Didn't realise the old wave had broken. ;)
Various FB Musical Interludes that I didn't steal from this thread:
The Jefferson Airplane--"The House at Pooneil Corner"
Husker Du--"I Apologize"
Jimmy Cliff--"The Harder They Come"
Jamey Johnson--"Women"
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Didn't realise the old wave had broken. ;)
YES! NEVER goes away. Love this sound. 1979-2015 and beyond!
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A damn Facebook conversation about Comrade Russell Brand's commitment to the cause of women's liberation led to this song being stuck in my head.
'S alright. I always liked that one.
The Smashing Pumpkins - "Today"
Coheed & Cambria - "Junesong Provision"
Stan Rogers - "The House Of Orange"
Attica! Attica! - "Frostbite"
Attica! Attica! - "Five Year Plan"
Alkaline Trio - "I'm Dying Tomorrow"
Avoid One Thing - "Renegade"
The Weavers - "Goodnight Irene" (cover)
Bainbridge - "Am I Still Crazy?"
I Am The Avalanche - "Wasted"
The Weavers - "Goodnight Irene" (cover)
This was the song Jack White ended with when I saw him in '12. He hadn't played 'Seven Nation Army', which was the song I figured he'd end on...and the crowd was kinda hyped up. And then he breaks out in that old Lead Belly tune. I felt cleansed.
Fair to Midland today. No links for you since I'm on my phone on a quick break from the office, but they're well worth tracking down to check out their weird form of alternative/progressive metal/rock.
Songs I'd recommend:
Amarillo Sleeps On My Pillow
Dance of the Manatee
Whiskey & Ritalin
Musical Chairs
The Greener Grass
The Wife, the Kids, and the White Picket Fence
Magma with the Brecker Brothers...
Making dinner and [bubble bubble bubbling] while La Principessa catches up on her grading:
La Principessa from the other room: Baby? I love you, but what the hell are you listening to?
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yndi halda - "We Flood Empty Lakes"
Polar Bear Club - "I'll Never Leave New York"
Participation Trophy - "Not An Apology, But An Explanation"
Lagwagon - "May 16"
Chuck Ragan - "The Boat"
The Gaslight Anthem - "The '59 Sound"
Rollins Band - "Ghost Rider" (cover)
Bad Religion - "Sorrow"
The Specials - "Gangsters"
The Specials - "Little B@!*!"
Dark souls 2- broken straight sword PVP.
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Funk for Friday!
Which looks cooler in its original sleeve:
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Some South American stuff I like very much:
Geraldo Manuel y El Humo - Apocallypsis
And
The Speakers - En el Maravilloso Mundo de Ing
Psychedelia done RIGHT.
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Makes me miss my old Galtan gulag campaign with the recurring NPC, Alonzo the Reactionary Teamster.
Sloppy Seconds--"The Kids Are All Drunk"
They were way better before they dropped the "z" from their name and still had Nash Rickey on lead vocals.
Monday Morning Jazz Brunch
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Jose Gonzalez' new album, "Vestiges & Claws"
I wouldn't exactly call this song "good," but it's not "bad" either, and it's got some serious nostalgia value:
Vashti Bunyan--Just Another Diamond Day (an incomplete posting, alas)
Mr. Comrade was sharing a meme that said something like "People voted for the Nazis and people like Coldplay. You can't trust people."
Gave me a sinking feeling, so I went and asked La Principessa if she liked Coldplay. She hemmed and hawed and then, finally, admitted that she did. "You need to stop making fun of the music I listen to," she pouted. "Baby, I don't make fun of the music you listen to." "Oh yeah," she responded while brightening up, "I make fun of the music you listen to!"
Which is a long way of saying I can't bring myself to listen to the Shawn Colvin song she sent me, but she did, at least, also send me a song by Paul Westerberg and a clip from Bambi (yes, the twitterpatted scene).
I responded with The Replacements and Uncle Tupelo.
Jose Gonzalez' new album, "Vestiges & Claws"
Angered power!
Clicking on The Eldritch Mr. Mallon's NPR link led me to the new Six Organs of Admittance album. Longtime Paizo music threadheads might recall the burst of enthusiasm a while back for Mr. Chasny's other band, Comets On Fire.
Stan Getz On Jazz, Drugs, and Robbery: "I'm sorry for the crazy thing I did"
Caught my attention and tickled my fancy 'cuz Mrs. Comrade, like many a comrade before, has been trying to learn Portuguese by listening to Astuid Gilberto songs.
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Mr. Comrade was sharing a meme that said something like "People voted for the Nazis and people like Coldplay. You can't trust people."
