What's that? Music's too loud. NP

[DanielBurns11]

This is seriously awesome.

[Bubbachups]

I'm on record as saying that Avatar by the Australian band Season is the best post-rock album ever. I'll stick by that statement, but I think second-best honors have got to go to another defunct band called the Rock of Travolta. In 2003 they released an album called Uluru, and it's ridiculously good. They're heavier than most post-rock bands, and there are even hints of levity in some of their songs. There are no long, boring passages where nothing happens, yet they still maintain a remarkable intensity and dynamism. Entire songs seem to consist of those great moments that other post-rock albums spend 10 minutes building up to. Just incredible stuff. If you don't believe me listen to a few tracks of theirs.


Rock of Travolta - Uluru - 05 - Clique Rock
Rock of Travolta - Uluru - 07 - Sleep with the Lights On
Rock of Travolta - My Band's Better than Yours EP - 02 - Giant Robo

Will try these when I'm on a proper pc again. Thanks.

[Great Scott]

The Real Kids - Better Be Good
"Underappriciated in their time" is a term that gets thrown around a fair bit in this day and age of crate digging and reissues. After VU I can think of few bands more deserving of the term than The Real Kids. I finally have a reissue vinyl copy which makes me very happy.
For those unfamiliar with them, the Real Kids were a late 70's Boston power pop, kinda punky rock band led by John Felice who was in the Modern Lovers before they recorded. Download All Kindsa Girls for evidence of brilliance. Or get the Norton records reissue.

I'm not sure if I quite share your level of enthusiasm, but "All Kindsa Girls" is a great tune. I'll have to break out the album and give it a proper listen for the first time in a while.

[jebreject]

Teenage Strangler. This is so, so good.

[davy]

5ive style...

these dudes had something. sounds just like heroic doses, really, but better, mainly because john herndon is drumming. dude is a stone-cold bad ass.

does anyone have this album (the first, self-titled one)? it's out of print and i'm dying for a download of it. sub-pop wants $10 for it.

[Babar]

just finished Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, now it's

[Bubbachups]

No Age - Nouns

Listening to it on their MySpace profile. Don't really know anything about them but as they are playing a set right before a show that I'll be attending in a couple of weeks time (same venue but different stage) I was thinking about seeing these guys too. Never heard any of their music and wasn't planning to until the show but I just read a raving review at Pitchfork today about their latest album which made me curious. Not really sure yet what to think of it though, but I'm definitely not hearing a 9.2. Sounds pretty thin to me so far.

[El_Josharino]

It's been way too long since I've listened to Small Brown Bike.

[DanielBurns11]

It's been way too long since I've listened to Small Brown Bike.

I just don't get it! Everyone I've ever heard talk about that band only has great things to say. This is clearly a band I'm supposed to like. I like Jawbreaker and almost everything in the No Idea records catalog, but I just cannot like this band, no matter how hard I try.

Maybe I need to listen to something other than The River Bed, which is the only album I own by them.

Not to rain on your parade or anything...

NP: Morbid Angel - Domination

[Maaik]

I downloaded that new NEW free NIN album, the Slip.  It's aight so far.  Noisy.  Noisy is good.

[Maaik]

"Discipline" sounds like "The Hand that Feeds" pt.II

[davy]

i'm still listening to "give me just a little more time" by chairman of the board. they've got an original pressing of this record on vinyl at wuxtry downtown, still in the plastic, but it's $15. i was hoping to find it on the cheap, but it was never released on CD, so i just might have to get it anyway. this song is incredible, and the album also has the original "patches." clarence carter's version is one of my favorite oldies.

[El_Josharino]

It's been way too long since I've listened to Small Brown Bike.

I just don't get it! Everyone I've ever heard talk about that band only has great things to say. This is clearly a band I'm supposed to like. I like Jawbreaker and almost everything in the No Idea records catalog, but I just cannot like this band, no matter how hard I try.

Maybe I need to listen to something other than The River Bed, which is the only album I own by them.

Not to rain on your parade or anything...

NP: Morbid Angel - Domination

That's cool! I mostly got into them because basically the first friends I ever had with whom I could bond over music were really into them, so they've got a lot of nostalgic value in that sense. I'm not a super die hard or anything, but I enjoy them well enough, and it sorta takes me back, y'know? I'm about to put on Sorry About Dresden for the same reason.

