Rush!

I have yet to hear it but I'ma listen to it soon & see for myself what all the fuss is about.

'Make a Jazz Noise Here' is an excellent document of his '88 tour. His bands are always tight but on this outing they are Incredibly so, especially the brass players.

QUOTE (Oracle @ Mar 25 2011, 12:53 AM) Anyone who has not heard the spectacular music of Mogwai needs to add the albums Come On Die Young and Happy Songs for Happy People to their music library. Right now. I second this motion--except I'd substitute CoDY with the debut. I didn't realize how concise 'Octopus' by Gentle Giant is--what a fantastic album!!

QUOTE (Good,bad,andrush @ Mar 22 2011, 12:40 PM) and in Vapor Trail (song) at around 2:31 (if i'm not mistaken) there is a noise that sounds like a car door opening, maybe a motorcycle noise? I definitely just heard this. Not sure what it is.....sounds like it could be another guitar layer.

QUOTE (blackhawkrush @ Mar 8 2011, 11:07 PM) I did a lot of interviews with BM bands, working for a mag, back in the day. That was ages ago. I always liked their use of different instuments but I was more of a death metal guy back then. That's pretty awesome. Would you mind sharing some info about the bands you interviewed?

Burzum is excellent...can't go wrong with anything by him... Well except for those keyboard-only albums he made while in prison. They're ok but mostly dull. Also enjoy the following: Bathory, Disssection, Emperor, Mayhem, and Ulver. Some newer groups have been emerging with a black metal-inspired sound such as Wolves in the Throne Room and Kayo Dot, but I haven't heard much from as of yet.

QUOTE (invisible airwave @ Jan 26 2011, 05:55 PM) 2 Girls 1 Cup I consider myself able to handle a lot of 'disturbing' things...but this takes the cake. Most of my friends can get through it but I just...can't. Too heinous. Anyone who doesn't know what it is can look it up for themselves but I warn you...you will most likely be completely disgusted. Some even find it humorous...but not me.

I have fallen in love with this song:

QUOTE (bigmoney2112 @ Jan 12 2011, 07:17 PM) I only have his newest album "drukqs" and it's great. I would get some more of his music, but I can't find any of it in stores. Drukqs is great but I think it's uneven...the 'computer' songs are my favorites. The prepared piano tracks are nice too, but there's some needless crap scattered throughout, IMO.

QUOTE (ReRushed @ Jan 11 2011, 11:54 PM) QUOTE (Rush! @ Jan 11 2011, 10:14 PM) QUOTE (bigmoney2112 @ Jan 11 2011, 07:42 PM) Aphex Twin's music is very odd and different, but some of it is pretty good. I love the guy's music. Nearly everything he's done has something good to offer. Lately I've been going back & listening to all of the albums he's made under the various aliases he's used, such as Bradley Strider, Caustic Window, etc. He also did an EP called 'Pac-Man' under the name Power Pill...every sound you hear on it except for the beats came from the Pac-Man game...how cool is that? Sounds like it wouldn't work but it does...with marvelous results. I think Radiohead owes him a huge debt. I like I Care Because You Do and Selected Ambient Works 85-92. I really like the track "Ptolemy" off of Selected Ambient Works 85-92 That they do...he was a big influence on their radical change around the time of Kid A... Both of those are excellent...my favorite from SAW 85-92 is "Heliosphan".

QUOTE (Steevo @ Jan 11 2011, 11:37 PM) QUOTE (Rush! @ Jan 12 2011, 04:14 PM) QUOTE (bigmoney2112 @ Jan 11 2011, 07:42 PM) Aphex Twin's music is very odd and different, but some of it is pretty good. I love the guy's music. Nearly everything he's done has something good to offer. Lately I've been going back & listening to all of the albums he's made under the various aliases he's used, such as Bradley Strider, Caustic Window, etc. He also did an EP called 'Pac-Man' under the name Power Pill...every sound you hear on it except for the beats came from the Pac-Man game...how cool is that? Sounds like it wouldn't work but it does...with marvelous results. I'm intrigued, I hear this mentioned a lot. Which album for a newbie? I'd go with 'Selected Ambient Works 85-92' and/or 'Richard D. James Album'. Both are pretty accessible and good starting points.

QUOTE (bigmoney2112 @ Jan 11 2011, 07:42 PM) Aphex Twin's music is very odd and different, but some of it is pretty good. I love the guy's music. Nearly everything he's done has something good to offer. Lately I've been going back & listening to all of the albums he's made under the various aliases he's used, such as Bradley Strider, Caustic Window, etc. He also did an EP called 'Pac-Man' under the name Power Pill...every sound you hear on it except for the beats came from the Pac-Man game...how cool is that? Sounds like it wouldn't work but it does...with marvelous results.

I just realized that my favorite section of music on the whole record is the drum solo from 1:54-2:06 in Sugar 'n Spikes. I might be partially biased since I'm a drummer but that little drum solo is one of the best things I've ever heard.

Yeah I dig them...I mostly listen to the 1965-1970 period. I do enjoy their material before '65 but I don't listen to those albums or songs as much as Rubber Soul-Let It Be.

