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You can relate to a lesbian song? :P Saxon's Ann Marie Nah it's misinterpreted that way. It's not about lesbians - it's from a male perspective. Why he got Yuki to sing it is beyond me. Nick Drake - Road

Asobi Seksu - Goodbye Often misinterpreted as a lesbian song but if I'm not wrong, the band's guitarist James Hanna writes their English lyrics and Yuki sings them. She made me open up my eyes until I finally looked around me when I heard her soft reply. I can't pretend to try; I'll do anything if just to make her stay. Maybe a little cheesy, but I can relate to it in a way.

Words can't really describe how lame I feel posting here. That wasn't directed at anyone. I do feel I should be maybe a little less secretive sometimes, though. Today was spent mostly sleeping. Woke up at about 12, cleaned up my bedroom a bit and basically played videogames until I decided to go to the gym at 7:45pm. I played a little of Shadow of the Colossus earlier. Holy [bleep]damn that is a beautiful game - I hadn't played it for a while, so it was quite overwhelming. If you haven't played it I strongly recommend that you do so. Yeah. All of my days are this uneventful.

?????? - nakano kill you Perfect for when I feel a little troubled.

Ride - Vapour Trail Nowhere is a beautiful album.

Oh wow that is just... horrible. I've never even listened to Avenged Sevenfold. Been looking for a reason to avoid them completely and I've finally found one.

THIS. This quote sums up 99% of my days. Add videogames and music and that's me exactly. I don't know about you guys but I'm quite content with doing just that. I've been going onto the internet straight after school until I go to bed, which is pretty late. I've been doing this since high school, the only time I don't do it is when someone asks me to do something with them. I don't really mind it. Sometimes I wish I had more social hobbies though. I guess it's just the way my personality is - introverted and eccentric. I'm one of those people who is quite secretive when it comes to their hobbies also.

THIS. This quote sums up 99% of my days. Add videogames and music and that's me exactly. On the note of Internet friends: I've never actually met any of mine. ;o Would like to meet one or two though.

It's not like I see the point in going (much) younger if you're over the age of consent in my country, anyway. I just didn't think it was that strange due to a couple of people I know doing that. Point taken, proven wrong, moving on.

I'm pretty happy today seeing as my new mouse came. Razer Diamondback 3G - a big step up from all my other mice. I'm so happy that I took a picture of it (next to my older mice): God [bleep]ing damn I love wasting money on peripherals.

Boris' Soundtrack From Film "Mabuta no Ura". You know what? I lied when I said Rainbow was my favourite Boris release. This is. An unconventional favourite and one that gets a lot of unfounded hate from fans of Boris, but it's a very relaxing ambient album.

How is that album? I don't remember if you've said anything about it or not. Porcupine Tree's Deadwing. Probably the most anthemic and memorable of Porcupine Tree's discography, and also my favourite album from their metal-influenced period.

:o I never would have thought of you as a KC fan. What's your favourite album? You guys got me into KC. I have to be original and say In The Court of the Crimson King, because it's the first one I ever heard. Just sounds like it would go great with some sort of sweeping Greek epic plus spaceman kind of movie. If I ever make a movie (a serious thought of mine), I would so most def use KC. Plus I've never been too impressed with Pink Floyd. I mean, my favorite song is "Wish You Were Here". Real Floydians would [bleep] kill me. Most KC fans kill me because I like their 1980s sound most. Discipline is a [bleep]ing great album and if you don't have it, I recommend picking it up as soon as you can. It's very rare for every song on an album to stick with me. It's considerably more relaxed and mellow than their earlier albums and they've lost the jazz fusion, which is why I love it so much.

Props for Sigur Rós and Arcade Fire. :thumbup: Porcupine Tree's Signify. The transitional album between their older sound laden with psychedelic, Pink Floyd, and krautrock influences to their mid-period acoustic rock sound. The weakest of the three albums (the others being Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun) but it has such beautiful tracks as Sleep of No Dreaming, Waiting Phase One, and Every Home Is Wired.

:o I never would have thought of you as a KC fan. What's your favourite album?

How do you know what they intended to do? Musically they seem to want to fuse alt. rock/alt. metal with progressive rock. Whilst they handle the first part quite well, their 'progression' seems muddled in its execution. 10,000 Days did seem to be an improvement here, but I think they definitely need to either refine the prog or just drop it outright. Instead of sounding intriguing, it sounds as if they're noodling around on their instruments and not really sure as to where to really go with their music. As I've stressed in many posts: there's not much good in using technical proficiency as a selling point when a band's song structure is messy. Just my two on Tool and the like.

Congratulations to all, but as said, in particular to Racheya and Lateralus as they never cease to impress me with the quality of their contributions to TIF.

Indeed, there aren't many. It's sort of the same idea, executed differently. Both bands remind me of The Dillinger Escape Plan in places though, which is an excellent, excellent band.

Boris with Michio Kurihara's Rainbow. Easily my favourite Boris release. I don't know what it is about psychedelic rock that makes me sentimental. It just does.

