The Unofficial CoX Music Thread!
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Posted on: 2010-08-01 19:15 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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My XBL band has and will forever will be a tribute to Peter David with the band name "Retcon Bomb."|
Originally Posted by Tenryuu
I'm in a rock band called The Managers of Everything. We play live on XBL all the time. =)
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I also play some basic industrial guitar and bass, which will come in handy with my own real (not Rock Band) side project band which is more in the industrial metal/90s coldwave vein that I'm working on throughout the fall.
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It isn't really music, but I do think that the Firesign Theatre has made some of the most entertaining recordings ever made. Their records will all require fairly close attention, but they repay them; and unlike most recorded comedy I can listen to them over and over again. They are full of amazing subtleties. And anyone who knows me knows that I quote them tirelessly.
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Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser
When I was soloing, I'd tend to go for stand up comedy CDs like Mitch Hedberg or George Carlin or Paul F Tompkins. I guess it's just a matter of how much focus or attention I had to give the game at the time vs. how much I could listen to the background music/jokes.
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These music threads always make me feel my age. I never have any idea who half these bands are.
I was in high school during the height of the hair band age so my "mindless smashing of everything in my path" playlist is about 3 hours worth of AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Guns N Roses, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Rob Zombie, Zepplin, Queen, Offspring, My Chemical Romance and the like, set on random.
but my taste runs the gamut as I am a huge country fan with Waylon Jennings owning more slots in my library than probably any other single artist but I really like some of the new stuff along the Jason Aldean, Jamey Johnson style of music. I have see George Thorogood live 8 times....I can't quite explain that but he is really good live.
I also have a great deal of blues from John Lee ****** to Keb Mo and Jonny Lang. Lang was the last concert I went to and he is fantastic live.
I also just like people I think have talent so I will check out a lot of stuff like Prince, Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott and even Pink who I think is by far the best of the blond bunch (Spears, Simpson etc) that all came out around the same time, although Agiulera (sp?) probably has the best voice.
I've got about 5,000 songs in my modest Ipod collection and most folks can't figure out how I can listen to all the different stuff I have on there but it is all about the mood that strikes me and I need tunes to match that mood.
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Originally Posted by PapaSlade
I was in high school during the height of the hair band age so my "mindless smashing of everything in my path" playlist is about 3 hours worth of AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Guns N Roses, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Rob Zombie, Zepplin, Queen, Offspring, My Chemical Romance and the like, set on random.
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All of the stuff I thought was metal when I was young isn't metal anymore. AC/DC: not metal, according to professional metalheads. Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple? Zep was the canonical example of a metal band when I was growing up. Their records are not metal anymore.
Vikings ruined it for the rest of us. Tuneless thrashing and Cookie Monster vocals probably counts as more of the sort of thing I don't really want to listen to.
I grew up in the mid 1970s, when "alternative" music was just starting to hive off from Top 40 and radio formulas. It was kind of exciting to see at the time. I went from thinking that Aerosmith, Peter Frampton and Kansas were the last holdouts of real rock in a sea of disco and "mellow" singer-songwriters crooning about their relationships, to being a devoted Patti Smith fan, over the course of a single summer.
You have to wonder how people growing up find decent music now. I hear the names of Britney Spears or Lady Gaga or Ke$ha or any of the army of rappers, but I am almost wholly insulated from their actual productions. I can't sing their songs and don't know the words. You learn their names not from the radio but from the tabloid news they make. And you wonder where kids turn when they outgrow the parade of hiphoppers and Disneyfied pop-tarts to learn of music that's dark, apocalyptic, and interesting.
My tastes were pretty much carved in stone in the fourth grade, when I heard "Fire" by Arthur Brown and I just had to get that song on vinyl. ("Atlantis" by Donovan was the second.) I grew up with the Doors and Jefferson Airplane, seeking dark and apocalyptic music while DXing the AM radio on old tube sets.
I've always tried to keep on top of new bands making the sorts of things I like. Between the end of shoegaze and grunge and the rise of weird folk and desert rock, there wasn't a lot to like.
