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I was just thinking, what makes you a fan of a band/artist? How many of thier gigs you have been to, how many of thier albums you have? Or just that you like thier music a lot.

if you are poor like me, #3 looks real good :heee:

A fan = you like their music. I thought that was obvious.

Well, technically, 'Fan' is short for Fanatic, which would almost imply that the first 2 were correct. Remember, a part of fanaticism is an element of unreasoned enthusiasm. So, just showing up at some concert 'just because' would make you a fan in the literal sense.

Yeah, a fan usually implies you like their music though.. for instance,
i've seen The Cooper Temple Clause 3 times, as I cited (perhaps this
inspired $loths post?) - but I wouldnt class myself as being massively
enthusiastic for them - it just so happens I've seen them once where it
was their gig, and the other two times they were on the
Reading/Glastonbury '03 lineups.

Also theres a lot to be said for people who like and follow a
band/artist, but are willing to hold back on buying all the albums.

I like a lot of artists, but I don't like ALL their material. That would just be silly.

Just released my lounge mix ... sit back and relax.

http://forceflow.undreamedstudios.com/lounge2.htm

Just listened to 3 songs from a band called Burning Mona. Oghr over at 69th Vlatitude is part of this band. They did their first interview at a small radio station and they haven't done any tours but if you listen to their music you'd think it was a bid name band. They are great and you really should listen to the stuff they have.

http://www.purevolume.com/burningmona

I think I saw them on Conan once. Pretty good, I think; it was a year or two back.

Just got The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's new album, "The Royal
Society". Puts pretty much all rock albums released post-millenium to
shame. Voodoo/stoner/desert rock, with a touch of pure punk adrenaline.
I remember seeing the description "some seriously heavy voodoo s**t"
somewhere, which is pretty much spot on. If you like anything involving
Queens Of The Stone Age, The Birthday Party (hell, Nick Cave in
general), The Stooges, The Stone Roses, Captain Beefheart...hell, if
you're into rock music, pick it up. This is miles away from their insane, zombie-fueled debut album.

I'm all spent up for this month but I intend to pick up a copy as soon as I can :smile: I got their first album which is really good.

Here's some suggestions if you're willing to search them out (I recommend SoulSeek):

The Fool

I Rejection

Drunk on the Blood

Freud's Black Muck

The 3 singles don't really do the album justice IMO. :smile:

The new Big D and the Kids Table album "How It Goes" has been
released...in the US only :sad: Importing it seems to not only cost quite
a lot, but take 4-6 weeks! Looks like I'll just have to wait it out for a UK release.

I'm listening to a lot of Beulah (good indie rock) and Blutengel (goth techno?). I think I like every Blutengel CD, though Angel Dust probably has most of my favorites and it's like 80 minutes so wahoo to that, eh lads?

Oh yeah, and Wir Sind Helden - Die Reklamation is an excellent CD, probably German pop... but not poppy to the extent of Britney Spears and the like, since this is actually listenable.

Sorry for the dead thread revival, but this hardly warrants a new one;

Band Aid 20 - Do they know its Christmas?

When it was first played on Radio One, Colin Murray in the afternoon asked people to text in what they thought. Mostly rubbish. He perservered, suggesting:

You should try and guess who is singing this makes it fun. It doesn't.

The original wasn't good either, but people bought it. Yes it was. It had actual artists, not 'pop stars the rivals' type flash-in-the-pan idiots.

One person texted that they sound like a bunch of kids. His response was that this is good, do you remember that song grandad? I do, it had Jones out of Dads Army.

Finally, you should buy it since you'd probably give it to a busker on the way to work anyway. Yes, yes I would. Provided he wasn't singing that, or gag doing the 'rap' bit in the middle. In this case I would call the police.

Its a charity single, and since I bought the Live Aid DVD set the other week, I may as well buy this crap too. For charity. Because it is Christmas. Then burn it. Burn it to the ground and salt the earth.

WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST RERELEASE THE ORIGINAL, OR SING THE ORIGINAL VERSION??

I'm sure the only reason half these 'artists' do charity records is to make themselves feel less guilty because they earn unreasonably large amounts of money.

