J_Taffe:The Dear Hunter - Act II...... - The ONLY reason I list this is because for like 2 weeks I thought it was really stinkin cool, but then I decided I think its just as pretentious, unrock n roll, and high school drama class as all the other kids these days seem to be when it comes to their bands....I decided to shelf it and claim "old man" like I do with Coheed and Cambria.
I'd forgotten about this one. I got a copy at work... maybe I just need to listen to it some more and cultivate some cynicism, but I was caught off-guard by how good this was. Pretentious? Yeah. Stinkin' cool? Well... yeah. I think, anyway.
Immitation is the best form of flatery.
I know that both Toothy and Grocky are big fans of it, AMA, and that's 2 of my better friends.....and I was pretty into it for a while, but I stopped dialing it up on the 'ol mp3 player, just completely stopped. When I thought about why, that was the conclusion I came to (what I typed).
I can't stand how compressed and "un-live" the production is either....another thing that speaks to the old man vs. new generation thing.
Why don't you bring it to the space tonight and I'll settle this argument?
heathensheetmetalstomp: Well.... Nas - Illmatic J Dilla - Donuts Cursed - I Dr Dre - The Chronic
Well....
Nas - Illmatic
J Dilla - Donuts
Cursed - I
Dr Dre - The Chronic
God. You and your thug music......
Nick: Oceansize-Frames Kanye West-Graduation Brother Ali-The Undisputed Truth Self-Evident-s/t All The Way Rider-Lahuna
Oceansize-Frames
Kanye West-Graduation
Brother Ali-The Undisputed Truth
Self-Evident-s/t
All The Way Rider-Lahuna
Nick and I validate each other.
That's all we talked about on Friday at the Entry; how awesome our music tastes are.
Tuffline: Nick and I validate each other.
Whatever you guys do on your own time is YOUR business. Just make sure Sam doesn't find out.
Folkerts: Tuffline: Nick and I validate each other. Whatever you guys do on your own time is YOUR business. Just make sure Sam doesn't find out.
I believe she was there watching.
Not sure, I wasn't introduced. Nicholas isn't much of a gentlemen in that sense, among others.
Tuffline: Nick and I validate each other. That's all we talked about on Friday at the Entry; how awesome our music tastes are.
Are you kidding? That's pretty much all Nick ever talks about. Well, that and snot-nosed suburban punks...
Tuffline: Folkerts: Tuffline: Nick and I validate each other. Whatever you guys do on your own time is YOUR business. Just make sure Sam doesn't find out. I believe she was there watching. Not sure, I wasn't introduced. Nicholas isn't much of a gentlemen in that sense, among others.
That's hot.
In the new issue of The Onion, Kwang's 'For What It's Worth' is listed in the Top 25 Local Albums of 2007 section under 'Honorable Mentions'!
Hello fame and fortune!
If only the album had an anti-war and politically concious slant to it, it would have been in the top 25. DAMN IT.
Born of black wind, fire, and steel
Sawbones
Kwang
Me
So... "Rock and Roll! Baseball! Big Tornadoes!" ISN'T about our policy of non-involvement in Darfur?
Consider this mind blown.
The confusing thing for me is if the whole list including the honorable mentions is satire or not.
Tuffline: heathensheetmetalstomp: Well.... Nas - Illmatic J Dilla - Donuts Cursed - I Dr Dre - The Chronic God. You and your thug music......
Hey.... Cursed isn't thug music Tuffy....
It's Canadian stoner/metal/hardcore and they rip.
But yeah, I like me some gangstas....
Evile - Enter the Grave
Dekapitator - The Storm Before the Calm
Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost
3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up The Blades
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
Kronos - The Helenic Terror
Helloween - Gambling With the Devil
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Impaled - The Last Gasp
Naglfar - Harvest
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
The Absence - Riders of the Plague
Manowar - Gods of War
among others... because I know I forgot to list Iced Earth, Nile, Mucopus and a few others...
I don't even know what I bought that came out this year. Explosions In The Sky, maybe? Which was okay but not mind-blowing. I just got the PJ Harvey Peel Sessions, which are phenomenal (Folkerts, I think you would like this as a good exposition on her early career, but with better production). My wife spent way too much getting me Desert Sessions I & II. Got the last Evens record, which is really good. Got the Jeremy Enigk record from before the new one. Hell. Everything I bought this year was old.
However, before the year is out, I will get Jesu - Conqueror, plus the 3 EPs a whole nother compilation that they released (and they toured)! Damn busy year for Justin Broadrick. Silver is awesome, and the review in the Onion said Conqueror tops Silver.
[EDIT] Oooh, I got one! Pelican, "City Of Echoes." Awesome shit.
Also, Justin, I know you're mostly joking, but when you look at what is on the list, it's not like it's the Dead Kennedys or RATM or some shit like that.
reddish-yellow void
Becoming the Archetype - The Physics of Fire
Beneath the Massacre - Mechanics of Dysfunction
My Bitter End - The Renovation
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Deadlock - Wolves
Devin Townsend Presents - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Abigail Williams - EP
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Fear My Thoughts - Vulcanus
Bands with good songs/releases, but maybe not album of 07 (in my opinion)...White Chapel, A Day to Remember, Divine Heresy, Dark Tranquility, Chimaira, Sonic Syndicate, Sanctity, DevilDriver, Daath, August Burns Red, Anterior, Sons of Azrael, Masterplan, Manowar, Born of Osirus, Epica, Horse the Band, 3 Inches of Blood, Swallow the Sun
off the top of my head, i'm sure i missed some good stuff though...
I think I only bought 2 records this year that were released this year.
Prong/Power of the Damager (not very good)
and
Britney Spears/Blackout (not listening to this if I can help it)
I kind of don't really like music very much anymore - everything sounds the same to me now.
I am the thread killer.
My pick of album of the year goes to:Ague De Annique (Ex Gathering singer) - Air
Honorable Mentions for Album of the Year: