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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 1, 2024 20:50:43 GMT
I disagree, I think it is cool. I really like the album but you gotta admit the wub wub dubstep stuff in does date it to quite a particular time. Mrs agreed it’s a great sounding pressing but hated the music 😂 The deluxe edition had an instrumental version bonus disc, but one of those "intsrumental" ones where there are still occasional vocals. 
I still put it on the headphones for the commute sometimes, drowns out the surrounding gorms quite nicely even at lower volumes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2024 21:25:15 GMT
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If you ever did want to get into it, that pressing of Siamese (which I also own) is rightly lauded as a great sounding LP.
I actually slightly prefer Melon Collie, but the one good pressing of it is a box set that is always out of print and up for mega bucks on the scalper’s market. The old pressing doesn’t have a good rep.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 1, 2024 21:32:31 GMT
@blue_Mike If you ever did want to get into it, that pressing of Siamese (which I also own) is rightly lauded as a great sounding LP. I actually slightly prefer Melon Collie, but the one good pressing of it is a box set that is always out of print and up for mega bucks on the scalper’s market. The old pressing doesn’t have a good rep. I have a FLAC copy of it knocking around on an external drive that I haven't tagged properly yet along with some of the other re-issued ones, and as much as it is one of my favourites, I don't feel an immediate need to sit through 20 different demo versions of "Mayonnaise" that are almost certainly all going to be just Billy noodling away at a guitar while telling James and Darcy to shut up and let him do it his way. Might get round to it eventually though. |
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Post by Ulythium on Feb 2, 2024 23:49:44 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 4, 2024 16:38:52 GMT
Orion by Modern Fuzz is 38 minutes of lyric-less audio bliss.
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Post by jono62 on Feb 5, 2024 13:57:21 GMT
Swing my way by KC and Envi. Love it
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Post by Ulythium on Feb 5, 2024 21:40:18 GMT
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Post by simple on Feb 6, 2024 14:45:30 GMT
Its astonishing the evolution from scrappy folk-punk adjacent indie-emo stuff with PS Eliot decade ago to how lush this is. Surely every boygenius fan also needs every Waxahatchee album. Hopefully this will be a big one for her.
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Post by Matt A on Feb 6, 2024 16:03:55 GMT
Thanks very much I haven’t heard of her. Boygenius last album just got on my radar because it scored so high on Metacritic.
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Post by Ulythium on Feb 7, 2024 18:18:20 GMT
Beth Gibbons - Floating on a Moment
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Post by cubby on Feb 7, 2024 22:18:15 GMT
I'm just waiting on the delivery of The Last Dinner Party's debut album. What have you made of the album so far zephro? I'd already heard about half the album through the single releases, but I was surprised how much I got into some of the new tracks on my first listen. The first track (after the intro) in particular. Really really interesting new band. |
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Post by zephro on Feb 7, 2024 22:39:04 GMT
I'm just waiting on the delivery of The Last Dinner Party's debut album. What have you made of the album so far zephro? I'd already heard about half the album through the single releases, but I was surprised how much I got into some of the new tracks on my first listen. The first track (after the intro) in particular. Really really interesting new band. The auto-complete address thing I used to pay for it missed out my flat number so it's in a limbo of return to sender and trying to get them to redeliver it.... So I've held out listening to the full thing. They were great live last year though so am upbeat. |
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Post by cubby on Feb 7, 2024 22:48:54 GMT
Ah shit that sucks |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 8, 2024 0:15:05 GMT
Saw these live last night and they were really good:
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Post by cubby on Feb 9, 2024 13:38:27 GMT
I sometimes go back to those small bands who I saw supporting another small band one time and it's crazy how there's such great music that literally only has a few thousand listens and then they get forgotten about and fizzle out
Case in point
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Post by simple on Feb 13, 2024 20:15:06 GMT
Its brief but its not bad. The riff is ok but Eddie’s voice makes it.
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Post by simple on Feb 14, 2024 8:55:59 GMT
What an incredible band they were. I really didn’t put enough time into this record when it came out last year.
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Post by Duffman5 on Feb 14, 2024 14:09:36 GMT
Neil Young: Harvest. Excellent album (a man needs a maid is stunning) and release the same year of my birth...the album has aged better 
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Post by Ulythium on Feb 14, 2024 15:38:30 GMT
Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears
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Post by drhickman1983 on Feb 15, 2024 8:17:27 GMT
Last night I had a dream that I was listening to a really cool, dark, Celtic neofolk album. Just had layers of textures, almost like Dead Can Dance but folkier vocals that reminded me of The Best Is Yet To Come from the Metal Gear Solid end credits. I was disappointed when I woke up and realised it wasn't real.
So had to try and find something that would scratch the same itch. This comes close. If anyone has any recommendations for some Celtic influenced apocalyptic folk let me know as it's something I'd like to hear.
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Post by Ulythium on Feb 15, 2024 16:50:31 GMT
Nervous Gender - Music from Hell
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Post by Ulythium on Feb 15, 2024 21:12:36 GMT
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health
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Post by skalpadda on Feb 16, 2024 19:23:09 GMT
Playing AC Valhalla and the music is mostly okay, but the songs and battle music made by Norwegian band Wardruna is rubbing me entirely the wrong way. I like some Nordic neo folk music, but this brand of "neopagan" stuff where people take inspiration from medieval music, translate some dumb lyrics about ravens and swords into Old Norse, dress up in leather and furs and pretend they're iron age shamans or something... is just silly. Like it's fine, but it's a bit embarrassing when they take it too seriously. So I spent some time listening to things I actually like and found out Garmarna released a new album 3 years ago. And wouldn't you know it, the first track is a modern take on an actual old folk legend with trolls and terrible murder but without the cringe. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2024 19:34:22 GMT
youtu.be/QZyVazpVWoI?si=Zo7MOJ9biavatvaoI haven’t listened to this yet, but have bought the album and will have a spin when I get an hour. Have always admired his solo stuff. In my view, the most underrated guitarist in metal. There’s also an orchestral version of the whole album without the metal.
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Post by simple on Feb 16, 2024 20:29:25 GMT
What a lovely time this album is
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Post by mikeck on Feb 16, 2024 21:23:22 GMT
Loving the new Idles album Tangk, another slight departure for them following the previous album (which was fucking sublime), can tell they've got a new producer (Nigel Goodrich who did most of Radiohead's albums) as they've definitely added layers.to.their standard sound.
Roy is a banging track, need to spend more time with the others as they've very good, but not as immediate.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Feb 16, 2024 22:22:33 GMT
Thought I'd check this band out as they're one of the support acts when I see Chat Pile later this year. Like this a lot, two man alt-rock / doom / stoner scuzzyness.
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Post by zisssou on Feb 20, 2024 13:19:23 GMT
I've been listening to Zwan - Mary Star Of The Sea after x amount of years. It always surprised me how this got so panned by critics and fans. I wouldn't say it sits alongside Siamese Dream, but there's a few tracks that make me think.. that's a b-side.
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Post by Ulythium on Feb 20, 2024 16:05:33 GMT
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