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Post by v9733xa on Oct 29, 2018 18:02:09 GMT -5
Got it?
I tried to describe it all in the subject and subtitle, but i'm just looking to have some more fun and real discussion (this is the "discussion" sub-forum!) instead of just mindlessly posting a video, or a bandcamp link, or what my favorite monotone poster ballzdeep does in just literally typing a band's name every day with no context.
C'mon people! Let's have some fun and really talk about music.
So in this thread you are REQUIRED (by my decree, which means nothing, but pretty please...) to briefly comment on whatever the person above you posted, if you want to reply with another track or band. You can say whatever you want. I mean, i hope it's nice, and i hope it's kind of forthcoming or interesting. But, sure, it can be "Emmure sucks!" after some dude posts "10 Signs You Should Leave" (hot take: a GREAT song) i guess if that's really how you feel.
After that, go nuts. Post a video to a song, or a whole album, or whatever link about a band or artist you want someone to respond to. In order for the next guy to up that post-count, he's gotta comment on what you just presented.
Just keep it fun and let's hope for something worth looking at every day. This thread could have potential -- nine Metallica songs in a row! nothing but dubstep! all country! Mozart vs. Mos Def! -- or it could devolve into nonsense and people commenting on their own posts (please don't do that).
Okay! Me first!
I fucking LOVE Periphery, and maybe they have better songs than this (some of their recently slightly more melodic stuff is excellent), but i just lose it every time i hear "The Walk." If i had to play a song to someone who says "hey, what do you listen to anyway?" i would play this and wait for their head to explode. Five minutes of perfection.
Okay thread, off you go! Let's see how soon this fails.
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Post by tao on Oct 29, 2018 20:32:50 GMT -5
I still need to delve into Periiphery’s back catalog. I do enjoy their “Juggernaut” albums though.
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Post by v9733xa on Oct 31, 2018 17:41:16 GMT -5
Muse is one of those bands i had a friend tell me about, like, 10 years ago... and i just couldn't get into them even though i've probably heard about 8 or 9 of their songs. Sometimes i'll hear like 30 seconds of a track and i'm like "that's cool!" and then it gets boring again. I used to like Radiohead many moons ago, and i hear shades of them in Muse for sure, with some actual rock riffs.
I'll put it this way: this is a band that should be way way more popular, but unfortunately rock music is dead in popular culture so they're a niche like most everything else we all listen to here. That's a good post though, thanks for getting me to listen to that and respect the song quite a bit.
Let's get mellow and cool to the max with Dave Brubeck and the coolest of cool jazz from the Beatnik era. I just love this song and the fun time signatures.
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Post by stringypoo on Oct 31, 2018 20:11:39 GMT -5
Oh man. Obviously lots to say about Dave Brubeck and this track is genuinely inspiring. I’d like to say firstly that it’s not really all that difficult to see where people are coming from when they make claims about certain metal bands being influenced by jazz when you listen to a track like this. At times, listening to this track, I even imagined sections of it being played by guitars, downtuned, and it really sounded familiar from some old tech-death, for example. Really a cool observation.
Another thing I’d like to say is that it’s awesome to see a Dave Brubeck post that isn’t “Take Five.” While I love that track as well, it does get so much attention that it tends to overshadow other great hits. Here in Kunshan, there is a new plaza in the middle of literally nowhere, very western in style, full of cool places to eat and shop. I went there last Thursday and by chance the whole plaza was playing a recording of “Take Five” on repeat for over a solid hour. Although it was too much Take Five, I’m happy to see good classic jazz getting rotation here.
Also, good on you for sharing something different. I personally love this thread idea, and have tried to start similar threads in the past. Hopefully we can keep this going.
For my pick, I’m going to start with what I believe to be a very under appreciated and quite unknown album from the more traditional heavy metal realm which released this year and has little to no buzz, but deserves a legion of fans in my opinion. Children of the Reptile is the band. While I hate their name, I might be putting them on my top 10 list of the year!
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Post by stringypoo on Nov 6, 2018 3:37:40 GMT -5
I think I killed it!
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Post by tao on Nov 6, 2018 15:47:19 GMT -5
Oh man. Obviously lots to say about Dave Brubeck and this track is genuinely inspiring. I’d like to say firstly that it’s not really all that difficult to see where people are coming from when they make claims about certain metal bands being influenced by jazz when you listen to a track like this. At times, listening to this track, I even imagined sections of it being played by guitars, downtuned, and it really sounded familiar from some old tech-death, for example. Really a cool observation. Another thing I’d like to say is that it’s awesome to see a Dave Brubeck post that isn’t “Take Five.” While I love that track as well, it does get so much attention that it tends to overshadow other great hits. Here in Kunshan, there is a new plaza in the middle of literally nowhere, very western in style, full of cool places to eat and shop. I went there last Thursday and by chance the whole plaza was playing a recording of “Take Five” on repeat for over a solid hour. Although it was too much Take Five, I’m happy to see good classic jazz getting rotation here. Also, good on you for sharing something different. I personally love this thread idea, and have tried to start similar threads in the past. Hopefully we can keep this going. For my pick, I’m going to start with what I believe to be a very under appreciated and quite unknown album from the more traditional heavy metal realm which released this year and has little to no buzz, but deserves a legion of fans in my opinion. Children of the Reptile is the band. While I hate their name, I might be putting them on my top 10 list of the year! Nah, you didn’t kill it; v9733xa is just away for a bit and whenever I think I should listen to your track, I’m at work, and work blocks YouTube. Back on topic, I like this track. The song reminds me a bit of “Machine Head”-era Deep Purple and the vocalist sounds like a cross between a mellow James Hetfield and Josh Homme. Now I’m gonna have to track this album down, thanks! To make up for the delay, I’ll submit two songs: Retro rock isn’t dead. I love it. |
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Post by tao on Nov 6, 2018 15:56:19 GMT -5
Sassy second post. In reference to v9733xa’s post above, listening to that song by Dave Brubeck brings back a lot of good memories. I actually grew up with that album along with other classics like “Slaughter On 10th Ave.” et al., so it is nice to see other people liking jazz. While I enjoy “Take Five” and acknowledge that it’s one of the most well known jazz pieces, this was actually my favorite track off the album: |
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Post by v9733xa on Nov 7, 2018 19:12:36 GMT -5
I'm back!
