How is this, Syc? I wasn't aware it was already out...

Dude, did you read my post? :)

Overall, it's not bad. The music and singing are good (natch!). But here are my issues with it:

--I don't know the originals...any of 'em. It's good in a way, but bad...b/c I don't have that "measuring stick."

--Too much synth...I would have liked to hear some rock-oriented stuff (a la "I Feel You" or "Useless").

--The whole premise of this being a covers CD. I would have liked to see Martin challenge himself more, i.e. how he would handle songs that he has written just for him, not for Dave or him to sing as members of DM.

I don't feel that I wasted my money though, nor do I consider it just filler. It's a good CD...better than the last Recoil release.

I saw this, and it KICKED ASS! I think I may have to record it next time it's on. The interviews were good, the history of the band was accurate and nonegotistical, nor ego-stroking (as Lars is famous for); Jason came out and told his story, James discussed his "demons" and treatment; Kirk was exactly how he always is.
Wonderful piece. I highly advise catching it!

What's reading? :confused: :p

I remember getting all excited because "Unsound Methods" kicked all sorts of ass, and then "Liquid" proceeds to kinda totally suck. Damn you Alan Wilder!

Just so I'm not trolling, I'm listening to... uhhh....

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Cursive - Domestica
Cursive - The Ugly Organ

Yeah. :cool:

On this here coal-fired WinAmp
 

Brian Eno - Ambient 4, On Land.
Thinkin'/Plottin' music. Sort of Ambient Bladerunner, only way to describe it.

Especially-
Track 2 The Lost Day
Track 3 Tal Coat

Lots!

Buying music has got me listening to a variety of stuff. Since it's mostly not albums, I'll go ahead and list tracks.

<b>Eminem - Lose Yourself, Stan, The Way I Am (with Marilyn Manson)</b> - the last one is an Apple exclusive and is <b>really good</b>. Never been much into Eminem, but I can see myself getting hooked on him. Good stuff.

<b>U2 - Beautiful Day</b> - for just a buck, I now have this - finally. Reminds me of <i>Bandits</i> and good times.

<b>David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World, Ashes to Ashes</b> - some of the first songs I downloaded from Apple. They've always been two of my favorites, and now I have 'em to listen to any time. I think <b>Ashes to Ashes</b> is my favorite Bowie song.

<b>Run D.M.C. - Run's House, Rock Box, It's Tricky</b> - I already had the latter two, but tossing in Run's House has given me the trifecta of my favorite Run D.M.C. music.

<b>Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles, Paint It Black</b> - okay, so I really just bought these 'cause I wanted her cover of Paint It Black, which is actually very decent. While I was at it, I threw in "her song", just 'cause hey, why not. It's cutesy anyway, but I can definitely say that I don't dig it super much. It's good for a listen once in a while.

<b>Kurtis Blow - The Breaks, Christmas Rappin'</b> - The Breaks is one of the finest old-school rap songs. Enjoyable songs which take me back to a day when rap wasn't about killing. Good stuff.

<b>OutKast - Stankonia</b> - good CD, couple great tracks. <b>Humble Mumble</b> stands out as stupidly catchy and good, as well as <b>B.O.B.</b> and a few others. I also have <b>Big Boi and Dre Present...</b>, which came with an exclusive track <b>The Whole World</b> - also an excellent one that receives a lot of play, with <b>Rosa Parks</b> thrown in there too.

Throw in the Vice City soundtracks for <b>Wave 103</b>, <b>Flash FM</b> and <b>Wildstyle Pirate Radio</b> and that makes up my work listening schedule.

At the gym, I've been listening to a lot of <b>Alice In Chains</b> - specifically, <b>Dirt</b>, and <b>System of a Down - Steal This Album!</b>, which are both <b>excellent</b> albums.

Having 4,000 songs in my pocket (and room for at least another 2,000) means I am getting through a lot of music. Definitely very pleased with my new iPod. :)

Good choice, my friend. I have a hard time narrowing it down to just one, but "Ashes To Ashes" is definitely top five.

Aesop Rock - "Daylight EP": Another old favorite. http://www.definitivejux.net
The Wrens - "The Meadowlands": AGAIN. This album totally fucking rules. http://www.thewrens.com

Saint Etienne.

It's so beautiful, it makes me cry like a little baby.

Metallica -S&M. It was a concert they played in '96 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and it sounds so good.
Rage Against The Machine -Self Titled. Their best album by far :)
Pantera -Cowboys From Hell. Their first and still best album.

I'm a metal fan in case you hadn't noticed :)

KotW, love your taste!!!

I use MP3s and am currently listening to:
Elton John - Daniel
Though I was listening to:
Metallica - Damage Inc.
About 30 seconds ago.

