NP: 2017 Edition

[luna]

Yeah interested to hear this in the context of the album

[Naylzie]

Cannot.  Wait.

[dee]

I'm on a Faith No More kick. I seriously love Mike Patton.   

[Aaron]

Dude is super dreamy. I saw him live with Tomahawk, he was amazing. (Along with the rest of the band.)


I've been listening to Kimbra. (Please don't judge) It's about as pop as I get, And I'm ok with that... (She is the chick from the Gotye "Somebody I used to know" song.) Her solo stuff is amazing. And her voice is great.

[TPD]

lol dustin likes teaparty

he's such a star star star. ***

[chimera]

I was telling Teddy my new prog metal love is Headspace (the prog metal band, not the other band with the same name).  I didn't start listening to them because of that (it's because I became obsessed with Lee Pomeroy) but I love them, especially their first album I Am Anonymous.

Otherwise I'm a dinosaur, as usual, and not overly impressed with Ol'Gloomy's latest low-fi thing he's doing or whatever.

Dust - The Division Bell, really?    Even I don't listen to that and it's no secret I'll listen to just about any Floyd.

[luna]

Aw the division bell will always have a special place in my heart.  Something about 1994, it was just such a shitty/awesome year

[Dust]

Wow, one post after another that judges my musical taste.  Now it's starting to feel a little more homey in here!

Ted: I almost didn't buy those tickets because I kept gigglesnorting at their stuff while in my inebriated state.  That's never a good sign.  However, Babylon is still so awesome that I couldn't say no.  And you like the Nins, so who are you to judge?

Chim: That song particularly holds a special place in me heart, as it's one of my dad's favourites.  I can't account for his tastes, and believe me when I say I really wouldn't want to, but I do love High Hopes.  The rest of the album is pretty meh, like it was the gang writing like they're a Floyd rip-off.

[chimera]

The rest of the album is pretty meh, like it was the gang writing like they're a Floyd rip-off.

As all right-thinking people believe. 

LOL okay, I get it - although weirdly for me I'm rather more fond of AMLoR, which is pretty cheesy bad too.  I think it's because I know too much about how TDB was made, which is decidedly counter to the official narrative.  I would recommend to either of you if you can to get your hands on Andy Jackson's 5.1 mix - which makes the album sound SO MUCH BETTER, it's amazing.

[doom]

new Depeche Mode is solid.

I need to give the new Mother Mother another listen. Every time they make an album i go "Eh...not as good as the other ones." Then within a few months the album slowly grows on me.

here's some albums that i've really been liking lately:

Jakob - Sines
Oranssi Pazuzu - Varahtelija
STRFKR - Vault Vol. 1
Corpo-Mente - Corpo-Mente

[Dust]

I would recommend to either of you if you can to get your hands on Andy Jackson's 5.1 mix - which makes the album sound SO MUCH BETTER, it's amazing.

Duly noted!  Thanks for the excellent recommendation.

Anyway, my NP is a process of starting to think about the demos I want to share with the studio.  I have so much stuff to sift through, and I think I'm going to share as many as I can stand to talk about with you guys.  Is that cool?

PS - Set The Controls at Pompeii is still my all-time favourite.

[rynne]

Shirley Collins - Lodestar
Nurse With Wound - The Great Ecstasy of the Basic Corrupt
Cyclobe - Sulphur-Tarot-Garden
Zos Kia/Coil - Transparent
Leonard Cohen -You Want It Darker
Subrosa -For This We Fought the Battle of Ages

Subrosa is one of the more interesting doom metal groups I've come across: three women and two men in a guitar/violin/violin/bass/drums line-up with women-dominated vocals (guitarist as primary frontwoman, both violinists on back-up, and the bassist providing the only male voice) and epic 10+ minute songs. Arrangements occasionally remind me of The Fragile: check out the plucked strings in "Dispair Is a Siren" at 2:00.

[Dust]

Good to see you, sir.

[Dust]

Okay, I'm doing it!

This is a crappy song that I've been fixing up for almost ten years, and I think I'm going to open up to producer dude with it:

digging out (02.13.17) .mp3

digging out (02.13.17) .wav

Killing joke was a laughing stock
With my backwards hands in a puppet sock
They got me working double shifts in the harpy den
Counting down the milliseconds 'til the quantum end

I'm drawing blueprint escape plans
Before they snap the seven seals (and my will to live)
You know there's no sense giving into sentences,
Baby, digging out of here is imperative

Lovely lynching up on Gallows' Hill, like the day before and forever still
See the High Noon Typhoon eat up all the sky soon
Just another day in the waiting room...

Dude's had just about enough of Dis
Well, I'm digging out into eternal bliss,
And the only certainty I guarantee, my friend
Is living freely don't come easy to the dead and damned

Ain't no gentle persuasion
Like all the lucky mother fuckers that the lord forgives
It's now or never honey, take your pick,
'Cause we're digging out of here...

...If you choose to live....

Hey there, dear hybrid, who is who
I see you're neither one nor two
Remember me, my screaming trees
I'll be your cherished memory.....

I think it's a pretty cool opener!  I'd really like to redo this whole thing, with live drums and better mixing.  I'd have a lot of fun singing it live too.

Edit: Sorry that it's Dropbox.  The link will work after you close the sign-up thing.

[Aaron]

I fucking love that song. I still play it from time to time. (I won't admit to how much of the lyrics I get wrong.) But ya, hopefully they can help you with that. But it's a great song, so it should only get better.

I have it on my ipod as Barfknecht- diggin' out...