Rock Thread - Page 42

awfullyquiet · 08-15-2007, 04:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Shiver

I think this should make every Mars Volta fan happy:

Considering De-Loused in the Comatorium is one of, if not my favorite albums and I've had a love/hate feeling with their last two, this is the best news I could have heard.

That makes me really happy.
Although after six months of listening to frances, i fell in love with it.

BigDawg819 · 08-15-2007, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by awfullyquiet

That makes me really happy.
Although after six months of listening to frances, i fell in love with it.

6 months? That sounds like you were brainwashed to think you love it.

awfullyquiet · 08-15-2007, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by njx9

fell in love with what? the CD is about 2% music, 98% terrible ambient noise.

nuh uh.
it's mostly just omar wailing on his guitar with jon theodore kicking ass on drums.

the album is scary, transcendent, bombastic, and at least for me, the perfect sing along album while driving. the only fault is that it has no direct focus. and if that's a a fault, i don't know what the point of expermental music is. sure, i agree that there may be too much ambience. but, unlike other albums of the genre in recent memory that have plugged it in (i.e. the sound of animals fighting - tiger and the duke) this doesn't suck.

i think you're all just hating.
and i bet you all hate cassandra gemini the most.
because obviously it's the best example of what the album does in an explosive way.

Shiver · 08-15-2007, 02:05 PM

The only thing I don't like about Frances the Mute is the 4:00 ambient noises that lead up to "Miranda..." which were unnecessary. I wasn't too fond of the spanglish lyrics either.

SubNoize · 08-17-2007, 05:08 PM

wow, i'm really diggin blaqk audio, great work by davey and jade from afi, def. a fresher sound than a lot of what's out there i'd say give it a try it's pretty awesome.

EdReedUnstoppable · 08-17-2007, 05:14 PM

Index Case is someone you should all check out!

slightlyaraiderfan · 08-17-2007, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by SubNoize

wow, i'm really diggin blaqk audio, great work by davey and jade from afi, def. a fresher sound than a lot of what's out there i'd say give it a try it's pretty awesome.

I was hoping they'd do something like that, since they got Ronin to produce their records, and he is VNV Nation(same type of dance/techno music with singing, who also kick ass), their stuff turned out pretty sweet.

SubNoize · 08-17-2007, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by stillaraiderfan

I was hoping they'd do something like that, since they got Ronin to produce their records, and he is VNV Nation(same time of dance/techno music with singing, who also kick ass), their stuff turned out pretty sweet.

yeah synth pop is awesome, i guess it's also gothic darkwave, but whatever you call it, i like it a lot. i was hoping for a side project as well because what they did on decemberunderground. 37mm is my favorite AFI song, and it sounds similar to what's on the blaqk audio album.

awfullyquiet · 08-17-2007, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Shiver

The only thing I don't like about Frances the Mute is the 4:00 ambient noises that lead up to "Miranda..." which were unnecessary. I wasn't too fond of the spanglish lyrics either.

man. the spanglish was perfect. it keeps things unintelligible and unaccessible.

l'via l'viaquaz is their best track to date (closely followed by day of baphomets and tetragrammaton) because seriously, if you want a girl to shake her ass, play that song.

I DO agree that the four minutes of ambient noise coulda been cut to two. I'm sure omar and cedric have reasons though.

they're probably the best band ever who did way too many opieods.

Tobzilla · 08-26-2007, 01:55 AM

Just got back from the Rage concert at Alpine Valley. Best experience of my life. My friends and I traveled 11 hours and spent a couple hundred bucks to see them but it was totally worth it. Rage played an amazing show, my words really can't do them justice but all I can say is that it was one of those shows where the audience was totally unified by the performance. It rained for a solid hour before Queens of the Stone age took the stage so the normally grassy slope at Alpine Valley was muddy as hell, which was both fun and terrifying. Before Rage took the stage the lawn crowd made a massive surge towards the seated section of the amphitheater and down the muddy slopes. I'm ******* amazed that I didn't slip and get trampled because others did. But all was good once Rage finally took the stage and owned the show. The great thing about them is that they sound just as amazing live as they do on their records. I'm telling you, if you have the opportunity to see them on this reunion tour it is a must see!

awfullyquiet · 08-26-2007, 03:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Tobzilla

Just got back from the Rage concert at Alpine Valley. Best experience of my life. My friends and I traveled 11 hours and spent a couple hundred bucks to see them but it was totally worth it. Rage played an amazing show, my words really can't do them justice but all I can say is that it was one of those shows where the audience was totally unified by the performance. It rained for a solid hour before Queens of the Stone age took the stage so the normally grassy slope at Alpine Valley was muddy as hell, which was both fun and terrifying. Before Rage took the stage the lawn crowd made a massive surge towards the seated section of the amphitheater and down the muddy slopes. I'm ******* amazed that I didn't slip and get trampled because others did. But all was good once Rage finally took the stage and owned the show. The great thing about them is that they sound just as amazing live as they do on their records. I'm telling you, if you have the opportunity to see them on this reunion tour it is a must see!

