Edge" (personal favorite)
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': "Movement"
- Most Relaxing: "Never As Tired As I Am Waking Up"
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Disco Infiltrator"
- Song That Best Represents The Band: "Yeah (Crass Version)"

Bands Like This Band: !!!, The Rapture

Coolest Thing About This Band: James Murphy is LCD Soundsystem. Murphy is a well-known producer and owner of the DFA record label that made DFA 1979 change their name. He also proves that assholes can make cool music.

[Storm Rider]

Words that are banned from discussion: Interpol, Coldplay, Radiohead, ANYTHING BRITISH AFTER 1990

I think that's a better rule.

[dinosrawr]

someone hook me up with info for Galaxy (galaxie?) 500 pleeeasseee

[Switchblade]

Words that are banned from discussion: Interpol, Coldplay, Radiohead, ANYTHING BRITISH AFTER 1990

I think that's a better rule.

OMG SEX PISTOLS PUNK RAWK GOD SAVE THE QUEEN BITCH!!!!1!!!

[sp2]

Fuck the Sex Pistols.  It's all about Pink Floyd and The Who.

And Black Sabbath.  Yeah.

[KharBevNor]

And Black Sabbath.  OH LAWD YEAH!

Fix'd.

[onewheelwizzard]

Since the last one I posted without being asked for it seemed to be well received, I'll put up another.

Band Name: Masters of Reality

Genre: Blues/Metal/Folk/Experimental Rock, depending on the album.

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): Half their albums are 10s, the others hover between 7 and 9.  My breakdown: "Masters of Reality" (metal-y blues rock) - 10, "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" (straight-up blues rock) - 10, "Deep in the Hole" (heavy boogie rock) - 9.5, "Welcome to the Western Lodge" (experimental rock) - 7.5, "Give Us Barabbas" (folky for the most part) - 10

Best Album: Their self-titled, in my opinion, but very arguable.

Songs:
- Best All Around: "Doraldina's Prophecies" in my opinion ... again, very variable, they have a lot of sounds.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Probably "Kill the King," though some of the more experimental stuff off "Welcome to the Western Lodge" can sound very heavy.
- Most Relaxing: "Rabbit One," "The Ballad of Jody Frosty"
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Domino"
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Depends on album.  I'll go with "Voice and the Vision" off "Give Us Barabbas."

Bands Like This Band: "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" is very much like Cream, for reasons explained below.

Coolest Thing About This Band: "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" is the only project Ginger Baker, the drummer for Cream and sometimes called the best drummer in rock, bothered to do after Cream broke up.  He called it the best album in rock since the last Cream album he was part of.  He might have a point.
Also, the bassist's name is Googe.  Just Googe.  And the singer/guitarist who's responsible for the vast majority of the band's output, Chris Goss, is the godfather of stoner rock, having produced Kyuss's signature sound and played in Josh Homme's Desert Sessions and various other related projects.

One last thing ... anyone watch Ren and Stimpy?  Anyone remember the episode with "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf?"  The song in that episode was done by Masters of Reality.  It is the most bizarre thing ever.

[Kai]

They totally swiped their name from that Sabbath album. OH LAWD YEAH!

[Merkava]

Fuck the Sex Pistols.  It's all about Pink Floyd and The Who.

And Black Sabbath.  Yeah.

Truer words may have been spoken, but I cannot think of them right now.

[Merkava]

Fuck the Sex Pistols.  It's all about Pink Floyd and The Who.

And Black Sabbath.  Yeah.

Truer words may have been spoken, but I cannot think of them right now.

[ramenXnoodles]

I want to know more about The Decemberists. I have Picaresque, but haven't really gotten into it until last night, and I have had it for a couple months.

[La Creme]

"Sunrise on the Sufferbus" is the only project Ginger Baker, the drummer for Cream and sometimes called the best drummer in rock, bothered to do after Cream broke up.

DARRRRRGKKLSDGGH!!!! -1 Points for Incorectnessitude!!![/i][/color]


Ginger Baker did this:


That's right hombre. Going Back Home. Say you want it. You are its bitch for eternity now.

[Station]

I want to know more about The Decemberists. I have Picaresque, but haven't really gotten into it until last night, and I have had it for a couple months.

Check page 3.

