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Top Christmas Songs
12 Oct 2008, 01:57 by jaimeadrian18
1.Taking Back Sunday.- 12 days of christmas
2.Thrice.- carol of the bells
3.New Found Glory.- Ex-miss
4.Garigoles.- Navidad de a mil
5.The Vandals.- Oi to the world (disco de navidad)
6.Bad Religion.- christmas medley(live)
7.Coheed and Cambria.- sister Christian
8.Disidente.- Diciembre
9.Fobia.- Camila
10.Goldfinger.- white christmas
11.Sum 41 with Tenacious D.- things I want
12.Tenacious D.- 12 drugs of christmas
13.Thrice.- happy X-mas (war is over) (cover)
14.Los Perros.- Cococlos -
2008 in musical retrospect so far
11 Oct 2008, 21:16 by ToolsAndCorpses
The number of exceptionally great albums released over the past three years has taken a heavy decline, especially this year. With all the terrible things happening this year, like my graduation, Hurricane Ike, the loss of my long beloved cat Bessie, and the reformation of New Kids On the Block, I was hoping there would be lots of good music for balance. So far, I haven't found much and the year is almost over.
Here, my friends, is a list I've compiled of every album that's come out this year that I've taken the time to listen to, divided into four groups, two positive and two negative: the excellent, the enjoyable, the unimpressive, and the crap.
For the time being, it's unfinished because the year is obviously not yet over and there are more things to be released such as new albums by Jedi Mind Tricks, Orphaned Land, The Cure, and Anathema to name just four. There's also several albums already in my possession I've yet to listen to, like new albums by Fleet Foxes, Ihsahn, Nine Inch Nails, Portishead, and Torche to name a few.
EXCELLENT STUFF:
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Opeth - Watershed
These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower & Dove
Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist
COOL STUFF:
Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
Anaemia - Promo demo
Animal Style - Open Air
Arson Anthem - Arson Anthem
Jacob Bannon - The Blood Of Thine Enemies
Foxy Shazam - Introducing
Merzbow - Here
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles
MEDIOCRITY:
Agalloch - The White EP
Architects / Dead Swans split 7"
Artefact - Ruins
Being Killed - Massacre Of The Living
Bloodbath - Unblessing The Purity
Cryptacize - Dig That Treasure
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Firebrand Boy - Songs for Cake
Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
Gijs Gieskes - Molen
Hegemon - Contemptus Mundi
Inner Surge - An Offering
Knights Of The Abyss - Shades
Meshuggah - obZen
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones
The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Revolution Renaissance - New Era
Saattue - Jäähyvästi
This or the Apocalypse - Monuments
Thrice - The Alchemy Index: Volume III + IV - Air & Earth
Warbringer - War Without End
Why? - Alopecia
Yerzmyey - FREAKuencies
CRAP, FAIL, AND CANCER:
Bob Gore - Mighty Dragon Cum Romance
Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King
Warrel Dane - Praises to the War Machine
Del tha Funkee Homosapien - Eleventh Hour
Dark Fortress - Eidolon
Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
Feral Children - Feral Children EP
Hate - Morphosis
In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
Kataklysm - Prevail
Kingdom of Sorrow - Kingdom Of Sorrow
Norman Bates - Plaguebearer
Orphan Hate - Blinded By Illusions
Salt The Wound - Carnal Repercussions
Saving Grace - Behind Enemy Lines
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Sufferatory - Pseudophilosophic
With Blood Comes Cleansing - Horror
Vale of Pnath - Vale of Pnath
Venom - Hell
Out of everything, I'd say my #1 of the year would be Have A Nice Life's debut double album. Absolute worst would go to Saving Grace - Behind Enemy Lines.
Do opine. -
Trust-thrice
11 Oct 2008, 20:05 by _delonge_
Mix the chemicals right dear,
Mix the chemicals right,
Yeah the margin of error is slight.
Mix the chemicals right dear
Mix the chemicals right,
Yeah you know that you could,
Save my life.
There,
Is a risk,
There's a risk when your dealing with love.
You could snap my neck.
