Moonraker

I just saw Metric last Friday (11/04/05) in San Francisco at Slim's. Their openers were The Lovely Feathers and Death of a Party. This show was actually recommended to me by D-13, and I have to definatly thank her for the heads up on this band. She wrote a thread about them http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?showtopic=9212 here that gave alerted me to them. I checked them out, and was amazed enough to buy a ticket a few months before the show, and it was incredible.

 

The opener, The Lovely Feathers were suprisingly good for an opening band, they sounded kinda like The Arcade Fire, once they got into thier heavy portions of their songs. Death of A Party was the next opener, they are a San Francisco band that are starting to become a favorite of mine right now. The singer for this group gets down off the stage and actually dances around with the crowd, which is really fun to be apart of. Thier show was incredible, but they didnt play 2 of my favorite songs on their EP which was a little disappointing

 

Metric came on last, they are sort of an electronic rock based band, with this really good female singer. I had only ever heard a few tracks off thier album before, and it was amazing to see how their catch, electronic based rock translated in a live scene. Once they got on the stage and got into thier material, my section of the crowd started to get really into the show. Especially during songs like Monster Hospital and The List, there were a few people nearby me that were totally moshing all around. The show was a mostly female audience though, so I didnt have too much of a problem with it. I was most impressed with thier performance and the singers ease on stage, talking to the audience and specific people frequently, it was great.

 

Anyway, I would highly recommend them, to me they sound like a Bloc Party or Kasabian with a female singer. I'm DEFINATLY gonna have to pick them up the next I go to a store.

Tonight its Metric and Death of A Party @ Slims

Little Shop of Horrors (lol, if you like musicals)

 

I also liked Interview with a Vampire, though that one just had horror elements in it, not really a horror movie per say.

I saw Sons & Daughters last Friday, my second time seeing the band, but this time it was at a much smaller place and I was front and center for it. Openers were The Wolfkings, who were a little mellow for my tastes, and Willy Mason. Mason is a 1 man acoustic thing, but hes obviously a very talented and humorous songwriter. Lol, one of the songs he sang was about his fathers fear of lyme disease. Anyway Sons and Daughters were great, kinda a cross between Nirvana and Buddy Holly, with a scottish flavor to them. Plus I think its kinda cool the way they have a female lead singer with a male backup, it gave the music a nice twist.

Connery definatly, but Brosnon is very very very close behind. Roger Moore was good, but seemed too much like a playboy then a secret agent. Timothy Dalton on the other hand seemed way too much a serious secret agent, and very little playboy. Its kind of a fine line, but Connery and Brosnon seemed to be able to pull the persona off. Lazenby didnt get the chance to develop his character in my opinion, I did like him but it was just bad timing for him to jump in as Bond.

 

GoldenEye was probably my favorite Bond movie though, I really liked that darker, moodier feel it had to it, and unlike the preceeding Bond movies with Brosnon, it wasnt overproduced with special effects and over the top action sequences in lue of a decent storyline. Trevelyen was the last decent Bond villain in my opinion.

QUOTE (madra sneachta @ Oct 27 2005, 02:07 AM)

Ladytron - Witching Hour The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday Devandra Banhart - Cripple Crow

Probably had something to do with The World Series going on the same night. Its kinda tough for a tv show to compete with the last game of the World Series where the team that was favored to win hadnt won a series in 80 something years.

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QUOTE (PuppetKing2112 @ Oct 24 2005, 07:15 PM) MD, is that your first NIN album? Because that wouldn't have been where I would have suggested to start. Yeah, it's my first album. It's probably not where I would've started, either... but here's the story:   I was over at a friends house, and there was another guy hanging out there (that makes three >_>), and he had a copy of With Teeth, but didn't like it or something. So he offered to give it to my friend, and I said "I'll take it". My friend didn't want it either, so it ended up with me.   I do really like it, though I suppose the earlier stuff is even better. After reading a lot of his lyrics, I'd say I'm most interested in Pretty Hate Machine. But most people tell me to get The Downward Spiral first... To get the best idea of what NIN really is, Downward Spiral is really the way to start.

QUOTE (daveyt @ Oct 23 2005, 06:45 PM)

moonraker DID YOU GET A RAISE?

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QUOTE (R.G @ Oct 24 2005, 05:44 AM) as with most of these things i wish they wouldn't make the films so people would have to discover the stories and read the books themselves, its so much better I think so too. But many kids and adults these days can be enticed by said film to read the book(s). Although I always think it's better to read it first then viddy the film. That maybe true, but you would be suprised how many kids I have met that didnt even know that Lord of the Rings was based on books, let alone actually spend the time to read them instead of watching the movie. I used to love the Chronicles of Narnia books, but I havent read them in soooo long. I might have to read up a bit on them before going to this one. I did love that one english version they did of it a while back as well, but this one looks like its going to be much more special effects heavy. I just might actually pay to go see this movie.

QUOTE (Mandalorian Hunter @ Oct 23 2005, 01:14 PM)

So, what comes after "The Oracle"?

Heh, I usually just start a new thread when I want to get into a mega review for bands, but I like this idea too. I can give little mini reviews without feeling like I have to write a novel of a thread, lol. I think I might pin this one.

 

I saw The Red Elvises last night at Slim's. They are all Russian, from Siberia, and play surfer music. The novelty definatly works and it was a very high energy show. By the end of the night my voice was completely cracked and I couldnt yell anymore, but it was a blast. One of the coolest things about this band is the bass player doesnt play a bass, but this HUGE red balalaika, which is really cool to watch. The singer/guitarist was constantly getting the crowd to yell in enthusiasm for the band, and at one point there was a drum solo in which all 6 members in the band were playing on the drummers kit, took turns doing solos for each person, followed by an insane drum solo. Their drummer is like Neil Peart good, just a completely different style.

 

Anyway, if I would highly recommend this kick ass rock'n'roll from Siberia, check them out. The Red Elvises, Your Favorite Band!

Spinal Tap was really high up there, but in the end I had to go with MP and the Holy Grail.

Ok, I will just finish off this month real fast so I dont have to keep coming back here

 

Last night (10/21) was Porcupine Tree @ The Grand Ballroom

10/22 - The Red Elvises @ Slims

10/24 - Apollo Sunshine @ Cafe Du Nord

10/28 - Sons & Daughters @ Cafe Du Nord

Wow PK, I need to check out that store if you found all that for just $54. I recently purchased

 

David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (30th Ann.)

Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel

Peter Gabriel - 3 (Melt)

13/20

 

Way too much of a focus on thier early career. (Hell, the whole damn thing)

This thing is so bad its incredible. It was the funniest thing I have heard in a while.

 

Do Leave That Thing Alone next

Suicidal Tendancies

 

(BTW, Exodus sucks live, if anyone has ever seen em)

Big fan myself, it will take a bit of work, but I would like to see him try to pull off a blonde bond. I've never seen any of his work before, but I am glad they picked him rather then some of the other actors I've heard rumors of. I'll put away my skepticism, for now at least.

Oh wow, this is a funny idea, I will have to find one.....

After a bit of a hiatus in buying cds, I went to the store yesterday and purchased..

 

The Cure - Pornography

The Decemberists - Picaresque

Depeche Mode - 101

Gary Numan - Replicas

 

BTW, this slipped by me and maybe a few of you, but Roger Waters latest piece of work, a 3 piece opera named Ca Ira, was released last week.

QUOTE (anagramking @ Oct 12 2005, 10:15 AM)

As I said before, I've usually had discussions about Nirvana with people that did not like Rush. But here, I got to hear from Rush fans, and that's cool. Damn, I understand that they changed it. I get it. But do you guys like the changes that happened? Is it good that soloing is frowned upon today? I agree that soloing for the sake of soloing is silly, but to not really have much, if any, of it at all, that's another story. Test, I never said I knew why he did what he did. But he wanted that aura reserved for the prematurely dead, and even alluded to it in interviews. That indicates planned and twisted, I think. One doesn't need to be a shrink to see that part. To understand the other stuff, a degree would probably help a lot, of course. And he did admit that Smells Like Teen Spirit was a ripoff of the Pixies, by the way. Many who heard the song for the first time never would have made the connection, becasue they didn't know much about the Pixies, if anything. And that's where this "revolution" exploded, off this one pilfered track. One would hope he cut the Pixies in on the proceeds, but I doubt it. As for music for the boomers, that's an entirely different thread. I just made the observation of what a lot of them went through in the bad times of the late 80s to mid 90s, in response to what you had said about them earlier. But what I figured I wanted to listen to, back in the 80s, was stuff like Rush. Grunge seemed so incongruous with what Rush (and prog) was about, and I wasn't going to get into it, no matter how popular it got, and no matter how much the musical landscape was changed by it.

TONIGHT ITS LCD SOUNDSYSTEM

 

I saw them back in May, and it was seriously the best show I have seen all year. I cant wait for tonight.

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