Muse - Origin of Symmetry Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security Extreme - The Collection Steve Vai - Sound Theories I & II gogogo
Muse - Origin of Symmetry Not enough s in the world Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security Extreme - The Collection ... Steve Vai - Sound Theories I & II Three thumbs out of five
In the last month or so I've bought (I've not posted a haul on these boards for a looong time): CDs: - Extreme - Waiting for the Punchline - Kings X - Please Come Home... Mr Bulbous - Neurosis - Souls At Zero - Savatage: Streets: A Rock Opera - Maria Callas - The Essential Maria Callas (3 CD) - Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design - Swans - Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money - 4 Peter Hammill albums for £4 (w00t for ebay promo albums) Vinyl: - 26 cool classical albums (at a total cost of £5.60. w00t for second hand stuff) - JESU / ELUVIUM Split - Swans - Young Gods EP (vinyl. £3. It's supposedly worth £75!)) Tickets - Converge - Boris. - Type O Negative and Paradise Lost Other: - 5 string Ibanez BASS - Boris t-shirt To purchase soon: - SiKthfest ticket - Emilie Autumn ticket Muse - 4 or 4.5 out of 5 Macalpine - 3.5 out of 5. Extreme - if it has a lot of III Sides and Pornograffiti on it, it'll be awesome. Vai - I really want to hear this
My latest hauls contained of Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets David Bowie - Heathen The Ocean - Fluxion Dark Tranquillity - Haven Magenta Skycode - III:II Swallow The Sun - Hope Callisto- True Nature Unfolds, Noir Wagon Christ - Musipal Kaddisfly - Set Sail The Prarie Virgin Black - Requiem: Mezzo Forte The Youngsters - The Army of 1-0
Best Buy, as usual, had deleted all the cd's i went in to get (Shining: Grindstone, Swallow the Sun: Hope and Dalek: Abandoned Language and Absence), so i had to settle for movies there: Rain Man Platoon Last of the Mohicans 4.99 each. so then i hopped over to the formerly-used-cd-store-turned-chain-indie-record-store to see if i could find anything decent under $13 (the place is exhorbitant). perusing the used section, i came across Behold...the Arctopus: Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning for a lousy fiver, and in the same section, i came across BT: The Binary Universe for $9. now nine bucks is steep for a used cd in my world, but due to the vast love for this record found here at the 5/8, i dropped the cash and will blame/thank you later. so i spent under $30, and came out a winner.
In playing ability, undebatable. But in songwriting? I wouldn't say so. My last few hauls include: Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien Kaddisfly - Set Sail the Prairie Boris - Pink Fair to Midland - Fables from a Mayfly Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times Irepress - Samus Octology El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead Rjd2 - The Third Hand Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient Blackfield - Blackfield II
It was Streets right? Streets is a masterpiece once you get past track 2. Jesus Saves is almost painful to listen to most of the time. Minihaul from the past three days: Jeff Beck and the Jan Hammer Group Live (Vinyl) Circa Survive--On Letting Go Jeff Beck--Truth Resident Evil 0
Three Cds purchased over the last couple of days: Primal Scream- XTRMNTR Banyan- Anytime At All Happy Mondays- Pills, thrills & Bellyaches
Type O and PD was a fairly average gig. The Boris and Converge sets were amazing. Boris was spectacular throughout. Converge were great throughout, but uber-astounding when they played 'Jane Doe' at the end Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1973) The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974) In Camera (1974) Nadir's Big Chance (1975) It's awesome. I've had it on .mp3 for, like, 2 or 3 years, and it's consistently been a favourite album of mine (top 20 of all time, maybe?). Buy it with confidence
Transatlantic: Bridge Across Forever BT: This Binary Universe Symphony X: Paradise Lost The Who: Tommy Kamelot: The Fourth Legacy I'm trying to build my collection up to being sort of formidable and covering multiple genres, so I'm doing a ton of catching up. It's difficult because I do everything the legal way and I usually have to go to great lengths to find a lot of the recommended titles, plus I have to pay for it. Edit: I wish I could review your hauls guys but I've never even heard of a bunch of those bands, let alone those albums
