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Lobby => Music and Recordings => Topic started by: shipsupt on May 20, 2013, 02:56:58 PM
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I was streaming Spotify at work today, as I do, and I popped up the Billboard Top Charts app to see "what's hot"! I scrolled down to the "Rock Songs" chart and this is what I found:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/shipsupt/rocksongs_zps55d8f66d.jpg)
I like several of these songs, so I've got no axe to grind, but this feels list feels like its filled with more Pop and Folk than rock!? What gives, aren't there any good rock bands out there making good music? Have I lost touch with what a "rock" band is!?
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No, it appears that Billboard has.
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Rock died after the "happy" rock of the 90s, i.e. Third Eye Blind, Weezer, Matchbox 20, Creed, etc. killed it.
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Not many bands that can say they just play Rock anymore.
If you want good ol fashion rock n roll then you should give Clutch a shot. They're the only band I know of still making music that just makes a damn good rock song.
Their new album Earth Rocker does just that.
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There's plenty of good rock still being played. You just have to do a little digging.
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There is plenty of good Rock out there, it's just a question of finding it. You have to look to the independent music blogs to find a flavour you like. Before the demise of Megaupload they were legion. But only a few of the best still function.
I'm a big stoner/desert rock, doom, drone and sludge fan. One of my favourite 'blogs' is http://www.stonerobixxx.net/ (http://www.stonerobixxx.net/). After riaa, this guy now mainly supports new talent as well as some majors who still promote releases through him due to his following.
He like others have tons of links to other like-minded blogs where you may find something you like.
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People looking for rock should rediscover some older bands/artists as well. There's a LOT of good stuff that you may have never heard of before which still is worth digging for as well. New stuff tends to produce far fewer gems/nuggets than before since most of it is rehashed stuff. That's not to say it's all bad, just that the bulk of it is unoriginal to me and always leads me to the thought of "I've heard this before somewhere" about 8 of 10 times.
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Yeah, a lot of good stoner rock / sludge floating around like Boris and True Widow.
More psych-tinged stuff like Motorpsycho, Circle, The Psychic Paramount, etc.
Then there's more garagey type stuff like Thee Oh Sees, Fresh & Onlys, Kurt Vile, Ty Segall, etc.
And yes, older more obscure stuff to discover like Eroc, Bachdenkle, Kaleidoscope, 50 ft. Hose, etc. etc etc.
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It's the same as most other music that happened to get popular- elevated signal to noise ratio, too low entry fee (a double edged blade) and so on...
My problem with the majority of popular music isn't that it isn't rock, it's a commercial venture, therefore highly predictable and boring. It largely promotes values that I've grown to despise and it never ever dares to challenge me. I'd rather listen to silence than a shitty TOP40 radio station that has these 40 songs running on shuffle and a bad joke of a DJ (they are called dj's around here; if I'm not mistaken in English speaking countries you usually call the radio hosts or something). About 10 years ago a radio dj would play the tunes he would have found scouring record shops and other foreign radio stations- i.e. he was an opinion leader who would educate the masses and display his developed taste of music and esoteric knowledge of music trivia. Now the marketing team compiles a safe playlist to keep the average 32yr old single mother of 1,4 children interested and listening to whatever the crap peddlers happen to be saying.
Therefore everyone who actually values music must do the digging for themselves.
Rock is dead, God is in the TV.
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Well, we called the DJ's in the US as well, but they only ones that had the power to decide what gets played were programs on after 2am, college stations, public radio, or some sh_t small station that couldn't broadcast across the street. Any significant commercial station, even ten years ago, had a play list that "came down from management".
a DJ (they are called dj's around here; if I'm not mistaken in English speaking countries you usually call the radio hosts or something). About 10 years ago a radio dj would play the tunes he would have found scouring record shops and other foreign radio stations- i.e. he was an opinion leader who would educate the masses and display his developed taste of music and esoteric knowledge of music trivia. Now the marketing team compiles a safe playlist to keep the average 32yr old single mother of 1,4 children interested and listening to whatever the crap peddlers happen to be saying.
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Same here, there are some really well made shows but usually they get aired when no one is listening. Video won't kill the radio star, iPods and Spotify will.
We used to have programme where our prime minister would come to put on obscure 60-70ies prog and psych rock, that was awesomesauce. It was on one of the biggest radio stations and they somehow stashed him on Saturday evenings when there's not much folks listening. Once the guy used his influence as a prime minister and got himself to play drums in concert together with The Queen. To tell the truth he did play pretty well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-9z3vrbrfA
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Btw, thanks for pointing out Stonerobixxx, Numbersixx! Now downloading ALL the monthly compilations!
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I guess I don't consider Stoner, Doom, and Drone rock. I lump them in with Metal.
Although Baroness' Yellow & Green Record is amazing Stoner Rock. I highly recommend it.
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"Stoner" isn't really a genre so much as a sensibility or style. It can be applied to metal or rock, and there's more of a sliding continuum. Stuff like Electric Wizard is definitely in the metal camp, whereas stuff like Church of Misery and Greenmachine definitely blur the lines.
Comets on Fire, Dead Meadow, and Bardo Pond however are in the rock camp.
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I agree with you guys. I feel like all the "rock" fans started listening to metal once the radio crap took over. Whether you consider metal a subgenre of rock or not.
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Maybe we have to re-introduce Chuck Berry to the world again and throw in some Dick Dale for good measure. School Of Rock is not enough for an introduction i.m.h.o.
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Try a little of this. Emergency rations for the rock-starved.
http://www.amazon.com/Subject-To-Change-Without-Notice/dp/B008DDC7X4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369096170&sr=8-1&keywords=jimmy+herring
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I agree with you guys. I feel like all the "rock" fans started listening to metal once the radio crap took over. Whether you consider metal a subgenre of rock or not.
If alternative rock is rock, then metal sure as hell is as well.
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Radio went corporate thereby forever perverting what was once the go to source for new rock acts.
We went underground to hunt them down for ourselves
The internet happened so now we can share those finds
Jools Holland fragmented the audience into cliques when every thing that came out of his mouth instantly became a new sub genre.
We obsessively apply "labels" so haphazardly that any musician who can play more than one instrument is called a cross over artist.
Generation ADD came along and any music that is more than a week old was deemed old school and not worth listening to causing the roots of rock to be lost to an entire generation.
Stick with the internet, subscribe to every "What are you listening to now" thread you can. Avoid radio and any streaming nonesense. Make you own choices and enjoy listening to what you want, not what they have tried to push.
Oh Yeah, Daft Punk actually really sucks. It's just that no one will risk being uncool by admitting it. :))
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Oh Yeah, Daft Punk actually really sucks. It's just that no one will risk being uncool by admitting it. :))
I would argue that hating on Daft Punk is the epitome of aging hipster cool. For reference, compare Pitchfork's review of Discovery back in the hipster heyday(i.e. in the pre- "hipster as a pejorative" early 2000s) vs the current review of Random Access Memories.
I am going to say hipster 5 times in my next post.
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Oh Yeah, Daft Punk actually really sucks. It's just that no one will risk being uncool by admitting it. :))
I would argue that hating on Daft Punk is the epitome of aging hipster cool. For reference, compare Pitchfork's review of Discovery back in the hipster heyday(i.e. in the pre- "hipster as a pejorative" early 2000s) vs the current review of Random Access Memories.
I am going to say hipster 5 times in my next post.
I don't hate em, just think that in 5 years I'll be hearing RAM over the pa at walmart:)
Are you working your way back to Beatnik?
