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Pavement-Crooked rain crooked rain

GREAT band!!! Awesome album choices by said band too!!! I loved this band since my twelfth birthday and i still can't stop lovin' 'em! You're right about the absolute ton of character there is in the music / vocals / lyrics... they were a really tightly knit unit that really knew how to play to their strengths and make an album great. They never really released anything substandard in their entire career.

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Power pop is a genre I will almost always like, but rarely dive headlong into. I think this album might be changing that. Lovely buzzing melodies, but honestly, I don't know why Neko Case doesn't sing the whole thing - she kills every track she's on.

Three or Four is the standout track at the moment.

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Great album.
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Amazing Japanese rock outfit.
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Thier best album

Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes

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Sometimes when I go from related video to related video on YouTube I get nowhere.. but this time I DID end up finding a new favorite artist. Peter Broderick

Home

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Float

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I've been getting into Wolf Parade lately:

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Wolf Parade- Mount Zoomer

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Wolf Parade- Apologies to the Queen Mary

<3

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Amen to that. Along with the Celibate Rifles, the Triffids and the Church, they're probably my favourite product of that whole garage rock scene in Australia in the late 70s/early 80s (although I'm not really 100% sure the Church were from that same scene though). Agreed on how they have literally no bad albums as well - one or two of them don't interest me so much, but otherwise even the last album they ever recorded is worth having. Bit of a shame how Garrett pulled the plug and went on to make a mockery of everything the Oils stood for in politics, but I guess all good things come to an end eh.

As for what I'm digging today...


My new favourite Dylan album (although I'll probably start saying Time Out Of Mind again this time tomorrow). Among the first bona fide country rock albums, and definitely among the best too (I Threw It All Away :love:). If only it weren't so bloody short.

Ambulance - Curse of Vale Do Lobo

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Brilliant! :bowdown:

Kayo Dot - Coyote

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Serious 'album of the year' material. One listen in and I'm more mesmerized than I ever was by 'Choirs of the Eye'.

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I love what goes on in this album. I listened to it in 2 halves and it's brilliant. The vocal work is tremendous.

Bit of a shame how Garrett pulled the plug and went on to make a mockery of everything the Oils stood for in politics, but I guess all good things come to an end eh.

I'm still kinda mad with Garrett over that... while i can't deny anyone the right to get older and shift their values, it's so hard to watch and read about him working for the Government he once vehemently fought against on so many pressing, concerning issues... I know that sometimes he sincerely must not believe what his party spits out, and sometimes it's hard to watch your childhood / teenage hero toe the party line. Perhaps he has a bigger picture / scheme / idea in mind? Perhaps he now wants to try to change everything from the inside - i'll admit that with my disappointment comes some sort of faith in him still... he seems to sincere a man to just sell out for power.

The bowing smiley compelled me to check this out.

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Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

Never have I been so impressed on a first listen for a black metal album. I have Anteater to thank for this beauty. Cheers!

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Revolution!!!

Cool. Hope you're at least a fan of abstract electronic music. If not, maybe it'll make you one?

I enjoy Merzbow and Basinski. Does that count?

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I would've gotten into them earlier if I knew they produced albums of this calibur... wow :thumb:

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Binary Star - Masters of the Universe

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Binary Star - Waterworld

How the f*ck have I missed out on these guys for so long?

Yeah, I kinda hope that's the case as well. It could very well be a question of him simply having his hands tied on the issues, and that the only one with any real power as such is the PM himself. Could also be that all kinds of crazy stuff gets done in his name only, seeing as Garrett's in the lofty position he's in and all that. Of course, I don't live in Australia, so I wouldn't know as well as a lot of other people do, but I highly doubt he'd have spent so long singing about the kinds of things he did if he really didn't care about them. It is pretty painful though hearing what he's had to say about his approving the opening of uranium mines and pulp mills though, I'll admit that much. I guess there's only one man who knows exactly what's going on when all's said and done.


The first of what would be many of Dylan's Christian-themed albums. It's all very nice his standing up for his beliefs in musical form and all that, but bloody hell does it sound corny. Musically though, this is a pretty good album.

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hmmm, not too bad of a start, but just a heads up, if you love this album there's a slight chance you may not like the previous ones. idk, probably cause they don't sing like they do on this one.

although if you love how they composed their music/played the most, then you'd love some of the older stuff.

