Sam (SadCAST) just introduced me to Society 1 – EEEWWWW!!!

How can anyone sing (melodically) with 6 meathooks in their back! (video on Youtube!)

Musical discovery or not, after seeing the LG chocolate commercial and the promos for Nip/Tuck, I too have fallen in love with a Strict Maching and Goldfrapp.

Off the musical subject, but I can commiserate with the Dell/McAfee situtation. They have a way of taking the “convenient” personal home computer and twisting into a nightmarish configuation of wires and faulty programming that force you to commit horrific crimes against humanity in frustration. But I’m not bitter or anything 😉

Yat-Kha.
Still too busy listening to this fabulous band to move on to new discoveries. 🙂
http://www.yat-kha.com/

Nice topic. Well, the last year has been a real voyage of musical discovery for me.

It started with wanting to re-explore the so-called Prog world. So I rediscovered 70’s Progressive Rock (an often problematic label incidentally) that I hadn;t listened to in many years like certain Yes releases, Gryphon, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, King Crimson, Camel (The Snow Goose)and Focus (Hamburger Concerto being one of my favourite albums of all). That brought me into discovering other English 70’s bands like Gentle Giant, which was a real revelation as I hadn’t known them before… 72’s Acquiring the Taste (and their subsequent six albums), for instance, is such an unusual album. It blends mediaeval troubadour styles with jazz and rock. They have some amazing (at least for rock) vocal harmonies.

Gentle Giant was a huge discovery for me — lousy name though. It’s a band that Prog fans are divided on — some love them, and some hate them.

Here you can stream some of their songs… myspace CLICK And much better yet, here at Progarchives with reviews CLICK

A lot of the music I listened to I discovered through progarchives. Then I got into 70’s Italian bands like Premiata Forneria Marconi, Le orme, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, and Museo Rosenbach (Zarathustra’s a great rockin’ album). Then into French 70’s bands like Carpe Diem, various Spanish ones, and various Quebecois ones (mostly jazz-fusion from Quebec). So much music that I won’t bother to pick and choose.

I always had an eye on making my tastes more contemporary since for too long I focussed on classic rock. I discovered a great 1983 album by a Brazilian band — Bacamarte’s Depois do Fim (sadly out of print).

From the 90’s, Anglagard’s Hybris was an eye-opener. Lots of great music from Sweden. Can download Jordrok at their official site (very good, I thought). http://www.anglagard.net/sounds.htm
For a somewhat similar band with a harder edge I think, I suggest Anekdoten: http://www.myspace.com/anekdoten I’m not a fan of Anekdoten to tell the truth, at all. Oh gloom… Bah! Got way too much emoting for my tastes (oh I don’t like Emo — embarrassing).

Lots of great music from this decade. My most recent find is Kotebel’s 2006 release, Omphalos. I really like it, but it certainly won’t appeal to most people. It’s part rock, part opera, part Braoque, part this and that. I like music that fuses genres to create something new (which is why I tend to like much so-called Prog, though I don’t like all of the Prog subgenres. Neo-prog (as often classified) is yucky, and I have a somewhat limited appreciation for Progressive Metal).

Here’s the official site — > http://www.kotebel.com/ They have mp3 samples from each album in their discography. And under Omphalos quick link you can download one full mp3 — Mercury Pentacle.

It’s hardly a perfect album for me though, as I find it suffers from too much repetition. Some will find it pretentious. KArda Estra is another one that I like (kind of Western Art Music meets Jazz Rock and Gothic) — and no, I’m hardly Goth.

My musical tastes and repertoire have expanded greatly over the last 12 months or so. I am listening to a lot of fusion and avant garde music these days. Much is hard to find simply because I do tend to avoid the really commercial stuff — the music I listen to has, on the whole, limited popular appeal even though it ranges from hard rock to classical to jazz to folk inspired (sometimes a combination of all of the above).

I just got so sick of listening to the same old stuff on the radio (like the classic rock station that has been playing the same setlist for donkey’s years). Sure it’s classic rock, but there’s so much to choose from, but it’s the same old blues based repertoire (blues pentatonic scale) again and again with the same old time signatures. It’s very bring for me when they’re sticking to 4/4 (or 3/4) time. I want variations in rythym. That’s one of the big problems for me with much music — steady beats and boring drumming, and music that plays by the rules of the genre (is overly commercial and radio-friendly).

