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WhiteStrat said:
Mish,

Thanks for taking the time to post all those links. I'm making notes as I listen (watch):

Black Dahlia Murder, August Burns Red, From Autumn to Ashes--Liked the music on all of 'em (especially) Black Dahlia Murder--but I just can't get past the cookie monster vox. (As a guitarist, I'd be mad if my singer got the same cut as me for doing that! :D)

Bullet for My Valentine: We have a winner! This rocks (and the vox have a melody, I'll be darned!) Great doubled lines (guits and vox) and not a bad video either.

The Used: Interesting mix of real singing and screamo. Still too much screamo for me though.

BMTH: Love the guitar. Pure screamo though.

Glassjaw: Again too much cookie monster.

Thanks though, I'm learning.
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I suppose I'm just a child of my generation - hated the 90's grunge scene, but when the screamo emerge I was like, OMG that's so my type of music!

And man, I'm glad you liked BFMV - they're like my home guys!
Here's some of their earlier stuff -

Bullet For My Valentine "Suffocating Under Words Of Sorrow
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pcliQGCMFdY

Bullet For My Valentine -Hand Of Blood
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-OvYuzYCGt0
 
Mish said:
Yeah meshuggah are cool. They're kind of "slow-heavy" , kinda like Ozzy's Ozzmozis was in it's time. I prefer my music alil more chaotic, with dissonance rather than breakdowns.
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can i assume that you're a fan of dillinger escape plan then? i dig their earlier stuff, and even the last 2 have some good tracks, but since they ditched their singer they've really moved into some crappy pop-like territory.

"irony is a dead scene" is, of course, their best. mike patton is great when he isn't doing nonsense.
 
drossfile said:
can i assume that you're a fan of dillinger escape plan then? i dig their earlier stuff, and even the last 2 have some good tracks, but since they ditched their singer they've really moved into some crappy pop-like territory.

"irony is a dead scene" is, of course, their best. mike patton is great when he isn't doing nonsense.
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Dillinger Escape Plan are fucking mental :eek: :D . I like some of their stuff, but most of their songs are too experimental for me (I had to study John Cage/Henry/Shauffer for a whole year in uni, got an allergy for such stuff!)

In the DEP vibe, I do like old-school screamo like Circle Takes The Square and The City Of Caterpillar . Definately not your everyday's listen, but they're great for scarrying off the neighbours of the entire block :D
 
drossfile said:
"irony is a dead scene" is, of course, their best. mike patton is great when he isn't doing nonsense.
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I perfer the Tomahawk stuff with M. Patton. It experiemental alright but not way left field like Dillinger or Fantomas. John Stainer is my favorite drummer of all time. I love drummers that can tare it up with a basic kit using a single kick drum.
 
Nightfire said:
Can you explain to some of us who dont know what "shoegaze" is, what it souns like?


Mike
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I stole this from wiki

Common musical elements in shoegaze are distortion (aka "fuzzbox"), droning riffs and a "wall of sound" from noisy guitars. Typically, two distorted rhythm guitars are played together to give an amorphous quality to the sound. Although lead guitar riffs were often present, they were not the central focus of most shoegazing songs. Some, including Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, have argued that the shoegaze tag is a meaningless label that puts disparate bands together who happen to come out around the same time. Overeager journalists looking to create a theme lumped any band that used any kind of distortion or blurring effects into this category making the category utterly meaningless. Young passionate fans picked up on faux movement and pretty much any English band who put out an album after 1989 has been called "shoegazers" by one person or another despite no common musical beliefs or techniques among the various bands.

Vocals are typically subdued in volume and tone, but underneath the layers of guitars is generally a strong sense of melody. While the genres which influenced shoegazing often used drum machines, shoegazing more often features live drumming. Chapterhouse and Seefeel utilised both samples and live drumming.
 
gcapel said:
I perfer the Tomahawk stuff with M. Patton. It experiemental alright but not way left field like Dillinger or Fantomas. John Stainer is my favorite drummer of all time. I love drummers that can tare it up with a basic kit using a single kick drum.
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i really enjoy tomahawk's first 2 discs, but that latest one just plain blows. stanier is a cool drummer--i've always been a HUGE helmet fan. and i used to really be into the jesus lizard, so having duane denison in the band is nice too--his style is immediatley recognizable.

dep isn't nearly as left field as the stuff i'm referring to, and fantomas is pretty avant-garde but some of their music is FAR more listenable than patton efforts like "adult themes for voice" or "pranzo oltranzista."

now those are left field!!!

i wasn't impressed with peeping tom--too hip hoppy and mainstream. "mojo" was a decent track, but not impressive. and patton/kaada is mind-numbingly boring.
 
WhiteStrat said:
Types of music I'm into:

guitar rock
classic rock
prog rock

Last ten titles I bought (I don't buy often, so this literally goes back a year or two):

Neal Morse - ? (That's the title: "?")
Eagles - Long Road out of Eden (double CD; does it count as two?)
Steve Vai - Real Illusions: Reflections
Buck Cherry - 15
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess - An Evening With...
Dream Theatre - Score
Gary Hoey - The Best of Gary Hoey
Joe Satriani - Super Colossal
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won (5.1 remix of many Zep classics)
Erin Bode - The Little Garden (a jazzy break from my profile!)
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I just went out for lunch looking for a CD and came back with 5. So I'm amending my answer with today's purchases:

Various Artists - Power Ballads (yep, I love the 80's :D)
Dream Theater - Greatest Hits (getting caught up on their earlier stuff)
Steven Curtis Chapman - This Moment (nourishment for my soul)
Queen - Greatest Hits - (the old cassettes just don't cut it anymore)

and last but not least...(drum roll please)...Thanks to Mish...

Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire (of the 5, I opened & listened to this on the way back to work--it rocks!)
 
WhiteStrat said:
and last but not least...(drum roll please)...Thanks to Mish...

Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire (of the 5, I opened & listened to this on the way back to work--it rocks!)
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I totally hooked you up with that Waking The Demon song didn't I :D ;)

It's abit softer then their first album but it still got some great stuff on it. If you have an extra buck, get their "Poison" album.

Ironically enough I'm actually listening to B4MV at the moment :cool:
 
Mish said:
I totally hooked you up with that Waking The Demon song didn't I :D ;)

It's abit softer then their first album but it still got some great stuff on it. If you have an extra buck, get their "Poison" album.

Ironically enough I'm actually listening to B4MV at the moment :cool:
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Yeah, the store had "Poison" too, but you're right--I was going for Waking the Demon. I'll go back for Poison. (Yes I know, that last sentence looks really stupid out of context.)
 
WhiteStrat said:
Yeah, the store had "Poison" too, but you're right--I was going for Waking the Demon. I'll go back for Poison. (Yes I know, that last sentence looks really stupid out of context.)
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Lol with some locally famous bands in Wales, you can get into some really ridiculous conversations with people.

"Yo what you've been up to?"
"I went to Funeral For A Friend last night"
"God... I'm so sorry"
"What are you sorry for :eek: ?"


"Dude what you're doing tonight?"
"I'm gonna see My Favorite Pornstar later"
"You filthy perv.."
":confused::confused: ?"



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I got "Dead Poetic" full discography (3 albums) and I'm really loving the last two of them.
 
I'm into DVD's at the moment. Been watching Hendrix live at Monerey, Led Zepp Live at The Albert Hall and The Eagles Hell Freezes Over. All good stuff.
 
Im into metal of pretty much any sort. I dont buy a lot of cd's, recent purchases include:

In Flames - Come Clarity
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant

I get more indie stuff like 9mm solution, primer 55, amon amarth, terror, etc in mp3 form
 
I'm a little late in this thread, but better late than never right?

Genres:
Punk, Alt. country, Bluegrass, Alt. rock

Some of my most recent purchases-

Rose's Pawn Shop (The Arsonist)- Sort of a mix of bluegrass and pop rock. Very talented musicians, and the singer has a smooth voice. LOVE THI RECORD!

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band (Big Damn Nation)- Delta blues type band, these guys kick ass. They have a dobro, a washboard, and a drummer. Kick ASS!

Clutch (Robot Hive/Exodous)- Holy Shit! If you like Sabbath, you'll like Clutch. They're not a ripoff or anything, just stoner rock done really really well. Plus, I haven't heard a b3 integrated into really heavy rock this well before.

Sonic Youth (Dirty)- This was a repurchase from the old days. Great songs though...sort of a 90's indie/noise rock kind of sound.

Bad Religion (New Maps of Hell)- By normal standards, this album is great. Put against the rest of BR's catalog, it's low on the totem pole. Bad Religion is my favorite band of all time, three guitars, and tons of vocal harmonies, over buzzsaw punk rock. The most intelligent lyricist ever....I have a total man crush on these guys. If you were going to get a CD I'd recommend No Control or Against The Grain....or if you're more a fan of poppy things, I'd suggest Stranger Than Fiction.

Pennywise (Newest one, I can't remember the title)- Eh. It's their best since Straight Ahead, but this is nothing compared to that, Full Circle, or Unknown Road.

Miles Davis (Kind of Blue)- Wow. Just wow. I'm not even a big jazz fan, but this album is amazing.

Tom Waits (Swordfish Trombones)- Great record...mind blowing really. Same style as Rain Dogs. Very cool.

Can't think of any others....i have a chronic short term memory problem
 
I can't really play.

I stopped listening to the radio in 1991, when Grunge was the thing.


Most of the new music I listen to I don't buy. Someone will lend me a CD thinking I might like it. I usually don't. The one exception in the last 2 years was Buckcherry 15. Loved it.


Mostly now I look for 70's and 80's compliation CDs. I don't even remember the titles of them, I look for the songs on the back, and don't buy most of them because they are all recycling the same tired shit nowadays.
 
Rokket said:
I can't really play.

I stopped listening to the radio in 1991, when Grunge was the thing.


Most of the new music I listen to I don't buy. Someone will lend me a CD thinking I might like it. I usually don't. The one exception in the last 2 years was Buckcherry 15. Loved it.


Mostly now I look for 70's and 80's compliation CDs. I don't even remember the titles of them, I look for the songs on the back, and don't buy most of them because they are all recycling the same tired shit nowadays.
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Not to hi-jack the thread or anything, but I posted some pictures of the bluegrass session I did in the recording techniques forum. I remember you were asking about mic'ing the upright bass....well I posted pictures....
 
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