Instead of getting us to buy their godawful rendition, why don't they just donate some money themselves and save us the trouble? :wink:

I agree, the new version is lifeless and crap. Chris Martin (Coldplay) starts off well- we all know he does a lot for charities, anyway- and there are a couple of decent singers in there too, but otherwise:

• It it boring and flat. Getting the Sugababes and Dido to "sing" in it with their dull voices (sounds more like moaning) makes it more so.
• It is a vehicle for Bono, who is only big because he's been around for so long, and not due to talent. Justin Hawkins would have been a much better choice to sing the main lines (to go with the mini-guitar-solo)
• Dizee Rascal should be shot.

And, guess what, this isn't just bashing because it's "treading on sacred ground", I don't really know the original version that well. Simple fact is, this version is dire, though I'd rather blame the producers for not making it sound lively enough, and for having a "rap" and people who can't sing in it.

The big question is....do they even celebrate Christmas? :biggrin:

Leperous said:

• Dizee Rascal should be shot.

No, I think being known as the little rapper who destroyed Christmas is quite enough. Surely any 'respect' or 'cool' this guy had have been blasted away by that god aweful rap.

I've a funny feeling that after Christmas the only place this record will get serious airplay will be in Abu-Gharib detention centre. 24 hours. On full blast. It'll replace Sesame street and Barney the Dinosaur on their playlists for sure! :biggrin:

I'm not letting this one die...

Just picked up Fear Factory's "Soul of a New Machine", and was better
than I expected. Not as consistently brilliant as Demanufacture or
Archetype, but better than Digimortal at least. It's listenable. :smile:
Scapegoat, Self Immolation, and W.O.E. are the best songs if anyone is
interested in checking it out.

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i don't think any of the three "recently.." threads will die, or be locked simply because they were resurrected. they have purpose, and as long as they stay semi-true.

my thread almost derailed to a point where i feared it being locked. i am very thankful that the parties involved didn't press it any further.
/nuff said

Been listening to new bowling for soup album, tis good like the others. Also the first good charlotte album, I think their latest one is crap.

I've been listening to Monster Magnet's 'Monolithic Baby!' a lot recently, and also a smidgen of 'The Dirty Americans'.

Have had to cut down on buying CDs this month due to other responsibilities (Xmas pressies!). :smile:

NHOI's [never heard of it] second album is quite good, I got it when I went to see them earlier this year and have only started to listen to it again now, quite addictive stuff.

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Just picked up Fear Factory's "Soul of a New Machine", and was better than I expected. Not as consistently brilliant as Demanufacture or Archetype, but better than Digimortal at least. It's listenable. :smile: Scapegoat, Self Immolation, and W.O.E. are the best songs if anyone is interested in checking it out.
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Awww cumon! Lynchpin! JUST GIMME THAT.. DUDUDUDUDUDUH DUDUDDUDUDUDUDUH

But yer, Megadeth ar teh pwns. > Metallica

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But yer, Megadeth ar teh pwns. > Metallica

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Old skooool! Haven't heard them, but my friends house mate has all of the old albums.

GREEN DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Been listening to their new album since it came
out, still my favorite, especially "Jesus Of Suburbia". I really must
suggest this album for anyone who remotely likes rock.

I feel so geezerly. I bought my first movie soundtrack a few weeks back. And not one of those "pop hits with tenuous relationship to the movie" soundtracks either, one of the ones that tries to recreate the movie's emotional flow in music. And it's damn good too.

I also feel like I set myself up so that I couldn't transition into naming the album very well. It was the soundtrack to Collateral and quite a nice piece of work.

Yay, it's back, I didn't want to be the one to do it. Anyway.

I've got 3 of Dover's CDs now, all good, though their CDs get progressively shorter (like The Flame is only 29 minutes long) but it's still all good songs so I don't mind.

And eh, as for bands the rest of you might actually know... hrmm. Well, Radiohead's always good, just got a few of their songs I didn't know were good before, namely I Might Be Wrong and Indian Rubber.

"You tumble like a clown before you burn in Hell" or something like that. Doesn't have to make sense to sound good, that's what I say.

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And it's called.................? Common tell us :biggrin:

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It was the soundtrack to Collateral and quite a nice piece of work.

erggg....I need a vacation.

