What Are You Listening To?

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listened online



Formed in D.C. in 1999, on a new label (Matador) for their 5th release. Ted is the only original member. Currently a trio with Ted (guitar/vocals), Marty Key (bass) and Chris Wilson (drums). I guess a punk/pop feel. Would compare to Spoon or New Pornographers. My favorite track is one where Ted lowers his range an octave or two. Assuming that is still him singing and I like the lower tone. This is the first time I have heard them and overall the album did not impress me.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Tuberculoids Arrive In Hop

Best Track - One Polaroid A Day

1) The Mighty Sparrow - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - The Mighty Sparrow
2) Mourning In America - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Mourning In America
3) Ativan Eyes - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Ativan Eyes
4) Even Heroes Have To Die - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "Even Heroes Have to Die" *New*
5) The Stick - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - The Stick
6) Bottled In Cork - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- Bottled In Cork
7) Woke Up Near Chelsea - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Woke Up Near Chelsea
8) One Polaroid A Day - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - One Polaroid A Day
9) Where Was My Brain? - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Where Was My Brain
10) Bartolomeo And The Buzzing Of Bees - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Bartolomeo And The Buzzing Of Bees
11) Tuberculoids Arrive In Hop - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Tuberculoids Arrive In Hop
12) Gimme The Wire - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - GimmeThe Wire
13) Last Days - 2.0 - live
YouTube - Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Last Days (Bottom Lounge, Chicago 3.13.10)

Average Rating - 1.6

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California band formed in 1998. The name comes from a 1953 motorcycle gang film The Wild One featuring Marlon Brando. Currently a 3 man lineup of Peter Hayes, Robert Been and Leah Shapiro. Founding member Hayes is a former member of Brian Jonestown Massacre. Claiming influences ranging from Johnny Cash to the Sex Pistols, their 6 albums reflect that. A lot of Ramones in there for me. Several label changes have landed them at Vagrant Records. They slow it down in The Toll with some harmonica and nice backing vocals from Leah, which was the best for me.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Sweet Feeling

Best Track - The Toll

I'd never known her to cry
But this time is different for sure
She's shaking with tears in her eyes
As she picks up what's left of the night
The hope for a reason seemed pure
As we leave what's left on the wall

But oh how it's taken its toll
Oh how it's taken its toll
Everything's taken its toll
Everything's taken its toll

There was more then a break in the smiles
They rose and slowly they tired
As she turned the moments were made
There were none that could prove where she lay
There's a calm in the stories now told
And the distance will always be home

And oh how it's taken its toll
Oh how it's taken its toll
Everything's taken its toll
Everything's taken its toll

Everything's taken its toll
It's a moment we carry alone
With a cause there's a cure for the soul
But oh how it's taken its toll
Oh how it's taken its toll


1) Beat The Devils Tattoo - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil's Tattoo
2) Conscience Killer - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Conscience Killer
3) Bad Blood - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - black rebel motorcycle club - bad blood.mov
4) War Machine - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - War Machine
5) Sweet Feeling - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Sweet Feeling
6) Evol - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Evol
7) Mama Taught Me Better - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Mama Taught Me Better
8) River Styx - 2.5 - audio
YouTube - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - River Styx
9) The Toll - 3.0 - audio
YouTube - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - The Toll
10) Aya - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Aya - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
11) Shadows Keeper - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - shadow's keeper-brmc
12) Long Way Down - 2.5 - audio
YouTube - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Long Way Down
13) Half State - 2.5 - audio
YouTube - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Half State

Average Rating - 2.1

[Tiggi]

^ I stopped at their third, and I believe they've changed a lot in the interim, but the early ones owe everything to The Jesus & Mary Chain.

[Iota]

Ween - The Mollusk

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I think I'm supposed to like this. I really did try. I did like the last one. There were only 3 tracks here I could handle. Of course some of this stuff does grow on you. But you would have to own it for it to grow on you, and I can't see buying this. A video out now for Stylo I think it is, and, sorry, it's just too stupid for me. Those characters are cute for about a minute. Never was much for cartoon characters. Well, except for Spongebob. Now he's cool. And patrick too. But wait, I'm rambling again. It's probaly as usual, when a group is on the rise, I tend to have too high of expectations, and am usually let down. I'll chalk it up to that, and wait for the next big thing.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Sweepstakes

