Icon Of Coil
Istans
Cubanate
Wumpscut
Katscan
Front 242
Frontline Assembly
Nitzer Ebb

are just some bands that I like doing similar things.

Thanks :)

Hair Metal

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By far not my favourite genre but a couple of bands I really do like from the 80's (earlier for one band) have been getting a few plays from me recently: Kiss and Ratt. I hate the look, the videos and some of the lyrical content is awful but I have a real soft spot for that big snare/ cheesy guitar riff sound that was all over the place back then. I'm not cool but I don't care less. Air guitars at the ready :D

Kiss- Who Wants To Be Lonely


Ratt- Slip Of The Lip


Awful vids :D

Hair metal is a huge guilty pleasure of mine...
:D

Jackhammer I am so disappointed. I used to look up to you :(

I did grow up in the 80's :D. Don't worry I will redress the balance with my next post and you can look upon me once again with complete and utter admiration :D

Lee come on if you're going to hype eighties rock you could at least hype Hanoi Rocks or something decent!

Never liked them. These are the only two bands I can tolerate. I actually detest the scene generally with a passion but for some reason I like Ratt. Fucked if I know why.

KISS though? I mean... all of there songs are about having sex, and it's not even done creatively where you can actually respect it.

I have a thread elsewhere on these but did'nt include anything about their first release for four years in there. Wow. What another stupendously gorgeous work of dreamy, ambient Pop that soothes and caress's the soul. Sure vocalist Alison Shaws vocals are not to everyone's tastes but the whole album is like a gentle breeze in your head. I know I sound like a hopeless old romantic but this album really is the bomb but as usual it will dissapear like so many other good albums while everyone gorges themselves on the usual popular fair. Their loss and my gain.

Ah, another album I should be getting. Haven't yet had the chance to listen to the one you sent me, but I like what (little) I've heard :)

MUCH better than Kiss... would you care to send that Cranes album to me?

How the hell have I missed this album? Have I become so ignorant as to miss certain albums that DEMAND to be heard? It's Punk, it's Pop, it's Pogo, it's heavy, it's minimal. It is brilliant. If you have ANY interest in late 70's guitar music, you need to hear this album. This is the 70's missing link and it works brilliantly.

Lovage= Mike Patton (Faith No More), Nathaniel Merriweather (Handsome Boy Modeling School), Jennifer Charles (Elysian Fields) & Kid Koala. Guests include Damon Albarn, Africa Bambaata & Maseo (De La Soul). Take some dope beats, a dose of 70's soul, a sense of irony and chuck it in a Gorillaz style mixing pot and you get this. It works on so many levels. Get it people.

I thought the title said Lady Boy for a second there, seriously.

But now I'll listen to it.

Lady boy's? Monkeys? Is there something you are not telling us :D

Jack? Quick question: how do you manage to make your images so large in the posts? Mine will only go up as thumbnails, quite small. Am I missing something?
Thx
TH

Find the image you want (usually via google). right - click the image and copy the address. Then post in the advanced reply and click on http://www.musicbanter.com/images/ed...nsertimage.gif and paste the address in.

I had heard that this is a storming Post Rock album. No it's not, it's just plain boring and like so many others. I like lots of Post Rock but it seems as if the scene is burning itself out. I need some noise instead. Avoid and stick with Mogwai.

I'm quite a fan of Lovage. Those songs are cool; I love 'Pit Stop' as well.

Maserati - Inventions For The New Season (2006)

Now that's better. The Post Rock balance has been restored. The emphasis is on the rhythm and tempo compared to the usual Crescendos of Post Rock. It has a 'jamming' vibe that I like.

A fine album. I got this on release after hearing a track or two on my favourite radio station. I am impressed with it's longevity as it is one that I can dig out periodically and still enjoy.

It has been a while since I've listened to anything post-rock related (apart from Isis which is a staple band for me), but I remember enjoying The Language of Cities by Maserati.

Now and again I get an urge to listen to some Trance music. I think it's the breakdowns that I like. For some reason they remind me a little of Prog, only for the reason that the tracks go off into a different tangent for a while whilst I have always loved deep bass lines.

AVB is one of the better mainstream DJ'S out there and along with Sander Kleinenberg I find I can listen to their mixes for a good while without being bored, because lets be honest, it's a genre of music that can become repetitive.

I don't think that there are many Trance fans on here and I'm not here to convert anyone. It's just exactly what the thread is about and today I'm toe tapping to Trance!

I may start working through some of the albums on this thread.

This one I'm not in love with by any means but I'm glad I checked it out. Im not big on Grindcore but this was one of the only albums I haven't completely hated.

