On the CD Player (Turntable) Today

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  1. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    Just to name a few

    Paul Simon, Surprise: This is a candidate for Album of the Year. Aptly named, featuring "sonic landscaping" by Brian Eno. I can't speak highly enough of the result at this time. Ineffably beautiful. Truly surprising.

    Blur, Parklife: I've been a fan of "This is a Low" for some time, and finally got around to the Lp. "To the End" is one of the coolest songs I've heard from the band.

    Mastodon, Blood Mountain: I can't speak highly enough of this band. Everything that annoys me about other "heavy metal" bands (e.g. P.O.D., Puddle of Mudd, System of a Down, &c.)? Mastodon avoids all of the traps (e.g relationship songs, post-grunge introspection, &c.) Saw 'em live a couple weeks ago at the Showbox in Seattle; super-tight, massive sound, thoroughly impressive. I remembered why people do drugs. Leaving the show, I felt high mostly because of the brutality of the sound. Having not entered the pit, I still felt exhausted simply having withstood the signal onslaught. As to more obscure, "truer" forms of heavy metal? I generally don't get into the uber-masculine shout-and-growl style, but those bands need to learn to play. Not that I would knock them specifically, but it's a long way to go before they match Mastodon.
     
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    Phluph

    yes, that's the name of the band, from 1968.
     
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  7. John99 Banned Banned

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    Alot of the stuff i list here is new to me including that one. It still is common to make one supreme masterpiece, I think the 60's, 70' and 80's were as good as it can get for music.


    TALKING HEADS - LIFE DURING WARTIME
     
  8. volpeculus sagacis Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodies Registered Senior Member

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    The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
    The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
    Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
     
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  10. goofyfish Analog By Birth, Digital By Design Valued Senior Member

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    Spinning vinyl tonight because some music needs
    the hisses, pops & crackles to make it real…
    • Gram Parsons ~ Grievous Angel ~ 1974
    • Van Morrison ~ Astral Weeks ~ 1968 (still don’t like it)
    • Mason Proffit ~ Bareback Rider ~ 1973
    • Brewer & Shipley ~ Tarkio ~ 1971
    :m: Peace.
     
  11. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    That twelve-year period from 1963 to 1974 that we call "the 1960s" was notable for the sheer volume of good music. In my opinion it was simply because the fans were more musically oriented and expected more. It seemed that half the people in America could play a guitar. We actually sat and listened to music for hours on end. We could tap our feet in 11/4 time to Rush or keep our feet still for the poetry of Leonard Cohen, we had the attention span to appreciate the thematic dynamics of an opus by Quicksilver or Genesis, and we were happy to lose ourselves in a trance created by the Dead or Tangerine Dream.

    Ditties, love songs and dance anthems always have an allure and no one apologized for liking "Summer Breeze," "Danny's Song" or "Honky Tonk Woman." But adventurous and diverse music was more widespread than it is today.

    Nonetheless, it's still out there.
     
  12. thedevilsreject Registered Senior Abuser Registered Senior Member

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    back to 'deth for me
     
  13. John99 Banned Banned

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    I agree, but even the '80s had alot of originality.

    These guy's rock - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQZ3rGp7mgE&NR

    1.9yo plays guitar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju4ejR2rQzY
     
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    The Mars Volta - This Apparatus Must be Unleashed
    Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
     
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    RATM - Killing In The Name Of

    Man was that guy angry.
     
  16. volpeculus sagacis Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodies Registered Senior Member

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    The Postal Service - <i>Give Up</i>
     
  17. geodesic "The truth shall make ye fret" Registered Senior Member

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    So far tonight
    Thirteen Senses - The Invitation
    Regina Spektor - Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers
    Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
     
  18. Zakariya04 and it was Valued Senior Member

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    Hi Posters

    i have the following tunses for today

    Jeru the damaja - My mind spray
    Beatles - there are places i remember
    Kinks - where have all the good times gone
    Das efx - We want efx
    Kasier cheifs - i predict a riot
    Peter tosh - Stepping razor

    These are the first 6 tunes on my new compliation CD

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    take care
    zak
     
  19. John99 Banned Banned

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    Jack Knife cries 'cause baby's in a bundle
    She goes running nightly, lightly through the jungle
    And them tin cans are explodin' out in the ninety-degree heat
    Cat somehow lost his baby down on Bleecker Street
    It's sad but it sure is true
    Cat shrugs his shoulders, sits back and sighs
    OOh, what can I do, ooh, what can I do?
    OOh, what can I do, ooh what can I do?

    anyone???
     
  20. John99 Banned Banned

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    here she comes now
     
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    Pebbles Volume 3 - The Acid Gallery
     
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    And the men who hold high places
    Must be the ones to start
    To mould a new reality
    Closer to the heart
     
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