Well, it was a short stay here at blogger. But we've got our own domain now and we're setting everything up. Thanks to everyone who visited, you can check out the new blog @ http://flipyourwig.co.cc
Things are still in development so please be patient!
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Laserdance - Future Generation
Review stolen from Kaptain Carbon on waffles:
"This is it. No need to look any further. I never knew what I was missing until I had it. Much like a door opening in wall I never knew existed, my experience with Laserdance could be compared with an unseen weight which was lifted the day "Power Run" was first played. This is the sound of a thousand green laser beams crossing over darkened perspective plane with a vanishing point which flashes to a 4/4 beat. This is optimism in its purest form. The sound running through the heads of CEOs when closing million dollar investment deals on treadmills. This dull shine of a new Walkman combined with the weight of a DynaTAC 8000X. This is the future of music as heard by someone in 1983. I finally understand no one can own a Laserdance record; a Laserdance record owns you; and your family.
While American disco was taken out of commission during the early 80's, its European counterpart continued to enter into an extended after-party complete with space suits and painted backgrounds of far away lands. Space Disco, which was born in the late 70's, reached its cosmic zenith in the early 80's. Its sound typifies the feeling and spirit of the early 80's; a sense of flying optimistic eclipsing the speed of light. Laserdance's classic debut soars on the wings of electronic hand claps and synth lines which only exist inside the glass walls of the 80's. The work of Lindstrom, Datashat and soundtracks to corporate training videos owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Space Disco titans. So whether it is breakfast on a powerboat or a couple of cocktails with the boss's daughter, Laserdance is the perfect soundtrack for any success-driven occasion."
Note: "Space Disco" is also referred to as "Synthdance" and "Spacedance" and is a subgenre of italo-disco.
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Sun Dial - Out One Way/In One Way
Stolen Review from waffles's S9S (all credit for review and original rec):
"If I say psychedelia, you would most likely think of The Grateful Dead, or hear Grace Slick doing her steady vocal buildup on "White Rabbit" in your mental jukebox. And yes, you dear Pink Floydian, you would no doubt "See Emily Play". If I say neo-psychedelia, however, your inner reference search might turn up 'nichts'.
That's nothing to be ashamed of and it doesn't really matter because you have heard bands that flirted with this evolution of its better known root genre. "Really?" Hell yes! Think Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Church, The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev and Spacemen 3... Need I go on? It's kind of hard to tag this genre with one certain sound or scene and really, you shouldn't bother. The bands that operate(d) within this genre usually extract or copy a musical idea from psychedelia and have a bit of an experiment with it. If you look at the names I listed, you can probably guess that they sound a tad different from one another.
One thing you should be bothered with is that you probably don't have Sun Dial in your collection, and that is a shame, because Other Way Out is an outstanding album. It's so meticulously crafted you would stamp 1967 on it as a recording date instead of 1990. And that's a compliment. With a sound like a Barrett-era Pink Floyd with space rockers Hawkwind combined, this record transports you back in time and space to a place where you can 'feed your head'. Dropping acid is not even needed as listening to this record will give you the same kind of mind-expanding experience. If you want to sample a track, start with "Exploding In Your Mind". Happy feeding time!"
I grabbed the one with the bonus disc "In One Way" that has outtakes and different versions of tracks on "Out One Way"
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blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Turns out that the only version of this album I had was the edited one, which didn't include any bonus tracks! A renewed interest in blink (because I'm finally seeing them!) caused this update! Hopefully I'll get more updates done, no more excuses. Anyways, this album is the follow up to the bands 15 million-selling album "Enema of the State" (the one with the nurse with big you-know-whats on the cover), and was described by bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus: "[Take Off Your Pants and Jacket] was the next step for Blink-182. There's songs on this record that sound like they come off of older records, like Cheshire Cat, songs that sound like they come off of Dude Ranch, songs that sound like they might come off of Enema of the State, and songs that are the next step altogether. I think it's a lot lighter scope than what [people] might expect from Blink-182. We have some real fast songs, some slower songs. Travis [Barker] wanted to try some drum loops on this record. [We tried] different vocal effects, different arrangements, different rhythms. I think that this record will probably surprise some people."
