What are you listening to?

vine311 · Post by **vine311** » October 31st, 2006, 2:51 pm

Mostly Awesome. Only two tracks that I don't like. If you liked Painkiller, then you should give this a spin. Nobody can scream like Halford...nobody.

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » October 31st, 2006, 3:00 pm

Nobody?

vine311 · Post by **vine311** » October 31st, 2006, 3:04 pm

Dio is a very close second, followed by Tom Araya.

Jastroch · Post by **Jastroch** » October 31st, 2006, 3:19 pm

Somewhere in the shuffle between moving offices, apartments and then evacuating, I lost an entire book of CDs. Mostly low circulation CDs--shit I listened to in middleschool--but it still hurts cause I'm slightly obsessive about my books and records.

It mostly hurts when I want to rock out to "A Kind of Magic," Queen's soundtrack for the movie Highlander. I'm looking into replacing some of these albums, but it appears "A Kind of Magic" is out of print. Does anyone own this? I'm not joking.

Also, I'm missing all my pre-Losing My Religion REM albums, Apetite For Destruction, and a bunch of demos from punk bands that played at the Teen Center where I grew up. If anyone went to Fairfield Highschool and saw a lot of Hardcore and Ska at the Beanery, let me know. I need a copy of The Pist's seven inch and Ska King Crab's demo CD with their cover of AHA's Take on Me. THIS IS IMPORTANT.

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » October 31st, 2006, 3:23 pm

Jastroch wrote:"A Kind of Magic," Queen's soundtrack for the movie Highlander ... pre-Losing My Religion REM albums...

I know a guy who can hook you up. Let's talk.

Jastroch · Post by **Jastroch** » October 31st, 2006, 3:27 pm

mcnichol wrote:
Jastroch wrote:"A Kind of Magic," Queen's soundtrack for the movie Highlander ... pre-Losing My Religion REM albums...
I know a guy who can hook you up. Let's talk.

I thought I was the only human to purchase that album. "Gimme the Prize (Kurgan's Theme)" is the only song I know of with a sword fight in it. Discuss.

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » October 31st, 2006, 3:37 pm

Jastroch wrote:
mcnichol wrote:
Jastroch wrote:"A Kind of Magic," Queen's soundtrack for the movie Highlander ... pre-Losing My Religion REM albums...
I know a guy who can hook you up. Let's talk.
I thought I was the only human to purchase that album. "Gimme the Prize (Kurgan's Theme)" is the only song I know of with a sword fight in it. Discuss.

I should qualify my statement.

By 'guy', I meant 'website where I can find and download good-quality mp3s of artists/albums that aren't necessarily in the mainstream.' Nevertheless, I truly like Queen. I have the video of them doing "Killer Queen" on Top Of The Pops ready to go at a moment's notice.

York99 · Post by **York99** » October 31st, 2006, 3:37 pm

Does anyone have a hook up on Ike Willis? Even Bob (yes, Bob) had not heard of him. He was the voice and guitarist for Frank Zappa for a long time.

Jastroch · Post by **Jastroch** » October 31st, 2006, 3:41 pm

mcnichol wrote: By 'guy', I meant 'website where I can find and download good-quality mp3s of artists/albums that aren't necessarily in the mainstream.' Nevertheless, I truly like Queen. I have the video of them doing "Killer Queen" on Top Of The Pops ready to go at a moment's notice.

Queen was the very first band I was into. I listen to it now, it's a tad over done but it still fucking rocks.

shando · Post by **shando** » October 31st, 2006, 3:47 pm

York99 wrote:Does anyone have a hook up on Ike Willis? Even Bob (yes, Bob) had not heard of him. He was the voice and guitarist for Frank Zappa for a long time.

If anyone on this forum could hook you up (now that Bob is out the running), I would guess Mike D'Alonzo.

shando · Post by **shando** » November 3rd, 2006, 3:22 pm

Okay, you can't listen to these, but this is great stuff:

The Complete Incomplete Hypothetical Sufjan Discography

My favorite is the Texas entry:

1 - Stephen F. Austin Was A Friend of Mine
2 - From A Library On A Hill, Or Lyndon Baines Johnson Talks On The Telephone While Sitting On The John
3 - The Galleria Mall Fountain Song
4 - George H.W. Bush Claims A Houston Hotel Room As His Permanent Residence, But The I.N.S. Takes Exception To Jose Gutierrez of Juarez, Mexico's Attempt To Do The Same
5 - Texarcana, And Other Obscure Facts about Our Borders
6 - Oh, I-10, You Bisect This Great State with Love
7 - South Padre Island Is Not So Fun In The Wintertime
8 - Galveston Recovers From The Great Hurricane, But Never Recaptures It's Former Grandeur
9 - Black Gold, Texas Tea
10 - On The Contemplation Of The Stars At Night In Big Bend National Park And The Corresponding Sense Of Desolate Isolation
11 - Paris
12 - Old El Paso Is Not Just a Brand of Condiments, They Also Have A Pretty Good Basketball Team Out There
13 - Remember The Alamo Dome!
14 - Stanley Korshak Rules Dallas Retail with A Velvet Glove
15 - The River Walk Forever, Or How Davy Crockett Built A Canal To Nowhere
16 - It's Easy To Forget That Mission Control and Gilley's Are Less Than A Mile From Each Other
17 - Hakeem, the Dream!
18 - Ann Richards, We Shall Remember You (And Especially Your Hair) When You Are Gone

DollarBill · Post by **DollarBill** » November 3rd, 2006, 3:47 pm

I just popped in some old Megadeath albums that I haven't listened to since highschool. The lead guitar player from '89 - 2000, Marty Friedman... Holy Crap. I didn't realize how good he is. He really knows his theory... or at least seems to. He plays over the changes so well it's almost like metal jazz. He doesn't just hammer on and off the minor pentatonic all day. Amazing arpegiated runs, he even gets a tiny bit outside sometimes (I think on purpose). He doesn't just play fast either, he slows down and takes advantage of dissonance and resolution. He's good. Real good. You should listen. It's fun to listen to music.

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » November 3rd, 2006, 3:56 pm

Old 'deth?!?
Shit Bill, we need to talk metal.

vine311 · Post by **vine311** » November 3rd, 2006, 4:12 pm

If there's one thing I know a lot about (and there probably is only one thing) it's old metal. We need to have a Headbanger's Ball-a-thon or something.

kaci_beeler · Post by **kaci_beeler** » November 3rd, 2006, 5:34 pm

The Decemberists are fucking awesome, and their new album that came out last month, The Crane Wife, is no exception.