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[Fragile Bird]

Lord_Tyrion, on 14 December 2012 - 10:08 AM, said:

Irish Moutarde - The Bear And The Maiden Fair

<goes looking for his Docs and having a jolly good time of pogo>

You know they did a thread to introduce themselves here? http://asoiaf.wester...k-rock-version/

[The girl with curious hair]

Durckad, on 14 December 2012 - 12:05 AM, said:

This thread has inspired me to listen to The Suburbs again.  It's been a while, I forgot just how good this album is.  Easily my favorite Arcade Fire album.

We dun good, folks. We dun good.

Ballrog Boogie by Diablo Swing Orchestra. I discovered Diablo Swing Orchestra on a website, jamendo.com, from which you can download whole albums by independent artists. I'm not a huge fan of metal, but this band is sick, dawg. They're so fucking weird. Their style combines opera, metal, and swing. They are so fun, but it takes an open mind to like them.

[Triskele]

Durckad, on 14 December 2012 - 12:46 AM, said:

Never got the love for Funeral honestly.  Good album with some great songs, but The Suburbs is just great song after great song.  Okay, I still don't like "Rococo" much and it's maybe a bit too long, could use a bit of trimming, but I can't think of anything that matches the brilliance of Sprawl II, Half-Light II, City With No Children, or The Suburbs on the other albums.  I could probably list off half the album actually.  Just great stuff.

I scoffed at the Arcade Fire before The Suburbs. I didn't think much of them but it made me a fan.

One more track from The Suburbs that must be mentioned is We Used to Wait.

As for Funeral, I don't know if I've ever loved two opening tracks as much as Tunnels and Laika.  

Power Out and Lies are also tracks that melt a monkey brain to goo.

[PetyrPunkinhead]

Currently I have these albums in heavy rotation:
Meschiya Lake's Lucky Devil and Langhorne Slim's This Is the Way We Move.

Edited by PetyrPunkinhead, 15 December 2012 - 05:21 AM.

[Durckad]

The girl with curious hair, on 14 December 2012 - 09:57 PM, said:

Ballrog Boogie by Diablo Swing Orchestra. I discovered Diablo Swing Orchestra on a website, jamendo.com, from which you can download whole albums by independent artists. I'm not a huge fan of metal, but this band is sick, dawg. They're so fucking weird. Their style combines opera, metal, and swing. They are so fun, but it takes an open mind to like them.

Diablo Swing Orchestra is great.  I love all three of their albums.

Triskele, on 14 December 2012 - 11:20 PM, said:

One more track from The Suburbs that must be mentioned is We Used to Wait.

That one always seems to slip by me whenever I listen to the album.

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As for Funeral, I don't know if I've ever loved two opening tracks as much as Tunnels and Laika.  

Yeah, those two opening tracks are really good.  Probably my favorites on the album.

[kuroishi]

I had a listen of Funeral a couple of weeks ago, and all the while I was thinking about how it's undubitably one of the best albums of the 2000s but I guess there's always a matter of taste . I don't dislike any of the songs and it has so many glorious moments... If it had gone out when I was a teenager, I think I would have lived with this album. As it is it did take me some time (a couple of years actually) to get into it, but I still love it very much.

I have to say that neither Neon Bible nor The Suburbs ever grabbed me as much. I still really like songs from both (Antichrist Television Blues, No Cars Go, Black Wave/Bad Vibrations ; City with no Children, Half Light 1, Sprawl II...) but as albums, I find them lacking...

[Lord_Tyrion]

Josh Groban - In Her Eyes

For an absent friend on her birthday....

[Fez]

Blackmore's Night - Under a Violet Moon

Usually not really my style, but it popped up on a pandora station and its just so damn catchy; especially after it gets going.

ETA: And yes, that's Ritchie Blackmore; quite a change from Deep Purple.

Edited by Fez, 16 December 2012 - 12:33 AM.

[The girl with curious hair]

Durckad, on 15 December 2012 - 11:43 AM, said:

Diablo Swing Orchestra is great.  I love all three of their albums.

You seem to be a worthy human. I've never come across anyone who knows this group. Awesome!

Triskele, on 14 December 2012 - 11:20 PM, said:

One more track from The Suburbs that must be mentioned is We Used to Wait.

As for Funeral, I don't know if I've ever loved two opening tracks as much as Tunnels and Laika.  

Power Out and Lies are also tracks that melt a monkey brain to goo.

