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Nanika Atta Songfighters?

My head is a swim today. The mission to start a band is on and so far, it's had little success. Septemberian, my novel, is also driving me crazy as I'm having trouble with the flow of chapter 16 because the chapter is a transition. Hopefully with the upcoming vacation, I can find a little piece of mind.

QotD:
What is the most played song on your MP3 Player this week?

For me, it's "Warbots" by Melora Creager.

Best of luck Niv! For what it's worth, the title of the book is pretty intriguing on it's own.
QOTD: answer...I have really been rocking the Smiths for a few weeks. Happens a few times a year I think... for the last 17 years.
"This Charming Man" is the winner!
(According to my iPod.)

Good luck with band. I'd totally be in your band if you didn't live so far away in a place that snows. Its a lot of work with very little return though. ESPECIALLY down here. People who see The Funeral Dazies play love it and react to it surprisingly well. However, GETTING people to come out is very very hard.

That said, The Funeral Dazies are playing at The Ritz Theater October 31st around 10pm in Ybor City district of Tampa, FL. A really really good band called Johnny Cakes is opening for us. (Their myspace page recordings do them NO justice)

qotd: Against Me: Miami (although Dinosaur Jr.'s Feel The Pain is popping up in my mixes alot too)

Hoblit wrote:Good luck with band. I'd totally be in your band if you didn't live so far away in a place that snows. Its a lot of work with very little return though. ESPECIALLY down here. People who see The Funeral Dazies play love it and react to it surprisingly well. However, GETTING people to come out is very very hard.

That said, The Funeral Dazies are playing at The Ritz Theater October 31st around 10pm in Ybor City district of Tampa, FL. A really really good band called Johnny Cakes is opening for us. (Their myspace page recordings do them NO justice)

qotd: Against Me: Miami (although Dinosaur Jr.'s Feel The Pain is popping up in my mixes alot too)

1) Thanks for the encouraging words, Hoblit & Erin. This really marks the first time when I want people to hitch their wagon to my star. Usually, I wanna build collectives and things of the like. This time, I'm looking at a mass of songs and a SF show coming up and I need a band.

2) I just looked at the Funeral Dazies myspace. That's some crazy stuff. What part do you play in all that?

3) Against Me's "Thrash Unreal" is #1 on my work computer this week.

Niveous wrote:

Hoblit wrote:Good luck with band. I'd totally be in your band if you didn't live so far away in a place that snows. Its a lot of work with very little return though. ESPECIALLY down here. People who see The Funeral Dazies play love it and react to it surprisingly well. However, GETTING people to come out is very very hard.

That said, The Funeral Dazies are playing at The Ritz Theater October 31st around 10pm in Ybor City district of Tampa, FL. A really really good band called Johnny Cakes is opening for us. (Their myspace page recordings do them NO justice)

qotd: Against Me: Miami (although Dinosaur Jr.'s Feel The Pain is popping up in my mixes alot too)

1) Thanks for the encouraging words, Hoblit & Erin. This really marks the first time when I want people to hitch their wagon to my star. Usually, I wanna build collectives and things of the like. This time, I'm looking at a mass of songs and a SF show coming up and I need a band.

2) I just looked at the Funeral Dazies myspace. That's some crazy stuff. What part do you play in all that?

3) Against Me's "Thrash Unreal" is #1 on my work computer this week.

1. I wish my words could be even more encouraging. At the very least HAVE FUN.

2. I'm playing bass in this outfit. (see what I did there?)((Major Dick D.K.)) I am NOT proud of this. (but it can be fun and people are having a good time)

3. Awesome. (Hard to conceive of legitimate Against Me fans outside the state of Florida but I forget that they just signed and had a huge national release) (also, if you like the overall 'sound' you might check out their previous release called 'the search for former clarity'. If you are interested I could just upload it for ya. Even Dre kinda liked that album and he's certainly NOT into punk rock.

