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Merkava

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« Reply #100 on: 03 Sep 2005, 18:20 »
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I'm 100% positive Coheed And Cambria's new album will be my top pick of the year. With a name like Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness, how can you possibly go wrong?


Damn. I didn't think there were any more pretentious names in the modern rock world than Juno.

I was wrong.

Coheed and Cambria are the most pretentious themecore band I know of. XP
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« Reply #101 on: 03 Sep 2005, 20:09 »
And the lead singer desperately wishes that he was Geddy Lee.
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

Merkava

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« Reply #102 on: 03 Sep 2005, 20:12 »
"What happened to the voice of Geddy Lee
How did it get so high?
I wonder if he talks like an ordinary guy..."

Yay for Pavement lyrics having some sort of meaning. The world must be ending.
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« Reply #103 on: 04 Sep 2005, 04:46 »
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Most of you can probably guess my nomination for best album of 2005, so I will remain silent.


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The latest jammin cd from Rob Thomas ?

[Khar, his taste in music is better then yours, step off homie]
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« Reply #104 on: 04 Sep 2005, 05:49 »
I think he means X&Y = *shudder* or good for you, use earphones okay...
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Merkava

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« Reply #105 on: 04 Sep 2005, 06:38 »
Coldplay is, like, the most inoffensive stuff you can blare from your stereo. It's very easy to block out if you don't like it.
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« Reply #106 on: 04 Sep 2005, 06:43 »
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[Khar, his taste in music is better then yours, step off homie]


Fuck off.

Even if you were joking.
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« Reply #107 on: 04 Sep 2005, 06:56 »
Merkava - I find it fairly difficult, but that's only because my little brother can switch between The Blood Brothers and Coldplay seamlessly. Imagine psychotic screams swiftly transforming into Martin's unconvincing whimper, it screws with your head man!
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Merkava

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« Reply #108 on: 04 Sep 2005, 06:58 »
I tend not to listen to The Blood Brothers on my speakers. I feel guilt for some reason, but I can listen to everything twice over with headphones. Wierd.

But yeah, that is a mind-fuck right there. XP
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« Reply #109 on: 04 Sep 2005, 09:11 »
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema is my personal favourite for the year.  Arcade Fire's debut EP isnt bad either though...
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« Reply #110 on: 04 Sep 2005, 11:23 »
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With a name like Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness, how can you possibly go wrong?

You can't, unless you get too wrapped up in pretension and stupid-ass album titles to write good music. I like Co&Ca, but God DAMN does that title piss me off.

Anyways, so keeping you updated, the list of my favourite albums of the year, so far (keeping in mind I haven't heard Takk or BSS' self-titled), in no particular order:

Beck - Guero
...Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
Buck 65 - Secret House Against The World
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
John Doe - Forever Hasn't Happened Yet
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Ivy - In The Clear
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (may be replaced by Silent Alarm Remixed by year's end)
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Early Day Miners - All Harm Ends Here

Narrowing that list down is going to be a bitch.
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« Reply #111 on: 04 Sep 2005, 12:28 »
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...Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart


You're kidding, right?
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« Reply #112 on: 04 Sep 2005, 12:30 »
Coldplay - X & Y

Seriously, everytime i hear that album.... it moves me y'know.
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« Reply #113 on: 04 Sep 2005, 12:31 »
Shh... you're summoning sp2 with all your talk of Coldplay.
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« Reply #114 on: 04 Sep 2005, 12:33 »
But come on!

Heartfelt lyrics, jangly guitars.

That jangle.

YEAH!
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« Reply #115 on: 04 Sep 2005, 12:34 »
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You're kidding, right?

No, I found it to be good, well-written music. Sorry if you disagree.
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« Reply #116 on: 04 Sep 2005, 12:56 »
I'll agree it was well-written, but it was definitely weaker than most of their other stuff.  There were definitely also better albums released in 2005.
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« Reply #117 on: 04 Sep 2005, 14:04 »
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I'll agree it was well-written, but it was definitely weaker than most of their other stuff.

Not relevant, and I prefer it to Source Tags & Codes anyways. Yeah, blasphemy, whatever, who cares.

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There were definitely also better albums released in 2005.

Subjective.
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« Reply #118 on: 04 Sep 2005, 14:24 »
I think that Trail of Dead refer to the album as their way of getting across their message to the most people possible. That message? Bland music sucks. How are they getting it across? Making bland music.

It's actually brilliant in a way.