I've heard their vocals are more extreme on other albums? Like that Linoleum Knife song? It's a shame, but I'm open-minded and will pretty much listen to anything, it may take some time to adjust though. I like Meshuggah, is it as extreme as that? :confused:

^ If you want to explore Mastodon, I'd work backwards if I were you. They started as an Grindcore/Hardcore/Sludge metal band. If you like Blood Mountain, then you'll probably like everything else they did.

That is a very soulful Dylan record, I believe he had members of Dire Straits backing him. It's all very well done, but there are a couple of tunes on it that Dylan attempts to sing that are so very far out of his range, that it's very endearing to hear him attempt, (failing miserably) to hit the high notes. Some people think this was his worst vocal performance, but I love it.

Yeah, soulful's a good word to describe it. It's surprisingly funky in places, or at least much funkier than you'd expect a Dylan album to be, like on Gotta Serve Somebody for instance. There's the odd interesting smattering of gospel around it too. As I say, musically it's a very good, and I never really had a problem with Dylan's voice on it. It's just that the Christian message in the lyrics becomes a bit too overbearing for my tastes here and there. I'd still recommend it to anyone as a good album though.

Ahh thanks heaps for your help. :thumb:

Well from what I know they sound nothing like Ambulance, but it at least shows you're open-minded. :D I wouldn't expect this to be quite so out there. More similar to Autechre and Plaid but unique in its own way.

Re: Mastodon, I never heard any grindcore in their sound, but sludge yeah. As has been said, if you really like Crack the Skye then the best thing to do is work backwards so you'll adjust to the sound. It's true the vocals on Crack the Skye are considerably more accessible than before. I really like all 4 of their albums, with Leviathan probably being my favorite.

^If you want to hear them grind. Bear in mind they've never been a pure grindcore band, but they really have a lot of grindcore parts on this compilation of early tracks. What's great about Mastodon is they mix up a lot of influences, and it's impossible to call them any specific type of metal band. There's also fair amount of mathcore in the mix.

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^ Yeah I haven't heard that one, only the proper albums.

I gave it a listen and really enjoyed. Thanks

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She is so talented, both albums she's made are spectacular.

The Heliocentrics - Out There
Organic trip-hop, jazz fusion, Post rock, Hip-hop, pseudo-Dixieland jazz? Uh...yeah. Out There is quite a difficult album to pigeon hole into a genre, aside from the catchall tag that post-rock lends itself to be sometimes. Perhaps a better description of The Heliocentric's brilliance is to note that they served as DJ Shadow's back up band for a few of his tours, and you can definitely hear his influence as well on the album. Whatever you wanna' call it, I'm diggin' it pretty hard.

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Thievery Corporation - The Outernational Sound
OK, it's not really a Thievery Corporation album in the sense that it's original music created by the duo themselves. The Outernational Sound is actually more of a mix-tape, a 'DJ session' as the CD cover suggests, compiled by Garza and Hilton. Having said that, It's an amazing album regardless. Ironically it retains the duo's signature vibe. I've seen 'party mixes' released as albums under the clout of the name of famous electronic artists before. The more notable example I can think of is Nightmares on Wax's Coming Home, which is also quite good. If you can get past the fact that it's a Thievery Corporation album in name only, I think any TC fan would be more than pleased with it.

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Been meaning to check out that Heliocentrics album for some time, haven't gotten around to it.

I kinda stopped listening to Thievery Corporation about a decade ago, but one album I really enjoyed (and probably the first thing of theirs I ever heard) is Abductions and Reconstructions which is a collection of remixes they've done. IT works really well with a similar vibe throughout. Their DJ Kicks from 1999 is another release compiling other artists' tracks (not remixed this time, so it's more like the one you posted).

So bloody amazing just fantastic really underated
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Ya know, I never actually thought it would happen, but I actually really, really enjoyed the heck out of Muse's The resistance today while i was running errands in my car... that suprised me! I thought I'd like it but I had no idea i'd be so impressed with it!

Ratatat - LP4

I've been looking forward to this album for a while now and upon first listen it definitely does not disappoint. Don't listen to the naysayers complaining it sounds too much like LP3. It's a really solid album that's worth checking out.
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