This album is either one that people love or hate, personally, I love it.
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edit: DL link removed, MU is giving me lots of trouble, file should be back up soon.
edit edit: sorry it took so long, I've got exams to study for, link should be all set now.
Update and a rant.
Well, sorry for not updating this for so long. Things have been insane around here lately. I'm hoping to get back into updating soon.
Now here's the rant part:
I was wrongfully banned from what.cd, apparently I'm a ratio cheater. This is completely false, and having only downloaded 100 or so MB from there and having uploaded 10 torrents, I don't see how I could be mistaken for a cheater. The asshole in the disabled channel didn't believe me at all, and I don't see any way for me to be able to convince them otherwise. So here's what I say to what.cd - "Thanks a lot, now go fuck yourselves." I tried to contribute and be an active member and was warned for uploading the only release of an album in a bitrate too low for their standards. It's like a slap in the face, trying to do the right and thing and being wrongfully banned for it.
/rant.
Venetian Snares - Winter In the Belly of a Snake
Everything Aaron Funk does as Venetian Snares is intense. That's the only word to describe the sound, intense. Drill 'n' bass at it's finest (think Aphex Twin, certain Squarepusher albums, Amon Tobin), every Venetian Snares album is composed of blisteringly fast breakbeats that have been sliced and diced into mind melting sounds, mixed with samples and harsh melodies (if you can call them melodies). Winter In the Belly Of a Snake is another solid album from the Winnipeg artist.
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Boris - Pink
Any band that gets its name from a song off of the Melvins album Bullhead is alright in my book. Although this album is significantly different style-wise from their other albums, this is perhaps their best. Fans of the band's earlier work would argue that the Japanese trio crafted this album specifically with American audiences in mind. That's not to say that this album should be ignored (despite shoe-gaze influences on several tracks), in fact it should be paid attention to as a great sludge album. To quote AllMusic critic Thom Jurek, "The rootsy metallic thrash of the band outdoes anything they've done before -- "Woman on the Screen" sounds like Iggy Pop fronting the MC5 of Kick Out the Jams in the Sunn 0))) era -- all in two-minutes-and-thirty-eight seconds."
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Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom
Acrimony's sophomore album, Tumuli Shroomaroom is an absolute stoner classic. Packed with earth-shattering riffs, acid trips, space rock flights, and bong sound effects, this is everything a stoner album should be. This album is essential listening for anyone who is into stoner metal and seriously does stoner metal right.
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Henry Rollins - Talk Is Cheap Vols 1-4
So, as I mentioned previously in my recent Henry Rollins post, I really love his spoken word/stand-up albums. So grabbing these four volumes, released between 2003-04. It's truly a great set, with longer tracks, which I love. Of course a more unbiased review would be helpful, and I suppose a longer and more detailed one too, but I had to get this one up and out there because it's so good.
Download - All 4 Volumes in 1 .rar (700 MB)
Sorry but only 2 volumes are in V0, the other two are AAC rips :(
If you find anything better (I haven't) please let me know!!!
For more info and album art check out these wiki articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Is_Cheap_Vol_I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Is_Cheap_Vol_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Is_Cheap_Vol_III
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Is_Cheap_Vol_IV
Omega Massif - Geisterstadt
German sludge/post-metal band Omega Massif's debut album. In German, "Geisterstadt" means ghost town. This album could be the soundtrack to a ghost town for sure, so it is aptly titled. Entirely instrumental, this is an album that really shows the musical side of sludge and doom. This album is also considered post-metal because it is on the minimalistic side and has many atmospheric touches.
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National Treasure OST
Composed by ex-Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin, the music fits the Disney hit movie National Treasure. With suspenseful passages and more up-beat compositions, this is a typical soundtrack to a pretty good movie. Nothing here is really special or standout, it's just that I liked hearing the music in the movie, and it's pretty good on it's own too.