Any speed you drive,
Can be dangerous.
Mix the chemicals right dear,
Mix the chemicals right,
Yeah you know there's a fine line between.
Mix the chemicals right dear
Mix the chemicals right,
yeah you know what betrayal can mean.
When this frame fails me,
Will I trust you to carry me through?
I know there's no such thing,
As safety,
But I know what a promise can do.
Will I trust you,
Will I trust you to carry me through?
I will trust you,
'Cause I know what a promise can do.... ThriceThe Illusion of SafetyTrust -
Every band I have had the pleasure/misfortune of watching live
8 Oct 2008, 10:03 by gazztwhite
+44
4 or 5 Magicians
(hed) Planet Earth
[spunge]
Moneen x2
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Colon Open Bracket
¡Forward, Russia! x5
20/20 Vision x2
27 (the Band)
36 Crazyfists x3
400 Blows
50 Cent
586
65daysofstatic x3
7 Decisions
A Life Once Lost
A Silent Film x6
A Static Lullaby
A Stranger In Moscow
Aconite Thrill
Action Plan
Aftersparks
AFI
Agents of Man
Aiden
Aisle 22
AJ Moore
Alexisonfire x11
Alkaline Trio x3
All I Need
Alligance
Allister
All Time Low
Along Came Man
Amen x2
America Is Waiting
American Eyes
Amount to Nothing
Amplifier x2
An Emergency x2
Angels & Airwaves x2
Anna Leddra-Chapman
Anonymous Tip
Anti-Flag
AntiKid
Apartment 26
Arcade Fire
Arch Enemy
Architects x3
Aret x2
Armor for Sleep x 3
Art Brut x5
As I Lay Dying
Ash x2
Ashdowne
Ashxyz
Assembly Now x9
Atreyu x2
Attack! Vipers!
Audio Bullys
Autonomy
Avenged Sevenfold x3
Babyshambles
Basskniv3s
Battle
Bayside x2
Baysix
Beach House
Be A Familiar
Beat Union x2
Beck x2
Benji, Dappa Stevie, DJ Dee, F-Nesia, Lady Blaze, Mampi Swift, Manikular, Marcus Intalex, Poison Flow
Betty and the werewolves
Be Your Own Pet
Biffy Clyro x6
Billy Talent x2
Blackbeard
Blackhole x5
Black Sabbath x2
Black Wire
BlakFish
Bleeding Through
Blind To
BlindStorm
Bloc Party x5
Blood Roses x4
Bombay Bicycle Club
Boom In The Diamond Industry
Boy Did Good
boysetsfire
Boys Like Girls x2
Boys Night Out
Brand New x 6
Brandon Steep x3
Bright Eyes
British Sea Power
Broken Jack
Buck 65 x5
Bullet for My Valentine x3
Caesars
Cage the Elephant x2
Cains Mark
Caliban
Cajun Dance Party
Cancer Batsx4
Canterbury x2
Capdown x3
Capitals x2
Captain
Car-Bomb Dating
Cardia x2
Caretaker
Cars as Weapons
Cartel
Cassette Baby
Cat The Dog x2
Cedars
centre negative x2
Chester Kamen
Chew Lips
Chicks on Speed
Chikinki
Chimaira
Chinese Finger Trap
Chiodos x2
Chrome Hoof
Circa Survive x2
Cicuits
city royals
Classic Case
Clocks
Cobra Starship
Coheed and Cambria x6
Colour of Fire
Comeback Kid x2
Comic, Boy!
