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Coil - “Time Machines”
Grmpy, do you go to Aquarius Records at all??[/reply]
Never even heard of this place. is it online or an actual store?
I have to admit that I do like the air of arrogance you have started this thread with. “I’m (as well as all of you are) better than grmpysmrf so I’m going to help this poor musically sheltered loser out and try to lift him up to a better place. Does this count as community service?”
Late,
grmpysmrf
Never even heard of this place. is it online or an actual store?
It’s (supposedly) the biggest/best ‘alternative/underground’ music store in the U.S.
It’s in San Francisco. I shop there online a bit.
I have to admit that I do like the air of arrogance you have started this thread with. “I’m (as well as all of you are) better than grmpysmrf so I’m going to help this poor musically sheltered loser out and try to lift him up to a better place. Does this count as community service?”
There was no arrogance implied.
I was going to start a ‘recommend me some greasy take-away’ thread but thought this would be more fun.
It only counts as community service if recommending you some good music will make you change your evil ways. Then I will sleep more peacefully at night.
Oh Grmpy.
Head of David-Dustbowl
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Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
My girlfriend was dj-ing at a small indie club/bar/chill out room a few months back and she decided to play a few tracks off this album - apparently everyone stopped what they were doing and listened in awestruck silence. She said the sight was ‘freaky’.
Afterwards she had about a dozen e’d out clubber hipsters come up to her and ask her what that ‘dreamy indie music’ was that she was playing and where they could buy a copy.
Now I can’t listen to that album without picturing a room full of blissed out clubbers staring into space with tears in their eyes.
Hilarious.[/reply]
I’m listening to it right now, thanks to this thread.
It’s good, but it’s really not any different from, say, Lovespiralsdownward or some other old Projekt Records stuff.
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Never even heard of this place. is it online or an actual store?
It’s (supposedly) the biggest/best ‘alternative/underground’ music store in the U.S.
It’s in San Francisco. I shop there online a bit.[/reply]
San Francisco is about 8 hours away So I won’t be there anytime soon. maybe I’ll look for it online
There was no arrogance implied.
I was going to start a ‘recommend me some greasy take-away’ thread but thought this would be more fun.
in that case, recommend away.
… Then I will sleep more peacefully at night.
Oh Grmpy.
I’m flattered! who would’ve thought you think about me outside of the board, let alone at night when you’re in bed?
Late,
grmpysmrf
Here’s 8 from my collection I think grmpy might like if he doesn’t already have some of 'em.
Brian Eno “Here Come the Warm Jets”
Coil “Love’s Secret Domain”
Cop Shoot Cop “Ask Questions Later”
Download “Eyes of Stanley Pain”
M83 “Saturdays=Youth”
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult “Confessions of a Knife”
Neu! “Neu! 75”
Tad “God’s Balls”
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Pig Destroyer: “Natasha”
That’s a pretty rough entry point for Pig Destroyer. It’s very good, but not a great first taste. Go with Phantom Limb.[/reply]
Point. I just kinda figured that my man grmpy would me more into the slow, heavy dronal stuff than straight-up grind.
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Pig Destroyer: “Natasha”
That’s a pretty rough entry point for Pig Destroyer. It’s very good, but not a great first taste. Go with Phantom Limb.[/reply]
Point. I just kinda figured that my man grmpy would me more into the slow, heavy dronal stuff than straight-up grind.[/reply]
You are correct, sir. although I do like some grind if it’s done right. I really like Amon Amarth especially since they have these beautiful melodies that run through the chug riffs. I really like the contrast of the heavy and the melodic. What generally turns me off to Grind are those stupid growl vocalists! You can actually understand the Amon Amarth Vocalist! +1.
Too bad you don’t post as often as you used Icepick we miss ya around here!
Late,
grmpysmrf
I’d classify Amon Amarth as melodic death metal along the lines of later day Carcass from the small amount I’ve heard by them.
Seconding the Pig Destroyer “Phantom Limb” recommendation, can’t get enough of that album. It has the immediacy one wants from grindcore but with well written and memorable riffs that compliment the savagery of the lyrical backdrop the music portrays. Still waiting on this band to come anywhere near SoCal, they look like they put on an unforgettable show
behemoth - evangelion
Jesus christ, if grmpy were to start listening to all of this depressing ass music he will probably kill himself. I can hardly find anything on this thread that would appeal to the average 80-90’s Ministry/RevCo fan.
Buy Four Tet’s new album “There Is Love In You” Grumpy…it is fresh off the press, incredible and beautiful…plus it’d be something a bit different for you…
The lowdown…
“So, you’ve read the music blogs and have driven your flatmates up the wall with “Love Cry” on repeat for the last two months, now here comes the highly anticipated new album from Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet; but does it live up to the enormous amount of hype? Luckily, yes, it does! What we have here is someone laying down a palette of sounds and a template of how music will evolve in the 21st century. Rather than simply a set of songs, Hebden showcases new technology and instrumentation in a way that makes you feel like everything before it was simply inferior. Who needs guitars when you have 24-bit polyphonic texture generators? Why not make the vocal part synthesize with the keyboards and create a rhythmic pulse? Hebden is always one step ahead of the game. Four Tet’s soundscapes scream of future industry, glistening hi-technology, new ideas and optimism; offering reasurance in a world that could sometimes be feared or mistrusted with the rate of its technological advances. Here, the new is welcomed with a smile and hug, ‘it’s going to be fine…’, you can almost here Hebden whisper in your ear through a barrage of digital frequencies. And I believe him. From slow ballads, future pop anthems to the more club friendly, forward thinking dance music he is famed for, “There Is Love In You” sets out a whole new vision of making music which in time will be referenced as a classic.”
Jesus christ, if grmpy were to start listening to all of this depressing ass music he will probably kill himself. I can hardly find anything on this thread that would appeal to the average 80-90’s Ministry/RevCo fan.
LOL [:P]
I’d recommend more, but Peligro would just tell you not to listen to them.
I’d recommend more, but Peligro would just tell you not to listen to them.
I don’t mind what you recommend.
Just as long as it has nothing to do with that Billy & The Corgans or whatever it is they call themselves.
Nasty. I got Corgan residue in my brain now that you reminded me of that band.
[reply]I’d recommend more, but Peligro would just tell you not to listen to them.
I don’t mind what you recommend.
Just as long as it has nothing to do with that Billy & The Corgans or whatever it is they call themselves.[/reply]
You’re funny today Peligro between this and that Varg post, man I’m laughing my ass off! If I didn’t know any better I’d think you were getting laid or have taken up a new drug.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Jesus christ, if grmpy were to start listening to all of this depressing ass music he will probably kill himself. I can hardly find anything on this thread that would appeal to the average 80-90’s Ministry/RevCo fan.
No doubt.
[laugh]
Makes me glad I recommended nothin’ but angry stuff.
grmpy, check out Capture and Release by Khanate.
smoke a bit of the old hooch before you do. it’s basically about… well, capturing someone and… ‘releasing’ them.
capture is not a bad prelude. one beautiful section where they drone an A chord out with a 4-3-1-2 and 4-6-1-2 chord progressions in A mixolydian (around the 3 and 10 minutes marks)…
but release, i swear is amazing. just give it time and be patient with it. i found this band really difficult to listen to and grasp at first, but i found i just had to listen to it patiently, step back and take in the whole thing. and it was great.
here’s the link; hope it serves you well…
http://microtrees.blogspot.com/2009/03/khanate-capture-release-2005.html
grmpy,…
smoke a bit of the old hooch before you do.
No drugs for me, sir. So, I guess that record is a lost cause for me.
Late,
grmpysmrf