June 10 will be the first time I've bought multiple CDs at one time at a store in over a year: Radiohead, Metallica, and Dave Gahan. Plus I have 5 CDs that should be coming from Columbia House any day now: Billy Joel's greatest hits, and 3 CDs from Miles Davis. That'll keep the CD player going for a while.

<b>Aneka - Japanese Boy</b> - I don't have an MP3, but it plays right after "Video Killed The Radio Star" on Flash FM in Vice City. Good lord I love this song. I don't know why they didn't put it on the fuckin' soundtrack CDs. Assholes.

Ozzy - No More Tears

Ozzy! Yeah! Whoo!!!

Need I say more? :p

Now I've got an MP3. You can download it here:

http://msdelta.net/~dave/aneka.mp3

It's properly ID3 tagged.

I couldn't find this fucking song to buy, so I don't feel bad about illegally downloading it and giving it to friends. If someone finds a CD I can get this on, let me know.

Redshift - Halo

Most of the songs are rather quiet to start, and it took me a while to realize that there was music there -- I would forget about it before it became interesting. I really like it now, though.

<b>The Cars - Just What I Needed</b> - iTunes Music Store didn't have this, probably because of some licensing irregularity that's being worked out. Regardless, I wanted to have it, so I got it. This is probably one of my favorite 80's songs. I've always liked it, and I always will. I need a girl that wears ribbons in her hair...

Just got a bunch of new shit over the past few weeks.

Metallica--St. Anger: I dunno...I was so impressed when I heard "Frantic" and "St. Anger." But the rest of the album sounds the same. As I mentioned in another thread, maybe I just need to listen to it a few more times.

Radiohead--Pablo Honey and Hail to the Thief: Their first and most recent releases. Both are great. Hail is not as quirky as the last 2 releases...it goes back to more guitar-oriented music, like Pablo Honey, which, incidentally, is a great pop record.

Billy Joel--The Essential Billy Joel: A 2-CD set that covers everything from his first record to his most recent classical release. It is missing a few tracks that are on the 3 greatest hits CDs, but overall, a great compilation. Billy Joel is just a great songwriter.

Dave Gahan--Paper Monsters: Went ahead and bought the CD-DVD set. Like I said before, not bad, but could be better.

Miles Davis...if it isn't obvious by the posts I've made in this thread, most of what I've bought in the past 18 months has been Miles. That's the beauty of being in Columbia House...the same people that run Columbia House control most of his music catalog. And Columbia House always has fat deals.

So, on this go-round, I got:

'Round About Midnight: His first Columbia release, along with a few newer tracks tacked on.

Big Fun: 2-CD set, the follow up to Bitches Brew. Very rock-influenced, and all over the place.

Miles Smiles: Released in 1967, before he got deep into fusion. Another one of his albums that would be great as a movie soundtrack. This would be perfect for one of those hip/cool films from the late 60s.

I also bought Water Babies, though I haven't listened to it, yet. It was recorded in 1967, but not released until 1976, during his five-year recording hiatus.

The New Pornographers - [i}Electric Version[/i]: A nice little rock album with interesting male/female harmonies.

The Wrens - The Meadowlands: I like this album so much I actually PAID for it. Seriously, check this out. http://www.wrens.com

the gotan project

i heard this whilst walking through a music store in england and was absolutely mesmerised. i wont even try to describe it, you can hear samples at amazon.

~james

Metallica - Orion currently.

Count Basie- The Complete Decca Recordings. Works well on a sunny, kinda windy day.

Jesus Christ...there goes Perth and his British-English b.s. again. And soon to follow will be colour, recognise, and loo. :)

Nitzer Ebb--That Total Age: This album is still a trip in 2003. I can only imagine how crazy it seemed in 1987.

Nirvana--Nevermind: Still a great record.

While working on the shop today, I finally listened to a cd I had laying around by Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, and Steve Earle. Its live, acoustic, and for some dental work charity? Ida know it lead to some weird story about pulling a gold tooth after loosing a hand of poker... except they pulled the wrong tooth. Anyway these three guys are (were) imho just about the best American song writers. A lot of gritty raw emotion/humor/male stupidity/understanding.

example:Valentine's Day
(Steve Earle)
I come to you with empty hands
I guess I just forgot again
I only got my love to send
On Valentine's Day
I ain't got a card to sign
Roses have been hard to find
I only hope that you'll be mine
On Valentine's Day
I know that I swore that I wouldn't forget
I wrote it all down: I lost it I guess
There's so much I want to say
But all the words just slip away

The way you love me every day
Is Valentine's Day

If I could I would deliver to you
Diamonds and gold; it's the least I can do
So if you'll take my IOU
I could make it up to you
Until then I hope my heart will do
For Valentine's Day

Seal--Seal's new album comes out on September 9th (or Sept. 15th if you live outside the US), and his website features the Seal player. It's a jukebox with 12 songs from his first 3 albums, plus 2 new ones. The new songs are great. And he should now have the record for most albums with the same name--3. (The new record title is Seal, the same as his 1991 and 1994 releases.)

