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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#651: Apr 26th 2015 at 3:39:20 PM

Black Sabbath - Under Wheels Of Confusion, discs 1-2. The first half of this box set covers the first 5 albums note , which means it kind of covers the "classic era": That is, the next two albums are considered a Dork Age for the original lineup, so unless you only like their work with Ronnie James Dio, these are pretty much the canon albums. On these first couple discs, the track choices are pretty spot on, and it's kind of cool to hear them gradually elaborate on the "blues rock, but slow, loud, and evil" template of the first album.

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#652: Apr 27th 2015 at 9:46:53 AM

Black Sabbath - Under Wheels Of Confusion, disc 3. The tail end of the Ozzy lineup and the beginning of the Dio lineup. For better or worse, Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die! were a bit more experimental than you might guess from listening to this disc: those albums are represented with five straight ahead hard rock songs and one orchestral ballad ("She's Gone"), when there were also odd flirtations with prog rock, jazz, and disco. Regardless, even though I'm primarily an Ozzy fan, I have to admit that bringing in Dio seemed to reinvigorate them as a band - there's just much more energy and coherence in the four Heaven And Hell tracks than much of what precedes them note .

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#653: Apr 29th 2015 at 3:10:20 PM

Zac Brown Band, Jekyll + Hyde.

One part country, 47 parts Genre Roulette. It is awesome.

MrMatt Currently listening to stuff Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
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#654: May 2nd 2015 at 9:01:19 PM

Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend

There's an old gag about the singer whose new power pop album is about people being torn apart by love that's still super relevant here, good lord is it ever, and I'm missing out on the "anime gateway moment!" by not watching the videos (never have), but Robert Quine is awesome. And somewhere in there is the guy from Television who didn't bother us by singing in that painful voice, helping Sweet tell someone to sing in their sweet voice.

edited 2nd May '15 9:01:58 PM by MrMatt

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#655: May 3rd 2015 at 1:41:57 PM

Black Sabbath - Under Wheels Of Confusion: Disc 4. The last disc of this Sabbath box set ends up being the only completely Ozzy-free one: Instead we hear from basically every other Sabbath vocalist there's been: Dio (again), Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, and Tony Martin. The Dio tracks are obviously the best, even if there's not much change between Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules - for instance "Turn Up The Night" is a blatant "Neon Knights" rewrite. I did find the Ian Gillan tracks strangely appealing - there's something a bit off and unintentionally off-kilter about them, which at least adds some personality, which the Glenn Hughes and Tony Martin songs kind of lack: That said, I did like the Hughes-sung "Seventh Star", which sort of feels like a heavier, er, eighties-ier "Kashmir".

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#656: May 7th 2015 at 8:43:02 PM

Paramore - Riot!. This band has had a very gradual rise into my musical "Guilty Pleasure" zone: When they started getting popular I tended to dismiss them as "hot topic punk" note . Then I found "Misery Business" kind of fun to play on Guitar Hero World Tour. Then an acoustic cover of "My Hero" ended up on someone's all Cover Version mix and I enjoyed it... And finally "Real World" and "Still Into You" started getting to me via the top 40 station they put on at work - both because of general earworminess and because, other than "Centuries" by Fallout Boy, those seem to be the only remotely rock-ish songs that get any airplay there. Anyway, I guess the main things this album has that appeal to me are, in order: 1) overall catchiness, 2) Haley Williams' voice, and 3) big, dramatic, teenage emotions expressed in big, dramatic, (teenage) ways. That said, even I have to say that the Shaped Like Itself lyric "Your arms, like towers, tower over me" is pretty silly, and what the example on that page doesn't tell you is that it's part of the pre-chorus of "We Are Broken", so you hear a lot of that redundant line over the course of the song.

edited 7th May '15 8:43:54 PM by MikeK

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#657: Jun 5th 2015 at 2:21:19 PM

Mezzanine by Massive Attack and Check Your Head by Beastie Boys yesterday and Dummy and the Self-Titled Album by Portishead today... wink All classics, of course. [tup]

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#658: Jun 5th 2015 at 7:50:43 PM

They Might Be Giants - Glean. Kinda. See, I've got a subscription to their "Dial-A-Song Direct" thing, and all of the songs from Glean are taken from that, so it only today occurred to me to assemble that album's track-list in playlist form. As an album, I'd say it's maybe the second best thing they've put out in the past 10 years (the first is Nanobots). I do think it ends kind of anticlimactically with the brief instrumental title track... but then again it's occurred to me that I can just pick all of my favorite songs from the first few months of Dial-A-Song revival, whittle that down to 40-50 minutes if needed, and see if I can do a better job making my own Glean.

