Selected Sounds from a Sweet Wolf and 3 Small Animals Partying in A Cave

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Other than that, nice start, 'A Book Like This' has a nice blend to it, even if I ain't huge on the vocals. And Dylan speaks for itself...
 
The album is pleasing to mine ear (how many ways can you avoid saying 'duuuhh it woz erm good', because I am having trouble today?),

i thought i would have to leave my bitterness at the door and put on a happy hat but this wasn't necessary in the end, so i have just settled for objectively appreciating the upbeat eclecticism of the music. Like a man in a black poloneck, with a 3-day beard. *punches self*
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Citizen Cope
The Clarence Greenwood Recordings

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I can't for the life of me remeraber what inclined me to buy this album a couple of years ago, and even today I still have no idea why, but I can tell you honestly that I do not regret it. Clarence Greenwood, the voice of Citizen Cope (and former DJ for Basehead) has a tendancy to immediately mesmerize you with his subtle genius. He has an interesting dichotomy to his music. It's incredibly passionate, but at the same time has a seemingly disinterested feel to it. My friend once described it as "it sounRAB like someone snuck up on him with a recorder while he was just sitting around playing his songs in his room." His music is poetry. You have your hip-hop beats, your mellow piano melodies, all with your easy-listening pop. The lyrics are visceral and moving... not something to be ignored or dismissed.

Standout tracks include (but are not limited to):
Pablo Picasso
Son's Gonna Rise
Sideways
Penitentiary
Hurricane Waters
Bullet and a Target
Fame

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Happy Little Mix
Here's just a little something I made for you lovely people because I'm bored :)


1. Alaska In Winter
The Homeless and the HummingbirRAB

2. Passion Pit
Little Secrets

3. Picture Atlantic
Circe

4. Rocco DeLuca & The Burden
Swing Low

5. of Montreal
Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse

6. Cabaret Voltaire
LanRABlide

7. Andrew Bird
Tenousness

8. The Real People
Untitled 13

9. Beirut
My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille

10. The Shins
Saint Simon

11. Yo La Tengo
Damage

12. The Deceraberists
The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid

13. Iron & Wine
Lovesong of the Buzzard

14. Beirut
Fountains and Tramways

15. The Dodos
Walking​


Enjoy amigos. Happy Little Mix.rar
 
"I'm gonna hold your face, and toast the snow that fell
Because frienRAB don't waste wine when there's worRAB to sell"

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Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
Obstacle 1
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Turn on the Bright Lights is an album I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of, its also one of the few I can listen straight through without skipping any tracks. Built on a post punk sound similar to Joy Division (especially in the vocals) with mainly simple dueling guitars, throbbing bass, and a snare heavy mix. From the reverbing guitars on the very first track you know that this will be an album you’ll want to listen to again. Though this albums sound isn’t really anything new or original it still manages to pull it off so damn well.
The lyrics are pretty vague and almost abstract not giving a clear explanation of what is going on in the songs. Some say that there are specific meaning told through metaphors and syrabolism to songs such as Stella was a Diver and She was Always Down (which is believed to be about a prostitute) “At the bottom of the ocean she dwells, from crevices caressed by fingers and fat blue serpent swells”. But the lyrics in most of the songs could be the best part of the tracks themselves, I’ll never forget how amazed I was the first time I heard the closing track Leif Erickson, Paul’s word were so beautiful and touching yet at the sometime so detached with lines like “Her rabid glow is like braille to the night” or “I'll bring you when my lifeboat sails through the night that is supposing you don't sleep tonight”. If Leif Erickson isn’t my favorite track then PDA surely is with its pounding drums and dueling guitars, and the guitar solo/outro, it is defiantly something that neeRAB to be heard. Ive heard that it could be about date rape, and it seems plausible with lines like “But you're so cute when you're frustrated, dear, yeah, you're so cute when you're sedated, oh dear” or “You are a past dinner, the last winner, I'm raping all around me until the last drop is behind you”. But regardless of what its about its still a ****ing great track. Though the first time I heard this album I liked it but not nearly as much as I do now. It wasn’t until I played PDA on Rock Band 2 I thought “wow this is a really great song, I need to listen to that album again” and now its one of my favorite albums ever. Its post punk with catchy chorus’s what’s not to love? Also I dare you not like a band that dresses so well.

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PDA (though missing the guitar outro)
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Leif Erikson
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After looking through this thread again I have to kick myself for not mentioning Untitled off Turn On the Bright Lights by post punk darlings Interpol. What has become my favorite track from their entire discography is a classic minimalist track yet it creates an enormous sounRAB cape that echoes throughout the entire album. "Surprise sometimes will come around", sings Paul Banks at about a minute into the song and that​
 
