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Non-Music Shit / Re: Name Brand Guitars

« on: February 20, 2008, 10:44:12 AM »

NAME BRAND FENDER NASHVILLE TELECASTER (MEXICAN "DELUXE" MODEL):

Not pictured: NAME BRAND MARSHALL JCM 900 COMBO AMP

At probably our worst gig ever (not pictured) I broke two strings on the first song and then the top bit of the nut that holds the low E string on fell off. Both strap pegs have fallen out many a time, and once in the middle of a big London gig. Overall pretty beat up and probably not worth nearly as much as what I paid for it.

I made up for that by scoring one of these for about a quarter of what it's worth though:

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Music Shit / Re: Good music blogs

« on: February 18, 2008, 02:17:02 PM »

I was happy to see Mark Prindle's record review site (markprindle.com) on SSR's list of links recently.

Mark Prindle's record review site predated blogs by about seven years, but it's basically the same idea.  His M.O. is to review the entire discography of a given artist, all at once, and then open the site to reader comments.  In the last decade, Mark's produced some of the very best music writing I've ever read.  I read his site not so much to find out about new music (most of his reviews are of older, well-known records), but for the quality of his prose. 

His style is distinctively, uh, "mercurial": a typical review will start out as perceptive, straightforward description of the music and then abruptly veer off into these hilariously absurd, deliberately "offensive" digressions -- crazy, god-awful puns, insults, anecdotes about his dog Henry, alcoholic ramblings, disgusting sex jokes, rankings of psychotronic movies.   He weathers all kinds of abuse from sub-moronic readers who a) don't get his jokes; and / or b) take their favorite bands WAY too seriously.  After ten years, the site has grown into a catalog of music-nerd pathology.  And through it all you catch glimpses of Mark's fundamental decency and, uh, humanity.  I've met the dude a couple of times and he is one of the nicest, brightest people ever to review the Crucifucks.  He hates jazz and loves GG.

My favorites for sheer entertainment value are his pages on The Smiths: markprindle.com/smiths.htm and Bowie: markprindle.com/bowie.htm.

Yeah, I never expect him to be right about anything (though sometimes he is spot on), but it's a great read. There's a lot of new stuff on there since last time I checked too - when I first found the site three of four years ago I thought it was dormant.

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Music Shit / Re: good soundtracks

« on: February 17, 2008, 12:39:00 PM »

her'es the groovy go-go soundtrack overdose from me to you'se:

http://www.divshare.com/download/3788980-04f

I am listening to it and I like it!

Now everyone listen to those Italian compilations that I went to all the effort of accidentally finding and then posting.

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Music Shit / Re: good soundtracks

« on: February 17, 2008, 12:24:32 PM »

the holy mountain's soundtrack rules but the only copy i've heard has dialogue and sound effects over everything.   it's got don cherry (who played with ornette coleman) and ronald frangipane who played with everyone from the stones to the archies.

here's a link to the soundtrack: http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/139

I've got the boxset with the soundtracks to El Topo and Holy Mountain, I'll rip 'em to my Soulseek(Robthebank).

Wasn't too keen on either of the films though. Should've known, really, not too into trip-fests. I just had to check them out, as Santa Sangre is one of the greatest films ever.

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Music Shit / Re: the mp3 vs the hard copy

« on: February 15, 2008, 05:02:26 PM »

Through tiny computer/laptop speakers I concede the difference is minimal. But through half-decent headphones I find there's a really big difference in the clarity.

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Music Shit / Re: good soundtracks

« on: February 15, 2008, 04:43:01 PM »

Not sure if I'd listen to it outside of the movie, but N. Young's soundtrack to Dead Man is absolutely perfect.

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Music Shit / Re: the mp3 vs the hard copy

« on: February 15, 2008, 04:41:11 PM »

I just did the same with my dad's super-expensive hi-fi and it sounded muddy as fuck. I guess the MP3s are just cleaner in the land of the free.

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Music Shit / Re: good soundtracks

« on: February 15, 2008, 04:29:35 PM »

While looking this up I came across this 3-volume compilation of Italian soundtracks, which I will presently be downloading. It looks amazing.

These are pretty sweet. Also I must see PORNO HOLOCAUST.

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Music Shit / Re: the mp3 vs the hard copy

« on: February 15, 2008, 04:23:01 PM »

Come on, can none of you vinyl junkies hear the difference between mp3s and CDs? It's fucking massive! And tapes, jesus... I've got a friend who makes loads of great compilations but only on tape, and I can't stand that tape sound quality.

Records are great, but you've gotta turn them over, put the needles down precisely, blah blah... I'm far too clumsy a drunk sometimes. 

I guess I'm from Europe too. Must be something in the water.

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Music Shit / Re: the mp3 vs the hard copy

« on: February 15, 2008, 08:50:12 AM »

I like CDs a lot, although it's clear they are on the decline. I much prefer taking my CD walkman out with me if I can than my MP3 player. MP3s have the highest convenience but the lowest worth to me - I listen to them a lot, but I never consider them as a final product, as something I own. Never have and never will pay for one.

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Music Shit / Re: good soundtracks

« on: February 14, 2008, 06:55:40 PM »

Beast with a Gun has a wicked dark synth soundtrack. There's a hip hop group that made a whole album with it as a backing track, can't remember who though. Here's a track from the original soundtrack, all I could find...

While looking this up I came across this 3-volume compilation of Italian soundtracks, which I will presently be downloading. It looks amazing.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: best video game ever

« on: February 14, 2008, 06:50:19 AM »

Although it hasn't been mentioned, and it should have been, this thread has made me really want to play Monkey Island 2 again. I don't think they've made an XP version of it yet though. Lucasarts are cunts.

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Music Shit / Re: busy signals on pitchfork

« on: February 12, 2008, 06:26:24 AM »

To be fair, if you read closely, the reviewer didn't call the Buzzcocks obscure at all. 

"recall plenty of 1970s punk rockers and power-poppers like the Buzzcocks and likely a dozen more obscure acts"

If the reviewer had said "other obscure" acts then that would be correct.

Could be read either way, really. Should really be 'a dozen other, more obscure acts.'

Or they could have, y'know, put an iota of effort in and actually listed some of them.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: best video game ever

« on: February 12, 2008, 04:02:15 AM »

Currently playing Harvest Moon on the SNES (on Wii) and Advance Wars DS, both great games. Recent highlights have been Super Mario Galaxy and Excite Truck. Some of my all-time faves are probably on the Gamecube though: Resident Evil 4, Killer7, Eternal Darkness, Super Monkey Ball.

Despite the fact I already play in a band, I really want to play Rock Band.

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Music Shit / Re: Help me turn out a typical indie rock/college rock listener...

« on: January 18, 2008, 04:16:43 AM »

I found the people at my university to be incredibly close-minded, a lot of inverse snobbery going on if you dared to suggest something was better than what they were into. I recall one particularly frustrating conversation where a guy was insisting that the Black Keys are the pinnacle of lo-fi.

It was a particularly terrible town to be based in though- Colchester, England. Absolutely no 'alternative' events except an indie night on thursdays. And electro is the order of the day in indie right now, to the point where they actually play fucking house music.

The Dirtbombs passed through once and about 30 people went to see them.