What are you listening to right now?

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[reply][reply]Everything by Skinny Puppy before Last Rights is good. Everything after is bad.

I guess I picked the right time to stop giving a crap. It wasn’t intentional or anything. I got into Puppy for a short while, then saw the LAST RIGHTS tour (awesome). Never bought or saw anything after that. Eventually I kind of stopped caring about the rest of it as well (though I still like select tracks).[/reply]

You owe it to yourself to pickup VIVIsectVi if you havent already man. Here’s a little taste of perfection you fags.[cool]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIhZYEZcnEU[/reply]

Yeah, I have that on cassette somewhere (it came out, of course, before Last Rights) if it hasn’t become a casualty of my many moves.

I used to own that and Rabies and maybe something else I can’t remember. I liked Rabies the best, though I haven’t listened to any of that stuff in quite some time.

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MJ Harris/Martyn Bates - Murder Ballads

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[reply][reply][reply]Everything by Skinny Puppy before Last Rights is good. Everything after is bad.

I guess I picked the right time to stop giving a crap. It wasn’t intentional or anything. I got into Puppy for a short while, then saw the LAST RIGHTS tour (awesome). Never bought or saw anything after that. Eventually I kind of stopped caring about the rest of it as well (though I still like select tracks).[/reply]

You owe it to yourself to pickup VIVIsectVi if you havent already man. Here’s a little taste of perfection you fags.[cool]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIhZYEZcnEU[/reply]

Yeah, I have that on cassette somewhere (it came out, of course, before Last Rights) if it hasn’t become a casualty of my many moves.

I used to own that and Rabies and maybe something else I can’t remember. I liked Rabies the best, though I haven’t listened to any of that stuff in quite some time.[/reply]

VivisectVI is amazing. Rabies is just Rabies. Never really got into cleanse. I own it, but still to this day, is the most neglected of the bunch. Can’t really say why either. Don’t mind Process either. It’s just different. The last two albums are ok at best too, IMO. TGWOTR is a more consistent album than mythmaker though. Mythmaker feels like a mess. One half of average pop songs, and the other half more out there type of stuff that they should have done during the first half.

And currently, the last thing I listened to was 101 by Depeche Mode. Who knew it was good gym music.

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Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent

Ok, so some of the riffs are really spot on and remind me of the KJ of old. And some of the garbled vocals send a shiver down my spine with their ‘otherworldly’ demonic intensity…

BUT!!

Do they always have to be SO politically ‘right now’? It’s as if they took the morning papers, cut out all the headlines concerning world politics, stuck them together and sang them over the music.

Leave that shit to Bono. And those wankers from Manic Street Preachers.

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In all fairness though they didnt release much after Last Rights. Mostly remixes, outtakes, live stuff etc. They’re getting their roll on now… sadly their latest releases dont warrant your time.

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DJ Cash Money!!!

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the process is skinny puppy’s best album imho. gwotr is great too, mythmaker not so much. i find rabies kind of hard to listen to, but enjoy everything else, although it does depends what mood i’m in as to how much. i am currently listening to some skinny puppy rarities/demos, imaginatively titled ‘rare vault’.

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Do they always have to be SO politically ‘right now’? It’s as if they took the morning papers, cut out all the headlines concerning world politics, stuck them together and sang them over the music.

That’s Jaz Coleman for you.
He’s a conspiracy theorist.

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Ulver - Blood Inside

Henry Cow - In Praise Of Learning

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden

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Depeche Mode - Blue Dress

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mh6hK8mEIw

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Akron/Family!!!

Just blasted the new album under the headphones twice in a row due to the awesomeness of it all.

Totes!

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Dusting off the cobwebs and digging out all my old Church albums and giving them a much, much needed listening to.

So far I’ve listened to:

Seance

Priest = Aura

Hologram Of Baal

The Blurred Crusade

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Hologram Of Baal

Did they ever do an album called Sceptre Of Baal?

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Dark Castle - Spirited Migration
Project Pitchfork - Io
Ajax - s/t
yelworC - Brainstorming
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather

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Low - Transmission

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I think Red Lorry Yellow Lorry is trying REALLY hard to become my favorite band ever.

Fuck.

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Einsturzende Neubauten - Strategies Against Arcitechture IV

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I think Red Lorry Yellow Lorry is trying REALLY hard to become my favorite band ever.

Fuck.

Awesome band, the Nothing Wrong LP from '88 is top 20 for me. “Hands Off Me” is in our cover repertoire (playing it again on April 2).

I have their reunion DVD from 2004 “Thunder In A Black Cave”, which is pretty cool, though the quality isn’t the greatest (I think Reed was just churning them out from his house). Better to watch on a computer than a huge TV. Just say the word J…

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I discovered a few bands over the weekend, the first two of which I purchased their work right away; I was so impressed:

THE SOFT MOON - It’s described as post-punk, dark wave, ambient - it’s hard to pin down, but it’s good…REAL good. Their s/t album from 2010 is top notch from start to finish. They have videos on YouTube if you want to investigate - check out “Circles” and “Breathe The Fire”. Scarce vocals, detuned bass guitar, effected, distant drums, it’s mesmerizing stuff. I’ve listened to the album about a dozen times since Saturday!

[url “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9t8Oex9BpQ”]The Soft Moon - Circles

[url “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5By-64c_ao”]The Soft Moon - Breathe The Fire

WHITE CAR - It’s no accident their name is also the title of a Cabaret Voltaire song from CODE, this Chicago band is a spitting image of '83 to '86 Cabs, right down to the Mallinder-esque vocals, synth vocal stabs, rim shots and hand claps. The songs sound like outtakes from Crackdown and Micro-Phonies. They released two 4-track EPs in 2010, “White Car” and “No Better”, released about 5 months apart. It’s hard to even hate on a Cabs clone, especially when the tunes are solid. I found both EPs on Amazon (digital), and those are getting heavy rotation as well. There’s a video for “The Bridge” on Vimeo, and it’s very much a nod to Cabs/Wax Trax video production.

[url “http://vimeo.com/12097119”]White Car - The Bridge

NEON INDIAN - Another band I stumbled across, but haven’t dug too deep into yet. I caught one of their clips, “Mind, Drips” on YouTube, and it’s as if someone unearthed an obscure pop-dance track from 1984. The video itself is pretty cool, and he explains how it was made:

“no stop motion techniques were used in this video. effects were performed in real time using analogue video synthesizer, a DVD player (to play back the footage), an Ikegami ITC-730A tube camera, and a CRT television. and a lot of cables.”

[url “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWs4e7oTn9g&feature=related”]Neon Mirage - “Mind, Drips”

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Eno and Bryne.