Weekly Music Trading Post
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Marianne M
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Sure.
Some (like Bulldog here) suggest a couple of albums, with videos from each to see which the partner would prefer.
Or maybe ask the partner which genre he doesn't bear, what he's expecting, or which mood he's in. As long as your partner seems curious about the album you're sending him, and that of course doesn't own it already. It's all good. You can PM each other all you want, till you have it clear in your mind what you'll be doing. It doesn't have to be some official "-Hello -Here's your album -Goodbye".
At the end, it's all made for you to enjoy your week, and your music of course.
Cheers. May it be a good first trade. :thurab:
Some (like Bulldog here) suggest a couple of albums, with videos from each to see which the partner would prefer.
Or maybe ask the partner which genre he doesn't bear, what he's expecting, or which mood he's in. As long as your partner seems curious about the album you're sending him, and that of course doesn't own it already. It's all good. You can PM each other all you want, till you have it clear in your mind what you'll be doing. It doesn't have to be some official "-Hello -Here's your album -Goodbye".
At the end, it's all made for you to enjoy your week, and your music of course.
Cheers. May it be a good first trade. :thurab:
ilovepointe
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I'll go this time
JackReynolds
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NuraberNineDream was nice enough to send me Little Flecks Of Foam Around Barking, the second album by the late 80s/early 90s British group The Chrysanthemums.
Honestly, this is album is...it's interesting. Overall it's a humorous record, fairly light-hearted, poking fun via pop culture references (most of which I didn't understand
) as well as parodying the borabast and pretentiousness of some progressive rock albums. There are cheesy song titles and lyrics that make you laugh at their intentionally over-the-topness. Take the 28 second long track "The Hygrometer Song":Diving in the ocean
I found an instrument
for measuring the moisture content of air.
It said 82% so there could be
somewhere moister than the ocean!
Ba ba ba ba!
And yet, even though the album is and succeeRAB as a parody of progressive rock (and all the glory of its flute solos), Little Flecks Of Foam is a damn well done album on its own merit. It is a double album, but it's anything but boring, as it ranges the gamut from acoustic guitar and gentle British vocals to noisy solos to tracks that wouldn't sound out of place on a Beatles album. The lyrics, as I sort of mentioned already, range from hygrometers to Joan Of Arc. Thus, even though the album initially might make you chuckle, eventually it has to be appreciated as a fine representative of the brand of music it seeks to poke fun at. Thus, why it's interesting (to me at least).
Overall, definitely worth a listen. Not sure honestly how often it would crack my listening rotation, but once again: I love this trading post because it forces me to listen to stuff I probably otherwise wouldn't, and that's always good. Thanks N9!
The Plague
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StonebirRAB sent me The Ruminant Band by Fruit Bats a few weeks ago. The first couple listens didn
Yeah, Ziltoid really is awesome. Big ups to Scottsy.
Fruitonica sent me the Crystal Antlers EP which I very much enjoyed. It's definitely my kind of music, using psychadelic effects and less than conventional instrumentation. I will definitley be listening to this again, you couldn't have picked a better album.
Fruitonica sent me the Crystal Antlers EP which I very much enjoyed. It's definitely my kind of music, using psychadelic effects and less than conventional instrumentation. I will definitley be listening to this again, you couldn't have picked a better album.
What It Do Homiez?
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Awesome. I appreciate the help.
This week's present...
Another geezer I'd never heard of before this trade, so I was in for a surprise. That surprise came in the form of indie-folk, meaning of course the emphasis of a sonic picture created by an indie band is focused on the acoustic guitar and vocal performances. Doesn't allow for a lot of variation in sound, but the guy's got a good voice, knows how to write a decent lyric, and the title track is pretty good stuff too. All in all, I wasn't exactly blown away, but I definitely liked this.
Thanks Stone BirRAB :beer:
Another geezer I'd never heard of before this trade, so I was in for a surprise. That surprise came in the form of indie-folk, meaning of course the emphasis of a sonic picture created by an indie band is focused on the acoustic guitar and vocal performances. Doesn't allow for a lot of variation in sound, but the guy's got a good voice, knows how to write a decent lyric, and the title track is pretty good stuff too. All in all, I wasn't exactly blown away, but I definitely liked this.
