devin townsend c/d

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In just two songs i have heard traces of

Beach Boys
Mr Bungle
Enya
High School Musical
Toe Jam and Earl

I love it

why? is incredible had a big smile the whole way through it... devi is one of a kind truly.

simon h get on ocean machine!
devin townsend: ocean machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LrTB9JFBME

Every once in a while I throw on both discs of Casualties of Cool and it ends up being all I play for days on end

Hasn’t hit for me like that maybe I should try again

I treat them like ambient/background records with occasional rushes of overwhelming beauty that seize my attention

Why? is his greatest song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT-uWOVP5q0

listened to empath a few times over the last week and its really special. up there with his best.

<3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb935JynuhQ

he's posting a new song every day mon-fri during all this and calling it the quarantine project:

I will be releasing all the Quarantine Project songs on an album when all this calms down... until then, I’ll just keep posting stuff Monday to Friday. I hope it helps.

— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) March 27, 2020

i think theres 9 so far and its the usual mix of what you'd expect from him.

i was supposed to see him here in phx last week.

fao brad
https://youtu.be/wpjS7m6X4h4

lmao thank you

alright been trying to put my top ten together for a few years lol. decided to go with a top 25 instead cos why only ten anyway? in no order

deep peace
why?
suicide
stand
borderlands
kingdom
march of the poozers
funeral
bastard
spirits will collide
earth day
tiny tears
deadhead
failure
higher
from the heart
universal flame
regulator
singularity
seventh wave
dsiruptr
canada
terminal
depth charge
let it roll

you fuckin rule for this imo

it's fuckin' insane how much Devy I've heard which is still less than 50% of his catalog.

this thread might finally inspire me to fill in the gaps

Empath was the best satanic pop album the Beach Boys never made

i just keep playing the solo in deep peace over and over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-S9FzmcyI

not sure why i never posted in this thread. was massively into SYL and Devin's solo stuff up until around the self titled SYL and then just fell off the bus completely, not really sure why other than attention shifting. been going through ALL my cds from A-Z and have re-realised how much I love City, Ocean Machine and Infinity. travelled up to his show at the Astoria 2/Mean Fiddler in around 2003 and it was incredibly, notably due to Gene Hoglan drumming for all three bands that night - Zimmers Hole / Strapping Young Lad / Devin Townsend Project. amazing night.

so yes, i guess i'll carry on listening through the discography...and hoping I don't suddenly realise he got cancelled at some time in the last 19 years?

not to my knowledge he hasn't been. feel free to live review albums in here!

also occurred to me he's basically the metal Todd Rundgren?

yeah he seems like good people.

thought this might be a bump for his new album lightwork, which im still trying to figure out my feelings on.

rundgren comparison is good i think

I could also imagine a Devin/Andrew WK album that would be....very good indeed.

anyone dive into litghtwork yet?

it didn't do much for me the one time i heard it! some bangers obv. bonus disc far more unhinged

yeah disc 2 way more experimental. kinda hard not to think hes done better versions of each of these songs on past releases.

enjoyed dimensions, call of the void and equinox.

i don't think i could hear all this dude's music if I did nothing but listen to it for a year.

his quality control is pretty good though.

how does it compare to Empath?

it's considerably more mellow imo

I like mellow Devy tbh , i'll have to give it a listen

if i could like convince the guy to do a tour and perform Ocean Machine-Biomech in its entirety though i'd die happy

opening track super nice imo

Yah it’s frontloaded

off the back of relistening to everything/listening to the ones i didnt get to, i've been listening to the podcasts he did during lockdown, which are basically a chronological and very in depth look at each album. So far just up to terria but it's probably some of the most honest and self exposing autobio work i've heard from a musician. well worth checking out. first one here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2vpT_8zKp4

yeah those pods are very good... long tho.

I like the whole of Lightwork! really a great listen

if i could like convince the guy to do a tour and perform Ocean Machine-Biomech in its entirety though i'd die happy

https://www.discogs.com/master/1389963-Devin-Townsend-Project-Ocean-Machine-Live-At-The-Ancient-Roman-Theatre-Plovdiv

Haven't seen it myself, sort of took a Devin break for a few years, but I'm feeling the twitching. I'll have to check it out.
(And the end of the Live at the Royal Albert Hall show, the Ocean Machine triptych finale as it were, is mind blowing. I've never seen him live but I need to.)

I saw him on the metal cruise in 2020 and he played a wiiiide range of material but he stunned us with "All Hail the New Flesh" and "Detox" from City.