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Believe it or not, before the hipster term started getting thrown around, my mom actually told me: "you're starting to look bohemian like your beatnik friends"
hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster... and that should make five
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Believe it or not, before the hipster term started getting thrown around, my mom actually told me: "you're starting to look bohemian like your beatnik friends"
hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster... and that should make five
Outstanding! Now off to buy a beret to complete the ensemble.
Be a step up from having to look at 70's retro all over the place.
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I guess I don't consider Stoner, Doom, and Drone rock. I lump them in with Metal.
So Kyuss are metal then? facepalm
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Kyuss is Rock, a different kind of Rock though. 'Stoner' does not quite cover their sound though. 'Desert' comes closer but in short: Kyuss = Kyuss. I am very partial...
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Kyuss is Rock, a different kind of Rock though. 'Stoner' does not quite cover their sound though. 'Desert' comes closer but in short: Kyuss = Kyuss. I am very partial...
Kyuss broke the mould, set it on fire, then pissed on it, drove it out into the middle of the Palm Desert and buried it. :)p1
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I guess I don't consider Stoner, Doom, and Drone rock. I lump them in with Metal.
So Kyuss are metal then? facepalm
My genre classification is usually set by the bar for each sub genre. Ie. favorite Stoner is Sleep, favorite Drone is Sunn O)))...etc.
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Where would folks here classify Wilco?
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The line between doom and sludge metal and rock is very blurry, much more so than other metal genres, though you could make an argument that some "post" metal could also be classified as rock. Oh, and expecting good music on Billboard charts or the radio is like expecting good music to win at the Grammys. Total waste of time. Some listening suggestions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMz3DmVUHQI&list=PLD372C3F4C82D2AFF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBFyjmdHd74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-1clERwitY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgdqizS5wCA&list=PL0B1E1A9AABD32501
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I guess I don't consider Stoner, Doom, and Drone rock. I lump them in with Metal.
So Kyuss are metal then? facepalm
My genre classification is usually set by the bar for each sub genre. Ie. favorite Stoner is Sleep, favorite Drone is Sunn O)))...etc.
Your reasoning is an Association Fallacy...
My favourite Stoner band is Sleep.
Sleep is Stoner/Metal.
Therefore all Stoner bands are Metal.
My favourite animal is a dog
Dogs have four legs
Therefore all cats are dogs.
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There is this cartoon series called CatDog. Maybe he had inspiration...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/CatDog.jpeg)
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I guess I don't consider Stoner, Doom, and Drone rock. I lump them in with Metal.
So Kyuss are metal then? facepalm
My genre classification is usually set by the bar for each sub genre. Ie. favorite Stoner is Sleep, favorite Drone is Sunn O)))...etc.
Your reasoning is an Association Fallacy...
My favourite Stoner band is Sleep.
Sleep is Stoner/Metal.
Therefore all Stoner bands are Metal.
My favourite animal is a dog
Dogs have four legs
Therefore all cats are dogs.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying it's the first place my head goes when I think of 'Stoner' music. So I associate it with Metal when I'm talking about it. It's not a permanent mind set, it's just the mode my head goes into when I talk about 'Stoner' music. It assumes we're talking about Metal.
It's also probably because I don't have enough experience with other Stoner, Drone, or Doom bands. I'd love more suggestions as the genres have very quickly grown on me. The only one I've gone deeper into is Drone, and I'd definitely still call that Metal so far.
None of this really matters though. I try to avoid genre arguments like the plague as a fan of Electronic music and Metal (the two worst genres for 'subgenre argument dickery').
As Dave said, the line is really blurred here. Hell on any given day I could call 'Dopesmoker' a 'Rock' album and it wouldn't really be a far stretch.
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I have to agree that there is no need to absolutely define genres or place a band in one basket only. Who really cares? At best I see it helping to identify bands we might want to check out... Have you heard that new low-Fi electronic stoner band... It might make me say, hey I like all that, I might like them.
Kyuss is a good example, I wouldn't box them in as a metal band, but Wretch is a metal album!
