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Oh, no doubt. This was in the era of Downward Spiral though. I used to run with these goth kids and they'd say "Unless you listen to NIN, Marilyn Manson, Korn and Ozzy, you're a poser." Come to think of it, I can't even remember why they were my friends. Must have been the drugs.

I always loved Manson, because he had so much style, but I couldn't even bring myself to approach the other bands they liked. I think in the end it was Bowie's endorsement of Reznor that made me give him a second look. Course Bowie hasn't been very good for a while either. I still can't do it with Korn.

 

As an aside, when Trent Reznor sings, he has the not in itself bad, but still unfortunate tendency to sound like Weird Al when he hits certain notes.

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As an aside, when Trent Reznor sings, he has the not in itself bad, but still unfortunate tendency to sound like Weird Al when he hits certain notes.

I never noticed that before. Now I'm gonna have to listen to some NIN to see if I can hear this new comparison.

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Not worthy of its own thread, but I'm sending this bad boy out with my Christmas cards this year. I'm kinda proud of it. It's an mp3, not 10 CDs, obviously.

 

Folder #1: Prepare To Be Amazed

Madonna – What It Feels Like For A Girl (Paul Oakenfold Remix)

Mirwais - Disco Science (3:31)

Fatboy Slim – Right Here Right Now

Primitive Radio Gods – Standing Outside A Broken Fence

Moby – Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad

Portishead - Over

Shakespeare’s Sister – Stay (3:50)

Fantomas – Fire Walk With Me

Portishead - Glory Box (acoustic version) (5:30)

U2 – Numb

Prince - Automatic

Siouxsie & The Banshees – Cities In Dust (4:07)

Evanescence – Anything For You

Garbage - #1 Crush (4:48)

Moody Blues – Knights In White Satin

 

Folder #2: Catchy Turns To Angsty

Bjork – It’s Oh So Quiet (3:38)

Portishead – Only You

Peggy Lee – Fever

Brian Setzer & Gwen Stefani – You’re The Boss (3:43)

Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hell

US3 – Cantaloop

No Doubt – Bathwater

Fiona Apple – On The Bound (5:23)

Hooverphonic – 2 Wicky

Prince – Kiss

Lenny Kravitz – Lady

Joan Jett – I Hate Myself For Loving You

Deftones - Change In The House Of Flies (4:59)

BRMC – Head Up High (5:38)

 

Folder #3: Fun For The Whole Family

TLC – Silly Ho

Janet Jackson & Missy Elliott – Son Of A Gun

George Clinton – Atomic Dog

Rufus feat. Chaka Khan – Tell Me Something Good

Ohio Players – Love Rollercoaster

Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart (3:56)

Beck – Devil’s Haircut

REM – Stand

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Miles Away

Southern Culture On The Skids – Camel Walk

Frank Zappa & Moon Unit – Valley Girl

B-52’s – Rock Lobster

Outkast – Roses

The Cure – Let’s Go To Bed (3:34)

Wire – A Question Of Degree (3:11)

David Bowie – Fame

 

Folder #4: Pop Goes The Charles

Bjork – Human Behavior

Portishead - Sour Times (4:13)

Marilyn Manson – Golden Years (3:46)

Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love (5:34)

Sparks - Angst In My Pants (3:35)

Postal Service – Such Great Heights

Clinic – Walking With Thee (2:37)

Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out (3:57)

Bloodhound Gang – Lift Your Head Up High

U2 – Bullet The Blue Sky

Soul Coughing – Super Bon Bon

Arrested Development – Tennessee

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (5:55)

DDT – Vogue (4:48)

Sonic Youth – Into The Groovey (4:36)

Tricky – Ponderosa (3:30)

Cibo Matto – Clouds (3:27)

 

Folder #5: Variety Is The Spice Of Life

BRMC – Red Eyes And Tears (4:00)

Foo Fighters – Baker St

Tricky – Vent (3:05)

Nine Inch Nails – The Day The Whole World Went Away

Switchblade Symphony - Dirty Dog (4:22)

Portishead – Mysterons (5:06)

Led Zeppelin - All My Love

Prince – Money Don’t Matter 2Night

Thievery Corporation – Lebanese Blonde (4:41)

The Smiths – How Soon Is Now (6:44)

Gene Loves Jezebel – Desire (3:13)

Information Society – Are Friends Electric?

