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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: AlohaDawg on December 30, 2005, 06:24:55 pm
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Like that old guy that shakes his cane at you and tells you to get off his lawn.
I have a crippling inability to find, discover, hear and love new music. I don't know why this is. I read the Fear of Music thread with some interest because Its fun to be a fly on the wall while you all discuss the latest raw beats, and then I say to myself "I should try some of this" and then I find myself at tower records still filling in my Cd case with U2. Hardly edgy.
John Allison is filling this week with a top 20 albiums of 2005 reviewed by Shelley Winters of Scary Go Round. (http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20051226) it's funny writing but I have no idea if these are even real bands (with the excepton of Aimee Mann). That's the link from Monday, click forward to vew the rest of the week.
Comments on the comments solicited. Heard of any these? Heard any of these?
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Quick glance.
The Decemberists are dog-damned amazing and wonderful. Mind you I lived in Portland OR for some time, so it may be flavouring my statement a bit there but Picaresque is good... good good.
Sigur Ros is also highly suggested. Caribou is okay.. I wasn't crazy crazy about it.
Ben Folds bores me.
Um... that's just my .02 quick review (in rhyme because I am at work and only had a minute to glance over that list)
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I'm pretty sure they're all real albums.
I've heard of most of them, but have only heard a few of the albums. I've been meaning to check out Sigur Ros and The Decemberists, so maybe now I will.
The new Ben Folds album is really good. Not as good as the Ben Folds Five stuff, but better than his first solo album, or Fear of Pop, etc.
The new Aimee Mann album sounds like someone of lesser talents trying to write an Aimee Mann album. I'm not going to say it's her worst album (that was two albums ago) but it's down there.
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I've heard of a lot of those but have heard relatively few. I haven't gotten Songs for Silverman yet, but Ben Folds is reasonably fairly represented by the "extremely skilled bus driver" analogy, except that he really is very, very good. If you enjoy conventional piano-based rock, you might well like him, and his work with Ben Folds Five was consistently fantastic.
The only other two albums on this list I've actually experienced are Stars' Set Yourself On Fire and Sufjan Stevens's Illinois(e). Stars is very much in the "technically adept, soft, twinkly music about melancholy" indie-rock genre, so if you like that sort of thing, you'll like them. Sufjan... well, I would advise that you seek out some MP3s first. I find him an extremely interesting artist, but his stuff is quite strange.
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That Architecture in Helsinki album is really fun and upbeat. It's one of those things that you can't not be happy listening to. Wishbone and It'5! in particular stand out.
CYHSY is okay. I think they're mainly popular because Pitchfork said so. Last I checked they had a couple free mp3's on their site.
Spoon I like on the whole but some of their songs just aren't my style. I like almost all of Gimme Fiction though and I think it's a good album to start on. The track I Turn My Camara On has been getting a decent amount of play so you may have heard it already.
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I have the same problem as AD. At one point I tried to find some of the stuff people had talked about on this board on-line but the thing is, even if you can find a whole song instead of a sample, it's so hard to know. I think you mostly don't begin to like music until it's a little familiar. The reason radio was good was that you hear something in the background a few times and then at some point you begin to notice that you like it. But nowadays it seems that radio pretty much sucks.
I can only think of one time in my life where I heard a song I'd never heard before, and I had to run to someone and ask what it was so I could go right out and buy the album. So what are the chances that I'll hear a song once on-line and decide I like the band? But if the song doesn't grab me once, why listen again? I can't figure out a way out of the dilemma. What do You Kids Today do, anyway?
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As far as "Kids Today" goes it's a vicious circle. Radio started sucking and thus people were driven online to download and "try things out" and so radio started sucking more.
I think eventually a lot of it is driven nowadays by downloading, testing out a couple songs and (Maybe in some instances) buying the album to support the artist.
However, I do have one really good station here in town that's completely public and runs an "Underground" show that's good. I listen in the car on the way home from work sometimes and take mental notes of the songs I liked and check those out. Other than that it's pretty much Osmosis.
There are however sites out there like this. (http://www.liveplasma.com/) The downside is you have to know of one you like first and the results are sort of limited. For example, I put in "Pinback" let's say and I get Neutral Milk Hotel, Grandaddy, Decemberists, The Postal Service, etc as results; which, though are also all bands I like are not nearly the full spectrum of what I enjoy.
So... I hope I've confused you more or rambled completely uselessly. In conclusion, I am clearly no help at all!
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But if the song doesn't grab me once, why listen again? I can't figure out a way out of the dilemma. What do You Kids Today do, anyway?
Here's my technique in a nutshell:
1) Find an MP3. This could be from an MP3 blog, a friend who likes to post music... anywhere I can get a freely-playable song. (Mixtapes are also good; I know it was the Acheboard mixes that first got me interested in the New Pornographers.)
2) Listen to it a while. You may need to give it a few spins before you really get a feeling for it.
3) If you like it, investigate! That's what the Internet is for. Read the press on the band online, and if you can find more MP3s, do it. Maybe read the Pitchfork review, but only if you don't take it too seriously.
4) Once you've listened to a few different songs and like them well enough, and you've checked out the band's press, treat yourself to a CD.
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I've listened to a bit of Architecture in Helsinki, and it's too loud and intrusive for my taste (I'm an Ambient Slut).
Sigur Rós is truly excellent, but I haven't listened to much of "Takk". My favourite album of theirs is "( )".
I cannot say enough good things about The Decemberists. Colin Meloy (lead singer) was a creative writing major in college, and it shows. The lyrics are witty and leave you longing for the days of yore, when real men harpooned whales to make ends meet.
I got the same impression from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah that I got from Architecture in Helsinki -- too directionless, too noisy.
Stars make some of the best indie pop out there, and "Set Yourself on Fire" is the pinnacle of their musical achievements.
Sufjan Stevens creates very enjoyable soft and pretty music. "To Be Alone with You" is a great song.
Broken Social Scene is hell of awesome. I haven't had the chance to listen to their self-titled release, but both "You Forget It in People" and "Feel Good Lost" are incredible. If you haven't heard the song "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl," you should remedy that post haste.
And here are a few of my recommendations:
1.) Mogwai (Favourite band of Jeph Jacques of http://www.questionablecontent.net (http://www.questionablecontent.net).)
2.) Denali (A band from my hometown of Richmond, VA that broke up some time ago, Denali nevertheless continues to be my third-favourite band of all time.)
3.) Boards of Canada (Creepy electronic noises from remote Scotland.)
4.) Forget Cassettes (They broke up for a while, but they're back in the studio!)
5.) Hammock (Good luck finding their music, very few people have heard of them.)
