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the music thread

SuperRad

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Titus Andronicus's The Monitor is the best album of 2010 so far. It's largely a concept album about the civil war, with music thats somehow equal parts Bruce Springsteen, alt-country and punk-rock. Some reviews I've read have critized the overuse of spoken word intros (including readings of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman and Jefferson Davis) and Titus Andronicus's frontman's vocals, but I think it's a great album that only seems to get better everytime I listen to it.

Here's the first track "A More Perfect Union":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YCLBL4LEkc
 
Jun.

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sigh

btw SuperRad I listened to The Monitor. Don't really understand how to listen to it I guess but I appreciate the raw sound if anything. Hard to find stuff like that these days. Listening again now
 
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junkimchi said:
sigh

btw SuperRad I listened to The Monitor. Don't really understand how to listen to it I guess but I appreciate the raw sound if anything. Hard to find stuff like that these days. Listening again now
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You have to be interested in the 'storytelling' aspect of songs. At its heart, it is a concept album that I think requires some 'effort' to get into. I listened to it once and I was like "this is a pretty cool sound, but I dunno about the album as a whole." The next time I listened to it I had the lyrics open while listening and I paid more attention to the words, which gave me that next level of understanding of the songwriting. After a few more listens/lyrics checks, I got hooked on it.

I dunno, it's clearly not for everyone.
 
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Red Hot Chili Peppers has been my favorite band for a long time now, but I've been reading Anthony Kiedis' (lead singer of RHCP) book Scar Tissue, and it has just blown my mind. He has one of the most interesting lives imaginable, and it gives a whole new look into their band that I never saw before. It's a long read, but his life is just crazy. His dad was a drug dealer and had no boundaries, so he was doing like cocaine, heroin, acid and more by like age 12. It's a miracle he's alive lol. I'd definitely check it out if you're a fan of the band.
 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbD5ke7xqww&playnext_from=TL&videos=t0TEusiyUl0

so how about it
personally i think pogo is kind of treading water
it's still good, but it seems like he uses a lot of different movies to make the same song

a more specific criticism is i liked it better when the sound clips he used were full words, instead of random vowels and pieces of a word like now

compare alohamora to scrumdiddlyumptious
i think it makes the sample even a little more indeterminate when it's a full word. it's like "oh, this is just gibberish" vs "i'm trying to figure out how 'second place' fits into the music right now, when it doesn't." even though it doesn't make sense in both cases, there's a whole bunch of meanings you're trying to figure out when it's a full word or phrase. when it's a single syllable or soundbite, you just disregard that, and i think it makes his music a little cornier =\

call me a cynic
but ever since i found pogo i've been incrementally more disappointed with his newer releases
 
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I honestly think that is one of his more interesting sounding remixes, although I will agree some of his songs sound similar I wouldn't use that one as an example
 
rudeezy

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hey guys

someone help me get into frank zappa
i like some of the songs i heard, but whats:

A. his most accessable CD
B. in your opinion, his BEST CD

thanks hombres
 
HyugaRicdeau

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Accessible: I'm gonna say...Sheik Yerbouti
My personal favorite: Jazz From Hell
I remember Fly saying that Hot Rats is his favorite, I haven't heard it so I can't speak for it.
 
SuperRad

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i dont listen to much zappa, but i got into him by listening to a greatest hits CD and just going from there. with that large of a catalog, it's not a bad idea. you can find the tracks you like and then download the albums they were originally on.

i think other than a greatest hits cd i only have sheik yerbuti and jazz from hell

oh sheridan beat me
 
Fly_Amanita

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Freak Out! is pretty accessible, although it's also pretty different from most of the later Zappa/Mothers of Invention albums.

And yeah, Hot Rats is my favorite Zappa album.
 
rudeezy

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i saw the Big Four concert in theaters

slayer sucked
anthrax was weird but catchy
and the other 2 were great
+all four bands doing a cover of Am I Evil by diamond head was amazing

overall 8/10
 
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