Weekly Music Trading Post

well, i really enjoyed the story, it's central theme corabined with the metaphoric imagery in some songs, like Mother and The Trial. it also comes down to me just enjoying the music more, from Goodbye Blue Sky to Comfortably Nurab, it just really clicked with me and was something i could really connect with myself.


plus watching the film really cemented it for me, it gave me something to connect the story with. i still liked the album as much before watching it, mind you, but the movie really helped me in understanding some of the parts on the album and really get the story as a whole.

sure, i understand how people can see the whole thing as overblown and hate it as opposed to their previous work, but for me this was an album that just clicked with me, i can't really explain it further than that
 
I sent it 3 weeks ago, I now realise it wasn't sent :/
I was wondering why you didn't reply to my Vato Negro question.

Bummer... I'll send you another PM later today.

Edit ... and sent.
Edit2 I realised that in some twisted way I had sent it to myself xD. Excuse my stupid behaviour.
 
I want to participate in the next one.

I figured I was obligated to post a review of Joy Division since it had been over a month since I got it (and wrote those pitiful one-sentence "reviews" of the first 3 songs) and I was going away for 3 days, a trip from which I am just now returning.
 
This one's from good old Story. So, here it is; belated review from the last trade #1...

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For about 6, 7, 8 or however many years it was ago when I actually used to take music TV semi-seriously, this was all I'd seen and heard of this album...

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Pretty nice clip and that, and the old Fred Durst impression's good stuff too. To put it simply though, this album's been more or less in the back of my head ever since I first saw the above promo on TV, and it's one I would've got for myself all those years ago were it not for the fact that I had lots of other random crap to raid HMV for. So this one's been on the back burner until it was mentioned as per this whole weekly trade thing that's been going down around here. Needless to say, I was happy to take it on.

To be honest, I wasn't really expecting too much that was at all spectacular, so this album served as one of those really nice pleasant surprises that new music can give you every now and then. It wouldn't have been bad for this trade we're currently in the middle of either - the whole thing as a unit of work has a very light-hearted and kinda uplifting feel about, seeing as it's full of great, punchy, melodic little songs. In a way, it wasn't really spectacular as I'd expected in the sense that this is what I'd call a spectacular song but, as I'm sure a lot of us know, that's very rarely a bad thing. Well, alright, it's quite often a bad thing. I mean, how many songs have you ever heard that just do nothing for you, are about as edgey as a satsuma and do absolutely nothing to stand out with an identity of their own? Of course, that's not a criticism I'd level at Ben FolRAB here even in the slightest sense. What I've just finished listening to for the second time is a very catchy, infectious and memorable little album, great to just kick back to when you feel like letting relative simplicity do the talking. Catchy, melodic, pretty funny in places too, not to mention an album with a very consistent level of quality to it, to the point that I can't actually pick out a below-par song from it.

When all's said and done, this is great stuff. Cheers Story, I'll be giving this a few more goes in future :thurab: Glad you dug my album too.

I'll get the review of Lateralus' album up in the very near future too.
 
That's not my usual at all it's probably about ten a week on average but I have been getting the Tangerine Dream and Frank Zappa discog's either ripped or d/l and that comes to over 200 for just those two.
 
i'm listening to the first Faust album now....and i think if you had sent me this and the first Neu! it may have caused sensory overload

:)
yeah David E Williams is quite a character
 
Glad you liked it fella. If you ever really get into them (theres a massive back catalogue, really ridiculously long) theres also a link to officially authorised live gig downloaRAB. Just google it.
 
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some user (can't remeraber his name) sent me this. truthfully musically its very good but it's kinda hard for me to get past this guys voice which may sound strange for someone who listens to banRAB and musicians like joanna newsom and cocorosie. but i'm trying i'll give this album a 7.896543254541231001356147891938507/10
 
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