nice morning tunes

Martin Sexton -- Sugarcoating

Chris Thile -- How to Grow a Woman from the Ground

Saw Punch Brothers last night and highly recommend catching them live. Great stuff, but I will post more comments in the concert thread when I have time.

The Mercury Program - From the Vapor of Gasoline

People jackhammering in my basement.

Myrath -- progressive metal (cleanly sung, albeit with quarter tones) at its finest

Tom Waits - Blood Money

Beck -- Mellow Gold

Charles Mingus - The Complete Candid Recordings mosaic records, lp # 1 and 2

edit: ffuuuuuu this is great. Loving the avant-garde songs with Eric Dolphy.

Edited April 19, 201016 yr by deepak

Beck -- Mellow Gold

That's a really horny robot.

David Gray - White Ladder

Damn this album sounds good with the JH13's!!!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lU8o2nXuL._SS500_.jpg

Cinema Pardiso OST

Beautiful movie, beautiful soundtrack.

Pantha du Prince - Black Noise

nickel creek basically playing childrens songs

Myrath -- progressive metal (cleanly sung, albeit with quarter tones) at its finest

Is dat a bagpipe I hear? FFFFFUUUUUUUUUU

That said, I dig (the rest of) it! Need moar of that.

I don't remember any bagpipes, but I've only heard one album, need to track down the other two.

Check out While Heaven Wept's most recent album -- progressive metal.

Not really that into that kind of metal singing, which I'm not sure is the proper label. Epic doom maybe?

Was trying to find things similar to Meshuggah and found this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6tP6b_YI_4

Their older stuff with the previous singer is pretty good.

I love Mnemic. But jesus, you prefer that "singing" to this?!?!?

EDIT: Now playing, While Heaven Wept, Lovesongs of the Forsaken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghohQb7zlUE

Edited April 20, 201016 yr by Dusty Chalk

I don't claim to understand my own tastes, especially for metal. But yeah, the Living Sepulchre vocals sound like something from an '80s rock band. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just not what I'm expecting from metal. The vocals on Lovesongs of the Forsaken are either mixed way too far back or the singer is singing weakly and not with a 'real' tone, which is a big no-no for classically trained musicians. And has poor intonation. I agree that the typical metal screaming/growling doesn't really count as singing, though (if what's what you meant by "singing").

Chris Thile - Not All Who Wonder Are Lost

Martin Sexton -- Sugarcoating

!!!

Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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)?!?!?

Mississippi John Hurt -- Today! Vanguard 60th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue