Ha, I just downloaded album last night! Weird.

Can I send somebody something? :)

4 weeks & none of you bastards have got the balls to send me anything?

Hell I'll even put my RYM link in my sig so you can check if I have it already.

You are probably the hardest person on MB to pick something for since you already have everything but I'll give it a shot. Just give me a bit and I'm sure I'll come up with something.

:thumb:

Yes, I did listen to this (as you can probably tell in my last fm chart), and I really enjoyed it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but was Christian Vander was the drummer for Magma? Anyways, the whole album is like a jazz/classical/avant-garde fusion. I had to listen to it a couple of times before I decided that I actually liked it :) The vocal parts are very ambient and repetitive, almost like the voices are supporting the instruments. Thank you Skaligojurah!

i just sent you a two albums....didn't i?

it's on! :)....just give me a few to look through your stuff

I dont think he listens to the Fall. Try sending him one of there's.

ps: Dont feel bad urban i made the thread and Iv only gotten like 2 things.

Yeah, glad you did. True, Vander is the drummer for Magma, I think this was his attempt to prove that he could do a work without utilizing his virtuoso drumming skills. It has touches of Magma, but is generally well more subdued.

Now, I have an idea what album I want to send out next, now just to find out who to send it to.

i am so sorry....i completely mis-read what you posted....please send me something

it's on man.....in the morning i'm sending you 17 :)....well i have two in mind

Thanks bob, but actually your one of the few who sent me some stuff. :)

I want something from you too! (Even though I'm pretty sure you commented before that we have opposite tastes) but surprise me.

Hit me up bro.

For Charlemagne

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Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells

Blues, folk, indie rock with nice fingerpicking and awesome drumming. I love this album and band. Two Gallants is one of my long time favorites and this is my favorite album og theirs.

Yeah, I'll download them as soon as I am connected to some good internet. It's really slow here at my school...

Sent to theuglyorgan:

Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
http://www.soundstagedirect.com/medi...t_to_lunch.jpg

I saw that you were looking for a good introduction into jazz, and I thought that I'd share with you one of the first jazz albums I ever listened to - it really helped me get into the genre as a whole!

While still pretty avant-garde for jazz music, this recording is very tuneful and listenable. Eric Dolphy is a master, and the recording is an interesting foray into the genre.

for bob.

Despite our very similar taste I found something that you're not really into - good post-rock. So I'm sending you

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...IL._SS400_.jpg

Gastr Del Sol - Serpentine Similar (1993)

One of those bands along with Slint and Tortoise that had enormous influence on post-rock. Gastr Del Sol is somehow always neglected in that regard, so I'm sending you their first album, my favorite. Enjoy!



for Urban Hatemonger

So, I've been looking at your last.fm and browsing your RYM and, man, what a collection. You like Factrix? and MX-80 Sound...and Minimal Compact :thumb: But I didn't see Tuxedomoon, that's what's missing :)
And one other thing - a couple albums from ex-Yu groups really surprised me like Videosex, Idoli, Teska Industrija. Cool!
So I thought of sending you Tuxedomoon, but I'm pretty sure that's right up your alley, so I've decided to send you something that you don't seem to really listen, but you may like it, since I saw a couple of albums by Six Organs Of Admittance in your collection.

http://www.fieldrecords.co.kr/upfile/cover(2528).jpg

Jackie-O Motherfucker - Liberation (2001)

Freak-folk, psych, drone, space rock, whatever...mind blowing for sure. Hope you'll like it. Enjoy!


for Skaligojurah

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Vibracathedral Orchestra - Versatile Arab Chord Chart (2000)

Improvisational, psychedelic collective, kinda similar to the one above, but more droney and spaced out. Start tripping!

wow....i can honestly say this took me completely by surprise and that i've never heard anything quite like it....the music is nothing that is exactly new but at the same time is done incredibly well especially with the vocal delivery...which is absolutely unique....talk-hop?....i love it....this will stay in rotation here for some time....thanks man

thanks....i'm going out for a ride here in a few minutes and i'm loading this up :)

For Urban Hatemonger:

Action Swingers - Decimation Blvd
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i spent over an hour looking through your massive collection....and after many decision changes i stuck with this ignored american punk rock classic....although you have lots of stuff kind of like this....nothing quite to this level

basically think Iggy Pop fronting Pussy Galore after a week long binge on bathtub speed and bourbon!

for Rezz:

Pigface - Notes From The Underground
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i know you dig the stoner rock....this is thee ultimate drug induced "rock" super band...i think there is something like 34 members on this album including members of Swans, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Red Hot Chili peppers, Throbbing gristle and Dead Kennedys....the result is a well made blissful cacophony!

I could have sworn I had some Tuxedomoon somewhere. Maybe I just didn't put it up, not everything I own is on my RYM list.

Most of those bands I picked up when I was doing my whole 'listen to a band from every country' thing. I seemed to find Yugoslavian post punk really easy to find for some reason.