New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle

Smashing Pumpkins – Ava Adore

The Cure – Never Enough (4:28)

Dr & The Medics – Spirit In The Sky (3:28)

Real Life – Send Me An Angel

No Doubt – It’s My Life

Bjork & PJ Harvey – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

 

Folder #6: On The Brink Of Excellence

The Zombies – Time of the Season

The Cure – Just Like Heaven

Kate Bush – Hello Earth

Stevie Nicks – Stand Back

Tori Amos – Precious Things (4:27)

Pearl Jam – Do The Evolution (3:53)

Stone Temple Pilots – Sex Type Thing

Smashing Pumpkins – Everlasting Gaze

Stabbing Westward – Save Yourself

Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus

David Bowie – New Killer Star (4:40)

Ben Folds Five – Song For The Dumped

U2 – New Year’s Day

REM – The One I Love

The Police – King of Pain

Beck - Hotwax

Queen - I Want To Break Free (4:23)

 

Folder #7: Take It Down A Notch

Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At (4:43)

Real Life – Send Me An Angel

Madonna – Swim (5:00)

Tori Amos – Blue Skies (5:04)

Massive Attack – Teardrop (5:24)

Mazzy Star – Fade Into You

Tricky – Overcome (4:30)

Portishead – Glory Box (5:05)

UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights (6:20)

Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

Portishead – Roads (5:05)

Pigeonhed – The Full Sentence

Bjork – All Is Full Of Love (Video version) (4:47)

Sly Foxx – Let’s Go All The Way

Prince – Darling Nikki

Prince – When Doves Cry

 

Folder #8: Night With A Chocolate-Covered Dominatrix

Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy

Marilyn Manson – The Dope Show

Nine Inch Nails – Get Down Make Love

Portishead – Half Day Closing

Bjork – Enjoy (3:56)

Nine Inch Nails - Closer

Marilyn Manson – Tainted Love (3:18)

Suede – Brass In Pocket (3:37)

Metallica – Fade To Black

K’s Choice – Not An Addict

Vast – Touched (3:58)

U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday

Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter

Prince – The Beautiful Ones

Sarah McLachlan – Possession (Piano Version)

Radiohead – How To Disappear Completely

 

Folder #9: Melts In Your Heart Not In Your Hand

Polyphonic Spree – Have A Day/Celebratory

John Lennon – Instant Karma

Radiohead – Karma Police

Led Zeppelin – Kashmir

The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony

Moby – Porcelain

Coldplay – Clocks

Dead Can Dance – The Host Of Seraphim

Black Tape For A Blue Girl – Wings Tattered Fallen (6:25)

Aphex Twin – Rhubarb

Tori Amos – Winter (5:42)

Aimee Mann – Wise Up (3:33)

Counting Crows – Colorblind (3:24)

Cranberries – Dreaming My Dreams

Annie Lennox – Here Comes The Rain Again (3:54)

Tori Amos – Enjoy The Silence

 

Folder #10: Turkey Sandwiches And Other Leftovers

Rolling Stones - Shattered

Elastica – Connected

Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner

Tricky – Black Steel (5:40)

Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun

Soul Coughing - Rolling

White Town – Your Woman (4:19)

Batmobile – Mission Impossible (2:48)

Tricky – Ponderosa (3:30)

Stone Temple Pilots – Dancing Days

Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

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I haven't purchased much "new" music as of late, but what I have discovered is that the one new album I bought SUCKS. Fuck A Perfect Circle for trying to be political. It didn't work, Maynard. Now give me another Tool album.

the other guy in the band should never try to sing again, EVER. What's so Funny (about peace love and understanding) was fucking terrible with that other guy's vocals.

 

I still love the "Imagine" cover, though. I didn't like that they put on a very slightly different version of "Pet" on eMotive and renamed it "Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm of the War Drums", reflecting the chorus. The rest of the album is rather average, nothing spectacular, though nothing really bad, either.

 

I'm just looking forward to the new System album, myself.

 

I don't know what's a worse guilty pleasure.. Liking Britney Spears, Evanescence, or the whole crunk movement (I was listening to that new Lil Jon song "What chu Gon' Do?" earlier today and yesterday).

