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I've seen these guys twice, they play at my friends club. I think they are kinda local to where I am (?), as they've played the same club several times, and seem to be flying under the radar. Don't know very much about them, but they have a fairly cool sound. The chick lead singer is cute, but is mesmerizingly awkward in her movements performing on stage.<br />
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That's cool. I think she's a bit of an odd ball, and undertook years of formal musical training. Reminds me a bit of Zola Jesus.<br />
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Their album's got lots of good reviews (from Pitchfork etc), but they dont seem to have had a break out. -
"Hysteria" and "Map of the Problematique" are two of my very favourite songs.
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Peter Kruder found a Pink Floyd mix he made in the 90's:<br />
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Pink Floyd Mix by Peter Kruder
"A live DJ mix of all the tripped out Pink Floyd bits that I love," says Peter Kruder of Kruder and Dorfmeister and G-Stone Rec...
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Big Ben Harper fan and came across this. Vanessa da Mata - beautiful voice!<br />
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I am a huge harper fan. His voice aches. I remember going to his concert in 02? At the tab arena in wellington and to this day it's probably the best concert I've been to. Aside from my mate shouting expletives at Jack Johnson who was the opening act. -
Did anybody catch (or care about) the death of Terry Callier the other week? I caught him a few times here in London over the years and thought he was a real talent. Fired by University of Chicago from his programming job when they found out he was also a musician. By that time had been gigging for 35 years. The sharp tacks at the Uni only found out when the UN gave him an award for one of his albums (TimePeace, which has the extraordinary "Lazarus Man" on it). Well woth a listen if you're into Bill Withers-y acoustic soul.
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[quote name='Razbra' timestamp='1352944902' post='325183']<br />
I am a huge harper fan. His voice aches. I remember going to his concert in 02? At the tab arena in wellington and to this day it's probably the best concert I've been to. Aside from my mate shouting expletives at Jack Johnson who was the opening act.<br />
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I went to that concert. Never a big Harper fan, but i got some freebies. It was a Sunday wasn't it? From memory i had been on the piss since Thursday, so come Sunday night i just wanted to chill out. Perfect concert for that. Couldn't help but think both acts were more suited to a seated venue, over some beers. -
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Peter Kruder found a Pink Floyd mix he made in the 90's:<br />
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It's 61 minutes long. I haven't listened yet, but I downloaded the mp3 and converted to wav, stamped on a cd and will listen in the car this weekend. I hope it's good... -
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I went to that concert. Never a big Harper fan, but i got some freebies. It was a Sunday wasn't it? From memory i had been on the piss since Thursday, so come Sunday night i just wanted to chill out. Perfect concert for that. Couldn't help but think both acts were more suited to a seated venue, over some beers.<br />
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Yeah it was a Sunday. My mate is a 6'6 130kg maori and you had to have heard him screaming "fuck off Jack, you suck, where Ben you c*nt" it went on for the entirety of the set. Most embarrassing thing I have seen in person.<br />
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It's 61 minutes long. I haven't listened yet, but I downloaded the mp3 and converted to wav, stamped on a cd and will listen in the car this weekend. I hope it's good...<br />
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It was kinda bewitching & hypnotic. I've been familiar with most of the material for a very long time, so it was interesting to hear in a new context. For some reason it really jumped out at me how blues-influenced much of David Gilmour's lead playing is, which isn't always apparent in their original versions. I did hear a few mistakes, which made me think this was a live mix using vinyl and perhaps some tape looping (using Several Species to punctuate the rhythm occasionally, which I really liked), and it did make me think how that sort of mix nowadays would all be mixed to perfection in a computer, so it did give me a few ideas, as I have in the past done quite a bit of audio looping for soundtracks where I needed to cannibalize music on the cheap.
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Built a play list for my workouts - at the moment its all Muse because that is how I'm rolling:<br />
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Time is Running Out<br />
Stockholm Syndrome<br />
Hysteria<br />
Butterflies & Hurricanes<br />
Thoughts of a Dying Atheist<br />
Starlight<br />
Map of the Problematique<br />
Glorious<br />
MK Ultra<br />
Take a Bow<br />
Falling Away With You<br />
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Has anyone listened to the new Soundgarden record yet? As a white bloke in my mid-30s, i am obviously a massive Soundgarden fan, so do i bother? or is it tarnishing their great memory?
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Has anyone listened to the new Soundgarden record yet? As a white bloke in my mid-30s, i am obviously a massive Soundgarden fan, so do i bother? or is it tarnishing their great memory?<br />
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No, idea, but I did have some friends go see them last month. They said Cornell still has the pipes, but being middle-aged isn't quite the wildman on stage he once was. To be expected. Their bigger disappointment was that in a 24-song set, they didn't play "Jesus Christ Pose." I was never a big fan, but I saw them play 4 times (free tickets) during the Badmotorfinger era and went every time specifically to see them play that song, IMO it was one of the most epic & monumental songs performed live of that era. (Reminds me, I was backstage for one of the shows in '91 and Cornell had an exquisite woman on his arm, totally exotic model type oozing class, one of the most beautiful women I'd ever seen in my life (as I heard Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Goin' Out With Him?" playing in my head). Made me think, gee whizz, I wanna be a greasy rock n' roll star! I wonder if she still looks as good? Betting not.) -
Now I know this is a generally trendy music thread, so my mentioning of pop may send some derision my way. I haven't instantly liked a song in years, I'm always a couple of listens at least before I really like music but the latest Bruno Mars song had me hooked on first listen and I think it's the best new song I've heard in a long time.<br />
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Having not really listened to Bruno Mars I went out and listened to a few of his other tracks - unfortunately they are all stock standard and rather boring R&B ballads.<br />
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I also didn't get the Police comparison instantly either but everyone I speak to seems to think it sounds like a Police song. Seems a little bit too upbeat to sound completely Police to me!