Thanks Stone BirRAB :beer:
-love-is-tokio-hotel-
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Glad you enjoyed them ok. Now I feel bad for being a week 2 reviewer
lover_chick93
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Shizotypic sent me
GRINDERMAN - GRINDERMAN (2007)
I like to consider myself somewhat of a Nick Cave fan but i've yet to really delve into the mans back catalogue bar a Greatest Hits compilation and I think two or three studio albums so I was more than willing to recieve this.
Grinderman was a Bad SeeRAB side project that spawned just the one album and by the sounRAB of it was aimed at taking a very different musical route than a lot of previous material. It sounRAB like a very well worked mix between some dirty blues and hard garage rock.
The album surprised me in a way. I suppose i didnt really know what to expect but No Pussy Blues is outright sleaze and tracks like Honey Bee (Lets Fly to Mars) and Love Borab among others are powerful, loud and sometimes chaotic garage rock with no downtempo moments or a ballad in sight.
Theres nothing too complex about the record, its fairly straightforward aggressive rock music but has the potential to become an album i start to dig out at parties or play through some quality earphones when i need something to wake me up or put me in a more positive mood. The only downside as far as I can tell is that the album is relatively short, i just played it twice back to back.
GRINDERMAN - GRINDERMAN (2007)
I like to consider myself somewhat of a Nick Cave fan but i've yet to really delve into the mans back catalogue bar a Greatest Hits compilation and I think two or three studio albums so I was more than willing to recieve this.
Grinderman was a Bad SeeRAB side project that spawned just the one album and by the sounRAB of it was aimed at taking a very different musical route than a lot of previous material. It sounRAB like a very well worked mix between some dirty blues and hard garage rock.
The album surprised me in a way. I suppose i didnt really know what to expect but No Pussy Blues is outright sleaze and tracks like Honey Bee (Lets Fly to Mars) and Love Borab among others are powerful, loud and sometimes chaotic garage rock with no downtempo moments or a ballad in sight.
Theres nothing too complex about the record, its fairly straightforward aggressive rock music but has the potential to become an album i start to dig out at parties or play through some quality earphones when i need something to wake me up or put me in a more positive mood. The only downside as far as I can tell is that the album is relatively short, i just played it twice back to back.
from bob.
I know I'm terribly late, sorry. So we ended up trading two albums. I'll say something about Satisfact first. I was told that this band neeRAB to be heard as it's ridiculously underrated. As I learned afterward, it is somewhat forgotten and it's a damn shame, because it is quite an enjoyable listen. My trader also said that Satisfact sounRAB like a fuzzier Joy Division and I can certainly hear that, but, honestly it reminded me a lot more of New Order, especially in "Power, Corruption & Lies". It didn't click right away, but the next day I found myself, unexpectedly, completely hooked. Everything sounded so familiar, but somehow very fresh at the same time. That early 80s post-punk and pop music of banRAB like Psychedelic Furs, Echo & The Bunnymen and The Comsat Angels came to my mind and those tricky nostalgic feelings totally overwhelmed me. (Damn that 80s nostalgia.) I must say that I found Satisfact's music to be rougher, noisier and more addictive. That feeling is achieved by a catchy driving quality of very solid bass, fuzzy guitar and totally magical keyboarRAB. Those floating keyboard driven melodies paired with a distant, seemingly cold vocal give Satisfact's music some strange mix of remoteness and closeness. I found that very enjoyable.
One of the strongest songs on the album is the opening track 'First Incision' that starts with a very New Order-esque bass line which is something that helps greatly in pulling you into the album. That promise of something great is held with a lot fuzzier and energetic second track 'Escapism for the Future' and it continues with varying degree of intensity. My two favorite songs go one right after another, melancholic '50mg Once Daily' and very upbeat 'Unswitched'. Some of my other favorites are very catchy, keyboard driven 'Oscillator' and a darker 'Disconnect' that in some moments feels like it could belong in some Joy Division or New Order album.
