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  1. Damage sucks really bad. And so does band spam (unless of course a band spammer is a contributing member of the forums) ............................... www.myspace.com/somethinglikesymmetry *cough*
  2. oh and I recommend headphones. Or Hi-Fi speakers.
  3. It's some sonic youthesque post-rocky symphonic stuff. www.myspace.com/somethinglikesymmetry the song Abductee (new version!) is us with our studio mode on, the other two are all-right, but the old Abductee has some balance issues, and An Introduction is being re-done as we speak.
  4. Did you just hack encarta? Because if you just picked a random word...you landed quite a lucky bulls-eye!
  5. oh and to be on topic, I rather enjoyed Keane's first album...the second not so much, but I've heard the third one is quite an improvement, so I'll have to give it a listen.
  6. Pshaw, Perfect Symmetry is for sissies. Now Something like Symmetry is considerably more bad-ass. *cough* www.myspace.com/somethinglikesymmetry Pardon my hacking!
  7. My band just put some overdubs and some polish on an old track. And we have a couple of better, newer songs going on the interwebs in a couple of days. www.myspace.com/somethinglikesymmetry check it!
  8. There is some hip hop that have arrangements based in jazz, Common is one of the more main-stream examples of this. I would describe that as 'well thought out music'
  9. And none of those guys had a real specific piece that defined their sound, the transitional progressive property of their music. It's only when we look at their entire body of work that we see musical progress.
  10. I'm just gonna throw out some 'they need no introduction' names, just so no one can consider this thread uncultured. Corelli Bach Mozart Beethoven Debussy Tchaikovsky Mahler Gershwin Stravinski Rachmaninov and John Cage Those make up a pretty large number of 'transformative' composers, but, of course, there are many many more.
  11. Why of course! it totally slipped my mind.... www.myspace.com/somethinglikesymmetry
  12. Abductee by Something Like Symmetry because they're awesome and I'm shameless Can't sleep but I didn't want it anyway Midnight dreams, slumber, such a (blank)in throwaway Give it Away Give It Away Small traces of Sonic Sonnets Their song "An Introduction" is quite wonderful as well.
  13. Thanx! I can't wait to see Hannah Montana in concert! Tho, I'm a much bigger fan of... I dunno Milo Idaho?
  14. Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were saying that the characters had no emotional connection to eachother, not that you had no emotional connection to the characters. I misunderstood. And I see your point, the characters of Always Sunny are incredibly unlikeable... which is part of the fun, while they are all unlikeable, they have personality traits of their own.
  15. I just don't consider Daydream Nation terribly 'groundbreaking' Is it really reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreally good? Yes it is, but as far as technique and sound, Dinosaur Jr. had already done a lot of the guitar stuff, Sonic Youth just made an excellent album. Their first album was way more original, and introduced aesthetics unheard of in the R'n'R genre, mostly stuff that would be more easily found in French Impressionist symphonies, like Debussey.
  16. Really happy to see Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers on the list -stop! somebody in the audience is crying!- but Citizen Dick from Singles shoulda been included I mean, come on, their hit grunge single was Touch Me, I'm Dick
  17. Why oh why did a mod have to delete the latest spam from 'DAMAGE'??? I had just written an awesome reply... awesome to the max! and I quote myself "Bro! I listened to Damage they were sick! Bro! I mean, I've listened to a lot of hard rock, you know, the bros are always recommending those 'usual' 'hard rock' bands like Alice in Chains but bro! These guys, were like totally different bro! It was like someone hopped in a time machine (with no regard to progressing a sound at all... ballsy bro!) traveled 15 years ago, and made AiC and Stone Temple Pilots engage in intercourse, to make a baby bro! And let me tell ya bro, it was like AiC and STP turned out to be cousins, and that offspring had all sorts of RADICAL deformities! And that bro-baby (br-aby?) had a serious predilection for blatantly plagiarizing it's parents! Totally awesome Bro!"