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I have to agree that there is no need to absolutely define genres or place a band in one basket only. Who really cares? At best I see it helping to identify bands we might want to check out... Have you heard that new low-Fi electronic stoner band... It might make me say, hey I like all that, I might like them.
Kyuss is a good example, I wouldn't box them in as a metal band, but Wretch is a metal album!
You got me. When did metal STOP being rock?????
I didn't get the memo :'(
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Morbid and gentlemen/ladies. You are all right. In the scheme of things it dosen't amount to a hill of beans what is called what, as long as we are sharing music and enjoying the journey.
'Twas a professional weakness on my part. Just like this site I measured an analysed the statement, found it faulty and couldn't let it go.
So this is me walking the plank walk the plank2
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Why would we want to feed you to the sharks?
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No one is walking the plank around here for being passionate about music!! :)p10
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Did we kill Stonerobixxx?
Edit: Phew it's back on!
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Btw, thanks for pointing out Stonerobixxx, Numbersixx! Now downloading ALL the monthly compilations!
These are all the comps I have. If you want them PM/email me and we'll sort out how to get them to you.
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag127/numbersixx6/ScreenShot2013-05-25at132752.jpg)
That's about 18 hours worth.
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Some stuff I've really enjoyed from this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQqnt67ai0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrCzNsni-Fc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw22xtYw-I4
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Really need to get that Votum album. Loved what I heard so far.
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Yeah it's great. Not as varied as Riverside's latest and there are a few instances with harsh metal vocals, but a really solid album overall. "Cobwebs" is really the only song I think that's definitely metal as opposed to rock. The others could be either.
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Here's some bands I'd like to share. Sungrazer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVkCo0x4tk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVkCo0x4tk)
Rotor (the German band)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZF2tr-3jyc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZF2tr-3jyc)
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Okay -- so I don't listen to metal AT ALL, but I really really like this new Deafheaven album. Can any metalheads recommend me some similar stuff that I might dig?
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I think bands like Tool or Porcupine Tree are good entry points into the genre. Maybe not metal in a pure sense, but both are what I would consider "hard" progressive rock. Maybe not "hard" enough to be metal though. headbang
If you feel like you're already past that point, I'd check out ISIS. Oceanic is one of my favorite albums of all time, and the rest of their discography is super solid. Some of my other favorite metal bands are Mastodon (I like their latter stuff more), Baroness, Liturgy, Kvelertak.
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Thanks for the rec's. I did use to listen to Tool in high school, but haven't heard the other ones. I'll check out Oceanic immediately. :)p5
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http://youtu.be/y8Dpt7TI9q0
http://youtu.be/k7Yb6QSUtpY
http://youtu.be/X7dHoEmUtIs
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http://www.youtube.com/v/BmyqAv96OE8
Earthless – Sonic Prayer Flower Travelin' Man
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http://www.youtube.com/v/myXZSAQ_unY
Sass Jordan High Road Easy
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http://www.youtube.com/v/o3bnS3JuLBk
A British band I used to listen to back in 1995.
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Earthless new album...
(http://i41.tinypic.com/2e1synn.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/v/-aVqVcZAiAc
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Wow! That's a must buy. Epic.
Gotta love a rock allbum with 4 songs; 1 over 5 mintes, 2 over 14 minutes, and 1 over 30! :)p1
These guys do rock.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/ttEIRI0s4pE
Karma to Burn
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(http://i43.tinypic.com/24o4sg8.jpg)
Rotor 4
http://www.youtube.com/v/3K1SKNZ33vU
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https://www.youtube.com/v/tUx2QligOkM
Lo-Pan Bird Of Prey
From the album Salvador
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Earthless new album...