I have heard one Jackie-O Motherfucker album & was a bit meh about it. I'll give this one a go.

I sent Bob a few albums and if anyone else fancies some of these just ask.
Windy And Carl-Depths
Spacey Drone. More talented than most of the big names in the genre. can completely transport you to another universe.
Dirty Three-Ocean Songs
Post-Rock. Possibly the best Post-Rock I have heard, calming music with a Slowcore influence that can soothe anyone.
Scianka-Dni wiatru
Experimental Polish Psych. Amazing stuff and probably the best music to have come out of Poland.
Iron Monkey-Our Problem
Sludge Metal. Labelled as "the British Eyehategod".
Black Box Recorder-England Made Me
Twee, an often misunderstood genre but with some amazing stuff. Such as this album, great pop songs.

I'll take some Scianka, if you don't mind.

Can you send me that Black Box Recorder album?

thanks James!

For RezZ

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I sent you some Sleigh Bells.
They are a Noise Pop band that I just found out about not too long ago. I'm really enjoying their album that came out in May last year.

From bob.
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-con...-democover.jpg
Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth-Demos
Wow this is good stuff. Tad takes his ferocious growl and huge metal influence straight over from Tad but advances on it immensely. Making a proper Metal album almost as amazing as the stuff from Tad. Cannot wait for them to release a proper album.

Well, that's why it's hard to pick an album for you.

Yeah, there are lots of blogs out there with well known, but also some pretty obscure, forgotten stuff even for us from ex-Yu.

Both great choices.
But, I'm interested in this if you'd be so kind :)

I love Treats--what is this?

yeah I sent him Treats, that's not the official album cover, just a pic that I found through google images.

I liked that one better than the album cover anyways

Yep, Treats has an awful album cover...

For bob.:

Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart (1994)

http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/...6be7af5d4g.jpg

You sent me some hardcore (I've given it one listen. I'll be traveling all next week so I'll listen to it some more then and get back to you next week) so I should of course send you some post-hardcore! Enjoy...

edit: okay, so he didn't have any last.fm plays but of course he has heard this! Anybody else want it?

it's one of my favorites by them.....but i was just think that i have not really listened to it in well over five years.....so honestly i can't wait to hear the entire thing again....and write a new review :)

For Charlemagne:

Alkaline Trio - Goddamnit (1998)

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/image...d0922110.L.jpg

We do have nearly opposite tastes, but there are two areas in which we overlap--pop punk and folk punk. I know that you like some emo and pop punk, and Alkaline Trio being my most played artist on last.fm and all... well, you must try their very best, Goddamnit!

For theuglyorgan:

Germans - Cape Fear (2007)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Fear_album.JPG

They take Pavement/Built to Spill/Dinosaur Jr. style 90s indie rock and add a keyboard. The result is pretty cool and the song writing is very good, IMO. It's also one of the only things in my collection that makes me feel like a hipster because nobody has ever heard of it. Enjoy!

I like Alkaline Trio but I've only heard specific songs here and there and looking over that tracklist. I have Clavicle in my collection. one of my favorites by them.

****ing love it. Very much reminded me of Can, and even had some Sun Raish elements mixed in except well more atmospheric than the two. Wonderful listen. It was repetitive at a few points, but I mean, that's the nature of the beast, and it's a beautiful beast.

It's maybe their only true start-to-finish album. 'Cop' is my favorite tune! :yeah:

i agree...except i also think Good Mourning and Alkaline Trio (Compilation) are good start to finish albums

No problem, glad you found it interesting. I think the "cybergrind" tag really only applies to their first EP and some of their debut full-length. To me, this is more like Converge-esque mathcore with synths and electronic breaks.

Bob sent me...

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Action Swingers - Decimation Blvd.

The first thing I notice about this is the list of related bands which reads like a who's who of my record collection so God knows how this band managed to escape my radar for so long.
The album itself has 14 songs and clocks in at a massive 20 minutes long so at least I knew I wouldn't get bored listening to it.
Musically it falls somewhere between a faster, more grungy version of The Saints & a white Bad Brains which is a pretty good place to be if you're making an album that's trying to appeal to me.
Usually I have 3 rules when it comes to this sort of music..

1. Be abrasive
2. Be sleazy
3. Sound like shit

Thankfully this album has 1 & 3 in spades.

I'd love to tell you what my favourite songs were but in all honesty the whole album was over before I had chance to choose any, and I don't know about you but I'd much rather be left wanting more than get bored halfway through and turn it off.
If I do have once criticism it's that some of the songs sound far too much alike. But as most of them are barely a minute long this can easily be forgiven. it's not the most original album you'll ever hear but as far as i'm concerned give me something with 3 chords and some attitude and originality can go fuck itself.

Overall a very good recommendation
7.5/10

nice review man...glad you like them.....i strongly suggest getting their live album called "Enough Already".....just take Decimation and fuel more booze than any single man should drink