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Henry Rollins - Eric the Pilot
Henry Rollins, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...
Now with the major ass-kissing out of the way, here is another solid Rollins spoken word/stand-up album. An engaging and hilarious account of a strange pilot and the Midwest, Rollins is in his usual form. Brutally honest, and bringing a dose of reality into an otherwise hazy existence, every Rollins set leaves you wanting more, wishing he would never step off the stage. Fantastic.
I also highly recommend reading his journal entry based books if you like his stand-up stuff, very similar. If you like his audiobooks too, you should get his other stories.
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The Devil's Blood - Come, Reap
I initially assumed this was a doom album. This album is nowhere near doom, much more along the lines of a throwback band (ie. Priestess, Wolfmother) Although they did have a prominent Sabbath influence (like most doom bands), this album feels more like it belongs with Sabbath in the late 70s than present day. The extensive occult and satanic imagery fits in perfectly with modern metal bands who have a tendency to overdo things, but somehow, it works here. . Only 5 songs, this is a throwback tribute that does those late-70s metal bands justice.
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Walter/Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach
Stolen from Kaptain Carbon on waffles:
Many people today know the name Walter/Wendy Carlos through many movie scores including "The Shining," "Split Second" and "Tron."
The name Walter, or Wendy Carlos, is associated with a dense patchwork made of classical music and synthesizers. It is perhaps the movie "A Clockwork Orange" and the processed vocal climax of the Ninth Symphony that Carlos style and legacy is most known. Switched On Bach also represents one of the first landmarks in the complicated and rudimentary birth of electronic music. Carlos was not the first electronic musician in the 60s, however, it could be argued that he was among the most popular. Switched On Bach went on to win three Grammy awards in the next year and become the highest selling classical album to date. The late 60's was a time of great social change when many old institutions were being questioned and destroyed. Carlos' electronic reinterpretation of Johan Sebastian Bach is unlikely to remembered as socially revolutionary as other musical acts or events at the time. However, the popularity of Moog-based classical music, for better or worse, represented a shift in consciousness on the nature of traditions. Sure, there were older reinterpretations on classical pieces including Spike Jones' zany pillaging of the classics. However, Carlos' works are based off of sound rather than comedy. Switched on Bach remains one of the most popular Moog-based classical albums. For Carlos, the sound of Switched on Bach spawned many sequels and variations and remains artistically tied to the composer. It is the polarity between the electronic sound and baroque composition that makes the album timeless, or rather caught in a vacuum, vortex or hyper-dimension.
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Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
So long without an update. I haven't really downloaded much of anything recently. My HD is running out of space and I need to upgrade to a 1 TB. The problem with that is I'm a little short on money and have to wait. So, one of very few downloads these past five days, funeral doom band Ahab's The Call of the Wretched Sea. The album is a retelling of Melville's classic Moby Dick through the medium of funeral doom metal. Doom itself may be some heavy shit, but funeral doom is heavy to the max. All you can feel when you listen to this is despair. Ahab does funeral doom so well it could literally crush the entire horrible nu-metal genre with one of these songs.
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Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna
Ringo Starr, former Beatles drummer, had a very inconsistent career musically after the Beatles called it quits. An okay solo debut, followed by a good album and two excellent ones, followed by a long string of okay albums and the occasional good one in between. In comparison to (almost) everything else he did in the 70s, Goodnight Vienna was a star-studded masterpiece, featuring the likes of former bandmate John Lennon, Elton John, Dr. John, and others. Although the only two Top 10 tracks aren't written by anyone on the record, this proves to be an enjoyable record, even if it doesn't quite match up to it's predecessor.
