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Post by headINcortex on Jul 7, 2002 1:31:43 GMT -5
so, i got austere and tremulant. i think the mars volta is f*cking genius with the strange rythms. it seems impossible to play music like that to me. i wonder if they've ever even heard of 4/4 time?? amazing stuff. sparta is definetly a cool band, but after listening to tremulant, they just can't step up to where mars is. number 2 on there, the guitar sounds amazingly like invalid letter dept. the first chord or something. if i was about to die, and i had a choice between trem. and aus.? tremulant, man. the rythms just blow my mind. and the arrangment! i'm listening to concerta(?) right now, and its such a great d*mn song. lyrics are awsome. just my opinion.
got my first hendrix cd...axis: bold as love. ahhhh!! can't give it enough praise...SUCH a great album. from number two to number 6, at least two songs make my top ten list, which is a hard list to get on. the lick he does on 'up from the skies' towards the end!! wow, wow, wowie. i'm not a guitar player, but i respect him so much, and the amazing shit he did.
so i was in wherehouse music in monroe yesterday where i got the austere ep. i had like seven dollars left, so i headed to the punk compalation section, where i found 'punkorama' from epitaph. very well done comp. 28 songs for 6 bucks nontheless. my fave punk comp.
i'm sure andriod knows, but for the rest of you...omar fools around with cinematogrophy, and he's coming out with one of his black-and-whites soon. or maybe its already come out. anybody got info? to read about it, go the 'Cedric, Omar, TMV, Sparta interviews' thread. click on the link w/ the cedric and omar interview you see me and para-andy talking about.
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Post by soniktruth on Jul 7, 2002 3:04:14 GMT -5
first of all cortex boy,
tremulent is an awesome ep. austere kinda dissapointed me for the fact that the first 6 (pre-album/e.p.) mp3's from sparta kicked ass, atd-i style. gotta check out the pre-s.h.i.t. pretty bad. any ways austere was way different from what i expected.
next, congrats on choosing probably the best jimi album there is. axis:bold as love is my all time jimi fAVE. good phuck'n choice bro. electric ladyland is good too. we all gotta have some jimi in our taste young or old.
whick punk=o=rama was it? i prefer punk=o=rama 3.
i dig the nofx unreleased ones.
my recent cd purchase is sonic youth-murray street. pretty good. p.s. i'm waiting on the new chili peppers album...any leaks out there??
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Jul 7, 2002 20:40:48 GMT -5
Post by MercurySolo on Jul 7, 2002 20:40:48 GMT -5
I was kinda disappointed by Austere too, at first listen, but then it grew on me. There's more to the songs than can be heard at a first listen, and I'm a person who usually has albums grow on them rather than liking it as soon as I press play (Relationship of Command and Kid A are some exceptions). I hadn't heard any of the mp3's before that, but I do have a little more insight on Sparta, thanks to my job.
I work for a concert staging company, and yesterday, I worked the Warped Tour in Borreal in Northern California. There was this guy who worked with this band Thursday I was talking to, and the subject of ATD-I came up. I guess Thursday actually has or will tour with Sparta, and has been in contact with them (the band loves ATD-I). I realize that some of you might've already known this stuff, but I'm the only person I know of in this town that knows who ATD-I is, so it was definitely different to talk to someone who knows a little of the behind-the-press stuff. Anyway, he said that the album kicks ass, and it's out Aug. 13th.
Strangely enough, I got a copy of Punk-o-rama 7 yesterday, as well as Give 'Em the Boot III from the Epitaph booth. I now want to buy a Dropkick Murphys album ASAP, as funds will allow. Great compilations. I have never been let down by an Epitaph album. Anyways, I wanted to ask some punk knowledgeable people a quick question. do you know of any singer, guitarist, bassist or drummer that has short spiky red hair and a tattoo that reads "PACIFIC" in old english lettering across his stomach? He was really cool to me yesterday, as well as everyone else I dealt with, but I'm not allowed to ask certain questions while working on the clock, so I never caught the guy's name or who he was with. any help would be great. Rock on
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Post by headINcortex on Aug 5, 2002 1:23:05 GMT -5
i got the first zepplin album and the first rage against the machine album. they're both great. i think that zepplin album is pure fucking genius. its like a perfect album. awsome shit. rage's is pretty good, too. i'm gonna get another one from them when i get some money. which one is good.
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Post by headINcortex on Aug 5, 2002 1:23:40 GMT -5
oops...
which one is good?
is what i meant.
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Aug 5, 2002 16:08:29 GMT -5
Post by soniktruth on Aug 5, 2002 16:08:29 GMT -5
well i'm probably the wrong person to answer this cuz when i dig a band, i buy all their sh.it.
led zeppelin 1 thru 4 are a must have in my book. i have the cassettes but, i recently acquired the box set.
regarding rage against the machine, i'm a loyal fan so of course i'm gonna say own all of them. but EVIL EMPIRE and RENEGADES shine out more. ...download "phuck the police live" from RATM.
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Aug 5, 2002 17:14:22 GMT -5
Post by MercurySolo on Aug 5, 2002 17:14:22 GMT -5
Led Zepplin 4 (or Zoso, or Runes, or any of the other names) is a classic one, one of those albums that you press play and don't even think about fastforwarding the whole way through. I got that one for Christmas a few years back, and when I got it, everyone in my family around my dad's age and younger told me their Led Zep IV story, where they were when they first got it, how they got the money for it... classic.
