Quote: Originally Posted by MdRex But lyrics are kinda shallow... 1. I agree with you. 2. I like it. 3. "I'll have a slice of your mother" is the best lyric ever. Now, back to the dance party...

Quote: Originally Posted by blip Also, I find his racism rather suprising because Nietzsche had such a thing for him. In general, from what I remember, Nietzsche considered racists to be weak idiots. Something that I will have to study at futher length sometime. Just to interject...

Quote: Originally Posted by Beatl£Maniac Can anyone suggest a more influenacial and incredible band? The Velvet Underground. I like the Beatles, too. I like The Velvet Underground more. Whether they are more influencial/incredible is, of course, a matter of opinion.

On a prehaps less serious note, I recall a NOFX song called "Clams have feelings too." Um. Its a funny song, although, NOFX is not exactly known for sXe...

After the Gold Rush is one of my favorites too... Quote: Originally Posted by s m @ but I don't think many would say that 'hawks and doves' is one of them. But for the price I'd grab it anyway. I second this. If you buy Hawks and Doves, don't expect it to measure up to 'After...

She may not be lesser known, but I really enjoyed Gillian Welch's last album (Soul Journey). I don't listen to a lot of folk/country, but I like this one a lot, especially "Look at Miss Ohio" and "One Monkey." The sparce but well thought out instrumentation combined with Welch's steady, slow...

Okay, okay. So don't laugh at me (unless you really want to) but I really like the soundtrack from "The Lost Boys" You know, the cheesy vampire movie from the 80s starring Corey Feldman? Yea. But really, Echo and the Bunnymen playing 'People are Strange' is a good time...

I would have to go with: Arcade Fire - "Funeral" This album so totally rocks my socks...continuously. In fact, its rocking them right now...

From left to right: sony D-66 eggos, Rio Karma, Koss Portapros, Diamond Rio PMP 300 (32 megs). Mostly I just wanted to show of the oldschool, and still working, PMP300.

The Arcade Fire's "Funeral" which came out a couple months ago is very, very good. The story is that band members' family members kept dying, so much of the album is about life and death and such, but more in that uplifiting kind of way than that depressing kind of way. Beyond that (and more...

Mine too.

Wait. Am I to understand that you deliberately droped your $250 audio player on the floor repeatedly? Or was that a joke? My advice is to get another Karama, since you seemed to like it. This time however, use different "tactics" to restore it to working order. I've had my Karma for around...

Styrofoam makes baby Jesus cry.

Yea, they're pretty good. They used to play at the Middle East in Cambridge all the time. Havn't seen them in awhile. Too bad...

Pretty sure you don't have a fulty disc and that is the way its supposed to sound. Welcome to the world of lo-fi indie rock .

So I want to buy William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops" both because its been getting great reviews and it seems to have a very interesting back story. However, it seems to be difficult to find an online store that carries it. Can anyone tell me a good place to buy this (and attest to its...

Maybe I missed it, but I can't believe no one has mentioned Metallica. I always felt kinda neutral towards their music (metal was never my favorite). But after they started sueing their own fans I could no longer stand to hear their songs (I mean, it was bad enough when they cut their hair)...

Sigur Ros' album () is good for studying. Soothing and slowish. Not a lot of lyrics, and when there are lyrics, they are in some sort of Icelandic language that I obviously don't speak, so they don't distract.

According to Ian MacKaye, the music of the future = ska+emo it will be called, of course, skemo. I for one can't wait.

Most recently, Modest Mouse's "Float On" has been making me feel okayish about life. It makes a real good single.

Against Me! is supposed to release a "Sink Florida Sink" 7" sometime this summer. I'm looking forward to owning that...and maybe they'll eventually re-release their original S/T full length that was actually never really released. That would be awesome, but I really don't see it happening...

Alas, hardcore is not now what it was in the late 80s. If you find yourself enjoying fugazi a lot and want more, I recomend checking out the three bands Guy Piccioto was in before Fugazi. Namely, Rites of Spring, One Last Wish, and Happy Go Licky. Of the three, Happy Go Licky is the most...

While I too am tempted to vote for "Everybody hurts" I think I have to go with Jawbreaker's "Shield Your Eyes". Depressing? Sad? Whatever.

As Helloween pointed out, Faint drifted towards new wave on Blank Wave Arcade. I've heard them described as "Dance Punk" (for good reason I think, you can certainly get down with Blank Wave Arcade) and if you like...Hot Hot Heat, or maybe Rapture, you'd probably really like Blank Wave Arcade. I...

I usually don't recomend anything to people unless they ask. Usually people don't like my recomendations... That said, in an effort to keep my aging lawyer/sister as hip and cool as possible I have given her both Neutral Milk Hotel albums and Sigur Ros' (). She claims to like all of them and...