5 albums Revisited

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri May 09, 2003 5:07 pm

I picked up five CDs today, so this is pretty easy for me. What are the last five things you listened to?

Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug & Pint - Fifth album from Scottish mopers continues their trend of every album being better than the one before (except Philophobia, their second, I don't rate it very highly). Predictable lyrical content - lots of songs about going to discos on Ecstasy, fighting with girlfriends, being washed out and drunk, shitting oneself, watching television, etc. Musically the songs are much more driving and diverse, with electric guitars on several songs, strings, etc. A good starting point for new listeners, probably their most "accessible" album since their debut The Week Never Starts Round Here. Great cover which pokes fun/pays homage to Belle and Sebastian's album covers. I still can't figure out if B&S and Arab Strap are friends or enemies; the B&S song "The Boy With the Arab Strap" seems to be pretty anti, but both bands contributed to The Reindeer Section, so who knows?

Sloan - Pretty Together - Fifth album from the most popular band in Canada, or at least they were at one point. It continues the trend they started on Navy Blues, the album prior, of incorporating raw 70s rock sound into their incredibly precise pop soundscape. A couple songs actually sound like Black Sabbath crossed with AC/DC - no surprise, since many Canadian indie-rock bands have an odd AC/DC obsession. After all, didn't they proclaim on Navy Blues that "we're still cool, and Angus rules"? A great, great rock album that answers the unasked question "What if the Beatles and the Who were Canadian liberal arts majors?"

The Flaming Lips - The Day They Shot the Hole in the Jesus Egg - This is a 2-disc reissue of In a Priest Driven Ambulance, their fourth album, originally released in 1990. Rock critics often say that said album is their first "great" record. From the point of view of rock critics, I suppose that's true - in many ways you could say it's their first "serious effort" that hinted at the genius behind the garage-LSD-Butthole Surfers-meet-Pink Floyd wackiness of their first three (which have all also been reissued in one 3-disc set). Lots of rarities and b-sides and a retail price of $19 make it very much worth picking up, especially considering the remastered sound quality. In some ways it's a slightly boring album - because it's so straight-ahead rock compared to everything else they've done - but the sheer sentimental twang of shit like "Five Stop Mother Superior Rain" and "There You Are" makes up for it.

Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth and Ashes - I'm pretty sure this is their first album. At any rate, it's pure doomed gothic Death Country, driving guitars, Biblical references, whiskey, etc. One of the most tragically ignored bands I can think of. If you like local heroes Blackgrass, it's a darn safe bet you'd like the band that pretty much did it first (well, arguably, the Violent Femmes' "Country Death Song" is the first pop culture evidence of this sound, but that's just one song).

Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet - When you get right down to it and look back, Stereolab were never quite as good as anyone seemed to think. However, this album and the one before it - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements - are beautiful things, mostly because both feature driving and loud guitars rather than the beep-and-boop elevator music they settled into somewhere after Emperor Tomato Ketchup. Sure, they borrowed so shamelessly from Neu that it ought to be criminal, but when it sounds this good, it doesn't matter too much.

judas gnb · Post by **judas gnb** » Fri May 09, 2003 7:15 pm

stuck mojo-pigwalk
stuck mojo-rising
sickspeed-time is right to make a change
ozzy-no more tears
fozzy-fozzy

junkie christ · Post by **junkie christ** » Fri May 09, 2003 8:28 pm

1)afi - sing the sorrow
cant say enough good things about album....
2)godflesh - streetcleaner
thanks to that wonderful nemesis i now have a burned copy again of one of my alltime favorite albums......
this is the soundtrack of murder. period. the ulitmate album to beat someone too......
3)cradle of filth - damnation and a day
just bought it, havent made up my mind yet...... alot of it i like, some of it is really below the bar from what i expect from the non-blackmetal blackmetal band..... WAYYYYYYY to experimental for that mold, at least to me anyway.....
4)danzig / samhain - all albums, mix cd.
its me. this needs no explanation. bring up danzig around me. anytime. i immediately will like you. glenn himself has given me credit for being way too into his shit.....
5)elvis- mix cds
ahhhhhh its elvis........ a little less converstation is my idea of a wonderful bondage song........ heh.
runner up: joy division- mix cd
isolation baby.................

