Slint is math rock/ post rock from that era of emotional music, the early 1990’s. Only two albums were made, but they were also on the soundtrack to the Kids movie, which I am likely the only one of my generation who wasn’t seen that movie.
At moment I really dig the delay of this album and the songs, and then there will be a moment when the vocals will come through too powerfully and spoil the song with cheese. Nosferatu Man was pretty good with an appealing mix of spoken word and mellow and meandering instrumental.
Pretty good, and yet another band I’d not heard of that’s been around for years… Most of the “advances” of global communication are pretty damn annoying but instant access to all the world’s music is pretty cool.
June of 44 is a math rock/ post hardcore band (all the members lived in different cities), now defunct, but quite good. I’ve just downloaded this album and have listened to it half a dozen times.
I can’t offer any better description of it but it is listenable rock that no one has complained about so far, definatly a good change from the played-out stuff that is on the radio.
This is the beginning of a new section where I share some of the music I have been downloading lately from other blogspots along with my own brief analysis along with links to both the downloads and blogs.
Corgnir; GhostsOfSaturn Average black metal, not particularly impressive, good fast black metal played by talented musicians. (74%) Download
NoCleanSinging, Ash Borer Good black metal played by good musicians, but I’m not seeing what all the hype is about.
BloggersInTheNorth Fullmoon Polish NSBM from the early 1990’s, lo-fi and with a medieval gothic sound. This is a recording from the early Polish NSBM scene which is the start of NSBM as a definable genre, as such it is a music collectable. Highly recommended because these early Polish recordings are pretty hard to find at times. download the hate
Stoner rock from Seattle. I don’t get a solid read on their music. Some songs I really dig, and others I wonder what marching band they got kicked out of… Hit and miss, but some songs are pretty good so I thought I’d share.
Recently the Angry Ginger commented on how children “listen to men so much better than they do women”, which was an interesting statement considering her dog just took a dump on my living room floor and both my cat and dog were still hiding because they didn’t want to get blamed for the feces…
The Angry Ginger goes on explaining her point by bringing up the time her nephew was being a little terror in a retail store and all I did was touch his shoulder and speak into his ear and he straightened right up.
Her observation got me to thinking about why it was that children, pets, hell, even women too, all of them don’t think a man is serious unless he starts yelling.
Honestly, I understand why children and dogs have to be screamed at; dogs and children don’t come house-broken. Obviously if something doesn’t have enough sense not to crap inside it needs to be yelled at just to get the point across, volume makes it easier for their simplistic minds to absorb the message.
Women, on the other hand, are house-broken, but they too seem to suffer the same short-comings. Several years ago the Angry Ginger and I were returning to her condo when one of the neighbors, a drunk, over-weight female attorney, purposely bumped the Ginger’s car with her own car, because she didn’t like the way the Angry Ginger was driving.
I got out of the car and words were exchanged, I didn’t raise my voice because I already suspected that the neighbors thought I was a bit off and so I didn’t want to look like the nut-case shouting in the street.
Anyway, I ended up retreating back to the car, at that point just wanting to go home and burn one, however, the drunk female attorney did not believe me when I told her to get away, and followed me back to the car.
The Angry Ginger’s shout and my hand in my tool bag compelled the attorney’s boyfriend to quickly drag her away…
When we got back to the condo the Angry Ginger wanted to call the police, and I still just wanted to burn one. I explained to her that I just wanted to let the matter drop.
An hour later I was watching that fat little attorney being led away in handcuffs… “You don’t need to yell. God” -the Angry Ginger.
The point doesn’t get across.
Impaled Nazarene has an awesome drummer. Musically it is solid, but not a serious album at all. I don’t remember what compelled me to pick this album, but it is entertaining for the cheese factor.
-ApogeeMatt
Scottish post-rock formed back in the 1990’s, the second YouTube post is the track they do with Roky Erickson. M recommended this band, Wiki has an in-depth article for any who are intrested. I’m going to listen to some of their other albums because there are some rave reviews written about them. Honestly, I was expecting a bit more out of the Roky Erickson track, but this is still a very listenable album.
Also, Batcat was such a hit that a seperate EP was released.
Operation Ivy is a classic and likely the best example of skacore. Back in the day Yakke wore this tape completely out on the old boombox we used to drag along with us skateboarding… the catchy, short hardcore styled songs bring back pleasant memories of learning kickflips, tailslides and smashing mailboxes with a big piece of copper cable… Those really were the days; $0.90/gallon gas, no one had cell phones and there weren’t surveillance cameras everywhere. Back then it was possible to spend an afternoon throwing cinder blocks at mailboxes and eggs at pedestrians and skateboarding without a worry in the world.
The Roots personify 1990’s music, the whole intense focus and seriousness and political themes, the underground cult scene that they emerged from, all of them are examples of the greatness of that era’s music.
The Roots aren’t gangsta rap and they don’t enspouse the whole bling factor that makes so much of the hip-hop world look like tribesmen with glass beads.
While I am not “into” rap anymore I still appreciate it as music, and just as metal has plenty of horrible bands there are many, many crap groups that should never have been amplified much less recorded.
The Roots are another one of those groups that is a must for any respectable music library.
Stone of the Swamp - front porch conversations on music 