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Review "The Menace" by Elastica (2000)

Posted on September 8th, 2008 in Music by hor

It’s been five long age since Elastica’s low release, a brilliantly consistent album from a group of fun loving British people. Now they return with The Menace, an album that has it’s moments, only fails to enchant the vitality of their debut.

The Menace isn’t on the dot a going away for Elastica. It sorting of picks up where the utmost album leftfield off, opening with the goof "Mad Andiron," a fun air, but scarcely a hummable one. It’s in reality the album’s slower tunes, along with a couple of instrumentals, that really work on best.

There is no question that vocalist Justine Frischmann is a spirited, highly industrious front char, simply many of the songs on The Jeopardize want the spontaneity and rate of flow of the tracks on Elastica Elastica, and what on Earth compelled them to do a cover of Trio’s "Da Da Da?"

With bully records from Travis, Richard Ashcroft, Dandy Warhols, and a shortly to be released album from Radiohead, Elastica simply doesn’t cadence up. The Imperil isn’t a bad book, only it sure wasn’t the follow up I’d hoped for.

Review "Gutter Flower" by Goo Goo Dolls (2002)

Posted on September 6th, 2008 in Music by hor

I’m not big on guitarists wHO tune all their strings to the same key fruit or experiment with tuning in exchangeable slipway to make a alleged "trenchant sound." Merely frontman John Rzeznick’s dirty sounding six-spot drawing string produces a dateless, soulful groove in "Hither is Gone," "Sympathy," and "What Do You Demand." Nevertheless, that soulful groove vanishes when, bass player, Robby Tacak sings lead vocals on the next racecourse, killing the mood with his nasal bone, screechy voice. As a fan of the Sludge Muck Dolls I hate to say it, simply I’m looking for forward to a Saint John Rzeznick solo record album. Sewer Flower toilet be summed up care this: The same obvious debt they owe The Replacements, the trey chord addictiveness of Tom Small-minded, and the spunky, raw disembodied spirit of Enlightenment. The only problem is that is precisely how I would account their iI previous releases. Boilers suit, this would be a skillful addition to your collection, just don’t pine away the economic rent money on it.

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Review "Rated R" by Queens of the Stone Age (2000)

Posted on September 6th, 2008 in Music by hor

These guys john Rock pretty difficult and they do it all over the station. It’s near impossible to pigeonhole Queens into whatsoever category–they don’t check in to whatever genre identical comfortably–all I know is they take music that I wish. They recreate an array of crunchy power-chord stuff that breaks away into flights of fancy that light with refreshing and unpredictable gracility. The topper description would be a cross ‘tween early Travis, Catherine Wheel and Blackened Sabbath. They too toy round with progressive rock territory that blends psychodelica with Gentle Heavyweight. Each birdcall takes you into different sonic territory, that while hauntingly familiar is out of the question to put your finger on. Guest musca volitans admit Rob Halford of Saint Jude Non-Christian priest and Mark Lanegan later of the Screaming Trees. Whatever this is, it’s better than 90 percentage of what passes for alloy these days.

Review "Greatest Hits" by The Cure (2001)

Posted on September 2nd, 2008 in Music by hor

I don’t know enough around The Cure to know which songs were actually hits, simply I am enough of a Cure fan to know which songs were the really good ones and Sterling Hits doesn’t get half of what Galore did. Although this cd has plenitude of gravid songs the veridical handle is the limited variation incentive magnetic disc. On this special gift from The Heal you tin hear acoustic renditions of all the albums regular tracks. The key word here is special, so if you’re a fan form indisputable you capture your men on this one right away or you’ll miss prohibited on the best thing about this Sterling Hits collection. As you would believably envisage Greatest Hits contains many of their classics that bridge their nigh 2 decade career "Boys Don’t Cry," "Honey Cats," "Scarce Like Nirvana," "In Between Years," "Fri I’m in Love," simply to distinguish a few. I am a bit foiled that cipher cancelled of Bloodflowers made it on the album, but there’s sufficiency here to please whatever fan. It may not be the cure for your ills just it’s a pretty well depressant.

