Who is your favorite music band?

Indeed. All hail Incubus



and radiohead

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FUCK YEAH!!!!!! NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!



Good to see ya Sarge

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amen. excellent cd.

 

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The inspiration. Syd.

 

I'm computer illiterate. The previous post was a mistake.

 

That Emperor CD is great.

It's the only one I have by them. Can your recommend any of their other works? I listened to one of their more recent albums in a store and I didn't like it nearly as much.

 

Emperor's new stuff, although I enjoy it, sucks in terms of black metal and doesn't have that epic and 'evil' atmosphere. Avoid their albums "IX Equilibrium" "Reverence" and "Prometheus". While these new albums are infinitely more complex, they end up sucking due to their own technical overload.

"Nightside Eclipse" is their best album by far, but try "Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk". Anthems was the first album in black metal that was coined "Viking metal". Anthems has cleaner vocals, machine gun drums and fair production, but it carries that distinct Emperor feel in terms of emotional weight. Try listening to it first.

"Wrath Of The Tyrant" is a gem you might like to pick up. It is their old demo tape set to CD that sounds like they were playing under water. It is very atmospheric and epic, but you might be turned off by the horrible production.

If you enjoyed Nightside Eclipse, you REQUIRE Sacramentum: Far Away From The Sun. It's in the same vein, but Sacramentum uses an At The Gates/In Flames melodic metal style combined with epic keyboards and rather stale vocals (don't worry, they aren't that bad). The cover art for Far Away From The Sun is actually done by the same artist that did the Nightside Eclipse cover.

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http://www.anus.com/metal/sacramentum.html

 

their singer has an awesome voice. i listen to in the nightside eclipse and i find myself entranced by the overall effect this record has. his voice is really great. he doesnt sound like he's TRYING to be evil...he just is. amazing shit.

i will check out sacramentum as soon as i can.

 

Well, any band who has the morality to put their music above their politics is exceptional in my mind. The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Weezer are incredible bands. Radiohead...


...Radiohead had a very bright future with 'Pablo Honey', and then they got ambitious and made the bends, which was awesome. But then they made 'Ok Computer'.

'Ok Computer'=steaming pile of lefty shit.
'Amnesiac'=see above
'Kid A'=see above
'Hail to the Thief'=*painful groan*


What can I say?

 

All music is political, regardless of the author being aware of it. Art reflects the values of the composer, thus it is bound to their political idealogy. This could be straight out Rage Against The Machine politics or it could be Snoop Dogg (all gangster rap prizes hedonism and hyper-masculinity, with a touch of anti-authoritarian individuality.)

 

Uh...no.

Hammerheart was released in 1990. Enslaved's first album came out in 1993. Hell, even Amon Amarth predates Anthems to the Welkin.

Emperor is quite good, though. My complaint is their lack of structure leads to a very muddy sound, that really only works if you listen to the album straight through.

But then, now that mp3 is bastardizing album structure, this is not such a very bad thing.

 

You are correct Xev. I'm going by what I heard in an old article regarding Viking metal. Some don't consider Hammerheart to be viking metal, but just black metal. Beats me.

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What do you mean by lack of structure?

 

*Shrugs*
Bathory fans are that way. Some love the Viking themes and more melodic sound that Quorthon introduced in '88, some won't consider that as Bathory.
"Viking metal" is still regarded by some as a slur (read: Manowar) and since Bathory is such an institution they won't use the term to refer to it.

Structure...perhaps the wrong word? Later Emperor is even worse with this, but the riffs don't seem to relate to each other. When the song itself is rather simple, it works, but they'll mix fairly rhythmic percussion with keyboards that shift tempo often.
I'm not sure if I'm explaining this well. Emperor just cannot be chopped up into individual songs - and I love this about them.

Matter of rather personal taste, I suppose. In general, I like my music crisp and melodic instead of all over the place.

 

Originally posted by and2000x
All music is political, regardless of the author being aware of it.
Art reflects the values of the composer, thus it is bound to their political idealogy.

No, art reflects the human spirit. Sure, politics can affect the human spirit, but political music goes out of style with the times. It also splits your audience in half--some agree with it, some don't.

Notice how no 'great' bands were openly political.

This could be straight out Rage Against The Machine politics or it could be Snoop Dogg (all gangster rap prizes hedonism and hyper-masculinity, with a touch of anti-authoritarian individuality.)

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle.


unreg

 

How about the anti-Christian, pro-drug statements of the Beatles?

How about the war, death, and afterlife themes of Black Sabbath?

How about the existential exploration espoused by Led Zepplin?

They don't make it a chore to include politics within their music, but the sentiments are still there. Music is a social statement, therefore it is tied to the composer's person political aims.

As for Weezer, their style is an obvious liberal nihilism (or even a mockery of it.)

 

Unregistered:
Political can be used in the broadest sense. When John Lennon calls Jesus a greasy fascist, he's making a political statement.

When Weezer writes songs soley about consumer goods and "relationships", they are making a political statement about the direction of life.

When Bathory writes a song about the joy of freedom, he is making a political statement about what is valuable.

When Avril Lavrenge sings ad nauseaum about boys and sex, she is making a political statement about what a woman's role should be.

Music is a social endeavor, thus cannot be seperated from politics. The Nazis loved Wagner for the style of his music (later Wagner is very fascistic). Sibelius' "Finlandia" was played as an act of rebellion towards the Russian occupiers. Mozart's comedic opera "Marriage of Figaro" was banned in pre-revolutionary France for the way it mocked the nobility.

You want to castrate art, but this is impossible. Art is inherently political - the only question is whether one has the subtlety to see the politics.

 

Hey, that was a rather clever phrase Xev. I think I'll put it on my list of cool quotes.

 

U-Reg, did I hear you say that the Bends was awesome?

I thus quote:

 

travis, REM, the living end, the smiths, the cure,oasis, hot hot heat,cake, the postal service, smashing pumpkins, rolling stones ...just a few not mentioned yet

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btw, Incubus went to my school and Linkin Park Sux a Fat one