Wicked Tinkers - Banger For Breakfast.
Not my usual fare (it's Scottish Highland Drums, Bagpipes, and Digeredoos), but a fun little diversion (and enough of an oddity to pull me out of lurk mode).
I rarely listen to CDs (or an iPod), thanks to 90.5 fm WBER (http://wber.monroe.edu). The playlist is varied enough to cover most of my musical tastes. For all the metal heads, when I DJ (I'm DJ Uno) my bumper music is Accept - Fast As A Shark.
The Church- the disillusionist (it's old, but I love it)
~Jaye
An underrated masterpiece, if I may say so myself. I'm glad someone else appreciates The Church. I was listening to "Hologram of Baal" last night.
Other stuff that made it onto the stereo last night:
Bruce Springsteen: "The Ghost of Tom Joad"
Radiohead: "OK Computer"
And for the record, I too am a fan of older Metal Church, particularly the Mike Howe era.
Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind.
Trooper, man. Trooper.
By the nine Hells...YES! Up the irons!
But, today, it was a "Nuggets" compilation #1...all garage-y and raw...mostly a Yardbirds-type sound...most famous cut on the disc "Psychotic Reaction" by the Count Five. Tomorrow, thanks to Heathansson...I'm going for "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". "Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win, seven holy paths to hell...and your trip begins...heh heh heh" Great start for a Monday.
Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind.
Trooper, man. Trooper.
"Trooper"'s cool, but from that album, I'll take "To Tame a Land," "Revelations", and "Still Life" as better (and definitely underrated) songs.
Tomorrow, thanks to Heathansson...I'm going for "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". "Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win, seven holy paths to hell...and your trip begins...heh heh heh" Great start for a Monday.
I agree... and I'd vote that as the best Iron Maiden album ever!
Wow... I love this thread. It has grown two pages since the last time I was here, and each page is full of music sweetness. Plus, it makes me all sorts of happy to see matt_the_dm listening to The Cardigans. w00t!
Right now I am listening to for the work rotation:
The Aggrolites - s/t
Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness
Coheed & Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Billie Holiday - Strage Fruit
I Am Ghost - We Are Always Search
Mozart - The Essential Symphonies
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Tomorrow, thanks to Heathansson...I'm going for "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". "Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win, seven holy paths to hell...and your trip begins...heh heh heh" Great start for a Monday.I agree... and I'd vote that as the best Iron Maiden album ever!
Nah... As good as "Seventh Son" is, the best Maiden album is "Powerslave", with "The number of the beast" close behind - the songs are better, but the performances are lacking in intensity. Seriously, though, all Maiden's albums are great - even the Blaze Bailey stuff is good... Up the irons!!
Motorhead - 1916
Tomorrow, thanks to Heathansson...I'm going for "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". "Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win, seven holy paths to hell...and your trip begins...heh heh heh" Great start for a Monday.I agree... and I'd vote that as the best Iron Maiden album ever!Nah... As good as "Seventh Son" is, the best Maiden album is "Powerslave", with "The number of the beast" close behind - the songs are better, but the performances are lacking in intensity. Seriously, though, all Maiden's albums are great - even the Blaze Bailey stuff is good... Up the irons!!
I pretty much view all of their releases from 1982-88 as being neck in neck for best album. I felt things started going downhill with "No Prayer for the Dying" (still not a bad album), and never quite recovered after that. The new stuff with Bruce is listenable, but nowhere near as good as the mid-80s stuff in terms of originality, intensity, and "sound." I was disgusted by Blaze Bailey's performance on "The X Factor" (horribly flat and out of key), and so never gave "Virtual XI" a try. Mind you, I just think that Maiden is stuck in a rut...which is why I'm more into symphonic Scandinavian metal and "world metal" (Sepultura, Orphaned Child) these days. I even think Bruce's solo albums are better than the post-1990 Maiden albums.
But again, it's all a matter of taste, and please don't take this post as a slight against your own tastes... rather, view it simply as the ramblings of one who is as passionate about music (and certain bands) as you seem to be!
Cheers to variety...
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Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind.
Trooper, man. Trooper.By the nine Hells...YES! Up the irons!
But, today, it was a "Nuggets" compilation #1...all garage-y and raw...mostly a Yardbirds-type sound...most famous cut on the disc "Psychotic Reaction" by the Count Five. Tomorrow, thanks to Heathansson...I'm going for "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". "Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win, seven holy paths to hell...and your trip begins...heh heh heh" Great start for a Monday.
You guys know Sun and Steel is about Musashi, right?
