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What MUSIC are you listening to? ARCHIVE
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Shouldn't you be off listening to a Scofflaws or Toasters album?
Hah! Try Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish and Streetlight Manifesto! BOOYA!
Geez, your third wave examples are STILL older than what I listen to... Though I do like the Toasters and the Specials, who just apparently got back together (again).
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I saw the Breeders once at Tower Records, right before "Pod" came out. That was a cool show.
Ooh sweet. I got to see them first when Kim's sister joined up. She was still learning the songs, Kim would have to coach her onstage. That makes it sound bad but it wasn't, it was pure awesome.
Hex, you should listen to some current black metal...
I think I should too. I will definately check some out.
His name is Famine, and the best picture of him he's wielding a crossbow. He claims that he is a nationalist (but definitely not a Nazi) and his nations are medieval France and Hell.
I do not have words to express how amusing that is.
George Harrison Brainwashed - His last, and IMO best, album.
Dog Fashion Disco Committed to a Bright Future - Wierd jazz/showtune/metal/techno/funk concoction with songs about porn and John Wayne Gacy. Interesting, twisted, and fun.
Victor Wooten Soul Circus - Can a man be one of the funkiest people on the planet, and also a huge douchebag at the same time? Yes.
Primus The Brown Album - When they reign in their atonal bullshit a little, they're pretty enjoyable.
The Monks Black Monk Time - Wow, pretty good 60s punk. I wonder why you don't hear that much about them.
STEVE MARTIN: "OK, I don't like to gear my material to the audience, but I'd like to make an exception, because I was told that there is a convention of plumbers in town this week—I understand about 30 of them came down to the show tonight—so before I came out, I worked up a joke especially for the plumbers. Those of you who aren't plumbers probably won't get this and won't think it's funny, but I think those of you who are plumbers will really enjoy this. This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job, and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch gangly wrench. Just then this little apprentice leaned over and said, 'You can't work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch wrench.' Well, this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, 'The Langstrom seven-inch wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket.' Just then the little apprentice leaned over and says, 'It says sprocket, not socket!' [Worried pause.] "Were these plumbers supposed to be here this show?"
Even a cursory glance through the icons of funk show that the two are strongly correlated.Victor Wooten Soul Circus - Can a man be one of the funkiest people on the planet, and also a huge douchebag at the same time? Yes.
People keep telling me I'm an asshole, maybe I have a funky side I don't know about?
(but yeah, Victor Wooten is un-fucking-believable on a bass. Saw the Flecktones a few times in the 90s. Smokin' act.)
I've been listening to a lot of wefunkradio.com shows, and supplementing it with extra doses of 80s-90s hip-hop.
I definitely respect Merkles for calling "WTF?" on a bunch of the super-obscure black metal, and throwing down the Texas alt-country gauntlet. Before this funk period, I was listening to a lot of Robbie Fulks and such. There's a lot of great music that gets written off as redneck crap, or Nashville twangpop. However, a lot of it is redneck crap, or Nashville twangpop. Digging deep is a great reward, though.
On Mastodon- I've seen them a billion times since they're Atlanta-based. I have to say that I'm not really that crazy about their last two records like everybody else is. I love the first EP and the first album, and I think they've actually gotten too good for their own good. There's a rawness and a level of sheer power that's gone missing, replaced by technical prowess and complexity. They don't sound hungry anymore.
I think the first time I saw them was when they opened for Eyehategod. That was a great show. About 30 people were there. Now, Mastodon opens for Metallica and Slayer.
I've also seen those guys in their earlier bands...Today is the Day, Acid Bath, Four Hour Fogger...and I've had Brann check my bag at this store called Junkman's Daughter, where he was still working a couple of years ago.
I could see how you would think that. Personally I think almost the opposite. Their earlier records sound unfocused and a little sloppy, but show promise... not expertise. I think they have perfected their approach, learned to sing, and learned that not every song needs to be 240 bpm.
They may not sound as hungry but they certainly sound much, much more ambitious and too many bands are afraid to sound that way these days. The complexity is still just as emotional... no one practices that much because they don't feel it... they just want to have a larger vocabulary... so should every musician. No one wants to be limited in what they can say. They also sound more well-rounded these days, as if they understand that not every song should be as brutal as the last. Leviathan is when I first noticed them. A heavy metal album based on Moby Dick.. cool idea. What's interesting is that each album sounds like an almost different band then the last, that's something I really appreciate.
As far as opening for Metallica and Slayer is concerned. Good for them, I'm glad there is at least one modern music act that I can point to and say these guys are good (better then either band ever was in their day I think).
It's pretty cool that you saw them back then, but I think they're better now then they ever were.
It certainly sounds like a case of "they've gotten to popular for me to like them now, they're no longer my local band."
Well, they earned it, and in my opinion they're delivering a better product thanks to the time and energy they put in thus far.
Victor Wooten Soul Circus - Can a man be one of the funkiest people on the planet, and also a huge douchebag at the same time? Yes.
Primus The Brown Album - When they reign in their atonal bullshit a little, they're pretty enjoyable.
Wooten is the epitome of awesome talent with no taste... It's really too bad because I love is bass style.
Good thing you mentioned Primus too because Les Claypool is almost as good technically but has much better taste. I've been listening to Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains recently and it's a pretty smokin' disc.
I went to see Andrew Bird last month. Great concert. I was impressed by how fantastic a musician he is. With that soft indie stuff D.M. Stith's Heavy Ghost is amazing. A lot of it is so whimisical it is barely even music.
Funny someone mentions the Breeders. I have been listening to them and early Sleater-Kinney and early PJ Harvey recently. I am on a bit of an early nineties trip at the moment. I rediscovered Tindersticks first album.
Wooten is the epitome of awesome talent with no taste... It's really too bad because I love is bass style.
Good thing you mentioned Primus too because Les Claypool is almost as good technically but has much better taste. I've been listening to Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains recently and it's a pretty smokin' disc.
Wooten can go a little overboard sometimes, but he is tasteful. This isn't a bass shredding album, it's just laid-back Clinton style shit. His lyrics are awful, I'll give you that.
A little of Claypool goes a long way, and he's nowhere near as good if we're talking straight-up technique. I know a lot of people who shit their pants at the sight of someone slapping 30,000 muted notes in a row through a synth pedal, but I can only take a little of it before I get bored. Back in the Seas/Punchbowl days, when he was playing the 6 string and doing his tapping stuff, he was pretty impressive. Then he got into the "jam" scene, and now it's all this aimless noodly crap coming from him. "The Big Eyeball in the Sky" is a great tune though.