(http://i41.tinypic.com/2e1synn.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/v/-aVqVcZAiAc
Thanks headbang headbang headbang
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http://www.youtube.com/v/FkdKLScgGDo
Boris Naki Kyoku from the album Akuma No Uta
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I whole heartedly second Boris and Earthless. Especially Boris' Flood and the first Earthless full-length which is IMHO more epic than their latest album (and includes a cover of Groundhogs' "Cheery Red" ...!). If you enjoy them, I also recommend checking out:
The Psychic Paramount's Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural**
**sound quality isn't great --- best listened to on crappy speakers and not headphones).
Greenmachine's Archive Of Rotten Blues
Major Stars' Syntoptikon
Bardo Pond's Yntra
Motorpsycho's Black Hole / Blank Canvas
Comets On Fire's Avatar
White Hill's Heads On Fire
Also, if you want some LONG psych freak-out fodder from Neptune, check out one of the all time greats:
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno's IAO Chant From The Cosmic Inferno
One track. An hour-long cover of Gong's "Master Builder."
Three really great psych rock releases from this year:
Dead Meadow's Warble Womb
Wooden Shjips' Back To Land
Endless Boogie's Long Island
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Thanks for the recommendations MF. Out of that list Greenmachine stands out for me. The only place I could find all three albums was iTunes. The same thing happened when I got into Japan's Tha Blue Herb. I could use Discogs, but I spend way too much there.
White Hills, Motopsycho and Comets On Fire are also on my to buy list.
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Roadsaw See You In Hell
http://www.youtube.com/v/CK8pzyDN1-M
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I can always count on sixx to delivery some easy listening rock and roll for Christmas! :)p1
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Ok. I think it's time to nudge this in a slightly different direction.
(http://i39.tinypic.com/wuexzp.jpg)
Rival Schools United By Fate
https://www.youtube.com/v/DcRt7kkzcxM
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(http://i43.tinypic.com/2pqkks1.jpg)
Death From Above 1979 You're A Woman I'm A Machine
http://www.youtube.com/v/EBtYekFzfAI
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(http://i39.tinypic.com/2n9avz5.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/v/x-B_1wqQNH0
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http://www.youtube.com/v/VPmb_We4dKg?hl=en_US&version=3
I've been really diggin' The Black Angels recently. It's like The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and Sabbath all had a baby... somehow
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(http://i43.tinypic.com/200eoev.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/v/M7QSkI6My1g
(click resolution up to 720)
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Sorry for the double post, I put this up in the new release thread, but I have to pop it up here too because I'm digging it!! Rock is alive...
(http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/albums/20154/homepage_large.75b72f95.jpg)
Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
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https://www.youtube.com/v/rOAvgHULfuE
Fuzz- Live In San Francisco (full album)
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https://www.youtube.com/v/6Jr-8XrIfiA
Motorpsycho - Behind The Sun (Full Album)
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http://www.youtube.com/v/gDe2VicoxbM
From the album Trails and Passes (2014) by Greenleaf
More Cowbell...
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http://www.youtube.com/v/c5Cb5uXRSeY
Jack White Just One Drink
Come back Mick J, all is forgiven.
Some regions will need to proxy.
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(http://i60.tinypic.com/29nxtte.jpg)
Hedvig Mollestad Trio
http://www.youtube.com/v/S-Tej94IsbQ
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If this is where rock is going, I'm all for it! headbang
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From Boris' new album Noise...
http://www.youtube.com/v/GndQg8SsU1o
Note; All the tracks aren't like this. They flit between styles. This is the standout track for me though.
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"Rock & Roll" is more or less dead (thankfully), but rock/metal is still alive and well, you just need to turn off the radio, head on over to Sputnikmusic.com, and search around for the good stuff.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/3qdFpXNh8IY
Menhir - Mt. Aloha
Not taking themselves too seriously, but they still rock.
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https://www.youtube.com/v/OLrNV9wKv6k
Opeth Voice Of Treason
From their new album Pale Communion . Is this their Kashmir? Inquiring minds want to know.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/wRHyluN9cSE
From the album Green by Palmanana. Available for free on Bandcamp...
http://palmanana.bandcamp.com/album/green (http://palmanana.bandcamp.com/album/green)
I chucked these guys a few shekels for their efforts. It seemed rude not to.