I would like to know about the Beta Band, if anyone could oblige.

[Storm Rider]

Fuck the Sex Pistols.  It's all about Pink Floyd and The Who.

And Black Sabbath.  Yeah.

Led Zeppelin, man. Led Zeppelin.

[Johnny C]

The Kinks? Pre-Let's Dance Bowie? The Beatles?

Songwriting, people. Songwriting.

[La Creme]

GIRRRRL, YOU REALLY GOT ME NOWWWW YOU GOT ME SO I DONT KNOW WHAT IM DOINGGGGG...


Yes, the Kinks wrote the most coverable song in the universe ever. It is also totally ace.

[Luke]

^ Yes. ^

[Storm Rider]

The Kinks? Pre-Let's Dance Bowie? The Beatles?

Songwriting, people. Songwriting.

I gotta agree that Lennon and McCartney may have been some of the best songwriters ever. Too bad their solo careers never really matched what they did with the Beatles. I think they sort of needed their love/hate relationship to create that level of music.

They weren't really that great of musicians though. Their music got so complex they had to use session musicians for nearly everything later in their careers.

[Algaësia]

Can someone do Interpol Guns N' Roses for me?

[Luke]

^ Put that one on hold, I can do it when I get home. ^

[MilkmanDan]

I am just now hearing an Aphex Twin song called Log N Rock Witch and have decided that I might want to be getting into them. Aphex Twin reveiw: GO!

Band Name: Aphex Twin (Also known as AFX,  Blue Calx , Bradley Strider, Caustic Window, The Dice Man, GAK, Polygon Window, Power-Pill, Q-Chastic, Soit-P.P., Universal Indicator. Yeah, I know. He likes aliases. Richard D. James is his actual name, but I don't think he's released anything as that.)

Genre: Acid, Ambient, IDM, Breakcore. Depends mainly on the album, but some albums have all of them.

Your Rating Of Him (1-10): 9

Best Album: Jesus. I don't know really. They're too varied. I listen to The Richard D James Album, I Care Because You Do, and the Analord series most. So, one of them.

Songs:
- Best All Around: "Doraldina's Prophecies" in my opinion ... again, very variable, they have a lot of sounds.
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Mt Saint Michel Mix + St Michaels Mount is pretty brutal all the way through. That or 'Run the Place Red' on the Smojphace EP (By AFX). The whole of the Red Album by Universal Indicator. It's relentless acid techno. No breakdowns, no drop ins, just bleeping techno for half an hour or so. I don't think the bass kick stops once in the wholoe album. That's kinda rockin', I guess.
- Most Relaxing: Blue Calx (Selected Ambient Works II is pretty freaking relaxing all the way through)
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Windowlicker", probobly
- Songs That Best Represents The Artist: AFX - PWSteal.Ldpinch.D (Analord 8) represents the acid side well, and Girl/Boy Song (Richard D James Album) for the IDM.

Bands Like This Band: Fellow Warp kids Plaid, Autechre and Squarepusher make stuff like his IDM tunes, especially if you don't listen to that much Electronica. Ceephax Acid Crew make similer acid. If you want stuff like SAW, things get harder. Marsen Jules and Reagenz, maybe?

Coolest Things About This Artist: He's kinda crazy and makes alot of his own synths. His music videos feature horribly warped versions of his own face in unpleasant places, eg replacing the faces of small children or bikini-clad models. He made a waveform of his own face and put the resulting sound into one of his songs. If his album titles are to be believed, he's been producing songs since he was 15. He has been known to stop the music during live sets to yell gibberish at the audience for up to 15 minutes. He plays Gabba just to piss people off.

As a side note, If you liked Logon Rock Witch, get the Richard D James Album first. It's all in that sort of vein.

Edit: 707 posts! In the spirit of the Twin, this calls for a synth:

[negative creep]

Nobody asked for Kyuss, but I was subconsciously wanting it.

Thumbs up to onewheelwizzard.

seconded

[JLM]

Band Name: Aphex Twin

Best Album: Jesus. I don't know really. They're too varied. I listen to The Richard D James Album, I Care Because You Do, and the Analord series most. So, one of them.

I think best album would probably have to go to one of the Selected Ambient Works albums, since those are what essentially put him on the map.