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Tomorrow, thanks to Heathansson...I'm going for "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". "Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win, seven holy paths to hell...and your trip begins...heh heh heh" Great start for a Monday.I agree... and I'd vote that as the best Iron Maiden album ever!Nah... As good as "Seventh Son" is, the best Maiden album is "Powerslave", with "The number of the beast" close behind - the songs are better, but the performances are lacking in intensity. Seriously, though, all Maiden's albums are great - even the Blaze Bailey stuff is good... Up the irons!!
I pretty much view all of their releases from 1982-88 as being neck in neck for best album. I felt things started going downhill with "No Prayer for the Dying" (still not a bad album), and never quite recovered after that. The new stuff with Bruce is listenable, but nowhere near as good as the mid-80s stuff in terms of originality, intensity, and "sound." I was disgusted by Blaze Bailey's performance on "The X Factor" (horribly flat and out of key), and so never gave "Virtual XI" a try. Mind you, I just think that Maiden is stuck in a rut...which is why I'm more into symphonic Scandinavian metal and "world metal" (Sepultura, Orphaned Child) these days. I even think Bruce's solo albums are better than the post-1990 Maiden albums.
But again, it's all a matter of taste, and please don't take this post as a slight against your own tastes... rather, view it simply as the ramblings of one who is as passionate about music (and certain bands) as you seem to be!
Cheers to variety...
I have to agree on that - Maiden is nowhere as good as they used to be (though still pretty good - "Brave New World" was very solid, I thought), and the Blaze Bailey era was by far their weakest. They were still pretty decent, though, and he was a lot better live than in the studio. Bruce's solo albums are mostly good, too - "Chemical wedding" is probably the best "Maiden" album since..., hmmmm.., "Somewhere in time", perhaps?
Sepultura is a great band, even though "Dante XXI" was not as good as Soulfly's "Dark Ages" - I tend to compare the two, for obvious reasons... Sepultura stomps Soulfly live, though. Never heard of Orphaned Child, though. What do they sound like?
Sepultura is a great band, even though "Dante XXI" was not as good as Soulfly's "Dark Ages" - I tend to compare the two, for obvious reasons... Sepultura stomps Soulfly live, though. Never heard of Orphaned Child, though. What do they sound like?
I'm actually quite new to Sepultura, and have not picked up "Dante XXI" yet. Nor have I listened to Soulfly yet... but hopefully that'll change before long!
I'm not sure how to describe Orphaned Land (sorry, I mistakenly called them Orphaned Child in my previous post). They're an Israeli band, and combine traditional Hebrew instruments and melodies with heavy metal guitars and roaring vocals. The vocals range from "clean" stuff that could make it onto top 40 radio, to growling; a stunning female vocalist makes an appearance now and again (her Hebrew chants are particularly powerful). It's an interesting blend, to say the least! Say, a mixture of the Tea Party, Dead Can Dance, Iron Maiden (for the lead guitars) and death metal... but with a sound that ultimately is all their own! Try and get the double disc version of "Mabool" -- the second disc is a live acoustic show, which includes a cover of Paradise Lost's "Mercy." I guess they just released a new album called "Sahara," which I have yet to hear, but which is a concept album like Mabool.
EDIT: Oops... "Sahara" is actually an older album. "ORwarriOR" is the upcoming concept album. The "Calm Before the Flood" is the acoustic live disc that is included with some pressings of "Mabool," and I've only ever listened to the latter two.
Check them out over here... http://www.orphaned-land.com/default.php?language=en
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Sepultura is a great band, even though "Dante XXI" was not as good as Soulfly's "Dark Ages" - I tend to compare the two, for obvious reasons... Sepultura stomps Soulfly live, though. Never heard of Orphaned Child, though. What do they sound like?
I'm actually quite new to Sepultura, and have not picked up "Dante XXI" yet. Nor have I listened to Soulfly yet... but hopefully that'll change before long!
I'm not sure how to describe Orphaned Land (sorry, I mistakenly called them Orphaned Child in my previous post). They're an Israeli band, and combine traditional Hebrew instruments and melodies with heavy metal guitars and roaring vocals. The vocals range from "clean" stuff that could make it onto top 40 radio, to growling; a stunning female vocalist makes an appearance now and again (her Hebrew chants are particularly powerful). It's an interesting blend, to say the least! Say, a mixture of the Tea Party, Dead Can Dance, Iron Maiden (for the lead guitars) and death metal... but with a sound that ultimately is all their own! Try and get the double disc version of "Mabool" -- the second disc is a live acoustic show, which includes a cover of Paradise Lost's "Mercy." I guess they just released a new album called "Sahara," which I have yet to hear, but which is a concept album like Mabool.
