What are your favorite actual bands these days beside MP?

selskie Wrote:
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> yes

besides motorpsycho (of course!) it's

arcade fire
mogwai
65daysofstatic
forward russia
get well soon (!)
radiohead and
sigur ros

these days.

today i´d say:

modest mouse
arcade fire
wolf parade
bon iver
fanfarlo
sunset rubdown
kings of convenience

i've been listening quite a lot to Yes lately.


really!


i know... lol... i just don't care about genres and coolness and do's and don'ts. i only really have issues with steve howe's guitar playing and his sound. but where there's shade there's always light. in Yes' case it's the Relayer album. The Gates of Delirium is pure frenzy with far out riffs and madness. To Be Over has some nice soothing melodies i really enjoy. Heart of the Sunrise from Fragile a riff to die for. and when we go big then we go big with the Tales from Topographic Oceans album: 4 songs, each about 20 minutes. really dont know why i'm attracted to this stuff these days. hm...

The National - Boxer
Gravenhurst - All
Black Mountain - In the Future
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Mogwai - Mr- Beast

and (in anticipation of the new album) many, many MP-Stuff!
Started recording a 3x90min Best-of Tape-Set!

Been listening to these the last days :

Yeasayer - All hour cymbals
Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Future of the Left - Curses

some older stuff :
Can - Tago Mago & Ege Bamyasi
Blonde Redhead - 23
Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara
Kelly Joe Phelps -Roll away the stone


Actually this was last week...
This week i'm totally into the new MP album, which keeps on growing.
Great one!
Although I personally think it's maybe too short...

supernaut Wrote:
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> i've been listening quite a lot to Yes lately.
>
>
> really!
>
>
> i know... lol... i just don't care about genres
> and coolness and do's and don'ts. i only really
> have issues with steve howe's guitar playing and
> his sound. but where there's shade there's always
> light. in Yes' case it's the Relayer album. The
> Gates of Delirium is pure frenzy with far out
> riffs and madness. To Be Over has some nice
> soothing melodies i really enjoy. Heart of the
> Sunrise from Fragile a riff to die for. and when
> we go big then we go big with the Tales from
> Topographic Oceans album: 4 songs, each about 20
> minutes. really dont know why i'm attracted to
> this stuff these days. hm...

don't you ever be embarassed for liking yes! of course it's soooo much cooler to listen to punk rock, just three chords.... fuck it, yes really made some great music (well, at leats until they created "owner of a lonely heart", so don't feel ashamed, i'm with you^^



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/07/2008 02:32PM by happy knappy.

I don't feel ashamed. ^^

As I said, I don't care neither about genres nor about "coolness". I listen to Yes and to the Melvins and Jesus Lizard any day.
There's the prog Spinal Tap thing about them due to silly dresses, but lots of other 70ties rock bands are much more guilty of self indulgent noodling over boring blues rock chords. Yes pushed the genre, dix points to them for that. Douze points go to King Crimson for being less esoteric.

Melvins IS cool. You've got to listen to the early periods of the japanese band Boris as well, which have their name from a Melvins tune.

Boris's new album is good.

Yeah, it's good - also really nice to hear those tunes live btw Saw them playing here in Bergen in Februrary. But Smile won't ever be as good as Amplifier Worship and Feedbacker! Without doubt the best Boris records.

gravenhurst, autechre, boards of canada, motorpsycho, belle and sebastian, ben folds, die goldenen zitronen, motörhead, foo fighters, plonk, trio søt, vocoder, isan, isolation years, mos def, wolfmother, la boom aka jan delay & tropf, do make say think, kraftwerk, pink floyd, led zeppelin, rage against the machine, eins zwo, the hives, karate, queens of the stone age, trans am, fire and ice, puppetmastaz, trio, shellac, dj shadow, system of a down, the (international) noise conspiracy, gonzales, mogwai, giardini di mirò, the album leaf, sport, iso 68, low, magnolia electric co, two lone swordsmen, turbonegro, refused, goon moon, dictaphone, the notwist, michael jackson, tom waits, kyuss, the who, schneider tm, godspeed you! black emperor, jimi hendrix, jacques palminger, tocotronic, the notwist, maximo park, console, eagles of death metal, the cream, dj koze

make the music that I like a lot.

have a look at my playlist at [url]http://www.myspace.com/stereosofa[/url]

p s y c h o n a u t s u n i t e ...

well, BESIDES (!!!) Motorpsycho these are like my favs:

Kashmir (I really like their way of expressing the music)
System of a Down, Muse, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Get Well Soon, Tocotronic, Die Ärzte, Clueso, Tomte, Billy Talent, Archive, Rage Against the Machine, Blind Guardian, Pink Floyd (!)

and I do like a lot of electronic stuff for example Adam Freeland, Vitalic, Infected Mushroom, HilightTribe, Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers and Drum'n'Bass..

and I really like kinda every style of music.. that's why i LOVE MP!!!

Beck - Guero
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience And Grace / In Your Honour
The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

a silver mt. zion's new album just grows and grows on me with every listening.. they seem to deliver every time.

also a magnificent liveband.

alex.

speaking of magnificent livebands, last night i witnessed The Gutter Twins, that's Dulli and Lanegan:

[url]http://www.theguttertwins.com/[/url]
[url]http://www.myspace.com/theguttertwins[/url]

very spiritual. great vibe. Lanegan laughed at least three times.

and still wonderful: [url]http://www.myspace.com/marklanegan[/url] => "Revival".



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Indeed, I saw them in Brussels at the Ancienne Belgique (great venue!) 10 days ago... Super!
Unfortenately Dulli got ill after 45 min of show, he was driven by ambulance to the nearest hospital, the poor guy... They had to cancel in Rotterdam I heard...
Lanegan finished in Brussels with a few songs from "Bubblegum". In total 1 hour on stage, but what a show.
They promised to be back in Belgium and the Netherlands this summer (Pukkelpop and Lowlands??) to make up for Dulli's hospitalisation... Can't wait!

Something totally different: I got dragged to a The Go! Team concert and what fun it was! 6 people on stage with lots of instrument swapping, common setup with 2 drums though, girl and boy, then add brass samples and harmonica and vibraphone and recorder and more instrument swapping, almost everyone played almost everything drenched in lots of noisy guitar freakouts. good fun.

[url]http://www.thegoteam.co.uk/flash/News.html[/url]

documentary: [url]http://www.thegoteam.co.uk/flash/Super8.php[/url]

and they do a superb version of SY's Bull in the Heather on their latest bonustracked album! party on Thurston!