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Wait, where does he fit in?
(Rod Stewart pweenz)

I think you'll see what I've been listening to by looking at my signature. You're stupid if you say you don't like rap - 99% of it is terrible, but if you sift through all the trash there's some that's quite good.

Cass, look up 'Necro - Poetry in the streets'... and by look up I mean
purchase. :wink: I think the only reason I like it is because it's so
distasteful and twisted. He's far better than any of the MTV whore
rappers. I'm looking at you Chingy.

some of my favorites:

MegaDeth: Peace sells , hanger 18 (some other are cool, but not all)

Metallica: all songs pre black album, and Orion and The call of the ktulu if they are not pre black album.

Drowning pool: whole Sinner album

System of a Down , Queens of the stoneage, Rage against the machine, Primus, The Faction (Let's go get cokes), Iron maiden, Judas Priest,

that covers most bands i know that are realy good.

Metallica: all songs pre black album, and Orion and The call of the ktulu if they are not pre black album.

Does their version of whisky in the jar count? That far back is before my time, but that song rocks.

Whiskey In The Jar was a decent cover, but I preferred their version of Astronomy much more...but then I have a soft spot for Blue Oyster Cult :wink:

I've got a fever, and the only cure is more cowbell

Whiskey In The Jar was a decent cover, but I preferred their
version of Astronomy much more...but then I have a soft spot for Blue
Oyster Cult :wink:

See, way before my time, i've only heard of the first two!

Turn The Page was the best cover IMO.

Whiskey In The Jar was a cover of a Thin Lizzy song, which in turn was an adaptation of a traditional folk song. All versions are just as good as each other.

Astronomy was a Blue Oyster Cult song and both versions are good though I prefer the original to the Metallica adaptation. You must have heard of Blue Oyster Cult though - they're the band that did 'Don't Fear The Reaper'. Another classic :smile:

Also, i'm listening to King's X at the moment. Anyone else into them at all, or is that just me?

You must have heard of Blue Oyster Cult though

I'm 16 and like to listen to bowling for soup, what do you think :razz:

i think Kill 'em all was the best cover they made :smile: that song kicks ass , and lots of people don't know that it's actualy a cover, i'll try to find out what band released the original version :smile:

Heh, I guess I inherited a lot of my music tastes from my parents - my dad was always a big listener of stuff like Journey, Boston, Neil Young etc. and my mum's a Queen & Beatles fan. They both used to play in folk bands so i've got them to blame for corrupting me :wink:

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I'm 16 and like to listen to bowling for soup, what do you think :razz:
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bowling for soup is cool, too bad they haven't release anything here where i live, and i liek to buy my music :smile: , but one or two dowloads won't kill a man (boy actualy, 16 too)

bowling for soup is cool, too bad they haven't release anything here where i live, and i liek to buy my music :smile: , but one or two dowloads won't kill a man (boy actualy, 16 too)

You don't have a hang over you don't deserve? :O

I loved Bowling for Soup...until I heard them. I figured I'd have to love them with a name like that, it sounded so much like a random Ska band kinda name, but I was disappointed :sad: I've only heard a couple of singles though, so perhaps I'm being too judgemental.

I really do like some pop-punk stuff though, such as Good Charlotte (first album in particular), the Starting Line, or New Found Glory. Yeah so many of the songs sound the same, but some of them really do stand out, and while perhaps they aren't the most monumental of music, they are still perfectly enjoyable.

Anybody got the most recent Less Than Jake album "B is for B-Sides"? I was looking to pick it up, but couldn't find it anywhere so asked for it for christmas. Just after doing so I found it in HMV but didn't think I should buy it in case some relative already had. Also because it was seventeen pounds. Sometimes high street retailers really charge too much :sad:

Hrmm, my friend was always into such bands, she loves Bowling for Soup and I was like bleh. Then again I made it a point to absolutely hate any band she liked. :smile:

Punkesque-wise, I'm into The International Noise Conspiracy, Tiger Army, and Die Arzte, and I don't understand a word that the last is saying but they sound good so I don't really care.

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Anybody got the most recent Less Than Jake album "B is for B-Sides"?

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I only really like Good Charlottes first two albums, their new one I haven't really listened to but it doesn't sound that good.
I haven't listened to less that jake but I've heard their good, might get that album.