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SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#651: Dec 29th 2010 at 2:26:21 PM

I like the album, but I can't really place why. It's more....accomplished, than the country I listen to. Maybe that's a feature of bluegrass in general.

I'd like to elaborate, but my musical vocabulary is failing me here.

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arks Boiled and Mashed Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#652: Dec 29th 2010 at 4:10:27 PM

It's a lot easier to say why you don't like something than to say why you like it.

Robin and Linda Williams are very good musicians. They are good without going toward what I think is referred to as "wankery". Instead of a feeling of "look at how good we are" you get the music. It's simple and low key, but it's also very relatable.

By the way, I just visited Pandora again for the first time in forever. I was actually impressed by how few artists in my collection stumped the database. I got an iTunes gift card for Christmas, so I'm looking for a new obsession.

edited 29th Dec '10 4:11:45 PM by arks

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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#653: Dec 29th 2010 at 4:39:38 PM

I really, really hate it when people talk about "wankery" like it was a quantifiable thing, it's so annoying.

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arks Boiled and Mashed Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#654: Dec 29th 2010 at 4:46:21 PM

Also, showing off can be quite enjoyable.

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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#655: Dec 30th 2010 at 10:17:14 AM

So, if no one else is commenting, maybe next album time?

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MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#656: Dec 30th 2010 at 3:28:17 PM

Common instruments in Country are guitar bass and drums.
Also, the pedal steel guitar and to a lesser extent, the fiddle.

Man, if this isn't country, then I have a serious misunderstanding of what country sounds like.
I just finished listening to the album, I definitely hear where you're coming from. When I think bluegrass, I think something like this or this; the Williams' instrument arrangements aren't so dense (and they have percussion!) so it doesn't immediately register as bluegrass for me, either.

I'm not entirely sure that there is an objective line separating bluegrass from country, just because country is too vaguely-defined and amorphous for such a line.

Arks, what do you think of David Grisman? I have a live album he did with jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli, and I love it.

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#657: Dec 30th 2010 at 3:28:38 PM

I think so. Balrog's album is the last for round two.

Go. Listen. Comment. Enjoy. Round 3 will be starting soon. So far there are nine albums in the next round.

edited 8th Jan '12 8:06:42 PM by MetaFour

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#658: Dec 30th 2010 at 3:38:53 PM

I forgot to mention in my last post, but Devil of a Dream was pretty good music. Not something I expect I'll listent to much, but that's just me.

Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#659: Dec 30th 2010 at 3:39:33 PM

Downloading...

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#660: Dec 30th 2010 at 3:43:42 PM

To answer Meta Four, Mystery Train took a while to pick up, but it definitely hit a bluegrass vibe about two minutes. As for Man of Constant Sorrow, I'm not hearing that one as much.

I had to look up David Grisham. The video I found on youtube was interesting.

bluegrass for me.

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MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#661: Dec 30th 2010 at 6:26:27 PM

Ah, David Grisman on youtube.

The Other Wiki: David Grisman sued You Tube in May 2007, complaining in federal court that You Tube should be required to prevent individuals from posting recordings of Grisman's music.

Maybe that's why there's no songs on youtube from the one album I have.

edited 30th Dec '10 6:26:50 PM by MetaFour

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#662: Dec 31st 2010 at 1:13:47 PM

The Other Wiki: David Grisman sued You Tube in May 2007, complaining in federal court that You Tube should be required to prevent individuals from posting recordings of Grisman's music.

*files this Grisman person into the "douchebag" category*

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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#663: Dec 31st 2010 at 1:17:34 PM

I haven't finished the album yet, nor have I given it an in-depth listen, but so far it just sounds like standard punk rock with string arrangments/samples scattered here and there. The lyrics are in german, so I can't really comment on them, only that they mesh with the music quite well.

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MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#664: Dec 31st 2010 at 5:46:37 PM

*files this Grisman person into the "douchebag who nevertheless makes good music" category*

Anyway, my initial impression of the current album is identical to Wicked's.

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#665: Jan 1st 2011 at 1:36:31 PM

Oh. I'm relistening to the current album in the correct order and it's already quite a bit better, three tracks in.

Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#666: Jan 1st 2011 at 1:39:03 PM

i didn't even listen to it 'cause i couldn't be arsed to spend a bunch of time putting all the tracks in the right order.

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#667: Jan 1st 2011 at 9:51:44 PM

It took me about 30 seconds to reorder the tracks in iTunes, dude.

Anyway, the Horrorshow album is definitely better when listened to in the correct order. Even without understanding any of the lyrics, the music flows much better. Heck, "Hier kommt Alex" and "Bye Bye Alex" are freaking Bookends.

And after reading the wikipedia article, the random snatches of classical music actually make sense in light of the concept. (The album is based on A Clockwork Orange, so all the symphonic bits are excerpts from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.)

So, no plans to hang onto this album, but I do think it's pretty good.

Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#668: Jan 1st 2011 at 9:57:43 PM

I don't have iTunes. I would have to rename every track individually and then edit the tags by hand in Windows Media to get everything shipshape.

arks Boiled and Mashed Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#669: Jan 2nd 2011 at 6:50:33 AM

In Windows Media, you can just make a playlist and reorder them by clicking and dragging. That's what I did (opinions later).

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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#670: Jan 2nd 2011 at 6:51:17 AM

I didn't even realize the tracks were out of order....

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arks Boiled and Mashed Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#671: Jan 2nd 2011 at 9:28:12 AM

Alright, let's get a review going.

This album didn't really impress me that much. Nothing on it really got my attention. While the classical music quotes every once in a while were kind of cute, I couldn't really hear anything else to support them. That said, there's nothing there that I found necessarily awful.

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Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#672: Jan 2nd 2011 at 12:02:30 PM

bluh, w/e. I've already heard music from these guys before and it looks like everybody else is done so I'm just going to give this one a pass.

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#673: Jan 2nd 2011 at 12:12:30 PM

This album is....okay?

It can't seem to decide if it wants to appeal to my "catchy hooks" side, or to my "cool experimentation" side, which makes it seem a bit divided overall.

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Sati1984 Browncoat from Hungary Since: May, 2010
#674: Jan 3rd 2011 at 12:48:51 AM

I listened Toten Hosen maybe 10-11 years ago, and I only liked a few songs by them. One of them was Bayern (I'm a Bayern Munich fan BTW), but other than that, I just don't like this genre/style much. So even though A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite books/movies, this album didn't move me...

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Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#675: Jan 3rd 2011 at 1:02:57 AM

Oh, fun fact — this band's name literally means "The Dead Pants".


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