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I should probably post this in the CC board, but eh. Anyway, am I a marker here, or not? I know that I technically am, but it seems like I'm not booked as a marker for weeks on end, so that I over time forget that I was ever a marker in the first place, and then after a long hiatus someone will randomly book me to mark a match, I won't notice, and then I'll end up marking the match a day late and not be booked to mark again for a month or two. So yes, I am perfectly available to mark, but when I don't mark for so long I forget to check the shows in the first place. Dual Rules Match shall go up shortly. I'm halfway through the last match of the three.

Great. I guess it's telling me I can't edit the match in since the topic is locked. I thought mod-powers surpassed that. Oh wait, they do. I'm just too busy finishing off this bag of dicks to realize that all I needed to do was unlock, edit, lock. Justice: Indeed. Edit: And don't take this as me hating TNT. I just haven't had a chance to edit much and this is a great time to bring back a classic joke.

Geh. That's a weird typo, I've never even heard Funhouse all the way through.

Is there really any original goth music on the same level as the Birthday Party? Someone please recommend something. I like Bauhaus quite a bit, but a lot of the time I listen to them and it just makes me want to listen to the Birthday Party. And I hear Killing Joke is good, but aside from that... someone, help.

Do you prefer the first or second album? I own the first one, and thought it was good, but like Inc has said before, while listening to it I always just wish I was listening to something else like, say, Echo and the Bunnymen. But it's still good for what it is. But yes, has their sound changed at all, and if so, is that a good or a bad thing?

Boredoms -- Pop Tatari -- Seeing them live on Tuesday night. Pretty crazy stuff. Not many individual tracks stick out, but it's not really song-oriented... just an entire album of crazy Japanese screaming and guitar distortion. Which could be bad, but trust me -- it isn't. Ugly Casanova -- Sharpen Your Teeth -- I'm an OK Modest Mouse fan and a BIG fan of Brian Deck's production, so obviously this is a good choice for me. But it really is a mixed bag -- some REALLY good songs, but some throwaways too. Tyrannosaurus Rex -- My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows -- Holy cow. I always saw T. Rex as a good but semi-overrated outfit, but this is completely different from Electric Warrior, and I LOVE it. Now I know where this Devendra guy gets all his stuff from. Neu! -- Neu! -- Not as good as some other Kraut-rock favorites of mine, but I've liked this album for a long time and it's nice to finally own it. I'd say I love three tracks here and the other three are just alright. Eric Dolphy -- Out There -- Not as good as Out to Lunch, of course, but I'd still rank this pretty high on my free-jazz list. Starts out decent and only gets better as the album progresses. I love Dolphy's style of playing on pretty much any instrument he plays. Tortoise -- TNT -- I know a lot of people on this board love this album, and -- well -- I probably love it for the same reasons you do. I want to get their second album though, which I hear is even better. The Birthday Party -- Junk Yard -- Owned this for a few months but I let my friend borrow my copy and he broke it. So since it was $9, I went ahead and picked up a new copy. One of my favorite all-time albums, so yeah, good to have a working copy again. Steve Reich -- Music for 18 Musicians -- I figured it was time to get into minimalism and this album is just great. I read the liner notes first and thought the concept sounded awesome but sort of expected a really flat, inorganic, monotonous sound. Luckily these expectations were wrong. Everything instrument here is acoustic and it's just one hour of greatness that all flows together perfectly. All I'm afraid of now is that this album has set my standards for minimalist music too high and from now on I'll be dissapointed with all that I listen to. Leonard Cohen -- New Skin for the Old Ceremony -- Leonard's one of my favorite artists and it's really, really weird that I didn't own this album yet. I own the three before it and most of his newer albums, but sort of skipped the middle of his discography. Anyhow, this is great. Probably my second or third favorite album of his. And then the rest, which I haven't listened to yet-- Leonard Cohen -- Death of a Lady's Man Bonnie "Prince" Billy -- I See a Darkness Dead Meadow -- Feathers Terry Riley -- A Rainbow in Curved Air Boredoms -- Seadrums/House of Sun Good use of my birthday money, and the only true dissapointments were that they didn't have a lot of Mike Patton-related stuff that I was in need of, and also they had little in the way of SPARKS, whom I was finally hoping to get into.

I don't care for Barrett so much, while some of Piper at the Gates is fun, and his fucking up was integral to the future of the band, Gilmour was better at guitar and vocals, and probably a better writer. Roger Waters is a son of a bitch, but a son of a bitch that can write. Gilmour and Wright are superior musicians. Nick Mason is there. Oh, I didn't mean in a song-writing/instrumental way at all. I just meant as far as personality goes. Roger Waters is a stubborn son-of-a-bitch, Mason is just too happy-go-lucky and on the downright dumb side so that it doesn't seem like he should even be in the band... Rick Wright is a brat, and I have to problem with David Gilmour, but interviews I've read with him in his older days (more recently) have made him seem sort of tool-ish as well. Mainly I just hate Waters and Wright. Gilmour and Mason I really have no problem with, but Syd just seemed like such a legitimately cool/nice/unselfish guy. Then he went crazy of course.

