Hail Sed.

Really liking the Jay Ferrar/Ben Gibbard project I mentioned earlier in the thread. Too lazy to scroll back and see ifg I posted this, but here's a really good concert they did a while back.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=114010246

Hell yeah, Mike. Although Metropolis Zone is my favorite Sonic 2 song.

Hooray for mashups!

Just bought:



It's no Battles in the North, but it doesn't suck.

Toph, your music selection in general makes me wonder about you.

Yeaaaaah, I have no shame, I listen to crappy pop music.

I have a soft spot for crappy pop music too, but I at least try to hide it.

This video clip was shot by someone in the audience at our 2nd Annual Na Mele o na Keiki (Music for the Children) Toys for Tots Holiday Concert last Wednesday evening here in Honolulu. The young man in the black shirt is Jake Shimabukuro, and he's playing a custom-built Kamaka ukulele (yes, an ukulele!) along with our U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific Band. Jake's an acknowledged virtuoso on the ukulele (the name literally means dancing flea, because of the way the fingers dance across the string when played properly). They were performing a modern arrangement of "Carol of the Bells." I wish you could see the whole band and the whole song in this (and you will, eventually, when our video production folks finish the editing of our five-camera shoot of the concert, with the audio taken directly off the mixing board). Hope you enjoy this!

Been itching to replay Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. So I've had it's music in my head lately.

Prologue


The Tragic Prince

The Adicts, for some fucking reason. I'm kind of ashamed of myself.

It's a fan-made video. Sucked me back into liking this song. I tried, but I can't resist it.

Pelican Is awesome. Their EP and First 2 albums are sick. Especially the song Drought.

If you like Pelican, check out Red sparowes, Torche, Big business, Tomahawk..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diMHtsrBiR0

Whoa, the Low Anthem.

http://www.myspace.com/lowanthem

I had heard bits of their stuff on the radio, but never sat down to listen through their catalog before. Pretty wild mix here, from distortion-laden shouting, to mellower folksy stuff, to something that sounds like a choral arrangement you'd hear in church on Sunday. I'm definitely intrigued.

Boris. Kind of ambient noise-rock. Worth the listen!

Boris gives us the ultimate nerd eye candy with Wata and her stack of Orange amps. Have you heard their collaboration with Sunn O)))?

No, where can I find it?!

That is some awesome, nerdly eye-candy.

Yeah, another great folk rock album that came out this year. It didn't quite crack my top ten but I still really enjoyed it.

Speaking of ambient noise rock

Zechs Marquise has been getting some more airplay from me as of late. Pretty interesting stuff, not to mention a 'not sure if its disturbing or not album' cover.

Boris Puts on a great live show.

Heavy Rocks!


Check out Six organs of admittance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQaan-6N-hk

I'd say it's somewhere between Pelican and explosions in the sky, just more acoustic.

It's kinda old, but this video gives me chills every time, especially when they simulate a suicide bomber near the end. Imo it's one of the best videos of all time. OF ALL TIME! No, seriously, it's that good.

Wow. That is pretty good.

Like him or not Serj Tankian is really quite talented.

And does great collaborations with Wyclef!

In fact, I wouldnt havent been able to decifer that from a System of a Down song.. Am I ignorant to Sytem of a Downs or is Serj Tankian just the MAN?

Serj is the fucking MAN!

My fave on his solo album is "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition"

I dunno, the structure and everything was relatively bland on that song. There was nothing besides the vocals that popped out at me- it was better than I expected, but it didn't sound like a "complete" System of a Down song.

Being he played the majority of the instruments on this album, I'll go as far to say he is SOAD. He produced it as well. Not too mention, his lyrics are well thought out and articulate. More intelligent and thought provoking than any Nickelback track.

I've taken shits that are more intelligent and thought-provoking than any Nickelback track.

I'm taking nothing away from the vocal part, but the instrumentation in that track is completely vanilla, especially compared to earlier System. There's zero experimentation. Listen to "Sugar" and then listen to that, and it doesn't sound like it's the same guitarist. Notice the tempo changes, notice that there is more going on with the guitar than accentuating the vocals, notice that the drums literally follow the same pattern throughout the song. At no point in the song do the instruments take center stage, which they have generally done in SOAD songs. And if you listen to the drums on "Spiders," and then this, you'll understand what I'm saying. There's a distinct difference.

Meh, Nickelback's Silver Side Up album was okay. After that, they sold out and became "mainstream." I can't stand their stuff now.

I see your point - there is a difference - and Nickelback was an exaggerated example. According to a few articles, this album was all Serj - not much involvement from any other musicians. So, no, it's not the same drummer or guitar player.

Started listening to Starsailor again. I remember when their first single "Good Souls" came out when I was in high school, I bought their first CD "Love is Here," and listened to it a whole lot. Then I over played it, like I sometimes tend to do with things I really like, and got a little sick of them. I didn't keep up with their follow up albums and, fast forward to the present, I pretty much forgot that the band even existed.

This week, I randomly decided to sift through my old CD booklet (which I've neglected ever since mp3s, ipods and vinyl took over my musical-life). I came across their first CD and decided to give it a listen, to see if I still enjoyed it after all that time removed. Well, I did enjoy it, but what really re-sold me on the band was Youtube. The lead singer's name is "James Walsh" and if you Youtube search "James Walsh Acoustic" or something along those lines, you'll find a bunch of live acoustic versions of their songs. And to me, this is the format which really shows how great the band, particularly singer/songwriter James Walsh is. If you enjoy acoustic music, this guy James Walsh writes some amazing songs. And his voice is just out of control good. Their studio recordings and "full band" stuff is good also, but for me, just him singing and playing acoustic guitar is where it's at.

suggested youtube videos
1. Cover of U2's "all i want is you"
2. acoustic "all the plans we made"
3. acoustic "tell me it's not over"
4. acoustic cover of Dion's "born to be with you" into Elton John's "rocket man"
5. acoustic "coming down"


Starsailor - Wikipedia

Yeah. Like I said, I like the song, I just think there's a tangible difference.

Let the cheesiness of a 1980's FRENCH-CANADIAN video take control. Beware black-and-white ambulances driven by TIE fighter pilots! They will take you to the science hospital!

This is why we keep you around Blue.

At :05, I think that we get to see the inspiration for Dermott from Venture Bros.

OK...I finally listened to the Dirty Projectors album. Finally the hipsters are listening to Squeeze! Wasn't crazy about it, but I didn't hate it, either--it didn't live up to the hype, but nothing ever does. I shouldn't let that cloud my judgment. It definitely sounds like it will be an epochal album, but the whole time I shifted between "hm, that sounds interesting" and "god, that's obnoxious." I especially didn't like the female singers Beach Boys (Girls?)-ing it up all over every song.

The White album on vinyl.

Yeah

I guess you got your TT fixed?

Nah. Playing wasn't the problem, the needle just doesn't take itself off the record like it's supposed to at the end, which also means I can't stack up records and have them auto play through them.

I can still play em as long as i take the needle off at the end of the record

bit of a pain but not too bad - what player do you have that is a stacker?

I'm kind of new to this stuff it sort of fell in my lap but it's a Sylvania from 1968. It's one of those big console untis

Fucking awesome. Probably...PROBABLY my favorite Exodus song.