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Post by maarts on Mar 15, 2005 19:32:13 GMT -5
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 16, 2005 10:14:12 GMT -5
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Post by luke on Mar 16, 2005 11:00:21 GMT -5
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Well, I've heard VERY little music this year, but in the past couple nights on the radio I've heard the new NIN and the new Garbage. The new NIN was surprising me at first, sounding pretty good and a bit more upbeat than usual, but then Trent resorts to his usual repetitive, angsty self towards the end and the song fell apart.
The new Garbage made me sick to my stomach. Pure fucking crap. Makes me sick how Shirley bashes the Britneys, Avrils, and Ashlee Simpsons to high hell and then unleashes this wretched Top 40 wannabe crap on us. Blegh. Garbage will NEVER even come CLOSE to their first two albums, which is a very sad thing, as they remain two of the best albums I've ever heard in my life.
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Post by Ampage on Mar 16, 2005 13:52:50 GMT -5
Is it that bad? I haven’t heard it yet. But you are right, although I enjoy “Beautiful Garbage”, the first two kick its ass. Their debut will always be a favorite of mine.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Mar 16, 2005 16:15:13 GMT -5
yo.....I'm working on a list right now......just wanted everyone's opinion on what they thought were great records so far for the first three months of this year.
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Post by JACkory on Mar 16, 2005 18:07:02 GMT -5
New Autechre album, Untilted, comes out April 18th.
That'll be the first new album of 2005 that I will have heard in it's entirety when the time comes.
Which is just a roundabout way of saying that I haven't heard anything new this year and don't expect to until I get that Autechre album.
I am, however, very tempted to get the Mars Volta's most recent, after hearing a track on the XM that I enjoyed immensely.
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Post by luke on Mar 17, 2005 9:16:27 GMT -5
Is it that bad? I haven’t heard it yet. But you are right, although I enjoy “Beautiful Garbage”, the first two kick its ass. Their debut will always be a favorite of mine. Garbage was way up there in my top ten back in the day...any who posted on the old boards in around 2000-1 can attest to that... I enjoyed Beautiful Garbage to an extent, but a lot of the stuff there really turned me off. It made me more than sorta sad when Shirl stripped away all the sexuality from her music and started being more...boring. And ugly, too, I guess. She used to be so damn sexy, but man, did she get rid of that. It's like she intentionally got rid of that, too. She's not all about sweating it all out with bedroom eyes and baby pouts anymore.  She's all about the "underdog," the "ugly girl who knows she's beautiful deep down despite blah blah blah." And that's not my Shirl. But back to the subject at hand, this new song. It SUCKS. Vig throws out a couple of good mixes, and the guitars really get moving at times, but it all fades away into that lame, repetitive chorus. It winds up reminding me of Gwen Stefani or Pink or, as a few of the songs on BG hinted at, a third-rate Britney song. Shirley has zero sexuality in her voice anymore, and she sounds too much like she's trying to be a "diva." I can't speak for the rest of the album, but I feel really hopeless. I'll probably pick it up, and that little Garbage fanatic deep down in me will hope for the best, but I just dunno. |
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Post by ken on Mar 17, 2005 12:05:13 GMT -5
Best single of the year, so far? Probably Hideyaface, from the Prefuse 73 album. My favorite albums this year:
The Kills, No Wow
Prefuse 73, Surrounded By Silence
Hood, Outside Closer
Oh, and the Blonde Redhead EP, Secret Society Of Butterflies. That's a great four song moodsetter there.
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 17, 2005 13:17:19 GMT -5
Well I'm holding out to hear the new NIN song myself. So far, I've got bad feedback from one friend: he says he heard it and that it was WUSS. He said it should be called "With Dentures". That it had a poppy, synth feel to it. I was like, "Oh, like Pretty Hate Machine then", and he was like "yeah, sorta" and I was like "Well I guess that's what Trent meant when he said 'back to basics', then". So, seeing as how I'm an oldschool NIN fan since the get-go (I saw them when they were still angry punks opening for Peter Murphy), there's a good chance I'll be able to appreciate the new stuff better than my friend (who is about 22, possibly too young to really get it). So far, I don't see how anyone can possibly out-do or one-up FRANCES THE MUTE. I'm psyched to hear the entire, definitive, 91-minute opus when it is released in it's true format next Tuesday: on triple-disc vinyl, as it should be.  |
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Post by ken on Mar 17, 2005 15:49:47 GMT -5
Thorn, have you HEARD Frances The Mute? I don't know, man. High on concept, not so high musically...