Yikes. People are entitled to their opinion. This, of course, is an exception.

Bono makes me dislike U2 more and more after each new albums that comes out. I enjoy R.E.M. and Smashing Pumpkins, but only to a certain extent due to Stipe and Corgan. Corgan I dislike for the usual reasons, but Stipe... I really have no reason to dislike Michael Stipe, I just do. And he alone has led me to dislike much of the R.E.M discography. I still enjoy Murmer a lot though. Jim Morrison annoys me. A lot. He just thinks he's so fucking awesome. Well he's not. Though the more I think about it... it really doesn't make that much of a difference. The only Floyd member that I've ever liked is Barrett, and they're probably in my top five bands.

The Killers are my mortal enemy.

I think after someone listens to music for long enough they eventually like at least a few SY albums, almost by default. Kim Gordon can be annoying though, aside from on "Confusion is Sex" and "Sonic Nurse."

Yeah Tom sort of blew his load on his piano singer/songwriter tunes too early and then spent the rest of his career idea-less, meandering in that Rain Dogs crap.

My close friend had a very real near-brush with suicide this week and what made her change her mind was the version of "Heroin" on Lou Reed's American Poet. Thank God for Lou. On a related note, I've decided that "Heroin" is my official favorite song of all time. That and "Marquee Moon" have been competing for years.

When I listened a few days ago I got as far as Basehead. Had to get off the computer, but I'm not a Refused fan and I've heard the Neurosis, so it's not a tragedy that I couldn't listen further. I too enjoyed the Comets on Fire, as well as the Tortoise.

Tracklist? EDIT: Oh, well I guess you announce the songs on the show. I posted this about halfway through the first song because I didn't recognize the song, though it did sound like Wilco.

OK. Top Five Guitarists. No order. 1. Robert Fripp 2. Frank Zappa 3. Adrian Belew 4. Prince 5. Larry LaLonde No order, of course. Tom Verlaine might go in there too, as he's really fucking good, but for some reason NEVER put on this type of list, perhaps because he didn't really have a "virtuoso guitarist" role in Television. Just says something about what a cohesive unit the band was.

Never heard it. Whether your comment was sarcasm or not (no offence btw) I can't help but compare every punk album to Pink Flag. And I know what wins. In other news, an album which is certainly not in contention is Spiderland. It's good. Very good. But I don't like it half as much as anyone else seems to. Suicide is very high as far as my personal punk rankings go, and I've only had it a few weeks. Is Spiderland considered a punk album? I do love it, but I by no means consider it punk. Agreed on the Pink Flag. I maybe could think up about one, two, maybe three albums that I might prefer, but that most definitely beats most everything out there, punk or not.

Good point.

But what about Sandista!???????????

Wow. I don't know how to react to that.

...Do people like the Bloodhound Gang?

Do you own the DVD as well? ...And does anyone else on these boards enjoy Tim Buckley aside from me? Not yet. The Commercial album DVD fucked me up enough for the time being. Not least because Andy Partridge is credited as playing on the new tracks! I like 'Hi Ho Silver Lining'...I've heard nothing else. The climax of the last track on the DVD is amazing to watch. Especially when the polar bear pops up smiling and holding a bottle of Coca-Cola.

Do you own the DVD as well? ...And does anyone else on these boards enjoy Tim Buckley aside from me?

While I prefer Swordfishtrombones maybe just a tad since it was my first Waits album and as an 8th grader (could've been 9th, actually) I was just totally freaked out by it, Rain Dogs is indeed top ten material. However, for some reason I often consider them one compact artistic statement, despite there being quite a few differences. I've never heard any The Wedding Present because for some reason I always had this predetermined judgement that they were lame. But once I think about it, I realize that I've never heard a single song and I have absolutely no idea what they're like. I suppose I'll have to check them out at some point. My favorite album is... I don't know. Probably an Eno record or something by the Velvet Underground, but I don't want to think about it right now because I already have a headache.

Fight of the Behemoth. I'm on IDRM's page, for the most part, but I have heard that album at a friend of mine's house a few times and it's an interesting listen. I've only heard a few tracks from White1 and White2, and both seem good. I can't really say what their best album is however, since as you said it takes repeated listens to really soak everything in and I don't actually own any of the albums. I too will buy whatever Agent tells me to, as I was considering picking up FotB anyhow.