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j_bentley12885
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 7:05 pm 
 

The Partisans - Police Story.

Good U.K. punk. I've loved this since high school.

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Burning_Missive
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:46 pm 
 

Fuel: Monuments To Excess (1990)

There's a clear reason they earned the nickname "Fuelgazi", but damn it if they didn't do a great job of it. One of the best post-hardcore albums you could ask for.

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ZenoMarx
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:22 pm 
 

This will be my last Grateful Dead mention for a while (I hope), but I wanted to highlight how much these guys loved to play. In 1970, they could play 7+ hours in a day. They would play both an early show and a late show, playing both an acoustic and electric set in each, while also playing in New Riders of the Purple Sage.

Grateful Dead - May 15, 1970
Fillmore East - New York, NY

Part of this was issued on Road Trips V3.3. I have to be in a particular mood for both '70 and '71, which is sort of silly to say since mood applies to all music, but the mood for these years comes less often than for many other years. One of my all-time favorite GD recordings is 70-09-19, so when they're on fire, you can't get much better than 1970.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 2:37 am 
 

Michael Jackson - Thriller

My favorite album. That feel when your album's weakest song is an amazing duet with Paul McCartney...

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Slater922
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 8:10 am 
 

Spiral Architect wrote:
Michael Jackson - Thriller

My favorite album. That feel when your album's weakest song is an amazing duet with Paul McCartney...

Same here. Still have a bit of a soft spot for the King of Pop to this day.

Ildjarn-Nidhogg - Sunrise

Gonna listen to Hardangervidda for this morning, and I'm already loving this first track.
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ZenoMarx
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 5:18 pm 
 

My convoluted impression, in punk context analogy, is the Incapacitants are considered true underground punk while Merzbow is looked at as pop punk. It's total bullshit, but kids gotta define. But hey, they champion a lot of American noise that I find barely above average. What do I know?

I was going back and forth through the Pariah Tapes and Pornoise 1 KG box sets, from a project I'd set for myself earlier this summer of listening to all the Incapacitants in chronological order. Pornoise 1 KG got involved because Pariah Tapes got to be a real slog. Merzbow's "New Karma" knocked me out of that drudge and put me back on my way. "Peony Crackers 2" gives you a good idea of how great the Incapacitants would become (not "Peony Crackers pt.2", which is a different track). Discs 4 & 5 are the winners of Pariah Tapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVXJuzhOrg&t=5163s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZvjlPKlEDQ&t=2903s

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TestChamber
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:02 am 
 

Weird Al - Polka Face

One of my favorite polka medley's from him, you can tell he had alot of fun singing it.

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Metal_On_The_Ascendant
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:35 pm 
 

Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody

Grandiose sublime stuff in her old-meets-modern way of things. Looking forward to the new album.
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66samhain
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 2:15 pm 
 

Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly

Days are getting shorter so I'd rather listen to something chill in the evening to fit the darkness outside. I just love autumn!
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Teleboy1
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 5:50 pm 
 

Television - Live at CBGB's 1976

Really good listen. First Gen NYC punk/new wave band that isn't quite unknown, but not really known either. Some great songs here. Even some weird, epic, angular 11-12 minute jams and rave-ups. Nifty time capsule.

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66samhain
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:28 pm 
 

HIM - Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666

That whole album is delicious, and one of the best I've ever heard. I still remember being blown away by The Heartless when I first listened to it.
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Empyreal
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:37 pm 
 

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
The Muslims - Fuck these Fuckin Fascists

Trying to get back to some punk I was playing early in the year. Great stuff.
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TestChamber
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 7:59 am 
 

Empyreal wrote:
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Yes!! Such a great punk rock album. It's one of those albums I think is really good to listen to in full, because all of the songs just flow into each other!

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Empyreal
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:47 am 
 

Jello's vocals and the thick muscular guitars really make it an easy, fun listen, yeah.

Radiohead - Kid A
Nick Cave - Henry's Dream

Heralding in the fall a little.
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LycanthropeMoon
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:15 am 
 

AFI - Fall Children

It's that time of year, baby.

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TestChamber
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 12:35 pm 
 

Empyreal wrote:
Jello's vocals and the thick muscular guitars really make it an easy, fun listen, yeah.

Jello is a really good, unique vocalist. Have you listened to his solo/collab stuff? Like his album with Mojo Nixon?

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Empyreal
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 8:57 pm 
 

Nah but it's on my list to try some of that, yeah.

The Muslims - Crotch Pop a Cop

Finally, subtlety.
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TestChamber
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:22 pm 
 

You should listen to his Mojo Nixon collab (Prairie Home Invasion), and his Guantanamo School of Medicine albums. All top-tier punk IMO.

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j_bentley12885
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:29 pm 
 

I can't stand Jello's voice but Prarie Home Invasion is a good album.

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Metal_On_The_Ascendant
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 1:34 pm 
 

Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity

R.I.P to a real legend. This stuff is still so original and fascinating.
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Burning_Missive
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 11:48 pm 
 

City Of Caterpillar: Mystic Sisters (2022)

First album from these screamo-ish post-hardcore titans in 20 years and it's impressive. They managed to stick with their original sound and not allow it to sound dated. It sounds modern and familiar at the same time, with a mindful approach to pacing. I highly recommend it!


