Now That's What I Call A Music Thread: 2009

[Dan]

I don't know where else to put this...but holy fuck.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kL3enVPDuF0

That has to be the best cover of it I've ever heard. Sounds kind of haunting though, but that adds to its greatness.

I've never heard so many good acoustic covers by one artist.

[METALMAN]

http://www.ewbattleground.com/forum/index....c=68458&hl=

Sorry Dan. It is a good cover though to be fair.

[Dan]

Pft. I posted them well before that

http://www.ewbattleground.com/forum/index....t&p=1405248

[METALMAN]

No no I wasn't trying to say I got there first. I was apologising for criticising their choice of words in calling a song acoustic.

[Dan]

You criticize Boyce Avenue, you die.

[ROC]

You know what needs more love if only for one song? The Welcome Wagon.

They sound like Sufjan Stevens, they are on Sufjan's label, they are religious like Sufjan, and they don't suck!

Sold! To the Nice Rich Man.

[probablyoliver]

Two tracks into the new John Frusciante album and I've fallen in love with him all over again. The first track is an 8 minute guitar piece, and it's gorgeous. Second song is totally broken hearted, it's beautiful.

[ADG]

Listening to 'Abandoned Cities' by Anna Roland. Don't even remember downloading it but saw it in my My Music folder and thought I'd give it a whirl. It's pretty good, very Barenaked Ladies-ish which is never a bad thing although her voice can grate a little at times.

[probablyoliver]

Seriously, you all owe it to yourselves to get the new John Frusciante. it's so epic, and very different to his other stuff. 'Dark Light', 'God' and 'Before The Beginning' are gorgeous. Early contender for AOTY for sure.

[Cactus Drags]

Automatic Loveletter just have the one EP? that fucking sucks, want more

[YI]

Automatic Loveletter just have the one EP? that fucking sucks, want more

MSN!

And;

Propagandhi have announced the release of their next full length. The record is titled Supporting Caste and is due out March 10, 2009. The band recorded with Bill Stevenson (Black Flag, Descendents, Zeke, 7 Seconds) and so far a release has been confirmed on Smallman Records.

1. Night Letters

2. Supporting Caste

3. Tertium Non Datur

4. Dear Coach's Corner

5. This is Your Life

6. Human(e) Meat (The Flensing of Sandor Katz)

7. Potemkin City Limits

8. The Funeral Procession

9. Without Love

10. Incalculable Effects

11. The Banger's Embrace

12. Last Will and Testament

And with that, Fat Wreck have lost another good band off their roster...who the fuck do they have left?

Edited January 13, 2009 by YI

[ROC]

I hate my opinion. >_>

I'm turning the corner on Animal Collective, I think. Which I realized when I unconsciously said out loud "THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS I HAVE EVER HEARD." and realized that a week earlier, I railed against that exact same sentiment. (This was way overdramatic. >_>) But it's really good upon another listen, in fairness. I don't get why I didn't realize the link to Person Pitch muuuuuuuuuuuch sooner, since that album also sounded a lot like Pet Sounds and whatever other Beach Boys/Brian Wilson record shitty critics like myself would describe as a worthy comparison.

Edited January 13, 2009 by ROC

[IAceI]

I was just looking at the '59 Sound credits and I have to say, I was slightly amused;

* Brian Fallon - vocals, guitars

* Alex Rosamilla - guitar, vocals, Wollensack

* Alex Levine - bass, vocals

* Benny Horowitz - drums, percussion, Tubular Bells, tambourine, garbage cans, chains

"Garbage Cans"

[METALMAN]

I want to know what a wollensack is, never mind garbage cans.

Edited January 14, 2009 by metalman

[probablyoliver]

I read that as "Barry Horrowitz", because that'd be so much more awesome.

Edit: metalman; this is a Wollensack.

Edited January 14, 2009 by Enrico Salvatore Rizzo

[IAceI]

I looked. It appears to be a camera of sorts - or possibly a microphone piece or something maybe. I ain't too sure.

[probablyoliver]

Also, I forgot how awesome 'Bedlam In Goliath' is, and I'm shocked that a lot of people actually rate it alongside Amputecture as the worst Volta record. In my mind, it's easily the best. 'Metatron', 'Goliath', 'Wax Simulacra', 'Ouroboros' are all wonderful. It's pure brutal wonderfulness.

Edited January 14, 2009 by Enrico Salvatore Rizzo

[YI]

"Bedlam..." was wank. But it was a different kind of wank as "Amputecture". "Amputecture" was self-involved, pile of wank. Long tunes that weren't interesting...at least with "Bedlam..." it's a bunch of short songs...that aren't interesting. There is a few I like.

To be fair, I haven't forgiven Mars Volta for that truly fucking terrible live show they put on earlier in the year.

[probablyoliver]

Volta have always been glorious when I've seen them live, always put on a good show, although I know they're meant to be totally hit or miss live, I suppose I've just been lucky. And Amp was the dregs, totally awful and shite, but I don't know how anyone can call Bedlam 'unintersting', that's insane jack. Goliath is glorious, the last bit with the whole "I'm starting to feel a miscarriage on" puts me on my toes. "Ouroboros" is violent in the most loveliest of ways, "Wax Simulacra" is 2 and a half minutes of drumastic orgasm, and the rest ranges from fucking terrifying to darkly gorgeous.

[Skummy]

I was just looking at the '59 Sound credits and I have to say, I was slightly amused;

* Brian Fallon - vocals, guitars

* Alex Rosamilla - guitar, vocals, Wollensack

* Alex Levine - bass, vocals

* Benny Horowitz - drums, percussion, Tubular Bells, tambourine, garbage cans, chains

"Garbage Cans"

.............................TUUUUUUUUBULAR BELLS