I like metal and that is certainly not metal.

I don't think I've heard this one before. Which album is it from?

Nerdy jazz stuff. But still, this is amazing.

I've listened to it twice. Sorry man, not doing anything for me.

Maybe some people like the whole "We're so desperate to get our message out that we didn't have time to refine this" thing, but not me. The second half was a bit better, but still; If I wanted poetry, I'd go read some poetry.

But, hey, I'm also wearing skinny jeans and playing a visual novel! Every cloud, right?

Whoah, whoah, whoah. I don't mind you not liking it. I don't even mind you not listening to it. But that was just petty. There is nothing "unrefined" about that song. That song comes from the ep "Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks" (or the rarer "Night on the Sun" ep) where they began to refine their sound, and spend more time on production. Again, there is nothing unrefined about it, and your saying that means that you either have no idea what you're talking about, or are just pettily trying to put it down.

This is difficult to explain, but I'll try. Art is not about technical proficiency. I say that even though MM are technically proficient. If music were about that it would be really fucking boring. To use the painting analogy again, what you're saying is that the only style of painting worth anything is photo realism. You're saying that style, originality, and substance are worthless. It's all about how hard it is to play. That's bullshit. I love listening to crappy four track recordings. I love it because you can hear the love that the person is pouring into what they are making. It's cleaner, and more pure than the best produced album of arpeggios ever made.

Also, you're throwing out entire genres of music. You're basically saying that punk was never good. That it was never important. Music is the most important form of modern art. It's the most important because it's the most pervasive. You can't get away from it, and it informs, and creates entire sub cultures. Often, music that is raw or unpolished is made that way as a statement unto it's own. Our societies can only stand so much perfectly made shitty music before someone comes along, and says "Fuck this. I'm tearing it down." And thank god those people exist. Because they actually give a shit. To imply that they are lazy, or that they don't care is to ignore everything that art is about. You're argument is basically the argument of a modern day Oscar Wilde, and while he was a very interesting writer, if he had lived in the 1980's he would have worn spandex, and had huge hair.

Isn't there something inherently dishonest about not using the highest production values you can because being less produced is an easy way to make something sound arty?

*devil's advocate*

An artist don't always want something well produced. When you have an image on your head, you'll try to get the most closing thing to that image. An artist wants that thing. That's why we often see artists being so depressed, because that image of their head is a bit off. It might only be 1% off with his mind picture, but it's not what he wants. Being well produced doesn't mean it's excellent, it just mean that it had a very good production. The feel of the mindset projection can be lost trough production. I've seen many artists going away from the place they know to the mountains, lake houses, even Buddhists temples and even countries on Africa, who are at war, to have a different perspective of the world. And then, we see the most sloppy, ancient and even bad technique used in works, but the beauty they represent is more than any highest production values.

Yes. But they were using the highest production values available to them. Check this out:

Early Modest Mouse when signed to a really small label with next to no budget:



Later Modest Mouse after signing to a major label:



Also, there is a major difference between being artsy, and creating art. Being artsy is contrived. Creating art is more natural, although it still takes a lot of work. However, if an artist prefers the more "warm" sound of analog to digital, that's not dishonest. That's the artist's preference, and as it's their art who are we to say that they are wrong?

The acoustic version isn't, but the original version is.

I like good, and that is definitely not good.

I've been bumping this song for a while. It is so good. Not the music video I was expecting either. Not a woman's bottom gyrating at all.

that was interesting

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Here's some jazz:

Here's some even better jazz:

Mingus and Dolphy were fucking brilliant.

Here's some more classic jazz:




Pretty much what comes to mind when I think of the word "Jazz". I don't listen to much jazz though, honestly.

best song ever - best synth solo ever at the end - best music video ever



all except this one of course

Here's my sister's boyfriend's radio show. My sister also has one but I can't find it.
http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1800.mp3
Part 2
http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/94-9CHRWFri1900.mp3

Been listening to a lot of Radiohead lately. Always good. Cause it's Radiohead.







Mostly these two albums 'cause I'm just getting into them. Next is Hail to the Thief, which I've owned for, like, a year, but it never did anything for me. Hopefully with patience and time it will. Like every other Radiohead album.

Some more stuff from Mnozil Brass. These guys are great.

Bohemian Rhapsody, but brassy:


Light Cavalry:


Something from their DVD, Magic moments:


Hope you like. These guys have a definate influence on me when it comes to music.

HTT is their second worst album. It is too inconsistent in the quality of the songs. Some of them are amazing, others are just tripe.

I actually came across these guys a few days ago, without knowing them and did like them.

Now now. Pablo Honey is their worst album. Hail to the Thief is a close second.

This is nice and quick, enjoy, the sound of music:

I've read DUBSTEP in the image but didn't hear anything like it. Didi I got Rick Roll'ed?

I don't even count that as a Radiohead album, snobby as that might sound. It sounds nothing like their other stuff.

Ah yeah. That is what I meant. Pablo Honey sucks to an insane degree.
Creep is still a great song though.

I forgot to mention that I went to their show a couple weeks ago. They were amazing live, and played a couple of new songs.

I still find it strange that Radiohead barely toured England yet Kanye West & Jay Z did more shows here than both Coldplay and Radiohead combined.

Well, it's like a five square mile island. How many shows could they have possibly played?