WARNING: INCOMING WALL OF TEXT
I'm on a Marilyn Manson kick due to how much I enjoyed The Pale Emperor. Working my way through the discography at the moment. Looks like my thoughts on the albums haven't changed much over the years:
- Portrait of an American Family - The first and, in my opinion, weakest album. Nothing I'd even really go so far as to say is a favourite song of mine. It's not bad... just nothing as good as what was to come
- Antichrist Superstar - The first album in the Triptych to be released, but actually the finale of the narrative. The track most people would know from it is probably The Beautiful People, but it's got plenty of other strong tracks too. Mister Superstar, Tourniquet and The Reflecting God are some of my favourites
- Mechanical Animals - Middle album of the Triptych, both in release and narrative. Concept album, with the songs split evenly between perspective of two characters, Alpha and Omega (Omega has the really cynical songs). Not as dark as Antichrist Superstar, but it works. One of my favourite albums from the band. I enjoy pretty much every song on it, with Rock is Dead, Mechanical Animals I Want to Disappear, I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me) and Coma White being the real highlights.
- Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) - Final album released in the Triptych, but first in the narrative. I'd rate it about the same as Mechanical Animals, just ahead of Antichrist Superstar. I can't really name favourites since just like Mechanical Animals, I love the whole album, but highlights would be The Fight Song, Disposable Teens, Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis), Cruci-fiction in Space, The Nobodies, Lamb of God, Born Again, Coma Black, and Count to Six and Die (The Vacuum of Infinite Space Encompassing)
- The Golden Age of Grotesque - First of Manson's albums that I owned and really listened to. Probably the most accessible album released in the whole discography, very energetic. It'd fall behind the Triptych albums for me, but is high above Portrait of an American Family. Oddly while I prefer the themes and style of the Triptych albums, this one used to get more play just because it was good music to work to due to the energy. Most memorable songs would probably be Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag, The Golden Age of Grotesque, Slutgarden, Spade, The Bright Young Things, and his cover of Tainted Love.
- Eat Me Drink Me - Highly underrated album, where the band really started to shift from shock rock/alt metal to goth rock (which I suspect was the cause of the backlash from fans). I'd rank it around the same as The Golden Age of Grotesque. The songs are much more brooding and more somber while still having a rock feel. Best song on the album in my opinion would be Putting Holes in Happiness, but If I was Your Vampire and The Red Carpet Grave would come close to it. Other highlights are Evidence, Eat Me Drink Me, and Mutiliation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
- The High End of Low - This is a bit of a nothing album for me, I'd rate it well above Portrait, but well below Eat Me Drink Me and The Golden Age of Grotesque. There are some cool songs, like Four Rusted Horses and Arma-g@&~++n-motherf$~%in-geddon, but overall it just didn't do much for me. Worth a listen now and then though.
- Born Villain - I only heard this one recently. Haven't listened to it enough to get any favourites yet, but I'd rank it around the Golden Age of Grotesque and Eat Me Drink Me so far.
- The Pale Emperor - latest album, only came out in January this year... and it's spectacular. Heavy blues rock influence, which I love, and it just feels like they've finally found the sound they were looking for between the end of the Triptych and now. Favourite song is easily Killing Strangers (which was used in the John Wick soundtrack). Can't really rank the others yet, but I'm loving Third Day of a Seven Day Binge, Mephistopheles of Los Angeles. Birds of Hell Awaiting, and Cupid Carries a Gun. I'm putting this one up there with Mechanical Animals and Holy Wood as one of my favourites.
Some songs that aren't on studio albums that deserve attention though. His covers of Sweet Dreams (from the Smells Like Children remix album) and Personal Jesus (from Lest We Forget, the best of) are fantastic, as is the song Long Hard Road Out of Hell (also from Lest We Forget). He also did a cover of This Is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
And now for some of the actual songs I listed. Keep in mind these are Marilyn Manson songs, so probably NSFW.
Putting Holes in Happiness:
Blow out the candles,
On all my Frankensteins,
At least my deathwish will come true
You taste like valentines
And we cry, you're like a birthday
Should have picked the photograph
It lasted longer than you
The Bright Young Things:
We know who we are and what we want to say
And we don't care who's listening
We don't rebel to sell, it just suits us well
We're the bright young things
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Portrait of an American Family - The first and, in my opinion, weakest album. Nothing I'd even really go so far as to say is a favourite song of mine. It's not bad... just nothing as good as what was to come
Come at me, bro.
Not really, but "Portrait of an American Family" is my #1 Manson album, followed by "The Golden Age of Grotesque" and "The Pale Emperor." "Lunchbox" is still one of my top 10 favorite songs of all time. Tell me this doesn't just get your blood pumping.
Portrait of an American Family - The first and, in my opinion, weakest album. Nothing I'd even really go so far as to say is a favourite song of mine. It's not bad... just nothing as good as what was to comeCome at me, bro.