Communiqué
Copeland
Colour
Cousin Joey
Crackout
Cry for Silence x5
Cursive
Cute Is What We Aim For x2
Cut The Blue Wire x4
Danko Jones x2
Dariush Rashidi x3
Dashboard Confessional x2
Data. Select. Party x3
Dave House x4
Dave Melillo
Devendra Banhart
Days In December x2
Days of Grace x7
Days of Worth
Dead Kids
Dead Sea Scrolls
Deadweight x3
Death Cab for Cutie x3
Death From Above 1979
Defenistration
Deftones
Desa
Devil Sold His Soul
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dilutrial
Director
Dirty Perfect
Distophia x2
Distorted Tones x 2
Disturbed
Dive Dive x5
Dividing The Line
Dizzee Rascal
DJ Format
DJ Krazy Glue
Nobody
Dodgy
Does It Offend You, Yeah? x3
Do Me Bad Things
Dopamine
DragonForce
dredg
Drew McConnell
Drive By
Drive Like You Stole It
Dropkick Murphys
Dufus
Dustins Bar Mitvah
dusty sound system
Editors x3
Eighteen Visions x2
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster x2
Eisley
Electric Eel Shock
Elle Milano
Elle S’appelle
Ellie Goulding
Emmy the Great
End of Days
Engerica x2
Enjoy Destroy
Enter Shikari x3
Envy on the Coast
Epiphany
Evergreen Terrace
Every Time I Die
Example
Exit Ten
Facade
Fall Out Boy x2
Farse
Fat Sue
Feedback
Fei Comodo
Fell City Girl x7
Fenech Soler
Fields
Fighting With Fire
Fightstar x3
Final-light
Finch x4
Findlay Brown
Fionn Regan
Fireapple Red
Firebrand
First Signs Of Frost
Flash Flash Flash Photography x2
Fletcher
Foals
Flood of Red x2
Foo Fighters
Forget Cassettes
Forgive Durden
Four Year Strong x2
Francois
Frank Turner x3
Franz Ferdinand
Free Fall x2
Friendly Fires
From Autumn to Ashes x3
From First to Last
From the Shards of Comets!
Fuck Buttons
Funeral for a Friend x5
Further Seems Forever
Furthest Drive Home x4
Future Of The Left x3
Gallows x4
Gama Bomb
Gavin Osborne
George Coutsoudis
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly x9
Glamour Of The Kill
Glassjaw x2
Go:Audio
Go It Alone
God Forbid
Gogol Bordello
Goldfinger
Goldie Lookin' Chain x2
Goldrush
Good Books
Good Shoes x3
Gratitude x3
Green Day
Guildean Gang x3
Guillemots x2
Gym Class Heroes x2
H2O
Hadouken!
Halflight
Halifax
Happy Penguin Hungry Bear x2
Hard-Fi
Hatcham Social
Hatebreed
Haven
Hawthorne Heights
Head Automatica
Heartsunderfire
Heat from a dead star
Heaven Shall Burn
HEDROOM x5
Hell Is for Heroes x4
Hellogoodbye x2
Hello Saferide
Help She Cant Swim!
Hidden in Plain View x2
Hiding With Girls x2
Hi-Tech Jet
Hit the Lights x3
Holiday In Hawai'i
Hollywood Ending
Holy Fuck
Home Grown x 2
Hondo Maclean X 4
Hopesfall x3
hospitality
Hot Hot Heat
Hot Puppies
House of Brothers x4
Howard Alias
Howling Bells x2
Hundred Reasons x5
Hush the Many
I Am The Avalance
I Had An Inkling
I Love Polan
Ida Maria
Idiot Pilot x5
Idlewild
The Stooges
Ignite
Ikara Colt
Íll Ninó
Imicus
Incubus x3
Instruction x2
Intentions of an Asteroid
Ionica
Iron Maiden
itch
I Was a Cub Scout
Jackson United
Jacob Golden
Jacob Stories x3
James Blunt
Jamie T x2
Jarcrew x2
Jarius x2
Jay Picton
JD Perfect
Jeremy Warmsley
Jerry Built
Jetplane Landing x4
Jimmy Eat World x4
Jim Noir
John Martyn
John Vanderslice x2
Johnny Foreigner x2
Johnny Truant x3
Jonquil
JOR x2
Julian Perretta
Juliette and the Licks
Junk Monkey
Jurassic 5
Just Surrender
Kait0
Kaowin x2
Karl Blau
Kate Aumonier
KC
KEIKO
Kenai
Kenelis
Kevin Devine
Kid Carpet
Kids In Glass Houses x3
Kidsnearwater
Kill Hannah
Kill Kenada
Kill Raimis
Killswitch Engage
Kill The Arcade x3
Kinesis
King Adora
King Creosote
Kings of Leon
Klaxons x2
Klima
Kula Shaker
Kyte x2
Lady And The Lost Boys x2
Lady Sovereign
Lament
Lamplight
Larrikin Love x2
Last Nights Recital
Laura Marling
Left With Pictures
Lethal Bizzle
LEVY
Lights, Action!
