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FiremanJoe

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  1. This year I've already seen The Red Paintings (Australian art rock band) and Porcupine Tree. Both shows were amazing.

    I'm looking forward to seeing King Curly (local blues band) next weekend, and possibly Opeth in September.

    I'm hoping Nine Inch Nails will be back soon, as I missed them the last two times they were here. At least I know they'll come again one day. I don't have nearly as much hope for Portishead or Apocalyptica. :(

  2. Portishead is basically great, i.e. Roads...

    So I will definitely check this out.

    Roads is quite possibly my favourite song. Ever.

    I bought Third almost as soon as it came out (been waiting a lonnng time for it) and I'm still feeling ambivalent about it. It's a good album, but deep down I was hoping for a 'direct sequel' to Dummy and Portishead... this feels like a side-story. Don't get me wrong, it is good, but it takes a few listens to really get into.

  3. I have come to accept that any band that belongs to a genre with the word 'core' in it most likely isn't very good.

    WHAT?! You mean to say that you don't like rapcore?!

    Next you'll be saying you don't like progressive disco or nu-country.

  4. Personally, I've already retagged some of the files.

    Lots of them have track number '0' or '1', which I removed, and I made the album title uniformly the site's URL. The other issues of game titles and stuff were a little too unwieldy for me to handle in an afternoon. :P

  5. I was tagging some mp3s today, and came across a bit of a problem.

    Using Mp3Tag to add the appropriate tags to mp3s, then selecting 'tag to filename' (so I'd get 'TrackNo - TrackTitle.mp3')

    ...long story short (pun unintentional) The Giraffes? Giraffes! track title '03 - ... And Then She Look'd Down and Saw Miniature Houses and Miniature People and Inside the Miniature People Were Miniature Hearts Pumping Blood Through Miniature Veins (Her Mouth Was Watery and Wet).mp3' is simply too long. I'm not sure how Mp3Tag managed it in the first place (I didn't realise at first)... but now I can't do anything with the file because Windows has locked it and tells me that it's invalid.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

  6. I just watched the video, and to be honest I wasn't at all impressed. The vocals really didn't do it for me, and the structure left something to be desired.

    Hmm... pretty cool... doesn't compare to Granite, though, IMO.

    I'm not sure whether statements like this make me laugh, or die a little inside.

    Granite sounds pretty much the same as Slam.

    Going back a little further, Streamline sounds pretty much the same as Spiral.

    Don't at all get me wrong though, I like Pendulum and will definitely check out the new album, but this change has been happening for a while (See the tracklisting change on Hold Your Colour's re-release, etc). Whether for better or worse, we're all yet to see.

    What I'm interested to know is how mainstream chart listeners will react to the new single, and furthermore, how other artists will react. Take for instance the handful of acts who were seen to be emulating Nine Inch Nails' take on industrial rock in the mid 90's (eg Gravity Kills) - will we again see 'copycat artists'? ...Will Madonna ask for Pendulum to produce her next album (right after she deals with Timbaland?)

    The only other instance of dnb having a firm influence on a top40 song is Puretone's track Addicted To Bass. It was a greatly popular song, but a one-hit-wonder... Only time will tell.

    EDIT: Looks like Puretone might be coming back.

  7. I played through Blood on the Asphalt on AS; it was pretty good.

    I highly recommend the likes of London Elektricity, Nu:Tone and Logistics... their tracks are amazing to play.

    A surprisingly good piece was JS Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto - absolutely amazing.

    Stuff like Explosions in the Sky can also be quite surreal.

  8. I've only listened to Ghosts I and II so far, but I quite enjoyed them.

    Unfortunately, I couldn't pick any 'outstanding tracks' - they all just sort of meshed together to create one atmosphere, which I guess is both good and bad.

    My two favourite NIN albums are Pretty Hate Machine and With Teeth. I wasn't too fussed with Year Zero... I hope Trent can get his shit together for another hard-hitting album soon.

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