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Pet_Sounds · 02-17-2015, 10:36 PM

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Huh, kind of surprised a mod didn't ban me. I guess 'cause I put in a little more effort than most spammer cunts.

Your first post spawned one of the better threads in that section. Kudos.

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Originally Posted by Ki

lol @ Pobody's Nerfect.

What, Milano?

Key · 02-17-2015, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

What, Milano?

Your words hurt

Pet_Sounds · 02-17-2015, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Ki

Your words hurt

Hyper-sensitive Italians.

Carpe Mortem · 02-17-2015, 10:45 PM

"Hey all, new here after I came across a member's thread about 'Gothic Americana' and picked up a few recs. I listen to a whole lot of everything, but I've hated most country I've heard until I came across 16 Horsepower and their debut album. Excellent stuff! Led to a google search of the genre, led to this website, I decided I wanna be a part of it.

Hoping to open my mind more on here, as sometimes I really do listen to too much goddamn metal. Looking forward to the various new musics! "

Pet_Sounds · 02-17-2015, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Just wondering if anyone else on this forum is a fan of the growing "Gothic Country" trend that's been emerging since the early 2000s. For those who are not aware of this growing trend it's essentially country music that's taken a far more rustic approach to country music and the songwriting has taken a more dark tone. Songs about murder, abuse, alcoholism, and tragedy often make up the song matter. It's a very immursive genre of music, you put on the album and it really stays with you. The best part is that it completely ignores all aspects of what makes up the popular country today (Brad Paisley, Toby Keith, Ryan Adams, etc.) and just does its own thing. Highly recommend looking into this genre if you're interesting in country music. I'll put a list of bands with a link to their last.fm or myspace account at the bottom of this post. I want both the good and the negative feedback, but if you're going to post negative feedback just please make it smart with some idea of what you're talking about, not just "country music is teh suxorz".

edit: I would post links to sites but apparently I'm not allowed to because I haven't made 15 posts, so instead I'm just going to list off some of my favourite bands.

Elliott BROOD
Munly & the Lee Lewis Harlots
Those Poor Bastards
O'Death
Pinebox Serenade

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Originally Posted by Carpe Mortem

"Hey all, new here after I came across a member's thread about 'Gothic Americana' and picked up a few recs. I listen to a whole lot of everything, but I've hated most country I've heard until I came across 16 Horsepower and their debut album. Excellent stuff! Led to a google search of the genre, led to this website, I decided I wanna be a part of it.

Hoping to open my mind more on here, as sometimes I really do listen to too much goddamn metal. Looking forward to the various new musics! "

It's some sort of conspiracy.

Machine · 02-17-2015, 10:53 PM

Before I get into the full review I want to provide some background for those who don't know. Andrew Jackson Jihad is a Phoenix, Arizona based band comprised of duo; guitarist Sean Bonnette and bassist Ben Gallaty. Formed in 2004 they're early material is categorized as being folk-punk specifically they're split with Ghost Mice, first two albums Candy Cigarettes And Cap Guns, People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World, and parts of they're 2009 album Can't Maintain. This was a turning point for them though with Can't Maintain introducing an expanded instrumentation adding prominent electric guitar, piano, and strings. 2011 saw the release of Knife Man and it was the mist ambitious outing yet taking everything from the past 7 years and perfecting and expanding on them. Again further instrumentation was added including organs, keyborads, and synths. On the following tour the duo expanded to a full 5 person lineup adding in second guitar player and keyboardist Preston Bryant, drummer Deacon Batchelor, and chello player Mark Glick. After a small hiatus, 2014 gives us the album Christmas Island.

