Genres/Artists/Albums/Songs you are currently obsessed with

Yousha · **Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:49 am

Gordion Knot - rivers dancing ....

goddamn whoever nomd this in the obscure tourney - a million thanks ....

Tudwell · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:06 pm **Posts:** 4283

pnoom wrote:

Leonard Cohen - "Avalanche"

I love all of it, but I particularly like how there's no real finality to it. When he says "it is your flesh that I wear," his phrasing, whether intentionally or not, does not sound like it should be for the closing line. It's a gripping effect in what's already one of the most arresting songs ever written.

I'm revisiting some Cohen I haven't listened to in months, and God damn, Avalanche is such a great song. Definitely his best, I think. He's never had such a dark sound as in that song.

Tudwell · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:06 pm **Posts:** 4283

Not sure it's an obsession yet, but the Supremes are hitting me like a ton of bricks right now. There's so much more going on in their songs than first meets the eye (ear?). Very subtly composed tunes and deliciously poppy.

Georgi · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:37 pm **Posts:** 9165

You should also check out Martha and The Vandellas, Tud.

Dreww · **Posted:** Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:37 pm

Went to an open mic night last Monday and got to meet this really amazing singer-songwriter. He just recorded his best new song from that set and it makes me want to rip off all of my clothes and run through the mountains.
http://www.mediafire.com/?e8t934ebdep9o46

batman · **Posted:** Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:47 am

Tudwell wrote:

There's so much more going on in their songs than first meets the eye (ear?).

wiener.

Nick · **Posted:** Sun Apr 24, 2011 5:15 pm

Thin Lizzy.

trains · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:19 pm **Posts:** 1798

Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb

I love this! Sort of. Make all the ska jokes you want (my favorite is the Onion headline: "Ska band outnumbers audience") but EGN is a musical rip current, just bursting at the seams with manic energy, hooks, and hairpin changes in tempo. It's exhilarating and overwhelming. And that's the problem: after about fifteen minutes, it starts to become tiresome. It doesn't help that there's as much sameness between the songs as there is variation within them. The first three tracks form an outrageous pop masterpiece, and the rest might be just as good — on their own — but I really need to find the right way to listen. It'll make a great running album if nothing else.

(While less kinetic, sequel Somewhere in the Between is paced a lot better.)

zephead8 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:46 pm

fearoftrains wrote:

Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb

I love this! Sort of. Make all the ska jokes you want (my favorite is the Onion headline: "Ska band outnumbers audience") but EGN is a musical rip current, just bursting at the seams with manic energy, hooks, and hairpin changes in tempo. It's exhilarating and overwhelming. And that's the problem: after about fifteen minutes, it starts to become tiresome. It doesn't help that there's as much sameness between the songs as there is variation within them. The first three tracks form an outrageous pop masterpiece, and the rest might be just as good — on their own — but I really need to find the right way to listen. It'll make a great running album if nothing else.

(While less kinetic, sequel Somewhere in the Between is paced a lot better.)

awesome album. point/counterpoints one of my favorite songs. glad someone else on here likes it.

trains · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:19 pm **Posts:** 1798

I was literally shaking with HOLY FUCK THIS IS AWESOME for the entirety of the first three songs. It made me drive way too fast.

chicken sandwich · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:28 am **Posts:** 3104

Nick-ola wrote:

Thin Lizzy.

I crapped bricks the first time I heard Live and Dangerous, it's definitely one of my favorites

trains · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:19 pm **Posts:** 1798

Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos

Properly obsessed now. Everything I said about the guitar tone and general destructive badassery is multiplied a hundredfold in the car. Yeah, my speaker system is incredibly shitty, but the crudeness adds charm and hearing it in such a small space just makes it all the more crushing. It's sonic deep pressure therapy.

Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky

Who knew Mom And Dad Music could be so good? I was at first a little startled to see him at #6 on the Greatest Lyricists list, but no longer; Browne is a master at articulating emotional confusion. A delicate art indeed. The album hums with the kind of resigned sadness that you feel in your bones, that time has sanded to a dull ache, and it sounds more American than anything Springsteen has ever touched.

wantabodylikeme · **Posted:** Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:52 pm

underrated brian eno albums

Nick · **Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:38 am

chicken sandwich wrote:

Nick-ola wrote:

Thin Lizzy.

I crapped bricks the first time I heard Live and Dangerous, it's definitely one of my favorites

It's phenomenal but they have several studio albums that are worth a listen too. Vagabonds of The Western World, Jailbreak and Bad Reputation spring to mind.

invertt · **Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:17 am

Quinnsy Lohan wrote:

Check out Gris's Il etait une foret, most of Shining's discography (especially III, IV and V), Austere and Lyrinx's split Only the Wind Remembers / Ending the Circle of Life, Coldworld's Melacholie², Darkspace's Dark Space III (I'm not a huge fan, but it's pretty damn depressive), Nae'blis's Sketches of Reality, Sun of the Sleepless's Tausend Kalte Winter (only an EP), Walknut's Graveforests and their Shadows, Forgotten Tomb's Songs to Leave and Springtime Depression, Nyktalgia's Nyktalgia, Silencer's Death - Pierce Me and Weakling's Dead as Dreams.

If you want ABM recommendations or links to the mentioned albums, let me know.

After obtaining The Funeral of Being, Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, and Nihilistic Purity, I have to say, I am most impressed with Lyrinx's album Nihilistic Purity. LOVE this CD, it is closest to exactly what I had in mind when I started researching Black Metal.
Slow, very heavy, decent production, yet very black metal. This kind of black metal is what I will be obtaining ALOT more of.( if it exists. More research to do.)

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