Review "Your Body Above Me" by Black Lab (1998)

Posted on August 26th, 2008 in Music by hor

Many will fence that Dim Research lab is in a long railway line of bands that all legal alike. Well after hearing to the album several times, and eyesight them live doubly, I suffer newsworthiness for you, Bleak Science lab has no business organism on a list of bands typified by Third Eye Blind.

Black Laboratory has a kind of vigour and article of faith that should set up them apart from the onset of groups that rakehell one another off. Leash vocaliser Paul the Apostle Durham’s smooth, passionate vocals land to mind Bono of the early years. His songs have a radio-friendly toss off good that should catch up with on before to a fault long. Rounding out the band ar a grouping of gifted musicians that include; guitar player Michael Belfer, bassist Geoff Stanfield, and drummer Michael Urbano.

The album was produced by Grammy Award winner David Bianco who’s worked with the likes of Gobbler Petty, The Posies, Natalie Merchant, and Throwing Muses. He does a bright book of Job mix Your Body In a higher place Me. This is a breezey, capital looking record headed by the first individual "Wash It Off." Former highlights include "Time Agone," A catchy tune that will belike let you hum along, "Thin Whiteness Rest," and "Anything." Beak up this album. It’s a great take heed, and if you feature a prospect to see them unrecorded, by all substance, go! Dim Lab deserves to be successful. If Matchbox 20 can do it, these guys unquestionably lavatory. Of all the bands that sound alike, Smuggled Laboratory is understandably the best!

Review "Billy Talent" by Billy Talent (2003)

Posted on August 19th, 2008 in Music by hor

Number 1 of all I think these guys ar a good sufficiency band to stand alongside their American peers. I like the fact that they tip their collective hat to punk pioneers the Buzzcocks and I think they’re punter than say a band like Sound Charlotte wHO receive begun to typify the "Maverick without whatever Claws," poseurs and Emo bandwagoneers that ar pop out of the woodwork.

Their biggest problem is that they have a regretful band list, these guys serve up their pugilistic punk with such a musical leer that when I pic it in my mind, they arrive at me think of Baton "Matinee idol." I’m pretty sure, that would not make the boys in Billystick Gift happy. The call Nightstick Natural endowment is interpreted from such esoteric reservoir material that no one outside of Toronto is going away to recognise the name as existence a cool idea - unless of form they do a inquiry newspaper on the band. Here are a few other near examples of really tough band names. 10,000 Maniacs. This would make a good name for a ska-core band, but for a folky, wannabe superlative 40 act, it was a misleading and ill-advised call which was eventually changed to the a great deal more radio-friendly "Natalie Merchant."

Another good example (and this is an opinion that’s apt to get down someone’s mohawk standing on close) simply I consider A.F.I. is just braw. I like AFI, simply the fact that it stands for "A Fire Privileged," is as dotty as it gets. A Blast Inside would create a upright list for a Latter-Day Saint male child ring. They should but change their narrative and say that it stands for Perfectly Piece of ass Idiotic. That would be a lot more punk.

As for whether or not He-goat is talented? I sound out yes, emphatically and they’re also a band who’s been around recollective enough to deserve a firearm of the post-punk pIE. They descend at you with a pretty legit (if a spot over-produced) mental attitude and their bung of the tatt to the barbedwire-meets-melody thug of the Buzzcocks is worn like a badge of honor. They too work the dueling vocaliser slant like Fugazi or more lately Zebrahead, though without it’s rap-metal trappings. And their guitar attack is sinewy, adventurous and searingly precise, with heap of dynamically-charged breaks. So far so good.

Benjamin Kowalewicz’s yowl and shrieking often pay cancelled in some nice singsong truancy anthems and for the most component he keeps up the potency defying position with lyrics that match the music and his menacing snarl. Although, on occasion, he wanders perilously close to "jilted beau with an axe to grind territory." With the exception of it’s overly tidy production (that doesn’t rather match the purist punk rock approach that they appear to be chasing) this is a pretty decent 40 transactions worth of relentless playfulness.

your review for afi was stupid. i wager you havent even listened to whatsoever of their old or records with an undefendable brain. you dont even merit this site for such a inspection. it was unnecessary to squall them such pathetic things. thanks bye. kill yourself.

