I wouldn't go that far; their first two albums (Crystalline Happiness and Controlled Substance) had a very interesting take on regular noisgaze conventions. But then the newfound success they had allowed to buy a full orchestra and it all went downhill from there.
Also, their album names suck.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
So, uh, anyone heard Propagate Me's new album? This Maltese faux-anarcho-punk band* apparently liked my suggestion on their official forum to do a concept album so much they've actually released one! It's called I Fought the Law By... and each song describes some humorous action that doesn't constitute fighting the law! Hilarious, right? Here, take a look at the track listing and share some laughs with me:
I Fought the Law By... (20:03)
- ...Not Paying My Cellphone Bill This Month (2:34)
- ...Pointing Out In A Song Title There Are 69 Seats In Our Country's Parliament (Not Kidding!) (0:53)
- ...Attempting To Rob An Ice-Cream Truck With A Water Gun (Gimme All Your Popsicles Bitch) (3:13)
- ...Giving A Lawyer A Wedgie (He Was Asking For It, No, Really) (1:26)
- ...Spazzing Out In the Middle of A Line For Welfare (1:54)
- ...Informing Schoolchildren of Their Constitutional Rights (2:57)
- ...Forming A Parody Anarcho-Punk Band [includes hidden track "...and Making A Concept Album Because Some Guy on the Internet Suggested We Do So"] (7:06)
Needless to say, it's awesome. And funny!
edited 19th Apr '11 1:21:59 PM by Litis
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Propagate Me are cool. The weird thing about their last album was that its official name was Self Titled even though that means it really wasn't.
oh, that's why I need this binary mind // ⌘
That was oddly meta.
Though I think that Propagate Me is a little bit annoying.
Arise From Your Grave! is quite good. Too bad they haven't released any albums since 2007.
HIP HOP HIPSTER
Arise From Your Grave! rather dissapointed me. I find their song structures much to simplistic and their guitarist doesn't have much talent to speak of.
A good band I just discovered is Hypersonic. It's three people, and each one individually writes four songs for an album, and they perform them together. It creates a very interesting, varied sound.
Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I've trapped have all become my pets
Just got back from The Be As You Are Festival in Venice Beach this past week. Man, this totally obscure indie band nobody's ever heard of before called "Oserot" had higher billing than The Hippie Hippos! I couldn't believe it at the time, but man did I feel foolish afterward for doubting their talents. Oserot's stage performance was better than The Hippie Hippos' in every single way! I'm confident that we can expect them to be the next big thing in the Trance-Folk scene.
@Lolipod Distortion: But the thing is that Arise From Your Grave! didn't focus too much on the guitarist (trying to subvert the guitarist-is-always-the-star stereotype). Sure, he was there, and they respected him as a fellow musician, but the focus was more on the singer, drummer, and even the clarinetist.
The reason why I use past tense is because Arise From Your Grave! just officially broke up. Shame.
And Oserot is kickass, but then again, anything's better than t\The Hippie Hippos.
HIP HOP HIPSTER
Seconded. The Hippie Hippos got lucky with their debut album, but that's about it.
Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I've trapped have all become my pets
I just got back from that Eldar-language Opera... wow.
HIP HOP HIPSTER
My mom was going to take me to that, but she got sick. Shame.
Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I've trapped have all become my pets
Seems nerdy, but I'll bite. How was it?
Truely an epic. Considering that he's the fandom's Memetic Jerkass, Eldrad's sacrifice was a pretty big Tear Jerker. When Yriel sweeps in and wipes out the Hive Fleet invading Iyaden had to be the work's Crowning Moment Of Awesome. But the scene at the end where Ynnead rises up from the ashes of the dead Eldar race and challenges Slaanesh was probably my favorite part. I also like how like how the final duel between him and Slaanesh is cut out, to make a Bolivian Army Ending.
edited 24th Apr '11 8:02:27 PM by SantosLHalper
I see. I'm not the biggest Warhammer 40000 fan, but it sounds okay.
Was the music good?
Kvltvre Vvltvre
Aww... DGE's keyboardist quit.
When reached for comment, DEAD GOTHS EVERYWHERE frontman DAVEY DEATHKILL had this to say: "Uh... Wait what? That goth chick quit?
FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKK!!! She was hot too! Come back here, you psychobitch!!!"
, that's set to appear on an upcoming label compilation.
edited 25th Apr '11 2:08:39 PM by BoundByTheMoon
There are snakes in the grass, so we'd better go hunting!
Well, Deathkill seemed to be a total perv, so yeah, karma's a bitch.
Davey Deathkill is a living train wreck of a person. Forget the paper-thin pleas for sex when speaking about ex-bandmates; never in my music-loving life have I ever known a front man to be so obnoxious and yet so fucking clueless and trashed out of his mind that he requires aid from a teleprompter when on stage just to remember the lyrics to songs which he himself has written (and yet still somehow manages to forget the stupid words)!
edited 25th Apr '11 5:15:43 PM by SeanMurrayI
Oh, and drugs. Drugs are a bitch, too. I hear that backstage, he had in his dressing room two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers...
Nah, if that little fuck-up Davey was doing that, that would actually be totally amazing to listen to and watch on stage. Nah, Davey just sticks with Speedball and Morphine.
I tell you, kids, always avoid the needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Vivian Cesspool... because the Horsecore scene is for total losers.
That was a pun, right? Because if it was, you're totally right.
Just awesome like that
Imma let you finish, but The Electric Berry Experience had the best rock/classical/motorcore/tween/porn groove/country music of all time. Too bad they broke up last spring due to that terrible accident involving a metronome, a zebra, two tons of booze, and a Taylor Swift CD. That experience could have made a kick-Adam song.
In fact, didn't kick-Adam mention something about a song that sounds similar to that in that interview three days ago about their forthcoming (June) album?
edited 26th Apr '11 12:41:20 AM by 0dd1
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I don't recall that, but the album sounds like it'll be good.
Speaking of Reality-Warping Heroin, their new album's due in a few days.