 

I also have a thing for fantastic female vocalists lately. Which is why I'm so incredibly into Amy Lee's music. Fuck, I bought a CD of her earlier work featuring a ton of unreleased material and I love it. They're really misinterpreted because of the bands they're lumped in with, most of these kids listening to that music have no clue the deeper meaning behind the lyrics, or the anguish in her voice in the song, "Hello" for example. I've also gotten into Lacuna Coil and Fiona Apple a lot recently.

 

Although it feels like I just revoked my "metalhead" status, I've also listened to a ton of the most utterly isolating, desolate, depressing black metal possible. Thanks Agalloch, for making the tragic so beautiful.

 

I think I'm also pretty damn lost musically. I can't stand so much of this indie rock shit I'm "supposed" to like and appreciate as great stuff in comparison to what's being put out on the radio lately, which I also think is shit. So I end up an amalgamation of a variety of different genres as a result, with metal and hard rock leading the way, but open to anything.

 

As an aside, when Trent Reznor sings, he has the not in itself bad, but still unfortunate tendency to sound like Weird Al when he hits certain notes.

 

Wait, Reznor *sings*? This is news to me. Most songs I've heard from him sound more like he's speaking in a conversational tone with various emotions than really injecting his voice as an instrument.

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(I was listening to that new Lil Jon song "What chu Gon' Do?" earlier today and yesterday).

You should check out "Roll Call," which I think is better, and has a fun Ice Cube verse.

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I also have a thing for fantastic female vocalists lately. Which is why I'm so incredibly into Amy Lee's music. Fuck, I bought a CD of her earlier work featuring a ton of unreleased material and I love it. They're really misinterpreted because of the bands they're lumped in with, most of these kids listening to that music have no clue the deeper meaning behind the lyrics, or the anguish in her voice in the song, "Hello" for example. I've also gotten into Lacuna Coil and Fiona Apple a lot recently.

You've got a lot to learn about fantastic female vocalists, my friend. Those you mentioned aren't so impressive, in the grand scheme of things.

 

Speaking of isolating, desolate and depressing, one album which suits those adjectives well is Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2. Man, that's a fucking bleak album. Like I heard somebody say, it sounds like music from a dying alien planet. Vol. 1 was much more upbeat, but I probably like Vol. 2 more... probably.

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Brian Eno is quite bleak himself, even though his music hasn't really held up well over time, at least to me.

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I also have a thing for fantastic female vocalists lately. Which is why I'm so incredibly into Amy Lee's music. Fuck, I bought a CD of her earlier work featuring a ton of unreleased material and I love it. They're really misinterpreted because of the bands they're lumped in with, most of these kids listening to that music have no clue the deeper meaning behind the lyrics, or the anguish in her voice in the song, "Hello" for example. I've also gotten into Lacuna Coil and Fiona Apple a lot recently.

You've got a lot to learn about fantastic female vocalists, my friend. Those you mentioned aren't so impressive, in the grand scheme of things.

Oh I know they're not fantastic in the grand scheme of things. But Lee for example, is a vocalist whose lyrics and voice I'm connecting with strongly as of late. The whole feeling of loneliness and regret. I connect with Scabbia's lyrics because of the wordplay used and the themes. I still can't stand the backup vocalist from Lacuna Coil, or the rest of Evanescence for that matter though. Anneke from the Gathering is the only good female vocalist I've heard who has a decent group backing her, well same with Angela Gossow but that's a whole different style of vocals there.

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Rumored Coachella lineups were leaked this past week.

 

April 30th, 2005

DAVID BOWIE

NINE INCH NAILS

PJ HARVEY

INTERPOL

THE FAINT

FRANZ FERDINAND

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE

BOARDS OF CANADA

TV ON THE RADIO

YEAH YEAH YEAHS

SQUAREPUSHER

CLINIC

FRENCH KICKS

SECRET MACHINES

PHOENIX

BEEP BEEP

DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979

THE HELIO SEQUENCE

 

May 1st

R.E.M.

TEARS FOR FEARS

WILCO

MODEST MOUSE

BRIGHT EYES

JIMMY EAT WORLD

MOS DEF

BADLY DRAWN BOY

THE STREETS

SPOON

CAKE

THE POSTAL SERVICE

THE SHINS

SLEATER-KINNEY

RILO KILEY

RADIO 4

DOVES

IRON AND WINE

THE ARCADE FIRE

MOVING UNITS

 

Looks pretty good, I know I'll be there.....