6.) Iron & Wine (Don't let Sam Beam's cover of that song by The Postal Service fool you, he's a powerful musician of his own right.)
7.) Múm (From Iceland, like Sigur Rós.)
8.) Portishead
9.) Neutral Milk Hotel (An acquired taste, but very good.)
10.) The Album Leaf
11.) The Arcade Fire
12.) RJD2 (Is it hip-hop? Is it rap? Even if it is, it must be good for an indie kid like me to so thoroughly enjoy it!)
If anyone is interested in obtaining music by any of the above-mentioned artists (including those listed by John Allison), feel free to IM me, and I'll send 'em your way.
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In regards to radio sucking, there are plenty of good radio stations that one can access online such as KCRW (especially morning becomes eclectic) http://www.kcrwmusic.com/, KEXP http://www.kexp.org, and WOXY http://www.woxy.com/
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Here's my technique in a nutshell:
This sounds so much like work. Where do I find the time, when I'm so busy, um, posting on an internet messageboard about a comic, and stuff?
I tried some online radio stations a while back but maybe they were just the wrong ones. I'll try again.
Or maybe I am too old and it's hopeless and there's nothing I can do but wait for the next Bruce Springsteen record...
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I guess I make little effort to find new music. If I hear or read about something that seems interesting, I'll go download it or listen to a sample. If I like it enough, I'll eventually buy it. There are relatively few artists that I'll follow throughout a large portion of their career, and I tend to get obsessed with a handful of them (like Built to Spill, Bob Dylan, or Low), and that takes a lot of my time and money, so little is left to devote to finding newer artists. My top 10 favorite record list this year is only three or four records long (or so), and I think there is only one record that I discovered from a band or artist that I didn't previously know very well: Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers.
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Here's another idea that might work, though I can't say with any certainty. Go to a site like pandora.com, put in some of your favorite artists, and see what it comes up with.
Also, you could post some of your favorite artists here and people could make recommendations based on said artists.
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This sounds so much like work. Where do I find the time, when I'm so busy, um, posting on an internet messageboard about a comic, and stuff?
I think the secret, as pretentious as this is going to sound, is reading the right blogs. If you read blogs already that tend to post MP3s and such, that's a natural starting-off point...
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On that list the only album I've listened to entirely is "Anniemal" by Annie. I like it, but I thought it came out last year? Oh wait, I did listen to the Hold Steady album. It's OK. On the first listen I was really into it, but lost interest on subsequent listens, and have no interest in it at all now. I've heard parts of the Stars record, and I think it's boring, parts of the Sufjan Stevens album, and like V, think it's interesting and strange, and quite good, and haven't heard the new Broken Social Scene record at all, but I really liked their last album.
My favorite album that was released this year was "Superwolf" by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeney.
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eMusic had Anniemal on their Top 50 of '05 list. I listened to the samples but didn't think it was quite my thing. Actually this afternoon I listened to samples of the 15 albums that sounded the most interesting and didn't end up DL'ing a single one (although I already owned 5 from the list, IIRC).
I really liked The Best Party Ever from The Boy Least Likely To as it's another one of those that I can't be sad while listening to. I especially like the lyrics of I See Spiders When I Close My Eyes
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pandora.com
Oh, now this is fascinating, and perfect for the lazy - er, busy person. It doesn't just list what you might like, which you then have to go out and look for. It actually goes ahead and plays it. Wow. Now this is the future.
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last.fm has a similar system. It bases "similar artist" on what people actually listen to as opposed to genres. But you have to DL their proprietary player to listen. But there is an "I can't install software on this PC" version for workplace listening.
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I would also recommend last.fm. My page: http://www.last.fm/user/phoenixfirefly (http://www.last.fm/user/phoenixfirefly).
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The interesting thing about this Pandora thing is that it bases its recommendation on its analysis of properties of the music. Like "mild syncopation" and "mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation." What I'm finding a little frustrating is that I want to get in and hack the properties instead of having it guess at them. It's giving me a case of mild syncopation.
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Broken Social Scene is hell of awesome. I haven't had the chance to listen to their self-titled release, but both "You Forget It in People" and "Feel Good Lost" are incredible. If you haven't heard the song "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl," you should remedy that post haste.
You could add that they are really cool and totally nice people. (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN8511-E500.jpg)
These are almost Crimes... (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN8498-E500.jpg)
Cause = Time = AWESOME (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN8500-E500.jpg)
Death Cock (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN8509-E500.jpg)
~Paul
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To AD and everybody else who's trying to stumble upon new great music. I will post the secret for achieving just that (and I'm gonna do it here and now, and if you don't do it, then you're just a bitchy-bitch bitch man:
1. make yourself a profile at http://last.fm (theirs is the best content I've ever seen online, in quantity - they seem to have EVERYBODY there - to quality) ;
2. enter the name of one band you dig;
3. fire up their radio player in the "SIMILAR ARTISTS" station and LISTEN.
You can block bands that suck, and mark as favorites the ones you happen to love. Great clean way to get acquainted with new dudes who rock. Meself, I came to know and love The Walkmen, Ratatat, Boards of Canada, Tom Lehrer, amongst others, via their service.
not that last.fm had not been mentioned here already. but.
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Meself, I came to know and love...Boards of Canada...via their service.
That deserves a tiny can of Dr. Pepper.
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That pandora thing is really nifty.
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You could add that they are really cool and totally nice people. (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN8511-E500.jpg)
These are almost Crimes... (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN8498-E500.jpg)
Cause = Time = AWESOME (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN8500-E500.jpg)
Death Cock (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN8509-E500.jpg)
Jealousy! How do they sound in person?
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I don't have pictures, but I saw them at Coachella in 2004, and they rocked out with their cocks out. One of the dudes proposed to his girl on stage, which was sweet. Oh, and 'Anthems' absolutely kills, live. 'Stars and Sons' too.
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Jealousy! How do they sound in person?
Best Concert of '04.
~Paul
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Oh, now this is fascinating, and perfect for the lazy - er, busy person. It doesn't just list what you might like, which you then have to go out and look for. It actually goes ahead and plays it. Wow. Now this is the future.
I just mentioned my approval, but I'm really digging it. I think I'll have to try this Last.fm business now (but signup's currently disabled).
I'm having one of those "the internet is so cool" moments right now.
Except it played a Billy Joel song for me. Billy Joel, people. Billy. Joel.
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Except it played a Billy Joel song for me. Billy Joel, people. Billy. Joel.
There was something they played for me that I was appalled at... but now it's been knocked right out of my memory by this.
I had a little trouble with the restriction on how many songs you can skip per hour - I found out I'd reached my limit when I tried to skip a live Grateful Dead track, which of course went on for another two or three hours, I swear.
