Songs of the Ocean - Steam of Passion

We talked about it last page. Awesome album.

 

Ah, my bad. I missed the last few pages of this thread.

 

Anyway, I'm still in Massive Attack fever. Listening to Antistar right now.

Corner Stone Cues - Madokara Mieru

 

Also, DMC OST

I picked up The Faint's Wet From Birth (2004) and Avenged Sevenfold's S/T (2007) on vinyl yesterday. I bought the latter because it was on clearance. Fear Factory's Mechanize (2010) is all ready out on CD. Still awaiting my record store to get the vinyl in. It's a really great album. It has a lot of the elements of the Demanufacture/Obselete days but is still new and a type of greatness that only Fear Factory can achieve.

Real Vampires Don't Sparkle (But They Do Wear White And Dance mix) - The Dark Clan

Janis Joplin -- Summertime

Listening to Sister Machinegun on Pandora this morning.

Damn Heligoland moved me to go back and add all of Massive Attack to my iPhone. Now I'm stuck listening to Massive Attack day and night.

I quite enjoyed their 90's albums but their new one hasn't appealed to me all that much. Gave it one listen and I'll have to give it a few more. Just have a bunch of other stuff on my plate that I'm enjoying at the moment.

Oh it's absolutely fantastic. Especially Flat of the Blade, Paradise Circus and Saturday Come Slow.

Irish traditional stuff - Ship are Sailing

 

Listening to this guys rendition of it on an Irish tin whistle. It's sooo beautiful:

(Springsteen cover)

Been listening a lot to Fleet Foxes lately. Not sure why I didn't pay any attention to them until recently, after all the positive reviews they got in 08. My favourite song from their self-titled album:

 

 

Really been in an indie/alt-mood this year, after discovering great bands like Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Wilco and Bat for Lashes.

Bat for Lashes.

 

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#

 

A pity this style of music is dying.

The Chieftans - Foggy Dew

 

With Sinead O'Connor, but don't let that put you off

 

A pity this style of music is dying.

 

I agree it's pretty good, although not something I'd normally listen to. But what do you mean dying?

Burzum - Belus.

Goddamn, old man still got it. Got more of if than the entire black metal scene. Proper effing legend, he is.

 

A pity this style of music is dying.

 

I agree it's pretty good, although not something I'd normally listen to. But what do you mean dying?

 

You don't often find decent prog/power metal anymore, especially 80s style, which is more raw and guitar-driven. The genre is becoming more and more driven by synths, and you rarely ever hear 80's style operatic vocals anymore.

 

Compare:

 

Redemption - Leviathan Rising (2009)

 

Both are considered progressive power metal, but the trends are obvious. You just don't here music in the old style anymore, which is a pity, because it's better (at least in my opinion). Newer stuff just has too many sounds and too often substitutes superfluous time signature shifts for decent songwriting.

 

Crescent Shield is one of the few recent bands that still plays traditional power metal.

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You don't often find decent prog/power metal anymore, especially 80s style, which is more raw and guitar-driven. The genre is becoming more and more driven by synths, and you rarely ever hear 80's style operatic vocals anymore.

 

I'm just guessing, but the vocal thing could just be down to teaching styles. Very few people choose to learn classical style, which I assume is the basis for that operatic sound. Similarly the general dumbing down of school education may mean that kids just don't get the formal training to be really creative with their sounds.

White Flag-Dido

Pig's 2005 album: Pigmata. Pig is an industrial project of Ramond Watts (KMFDM)

Wolfmother - Joker and the thief

 

This album is either a huge tribute to almost three decades of music or a very successfull mish-mash of rip-offs from old rock hits.