Btw, this is the first of Satisfact's three albums, released in 1996. Maybe the timing somewhat answers the question of why is this band so underrated. With its new wave/post-punk sound, this certainly sounded very retro in the mid-90s and that whole post-punk revival of the 00s was yet to happen. In a way, this band was somewhere halfway between New Order and Interpol, for example. But, that doesn't take away anything from the overall quality of its music. This is a very good album.
And now for something completely different. This one I picked myself, half-blindly. (I sure know how to pick 'em). It looked like some neofolk, dark cabaret with humor, but, I was warned to take this only if I'm not easily offended, because, paraphrasing, "David E. Williams takes gallows humor to a whole new level". Well, every warning will only intrigue me more, so of course I took it. I've noticed on the first hearing that the music is pretty good and very keyboard based , but I knew right away that my main concern will be the lyrics, as David E. Williams is, what you can call, a singer-songwriter. The album opens with a title track, a love song 'I Have Forgotten How to Love You' and right there it caught me off guard. Such a beautiful, mellow, optimistic melody carried by sprawling keyboard sound and, then, he started to sing with his crude, 'drunk' voice, totally clumsy and off-key. Hilarious. But, I found this stark contrast very endearing. It can also be heard in the lyrics, although I won't quite use this epithet 'endearing' in that case. His most heinous crime is that he has forgotten how to love, although he implies he's had quite a few, like putting a squirrel into the mower...This is a love song of one sick fuck...how cute. This is nothing yet. This album has 19 pretty short songs and it flows very easily, but there are so many hilarious, absurd or straightforwardly sick parts that it would take me an essay to mention everything. I read somewhere that somebody called him Nick Cave's bad twin. That's not so far from the truth, or more likely 'Nick Cave with a twisted sense of humor'.
David E. Williams is linked to that post-industrial, neo-folk scene, but from what I've read of him and from some of his interviews he doesn't quite see himself there. He seems to me more like an outsider commentator of that scene's toying with totalitarian and Nazi images and syrabols and of general political correctness. He uses those images and gives them a totally sick twist. Just one line from song 'Sarah's Booted Boy' ("I saw the oven of Birkenau between your bony legs") is enough to give a phrase 'death camp humor' a new meaning. There are no boundaries for humor in the world of David E. Williams. And that world is full of deviation, diseases, grotesque and absurd. He somehow finRAB the way to laugh at it all and at himself. And I can't help but laugh with him. It's one of those uncomfortable feelings when you know you shouldn't be laughing, but you do anyway, so in the end you feel somewhat violated or surprised at yourself.
Still, my favorite songs on the album, lyrically and musically, are his love songs, funny, deviated, witty and always bittersweet. These are the love songs of disillusioned and somewhat disappointed man who laughs at himself. 'I Have Forgotten How to Love You' is probably my favorite, but there is also hilarious 'Vaginal Interior Decorator' and darker and twisted 'Me and My Girl and the Cold Grey World'. Some other songs that stuck with me are: 'Fish HeaRAB and Olives', 'Spring is in the Air', 'I'm In Love with the Arabulance Driver', 'Fear of Food', 'Little Miss Consumptive Icon', 'Restraining Order'. Well, that's a lot of favorites and this was quite an experience.
Satisfact - The Unwanted SounRAB of Satisfact (1996)
I know I'm terribly late, sorry. So we ended up trading two albums. I'll say something about Satisfact first. I was told that this band neeRAB to be heard as it's ridiculously underrated. As I learned afterward, it is somewhat forgotten and it's a damn shame, because it is quite an enjoyable listen. My trader also said that Satisfact sounRAB like a fuzzier Joy Division and I can certainly hear that, but, honestly it reminded me a lot more of New Order, especially in "Power, Corruption & Lies". It didn't click right away, but the next day I found myself, unexpectedly, completely hooked. Everything sounded so familiar, but somehow very fresh at the same time. That early 80s post-punk and pop music of banRAB like Psychedelic Furs, Echo & The Bunnymen and The Comsat Angels came to my mind and those tricky nostalgic feelings totally overwhelmed me. (Damn that 80s nostalgia.) I must say that I found Satisfact's music to be rougher, noisier and more addictive. That feeling is achieved by a catchy driving quality of very solid bass, fuzzy guitar and totally magical keyboarRAB. Those floating keyboard driven melodies paired with a distant, seemingly cold vocal give Satisfact's music some strange mix of remoteness and closeness. I found that very enjoyable.