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Rumored Coachella lineups were leaked this past week.

 

April 30th, 2005

DAVID BOWIE

NINE INCH NAILS

PJ HARVEY

INTERPOL

THE FAINT

FRANZ FERDINAND

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE

BOARDS OF CANADA

TV ON THE RADIO

YEAH YEAH YEAHS

SQUAREPUSHER

CLINIC

FRENCH KICKS

SECRET MACHINES

PHOENIX

BEEP BEEP

DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979

THE HELIO SEQUENCE

 

May 1st

R.E.M.

TEARS FOR FEARS

WILCO

MODEST MOUSE

BRIGHT EYES

JIMMY EAT WORLD

MOS DEF

BADLY DRAWN BOY

THE STREETS

SPOON

CAKE

THE POSTAL SERVICE

THE SHINS

SLEATER-KINNEY

RILO KILEY

RADIO 4

DOVES

IRON AND WINE

THE ARCADE FIRE

MOVING UNITS

 

Looks pretty good, I know I'll be there.....

There's like three good bands there. Looks like a terrible time.

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DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979

Represent!

 

seriously

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Music I lived fall quarter 2004 through with:

 

The Velvet Teen

Death Cab for Cutie

Jimmy Eat World

Muse

The Flaming Lips

Ozma

 

each different, yet.. all their old and new stuff is great anyway

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I don't like Fleetwood Mac at all except for the live version of "World Turning" where they voodoo'd it up and "Gold Dust Woman" is ok. Add them to the list of legendary groups I just don't care for. With Zepp and Dylan.

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you don't like led zeppelin? get the fuck outta here!

 

There's like three good bands there.

those three good bands of course being the arcade fire, the arcade fire and the arcade fire.

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you don't like led zeppelin? get the fuck outta here!

 

There's like three good bands there.

those three good bands of course being the arcade fire, the arcade fire and the arcade fire.

You don't like Tears for Fears? Get the fuck outta here!

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Since when was Tears for Fears looked upon highly by the "indie" crowd? I assume Gary Jules' cover of Mad World.

 

Here's the list of concerts coming to my hometown:

 

Fri 12/10/04 Cake State Theatre

Fri 12/10/04 The Walkmen State Theatre

 

Thu 12/16/04 Kenny Rogers Cumberland County Civic Center

 

 

Tue 12/14/04 Sevendust State Theatre

 

 

Wed 03/02/05 "Taste Of Chaos" Cumberland County Civic Center

Wed 03/02/05 Killswitch Engage Cumberland County Civic Center

Wed 03/02/05 My Chemical Romance Cumberland County Civic Center

Wed 03/02/05 Senses Fail Cumberland County Civic Center

Wed 03/02/05 The Used Cumberland County Civic Center

Wed 03/02/05 Underoath Cumberland County Civic Center

 

 

Fri 05/20/05 Sarah McLachlan Cumberland County Civic Center.

 

 

You'd expect one decent concert coming to my town, even if it is in the middle of nowhere. When the best concert coming to your town in the next six months is Cake, you know it's time to get out.

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you don't like led zeppelin?  get the fuck outta here!

 

There's like three good bands there.

those three good bands of course being the arcade fire, the arcade fire and the arcade fire.

You don't like Tears for Fears? Get the fuck outta here!

Because not liking Tears For Fears is so much worse than not liking Bowie or REM?

 

Honestly, of that lot I'd see Bowie, REM, Nine Inch Nails and PJ Harvey. Although all four are past their peak. There are others there I wouldn't mind either way seeing, but those would be the four things that would attract me to it.

 

I still wouldn't go, anyway, given that three of those four have either toured here in the past six months or will tour here within the next six.

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you don't like led zeppelin?  get the fuck outta here!

 

There's like three good bands there.

those three good bands of course being the arcade fire, the arcade fire and the arcade fire.

You don't like Tears for Fears? Get the fuck outta here!

it was a joke about inc's disdain for the arcade fire.

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Only band I'd like to go see out of those is REM. I'd stick around for the postal service for the chicks.

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