I'm just getting into ambient myself actually. It's very good.

Interesting that you like Spastic Ink and Tool yet don't like DT. Although Octavarium isn't their best to get into them with, unless you're on the more accessible, commercial side. If you did want to give them another shot, try the moving, atmospheric instrumental Eve, and The Great Debate for the Tool *cough*(rip-off)*cough* similarity.

I may.

A few good conventional atmospheric ambient albums to start from:
Voices, by Roger Eno
Apollo, by Brian Eno
Selected Ambient Works II, by Aphex Twin (Especially disk 2)

Or if you want to dabble into postrockish ambient, I would strongly reccomend ( ) by Sigur Ros. Download Untitled #8 from that page and if you like if go further thataways.

I've had Aphex, DJ Shadow and Prodigy blasting out of my room for days now. With breaks of Bjork.

I'm really loving it, Aphex has some fantastic stuff. Windowlicker and Xtal are my faves so far.

Super Munch, check out a band called iLiKETRAiNS. They are the British equivilent to Sigur Rós. I saw them live and they really blew me away.

iLiKETRAiNS are sounding pretty good. Would be a good live act. Liking the sound of The Strange Death of Liberal Englad just that little bit more though.

Best solo guitarist methinks.

Yeah Buckethead is pretty amazing. That's a nice video. At around 2:00 I'm pretty sure that's part of the solo from Jordan which he recorded for Guitar Hero II. The riffs utilizing the the killswitch on his guitar in Jordan are so badass.

I will be sure to check out some of the stuff you mentioned at some point, although I'm not sure about Sigur Ros, as I watched to a video someone here posted (may have been you, I didn't take notice) of them jamming and I didn't think it was much...

Sits back and chills to this:
John Myung - Solar Groove

I want Guitar Hero II so badly.

Tonight i'm gonna rock you!

I was flipping between a Detroit game and the Cincy game(Yeah, NFL Network, sucks to you if you don't get in your area). Anyhow, there was this rap video on and the chorus was "Wamp Wamp, what it do, what it do." I thought to myself, "Self, thats just stupid enough to sell half a million albums." Why does it seem like the more idiotic the chorus is the better the pop rap song does in the marketplace? I had this terrible image in my head of this song being like My Neck, My Back, My Humps, anything the ying yang twins have done in the past 2 years, Grillz, etc. A bunch of rednecks and hickleberries singing this chorus in a club drunk off their asses popped into my head. Ah well, party rap videos are why we have the mute button.

Now, you know that it's a definite no no to even imply that Modest Mouse isn't the greatest thing on wheels around me. But, Metallica. My god, man. They were never good.

They were pretty good until the Black album.
I will say this, though. The excuse that they're old so they had to slow it down and go alternative is a bunch of shit. Plenty of NWOBHM bands still tour and do a damn fine job with their studio albums.

Iron Maiden were actually around before God.

That was them getting bored and starting to play in the style of 80s-esque rock, doens't represent their actual music at all. :p

This is like the badgerbadgerbadger.com of music, but if you guys have seen and like the Justin King clip from Larivee, this i better: this.

Cannibal Corpse. Ew.

I have this to say to the world:

Why do you like The Misfits? Oh Christ, why? It's as if someone if siphoning shit straight into your ears.

On a completely different note, I got Cuckoo Clock of Hell by Buckethead recently. It's good, albeit repetitive.

Do any of you guys like Yes? Or Coheed and Cambria, which sounds like a new, harder version of Yes.

Yes is great.
I don't have any of their albums though, only a greatest hits, and I've seen their Symphonic Yes DVD. Close to the Edge is an amazing song. The vocal harmonies in the middle section are divine.

Check out a song called Octavarium by Dream Theater. There's a lot of Yes influence in it, particularly the awesome moog solo. Also try Only a Matter of Time, being that it's largely keyboard led it also reminds me of them. They describe themselves as a 'heavy metal Yes', being that they based their band lineup on Yes'.

Can I go five posts without trying to plug DT?

Album of 2006 anyone?

CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy for me. Awesome.

