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Post by RocDoc on Mar 21, 2005 18:30:11 GMT -5
Well, I bought it and I definitely DO like it....tho I had it on while answering phones and shit. So it never quite got the full chance to blow me away.
Some interesting guitar, but from what I heard, it wasn't so much the 'soulful' latin-inflected Carlos Santana, but more the frenetic-as-fuck Carlos Santana...which is very much STILL a great thing.
But I figure I likely just missed the slower guitaristic passages a few days ago when I listened to it after I popped it in...the 'atmospheric' slowdowns were there, but I didn't have the guitar leaping out at me(like Santana's has for me, like, always) just then...
It demands another listen...in fact, several.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Mar 22, 2005 13:54:34 GMT -5
So I just heard the new Audioslave single and it has got to be the cheesiest crappiest thing I have heard in a long time. Chris Cornell is going into the smack down room for this one. I don't think I can ever listen to Soundgarden the same way again. What a self-indulgent wanker.
My Favorite Full Lengths so far:
1. The Mars Volta-Frances the Mute
2. The Decemberists-Picaresque
3. M.I.A-Arular (this is so AMAZING!)
4. Queens of the Stone Age-Lullabies to Paralyze
5. Thunderbirds Are Now!-Justamustache
6. The Kills-No Wow
7. Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeny-Superwolf
8. LCD Soundsystem
9. The Coachwhips-Peanut Butter and Jelly
10. High on Fire-Blessed Black Wings
11. Six Organs of Admittance-School of the Flower
12. Antony and the Johnsons-I am a Bird Now
13. The Evens-The Evens
Biggest Sucks
1. Bloc Party
2. Kaiser Cheifs
3. Daft Punk (seriously LCD change the new song to I cancelled Daft Punk playing at my house because they went cheesy)
4. And You Will Know Us By Our Trail of Dead.....man that is one stinky album
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Post by lunatic96 on Mar 23, 2005 0:04:13 GMT -5
5 favorite albums released in 2k5 so far... no order
Decemberists - Picaresque
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Electric Magnolia Co. - What Comes After the Blues
British Sea Power - Open Season (to anybody that has heard this, how does it compare to their debut album?)
Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
Disappointing... at least so far
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Eels - Blinking Lights (big surprise, hasn't released anything worthwhile since Daisies of the Galaxy)
Beck - Guero
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
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Post by Dr. Drum on Mar 23, 2005 6:56:31 GMT -5
Still haven’t heard anything from the new British Sea Power besides the single, "It Ended On An Oily Stage". Good song, though for me it doesn’t quite cast the spell that songs like "Remember Me" and "Fear of Drowning" did.
Still, very much looking forward to hearing the record in its entirety, though. I guess NME are going to start streaming it on Friday, so I’ll definitely be heading over there to check it out.
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Post by bowiglou on Mar 23, 2005 14:48:47 GMT -5
Lunatic..based on these boards I became a bit of a fan of the Eels, and loved Electroshock Blues and Daisies and was fair-to-middlin with their most recent: Shootenanny (or similar title?)....so, you're none too impressed with their latter?
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Post by riley on Mar 23, 2005 15:40:23 GMT -5
Doc - I actually like the new disc by BSP better than Decline of... in a lot of ways.
Surprise surprise, it's largely because they've focused more on melody than noise. My increasing resentment for gratuitous noise actually wasn't a factor in the last album by the way, but this whole disc seems much more level without coming out too Coldplay (I like Coldplay btw, before a debate erupts).
I think you'll like it when you hear the whole thing.
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Post by riley on Mar 23, 2005 15:41:20 GMT -5
Tried to replace my worn out burned version of the Bloc Party advance, but CD PLus was already sold out.
My favorite of 2005 so far. Hands down.
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Post by lunatic96 on Mar 24, 2005 2:02:47 GMT -5
Lunatic..based on these boards I became a bit of a fan of the Eels, and loved Electroshock Blues and Daisies and was fair-to-middlin with their most recent: Shootenanny (or similar title?)....so, you're none too impressed with their latter? Yeah, I got into the Eels thanks to the old radiohead board. The last Eels release I actually enjoyed was the ep that was packaged with Souljacker. The new one just seems incredibly trite and lame. Although sometimes I think that my tastes have just changed a lot because it doesn't sound all that different from the rest of his stuff, it just doesn't connect with me at all. Maybe I'm only interested in them when they're singing about death. |
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Post by ScottsyII on Mar 24, 2005 6:58:28 GMT -5
I found Shootenanny to be a bit of a hit and miss affair... some good tracks, some quite saing - along - able, but none of them hit the same mark as Electro - Shock Blues and Beautiful Freak... alas, maybe there is still another great Eels album to come, one can only hope!
