ITT: Talk about non-existent music

Eh...Gets kinda samey real fast.

How many are fans of Jules Verne Cyanide? Their an awesome neo-romantic death metal band.

edited 27th Feb '11 6:57:52 PM by Alichains

Their decision to confine their touring exclusively to the steampunk con circuit I don't think helped their careers. They had real crossover potential.

edited 27th Feb '11 6:13:56 PM by merton

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Which is ironic, because Reel Crossover Potential, the Morris/Fish prog-folk outfit failed by not narrowing down their markets enough. I don't think EMI was the right label for them at all, I really don't.

EDIT: Also the constant and unwarranted references to crude sexual acts probably gained them an unhelpful PG-rating.

edited 27th Feb '11 6:39:19 PM by mmysqueeant

My favorite genre is Marshmallow Rock.

At first I didn't realize I needed all this stuff...

There was a great M-Rock scene around Tallahassee in the mid-70s. You got great bands like the Bonfire Brothers (you should try to track down a bootleg of one of their live shows—Murphy's banjo solos during "I Was Born American (Song About Death)" are epic) and Mudlark Majesty. Shame the scene was so druggy, though; most of the really good musicians OD'd before the end of the decade.

Words cast into the uncaring void of the internet.

You should hear some of the old bands I dredged up from the boxes in the garage. There's all these cassete tapes (Yes, I know what they are) of a band called 'Silent Polka Room' most of the stuff is really good, mostly offtakes of the issues of the time. And one that seems pretty relevant today, 'The Day The Cloudlands Shook'.

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

Ah, steampunk conventions. I have to admit I did enjoy Sky Motto's attempts at recreating dwarfcore for steam calliopes. Pity about that explosion killing half the band and permanently deafening the rest the day before their first professional label album came out.

Alright, I just got a reccomendation from another pseudo-rock classical fan. They said, if I like Ishikawa and Molyneux, I'd like these guys.

Rhapsody on a Wire.

Rhapsody on a Wire are awesome! Seriously, the lead singer, Edward Blake, is possibly one of the best male vocalists I've heard. And their song A Symphony at Midnight? Genius!

edited 27th Feb '11 7:40:55 PM by AnnoR

"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."

Genius is overrated. Their album Pearls Before Pearls showed they had lot of potential, but they've thoroughly squandered it in the two decades since.

Meh... as far as mid-90's grungegaze goes, Phlogiston and The Head of the Head of State weren't that bad. Had some nice melodies and a couple of interesting bass solos, at least. I think the part where they really went downhill was with Blackendown. Talk about selling out to the neo-post-commie-rock machine! Ah well, maybe they'll get some respect back with their move to Butt Attack Records - their appearance on the label sampler with The Zabblepanties and Disco Agitator was pretty decent.

So, yesterday I was looking around my local CD shop and came across (and subsequently bought) Misanthropic Pantheistic Abstractism by The Dark Rhapsody. I've been trying to find a physical copy for a while now; it's the band's debut, and perfectly showcases the awesome symphonic black/folk/doom/coldwave/carnival metal style they played before they sold out and replaced all the black/doom/coldwave elements with Pantera-styled groove metal.

Anyone else dig the band's early stuff?

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I'd like to agree, but sadly I have to say that they were awesome. Don't get me wrong, they are still good, but after Ian Error left and Dan Smoke replaced him, things started to get downhill. It's probably because Ian took a great part in the songwriting and now Michael Boy does it all by himself.

But Ian does a solo project now and his first album "I am Error" is pretty good.

I can't believe that I really derived all names from Zelda memes...

People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.

I do admire Error for his songwriting skills, but I have to say I prefer Dan Smoke as a keyboardist, because he plays his own melodies instead of using a lot of orchestration like Ian did. Also, Dan teaming up with Jens Johansson and Jordan Rudess for a keyboard solo? MUSICAL ORGASM.

And oh God, yes, Misanthropic Pantheistic Abstractism is a masterpiece. I don't know what was running through their heads when they made Fuck Off and Die, but let me just say it deserves to have a rating of 0% from 60 reviews on Metal Archives.

60 reviews with an average of 0%? I've just looked at their page and Fuck Off and Die has 48 reviews with an average of 10%. Some of the more eyesorish reviews are gone, and somebody actually wrote a reasonably positive review (compared to the others).

I remember some fanboy wrote a 100% review of the album that attacked everyone who disliked the album for "not being open-minded enough", or something. That review got nuked pretty quickly, but I managed to save a copy.

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^It's just the same angst-ridden whining and screaming from Her Dying Words turned Up To Eleven. Her Dying Words did a better job of it on their album Prom Night Suicide, but they're still just as shitty as MPA.

Hylian Rap is the shit.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Hylian Rap? Oh, the Lo Z-themed rap group? Eh, I'm not a big fan of them. Then again, I'm not a big fan of rap to begin with.

So, who here has heard that Rhapsody on a Wire is coming out with a new album? It's called Jaded Minds in Retrospect. I hear there's going to be a remix of Crossroads and Crossfire on it. I'm not sure how I feel about that, since the original Crossroads and Crossfire was one of my favorites.

"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."

Not the group, the genre.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Oh, I see some people were talking about dwarfcore? There's this new genre thing called "Towercap rap". It seems kinda stunted at the moment, let's hope the community isn't shortsighted enough to make it shortlived. You know what they say...new genres tend to be a shortlives as a canary in a coal mine filled with goblins.

Always touching and looking. Piss off.

Whoo! Hy Rap's da WORD.

Now posting as Enzeru, this serves as an emergency avatar backup account

I've noticed that this is a largely rock/metal discussion. I'm not that big of a fan of rock, and I kind of prefer pop. And there's this pop song that I've heard, and it's really good. It's called The Room (wrong room). It's by a woman singer.

Screw pop, I want to keep discussing Misanthropic Pantheistic Abstractism. I just can't believe how brilliant the album is.

I mean, even the cover art is amazing:

edited 28th Feb '11 1:02:23 PM by Lordnecronus

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You can't judge music by artwork. Would you judge a movie by the popcorn you ate during it?

You would if it was the song "Popcorn" on the album A Movie by Camillo Cavour and the Fat Grins from Space. I think that's an uncharacteristically weak song - I don't know whose idea it was to have Giorgio Napolitano sing lead instead of Camillo, but it's completely hookless, and Giorgio might be a good drummer, but his voice is so nasal and off-key it's ridiculous. If you download A Movie, delete that song.

FYI, "Popcorn" is the best track on the album. It helps that the entire album is pretty crap, of course.

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