I found Run To Ruin about a month and a half ago, and it has got to be the best all-around album I have bought in a year. Excellent songwriting, mind-blowingly brilliant arrangements, impeccable performances and among Steve's best engineering jobs. I drove twenty miles to a music store yesterday to ...

Dave Pajo, Matt Sweeney and Billy Cor...hey, wait a second!

Holy shit. Well, all I can hope for is for one of the following to occur: - Nader pulls out of the election right before it, and goes out yelling, "VOTE KERRY, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, VOTE KERRY!!" ... Or perhaps we can hope for some enterprising young photographer to snap a pic of Nader slaying an an...

I just realized after reading a thread in the General forum that there's no Crap / Not Crap on Mogwai yet.

Most assuredly NOT CRAP in my opinion.

kerble wrote:'Copters posted this a few months back:
http://www.cissme.com/bgroup-us/rm/mata ... 01_rvh.ram

If that one doesn't work, this link is from their official site.

sorry if this was already discussed here, but... my roommate just picked up mogwai's "happy songs for happy people" last week, and he gave it to me so i could check out the little bonus on it. it has all of the individual tracks for the song Hunted by a Freak, and also a demo version of cubase on i...

Stephanson's The Confusion: as e_shaun mentioned earlier, a fascinating read of fictionalized history and the birth of modern federal/international banking, albeit peppered with alchemy and pirates. Realizing how much of Quicksilver was actually pure setup - The Confusion is much better, and I look...

if using a computer is your only option, get Nuendo. I'm much happier with it than pro tools. i've heard that the sound quality is just as good as pro tools too. very solid program. Seconded. I've also heard nothing but good things about Audition; I was selected to do a beta test for it and went th...

spoot wrote:Sorry to reopen an ancient topic, but I'm obsessed with this drum fill(s). I wanted to share it with the world.

That was always my favorite Yes song. Is that a live version? Where from?

My favorite tom fill is on a song called "Russia On Ice" by the band Porcupine Tree. Just killer.

Funnily enough, Sonic Youth were on Leno last night, and they weren't bad. Not great either, but not bad. Anyone else see it? Yeah, I caught that too...watched Lettermen, then flicked over to Leno to see Sonic Youth. They've definitely toned down over the years, though I agree that noisy solo was p...