Lights And Sounds x8
Lightspeed Championx2
Lightyear
Lily Allen
Lioness
Lisa Lindley-Jones
Little Death x3
Little Dragon
Little Sister
Little Victories
Lloyd Williams x2
Look I’m A Ghost
Look See Proof
Lost Alone
Lostprophets x2
Louis Souyave
Love Ends Disaster!
Love Is All
Lovvers
loyal trooper
Lucky 7
Lucy & the Caterpillar x5
Luke Leighfield
Luke Pickett
Lupen Crook
Lynchpin
Machine Head x3
Madina Lake x2
Mae
Mahumodo
Maia Hirasawa
Make Her Cry
Manic
Maps
Marillion
Marilyn Manson
Mastodon
Matchbook Romance x 2
Matt Vinyl
Max Raptor
Mayday Parade x2
MC Lars x 6
Mean Creek
Meg & Dia
Members of the public x5
Men, Women & Children x3
Metallica x2
Me vs Hero
mewithoutYoux2
MGMT
Miazma
Midas Trick
Midasuno
Midday Morning
Midtown
Milke
Million Dead x4
Mindless Self Indulgence
Mínus
Miss Black America
Missing Andy
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
Mohair
Monroe
Monroes Heart
Morrisons Steam Fayre
Morrissey x2
Motion City Soundtrack x4
Mr derry
Mudvayne
mumra
Munch Munch
Murder One
MxPx
My American Heart
My Awesome Compilation x8
My Chemical Romance x5
My Coma x 2
My Dad Joe
My Echo
My Last Mistake
My Latest Novel
My Luminaries
My Red Cell
My Passion
Mylo
Mystery Jets
N3ar Lif3 Expri3n3c3 x3
Nagatha Krusti x2
Narcissism
Narration
Neaeta
Neat Science
New Found Glory x3
New Idea Society
New Rhodes
Nickelback
Nightmare of You x2
Nine Black Alpsx2
NoComply
Noisy Pig
No junk no soul
Nora
Norton Money
Not Katies
No-Where Fast
Ocean Colour Scene
OK Go
Olympic Lifts
One Day Elliott
One Toy Soldier
Onions for Eyes
Open Hand
Orko
Outcry Collective
Out Cry Fire x2
outl4w
P.M.T
P.Y.E
Paige x2
Panic! At the Disco x3
Papa Roach
Paramore x 3
Paris Trading
Parkway Drive
Paul Marshall x3
Paul Steel
Pavilion x3
PDHM
Pennines
Perfect Machine
Peter Conaty
Pet Shop Boys
Phinus Gage x2
Piebald x2
Pink Grease
The Pink Spiders
Pitchshifter
Pixies
PLAIN WHITE T’S x2
Planes Mistaken for Stars
Poison the Well x2
Prego
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Public Relations Exercise
Puggy
Pull Tiger Tail x2
Punch Puppets
Pure Rubbish
Queens of the Stone Age
Queen of Swords
Rage Against the Machine
Radiohead
Raging Speedhorn
Ralfe Band
Ra Ra Riot
Razorlight
Rbap
Reason 69
Recover
Red Lights Flash
Redjetson
Reemer
Regina Spektor
R.E.M.