I sold all my tickets. Oh well. Christie Front Drive in Denver next weekend. Maybe.

I think i've just gotten old and lazy.

EdReedUnstoppable · 08-26-2007, 06:13 AM

When is Soundgarden gonna reunite? Can they do it soon and play in Baltimore ........how bout tomorrow night?

Ravens1991 · 08-26-2007, 09:31 AM

Does anybody know who sings the song "steady as she goes"

rchrd · 08-26-2007, 09:48 AM

The Raconteurs mate

Ravens1991 · 08-26-2007, 09:54 AM

thanks......

The Great Jonathan Vilma · 08-27-2007, 02:19 PM

igneous rocks are much stronger than sedimentary rocks. they are also formed by a much cooler geological process.

just my 2 cents

Scar · 08-27-2007, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Tobzilla

Just got back from the Rage concert at Alpine Valley. Best experience of my life. My friends and I traveled 11 hours and spent a couple hundred bucks to see them but it was totally worth it. Rage played an amazing show, my words really can't do them justice but all I can say is that it was one of those shows where the audience was totally unified by the performance. It rained for a solid hour before Queens of the Stone age took the stage so the normally grassy slope at Alpine Valley was muddy as hell, which was both fun and terrifying. Before Rage took the stage the lawn crowd made a massive surge towards the seated section of the amphitheater and down the muddy slopes. I'm ******* amazed that I didn't slip and get trampled because others did. But all was good once Rage finally took the stage and owned the show. The great thing about them is that they sound just as amazing live as they do on their records. I'm telling you, if you have the opportunity to see them on this reunion tour it is a must see!

I was there too. Can't believe how long it took to get parked, at least twice as long as any other show I've ever seen there. It had pretty much rained for a solid week before there show, the place was torn up.
Anyhow, in terms of the show, Rage is just one of those bands that reaches whole new levels when performing live. Easily the most intense set I've ever heard. Agree 100% that if you get a chance to see them, do it.

awfullyquiet · 08-27-2007, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by njx9

what?! really? how did i miss that...

You might be the only other person who might even care about that.

Ah, the joys of having a brother who obsesses over PunkNews and AbP

awfullyquiet · 08-27-2007, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by njx9

buying tickets later today. it's at a great venue, besides. awesome.

i would if i wasn't going to be in conneticut friday... ass-bogus.
i might see if i can re-work my sched to allow me to fly out to denver. rent a car. see the band i've waited half my life to see.

awfullyquiet · 08-27-2007, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by njx9

the car is only vaguely necessary. the venue's right off lodo and not far from a number of hotels. the cab's probably $40-60 each way.

regardless, small venue, so if you go, get there early because the 21+ section just isn't all that big.

i might be on the floor then.
if i can't see in the 21+ i might as well be bumping shoulders with little kids and be like, wtf? you're too young/old to be here.

Tobzilla · 08-27-2007, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Scar

I was there too. Can't believe how long it took to get parked, at least twice as long as any other show I've ever seen there. It had pretty much rained for a solid week before there show, the place was torn up.
Anyhow, in terms of the show, Rage is just one of those bands that reaches whole new levels when performing live. Easily the most intense set I've ever heard. Agree 100% that if you get a chance to see them, do it.

Parking wasn't too bad for us, but then again we did get there when the gates opened.

I keep wondering what the DMB fans thought after seeing that place the night after Rage was done. I mean, we were ripping out barriers and clusters of seats...it was insane.

awfullyquiet · 08-27-2007, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by njx9

for sure. luckily, if you can stomach the kids (hopefully there won't be too many, i have a hard time believing very many people under 18 have any idea who CFD is), the under 21 section is pretty large and easy to move around in.

and even if the bar is packed, it's still easy to get a beer.

oh there's a few.
i introduced them all by my old school punk rock mix-tape ways.

and those ways were like how we did it back when we actually didn't all have CD players, Cell Phones, Facebook and Online-Chinese Food Ordering...

awfullyquiet · 08-27-2007, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by njx9

more than 6 people on earth still own working tape players?

i got a fantastically old one. and besides, my car still has a tape-player.

yeah. i'm rich.

draftguru151 · 08-28-2007, 09:31 AM

I use the tape player in my car to hook up my ipod. :/

Scar · 08-28-2007, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Tobzilla

Parking wasn't too bad for us, but then again we did get there when the gates opened.

I keep wondering what the DMB fans thought after seeing that place the night after Rage was done. I mean, we were ripping out barriers and clusters of seats...it was insane.

My brother has a buddy who went to the DMB show on Saturday...waiting to hear from him about what shape Alpine was in. It looked totally trashed after Rage though. I'm sure they did their best fixing the barriers and seats, but it'll be next spring before they can even hope to have any grass back on the hill. Forget lawn seats for the rest of the year.

I live only about 35 miles from there, and it was literally 3 hours from when I pulled out of my driveway until the time I finally got to my seat. Those idiots were trying to make everyone park in the main lot instead of opening up the auxilary lots right away. Didn't take long at all once they finally opened green lot.