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

[ellaguru]

I'm listening to that Necks Good and Red mix that was posted in the Country Music thread.  This is nice as my work day winds down.

Ah, excellent! Glad you like it.

[coldforge]

Well I started playing Metallica properly a few days ago and thought they were awesome until I noticed that the whole fucking album of Master of Puppets is in E minor. Individual songs are great but I can't handle one-key albums. It's not even a fucking gimmick like with the Raveonettes.

So doesn't that mean it's actually in the key of G, since E is the relative minor of G?

Er...I don't understand why it would be in the relative major when I said it was in E minor. All those songs are minor.

I'm just trying to understand.

Jeb, relative majors and minors are not the same thing by any stretch; they just consist of the same notes. That makes them very convenient to modulate between, but they are very different keys because their tonics are different: G and E, in this case. It's the same way a Mixolydian, Phrygian, Anatolian, are all different modes of the same scale.

[davy]

Put in weezers blue album for shits.  Ahh nostalgia

nostalgic, yes. but it's also fuckin RAWK.

[jebreject]

HHiG - Fifteen Counts of Arson. Specifically "Good Samaritan" at the moment.

[jebreject]

Jeb, relative majors and minors are not the same thing by any stretch; they just consist of the same notes. That makes them very convenient to modulate between, but they are very different keys because their tonics are different: G and E, in this case. It's the same way a Mixolydian, Phrygian, Anatolian, are all different modes of the same scale.

Okay, I follow all the way till you start talking about Mixolydian, etc. whatever. Thanks! There is much music theory about which I do not understand

[FreddyKnuckles]

Put in weezers blue album for shits.  Ahh nostalgia

nostalgic, yes. but it's also fuckin RAWK.

Oh yeah, but definitely an album that makes me 16 again.

[citrus]

Put in weezers blue album for shits.  Ahh nostalgia

nostalgic, yes. but it's also fuckin RAWK.

Oh yeah, but definitely an album that makes me 16 again.

One of the first things I did when we got the internet was look up the lyrics to the Blue Album.

Guess what I received in the mail today? Words of deep concern from my little brother.

[davy]

i did the same thing with pavement lyrics. kept 'em in a notebook.

i actually went old school with the blue album and mailed in a request for a lyric sheet to the address provided. it arrived in a timely fashion!

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Brainbombs - It's A Burning Hell

I like the Fall but have always felt like there's something missing. The Brianbombs are pretty much what I want the Fall to be. This may be the perfect song. Straight up filthy riff played over and over for five minutes. Nasty vocals that aren't quite singing. Although Brainbombs lyrics are in places nasty enough to have GG Allin calling Tipper Gore to complain, the recordings pretty raw so you don't notice them mostly.

This song is perfect for my hangover.

[WhereTheSlimeLive]

[Good Intentions]

Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times

My favourite of theirs. Frosty grimness - yum!

[davy]

old 97s just tore it up on jay leno. i was impressed. new album in a couple weeks...

[peacocks]

60's soul.  lots of it. right now the four tops "I'll be there" 

[difficult]

What with all the records here, I've been doing both back and new paging - nothing but vinyl, remembering how much more profoundly satisfying it is to play records than anything else.

Right now, just been working through the 3 records (out of the 4 really excellent ones they did) by early 90s London band Moonshake - Eva Luna, Secondhand Clothes EP and Beautiful Pigeon EP. I don't have Big Good Angel unfortunately. They're on Too Pure - one of the first bands on the label, and play a striking combination of post-punk with high dynamics and very dub-influenced rhythms, and one soft female voice and one harsh nasal male one. Often angry, messy stuff, and one of the only bands I can think of that at their peak seemed to be getting the lessons of Metal Box.
They were kinda well-regarded at the time, but I seem to have real difficulty finding people who know or like them now.

[difficult]

Followed by the mighty Comus' First Utterance. Very happy sitting at staring at the amazing gatefold cover, even if it is the reissue.
Drip Drip...

Shall I cut you down?
This will be your last physical communion
I'll be gentle i'll be gentle i'll be gentle.....

[Good Intentions]

John Cale, Fear

"Ship of Fools," specifically

Also "Barracuda"

Pretty much the whole record for about a week now

GUN!

YES

OH FUCK YES

Let's see how many times I can listen to 'Gun' in a row before it becomes anything less than 'oh my god, play it again!'.

This could take a while.

[difficult]

now its late, so Im playing the first Songs:Ohia album, which is also real nice. And a fair way from where he is now, though distinctively still the same guy. The characteristic starkness of so much of the Songs: Ohia stuff is one thing that's lacking in the MEC albums.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Right now, just been working through the 3 records (out of the 4 really excellent ones they did) by early 90s London band Moonshake - Eva Luna, Secondhand Clothes EP and Beautiful Pigeon EP. I don't have Big Good Angel unfortunately. They're on Too Pure - one of the first bands on the label, and play a striking combination of post-punk with high dynamics and very dub-influenced rhythms, and one soft female voice and one harsh nasal male one. Often angry, messy stuff, and one of the only bands I can think of that at their peak seemed to be getting the lessons of Metal Box.
They were kinda well-regarded at the time, but I seem to have real difficulty finding people who know or like them now.

when they split, and the female singer started a band called i think laika, the male singer continued on as moonshake and made at least one really weird album that may have done a lot to turn people off of them. i agree with you that the early stuff is great, but the stuff from after the female singer left is not my cup of tea. and really i just haven't listened to or thought about moonshake in years.

do you like th' faith healers, difficult?

[difficult]

Yeah, neither Laika nor Moonshake really did the trick for me either - 2 albums each I followed for, some interest, but none of the original power or weirdness.

I had the first couple Th' Faith Healers albums, they were good at the time, but I havent thought about THEM for years! I liked the early Pram a lot at the time, but haven't kept up.
Too Pure was a pretty sharp label then, I think. Without even mentioning the "stars"

I figured you'd know Moonshake if anyone here, Andrew!

[Andrew_TSKS]

haha yes sir, i was into some too pure bands in my late high school/early college days.

i found a copy of th faith healers lp "lido" for 25 cents a few years ago, and it blew me away. even better than i remembered it. their cover of can's "mother sky" is incredible.

[narlus]

Heldon - [1975] Heldon II Allez Teia

[Good Intentions]

The Libertines - Up the Bracket

I'm very late to this party, of course, but this is some really good stuff. Nice energetic pop music, easy to enjoy with a lot to appreciate.

[Good Intentions]

And now the next one:

The Libertines - The Libertines

Hey, guess what, 'What Katie Did' is a total Pulp rip-off, and all the better for it. Yeah!

[Bubbachups]

New Fred Eaglesmith. Nice gospel influenced record, definitely has a couple of good songs. Try it here too:
Fred Eaglesmith - Tinderbox

[davy]

i need to quit forgetting how awesome king crimson is. seriously.