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Favorite Album Of The Week

After searching I didn't see this as having been done (kind of got a bit of the idea from urban's 100), so basically post your favorite album of the week write a little bit about it (favorite tracks, comments on lyrics etc..). It doesn't have to be a full blown essay just a little bit on the album.

Say Anything "...Is a Real Boy"

Belt is a very good opening track to start it off with, its probaly one of the best tracks on the albums. The whole album is a very well put together and entertaining album. The whole thing is solid album theres not really a bad song on it. Admit It!, Every Man Has a Molly and Woe are probaly my favorites.

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1. Belt
2. Woe
3. The Writhing South
4. Alive With The Glory Of Love
5. Yellow Cat / Red Cat
6. The Futile
7. Spidersong
8. An Orgy Of Critics
9. Every Man Has A Molly
10. Slowly, Through A Vector
11. Chia-Like, I Shall Grow
12. I Want To Know Your Plans
13. Admit It

Lets see I guess my favorite album of this week is

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I love, lovelovelovelovelovelovelove this band. I decided to pick this one because it is reativly new to my collection and I do enjoy it.

Favorite Tracks:
People of the Sun
Roll Right
Year of tha Boomerang
Down Rodeo

roll right and year of the boomerang are such cool fuckin tunes.....

but born without a face fuckin rocks!!

such a goddamn shame they split up....best fucking band ever....

Seeing as how I know absolutely nothing about this band aside from them being a side project of Isis, I figured it easier to c & p their own explanation of the album, from www.redsparowes.com

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There just might be a certain warped truth to the phrase "guilt by
association." As in the case of Red Sparowes, its formal associations
with such heavy, propulsive bands as Isis, Neurosis, Angel Hair and
Pleasure Forever would lead you to expect that the Los Angeles
quintet's debut would be a masterfully crafted epic of primal urgency.

It is.

However, Red Sparowes is epic without bombast, heavy without a single
barre-chord riff and eviscerating without any clearly audible vocals.
The chiming, spindly layers of effect-laden guitars and the swinging,
entrancing drums on its Neurot Recordings debut At the Soundless Dawn
create textures reminiscent of Goblin, Tones on Tail, Godspeed You
Black Emperor and early Sonic Youth. Its attack is syrupy and
serpentine; subtle but frighteningly deliberate.

Red Sparowes is comprised of Bryant Clifford Meyer on guitar (Isis),
Josh Graham on guitar (Neurosis visuals and acclaimed video director),
Greg Burns on bass and pedal steel (also of Temporary Residence dark
chamber folk sextet Halifax Pier), Andy Arahood on bass/guitar (Angel
Hair) and David Clifford on drums (The VSS, Pleasure Forever). The
album was recorded with founding drummer Dana Berkowitz (The Cignal)
and Isis bassist Jeff Caxide, both of whom relocated at the end of
2004. The sum total of its sound, however, stems more so from esoteric
melodic guitar-surrealists of the mid-80's Blast First and Too Pure
hive than the fierce realism of the aforementioned cabal of heavy-psych
rock.

At the Soundless Dawn – an album of seven compositions with titles that fit together as a complete paragraph -- opens with a rapidly
strummed single high-string building tension as distant, delay drenched
notes saturate an almost dance-beat drum pattern on "Alone and unaware,
the landscape was transformed in front of our eyes." Pedal steel notes
add a further layer of glissando urgency as ringing guitar notes climb
hand-over-fist upon an ascending line. The second track, "Buildings
began to stretch wide across the sky and the air filled with a reddish
glow" kicks in abruptly, sounding reminiscent of the taut and eerie
blasts of Italian horror film soundtrack masters Goblin. Icy, piercing
guitars jut out from the speakers as rapid bass arpeggios drive the
tune ever nearer. Comparisons to the more lulling and lush tunes from
the My Bloody Valentine masterpiece Loveless would not be off the mark
for the third track – a beautifully constructed four-and-a-half minute
piece of gorgeous, somber guitar work -- although the band would likely
be reluctant to accept such a compliment.

Throughout the album, transitions glide and instruments smudge into a
warm wash of tones. It's an orchestral wall of sound that is equally as
entrancing as it is unnerving. The 12-minute album closer, for
instance, gradually builds tension with clever use of smeared, formless
guitar notes that create a sense of three-dimensional sound as notes
seem to move from background to foreground, flitting around an
imaginary room. Sparing tom drum rolls add to the growing
claustrophobia, until ever-rebuilding waves of strings cascade into a
grand crescendo that finishes as mysteriously as it began.

Although the band members are indeed tied to many other projects, Red
Sparowes is not just a side-project. The band has toured the US with
the Dillinger Escape Plan and label-mates Made Out of Babies, as well
as a very successful headlining European/UK tour in Spring 2005. In August-September, the band embarks on a full national tour with
Pelican, Big Business and Breather Resist.

While At the Soundless Dawn uses vocals as subtle instrumentation, the
group plans to incorporate voices further into its sound. This stunning
introduction to Red Sparowes, recorded in San Francisco by engineer
Desmond Shea (who also did additional engineering on the recent
Neurosis album, The Eye of Every Storm) is just the beginning for a
band that promises to change the way we think about heavy music. Its
family of related artists is certainly good company. But, where their
common goals to experiment with epic, cathartic music meet, Red
Sparowes branches far outside of the expected boundaries.

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Actually, RATM were a band I felt actually lived up to the hype. They had something to say, they could play their instruments, they never showed up and half-assed it. I really enjoyed them.

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Originally Posted by franscar

Seeing as how I know absolutely nothing about this band aside from them being a side project of Isis

Whoa, I had no idea. No wonder they're so fucking awesome.

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This album is very well done and is what I am liking this week. I recomend it to anyone who likes Metal at all.
Edit: I cant image the picture. :(

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Originally Posted by adidasss

roll right and year of the boomerang are such cool fuckin tunes.....

but born without a face fuckin rocks!!

such a goddamn shame they split up....best fucking band ever....

It is kinda for the better that they split when they did. Look at pop music now, there are baby versions of them that don't have the balls to belt it out like them. I have a feeling that come the next American election they will play a show or something.

Alright, I think this thread is a pretty cool idea so here I go:

Black Eyes "Cough"

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Where most of their DC peers (like !!!) seem to be trying to revive new wave, or, if you prefer, "dance punk," Black Eyes bring back No Wave - screeching horns layered upon screeching guitars on top of screeching half-spoken half-screamed vocals, with the occasional steady bass line to keep it from decaying completely into madness. And sometimes there are even melodies. What more could you want?

i always go back to this listening to this album.. :love:

now more so then any other time.. this albums now will mean more to me... :(

i love every single song on this album... its a amazing album one of my favorites of all time i think..
the lyrics are amazing.. there not over done, each song sounds different...

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

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Good choice:)

I like the Feelers. A solid ban. I wish I could have seen them last time they were here.

that's a fucking awsome cover....never heard the band.....

Arctic Monkeys-Whatever people say I am that's what I'm not.

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Cause I hadn't listened to it in a while and it's sounding damn good now.

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Mystery Jets - Making dens ....i just can't get it out of my head..it's driving me nuts really....i love it when i get so hooked on an album that that's all i listen to for a week...then it completely disgusts me and i don't listen to it for months....

I really hate Mystery Jets.

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

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Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

This week, I have mostly been listening to...

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Slint - Spiderland
6 songs and everyone is as good as the last. If this album was my mom, I'd do it.

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Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
One of the most thought provoking albums from the late 80s. Everytime I listen to it I know it will always hold a place in my heart.

Fall Of Troy "Ghostship Demos"
S'very very good, not exactly a proper album so i'll post two.

Thirty Year War "Martyrs Among the Casualties"

Alejo sent me this a week or so ago, and like I havn't stopped listening to it. Its very good and only increased my homosexual feelings towards thomas erak.

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

I love both of those. "Mirrors Are More Fun Than Television" is perfect.

Om - Variations On A Theme.

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Well, I just bought 3 today.

The Very Best of Albert King
R.L. Burnside ~ Burnside on Burnside (Live)
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells ~ Live at the 1964 Chicago Blues Festival

I'm fairly certain they will be my favorites for the next week.LOL.

fightstar - grand unification part 1

Mastodon :: Leviathan. Iron tusk is a fantastic song.

The Album in my signature, Mellon Collie, been listening to Cherub Rock too.

I have also been digging Maggot Brain, i think its time to get another Funkadelic album. :pimp:

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Originally Posted by boo boo

I have also been digging Maggot Brain, i think its time to get another Funkadelic album. :pimp:

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Get One Nation Under A Groove

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

:clap:

Get One Nation Under A Groove

Cool, but im dying to get Mothership Connection (Which is actualy Parliament but whatever).

On another topic, who can argue against Bootsy Collins being the most badass bassist of all time?

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Plays funky, looks funky, pure definition of funky.

Arcade Fire - Funeral

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Originally Posted by boo boo

Cool, but im dying to get Mothership Connection (Which is actualy Parliament but whatever).

Hmm I don`t own that album

*goes torrent searching*

Nizlopi-Half these songs are about you. Pretty cheesy, but still a good band.

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Originally Posted by boo boo

Cool, but im dying to get Mothership Connection (Which is actualy Parliament but whatever).

That album is terrific. :)

I have only 3 songs from that album, they are really really good, im dying to hear the rest.