Sometimes "different" bands end up as too much of an self-referential inside joke, but Orphaned Land sounds rather fascinating. My current favourite outfit is Opeth, and they have a similarly eclectic sound, so I'll check the "Mabool" album out if I can find it. Any band that covers Paradise Lost is OK in my book.
"Dark Ages" is, in my view, Soulfly's strongest album, while "Dante XXI" is relatively nondescript by Sepultura standards. Good, but nowhere close to the old days of "Scizophrenia" or "Beneath the remains". Ah, memory lane...
Sometimes "different" bands end up as too much of an self-referential inside joke, but Orphaned Land sounds rather fascinating. My current favourite outfit is Opeth, and they have a similarly eclectic sound, so I'll check the "Mabool" album out if I can find it. Any band that covers Paradise Lost is OK in my book."Dark Ages" is, in my view, Soulfly's strongest album, while "Dante XXI" is relatively nondescript by Sepultura standards. Good, but nowhere close to the old days of "Scizophrenia" or "Beneath the remains". Ah, memory lane...
Ah, Opeth... I'm kicking myself for missing their concert, they came through town a few weeks back and I didn't even know. I have "Damnation" and think it's a masterpiece (I know their other albums are much heavier). What do you recommend I get next? What's their new album like?
Where Sepultura is concerned, I have "Arise," "Chaos A.D.", "Roots," and "Nation." My fave remains the classic "Chaos A.D.". I like the indigenous and Brazilian influences on "Roots," but some of the higher pitched shrieking on that album I just find irritating.
Where Iron Maiden is concerned... I just think they ceased to evolve. On the one hand, it's cool that they've stayed true to their roots and haven't gone for the flavour of the month thing... on the other hand, I find them a bit too "safe" and predictable, even boring now (but I do continue to buy the albums). I loved their 15-minute historical/fantasy epics back in the '80s, but now I just find their new "epics" redundant and uninspired. The same themes seem to come back over and over and over. The same bass lines, the same guitar licks. And what's the point in having 3 guitarists if you can't tell that 3 guitarists are playing? The only song on "Brave New World" that really sticks out in my mind is "The Nomad."
Another one of my one time favourite bands, W.A.S.P. (I think Blackie has one of the best voices in rock--should I be ashamed to admit this?), has also been stuck in a pretty nasty rut for the past 7-8 years, basically recycling all their previous albums with each new release... but still, I keep buying their new albums in the hopes that a miracle will occur and that they will be struck by a bolt of inspiration... but I'm thinking it's too late for that.
I have much more respect for bands that push the envelope and show a definite evolution in sound over time. Therion and Tristania would be prime examples in this category, and Opeth as well. Sepultura showed that tendency for a while, but given that I don't have all their albums, I don't know if that remains the case...
Thanks for your views on Soulfly and the various Sepultura albums, I'll keep that in mind when next I go CD shopping...
It's been a pleasure comparing notes!
The only song on "Brave New World" that really sticks out in my mind is "The Nomad."
hey....that's my name ;)
But, yeah, I agree mostly with what yer saying about the once cool/now repetitive 'epics' (though I love Paschendale). I give them a little more leeway on that disc..."Ghost of the Navigator","Thin line between love n hate", and the slightly repetitve "Out of the Silent Planet" still rawk my world. I can't really think of many bands that truly evolve...NIN did till Trent went gonzo-popular with the 'farkin like an animal'-song. Thin Lizzy really matured their sound and lyric themes from the humble beginnings of a 3-piece. Kings X can sometimes reach really great new heights. And, I guess, the ChiliPeppers have continued to challenge themselves...though I don't like most of their choices.
Sometimes I don't want the mainstays to change too much...Dio's Magica is really hard for me to listen to, but not as hard as Angry Machines. He went from one extreme to the other (soft and mystical to harsh and nihilistic). ACDC, Kiss, Darkness, Hives, Godsmack, and Rhapsody all have very narrow places to tread and they can't vary the basic idea too much for me...though Kiss had some cool experiments early on, "Goin Blind" "She" "Black Diamond".
For newer stuff, I've been getting into Quarashi (almost Beastie Boys rappingstyle with heavier guitar sounds) or Flogging Molly (irish folk music sped up to thrash speed...sung by the lead singer from Fastway...remember "Trick or Treat"?!?!?!) and Mindless Self Indulgence and KMFDM and/or MDFMK and/or Skold and/or later Shotgun Messiah cds (industrial-ish with metal guitars). Rammstein is another industrial-ish band I am liking a lot.
Plus, it makes me all sorts of happy to see matt_the_dm listening to The Cardigans. w00t!