Good posts up there; maybe it'll just be the three of us carrying the thread and that's three times as many as i predicted.
Alabama Shakes are another very interesting group that i have to give immense respect to, even though it's really not my type of music at all. What i like about the band is that so many things about them don't lend to success in commercial music (or even indie/niche music)... obtuse songs, genre-crossing experimentation, and not exactly a picturesque appearance. So you know a group has bigtime talent if they can subvert things like that. They are super skilled in lots of ways, even if the music only mildly interests me. I have to admit that i loved the organ/keyboard coming in there.
I'll say that it was nice to see a band like that get award recognition instead of the cookie-cutter pop and faux-rock that i seem to hear everywhere else. Good for them.
Okay.
This is the band that got me into good hardcore punk about... man, like 13 or 14 years ago, damn. I don't like straight-up punk much, and some hardcore is derivative and dumb... but blend it together like this and it's just perfect.
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Post by clazza on Nov 10, 2018 18:18:05 GMT -5
Have never listened to Modern Life Is War before but will definitely check them out now. It's also pretty buzzin to see some Dave Brubeck up here too. I have that album on vinyl and it's great.
Was at a gig last night and this was the album they were playing between the bands. It's got amazing playing on it and the songs are great. Mclaughlin is totally out of this world.
This is the opening track off of Birds of Fire
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Post by tao on Nov 11, 2018 5:56:15 GMT -5
Have never listened to Modern Life Is War before but will definitely check them out now. It's also pretty buzzin to see some Dave Brubeck up here too. I have that album on vinyl and it's great. Was at a gig last night and this was the album they were playing between the bands. It's got amazing playing on it and the songs are great. Mclaughlin is totally out of this world. This is the opening track off of Birds of Fire That was very interesting, almost like free form jazz. I definitely like the track and I’m gonna have to check out some more, thanks! All right, let’s get classic: |
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Post by clazza on Nov 12, 2018 0:04:09 GMT -5
Amazingly I have never seen that before. I always heard so much about it but never got round to checking it out. I have a huge love for a lot of the stuff that came out in the 60s, mainly because my dad played loads of that stuff in bands when I was a kid. I will go and have a hoon on some Ten Years After.
First though, here is a band that I have been massively into since I was 6 or 7 years old
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Post by stringypoo on Nov 14, 2018 20:39:10 GMT -5
The Who. Man, I don’t know if it was just where I grew up or if it was just a trend, but I remember being in high school (2003-2007) and nearly everyone I knew was obsessed with The Who. Admittedly, my hometown was kinda a retro town in some way, not really keeping with the times, but I was always following metal pretty heavily during those years. Back then, I would never have appreciated this group as much as I can nowadays. The Who are legendary, and rightfully so. I love how they always have this perfect summer time band feel in their music. And there are so many unique influences found in their music. I love the bluesy keyboard action here, and the energetic but mellow guitar bursts. If any of you saw me play the piano, you’d think it was me playing in these tracks, because that is pretty much exactly how I play the piano. Maybe I should have been born a bit earlier, eh?
Let’s take this in another old school direction. So far, this thread is full of old school appreciation, and I’ll follow up with something I’ve always loved:
Satan- The Kiss of Death. For me, these guys are the underground kings of the NWOBHM, although underground is only how I see them being that they’re insanely talented and gifted song writers and got much less attention than other greats in the scene. This is one of their first big hits, back in the early 80’s. 1982, if my memory serves me well.
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Post by v9733xa on Nov 17, 2018 19:32:12 GMT -5
I can't say i'm a big fan (or a fan at all) of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. It's also funny that people phonetically pronounce that acronym, which i can admit to never having heard before watching the Metal Evolution docuseries by Sam Dunn like 7 years ago.
Anyway, so i listened to that song and it's not bad. This comes from someone with essentially zero knowledge of that genre or any bands in it, but it's sort of a lighter and worse version of Black Sabbath. I imagine that genre was basically teenagers who grew up on Sabbath and Deep Purple and threw the tiniest bit of punk influence in there. I dunno, if i had the choice between this and Metallica, there's no competition to what i would be listening to if i were around in 1982 (i was not, i was negative one year old). The solos were good though.
Alright, let's get stupid.
My favorite parody band/album of all time, Crotchduster was a revelation to me in 2004. Masterminded by Jason Suecof, it's both the dumbest and most brilliant album i own. Here's a snippet from a review years ago:
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Post by Zeke on Nov 18, 2018 1:36:03 GMT -5
Imo this is a cool thread, I just don't know any of these bands.
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Post by stringypoo on Nov 18, 2018 5:22:18 GMT -5
Imo this is a cool thread, I just don't know any of these bands. That’s what I like about this thread. Nowadays I’ve worked myself into a metal niche in which I’m only listening to a bunch of bands nobody else is really listening to. Or in my case, it forces me to listen to -core bands again since I currently have no desire to, but could be missing out on something good in avoiding them. Good chance to share specific tastes which may lead to other people finding things to listen to.  |
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