The Song Fight Bulletin Board

TheHipCola wrote:today's run into work featured I Mother Earth's Scenery and Fish. One of my favourite Canadian albums of all time. Too bad they suck ass now.

When you say run to work... you really mean casual drive right?

When I mother earth came out (was the album called dig?) At first I was pretty stoked.. but they kinda wash of quick. I don't have that album though. Is that with Edwin, or the new singer?

New singer I believe. I played a show with IME back in my days of Boris is Back. They were a great live band, but since Edwin left to pursue a solo career they have never been the same. That record that THC is talking about is great.

Leaf, that album is with Edwin.

I guess the reason that album resonates so well with me is that is seems to be the perfect blend of really well written pop with fantastic prog-sense instrumental performances and writing. Sonically it's freaking tight and really nice to listen to. Just one of those album moments that gets burned into your memory.

Dig was good, but they were still trying to find their thing on that album...

I'll have to check it out then. I always dug "not quite sonic"... they kinda reminded me of a latin soundgarden or something... didnt' we listen to that album)(dig) driving across the dusty plains?


I know, I know, get a room....

c.layne wrote:i certainly hope the rest of the new disc is a million times better than that piece of shit single.

i love NIN, but..... ugh. that song makes me want to.. listen to something else.

Listen to "With Teeth" in its entirety at http://www.myspace.com/ninofficial

Hostess Mostess - Unless I change My Mind

via the most fabulous SF Archive "Stream All" feature

krs one - p is still free

The new Ben Folds album, Songs for Silverman, has some pretty powerful ballads. It's a little short on happy/bouncy/good mood music, but the pensive mode suits Folds well, so we get great songs ideas like Jesus walking through a modern city on "Jesusland." Track six is a miraculous once-in-a-lifetime song for his daughter that manages to avoid overwhelming you with that sickening sweet taste in your mouth. It opens with that great couplet: "You can't fool me, I saw when you came out / You've got your mama's tastes but you've got my mouth."

Even if you don't like Ben Folds, I'd recommend getting a hold of "Late," his elegy to Elliott Smith.

Solid B+ material.

I just got Ben Folds' Songs For Silverman yesterday, and I've listened it through a few times now. Overall, a good album. Some of it falls flat to me. The last three songs are very strong.
The song 'Sentimental Guy' is right up there with his best work.

Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

Generally awful album title.
Generally not very good album. (or maybe it's just too deep for me to understand)
Generally not very Nine Inch Nails sounding.
Most of the time I was thinking, "What the hell?" (particularly during the title track's "with-a teeth-a" chorus) 'The Hand That Feeds' sounds a lot like a single from The Killers. The album has some nice drumwork, though.

At least there are plenty of fans on myspace supporting Trent's new direction as he develops as an artist expressing his deep songwriting talent.

cellscape - melt banana

Calfborg wrote:At least there are plenty of fans on myspace supporting Trent's new direction as he develops as an artist expressing his deep songwriting talent.

Well, generally, people on myspace are of course very deep. You can see that by comments such as 'OMG u r so fukkin hott!' and 'hEy BaBiI.'

i'm listening to boards of canada and reading this very interesting essay about their 'geogaddi':

http://mikeypdiddy.tripod.com/boardspaper.htm

I couldn't finish that essay, it made my head hurt. But I adore Boards of Canada and Geogaddi. Anyway, I just got back from CD shopping and I got the new Eels (so far it's fantastic, but I'll talk more about it later), The Poster Children's Flower Plower which I haven't listened to that much, and Brian Eno's Apollo which I'm listening to right now. It's a really amazing album. "Deep Blue Day" is just heartbreaking and comforting at the same time, and the whole album is kind of a very eerie comfort. I'm just amazed.

is your new apollo the rereleased version?
somebody reviewed a buncha rereleased eno albums and i wasn't sure you could get them separately or as a box.
-bill

HeuristicsInc wrote:is your new apollo the rereleased version?
somebody reviewed a buncha rereleased eno albums and i wasn't sure you could get them separately or as a box.
-bill

I'm pretty sure they're all seperate.

Anyway, I just bought the new Springsteen, Devils & Dust the other day. Song for song, it's very hit-or-miss. The title track is pretty brilliant, but "All I'm Thinkin' About" is sung in a distractingly awful falsetto. And then there's "Reno," which the back of the album warns contains "adult imagery." In other words, the narrator of the song picks up a hooker and does some drugs. Critics seem to like it, but I find it self-indulgent and pointlessly obscene. Look at me, I'm Bruce Springsteen! I can write a song about using drugs and hookers and because it's written by me, it's artistic!

Overall, it's not bad. Those two bug me, but the rest is at its worst dull. The Boss knows what he's doing, mostly. Certianly not as bad as The Rising. B.

HeuristicsInc wrote:is your new apollo the rereleased version?
somebody reviewed a buncha rereleased eno albums and i wasn't sure you could get them separately or as a box.
-bill

Yeah, it's rereleased and not in a box!

awesome, that's always been a big hole in my eno collection.
-bill

the streaming abominominous archive. you know, you really cannot go wrong with the streaming abominominous archive. or the streaming hell yeahs archive.

maybe there needs to be a streaming phil archive somewhere.

jack wrote:the streaming abominominous archive. you know, you really cannot go wrong with the streaming abominominous archive. or the streaming hell yeahs archive.

maybe there needs to be a streaming phil archive somewhere.

That is so awesome!