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Ruins: Pallaschtom
Sometimes there's a specific part of a song, or riff that IS that song in your mind. Everything surrounding it is just buildup or comedown from that few seconds of genius. Ruins know all about this phenomenon and have cleverly made an entire album of gen
Patrick Swayze in Road House
Am I right?
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Silkworm: Italian Platinum
In my tiny mind Silkworm are one of the great indie rock bands. They occupy similar territory to Pavement and the Shins but they definitely resonate more with me.
This isn't their best album but if you're anything like me it's a great introduc
The Golding Institute: Final Relaxation
This is a very odd record. It manages to be totally terrifying and very funny at the same time. It's a parody of those relaxation tapes you see for sale at the hippy shops that smell nice and sell dreamcatchers.
The twist here is that the relax
Perry Farrell: Song Yet To Be Sung
This is a good one! Consider the following snippets of info:
1. This is the Jane's Addiction singer.
2. This is his solo new age* drum and bass album.
3. There were multiple copies of this in the bargain bin for one pound.
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Randy: Welfare Problems
I bought this after being really impressed with Randy supporting Bad Religion, who were old, smelly and played for hours. The other support bands were good too although I can't remember who they were. It was very exciting until Bad Religion came on.
Seeing as I am currently 'between jobs'
I'm going to write a bit about a different album that I have in solid disc-shaped form. This will happen every day until I get a job with any luck.
These albums will be selected randomly. There is a chance they will be both embarassing and shit
Harvey Milk
I've been spinning 'Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men' by Harvey Milk a fair bit recently. They are truly an amazing band. They mix classic rock, classicAL, sensitive balladry (whatever that means) and a fair bit of heavyness into the most amazing soup
Gig Review! Sunn O))) / Earth at Leeds Cockpit 11/2
arrived late thanks to a crappy taxi and missed the first 15 minutes of Earth's set.
The part that I did see was totally breathtaking. With the latest (and best) Earth album sounding very much like the soundtrack to some epic western I was hopi
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Gig Review! Clutch/COC/Stinking Lizaveta
http://www.drownedinsound.com/content/view/584268
Year Bestest #4: Forgotten ones
++ Deerhoof: The Runners Four ++
My favourite album of 2005. Forgot to put it in the other list like a damn fool.
www.myspace.com/deerhoof
++ The Books - Lost and Safe ++
I w
Year Bestest #3: Favourites of 2005
Here are me favourite cds released this year. Why? and Sufjan might have been on there if I had listened to them a bit more. Sufjan is very long!
i.e. old albums that I came across in 2005 that I really enjoyed. If it's too much to read skip to the free mp3s bit at the bottom. You will not be disappointed. If you expected free mp3s. ++ Chavez: Gone Glimmering ++ I bought this for I'm going to do a few mini updates about this year because 'best of 2005' seems a bit of a daft list to do when my two favourites this year are actually from 1995 and 1998. Also two are reissues. Here they are: ++ OOIOO: Gold and Green ++
== Medications: Your favourite people all in one place
listen to 'twine time' at
Year Bestest 2005: 1995-98
Year bestest #1: Reissues
Or maybe i'm just not metal enough
I've just come back from watching Exodus (Kirk Hammett used to be in them or something) and it was a true endurance test. They should have paid me eleven quid just for sitting (standing) through that.
It made me sad because in general Thrash Me
How to play Guitar
(by David Fair)
I taught myself to play guitar. It's incredibly easy when you understand the science of it. The skinny strings play the high sounds, and the fat strings play the low sounds. If you put your finger on the string father out by the
tco - man w/a movie camera
Someone came to the door to sell me karate today. He had a folder and everything. He sat and talked in the living room for about ten minutes and looked like he would pull a load of shampoo/haircare products out and sell them too. He was a nice e
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I have been slacking on the ol' blog front. Anyway I went to Leeds to see Deerhoof and it was amazing. The new album is also amazing. 'Wrong Time Capsule' will pull a smile on your face. The whole album will in fact. They have ascended to 2nd favourite
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Hello. I have been listening to Silkworm again today. Instead of actually writing anything, i'm going to copy and paste a bit from the late Michael Dahlquist's tour diaries which are all on the skwm site. Here it is:
I am Bob the Angry Flower
Here is a nice photo I took of the view from the pier near my house. I'm putting this here instead of the sea shanty mp3 yousendit.com isn't letting me
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I have a resit in the morning. Crap-AH, as E. Smith would say. Today I am stressed. My Grails cd is scaring the Hell out of me as I sit in this dark, empty house. It's quite useful really as professional exorcisms can cost hundreds of pounds. Tomorrow
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Here we are. Here we are. We are antici- Thereitis! There it is! I find The Books to be a very soulful band. When I listen to 'lost and safe' I can imagine someone walking around as all of the different noises and voices fade in and out an
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The Heroine Sheiks are the new(ish) band fronted by ex-Cows frontman Shannon Selberg. It's noise rock of the highest quality, a bit more tuneful than the Cows and rocking in a totally different way - Shannon and another ivory tinkler go between playing
She said she had an ego on me the size of Texas
I have returned to Manchester for the first time since the burglary. Thankfully the thieves didn't take even one cd from my collection. I almost feel grateful that they didn't because it would have been far more depressing than losing the stereo and the d
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This last week i've flitted between the unbridled joy of Dom and I playing Deerhoof covers (and attempting high pitched lady vocals) and the disappointment of still not being able to grow a decent beard. MP3s are available. Of my patchy beard.
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***Another Left-handed rock star to add to the list:*** Gruff Rhys ...who plays a right handed guitar better than a right handed person. He's mocking you! Fight the Power. Any other left handed rock star suggestions would be greatly appre
