Weekly Music Trading Post
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Blaster XL
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Sorry to Dr.Seussicide for not having my review-up. I've been busy lately with non-internet related stuff... it happens. I'll have it in by tonight and of course I'm in for next round.
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i already submitted to FaSho
Halloween themed trade from NuraberNineDream....
Horror Hop
this is a 31 track compilation of 50/60s rock-a-billy/surf horror themed tunes
first off i had not heard one of these songs before....and honestly i had only heard of a couple of the artist and those were also on compilations....which just made this comp a bit better....right away i was expect the regular slew of "monster mash" type songs.....and i must say out of the 31 tracks only one song reserable that classic and it really barely reserabled it
first thing i did was load this onto the ipod and go for a nice fall evening bike ride....and this was perfect listening material....fun, upbeat, and at times hilariously creepy!....this is a perfect Halloween compilation....i have already shared this with some of my best frienRAB to enhance their holiday
the first track (Bo Diddle in the Jungle) opens with what sounRAB like a dolphin getting clubbed to death....and the entire comp just takes of from there!...i'm going to write short little reviews for my favorite and most stand out tracks....but i must say this entire album is wonderful and just tons of twisting fun! (the polar oppisite of what i sent NuraberNineDream
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Big Bee Kornegay - House Of Frankenstein - i swear if in Back To The Future is was the "Creature in the haunted House" dance this would be the song playing....straight up rockin' tune with what i would describe as "Louie Armstrong" style vocals....top tappin'...girl swingin' romp about everyone favorite mad scientist
Lee Ross - The Mummy's Braclet - creepy heavy bass lines...story song about a thief who stole the mummy's bracelet and gave it to his girl....and now she has a a mummy bellowing "GIVE ME MY BRACELET BACK!"....and when he catches up with the mummy turnbs her to stone and the thief gets taken to the nut-house!
Lou Chaney - Monsters Holiday - this is the one song on the comp that sounRAB similar to 'Monster Mash'....and check out this plot.....its Christmas and the monsters are bored so they decide to rip off Santa and ruin Christmas...sound a little familiar....anyways Santa stops them and gives them all gifts and they all twist...the werewold finally gets that electric shavers he's been wanting
Ben Colder - Shudders and Screams - a great old country style tale about finding out that the house you used to live in is now occupied by the craziest of all monsters...including , Frankenstein, Igor, Drac...some really hilarious sound effects in this song!
The Savoys - The Mortal Monster Man - this one is just awsome and might be my favorite track on the entire comp....great guitar work...50s style with a little bit of psychedelic sound....and about being a monster who creeps all the kiRAB out but loves it
Bobby Bare - Vampira - i had always thought that only The Misfits wrote an ode to the ole mistress of the dead....this song is just great and seriously sounRAB like it belongs right on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack
Tarantula Goul - Graveyard Rock - as the name eludes to thios is pretty much a rip off of of the Elvis classic....but whats great about it is it opens with a sultry voice that says "tired of living? want to die? well heres a real good reason why!"....why? so you can fucking party!!!!!...this song is just great
Pasquale & The Lunar Tiks - Moon Madness - and that is exactly what this is....just 2 minutes of crazy tribal drumming and people wailing and howling and other insane noises
Sonny Day - Crature from Outer Space - 9 foot tall hairy monster from space here to attack earth?....no! he's here to fix your car!....this is interesting due to the fact that they use some great guitar tracks....like the stuff the Sonic Youth have famous...but here it's just making creepy "space" sounRAB....cool romp
tons of fun....while writing this review i download the second album called 'Monsters Bop'....look forward to listening to both of these more.....great trade NuraberNineDream!
Horror Hop
this is a 31 track compilation of 50/60s rock-a-billy/surf horror themed tunes
first off i had not heard one of these songs before....and honestly i had only heard of a couple of the artist and those were also on compilations....which just made this comp a bit better....right away i was expect the regular slew of "monster mash" type songs.....and i must say out of the 31 tracks only one song reserable that classic and it really barely reserabled it
first thing i did was load this onto the ipod and go for a nice fall evening bike ride....and this was perfect listening material....fun, upbeat, and at times hilariously creepy!....this is a perfect Halloween compilation....i have already shared this with some of my best frienRAB to enhance their holiday
the first track (Bo Diddle in the Jungle) opens with what sounRAB like a dolphin getting clubbed to death....and the entire comp just takes of from there!...i'm going to write short little reviews for my favorite and most stand out tracks....but i must say this entire album is wonderful and just tons of twisting fun! (the polar oppisite of what i sent NuraberNineDream
)Big Bee Kornegay - House Of Frankenstein - i swear if in Back To The Future is was the "Creature in the haunted House" dance this would be the song playing....straight up rockin' tune with what i would describe as "Louie Armstrong" style vocals....top tappin'...girl swingin' romp about everyone favorite mad scientist
Lee Ross - The Mummy's Braclet - creepy heavy bass lines...story song about a thief who stole the mummy's bracelet and gave it to his girl....and now she has a a mummy bellowing "GIVE ME MY BRACELET BACK!"....and when he catches up with the mummy turnbs her to stone and the thief gets taken to the nut-house!