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Post by Dr. Drum on Mar 24, 2005 7:27:05 GMT -5
Doc - I actually like the new disc by BSP better than Decline of... in a lot of ways. Surprise surprise, it's largely because they've focused more on melody than noise. My increasing resentment for gratuitous noise actually wasn't a factor in the last album by the way, but this whole disc seems much more level without coming out too Coldplay (I like Coldplay btw, before a debate erupts). I think you'll like it when you hear the whole thing. Riley, despite not being particularly energized by the single, still one of my most anticipated new releases of the year... BTW, I take it from your comments that you didn’t find the noisiness of The Decline of… to actually be gratuitous? Re: Bloc Party – have you checked HMV? They were selling off import copies of it last weekend for $14.99. |
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Post by riley on Mar 24, 2005 7:47:55 GMT -5
Riley, despite not being particularly energized by the single, still one of my most anticipated new releases of the year... BTW, I take it from your comments that you didn’t find the noisiness of The Decline of… to actually be gratuitous? Correct. Wonderful album on all fronts. Thanks for the HMV nod. I'll take a boo. |
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Apr 16, 2005 15:59:10 GMT -5
Aha, this is still the place to come and get some downloading tips.
I haven't heard too much '05 stuff yet, but I really, really like the Bloc Party album still (This Modern Love is a classic song), and their earlier EPs and stuff seem worth a listen.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Apr 16, 2005 16:00:26 GMT -5
And yeah... what is Cornell playing at? Although the lazy cheese factor of Audioslave's sudden Elton-esque moment is still light years ahead of the 10 tracks I've heard by The Bravery. Lamentable twats.
Also, and this might be an age thing, but I'm starting to value melody more and more over angsty noise. More Coldplay than NIN. Yup, that's definitely a sign I'm hitting middle age.
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Post by maarts on Apr 17, 2005 7:00:16 GMT -5
My faves for this year so far:
1. M83- Before The Dawn Heals Us
2. Bark Psychosis- Codename: Dustsucker
3. The National- Alligator
4. Architecture In Helsinki- In Case We Die
5. Fripp & Eno- The Equatorial Stars
6. Cog- The New Normal
7. The Earlies- These Were The Earlies
8. Edgar Froese & Johannes Schmoelling- Live In Kyoto
9. Not Drowning Waving- Through The One Last Door
10. Ben Folds- Songs For Silverman
On my wishlist to purchase:
Porcupine Tree- Deadwing
Kate & Anne McGarrigle- La Vache Qui Pleure
Nine Inch Nails- With Teeth
Bruce Springsteen- Devils And Dust
Kraftwerk- Minimum Maximum
Dead Can Dance- Live In The Hague
Several of the Amon Duul-re-releases.
Disappointments:
Beck- Guero
Garbage- Bleed Like Me
A Silver Mount Zion- Horses In the Sky
Queens Of The Stone Age- Lullabies To Paralyze (it's OK but....nah!)
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Post by Dr. Drum on Apr 17, 2005 7:54:55 GMT -5
Here’s my top 6. There’s another bunch of stuff; Julian Cope, Bloc Party, etc. that would probably make a top ten list but this is the stuff I feel strongest about right now.
The Decemberists – Picaresque
Greg Keelor – Seven Songs for Jim
Wintersleep – untitled
Low – The Great Destroyer
British Sea Power – Open Season
Joel Plaskett – La De Da
Picaresque is all about the songs – the best batch delivered so far this year, IMHO. I’ve been on a total Decemberists kick since I got it. Keelor’s record is my 'cut away the bullshit' disc of 2005. It centres around the death of his father and is just about as unvarnished as it’s possible to get in the realm of commercially-distributed popular music, I think.
Don’t want to say too much about this one, as I’ve listened to and been blown away by it just the once, but I tried to find Spoon’s Gimme Fiction album yesterday and failing that, downloaded it. Pretty sure it will find itself in the company of the above discs before too long. Likewise Martha Wainwright’s new disc, which I did purchase yesterday. No surprise I suppose, given the pedigree but she really knows her way around a tune.
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