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so what's the substitution associated with Ulver?

i was just listening to the Kayo Dot song (which isn't my favorite song on that album) and there are some similarities between it and the Ulver song, that I'm trying to put my finger on, that could help explain to me specifics of how lj's taste and mine differ.

use of the 'structured descent into intensity'?

You know how I said that Shining 'have probably listened to some King Crimson'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eXUjfVPkGk&NR=1

xp - no, that's a pretty common musical form/structure. The similarity had to do with vocal tonality, chord changes, and some similarity in notes/melodic lines.

why yes i adore advanced chord-changes

dude

xp - i think i've mentioned this before, but i have noticed that you tend to prefer "smoother" sounding vocals than i do.

not always! i love the fall...and lots of cookie-metal...

there's something to be said abt my melodic/tonal sensibilities tho

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hey sarahel did u know that zach hill is the drummer in wavves just fyi

i did not know this. zach hill is the michael jordan of drumming imo

wavves r no monstars tho

xp - lj: i'm not saying always - but it seems like the stuff you like the most has a similar vocal quality and there are certain melodic similarities.

wavves r no monstars tho

I love you for this.

sarahel my favourite band is cardiacs and the singer has an EXTREMELY abrasive albeit tuneful vocal style

I need to stop seeing "Cardigans" every time someone mentions "Cardiacs"

the fleeting hope whenever i enter a major music retailer and look at the name-cards

hahaha my 7th-placed artist's cover of my sixth-placed song is AMAZING

Super Furry Animals - (Drawing) Rings Around The World (3.30)

This song is a bit short, isn't it?

it's true, they could have made it 15 minutes long and i'd have probably put it 9th

I wish him every benevolence in his ongoing recovery from heart-attack-induced brain damage

Fit of giggles here

re Cardiacs-related misreadings, I need to shop misreading the board on the pub next to my bus stop which says "LIVE MUSIC: Dave SMITH and the CADILLACS"

plus I suspect there have been approx 6000 bands called the Cadillacs in the history of music so maybe someone else in the bus queue is getting wrongly excited without having to misread it

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the only song i know for def i've heard is chris michaels

but that is pretty great

i've heard four of these. i like the four i've heard, though generally prefer other songs on the albums - did i post that before?

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not afaik sarahel

wait, i was thinking of cousin chris, chris michaels is pretty good too tho

cousin chris has some epic drums too

xp - maybe i just referred to it - your kayo dot pick would not be my kayo dot pick.

agreed with plax

louis did you ever listen to the first FF album?

i listened to the first FF album and it was good but i prefer blueberry boat, the ep, bitter tea and widow city...diff strokes obv

sarahel, there are several worthy KD choices, but that one is the one that rinses my mind clean and awes me into a quivering wreck

they never really topped their first single 4 me

^agree

also terse crimp is my least favourite lapsus track

(woulda gone for parade or olestra)

haha esoj but we are at ODDS when it comes to schizo warped proggy fuckabouts...those two tracks are really good too mind, if not quite as brilliantly demented imho

i would have gone with the first one - Gemini becoming the tripod.

that song is my 2nd-fave song on the album and maybe my 3rd-fave KD song - it begins dramatically, builds deliciously, and then in the last 2 minutes becomes this towering, out-of-control tidal wave of crazy music...beautiful

but it isn't the primal force of holy mother of god that is ___olf

see that's where we have our disagreements - the vocals are just so smooth and croony - it's hard for me to see something with smooth, croony vocals as "the primal force of holy mother of god" - I don't hate smooth, croony vocals - they just feel too mannered for me for a song with them to have that kind of power that you're describing.

haha he is smooth and croony in the first bit, but in the climactic second section i *think* you can hear him screaming his lungs out. well, it might be a guitar. whatever it is, something is hollering, and it ain't happy. the 'mannered' vocals are nothing more than ominous but then they don't need to be.

for those who haven't heard it, this is an 18-minute song, and the first 5 minutes have 'croony' vocals. the remaining 13 minutes have hell on earth.

it's not really "hell on earth" compared to deathspell omega, tbh

well, not as LITERALLY as DSO would have it. and not quite as tortuous, frenzied or plain mentalist. but vast, and suffocating, and crushing. *i* think it's great.

just gave Gemini Becoming The Tripod a listen and yeah it's fabulous, as I remember.

other amazing KD trax: The Manifold Curiosity, The Antique, Blue Lambency Downward, The Awkward Windwheel

i like it too - i just think sometimes you are prone to exaggerate certain qualities when describing songs.

prone to exaggerations in your descriptions - especially in the context of existing music.

perhaps. i had a truly revelatory experience with that track on earphones tho, what can i say? it slayed me dead. my descriptions are based on my very personal reaction to the music and aren't exaggerations from my perspective. i use figures of speech a lot; take them with the intended pinch of salt! ___on limpid form is *a* descent into the inferno, not THE descent into the inferno.

not that that DSO song doesn't need near-equal amounts of love.

well - if it's a descent into the inferno, that inferno is actually not all that infernal - like it isn't all that raging.