Moonraker

So far the only album I have is Marbles, but I think that is great, a little on the mellow side at times, but there are a few tracks that are mind blowing. And where is Earthshine to give his opinions on this band?

You forgot Ca Ira there floydfanatic111, heh. Roger Waters just released it last month. I guess no one else picked it up though

Update, I just won free tickets to the Nightmare of You show too. I LOVE Live 105

I was one of the first 5 callers and won free Autolux tickets at Popscene on thursday Next week I will be seeing.... Dec. 5th - Echo and the Bunnymen Dec. 7th - International Noise Conspiricy, Nightmare Of You Dec. 8th - Autolux Dec. 9th - Not So Silent Night (White Stripes, Death Cab For Cutie, Coheed & Cambria, Hot Hot Heat, Autolux)

I know there are a great number of Pink Floyd fans, but I am curious if anyone has picked up Roger Water's recent release, Ca Ira. I picked it up and enjoy it, but I havent heard anyone else say anything about it.

Looking at the polls, I find it suprising that there are nearly as many males, under 18 as there are between 26-35. At least for the next generation, Rush's music will not be forgotten. Oh and welcome Tull Fan Too. I am a Tull Fan Too,

QUOTE (floydfanatic111 @ Dec 2 2005, 12:36 AM) David Gilmour of Pink Floyd has a THIRD SOLO ALBUM due on March 6 for the world outside America on EMI and on March 7, 2006 on Capitol called On an Island You're kidding. Why is it everytime Roger does some kind of solo work, either PF or Gilmour is right behind? Heh, maybe one of em should release work on a regular basis, then they both will

QUOTE (kazzman @ Dec 1 2005, 10:26 PM) QUOTE (Moonraker @ Dec 2 2005, 12:23 AM) OHhhh, I cant wait until the end of the year, when I can post all the shows I've been to Oh come on, I have to brag about something. Some have already seen my list.

OHhhh, I cant wait until the end of the year, when I can post all the shows I've been to Oh come on, I have to brag about something.

I no longer think its at all worth my time to try to explain to people who have already made up thier mind of what they like and dont like before they try it out. You dont like the bands I like? Thats just fine, one less body at the show between me and the stage. But if you are going to make a point that you dont like new music, know you have already made that point on numerous occassions, it gets old.

Yeah we get iPods returned at work all the time and sometimes I go through them. I see like a hundred artists..... and 1 or 2 songs by them. Sure videos will take up a lot of space, but why waste that much space and battery life watching a video when you could fit 10+ songs with the same amount of space.

I was thinking of getting the 60 GB iPod, but after burning my whole CD collection to iTunes, I only have about 14.77 GB. I've spent the last 7 years buying music and only have 14.77 GB, I cant fill one of those things up. How can these kids who are getting them for X-mas possibly fill 60GB?

Ok you caught me, I'm skipping the Catholic Club show tonight, I heard they would be opening for Minipop soon anyway so I will hit that one.

QUOTE (endlesslymocking @ Nov 25 2005, 02:35 PM) I do love how most of the stuff I listen to is rather modern, and I have yet to hear any of it on the radio. The killers are a great band...with two really bad singles...the two worst songs on their album are their singles. I don't list to the radio often but I haven't heard a single song off Franz Ferdinand's new album on the radio. I have however heard the same Fall out boy song 30 times. It's a pity it isn't a fad to be goth instead of emo. Nightiwsh, Kamelot, and dream evil just knock my socks off with every song. Whatever happened to Jet? They were a decent band, kinda sounded like the beatles but a great band. Also Bloc Party, Kaiser Cheifs and Louis XIV, alll great bands, but there's no real emotion there... their music is just fun to listen to. There is no real band that could carry our music generation. There is however, if you like the overhard emo subgenre, a ton of bands with decent singles. Alot of my peers have 1 or 2 songs from one band, and end up having like 150 favorite bands or sumthing like that. There was a goth subculture that was fairly predominant when I was in High School, mostly kids that grew up listening to NIN and Marilyn Manson. There also is a small resurgance of goth making its way back, check out bands like She Wants Revenge or Catholic Comb. As for Jet, I saw them a few months ago when they opened up for Oasis, but I just couldnt get into them. That one song they do with the cartoon animals in thier videop sounds WAY too much like The Beatles song "Golden Slumbers" off Abbey Road. A lot of the bands you are talking about make up the playlist of the alternative station I listen to in San Francisco. Its too bad they dont do any kind of streaming of thier songs though, cuz on Sunday's they do this one show called soundcheck, whose entire purpose is to play music you have never heard before. I wrote a thread about it for the show a couple weeks ago, link. I didnt update it last week though cuz I think I was out that night, but next week I will update it again. That show is a really good place to hear cutting edge, GOOD, music.

Sorry, I cant top a review like BSG gave, so I will just give some pictures and a short description. Well, I might be able to if I tried, but.. oy.... Last Friday (11/18/05) I went to see Depeche Mode in San Jose for thier Playing The Angel tour. Raveonettes opened, and were incredible. Depeche Mode were suprisingly active and energetic, considering they have been around since the early 80's. The only drawback I may have had is that they have way too much material that I wanted to hear, but I thought it was really cool that they werent in a nostalgia trip and played over half of thier new album. The stage setup was very cool too, with the synth's surrounded by these UFO looking stands. And there was this huge ball looking thing with lighted words, lcd screens acting as a marquee for random lyrics for whatever song was playing, lights shooting out of it. A very futuristic looking stage. As for where I was, I thought it was a GA show, but turns out it was all seated, so when I got my ticket from will call, I was slightly more then ecstatic to discover I had row 4 tickets. This feeling was only compounded when I realized just where my seat was in the arena of about 15,000 people, it was directly infront of this little walkway thingy that came out of the stage. Therefore providing me with a great opportunity to get some quality pictures. Here are a few good ones that turned out, well as good as you can get with a phone camera. Here's Dave Gahan during an earlier portion of the show, before the vest came off. The first time he came out along the walkway. You can also see the ball thingy there, though not that well. The word Angel is lit up. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/EvanMacD03/Photo71.jpg Gahan reaching out to people in the crowd http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/EvanMacD03/Photo76.jpg A picture with the LCD screens and keyboard players in the background. The keyboards were surrounded by these UFO looking things. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/EvanMacD03/Photo74.jpg And a picture from the last song, where Gahan and Martin Gore came out to sing together. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/EvanMacD03/Photo79.jpg --- Setlist: A Pain That I'm Used To John The Revelator A Question Of Time Policy Of Truth Precious Walking In My Shoes Suffer Well Damaged People Home I Want It All The Sinner In Me I Feel You Behind The Wheel World In My Eyes Personal Jesus Enjoy The Silence 1st Encore Somebody Just Can't Get Enough Everything Counts 2nd Encore Never Let Me Down Again Goodnight Lovers

The only answer is to listen to what you want to listen to, regardless of what the industry wants you to hear. Its a loosing battle we are fighting with the record industry to save rock and roll, I just wanna be there when the next way of writing music emerges.

Oh come on now Indica, we all know you are a closet NIN fan. Its ok to admit it, we all know you're Down In It

QUOTE (Necromancer @ Nov 23 2005, 12:56 PM) I agree with everything about the industry and what "popular music" has unfortunately become. But to say there's no good music out there today is way off base. I honestly can't listen to the same stuff over and over. The remark that Stairway still gets played on the radio is something that irks me to no end. Not only does the industry suck, but radio doesn't help by constantly playing these "time honored classics". Yeah... zep doesn't have any new stuff... but RUSH does. When does your rock stations play One Little Victory or hell for that matter... ANYTHING after Moving Pictures? There's two stations around here worth any time and one plays "classic rock" and I usually won't listen to it since i've grown with that old crap and other than RUSH, couldn't care less about hearing one more Stairway or Freebird. There's a lot of modern stuff out there that's brilliant. TOOL and A PERFECT CIRCLE come to mind immediately for me. Talk about musicians learning their crafts and having CHOPS. Danny Carey, no matter what band this board is devoted to, may be the greatest drummer alive. Justin and Adam are no slouches at their respective instruments either and MAYNARD... probably the best male vocalist of all time IMHO. His other band APC, is just as accomplished on their instruments and the songwriting of both bands is phenomenal. I think there's a lot of stuff out there that will knock your socks off if you're not convinced that STAIRWAY is the end all of good music. And as far as the local bar scene... HELL YEAH. My area alone has produced some major bands. The Alex Lifeson produced LIFER... that i'm amazed not many of you have heard, and BREAKING BENJAMIN who are on the track to stardom now. All good stuff. More of it out there, but i mentioning it all would be too long-winded EVEN FOR ME. Just check out some of the bands that are mentioned in here. I did with Nightwish and now have a new band i'm really into. Lock those OLLLLDDDD tired Zep albums away and give something else a shot. You'll be glad you did. I DEFINATLY agree with you here, in regards to classic rock stations playing the same songs. Yeah, all those bands that you hear on classic rock radio are great, but the stations are dooming themselves and the music if they honestly think they can continue to play the same music day after day, year after year. I used to listen to nothing but classic rock for years, but after a while I began to notice I was listening to the same group of bands, and the same group of songs repeatedly. They found a way to turn the incredible music of the past into something I cant stand to listen to anymore through repetition. It almost seems like the industry realized it missed out on fully capitalizing on a lot of those previous bands, so its trying to make up for it now by giving it constant airplay. THERE IS SUCH A THING AS NEW GOOD MUSIC!! You dont HAVE to go through the same old bands every day.