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Michael Jackson - 3 albums
Again with the threes! Anyways, I realized I had no Michael Jackson as I was digging through three boxes of records my local record store gave me for free and I happened upon a compilation album from 1980, a sort of Now! That's What I Call Music of hits from 1979. First track, "I Wanna Rock With You". It was then I realized, "Damn, Michael Jackson is fun to listen to!" A fact clearly evident to the rest of the world, it explains was such a HUGE world star in the 80's, and still has a huge influence on pop today. That said, I don't care how "metal" or "punk" you may be, or how much you claim to hate Michael Jackson, you want to dance when this stuff comes on.
Off the Wall (Special Edition)
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Thriller (Special Edition)
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Bad
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Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream and Other Delights
It's hard to believe (in today's world) that in the past people were into pop music that was entirely instrumental. Often times I'll show friends an amazing instrumental piece and they'll call it boring. Other times I'll show them this and they'll ask me why I'm into elevator music. The thing is, they don't realize what they're missing out on. Herb Alpert is a Grammy-winning, Top 10 artist who can really play the easy listening. If you're into lounge and easy listening, and you don't have this, you're not into lounge and easy listening.
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5,000 Visits
Just a quick thank you for all 5,000+ visits we've gotten here. It took longer than I'd hoped to get there, but we got there! So thanks for the first 5,000 and here's to the next 5,000. Keep coming back!
Tim Barry - Rivanna Junction
Tim Barry may be the lead singer of the hardcore band Avail, but that doesn't mean he can only write good hardcore songs. His first solo full length is an excellent album, full of the same honest songwriting that you'd find in any of the best Avail songs. Comprising mainly of acoustic, southern-tinged folk songs, this album is stripped down folk punk. I say folk punk not because he sounds like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or early Against Me (he could certainly lead a band like that though) but because this is unfiltered aggression through an acoustic setting.
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Sonny Clark - Dial "S" For Sonny
Why are there many greats that die so young? Sonny Clark was a brilliant jazz pianist who undoubtedly would have gone on to a long and successful career. He is often regarded as the quintessential hard bop pianist, who died in 1963 at the age of 31. It is often stated that he never played a bad recording throughout his career, and each album is a jazz classic. Heard a track off of it on the way home today two days ago(!) and just had to get it.
Again, had this ready before and some stuff came up (like the fact that it didn't download until last night (???)).
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A bunch of Swedish Death Metal
I'm on real metal kick lately. Maybe that's why the Facebook quiz told me that for my RPG class I was a Dark Knight (no, not Batman). Anyways, after seeing a really intense book about Swedish death metal I asked the good people of waffles (specifically the "Waffles metal heads" thread) to recommend me some swedish death. And this is the result. I couldn't find everything they recommended (I'm still looking for a few albums, and I haven't gotten around to most of their doom recs either). But the Swedes seem to have a knack for making particularly brutal and evil death metal, which is surprising because Swedish sounds like little kids making funny sounds (as opposed to Finnish which according to the lead singer of Lordi "Sounds fucking trollish"). Maybe that's why most of them sing in English. This is some seriously good stuff.
Afflicted - Prodigal Sun
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Entombed - Clandestine
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Entombed - Wolverine Blues
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Entombed - Left Hand Path
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Seance - Saltrubbed Eyes
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God Macabre - The Winterlong
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At the Gates - The Red In the Sky Is Ours
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Eucharist - Mirrorworlds
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Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
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Dismember - Indecent and Obscene
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Unleashed - Shadows In the Deep
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Pirates Of the Caribbean OSTs
You might think it's strange that first thing I post today is some intense sludge, and then I follow it up with the soundtrack to a Disney pirate movie. Fact is, that is pretty strange. Just goes to show you the diversity of all the stuff I've got. Besides, I can relate pirates and metal (Alestorm!), and I actually enjoyed the three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. These three discs were originally part of a box set that I grabbed off of LzTr but the fourth disc was just remixes and a couple tracks that weren't in the movie, not something I desperately needed. If you ever want to feel like a real pirate take a listen to these.
The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Dead Man's Chest
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At World's End
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Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkillers - 3 albums
Three seems to be the magic number when I post multiple albums by one artist. Sorry for the long delay, I haven't had all that much time to update this week.
Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkillers is a ska-punk band from Texas (now a trio, known as The Buzzkillers) who believes in the true spirit of DIY. They have a great sound and write great songs. Very similar stylings to Big D and the Kids Table's How It Goes and Good Luck albums. A great listen for any ska-punk fan.
Couldn't find the art.
Feel Good Tunes EP
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Live, Try, and Die
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The Beach Front EP
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MC Lars - The Graduate
I must admit that the only reason I know MC Lars exists is because I noticed he was on tour with the Aquabats last year (I was so disappointed that they came nowhere near me). The best way to describe his style of hip hop is if the Aquabats put out some really nerdy hip hop. That's all I can think of when I listen to him. Honestly, that's exactly what this is. He lacks any real talent, but that can be ignored when you can't stop laughing listening to "The Roommate From Hell" or "Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock" (which sounds like a cheesy version of a Big D and the Kids Table song (it's not)).
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(I've had this update almost ready for almost 2 days, my stupid WiFi is messed up again)
LTJ Bukem - Journey Inwards
It took LTJ Bukem ten years to release an album of his own, one all to himself. He churned out compilations and singles through Good Looking/Looking Good, each one just as fantastic as the next. Even the epic Logical Progression Level 1 was only mixed by Bukem, containing a few songs by him and even more by his labelmates. This is an album in true Bukem style, jazzy and more an instrumentalist album with midtempo breaks instead of something along the lines of an Aphex Twin release. This album is very similar to the Amon Tobin album Bricolage. If you've ever heard that album and liked it, this album is just as good, probably better.
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Black Sabbath - 5 albums
The mighty Black Sabbath! No explanation needed for this one, just realized I didn't have these albums and grabbed them off waffles. Seriously, if you don't know who Black Sabbath is, where have you been for the past 30+ years?
In no order:
Volume 4
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Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
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Heaven and Hell
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Master of Reality
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Sabotage
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album art included in almost all .rars
Mordicus - Dances From Left
The name of this album would imply that you would actually be able to dance to it. Really, the only thing this album is good for is to headbang until you get whiplash so bad you can't move your neck for a week. I suppose that track titles like "Unholy Wrath" and "A Thorn In Holy Flesh" and the band being called "Mordicus" might tell you that. I really enjoy this album, it's as if Metallica had brutal growl vocals, and played more thrash with their "Black Album"-type arrangements.
Check out two other reviews here:
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=28734
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Darc Mind - Symptomatic of a Greater Ill
One of waffles' hidden gems.
Review (stolen from waffles S9S):
Let's say you're looking for some serious expansion of your hip-hop collection. You've covered all the classics; heard all the J5, Public Enemy, and such, but need a rest from Kanye West. You need to get yourself some Anticon - an unconventional record label that works more as a "collective" of artists who work very close together on all sorts of musical and non-musical projects. If you want to look for another sound in hip-hop, then give this a spin.
Anticon is set up with the distinctive purpose of counteracting the more mainstream variant of hip-hop. Think of it as a sort of Ninja Tune, only the artists are a more tight-knit lot. The label nurtures the works of artists like Odd Nosdam, Alias and Why?. If you shop around a bit for Anticon artists, you'll find that it isn't easy to brute force them into the hip-hop category - and that's a good thing if you ask me. One album that falls well into the hip-hop genre is Symptomatic of a Greater Ill by Darc Mind.
The people at Anticon decided to finally release this gem in 2006 - I say finally because Darc Mind made the album back in the mid 90's. However, their current label folded and the release was canceled. Unfortunately, Darc Mind weren't able to find a label to release the album in subsequent years. There seemed to be no room or interest for an innovative album of the same caliber as something like Jeru the Damaja's 1994 release The Sun Rises in the East. But now, after almost a decade, the album of Darc Mind was released in 2006 for the enjoyment of all. In my opinion, just to get you started, the first song on the album you should listen to is "Visions of a Blur". After that, it becomes much easier to get as hooked on the album as I have become!
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New feature!!! Browse by quality.