Ho-Ag - The Word From Pluto. Ho-Ag were a Boston Noise Rock band who I first discovered when they did a cover set of Devo songs one Halloween, and after that I saw them performing their own material a couple of times. Early Devo is kind of a good comparison point - in general, I'd say this album sounds like Post-Punk being played with the intensity of Post-Hardcore.

sharkcrap11 Just A Guy from A Special Hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
Just A Guy
#659: Jun 10th 2015 at 8:21:44 PM

Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys (which is their best album overall, IMO, at least in terms of working as a whole unit- though Check Your Head, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty are classic, they don't quite hold together the way Boutique does) and De-Loused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta. grin Both excellent records, far as I'm concerned... [tup]

sharkcrap11 Just A Guy from A Special Hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
Just A Guy
#660: Jun 15th 2015 at 6:23:05 PM

Re-listened to De-Loused... and then listened to Frances The Mute through earlier today, plus the first Santana album just a few minutes ago, 'cause why not? tongue Again, more great stuff. [tup]

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#661: Jun 16th 2015 at 9:01:54 PM

Biff Rose - The Thorn In Mrs. Rose's Side. Total impulse buy - I saw it in the new arrival section of an old record shop and my reaction was "I know this guy's name, but why?". Turns out it's because David Bowie covered his song "Fill Your Heart" (co-written with Paul Williams) on Hunky Dory. That song's kind of representative of this album's overall style - sort of orchestral hippie music hall. I find this album whimsically charming, but I can also see where someone could call it, er, whimsically irritating

ColonelCathcart Since: Jun, 2013
#662: Jun 17th 2015 at 6:35:30 AM

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

First time listening to it and I didn't think the melodies were as strong as advertised. It's something I'd listen to again, though.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#663: Jun 21st 2015 at 7:40:34 PM

The Beach Boys' Surf's Up Album.

Their 3rd Best Album in my opinion, after Pet Sounds and Smile/The Smile Sessions.

MrMatt Currently listening to stuff Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
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#664: Jun 21st 2015 at 9:29:57 PM

Heart - Jupiter's Darling

Better than the sum of its parts, but that's still only So Okay, It's Average. Not really a throwback to their 70's sound as advertised but not what they'd been doing either - vaguely rootsy is the best I have for it, but still very polished pop-rock. Don't expect anything here still cracks their setlist.

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#665: Jun 23rd 2015 at 8:04:56 PM

Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year. Last week I met up with some friends and saw The Pixies live, and a couple of us ended up talking about Frank Black's solo work, which caused me to look around to see if I still had this one. I was semi-obsessed with this album for a while, but hadn't put it on in a long time. I still really like it. There's a lot to take in, since it crams 22 songs into 60 minutes and goes through a fair amount of genre-hopping, but really demonstrates his knack for interesting melodies and diverse set of influences.

edited 23rd Jun '15 8:06:15 PM by MikeK

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#667: Jun 30th 2015 at 10:36:06 AM

White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000. This is still a bit of a fun listen, just probably not as good as I thought it was when I was 15. There's just a few too many songs that don't really have a memorable riff and just get by on production and overall attitude. Not to say that this album doesn't have it's share of cool riffs: The most memorable part of their biggest hit "More Human Than Human" is it's Epic Riff, and I'd also particularly single out "Electric Head Part II" for the novel idea of a Groove Metal-ized version of the oft-quoted Peter Gunn theme.

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#668: Jul 5th 2015 at 5:28:09 PM

Various Artists - Songs In The Key Of X. I'm in the middle of watching the whole original run of The X-Files. so it seemed like a good time to break out this companion album. I actually had this album before I knew too much about the show, largely because I liked some of the contributing artists. Not counting Mark Snow's title theme, only a handful of these songs have actually appeared in episodes: Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" ("Ascension"), Screamin' Jay Hawkin's "Frenzy" ("Humbug"), Danzig's "Deep" ("Syzygy"), and Soul Coughing's "Unmarked Helicopters" ("Max", which wasn't aired until after the album came out). However, the rest of these songs were specifically written and recorded for the album, and the artists generally do a good job of hitting upon the themes and general mood of the show. I thought about rating each of the individual songs on how well they fit the series, but I'm just going to mention a few of my favorites instead:

Soul Coughing - "Unmarked Helicopters". Mike Doughty's fragmented, cryptic lyrical style just lends itself really well to the topic of UFOs and government coverups - I can imagine the song being the recollections of someone who had some kind of alien encounter and is a little too shaken from the experience to explain things too coherently. Even the mandatory "Doughty starts repeating a phrase over and over" section works as a Madness Mantra - "It goes black, black, black, black, blacker". The music is suitably trippy too, and they cleverly incorporate nearly unrecognizable samples from the theme song.

Sheryl Crow - "On The Outside". I'm not much a fan of hers, but this song has this hazy, melancholy feel that perfectly fits with some of the series' more dramatic moments. When looking up the lyrics on songmeanings, I saw someone else point out that, aside from the use of a female pronoun in one line ("She's crazy as anyone can be / that's what they say, they say of me"), the lyrics could be coming from Mulder's POV.

Elvis Costello and Brian Eno - "My Dark Life". Lyrically, this only fits the show in a very abstract way: It is sort of interesting that the opening lines parallel the famous Arc Words: "She said nobody wants to believe". The music is very evocative of the show though, even having a similar feel to Mark Snow's score work.

edited 28th Jul '15 9:23:48 AM by MikeK

sharkcrap11 Just A Guy from A Special Hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
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#669: Jul 8th 2015 at 5:09:31 PM

Last night it was Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan, today it was In / Casino / Out, the Vaya EP and Relationship Of Command by At the Drive-In and tonight it'll probly be Blonde On Blonde, also by Dylan. wink

All classics, for rather different reasons. [awesome]

ColonelCathcart Since: Jun, 2013
#670: Jul 8th 2015 at 6:58:16 PM

Between The Buttons

Of the Stones' psychedelic period, this is probably my second favorite album I've heard. Flowers is above it, Aftermath is just behind, and I've yet to hear Satanic Majesties Request.

Right now I'm listening to This Year's Model and remembering just how great it was. Not sure why I started to prefer Imperial Bedroom.

sharkcrap11 Just A Guy from A Special Hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
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#671: Jul 10th 2015 at 1:21:41 PM

[up] Satanic Request is a solid bit of Sgt. Peppers-style Pop-Psychedelic- not groundbreaking, but one of the better albums of its type- I give it an 8.5 or a 9 out of 10... smile

Both De-Loused In the Comatorium and Frances The Mute by The Mars Volta earlier in the day and the first two albums by The Byrds right now. Decided to work my way through the whole At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta discographies for the first time in a while, but I'm taking a break... wink

Khoven Valyri makes music from bad Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
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#672: Jul 15th 2015 at 3:51:49 AM

The Flashbulb - Réunion

Brian Eno - Discreet Music

Klaus Schulze - Big In Japan (Live In Tokyo 2010)

death's dynamic shroud.wmv - DERELICTメガタワー

Lusine Icl. - A Pseudo Steady State

I'm Valyri. I make music.
ColonelCathcart Since: Jun, 2013
#673: Jul 16th 2015 at 8:04:17 PM

[up][up] First listen to Satanic Majesties Request was a bit underwhelming. I didn't hate it, but it isn't an instant favorite. The Byrds are my favorite band though.

sharkcrap11 Just A Guy from A Special Hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
Just A Guy
#674: Jul 24th 2015 at 8:42:51 PM

Speaking of the Stones, I'm listening to Beggar's Banquet right now, and I intend to listen to Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers later tonight, with Exile On Main Street intended for tomorrow night. tongue Also listened to Mommy's Little Monster by Social Distortion earlier, and Forbidden Places, Too High To Die and No Joke! by Meat Puppets yesterday on the way to/at/on the way home from the gym, too... Everything I've listed is solid to classic, IMO. [tup]

Probly gonna listen to Prison Bound, Social Distortion and Somewhere Between Heaven & Hell by Social Distortion tomorrow during my gym excursion then, too. Good times. wink

edited 24th Jul '15 8:43:41 PM by sharkcrap11

BigBertha from Anytown, USA Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#675: Jul 28th 2015 at 8:23:21 PM

I listened to Megadeth's greatest hits album on Thursday. The guys at my art school didn't like it one bit.

Amazing discovery

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