  18. I'm going to nominate Sonic Youth and Pavement, but fear not my Belgian friend, I'm not stealing your nom. As I've got to argue that there are more 'groundbreaking' works by SY than Daydream Nation Is DN excellent? Surely Is it different than the pop-mold of 1989? Most definitely -but- was it the most 'groundbreaking' thing SY ever wrote? No. Now, before I do this, I'm not connecting 'groundbreaking' with 'quality' or 'appealing' I am simply interpreting it to mean 'something that doesn't sound like everything before it" And that SY honor would go to their first album, Sonic Youth. It was in this first effort that the band was just forming, and their purpose was not to write straight forward rock'n'roll, but to write something free of western tonal theory, and Rhythm and Blues roots rock, so they crafted an entire album of atonal modulations, and noise, with outta tune vocals and guitars. And, if you open your ears to what will be a 'harsh' sound at first, it can be quite rewarding to listen to. I can't find any clips of it, but it just got re-issued with some bonus tracks, I recommend buying it if you've got the cash lying around. If not... you know...torrents and whatnot. Second Nomination. Pavement- Crooked Rain Crooked Rain So, in the early 90s there were a vast array of influences floating around the scene, Punk Post-punk experimental atonal music (ala sonic youth) Post-hardcore emo grungy metal progressive jazz based rock and your basic pop-music madonna standard. Then one band came along and took all those (minus the grunge, but + roots rock) and made something of their own. Especially important and prevalent in Crooked Rain Crooked Rain is the mixture of Stephen Malkmus' post-hardcore emo/shoegazey vocals with his sonic youth styled guitar playing, SY guitar playing with jazz chords and theory. Pavement could arguably go down as one of the last great bands to use the typical Guitar/Guitar/Vocal/Bass/Drums rock'n'roll instrumentation without sounding tired and old. The opening track opens with what sounds like an outro of a jam session gone mad, SM crunching out chords with his non-standard tuned guitar, fingers moving up and down, hitting minor thirds left and right, and then in all it's pop glory outta nowhere, totally unexpected from this mess of sound, come in the vocals, a chorus of 'Aaaaaaaaaaaaahs' that are both beautiful and badass, cue the drums, a driving beat, then the guitars start playing some 'real' chords, and SM starts to sing in his whispery strained lispy voice 'This is the city life aaaaaaaaaaaah' Awesomeness. Second track a little chord vamp, a progression over and over Elevate me Later, a song that perfectly exemplifies SM's vocal and lyrical skill with lines like "And there's forty different shades of black! So many fortresses and ways to attack And the court is double pressed I'd like to check out your violent protest ....So why you complain' ta!" His writing style was much in the school of Lennon, words assembled to sound good, music with words. Track three Stop Breathin' a slow jazzy barely together, light as a feather, a slight breeze could blow this arrangement apart song. And it's awesome, it ends with the perfect musical anti-climax, a minute of build with alternating intervals, we're waiting for a guitar solo, but it never comes. Track four The greatest pop song ever written "Ooo oo oo oo ooo ooo oo ooo ooo ooo ooo OO ooo oo Darlin' don't you go away and cut your hair, do you think it's gonna make him change? I'm just a boy with a new haircut... and that's a pretty nice haircut!" It's fun, it's catchy as hell and it's a scathing song about 'selling out' this song scored the band a minor hit, and a pretty well played video on MTV irony abounds.
  19. Not to be a contrarian, but Arrested Development also lacks an 'emotional connection between the characters' It followed the exploits of a completely ego-centric , selfish, upper-class family, and within that family, the only emotional connections the characters made was with themselves. If one was to argue that a bond grows between George SR to Michael, to George Michael, they're missing the point. As the series finale had the entire family flee from eachother and stab eachother in the back one final time. It's kind of possible to argue that George Michael and Michael get closer, but I think that Michael is just as detached from his son at the end of the series as he was in the beginning. I think you're confusing continuity of a series with 'emotional connection' between characters. Because that's the main difference between AD and Always Sunny, AD had a plot that flowed from episode to episode, which had character development, but the Bluth family development was never one that grew towards 'togetherness' but instead saw the characters getting more and more self-absorbed. Whereas Always Sunny is a 'by the week' series, where the events of a previous week rarely effect next weeks. But, if you're really into Sunny you will notice some reference and points of continuity. and the latest episode had Dennis and Mac competing over the title of being Charlie's best friend, so I dunno, maybe we're both wrong, and there is emotional connection between characters. But to sum up, AD and Always Sunny focus on selfcentered characters with no ability or desire to empathize or connect with any other character. and the office, I'll watch an episode and enjoy it here and there, but never really got terribly into it.
  20. I find the lack of emotional connection pretty appealing, it's really what makes the show work, with the backstabbing and plotting. Great show and Peaches, that contract video was awesome. And the entire first season and a bunch from 2 and 3 are on Hulu.
  21. There is loads of Hip-Hop with well thought out clever musical arrangements, and content within the lyrics.
  22. Jim O'Rourke was briefly in Sonic Youth and Wilco
  23. And you should always watch behind rainbows/clouds/meteors for Heaven's Chimney, in the event of the Chimney's arrival, suicide protocol should be immediately followed.
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