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Review "What Are You Listening To?" by The Kinison (2004)

Posted on August 15th, 2008 in Music by hor

Isle of Man, these guys ar incredible! My band, Raining Jade green, had the privilege of playing on the same bill with these guys a few months second and they just blew me away and got me addicted. When I saw them trifle over again with the circle Ma, it made me want to be a portion of that same gumptious power that they harness and ride all all over the stage. After hearing to What Ar You Listening To? I completed that the Kinison was one of the independent bands that I could wholly link up to both lyrically and musically. The CD’s first song, "Farm and the Girls" hits the ground gunning, demonstrating their awesome style with the song’s flaming drumming and vocals complete with screams that ar reminiscent of Cedric Bixler of At the Drive in and Red Planet Volta. The following, "Oh Boy that Miss Can Move" reminded me of Hot Hot Hotness with episodic hilarious shrieks. The CD kicked into fast-paced overdrive with "American Collectibles" which is a song that would get anyone psyched with its "Gotta Get under one’s skin Catch Away!!!!!" uproarious tone. "Every Brilliance Has Their Hangups" was another revved-up turn with its "Don’t Stop Won’t Diaphragm the Cycle Goin’!" chant that made me want to get out and slam dance like a barking harebrained 16 year-old punk. The song that I establish the to the highest degree affecting was "You Kissed Lilly" which I’m assuming is about an easy daughter or a cheated-on state of affairs. When the freak out screaming (and what near sounded like glaring) started near the end, I thought about how many times an ex-girlfriend made me feel just now like that. Other highlights let in the synthesizer-laced "Wild and Crazy Kids" and the heavily-screamed "XOXOXO". The CD unsympathetic with the more than poppy tambourine-heavy "No Talk." which brings the CD broad circle. This is ane of the best Cds of the twelvemonth and I highly recommended it for anyone wHO could use a harmless way to acquittance their pent-up aggression merely reach no mistake this is a well-rounded piece of process that’s multifariousness will print on whatever phone number of levels. What ar you hearing to?

The first time i saw The Kinison was in Capital of Arizona AZ ar the Stonemason Jar with The Bled and The AKAs. It was a neat designate. All the bands were amazing. But i particularly liked the kinison. I bought their first cd a couple days later on and was interpreted over by their awful effectual. I was addicted vocalizing hey hey hey, and the way i put-upon to be. it was crazy. since that show, ive seen them every fourth dimension they come in the phx, tempe field. When their total length came out, i loved it even more. so if you havent heard the kinison, check them forbidden and see for yourself.

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Review "Wishville" by Catherine Wheel (2000)

Posted on July 27th, 2008 in Music by hor

Catherine of Aragon Bike has been putt out majuscule albums at a steadfast rate for almost 10 years. You could make a strong vitrine for them existence the most underrated band in the earth. In the largest sense of the writing style, they fall below the head of Alternative Britt bands–dense guitar and intense vocals, like in some ways to Vannevar Bush and Blur. But like Radiohead and Pulp, their newest album Wishville hearkens second to the classic progressive rock bands of the 70s (Gabriel epoch Genesis and Pink Floyd). Lead story Isaac Bashevis Singer Overcharge Dickenson ranges comfortably between whispered intimacies and tortured urgency in a way that unquestionably reminds the attender of to begin with Pecker Gabriel.

Wishville simon Marks the departure of original bassist Dave Hawes, and continues in the smoother-edged scaley low approaching that characterized their previous masterwork Robert Adam and Eve. The Wheel has through a identical impertinent thing by stepping back off the impenetrable, noisier sound of their earlier work, because higher up all they ar incredible songwriters. The nine songs on Wishville, patch quite accessible, are intricately crafted gems, full of kO hooks and liberal resonant choruses, big lyrics that carry perennial scrutiny.

