Selected Sounds from a Sweet Wolf and 3 Small Animals Partying in A Cave (indie, rock)

jackhammer · 04-24-2009, 03:19 AM

Dr. Octagonecologyst is a great album and ever so slightly surreal and sinister too. Nice review.

Piss Me Off · 04-24-2009, 04:35 AM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

Anyway if you like hip hop or trip hop or cool beats and rhymes this one is defiantly worth your time (see what I did there?).

I'm pretty sure i like all of these

dac · 04-24-2009, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

[CENTER][I][COLOR="Yellow"]My favorite single from my favorite, band. For me the gold on this single isn’t the A side, its the B side Talk Show Host. Talk Show Host is more progressive than anything they had done before, built around a simple guitar riff added with some trip hop drums and dreamy keyboards Talks Show Host is 4 minutes of sex to your ear. I have no idea what Thom is singing about though, something about a 'gun' and 'a pack of sandwiches' and 'nothing'. But the lyrics aren’t important they’re abstract if anything and open to your own interpretation. Street Spirit itself isn’t as experimental as its b sides, but its still a great song. Revolving around an arpeggio guitar the song is probably the best off the entire Bends album. The music video is a must see, filled with beautiful images of random objects and (people) suddenly going into slow motion while everything around them remains at a normal speed. Another B side Bishop's Robes is similar to Talk Show Host and shows the band experimenting more with keyboards and less guitar work.

Talk show host is the shizz, though I must say I prefer it live over the recorded version. They added that guitar riff that Ed plays, and it's absolutely mesmerizing.

FaSho · 04-24-2009, 01:06 PM

Can I get the Dr. Octogan album as well?

sweet_nothing · 04-24-2009, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by dac

Talk show host is the shizz, though I must say I prefer it live over the recorded version. They added that guitar riff that Ed plays, and it's absolutely mesmerizing.

Im starting to think the version on the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack maybe the best, but yes Ed's guitar is sick.

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Originally Posted by FaSho

Can I get the Dr. Octogan album as well?

PM

jackhammer · 04-24-2009, 03:15 PM

I am not one of the everpresent fanboys worshipping at the altar of Radiohead even though I like them. However 'Talk Show Host' is one damn good track

sweet_nothing · 04-24-2009, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

I am not one of the everpresent fanboys worshipping at the altar of Radiohead even though I like them. However 'Talk Show Host' is one damn good track

Youre fucking right, I'd go as far to say its one of their best.

sweet_nothing · 04-24-2009, 03:55 PM

"I'm gonna hold your face, and toast the snow that fell
Because friends don't waste wine when there's words to sell"

Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
Obstacle 1

Feed your eyes this^^

Turn on the Bright Lights is an album I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of, its also one of the few I can listen straight through without skipping any tracks. Built on a post punk sound similar to Joy Division (especially in the vocals) with mainly simple dueling guitars, throbbing bass, and a snare heavy mix. From the reverbing guitars on the very first track you know that this will be an album you’ll want to listen to again. Though this albums sound isn’t really anything new or original it still manages to pull it off so damn well.
The lyrics are pretty vague and almost abstract not giving a clear explanation of what is going on in the songs. Some say that there are specific meaning told through metaphors and symbolism to songs such as Stella was a Diver and She was Always Down (which is believed to be about a prostitute) “At the bottom of the ocean she dwells, from crevices caressed by fingers and fat blue serpent swells”. But the lyrics in most of the songs could be the best part of the tracks themselves, I’ll never forget how amazed I was the first time I heard the closing track Leif Erickson, Paul’s word were so beautiful and touching yet at the sometime so detached with lines like “Her rabid glow is like braille to the night” or “I'll bring you when my lifeboat sails through the night that is supposing you don't sleep tonight”. If Leif Erickson isn’t my favorite track then PDA surely is with its pounding drums and dueling guitars, and the guitar solo/outro, it is defiantly something that needs to be heard. Ive heard that it could be about date rape, and it seems plausible with lines like “But you're so cute when you're frustrated, dear, yeah, you're so cute when you're sedated, oh dear” or “You are a past dinner, the last winner, I'm raping all around me until the last drop is behind you”. But regardless of what its about its still a ****ing great track. Though the first time I heard this album I liked it but not nearly as much as I do now. It wasn’t until I played PDA on Rock Band 2 I thought “wow this is a really great song, I need to listen to that album again” and now its one of my favorite albums ever. Its post punk with catchy chorus’s what’s not to love? Also I dare you not like a band that dresses so well.

PDA (though missing the guitar outro)

^^Feed your ears this

Leif Erikson

Feed your heart this^^

dac · 04-24-2009, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

I am not one of the everpresent fanboys worshipping at the altar of Radiohead even though I like them. However 'Talk Show Host' is one damn good track

I hope that wasn't aimed at me

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

Also I dare you not like a band that dresses so well.

Dude dresses like a member of the Hitler Youth...

WWWP · 04-24-2009, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

"I'm gonna hold your face, and toast the snow that fell
Because friends don't waste wine when there's words to sell"

Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
Obstacle 1

Feed your eyes this^^

Turn on the Bright Lights is an album I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of, its also one of the few I can listen straight through without skipping any tracks. Built on a post punk sound similar to Joy Division (especially in the vocals) with mainly simple dueling guitars, throbbing bass, and a snare heavy mix. From the reverbing guitars on the very first track you know that this will be an album you’ll want to listen to again. Though this albums sound isn’t really anything new or original it still manages to pull it off so damn well.
The lyrics are pretty vague and almost abstract not giving a clear explanation of what is going on in the songs. Some say that there are specific meaning told through metaphors and symbolism to songs such as Stella was a Diver and She was Always Down (which is believed to be about a prostitute) “At the bottom of the ocean she dwells, from crevices caressed by fingers and fat blue serpent swells”. But the lyrics in most of the songs could be the best part of the tracks themselves, I’ll never forget how amazed I was the first time I heard the closing track Leif Erickson, Paul’s word were so beautiful and touching yet at the sometime so detached with lines like “Her rabid glow is like braille to the night” or “I'll bring you when my lifeboat sails through the night that is supposing you don't sleep tonight”. If Leif Erickson isn’t my favorite track then PDA surely is with its pounding drums and dueling guitars, and the guitar solo/outro, it is defiantly something that needs to be heard. Ive heard that it could be about date rape, and it seems plausible with lines like “But you're so cute when you're frustrated, dear, yeah, you're so cute when you're sedated, oh dear” or “You are a past dinner, the last winner, I'm raping all around me until the last drop is behind you”. But regardless of what its about its still a ****ing great track. Though the first time I heard this album I liked it but not nearly as much as I do now. It wasn’t until I played PDA on Rock Band 2 I thought “wow this is a really great song, I need to listen to that album again” and now its one of my favorite albums ever. Its post punk with catchy chorus’s what’s not to love? Also I dare you not like a band that dresses so well.

PDA (though missing the guitar outro)

^^Feed your ears this

Leif Erikson

Feed your heart this^^

Nice choice. I adore this album.

04-24-2009, 03:19 AM	#31 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Dr. Octagonecologyst is a great album and ever so slightly surreal and sinister too. Nice review. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

04-24-2009, 03:15 PM	#36 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I am not one of the everpresent fanboys worshipping at the altar of Radiohead even though I like them. However 'Talk Show Host' is one damn good track __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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