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Gaah. Last.fm has none of this ban-per-hour limit nonsense. I just ban ban ban the day away (extracting immoderate pleasure from blocking those tasteless tunes from Pavement, Weezer etc).
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I don't have pictures, but I saw them at Coachella in 2004, and they rocked out with their cocks out. One of the dudes proposed to his girl on stage, which was sweet. Oh, and 'Anthems' absolutely kills, live. 'Stars and Sons' too.
Coachella? More jealousy! I would totally be all over that if I lived on the West Coast, could get tickets, did not fear the heat and hippies, &c.
I would not kill a man for a Klondike bar, but you better believe I'd waste some bitches for the chance to see Radiohead and look Thom Yorke in his wonky eye.
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Gaah. Last.fm has none of this ban-per-hour limit nonsense. I just ban ban ban the day away (extracting immoderate pleasure from blocking those tasteless tunes from Pavement, Weezer etc).
Well, I can ban as many songs as I want - it's just that sometimes I have to keep listening to them till they're over. Which is maybe a fair punishment for how picky and opinionated I am.
Edit: y-h gets a tiny can of Dr Pepper for having a blog written in Portuguese. Which I have always suspected was invented by aliens who were trying to imitate a Romance language but got their information over a bad connection. What a relief to be out of academia and be able to admit that...
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Coachella? More jealousy! I would totally be all over that if I lived on the West Coast, could get tickets, did not fear the heat and hippies, &c.
I would not kill a man for a Klondike bar, but you better believe I'd waste some bitches for the chance to see Radiohead and look Thom Yorke in his wonky eye.
It was a lot of fun. I'm not a big Radiohead fan, but it was fun to see them. I love the Cure, but they weren't too great. The Pixies, of course, killed. Not as great as when I saw them a few months later, but still great. I might go this year, but I probably won't. It's too dang expensive, I'm too dang broke, and I hated camping with a bunch of dang dirty kids. The booze is expensive and it's a pain to get in to the booze areas. You can't bring in your own booze, and they search you pretty extensively in case you try to. Yeah, and the heat. I like the heat, but not enough to generally spend three days outisde in it.
But man, it rocked.
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I would not kill a man for a Klondike bar, but you better believe I'd waste some bitches for the chance to see Radiohead and look Thom Yorke in his wonky eye.
Radiohead in London 11/27/03 (Thanksgiving)
I Might Be Wrong (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7716-E-1024.jpg)
There There (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7678-E-1024.jpg)
Where I End and You Begin (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7704-E-1024.jpg)
I'm a Creep... (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7726-E-1024.jpg)
When I am King You Will Be First Against The Wall (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7730-E-1024.jpg)
Thom at Piano (Karma Police) (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7739-E-1024.jpg)
No Surprises (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7743-E-1024.jpg)
Paul Enjoys Radiohead a lot (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7746-E-1024.jpg)
~Paul
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y-h gets a tiny can of Dr Pepper for having a blog written in Portuguese. Which I have always suspected was invented by aliens who were trying to imitate a Romance language but got their information over a bad connection. What a relief to be out of academia and be able to admit that...
Dude, Portuguese. Sometimes I think the rest of the word quite doesn't know what to make of it, like "But don't we have Spanish, already? What's the point in having this thing that just looks a lot like Spanish?". It's a mistery, man. It's the beautiful mistery of language, and all that.
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Radiohead in London 11/27/03 (Thanksgiving)
I Might Be Wrong (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7716-E-1024.jpg)
There There (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7678-E-1024.jpg)
Where I End and You Begin (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7704-E-1024.jpg)
I'm a Creep... (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7726-E-1024.jpg)
When I am King You Will Be First Against The Wall (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7730-E-1024.jpg)
Thom at Piano (Karma Police) (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7739-E-1024.jpg)
No Surprises (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7743-E-1024.jpg)
Paul Enjoys Radiohead a lot (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/RADIOHEAD_LONDON/DSCN7746-E-1024.jpg)
~Paul
Dude. Dude. You are my new best friend.
I have an unhealthy obsession with Radiohead.
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Saw Radiohead like a year ago when they toured about with Ol' Stephen Malkmus of Pavement.
I remember hearing the opener and thinking "Hey that sounds like Stephen Malkmus" and then he said "Hi, I'm Stephen Malkmus" and lo and behold I was shocked at my um.. rightitude.
Anyway I wrote about it, um... here (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/27/11216/9624)
also, don't read anything else at that link.. or anywhere else for that matter. That's all. Bleep.
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A very entertaining review, misterqueue. I particularly enjoyed the conversation with your friend, which is exactly the kind of conversation you need to have when you're seeing Radiohead fuck*ng live.
"Everything in Its Right Place" and "The National Anthem" are two of my favourite songs of theirs.
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Yes, he was rather upset at me, but in the end I like to think he would've done the same in my position.
Actually, I damn well know he would, because he sent me a picture of him with a certain hottie that we were both enamoured of some time later.
I got him back with a picture of Flava Flav and I at a party in Miami.
He's yet to 1up that, I'll keep everyone posted.*
*Even if you don't care.
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Thom Yorke is so intelligent and perceptive, I think we will now fight with knives.
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Verdict?
Through a situation that is long and boring to explain I accidentally bought a copy of Death Cab For Cutie "Plans" with a gift receipt. It is currently sealed and I could keep if for any other CD in the world. Is it worth keeping? I do not have any other DCFC music, and only have the vaguest recollection of not hating them.
What say you?
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Death Cab is way too mellow for me but the SO think's that they're the wasps' nipples
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Anyway I wrote about it, um... here (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/27/11216/9624)
That's a good review and not too far off from my experience seeing them here in our (curiosly non corporate named) outdoor shed. Seriously I don't know why people go to concerts if they are only going to talk loudly through the entire event. The band seemed less inspired as well. Perhaps they could sense they were playing for a bunch of uncaring fucks. They kicked so much ass in London (and Cardiff) though and when they played sail to the moon, you could hear a pin drop.
Anyway, none of this is helping AD and Wombat. Everybody (especially those that got goodies from him) send AD a sampler of new music. It's an honest appeal. He wants to know what the cool kids are listening to. Me, i'd kill for another mix from Bozack or Starlight. I still listen to those two reguarly.
~Paul
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Thom Yorke is so intelligent and perceptive, I think we will now fight with knives.
Honey, those aren't children, they're packets of cream cheese.
Also side_show, Death Cab is wondrous but I think Plans is my least favorite release of theirs. Check out The Photo Album and We Have the Facts instead would be my suggestion; but that's... just... me...
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I'm a bit late here on this, but...
