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Post by pissin2 on Aug 30, 2004 13:15:33 GMT -5
Metallica's setlist has been incredible.
I actually seen SOAD at the summer sanitarium a few years ago. It sounded like ass. I don't think it was necessarily their fault though. They'd probably kick ass in a smaller venue. But for some reason the never come around to any places like that.
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Post by Rit on Aug 30, 2004 13:16:54 GMT -5
the Ship Song is beautiful.
and some of the ballads on The Boatman's Call are breathtaking. i sincerely mean that. For example, "Far From Me", and "Brompton Oratory".
positively angelic.
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Post by pattentank24 on Aug 30, 2004 13:18:28 GMT -5
Issues was huge seller due to the lack of hard rock on commercial radio it came out after Rage broke up yet you are correct in "Follow is still their best-selling album ever Bigger-Their influence since Rage left wasn't as recuring I respect System but all I have in response to Rage not reaching "the heights" is Bounce,POGO POGO  I took a lot of heat for defending ATDI on the old boards but I feel Rage is in the same catagory of influence in the 90'S as ATDI will be loked at in te double o's |
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Reservoir
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Post by Reservoir on Aug 30, 2004 13:19:59 GMT -5
the Ship Song is beautiful
amen to that. soundtrack to my last breakup.
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Post by Rit on Aug 30, 2004 13:22:58 GMT -5
anyone who can connect with The Ship Song and make it the song of choice to their crisis moment has an internal life i'd be proud to have.
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Post by Reservoir on Aug 30, 2004 13:26:42 GMT -5
well, the bastard broke up with me to bowie, and he adored the doors and the velvets so i guess i just thought i'd ruin nick cave for myself as well.
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Post by Rit on Aug 30, 2004 13:29:31 GMT -5
nope. you don't mean that. admit it! the Cave song transformed those pained days into something else entirely, no?
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Post by Reservoir on Aug 30, 2004 13:33:22 GMT -5
the Cave song transformed those pained days into something else entirely, no?
to be honest i think i was drinking so much and so constantly that if nick cave had actually been there playing the song to me it wouldnt have transformed those days into anything else. it just sticks out as the song i played over and over and over again. plus "danger! high voltage" becuase the stupid vampire bastard hated that song.
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Post by Rit on Aug 30, 2004 13:33:59 GMT -5
oh, okay
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Post by luke on Aug 30, 2004 13:40:53 GMT -5
I saw System of a Down a couple years ago on their own in Houston. It was a pretty amazing show, I dunno...they just didn't strike me as a club band. They were awesome. Wish Skvor was here to back me up...damn, wish that guy was here, period.
I saw Metallica...oh fuck...what was it? Back in the eleventh grade or something? Maybe my senior year? In Dallas. They were on as usual, but man, I just didn't like anything "newer" that they played. My worry now would be that they have even more newer stuff, so there'd be more new stuff on the set-list. Guess this isn't the case, though? Anyways, I refuse to put a dime in their pocket ever again, I don't care if Elvis, Tupac, Jim Morrison and Jerry Garcia rise from the dead to play a set with them.
And I take it all back, really, and say that Pearl Jam is the greatest stadium band out there. Dunno why I overlooked them.
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Post by CWA on Aug 30, 2004 13:48:40 GMT -5
You know, I read a bunch of the last posts about UK and American music and all the pessimism being generated about how shitty everything is. It was interesting.
In the last year or so I have pretty much fallen out of the music world. I don't keep up anymore. I've bought like, 20 cds in the past 8 months. Tops. Dont read the mags, never on the internet, dont watch much TV. I'll hear some stuff through friends but even then I don't follow through on it. Its usually pretty boring. And there are no characters in RockAndRoll. God, my friend made me a Motown cd and I listen to that more than anything. And I just mine my cds. I actually listened to the Fugees yesterday. I mean like, when I went to Europe I listened to Bona Drag, that first Streets cd, Post by Bjork and this silly Paris Lounge com[pilation thingy.
But what I was going to get to was that eventhough nothing in music is really bitting my ass right now, I don't think I can think of a time in recent history when Pop music was so exciting. Maybe its been too much getting watsed this summer, but I think for example like Usher right now is as good as Michael Jackson ever was and Hip Hop is all anthems these days - the production has gotten unreal sounding. And even super mainstram acts like Jay Z, OutKast, Beyonce, Alicia Keyes, etc... are FANtastic. You'll even get a pretty fucking good Britney Spears song (Toxic) once and a while. Or an equally cheesy singer will pop up, someone like JoJo, and it will just sound so perfect and be so fucking candy cates that you can't help but at leats be impressed. And even Linkin Park - you can tell they have listened to their Depeche Mode as of late. Which is a good thing. And videos are INTERESTING again. Some are pretty cheesy, but like the production of the music, the production of videos is really like the vanguard of experimental filmmaking still. Or, again I should say.
It all just makes me feel like I live in the future these days,
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Post by pissin2 on Aug 30, 2004 13:50:37 GMT -5
They only really play like 2 songs off the new album, usually. But it's just great because they been switching it up night to night, something they usually don't do. Playing shit like Dispobable Heroes, Dyers Eve, Trapped Under Ice, Jump In The Fire, Metal Milita, etc. And they somehow still sound great, if not better live.
You're right though Pearl Jam is the best stadium band. Next to Metallica.
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Post by luke on Aug 30, 2004 13:53:14 GMT -5
CWA, I always knew you were gay.
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Post by pissin2 on Aug 30, 2004 13:53:41 GMT -5
There's usually something biting me in the ass with music. I just kind of bounce around back and forth through metal and punk, and some hard rock, then some pyschobilly, and ska, and stuff like that. And usually if nothing new is really catching my eye I'm always discovering an old band until that happens. Like Bad Religion. I don't know why it took me so long, but I hope to have most of their cds real soon, because that is one kickass band.
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Post by riley on Aug 30, 2004 13:59:15 GMT -5
CWA, I always knew you were gay. Gay. Absolutely. Congratulations CWA. Luke just outed you at a RS.com replacement board. |
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