And I can't stand most country, but I revere Johnny Cash. I also enjoy bluegrass and traditional Americana, especially murder ballads and other stuff that's actually just our inner Celt coming out.
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Same way they always have. Back when, someone stumbled over something, made a mixtape and passed it on. Nowadays, it's become even easier as they'll just send each other links to the band's websites, or straight-up swap MP3s. Youtube actually helps a huge amount, too with its related videos. I know I stumbled over a lot of stuff I ended up liking that way.|
Originally Posted by Heraclea
You have to wonder how people growing up find decent music now. I hear the names of Britney Spears or Lady Gaga or Ke$ha or any of the army of rappers, but I am almost wholly insulated from their actual productions. I can't sing their songs and don't know the words. You learn their names not from the radio but from the tabloid news they make. And you wonder where kids turn when they outgrow the parade of hiphoppers and Disneyfied pop-tarts to learn of music that's dark, apocalyptic, and interesting. |
Like these guys from Switzerland who do some kind of folky music I can't quite classify. But I stumbled over them because they also did a cover of Tom Wait's 'God's Away on Business'.
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I found my genre of choice almost entirely by accident. I liked Stabbing Westward's "What Do I Have To Do" which was an alternative radio hit. I usually listened to a Sunday night syndicated band interview show and they were on. One of the call in listeners asked what their music was called and they said "industrial."
So I hit up Yahoo (back in the day) and went through every band in the Industrial Rock Yahoo Group. I also bought any CD that was labeled industrial from Columbia House. Sure, I got a few clunkers that I eventually sold to a used CD store, but most of the time it expanded my knowledge of the genre and led me to other great bands.
If I was just coming into things today, I'd imagine I'd hear a band like Celldweller or KMFDM on a commercial or in a video game, then hit up google to find more like them. It's a thousand times easier now than it was back in the early days of AOL and Yahoo.
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Personally, I would look at each song to decide what is and what isn't metal. For instance, Immigrant Song is pretty darn hard, but Nobody's Fault But Mine is a very, very soft song. Same goes for every other band. |
Originally Posted by Heraclea
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All of the stuff I thought was metal when I was young isn't metal anymore. AC/DC: not metal, according to professional metalheads. Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple? Zep was the canonical example of a metal band when I was growing up. Their records are not metal anymore. |
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There are just so many artists I adore for CoH inspiration (whether character or gameplay). I couldn't even begin to list them all...
Current favorites include: Nightwish, Within Temptation, Symphony X, Two Steps From Hell, Immediate Music, BADADAM, This Morn' Omina, Poets of the Fall...
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My favourites who are on heavy rotation most of the time are:
- Nirvana
- The Pixies
- The Bouncing souls
- Propagandhi
- Every Time I Die
- The Bronx
- Tool
- Converge
- Against Me!
- Cursive
Bands that I have been listening to a lot lately:
- The Vaselines
- Frightened Rabbit
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
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Originally Posted by Heraclea
You have to wonder how people growing up find decent music now. I hear the names of Britney Spears or Lady Gaga or Ke$ha or any of the army of rappers, but I am almost wholly insulated from their actual productions. I can't sing their songs and don't know the words. You learn their names not from the radio but from the tabloid news they make. And you wonder where kids turn when they outgrow the parade of hiphoppers and Disneyfied pop-tarts to learn of music that's dark, apocalyptic, and interesting.
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Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser
If I was just coming into things today, I'd imagine I'd hear a band like Celldweller or KMFDM on a commercial or in a video game, then hit up google to find more like them. It's a thousand times easier now than it was back in the early days of AOL and Yahoo.
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Originally Posted by Eisregen_NA
Same way they always have. Back when, someone stumbled over something, made a mixtape and passed it on. Nowadays, it's become even easier as they'll just send each other links to the band's websites, or straight-up swap MP3s. Youtube actually helps a huge amount, too with its related videos. I know I stumbled over a lot of stuff I ended up liking that way.
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- last.fm and Pandora (seriously, Google them if you want to find new music you like.)
- YouTube videos, AMVs, Flash videos, fan productions, and all other manner of things people make for free that tend to have music in them.
