From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V5 #242 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, October 25 2005 Volume 05 : Number 242 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Art Brut (was: Steph Hurts Mix Disk 1) [Chris Prew ] Re: [loud-fans] Liz Phair [Jenny Grover ] [loud-fans] some recommendations ["Bradley Skaught" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:52:33 -0500 From: Chris Prew Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Art Brut (was: Steph Hurts Mix Disk 1) >> 21 Art Brut Formed a Band Cool indie rock. Any album info. I like the >> lyrics. > > This was a single, but you can find it on the "The Rough Trade Field > Guide To Music - Volume One" compilation, which is well worth checking > out! > Art Brut's debut album, Bang Bang Rock n Roll, rocks good and hard. If you like this track, you'll absolutely dig the album. Snotty, punky, ironic, anthemic, extremely British, and tongue firmly in cheek. Great fun. Its available on Emusic. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:30:54 -0500 From: "Kunkel, Mark" Subject: [loud-fans] Liz Phair Sheesh. I thought she sounded fine. When they find some gawdawful "country" artist to sing in Houston, then you can complain! - -- Mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:38:35 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Liz Phair Kunkel, Mark wrote: >Sheesh. I thought she sounded fine. When they find some gawdawful >"country" artist to sing in Houston, then you can complain! > > That will be the appropriate time to just turn the sound OFF. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:29:09 -0700 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: [loud-fans] some recommendations Here are some recent-ish releases that I think are quite loud-fan friendly: Rogue Wave Descended Like Vultures If you liked their first album, or _almost_ liked it, then this one will probably really do it for you. They're a full band now (as opposed to a one-man-band-in-the-studio) and the fleshed out, more muscular arrangements are really exciting. It's really dense and colorful--kind of wild and psychedelic but still with really solid songwriting. Even if the first one didn't work for you, this one's a real leap forward and worth checking out. The Coral The Invisible Invasion This album is suffering a very quiet, sad and painful commercial death right now, but it's really really wonderful. A true victim of the british press' over-hyping of an underdeveloped band, this is the album where they've finally come into their own. The first album was gimmicky, the second was better but still felt too much like a Nuggets wannabe kind of thing. This one still has the core elements of sixties psych-pop that is their launching point, but it has much sharper songwriting and more personality. It also seems to have echoes of the music these guys actually grew up on--The Smiths, House of Love, Rough Trade, Creation records, etc. It's a solid, very imaginative pop album--beautifully recorded, diverse and infectuous. It's heartbreaking to watch this album fall off a cliff, 'cause it represents the artistic arrival of a band that probably deserves the hype _now_--not three years ago! John Cale Blackacetate I'm such a Cale fanatic that i'm not sure my opinion on his records counts for much beyond those who are really, really interested in following his career. Still, the new one has some fantastic stuff on it. It's a really strange mess of ideas--some more loopy, electronic based stuff like his last (Hobosapiens) but also some actual rock band songs--guitars, drums and everything! A couple of those band songs are startling "modern rock songs". Do they work? I'm not sure, really, but they kind of sound like grunge-y power-pop songs--good melodies and all that, but maybe not entirely convincing from Cale. The ballads are best--spooky and hypnotic, but with a lot of melodic invention and good lyrics. The first song is the most startling, though--a weird, synth-funk song with Cale doing his best Barry Gibb falsetto imitation! It actually works, too, in a kind of uncomfortable way. Again, i'm not really sure how much of this album will fly for non-Cale die hards but it is the first album since Honi Soit that is an actual song oriented rock album and there are strong ties to that earlier era of Cale's work when he was commited to songs of this type--there's no question he's feeling inspired and brave! love, B ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:59:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Phil Fleming Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Steph's Mix Disk 2 This song is the first track on their self titled (perhaps only) album. Unfortunately, the remainder of the album is pretty by-the-numbers post grunge rock. Even better was Failure, Ken Andrews' (vocals/guitar) band in the early-mid 90s. Three albums... the final one, FANTASTIC PLANET, is a near masterpiece. Phil F. - --- AWeiss4338@aol.com wrote: > 2 Year of the Rabbit, Rabbit Hole. This is > great! Pop/punk, kind of > grungy, very melodic. Good lyrics. Any album info? __________________________________ Yahoo! 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