I find most my cool music finds through my cool london friend's lj (http://www.livejournal.com/~amadeeeep), the sigur ros forum (http://sigur-ros.co.uk/board/index.php), mp3 blogs (the best one I've been checking since the summer is largehearted boy (http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/) since it updates everyday), and random users on soulseek who I friend and check up on based on other stuff I liked and downloaded from them (as of today, I downloaded the new ester drang -- reminds me of ulrich schnauss and if that doesn't ring a bell it's a bit shoegazery ambient pop, islands -- members of former band, The Unicorns; that's all I know and The Lovely Feathers which I found through lhb with one mp3 that was linked, but never located the whole thing on soulseek till tonight; good stuff!).
last.fm is rather good, too, but I hardly use it to find new bands.. I just use it to keep track of what stuff I listened to the most and check stats on my fav. bands. heh.
here's mine in case you're curious: http://www.last.fm/user/aekastar
Me, i'd kill for another mix from Bozack or Starlight. I still listen to those two reguarly.
~Paul
Aw, I'm flattered!
I haven't made a real mix since the summer for a friend... I have made two yoga mix volumes for my mom, but she made me put some stuff I wasn't too into on there.. I made it pleasing and even got a gift certificate from one of her students for a copy of vol.2, but it isn't something I'd have made for myself.
Perhaps soon, a mix trade is in order!
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Anyway, none of this is helping AD and Wombat.
Actually that pandora.com thing is helping. I might be about to buy a CD of a guy I never heard of before. And even if not, it ends up being like a radio station I can listen to that isn't constantly annoying.
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Agreed on Pandora. Best music-recommendation service I've encountered thus far. The only downside is that you can't go back to a song--no re-listening, according to the terms of their license.
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Actually that pandora.com thing is helping. I might be about to buy a CD of a guy I never heard of before. And even if not, it ends up being like a radio station I can listen to that isn't constantly annoying.
So who is the lucky dude?
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This year I liked a lot of music.
But at the same time, this year was a boiling point for my social relationship with music.
I wanted to be through with pretense, through with statement music, through with musicians that honestly sounded like they did not like what they were doing.
So my album of the year was Bang Bang Rock and Roll by Art Brut. Just because it was everything escapist I was looking for. It was fun from start to finish. It was funny as hell. And it seriously rocked. So yes.
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oh my god
I love last.fm so much.
its already playing the kind of awkward, fast music I like. already I've heard several songs I hadn't heard by artists who I really enjoy.
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oh my god
I love last.fm so much.
its already playing the kind of awkward, fast music I like. already I've heard several songs I hadn't heard by artists who I really enjoy.
I also love their ad: Radio that lets you turn down the suck.
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Actually that pandora.com thing is helping. I might be about to buy a CD of a guy I never heard of before. And even if not, it ends up being like a radio station I can listen to that isn't constantly annoying.
So are you gonna share with us the name of the artist you like so much?
~Paul
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Every time I try to answer this question the board freezes up. Maybe it's an omen that I shouldn't buy the CD after all. It is a singer songwriter guy from Austin called Bob Schneider, I think. I'm not sure I like him 'so much', but coming from Austin is like, a good pedigree, right?
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Every time I try to answer this question the board freezes up. Maybe it's an omen that I shouldn't buy the CD after all. It is a singer songwriter guy from Austin called Bob Schneider, I think. I'm not sure I like him 'so much', but coming from Austin is like, a good pedigree, right?
He's good, i've seen him perform a couple of times. I've got two of his albums, you should pm me, i'll hook you up.
~Paul
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He's good, i've seen him perform a couple of times. I've got two of his albums, you should pm me, i'll hook you up.
~Paul
Cripes. Even I have a cd by this guy. He's not bad. Jingy is the track that got me (about a monkey... named Jingy...).
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(about a monkey... named Jingy...).
OK, I'm sold.
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Oh, also I was thinking that maybe I ought to like the Barenaked Ladies. Any thoughts?
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Oh, also I was thinking that maybe I ought to like the Barenaked Ladies. Any thoughts?
I enjoy Maroon. It is a good CD. Other than that, I can't really speak to BNL.
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Oh, also I was thinking that maybe I ought to like the Barenaked Ladies. Any thoughts?
I enjoy them, but I wonder if maybe they've been a victim of both being overplayed and taking themselves too seriously.
Their concert was one of the more enjoyable ones I've been to. Great live band. Very interactive.
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I'm a BNL fan but I don't know anything that came out post-Maroon. From what I've seen the earlier stuff is funnier and the later stuff is mellower. You may have heard The Old Apartment, One Week, and/or If I Had $1,000,000.
I agree about the live shows. I've seen them 3 times and it was always very fun.
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Cripes. Even I have a cd by this guy. He's not bad. Jingy is the track that got me (about a monkey... named Jingy...).
To be fair, it's not really about a monkey, the monkey is a metaphor.
~Paul
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To be fair, it's not really about a monkey, the monkey is a metaphor.
This reminds me of an incident when I was in fifth grade. My teacher was very into music as part of the classroom experience, and at one point we dabbled in music interpretation; the most notable case of this was the time he played a folk song for us about, apparently, a gorilla. At least, that was my conclusion, based primarily on the first line of the song, which was "Ug was a Lowland gorilla." However, I distinctly recall my classmates having all sorts of interpretations, particularly that he was a slave during the Civil War (!). Maybe they were right all along; maybe the gorilla was a metaphor... or maybe the phrase "the (gorilla/ape/monkey) is a metaphor" is just too good.
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You may have heard The Old Apartment, One Week, and/or If I Had $1,000,000.
I listened to some clips but I seem to be familiar with none of it. Also I realized I had them mixed up with the band that did the Kids in the Hall theme song. Really, I swear, it's not that all Canadian bands look alike... I'm not sure where I got this vague idea that I ought to like them, unless it is some relic of my brief period in Toronto.
Anyway, I wish I could find some whole songs online, but I'm afraid to Google their name.
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To be fair, it's not really about a monkey, the monkey is a metaphor.
~Paul
The monkey represents sharing.
I know, wrong comic.
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The monkey represents sharing.
I know, wrong comic.
And haven't you always wanted a monkey?*
*If you ever find If I Had $1,000,000 then this will be hilarious**. Otherwise just move along.
**By which I mean in you're head you'll go, "I get this reference" but you won't actually laugh or smile or anything.
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If you see Barenaked Ladies live, you will love them forever. They have too much fun on stage. For this reason I find Rock Spectacle, their live CD, to be the most approachable. I also liked Gordon and Stunt. I am making declarations.
Exclamation!
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If you see Barenaked Ladies live, you will love them forever. They have too much fun on stage.
This is true. I got to hear (Theme From) The Canadian Election one time and once at MCI they brought a security guard up on stage and got him to play guitar while they sang a song about him.
