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I'm a big Tool fan, They may only do an album every 6 years but boy, you can live in it for twice as long!
Soo...

Tool - 'Right in Two'
Tom Waits - 'Step right up' (actually, insert any Tom Waits song there...legend)
Marilyn Manson - 'Coma White'
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - 'Puppy Dog Snails'
King Crimson - '21st Century Schizoid man'

I used to love AFI. Everything up to Art of Drowning was stellar. I saw them supporting Good Riddance when Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes had just come out, and despite being regularly zapped by dodgy wiring at the venue, they were tremendous.

Then something very strange happend when they left Nitro. They turned horribly bland and generic. It was truly tragic to watch.

I think the same thing happened to BoySetsFire around the same time. After the Eulogy and everything that preceeded it was goosebump-inducing loveliness delivered with a ten tonne sledgehammer. Then BoySetsFire kind of lost their fire...

incidentally, if you like AFI, I'd strongly recommend you check out Son of Sam if you haven't already - it's Samhain with Davey Havoc singing... It was seriously meant to be. Also, check out the Nerve Agents and the Freeze.

okay, I'll quit gibbering...

I agree up to Art of Drowning they were best and than... I'll look for Son of Sam et cetera.

VoodooMick wrote:Almost tempted to post as a new thread but not sure if it has enuff substance to warrant that.. any Pistols fans have any thoughts about John Lydon's decision to advertise butter on telly? I don't like it at all. Dunno why really, I just don't.

I didn't know who it was in the ad until Colin told me. But I have serious facial recognition problems, so that's a very common event in our house.

For anyone who hasn't seen the ad, look here:
http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA7394

VoodooMick wrote:Almost tempted to post as a new thread but not sure if it has enuff substance to warrant that.. any Pistols fans have any thoughts about John Lydon's decision to advertise butter on telly? I don't like it at all. Dunno why really, I just don't.

I think it's a lot of fun. He probably did it because he genuinely likes the product. Have you seen his Megabugs series? It's inspired. I genuinely like him for being prepared to say "that's not on" and making a fuss when someone's deliberately stomping on the harmless - even spiders! I couldn't believe it when someone called him racist. I don't think he could either.

I liked him even more for swearing and getting thrown off that jungle thingy a few years ago. The producers wouldn't tell him if his wife had arrived safely in Australia, so he wanted out and swearing at 8pm on ITV is guaranteed to do it. The reason he was upset was that he was due to fly on the Pan Am flight that was blown up over Lockerbie in 1988 but he missed the flight because he was having a blazing row with his wife. Since then they've always called each other as soon as they land to say they got there okay. All the producers had to do was say she was fine...

Robert Johnson - Terraplane Blues

Tom Waits - Invitation To The Blues

Violent Femmes - Kiss Off

Sleeper - What Do I Do Now

The Band - Rockin' Chair

Would probably give you a completely different five tomorrow

Radiohead - Reckoner

Giant Sand - Temptation of Egg (Alt. Country)

Autechre - Rae (dense electronica)

Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa, the first movement: Ludus (contemporary Estonian classical composer)

Gorecki - Third symphony (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)

No significance should be attached to the order. I would say that Part is my favourite composer of any genre. I'm not sure about the name of the last piece. I've lost the CD and it is well over two years since I last heard it but it is extraordinarily beautiful.

Is anyone into anything really heavy? (No bingo)

Ian the Mental-Ian wrote:Is anyone into anything really heavy? (No bingo)

Myself and my wife take turns in pretending to be the Marquis De Sade every Tuesday if that's what you mean?

Music wise:
Elbow
Randy Travis
Tom Waits
Airforce
Spencer Davis Group
Jose Feliciano

If you're interested in it look for "Bring Me The Horizon". They're to much for some people but for my strange taste in music they're amazing. (No Bingo. IF you don't like screaming than listen to the guitar and drums they are ace.)

Well young man, if you want proper heavy guitars with fantastic drumming, and i may even venture "awesome" drumming, may i suggest these to you:

TASTE
SKID ROW (now, i do NOT mean the hateful eighties group, but the 60s original - it had Gary Moore from Thin Lizzy in it)
BADCAT BONES
LEAFHOUND
FREE

Also, a very hard to get track called "Never had a girl like you before" by The Misunderstood. A pedal-steel guitar played through a distortion and wah-wah pedal if you please.

Ian the Mental-Ian wrote:Is anyone into anything really heavy? (No bingo)

Yeah. Girlschool. They're the best heavy metal band I've ever seen, and by far the loudest. I saw them at The Witchwood in 1992 and was both happy and deaf for days. The problem was, I saw Julian Cope at the Manchester Academy two days later (the Jehovakill tour - very nice). I was without about the top third of my hearing for around a week. Good times.

Duplicity wrote:it had Gary Moore from Thin Lizzy in it

I had no idea Gary Moore was in Thin Lizzy! Not that I'm a fan of the latter. There was a time when I had a Gibson Les Paul and gurned like Gary Moore while trying to get that 20 second sustained note from Parisienne Walkways (live version from Blues Alive)... And then we got robbed and the only thing they took was the Les Paul. I wrote a song about it. Still scarred.

Gary Moore is great, but awfully bland. He's no Jimmy Page though.

I have planned my funeral. Here is how it will pan out.

People arrive.

"Science Fiction Double Feature" from Rocky Horror Show is played (with words printed in funeral programme).

People stand up and say how nice I was, sorry I'm gone, etc. etc.

Then play sax theme from Bladerunner just to make sure they all bloody well cry.

Then as my coffin moves from view on juddery conveyor belt, the theme from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is played very loudly.

Then I jump out of my coffin, snarl at the congregation and reveal my fangs, leap from the conveyor belt and run out of the crematorium. The sunlight then strikes me and I burst into flames. While writhing in agony outside the chapel I set fire to the flowers laid out by well-wishers and scare an old lady walking her dog through the garden of rememberance.

As the stunned mourners file out of the chapel, a small pile of still smoking ashes is all that remains of me.

Of course that's what would happen in an ideal world. In reality it'll probably be a bit different.

Actually the ideal scenario would involve a gothic castle, experiments that were an insult to both god and man, and a lynch mob of local villagers carrying stakes and flaming torches. But how often do you get that these days?

You know I was just pondering the fact the other day that you never see a good torch carrying mob nowadays... Ah well, It's global warming's fault I know it is...

Ian the Mental-Ian wrote:You know I was just pondering the fact the other day that you never see a good torch carrying mob nowadays... Ah well

Far too many Health and Safety Laws forbidding it in case someone singes their eyebrows and screams for compensation. Spoilsports....