So you can now browse the files by quality! They are marked with an underscore (_) before the quality (ie. V0, 128, 192, etc). They are all mp3, if I ever upload something in FLAC (unlikely) then it would be marked as _flac. If I couldn't remember what the quality was then I did not mark it.
Cool.
Various - The Big Gundown: Reggae Inspired by Spaghetti Westerns
Review (stolen from KG user kuruyacya):
The Big Gundown is a wicked compilation of late 60s and early 70s reggae songs that have been inspired by classic spaghetti western movies! This is fantastic stuff that's had us wearing our stetsons and skanking 'round the office all day!
Of all the cinematic genres, it was the Hollywood Westerns that captured the imaginations of the young Jamaicans the most, and the island's record producers were quick to cash in with ska classic s such as "Gun Fever", "Tall in the Saddle", "Vera Cruz", and "Lawless Street". However, in the mid-sixties, Italian movie directors such a Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Sollima deconstructed their favourite movie genre and invested it with a new realism, and so the Italian Westerns took on their own identity. The grit, the dirt, the sweat, the scenery and above all the relentless, merciless violence made a huge impression on cinema audiences and especially in Jamacia, where, as legend has it they were eventually banned as a response to local rude boys joining the gunplay and shooting a the screens!
Funnily enough, none of these reggae tributes to spaghetti westerns actually cover the music from the movies they took their titles from, rather the producers and musicians attempted to recreate the brooding, violent atmosphere of the movies and add a new dimension to what may have turned out to be a commercially average track.
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Various - Experimental Music of Japan (1957-67)
Experimental music is hard to describe. For one thing, it's very subjective. Just because two people think that experimental music is cool doesn't mean that they'll enjoy the same pieces. I say this because that is the case with this album. You're either going to love it or hate it.
Listening to this album makes you think you should be surrounded by aliens who are about to probe your insides, because that seems like the only thing that could make the sounds you're hearing.
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Gimp - Smile for Macavity
This is similar to Impact Unit and SOA. Not in the sense of musical style, but in the fact that the singer of this small band would go on and do great things. Tomas Kalnoky (age 15) wrote and sang for the East Brunswick, New Jersey based punk band. His excellence and fame in the ska scene is foreshadowed on this rare punk tape that includes the track "Supernothing" which Kalnoky would later re-record with both Catch 22 and Streetlight Manifesto. Definitely cool to hear Tomas at such a young age with this band. This is the only album they ever released.
(couldn't find the art)
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Joe Jackson - 3 albums
OinkPlus comes through again. I seriously love it. Actually, the original inspiration for this post came from AllMusic's album of the day. I looked up Joe Jackson's Beat Crazy on waffles and checked out the facts. Similar artists: Elvis Costello and the Attractions, XTC, The Tubes, Prefab Sprout, The Cars, The The. I like all of those groups. It was the fact that Elvis Costello was at the top of the list, and mentioned in the bio that really convinced me to get these three albums.
Seriously, the similarity of the two cannot be understated. If you love Costello, you'll love Jackson.
Tag explanation: He really is power pop, but often referred to as "punk", and Beat Crazy is very reggae influenced.
1979 - Look Sharp!
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1979 - I'm the Man
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1980 - Beat Crazy
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Mike Birbiglia - 3 albums
Mike Birbiglia is a funny guy. I downloaded his stuff because the OinkPlus Greasemonkey script said he was like Patton Oswalt. After listening to some of his stuff, I can see why. They have an EXTREMELY similar delivery, but the jokes Mike Birbiglia tells are a whole lot less nerdy, more along the lines of Daniel Tosh. No matter who he reminds me of, these three albums are definitely worth a listen. If you only get one of them, be sure that it's Two Drink Mike, that seems to be his best. If there was one you didn't need, it's probably My Secret Public Journal, there's some pretty weak stuff on there.