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Oh, also I was thinking that maybe I ought to like the Barenaked Ladies. Any thoughts?
If you are born in Canada you are issued a copy of "Gordon" with your health card. "Gordon" is their best album, and "Maybe You Should Drive" was also alright. I remember being at my first day in grade nine, which is the first year of high school here in Manitoba (and most Cndn provinces) and just hearing the track "This is me in Grade 9" running through my head all day. Also, "Alternative Girlfriend" has a warm place in my heart, because it basically described me in my late teens.
I don't really care for any of their new stuff. Maroon and Stunt, which was their cross-over to the American market hit, were received only half heartedly here in their home and native land. There was the common backlash that always happens with Canadian bands that succeed in the US, but really, I just thought it sucked. Also, they reshuffled the band at that point and changed from chubby lead singer Steven Page to skinnier Ed Robertson, which just seems like such an intentional Imaging thing. I like Page's vocals much better, so went Robertson moved from back up to lead vocals... meh.
Basically, when I think of BNL, I think that they're a band that was good 10 or more years ago that has become significantly watered down.
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And haven't you always wanted a monkey?*
*If you ever find If I Had $1,000,000 then this will be hilarious**. Otherwise just move along.
**By which I mean in you're head you'll go, "I get this reference" but you won't actually laugh or smile or anything.
Oh, Cort...
Have you ever heard a song from before Gordon, "You can be my Yoko Ono?" If so, listen to the Dar Williams song "I won't be your Yoko Ono."
Also, I've always loved their song "Brian Wilson" and especially tie it to my days living on my own and wandering the streets alone, ending up in "a late night rechord shop."
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If you are born in Canada you are issued a copy of "Gordon" with your health card.
Basically, when I think of BNL, I think that they're a band that was good 10 or more years ago that has become significantly watered down.
Dang, I did have a health card briefly, but I guess it doesn't come with the album unless you get it at birth.
The one really disturbing thing about this music research is looking at the information about recordings that I've never heard of and noticing that they were made ten years ago - like, I'm not just out of it, I have been out of it for years. Also, noticing that 1996 is ten years ago now, so that I am also really old.
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It's okay Wombat - you can get into an artist at any time. Do you think that someone is waaaay behind the times if they totally got into Beethovan this year, when it was soooo 1799? No. I don't know who you think is secretly watching and "tsk, tsk" judging you as some sort of anti-cool person, but look at all your tiny Dr. Peppers. I don't think folks who like new BNL are behind the curve - I just think that if you were to get into BNL it should be for their good quality stuff, not their new watered down stuff.
We love you and do not think you are a loser. You don't need to be ahead of any curve - listen for pleasure, and we will not mock you for liking what you like. Unless it's John Tesh.
As for the best of last year, I listened to Damien Rice's "O" compulsively.
Also, is anybody else digging Amos Lee? I really dig him too.
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I don't really care for any of their new stuff. Maroon and Stunt, which was their cross-over to the American market hit, were received only half heartedly here in their home and native land. There was the common backlash that always happens with Canadian bands that succeed in the US, but really, I just thought it sucked. Also, they reshuffled the band at that point and changed from chubby lead singer Steven Page to skinnier Ed Robertson, which just seems like such an intentional Imaging thing. I like Page's vocals much better, so went Robertson moved from back up to lead vocals... meh.
Basically, when I think of BNL, I think that they're a band that was good 10 or more years ago that has become significantly watered down.
I just don't dig on songs like Conventioneers or Hidden Sun. BNL is supposed to be funny. I don't need a whole album of "When I Fall." But to be fair the band was against Pinch Me as the 1st single from Maroon because is sounded too much like One Week. Which of course is exactly why the label chose it as the 1st single to begin with.
And now in my head I'm singing "it'll still be one week till we say wasabi"
And don't feel bad Wombat, there's some bands that I'm just finding out about that were apparently releasing stuff in the 70's.
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And don't feel bad Wombat, there's some bands that I'm just finding out about that were apparently releasing stuff in the 70's.
D00D you've got to check out the Bee Gees! RAWK!
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I don't know who you think is secretly watching and "tsk, tsk" judging you as some sort of anti-cool person
I fear a world full of record store clerks who you are afraid to ask about the album you are looking for because they will laugh at you... But see, that's just because I am old. You don't have to go to those stores anymore because you can buy things online.
But still, where have I been. The world is full of excellent things, and artists who need my money, and I have been neglecting them. I resolve to do better.
(And shh, don't mention the Dr Peppers, you might scare them away....)
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And then but so let me recommend Mia Doi Todd, whose voice is like "what if Heaven was made out of fudge?" Beautiful tunes in that neofolk tradition (but no armpit hair, she's more modern, there are, you know, little bits of innovation and studio trickery here and there). In the same vein, Lisa Germano. Well, if you're into female voices, then you can just go all the way and get some Julie Doiron as well, although her stuff is more raw.
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the common backlash that always happens with Canadian bands that succeed in the US
Is this happening to Broken Social Scene? Because that would be a shame.
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Is this happening to Broken Social Scene? Because that would be a shame.
or Arcade Fire!
...really, I think they're safe.... for now....
I listen to a lot of Canadian bands, but most are still underground enough to not worry.
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As for The Barenaked Ladies... I know of 'One Week' and 'Pinch' -- also, I once had a live version of them doing a Wham! cover 'Careless Whisper', but it's on the dying pc.. I think I just liked 'One Week' 'cause Sailor Moon was mentioned and well, I was in a huge Sailor Moon phase back then.. should I be ashamed of my former self? hah.
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And don't feel bad Wombat, there's some bands that I'm just finding out about that were apparently releasing stuff in the 70's.
I've just now gotten around to seriously listening to the Kinks. Thanks AllofMP3!
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Also, I've always loved their song "Bhran Wilson"
Funny thing, I heard this song for the first time New Years eve. Actually it was new years morning at about 4-5 ish, damn I partied all night long. Anyway I heard this song and it made me think I wish I was listening to Brian Wilson instead of this crap. But I really wasn't listening to it.
~Paul
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Second the Lisa Germano recommendation. Well, 'Geek the Girl,' anyway. Also, 'OP8', an album she recorded with Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Joey Burns and John Covertino (Calexico).
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Paul,
What the hell, when I look back at my original post, I didn't spell Brian wrong, but when you quote me it comes up "Bhran."
I must admit, I'd be interested in hearing the music of Bhran Wilson. I think him and Sandeep Smith made a record together in the late 60's didn't they?
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Is this happening to Broken Social Scene? Because that would be a shame.
Well, I guess it never happened to Neil Young.