Not really, but "Portrait of an American Family" is my #1 Manson album, followed by "The Golden Age of Grotesque" and "The Pale Emperor." "Lunchbox" is still one of my top 10 favorite songs of all time. Tell me this doesn't just get your blood pumping.
Okay, I'll give you Lunchbox. That's a pretty damn awesome song. Saying I didn't have favourites from it may have been a bit unfair, Lunchbox and Get Your Gunn are pretty great, I'd still probably rank it lowest :P maybe a bit closer to The High End of Low than I previously thought. I'll give it another listen today and see how I go with it.
Currently though, rankings are (from most to least loved):
1. Mechanical Animals, Holy Wood, The Pale Emperor
2. Antichrist Superstar
3. The Golden Age of Grotesque, Eat Me Drink Me, Born Villain
4. The High End of Low
5. Portrait of an American Family.
I should point out as well that even though it's the lowest, I still like it. Even The High End of Low, which as I said is a bit of a nothing album for me, isn't what I'd call bad. I just prefer his other stuff :P Given that they're 9 albums in and I wouldn't say any of them are actually bad, I reckon that's a pretty damn good outcome. If we're including non-studio albums, I'd say Smells Like Children is the only one I'd never really put on rotation in the playlist.
Okay, I'll give you Lunchbox. That's a pretty damn awesome song. Saying I didn't have favourites from it may have been a bit unfair, Lunchbox and Get Your Gunn are pretty great, I'd still probably rank it lowest :P maybe a bit closer to The High End of Low than I previously thought. I'll give it another listen today and see how I go with it.
Currently though, rankings are (from most to least loved):
1. Mechanical Animals, Holy Wood, The Pale Emperor
2. Antichrist Superstar
3. The Golden Age of Grotesque, Eat Me Drink Me, Born Villain
4. The High End of Low
5. Portrait of an American Family.I should point out as well that even though it's the lowest, I still like it. Even The High End of Low, which as I said is a bit of a nothing album for me, isn't what I'd call bad. I just prefer his other stuff :P Given that they're 9 albums in and I wouldn't say any of them are actually bad, I reckon that's a pretty damn good outcome. If we're including non-studio albums, I'd say Smells Like Children is the only one I'd never really put on rotation in the playlist.
"Smells Like Children" is pretty rough-- basically just a bunch of junk B-sides and s!%*ty remixes, though his covers of the Eurhythmics' "Sweet Dreams" and Patti Smith's "Rock n' Roll N%*@$@" are pretty good. For my list, I'd say:
1. Portrait of an American Family
2. The Golden Age of Grotesque
3. The Pale Emperor
4. Holy Wood, Antichrist Superstar
5. Mechanical Animals
6. Eat Me Drink Me, Born Villain, The High End of Low
Speaking of "The Pale Emperor"... it's been agreed over Facebook by myself, Pathfinder artist Kieran Yanner, and a couple of college buddies, that "The Pale Emperor" sounds like a long-lost Magazine album.
9 years on the Paizo forums, still talking about Marilyn Manson with relative strangers. Some things never change.
Other things, like my mid-2000s love of Wal-Mart butt rock, have changed somewhat.
Heh, fair enough. Sounds like we're probably looking for different things in the sound :P.
Yeah, Sweet Dreams was pretty much why I bought Smells Like Children back in the day.
I can see that with The Pale Emperor/Magazine thing. I'm really in it for the bluesy feel, I've been loving blues influenced music lately.
I do love the MarilynManson stuff. Saw him open for NIN with his 'rockstar cock' and a couple times since then. He's creepy as hell. I liked the abusive 'Pistol Whipped' track from Born Villain. I'm really digging the Pale Emperor (Killing Strangers!). I still think I listen to Mechanical Animals the most often. Though Get yr Gunn, Dope Hat, Misery Machine and Lunchbox are awesome! And the cover of dM 'Personal Jesus' spins the original into a completely new meaning.
1 Mechanical Animals/Portrait of American Family
2 Antichrist Superstar
3 all the others
not sure where Pale Emperor will sit yet.
I'mma let you finish after I post a couple links.
I Love the Dead
Cold Ethyl
Dead Babies
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David, what is 'Wal Mart Butt Rock' ? I assume it's a genre and not a niche sexual practice...
I'm guessing its bands like Black Veil Brides, Five Finger Death Punch, Ill Nino, Trapt, LimpBizkit, Korn, Kid Rock all the way back to Poison, Slaughter, Motley, BonJovi and the like. Usually a band HEAVILY promoted as 'dangerous' and gets a lot of kids to throw horns \m/ up. Right? I like some of those bands...or at least some of their songs anyway. Though I will NEVER like Def Leppard post-Pyromania. The super soft stuff gets played more often 'Pour Some Sugar on Me'.