[MilkmanDan]

To be sure, they're what made him famous, but I don't think they are his best albums. They're seriously great, but I prefer his less, uh, ambient works. It's pretty hard to compare them to the rest of his stuff, to be honest, as they really are a totally different genre. As I said, I just put the one's I listen to most.
Also, the request came off the back of Logon Rock Witch, so I'm not sure SAW is the kind of stuff he's looking for.

So, In conclusion, listen to more Aphex Twin.

[sjbrot]

Anyone feel like doing one on Roxy Music? I have only heard bits of songs that haven't really enthused me. Still, it seems that alot of people I listen to are influenced by them, from what I hear.

[Luke]

Band Name: Guns N' Roses

Genre: classic rock

Your Rating Of Them: 9

Best Album: Use Your Illusion

Songs:
      - Best All Around: Estranged
      - Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': The Garden
      - Most Relaxing: Don't Cry
      - Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: Live and Let Die / Knockin' on Heaven's Door
      - Song That Best Represents The Band: Sweet Child O' Mine

Bands Like This Band: Bon Jovi, Deep Purple, Journey

Coolest Thing About This Band: they combine guitar and piano, which is an automatic plus. Also, some of their songs are really long, which is something you see not-so-much anymore. But, the coolest thing is probably that the vocals are as awesome as the instrumentals, and the songs are all quite varied.

[Algaësia]

Live and Let Die is by Guns N' Roses? I didn't know that! *has never bothered looking up the artist anyway*

Perhaps I shall seek to purchase that album in the near future. Thanks!

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Band Name: Nellie McKay

Genre: funny jazzy chanteuse rap...core?

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8

Best Album: Get Away From Me(her only album)

Songs:

Best All Around: It's a tie between Sari and Won't U Please B Nice
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': she doesn't do rock but Sari is pretty frantic
Most Relaxing: Manhattan Avenue
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: None, I suspect, I don't think she gets a lot of airplay.
Song That Best Represents The Band: Well she's all over the place musically with swing, jazz and rap. But lyrically it would be the opener on Get Away From Me, David.

Bands Like This Band: the only one I can think of is Kevin Blechdom, but slightly more reserved. There are no songs about her sexual relations with Mister Miguel like Kevin Blechdom, she is much more sassy.

Coolest Thing About This Band:
Mainly that she's so damn funny, her lyrics are filled with one-liners like this gem: "If you run/I'll pull a gun/give me head/or you'll be dead/salute the flag/or I'll call you a fag/so won't u please b nice"
and the music backing these lyrics are just perfect, mixing swing, jazz(or slow shady bar tunes if you will) and hiphop, as I said she wanders around in genres, but it never feels out of place.
Basically it's just great fun, both for the ears and the brain.

[1patheticloser]

Live and Let Die is by Guns N' Roses? I didn't know that!

It's a cover of the Wings song.

Also, could I get someone to do Mum for me?

[sjbrot]

Live and Let Die is by Guns N' Roses?

Ouch.

[JLM]

By request:

Band Name: Múm

Genre: Experimental electronic

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 9 before seeing them live...7 after seeing them live

Best Album: It really depends on what you're in the mood for emotionally.  Overall, I'd say Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today is OK is their best album, but the band's sound has changed a lot, and is a lot more spotty in terms of quality than it used to be.

Songs:

Best All Around: There is a number of small things
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Most Relaxing: All...but Hu Hviss- a ship and Weeping Rock, Rock are particularly soothing.
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard:If you live in a town with college radio I'm sure you've heard something by them.  Maybe Weeping Rock, Rock or Green Grass of Tunnel.
Song That Best Represents The Band: Awake on a Train

Bands Like This Band: If you like any of the stuff on Morr Music, there's no reason you shouldn't at least be intrigued by Múm.  If you're into Sigur Rós you might enjoy them as well, though Múm is a bit more childlike.

Coolest Thing About This Band: They use a large number of instruments in their compsition and performances...things that you wouldn't necessarily associate with an electronic artist.  You'd think it wouldn't work but somehow it does.

[1patheticloser]

Gratzi!

[Garcin]

9 times out of ten, IDM sucks live when played in a stand-up venue.  The musical genre is best in a lounge where people, you know, lounge, preferably with clear alcoholic beverages, in suit slacks and tees, in the company of beautiful ladies with little make up and excellent diction . . . m'kay, I digress.

