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Christmas is gonna be awkward this year.
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Christmas is gonna be awkward this year.
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
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I really like it, but it feels a little too on the nose for them. I can't quite tell if they're coasting or if the more traditional hard rock edge integrated into their sound will just take a little getting used to. One thing's for sure, it's the heaviest album they've released since the Godspeed days. I imagine you'll dig it if your expectations aren't too high.
How sad is it that I watch the progress of the RYM all-time top charts as if a competitive sport, rooting for certain albums to climb and letting out whoops of victorious glee when I notice, say, how Dolmen Music now has a higher position than Siamsese Dream?
Meat Beat Manifesto's Subliminal Sandwich is such an amazing album. I used to listen to it all the time, but a few years ago I lost disc 2. They finally released the whole thing on iTunes and I picked it up again today. Man, it's just brilliant.
I can't wait to hear the new album this April.
Yeah, that is a fan-tastic album. I also like the one prior to that, Satyricon.
I saw them when they toured for Subliminal Sammich. Great show, and Jack Dangers was hanging out in the crowd afterward, so I got a chance to say hi. Very nice fallow, that Jack Dangers.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
That's cool. I've always admired Jack Dangers. He's so talented. In many ways, I consider him the white Dr. Dre. I would LOVE to hear a collaboration between Dre and Dangers. I bet they could drop some mad tunes.
Did you listen to At the Center? I don't care for it. He went a little too jazzy for my tastes. It's almost acid-jazz, and that stuff sounded tired years ago.
What kind of live show does MBM put on? Any analog (drums, guitars, flutes...) instruments?
I finally bought Electric Warrior today!
I've been listening to my CDs by The Roots lately.
"Things Fall Apart" is still my favorite, but "Game Theory" is damn good as well.
Also been listening to Matthew Good's album, "Avalanche". For ridiculously political pop-rock, I love it.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
The MBM show I saw in support of Subliminal Sammich was Dangers on Keyboards / Controls / Vox, and if memory serves, there was also another guy on keyboards, a saxophonist / multi-instrumentalist, and one hell of an awesome drummer.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
I don't think I have. I've heard a later album that was really hip-hoppy, so it's probably a different one I'm thinking about. There was a song on that album that I don't recall the title of that was the official theme song of my carpool at the time.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Man, that sounds awesome.
Yeah, it more than made up for the mediocre MBM concert I had seen previously when they were touring for 99%.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Wow, Susumu Yokota's album, Sakura, is awesome. A really nice marriage of ambient and down-tempo techno stuff. Really, really good. Hisen is an awesome track, check it out.
Nobody told me Nellie McKay had a new album out.
The guy that played banjo in the Monks died.
McKay is an artist I have been wanting to check out, which album should I start with?
Vampire Weekend do not suck. One month into 2008 and it has already delivered an uber-hyped indie band that are listenable, even fun. Keep this up, and I'll eat my anti-p4k hat.
I'd recommend actually starting with her first album, Get Away from Me. Her second Pretty Little Head was one I could never get into as much as an album, though there are quite a few tracks on it I like to listen to frequently. This third one I haven't listened to yet.
Agreed, the album is a lot of fun.
Library rentals (my school's library has a pretty decent selection):
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan-Bob Dylan
The Chronic-Dr. Dre
...And Justice For All-Metallica
Be Here Now-Oasis
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Everything dies, baby, that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies some day comes back
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
So a friend of mine sold one of her songs to a Brazilian pop group and they used it as a single. It's funny that I heard this song first time two or three years ago, except it was in English and a bit rockier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8BrTHDgZfw
"Listen man, it might be hard to understand, but
Don't mourn the dead,
Celebrate the life they gave"
- Kashmir "Seraphina"
It's fun, but it's nothing special and I really don't understand the heaps of praise. I guess having 1-2 indie pop albums hit a year make them seem like a commodity, or something.
The guy that played banjo in the Monks died.
NNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I'm just amazed at how rapid their ascent has been: I remember looking them up on YouTube four or five months ago and they had three videos with a dozen comments between them: now they've debuted in the Billboard Top 20 and played on Letterman, with nary a peep betwixt. WTF? Crazy internet age. At least they make for a far better token indie-not-indie obsession for music in '08 than Juno did for film last year.
I suppose I'm sparing them my hyper-critical-anti-hipster-destruct-o-ray because they're the logical and very long overdue culmination of the sadly-never-dying post-punk craze: the jungle fetish/Burundi beat side of things a la Adam & the Ants or the Slits. Plus I've been praying for a Calypso/Graceland/just-something-interesting-already revival forever, and they do it tolerably well, with the Left Banke-esque chamber pop elements being a fine foil for the more transparent, borderline-minstrelsy "We've got MP3's of The Indestructible Beat of Soweto and we're not afraid to purloin from it!" cuts. Still odd seeing them explode like this, though. Kind of goes far to invalidate some of my most closely-held beliefs. I'm also kind of ashamed I just spend this many words discussing them. :|
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