Dog Years - Download
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Two Drink Mike - Download
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The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
The Electric Prunes' I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) is a garage rock classic. For those of you who don't know, garage rock is (mostly) American rock during the 60s and early 70s that was heavily influenced by the mod rock in England. Groups of this genre and proto-punk bands are often lumped into the same category.
This album showcases the group's talent, as they were only allowed to record two of their own tunes, because David Hassinger, who does a great job producing here, didn't know what kind of material to have the band play!
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DJ Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
Ugh, 4 days without an update. There was just nothing that I wanted to check out (oddly enough) and I didn't feel like looking for something I already had to share. Well, thankfully I found Danger Mouse's mashup of Jay-Z Black Album and the Beatles White Album (hence the title). I'd heard tracks off of this a million times before, but never bothered to download it. It just popped into my head while I was staring at different categories on waffles. Anyways, this is a really cool album, Danger Mouse has got a great talent for picking songs and samples that go well together.
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woo! my first hip hop update!
Various - The History of Space Age Pop Vols. 1-3
For those of you looking for something like synth-pop, hate to bum you out, but we're going way back, to the precursor to modern ambient and the like.
Stolen from Waffles, all credit goes to the original author:
"Far above the islands of savages and exotic geishas, lies a new frontier. As Exotica displayed an infatuation with the "other," the late 50s had an infatuation with the future. This relationship is best exemplified through music by the style known as "Space Age Pop." Unlike the sociological dystopia seen in contemporary culture, the early 50's had an extremely optimistic, if not unrealistic expectation for the future. The "Space Race" had America envisioning their houses on the moon and how much time a robot maid would actually save. Space Age Pop encapsulated this optimism and imagined the future sounds of music. Early Science Fiction films share a common trait: their ability to imagine a futuristic world was limited by the technology available at the time. Similarly, the future of music, Space Age Pop, was a hyper-spun version of Lounge. Extremely upbeat and modern, Space Age Pop is the sounds of flying cars and metallic uniforms. While the combination of strings, vibraphones and bongos was crowned the future sounds of "hip," somewhere and somehow, this genre failed to make it past the 60's."
I'll probably post more of this stuff, it's really great.
Volume 1 - Melodies and Mischief
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Volume 2 - Mallets In Wonderland
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Volume 3 - The Stereo Action Dimension
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Shivkumar Sharma - Scintillating Sounds of the Santoor
At the end of Ravi Shankar's "An Introduction to Indian Music"(from the album Sounds of India) he says that, "The Western listener will appreciate [Indian] music more if they listen with an open and relaxed mind". This is very true. You cannot go into Indian music, classical or contemporary, expecting what you would from western music (Well, you could in contemporary Indian music). Anyways, a great example of classical Indian music, with only 3 very long, exceptional tracks.
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Charlie Christian - The Genius of the Electric Guitar
After Charlie Christian, every jazz guitarist for the next 30 years sounded like a relative or a copycat of him. Originally a pianist, he picked up the guitar when he became a student of Eddie Durham, the inventor of the amplified guitar. He could play the guitar like it was a saxophone, smooth and swinging. Charlie Christian played with legends like Benny Goodman, Thelonius Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie. However his time as an up-and-coming star was short lived. He died of tuberculosis in 1942 at the age of 25. This compilation showcases his brilliance, and is a must-have for any jazz fan, and even more of a must-have for anyone who is a fan of jazz guitar specifically.
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A Clockwork Orange OST
A Clockwork Orange, the film that brought Anthony Burgess's frightening and almost impossible to understand novel of the same name to life. A bleak portrait of the future, where teenagers roam in gangs, attacking old, homeless drunks, break into homes and rape the women. It tells the story of Alex, leader of a gang of "droogs", who is a juvenile delinquent, and is sent to prison after the murder of a woman (with a giant sculpture of a penis no less). He undergoes experimental treatment, that makes him gag at the sight of violence, sex, or anything else considered vile and bad by those in charge. This leads those who performed the procedures to tell him he is "cured" In the end, after breaking almost every bone in his body, his mind reverts to its previous state and he leaves us with the line, "I was cured all right." But without its soundtrack, this film would not deliver this harrowing story nearly as well. Featuring tracks from the likes of Alex's dear Ludwig Van (Beethoven), Rossini, Elgar, and Gene Kelly, this is quite an eclectic mix, especially when you hear Henry Purcell's ominous "Title Music From A Clockwork Orange".