Lou Chaney - Monsters Holiday - this is the one song on the comp that sounRAB similar to 'Monster Mash'....and check out this plot.....its Christmas and the monsters are bored so they decide to rip off Santa and ruin Christmas...sound a little familiar....anyways Santa stops them and gives them all gifts and they all twist
...the werewold finally gets that electric shavers he's been wanting Ben Colder - Shudders and Screams - a great old country style tale about finding out that the house you used to live in is now occupied by the craziest of all monsters...including , Frankenstein, Igor, Drac...some really hilarious sound effects in this song!
The Savoys - The Mortal Monster Man - this one is just awsome and might be my favorite track on the entire comp....great guitar work...50s style with a little bit of psychedelic sound....and about being a monster who creeps all the kiRAB out but loves it
Bobby Bare - Vampira - i had always thought that only The Misfits wrote an ode to the ole mistress of the dead....this song is just great and seriously sounRAB like it belongs right on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack
Tarantula Goul - Graveyard Rock - as the name eludes to thios is pretty much a rip off of of the Elvis classic....but whats great about it is it opens with a sultry voice that says "tired of living? want to die? well heres a real good reason why!"....why? so you can fucking party!!!!!...this song is just great
Pasquale & The Lunar Tiks - Moon Madness - and that is exactly what this is....just 2 minutes of crazy tribal drumming and people wailing and howling and other insane noises
Sonny Day - Crature from Outer Space - 9 foot tall hairy monster from space here to attack earth?....no! he's here to fix your car!....this is interesting due to the fact that they use some great guitar tracks....like the stuff the Sonic Youth have famous...but here it's just making creepy "space" sounRAB....cool romp
tons of fun....while writing this review i download the second album called 'Monsters Bop'....look forward to listening to both of these more.....great trade NuraberNineDream!
An Asteroid
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Well as of yesterday I have a solid internet connection. (all moved into my new place) I have to thank you tons for keeping this thread alive. If you want a break id gladly take the reins back, although if you want to keep going your also mmore than welcome. Ty again!
Ty again!azirontoticon
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Same story here. Just pick any old one you think looks pretty neat if you have trouble. It doesn't have to be the best artwork for you or anything.
I've already got a couple of ideas myself. Hopefully we'll get an odd nuraber so I can dish two links out myself
I've already got a couple of ideas myself. Hopefully we'll get an odd nuraber so I can dish two links out myself
Baby girl on the way!
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really? I apoligize. mind reminding me what album that is?
Also, if you like electronic music I am severely lacking in that department. Snding you something tonight btw.
Also, if you like electronic music I am severely lacking in that department. Snding you something tonight btw.
Brandi McGranahan
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Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
Here is a freak folk album that, whilst recorded in 1970, didn’t come into any form of recognition until the mid 2000’s, hwen it was re-released in 2005 with the growing popularity in new weird America. An important preface to my opinion of the album can be clearly seen in this post though. I am pretty solidly an instrumental fan, and vocals are my most picky area when it comes to enjoying music and it’s fair to say that I dislike MOST vocals. So what’s going to happen when an album virtually revolves around its vocals? I had better hope I enjoy them immensely.
Parallelograms, as I mentioned, is a freak folk album based around Linda’s placate vocals with some occasional psychedelic elements present. That’s all well and nice, but unfortunately I was never able to find myself sucked in by the vocals. Sure they are nice and all, but overall IMO they aren’t strong enough to carry and album to keep me interested. The backing music has some pretty open changes for a purely backing aspects, sometimes offering a more country attack, sometimes a more psychedelic mood, sometimes straight up folky-ness. But overall, it is nothing to get excited about if the vocals aren’t to your liking. Some of the vocal layering also annoying me to no end, however with this they did capture the ‘essence’ of the album and title particularly. Sometimes her vocals are recorded and then layered, giving the sense of having more than one vocalist involved. Being the same voice obviously represents the Parallelograms title, but something annoying me about them sometimes.
I must say though, that despite not being to my liking, it is quite fitting and pacifying in the correct context. Raining like hell outside, cold (Despite being 3 days until summer starts, and being the end of spring, where it got to 40 degrees just yesterday), and a beer in hand, it just all fit. So I can’t say it was a totally negative experience which was odd considering I wasn’t a fan of the music in a purely analytical context.