Just like good sci-fi shows/ movies, I want to see bands that are experimental, and aren’t afraid to push the boundaries, innovate, and boldly go in their own musical direction rthaer than where the industry wnats them to go. On reason why i think it’s such a great time for music is because many musicians aren’t forced to suck the industry’s teat anymore. They have their own labels and can do their own thing. They may not become rich and famous off it, but thanks to technological developments, they can at least find an audience for their music (na dit’s become easier to produce your own). Of course it’s nice if they can make enough money off their art to quit their day jobs and conentrate on making music.

Connected from Stereo MC’s from “Hackers”

Lyrics Ah ah
Something ain’t right
I’m gonna get myself
I’m gonna get myself
I’m gonna get myself connected
I ain’t gonna go blind
For the light which is reflected
I see thru you
I see thru you
I see thru you
I see thru you
Ya dirty tricks
Ya make me sick
I see thru you
I see thru you
I’m gonna do it again
I’m gonna do it again
Ah ah
I’m gonna do it again
Gotta do right
‘Cause something ain’t right
Gotta do right
Come on
If you make sure you’re connected
The writing’s on the wall
But if your mind’s neglected
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Ah ah
Ain’t gonna go blind
I see thru you
I see thru you
I’m gonna get myself
I’m gonna get myself
I’m gonna get myself connected
I ain’t gonna go blind
For the light that is reflected
Hear me out
Can ya hear me out
Can ya hear me out
Do it again
Do it again
Do it again
Do it again
I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again
Ya terrified
Ain’t gonna go blind
Ain’t gonna go blind
Here we go
If you make sure you’re connected
The writing’s on the wall
But if your mind’s neglected
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Hear me out
Stumble you might fall
Stayin’ alive
Interstate 5
Won’t someone try
Open up your eyes
You must be blind
If you can’t see
The gaping hole
Called reality
Wanna do it again
I gonna gonna do it again
I wanna do it again
Come on
I’m gonna do it again
Hear me out
Terrified
Something ain’t right
Here we go
If you make sure you’re connected
The writing’s on the wall
But if your mind’s neglected
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
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I’ve been blown away by the Killers latest song ‘when we were young’ and My Chemical Romances ‘welcome to the black parade’.

Awesome tunes!

I’m grooving to the Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business.

I actually dug up an old song to review my path of life and my spiritual journey.

The song Fascinated by Company B.

Very clubby song and surely dates me, but it’s special to me because it recalls the first of many people to help me.

I used to club heavily and I met this DJ who used to have this uncanny ability to pull songs out of my head and play them.

This was one he pulled out the first time.

Now he did not give me the physical loving,; he gave me something better and something deeper.

He taught me to chant the same phrase i do today, and actually set in motion the events of my life.

He did out of compassion and a higher love for me as a person.

So, to you my friend,Michael Miller, wherever you are in the fecked up world, you are my hero.

After a quiet reflective time; Basia’s Cruisin for a Bruisin’

oh well I do try to be tolerant of idios of men but well….

to him…..

Cry
Come to me and cry
I know, I know, I know it’s not easy
Your heart is aching
But so is mine,
How can I tell you
Why
For so long, so long, so long,
I’ve been thinking
Now I know
I can’t live a lie

They say true love lasts forever
If we want it
There will be waiting

A second chance
Baby but now we need time
Time to learn
Time to understand
Where we went wrong
‘Cause I feel so strong
We are cruising for bruising
My Baby

Go
I must let you go
Don’t stop, don’t stop
’cause it’s better now
When I still love you
Don’t say goodbye

So bye for now, don’t let it die
’cause we can try some other time

Songs that match their seasons. Am I the only one who likes to have seasonal mood songs?

I guess I am not much of a spring person, since this is the one season I don’t automatically think of any certain song when I think about that season. But… if I do think about it a minute, I guess I would have to go with the Eurythmics and their song, Here Comes The Rain Again.

Summer – Luke Skywalker And Indiana Jones – Phil Pritchett. This one reminds me of being tossed out of the house in the summer time and thinking up the weirdest things to entertain our selves.

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Fall – Forever Autumn – Jeff Wayne

This is a perfect fall song. All of the visuals totally compliment the music and make me feel like it is a cool fall day with a hint on rain forecast for the evening.

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Winter – Hazy Shade Of Winter – The Bangles. You can’t really tell it from the sample here, but the lead in to the song, is so totally after Thanksgiving with snippletts of the salvation army kettle bells. The way they use to be, when real bell ringers did them, not as they are now with part time temps. ( I liked this song when Simon and garfunkle did it, but now… I can’t even listen to their version.)