side note: ive also been listening to buttloads of cabaret mp3s and johnny cash but it said 5......

rec|use · Post by **rec|use** » Fri May 09, 2003 8:32 pm

my five on rotation right now are

david cross - shut up you fucking baby
fm einheit - sensation death
folkstorm - for the love of hate
dulce liquido - spectral sound
d.a.f. - the best of

Hardcoregirl · Post by **Hardcoregirl** » Fri May 09, 2003 11:53 pm

junkie christ wrote:2)godflesh - streetcleaner
thanks to that wonderful nemesis i now have a burned copy again of one of my alltime favorite albums......
this is the soundtrack of murder. period. the ulitmate album to beat someone too......

Wow...I had no idea Nemesis listened to godflesh... :shock:

I bet I haven't heard them in 10 years.

Today I listened to Audioslave, The Faint-Danse Macabre, KMFDM-Adios, Bad Religion-No Control and some Christopher Lawrence....

junkie christ · Post by **junkie christ** » Sat May 10, 2003 2:10 pm

Buttercup wrote:
junkie christ wrote:2)godflesh - streetcleaner
thanks to that wonderful nemesis i now have a burned copy again of one of my alltime favorite albums......
this is the soundtrack of murder. period. the ulitmate album to beat someone too......

Wow...I had no idea Nemesis listened to godflesh... I bet I haven't heard them in 10 years.
Today I listened to Audioslave, The Faint-Danse Macabre, KMFDM-Adios, Bad Religion-No Control and some Christopher Lawrence....

umm, surprise? him handing me streetcleaner kinda shocked me too... didnt see that one coming.....
and i listened to bad religion for like an hour today.. but generator..... always weird to read something that when you just get done doing it too..... small universe.

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Sat May 10, 2003 10:38 pm

cradle of filth - midian
tool - ænima
mogwai - come on die young
jack off jill - clear hearts grey flowers
rasputina - how we quit the forest

The Fallen · Post by **The Fallen** » Sat May 10, 2003 10:56 pm

Queen - Greatest Hits
Kidney Thieves - Zerospace
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Hooverphonic - The Magnificent Tree

X · Post by X » Sat May 10, 2003 11:16 pm

wow Junkie Christ rocks cus, ummm he listens to Danzig and Elvis:

1. Fozzy; Fozzy
2. Scorpions; Bad For Good
3. Rolling Stones; 40 licks disc 1
4. Morris Day and The Time; Ice Cream Castle
5. Motley Crue; Live in Dallas 1988

OmeGaDucK · Post by **OmeGaDucK** » Sun May 11, 2003 10:09 am

Currently jammin'

Tomahawk~ Mit Gas
Hellbent~Hardcore Vanilla
Peter Murphy~Dust
EMF~Stigmata
The Melvins~Stoner Witch

Werd!!!!

Nemesis · Post by **Nemesis** » Sun May 11, 2003 10:27 am

TOOL-Opiate
TOOL-Undertow
TOOL-ænima
TOOL-Lateralus
TOOL-Salival
In no particular order, of course...

The Liberal Vampyre · Post by **The Liberal Vampyre** » Sun May 11, 2003 1:21 pm

On rotation:

U2, Achtung Baby
Roxy Music, Country Life
Pavement, Slanted & Enchanted
Live, Throwing Copper
David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

I could never get into Arab Strap. I think they bore me to death or something. Their lyrics are fun to read, though.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun May 11, 2003 1:30 pm

The Liberal Vampyre wrote:I could never get into Arab Strap. I think they bore me to death or something.

I can see where you might think that from their earlier work, but you should give the last two albums (The Red Thread and the one I mention above) a try, since they have a lot more "non-boring" songs.

Have you seen the re-issue of Slanted and Enchanted? I'm tempted to pick it up, it has a whole disc of rarities (lots of albums seem to be re-released around now).

Ladybee · Post by **Ladybee** » Sun May 11, 2003 2:05 pm

1. Cockadoodledon't by the Legendary Shack Shakers, a crazyass cowpunk band from Nashville. Going to see these guys up here on Friday with the blues-funk act The Black Keys.

