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03-21-2015, 04:37 PM | #623 (permalink) | |
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More Tom Waits reviews. Goody.
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03-22-2015, 07:41 PM | #625 (permalink) | |
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The Music Banter Members Journals Weekly Update Thread, week-ending March 22 2015
Ah, the sun is finally shining and no doubt soon enough those bothersome little flies and bluebottles will be buzzing around, annoying us all, to say nothing of wasps and bees! Yeah, summer is slowly heading our way, and down in Journaltown it's all hands to the pumps, with a decent body of work this week. Let's check it out.
Reclaiming his place at the head of the pack, Anteater returns to bring us more of http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ravaganza.html, with a feature on Bernard Oattes. No, he was not one half of Hall and Oates! Go check out Ant's journal and educate yourself. There's more from Tritonal in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...continuum.html while http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...lks-about.html and this week he's reviewing ten grindcore albums in less than a minute each. And then another ten. That's twenty too many for me! George Harrison is on the menu (not literally, of course: Black Francis is not a cannibal --- at least, so far as I know!) in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...l-journey.html while Frownland becomes the latest to take the plunge and open another journal, this time it's featuring his rather excellent photographic skills. Catch him http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-darkroom.html and see what you think. Mew, Bloc Party, Boduf Songs, Ugly Duckling and more are all to be found in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...63-2013-a.html but it's western classical music in China that concerns innerspaceboy, also writing about how to entice mp3-buyers to purchase physical albums in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html --- not for me to be honest; it's a step backwards. Been there, done all that collecting, cleaning, drawing on the inner sleeves and writing the lyrics on those that had none... Isbjorn (no I won't) has found himself disappointed with Al Jazeera, sorry Jahzzar down at http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...seur-cave.html --- Hell, all free music can't be great you know! Ki is taking it easy this week (for once) with just the one entry in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nal-music.html, on Godspeed You! Black Emperor, but that might be due to the fact that he too has opened another journal, this one concentrating on video games. In http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...is-arcade.html you'll find Zelda, Torchlight II and Pokemon, so indulge your inner gamer and take him on! Kendrick Lamaar and some of Machine's poetry/lyrics in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-its-dumb.html (but do, its not) Oriphiel has chapter nine of http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...rgy-story.html on http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...crap-heap.html you'll find Steely Dan, The Doors and The Cars (cars have doors, dont they?) and there's an update on Guiseppe Torrisi in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...listening.html We have a new journal, from a new member, as http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-robbe264.html gets underway with Chance the Rapper (didn't DJ Chameleon mention him? Or was it someone else? Anyone seen DJ recently?) and Soulflower is still praising the http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...dness-art.html, with Stone Temple Pilots and an article on The Jacksons. And so to me. There are two more Tom Waits reviews in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html, leaving us with just two more to go before we finish his entire studio discography, while Star Trek Month continues unabated in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html with Deep Space 9, the third Trek movie and a whole lot more. Quite a lot happening down athttp://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html, with reviews of albums from Antalio, Sawmail, Emissary Echo and Care of Night. Meanwhile we're preparing to move into 1968 in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ive-metal.html, with a list of the albums I'l be covering from that year, and there's something of a change of pace coming for http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-2000-ad.html as I prepare to take on Alan Moore's masterpiece, Watchmen. Into the top ten for 1984 we go in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html, and at ten it's Metal Church while Mercyful Fate take the number nine spot. In the other journal Unknown Soldier shares with Anteater, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...78-2015-a.html there's a joint review of the second Toto album, “Hydra”. Finally, poor old Wpnfire is struggling In the embrace of evil, but he doesn't seem to mind in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...s-journal.html. It's not very often I award my to a relatively new journal, but this one was pretty good so I think it deserves it. Certainly shows that she has a lot of passion for her subject, and is prepared to write rather than just throw down video after video, which is after all the hallmark of a decent journal. Quote:
goes to Ki, for http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...is-arcade.html, which certainly seems to have everyone talking about their favourite games. And Pokemon. Where were we, young polar bear? Oh yeah. June broke and he was back to “Essential emo albums I have never heard”, with the self-titled debut from Rites of Spring, but he couldn't stay away from metal for long, and so it was back to Mercyful Fate with Finntroll and Mayhem on the side, and that was more or less it for June, taking us into July as he tried to kick off Pierce the Veil Week, also talking about The Descendants and Kiss, decided to ditch PtV Week as he got bored, and so ended July. And so ends our update. Back with more same time next week. Till then, Toodles!
