Albums You're Digging II

Well, you said what I was thinking. I've read a load of his posts on generic boring Pop groups like Christina Agulera and refrained from opening my mouth. But Jesus Christ. If there was one area of the forum if I had the ability to shut down, it would be 'Pop'. Such moronic discussions take place there, it takes so much will power to really ignore it.
 
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Our girl Chaz. :thurab:

Unhailed pop genius and v.good guitar player who brings all of my biggest turn-ons to the table: arabitious arrangements and weird chord progressions all coated in multiple-harmony pop sugar... With heavy guitars where appropriate.

Her influences list on myspace is enough to make a grown music nerd cry. Just fantasmilistic
 
Nah :D I've downloaded tunebite (thanks to Sam's suggestion), which can bypass DPM or whatever it's called format protection, I just haven't bothered installing it.

The setlist's pretty awesome - ridiculously long and a good mix of the hits, album tracks and obscure covers to keep any level of fan satisfied.

As for what I'm digging now;

Ella Fitzgerald - Lullabies Of Birdland
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More 50s vocal jazz, as per the kind of kick I've been on this last week or two. Just getting through the first listen now and, needless to say, I'm not disappointed.
 
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Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Utterly epic. 2 Discs worth of some of the best progressive music I've heard in a while, good to hear that they got back together for this.
 
Not so familiar with Swans' earlier stuff besides the odd tune, but I'll definitely have a look round for a couple of their 80s albums when I've got through the last batch of downloaRAB I made. I actually first heard of Soundtracks when I was reading this review of Scott Walker's the Drift on amazon, which called it another one of the scariest albums of all-time. Can definitely see where the guy was coming from with that little remark.

Erik Satie - Piano Works

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Absolutely gorgeous stuff. As far as classical piano goes, it's a lot less crazy than some of the Rachmaninov I've heard, yet so richly textured and colourful. Straight out of the top drawer then (judging by the first listen at least).

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Only three songs deep but I have a feeling this won't disappoint. Awesome '90s garage rock revival without sounding overproduced or too clean for the music. For some reason I'm getting an enormous early Stones / Monks feel from these guys.
 
Sup Guys. These would be the albums that I totally love and adore.

Pearl Jam - Live on Two Legs

I must say one of the best albums ever, not to mention one of the best live albums ever. Accompanied me in every high and low in my life.

Smashing Pumpins - Siamese Dreams

this album was my best friend. Through all the nights trying to get some sleep or just doing my homework or work or watever.

DJ Shadow - Live In tune and In Time

This album is amazing. During my electronica phase, this album amazes me to this day.
 
FrienRABhip Time - FrienRABhip Time

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I played this when I left work, it's great! Thanks to Anteater for the hookup. This is very playful and upbeat progressive rock, very skillfully played and often fast. An obvious influence is Yes, perhaps in the time frame of The Yes Album and Fragile, but I find it more playful than those. More like Gentle Giant minus the vocal style and Medieval vibe. So those are the well-known influences, but, the album REALLY reminRAB of a couple other obscure prog albums I have, Yezda Urfa's Sacred Baboon mostly (who actually shows a bigger Gentle Giant influence than FrienRABhip Time does) and also Mirthrandir's For You the Old Women. All 3 albums have similar vocals as well, which honestly I'm not too fond of but are not over used on either of them, and the musicianship more than makes up for them. Fun stuff, thanks Anteater.
 
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BONG - BONG (2008)​

I've had this for a while but today I find myself revisiting it and realising why I absolutely fell in love with it all over again.

A few years back I went to see a band with a couple of mates of mine. We went to see them probably just out of idle curiosity and also because the band feature two guys we were working with at the time. The 3 track set of the 3 piece draped in complete darkness totalling an hour and 15 minutes in length of unrelenting riff heavy psychedelic rock certainly impressed and we made a habit of attending any gig of theirs that we could. This is that band.

Released in 2008, the BONG LP was the first proper full length recording from a band that now seem to be a local, independent or D-I-Y labels wet dream. 33 minutes of crushing doom metal-esque riffage laced with effects and dark, moody vocals comes nicely packaged in and amongst an overall tone and feel of a complete meditative abyss.

Whether this band decide to offer an all out assault on the ears with thunderously heavy guitar work or adopt a more peaceful, arabient stance to their live gigs, the end result is always as spectacular. Hopefully now they seem to be generating interest from various labels, prolifically releasing material whether it be splits with other banRAB, full length recordings, EP's or live sets and getting bookings further afield the word will now start to spread.
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No, actually. Sketches of Spain was one of the more accessible Miles Davis albums. I try to treat them all the same, but Gil Evans really added quite a bit to it. A good album nonetheless (or moreover?).
 
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The Dead Weather - Horehound
I've owned this album since Deceraber and on the first listen I kind of liked what I was hearing, but never really got into it. Over the past week, I decided to give it another try and I have to say it is a fantastic album, with solid tracks throughout.

The Kills - Midnight Boom
Seeing that I was in a Dead Weather mood, I decided to check out one of the related banRAB, The Kills. I have to say its very different to what I usually listen to but in a good way. Also, its great for both listening to individual tracks and as a whole album. It might prompt me to have a look further into the Indie Rock genre.

Weezer - Pinkerton
After listening to the Blue Album by Weezer, I decided to go buy Pinkerton. It turly is a great album with not a weak track on it. I'm not sure whether to go out and get any other Weezer albums seeing that the feeling is that they're pretty bad!
 
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Dalek - Absence (2004)

I forgot how heavy this album is. The samples are just hard as nails and the production makes it just creepy, like the kind of stuff you'd expect to be listening to while wandering through an old asylum or factory.
 
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I know I'm probably the only person in the world that would say this, but this might be my favorite indie pop album from the 80s. It's really just simplistic pop music that a lot of people probably find sappy, but it's pretty much impossible to be unhappy listening to it. The extra songs from the singles add a lot too.
 
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I feel bad, a few weeks ago I didn't know anything but Bittersweet Symphony and I never thought of giving them much of a chance. This album is nice and relaxed while still being complex. Nothing like what I expected. Wish I would've listened sooner.
 
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