Wall of Mouths

Moving is a pain in the Ass!!!!!!

AT least it’s to my own house this time so I won’t have to do it again anytime soon. Twice in a year is enough!

Hit this little indie record store in Charlottesville (where I recently moved to) and went on a vinyl binge.
Picked up
Jesus Lizard - Goat and Liar
Franz Ferdidnand- Tonight
Snow Patrol- A Hundred Million Suns
(All of which came with MP3 download..always nice)
plus a few 7 incers
The Futureheads-SKip to the End (Never heard of them, but thought I’d take a risk)
Bullet Treatment (some kinda sampler from Fat Wreck Chords records)
New Order- Temptation/Hurt

Pip wrote:

Megadeth - Endgame (Best album they released since Rust in Peace)

Finally listened to this. Not bad, some great guitar work (of course), but nothing really stuck out. Enough of the phony news clips in the songs already.
Also finally listened to the new Pearl Jam. A couple of really strong tracks, but again nothing exceptional.

Epitome wrote:

Pulley - Matters

Quality CD. Their new-ish EP “Time Insensitive Material” is pretty good too..

Yup it’s called The Five Gates of Hell.. Interesting book. Kinda surreal. Pretty quick read

The new Strung Out - Agents of the Underground (one of the best bands going today..excellent album)
Megadeth- End game was listening to it at work, liked what I heard but iPod power ran down, forgot to take my cord

I have the new Pearl Jam on vinyl, but haven’t had time to listen to it.

Titus Livy’s History of Early Rome, The Boy’s- We Gotta Go Now (OK it’s a graphic novel but hay I’ve been busy).. and eventually I’ll blow through the latest Dresden Files book “Turn Coat”“

Joy Division’s Closer on vinyl. Right now it’s colony. Just finished moving, and today I got to build a bookcase (a disaster) and TV stand (went OK).
Needed something to chill me out after a rough day.

all of the labels were messed up on Amazon as well.

Big fan of Low Winter Sun! Andy’s voice is sounding top notch..not only this but the whole album as well.
Has he started doing vocal exercises? or maybe it’s the giving up the Tom Waites sounding growls ;)

Hope this is a good sign…I was stopped at a light yesterday cranking Exiles…dude next to me and honked to ask who I was listening too…He loved the bass!
I said “Therapy? you can find them on the internet mother fucker!”…no actually I said Therapy? Crooked Timber…get it on iTunes or Amazon.

BTW…huge props to Andy Gill and Company…they did a brilliant job…this album kicks incredibly!
My pictures are rattling on my walls!

I saw they posted it to Sputnik Music, but it was not listed under New Releases…so I went ahead and wrote a quick review so it would show up on the front page, get a little free pub out there for them.

here’s the link in case anyone wants to laugh at my mad writing skills…ha!
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review_29971

Okay…I’ve given it a few listens now…here’s my impressions.
Right off…Great Album!!! To me it remenicient of NANE…but they tones down the noisey/punky elements and replaced it with Kyuss flavored heavy grooves…which is a really cool sound! Mikehell and Super Cooper are on top of their game throughout…and the mix really brings it out!
This is an album very much driven by the rhythm section. Andy’s guitar is more of a compliment versus the primary driver.
But where he stepped back with the guitar Andy really stepped up vocally. Less shouting, more singing…best he’s sounded since Semi-Detatched!

I wouldn’t say melodies are pushed to the back…but they are less forced. There’s no big choruses here, but that’s not to say the album is without hooks.
This a great change of pace after OCFA! Again reminiscient of other stuff (NANE & OCFA and SP-YF), but still it’s own animal.

