What are you listening to at the moment?

Тeatime · Post by **Тeatime** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 4:56 pm

Hoist the colours from Pirates of the Caribbean
That song always makes me shiver

John117 · Post by **John117** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:01 pm

Gotta get away from me

The offspring

ironmaiden83 · Post by **ironmaiden83** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:42 pm

Journeyman - Iron Maiden

Masser · Post by **Masser** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:04 pm

Island in the sun- Weezer.

Тeatime · Post by **Тeatime** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:11 pm

Sweeney Todd - My friends
For some reason hearing Johnny Depp sing just makes me happy

Cactus · Post by **Cactus** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:45 pm

My fiancee has had that movie on repeat for about three days.

r · Post by r » Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:09 pm

Pink Floyd - Time

One of the best intros ever.

leroybrown · Post by **leroybrown** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:19 pm

^ we never agree on music but thats an awesome song right there

Back on topic though, zz top - blue jean blues

r · Post by r » Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:34 pm

leroybrown wrote:^ we never agree on music but thats an awesome song right there

Yes we do! Radiohead, man!

The Tourist · Post by **The Tourist** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:38 am

the very lovely I bloom blaum - Coldplay

Not a hip band to like, but X&Y was a real stonker, and their first album was melancholically lush.

See also: See You Soon

(subtle e-bow goodness - i don't have an e-bow.. i want an e-bow..)

pfc vasquez · Post by **pfc vasquez** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:45 am

We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters (lol)

r · Post by r » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:44 pm

The Tourist wrote:the very lovely I bloom blaum - Coldplay

Not a hip band to like, but X&Y was a real stonker, and their first album was melancholically lush.

See also: See You Soon

(subtle e-bow goodness - i don't have an e-bow.. i want an e-bow..)

I love my E-bow, it's a great little toy. I've also got a cello bow which I wield Jonsi Birgisson of Sigur Ros-style to create epic walls of n0i53.

Coldplay? Parachutes = incredible, A Rush Of Blood = incredible bar a few dud tracks (Clocks and Daylight - Oi! Martin! No!).

X&Y I was a bit disappointed by. It's covered in the sound of a band being too ambitious. Coldplay are at their best playing melancholy acoustic rock with huge choruses. Drenching everything in synths and lyrics that sound like the very worst dregs of 70s prog rock just don't work. That said, most of side 1 is good, Twisted Logic is good and Til Kingdom Come is just amazing. They could have made a fantastic EP out of it.

What really bothers me, though, is their refusal to recruit a keyboard player to play live with them, instead piping all the synths in from tapes, basically turning Coldplay live into a 4-man karaoke act. Seriously, is it that difficult to find a keyboard player? I'd play keyboards for them if they asked me...

The Tourist · Post by **The Tourist** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:27 pm

r; don't you have to re-rig the pick-ups - usually humbuckers - to get the cello bow to do its thang (plus raise the action)? I've never tried it, because I'm far too conventional with my single Strat.

I got into Parachutes before it went overground, and loved it (Sparks and We Never Change are my definite faves). And when the reviews and hype machine for A Rush Of Blood came around, I got pretty excited. Music journos were giving the impression that they were about to 'do a Radiohead'; and actually becoming seriously good. When I heard it? I hated it.. if ever there was a difficult second album, that's it. Barring Green Eyes, The Scientist and Clocks, the rest was just filler - I've never been more disappointed with an album in my life.

So when X&Y came around, I stayed well away. Never have I directed so much random vitriol towards a band and an album than for that. Then I grudgeingly listened to my sisters copy. And hated it even more... but slowly, somehow, it worked its way into my brain - and now I think it's genuinely one of the best modern mainstream 'band' albums of the post-Radiohead world.

Chris Martin's certainly no lyricist, but I've always liked his voice and his delivery - even if he's seemingly turned his back on truly paired down acoustic gorgeousness; I bloom blaum, See You Soon, and the also lush>>>

Careful Where You Stand - Coldplay

ironmaiden83 · Post by **ironmaiden83** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:29 pm

New Frontier - Iron Maiden

r · Post by r » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:48 pm

The Tourist wrote:r; don't you have to re-rig the pick-ups - usually humbuckers - to get the cello bow to do its thang (plus raise the action)? I've never tried it, because I'm far too conventional with my single Strat.

To just do single-note drones line Jonsi I didn't have to do anything to the set-up, but if you want to be able to play all the strings you need to adjust the action of each string so the strings are arched, like a violin.

I wouldn't recommend doing it on a Strat because the polepieces on the pickups aren't covered, meaning the rosin from the bow will get into them and as it's an electrical insulator will basically stop them from working. I use my Les Paul as my bowing guitar.

TrogdorCronus27 · Post by **TrogdorCronus27** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:13 pm

Counting Crows-Hard Candy

r · Post by r » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:16 pm

Mogwai - Glasgow Mega-Snake

Sublymonal · Post by **Sublymonal** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:24 pm

Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver

The Tourist · Post by **The Tourist** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:50 pm

r wrote:...but if you want to be able to play all the strings you need to adjust the action of each string so the strings are arched, like a violin.

See, that makes sense. But there's no way I'd convert my one and only, even if I could. I have enough problems with crazy tunings, without having the trauma of another niche guitar sitting around waiting to be loved..

Influx - DJ Shadow
(I can't believe one of J.Davis's best is on YouTube. one of the finest 'protest-beats/sampled/cuts' tracks in existence, and evidence of DJ Shadow's monumental influence - in the old days, before he went wrong. Influx is epic stuff, and it needs to be cranked up.. - a shame the outro is cut off on this version)

One of the tracks that got me into DJ Shadow: Midnight In A Perfect World

Caldyn_Blade · Post by **Caldyn_Blade** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:14 pm

We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters

I feel ya... To me, it isn't even Christmas until I've heard one of the Carpenters' Christmas songs.... Karen had an incredible and unmistakable voice....

TrogdorCronus27 · Post by **TrogdorCronus27** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:50 pm

The War - Angels and Airwaves.

Guy No. 2 · Post by **Guy No. 2** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:22 pm

System Of A Down-Chop Suey

Lunarsweets · Post by **Lunarsweets** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:02 pm

Thnks for the mrmies-Fall out boy...good song...better band, I like thier rock-ish nature...

jlee892008 · Post by **jlee892008** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:04 pm

throught the fire and flames- Dragonforce

easily the hardest song on Guiter Hero III to play..even i your fingers were physically capable...the mind would need countless hours of memorizeation....

r · Post by r » Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:28 pm

Later With Jools Holland on the telly-box, probably the craziest line-up I've ever seen him host. The Charlatans, Pigeon Detectives, Was Not Was, The Yamato Drummers of Japan and Eartha Kitt. Hmm...