Shred XLIX: And then the North Koreans attacked

smartpatrol wrote: Fox On The Rocks wrote: Which albums did you listen to Andrew? My Name is Skrillex Only liked the opening track Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites Liked about a third of it More More monsters and Sprites Liked the opening track k, so my estimation of liking a third of his catalog was wrong

Well you've got at least half of it! I wouldn't go any farther than that to be quite honest. Banagrang is pretty . You've got the essentials down and that's great. Like I said before, not a big fan, but I respect to a degree.

Second impressions of Explosions in the Sky - the Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place: It gets kind of repetitious by the end of it, the same sound and same song structure for each song, and the sound of the album is a bit overly Sentimental in a way, but it's good. Good musicianship, and what I'm in the mood for right now.

I'll check out the ones you posted, Max

Have you ever tried A Silver Mt. Zion Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra?

Fox On The Rocks wrote: Yeah man, I think you'd really enjoy them. Also, Explosions are fantastic. They sort of remind me of memories of childhood, adolescence - like you said sentimentality. Opposed to let's say, Godspeed, where their music is much more dissonant and apocalyptic. I find I can kind of relate to the Explosions more in that perspective - love nostalgic feelings.

I probably don't like them as much because of that. I don't feel too much nostalgia, especially in relation to how much I think about the future.

A Silver Mt.Zion is good

A Person wrote: Have you ever tried A Silver Mt. Zion Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra?

.... and Tra La La Band & Choir

Pekka wrote: HolyMoly wrote: Pekka wrote: HolyMoly wrote:   Hmm, I'll have to check out the full version.  I've seen a Camel concert from this period before, but it was from 1976 (Moonmadness) I think, with a full Snow Goose and with Doug Ferguson still in the band. Seen, like, live, really?  I'll get back to this tomorrow, now to bed. Bye. Oh no.... it was some televised concert or something - probably on youtube now, my friend made me a DVD of it. But I did see Camel live in person in 1982 (The Single Factor tour).  My first concert!    My dad and I were fans even that early on. Did you catch any of the perhaps better tours later on? Camel is the one of my biggest favourite bands that I still haven't seen live. Pretty much because their last tour took place before I heard of them. I don't think there's any official release of that concert you had on DVD, it would be nice if it's good quality.

No, I never got the chance to see them live again.  I gather their US tours have been pretty small, few, and far between since then.  In fact, the one time I did see them, it was while my family was visiting Denmark, and not in the US at all.

When Camel Productions started their label, I think my dad ordered some stuff from them, and included in the letter that he and I were probably the oldest and youngest person in that 1982 audience.  We both bought and got got signed copies of "Never Let Go" and "On the Road 1982" (recorded very close to the date where I saw them, and with the same set list).

It's perhaps unfortunate that I only got to see them when the band was kind of in disarray (why else would you hire someone like Chris Rainbow to sing...  yuck...).  But then again, I was young, I was getting heavily into the band, and I loved it all - "The Single Factor" only seemed weak in retrospect (though even then it did feel like the album was too short).  And on the tour, they played a ton of songs from "I Can See Your House" and "Nude", two excellent albums by any measure.

This, by the way, I think is a clip from the 1976 concert I got off the internet.  It's professionally shot with multiple angles, so I'm guessing it was probably televised somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3kUR0cXt-U

Anything to do with the ball game?

Wolfgang's Vault has an interesting San Francisco vs Detroit playlist happening in honor of the World Series.  They alternate live tracks between SF bands and Detroit bands.  http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/playlists/san-francisco-vs-detroit/playlist-442831.html?utm_source=CVNL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=121025

I had a dream where Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory was watching really badly made CGI porn