i listened to the first FF album and it was good but i prefer blueberry boat, the ep, bitter tea and widow city...diff strokes obv
sarahel, there are several worthy KD choices, but that one is the one that rinses my mind clean and awes me into a quivering wreck
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
they never really topped their first single 4 me
― plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
^agree
also terse crimp is my least favourite lapsus track
― electrical audio's sm57 (electricsound), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
(woulda gone for parade or olestra)
haha esoj but we are at ODDS when it comes to schizo warped proggy fuckabouts...those two tracks are really good too mind, if not quite as brilliantly demented imho
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i would have gone with the first one - Gemini becoming the tripod.
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
that song is my 2nd-fave song on the album and maybe my 3rd-fave KD song - it begins dramatically, builds deliciously, and then in the last 2 minutes becomes this towering, out-of-control tidal wave of crazy music...beautiful
but it isn't the primal force of holy mother of god that is ___olf
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
see that's where we have our disagreements - the vocals are just so smooth and croony - it's hard for me to see something with smooth, croony vocals as "the primal force of holy mother of god" - I don't hate smooth, croony vocals - they just feel too mannered for me for a song with them to have that kind of power that you're describing.
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
haha he is smooth and croony in the first bit, but in the climactic second section i *think* you can hear him screaming his lungs out. well, it might be a guitar. whatever it is, something is hollering, and it ain't happy. the 'mannered' vocals are nothing more than ominous but then they don't need to be.
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
for those who haven't heard it, this is an 18-minute song, and the first 5 minutes have 'croony' vocals. the remaining 13 minutes have hell on earth.
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not really "hell on earth" compared to deathspell omega, tbh
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
well, not as LITERALLY as DSO would have it. and not quite as tortuous, frenzied or plain mentalist. but vast, and suffocating, and crushing. *i* think it's great.
just gave Gemini Becoming The Tripod a listen and yeah it's fabulous, as I remember.
other amazing KD trax: The Manifold Curiosity, The Antique, Blue Lambency Downward, The Awkward Windwheel
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i like it too - i just think sometimes you are prone to exaggerate certain qualities when describing songs.
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
prone to exaggerations in your descriptions - especially in the context of existing music.
perhaps. i had a truly revelatory experience with that track on earphones tho, what can i say? it slayed me dead. my descriptions are based on my very personal reaction to the music and aren't exaggerations from my perspective. i use figures of speech a lot; take them with the intended pinch of salt! ___on limpid form is *a* descent into the inferno, not THE descent into the inferno.
not that that DSO song doesn't need near-equal amounts of love.
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
well - if it's a descent into the inferno, that inferno is actually not all that infernal - like it isn't all that raging.
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
'it isn't all that raging'
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
dude - i have that song in itunes. i just finished listening to it 15 minutes ago!
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
this is for the benefit of others who might like to hear it themselves before leaping to judgement
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
look! they do it live too! and my, don't they forget to rage!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=173XU6OE55Q
you need to listen to more metal.
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
oh believe me i have heard plenty of 'brutal' or 'heavy as shit' music - this song is IMO just about as brutal as any, but what marks it out for me is the pacing of its attack, the brilliant construiction
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
this song is IMO just about as brutal as any,
Uhh ... I really don't know what to say. Brutality is obviously in the eye of the beholder.
I can see what you mean about liking the pacing.
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Brutality truly is in the eye of the beholder. You might think something else is MUCH more brutal. DSO, Meshuggah, countless DM or grindcore bands, Sunn O))), blah blah de blah. Insert your own choice here. This stuff kicks ass.
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm also trying to politely imply that your hierarchy of brutality might be at odds with that of connoisseurs of brutal music.
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, you asked for this
(it's in my Bubbling Under and is BRUTAL x50)
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
louis are you excited?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
What do you think will win?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
My money is on SFA
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i reckon ulrich might take it
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
haha kerr you have GOT to stop doing this
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe all the votes were for the exhaustive write-up
3 for The Terse Crimp! OMG!
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I was almost right
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i reflexively voted for it because it was the only track here i'd heard xpost
― electrical audio's sm57 (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
john justen who did you vote for?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
gee i wonder who voted for deathspell omega?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
23 best albums (off the top of my head):
1) Ulver - Blood Inside2) Lapsus Linguae - You Got Me Fraiche3) Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World4) Thighpaulsandra - I, Thighpaulsandra5) Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place6) Half Man Half Biscuit - Trouble Over Bridgwater7) Oceansize - Effloresce8) Volcano! - Beautiful Seizure9) Thomas White - I Dream Of Black10) Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel11) Working For A Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts12) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.13) Grandaddy - Sumday14) Youthmovies - Good Nature15) Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum16) Radiohead - Hail To The Thief17) The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars18) The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat19) Darkspace - Darkspace III20) Six By Seven - The Closer You Get21) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart22) The Fall - The Unutterable23) My Computer - No CV
goodnight, and happy new decade
― Louis Jagger (acoleuthic), Thursday, 31 December 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
awesome list! i really want to hear this lapsus linguae now but they seem to be pretty impossible to track down in the states. the stuff i already knew + that spotify playlist is all top notch tho
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 31 December 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
do me a favor though - and please collectively decide whether i'm supposed to be lj's mom or love interest (both is not an option).
I don't know why both can't be an option.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Friday, 1 January 2010 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Urgh, so much prog-wank! lol 00's
― beautiful sunrise in the decade where i turn 30 (acoleuthic), Friday, 1 January 2010 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
If I had a bit longer to digest it, the St Vincent album might threaten this list, but precious little else from 2009. Maybe Gyratory System.
― beautiful sunrise in the decade where i turn 30 (acoleuthic), Friday, 1 January 2010 09:34 (fourteen years ago) link
When I saw your list I thought, 'Urgh, so little prog-wank!'
― I X Love (Abbott), Friday, 1 January 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha! That was my first post of the decade, thought it might as well be a nice little self-deprecating jab! Albums with prog elements: 1-4, 7-19, 21, 23, hence there are 4 albums here that aren't at all 'prog'. I make that quite a decent ratio!
You'd go mad for Lapsus Linguae fwiw
― agonising dusk in the decade where i turn 30 (acoleuthic), Friday, 1 January 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
(and of those 4 albums, all 4 have songs with unorthodox structures that COULD be construed as 'progressive'...)
― agonising dusk in the decade where i turn 30 (acoleuthic), Friday, 1 January 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
louis, i think <a href="http://scramblerseequill.bandcamp.com/">this</a> might be another band we can agree on. slightly dreamy pop with lots of out-of-left-field changes, and all the musicians can play their fucking asses off.
i'm not in love with the singer/songs or anything yet, but the music is really exciting.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Friday, 26 February 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
oops
ooh didn't see this, Jordan! thanks, will check out! your last recommendation was sound.
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 March 2010 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
my top 50 albums huh
cardiacs - sing to godvdgg - pwn <3s
fuck
can I just give 2?
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Saturday, 7 September 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link