Mass of the Fermenting Dregs' ??????????. (World is Yours) Shoegaze/post-punk from Kobe, Japan. Nothing new, but it's decent.

Personally, I find Pink Floyd a very relaxing band to listen to. There's nothing like playing Wish You Were Here or Meddle after a long, stressful day. Their music just happens to have all of the elements that I think make a great rock band - simple yet effective guitar work, powerful vocals, and poetic, beautifully-crafted lyrics. I was exposed to The Dark Side of the Moon at a relatively early age and I've been an avid Pink Floyd listener ever since then. The first two tracks didn't do much for me, but the moment Time kicked in, I was absolutely sold. As for Tool: well, in all honesty I do think it's angsty music for insecure teenagers. I've somewhat refined my opinion from my "lol tool, lol maynard" days, but I can't really say that I enjoy them as a band. Whilst being a technically proficient band by anyone's standard (check out those time changes and weird rhythms), they seem to lack significantly in the ability to craft memorable songs. The only song I can vaguely remember is Schism. Like so many other contemporary bands with progressive elements, Tool seems to come short of what they actually intended to do because they indulge far too much in trying to come across as esoteric and philosophical. I've never really felt anything in them. I don't hate them anymore, mind you.

Number Girl's School Girl Distortional Addict. Maybe the worst production on any album ever. All I can hear is really muddy guitar. However, it's a great album - full of energy.

Circle Takes the Square's As the Roots Undo. Pretentious lyrics! Here is a sample: [hide=]Rejoice, rejoice a noble birth, a prince is born. Behold the birth of violence, beasts of fang and feather cry for our concrete rapture, and if we beg to be put down, unto us the most inspired storm A princess ravaged by her prince behold: the birth of sex and distance, two frail corpses both were they, his eyes were the first to stray... every tree held fast the earth to sky concrete replaces every branch and twig as they were frayed upon the birth of ambition. The heavens filled our gilded vessel with poison tears, before we drink, I propose a toast, a final prayer. Here's to the watchers in the wood, here's to the last days, unto us a most inspired song. Shaper, stop the music. Halt the harpstrings whose chords confuse our histories with textures. With the disheartened chorus of a hymnal whose choir is the conviction of the starving, artless, tempted by the feast of proof that this body of work has worth. Uncertain as the fingering of a chord torn prematurely from a piano's womb. As we fill our precious lungs with concrete, that faithful shade, a shaper's song is stopped short- a dying breath a sinking shore. Then the only movement and the last remains of grace: Pollen falling off the simple hinge joint leg upon the final breath of a dragonfly. A cardinal, lost but headstrong in midflight cries for our concrete rapture, wade...in the water, wade. Let the flood swell, thank the storm for her tears. The faithful say its beautiful, its god's will, but the fool knows what the prophets have seen, no salvation's impending. The faithful say its beautiful, its god's will, let the flood swell and the bodies that break we'll just float down the river. Stay tame, soft river, while we weigh our faith, stay sweet, run softly, sweet river, the fool who wades in doubt will float like concrete. Come and fill your lungs. There's so much hope buried underneath tragedy, its the same shade as concrete. The faithful say its beautiful, its god's will, let the flood swell on the loudspeaker sermons and a parish descending. There's so much hope buried underneath tragedy, its the same shade as concrete. Let the flood swell.[/hide]

I have really found the people I know who listen to this type of music to be the most standoffish. I've fixed the situation by keeping relatively quiet about my music around friends. This said, I'm not very involved in film and books so I can't really speak for those. It's worse when people do the whole snobby, elitistic thing when you're speaking to them in person rather than online.

Released in 2000. In 2000, Pop was mainstream. Like "I love you baaaaaby, dont ever gooo" Now it's rap and hip hop. Like "Yo dawg me and my homie Snoop Doggy Dogg jus' chillin in da back smokin' weed bangin' [garden tools]" :| Fact is, I used to shun everything as bad before I listened to it. I also find mainstream hip-hop highly entertaining, and the same goes for mainstream pop. My turn to be a whiny little [bleep] about mainstream subculture in the UK, right? Over here, we're still in that whiny, pointless post-punk revival fad. We've had some real monstrosities of bands such as Editors, Foals, the Libertines and Franz Ferdinand. I honestly can't think of a single GOOD post-punk revival band. I would much rather people here listen to hip-hop than this self-righteous, indulgent garbage. If you want to make me lose my mind you can just sit me in a room and blast out Babyshambles or something like that. The pretentious indie attitude of most younger people in the UK is horrible. I once recommended my friend a couple of my favourite indie rock bands (as I thought he liked indie rock, not this revival stuff) and he comes back with "this [cabbage] sucks, I'm TOO INDIE for it". Now, I wonder - does the music actually promote this snobby attitude, or do the kids themselves take it upon themselves to act this way? Most of the people into revival bands I know act like this, and it makes striking up a conversation with music incredibly hard because I just end up getting shot down every five seconds for "not being indie enough for us". The attitude of the music, bands and kids that listen to it sums up why post-punk revival makes me want to commit ritual suicide.