Christmas Island is a change of pace first off discarding for the most part many of the punk elements that defined much of Knife Man and Can't Maintain. Instead we see AJJ slowing down musically for most of the tracks taking time to let the melody sink in more and yet again expanding the instrumentation (a trend dating back to even People). This time we see further uses of keyboards and synths (i.e Coffin Dance; Do, Re, and Me; and Rock Out In My Dreams), as well as strings (i.e Linda Rondstadt). But above all else it is a change of pace for singer and guitar player Sean Bonnette. Sean's lyrics are defined by themes of loss and sadness sung and detailed in the most hilarious way possible. On past albums we saw horrible scenes of poverty, rasicm, sexism, family issues, personal insecurities, politics, homeless, etc. Sean rest assured had something bad to say about it although it would be presented I in a way that no matter what would make you laugh. On Christmas Island the lyrics are sillier than ever and at the same time more personal than ever, but this dies not go without some well thought out themes. On Temple Grandin, Sean sings about blind, deaf and dumb in some of the best metaphors I've ever heard that make me laugh every time while also ranting about how horrible the things really are. On Linda Rondstadt, Sean tells us about this piece in a museum witch has made him break down crying. And on Angel Of Death (an extremely self-depricating song) he talkes about himself saying that he's all these horrible thhingd , while creating extremely vivid scenarios along the way (especially a certain verse about a kid whose name is most likely Cody). Gone is the blood curling imagery, gone are some of the extremely expletive laden lyrics that took up much of their early albums. This is most likely because they're all growing up and with that cokes maturing and that's what we see on Christmas Island a maturing musically, lyrically, production. We see a huge leap forward and while it had its flaws noticiably on Best Friend, and the oddly western Deathlessness it comes together as an album with a cohesive sound that changes enough to never get samey. There are no longer the false starts that encapsulated the lo-fi charms of they're early albums. And come the crisp near perfectionist detail put into each song.

All in all I've had this album to listen to for a long time and its grown on me a lot. And while I would not put in the category of classic yet I will say they are getting close to their "classic" album.

HIGHLIGHTS: Temple Grandin, Getting Naked Playing With Guns, Linda Rondstadt, Temple Grandin Too, and Angel Of Death

LOWPOINTS: Best Friend, and Deathlessness

Overall score: 8/10

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So yeah me five months ago

The Batlord · 02-17-2015, 11:03 PM

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I am not nor have I ever been, or been associated with, Skeletor.

As you can see, I have matured as a poster since then.

Black Francis · 02-17-2015, 11:04 PM

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Nevermind is very vocal driven, the songs are simple so kurt's presence are the main appeal of the album.

take lithium & Come as you are And In bloom..

those songs are pure kurt, they become catchy not so much for the rhythm just by his charismatic presence, by the feeling portrayed in the songs.. a deep self-destructive poet rockstar fitting for the Generation X underachievers.. so in a way, Kurt came first, and the songs came 2nd, especially so in this album, yet, you got songs like "Drain you" & "Lounge Act" (both my favs)wich seemed to be another aspect of Kurt just like "About a girl" Was in bleach, i personally picked those 2 you may think otherwise, it showed the band had depth. that all songs are not gonna be another "Teen Spirit"
Overall the album is consistent yet with subtle differences among the songs.. the guitar riffs are extremely simple, the chord progressions striped down basic "Verse 4 notes" & "Chorus 2 notes"

Been talking sh*t from the start.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 02-17-2015, 11:32 PM

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Neapolitan · 02-17-2015, 11:49 PM

If I did this right this is my first post(?) For some reason I have the feeling I am going to regret this.

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

we spoke to an aussie once (circa 2003) who claimed jack johnson isn't what he'd call folk. He didn't give us details on what he would call folk but we don't have to look very hard to find people for whom jj is decidedly only folk.

If you ever hear from that Aussie again tell him he is absolutely right. I don't find Jack Johnson decidedly folk; I find him decidedly intolerable.

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similarly, "keep on rockin' in the free world," probably not folk to many people. But when he plays in acoustic on freedom, does it become folk then?

There was always a Folkish element in his music, especially in his earlier work, take a listen to Old Man by a young Neil.

