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I've been listening to Syd Barrett's solo material today. It's funny that in general this is vastly better than post-Piper, pre-Meddle Floyd (if we excluve Live Floyd as PF was mainly live band in those days anyway)
Some tracks I dig:
Octopus
Terrapin
Long Gone
Baby Lemonade
Gigolo Aunt
Effervescing Elephant
Dark Globe
Golden Hair is probably my favourite. Joyce-through-Syd is just...haunting and harrowing
verdict: immense talent. wasted. ;_______;
Some tracks I dig:
Octopus
Terrapin
Long Gone
Baby Lemonade
Gigolo Aunt
Effervescing Elephant
Dark Globe
Golden Hair is probably my favourite. Joyce-through-Syd is just...haunting and harrowing
verdict: immense talent. wasted. ;_______;
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I've been listening to the Mongoose Box that contains all classical pieces from Nodame Cantabile (as performed by the "Nodame Orchestra" that was responsible for all the music in the show). Marvellous.
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"Often I get the feeling that deep down, your little girl is struggling with your embrace of filmfaggotry and your loldeep fixations, and the conflict that arises from such a contradiction is embodied pretty well in Kureha's character. But obviously it's not any sort of internal conflict that makes the analogy work. It's the pigtails." - Merridian
"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
"Oz, I think we need to stage an intervention and force you to watch some movies that aren't made in Japan." - Trajan
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War is an awesome album, classic U2.
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I can definitely tell when something is brickwalled and something is not
the Pretty Hate Machine remaster is not as brickwalled as say...Death Magnetic and especially the Malleus Maleficarum remaster (which is a chore to sit through)
Satsuki Kiryuin wants you to turn that frown upside down...
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I've been going through a lot of the grunge stuff on my computer recently (yes, I went through a phase when I was about 14). Based on re-listening I have come to the following conclusions.
Alice in Chains > Soundgarden > Nirvana > Stone Temple Pilots > Pearl Jam
Alice in Chains > Soundgarden > Nirvana > Stone Temple Pilots > Pearl Jam
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"All styles are good except the tiresome kind." - Voltaire
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I only listen to Nine Inch Nails when I want to feel like I'm thirteen again. I get in those moods sometimes. ^^; My favourite tracks are probably "The Ruiner" and "Closer" (yes, it's a cliche) and "March of the Pigs". I was a young bright-eyed thing back then, fresh-faced and ready to face the world. With angst.
If you like their more "raw" stuff you might also appreciate some tracks from October (1981) like "With A Shout". But if you're a big fan of War you really need to dig into their live album from that era, Under A Blood Red Sky (and not just because the name is super over the top). The following tracks are from this record.
- "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" (Originally a single from before their debut album.)
- "Gloria" (Originally from "October".)
My favourite U2 disc has got to be Achtung Baby (1991). Everyone knows "Mysterious Ways" and "One", but I really love the aching sounds of "Acrobat", which is an underrated song that nobody's ever heard of. Oh, and I think the title track from "The Unforgettable Fire" (1984) is probably one of the most beautiful things ever. ^^; Fuck, this makes me swoon so hard. I have to touch myself now and sigh about lost love. And, like, linger by the window and blow mist on it and trace hearts and... and...
If you like their more "raw" stuff you might also appreciate some tracks from October (1981) like "With A Shout". But if you're a big fan of War you really need to dig into their live album from that era, Under A Blood Red Sky (and not just because the name is super over the top). The following tracks are from this record.
- "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" (Originally a single from before their debut album.)
- "Gloria" (Originally from "October".)
My favourite U2 disc has got to be Achtung Baby (1991). Everyone knows "Mysterious Ways" and "One", but I really love the aching sounds of "Acrobat", which is an underrated song that nobody's ever heard of. Oh, and I think the title track from "The Unforgettable Fire" (1984) is probably one of the most beautiful things ever. ^^; Fuck, this makes me swoon so hard. I have to touch myself now and sigh about lost love. And, like, linger by the window and blow mist on it and trace hearts and... and...
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I've been listening to a lot of angsty chic-rock lately for some reason, all up and down the soft-hard spectrum. No idea why. Mostly stuff by:
Birthday Massacre
Garbage
Eurythmics
Evanescence
Lacuna Coil
Nightwish
Poe
Radio Iodine
Sarah McLachlan
Before that I was on a motown/soul kick.
Birthday Massacre
Garbage
Eurythmics
Evanescence
Lacuna Coil
Nightwish
Poe
Radio Iodine
Sarah McLachlan
Before that I was on a motown/soul kick.
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I've heard that there are some nice ballads on this one; I'll check this one out eventually as long as it can hold up to Boy.
oOoOoOo wrote:My favourite U2 disc has got to be Achtung Baby (1991). Everyone knows "Mysterious Ways" and "One", but I really love the aching sounds of "Acrobat", which is an underrated song that nobody's ever heard of.
Achtung Baby was the second U2 album I invested in after The Joshua Tree. I'm not fond of "Mysterious Ways", however "One" and "Acrobat" are two of my favourites from the band. "Until the End of the World", "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" and "Love is Blindness" are also good songs.
oOoOoOo wrote:Oh, and I think the title track from "The Unforgettable Fire" (1984) is probably one of the most beautiful things ever.
It's the next U2 album I'm likely to get, probably in September.
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oOoOoOo wrote:I only listen to Nine Inch Nails when I want to feel like I'm thirteen again. I get in those moods sometimes. ^^; My favourite tracks are probably "The Ruiner" and "Closer" (yes, it's a cliche) and "March of the Pigs". I was a young bright-eyed thing back then, fresh-faced and ready to face the world. With angst.
I tried listening to TDS at work (I do various tasks at Panera) and all I managed to get was some of the weirdest looks in the world from some of the high school girls (mainly from songs like Closer, Heresy and I Do No Want This). It was a blast.
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^ Sounds a bit like my own high-school days.
Sounds about right, although AiC and Soundgarden run neck-and-neck for me (although Mudhoney should be somewhere in there, if only for Superfuzz Bigmuff).
You mean "Love Reign O'er Me"? Yeah, that's a damned good cover.
Agreed. Not to mention "Love is Blindness", such a beautiful and disquieting song.
Yeah, especially love that one.
Sounds about right, although AiC and Soundgarden run neck-and-neck for me (although Mudhoney should be somewhere in there, if only for Superfuzz Bigmuff).
You mean "Love Reign O'er Me"? Yeah, that's a damned good cover.
oOoOoOo wrote:My favourite U2 disc has got to be Achtung Baby (1991). Everyone knows "Mysterious Ways" and "One", but I really love the aching sounds of "Acrobat", which is an underrated song that nobody's ever heard of.
Agreed. Not to mention "Love is Blindness", such a beautiful and disquieting song.
Oh, and I think the title track from "The Unforgettable Fire" (1984) is probably one of the most beautiful things ever.
Yeah, especially love that one.
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. - Franz Kafka
Clones to the left of me, tsunderes to the right...and here I am, stuck in the middle with Shinji. - how I view my experience with Evangelion
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Aww... regardless, I'm posting the video from their 1993 Sydney concert (Zoo TV, also out on DVD) which I think is the best version ever. The lyrics could be about a sexy lady, or about God, or about God as a sexy lady. It almost makes me into a believer again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQy4AHstPKE
It gets me all hot and bothered just thinking about it. Bono's vocals are fucking incredible in this. It is also worth noting that the Edge married the belly dancer. :3 Cute!
IF YOU LOVE U2 AND YOU DON'T HAVE "ZOO TV" DVD GAAAAAA GET IT GET IT !!!nnkgsjsklgsdg
A rather emotive version from the same concert (where the band was thinking of breaking up, therefore everyone was kind of sad): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJcQ48xLIw
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I'm with the first two: AIC > Soundgarden > PJ > STP > Nirvana
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I thought I'd love Lacuna Coil but they're basically Korn with an untalented female singer. Evanescence I like better. Amy Lee has an angelic, haunting voice, but her backing band is so bland. I really love their live album and most of The Open Door though. Nightwish are pretty cool, but I find they get repetitive. Sarah McLachlan has a voice to die for and she is utterly bewitching to listen to on my audio system. In a similar vein, I'd recommend Jane Monheit. She's more jazzy to McLachlan's pop, but an even better voice, methinks. Check out her Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most or Some Other Time.
Also, check out The Gathering. Anneke van Giersbergen blows away Evanescence and Lacuna Coil by herself, but the band is also infinitely better, more unique, and more creative. if_then_else is in my top 10 albums and How to Measure a Planet? is in my top 20.
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I've seen so many changeful years, / to Earth I am a stranger grown: / I wander in the ways of men, / alike unknowing and unknown: / Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved, / I bear alone my load of care; / For silent, low, on beds of dust, / Lie all that would my sorrows share. - Robert Burns' Lament for James
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