Recent Re-Discoveries
 

Some albums or bands you recently re-listened too and still love.

Me:

Mekons-Fear and Whiskey

One of the first "indie" albums I ever bought. I never stopped listening to this band, but I did stop listening to this record. I was preferring thier older eps and stuff that was more all Post-Punk. But this album is really great, and the country western influences sound so good to me now. I will prolly listen to this forever.

Sun Ra-Sound of Joy

I havn't been listening to much early Sun Ra lately, preferring his more spaced out shit of the 60s, but honestly, some say he qss incosistent, I really don't think I dislike anything I've heard by Sun Ra. From his most pop Bebop shit to the truly out stuff, everything he did was mindblowing. Not to mention mindnlowingly diverse. This is his second album and the second Sun Ra I bought (after the Futuristic World Of) and its just awesome awesome awesome. That's enough said.

Thin Lizzy-First 3 Records
I was staying with my dad at his apartment in Boston last weekend and had a fantastic time. Late at night after a heavy pot session filled with the first Season of the Wire and Bruce Lee DVDs my dad and brother crashed so I went through my dad's old vinyl collection. He has an amazing collection of Rock, Jazz, Blues, early Punk, and Soul. I then found these Thin Lizzy albums and at first was like "watevs", but then went back and couldn't help but put on "Bad Reputation". As soon as the opening verse of "Soldier of Fortune" came on I fell in love. The best use of a Synthesizer by a 70s arena rock band I've ever heard. Soulful vocals, excellent riffs, killers basslines. Musically, Thin Lizzy is greatly underated.

Husker Du-Land Speed Record
When I want to listen to Husker Du, I like most put on Zen Arcade and maybe occasionally Metal Circus. Those records as we all know are amazing semi-psychedelic swirling post punk entities of pure ROCK n ROLL. The other day though I was browsing through Spinnaker in Hyannis, Mass, a decent used record shop (that has an amazing one dollar vinyl bin) when I stumbled on this on cd for ten bucks. I hadn't had a copy in a while. It's nothing like what they would become, but fuck, its the one of the fastest, most physically assaulting records of that whole era. Just amazing thrashing Hardcore with heroic musicianship. That's one thing early hardcore Husker Du had on a lot of other Hardcore bands (but in common with Black Flag, Bad Brains, etc..) is those motherfuckers were amazing musicians. As much as I love Hardcore, a lot of those bands used velocity and volume to mask poor skills, whereas the Huskers had total control over the chaos. Amazing album.

Mainly been listening to Screeching Weasel and Dead C, which I haven't done in a while and still love.

excellent. I love re-discovering old stuff.

I put on Fugazi's REPEATER on the turntable, which I had not listened to in at least 5 years and OH MY FUCK was it ever fabulous.
it still made my balls onrush

Sun Ra is a west coast rapper, stylisticaly and lyrically. where he made that record doesn't matter one fucking bit. this picky shit is the stuff that pisses me off about this board.

ahhaahhaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo

I overplayed this record when I was 13 or so and after that I never had any desire to listen to it ever again. But I was looking through my old CD-Rs the other day and just threw this on and remembered why I thought it was so great!

Yeah, that cd's awesome derek!

AMAZING lyrics. I repeat, AMAZING lyrics. Really complex... I honestly don't know how they wrote those songs without getting headaches.

maybe they did!

neu- neu 75
the wipers - youth of america
suicide- s/t
unwound- new plastic ideas
the fucking champs- III

i just started listening to those again.

Throwing Muses - University

the whole Arab Strap back catalogue.

Iron Maiden - I've been listening to the s/t, Killers and I watched Live at the Rainbow.

Einsturzende. Haven't listened to them in a time, completely forgot that they're amazing.

zaika, wasn't that crazy about the CD i bought of theirs, played it a few days ago and thought it was very good. also been relistening to some zaimph cd-rs i hadn't played in a few years that i didn't listen to as much as i did some of her other stuff

I've been listening to some old hardcore and shit lately.

I put on Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables the other day, god damn... almost forgot just how much I love that album!

that reminds me, i should put on "my war". it's been many months since i heard that record.

My War is the best punk record ever.

