What have you been listening to?

I can't stop listening to the new QOTSA. It's brilliant.

On initial listening, I liked the new AIC but don't consider it anything next to their best. I spun it yesterday and for some reason it just didn't impress me. Guess you need to be in a certain mood.

Not everything that goes around comes back around, y' know?

That's an awesome line.

Been listening to Kanye West's Yeezus. I didn't really care for it on my first listen, but after going through it a few times, I really dig it. It's no My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but then again, I don't think I'll ever enjoy a rap album as much as that.

Kanye West is the only rapper/rap music that I like.  I think I prefer 808's and Heartbreaks the most.

Best. Shit. Ever.

If you like 808's and Heartbreaks, you might actually like Yeezus. It's probably the closest thing to that album... but Yeezus is very weird. It's probably the weirdest album I've heard in a long time, not made by Tyler, the Creator. It's worth checking out if you can find a stream of it somewhere.

Is it out yet?  

Weird music is usually my favorite music.  My favorite Radiohead song is Fitter Happier, which is all about the weird.

Yeah, it came out on Tuesday. I actually didn't like it all that much the first time I listened to it... But I love it now. There are some really fun songs on there.

I am having a hard time enjoying the new Kanye. It feels like the result of putting out an album that is considered one of the genre's best. After that album, you just go ahead and put an album like this out because... why not?

So, it's inevitable that people discover skeletons in the closet of their significant other along the journey that is a relationship. Mostly it is excusable stuff that involves drugs or sex or prison or a combination of the three. Sometimes it's a cult.

And sometimes you find your wife's two Nickelback CDs...

I love the new Black Sabbath album. Old-fashioned doom/stoner metal like their first four albums. Kinda sucks that Bill Ward couldn't make it (contract disputes) but Brad Wilk does a damn good job on the drums.

avidacridjam wrote:I love the new Black Sabbath album. Old-fashioned doom/stoner metal like their first four albums. Kinda sucks that Bill Ward couldn't make it (contract disputes) but Brad Wilk does a damn good job on the drums.

I just gave the single a listen. Brad fits in OK. It sounds like the drummer from Rage trying to hold back and respect what inspired him. Tony and Geezer are on point as always. Ozzy sounds like, well, he's on a lot of tranquilizers (SURPRISE!).

Honestly I'd love everyone's opinion on why they actually dislike (HATE) Nickelback. To me it just seems like people like to say they hate them just because everyone else says so.

Daniel Adair is great, one of my favourite drummers. And ya, I realize Chad Kroeger's voice is nothing angelic, but it works for the songs they play. There newest albums have been getting a bit more formulaic but All the Right Reasons is one of my favourite albums.

Mot wrote:Honestly I'd love everyone's opinion on why they actually dislike (HATE) Nickelback. To me it just seems like people like to say they hate them just because everyone else says so.

Daniel Adair is great, one of my favourite drummers. And ya, I realize Chad Kroeger's voice is nothing angelic, but it works for the songs they play. There newest albums have been getting a bit more formulaic but All the Right Reasons is one of my favourite albums.

Ok, here goes-

As a former working musician I find them utterly reprehensible. They may be adequate, or even good, musicians. What they create has no place anywhere in the spectrum of music. It has no redeeming values and is solely designed to do nothing but make money. That would not be a bad thing if it weren't for the FACT that they market themselves as more than a performance act.

Not only is their music manufactured bullshit, but their label paid to make them popular. Look up payola and they are the fucking epitome of it.

I feel like Nickelback is bad but they're not AS bad as people say they are. I mean, I'm not going out and downloading...I mean, buying, any Nickelback stuff myself but I somehow feel they get an unreal amount of hate for being a mediocre band, of which there are many mediocre bands.

Now if you had found Justin Bieber CDs...well, divorce the bitch.

T-Wolf, I hate to do this but it has to be done-

/rummages through T-Wolf's CD collection

FOUND IT! I knew the only reason you'd make such a bold statement about Nickelback is because you were hiding a Creed CD in you adolescent hall of shame.

HOW DID YOU DO THAT?! I DON'T EVEN HAVE A CD COLLECTION, WHICH MAKES IT ALL THE MORE IMPRESSIVE!

I beat Ghosts'n'Goblins on Genesis while listening to a cassette single of "Ice Ice Baby" on auto-flip. That gave me clairvoyant powers restricted to bad formative life decisions.

While I haven't heard everything Nickelback has made, there are 2 things that hurt them: 1) they've established a songwriting pattern for their songs (especially their hit singles) that many consider a lack of creativity or innovation (me, I just think it's boring after a while), 2) it really doesn't help that radio and MTV/VH1 (back when both played vids) played the ever-loving shit out of them to the point that it reached a ridiculous level of over-saturation.

Concerning that first reason, some bands make that work (Slayer, AC/DC) for a while but eventually it can bite you in the ass. Those two bands were operating in a time where their genres were young and in constant state of being refined or challenged. As far as I can tell, Nickelback came in where pop rock felt safe and never did anything to elevate the genre. At the very least, they put out dependable tunes over the years that their fanbase will enjoy. I don't find them offensive. They're so harmless that I just don't care.

I think Avid just summed Nickelback pretty well.

But even if you hate Nickelback more than anyone in the world, at least they don't do stuff like this

huh. I guess I argue against their songs being generic in part because I know them so well that it's easy to find how they're unique. But I just can't believe that they're that much more generic than usual. I also don't always find that a bad thing. I think a lot of country music can have that same argument applied, but there's times when ya, I just want to blast a song about drinkin on friday after work.

Would you guys compare them to like call of duty?

I'm liking how Kanye West is embracing his more experimental side on this new album. But the fact that it's called 'Yeezus' basically sums up everything I don't like about him. So I don't know if I like or not, haha

I still can't get over how this was made before I was born and wasn't released until a few years ago. This is the epitome of music to my teens/twenties self. Crazy change-ups and breaks. Incredible musicianship. Give it a chance and you might like it:

That song is super cool, am digging it. Might check out this album. I'm a sucker for lots of...layers...I'm not musically versed, as you can see, but when I feel a song has a lot going on and builds/changes. I don't want to play a song and skip around in the song and have it sound hte same no matter where I stop.

That said, I like my cheesy pop music, but it's just in a different part of my brain.

I have a DRM free version of the documentary I can email you. Only stipulation is you have to at least buy an album. Otherwise it's just bullshit piracy.

I like pop too, man. You work in Japan?  If so, educate this forum on how badass Beyond was and how fucked his death was. Made me cry when i found out. Dude was epic like Zepplin.

*edit* or fucking China. Well, I'm stupid and obviously not worldy. Racist maybe. Fuck me..

=D!!!!

Car stereo went out while jamming Boston's More Than A Feeling. Not sure if I'm angrier that it's broken or that I didn't get to finish the song.

Every time I listen to Jay Z -and to a lesser extent Kanye- I have to keep it in doses. I wish they were rapping in Serbian or something so I didn't have to know the stupid-ass lyrics. Incredible flows. Incredible beats. Lyrics anyone should be ashamed to have written, memorized and recorded for others to hear.

Oh well, not everyone can be GZA.

I picked up a book on early twentieth century composers and I've been listening to each piece as I get to them in the book. Right now I'm on Arnold Schoenberg. So that's what I'm listening to.

Also, I'm super late on this, but Death was an awesome find, spiddy.