Oh, and Womabt, I'm not sure if you are still wondering, but I googled for the name of the band that did the KITH theme song, because it was driving me crazy, and this it it: Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet.
I think I will watch the Terrier song from my shiny and new Season 3 DVD set now.
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Studies say they prolong old people's lives.
And no one wants to die,
Like this guy died.
Die! Die! Die! Die!
Worms in your... eye!
Also, hell yes the backlash happed to Neil Young. Way long ago. He once swore he'd never come back to perform Winnipeg after my fair Provence shunned him after he moved to the states, and it looked like he was going to finally let it go when he agreed to perform in Winnipeg at the Juno's (Canadian Music Awards) last year here, and then what happened? Two days before the Juno's he up and had his brain problems, and well, there were a lot of people who paid scary amounts of money and ended up seeing Avril Lavigne mumble through an acceptance speech instead of hearing Neil Young sing. You can imagine the sentiment.
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Paul,
What the hell, when I look back at my original post, I didn't spell Brian wrong, but when you quote me it comes up "Bhran."
I must admit, I'd be interested in hearing the music of Bhran Wilson. I think him and Sandeep Smith made a record together in the late 60's didn't they?
It's this new keyboard, it just jumps around and does weird stuff. I must have changed your original quote inadvertantly.
I don't know Sandeep Smith, but in the late 60's BW was mostly just sitting in his room bring crazy and planning his comeback in 2001.
~Paul
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but in the late 60's BW was mostly just sitting in his room bring crazy and planning his comeback in 2001.
~Paul
I love you, man.
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I think I will watch the Terrier song from my shiny and new Season 3 DVD set now.
That is such a good song.
Those Shadowy Men sound nothing like Barenaked Ladies, right? I don't know how I mixed them up. I am sorry, Canadia. But they are both really great band names.
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It's this new keyboard, it just jumps around and does weird stuff. I must have changed your original quote inadvertently.
I don't know Sandeep Smith, but in the late 60's BW was mostly just sitting in his room bring crazy and planning his comeback in 2001.
~Paul
Paul, I made up the name Sandeep Smith, because I thought it sounded like the sort of guy who would hang with someone named Bhran Wilson. That's what I did Paul. Everyone here just assumes there is some loop that they're out of, eh? I'm gonna start making up random band names that sound cool. Infact I used to do this in high school all the time. My best friend and I made up our own band called the Sugar Babes, and we had our own logo and stuff, only we didn't have any musical training. We took guitar lessons together and realized that things were going to be a lot more complicated than we expected.
Anyway, some cool made up band names off the top of my head:
Total Renal Failure / The Total Renal Failures / The Total Renal Fail Experience
Flange
The Big Titted Mamas
The Bacon Band / The Great Canadian Bacon Band
The Gag Reflex ( I kind of assume there already a band out there with this name, but I'm afraid to search it at work)
Feel Free to use these names, as long as you thank me in your liner notes.
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Just a note to say I'd totally go see "The Big Titted Mamas", even if they turned out to be a bunch of bloated, gross, and hirsuite men. Because if you can roll with that name, then it's gotta either be really good or absolutely awful.
Both of which have entertainment value.
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Thank you.
Indeed I would go see the "Big Titted Mamas" in concert too, hence why their name made the list.
There are other bands with names that are sort of close, like the Bare Naked Ladies, and also the Cherry Popping Daddies, but something about that name, it just pleases me. I would be in a band of that name. Even if I were the only girl.
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That is such a good song.
Those Shadowy Men sound nothing like Barenaked Ladies, right? I don't know how I mixed them up. I am sorry, Canadia. But they are both really great band names.
I think my favorite line is: Napoleon had one to prevent misery.
I don't think so. They are kind of surfy, I guess, at least from what I've heard from them on KITH. But, you know, only three songs by the Barenaked Ladies come to mind: One Week, (is it called) Pinch Me (?), and then I swear I heard them do a cover of Fight the Power, like, years ago. So I guess I'm not really an authority on what either band sounds like.
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Yes, some friends and I had a band in which we didn't play any instruments. Imagine, I dunno, Stomp with less talent.
It became a running gag to say we were "in a band" and then have to come up with something completely offensive or off-the-wall as a name on the spot in front of others.
I think my favorite as "Big Dumb Swedes" either that or "A General Sense of Dismay and Ambiguity".
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I think my favorite line is: Napoleon had one to prevent misery.
I don't think so. They are kind of surfy, I guess, at least from what I've heard from them on KITH. But, you know, only three songs by the Barenaked Ladies come to mind: One Week, (is it called) Pinch Me (?), and then I swear I heard them do a cover of Fight the Power, like, years ago. So I guess I'm not really an authority on what either band sounds like.
Miles, you've got it right, the Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet are very jangly-surf guitar-esqu and also, as far as I know, they have no vocal tracks. They had a really annoying hit on this side of the border around the same time as BNL were getting popular here too. But they are indeed, as wombat postulated, very different bands of the same period and country. Also, even though the music is different, because they are both sort of intrinsically goofy they sort of fall under the same category.
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because they are both sort of intrinsically goofy they sort of fall under the same category.
Ah, yes, that is an important category, that might explain it. Still, mixing up a band with no singing with another band... well let's just say it's good I straightened it out.
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Was there an all girl punk band called Dracula's Teabag? Or did I make that one up?
I also thought a cool name would be Spanky's Monkey or The MonkeySpanks
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I've made up three band names in my life, The Walking Assholes, Fatal Apple, and the one that actually played shows, Instigator.
I'd go to see Big Titty Mama, but only because you are in it Mel.
There was this ex girlfriend (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN4561-E-1024.jpg) who I used to call Big Titty Girly (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN7124-E2-1024.jpg) (which she liked btw), because, well, she had big titties, and her name was Charissa which was close enough to Chrissy (http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Zappa_In_New_York.html#Titties) for me.
Now she's dating some other dude (also) named Paul (http://www.paulmcrae.com/images/Miscellany/Misc/DSCN10164-E-1024.jpg). Weird.
~Paul
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my old band was called "Hell Yes, Noise!". this was right before we were aware that there were other bands who had !'s in their names, and that those bands were very bad. Before that, we were called "Dig This"
My personal favorite is probably the Butthole Surfer's one-time name: "the inalienable right to eat fred astaire's asshole"
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My band was called the Incoherents. The name was from an bit about rock music in Mad Magazine from way back, in which one of the bands they spoofed was so named.
I was briefly in a band called Spitshine. We were originally called Throwing Things Down the Stairs, which I liked much better, but we were overruled.
If I ever do anything like that again, it'll be called New Century Schoolbook. Daisy Hill Puppy Farm is also a great band name, but you'd probably get sued by Charles Schulz's people.