I don't have an mp3 player. These days I am just using WMP on the computer to play tracks and I don't know if this thing will show me that information, but I probably haven't listened to the same thing twice anyway!
-bill

Okay so my Important Stuff at work is sort of on hold while other Bug Regression Testing happens. So I'm doing design crap, which is fun, but mostly just involves me thinking about stuff and then writing a bunch of documentation in a big fitful spurt when my boss says "so can I see what you've been working on?"

qotd: "Night Terrors" by Sockpuppet. Holy fucking shit do I like my song. For serious.

QOTD: I have a habit of overlistening to my own songs, but if it was from another artist, it would probably be 'Though the Fire and Flames' by DragonForce. What an intense song.

Yup, on mp3 - mainly myself this week. Most other music I listen to on CD. And I have spent far too much time at work so far this week to do that.

Me too, but that's largely Anti-M's fault. It's so cool when someone else is on my song.

I've got my player loaded up with Joni Mitchell and I'm just playing through all the albums... I think "All I Want" has come up on three separate albums so far...

Charles (KA)

I don't have an mp3 player, but on iTunes it's probably "The Devil's Takin' Names" by The Lawrence Arms.

oh jesus fuck have i just been eating penguin mints for the last hour

i think i have

fluffy wrote:oh jesus fuck have i just been eating penguin mints for the last hour

i think i have

My heart pops for you.

No MP3 player, but the CD that's been in my truck's CD player has been playing for about 10 days (which equates to around 20 full listens for this disc). What is it? Oysterhead's "The Grand Pecking Order" (Les Claypool, Trey Anastasio, and Stewart Copeland)
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My favorite tracks are (but the whole album is fucking great!):
Shadow of a Man
Wield the Spade
Army's On Ecstasy
Pseudo Suicide

Here-

Busy days, stressful trying to follow the fire news.

QOTD - N/A

"I am on a lonely road and I am traveling traveling traveling traveling."

Mostly Octothorpe's cover of Oingo Boingo's "Tiny Guns", since we moved into the studio and I can blast stuff like crazy.

Tonight the Pathetic Wannabees are practicing in the studio. First night out. Sounds good. Not quite set up for recording yet, but any day now.

SPUD

# should become a Oingo Boingo cover band and go on the road.

Yes, and just play "Tiny Guns," repeatedly.

So Joni's new "Shine" CD finally came up on the MP3 player this morning while watching the dogs, and I have to say I was rather disappointed in the mixing... basically, it sounds like (a) they companded the life out of just about every individual track so that any given instrument is either silent or loud, (b) they then compressed the life out of the stereo bus so that the songs themselves have very little dynamic variation, and (c) any instrument that was at all important to the song got panned to the center, so there was very little stereo separation going on; it sounded like the voice was surfing the instruments rather than being cradled by them, if that makes sense.

I remember when I was taking recording classes at the community college, people would record every instrument in stereo, and then pan the tracks hard left and right and not seem to understand that they still had a very mono-sounding mix... I wonder if that's what happened here. There were a few songs where there was a guitar and a piano sharing "rhythm instrument' duties, and rather than panning each of them to one side or the other, they're both just tromping on each other (and the voice) in mid-mix.

There were also some instrument choices (mostly some distorted fill guitar stuff) that just didn't seem right in a Joni Mitchell song, but that's just a sign of the times, I guess. This is a CD made for Starbuck's customers, not for Joni's fanbase. Which, I guess, is fair, but I was relieved when we got to the end of Shine and moved on to Taming the Tiger... which has some of the same "problems" for me, but was at least done with a degree of restraint and understanding of what a Joni Mitchell CD should sound like.

YMMV...

Charles (KA)

king_arthur wrote:So Joni's new "Shine" CD finally came up on the MP3 player this morning while watching the dogs, and I have to say I was rather disappointed in the mixing...

That sucks. She usually has great musicians and she is a very good producer herself. It does sound like this was produced for a very different audience/purpose. Lends more insight to how this Starbucks model is impacting the industry. But it may also simply be how she's changing as well.

king_arthur wrote:I remember when I was taking recording classes at the community college, people would record every instrument in stereo, and then pan the tracks hard left and right and not seem to understand that they still had a very mono-sounding mix... I wonder if that's what happened here.

Record in stereo? That's a new concept to me. If I record in mono and pan the instruments pretty hard, would I end up with a cleaner mix than if those tracks were recorded in stereo?