jinp6301 Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band -- The Mountain Vinyl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Asr Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious. Easily a new favorite, this metal + evil jazz/opera/swing is some of the coolest stuff I've heard in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpedo Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 ^ Kind of fun recording The Michael Schenker Group - The Michael Schenker Story Live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robm321 Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Buckethead - Monsters and Robots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Gotan Project -- Tango 3.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Thanks for posting that, I really like my previous Gotan Project album, will have to pick that one up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypasswordis Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Agreed that it's 80's/glammish/power-metally -- it's still better than growling/screaming/emo/rapping. Sorry, I'm getting completely jaded about horrid metal "vocals". Consider this -- there's no analogy to what one can do on acoustic/organic instruments. It's not even "playing outside the expected range of the instrument", which has been done. This is at least melodic, which has become increasingly important to me. And not just because of metal, but because a lot of contemporary poprock is loop-based, it tends toward monotonic. Which, although technically one note can be considered "a melody", it is not. It is to melody what grey is to color. Grey is not the complete absence of color -- that's black. But it sure looks colorless. Sorry, While Heaven Wept are all over the place stylistically. Mostly goth/doom metal. It's only their most recent release that got fairly proggy, although admittedly not as proggy as Myrath. I'll see what else I can dredge up. I tend to listen to a lot of that stuff. I do listen stuff like Meshuggah and Mnemic, but not as much. I tend to drive like Grand Theft Auto when I do, and I don't always feel like restraining myself, so I just choose to listen to music that makes me laid back and happy instead. Most of the time. On a completely unrelated note, WHERE THE HELL IS Requiem - Pianissimo (Virgin Black)?!?!? I guess I'm coming from the opposite point of view. Couldn't stand anything with any of the "vocals" that sounded like someone was wringing a chicken's neck for the longest time. Also couldn't stand stuff with pretty much no harmonic content, which as you said, has no "color". The very interesting rhythmic content somewhat makes up for it; I love polyrhythms and syncopation, strange and constantly changing meters, etc. But yeah, now I'm starting to dig it. I think it's that I don't listen to metal that often compared to other genres (actually I don't listen to much of anything at all anymore but that's another story) so when I want to listen to metal, I want some motherfucking heavyass metal. Agreed about the not restraining self bit, and that's the point for me when listening to metal. I'll save the dark but more sinister restraintful moods for prog rock with metal tendencies (Porcupine Tree, Tool, et al) and I guess prog rock in general. And the definition of melody is two or more notes in succession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypasswordis Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 This could take awhile. I probably won't finish until the end of the month. And yay for Buckethead. One weird dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 Branford Marsalis -- Contemporary Jazz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPH Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 Collage - Moonshine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullguise Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 Kick-Ass Soundtrack Well, at least the Dickies doing the Banana Splits theme.....one of the best covers ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 The Dickies do the best covers -- their version of Night In White Satin is stupendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 Miles Davis - The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genetic Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 Guilt Machine: On This Perfect Day Quiet Sun: Mainstream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 Bill Evans - The Blues and the Abstract Truth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepak Posted April 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 Bach Violin Concertos Julia Fischer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypasswordis Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 Koxmoz Sounds like an STD symptom gone horribly wrong. her Tchaikovsky is pretty good. I'll have to check that out. I'm going to guess she does better with Bach. Not a fan of her various other Russian violin concertos CD (Glazunov, Khachaturian, Prokofiev 1). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypasswordis Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 What sometimes surprises me is how ridiculous(ly good) Heifetz is at Brahms. And you know, how ridiculously good almost everything about his playing is. Not sure I have warmed up to Kremer's solo Bach quite yet. If I ever do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepak Posted April 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 Deerhunter - Cryptograms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 Battlehooch -- Oof Owl (EP) Battlehooch -- Battlehooch Couldn't resist a band with this name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robm321 Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 Heifetz was it. it's a shame he made almost every recording engineer put the mic right up on him, because apparently he had a huge, warm tone. He used gut strings which sound less bright. That might have factored into the decision. Heifetz was definitely it though. Brahms - String Quartet 1 / String Quintet 2 Eric Clapton - August vinyl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypasswordis Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 I'm quite used to having my ears 2 inches from the f holes so I guess it doesn't bug me as much. And using gut strings does make a difference, with a sweeter tone and low tension but worse carrying power and stability (not necessarily less bright). The soloists who don't have the mics so close of course still are brought out in the mix on CDs, as there's just no way a single violin can produce as much volume as an orchestra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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