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My buddies from college and I used to make absolute LISTS of band names. I always said that if I had been born with any musical prowess whatsoever, I'd have formed a swing band and called it Caps Lock and the Shifters.
Local Traffic would've been my rock band's name.
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I just wish I could track down some of the music from The Shit. Especially the song Don't Bury Me. But they are a tough band to Google.
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Fuck is a cool band name. And, from what little I've heard, they make decent music.
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Caps Lock and the Shifters.
CAPS LOCK and the Shifters. Or, if you want to be ironic, caps lock AND THE SHIFTERS.
My made-up band name, circa 10th grade: Hooray with a Headcold.
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CAPS LOCK and the Shifters. Or, if you want to be ironic, caps lock AND THE SHIFTERS.
My made-up band name, circa 10th grade: Hooray with a Headcold.
Love it. Tiny can.
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I don't really have a band name, but if I ever become a Country & Western singer I'm changing my name to Faron Warmer.
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Except it played a Billy Joel song for me. Billy Joel, people. Billy. Joel.
OMG! It just did it to me too! (Pandora.com, that is.)
In an obvious attempt to placate me, the next selection was from a band named The Moles.
I think I did like a Billy Joel song once. Is it possible that they know my secret shame?
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One day I will form my alt-country band- The Uncanny Valley Family Singers.
"Free Beer" is a band that usually gets large crowds.
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One day I will form my alt-country band- The Uncanny Valley Family Singers.
"Free Beer" is a band that usually gets large crowds.
Tonight at The Pit: Everybody Gets Laid.
Also, I'm not ashamed to say that in the past I've sung along to Piano Man (http://www.brunching.com/davegrocery.html).
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OMG! It just did it to me too! (Pandora.com, that is.)
In an obvious attempt to placate me, the next selection was from a band named The Moles.
I think I did like a Billy Joel song once. Is it possible that they know my secret shame?
You know, it's not like he's absolutely lousy. Well, maybe he is. But yeah, I've enjoyed a song or two on occasion, and yes, it's probably that Pandora knows it.
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I think I did like a Billy Joel song once. Is it possible that they know my secret shame?
Was it "All For Leyna"? That's my Billy Joel secret shame.
Actually, no, that's not even a shame for me, because that song kicks much ass.
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Hey, there are far lower dirty musical secrets that Billy Joel.
Neil Diamond, anyone?
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Hey, there are far lower dirty musical secrets that Billy Joel.
Neil Diamond, anyone?
SWEEEET CAR-O-LIIIIINE, GOOD TIMES NEVER SEEMED SO GOOOOOD
... anyway, in terms of musical shame, I'm still vaguely ashamed of the fact that I'm (sort of) named after a Barry Manilow song. I mean, honestly, Manilow? Gaah.
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My dear, you get hella cans from me for having to courage to admit that.
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Hey, there are far lower dirty musical secrets that Billy Joel.
Neil Diamond, anyone?
Neil Diamond is a dirty secret? Fuck.
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Many years ago, there was a local band named Mister Resister and the Incapacitators.
I once determined that if I was ever in a real band* it should be called The Obscures, but that was in high school and I should probably update it. Just in case.
As a side note, I believe many MST3K Beefy-guy/Superhero names would work as band names:
Sledge Riprock
Clint Stompheader
Buff Drinklots
Captain Ron Codpiece
Bolt Vanderhuge
Hack Blowfist
Absorbine Sr.
The Buttercats
Mrs. Martian
Johnny Action Finger
And now I think I have to watch some episodes...
*I was in the high school band. I played trombone, which unless you are one of the two guys with the James Brown or Parliament Funkadelic gigs, is not at all cool.
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Also, I'm not ashamed to say that in the past I've sung along to Piano Man (http://www.brunching.com/davegrocery.html).
See, I know that somewhere I have guitar chords to some Billy Joel songs or others. That's a lot more of a committment than just singing along when Billy Joel alredy happens to be singing. Can I blame it on my high school guitar playing friend who never worried if anything was cool?
Also, speaking of Barry Manilow, my mother bought the sheet music to "Mandy" despite my protests and I had to sing it a few times on the off chance that there'd be an inhertance in my future. Unfortunately she has not won the lottery since then.
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"Free Beer" is a band that usually gets large crowds.
In the opposite vein, I swear I once heard of a band called "To be announced." But it must have been a joke, it's such a bad idea.
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The Buttercats
As a band name, it works, as a team of super heroes... what... what would be their special powers? Cause, well, I'm just curious.
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As a band name, it works, as a team of super heroes... what... what would be their special powers? Cause, well, I'm just curious.
Extreme slipperiness, I presume...
When I was in high school, my ideal band name was The Pragmatic Ghosts of Science, based on a Kibo joke about Archimedes Plutonium. (I was sort of a Usenet dork in those days, see...) I still think it'd work for a prog act.
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As a side note, I believe many MST3K Beefy-guy/Superhero names would work as band names:
Sledge Riprock
Clint Stompheader
Buff Drinklots
Captain Ron Codpiece
Bolt Vanderhuge
Hack Blowfist
Absorbine Sr.
The Buttercats
Mrs. Martian
Johnny Action Finger
Many of these would also work as porn star names. My SO has a knack for creating amusing porn star names, some of which include Fun Size, Hot Rod, and The Dollar Genital.
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Hack Blowfist - jeez that's awesome. Unfortunately, there has already been a singer whos given name trumps all others, be they band or superhero. Thurl friggin Ravenscroft!
When I think of a band name I like, usually I create an mp3 and begin touting it on message boards. This has lead to the formation of such reknowned groups as: Alternative Living Sandwhich, Bishonen Idolpop Genocaust, Ruthless Dukes, and Organism.
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Wresting this thread back to the topic of actual music...
I got home from work on Sunday realizing that I had a 30 percent off coupon to Borders that would expire when the store closed in about three hours, so I went out in a panic and bought the first Barenaked Ladies I could lay my hands on. Which was the greatest hits.
This is my my kind of thing. They rock, but not too hard and not too relentlessly. I don't like headbanging, but that Pandora.com sometimes seems to think that I like stuff that's awfully twee and folky. God knows I've committed some pretty dang twee and folky stuff in my life, but it's really not what I am looking for.
I am a bit cross though that the CD booklet doesn't have the lyrics in it. Yes, yes, I know, the internet...
Oh and Cort: I'd rather have a llama or an emu.
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Nothing to do with BNL, but... I've been listening to Joseph Arthur's Even Tho (http://www.josepharthur.com/audio_video/video_eventho_quicktime_hi.html) about four times a day. Think I need to pick up the album.
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Oh and speaking of Canadians again - what about Bruce Cockburn?
