Rimbaud III wrote:

hip priest wrote:Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)

I've been thinking about this. I'm not so sure it is as great as we're being led to believe it is. I can't shake the feeling that I'm listening to some kind of DJ Pied Piper/Stars Of The Lid mash up.

I've had it for a while now and wasn't entirely convinced, but since sticking it on the Hipod I've been listening to it loads and it suddenly clicked last week sometime. Some dark shit, man...

rayj wrote:

JDanger wrote:

rayj wrote:

JDanger wrote:
I'd also like to put this on my list if I could...

Just to make sure: You have heard Laddio Bolocko, right? If not, I'm sending you a disc...

O man, Goat Lips changed my life. In fact I think the reason I've enjoyed the Gamelan Record is because it sounds more like Laddio Bolocko than the Origins and Primitives record. But all I own by Laddio is the Strange Warmings/In Real Time double disc. I think there's an OOP Ep floating around out there, "As if By Remote"? On a label called "Hungarian records"?

Yeah, you got it all. Honestly, I see The Psychic Paramount as being largely Laddio Bolocko without Blake on drums...

It's a genuine shame that those fellows melted down. They kind of revived my interest in rock at a time when I had all but given up on the scheme...but it has to be rough living and playing together for that long.

Why is the Psychic Paramount record recorded the way it was? The levels are so high...it's so annoying.

bigc wrote:Why is the Psychic Paramount record recorded the way it was? The levels are so high...it's so annoying.

isn't the Gamelan... album just recordings of practice room jams cut-up and stitched together?

bigc wrote:Why is the Psychic Paramount record recorded the way it was? The levels are so high...it's so annoying.

I've been constantly switching between 'it's a creative choice by the band and thus I should embrace it as part of the whole aesthetic' and 'for God's sake! You've ruined your own record you dufuses!'.

It's hard on the ears.

Alberto the Frog wrote:

bigc wrote:Why is the Psychic Paramount record recorded the way it was? The levels are so high...it's so annoying.

I've been constantly switching between 'it's a creative choice by the band and thus I should embrace it as part of the whole aesthetic' and 'for God's sake! You've ruined your own record you dufuses!'.

It's hard on the ears.

It's obviously deliberate, and I could understand how it could be offensive to some, but it doesn't bother me. If that sort of thing became a trend I'd get annoyed real fast, but by itself, it just kinda makes me say, "Hmm, what an odd way to mix a record." And if the tracks are all just patchworks of various practices (although I don't necessarily think that's true) then I could imagine the band feeling comfortable distorting the levels because they are not attached to the songs at all, because they're not even real songs, they're all kind of evolved 'jams' or something.

Here is a quote from Drew St. Ivany, "I would hope that the music itself would act in the same way as a drug. That’s also why we try to keep it as organic as possible: It’s easier to trance out to something when there aren’t a bunch of sudden stops and changes to distract you. And it’s also why we play it so loud—extreme volume has an effect on the brain too."

They were probably trying to emulate the extreme loudness of a live show on record.

rashiedgarrison wrote:I am totally serious about Girls Aloud. They sent me a birthday email. Do you get that from Electric Wizard? No you fucking don't.

Tell me more!

burun wrote:

rashiedgarrison wrote:I am totally serious about Girls Aloud. They sent me a birthday email. Do you get that from Electric Wizard? No you fucking don't.

Tell me more!

This will tell you everything you need to know.

johnnyshape wrote:

burun wrote:

rashiedgarrison wrote:I am totally serious about Girls Aloud. They sent me a birthday email. Do you get that from Electric Wizard? No you fucking don't.

Tell me more!

This will tell you everything you need to know.

This provides some particularly fine examples of YouTube commentary:

Tweekmobeek wrote:Nicola looks pretty in this vid, but I don't really like her outfit :S

thecockneycockend wrote:i'd do time just to see Cheryl's fanny. i bet its a fucking peach.

RonaldoTheNumber9 wrote:These skanks need it soooooooooooooo hard

3355TM789XYZ wrote:r u a pervert Ronaldo? get a gf or bf.

angie200677 wrote:love GA. but Nadine is soooo HOT! Love her

call the shots >>> number 1 =D *fingers crossed*

These people could live right next door to you...

Did Eluvium - Copia come out in 2007? If so...that one.

Jesu - Life Line

This Stars of the Lid record is seriously good.

This Pissed Jeans sounds like a Jesus Lizard cover album.