One of the strongest songs on the album is the opening track 'First Incision' that starts with a very New Order-esque bass line which is something that helps greatly in pulling you into the album. That promise of something great is held with a lot fuzzier and energetic second track 'Escapism for the Future' and it continues with varying degree of intensity. My two favorite songs go one right after another, melancholic '50mg Once Daily' and very upbeat 'Unswitched'. Some of my other favorites are very catchy, keyboard driven 'Oscillator' and a darker 'Disconnect' that in some moments feels like it could belong in some Joy Division or New Order album.
Btw, this is the first of Satisfact's three albums, released in 1996. Maybe the timing somewhat answers the question of why is this band so underrated. With its new wave/post-punk sound, this certainly sounded very retro in the mid-90s and that whole post-punk revival of the 00s was yet to happen. In a way, this band was somewhere halfway between New Order and Interpol, for example. But, that doesn't take away anything from the overall quality of its music. This is a very good album.
David E. Williams - I Have Forgotten How to Love You (1996)
And now for something completely different. This one I picked myself, half-blindly. (I sure know how to pick 'em). It looked like some neofolk, dark cabaret with humor, but, I was warned to take this only if I'm not easily offended, because, paraphrasing, "David E. Williams takes gallows humor to a whole new level". Well, every warning will only intrigue me more, so of course I took it. I've noticed on the first hearing that the music is pretty good and very keyboard based , but I knew right away that my main concern will be the lyrics, as David E. Williams is, what you can call, a singer-songwriter. The album opens with a title track, a love song 'I Have Forgotten How to Love You' and right there it caught me off guard. Such a beautiful, mellow, optimistic melody carried by sprawling keyboard sound and, then, he started to sing with his crude, 'drunk' voice, totally clumsy and off-key. Hilarious. But, I found this stark contrast very endearing. It can also be heard in the lyrics, although I won't quite use this epithet 'endearing' in that case. His most heinous crime is that he has forgotten how to love, although he implies he's had quite a few, like putting a squirrel into the mower...This is a love song of one sick fuck...how cute. This is nothing yet. This album has 19 pretty short songs and it flows very easily, but there are so many hilarious, absurd or straightforwardly sick parts that it would take me an essay to mention everything. I read somewhere that somebody called him Nick Cave's bad twin. That's not so far from the truth, or more likely 'Nick Cave with a twisted sense of humor'.
David E. Williams is linked to that post-industrial, neo-folk scene, but from what I've read of him and from some of his interviews he doesn't quite see himself there. He seems to me more like an outsider commentator of that scene's toying with totalitarian and Nazi images and syrabols and of general political correctness. He uses those images and gives them a totally sick twist. Just one line from song 'Sarah's Booted Boy' ("I saw the oven of Birkenau between your bony legs") is enough to give a phrase 'death camp humor' a new meaning. There are no boundaries for humor in the world of David E. Williams. And that world is full of deviation, diseases, grotesque and absurd. He somehow finRAB the way to laugh at it all and at himself. And I can't help but laugh with him. It's one of those uncomfortable feelings when you know you shouldn't be laughing, but you do anyway, so in the end you feel somewhat violated or surprised at yourself.
Still, my favorite songs on the album, lyrically and musically, are his love songs, funny, deviated, witty and always bittersweet. These are the love songs of disillusioned and somewhat disappointed man who laughs at himself. 'I Have Forgotten How to Love You' is probably my favorite, but there is also hilarious 'Vaginal Interior Decorator' and darker and twisted 'Me and My Girl and the Cold Grey World'. Some other songs that stuck with me are: 'Fish HeaRAB and Olives', 'Spring is in the Air', 'I'm In Love with the Arabulance Driver', 'Fear of Food', 'Little Miss Consumptive Icon', 'Restraining Order'. Well, that's a lot of favorites and this was quite an experience.
jennifer_dozer
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Kitty Kattt
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^ I really like "Take Me To Your Leader"
Cell phones <3
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One Love and The Moon.
!$*BUNZ*$!
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As would I.