Here is a freak folk album that, whilst recorded in 1970, didn’t come into any form of recognition until the mid 2000’s, hwen it was re-released in 2005 with the growing popularity in new weird America. An important preface to my opinion of the album can be clearly seen in this post though. I am pretty solidly an instrumental fan, and vocals are my most picky area when it comes to enjoying music and it’s fair to say that I dislike MOST vocals. So what’s going to happen when an album virtually revolves around its vocals? I had better hope I enjoy them immensely.
Parallelograms, as I mentioned, is a freak folk album based around Linda’s placate vocals with some occasional psychedelic elements present. That’s all well and nice, but unfortunately I was never able to find myself sucked in by the vocals. Sure they are nice and all, but overall IMO they aren’t strong enough to carry and album to keep me interested. The backing music has some pretty open changes for a purely backing aspects, sometimes offering a more country attack, sometimes a more psychedelic mood, sometimes straight up folky-ness. But overall, it is nothing to get excited about if the vocals aren’t to your liking. Some of the vocal layering also annoying me to no end, however with this they did capture the ‘essence’ of the album and title particularly. Sometimes her vocals are recorded and then layered, giving the sense of having more than one vocalist involved. Being the same voice obviously represents the Parallelograms title, but something annoying me about them sometimes.
I must say though, that despite not being to my liking, it is quite fitting and pacifying in the correct context. Raining like hell outside, cold (Despite being 3 days until summer starts, and being the end of spring, where it got to 40 degrees just yesterday), and a beer in hand, it just all fit. So I can’t say it was a totally negative experience which was odd considering I wasn’t a fan of the music in a purely analytical context.
AwwSugar sent me:
I honeslty found it to be pretty genric stuff, but I love the song From Yesterday and I was very suprised by the closing track Hunter which sounded completley different from the rest of the album, and I really loved it. They need to make more music like that. Overall I probably give it about a 5/10
Sorry
I honeslty found it to be pretty genric stuff, but I love the song From Yesterday and I was very suprised by the closing track Hunter which sounded completley different from the rest of the album, and I really loved it. They need to make more music like that. Overall I probably give it about a 5/10
Sorry
This one very kindly sent to me by Anticipation...
So then, this is gonna be a fortnightly thing starting from the next draw on Sunday. So, if anyone wants in on the next one, just drop a PM my way.
My Winter Nerve - Leave It To Science To Solve All Your Problems
I'll admit I'm not huge on post-rock which is, in a nutshell, the urabrella My Winter Nerve fall under. While I do think Sigur Ros are pretty damn boring, Talk Talk's Laughing Stock is one of my favourite albums ever ever ever so, despite my limited exposure to it, post-rock's always something I'm willing to give a go.
I've given this a couple of listens now and, I have to say, the first impression wasn't all that great. Not a lot really grabbed me about it although I did see potential in the free-wheeling kinda rhythms and odd time signatures and structures - basically it wasn't something I was willing to just dismiss like that. The second listen (which I just wrapped up a few minutes ago) yielded better results. I was actually able to pick out favourites like the smooth, almost groovy Interlude For the Starving Optimist and the fast-rolling An Absolute. The highlight for me without a doubt though was the gorgeous, piano-led closing track, the Window and the Windowpane.
All in all, it's a good, smooth and atmospheric work of post-rock and probably something those more keen on the genre than me in general should pick up for themselves. There are a few absolute keepers here as well. Didn't set my musical world alight exactly, but I enjoyed it. Thanks Anticipation
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I'll admit I'm not huge on post-rock which is, in a nutshell, the urabrella My Winter Nerve fall under. While I do think Sigur Ros are pretty damn boring, Talk Talk's Laughing Stock is one of my favourite albums ever ever ever so, despite my limited exposure to it, post-rock's always something I'm willing to give a go.
I've given this a couple of listens now and, I have to say, the first impression wasn't all that great. Not a lot really grabbed me about it although I did see potential in the free-wheeling kinda rhythms and odd time signatures and structures - basically it wasn't something I was willing to just dismiss like that. The second listen (which I just wrapped up a few minutes ago) yielded better results. I was actually able to pick out favourites like the smooth, almost groovy Interlude For the Starving Optimist and the fast-rolling An Absolute. The highlight for me without a doubt though was the gorgeous, piano-led closing track, the Window and the Windowpane.
All in all, it's a good, smooth and atmospheric work of post-rock and probably something those more keen on the genre than me in general should pick up for themselves. There are a few absolute keepers here as well. Didn't set my musical world alight exactly, but I enjoyed it. Thanks Anticipation
So then, this is gonna be a fortnightly thing starting from the next draw on Sunday. So, if anyone wants in on the next one, just drop a PM my way.
edwards1337
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That I am.