Best Track - To Binge

1) Intro/Welcome To The Plastic Beach - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - Gorillaz - Intro + Welcome To The World of the Plastic Beach
2) White Flag - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - Gorillaz - White Flag
3) Rhinestone Eyes - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Gorillaz - (HQ) - 04 - Rhinestone Eyes
4) Stylo - 1.0 - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9vAOzYz-Qs&feature=fvst
5) Superfast Jellyfish - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - Gorillaz - Superfast Jellyfish
6) Empire Ants - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Gorillaz - Empire Ants (track 7 from the album Plastic Beach)
7) Glitter Freeze - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - gorillaz glitter freeze
8) Some Kind Of Nature - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Gorillaz - (HQ) - 09 - Some Kind of Nature (feat. Lou Reed)
9) On Melancholy Hill - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - gorillaz on melancholy hill
10) Broken - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Gorillaz Broken
11) Sweepstakes - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - Gorillaz - Sweepstakes (track 12 from the album Plastic Beach)
12) Plastic Beach - 1.0
13) To Binge - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Gorillaz - To Binge Official Video
14) Cloud Of Unknowing - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Gorillaz - Cloud Of Unknowing (track 15 of Plastic Beach)
15) Pirate Jet - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Gorillaz - Pirate Jet 2010 plastic beach+lyrics

Average Rating - 1.4

[~EvilAngel~]

Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony


This is my favorite album of theirs, as always it is full of real emotion and life experiences. Depending on the song, it can be uplifting, relaxing and sometimes a little depressing if you don't like to have your mood totally changed in a second by a song.

Album 10/10

[JonG]

Pocahaunted - Make It Real from Make It Real [Not Not Fun, 2010]

"Make It Real collects seven of the band’s 2009 live staples for a 40-minute-ish collage of basement body music, garage dub damage, outsider funkadelic sprawl, voodoo rhythm workouts, duo femme soul vocal dynamics, dripping gold sweat, and dream fulfillment. Recorded barefoot and shirtless and direct to tape"

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from my library (cd)



One of those rare purchases where I picked it up based on one song and having never heard of the guy. Turned out to be really good. Bostonian, William McAuley goes by Bleu (I don't know). The song Somebody Else was featured in the Spider Man film. The song I purchased it for is Watching You Sleep, which is a creepy stalker song similar to that Death Cab For Cutie in theme, and is my favorite. Get Up was a single, which I loved but it never made it. This is is his third album and he had another in 2009 which I have not heard. How about Fountains Of Wayne for a sound alike.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Searchin' For The Satellites

Best Track - Watching You Sleep

1) Get Up - *** - live
YouTube - Bleu - "Get Up" on Late Late Show
2) I Won't Go Hollywood - ** - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EujdgBdmjSk
3) That's When I Crash - **
4) We'll Do It All Again - *** - audio
YouTube - Bleu "We'll Do It All Again".mpg
5) Searchin' For The Satellites - * - live
YouTube - Bleu "Searchin For Satellites"
6) Could Be Worse - *** - video
YouTube - Bleu - "Could Be Worse"
7) Watching You Sleep - *** - audio
YouTube - Watching You Sleep-Bleu
8) Somethings Gotta Give - **
9) Somebody Else - ** - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do_kJf3AAdU
10) You Know, I Know, You Know - **
11) Trust Me - ** - audio
YouTube - Bleu - Trust Me
12) 3's A Charm - **

Rating - 2.3

11) Trust Me - **

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Side project of two members of The National, Bryce Dessner and Padma Newsome. The collaboration actually predates The National, this being the 5th release. Originally performing music more towards classical, this is a little broader, even though some tracks are still classical. They are accompanied by two other band members, with former opera singer Shara Worden picking up a lot of the vocal chores. Really hard to classify this, as influences are numerous. Too numerous for my tiny brain to absorb. Not for me though. For that avante garde crowd I guess.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Cocodrillo

Best Track - Last Song

1) Cocodrillo - 1.0 - live
YouTube - The Clogs - Cocodrillo (Live)
2) I Used To Do - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - Clogs - I used to do
3) On The Edge - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - On The Edge (Clogs f. Shara Worden)
4) Red Seas - 1.5
5) The Owl Of Love - 1.5 - live
YouTube - Clogs and Shara Worden- Owl of Love
6) Adages Of Cleansing - 1.0
7) Last Song - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Clogs - Last Song
8) To Hugo - 1.0
9) Raise The Flag - 1.0
10) We Were Here - 1.0 - live
YouTube - Sufjan Stevens and Clogs- We Were Here

Average Rating - 1.2

[shadowmac]

I'm currently spinning AVANTASIA - The Scarecrow.

I love hearing Kahn, Jorn and Tobi all in the same song! Best song from Alice Cooper for a good long time too.

Great album; I'm gearing up for the new AVANTASIA being released (in the U.S.) next month.