- Recommendations from friends (which are really easy to follow up on thanks to the previous entries.)
- Soundtracks.
- Downloading things almost entirely at random.
- Amazon recommendations.
- Internet radio stations.
- Jamendo.
With cheap mp3 downloads, several legal services that will let you listen to music (or at least clips of it) for free, and multiple music recommendation services, exploring new music is pretty dang easy right now.
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Pandora and Last.FM have definitely helped but there's actually someplace else that helped me discover hundreds of bands. I'm not sure they are as good at it in terms of industrial as they were a few years ago, but Music Choice on my cable, especially the Metal and Alternative channels, would also throw in an obscure industrial song ever hour or so.
I discovered bands like Acumen Nation, Raunchy, Girls vs Boys, and Circle of Dust through them.
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Stress internet radio on the list. Without limited bandwidths and a lot of the associated costs of meatspace radio, internet radio stations find it a lot easier to broadcast to a more narrowly defined clientele. I know I've found stuff off of stations that showed up in a factory version of Windows Media Player.
If anything, the internet makes it harder to keep your catalogue of music anywhere near orderly. I've heard a song on internet radio, looking it up took me to a small publisher's page and from there I've found new bands I got into. Else I'd never have stumbled over the Peatbog Faeries or my favourite christmas song.
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Indeed, thanks to internet radio and sites like CDBaby, I've had a hell of a time managing my music collection onto one 80 gig iPod Classic.
I've got well over 1500+ industrial music CDs and I've purchased another 500+ more from places like iTunes, eMusic, or Amazon in the last 3 years. At this point I've essentially begun replacing albums I own physically on my iPod with music downloads. But it's always a rotating door.
You'd be surprised how many CDs you can find from internet radio that are being sold for a penny on Amazon, especially niche genre CDs from the 90s.
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Me, I rate all of my individual tracks on a 1-5 star scale (which most music programs conveniently support.) Anything below a 3 never really gets listened to... and really, that's about 40% of stuff on most albums, unless I particularly like the band. Hell, there are albums by bands I love that have a whole one or two songs worthy of 3+ stars. This cuts down on the effective size of my collection quite a bit, and it means I never have to listen to that one song that isn't very good and was just put on to pad out the album.
The downsides that I've found are, well, you need to spend the time to review all the music, first of all. Which doesn't sound that bad at face value, but I'm currently looking into Frank Zappa. Do you know how much stuff that guy made? I'd have to take two weeks off work just to rate it all. I've also found that my first impressions of music aren't always that reliable. A lot of the time, I hear a song and go 'eh, that's not too interesting'... only to find it stuck in my head three days later, or suddenly become obsessed with it (this is currently The Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish.) So I usually hold off on rating until I've spent a few days listening to the album.
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I do the same thing. When I buy music I usually buy a LOT all at once. I then spend about a week keeping all of the songs on Shuffle, and listening to them, and rating them. Thus, I never get bored with one genre or one style of music or even one album, and get a large variety of things to listen to, while at the same time rating them all so that I only listen to GOOD songs when I put my Top Rated on shuffle. Very useful.|
Originally Posted by Kelenar
Me, I rate all of my individual tracks on a 1-5 star scale (which most music programs conveniently support.) Anything below a 3 never really gets listened to... and really, that's about 40% of stuff on most albums, unless I particularly like the band. Hell, there are albums by bands I love that have a whole one or two songs worthy of 3+ stars. This cuts down on the effective size of my collection quite a bit, and it means I never have to listen to that one song that isn't very good and was just put on to pad out the album.
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And speaking of listening to a bunch of music, I recently helped a friend move out of his house, and as a gift, he gave me a ton of music. So I now have 41 used albums, most of it from artists I enjoy, for completely free. Gleeeeeeeee!
I sure this post will be gone in a few days and this isn't most peoples style but these are a few of my favorites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0 <-- one of the best guitarist i've ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKvnaCwQyEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y1wm...eature=channel <--- love everything by ben folds, me and some friends used to follow em on tour, ben folds five and just ben folds.
for some newer music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9vAOzYz-Qs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPzohswI5Tc
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