Author Topic: What Are You Listening To 2011 - Grefter's Grotto Edition (Read 40289 times)

Niu · « **Reply #175 on:** April 06, 2011, 09:27:31 AM »

Just remember I have to ask this: Snowfire, what did they used for encore in the English concert?

Cotigo · « **Reply #176 on:** April 06, 2011, 10:00:44 AM »

Quote from: Jo'ou Ranbu on April 05, 2011, 12:19:06 AM

Arcade Fire - Black Mirror

After a couple listens to Neon Bible, I have to say I'm a bit less taken by it than I was by Funeral. -On the other hand-, Funeral is a "holy shit this might just change -yet again- the way I listen to music" album, and I hardly expected an album from the 2000s to do it. The last one I came across that was this good was Treasure, from the Cocteau Twins. And before that, like a month before, Fear of Music, from the Talking Heads. This is basically "one of the best albums of the decade" against "one of the best albums in my goddamn life" talking here.

Funnily, 2010 was a pretty spectacular year for musical discoveries for me.

Neon Bible is good but not nearly as good as Funeral. Listen to Suburbs. It's got a few great tracks in there, is probably worse than Funeral but still Arcade Fire.

Protomen - Father of Death

SnowFire · « **Reply #177 on:** April 07, 2011, 06:49:12 AM »

Niu: One-Winged Angel both nights. They played Terra's Theme with credits, took a bow, then followed it up with the OWA encore. Only difference was the choir sang it on Friday night and everyone sang it Saturday night.

Grefter · « **Reply #178 on:** April 07, 2011, 11:57:46 AM »

Hole - Violet

Sierra · « **Reply #179 on:** April 08, 2011, 12:06:19 AM »

Queensryche: Roads to Madness

This is totally a Lovecraft protagonist after he's learned That Which Should Not Be Learned and seen That Which Should Not Be Seen.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #180 on:** April 08, 2011, 12:35:09 AM »

Queensryche - Roads to Madness

Decided to check out what Cid was listening to. It is pretty damn awesome. (Okay, that and because I have been listening to Operation Mindcrime a lot lately and wanted to listen to other stuff of theirs~)

Grefter · « **Reply #181 on:** April 08, 2011, 01:32:53 AM »

Dream Theater - The Count of Tuscany

Sierra · « **Reply #182 on:** April 08, 2011, 01:58:24 AM »

Quote from: Ciato on April 08, 2011, 12:35:09 AM

Queensryche - Roads to Madness

Decided to check out what Cid was listening to. It is pretty damn awesome. (Okay, that and because I have been listening to Operation Mindcrime a lot lately and wanted to listen to other stuff of theirs~)

The pre-Mindcrime albums are extremely goofy lyrically. They're kind of fun to listen to just for that. Songs are mostly about robots or the end of the world and sometimes they get really crazy and write about robot apocalypse.

Queensryche: NM 156

Like this one! This is basically Terminator: the rock song. I like The Warning a fair bit as an album--Roads to Madness is a great album-closer and one of my favorite songs by them. Rage for Order after that, eh, it's okay. Has some good songs but really strikes me as too slick and polished. Self-titled album is basically a demo tape. (Listen to it anyway if you like the band, though.) They were always an extremely skilled band technically anyway, though, so still plenty fun to listen to even when they were still figuring things out.

~

At this point I should probably also turn in my prog rocker card and admit I've never really listened to Dream Theater and where do you start.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #183 on:** April 08, 2011, 02:00:07 AM »

They've got the campy opera rock thing going on, I like it. I have Empire as well, it's decent but not as good as Mindcrime.

(Oh come on Ciato, these guys couldn't possibly be campy!)

