What Are You Listening To?

[Acapelli]

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[Raiders]

I've been on a serious Spencer Krug kick lately. I still can't decide if I like Shut Up I Am Dreaming or Apologies to the Queen Mary more. Certainly the compositions in the Sunset Rubdown recordings seem more expansive and interesting, but there's something more catchy about Wolf Parade and I have definitely listened to it more over the past few days. In any case, onward to At Mount Zoomer and Random Spirit Lover.

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[Derek]

I've been on a serious Spencer Krug kick lately. I still can't decide if I like Shut Up I Am Dreaming or Apologies to the Queen Mary more. Certainly the compositions in the Sunset Rubdown recordings seem more expansive and interesting, but there's something more catchy about Wolf Parade and I have definitely listened to it more over the past few days. In any case, onward to At Mount Zoomer and Random Spirit Lover.

So much rep.

Personally I'd take Apologies, which is probably the most consistently awesome album Krug's worked on, but Shut Up has some amazing highs though and there are days when I think he's never topped "Stadiums and Shrines II". I'll definitely be interested to see what you think of At Mount Zoomer and Random Spirit Lover, which definitely left people more split than the prior albums, as sophomore albums tend to do. Zoomer is wildly inconsistent, but thoroughly enjoyable even when it meanders a bit. Random Spirit Lover is one of my favorite albums of the 00s and seems to be an album that either blows people away or leaves them rolling their eyes at its excesses. It's my favorite album Krug's worked on, even though Apologies is probably the one he should be remembered for.

[Marley]

I always found "Mount Zoomer" to the most consistent of Wolf Parade's albums and can listen to it all the way through without skipping any tracks. The same can't be said for the other two albums but they are still solid. Love this band.

[D_Davis]

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[dreamdead]

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One of the most densest pop/ambient tracks from Townsend's latest album.

[Qrazy]

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[Qrazy]

I always found "Mount Zoomer" to the most consistent of Wolf Parade's albums and can listen to it all the way through without skipping any tracks. The same can't be said for the other two albums but they are still solid. Love this band.

Dan Boeckner lives across the hall from me. Crazy eh? My roommate has already started ingratiating himself haha.

[Derek]

Dan Boeckner lives across the hall from me. Crazy eh? My roommate has already started ingratiating himself haha.

Woah, that's awesome. Plus his wife is pretty hot.

[Qrazy]

Woah, that's awesome. Plus his wife is pretty hot.

She really, really is.

[Yxklyx]

Plastic Passion - The Cure

[Boner M]

Not for wimps.

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[Milky Joe]

Really wish I would have been listening to this back in junior high instead of Thursday and Taking Back Sunday:

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[Derek]

Nice, I've been playing catch-up on post-hardcore the past couple weeks and that's one of the albums I have in the wing. I dig that track.

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[Boner M]

Speaking of Scratch Acid, Mark Prindle's intro to them on his review site is one of the best pieces of writing ever.

Hello there! I'm the guy that burglarized Mark Prindle's home while he was on vacation in Arizona! I was just about to trade this nice computer with the flat screen for a puddle of liquid drug juice when I ran across Mark's delightful music review page. Well, I'm nothing if not a piece of human shit, so I thought I would contribute a page of my own! I may be a drug-addled worthless prick, but there's a band from Texas called Scratch Acid that I like a lot! Mind you, I don't listen to them very often because I sold all of my possessions (along with several of other people's!) for one marijuana joint, but I can still remember how much I enjoyed listening to them back in the days when I would carefree smash car windows and throw peoples' babies out into the street. The band featured a young David Yow (soon to be singer of The Jesus Lizard), a young David Wm. Sims (soon to be bassist of Rapeman and The Jesus Lizard) and a young Rey Washam (soon to be drummer for Big Boys, Didjits, Helios Creed and a bajillion other bands) and a guitarist. They sort of sounded like they wanted to be an American version of Australia's sick noisemakers The Birthday Party (especially Yow, who tried something terrific to imitate Party vocalist Nick Cave). Speaking of The Birthday Party, let me know if you have one so I can steal the cake like an asshole.

[Acapelli]

man i love mark prindle

[Ezee E]

I'm digging Lupe Fiasco's Lasers a ton.

[D_Davis]

Reversed, by Plasticstatic

Really cool mix of shoegazer-like atmosphere and psych with an '80s guitar aesthetic.

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[endingcredits]

Nice, I've been playing catch-up on post-hardcore the past couple weeks and that's one of the albums I have in the wing.

Have you checked out The Jesus Lizard?

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[D_Davis]

Wow.

[Derek]

Have you checked out The Jesus Lizard?

Get out of my IPod! Yeah, I've been listening to them the past couple days, including right now when I checked in this thread. Really liked Goat, but Liar is fantastic and a bit more consistent. Real good stuff - "Slave Ship" definitely is one of the highlights.

[MadMan]

Caring is Creepy-The Shins. Even after all these years, its still one of my favorite songs from the band. Sure its probably their most popular after New Slang, but that doesn't matter.

[D_Davis]

The newest Loscil album is very good.

[Derek]

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Good to hear! I really liked the last one, but this one seemed to get more mediocre reviews. Of course, you really can't trust most critics when it comes to ambient music anyway.