Man, Gunshow, why did i never read this before

http://gunshowcomic.com/418

This whole album is one gigantic mess. I love it.

Yeah, i've been liking this one a lot. Haven't got around to buying it yet though.

Elliott Smith died 8 years ago yesterday. A brilliant man. You should all listen to him.

Man, if this has got to be a contest...





Recorded on a wax cylinder and released on a major label.

Anyway, all jokes aside - any band with 15-minute jams on their records isn't aiming for quite the same audience as Springsteen, but point taken. Also, this emoticon's animation is almost exactly in sync with that Can song:

P.S. that song has one of the greatest drum sounds of all time

Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska kills me. And even if you don't like it, you should at least respect that the man recorded an album on a 4-track tape deck and released it on a major label.

RIP to a great man.

I never liked Bruce Springsteen, but some of Neil Young's stuff is pretty good. On The Beach is a really excellent album. I think Young has some cool ideas but is held back by the duties of the corporate arena-filling rockstar who needs to please a broad audience more often than not.

That's true... i forgive him though, because his songs are great. i'd say that Springsteen suffers from the same problem, but if nothing else i enjoy Darkness on the Edge of Town (the only record of his i'm well-acquainted with); the songs work well together even though they each feel very big and self-contained. Come to think of it, i think i am the only music nerd i'm well-acquainted with who actually likes him, and i'm not quite sure why... some of his music is excessively theatrical, and some of it just isn't good, but the heart-on-sleeve directness is at times really effective - and his old records are gorgeously (albeit unsubtly) produced as well, i think.

This is me speculating wildly, but there might be something distinctly American about his music that gets lost in translation. Of course, one could argue that if one's music gets lost in translation, it's flawed in the first place, but still.

Listening to Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Iron Maiden and feeling like a terrifically uncool old man.

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i like that guy a lot - and those two songs are among my favorites as well.

Sparklehorse, who will never make another record now.

Fuck suicide.

Precisely my point. Typical narcissism of the yankees, thinking they own and represent all of North America. :3

i am fairly certain that you are taking his posts way too seriously (as in, you're taking them at all seriously).

Never heard Moondog before, but i've seen that album cover around. i like this.

all of a sudden i like Iron Maiden, i don't know what happened.

While we're at it, the new Wolves in the Throne Room album is pretty good. Nice atmospheric black metal with trebly, ultra-reverbed guitars and huge keyboard washes. Appropriately, the first time I listened to it I was taking a walk in a forest.  

yeah, i've been meaning to listen to that because i liked Two Hunters a lot... honestly, what i've heard of this one hasn't done much for me, but i'll reserve judgement until i hear the whole thing.

re: Zombi

"[Steve] Moore [bassist for Zombi] also plays bass guitar for Brooklyn progressive rock band Titan, and has worked with Microwaves, Red Sparowes, Lair of the Minotaur, Panthers and Sunn O)))."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Moore_(musician/producer)

aside from that, i suspect metalheads are more open to prog than the average listener.

you know, that new Mastodon album is just a really loud dumb pop album... but it's a really loud dumb and also pretty good pop album.

no it just proves that canadians only are allowed to exist to supplement americans like a priest in a warrior's party

i know you are being terrible but i love you anyway.

Boards of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children never goes out of style.

The tracks are pretty good (i mean, i listened to them all) and have nice atmosphere (i like the first two best), but i'm not sure that tags like "glo-fi" and "chillwave" are very accurate and thus will (insofar as anyone even knows what those things are). Also, this is just a bias of mine coming out but less schizophrenic/more thematically unified song titles and album art might complement the pretty cohesive atmosphere of the music itself.

just my opinions of course. The songs are good and that's the most important part. My only criticism compositionally is that a couple of the tracks, most notably "Falling Off the Mountainside", strike me as being too meandering/having too much vamping. The drums at the end of that song are cool though. The production isn't universally pleasing to me (feels a bit sloppy at times) but that's pretty subjective. More elaborate, less sloppy and less sonically limited rhythm tracks might give some tracks a bit more weight ("shining stars in space" for example).

A point of curiosity - did you use a real C64/NES/Gameboy for this, or just samples/emulators? it seemed like the latter to me (not that there's anything wrong with that) but it'd be pretty cool if i were wrong.

Anyway, i don't mean to sound overly critical. i don't write critiques of things i don't like (or i try not to).

What? Coltrane is totally cool.

yes, i'm being dumb on purpose. He is great though.

on that note... jazz recommendations anyone? i don't know any (only really familiar with Kind of Blue, A Love Supreme and a Sun Ra album, and passingly familiar with a couple other Coltrane/Davis records) but i think i could enjoy it a lot.

grätüitöüsly so.

do you like spiders?

It gets less awkward when you understand the awkwardness. Like, the other person's feeling equally awkward as well right? They're also struggling to find something to say in the silence, right? I hope it's not just me...Oh god what if it's just me...

And so begins the spiral downward.

I also have a annoying awkward habit of, when departing from an awkward meeting, always fucking up my goodbye to them, usually combining sentences in awkward ways, made more awkward when I realise what I've said and then hastily restating the intended farewell. So 'Have a safe trip. Enjoy your meal' will most likely end up as 'Have a safe meal...shit'

...or maybe that's just specific to me...

Nah, that happens to me all the time.

Sometimes when something super awkward happens i attempt to alleviate it by acknowledging the awkwardness, but i never know if it actually works or not.