The Brothers Martin: The Brothers Martin Grandaddy: Todd Zilla Smashing Pumpkins: Piesces Iscariot kidneytheives: Phi in the Sky Cloud Cult The Meaning of oo Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly: The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager
Mr. Bungle - California Jaga Jazzist - What We Must Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons Atheist - Unquestionable Presence Devin Townsend - The Hummer Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Sol-Fa Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Funclub
Rate my Fripp-related haul: At the End of Time - Churchscapes: Live in England & Estonia 2006 by Robert Fripp Space Groove by ProjeKct Two Birth of a Giant by Bill Rieflin
Russian Circles - Enter The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth Oceansize - Everyone into Position Buckethead - Electric Tears
Radiohead - OK Computer Yes - Close to the Edge King Crimson - Red The Dear Hunter - Act I The Dear Hunter - Act II Protest the Hero - Kezia Behold... the Arctopus - Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning
Here's what I've gotten over the past week: dredg - Live at the Filmore Eluvium - Copia Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette Protest the Hero - Kezia Talk Talk - Laughing Stock Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams
?/5 4.5/5 4/5 ?/5 ?/5 4.5/5 cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD The Jesus Lizard - Goat Arsis - A Diamond For Disease Atheist - Pice of Time DJ Shadow - The Private Press
That Arsis EP should've been mine. MINE. The Decemberists - The Tain GY!BE - Slow Riot For New Zer0 Kanada Diamanda Galas - You Must Be Certain Of The Devil Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Dear Hunter, The - Act I: The Lake South, The River North Delgados, The - Hate Dynamite Hack - Superfast Idlewild - Hope is Important Idlewild - The Remote Part Kaddisfly - Set Sail The Prairie Letters to Cleo - Aurora Gory Alice I already had the Dear Hunter and Kaddisfly, The Delgados were brought on the strength of one song, Dynamite Hack on the strength of two, and Idlewild I've seen live twice and each time I swore I'd get an album and never did, so I'm now making up for it, though other than seeing them live twice I've not heard a single thing by them. Letters to Cleo I'm buying because I liked Go! which I downloaded, and I like the only song from Aurora Gory Alice that I've heard. All of these for little over £18, which is pretty fucking good, hence the chance buys.
Big Black-The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape Donny Hathaway-Live Isley Brothers-Essential Isley Brothers The Kinks-Arthur Voivod-Dimension Hatross Can-Tago Mago
4/5 ?/5 ?/5 4/5 4.5/5 5/5 As for me, the grand result of my birthday weekend Justin Timberlake- FutureSex/LoveSounds John Zorn- Astronome Miles Davis- Get Up With It (Holy Darkness Eternal Batman!) Electric Masada- At the Mountains of Madness The Gotan Project- Lunatico Bjork- Volta Massive Attack VS The Mad Professor- No Protection (40 seconds in, already kickass) Sarah Blasko- What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have
Hope that's not your first and only exposure to her music, as it's a bit of a dodgy one to start with. I like it quite a lot, but it's fairly uneven by her standards (mainly as it doesn't flow overly well as an album, even though most of the songs are really cool), and nowhere near as awesome as the other albums in that AIDS trilogy that it's a part of (IMO)
I think you would enjoy The Gotan Project quite a bit...It's electronic music (think Thievery Corporation, if you know them) with a massive Tango influence...I love it, even if at times it occasionally sounds somewhat cosmopolitanly contrived
WHat do you make of the poduction on that album? I love the songs and the style, but the production itself sounds a bit flat and monotone.
I started off with Divine Punishment and Masque of the Red Death (ew ew compilation, I know), and I loved the both of them. I only bought You Must Be Certain Of The Devil cos it was cheap, haha.