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I finally got to watch the DVD I’ve had for some time – The Best of Bowie. It’s awesome! What a history lesson – and a trip down to memory lane.

We all love your ramblings Mandara 😀 ! Fernando… Oh, boy! As you know we didn’t have drive-ins where I come from but we had the obnoxious teenage mating rituals called discotheques. I didn’t go too often because trying to unglue somebody’s sweaty hands from my various body parts, in the dark and with the endless repetitions of Fernando, I will survive and, grrrrrrrrr, Sunny, wasn’t my idea of fun. Now of course it seems almost like an idyllic memory …
And speaking of gorgeous sailors, I just watched Pirates of the Caribbean II. Twice. No, I am lying. Twice and a half. Thanks for a head-on on Al Gore’s film, it’s been on my list for some time. I’m definitely going to see it. After the last years’ hurricanes, I’ll never look at natural disasters the same way.

I feel so homesick for Boston since I watched The Departed; so my music keeps going back to Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones; I used to crank that sucker when I lived in a suburb of Boston oh say 7-8 yrs ago; when I was married too. let’s you know how that marriage worked out for me 😯 Nope MK is her own shelter; no one will look at for me better than me.

Lyrics….http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rolling+stones/gimme+shelter_20117862.html

And the song Revolution keeps running through my head you the Beatles.

Just purchased my first MP3 album tonight on Boomkat (5£ – 320kbps and no DRM). My type of music never seems to reach the public, except on some obscure radio programmings. Then again, I’m talking about electronic ambient music. It’s mostly solitude music that can be be pretty awkward listening to with friends, unlike much of the other music refered to in this thread. My preference for this music may also be related to the fact that I always get a high score for introvert on personality tests. 🙂

Anyway, the music I bought was Svarte Greiner’s album Knive, composed by a fellow norwegian (we’re a tiny country). It got a dark but relaxing soundscape. If anyone here happend to like ambient, I recommend checking it out, and also those of you not familiar with ambient music. Some soundbites from the album: Final Sleep, The boat was my friend, Easy on the bones

If you don’t mind I’m going to have a Peggy Lee moment….

“Fever” and “Is That All There Is?”

http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00000DCI5001011/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_011/103-2363473-3011017

http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00000DCI5001016/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_016/103-2363473-3011017

who knows if links work?

Go find them if the interest you…

or NOT!

Apparently the big album to buy in the next week is the Nine Inch Nails album “Year Zero”

It’s a concept album set in the future and marketed by a media company who have set up a whole world of interesting challenges / quests concerned with the end of the world (2027 (give or take a year)). It’s all about a new world order and is facinating.

Checkout http://www.ninwiki.com for information starting from the beginning.

Or for hardcore fans checkout: http://www.echoingthesound.org

The only place I get any new, or old for that matter, music is commercials. Woman by Wolfmother is my current favorite commercial song, featured in the Guitar Hero II ads. It’s very Led Zeppelin reminiscent, which in this instance makes me happy.

I still love Kodo(Inside the Sun Remix) by Yoshida Brothers that I believe I mentioned in an earlier post. Nintendo Wii to thank for that one.

Sad, sad, sad.

Stevie Ray Vaughn’s ” Mary Had A Little Lamb”, “If The House is Rockin” and if course “Pride and Joy” the latter is for RDM to lift his wife’s spirits.

We all need to hear that once in a while.

Just re-finding Dirty Vegas’ Days Go By and Strat Cat Strut by the Stray Cats.

It’s a discovery re-discovery of song lyrics which are truly poetry with melody.

I like poetry, and dark chocolate, and nature landscapes, real and created.

SO my contribution:

(love)love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Feathers on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me makes me lighter
Feathers on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Feathers on my breath

In the night of matter
Black flowers blossom
Feathers on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Feathers on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Feathers on my breath

Water is my eye
Most faithful my love
Feathers on my breath
Teardrop on the fire of a confession
Feathers on my breath
Most faithful my love
Feathers on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Feathers on my breath

Stumbling a little (x2

Massive Attack’s Teardrop

here’s someone else’s interpretation of lyrics

Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Fearless on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me, makes me lighter
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

Nine, night after day
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my

Water is my eye
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire of a confession
Fearless on my breath
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

You’re stumbling in the dark
You’re stumbling in the dark…

and well i’m off to pet sit and to watch Perfume (a movie and finish off the Carnivale series.

Love your life!