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Opeth Voice Of Treason
DR11. Well done Opeth once again.
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I really love the new Opeth album, and for many reasons. Er, I mean...haven't heard it yet since it isn't officially out!...
"Moon Above, Sun Below" is my favorite so far. It's sort of like the perfect marriage of "Heritage" and something from, say, "Still Life" (trending towards the "Heritage" sound).
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https://www.youtube.com/v/YZnR5Nj1Tx8
New album from Wo Fat The Conjuring
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New solo album from John Garcia (Kyuss, Slo Burn, Unida, Hermano, Vista Chino)
(http://i60.tinypic.com/29m13yh.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/v/lA5pjOxR4kw
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The single sounds okay. Not convincing enough to buy the album on a whim.
The moment "Green Machine" gets a "Part II" with a band that plays desert rock as if it is the last day on earth I am interested.
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Wow, I must be showing my age when I say I can't identify with any of these albums as Rock. Gosh, come on Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Team up again, will ya?
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Wow, I must be showing my age when I say I can't identify with any of these albums as Rock. Gosh, come on Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Team up again, will ya?
Add Deep Purple too then. Their Mark II and Mark III line up were pretty legendary. Focus should also not be forgotten though...
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Mark II had it all...Ian's vocals, Ritchie at his best...too bad the idiots had to fight...
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Opeth Voice Of Treason
DR11. Well done Opeth once again.
HDTracks has a 24/96 copy up now. A very good sounding album (love the music too, though some will feel divided on that).
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I don't mind their new direction, but it sounds too similar to what Wilson is doing.
Also Royals by Lorde won VMA Best Rock Video. That's what happened to rock.
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I don't mind their new direction, but it sounds too similar to what Wilson is doing.
Also Royals by Lorde won VMA Best Rock Video. That's what happened to rock.
MTV has become what a Heineken is to a Chouffe, what grape juice is to a good merlot. MTV is no longer worthy of its name regarding its priorities. Do you even watch MTV? Just stop for your own good.
Bill Hicks' rants about the popular music industry come to mind...
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The name of this thread reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrHZ6u5_eYw
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I don't mind their new direction, but it sounds too similar to what Wilson is doing.
I certainly noticed elements that seemed to come straight from Wilson's latest solo album, which was another album I really liked. OTOH, I think Akerfeldt has a very distinct writing and composition style that sets them apart even when heavily pulling from outside influences. I also find Opeth to be more interesting and have more staying power...Wilson's stuff tends to get set aside for me after a while, where as I still listen to "Ghost Reveries" (first Opeth album I heard) on a daily basis after several years. To each his own, and I'm a known Akerfeldt fanboy.
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Opeth Voice Of Treason
DR11. Well done Opeth once again.
HDTracks has a 24/96 copy up now. A very good sounding album (love the music too, though some will feel divided on that).
Yes I saw. Will definitely be grabbing that.
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I was going to review the Foo Fighters new album but lost the will to live halfway through listening to it. Instead I bring a melting pot of cool weirdness...
http://www.youtube.com/v/-gOK9LjTtl8
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If the Foo Fighters let you down, how bad is it? Is it Chris Cornell bad or mainstream Rock (Nickelback!) bad? If it is the latter there still is hope...
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I was going to review the Foo Fighters new album but lost the will to live halfway through listening to it.
I was just thinking of checking it out... perhaps I'll skip it so I can retain my will to live! Thanks 6.
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If the Foo Fighters let you down, how bad is it? Is it Chris Cornell bad or mainstream Rock (Nickelback!) bad? If it is the latter there still is hope...
Ok in the interests of fairness, balance and masochism I've listed to the whole album. On the last track now.