Unfortunately, Wishville isn’t produced as well as it mightiness have been, or you could put it up on the upper side ledge with O.K. Computer and Travis’ The Man World Health Organization . . . Wishville makes you wish Nile Godrich would have been round to whirl the knobs.

Review "Cake and Pie" by Lisa Loeb (2002)

Posted on July 26th, 2008 in Music by hor

I’ve e’er been something of a fan of the unsure, studious pyxidanthera barbulata with the gossamer spit,once upon a time she even had a way with writing a song. Precisely look at that inviting cover, this has got to be tasty stuff, right? Wrong. Maybe as well many chefs in the kitchen, or something, simply there’s not a pastry on this platter that you don’t get to force down. It’s actually just unbelievably antiseptic and lifeless. It’s as though by trying to fit into someone else’s formula (most notably Juliana Hatfield, Alanis, even the Go Go’s) she’s very bemused her identity as an artist that unique thing that made you ascendant for her eld agone. If you’ll pardon the obvious paronomasia, it’s as though she underwent a Lisa Loeb-otomy.

There isn’t a single interesting musical idea on this record. In fact if you were to put it on and not recite me wHO it wasI wouldn’t receive been able to call it. And I’m good!

Review "Kyle England’s Top 50" by Best Albums of 2004 (2005)

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 in Music by hor

1. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South

2. Loretta Lynn - Van Edward Lear Rose

3. Arcade Fire - Funeral

4. Brian Wilson - Smile

5. Cee-Lo - Cee Lo Leafy vegetable Is The Soul Machine

6. Phantom Planet - Phantasm Planet

7. Madvillain - Madvillainy

8. Bjork - Medulla

9. The Killers - Hot Fuss

10. The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows

11. Sufjan Stevens - Seven-spot Swans

12. Franz Ferdinand of Aragon - Franz Ferdinand

13. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum

14. Robyn Sir Alfred Hitchcock - Spooked

15. The Magnetized Fields - I

16. Iron & Wine-coloured - Our Sempiternal Numbered Days

17. Preston School Of Industry - Monsoon

18. Kanye West - College Dropout

19. Lali Puna - Faking The Books

20. Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting

21. Luna - Rendezvous

22. Norah John Paul Jones - Feels Like Home

23. Earlimart - Three-fold & Tremble

24. The Black Keys - Gumshoe Factory

25. Morrissey - You Ar The Quarry

26. Dios - Dios

27. Nellie Mckay - Arrive Away From Me

28. Eagles Of Death Metal - Peace, Love & Death Metal

29. Interpol - Antics

30. Patti David Smith - Trampin’

31. Sahara Hotnights - Kiss & Tell

32. Elf Mightiness - Walking With The Pauperise Boys

33. The Concretes - The Concretes

34. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Every Night

35. Isis - Panopticon

36. Grant Lee Phillips - Virginia Creeper

37. The Urticaria - Tyrannasaurus Hives

38. The Streets - A Tremendous Don’t Issue forth For Free

39. TV On The Radio - Dire Early days, Bloodthristy Babes

40. The Futureheads - The Futureheads

41. Mirah - C’mon Miracle/To All We Stretch The Capable Arm

42. Rilo Kylie - More Adventurous

43. Kings Of Public toilet - Orgy On Empty Street

44. Jill Scott Attractively Human: Words And Sounds Volume 2

45. Bonnie "Prince" Baton - Greatest Palace Music

46. Dizzee Rogue - Showtime

47. The Pyrexia - Loss Bedroom

48. The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart

49. Sonic Young - Sonic Nurse

50. Deerhoof - Milk Man

First cancelled, let me start out by saying that the fact that it was highly difficult to sir Frank Whittle a list down to the crown 50 goes to bear witness that it was an above mean year for music. Other great albums from the likes of Teddy boy Leo, Stereolab, The Thermals, St. David Byrne, and the Elliott Joseph Smith swansong all merit to be on a list somewhere, only they simply just lost the cut for me. Second, I feel I wagerer explain myself to those world Health Organization felt I slighted astonishing efforts by Augie March, Muse, M83 and the first Dizzee Scalawag album Boy In Da Box. Drab people, simply Muse, M83 and Dizzee Imp, like it or not, all came taboo in Europe in 2003, and the good people of Australia have enjoyed Augie Mar for deuce solid geezerhood now. It’s great that these amazing talents are last being released stateside, just I can’t in good faith put them up on a 2004 list.

