Flip Your Wig is moving!

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!

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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