Why would you want to go five posts without!

Album of the year? I'm going to have to go with TV On The Radio. Return To Cookie Mountain just kept growing on me until I made sweet love to the disk.

And no....my penis is not small enough to fit inside the hole placed in normal compact discs.


I had to widen it.

Ah man, I tried Guitar Hero 2, and I can't play it even though I play real guitar. It's because the buttons are too close together for how I play the songs in real life. Confusing.....

And to Super Munch, why do you hate the Misfits? I actually like them quite a bit. It's simple and blunt, but that's why I like them.

A couple days ago while consuming an irresponsibly large amount of hot wings, my friend started singing along to "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback. And it made me remember how douche-like of a singer Chad Kroeger is. And how the rest of the band is only marginally better. Then it made me remember how I hate Hinder. Two of the current top selling rock artists, and yet Pearl Jam's self-titled still beats the pants off both. Now mind you, my distaste for modern rock isn't limited to the aforementioned two bands. Oh, I could go on for hours...

But I have something more important to discuss:

Bomb the Music Industry!

Proving that a man (with the help of his friends) and his computer can put out more artistically creative, listenable and enjoyable than multi-million dollar production and a major label contract. The stuff is great. It's some of the most spastic, catchy, and undeniably uplifting stuff I've heard in a long time. Imagine, if you will, taking Panic! At the Disco, giving them a pair of testicles, and mashing them with the best of the 90's ska-punk music (quite MU330 and latter day Aquabats ish, in my opinion).

And the best part? All three albums are free for download off the guy's label's website. I'd start with the most recent release: http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur002.htm. The other two albums, along with a good selection of other independent music, are under the (big suprise here) albums tab.

It's great music for free, made by a guy that genuinely cares about his music and his fans, and will take about 10 minutes to download on a good internet connection. What reason do you have not to check it out?

I'm currently obsessed with Hybrid. They make some of the best electronica music I've ever heard.

true dat, true dat

Oh oh I like Yes!
I have their 90125 album

/pointless post

I like it to listen to the music of Howard Shore, Breaking Benjamin, Panic! At The Disco and Billy Tallent (some tracks).

Any other Fans out there?

I'd never heard something about Flaming Lips.

Well, I have listened to "Blow Me Away" by Breaking Benjamin.
"This is Halloween" remixed by panic! at the disco and I liked the two songs. However, I still need to listen to more songs before I actually formulate an opinion.

And of the two remixed versions of "this is Halloween" I enjoy Marylon Mansion's version just a smidge better. But Marylon still freaks the crap out of me.

I don't think I have a favorite band/artist but I listen to a bunch of different genres and bands. Having a variety to listen to is good.

Folktronica saved my life recently. EVeryone needs to check out the likes of Four Tet, Patrick Wolf, Boards of Canada, Feilds and Múm right now!

You ever notice how people who say rap sucks usually don't know what the **** they're talking about and like modern country? Yeah, don't listen to those people.
Oh, and get the Gatalog.

Boards of Canada and Múm are folktronica? Well bugger me with a fishfork. Worth looking into if they're contemporaries.

You filthy Halo ho you.

That being said Breaking Benjamin are the bees knees if the bee was mentally and physically retarded, in a wheelchair and without knees.


Fans of System of a Down, or those just looking for a laugh, watch this. Falls out of synch though.



[EDIT EDIT] THIS DEMANDS ATTENTION.

"http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/site_imag...k/nav_leaf.gif new album in the works

13 January 2007



sigur rós have begun recording their new album and expect to finish it later this year. according to georg, it remains to be seen whether the band will be taking a totally new direction on the album. “we have finished recording a few songs but some more things need to be done. we don’t know exactly where the album is heading yet. we are really just experimenting at this stage. some of the songs we recorded are old songs which we had written a while ago, unreleased material which we never got a chance to finish. we decided it was time they were recorded.” georg says there is a possibility the album will be released this year but nothing is confirmed at this point. "

SoaD is a great band, too! :fuzgrin:

I only have one album by Sigur Ros but I really enjoy it. Maybe I'll check out the new one.