You also forgot to mention “The Suburbs (continued)” and “Wasted Hours (A Life that We Can Live)”. Get it together, Frisky. Being a goo-brained monkey is not an excuse. (By the way, the more I think about the title “Frisky Trisky”, the more I giggle)

“Tunnels” and “Laika” are really beautiful opening songs, but I think my favorite song from Funeral is “Haiti”. I like the contrast between the lyrics and the air of the song. The notes are sweet and naïve, but the lyrics are haunting. Plagued with despair. I like that about half of the lyrics are in French. I think it adds to the esoteric nature of the song. It’s personal and heartbreaking. I keep thinking of that Tolstoy quote that goes, “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” I think Arcade Fire has a very unique way of infusing their music with dichotomous sentiments. Favorite part of lyrics: Soon we will reclaim the earth/ All the tears and all the bodies/ Bring about our second birth

[larrytheimp]

Oh Cracker, Where art thou?


It's David Lowry and Johnny Hickman from Cracker, and then Leftover Salmon for a band, doing bluegrassy cover of Cracker songs.  Highlights would have to be "Eurotrash Girl" "Get of this" "Sweet Potato" and "Lonesome Johnny Blues."

For fans of Leftover Salmon or Cracker this is a hidden gem recorded in 2003.

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While I was eating lunch today I found this sick album inside an Alice in Chains cd case in my truck, and hadn't listened to it in awhile.  I must be crazy because it's frickin' awesome.


Blackboard Jungle Dub
Lee Perry and the Upsetters

Classic Perry record.  Some of the sounds on here are other worldly and unreal and this record is basically a template for all dub.  I bought this on vinyl a while ago and wanted to listen to it raw but my needle broke last week.  To any reggae / upsetters fan not familiar with this album:  an absolute must listen to experience.

[Durckad]

The girl with curious hair, on 16 December 2012 - 06:07 PM, said:

You seem to be a worthy human. I've never come across anyone who knows this group. Awesome!

I actually first heard about them here.

There's a few other fans of them lurking about somewhere.

[Where Went Whent]

I listen to Two Steps from Hell- Skyworld. Every song in that album gets played at least four times per day before I tire

Edited by Where Went Whent, 17 December 2012 - 01:08 AM.

[Triskele]

kuroishi, on 15 December 2012 - 02:14 PM, said:

I had a listen of Funeral a couple of weeks ago, and all the while I was thinking about how it's undubitably one of the best albums of the 2000s but I guess there's always a matter of taste . I don't dislike any of the songs and it has so many glorious moments... If it had gone out when I was a teenager, I think I would have lived with this album. As it is it did take me some time (a couple of years actually) to get into it, but I still love it very much.

I have to say that neither Neon Bible nor The Suburbs ever grabbed me as much. I still really like songs from both (Antichrist Television Blues, No Cars Go, Black Wave/Bad Vibrations ; City with no Children, Half Light 1, Sprawl II...) but as albums, I find them lacking...

That's about where I'm and the ones you mention are pretty much my favorites from the other two albums.

Although some of the middle tracks on Neon Bible like Ocean Of Noise and The Well and the Lighthouse have grown on me.

With Funeral I just don't really have a complaint.  If there is one, it's that I don't love the closing track In the Back Seat.  I wish they'd have ended it w/ Lies or found another closer.

The girl with curious hair, on 16 December 2012 - 06:07 PM, said:

You also forgot to mention “The Suburbs (continued)” and “Wasted Hours (A Life that We Can Live)”. Get it together, Frisky. Being a goo-brained monkey is not an excuse. (By the way, the more I think about the title “Frisky Trisky”, the more I giggle)

“Tunnels” and “Laika” are really beautiful opening songs, but I think my favorite song from Funeral is “Haiti”. I like the contrast between the lyrics and the air of the song. The notes are sweet and naïve, but the lyrics are haunting. Plagued with despair. I like that about half of the lyrics are in French. I think it adds to the esoteric nature of the song. It’s personal and heartbreaking. I keep thinking of that Tolstoy quote that goes, “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” I think Arcade Fire has a very unique way of infusing their music with dichotomous sentiments. Favorite part of lyrics: Soon we will reclaim the earth/ All the tears and all the bodies/ Bring about our second birth

Just for the record, I did not give myself the "Frisky Trisky" monicker.  I was overposting sloppily and repeating stuff in a thread when Jaime L was like " I already said that, Frisky Trisky."

Vous avez aussi un petit peu de la langue francais avec la chanson Une Annee Sans Lumiere.  C'est pas seulement avec Haiti.

Edited by Triskele, 17 December 2012 - 02:06 AM.