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ZenoMarx
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:43 pm 
 

Contrastate - Handbags & DADA collection

There was never really anything like them, but now, there is nothing like them. Back when industrial/experimentalism could be political, yet arty and dramatic. Thick atmosphere. Dark energy, but not of the usual negativism. Intelligent. Sharp. Biting. Sounds of the highest order. Quality from top to bottom. I have a hunch they were inspired by Crass, but it is cloaked in their antithesis of Crass aesthetic.

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Sepulchrave
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 5:27 pm 
 

Nasenbluten - Intellectual Killer

Fucking evil industrial hardcore.
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Software_City
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 7:45 pm 
 

AC/DC - Baby Please Don't Go

Cool, catchy, underrated song from them.

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LycanthropeMoon
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:20 pm 
 

blink-182 - Reckless Abandon

Tom has rejoined the Kings of Pop Punk, baby.
Granted, I haven't liked a single album they've put out since the reunion (including "Neighborhoods" and the "Dogs Eating Dogs" EP... though the Skiba albums are worse than both of those), but it's making me feel all nostalgic or whatever so it's fine.

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ZenoMarx
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 5:45 pm 
 

Contrastate & The Tiger Lillies - Goodbye Great Nation 1996

This collaboration makes more sense than not. In another time, Contrastate could have been an off, off, off vaudeville/music hall act. The Tiger Lillies aren't my type of thing, but here, they work perfectly. A single, very dark, 21-minute track that travels well. I like it so much that I've tried and tried and tried other TGL records...without success. Highly recommended if you're in the mood for a true mind bender. It's too bad this wasn't another forty minutes longer.

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Zelkiiro
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:49 pm 
 

Propagandhi - Failed Imagineer

The opening and ending are nice and all, but the middle minute of this song from ~0:32 to ~1:36 is precisely what I want from all music.
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EvergreenSherbert
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 10:58 am 
 

Hit a Desert Sand Feels Warm at Night album the other day, I'm starting to get vaporwave.
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Software_City
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:52 am 
 

Weird Al - Virus Alert

Great, funny song. I like how it's implied that Al pressuring you to "send this to every single person you know" IS the virus.

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Footless
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:41 am 
 

La Lune Noire by Valor. Currently on the track Neverseen Depths and Dungeons.
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lordcatfish
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 4:56 am 
 

LycanthropeMoon wrote:
blink-182 - Reckless Abandon

Tom has rejoined the Kings of Pop Punk, baby.
Granted, I haven't liked a single album they've put out since the reunion (including "Neighborhoods" and the "Dogs Eating Dogs" EP... though the Skiba albums are worse than both of those), but it's making me feel all nostalgic or whatever so it's fine.

I love Neighborhoods. It's my favourite blink album after Enema. Dogs Eating Dogs is pretty strong too.

Anyway, what are you thinking of the new single? Reminds me a bit of No More Guns from the last Angels & Airwaves album.
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LycanthropeMoon
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 3:09 pm 
 

There are some good songs on "Neighborhoods", but a good amount of it sounds bizarrely disjointed to me. It's odd, because their self-titled album also had plenty of experimental moments but the songs still flowed well. All just a matter of opinion though, of course. I did like "Dogs Eating Dogs" a bit better, but it's still not normally what I reach for when it comes to blink-182. I just really like the pre-reunion stuff - especially "Dude Ranch" and their beautifully titled classic "Enema of the State". As for the new single, it's fine - I don't hate it, and it's better than a lot of the songs on the Skiba albums. Definitely has some ear wormy moments (GET THE ROPE! GET THE ROPE!)... and I thought it was funny when Tom Delonge sang "I'm a punk rock kid" since he's 46 now. Still, it's catchy and I think it'd be fun to sing with live (but those ticket prices are brutal so I don't plan on buying any).

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The Anniversary - The D in Detroit

This band walked so Motion City Soundtrack could run, I guess.
"Designing a Nervous Breakdown" is a great record... and my vinyl copy arrived in the mail recently.

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LilTito
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 6:50 pm 
 

Little dark age by MGMT is a goddamn earworm

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EvergreenSherbert
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 11:16 pm 
 

Bohren & der Club of Gore - Gore Motel

Very interesting release. Just discovered these guys. First half is mostly low bass guitar, light percussion, and distant guitar chords. The second half goes in a more ambient direction.
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Lane
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:13 am 
 

Clutch - s/t (1995)

I really didn't get too much into this after the magnificent 'Transnational Speedway League...' debut album. It felt somewhat lazier, and it is just that, but I enjoy it hell of a lot more nowadays. There's no similar band (at least I've never heard anything like early Clutch, really)!
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CoconutBackwards
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:48 am 
 

I'm just now discovering Brutus. This album Nest from 2019 is great.
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henkkjelle
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 3:24 pm 
 

Editors - Strawberry Lemonade

The new Editors is their best in a decade. New full time member Benjamin John Power (Blanck Mass/Fuck Buttons) is a perfect fit.
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LycanthropeMoon
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 4:39 pm 
 

Green Day - You Irritate Me (demo)

They're putting out a deluxe 25th anniversary edition of "Nimrod". Great album, imo. This b-side/demo is pretty cool - reminds me of Pinhead Gunpowder.

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anamelessghoul
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:08 pm 
 

Frank Zappa binge. He was a fuckin genius

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Footless
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:35 pm 
 

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Saw this album at the store, couldn't resist. I've been hearing his music in Fallout: New Vegas, and had to purchase it.
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