Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

[choof]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

I really hate to do this but...

>soad

[t-rogdor]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

Serj is the only member of soad with anything that resembles talent. the dude's solo work and his non-soad collab work outranks anything the band as a whole ever made.

that said-
serj is a low rent mike patton wannabe
system of a down, like a huge chunk of early 2000s nu-metal groups that got big, is just a low rent Mr. Bungle
system of a down's only album worth even half a shit is Steal This Album, because that one didn't reak of trying too hard, and didn't take itself seriously, but even that album is like a 6/10 at best

[rayword45]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

As a big Bungle fan... How the fuck is SOAD a Bungle rip-off? Or nu-metal in general? I HATE 95% of nu-metal and the only Bungle songs that are nu-metal-esque are, like, one-third of the debut. Disco Volante and California, albums usually much better regarded, are nothing close to nu-metal.

[t-rogdor]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

bungle themselves aren't nu-metal, yo. i never said that. go look at interviews from nu-metal bands circa 2000-2003, most of them list bungle as a huge influence in both bassline formation and guitar riff construction. SOAD isn't "ripping them off" per se, but it's just a low rent execution of the same idea- "hey guys what if frank zappa made metal? that'd be cool. let's do that". It's just that idea watered down.

that's just how i see it tho.

[noname219]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

SOAD is indeed similar to Mr. Bungle by their experimental and wacky nature but the comparison stops here. And yeah, Mike Patton is definitely a superior singer than Serj Tankian in every aspect, but that's an unfair comparison because Mike Patton is on another freaking planet.

[rayword45]

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I'm gonna assume all those bands heard only the first Bungle album (which is "pretty good" circus-funk-thrash metal). I can't find any nu-metal albums that sound like California.

[t-rogdor]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

the bulk of their influence definitely comes from the first one. i love their entire discog (except for a couple of the demos) but the first one is definitely their weakest.

if either of you want bands that sound like Disco Volante and California era bungle, check out Tub Ring's first two albums. they're like that era bungle but more rooted in punk than metal and with lyrics that are (somehow) even more esoteric

[EzExZeRo7497]

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I've been considering on listening to Toxicity for a couple of days now just to remember how it's like - SOAD used to be one of my favourite bands as well (but at the same time I was into TDG and FOB...) so I wonder how it aged over the time I forgot about the band.

Also recommending more music just to make my recommendations more eclectic:
* The Avalanches - Since I Left You
* Dev/Null - Lazer Thrash
* Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments of D-Generation
* Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
* Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
* World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland (swap this with Seven Idiots, by the same artist)
* 夢中夢 [Mutyumu] - イリヤ -Il y a-

Initially wanted to recommend Flood as well but I see that Crazyjayde already recommended that.

[yo man im awesome]

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I recently just found System of a Down again, ironically, I hadn't listened to them in a long while.

I've come to really enjoy their self titled album and their double albums Mezmerize and Hypnotize more than the others. Steal This Album! and Toxicity are also fantastic, but in personal opinion I prefer the other albums.

Fitting review if you ask me

EDIT: Speaking of which, if you could replace Common Courtesy with SOAD's Mezmerize that'd be cash money

[Xayphon]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

* The Avalanches - Since I Left You

Please

[L.B.D.D]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

close 2 u..

[noname219]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

Fitting signature.

[L.B.D.D]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

cummin 4 u

[noname219]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

Day Seventy-Three - February 11th, 2014
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Full Frontal by Analog Rebellion (recommended by Crazyjayde)

1. Nothing Is Wrong
2. Learned My Lesson
3. Use Your Big Words (Demo 3)
4. Holy Atmosphere
5. Turtle Creek
6. American Hell (Rainbow Beast)
7. Fuck Off
8. Father Abraham
9. Hagia Sophia
10. Accomplice
11. This Is My Fault
12. Bumper Sticker Patriotism
13. Slime

Now that a few things in my life has settled down and that a lot of people here has started similar projects, I think the timing is right to start again writing more reviews. As you know already, I'm not aiming anymore that 1 review/day incentive but if I can find a steady flow in my delivery, I think I will be able to go through the project.

Anyway, "first" album to listen to is Full Frontal by Analog Rebellion, an album I have already listened to once before. I know how Crazyjayde talked to me how much you liked his music. For me, I really can't find what's unique or memorable. It's not bad by any means, but there's very few elements (none?) I can't find anywhere else. It made me think of a ton of other different bands (Arctic Monkeys, late-Queen of the Stone Age, late-Black Keys, etc.) but nothing of Analog Rebellion.

There are a couple moment here and there that it made me say : "hey, I liked this part, it's pretty good, I should listen to this more !". But at the same time, I don't feel engaged and I have a hard time making any connection with his music. Plus, the last 4 filler songs are clearly inferior (too downbeat) to the first 9, which leaved a crap taste in my ears.

Sorry man, I don't feel it.

My rating : ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

Besides : FUCK FUCK FUCK MY S KEY ON MY LAPTOP HAS BROKEN IT DRIVES MY SO FUCKING MAD.
Edit : Yep, my computer is dying. I might lose everything on my hard drive. Shit.

[Crazyjayde]

Re: Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

I mean, even I don't find it as memorable than his previous effort, given how inconsistent this one is. I'll be honest, the last four tracks are garbage.

Hope your PC goes better. :S

Edit: Father Abraham is a great fucking track tho