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Aug 6, 2002 17:24:08 GMT -5
Post by headINcortex on Aug 6, 2002 17:24:08 GMT -5
my uncle went to see zepplin the day before college graduation. second row.
i think i'd kill to see the beatles live.
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Aug 6, 2002 18:06:37 GMT -5
Post by MercurySolo on Aug 6, 2002 18:06:37 GMT -5
So would I. Hell, I'd even settle for seeing McCartney solo... I had a chance to work that one, but paperwork got in the way, and a friend of mine who really isn't into them all that much got to work it and see him, I was kinda pissed, since in High School, I was the resident Lennon, a little too obsessive, actually... she actually hooked me up with a nice sticker from it, though... he played Beatles tunes, though, so I'm still a tad steamed... now he's coming thru town again, hope I get to work that one.
Whatever happened to John Paul Jones? I read an article where he did an interview a few months back, but I wonder why he's never included in the Page-Plant concerts and such, what's the bad blood about, or is there bad blood? Coming up on the next Geraldo...
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Aug 6, 2002 19:32:27 GMT -5
Post by headINcortex on Aug 6, 2002 19:32:27 GMT -5
yeah, i'd love to see paul live. i never have heard much of his solo stuff, but just to be at a concert of his would be amazing. just because of who he is, you know?
i dont know about that situation. i've wondered myself if he was even still around. he was a great keyboard player. good at bass, too.
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Aug 6, 2002 20:47:15 GMT -5
Post by cosmonaut on Aug 6, 2002 20:47:15 GMT -5
i have to admit i like sparta more than the mars volta, but that's just based on the mp3s i got. if the songs The Host, Cut Your Ribbon and Air are on any Sparta record, be sure i'll buy it... but do you know on what record they are on?
I'm sure if i take some more time to listen to the mars volta, i'll like em. I dl a couple of the Tremulant songs but havent had time to hear them.
Anyways... Jimi Hendrix is the king.. not only is he a good guitarist, but his songs actually make sense ( not like Yngwie Malmsteen and stuff). The only album i have is Experience Hendrix i know it'S a greatest hits and i might consider buying axis but shit there's too much albums i gotta buy and so much not-money. Might consider getting my ass off the computer chair and getting a job...... too much ... effort.
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Aug 7, 2002 17:12:36 GMT -5
Post by MercurySolo on Aug 7, 2002 17:12:36 GMT -5
I was the same way, Cosmonaut, all I used to have of Jimi was the Woodstock concert and Experience Hendrix, great albums, I also have Are You Experienced now, but not that much fundage for any Jimi albums, much less any other ones... you could feed a family of four on what you pay for CD's these days...
Yeah, Sparta really grew on me from the first time I heard 'em. To me, based on my favorite bands, Sparta and The Mars Volta are kind of like The Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead. The Mars Volta, like Radiohead, are undeniably great when you listen to them, and you can tell they're not entirely of this world when compared to the other crap music on the radio, where Sparta, like the Smashing Pumpkins, are awesome, but more of this earth, a tangible band that, when you hear their songs, and if you're a musician, you can pick up your guitar and figure them out to a point, Sparta's a bit more real, not like in the rap sense of "Keepin' it real", but as in real human beings, where The Mars Volta seem something more than human... in an awesome way, though. When I first pressed play on Tremulant and heard "Cut This City", a.) it reminded me of SP's Disarm ("Cut that little child") and I Am One ("Your city will burn... try to look for something in your city to burn"), only in a title sense, though, same with "Cut Your Ribbon" by Sparta, and b.) It sounded like an Aztec battle cry as heard in a gospel church with some alien button pushers coming along for the ride. I know that's a weird way of seeing things, but that's what it sounded like to me, heh.
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Aug 8, 2002 15:34:26 GMT -5
Post by soniktruth on Aug 8, 2002 15:34:26 GMT -5
hey mercury
great comparison and great analogies. do you enjoy writing?
ps. what up with those tapes
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Aug 8, 2002 16:47:15 GMT -5
Post by MercurySolo on Aug 8, 2002 16:47:15 GMT -5
Yeah, I like writing, I'm on the newspaper staff at my college, majoring in English. I wrote an article trying to turn people on to Zwan, ATD-I, TMV, Sparta, and Queens of the Stone Age. It's fun, I kinda want to be a music journalist, but that's kinda like working for the evil empire.
As for the tapes, as soon as I get some money to get some cassettes, I'll tape them... should be more sooner than later. don't let the college see that last sentence, I"ll never get in
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Aug 8, 2002 23:10:51 GMT -5
Post by soniktruth on Aug 8, 2002 23:10:51 GMT -5
i was just playing. didn't mean to sound so demanding. if you can , it'll be much appreciated brother man. en serio
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Aug 9, 2002 17:19:16 GMT -5
Post by MercurySolo on Aug 9, 2002 17:19:16 GMT -5
Didn't think you were being demanding, just letting you know what's going on, didn't wanna leave you hangin', ya know? Doing my fantasy NFL football draft now, I've got Rich Gannon and Randy Moss so far... 5 no shows, though, in a league of 12, so it's taking forever, heh
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