Henry Mancini. I hadn't listen to any of his stuff in a while, so I sat and played the themes from: Charade, Lujon, Days of Wine And Roses. I remember why I love this guy so much.

The VU live 1969 double LP. So sweet.

You smoke pot with yr dad???
i wish i could smoke weed with my son when he's a young adult without felling like i'm doing something REALLY wrong....

It's like that in my family. It's awesome. :cool:

The Beautiful South this evening.

really? huh. interesting.:cool:

i made no reference to where he made the music

weed is not looked upon as a drug in my family, literally everyone except my mother who stopped a few years ago smokes.

while im here i might as well mention a new discovery: PAIN TEENS!!! Dudes started as almost a D.R.I.-esque thrashing Hardcore band, but then went on to become some crazy as fuck chaotic mix of thrash punk, noise, tape loops, samples, just awesome shit if you like this kind of thing. "case histories", "born in blood" lp, and the death row eyes 7" are all fucking amazing. it also to me sounds like these guys are much more of an influence on today's american noise dudes like the hair cops and the wolf pack and cock esp and blah blah than whitehouse or anything like that.

no i mean it's really interesting; it's food for thought anyway.

i never understood why people don't like this record. im probably biased because ive been a black flag fanatic since i was 14 but shit, that record is great, especially the first side. its pretty much the same band as 'damaged' but its slower, druggier, and more fucked up. when it comes to hardcore bands changing up thier sound, id rather hear them go in more of a noise rock direction, like black flag, than like agnostic front who basically becae third rate thrash.

CD-only store here in town called Sounds Familiar is going out of business, blaming downloading. On the other hand, the heavily-vinyl-oriented Papa Jazz claims to be thriving, with its new-LP sales going up and up.

Ironic, no?

That'll explain what you write then.

my war has some good songs, but the recording and mastering are so terrible that i find it almost unlistenable

ooch

I don't consider weed a drug eitherl... but I'd much rather snort hydros, take some oxys, dilaudin, and all kinds of other opiates, eat a shitload of acid, stick xanax behind my eyes, extract dex from robitussin and snort the gels, bite into a big ass brownie made of shrooms, take about 10 hits of ecstasy, etc.

why do you not just ask me out?:)

cuz i know you'll reject me.
You already said i was too fat for you.
then i kept on trying but you would always avoid me.
i think i've given up already.
You're so unreachable it makes me want to relentlessly rub myself against your hairless torso.
bah.

i have some hair. i'll make you a cup of coffee before i reach for the morning paper, and probably take your mobile phone number. next friday at mine?

Recent re-discoveries:

KoRn - Follow the Leader
Initially dismissed this one because of all the rapping and Fred Durst, but some of the songs are fucking badass. LOVE "Dead Bodies Everywhere" and "My Gift To You". AMAZING guitar tones and textures.

Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
Fred's rapping on 9 Teen 90 Nine is fucking great. "I'M A BEASTY BOY -- SURE SHOT, AVOID THE SHELL SHOCK, FUCK THE GLAM ROCK, ASSED OUT LIKE KEN SHAMROCK." Really prophetic. This is no 3 Dolla Bill Y'all$ but it's still good.

Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Taking Ministry's brutal industrial approach and updating it for the modern era. Love the growly vocals and the simplistic futurist riffs.

Spineshank - Height of Callousness
See above. GREAT fucking album. "FUCK INTEGRITY, FUCK INTEGRITY!!"

Cold - 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage
Over look the cursing and overdriven one finger riffs on the tuned-to-mud-sharp overprocessed guitars and you have a band dying to support art punk, who clearly loved early Cure records. But you know, this band is way better than the fucking Cure.

STAIND - Tormented
This is their really hard, early, underground, dirty shit. The album opens with a gun clicking and ends with a gunshot. Brilliant!

Vanilla Ice - Hard to Swallow
Fucking love this record.

hed(p.e.) - Broke
Recently got back into this one. Fucking badass rapping with some junk rock riffs. Greatshit.

i only do hairless.
sorry.
hot though.

I don't get why some people like this band.
I only know a few tracks from compilations, but each time it's a sample of a whole song ( a popular one, like You Only Live Twice, John Barry/James bond ), plus some beep sounds, and in the end it sounds almost like the original.
!??!