2. Naive Art by Red Flag. Been listening to this one off and on for a while, moreso since Mark Reynolds died.

3. Six Pack of New Tracks by the Judybats. Just got this one in the mail the other day, and having been a 'Bats fan from before they got signed to Sire, i was curious what their new stuff is like. Features a keen cover of Paul McCartney's "Love In Song."

4. D Generation by D Generation.

5. Just Add Ice by the V-Roys. What with working 60+ hr work weeks lately, "Cold Beer Hello" is my total themesong.

junkie christ · Post by **junkie christ** » Sun May 11, 2003 2:19 pm

Ladybee wrote:1. Cockadoodledon't by the Legendary Shack Shakers, a crazyass cowpunk band from Nashville. Going to see these guys up here on Friday with the blues-funk act The Black Keys.

2. Naive Art by Red Flag. Been listening to this one off and on for a while, moreso since Mark Reynolds died.

3. Six Pack of New Tracks by the Judybats. Just got this one in the mail the other day, and having been a 'Bats fan from before they got signed to Sire, i was curious what their new stuff is like. Features a keen cover of Paul McCartney's "Love In Song."

4. D Generation by D Generation.

5. Just Add Ice by the V-Roys. What with working 60+ hr work weeks lately, "Cold Beer Hello" is my total themesong.

WOW! cold beer is one of my alltime favorite songs. period.
beer thirty comes but once a day......... hehe......

Ladybee · Post by **Ladybee** » Sun May 11, 2003 8:04 pm

junkie christ wrote:
Ladybee wrote:5. Just Add Ice by the V-Roys. What with working 60+ hr work weeks lately, "Cold Beer Hello" is my total themesong.

WOW! cold beer is one of my alltime favorite songs. period.
beer thirty comes but once a day......... hehe......

"...and i can't let you slip away! But if you do someone will take your place..."

I love the little drunk-guitar parts in between verses too.

karlaBOO · Post by **karlaBOO** » Sun May 11, 2003 9:27 pm

Ladybee wrote:3. Six Pack of New Tracks by the Judybats. Just got this one in the mail the other day, and having been a 'Bats fan from before they got signed to Sire, i was curious what their new stuff is like. Features a keen cover of Paul McCartney's "Love In Song."

You need to visit, woman! You have family down here, and I'm sure you could stsy with us as well.

I used to do "the drive by" for Jeff Heiskell's place on highland ave. We would leave Gryphon's, and I would look for the blue light on his porch and say," There is the house of my future ex-husband.". *sigh* To be 18 again.............

Caustic · Post by **Caustic** » Sun May 11, 2003 9:47 pm

If we're going by most recent 5, then...

Boole - Pheremons

C-Tec - Cut

Delerium - Karma

Delerium - Euphoric

Project Pitchfork - Steel Rose

The Liberal Vampyre · Sun May 11, 2003 11:37 pm

I can see where you might think that from their earlier work, but you should give the last two albums (The Red Thread and the one I mention above) a try, since they have a lot more "non-boring" songs.

I'm not really sure what albums the stuff I have heard comes from. Just downloaded a bunch of their songs off of KaZaA one day, because I had a lot of friends who liked them. I'll check out some of the newer stuff, though.

Have you seen the re-issue of Slanted and Enchanted? I'm tempted to pick it up, it has a whole disc of rarities (lots of albums seem to be re-released around now).

Yeah, I've noticed that. Maybe it's because most of the music out right now genuinely sucks. :-/

I haven't heard the re-issue of S&E, though. I know I want to hear the rarities and all that stuff, but I just can't bring myself to rebuy something I feel like I already have. It actually drives me crazy. I want the re-issue of Ziggy Stardust, too, but I can't bring myself to buy it, either. Though, since S&E is only $13.99 on Amazon, maybe I should buy it. That's not a bad price for 30-some more tracks.

briarus · Post by **briarus** » Mon May 12, 2003 10:34 am

five latest hmmmm..

nada surf - let go

flaming lips - Yoshimi battles the pink robots

ugly organ - the ugly organist

jets to brazil - Perfecting Loneliness

The Doors - soft parade