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
Video Game Census. Please contribute.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.
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
Video Game Census. Please contribute.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.
Video Game Census. Please contribute.Ah, David Grisman on youtube.
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
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.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!Oh. I'm relistening to the current album in the correct order
and it's already quite a bit better, three tracks in.
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.
In Windows Media, you can just make a playlist and reorder them by clicking and dragging. That's what I did (opinions later).
Video Game Census. Please contribute.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.
Video Game Census. Please contribute.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...
"We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty." - Malcolm Reynolds

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.
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....