Can someone do Super Furry Animals, I'm trying to decide whether I should get tix.

[onewheelwizzard]

"Sunrise on the Sufferbus" is the only project Ginger Baker, the drummer for Cream and sometimes called the best drummer in rock, bothered to do after Cream broke up.

DARRRRRGKKLSDGGH!!!! -1 Points for Incorectnessitude!!![/i][/color]

That's right hombre. Going Back Home. Say you want it. You are its bitch for eternity now.

I stand humbly corrected.  Time to go look for the Ginger Baker Trio.

I will say, however, that his work on "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" was sublime, and that using it as a hook to draw people into Masters of Reality is something I'll continue to do.  Chris Goss has become one of the greatest figures in rock over the last two decades and he's criminally underappreciated.

I think I'll go ahead and do another band.

Band Name: Desert Sessions

Genre: Experimental EVERYTHING.  With drugs.

Your Rating Of Them (1-10): 8.5

Best Album: Either Sessions 1+2 or Sessions 9+10.  There are 5 CDs out so far.  (1+2, 3+4, 5+6, 7+8, 9+10)

Songs:

Best All Around: Overall I think my favorite is "Up In Hell" from 7+8, but everyone's got a different favorite with this stuff.
Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': Probably "Dead In Love" from 9+10.
Most Relaxing: "Like A Drug" or "I Wanna Make It WitChu"
Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: "Crawl Home" form 9+10 if anything.  It's a PJ Harvey song as much as anything else (she worked on 9+10) and I think a lot of her fans picked up on it but not on anything else.
Song That Best Represents The Band: This is a totally impossible question.  The entire point of the Desert Sessions is spontaneity and experimentation... nothing could possibly represent it all.

Bands Like This Band: Queens of the Stone Age covered a few Desert Sessions tracks in their albums.  Does that count?

Coolest Thing About This Band: This is a pet project of Josh Homme (QOTSA, Kyuss) and his buddies.  Basically, a variable bunch of musicians head out to a house/studio into the CA desert for a week and jam out with a variety of instruments and mind alterants.  The results are ... impossible to describe.  You'll have to hear them.  I suppose I can give the overall feel of each CD:
1+2: Trippy and instrumental with some silly vocal skits in there too.
3+4: Lots of sampling and non-lyrical vocals, mostly slower and heavier.
5+6: All over the place.
7+8: Lots of weird rock, all with cryptic lyrics and unusual sounds, and a couple jokes too.
9+10: PJ Harvey's presence is definitely here, and everything else is much like 7+8.

One cool thing is that a lot of it is really just jokes.  Plenty of inside jokes show up in each album (just look at the credits ... Josh Homme is sometimes referred to as "J.Ho," and silly names like "Cole Johntrane," "Nigel Thistlewaityourturner III," and "Countess Fuckface and The Duchess of Dick " show up as well).  Just visit http://thefade.net/lyrics.html and scroll down to the Desert Sessions songs, and read the credits.  It's a fucking riot.

[sp2]

9 times out of ten, IDM sucks live when played in a stand-up venue.  The musical genre is best in a lounge where people, you know, lounge, preferably with clear alcoholic beverages, in suit slacks and tees, in the company of beautiful ladies with little make up and excellent diction . . . m'kay, I digress.

Can someone do Super Furry Animals, I'm trying to decide whether I should get tix.

This depends on the type of IDM.  If it's industrial, this is another story entirely.

[Storm Rider]

"Sunrise on the Sufferbus" is the only project Ginger Baker, the drummer for Cream and sometimes called the best drummer in rock, bothered to do after Cream broke up.

DARRRRRGKKLSDGGH!!!! -1 Points for Incorectnessitude!!![/i][/color]

That's right hombre. Going Back Home. Say you want it. You are its bitch for eternity now.

And aren't you both forgetting Blind Faith? Not that it's tremendously difficult to do, as they were together for a whopping 6 months.

[JLM]

9 times out of ten, IDM sucks live when played in a stand-up venue.  The musical genre is best in a lounge where people, you know, lounge, preferably with clear alcoholic beverages, in suit slacks and tees, in the company of beautiful ladies with little make up and excellent diction . . . m'kay, I digress.