02-17-2015, 10:45 PM	#14 (permalink)
Carpe Mortem Crusher of tiny Nords Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Ugly Bag of Mostly Water Posts: 1,363	"Hey all, new here after I came across a member's thread about 'Gothic Americana' and picked up a few recs. I listen to a whole lot of everything, but I've hated most country I've heard until I came across 16 Horsepower and their debut album. Excellent stuff! Led to a google search of the genre, led to this website, I decided I wanna be a part of it. Hoping to open my mind more on here, as sometimes I really do listen to too much goddamn metal. Looking forward to the various new musics! " __________________ [SIG][/SIG] Mirth is King Be Loving & Open With My Emotions

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Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	Before I get into the full review I want to provide some background for those who don't know. Andrew Jackson Jihad is a Phoenix, Arizona based band comprised of duo; guitarist Sean Bonnette and bassist Ben Gallaty. Formed in 2004 they're early material is categorized as being folk-punk specifically they're split with Ghost Mice, first two albums Candy Cigarettes And Cap Guns, People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World, and parts of they're 2009 album Can't Maintain. This was a turning point for them though with Can't Maintain introducing an expanded instrumentation adding prominent electric guitar, piano, and strings. 2011 saw the release of Knife Man and it was the mist ambitious outing yet taking everything from the past 7 years and perfecting and expanding on them. Again further instrumentation was added including organs, keyborads, and synths. On the following tour the duo expanded to a full 5 person lineup adding in second guitar player and keyboardist Preston Bryant, drummer Deacon Batchelor, and chello player Mark Glick. After a small hiatus, 2014 gives us the album Christmas Island. Christmas Island is a change of pace first off discarding for the most part many of the punk elements that defined much of Knife Man and Can't Maintain. Instead we see AJJ slowing down musically for most of the tracks taking time to let the melody sink in more and yet again expanding the instrumentation (a trend dating back to even People). This time we see further uses of keyboards and synths (i.e Coffin Dance; Do, Re, and Me; and Rock Out In My Dreams), as well as strings (i.e Linda Rondstadt). But above all else it is a change of pace for singer and guitar player Sean Bonnette. Sean's lyrics are defined by themes of loss and sadness sung and detailed in the most hilarious way possible. On past albums we saw horrible scenes of poverty, rasicm, sexism, family issues, personal insecurities, politics, homeless, etc. Sean rest assured had something bad to say about it although it would be presented I in a way that no matter what would make you laugh. On Christmas Island the lyrics are sillier than ever and at the same time more personal than ever, but this dies not go without some well thought out themes. On Temple Grandin, Sean sings about blind, deaf and dumb in some of the best metaphors I've ever heard that make me laugh every time while also ranting about how horrible the things really are. On Linda Rondstadt, Sean tells us about this piece in a museum witch has made him break down crying. And on Angel Of Death (an extremely self-depricating song) he talkes about himself saying that he's all these horrible thhingd , while creating extremely vivid scenarios along the way (especially a certain verse about a kid whose name is most likely Cody). Gone is the blood curling imagery, gone are some of the extremely expletive laden lyrics that took up much of their early albums. This is most likely because they're all growing up and with that cokes maturing and that's what we see on Christmas Island a maturing musically, lyrically, production. We see a huge leap forward and while it had its flaws noticiably on Best Friend, and the oddly western Deathlessness it comes together as an album with a cohesive sound that changes enough to never get samey. There are no longer the false starts that encapsulated the lo-fi charms of they're early albums. And come the crisp near perfectionist detail put into each song. All in all I've had this album to listen to for a long time and its grown on me a lot. And while I would not put in the category of classic yet I will say they are getting close to their "classic" album. HIGHLIGHTS: Temple Grandin, Getting Naked Playing With Guns, Linda Rondstadt, Temple Grandin Too, and Angel Of Death LOWPOINTS: Best Friend, and Deathlessness Overall score: 8/10 _____________ So yeah me five months ago __________________ boost my ego listen to me stroke my delay pedal ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

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