Albums You're Digging II

Engine · 07-21-2009, 02:21 PM

Thanks to Comus's Review Corner - I just discovered this..

..and have been listening to it extensively.
I'm not sure if they meant it to be, but I think this is the closest approximation of Loveless that I have ever heard.

swim · 07-21-2009, 03:24 PM

I thought she was sticking a straw up her nose. Kids these days.

Alfred · 07-21-2009, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Engine

It's a really wonderful album... I love it too. I need to get some more music by Alcest, though I've heard that it's pretty much black metal with some of that shoegazy stuff thrown.

Rage Against the Machine · 07-21-2009, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by sidewinder

I downloaded this months ago and still haven't listened to it. I've only heard a few songs while shuffling. Also I've never listened to BMSR but the samples for this interested me.

That needs to change.

Bulldog · 07-21-2009, 03:35 PM

^ I love this album. Such great, reasonably laid-back night-time listening. The lyrics are out of the top-drawer, as per norm. Shame it's probably gonna be his last album though.

^ Possibly my best find of the week. Absolutely superb stuff from the Aussie singer-songwriter - sounds just as intense and well-honed as the best of a certain Nick Cave's stuff, with the added twist of the guy's distinctive, baritone voice.

^ Still every bit as awesome as I remember it being. Can't remember when I last gave it a proper end-to-end listen like I did this morning though.

^ And I think I'll be digging this out shortly too.

Engine · 07-21-2009, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Bulldog

^ And I think I'll be digging this out shortly too.

I can't go more than a couple years without some Violator. I think I have bought the CD 3 times.

Bulldog · 07-21-2009, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Engine

I can't go more than a couple years without some Violator. I think I have bought the CD 3 times.

Definitely their best in my opinion (though I'm quite a fan of Speak and Spell and Music For the Masses too). I've still got my mangy old CD of it from about 5 years ago - must remember to look out for the extended version sometime.

Engine · 07-21-2009, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Bulldog

Definitely their best in my opinion (though I'm quite a fan of Speak and Spell and Music For the Masses too). I've still got my mangy old CD of it from about 5 years ago - must remember to look out for the extended version sometime.

My CD is also very old & mangy - I bought it used years ago.
These days such things aren't necessary but before DLs, the used bins at record stores were essential.

Bulldog · 07-21-2009, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Engine

My CD is also very old & mangy - I bought it used years ago.
These days such things aren't necessary but before DLs, the used bins at record stores were essential.

Yeah, definitely. I remember the good old days of itching to get my month's payslip when I was a teenager just so I could blow it all on the HMV bargain bin or amazon's 2nd-hand offers - those were the days eh

sidewinder · 07-21-2009, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by sidewinder

I downloaded this months ago and still haven't listened to it. I've only heard a few songs while shuffling. Also I've never listened to BMSR but the samples for this interested me.

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Originally Posted by Rage Against the Machine

That needs to change.

Not feeling it, sorry. I had checked out some BMSR samples in the past and they didn't appeal to me either.

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Engine air quote Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: pollen & mold Posts: 3,108	Thanks to Comus's Review Corner - I just discovered this.. ..and have been listening to it extensively. I'm not sure if they meant it to be, but I think this is the closest approximation of Loveless that I have ever heard.

07-21-2009, 03:35 PM	#1545 (permalink)
Bulldog why bother? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 4,840	^ I love this album. Such great, reasonably laid-back night-time listening. The lyrics are out of the top-drawer, as per norm. Shame it's probably gonna be his last album though. ^ Possibly my best find of the week. Absolutely superb stuff from the Aussie singer-songwriter - sounds just as intense and well-honed as the best of a certain Nick Cave's stuff, with the added twist of the guy's distinctive, baritone voice. ^ Still every bit as awesome as I remember it being. Can't remember when I last gave it a proper end-to-end listen like I did this morning though. ^ And I think I'll be digging this out shortly too.