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03-29-2015, 01:12 PM | #626 (permalink) | |
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The Music Banter Members Journals Weekly Update Thread, week-ending March 29 2015
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Program successfully installed! Run now y/n? Upgrade to full paid version y/n? Register online y/n? Preparing to run program for first time. This may take some moments. Upgrade to full paid version y/n? Installing codecs ... Your computer needs to restart. Restart now y/n? Loading program. Upgrade to full paid version y/n? Create desktop icon? Loading ... preparing to run progra --- oh, we did that didn't we? Upgrade to full paid version y/n? Loading ... Welcome! Bah! Last time I try to computerise the intro! Now that we're up and running, let's see what's shakin' down at Journaltown... Looks like it's Black Francis who gets us underway with more George Harrison in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...l-journey.html while taking a break from the darkroom, Frownland goes back to being http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...wnapilago.html where he's writing a story he “wrote in outer space”? Um, yeah... innerspaceboy is getting back to basics with some “modern music” in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html and http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...is-arcade.html continues to gather momentum and create debate, as he speaks of the wonders of Bajo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie as well as, um, Goat Simulator, and a lot more. Not neglecting his other journal though, in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nal-music.html he's wrapping up Post Rock Month, talking about the new collaboration between Franz Ferdinand and Sparks, asking if Megaedeth are “Worth the hype?” and still has time to listen to some Alesana. Oriphiel has chapter ten of http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...rgy-story.html this week (aliens, assassins, pizza?) and is also back http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ck-garage.html going through Hell thanks to Clive Barker as he reviews Hellraiser. Ugh. Love Barker's written work, but man is it gory onscreen! and Pet_Sounds is listing off his favourite bands as he climbs around http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...crap-heap.html As I near the end of the discography of Tom Waits, there's a review of Real gone in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html while Star Trek Month is beginning to wind down in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html, with a few more best and worst episodes, more “Women of Star Trek”, the pilot for Voyager reviewed, as well as the last few before we find out what is my top Trek theme. Oh I'm so excited! Bah. Other journals getting a good kicking back into life this week include http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...gy-legend.html, where there's information on Beowulf, Bellerophon and the Sirens among others, while http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ive-metal.html jumps off into 1968 with albums from The Mothers of Invention, The United States of America, Floyd and Family, and there's a short return for http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ver-heard.html, with the debut from The Cars. Finally, reviewed in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html this week are albums from Plastic Violins of Darkness and The Divine Comedy. There's glam metal in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html as Icon's s/t takes the number eight spot, and more Toto in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...78-2015-a.html from Anteater and Unknown Soldier (Unknown Anteater?) with a review of Turn Back. goes to Oriphiel this week for his deeply disturbing but extremely in-depth, some might almost say Trollheartesque (!), review of Hellraiser, below. Quote:
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03-29-2015, 01:17 PM | #627 (permalink) | |
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I'd like to award this to Anteater and Unknown Soldier, for the amount of work they've put in to their collaborative journal. They certainly seem to have hit on a winning formula, but I can see it's taking a lot of their time and effort. Certainly worth it, I feel. And so we go back to The Poseur Cave, another of the Into August we went, and Isbjorn decided to take on Quorthon's solo album, then “I see fire” followed by (deep breath) Empire! Empire! (I was a lonely estate) --- what is it with these bands who have to have forty words in their name? Doesn't even make sense. Imagine all the time wasted saying their name, all the other things you could be doing instead: “Who you going to see tonight then?” “Oh this band called Empire! Empire! (I was a --- oh no! The gig's already started!” Any-way, it was Exhorder next and then on we went into September, which opened with Jets to Brazil, then Myrkur, after which he ranted “Death to false indie!” (Just doesn't have the same ring to it though, does it?) and we were done for another two months. And we are done here too. But not for two months. Just a week. See you all next Sunday. Toodl --- ERROR! ERROR! ABNORMAL PROGRAM TERMINATION! FATAL ERROR! ALL DATA WILL BE WIPED FROM HARD DRIVE! PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE....
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03-29-2015, 01:31 PM | #628 (permalink) |
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Appreciate the mention Trollheart.
But seriously, any harrison fan out there leave my a comment, it's frickin lonely there, am i really the only dude here that digs Harrison? Ive been Following Frown's picture journal and Ki's arcade, good stuff, keep it up guys.
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03-29-2015, 02:19 PM | #630 (permalink) | |
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Where was this? I missed that one. I dig that album.
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