Thanks for introducing me to two new artists I really like. I like hip hop and rap, but not really too much of the mainstream stuff and I don't really know anyone that likes artists like these. Most of my friends listen to Three Six, Kanye, and Lil' Wayne or underground hip hop if any rap or hip hop.

And I know it was said earlier but I feel a need to state this again - the diversity of your music is ridiculous (in a good way of course). It amazes me how this thread can go from grindcore to hip hop to African music. Keep it up though! I'm finding lots of new music... I just need to stop downloading and listen to all of it now :p

I'm really pleased that you have found some new music to get into, as far as I'm concerned it is huge vindication for making threads such as these.

As for the Genre hopping- it's all good for the soul. There is so much fantastic stuff out there that I want to hear as much as i can.

Iron Maiden's frontman Bruce Dickinson's solo career has been patchy but it really hit paydirt with this release. The strength of this album is that despite his trademark vocals and the inclusion of Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith it does sound distinctly different to them. It's heavier but still retains good melody and hooks. It is quite simply a fantastic Heavy metal album that doesn't try to anything different or spectacular with the genre, yet it is still a very good listen. It's quite refreshing to hear straight up good old fashioned Metal sometimes that still has enough good playing and musical chops for it to rise above the much of the mediocrity out there.

Hmm, i quite liked that song. I may check this record out. When it comes to Bruce's solo stuff I listened to Tattooed Millionaire and never bothered with anything else.

Tattooed millionaire is pretty shocking but this is something else alogether.A solid old school Metal album.

Tattooed Millionaire was awful yeah. Ill probably check this one though now I've heard something from it.

The cult Death Metal band Gorefest took a hiatus in the late 90's and returned with La Meurte in 2005 which didn't blow me away as much as their earlier 90's work but 2007's Rise To Ruin is possibly the Dutch band's best release. keeping to the principal of grindy groovy riffs and the odd blast of speed, this is unashamedly classic Death Metal with no frills. It's good to have a blast of the very sort of music that set the ball rolling for me and I'm glad that I can still enjoy some great Metal after diverging my tastes year in, year out. The Americans aren't the only ones doing this thing:

I'm still trying to grasp a sense of my own general taste of music while you are getting into deep ****. I'm not worthy. :bowdown:

I listened to a couple tracks and was pretty suprised by how decent it was.

I must say Mr. Jack Hammer that you are fast becomming my favorite reviewer here at MB.

I think what you do best is truly entice a potential listener to make that "brave choice" of actually listening...

Grindcore is an acquired taste and not everyones cup of tea; but you still must put it into its deserved context and recognition as an art form in and of itself. One can see the incredible amount of produciton in this not to mention highly evolved visual stimuli and envelope pushing themes. Not exactly dinner music, but then again what is... Great review!

Depends who you're havin round for dinner.

There are times when you want to taken on a different journey. Sure, the vehicle you are in, is no different to any others but it's the paths that it takes that can intrigue, frighten and mesmerise you. This is Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. The instruments they use are your standard distorted guitars and bursts of tempos but just like the vehicle I used as analogy- the journey they take you on is never a straight road.

Riffs begin then descend into decay. Vocals are garbled and filled with macarbe desire. Electronic effects alter straight lines and perception. Sometimes I love safe. Sometimes I am utterly bored by it and like to drive with the lights off. SGM are masters at this. Distorted guitar music all sounds the same? Pfft. You don't know what you are missing:

Wow...I was expecting something completely different when I hit play on that youtube vid. But I have to say it caught my attention and had me turning my volume up. If the rest of the album is that interesting, it's gotta be worth checking out.

Oh yeah. It takes a few listens to get into but it's just so good to hear something and not quite know what's going to happen next. Their videos are amazing too. Check this out:

I have been listening to a couple of bands from this fair isle recently that are maybe worthy of attention on a wider scale. They are recent bands making waves on the underground and i have even seen a couple of names pop up on here.

maybeshewill

A predominantly instrumental post/math rock band that crank it up a bit riff wise now and again. From the 2008 album 'Not For The Want Of Trying':


This Town Needs Guns

A mathy/indie band from Oxford. their album 'Animals' has gotten a few spins from me recently. who would have thought that two albums called 'animals' would be so good?:


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I'm so glad to see you're digging that album! One thing I want to throw out there about it is that, while you're right about much of the instruments being typical, there's also a fair amount of unusual instrumentation for heavy music like violin, the found object percussion their second drummer uses, the weird PVC piping instrument their bass player sometimes employs, etc.