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Wresting this thread back to the topic of actual music...
I got home from work on Sunday realizing that I had a 30 percent off coupon to Borders that would expire when the store closed in about three hours, so I went out in a panic and bought the first Barenaked Ladies I could lay my hands on. Which was the greatest hits.
This is my my kind of thing. They rock, but not too hard and not too relentlessly. I don't like headbanging, but that Pandora.com sometimes seems to think that I like stuff that's awfully twee and folky. God knows I've committed some pretty dang twee and folky stuff in my life, but it's really not what I am looking for.
I am a bit cross though that the CD booklet doesn't have the lyrics in it. Yes, yes, I know, the internet...
Oh and Cort: I'd rather have a llama or an emu.
You sent me a Roches CD and also Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Paul Simon.... I think Pandora might have you dead to rights.
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This week's recommendation: Andrew Bird is a genius. He writes lyrics as one drinks water. I used to like Rufus Wainwright a lot, but haven't been following his work since... coupla years? Great voices, they have, and spectacularly structured songs..
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I think that those (Roches, etc.) are folky but not twee. All of them are not afraid to use instruments louder than acoustic guitars.
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so I went out in a panic and bought the first Barenaked Ladies I could lay my hands on. Which was the greatest hits.
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Oh and Cort: I'd rather have a llama or an emu.
I don't have their hits but I do appreciate that they the title fits in with the lyrics of their song Box Set.
Also, if you like that then definitely buy Rock Spectacle, their live album as it's probably their best release period.
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Neil Diamond is a dirty secret? Fuck.
Yeah, it's totally news to me that one should be ashamed of liking Neil Diamond.
Also he just put out a new album.
Also, Jough, if you're reading this, after you recommended the newest Fiona Apple in some other thread somewhere, I checked out a couple of the tunes, loved them, and then a buddy I worked with mentioned that he considered it the best album of 2005, so picked up the CD just today. I've listend to it 4 times already. It's great.
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What, you knock Billy Joel and you're proud of Neil fuck*ng Diamond? Puh-leeze.
Early Billy Joel is actually good. What the hell the Neil Diamond ever do that wasn't terminally hokey?
Although I did hear a single off his new album the other day and kind of liked it.
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Also, Jough, if you're reading this, after you recommended the newest Fiona Apple in some other thread somewhere, I checked out a couple of the tunes, loved them, and then a buddy I worked with mentioned that he considered it the best album of 2005, so picked up the CD just today. I've listend to it 4 times already. It's great.
You know I always read your posts, baby.
Yeah, I told you it was good and you didn't believe me. Then your "buddy" mentions it and you rush out and buy it. I know where I stand, I guess. Hurmph.
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What, you knock Billy Joel and you're proud of Neil fuck*ng Diamond? Puh-leeze.
Early Billy Joel is actually good. What the hell the Neil Diamond ever do that wasn't terminally hokey?
Although I did hear a single off his new album the other day and kind of liked it.
Waa? I didn't knock Billy Joel! I love Billy Joel! I can sing all of "For the Longest Time" accapella (sp?), and "She's Always A Woman to Me" and "She's Got A Way About Her" are what I consider to be two of the most lovely songs ever written about the appreciation of women folk.
Also, jough, you were a major turning point in my no-longer hating Fiona Apple, who before you mentioned her, she was (to me) "that flaky girl with the nice voice who was all high at that awards show." Also, my "buddy" was holding up the year end issue of Entertainment Weekly where they nominated it best album - my buddy also like "My Humps" by the BEP's so - his taste really doesn't have anything to do with it. Also, I had the Death Cab for Cutie CD I mentioned earlier in this thread my bag today all ready to return it for something else, and as it happened Extraordinary Machine was the exact same price as the CD I was returning. Also, Neil Diamond was playing in the music store as I walked in. So you see, it all comes back to TOUAMB, and therefore you.
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So you see, it all comes back to TOUAMB, and therefore you.
4 and 5 therefore 9
9 and 9 therefore 18
18 and 18 therefore 36
4 and 5 therefore 9
(I appologize for the earworm for anyone who knows the tune, I just had to get it out of MY HEAD)
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Early Billy Joel is actually good. What the hell the Neil Diamond ever do that wasn't terminally hokey?
I have to agree. When he was an angry young man, he wrote great songs. Then he married Christie Brinkley, and it all went downhill. I used to think that if he ever divorced her, he would write the greatest songs in the history of the world, but it didn't work out that way. I suppose that once you've nailed a supermodel, your life can't ever be all that bad.
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See, it's a little known fact to most men that supermodels have vacuous pu$$ys. If you fuck a supermodel all that is of value about you will be leeched out through your sperm. It's how supermodels stay beautiful. Their vacuum pu$$ys suck up everything that is good and beautiful from other people. The phenomenon explained in the Liz Phair song "Hot White Cum"
Lyrics for H.W.C. posted here because they are awesome:
Give it to me, don't give it away
Don't think about what the others say
My skins getting clear, my hairs so bright
All you do is fuck me every day and night
You're my secret beauty routine
Na, na, na, na, what my body has seen
I am lookin' good and I'm feeling nice
Baby you're the best magazine advice
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
I'm gonna pull you back down between the sheets
Everything is fresher when the day is sweet
In the morning light when you're already on the phone
Face it, one of these days
Without you I'm just another Dorian Gray
It's the fountain of youth
It's the meaning of life
So hot, so sweet, so WHET my appetite
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Face it, one of these days
Without you I'm just another Dorian Gray
It's the fountain of youth
It's the meaning of life
Baby you're the best magazine advice
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Gimme your hot white cum
Your hot white cum
(ha, ha - spell check doesn't recognize "pu$$ys" and wants to correct it to "pu$$y" - this board can't take multiple lady parts. This isn't a good sign!)
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I'll give Billy Joel all the respect as a songwriter ;he deserves, but did he write "My Love Ain't Free"?
No sir, he did not.
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Yesterday, I recognized some Liz Phair lyrics in a Neal Pollack post (http://www.nealpollack.com/cgi-bin/blog/do.cgi/200304290132/permalink). I think my honorary diamond-studded pu$$y is in the mail.
p.s. I really like..."H.W.C."
THE SONG!
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The mix CD I posted about a few weeks ago is finally complete. If you'd like an actual CD copy and are willing to send me a mix of your own, PM me as such. If you'd like to download it as mp3s (plus cover art and liner notes as Photoshop and MS Word docs), PM me to that effect and I'll give you the FTP login, and you don't have to send me jack shit if you don't want to. The 2004 mix is on the FTP site as well. (This is all assuming you're not some sort of big fuckin' idiot who I don't know or don't like, of course.)