Track by track
01: The Head that Tried… have to admit this is the weak sister in my mind…not the best opener. Cool track but not the greatest.
02: Enjoy the Struggle… let the grooves begin! very Kyuss sounding…love it! This is song where Andy would have done one of his Tom Waits impressions, but here he just belts it out with venom (thank God!), but not over the top…love it!
03:Clowns Galore.. starts of with some interesting harmoncs play…but at around the 35 second mark, the boys unleash one of the sickest grooves ever!
04: Exiles… BASS! Mikehell must have had a ball making this album! Cool Mid-80s alternative sounding chorus…great track!
05: Crooked Timber…Lyrical melodies reminiescent of Our White Noise, but less guitar oriented..this is all Mikehell & Super Cooper with Andy showing he can still cary a tune.
06: I Told You I was Ill… got a bit of a Long Distance mixed with Unconsoled sound here…great stuff
07: Somnambulist… most OCFA of all the tracks, most pronounced chorus, but not a 4 word chanter..
08: Blacken the Page… very NANE, quick noisy hitter!
09: Magic Mountain.. a 10 minute instrumental…this sounds like it belongs on a mid-80s John Hughes film soundtrack. Definite Cure vibe in there. Reminds me a bit of some of the Series 7-soundtrack that Girls Against Boys did. Would have liked this better as a b-side, but it’s defeinitely something you could throw on in the background while working and enjoy.
10: Bad Excuse for Daylight…Black Sabbath anyone? very Electric Funeral-ish beginning. Vocally it’s pretty interesting. The verses Andy sings in a kind of worn out, defeated tone, but then in the chorus he brings in some melody. Very sludgy pacing, cool track, not sure it was best choice for closer.

Okay…with all that said…excellent album! Definite step forward from One Cure Fits All.
Not every track is a classic, but there’s several tracks that are now going to be a permanent parts of my T? rotation, Enjoy the Struggle, Clowns Galore, Exiles, Crooked Timber and I Told You I was Ill.

WELL DONE LADS!!!

FYI. For you Yanks, if you don’t mind downloads, or can’t wait for an import to be delivered, the album is available now on both iTunes and Amazon.
My physical copy won’t be delivered for a bit, and I couldn’t wait so I got the download off Amazon.

listening to it now…silly! THICK sound, nice mix! It thumps and everyone fits in nicely…! Can’t wait to get it in my car!

August 6, 2004
seems longer though

Innocent X
Potato Junkie
Nausea
Screamager (Counting Hat off to the Insane EP)
Brainsaw
Misery
Tightrope Walker
Ten Year Plan
This One’s FOr You
If It Kills Me
Rise Up
Our White Noise

and off the best of…Bad Karma

got my CD and Vinyl pre-ordered…can’t wait…even paid for the 1 day shipping!

“The Mystic Arts of Removing All Signs of Death” by Charlie Huston…the beginning so far is bit reminiscient of Chuck Pahinuik…but I’m sure all hell will break loose soon and action aplenty

another batch of vinyl
Rush- Farewell to Kings, Hemisphers, All the Worlds A Stage, Grace Under Pressure, Signals, Moving Pictures, 2112, Caress of Steel, Permanent Waves
Foreigner- Fist album & Double Vision (Freebee’s thrown in on one of my Rush order)
GNR- Appetite
Fresh Foxes took a flyer on this one…different
Jethro Tull- This Was, Benefit, Stand Up
and downloaded a Metallica show from Europe where they did Master of Puppets album completely…loved Orion! Had a chance to see their show in DC last week but buddy backed out.

I added reviews for Babyteeth, Pleasure Death and Nurse. Fuffled a few feathers though..didn’t know about one post per day. Oh well I take one for the team to get Therapy? some visability.

I posted an attempted a review of MTACT.
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=26197
At the time it only had a single harsh rating, and I thought it needed some WOMble representation and defense.
Hopefully the moderators won’t have any issues and delete it. So check it out…not the best but I tried to be thorough.

also gives them an excuse to put out some new Ts with Gemil on it…can’t be bad

new label..new sound(?)…kinda re-ntroducing the band to the world. A simple here we are statement to me.

Beefgrinder wrote:

Hurrah! New album - looks slightly ominous for our American friends though… “Release TBA”

I disagree. The fact that an American release is even mentioned makes me optimistic! Can’t wait!!

TotallyRandomMike wrote:

Now that I think of that, a very limited reissue of Semi-D on 6x7” would be a treat…

No!! then mine wouldn’t be as special :)

But a vinyl box reissue would be great. If Nada Surf can get one (including albums not released by Barksuk, thier current label) then T? could get one.

fatboy wrote:

Currently reading Snuff by Chuck

What’d you think..didn’t do much for me personally.

The new CHarlie Huston book…great writer quick Pulp Fiction type stuff. Except his newest stuff is about a Vampire..pretty good.
Also reading Berserk..up to volume 26.

Watching Saturday Night Live Season 4.
also have the new X-Files movie and Tropic Thunder on DVD to watch.

Just got Chinese Democracy- Not bad so far.

Also I’ve been putting Killing is My Buisiness and Buisiness is Good in heavy rotation…Rattlehead is such a great song