Yeah I dig them...I mostly listen to the 1965-1970 period. I do enjoy their material before '65 but I don't listen to those albums or songs as much as Rubber Soul-Let It Be.

Yeah I dig them...I mostly listen to the 1965-1970 period. I do enjoy their material before '65 but I don't listen to those albums or songs as much as Rubber Soul-Let It Be.

I actually enjoyed around half the album on my first listen...which was about 2 or 3 years ago. His other work is also great... Although I listened to Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans & Moonbeams the other day...not impressed with those at all. Even the Captain himself rejects those two. I'd probably rank his work like this: 1. Trout Mask Replica 2. Lick My Decals Off, Baby 3. Ice Cream for Crow 4. Safe as Milk 5. Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) 6. Doc at the Radar Station 7. Strictly Personal 8. The Spotlight Kid 9. Clear Spot 10. Unconditionally Guaranteed 11. Bluejeans & Moonbeams

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: 1. Power 2. Lost in the World 3. Dark Fantasy 4. Runaway 5. Monster 6. Gorgeous 7. So Appalled 8. Devil in a New Dress 9. Hell of a Life 10. Blame Game 11. All of the Lights

RIP Captain Beefheart

I really enjoyed the setlist for the TM tour. I'd like to hear The Analog Kid and Open Secrets mostly. Also I've recently developed a newfound appreciation for Emotion Detector and High Water...two songs I had previously not thought about much. I think both of those would be sweet to hear live. More tunes from VT would be cool too...particularly Ghost Rider, Peaceable Kingdom, & Nocturne.

QUOTE (Pags @ Dec 16 2010, 01:18 PM) This horrible epidemic of suicide has hit our town. A high school freshman in our school district hung himself on Monday night. The shock waves are only just beginning to rip through this community. These poor kids, to have to deal with such loss and having to learn what suicide really is and what it really does to someone whom they'll never see again. I feel so bad for this poor 14 year old who felt that alone, and that much in despair that he would do this to himself. I have to wonder if in those final moments when it was too late to turn back if he was wishing he hadn't done this. What's pissing me off is the fact that we're learning the boy's suicide may be due to bullying because he was biracial. I mean, have we gone nowhere as a society that this narrow mentality is still so prevalent? What the f**k are these pin-headed dimwits teaching their children that their actions would drive this kid over the edge like that? What's pissing me off even more, is that the school won't even allow these grieving kids to openly discuss it. They are being silenced in class and told to speak in private only to a grief counselor if they feel it necessary. That's total bullshit to me. Everything is a Facebook page nowadays, and there is a FB page dedicated to this kid's memory. In it, I saw a parent write that this tragedy has given her the "courage" to tell her kids she loves them and tell them to stand up for themselves as well as others if they are unable. I suppose that's noble, yet at the same time I can't help but wonder why she wasn't teaching this to her children all their lives. It took THIS to tell them you love them, and start teaching them to stand up for themselves? Maybe this is why we're in such an epidemic of kids hurting themselves, because parents aren't talking to them! I thought this would have been something we'd be trying to teach to our children from the time they were old enough to talk. Please, I hope we're ALL teaching our children that we're always here to help them, and love them, and listen to them, and build them up to realize they are always worth more than what some lowlife may try to bring them down to feel like. Sorry, I'm rambling - but this awful tragedy has me a bit rattled. I can't believe I have to comfort my children about this, and have them see so up-close what suicide really is, and what it really does. This isn't something we're watching on the news at home, it's happening AT their home, in the town where they live. Perhaps this will help us in teaching them that this is never, ever the answer. I hope this family somehow gets through this, and I hope this community learns a lesson about tolerance and acceptance. Similar events have occurred in my area. The most recent was a 19-year-old was driving drunk around my town, he had a 17-year-old friend in the passenger seat. He ended up crashing the car and his friend, the passenger, died. He (the driver) only suffered minor injuries. It's horrible. In fact there are now THREE kids (all teenagers) who have died in a timespan of two years. All of them went to my high school and even worse is the same girl, at various points, dated all three of the boys who passed away.

Great show, his stand-up is also fantastic. I never seem to be able to catch the show when it's on but whenever I do it is hysterical.

War Paint is ok but it's forgettable for me. I like the first three tracks and Scars off Presto...the rest is alright, just not very memorable...in my opinion.

QUOTE (Wilderness_of_Mirrors @ Dec 11 2010, 08:57 PM) QUOTE (Lamelight @ Dec 11 2010, 03:42 PM) QUOTE (micgtr71 @ Dec 11 2010, 03:45 PM)QUOTE (Lamelight @ Dec 10 2010, 08:22 AM) Joy Division I like Joy Division as well. I think you're the first one I know who likes both Rush and Joy Division ME TOO!!!!! love Joy Division.....and The Smiths. in addition to that.....heres a frew others unlike Rush that i love: Aphex Twin, Animal Collective, Jeff Buckley, Beach House, the National, Meshuggah, Sunn O))), Minus the Bear..... Also like Joy Division and The Smiths.. And I also like the rest of the bands you've mentioned, particularly Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, and The National. But yes, everything else applies to me as well.