Right now I am listening to for the work rotation:
The Cardigans are great. I love her voice and the fact that they covered Black Sabbath on their early albums.
Billie Holiday - Strage Fruit
Billie Holiday is one of my all-time favorite vocalists. Her work from her middle career is best, before the heroin took her voice away.
Today I'm all about Mudhoney though.
M@
Rotersand - Welcome to Goodbye
Combichrist - Get Your Body Beat
Terrorfakt - Malice
This Morn Omina - Ma/i/nomai, One-Eyed Man
Suicide Commando - Bind Torture Kill
Grendel - Soilbleed, Zombie Nation v2k
Caustic - Unicorns Kittens & Sh*t
Front Line Assembly - Artificial Soldier
Bitcrush - In Distance
Wai Pi Wai - Beat Planet
Synapscape - Act!
Covenant - Skyshaper
Suicide Commando - Bind, Torture, Kill
Snog - Faecal Juggernaut of Mass Culture
Ayria - Flicker
Psychob*#@~ - Electrolicious
Pig - Pigmartyr
Gary Numan - Jagged
Chemlab - Rock Whore vs Dance Floor
Monolith - Talisman
Leaetherstrip - Walking the Volcano
Klutae - Hit'n'Run
Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex
Das Ich - Cabaret
Dive vs Diskonnekted - Frozen
Shinjuku Thief - Sacred Fury
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Ah, Opeth... I'm kicking myself for missing their concert, they came through town a few weeks back and I didn't even know. I have "Damnation" and think it's a masterpiece (I know their other albums are much heavier). What do you recommend I get next? What's their new album like?Where Sepultura is concerned, I have "Arise," "Chaos A.D.", "Roots," and "Nation." My fave remains the classic "Chaos A.D.". I like the indigenous and Brazilian influences on "Roots," but some of the higher pitched shrieking on that album I just find irritating.
I'm a drooling Opeth fanboy, and is hardly objective... You might be inclined to look at this for a couple of reviews I've written for my views; however, the short answer is that "Blackwater Park" is #1, "Still Life" #2 and the new one, "Ghost Reveries" #3. They are all MUCH heavier than "Damnation", but all contain numerous lighter touches.
As for Sepultura - if you liked "Arise", you'll like both "Beneath the remains" and "Schizophrenia" Get the remastered version of the latter, though - the original sounds like it was recorded in an underwater porta-potty. Both are high-quality, no-holds-barred thrash, with no signs whatsoever of any Brazilian influences (apart from Max's dodgy pronounciation). Personally, I find most of the post-Max Sepultura stuff has been a bit hit-and-miss; Derrick Green is a much, MUCH better frontman than Max, but the music is simply not as good. However, they are improving - "Roorback" was better than "Nation", as is "Dante XXI".
Iron Maiden, like AC/DC or the recently reunited Judas Priest, have a narrow confine that they more or less own, and that's fine with me. If I want adventurous stuff (which I occasionally do), I listen to Tomahawk or some such band. Incidentally, I'm listening right now to "Death on the road", IM's new live album, and it is actually very good; even if most of the second disc is comprised of old classics, disc 1 is mostly new or otherwise unknown songs. Additionally - you can never have too many guitars.
I love mid-period WASP. Blackie has a great voice, and most of the songs on "The headless children" and "The crimson idol" were great. After that... I don't know. The songs are still good, but they do feel a bit pre-programmed. Gotta support the troops, though - I'd rather have them around than see them on VH1's "Where are they now" and find out that they are peddling vinyl siding or have embraced scientology...
Haydn - Symphony 99
The Pietasters - Awesome Mix Tape #6
v/a - Monster Surf (I may be in love with The Honeys. More on this as it develops)
Against Me! - Searching For A Former Clarity (Damn this album gets me amped up!)
v/a - Penny Candy
Well Heck I tend to GM soulful games and as such I tend to get inspired by the true Guitar Gods:
B.B. King;
Albert King;
Robert Johnson;
Albert King.
I also get inspired by the likes of:
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy;
Ice Cube;
Rammstein (The Remixes);
Suzanne Vega;
Lacuna Coil;
Ice T;
Johnny Cash;
I know that my vic...Uhmmm I mean players appreciate my sources of inspiration hehehehehehehe
I´m just listening to Bif Naked, and I love her! Some snotty Pop/Rock made by a women obviously wronged often. It´s a spit-in -their-face-music to me, and I love it ! Get the Video "I love myself today", and you will see what I mean.
Stefan
Wow! I see lots of Metal and Rock! I must be the only musical pagan here!
