From broken@your-net.com Wed Apr 7 19:48:05 1999 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id TAA33388 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 19:48:05 -0700 Received: from your-net.com (IDENT:root@your-net.com [208.23.218.10]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id TAA24950 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 19:48:04 -0700 Received: from xxxxxxxx (usr2P152.your-net.com [208.23.218.152]) by your-net.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA24263 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 23:00:53 -0400 Message-ID: <008c01be8183$5d7992e0$98da17d0@xxxxxxxx> Reply-To: "nailbunny" From: "nailbunny" To: Subject: Re: ok jennii, liist, here's my chunk o crap i'm listening to... Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 22:30:33 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 dont forget lard and dead kennedys, heh i still love on ministrys "in case you didnt feel like showing up" video jello goes into his flag pledge rant, that is what i would classify most of his stuff as just a bunch of ranting, its great adamn > >jello biafra - if evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve = all >spoken word. a 3 cd set of jello railing against the world, democracy, and >everything contained therein. most of his arguments are well-thought out, >tinged with humour by exposing the ridiculous, and somehow scary all at the >same time. it's almost all political, how your president is failing you, >how the police are failing you, how your churches are failing you, and so i >get a big charge out of it. if you can't take some politics, skip ahead. >if the aesthetics of a good mix are necessary to you, don't go here either - >there are places where i can only imagine he liked his phrasing of something >a little better at another preformance, so overdubs of his speech are >common, but obvious, which to me makes it okay. he's not trying to hide >anything - he just likes this version better. > >no knife - ...drunk on the moon... = i thought i was going to like this a >lot more than i did. i loved their second album, "...hit man dreams...", >and was very intrigued to go back and hear their first. in most places i >found it plodding, maybe even semi-rehearsed. this is the sound of a band >that all has mono or head colds or really bad terminal gas pains for the >entire time they're booked. no, i don't know if that really happened, i'm >just saying that there is something wrong with this stuff, as copmpared to >their subsequent effort. wow. i've never said that about music before. i >guess i'm just dumbfounded how a band with an album so innovative and alive >and amazing could have such a sleepy opener. had i listened to drunk on the >moon first, i'd never have bothered with hit man dreams. oh well. get it >only if you are nuts for these guys and want to be a completist. > >meshuggah - chaosphere = wow. good god. this is very metal, very thrash, >very very very very...amazing. how metal are they? they are touring with >slayer right now. it's a good fit, but i have a feeling it's going to be >like the changing of the guard. meshuggah are from some damn place . . . >sweden i think . . . and have released four or five albums from there, and >this is their first tour of america. long time coming. very aggressive, >very intricate, very detailed, very brutal to the senses. it's like john >coltrane, craw, don caballero, and fear factory all rolled up into a package >with distorted vocals. i hope those are distorted. but these guys are >talented. individually and as a group. lots and lots of time changes, in >fact, it makes more musical sense to just map out the patterns of what >they're doing song-to-song than it does to actually assign a time signature >that changes every couple measures. it might take a couple listens to sink >in, and only will if you like that hard/heavy/distorted stuff, but it's a >VERY rewarding album. wow. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: FAILURE-owner@u.washington.edu >[mailto:FAILURE-owner@u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of UnitShiftr@aol.com >Sent: Saturday, April 03, 1999 4:08 PM >To: FML [failure mailing list] >Subject: happy easter (or happy spring..) :) plus new stuff. > > >Hello FaiLuRe FaMiLy! >just wanted to wish you all a Happy Easter, or a Happy Spring break.. >:) >hope things are going well for you all! >On a side note... are there any NEW bands that you guys have come across (in >your listening expertise as honorary failure listers) that we all should >know >about?????? >Or maybe any really great slightly newer albums.. >here's a list of stuff you guys should try checking out the next time your >in >the listening section at a Music Store . >(numbered..but not in an order of how i like em..but just numbered so you >can >tell them apart easily!) >1. Finger Eleven "Tip" >2. Poster Children "new world record" >3. Placebo "Without You I'm Nothing" >5. Econoline Crush "The Devil You Know" >6. Jets To Brazil "Orange rhyming dictionary" >7. Burning Airlines "Mission:Control!" >8. the new album by SLOAN..i cant remember what its called at the >moment..whoops.. >9. Sebadoh "the sebadoh" >10.Deftones "around the fur" >11. Blur "13" > >and i cant think of any other sorta newer albums that you might not have >listened to.. >but check some of these bands out sometime :) > >~Jennii .