Source Tags and Codes is teh sex, as well as everything else they've done before. It's on my top albums list.
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« Reply #119 on: 04 Sep 2005, 16:12 »
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Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (may be replaced by Silent Alarm Remixed by year's end)


I like it so far, it needs a few more listens though. Ladytron Zapatista mix of Like eating Glass is truly amazing, however that is my favourite song on the album so I may be biased.
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« Reply #120 on: 04 Sep 2005, 16:26 »
I haven't heard the album yet yet but the mere concept of Death From Above 1979 doing a remix of Bloc Party makes me salivate. I long for it. It's not healthy.
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« Reply #121 on: 04 Sep 2005, 16:28 »
EDIT: Heard the DFA1979 .v. Bloc Party - 'Luno' the other day, tis pretty awesome.

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It was a hell of a lot better then the new 'Babyshambles' album...

Care to explain exactly why you bought that?


They haven't released an album.

It was the 'Fuck Forever' single. I'm allowed to buy it. I like the song. So I bought it. My musical taste. Not yours.
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« Reply #122 on: 04 Sep 2005, 16:54 »
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I haven't heard the album yet yet but the mere concept of Death From Above 1979 doing a remix of Bloc Party makes me salivate. I long for it. It's not healthy.


I'm more interested in the concept of DFA79 doing 3 fucking versions of their next album. Especially the full-band one.
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« Reply #123 on: 04 Sep 2005, 16:59 »
The full band one I'm looking forward to the least. Part of what made YWIM so immediate and gripping was the fact that they were making this incredible, face-crushingly heavy music with such sparseness.

The one with the female singer, now, that should be interesting.
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« Reply #124 on: 04 Sep 2005, 17:07 »
I'm not a huge fan of DFA, to tell you the truth. The bass and drums combo ended up getting stale and boring for me. I don't listen to them anymore.

All of their songs sounded the same.
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« Reply #125 on: 04 Sep 2005, 17:55 »
bloc party - silent alarm
stars - set yourself on fire
the national - alligator
m. ward - transistor radio
eels - blinking lights
beck - guero

compilation: belle and sebastian - push barman to open old wounds
reissue: dj shadow - endtroducing
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« Reply #126 on: 04 Sep 2005, 18:05 »
^ The Stars album was released last year.
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« Reply #127 on: 04 Sep 2005, 18:09 »
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I think that Trail of Dead refer to the album as their way of getting across their message to the most people possible. That message? Bland music sucks. How are they getting it across? Making bland music.

It's actually brilliant in a way.

Source Tags and Codes is teh sex, as well as everything else they've done before. It's on my top albums list.


Even the EP they put out between Source Tags and Worlds Apart was really good.  But Worlds Apart was just....uninspired.  There were some good songs on there, to be sure, but what was gained in production quality was lost in musical quality.  Another reason I hate the shit out of producers.
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« Reply #128 on: 04 Sep 2005, 18:10 »
I never got DFA1979. People keep telling me they are a) heavy and b) sexy. Both of these are such stupendously blatant untruths, Okay, I can see why they might seem 'face-crushingly heavy' if you'd never heard Electric Wizard, or seen Crowbar or Overlord* live, but I really, really, really do not get the sexy part.

I definitely agree with the 'all their songs sound the same' bit though.

*Both guitarists drop tune till they essentially play six string basses. I've seen 'em three times and never heard a single note. Brilliance.
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« Reply #129 on: 04 Sep 2005, 18:21 »
^ Whoever told you that doesn't know what heavy is, or they're heavy for the music they get categorized with. Either way they're not incredible musicians or anything, but they make some catchy noise.
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« Reply #130 on: 04 Sep 2005, 18:56 »
Live DFA1979 = Heavy. Yes, I know what heavy is. Do not make me pull out my Oxford dictionary, or as I call him, "Ol' Oxy."

And I stick by DFA1979 being sexy. I'm not sure what you'd classify as "sexy," Khar, but DFA1979 fits the bill for me.
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« Reply #131 on: 04 Sep 2005, 19:56 »
Sexy is stuff like:

Type O Negative - My Girlfriend's Girlfriend
Danzig - Wicked Pussycat
Killing Miranda - I Know What You Want

Admittedly I have only one DFA track saved on my hard-drive to reference, but the guy who sent it to me distinctly remarked on it being 'Sexy' as far as I remember. The song is 'Turn It Out'.

To paraphrase Nelson, 'I see no sex'.
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« Reply #132 on: 07 Sep 2005, 15:16 »
Sexier songs by DFA1979:

"Romantic Rights"
"Black History Month"
"Sexy Results" (feat. bongos)
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