And I don’t know I feel some miners will be returning to us and the hope and the wonder of the reslilency of human spirit will happen soon, may be this weekend.

Not a very recent musical discovery (just felt like I wanted to post something at this site after a long time gone) but I find myself listening to a band from Japan called KoenjiHyakkei a lot.

Angherr Shisspa is a great album of theirs from 2005. It’s not going to appeal to most people, though. I discovered that band after getting into the whole Zeuhl scene that spans many decades and bands (lots of bands I love from this ‘genre’). It started in France, but there are quite a few good (good being subjective of course) modern bands from Japan that are given that label.

Zeuhl is a kind of music originating with the French band Magma that is a sort of jazzy “avant rock” that features throbbing bass and good drumming, often chanting and operatic vocals. Like with Magma, Koenjihaykkei invented a language to go along with the music. Anyway, Koenjihyakkei would grate on most ears (harder on the ears and much noisier than most Zeuhlish stuff), I would think — frenetic stuff — but for what it’s worth, here’s the band’s site: http://www.skingraftrecords.com/bandhtmlpages/koenjipg.html

A mysite page only featuring two songs: CLICK[/URL]

And, concerts of theirs on youtube.com: CLICK[/URL]

And since I mentioned Magma (Eskaton, Zao, Vortex, Kultivator, Paga etc. are all good too), here’s Magma’s site: http://www.seventhrecords.com/

Really wanted to see them in concert last year at a RIO (Rock in Opposition) festival last year, but couldn’t go.

Anyway, this lame post is really just being used an excuse to drop in again at this site, so probably best ignored (haven’t watched any sci-fi in ages, so… “The Riches” was a good show though, but not SF.)

Oh, I haven’t heard that many albums from 2007, but so far my fave is Alamaailman Vasarat’s Mahaan – http://www.vasarat.com/ It has been described as acoustic death metal, which doesn’t really give the picture. It’s weird, one might say.

Erm, yeah.

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I’m doing pretty well, thanks Mandara. My kids keep me grounded.

Actually, I’ve been watching Doctor Who, but have found it forgettable enough to forget to mention it. Not bad, though. I did watch last season’s BSG. I stay away from, and don’t care about, the “BS” golly-gee politics so that I can just focus on the show. It could be better, but for me it’s worth watching. I really don’t care for the excessive use of flashbacks and other devices in the show, however.

The Riches (with Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver) is definitely more my cup of tea. It’s my favourite show in quite a long time, in fact. http://fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/theriches/

Back to music: Perhaps I shouldn’t mention this, but I got an advance release of an album that will be coming out in October, and it is great. Well, great for me, anyway. Okay, it was leaked and normally I would wait, but as I wasn’t searching it out… Robert Wyatt is one of my favourite artists – from his 1960’s Soft Machine days to Matching Mole (so-called Canterbury scene music) to his “solo” work. The album of his that really got me hooked was Rock Bottom from ’74, which is terrific and particularly poignant as he made it during a very low point of his life after falling from a window and becoming a paraplegic. I think of Rock Bottom as a real triumph.

He’s continues to make albums that I enjoy: Shleep from 1997 and Cuckooland from 2003 are worth mentioning, but I really like his as yet unreleased (unofficially) album, Comicopera. Very good! I will definitely be buying it when it comes out, and it should have one more track I believe (and might be tweaked a bit). It’s nice and mellow, jazzy, folksy, bluesy, and pretty eclectic with an intimate sound. Definitely more toned down/ layed back than the music in my last post.

Here’s a Robert Wyatt myspace page (with several songs) for those who are unfamiliar with his work and are interested in checking out some of his music (and videos): CLICK

Sea Song (Wyatt – from Rock Bottom)

“You look different every time you come
From the foam-crested brine
Your skin shining softly in the moonlight
Partly fish, partly porpoise, partly baby sperm whale
Am I yours? Are you mine to play with?
Joking apart – when you’re drunk you’re terrific when you’re drunk
I like you mostly late at night you’re quite alright
But I can’t understand the different you in the morning
When it’s time to play at being human for a while please smile!
You’ll be different in the spring, I know
You’re a seasonal beast like the starfish that drift in with the tide
So until your your blood runs to meet the next full moon
You’re madness fits in nicely with my own
Your lunacy fits neatly with my own, my very own
We’re not alone”

Anyway, I’m just checking out Buckethead’s official site now. Of course I’m kind of familiar with them (as I love much experimental rock and they are sometimes labeled that), but not that familiar with the music (been ages since I last heard any Buckethead).