remainderfour
Revere
Richard Walters x3
rig up explosive x2
Rilo Kiley
Rise Against x3
Rival Schools
Rocketchild
Rolo Tomassi
Rookie
Roses Are Red
Ro-Sham-Bo
Royworld
rueben x4
Rx Bandits
S.U.M.P
Saint Rose
Sam Isaac x9
Saosin x3
Saves the Day
Saving Aimee x3
Say Anything x3
Scaramanga Six
Scarlet O Haras
Schism
Scholars
Scissor Sisters
Seal Cub Clubbing Club x2
Sean Clothier x2
Sea Sick Steve
Second in Line
Secondsmile
Seeing Scarlet
Send More Paramedics
Senses Fail
Seraphidian
Serena Joy
Serj Tankian
Seth Lakeman
Set Your Goals
Seven Sided Dice x2
Sextodecimo x2
Shadows Fall x2
Shady Bard
Shiny Toy Guns
Shitdisco x2
Short Warning x2
Shouting Myke x 6
Shy Child
Sick of It All
Sierra Alpha
SikTh x 5
Silversky
Silverstein x3
Simple Reason
Skindred x2
Sky Larkin x2
Slayer
Slingshot Around the Moon
Slipknot x2
Smilex x2
Soft Toy Emergency
Something Corporate
Soulfly x2
Sparta x2
Spectrum 7
Spitalfield x3
Spot
Stars and Sons
State Radio
Steegal
Steel Rules Die
Steel Train
Straylight Run x3
Streetlight Manifesto
Strike Anywhere
Submerce
Sucioperro
Suga Coma
Sugarcult
Suitable Case for Treatment
Sunfactor
sunnyvale noise sub-element
Sunplayer
Sunset Cinema Club
Switches
Sylosis x2
Taint x2
Taking Back Sunday x8
Tartfuel
Team Sleep
Ted Maul
Television Personalities
Tellson x6
Templeton Pek
Tenacious D
That Fateful Day
The Academy Is…
The All-American Rejects
The Armistice
The Ataris x2
The Audition x 3
The Automatic x 3
the band that opened for gratitude on the 11/7/05 @ the barfly anyone know their name?
The Bad Robots
The BBC's
The Beasts Of Eden
The Bishops
The Black Apples
The Black Label Society
The Black Maria
The Blackout x2
The Bled x2
The Blood Brothers x3
The Blueprint
The Boxer Rebelion
The Boy Least Likely To
The Bright Space
The Bronxx2
The Brute Chorus
The Budda Cakes
The Charlie Parkers x2
The Clik Clik
The Colour Fred x2
The Computers
The Crimea x3
The Cult Of Luna
the dellas
The Departure
The Drug Squad x2
The E Band
The Early November x2
The Edmend Fitzgerald
The Eldore Parade
The Electric City
The Fay Wrays
The Fencotte Disaster
The Fiery Furnaces
The Fight
The Forgiven
The Future
The Futreheads x2
The Gaslight Anthem
The Getaway Team
The Get Up Kids
The Girls
The Go! Team x2
The Ghost of a Thousand x3
The Ghost Frequency
The Grates
The Half Rabbits
the halo friendlies x 2
The Hat
The Hazey Janes
The Hives
The Holiday Plan
The Holloways
The Honary Title
The Hurt Process x4
The Johnsons
The Joy Formidable
The Junior Varsity
The Keitels
The Killers x2
The King Blues
The Kissaway Trail
The Kooks
The Last Detail
The Last Man Standing
The Leaders
The Le Brocks
The Lemonheads
Liars
The Libertines
The Long Blondes
The Lucky Nine x2
The Maccabbes
The Magic Numbers x2
The Magnificents
The Maple State x4
The Mars Patrol
The Mars Volta
The Matches
The Misnomer
The Molotovs x3
The Morning After
The Morrons
The Motorettes x2
The Movielife
The New Town Centres
The New York Fund
The Nova States
The Offspring
The Once Over Twice
The Ordinary Boys x2
The Pigeon Detectives
The Pipettes x2
The Polyphonic Spree
The Preludes
The Raid
The Rapture x2
The Raveonettes
The Receiving End of Sirens
The Rifles
The Riverclub
The Rivers
The Rock of Travolta
The Runners
The Rural Tradition
The Sand Creek Massacre
The Schla La La’s
The Scrape
The Shaker Heights x2
The Shortwave Set
The Skies
The Sleeping
The Smoking Seasons
The Solvents
The Spill Canvas
The Sprites
The Standards
The Streches
The Steers x2
The Streets
The Subways x2
The Sunshine Underground
The Telegraphs
The Tommys
The Toy Band
The Troubadors
The Uninvited
The Union Underground
The Upper Room
The Used x3
The Veils
The Wallbirds
The Wishing Stones
The Wutars x8
The Xcerts x3
Thee Moths
30 Seconds to Mars
This City x8
This Et Al
This Is Menace x2
This Morning After
This Town Needs Guns x4
thisGIRL x 3
This Is Hell
Thousands of Reflections
Thrice x5
Through Silence x2
Thumb
Thursday x3
Tired Irie
Tokyo Dragons
Tokyo Rose
To My Boy
Tonight Is Goodbye x2
Tony Moore
Tool
Touriste
Tournaments
Trademark
Trencher
Trigger the Bloodshed
Tripwires
Tsuanami Bomb
Travis
Trivium
Tubelord x2
Tumbledown Estate
Turbulence x4
Turin Brakes
Twelve Tribes x2
Twice Upon a Time
Twin Atlantic x6
Twisted Charm
Two Day Rule x2
Twofold x2
Uncle-Brian
Underoath x2
Under the Igloo
unsung hero
Urusen
Useless I.D
Utah Rangers
Vampire Weekend
Vega 4
Vendetta Red
Verbel Kink x2
Vibrants
villareal
Violent Delight
Viva Voce
Voicst
Walking Concert
Walter Schreifels
Wargasm
Waterdown
We Are Scientists x4
We Are The Ocean x4
WeHaveAGetAway x2
We’re Not Superheroes Anymore
We Start Fires
What Would Jesus Drive? x2
Will Haven
William
William Wolfe Hogan
With Hands in His Pockets
Wolfmother
Wrong Animal
X is Loaded x2
Xmas Lights
Y
Year Zero
You Me At Six x 3
Yourcodenameis:milo x5
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies x6
Zebrahead
Zico chain x3
Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer -
The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot #1
8 Oct 2008, 09:07 by Jackanackanory
Lost In The Sound Of Separation
Underoath are just one of those bands whose quality is undermined by foolish preconceptions. However, you'd be missing out on a lot if the Christian beliefs of a group were repellant enough to make you stop listening. Matt Davies, Howard Jones and Dave Mustaine (lead singers of Funeral for a Friend, Killswitch Engage and Megadeth), off the top of my head, are devoutly religious and even in the genre of screamo/metalcore, you'll find bands such as The Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay Dying and Norma Jean, not touting their faith, but subtly referencing it in lyrics.
Ignorance of this kind, in this case would rob you from hearing one of the best albums released so far in 2008. I hadn't paid special attention to the band since They're Only Chasing Safety (their fourth record), only paying cursory attention to followup Define the Great Line and deciding I hated it, so was shocked to find a completely different band to the aforementioned "Safety" sound.
Gone are the poppy melodies, techno-synthesisers and most of the singing, in its place singer Spencer Chamberlain has developed a guttural roar, adding a sense of desperate urgency to the tracks here. This album finds Underoath with a far more mature approach to their music, mixing their instant, dynamic screamo with more progressive tendencies, meaning this album has a lot in common musically with Thrice's magnum opus Vheissu. Also present are the tendency to slip into a Southern-punk style groove, best displayed elsewhere by Every Time I Die.
First track
Breathing In A New Mentality starts with a muted line and kicks in, relentless and fast, and sets out a standard for the rest of the album to follow - these boys have obviously been mightily p*ssed off by something, and they're not afraid to show it.
Anyone Can Dig a Hole But it Takes a Real Man to Call it Home has one of the best song titles I've heard in a long time, and the way it segues from the previous track seamlessly is both unexpected and perfectly executed.
However, the real album highlights come later on, starting with Emergency Broadcast :: The End Is Near. This clocks in at nearly 6 minutes, and has a progressive onslaught comparable to that of bands such as