Music

[Tobin]

Let's face it, it's more important than comics.

So let's shout loudly about it. What you're playing; what you hope to be playing when it drops; what shows you've seen; what bands you've tried to sleep with; what bands you've successfully slept with; imeems and YouTubes and blog posts and the endless debate of why people don't think Dio is cooler than Ozzy (personally, I think they're just high).

Right now I'm listening to old Cam'ron ("War" off the Killa Season record). I didn't really like Killa Season when it came out, but three years removed, I like it a lot better now -- especially compared to the newest Cam, Crime Pays, which is a textbook on how to make hip hop beats so painfully uninteresting that even the rapper sounds bored. I was looking forward to Crime Pays even more than Relapse and a couple good cuts aside, seriously, if the man paid more than $5 for these beats then I have to salute the producer on his daring robbery.

Speaking of Relapse, has anyone figured out what's up with Eminem's delivery on that one? Did it turn out he was a festive Italian organ-grinder all along, who just sounded like he was from Detroit because he was guzzling Xanax like it came in a sport bottle?

[Jude Terror]

Let's face it, it's more important than comics.

So let's shout loudly about it. What you're playing; what you hope to be playing when it drops; what shows you've seen; what bands you've tried to sleep with; what bands you've successfully slept with; imeems and YouTubes and blog posts and the endless debate of why people don't think Dio is cooler than Ozzy (personally, I think they're just high).

Right now I'm listening to old Cam'ron ("War" off the Killa Season record). I didn't really like Killa Season when it came out, but three years removed, I like it a lot better now -- especially compared to the newest Cam, Crime Pays, which is a textbook on how to make hip hop beats so painfully uninteresting that even the rapper sounds bored. I was looking forward to Crime Pays even more than Relapse and a couple good cuts aside, seriously, if the man paid more than $5 for these beats then I have to salute the producer on his daring robbery.

Speaking of Relapse, has anyone figured out what's up with Eminem's delivery on that one? Did it turn out he was a festive Italian organ-grinder all along, who just sounded like he was from Detroit because he was guzzling Xanax like it came in a sport bottle?

I'm a fan of music with balls. As such, I like punk and metal from the seventies and eighties, and rap from the early to mid nineties. There's a few bands that still put out albums that I like, such as Marilyn Manson (whose latest album was great) or Eminem, but for the most part, I can't stand the current music scene.

Some bands that I love: Diamond Head, Judas Priest, UFO, Stiff Little Fingers, The Clash, FEAR.

As for Eminem's delivery on Relapse, I think he just purposely affects that accent because it allows him to rhyme words that normally wouldn't rhyme with each other. It's cheating, more or less, or brilliant, depending on how you look at it.

[NickMB]

Speaking of Relapse, has anyone figured out what's up with Eminem's delivery on that one? Did it turn out he was a festive Italian organ-grinder all along, who just sounded like he was from Detroit because he was guzzling Xanax like it came in a sport bottle?

I heard it more as a crazed swing between a comedy Indian accent and a comedy Glaswegian accent. But your interpretation is just as good.

Aside from Relapse (which has mostly just encouraged me to go listen to earlier, better Eminem songs), I've been listening to the last couple of surprisingly good Manic Street Preachers albums and Lily Allen. Who is better than you'd think, although never great.

[EdContradictory]

I've been listening to The Hold Steady and Gaslight Anthem. Just really good, solid rock and roll.

Also been into a lot of indie Irish acts like Vesta Varro, Television Room, Juno Falls, Cathy Davey, and The Flaws.

[Tobin]

As for Eminem's delivery on Relapse, I think he just purposely affects that accent because it allows him to rhyme words that normally wouldn't rhyme with each other. It's cheating, more or less, or brilliant, depending on how you look at it.

Most rappers don't use strictly rhyming verse anymore as long as the sounds are appreciably similar (for example, on that Cam'ron record I'm listening to, his Hawwwlem accent lets him rhyme "bawwwss," "awwwff," and "Pawwwsche"). Hell, Eminem used to do it. Just, you know, without sounding like he's trying to increase his international appeal by single-handedly reviving grime music through accent alone.

Cheating is stuff like Rick Ross rhyming "Atlantic" with "Atlantic" on the original version of "Hustlin'," which he smartly changed after everyone in the entire world went "wow... really?"

[monkey03]

I'm listening to Sabaton right now. They're probably the only band out there that makes me stand "Power Metal"... Which is flooded with the exploitation of the Middle-Ages by bands. The thing about Sabaton, is that they sing song about war, mostly WWII and such. But they've taken over other conflicts, such as Gulf War I, 'Nam and the Falklands War. Yes, they rawk. But I'm still waiting for an album where they take conflict to the next level. Super-Soldiers and Super-War Machines.

My playlist is one of the weirdest shuffles ever. I could be listening to A-Ha's hits and then jump to some songs by Amon Amarth and suddenly get to the stoner metal grounds of Monster Magnet, then jump to Duran Duran, Seal, Infected Mushroom, BT, Crystal Method or Royal Crown Revue. Ah, and I'm a sucker for Soundtracks such a V for Vendetta, Blade Runner, Batman Begins and Scarface (80s). To name a few.

[Tobin]

My playlist is one of the weirdest shuffles ever.

Welcome to the club. My iPod is 75 GB of gangsta rap, twee pop, acid house, thrash metal, big-beat electronica, stoned country rock, classic soul, blue-eyed soul, Northern soul, alt-rock, rave, free jazz, post-punk, plunderphonics, queercore, shoegaze, riot grrl, Britpop, industrial metal, dancehall, French girly-pop, no wave --

If it's ever acquired a dumb little label, chances are I have listened and do listen to it.

[monkey03]

Welcome to the club. My iPod is 75 GB of gangsta rap, twee pop, acid house, thrash metal, big-beat electronica, stoned country rock, classic soul, blue-eyed soul, Northern soul, alt-rock, rave, free jazz, post-punk, plunderphonics, queercore, shoegaze, riot grrl, Britpop, industrial metal, dancehall, French girly-pop, no wave --

If it's ever acquired a dumb little label, chances are I have listened and do listen to it.

I think I'm adopted and you're my brother. I was probably abducted by skrulls when born.

[Tobin]

The good taste of having a 100 Bullets avatar supports this theory.

[cwsawyer]

I am an old fart and fear the music of the youth with it's angry noises and cacophnies of caterwhauling and whatnot.
I like Jazz. Some be-bop, some swing, some Jazz pop stuff, whatever it is that you call what Louis Armstrong does. Anything that Django Reinhardt plays.
I like folk and bluegrass to.
Don't beat me up.