Yeah I really dug it a lot. Do you have any other Cocteau Twins reccomendations?

Heaven or Las Vegas is tied with Treasure in my book. Blue Bell Knoll comes in after that. I'd say those are their 3 required listens...if I had to throw one more in the book it would be Victorialand.

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Listened yesterday and I'm really impressed. Some real quality tracks here and an awesome War Pigs cover.

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Yeah, it's mainly for the title song, but have been cranking this on overdrive since it came up on Saturday Night Rage (Local music show in which a musician chooses the music over a 3-4 hour period, normally has some classics). Love the breakdown @ ~4:30. Great clip by Cunningham as well.

Yeah, love the two above! :thumb:

I think Victorialand kicks the shit out of the rest, myself. I have a soft spot for Blue Bell Knoll but it's maybe a little but too cute. Check out Garlands - from when they were making music in true style of 4AD-goth. It's a strange treat.

I can vouch for those :thumb: Been a while since I listened to either of them though.


It's weird how little Cohen I've listened to over the last three or four months, and by little I of course mean none at all. His swansong album here's decent stuff overall. Brilliant lyrics to match the laid back, morose atmosphere as per norm but a) On That Day is a crap song and b) there's not much musically-speaking that particularly blows my mind whenever I heard it. Well, in most places anyway.

A personal favourite. Great stuff. Infact I am going to listen to this today.

What I've been putting on whenever I take care of internet stuff lately...

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Top hits from driving around...

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I love this album so much. Another one of the first albums I got that I still listen to today - this being around the time of its release in 2000/2001. Sure, it's not the New Order we all know and love, what with the guitar-heavy sound and that, but the songwriting is straight out of the top-drawer here, especially regarding songs like this one...


edit - Just thought that I've had this album about ten years now. Man I feel old!

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I love the way this man speaks. Very powerful, but without pretensions.

Various Artists-Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis
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After looking through my old compilations I remembered this and gave it my first listen in ages it's just utterly beautiful practicily started Tropicalia and it's just perfect if you don't have this get it.

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Fear Factory - Mechanize (2010)

New Fear Factory is very metalicious with some intense drumming from the Atomic Clock Mr. Gene Hoglan. It really showcases their push to include more noticeable melodic parts which are thankfully done tastefully and feel relevant to the song, something a lot of bands (ahem metalcore) seem to fail to grasp.

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Charred Walls of the Damned - Charred Walls of the Damned (2010)

I'm pretty sure anything with Tim 'Ripper' Owens is going to be good, it's like the law or something.

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Giving this a proper listen for the first time in months. Better every time.

Damn fine new album, you speak the truth. :thumb:

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With Sleep Parade around Australias growing Prog. scene is absolutely booming :D

What do you get when you combine Sleeping People with Mice Parade? Sleep Parade! :D

All kidding aside, the song is pretty good.

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Funeral Oration - Funeral Oration (Hopeless, 1995)

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Dutch melodic hardcore/punk rock with English vocals, fun stuff. They were active from 83 to the late 90s, apparently getting more melodic as they went on which is fine with me. I only have this and the two after it, so well into their more melodic sound, but still rough around the edges. I think the singer's dead now.

Thanks man. Their debut album has been a good companion lately.

As a way to beef up my reggae collection I did some research and found this guy. Damn he's amazing. Definitely the best artist I've found recently in the world of reggae

Tiken Jah Fakoly - L'Africain

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I was also in the mood for some more World music so I decided to stick with Africa and found

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Goosebump inducing gorgeousness!

I love it when I don't listen to an album for a long time and then rediscover it. It's almost like listening for the first time. I just felt the strong desire to listen to kill em all. and it's just as amazing as I remember it being.
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I would like that album more if Hetfield didn't sound like a pre-pubescent whiner.

Really? I find everything about this album super stimulating. He was only like twenty when they released this album.

The music is great...I just really can't stand the vocals. Honestly, most Metallica has worn out for me, so I really shouldn't even talk. I'll still pop on Ride the Lightning from time to time, but the appeal just isn't there anymore.

Kill 'em all and master of puppets are the only two of their albums that I really dig. But I only get the full experience if I listen to them then take a long break (at least a year) then rediscover the details the next time I listen to them.

Maybe that's what I need...I'll give one of their albums a spin soon and see if it clicks with me again. I used to love them while I was in high school

It's literally been years since I last listened to more than a handful of songs off this album, which is kinda funny, what with its being fantastic and all that. The man's work in the latter part of the 70s overshadows the earlier stuff like this for me, so I guess that must have something or other to do with it.

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The Folk Implosion - Dare To Be Suprised

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The Divine Comedy-Casanova
A thoroughly enjoyable work of smartarse pop, I like it as much as I did 2 years ago when I last heard it.

The Divine Comedy were genius, and what voice. Though they did have their 15 minutes of fame here, it seems for the most part they have been forgotten these days.

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It's folk punk, but it has so much more interesting influences, world and country and everything and it's really good.

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It's impossible for me not to dig a Hold Steady album.

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This is just as good as A House With No Home, possibly even better, I have to give it a few more listens to decide

I actually prefer his early 70's work, myself...and that album is pure gold. There was a while when all I really wanted to listen to was "The Man Who Sold the World", "Hunky Dory", and "Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust".

I've been digging this one at work, quite a bit:
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Al Green - Lay it Down (2008)

One could argue that it's not as strong as the good ole' days, but there are a few songs that I just can't get enough of on here...like this one:


How could you not move to that??

Number one on my cardio workout music. Fast and to the point. Music for my short attention spam moments.
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Lansing-Dreiden - A Sectioned Beam

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I finally downloaded this EP recently, second listen this week. And I dig it. It's always hard for me to describe this band's sound. Poppy, dreamy, spacey, 60s and 80s influence, maybe a touch of shoegaze, F if I know. Mostly just beautiful pop. I just like their sound. Soothing vocals and melodies.

This DK album seems to get a lot of hate but I really enjoy it. Perhaps it's because it was one of the first DK albums I heard, back when my young mindset, when blindly buying an album, was "what album has the most songs for the least amount of money?". My favourites are probably 'Cesspool in Eden', 'One-Way Ticket to Pluto' and 'Do The Slag'. All in a row too.

Rod Modell w/ Kevin Hanton - Illuminati Audio Science
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Rod Modell makes some pretty awesome minimalist dub techno in his lonesome, and with Hanton on board the result is just as good as always. 66 minutes of illustrious, flowing beats. Not everyones cup of tea I am sure, but for those who enjoy the music it is well worth checking out the album (And the artist). Ridiculously deep. Great background music.

Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives

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The best glitch-hop album ever. :bowdown: Where it all began for me.

Right now?

Mezmerize - System Of A Down.