Can someone do Super Furry Animals, I'm trying to decide whether I should get tix.

The crowd contributed to my disappointment partially, but overall the performance, while technically proficient, just didn't have anything to it.  It felt like they were just going through the motions, and that they didn't really care about the music.  I've seen a number of performances by electronic artists (including many of the glitchy variety) that were much more intense than that.

[KharBevNor]

This depends on the type of IDM.  If it's industrial, this is another story entirely.

Nah, industrial is stupid dance music.  You know, the stuff that's good.

[kikanjuuneko]

Nobody asked for them, and no one will care, but I'm bored, so I'll do it anyway:

Band Name: Every Time I Die

Genre: That bizarre intersection in music land where rock 'n' roll meets dissonant hardcore

Your Rating Of Them: 9

Best Album: 'Hot Damn!'. 'Gutter Phenomenon' and 'Last Night In Town' aren't far behind, though. The thing about 'Last Night...' however, is that it is largely devoid of any of the rock 'n' roll influences found on their later albums.

Songs:
- Best All Around: 'I Been Gone A Long Time', 'Kill the Music', 'Ebolarama', 'The Logic of Crocodiles'
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'I Been Gone A Long Time', 'Kill the Music'
- Most Relaxing: Uh, 'Enter Without Knocking and Notify the Police' and 'In Case Everything Should Go Terribly Wrong'? They're scary songs, but that's about as close to relaxing as you'll get with Every Time I Die.
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: 'Ebolarama' or 'Kill the Music'
- Song That Best Represents The Band: Pre-'Hot Damn!' it's 'The Logic of Crocodiles', post-'Hot Damn!' it's definitely 'I Been Gone A Long Time'

Bands Like This Band: Uh, Fight Paris? Not that you want to listen to them, because they're a horrible, shitty ETID rip-off with none of the class, intelligence or subtlety.

Coolest Thing About This Band: Let's see... cowbell, crazy lyrics, complete vocal showmanship and oh, even though it was completely pointless, they brought in Michael Madsen to star in one of their videos.

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Band Name: Darkest Hour

Genre: a hybrid of Gothenburg melodic death metal and thrash

Your Rating Of Them: 9.5

Best Album: 'Undoing Ruin'

Songs:
- Best All Around: 'Sound the Surrender', 'These Fevered Times'
- Loudest/Hardest/Most Rockin': 'No Closer Than A Stranger'
- Most Relaxing: 'Veritas, Aequitas', 'Pathos'
- Most Played/A song by them you may have heard: 'Oklahoma', 'The Sadist Nation'
- Song That Best Represents The Band: 'Sound the Surrender', 'The Sadist Nation', 'With A Thousand Words To Say But One'

Bands Like This Band: At the Gates, any melodic Gothernburg death metal band you can think of

Coolest Thing About This Band: Not only is their motto "live to thrash, thrash to live", but they worship Gothenburg metal so much that 'Hidden Hands of A Sadist Nation' was recorded in Studio Fredman where 'Slaughter of the Soul' was recorded, and it also features guest spots from Tomas Lindberg (At the Gates, Disfear), Anders Björler (At the Gates, The Haunted), Peter Wichers (Soilwork) and Marcus Sunesson (The Crown). Oh, did I mention they have the amazing Kris Norris on guitar?

[Algaësia]

Live and Let Die is by Guns N' Roses?

Ouch.

Well, please forgive me for not knowing everything that you happen to know.

[Luke]

I can't forgive you. You're supposed to know everything about music that there's ever been to know. Idiot.

[Garcin]

This depends on the type of IDM.  If it's industrial, this is another story entirely.

Nah, industrial is stupid dance music.  You know, the stuff that's good.

Isn't :wumpscut: industrial?  Or were you being ironic?

[Kid Modernist]

Someone do Olivia Tremor Control goddamnit please!

[KharBevNor]

Isn't :wumpscut: industrial?  Or were you being ironic?

Very. I love industrial.

I was punning off the fact that Industrial isn't 'intelligent'.

Wierdly, you can actually dance to a good deal of it though.

[Garcin]

Yeah.

I'm going to continue the "IDM is a retarded name" thing in a separate thread so as not to threadjack this truly excellent thread (in which someone will hopefully do a capsule summary of Super Furry Animals at some point).