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Impact Unit - My Friend The Pit
Ever heard of a guy named Dicky Barret? You should have. He is the lead singer for the multi-platinum ska-punk/skacore band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. But before that, he was the singer for a relatively unknown Boston hardcore band called Impact Unit. Pretty average classic hardcore, but very cool to hear Dicky's distinctive voice from before anybody knew who he was. From what I know, this is all Impact Unit ever put out.
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Photek - Form And Function
A compilation of sorts, this album contains all six singles from Photek Records, tracks that made a name for Rupert Parkes in the jungle community, but only four of them are originals, the rest being remixes and two new productions. Despite the lack of originals on this album, there is no lack of originality. This album has excellent production, but it isn't overwhelming sonically, at times one would even say it's extremely sparse. This is right up there with Goldie's Timeless as one of my favorite drum 'n' bass/jungle albums.
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Louis Armstrong - The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
Everything the great Louis Armstrong did with the Hot Five and Hot Seven groups in the late 1920's.
4 Disc Set
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Max Levine Ensemble - 3 albums
The other night I was on What (if you don't know, you don't need to) looking under the tag "folk punk". I started by going to a band I knew I liked, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb. That led me to another band, Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains, who despite being broken up, are AMAZING. That band led me to the Max Levine Ensemble. I expected to hear folk punk, but it turns out it was pop-punk with some ska-punk. A pleasant surprise. I suppose they were tagged as folk punk because they are on Plan-It-X Records, but that's the only thing. The lead singer has a voice that should be in a folk punk band, high and nasal sounding, but they make it work. Imagine Against All Authority, if they lightened up a little bit.
Chach, Cops, and Donuts
Compilation of their first two albums plus bonus unreleased content.
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How to Build An Intergalactic Time Travel Machine
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OK Smarty Pants
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Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
I love the sound of a saxophone. It always sounds so good when leading a jazz band. Especially if it's in the hands of someone like Sonny Rollins. A brilliant, talented, and inventive player, Sonny Rollins is a jazz legend (and possibly the best jazz saxophonist) for a reason. With a career spanning over 50 years, it's hard to find a place to start. This album is Sonny doing some of his best ever, and is one of those albums that gets a first time listener to become a full on jazz fan.
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The National - 3 albums
The National's critically acclaimed 2007 release Boxer, is one of my favorite albums. Ever since the first time I heard songs like "Fake Empire" and "Ada" I've thought to myself, "I should get the rest of their albums." Two years later, after having that same thought over and over again, I finally did. If you've heard Boxer, which was piano-heavy and stunningly beautiful, you're in for more of a surprise than newcomers to the band. The band's other albums have a similar sound but are much more indie rock, relying more on guitar. This in no way means that the albums aren't good, because they deserve every ounce of the critical acclaim they received.
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Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
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Let me know what you think of the new look! I like it a lot, but it still needs work to be just right.
I've customized this one quite a bit, and I haven't had a chance to play around with the HTML much, but I'll get to that later.
Egghead - 2 Albums
I've combed the net looking for anything by these guys. Great pop-punk with an intentionally nerdy feel, they're one of the best bands I can almost guarantee you've never heard of.
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Here are the only two albums I found (without slsk I never would have found them):
Dumb Songs For Smart People
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Causing A Disturbance
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Fugazi - Red Medicine
More loose and experimental than it's precursors, Red Medicine is another fantastic album by Ian Mackaye's (Minor Threat) Fugazi. Staying true to Mackaye's diehard punk ethics, this mid-90's gem perfectly criticizes the boom of bands that would get signed amongst the ska/pop-punk craze. Dark, angry, and humorous at the same time, this album takes 90's punk and kicks its ass.
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