What Are You Listening To Right Now? (read 1st post please)

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Postby FoolThemAll » Sat Aug 07, 2004 7:31 pm

Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation.

My first introduction to dream punk. Distortion-filled, passion-filled. I dig it.
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Postby taeli » Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:44 am

Right now I'm currently listening to A Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra and the Tra la la Bands's album He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of our Rooms. Probably the most pretentious band in the world, but I like them a lot. They're a splinter group from Godspeed, and use a classical layout, with the odd guitar or vocalist if you're lucky. So to a new listener they could sound like classical music - but they're so different. Their song structure is post-rock; slow, with long drawn out tunes, and heavy silences. They are really like no other contemporary band - a genre in themselves.

They've also been described as having most depressing sound in contemporary music. There's no hooks, just slow meandering tunes. Some of which build to crecendos, some of which, ..., don't. They will fuck you up.

I may aswell leave a sample if you want to hear them -
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Postby Otohiko » Fri Aug 13, 2004 11:53 am

(whatever happened to this thread?)

King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part I

Has to be one of rock's (or is it rock?) most remarkably original pieces of music. With segments that vary as much as the sun and moon seen on the album's cover, it goes from mild wind-chimes and other ambient percussives to screaming guitar to soft violin. The drumming/percussion work here is particularly of note; KC was the first rock band to feature a separate player specifically for percussion effects (as opposed to percussion+drumming), and what a player Jamie Muir was! (of course, being the mystery he is, he left for a Buddhist monastery right after the album was done) This really created some remarkable possibilities, which are explored in all directions in this 13+ minute piece. It's THE instrumental music piece of 1973, has to be. Or at least has to be one of the most underrated ever :roll:
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Postby TheKorovaMilkbar » Fri Aug 13, 2004 11:56 am

Wow, haven't seen this thread in a while.

Well, anyways.

"I wanna rock"-Twisted Sister

"We're not gonna take it" is also an awesome song. But the music video to both of these songs are the best.
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Postby Otohiko » Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:00 pm

TheKorovaMilkbar wrote:"We're not gonna take it" is also an awesome song. But the music video to both of these songs are the best.


x2 :lol:

That's one's a classic, true dat. At least it always gets a good chuckle out of me :P
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Postby TheKorovaMilkbar » Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:06 pm

yeah, the intro to the music vid of that one is funny and kinda corny, but I love it. 8)
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Postby Kai Stromler » Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:14 pm

Exodus, "Blacklist"

A classic banger revenge anthem off their new one, Tempo Of The Damned, with a nice crisp drum sound and that big huge Bay-Area midrange crunch. Only problem is that it's a little hard to type code while headbanging....and almost impossible to listen to this and not thrash out.

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Postby GundamNegative » Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:27 am

U2 - Desire

Yes. I'm a freak. :mrgreen:
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Postby Dragon Lord » Sat Aug 14, 2004 6:44 pm

Hellsing intro-Logos Naki World.
For some good old fashion jazzy goodness. 8)
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Let the fools who stand before me be destroyed...
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Postby Otohiko » Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:59 pm

ProjeKct 4 - Seizure.

Have I mentioned this somewhere in this thread already? Maybe. Anyway, it's excellent double-double-bass boomer so to say, odd rhythm to boot - what else is a modern heavy-electronic-proggie to ask for? :roll:
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Postby Brolly345 » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:40 am

Waste by Staind.

This is probobly the most depressing song I've ever heard. Mostly because it has a true story behind it. If you like Staind you should know the story...
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Postby Unpronounceable_Symbol » Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:20 pm

The Faint, Danse Macabre, because I'm an indie rock nerd and they're on Saddle Creek. Or does that make me an emo nerd? They look exactly the same to me, I guess.

To describe the Faint: imagine 80s techno pop with the fluffy pop beats removed and replaced with driving industrial-sounding beats, and the singer is singing at gunpoint.

I'm having a hard time describing it, actually. ^^;
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Postby CliffD » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:51 pm

Lola Rennt (aka Run Lola Run) soundtrack album.

This is directly attributable to an AMV: Kevin Caldwell's Believe video(don't know if that's the name of the vid), using Battle Athletes Victory footage and the song Believe by Franka Potente (who also plays the title character in this German film).
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Postby Otohiko » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:43 pm

King Crimson - The ConstruKction of Light, live in Nashville, 2000

This is the first time the band took this daringly complex 8-minute piece with its' intricately-interlocked pointillistic guitar work live. Even with two of the most skilled guitarists in the world, something like this would be defying laws of gravity if it went silky smooth... and it didn't. It has a huge, hilariously messed-up clam right in the middle that even caused the frontman to laugh out loud. For some reason, this imperfect, human element to the band makes me like it even more, and it's hilarious hearing your favorite guitarist screw up, laugh at himself, and just pick up and go into twistedly-complex pattern again like nothing ever happened.

I think I'll listen to it again now... :roll:
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Postby TheKorovaMilkbar » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:56 pm

Tainted Love Remix- Marilyn Manson

Sweet Dreams Remix-Marilyn Manson

Rock Me Amadeus Remix-Megaherz


Gotta love the remixed 80's shit! 8)
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