Sonic Highways is a well recorded, well performed, anodyne slab of MOR rock. I'm renaming them Fighters Of The Stone Age after listening to tracks like Subterranean.
It's not that it's bad. It's the aural equivalent of being told by your doctor that all your food will now have to be liquidised into a bland pulp. If there's a style of music called Dinner Jazz, then this is Dinner Rock.
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I gave it a try today... it is quite polite. FF are in that phase where we'll all say they've lost their edge, and maybe that's true. This album is pre-approved to be piped into Starbucks.
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Has anyone lasted through all of the "new" Pink Floyd album, The Endless River? That's just a question, not a review or comment on the album. It's over an hour and only has one song with lyrics. Also, it was recorded in 1993. Might not qualify as new. :)p8
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Yup I've been listening to it in whole since it was released. It's not too shabby. There are definitely filler tracks, but as a whole I like it. My biggest qualm with it is that a lot of it sounds rehashed...basically like Division Bell (mainly Marooned) and On an Island, with a touch of SOYCD here and there.
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Just finished downloading it...seems a little meh....
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Here's the video for the one song with lyrics (last track, abridged version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezc4HdLGxg4
Probably my favorite track on the album, but not as good as their older stuff. You can definitely tell the lyrics were written by Polly (David's wife) which I'm not crazy about...Roger was an awesome lyricist. The backing vocals are catchy and the solo is nice.
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Yup I've been listening to it in whole since it was released. It's not too shabby. There are definitely filler tracks, but as a whole I like it. My biggest qualm with it is that a lot of it sounds rehashed...basically like Division Bell (mainly Marooned) and On an Island, with a touch of SOYCD here and there.
That makes sense since it was recorded for Division Bell as links between songs. They didn't use it....until now. Looks like I'll be giving it a spin.
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Makes me long for the old days of Pink Floyd. Too bad Waters and Gilmore can't seem to get it together. :)p2
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There's a lot of good rock today :D
Lastly I've seen those three bands in concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm-rb8k1HkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV__IDKFH8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOSxM0rNPM
And I definitely want to see Asteroid too !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl7nRxI7eTw
Kasabian make awesome stuff too :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBsQVP-Olmw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVTEqG9enEY
And I'll finish with The Black Keys :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZZUY32iCzU
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Fight Amp Hungry For Nothing
https://www.youtube.com/v/rr6F1Rxnw6w
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Maeth - Horse Funeral
http://maeth.bandcamp.com/album/horse-funeral (http://maeth.bandcamp.com/album/horse-funeral)
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https://www.youtube.com/v/AhmKeJ-h-No
Converge - Grim Heart/Black Rose
I did a search and I'm surprised I haven't posted this before. Although known as a Hardcore band this tune sticks out from their usual output as beautiful and striking one-off.
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I saw these dudes with Clutch last year...
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Quality grove-heavy stoner rock! headbang
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https://www.youtube.com/v/B48PFGpsaeI
Fatso Jetson Light yourself On Fire
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A new release for 2015
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Elder Lore
A really good album. I've just ordered a vinyl copy. All killer, no filler.
https://www.youtube.com/v/gJ2JKuIn8Bk
Elder - Spirit at Aphelion
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https://www.youtube.com/v/XdrCW7vAcyI
Lo-Pan - "Black Top Revelation"
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https://www.youtube.com/v/AhmKeJ-h-No
Converge - Grim Heart/Black Rose
I did a search and I'm surprised I haven't posted this before. Although known as a Hardcore band this tune sticks out from their usual output as beautiful and striking one-off.
Converge is on the forefront of music in general. "Jane Doe" is definitely a league above "No Heroes," though. I've yet to hear a better album than "Jane Doe" since its release in 2001. I would even go as far to suggest that it might be the absolute best album in all of modern music.
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Royal Thunder Crooked Doors
https://www.youtube.com/v/E8xZjEUERY8
Forget You