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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Spats on 20 Jan 2005, 19:43
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I'm trying to look up information on The Books, I want to hear some of their music before I buy it. But the fact that their name is "the books" is making this alot harder. And the description, "doesnt sound like anything else you've heard" isn't much help either. Does anyone know if they have a main website or something?
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my god I love the books. their website is really hard to find and doesnt really have any songs on it.
I can email you a song or something?
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wait, found a sample mp3.
What the hell...? It's like my ears are hallucinating...
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haha I sent it already anyway. tell me if you like the one I sent
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Yea this is the song I found.
I like it. It's the most bizzare thing I've ever heard, but I like it. If The Flaming Lips is happiness in crack cocain form, this would have to be happiness in like acid or extasy form. I'm going to buy this...
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The Books are great. I have Thought For Food and The Lemon of Pink. It's quite odd, but very good.
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I'm only blessed with the Lemon of Pink :(
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Umm, sorry to ask but could I get that sample? I've been curious about them for a while now
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http://www.insound.com/mp3/searchmp3.cfm
search for the books and two should come up. I reccomend the Lemon of Pink
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You can go to their distributors website Tomlab (http://www.tomlab.com/) and they have a few mp3's under their profile plus you can discover their making a new album to come out which will be delicious and full of wonder. Actually I can't say that because I'm having a disagreement with my Books records at the moment.
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Took a listen
Wow, just... wow.
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i thought id love it but....just wasnt feeling it y'know?
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From listening to those songs, i think they'd be a 'repeat listen till i get into them' kinda band for me. I really like 'enjoy your worries' though.
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yeah, the books rule. it's like, acoustic music, set to a bed of everyday samples used unlike i've ever heard them used. they're definitely an 'intense listening' type group. very deep.
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Both Thought For Food and Lemon of Pink quietly made their way onto my top ten albums of the year for their respective years. It wasn't like I really listened to these albums a lot or was utterly amazed by them a lot, either. They were just quietly spectacular albums that, without me realizing it, were my favorite albums of the year.
I suggest everyone take a listen to them.
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The Lemon of Pink...what the FUCK was THAT!?!
i was dissapointed, if i wanted to hear 45 minutes of random noise i'll make it myself.
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...urgh.
Won't be getting a full album of that.
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Oh god, I started typing a sentance that scared me. Putting it another way:
In my eyes, The Books are rad.
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I love both Thought For Food and Lemon of Pink ^_^
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"For the first time in the world. A girl climbed up a tree, the next day she climbed down; god bless her."
I love that band, Take Time is probably the best song.
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Take Time and Enjoy Your Worries... are great! I love the part where the dude tells the woman to shut up, haha!
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I was at a music store the other day and I listened to the new album...
It was a toss up but I decided to buy Architecture in Helsinki instead.
I'm with Tinjessla I think in saying that this band would take me a little bit of time to get into...
The new album sounds a little different to that link that was given however, as there were actually vocals on the tracks I was listening to.
Maybe I'll go back to the store and have another listen sometime.
I think this was my point though, why don't you try before you buy? Nice record stores let you do choice things like that.
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I have all three Books albums, and they are all the shit.
The music is aleotoric, which means they take small bits of other sounds to make up their own music. There's definite songs in all of it. Check out Lost and Safe for the most traditional stuff yet, but even it has the built songs, if you dig it, Lemon of Pink is probably their best.
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I have Lost and Safe. It's okay. It's all very interesting but it doesn't grab me. It doesn't infect me. It stimulates me I guess, but only when I'm sleepy and about halfway into an REM cycle. If I listen to them while sleeping, I have like. . .crazy dreams. While awake, though, they bore me somewhat.
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If you like The Books (or just awesome music in general), you should pick up 'Prefuse 73 Reads the Books'. It's an EP they did together, and it's like woah.
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"with your eyes closed, close your eyes."
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I should totally send tracks by these guys to my friends who think that Mortiis and G/Z/R are boring. It would be a revelation in music to them.
But I mean, seriously, does this music even have a point? It's not even that witty or complex.
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Um, it sounds good?
Who the fuck judges music by whether or not it's 'witty'? Even ignoring the fact that it is pretty complex, that's also a seriously retarded way to judge anything.
I'm amazed that you don't like The Books. You seriously couldn't fucking script it, as it's just the kind of music you normally really enjoy. I was on the edge of my seat trying to guess what you'd think of them, but luckily you told us. Twice. I especially enjoyed the second time you told us you don't like them, as it had all essential information of the first time round, but came free with added inane comments.
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That's because I hate you, and the band you like. I also like arguing. Also, I normally expect sample-derived/found sound music to use said samples in a way I would best describe as 'witty'. (for example, the way most EBM bands use samples)
Also, your ears need cleaning out, because it sounds shite.
OMG THREE STRIKES EH WOT?
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Frontline Assembly arguably has some of the best sampling I've heard. Bill Leeb is just really uncannily good at that sort of shit.
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Hell yes. Wumpscut is rather unbeatable as far as the old film quotes go though. Also, I'm a big fan of Neuroticfish's sampling. He doesn't do it much, compared to some, but when he does it's very good. For example, the use of the modem noise in the intro to 'The Bomb', which is basically just divine inspiration.
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I don't have a lot of exposure to Wumpscut, but I'm intrigued. Wanna offer an album recommendation?
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I'd personally go for 'Dried Blood of Gomorrha' as an intro. It's a compilation of two EP's, both completely remixed, and contains great versions of most of the best classic :wumpscut: tracks (Black Death, Funeral Diner, Soylent Green etc.).
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Alright. Sweet. Thanks.