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 17, 2005 16:10:21 GMT -5
Thorn, have you HEARD Frances The Mute? I don't know, man. High on concept, not so high musically... 1)No, I have not heard the title track, "Frances The Mute". 2)Yes, I have heard the album "Frances The Mute". The title track is a 14 minute song, only available on "The Widow" CD-single, as the "b"-side. Until Tuesday, that is, March 22nd, when the vinyl record album is released: it will be the ONLY "definitive" edition of the album "Frances The Mute", as it is a triple-disc jobbie, featuring the title track "Frances The Mute", which I understand is the official "track 3", following "The Widow". As for the current 77-minute, 5-track album "Frances The Mute" -- I can't stop listening to it. It is by far one of the most tripped out recordings I've ever heard (and I've heard me quite a few, bein' an ex-70's prog-rocker Floyd Casualty turned metal-head, and all). I simply can't get enough of TMV's new album, and yes, I like it even better than "Deloused In The Comatorium", which is saying something, seeing as how I absolutely LOVE Deloused!! Track 3 off FTM, "L'via L'viaquez" is about as explosive an unhinged rocker as I've ever heard. That bass is sick; and Omar's guitar playing, let's just get this out of the way now, is fuckin' quintessential post-psychedelic acid rock blues fury that would do Jimmy Page, Jimmi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, and Alex Lifeson proud. The brass instrumental arrangements - particularly Flea on trumpet during The Widow - are jaw droppingly gorgeous. The 32-minute epic "Cassandra Geminni" is a work of genius in and of itself. The way it loops back in on itself, while at the same time looping back in on the entire album's thematic genesis, is nothing short of refreshing, not to mention plain beautiful to these ears. The way the album starts off, with that acoustic guitar interlude (you can't even barely hear it on modern equipment: try putting this album on a 330-watt receiver with liquid cooled speakers that can handle the wattage, and best step back cuz yo' hair goan get blown clean off that scalp o' yours when tha shit kicks in, about 45 seconds into it), it is 2005's masterpiece as far as I'm concerned even though I haven't heard all the albums released. And that's because I'm too moved listening to FTM to really care much about anything else, at least for now. Man I can't wait for Tuesday when I get to own the definitive, triple disc vinyl record album of it. 6 sides of pure, no-holds barred, non commercial expressionistic glorious frenzy. The Mars Volta are a beautiful thing. |
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Post by RocDoc on Mar 17, 2005 16:38:47 GMT -5
...damnit, I'm going to have to buy that thing now...but if it ain't what you say......... I'm gonna, I'm gonna....I don't know what, but....
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 18, 2005 19:13:23 GMT -5
heh heh . . . it's exactly what I said above, Doc . . . not that you'll dig it as much as I, but . . . . . . knowing your expansive penchant for a vast array of musical motifs - expansive enough to even include fucking MayheM for cryin out loud - not to mention you're down with jazz fusion shit -- and something tells me you appreciate the latino rhythms & soulful guitar bending of Carlos Santana -- shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit man, Frances The Mute was made for the likes of you!
I probably don't have to tell you that TMV is rather difficult music, but from the retinue of disparate stuff you listen to, that seems like a challenge you're well qualified for. I.E, I don't expect YOU to dismiss a work of musical genius after one listen. So I'm relatively confident that a)not only will it probably blow you away upon first hearing, but b)even if it doesn't, that it will grow on you upon repeated listenings, until you're as caught up in the multifaceted expressionistic stylisms of TMV's sophomore effort as any of the rest of us spellbound freaks have become.
Oh you can bet your bottom dollar thoRny ain't missin' out on this tour live: it takes Priority Numero Uno in my 2005 concertgoin' book, thas fo' sho' . . .
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Post by pattentank24 on Mar 19, 2005 13:03:21 GMT -5
Frances The Mute is so fucking good
Doesn't anybody notice I started a Mars Volta Board just to discuss it?
Frances The Mute The song is 14 min long and from everyone I've talked to it's the opening of the album by discussing the murder of the main character's mom and that's all I can say without giving the rest away
You can either
A) Download it
b)Buy the import Widow single it's a b-side
c) Buy the vinyal like Thorn
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 21, 2005 10:44:01 GMT -5
so, kMc . . . .have YOU heard Frances The Mute -?
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She's all about the "underdog," the "ugly girl who knows she's beautiful deep down despite blah blah blah." And that's not my Shirl. 