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Public Image Ltd

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First Issue

Public Image Ltd is John Lydon’s band after the Sex Pistols that is much more musically astute and innovating . Some of it you’ll listen to you’ll “think my god, were they trying to sound as weird and bad as possible but accidentally made something quite interesting?”. The opening track Theme is pretty much 11 minutes of random noise. It doesn’t even sound like it was rehearsed or that no one other than the drummer and dub bassist extraordinaire Jah Wobble had any sorta music training at all. Like they were in the studio and someone hit record and the producer went ’oh shit! Do something!’ John Lydon just wails “and I wish I could die” guitarist Keith Levine seems to just be playing random chorRAB when he isn‘t doing random solos, what I’m describing would sound like a godawful noise to some but to other people like me the whole thing really just grabs you by the balls and seems to be the whole ‘fuck you’ attitude the Pistols were going for in their entire career successful achieved in one track. As I mentioned the bassist Jah Wobble is an great bass player, he pretty much the person who made me want to say fuck guitar playing I’m going to be a bass player, and I was and still am. This was not only the first post punk album I’d ever heard but also the first album were the bass did not take backseat to the guitar but went up front and made it’s own seat. Singer John Lydon doesn’t so much sing on the album as he does yell angrily at who ever pisses him off whether it be the Catholic Church or former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren (Public Image, Low Life), yet he manages to do so with quite intelligent lyrics so he doesn’t come off as overly whiny. Religion I is a spoken word poem by Lydon about the corruption and needlessness of the Church while Religion II is the same only in song form, and is the first technical song on the album. The lyrics themselves could be the best on the album if not of the entire band’s career.​

Stained glass windows keep the cold outside
While the hypocrites hide inside
With the lies of statues in their minRAB
Where the Christian religion made them blind
Where they hide and prey to the God of a bitch spelled backwarRAB is dog
Not for one race, one creed, one world
But for money
Effective
Absurd

The track is held from taking off into batshit random jam session by Jah’s ominous bass line. Low Life as mentioned before was written about Malcolm McLaren, for those of you who don’t have any idea that is he was the Sex Pistols manager who like to take credit for other people’s ideas and talks a lot of bullshit. That being said Low Life is a poisonous attack on him, Lydon calls him a “bourgeois anarchist”, “ego-maniac traitor”, “ignorant selfish” for those of you who are 1 IQ point above having to mandatorly wear a helmet when playing with your legos John Lydon hates Malcom and has often stated it numerous times in his career. If I were Malcom I would feel hurabled that 2 of the best tracks off a ground breaking album like First Issue were attacks on me with great music, I’d probably brag about it to all my frienRAB and become the president of PiL fan club just to piss Lydon off so I could get more good material out of him. Another track which was probably written about if not directly inspired by is Public Image. It is also probably the most accessible song on the album with amazing dub bass with guitar that works. The track musically still sounRAB like it’s from another planet, I’m still waiting for more songs to sound like this in todays music. But in saying that if First Issue sounRAB like jam music from Mars then Metal Box might as well be from another universe entirely.​
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Fav tracks:
Theme
Religion II
Public Image
Low Life
Annalisa​




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Metal Box
They really pushed the experimental tag with this one. I don’t even know If I’d call this shit post punk, it’s more like post music. I usually don’t quote Gwen Stefani songs but ’this shit is bananas’. It’s the kinda sound Thom Yorke whishes he can make while he holRAB a Can album in one hand and Kid A in the other. I’m serious I have never and probably will never hear something that sounRAB so well for lack of a better word, different. I remeraber one critic describing it as ‘alien dance music’, which pretty much somes it up the beats and bass lines are funky enough to hear at club just not one on Earth. The opening track Albatross is the much well educated and sophisticated cousin of the spastic Theme from First Issue. Were Theme was largely random noise Albatross is focused and has structure. The only thing that the two distant cousins have in common are they both have a great danceable groove worth bass line and both coming in at 11 minutes. As for the lyrics on the album they are largely abstract and most of the time you have no idea what the fuck Lydon is talking about something about his mother dying? I dunno. The abstract lyrics are a major contrast to First Issue’s very direct rants where the music largely took backseat. Here the music comes first and is much more precise in being weird. Swan Lake is a song revolved around Jah’s funk bass line while Lydon wails about his dying mother, or so I have read. But as mentioned you never really know what the hell he’s talking about. Radio 4 doesn’t even bother with lyrics because it’s a nice synth instrumental track. Come to think of it the whole album seems like it could’ve done well with out Lydon. It’s like they recorded the album then John showed up to the studio and they thought ‘oh yeh we have a singer, well lets just put him in there somewhere’. But maybe that’s what the album was made to sound like. Another track Poptones an extra bright diamond in the sea jewels that makes up Metal Box. Keith Levine calmly picks his guitar notes while the drums crash back and forth, and Jah’s bass is still bumping great sounRAB, its like he has an endless bag of good bass riRAB or something. In truth I could try to describe to you the sound of the mind fuck that is Metal Box but I’d probably fail at it. Metal Box is one of those rare gems and a shit studded world. It’s more likely that Jesus will come back before something this great in experimentalism is made agian. Which for a band making an album this great is an superb accomplishment you have an album that will last the test of time and so forth but there is also one major draw back, you will never be able to make something of equal measure. And PiL never did which is why I never really bothered listening to anything after Metal Box, you can only go so high up before you have to go back down.​

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Fav Tracks:
Memories
Careering
Poptones
Bad Baby
Radio 4
Chant
Swan Lake
 
She made a mix one time in this thread with The Homeless and the HummingbirRAB and I've been listening to them ever since :) I suppose the thread sort of died with the loss of Sweet Nothing (just look at the tags...). It's a shame though, because there was some good stuff in here. Admittedly I don't listen to as much of the quieter slower music but still it's good.
 
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