Sierra · « **Reply #184 on:** April 08, 2011, 02:29:48 AM »

Yeah, Rage for Order is the band at their most aggressively eighties. Then they said, "Fuck it, let's torch the Reagan era already," and made Operation: Mindcrime. And it was good. Rage for Order and Empire are both defined by a few excellent songs with a bunch of okay ones to round things out, I think. They're fun enough, but the band never did anything else as consistent O: M. Although I personally like Promised Land a lot. It's a very moody album and sports a different sound for them but is still recognizably their style. After that, well, we don't really talk about Queensryche anymore. Hear in the Now Frontier was mediocre and then Geoff Tate got sick and I think messed up his voice and Chris Degarmo left (Wikipedia tells me he's a commercial pilot now. How weird is that?) and Q2K? Man, you can tell just from the title that's gonna be sludge. Apparently they made an Operation Mindcrime II at some point, but I can't bring myself to listen to it.

Grefter · « **Reply #185 on:** April 08, 2011, 02:45:15 AM »

Ciatos, you didn't do the recommendation like you should have!

Cid, DT place to start is pretty much agreed to be Awake, at least from memory of discussion with other people that listen to them. It was the last album before they got the current (awesome) key board player Jordan Rudess on board, but don't let that really influence you on anything. It is just a really strong album. Stuff after it is great as well, but Awake is a good jumping on point (not that you really need to be eased into the whole Prog thing).

Doctor Steel - Lullaby Bye.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #186 on:** April 08, 2011, 02:51:36 AM »

Queensryche - The Lady Wore Black

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #187 on:** April 08, 2011, 02:57:19 AM »

Arcade Fire - Black Mirror

You know, I don't think I need to listen to Belle & Sebastian ever again.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #188 on:** April 08, 2011, 09:16:26 PM »

Queen - Tie Your Mother Down

Grefter · « **Reply #189 on:** April 09, 2011, 12:47:54 AM »

Mogwai - Like Herod.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #190 on:** April 09, 2011, 07:40:50 PM »

Queensryche - The Lady Wore Black

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #191 on:** April 09, 2011, 07:56:06 PM »

So I bought the CD that Roads of Madness was on. It's pretty good.

Sierra · « **Reply #192 on:** April 09, 2011, 11:06:53 PM »

Yes it is.

Paul Simon: My Little Town

superaielman · « **Reply #193 on:** April 09, 2011, 11:17:17 PM »

DT- Endless Sacrifice

Edit: Listening to a change in seasons. I need to listen to DT more. They're awesome to have on in the backround.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #194 on:** April 09, 2011, 11:34:12 PM »

Do you have Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence?

Grefter · « **Reply #195 on:** April 10, 2011, 12:38:06 AM »

A Perfect Circle - The Noose.

superaielman · « **Reply #196 on:** April 10, 2011, 04:22:04 AM »

I think you sent it to me ages ago, Ciato. Don't think I have it any more.

Dream Theater- The count of Tuscany

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #197 on:** April 10, 2011, 04:47:31 AM »

Arcade Fire - Windowsill

Neon Bible honestly grows on you as you listen to it more. Antichrist Television Blues still isn't all that great for their standards, though. A bit too Springsteeny for me tastes.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #198 on:** April 10, 2011, 05:44:57 AM »

Allo Darlin' - The Polaroid Song

Twee pop in the wake of 2010? What is this insanity?

EDIT:

Allo Darlin' - If Loneliness Was Art

Ooooooooooooh this album is actually pretty interesting! Pop sensibility is definitely there, and the singer, while not being exactly gifted, is pleasant and can definitely walk the innocence/sarcasm line naturally. They could be pretty cool to watch grow, but still early to tell with one album.

EDIT (who the hell am I, Grefter?): Also, a song that uses "sha-la-la" shamelessly as a vocal hook in freaking 2010 without sounding exceedingly retro (although -definitely- retro, this -is- tweepop) deserves props.

EDIT (I'm worse than Grefter): Speaking of Grefter, the singer is also Australian. Man, Grefter, your people churn out good popsters like they grow on water and Australia decided to oversea market boomerangs, kangaroos, that dead showhunter and Crocodile Dundee instead? What is wrong with you?

Sierra · « **Reply #199 on:** April 10, 2011, 04:00:17 PM »

Don't forget Yahoo Serious.

Queensryche: Prophecy

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