But the coolest part about the Seal player is the option of purchasing the songs. You can buy the new singles for $1.49 each through Paypal, or you can buy the whole package (minus one of the new songs) for $11.99. What a great concept.

I think that concept was around long before Apple decided to implement it.

Prog metal: Masterplan
Obligatory Amazon link; no samples, but I can't find anything better.

Metal: Black Label Society - "Stronger Than Death"
This latest album is better than their older stuff.
Made me look up what a pinch harmonic was. (Hey dave, learn this!)

Prog rock: Porcupine Tree - "In Absentia"
Again, latest is better than older.

Just plain rockin' rock: UFO

The KLF--The White Room: Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty are insane...but they make some great music.

KLF Uh huh
 

Ancients of Mu Mu!!

I remember them. I still have that tape! Another good reason to get my tape player working again.;)

Take me! Uh huh! Take me! Uh huh! Uh huh!

TAKE ME TO THE CHURCH OF THE KLF!
TAKE ME TO THE CHURCH OF THE KLF!

Good call, Syc.

Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
American Analog Set - Promise Of Love
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

I meant to break out 2K yesterday, but forgot. Arguably Drummond and Cauty's best work...except maybe for "Doctorin' the Tardis."

That's on the CD cart in my car even as we speak ... :)

Which one? 2K or The Timelords?

(5000!!!)

PHILADELPHIA, PA: Today marked sycamore's 5,000th post on local home-grown discussion board The Cellar (link). Approximately 4,996 posts were wasted with unintelligible gobbledygook while four contained useful information or thought-provoking opinion. Sycamore's plans for the future include improving his signal-to-noise ratio to something better than 1/1249 and continuing to be an ugly bastard. Netizens said they would be "looking forward to another 5,000 bandwidth wasting posts, which promise to accumulate more rapidly now that he's not stuck on post-limiting dialup".

The latter.

2K--Fuck the Millenium: Too bad this didn't get much attention Stateside when it came out in late 1997...it was the perfect anthem to all the millenium hype. You could even buy "Fuck the Millenium" merchandise.

Metallica: Between their new record and their song-swapping vendetta, I've not been overly happy with Metallica the past few years. But it would seem that they want to give back to the fans...maybe it's an atonement of sorts.

When St. Anger came out in June, inside the CD was a passcode to get you into the "Metallica Vaults". I forgot all about it until yesterday, when I decided to listen to the CD again.

So, I logged into the vaults, and was pleasantly surprised to find mp3s available for 3 live shows...free for the downloading. And apparently they're going to switch up the stuff here and there. Holy shit...that's great! I now have 6 CDs worth of live Metallica, which sounds pretty good.

Yeah, for the $9.99 I spent on St. Anger, it sure was worth my money. The album itself isn't great (though I don't think it's bad either - it just has a couple of sucky songs), but they included the DVD of rehearsals and all the live MP3s... good stuff.

I'm still trying to get into it...it's never taken me this long to get into previous releases. I was cool to Load when it first came out, but now it's one of my favorites from them.

Nothing can touch Master of Puppets though...

I think Master of Puppets has better songs overall, but as an <b>album</b>, I will put The Black Album at #1. Load and Reload are okay, but they're really just collections of songs. And they both have some pretty shitty ones. For example, Ronnie on Load... I fucking hate that song with all my might. I will never listen to it again, as it is a horrid piece of fucking ass. I tried to get into it, but I just can't. As for Reload, what the fuck is up with track 3? I don't even remember the name, it sucks so bad. What the fuck were they thinking?

Ideally they would just have made one album and it would have had:

Ain't My Bitch
2x4
The House That Jack Built
Until it Sleeps
King Nothing
Bleeding Me
Cure
Wasted My Hate
Mama Said
Thorn Within
The Outlaw Torn
Fuel
The Memory Remains
The Unforgiven II
Carpe Diem Baby
Where The Wild Things Are
Prince Charming
Low Man's Lyric
Fixxxer

It could have been a double-disc set, and the rest of the songs could have been the shitty B-sides that I would have never had to buy or listen to. The only one that's listenable that I left off is Attitude, but it still isn't all that great.

Instead, you get shit like Ronnie and Devil's Dance (I just checked, that's track 3) and Slither and Bad Seed... what the fuck? Metallica is usually *good*, not *sucky*.

