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Started by Gonk, 01 February, 2012, 09:53:17 PM

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James Stacey

"Hey Hello", ready for tonight's gig of epicness in Brizzol

How I survived the punk rock wars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNga2vAZQew

Professor Bear

Awesome City Club - like most distinctive jpop, you can trace the roots of this back to an eclectic mix of styles from Western MOR, particularly the early-90s British charts in ACC's case, as tracks like Lesson wear the influence of Jamiroquai alongside Scissor Sisters and the Lighthouse Family to create an inoffensive and occasionally charming easy listening standard, even though by rights the end result should sound like something that should be burned with fire from the face of the Earth.  I don't see them being anyone's favorite band, but I could see some of their tracks finding their way onto the MP3 players of anyone but the most joyless hipster jerks.

Also Babymetal - who I dismissed a couple of years ago as an idol knockoff of The Brilliant Green, but I can admit when I'm wrong, as Babymetal are a complete hoot - moreso once you twig that they aren't joking.  Not even a little.
Though still married as a stage act to nightmarish mindworms like Doki Doki Morning and Ii Ne, they've also added some fantastic thrash licks to the likes of Death and Megitsune that to my mind pushes the band ahead of many "proper" metal outfits in terms of high-energy pomp, while Onedari Daisakusen is elevated from turgid rap-metal shite (it starts out sounding like Max Cavalera-era Sepultura and then turns right into Limp Bizkit - surely the very definition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory) to something vaguely sublime by the knowledge that it's sung by 13 year old girls as a day job between home schooling lessons, and yet it is identical to a Wes Borland-era Limp Bizkit track right down to mic checks and spoken verses about rap music only being about money, though naturally I imagine most people have their own thoughts on whether the world needs more Limp Bizkit cuts.  My favorite track is probably Death, as the multilingual play on "death"/"desu" is just the kind of self-aggrandising sneer that's sadly missed from modern metal outside parody acts like Steel Panther, but the structure of the track also mimics perfectly the bit near the end of Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath (from the album Black Sabbath) where the church bells end and guitars thunder and suddenly metal was born, but I suspect those who came up with metal just as it was going mainstream in the early 2000s will get more from it than crusty oldsters like me, as the influences of Slipknot, Bizkit, Sepultura, Dragonforce, Sabbath etc aren't hard to discern.

Frank

Quote from: Professor Bear on 09 April, 2014, 04:51:04 PM
Babymetal - who I dismissed a couple of years ago as an idol knockoff of The Brilliant Green, but I can admit when I'm wrong, as Babymetal are a complete hoot - more so once you twig that they aren't joking.  Not even a little.

Fuck you, Pro; thanks to your churlish refusal to provide a link, I had to google that myself. Those girls are at least as genuine as Linkin Park. Now I have to restore the cosmic balance by linking to something authentically male and traditionally rockist (the singer clears his throat around 2:45 to prove he's 4REAL).


Professor Bear

Megitsune is a decent track, but it suffers from sounding a bit like a Gundam theme.  I'd sooner link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKfp9aKu1Mo and draw your attention to
(1) the kidults in the audience who clearly came for a metal gig rather than a pop concert, and
(2) the use of red-on-black in the stage and costume design, which alongside the guitar turns in the song show a clear influence from Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar phase, which means that the guy setting up their current look was a hair's bredth away from dressing teenage pop stars in Nazi uniforms.

Hawkmumbler

A mix of Gorrilaz, Biffy Clyro, 30 Seconds to Mars and Pink Floyd. Yeah, spending a lovely day stuck inside studying for my advanced open water divers qualification. I need this.

Spikes

Well, as its twenty years since Britpop (Yikes!!!!!), been listening to a bit of the ol' Supergrass.

8-Ball

#1101
A few on my playlist:

Pizzicato Five - Baby Love Child
http://youtu.be/bFV1JNgJA7s
Discount - Runaway
http://youtu.be/OK5flN_H9Zc
Live On Release - I'm Afraid Of Britney Spears
http://youtu.be/nHMwJ_adn7s
Frank Beverly And The Butlers - If That's What You Wanted
http://youtu.be/ykfoBj0jaLA

Enjoy.
Whatever happened to Rico, Dolman and Cadet Paris? I'm sooo out of the loop.

GrinningChimera

10ft Ganja Plant - Skycatcher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1D9mqe8vdg

very relaxing stuff....


...and the music ain't bad either!

8-Ball

#1103
That reminds me.

Cornell Campbell / King Tubby - Thunder Rock

http://youtu.be/oHm_efZQYRw

and because it's Friday...

The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache

http://youtu.be/PCKY-Mv230o
Whatever happened to Rico, Dolman and Cadet Paris? I'm sooo out of the loop.

8-Ball

Not trying to spam this thread but I've always loved these...

Gene Dozier & The United Front - Give The Women What They Want
http://youtu.be/0FVXzXRdcJo

Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Sinners
http://youtu.be/IWGQ2qtj6co

Cud - One Giant Love
http://youtu.be/ne0eOf-gcDg

Half Man Half Biscuit - Bob Wilson Anchorman
http://youtu.be/3Jf06WlIwEs
Whatever happened to Rico, Dolman and Cadet Paris? I'm sooo out of the loop.

Colin YNWA

Quote from: Eightball on 19 April, 2014, 04:32:08 PM

Cud - One Giant Love
http://youtu.be/ne0eOf-gcDg

Half Man Half Biscuit - Bob Wilson Anchorman
http://youtu.be/3Jf06WlIwEs

Bloody hell I need to track down some Cud. One of those bands that somehow has drifted from my collection and whenever I hear again I mean to track down. Great band in that early 90s (pre Britpop) way.

As for HMHB - GENIUS as ever they are.

Frank

Quote from: Eightball on 18 April, 2014, 04:53:36 PM
Cornell Campbell / King Tubby - Thunder Rock http://youtu.be/oHm_efZQYRw

The only sane response to two consecutive afternoons of nice weather in Scotland is to open all your windows, crank up the bass, and pretend you're in Kingston.


JOE SOAP

#1107
Quote from: sauchie on 09 April, 2014, 05:11:37 PM
Fuck you, Pro; thanks to your churlish refusal to provide a link, I had to google that myself. Those girls are at least as genuine as Linkin Park.


Except far more entertaining; bit of a Rammstein vibe.

8-Ball

Quote from: sauchie on 19 April, 2014, 04:52:16 PM
Quote from: Eightball on 18 April, 2014, 04:53:36 PM
Cornell Campbell / King Tubby - Thunder Rock http://youtu.be/oHm_efZQYRw

The only sane response to two consecutive afternoons of nice weather in Scotland is to open all your windows, crank up the bass, and pretend you're in Kingston.

That is exactly why these tunes are coming to mind. It's flipping lovely at the moment. Have a great weekend everybody!
Whatever happened to Rico, Dolman and Cadet Paris? I'm sooo out of the loop.

GrinningChimera