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Arcade Fire - Haiti

This is the most beautiful song I've heard in a long time. The melancholy, folky melody belies the haunting lyrics (which are mostly in French), which mourn the violence during the Duvaliers' dictatorship in Haiti.

mes cousins jamais nés
hantent les nuits des Duvalier
rien n'arrete nos esprits
guns can't kill what soldiers can't see

I would listen to this song over and over if it didn't make my heart so heavy.


Leechy said:
WHY? - Good Friday

Goddamn I love this song.
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doin' elton at karaoke and forgettin' all the verses
blowin' kisses to disinterested bitches

i like it more probably! leechy did you just get into anticon. or what?
 
personally, I think the np format should get back to its previous form, the review shouldn't be necessary, because less people post in the np thread now, and the ones that do usually do awful reviews of songs

Taylor said:
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

I like some old shit now and again.
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this is a fine example of where I'm getting at, not trying to be a prick here, but I think that people should either start making reviews like they used to, or just stop entirely.
 
np: Porcupine Tree - Buying New Soul

This is somewhat of an older song from them (2000, it's a b-side to their album Lightbulb Sun) that I just learned about when I got PT's concert DVD. It's a pretty long song (10:25) that starts off with a really textured keyboard background and a pretty keyboard melody that leads into the verses--it's mostly about how sometimes not "selling out" results in loneliness. The song, like PT's stuff at that time, was still pop-oriented, and this is the side of PT that I love (even though it's pretty much gone). Wilson's words at that time were simpler, but to me more effective. A small, low-key jam evolves before the last verse and chorus fade back into the same keyboards that began the song.

I still wave at the dots on the shore
and I still beat my head against the wall
I still rage and wage my little war
I'm a shade that's easy to ignore
 
np: el guincho - kalise

I'm not quite getting the animal collective/panda bear vive [at least not entirely]
But this is my favorite aquisition of the new year, I wish I had known about whenever it came out last march.
 
havoc said:
np: Porcupine Tree - Buying New Soul

This is somewhat of an older song from them (2000, it's a b-side to their album Lightbulb Sun) that I just learned about when I got PT's concert DVD. It's a pretty long song (10:25) that starts off with a really textured keyboard background and a pretty keyboard melody that leads into the verses--it's mostly about how sometimes not "selling out" results in loneliness. The song, like PT's stuff at that time, was still pop-oriented, and this is the side of PT that I love (even though it's pretty much gone). Wilson's words at that time were simpler, but to me more effective. A small, low-key jam evolves before the last verse and chorus fade back into the same keyboards that began the song.

I still wave at the dots on the shore
and I still beat my head against the wall
I still rage and wage my little war
I'm a shade that's easy to ignore
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Havoc, I think PT's pop side still exists in a way; it's just that what SW does is not limit himself to one type of songwriting where he is forced to make all poppy songs or all metally songs or all ambient songs etc. The reason why new PT trumps old PT to me is that instead of being a one trick pony, SW manages to combine all his influences (Old PF, ambient/techno music, Opeth/Meshuggah, King Crimson, modern prog, Beach Boys etc...) into one coherent whole. He isn't *just* writing pop songs, because I don't think that to him it would be aesthetically satisfying: SW is a far too eclectic person for that to work. Blackfield is his pop outlet more like. But he's still using pop elements in my opinion: just look at "Sentimental" or "My Ashes" or "Lazarus" or "Normal", the early version of Sentimental on Nil Recurring... it's still there. It's just that it all goes into the huge big music melting pot of PT and there's so much stuff in there the poppy stuff gets obscured sometimes.

Radiohead - Airbag
 
1200 Micrograms - Hashish

On the seventh day, Shiva created hashish.

And on the eighth day, God created 1200 Mics. Damn, I always keep forgetting how great the psytrance these guys make is. They can't be compared to the other two big names on my playlist (Shpongle and Infected Mushroom) because they're totally different. Just wonderful though, just wonderful.
 
U2 - With Or Without You

This is such a great song. I love the buildup from the verses to the chorus.
 
Foreys said:
i like it more probably! leechy did you just get into anticon. or what?
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Sorta! I've been listening to Deep Puddle Dynamics for a while but just recently got into some of the other anticon. stuff. It's really kick ass.

Optimus Prime said:
Sole - Bottle of Humans

Just discovered Anticon. I love the guys voice at the beginning.
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=)


Themselves - It's Them

It's them with their tree stumps, cat litter and clay masks
It's them, finish your last thought and man the battle packs
It's them, it's them, it's them!
 
I actually think it's pretty awesome that more people are getting into anticon., they deserve it!

This is probably my favorite song Yoni Wolf has been apart of.

Hymie's Basement - 21st Century Pop Song

Amazing, [as is almost the entire album.] The chorus with his partner on this album [Andrew Broder] just has something so calming about it.

it's root root root for the home team
shout like your dad at the tv screen
tie a dollar bill around a circus flea
the fee to flee what you can't see

and of course Why? doesn't let us down either

you put your life in the hands of the highway designers
your stride an unforseen side effect of the urban planner's realized blueprint dream
 
Idiot Pilot - .Sparkplug

Awesome band I decided to try out. They combine quite a few genres and scream only when necessary. .Sparkplug is one of their best songs, in my opinion at least.
 
Tori Amos - Winter

I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change, my dear
 
Altmer said:
Katatonia - We Must Bury You

Last Fair Deal Gone Down has rapidly become one of my favourite albums lately. Renske's vocals have that unique quality, turning any melody into sincere and heartfelt depression with every note uttered. The best thing it doesn't bog down into long tracks that don't go anywhere or uses the inappropriate grunts; it's concise, awesome, and every chorus seems to hit a magic note for me. I love almost every Katatonia album (except perhaps the debut) but this is one of the best. One of the very best albums I have ever heard.
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Fine, fine choice. ;)

Listening to Agalloch - Tomorrow Will Never Come

Really adore this track, the almost unnerving sample played over the top of this very sombre song is incorporated brilliantly.
 
A Silver Mt. Zion - Blown Out Joy From Heaven's Mercied Hole

Good thing ASMZ's songs are relatively short. It's much better than Godspeed you! Boring Emperor.
 
Journey- Any Way You Want It

One of the groups best songs, and my, didn't they make a bunch of money from commercials using this song? Not my favorite from them, but it's a top 5.
 
the killers - read my mind

so good, it really grows on you and never seems to get old. 10/10, not to sound like a fanboy but it really deserves it.
 
Black - Pearl Jam

Such an amazing song! Pearl Jam has so many great songs from their "Ten" album, and it's very hard to pick just one. They do not do very many slower songs, but they did a fabulous job on this one! Easily a 10/10, as it would be up there in my all-time favorite songs list.
 
mewithoutYou - Tie Me Up! Untie Me!

A friend made me listen to these guys and so far I'm not exactly enjoying their music that much. The singer could do something better with his voice and his voice is the only thing that I can hear from their music, even though the guitars are quite nicely used. The band gets props for inventive song names though.
 
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