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Post by G on May 18, 2009 15:26:45 GMT
Today's aural revelation(s) to which I have been "listeing": Eden Maine - collected works thereof. To You, The First Star has been a regular on my playlist since it hit the shelves, and it's a masterpiece that you should own without question, but on the weekend I finally got around to uploading The Treachery Pact EP and the various odds and sods that constitute early demos and the like. That band used to scare the shit out of me. We had them over for a Bristol show and totally wiped the venue floor to ceiling with us. We didn't stand a chance. The earlier stuff is still thoroughly listenable (which, for a band as heavy as they, is saying something) but has an extra side order of chunky metallic fury that the classier TYTFS may have slightly eschewed, but these ears will always be a sucker for a fat riff, and that makes TP EP and it's early bretheren equally worthwhile on their own terrifying merits. If you dig the heavy and intense, and are unfamiliar with Eden Maine, www.myspace.com/edenmaine
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Post by rightsidebrain on May 18, 2009 16:30:12 GMT
HELMET
All albums.
Very loudly.
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Post by G on May 19, 2009 7:59:25 GMT
At the same time, right?
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Post by rightsidebrain on May 19, 2009 15:58:26 GMT
You know it...
With a gumshield and shock absorbers..
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Post by G on May 21, 2009 16:26:17 GMT
Listened to Betty this morning for the first time in a long time (yet another CD that I somehow never got around to ripping to the PC, thereby becoming effectively non existant in my MP3 based world of the last few years - it's been undeservedly gathering dust on the shelf). It's by far the Helmet album that i'm least familiar with for this very reason, and it was great to give it a good attentive run through on the bus. All was dandy until I reached the second half of the track "Tic", which proceeded to play out with an extended bottom string chug over a fairly straight 4/4 beat, accompanied by some assorted guitar stranglings. The similarity to the, well, similar section in Gas Giant on Action Potential was not lost on me, and was an unpleasant surprise. Now, it's a fairly simple musical idea, simple enough for two people to arrive at independantly, and i'm fairly sure that this is what happened here, or at least that's what i'd like to think. I certainly coudn't've told you that it was on there before it cropped up this morning, so does that mean that I can't've been subconsciously replicating it on our record? It's not as if I haven't heard it before plenty of times. As anyone who's had the misfortune of joining me in the songwriting process will attest, I am nothing if not overly concerned with not accidentally ripping off other people's riffage, and there's many an LSB riff that never made it to record because i've stamped my foot and complained that it's too close to something else. It was me who had to comb through every Helmet album (though possibly not poor shelfbound Betty, as it turns out) riff by riff because I was convinced that one in 'Gift' was in there somewhere - lucky for us I was imagining things (riff psychosis sets in very easily when writing an album), but you get the picture. I fret about about that shit a lot. I wouldn't've minded so much if it had been any band other than Helmet, but the fact that they're mentioned in near as dammit every LSB review makes this look very suspicious to the casual observer, in fact, to anyone who isn't me. Well, at least it wasn't Kerbdog I suppose
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Post by rightsidebrain on May 24, 2009 11:31:19 GMT
Sadly I think that the odd forage in the plagiarist shrubbery is inevitable. Whenever I spend days on end listening to particular bands, their style, and sadly all too often their actual riffs, seem to embed themselves in my subconscious.
Recently I wrote a riff that I was particularly proud of and was all ready to dangle it temptingly in the faces of my fellow band-mates, when a niggling feeling in the back of my cerebral cortex led to me to an ashen-faced aural consumption of "Thirteenth Step" by A Perfect Circle and the realisation that it was indeed Billy Howerdel and not myself that would be crowned upon high.
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Post by G on May 26, 2009 7:40:07 GMT
Well, I can definitely empathise. I'm still not willing to call the section in question plagarism just yet though. A happy coincidence?
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Post by G on May 28, 2009 7:55:56 GMT
Today's jewel: Satan Is In My Ass by Evil Superstars
How this band didn't make the hugetime I have no idea.
"Satan is in my ass, And when he comes out, You hear the sound of brass"
Now *that*'s how to write a lyric.
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Post by G on May 29, 2009 10:35:47 GMT
Today, the hardest rocking song in the world is "Anodiser" by Fu Manchu.
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Post by G on Jun 5, 2009 8:14:24 GMT
Groop Dogdrill - Half Nelson
Fuck me, what an awesome record. Cranking this in the car has already made my day and it's not even 10am. Exactly how a three piece is meant to be done. Reminded me that I still haven't got around to acquiring the Black Spiders record (Dogdrill singer Pete Spiby's latest band). No doubt that will also be awesome.
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Post by rightsidebrain on Jun 8, 2009 16:26:59 GMT
This week I have been mostly listening to "Every Time I Die"... muchos grrros
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Post by G on Jun 9, 2009 10:31:44 GMT
Which album? I've had great fun with The Big Dirty, and am just getting my ears around the one before it (I think)...
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Post by rightsidebrain on Jun 12, 2009 17:40:30 GMT
I've got "Gutter Phenomenon", "Hot Damn!" and "Last Night In Town"... I personally am a big fan of "Hot Damn!"... not least of all for this tasty wee morsel... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOs0jPCduwQ
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