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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: May 16, 2015, 08:48:23 AM »

speaking of poet-guitarists been listening to greg sage's solo albums which vary in quality song to song but there's some serious gems in there, especially the title track of "sacrifice for love". it's clear he had moved to the desert by this point. love the shitty digi-drums as well, sounds like some of the demos I used to make with my 505.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: May 07, 2015, 11:39:06 AM »

been hitting the chris d pretty hard lately w/the third flesh eaters lp and the first divine horsemen. spurred on by watching border radio for the first time. love the metal tinge on forever came today that's not present on minute to pray... still haven't listened to the first one (always thought minute to pray was their first)!! other than that it's been some peter jefferies and all the 45s I got from the siltbreeze discogs sale. what I call a "block of rock". 

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: s/booze Discogs sale

« on: March 04, 2015, 06:06:36 PM »

fuckin right!!!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - Straight to Video - Vinyl Release 3/24

« on: February 22, 2015, 06:19:36 AM »

no shipping to canada....mother fuckers!!!

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Music Shit / Re: Native American Punk

« on: February 13, 2015, 10:04:32 AM »

don't know shit about the history and such but I'm pretty sure my buddy cody whos played in just about every band that doesn't suck in halifax in past five or so years is mi'kmaq. without him this place would be SUPREMELY desolate for sure, instead of just kind of desolate.

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Music Shit / Re: Ohio Music

« on: February 11, 2015, 07:43:22 PM »

hooooomoooostooooopiiidd ddssss!!!!

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Music Shit / Re: Best state for music?

« on: February 11, 2015, 04:51:33 AM »

just reading a cramps interview and this came up: says ivy, "...ohio's weird, because like DEVO said, there are like spuds and a few quirky outsiders, and the place made the crazy people even crazier. so even though it was repressed in some ways, there was kind of a cool underworld there."

makes sense! growing up (in ontario) the only thing that represented ohio to me was drew carey shouting its name into an echo unit. I definitely didn't believe him when he said that cleveland rocks. still kind of shocking to think about how much ohio's music has impacted my adult life, especially the eels, h100s, tjsa, and gbv. GOD BLESS OHIO.

one last thing: one of two times I've been to the USA was to go to cleveland with my high school band (read: the band of my high school not my band in high school) to perform the pirates of the carribean theme or some shit like that in the rock and roll hall of fame. my band in high school, however, did made up the rhythm section of the high school band and they let us play our instrumental cover of "little wing" . if only ron house had dropped the bomb right then and there...

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Music Shit / Re: Great Musicians' / Music Quotes

« on: February 05, 2015, 01:59:47 PM »

"fuck you"
-allesandro aka anus of the grabbies

"I think people like me because I make a real good piece of art. sometimes I make a real bad piece of art. but once I started I didn't stop." [freeze frame on a bizarre facial expression reminiscent of alfred e. newman]
-iggy (paraphrased)

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: February 03, 2015, 08:23:16 AM »

just finished "crime and punishment". for some reason every time I finish a dostoyevsky novel I'm overcome with the immediate desire to listen to thin lizzy - no joke it's happened three times in the past year!

dostoevsky though, shit. there's some proto-punk for ya.

I'm reading Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald. It's good so far, though it's a very academic approach on blues—not light reading. There's a lot about white influence on blues; the artists, the consumers, and of course the segregation and general racism. There is also quite a bit about the women of blues, pre-Bessie Smith and their influence on the more well-known male blues singers.

sounds cool. checked out leroi jones's (amiri baraka) "blue people" not too long ago and was pretty surprised by how academic it was. he was pretty young when he wrote it, pre-poet days I suppose. was also disappointed by how little he talks about 20th century folk/rural blues, which is really what I was lookin for. focuses mostly on commercialization of urban blues/jazz music. still, a worthwhile read nonetheless and pretty damn seminal being, as far as I know, the first history of black music in america written by an african american!!!

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Music Shit / Re: NWOBHM mp3 comp

« on: February 01, 2015, 07:40:58 AM »

livin on english booooooooozeeee!!!!!!!!

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Music Shit / Re: Prog/Muso/Math/Core recommendations

« on: January 19, 2015, 11:46:09 AM »

the mathrock/core thing was really big in halifax in the 2000's. thank god that was just before my time... it all makes me wanna puke and caused me a lot of unnecessary aggravation in my late teens (nobody's fault but my own).

man is the bastard: fusioncore? wood and kenyon certainly pulled a few pages from the john mclaughlin book of guit licks as far as I can tell.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: January 13, 2015, 08:33:35 PM »

definitely gonna get around to that watery love lp soon.

robert ashley "the park" for me. feels good to step out of my mind just for a bit.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: January 10, 2015, 07:14:44 AM »

someone sent me a link to the total conetrol demo a few days ago, been listening to that via youtube a bit. s'fuckin great, especially digging that BASS. definitely don't know anything about them and probably never will...

but yes someone enlighten us. if they're all 40 year old jehovah's witnesses I think we deserve to know.

these guys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5e_PkJoIVg

not 40 years old, but the matching t-shirts do suggest some sort of cult, sports team, and/or volunteering coalition.

a friend just gave me the swamp dogg record 'total destruction to your mind' so I listened to that for the first time last night. A+ liner notes!!!
 

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: January 09, 2015, 04:52:49 AM »

someone sent me a link to the total conetrol demo a few days ago, been listening to that via youtube a bit. s'fuckin great, especially digging that BASS. definitely don't know anything about them and probably never will...

but yes someone enlighten us. if they're all 40 year old jehovah's witnesses I think we deserve to know.

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Music Shit / Re: Music to fall asleep to

« on: January 06, 2015, 02:34:59 PM »

mississippi records has a tape comp called 'lullabies and dream songs' that I used to use a lot. might be able to track that down in a torrent though that was a few years ago.

also:
durutti column's "lc"
charlemagne palestine's 'strumming music'
arthur russell's 'world of echo'
hototogisu's "floating oof! gardens of the 21st century"

ever thought of audiobooks of classic lit?