Selected Sounds from a Sweet Wolf and 3 Small Animals Partying in A Cave (indie, itunes)

Piss Me Off · 06-27-2009, 04:40 AM

Like you, Up The Bracket was my favourite album when i was first getting into music and there's a lot of great memories there. It's hip to hate them now but im always going to love them just for getting me into all of the bands they merged together to make their sound.

Mirrorball95 · 06-27-2009, 07:42 PM

Joy Division are an excellent band. I remember hearing a live version of Dead Souls that blew me away. My favourite track is 'Atmosphere', not to mention the video, which is weird as fuck.
Also I had no idea you liked The Offspring. I like a handful of their tracks, theres a song called 'Self Esteem' where they take the piss out of Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'. On a serious note, the best tracks Ive heard from them are 'Can't Repeat', 'Hit That', 'Original Prankster' & 'Want You Bad'. I havent listened to them in ages so I might give them a wee spin sometime.
Also Graham Coxon's stuff I never thought I would like but 'Sky Is Too High' & 'Happiness In Magazines'- which only cost me about a pound, were 2 albums I really enjoyed.
Anyway this is a good thread man, also I think its a good idea to do it with someone else.

EDIT: Libertines I liked the first 6 tracks off their second album, 'Last Post On The Bugle' is a good song. As for their first album, I dont rate it.

WWWP · 06-29-2009, 06:25 PM

Against Me! - Acoustic EP

Jordan's First Choice
Those Anarcho Punks Are Mysterious
Reinventing Axl Rose
We Did It All For Don
Pints of Guiness Make You Strong
Untitled (Armageddon)

"What?! An acoustic ep by Against Me!? Isn't that kind of redundant?" you might ask.
The answer, baby birds, is "NO!" Well... perhaps the answer is "maybe," but fuck it. This is the shit. This is definitely a masterpiece, and by far my favorite thing they've put out. I love folk music, and I also loves obnoxious, energetic vocals. Needless to say when I first listened to the Acoustic EP I felt like as though all was right in the world. It's angsty, it's energetic, it's legit.

There are six tracks, and I could review them all, but I'm feeling tired and/or lazy so I'm just going to talk about my favorites, and hopefully it will convince you to ask for a link (Peter, I'm looking at you.) Jordan's First Choice is a perfect opening track, and is possibly my all-time favorite from the band. (This version is really similar to the version that reappears on their debut, but I like this one better. The other might sound more "raw," but this version has such a fragile feel to it. It's great.)
The next song, Those Anarcho Punks Are Mysterious is ****ing great too. Maybe even better than the first, and coincidentally also one of my favorites. There's a part in the song when the guitar stops and there's only clapping and vocals... it's orgasmic. We rock, because it's us against them/ we found our own reasons to sing/ and it's so much less confusing/ when lines are drawn like that.
Next up, Pints of Guiness Make You Strong. Against Me! have got to be one of the most beautiful and sincere things to come out of folk-punk. I absolutely adore this song. It's so sad, and so great to find something so geniune and good without a trace of contrived "emo." If we're never together/ if i'm never back again/ well i swear to god that i'll love you forever/ Evelyn, i'm not coming home tonight./ In all the years that went by/ she said she'd always love him/ and from the day that he died she never loved again.

This album is a great starting place for someone who might not be the biggest fan of Against Me!. The music's softer, and maybe even more accessible. There's more emphasis on the lyrics, which is great because the they carry a more defined melody. Hit me up for a link, I'll be more than happy to share.

sweet_nothing · 06-29-2009, 08:52 PM

Thanks for the support all 2 of you!

“Selling acid was a bad idea, and selling it to a cop was an even worse one”

The Mountain Goats- All Hail West Texas
To show that I’m just as hip as the rest of you let’s start to dive into the more obscure side of my music taste. All Hail West Texas is an concept lofi folk album and the cover states that the album is composed of "fourteen songs about seven people, two houses, a motorcycle, and a locked treatment facility for adolescent boys". John Danielle (pretty much the only person behind The Mountain Goats) fills the album with rich stories, the album it’s self as you’d expect from a folk album its dependent on the lyrics and the music (guitar chord strumming) takes a backseat to this but the album doesn’t suffer from this. Danielle is a very talented story teller the opening track (and my personal favorite) The Best Death Metal Band in Denton tells the story of Cyrus and Jeff who dream of making it big with their Death Metal band (though they never settled on a name for it). The story is great and detailed which is echoed through the album, and I never knew ‘Hail Satan’ could sound so catchy. The second track Fall of the Star High School Running Back is another fav of mine is about former star running back William Stanaforth Donahue who is reduced to selling acid after blowing out his knee at a game but and is later busted by the cops. I’m not really sure how to explain the album without giving away the plot of the songs, because then you wouldn't really have any reason to listen to the album. Audio is lofi i.e. shitty bedroom quality but that makes the songs more humble, some might completely hate it and find it boring but I find it just as entertaining as I would a Bob Dylan record. The songs are worth hearing for the nice short stories, small windows into the lives of the people that occupy west Texas. I recommend it to anyone into folk music anyone else might be interested in Danielle’s story telling while others will be completely turned off by the shitty audio and simple guitar work.

Favorite Tracks:
The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
Balance
Fall of the Star High School Running Back
Jeff Davis County Blues
Color in Your Cheeks
Source Decay

WWWP · 06-30-2009, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

The Mountain Goats- All Hail West Texas

Do you think I would like this? You're a pretty good judge of my taste...

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