I don't run the CD player much, but I sure use my Window Media Player, listening to:
The Starlight Drifters (rockabilly band from Detroit)
Gene Watson
Vern Gosdin
Marty Robbins
Marty Stuart (especially the Pilgrim album)
Hank Williams
Badabing Badaboom (swing band from Nashville)
Gordon Lightfoot
Dan Fogelberg
Riders In The Sky
Ray Price
and lots of others...
I´m just listening to Bif Naked, and I love her! Some snotty Pop/Rock made by a women obviously wronged often. It´s a spit-in -their-face-music to me, and I love it ! Get the Video "I love myself today", and you will see what I mean.
Stefan
Thanks...pretty cool cover, "Nothing Else Matters". Leeched some of their stuff, love it. You tried Guano Apes or Republica? Same vein.
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"Dark Ages" is, in my view, Soulfly's strongest album, while "Dante XXI" is relatively nondescript by Sepultura standards. Good, but nowhere close to the old days of "Scizophrenia" or "Beneath the remains". Ah, memory lane...
So "Dark Ages" is pretty good? I was so disappointed with "Prophecy" that I stopped buying Soulfly stuff.
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So "Dark Ages" is pretty good? I was so disappointed with "Prophecy" that I stopped buying Soulfly stuff.
"Dark Ages" is, in my view, Soulfly's strongest album, while "Dante XXI" is relatively nondescript by Sepultura standards. Good, but nowhere close to the old days of "Scizophrenia" or "Beneath the remains". Ah, memory lane...
I agree that "Prophecy" wasn't very good, but "Dark Ages" is a much-improved effort. It has 15 songs - out of those, I'd say 9 are good or very good, 3 are OK, 2 are kinda bad and one - "Staystrong" - is absolutely awful, complete with Soulfly's greatest weakness: the useless guest vocalist. On the other hand, "Babylon", "I and I" and, especially, "Carved inside" are among the best songs I've heard from Max since he left Sepultura, and "Riotstarter" is a fun clone on Prodigy's "Firestarter". Of course, this might just be me...
I grew up an avid Iron Maiden and ACDC fan. As an adult, I've gone Trance and often have Paul Van Dyk or the Thrillseekers on the CD player...
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Dass right. You don't want none of this.
I goss MAD bo staff skills.
I got kicked by a mule, and it barely broke my hide.
I got bit by a rattler, and it crawled away and died.
I kilt me an owlbear when I was only three.
Aint nobody near as bad as me.
Heathy, Heathy-thansson,
king of the wild fromtier.
What's in my cd player?
At work- HELLVEN-Born into brutality. (The band I'm currently in.) Check out HELLVEN at darkerthanblack.com
In the truck- ONYX-(currently rotating all albums) Sticky Fingaz is the man! He IS Blade.
In the house- My band from back in the day. I've recently remastered my songs and put them on cd for my own listening pleasure.
In the gameroom- RHAPSODY-Reign of a thousand flames. It is the best atmosphere music we've found for gaming. Anything else and people start singing or moshing the game table. It's hell trying to find where all your dice went off to when that happens.
Classic Rock mix these days...
Eagles, Stones, Van Morrison, Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, Doobie Brothers, etc, etc, etc....
I have to learn to play 80+ songs in the next few weeks. Hooray!
M@
that's cool Gav. I like it when the lil ones know the more obscure...like Homer said, "I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world!"
"And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said"
New to this thread, but currently listening to God Lives Underwater - Empty.
As ever,
ACE
Ok, so maybe I'm a little weird, but I've got the soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian in my cd player.
Ok, so maybe I'm a little weird, but I've got the soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian in my cd player.
And that just got me humming the theme from Conan The Destroyer...
Bum bum BUMMMM!
(Otherwise, it's a Ventures/Clutch kind of day, here.)
Just bought Strapping Young Lad's "The new black", and it is so good that it has replaced Slayer's "Christ Illusion" as the disc of choice in my CD player. Of course, that doesn't really mean all that much, as I have a multi-disc system... but SYL has preference. Who woulda thunk?
Following some of your previous recommendations, I ended up purchasing Opeth's "Still Life," and man was I ever impressed (thanks!). It's been in heavy rotation ever since, although right now I'm listening to Sins of Thy Beloved's "Lake of Fire." To top it all off, I saw Tool in concert a few days ago... great band to see live!
right now I'm listening to Sia colour the small one-
Next up-Tool-10,000 days
Booya-I listen to all cool music from 60's til today-
Ilike the animals to fiest
Underoath- Define the Great Line
As Cities Burn- Son, I loved you at your darkest
30 Seconds to Mars- The Beautiful Lie