[G.C.R]

I'm sure there was a guilty pleasures thread, and I started searching for it, but halfway through I realised fuck it I dont feel guilty at all. "Church" by T-Pain is a fucking AWESOME song.

[alistarr*]

I'm on record as saying that Avatar by the Australian band Season is the best post-rock album ever. I'll stick by that statement, but I think second-best honors have got to go to another defunct band called the Rock of Travolta. In 2003 they released an album called Uluru, and it's ridiculously good. They're heavier than most post-rock bands, and there are even hints of levity in some of their songs. There are no long, boring passages where nothing happens, yet they still maintain a remarkable intensity and dynamism. Entire songs seem to consist of those great moments that other post-rock albums spend 10 minutes building up to. Just incredible stuff. If you don't believe me listen to a few tracks of theirs.


Rock of Travolta - Uluru - 05 - Clique Rock
Rock of Travolta - Uluru - 07 - Sleep with the Lights On
Rock of Travolta - My Band's Better than Yours EP - 02 - Giant Robo

Will try these when I'm on a proper pc again. Thanks.

hey, i saw those guys at radiohead's south park festival type thingy in oxford whatever year that was. i think it was them anyway. if it was, they had a hilarious recorded voiceover thing running between songs in a voice similar to that used on "fitter happier", and it started out saying "fitter happier" type stuff but by about halfway through the set it was just saying "purchase our album from the merchandise tent" over and over again, for like a minute or so inbetween each song. i think they played a pretty good show, actually.

if it wasn't them, then there's another band out there with a similar name playing a similar kind of music who are also pretty good, and who played south park oxford with radiohead, and had this hilarious voiceover th....

[Maaik]

Checking out this new Elvis Costello album and I'm liking it enough to maybe go out and pick up the vinyl when I got the means.

[davy]

so far this morning: journey's greatest hits and siamese dream.

[Nick Ink]

On a Miasmah trip recently : Deaf Center, Svarte Greiner, Anton rafael Irisarri, Jacaszek, Gultskra Artikler, Elegi - the intriguing thing about this label, to borrow John Peel's phrase for the Fall is how it's always different, always the same. Such a consistent and groundbreaking catalogue of albums.

[RavingLunatic]

Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Graves

I'm not actually listening to this, but I don't know where else to post about it. Doesn't seem like it belongs int he random thread. I can't remember if I've talked about this dude before here. He's freakin' awesome. This is the best album I've heard this year. I don't even like Dylan and this guy's voice sounds exactly like his, and I still love love love it. Awesome fingerpicking folk songs, intriguing lyrics, and emotive vocals, it's just all-around fantastic. Oh, and Pitchfork just gave them their stamp of approval today, which is great, 'cause the dude will actually get a North American record deal and I will be able to buy the album (and he will sell the records he deserves to sell). I'll YSI songs tomorrow, but I've got to get to bed immediately.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

CPC Gangbangs - Half My Size
I got me some new earphones in the mail today. I'm pretty fucking happy with them. So are my flatmates.

[Babar]

i'm making my dad so proud now. he's a zappaniac.

[ellaguru]

Good call. I picked up Over-Nite Sensation, Joe's Garage and One Size Fits All on vinyl recently, and they've been in reasonably heavy rotation the last month or so. Zappa was awesome, even if his lyrics are often pretty irritating.

[ellaguru]

Also, NP Nick Lowe - Nick the Knife. The guy's a pop master. A master of pop.

[Babar]

definitely awesome. i've been into his non-lyrical jazzy albums lately, like hot rats and grand wazoo, waka/jawaka . i don't get irritated by his lyrics, i don't find them particularly funny either, sometimes their a bit witty, mostly their amusingly absurd.

[Andrew_TSKS]

i really wish i remembered where i read an essay not too long ago about frank zappa and what a pretentious asshole he was, so i could link it here. it made me really happy because it put into words everything i hate about the guy that i've never quite been able to express. unfortunately, i don't have any idea how to locate it again. googling frank zappa and pretentious only gets about a million hits...

EDIT: by the way, none of this is to shit on people who like the guy. i'm just bummed because i can't express why he bothers me, and i feel like if i could find that essay, i would be able to. ohhh well.