The days of the big arena filling bands making incredible music I think have died out. Before the record industry realized just how marketable a commodety it was to take a band and make them huge, there were bands that were doing this that were genuinely trying to make decent music. Come on, when the Beatles started out, they werent thinking of how they could make a million dollars in a record deal, they were just making music and happened to get huge. Once the money aspect plagued its way into the creative portion of music, thats when it began its decline. As far as good new music goes, there is still some, but none of it will ever gain the same mythical stature that bands like Led Zepellin, The Who, Pink Floyd experienced. That way of creating music has been done, and music is an ever-changing thing. What I see at least is a great deal of small bands that dont get any notice at all outside of thier core fanbase that make good music. The amount of bands seems to be growing, at least to me as I become more aware of what is going on too. The problem with music today is that the industry is looking for the next big band or singer in music. This will not ever happen again, or if a band/singer does get big, they are forgotten 5 years down the road. There will never be another Beatles, AC/DC, Aerosmith, etc.. Music has moved on.

Alice In Chains confirmed? How is that possible?

Staying home? Perish the thought. Tonight is Depeche Mode

Ok, the next night (11/14) I went to go see Social Distortion at the Fillmore. This was an all out punk show, probably my first real punk show, considering I am not too into the genre, there are only a few select bands I do enjoy out of that. The Dead 60's and Devil Doll were the openers this night. Old and new punkheads were in full force this night, but not too much an attitude of anticipated violence that you may expect at most punk shows. There were a number of older Social D fans, I guess age brings you the wisdom that you dont need to beat the crap out of other people to still have a good time, lol. This was actually night 4/5 they were playing at the Fillmore, throughout that week they had scheduled a ton of shows here in SF. Anyway, Devil Doll was the first opener. They were a smooth, jazzy band, whose music could easily have been the sound track to some an old film noir movie. Fronted by an incredibly attractive, low sexy voiced girl who was really into playing with the crowd through her singing. The Dead 60's were the second, and I was immediatly blown away by thier intensity. They are a newer band, but I can see these guys really going far, every song had me moving and screaming. Anyway, despite the incredible opening acts, the real show came when Social Distortion took the stage. Almost as immediatly as Mike Ness took the stage, people began pushing and shoving thier way to the front. Now me being only about 10 feet back before the great push, as soon as the crowd started moving I quickly found myself not more then a couple rows of people behind the front. This show's crowd was very much like the Davis NIN show I saw earlier this year, with everyone moving around and packed in the front like sardines. By the end of it all, I was a sweaty mess and thoroughly wrecked, but I had a great time. It was great finally getting a chance to see these guys up close, the time before I had seen them at a festival type show and was about 100 miles away in the lawn section (SHORELINE SUCKS!!). So yes the show was good

Ok, I had better get started on reviewing the last few shows I hit over this week, else I will have half a dozen to do in another couple days, lol. So on Sunday, I went to go see this little band called Death Cab For Cutie at the Warfield in SF, with The Stars opening. The Stars were kinda mellow for my taste, but after a few songs I could see where they were coming from with their sound. Though not my kind of music, they are definatly all passionate about what they do and it showed in the music. For a band like DCFC, whose sound can be quite mellow as well at times, it seemed an appropriate opener. After a short intermission, DCFC took the stage, causing many a young emo girl in the crowd to scream in excitement. I had actually expected them to be somewhat reserved and laid back in thier performance, but they were rocking out pretty hard throughout most of the show (barring the sappy ballads). They hit on most of thier Plans material, which they were touring for, which I liked. I dont know too much of thier previous body of work, but I knew a lot of what was being played just because they were sticking mostly to new material. Anyway, it was very enjoyable, and I cant wait to see them again at Not So Silent Night next month.

QUOTE (PuppetKing2112 @ Nov 15 2005, 08:15 PM) Green Day - Bullet in a Bible CD/DVD Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings The Smiths - The Queen is Dead Roger Waters - Amused to Death Rush - Fly By Night (vinyl) You already picked up Amused To Death, I just sent that to you a couple days ago, lol. Heh, that is Water's best work IMO, that includes all of his Pink Floyd catelog.

QUOTE (pedro2112 @ Apr 23 2005, 09:54 AM) both those women's chests are much too small for wonder woman. Remember, Lynda Carter had enormous mammary glands. Have you seen Eliza Dushku, shes not a lightweight in that department