St. Anger really only has a few tracks that I think suck, and the worst is Invisible Kid. What a fucking gay track. Every fucking line rhymes. Great, a fourth grader took over lyrical duty. What a steaming turd. And Purify isn't that much better. Nix those two from the album and I'd like it a hell of a lot more. As it is, Sweet Amber and The Unnamed Feeling are the best songs (in my very not humble opinion) and they happen to be tracks 8 and 9, meaning I can just listen to those two, then pop it back 2 tracks and have another go. God.

Anyway, Master of Puppets obviously has great songs, but I think The Black Album is a better album. Even though Master of Puppets has better songs. It's hard to explain. But I don't think they'll top The Black Album as far as an actual album goes.

Seal--Seal IV or Seal or whatever the fuck he's gonna call it: The album is currently streaming on his site. Great record...not his best, but definitely great.

Ministry--Twitch: A rather underrated record, but quite good...a sign of things to come from Al and the gang (including the 9 million side projects).

One of my favourites,

Days of the New - Green (aka 2)...

Brooklyn Sky Port (Departure)
- Visit Venus

Verve/Remixed2--Verve Records lets DJs have at their catalog for the 2nd time. Among the results: Gotan Project reworking Sarah Vaughan's "Whatever Lola Wants" and Dan the Automator reworking Willie Bobo's "Fried Neckbones and Some Home Fries". Heard about this on NPR Friday and just had to pick it up. Very cool...reminiscent of what US3 did with the Blue Note catalog in the 90s.

Johnny Cash--At San Quentin (The Complete 1969 Concert): After his death on Friday, I felt compelled to pick up one of his classics. Sony decided to include the whole concert, remaster it, and update the liner notes. And I picked it up for $9.

(Sony has apparently redone a good chunk of his catalog, along with creating various collections. And the CDs are generally cheap: $6-10. Good deal!)

Made in Japan
 

Just discovered all the Beatle-sound-a-like stuff that's all the rage in Japan now. On the cd player at the moment I'm listening to a group
called the Treeberrys. Is it the Beatles or is it Memorex? Hard to tell. They
have all the energy of the "Please Please Me" era Fab Four and you can't tell they're Japanese-except if you look at their pictures on the cd case. Is this
a good thing? Not sure. Nice music, thought.

As mentioned in the "Fools Who Download Music" thread, I've been repeatedly listening to Johnny Cash, American Recordings IV - The Man Comes Around.

Outstanding, moving, raw, excellent.

The Dining Rooms
Pure & Easy

Rhapsody is my new best friend...

KMFDM--Nihil and "Symbols"

Southern Culture on the Skids--Dirt Track Date and Plastic Seat Sweat

Reverend Horton Heat--Holy Roller (compilation), Spend a Night in the Box, and Lucky 7

Jamiroquai--Emergency on Planet Earth

David Bowie--Reality

Helloween - Rabbit Dont Come Easy

Billboard Top 100 from the 70s.

They're not the same group as the Swedish metal band of the 80s, are they?

Royal Crown Revue--Mugzy's Move

K-os--Exit: What hip-hop could be.

Dave Matthews.

Jamiroquai--The Return of the Space Cowboy

OutKast--Stankonia and Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

David Bowie--Heathen and Hours...

The greatest thing about Rhapsody is that I can listen to all those CDs that I've wanted to listen to forever, but haven't yet done.

Primal Scream--Screamadelica, Give Out But Don't Give Up, and Vanishing Point

OutKast--ATLiens

David Bowie--Earthling and Let's Dance

Black Eyed Peas--Elephunk

Django Reinhardt--The Best of Django Reinhardt

Miles Davis--Aura

Mudhoney--Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles

N.E.R.D.--In Search Of...

Ozomatli--Coming Up

I've been all over the map this week:

David Bowie--Best of Bowie and Scary Monsters

OutKast--Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

The Roots--Phrenology and Things Fall Apart

Sevendust--Sevendust and Home

Common--Electric Circus

A Perfect Circle--Thirteenth Step

The The--Dusk

Gravity Kills--Perversion

Keb' Mo'--Keb' Mo'

The X-ecutioners--Built From Scratch

THE THE!!!!


Nobody knows that band. Get mindbomb....its beautiful.

~case

I'm listening to that now, though the first song is unavailable on Rhapsody ("Good Morning Beautiful"). The back cover of that CD is fucked up (the bird on the knife).

I thought it was awesome when Matt Johnson basically gave the Naked Self album away online b/c he was pissed at how he was being treated by Nothing/Interscope/VivendiUniversal. Too bad other artists won't/can't make that kind of stand.

Living Colour--Collideoscope: Motherfuck! I had no idea that Living Colour got back together! Jesus Christ...why didn't anyone tell me?! They're only one of my favorite bands of all time!

Holy shit! And they'll be in town next month! Man...that's one group I always wished I would have seen!

Thank God for second chances. :)

Same players, Syc?