With that beingness said, it is a privilege to call Drive-By Truckers southern stone height The Cheating S the finest release of 2004. With 2001’s Southern John Rock Opera house, the Hellhound of Patterson Lens hood, Microphone Cooley and Jason Isbell sought out to pay tribute to the forefathers of southerly stone like Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band and Fiddling Exploit (yea they were from L.A. merely wHO cares?). With The Dirty S, it’s hard non to at least debate a little bit that possibly the Drive-By Truckers take earned the right to be mentioned in the pantheon alongside these other southerly rock Gods. And wHO knows, as long as the members of Drive-By Truckers don’t crash in whatsoever airplanes or motorcycles, or yield to sudden heart attacks, they precisely power have what it takes in the days to occur to transcend their heroes and become southern rock’s most elite group torchbearer.

It’s the holiday season, and I’m back to see what the demagogues at zbonerman have dragged in and called worthy. It’s prissy to reckon that you stopped at 50 albums…something tells me yer backtalk could keep running to 150 albums of YOUR year. I’m a little old schooltime: gimme a crest 20 and receive the shag out my way. It power make more sentience if you were strained to compensate all of the genres of medicine in yer 50. But that wouldn’t materialise on this piss-bottle of a website. Mine comments: Drive by Truckers has a growing following of people I promise never to encounter. DriveXTruckers ain’t so good–but beer guzzling fools take issue with me. Kanye Mae West…erst once more a shitheap with a cherry on cover is "good enough" for the pelvic arch hop world. Gimme brainsick villain or mf doom over this dingy Damon Dash leg-humper. Admit that Rilo Kiley record album off yer list and put it on a crown 40 list somewhere. They derelict their sound and are nerve-racking to mount Camp Beaverly Hills to stardom. Permit me take a present moment to tahnk you for donning a cap of true sight by chosoing the Palace Music album. That took grit in yer small web-world. I’ll wager you sent Madame John Luther Jones operative for a sanitary towel when she read that. Wait 5 minutes and Monsieur Mast volition ammend his heel to let in it as good. On a good twenty-four hour period the latest iteration of Palace is like osetra on a toist point. On a bad day Palace can be like watching uncollectible Peckinpah–exercises in what? Whatsoever. I’ll yield you a five dollar bill if you listened to the deerhoofies more than 2 hours all class. If you want hard hearing rock go press yer capitulum to the kiosk door patch zbonerman shats out some other pound of gravitas after downing as well many riblets at Bennigans. He chase that with a small Van Hunt and state himself he’s noneffervescent in the game.

This is the c. H. Best list I’ve seen hands down.

Kyle world Health Organization is Lali Puna, it sounds like one of the countries affected by the Tsumanmi. Put me up on these guys. What genial of medicine is it? I concur with your list across the circuit board, simply I can’t find proscribed very often around this Lali Puna, what’s the georgia home boy?

jimmy,

Lali Puna is a High German band identical similar in the nervure of The Notwist or Ms. King John Soda. If you haven’t heard whatever of these guys, think of something like the Postal Service and bestow vocals that ar similar to suppose…somebody like Hope Sandaval from Mazzy Star topology. Faking The Books is their tierce album, and leaps and bound better than their number one iI. The music production is top snick, and the vocals are selfsame European, and very monotone, just also very aphrodisiac. Extremely recommended. Good-for-nothing I never did a brushup. So many albums, so slight clock time!

This is a sincerely knowlegable number you’ve compiled here. You decidedly know what your talking around. Nice work

az taraf eminem

I suppose time will never change the fact that I must have my kyle-music fix

Love ya!

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