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  1. M Two One

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    Parallel Universe - B+

    HAHA! The bass line is taken from a Mega Man game keyboard riff. Nice by Balzary. Goes to show how influental games really are these days to everything. The solo at the end was good and the song was good in general as well, not too repetitive by the RHCP. Not a fan of Kiedis' vocals, never have been. In my honest opinion this band lives and dies off of Balzary and Frusciante. Good stuff.

    Next up a special song .. so many music styles into one. This is the definitive of emotion in music.

    Dredg - The Canyon Behind Her

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    B+. I really liked the intro, and the guy seems to have a good live voice. I also liked the changes in the song. One minute it's soft, and then it gets heavy at times. I was expecting a crazy guitar solo, but hey still a good song.

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    R.I.P. Dimebag Darrell.
     
  3. M Two One

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    Dredg don't do solos. That's pretty dead in music nowadays it seems.
     
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    Mamba The King is Back Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Beautiful hard rock music especially the solo by Dimebag (R.I.P.), but not really my stuff. Don't have any complaints though.

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    Jack Johnson - Do You Remember
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    no video, just the song.
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">That's pretty dead in music nowadays it seems.</div>
    Thank God. I can't stand guitar players soloing. Half of the motherfuckers our there right now can't harmonize well enough with their own band members, yet they want to try out a solo. It just blows my mind.

    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Jack Johnson - Do You Remember</div>
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    Typical Jack Johnson. I love his stuff sometimes, and then other times I think it's so fantastically mediocre and don't care for it. It's weird, it's a whole 'nother mood swing I have for music, this one being one of the more extreme. As well, I didn't think In Between Dreams was as good as Brushfire Fairytales, my favorite from him.

    My next pick probably won't be well received as it is rather weird, but I'm into this type of music, and even weirder stuff, so bare with me. It's a remix of the Tool track Parabola done by this guy Lustmord. Lustmord specializes in dark sounds, often taking samples from crypts or other dark places. The key to listening to this track is to have your headphones on to get the full effect. The track originally appeared on a Tool DVD, and since it's conversion to mp3's and now to a video file it has lost much of it's essence of what makes it great in terms of what Lustmord applied to it. Anyways, enough of my ramblings, here's the video.

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    It really wasn't that weird. That was pretty good, what is some other stuff that he's remixed? Like you said, it's really really dark. The background chants sounded very middle eastern...some of the most interesting music I've heard.

    *youtubing*
     
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    He's only remixed two tracks for Tool, for which two DVD's were released to accompany the remixes with videos and commentary. That was the first, and here is the second one, split up into two parts as it's too lenghty for YouTube...

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    He has an extensive collection of work, and has done stuff for numerous movie soundtracks as well. He's probably scored your favorite movie, haha! Also, he's in the studio with Tool's frontman right now working on some solo stuff. Should be exciting.

    BTW, did you listen to those with headphones on? You gotta if you haven't, it makes it ten times better. As for the chants, that's just Tool's frontman in the beginning of the original song. He kind of drowns out his vocals, and Lustmord did an amazing job here just running with that idea into something way more unexpected.
     
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    Santana - Oye Como Va
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    I'll be sure to check it out with headphones on.
     
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    I love that song, bro'! Great pick. Organs = very crucial element to good rock music imo... don't get why they fell out of favor with most rock bands.

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    I love that song, bro'! Great pick. Organs = very crucial element to good rock music imo... don't get why they fell out of favor with most rock bands.

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    Alright, I edited the video in my latest post. Enjoy, fIREHOSE!
     
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    I agree about the use of organs, should be used more often. Venus comes to mind.

    fIREHOSE - Down With The Bass - B

    Good stuff, nice bass line to keep the song at a pace. There isn't much of a change throughout the song, but I always have to think to myself that not every song can be that way. Anyway, I liked it. I haven't heard much of them before so thanks.

    New song is my fianc?e's favorite. Great video too, never suspect the ending I'll tell you that. As always too, the video is shot in Iceland. The E-bow used on the guitar for the climax is almost unreal. Amazingly done, just be aware the song is long.

    Sigur R?s - Vi?rar Vel Til Loft?r?sa

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    Those dolls in the beginning are creepy as all hell. The piano is nice. I can't stand the vocals, the voice is too distorted to enjoy for me.

    Santana - Black Magic Woman
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    NOTE: Ignore the vocals and pay attention to the music. The dude singing drives me nuts
     
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    I love Santana. Nothing much else to say, aside that they're my pick too...

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    Some of the best drumming ever.
     
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    A+++

    Man, this is such a coincidence. Me and my friends were all sitting around watching this the other day stoned off our asses, and I loved every second of it. We came to the conclusion that Michael Shrieve was on something that whole solo. Look at how his face keeps twitching. Dude's ****** up. [​IMG] Anyway, youngest musician at Woodstock though and the greatest solo I've ever heard personally. I love this performance so much. Thanks for linking it up to JBB so I could listen to it online. [​IMG]

    BTW - Have you ever heard Shrieve's sessions with the late great Jaco Pastorious?

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    Badly Drawn Boy - Year of the Rat

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  17. M Two One

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    I'll avoid the BDB video. I can't stand that guy, the music sounds like at least 50 other artists I know.
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I'll avoid the BDB video. I can't stand that guy, the music sounds like at least 50 other artists I know.</div>

    Not a huge fan myself, just of this particular song. It's one of those situational things where you like the song more for what it makes you reminisce about than the actual music.

    I think I should probably change it, because I'm not sure if anyone else would be into it either... one moment...
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Voodoo Child Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Badly Drawn Boy - Year of the Rat</div>

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    I didn't like his monotone voice all that much. I'm all for the lo-fi indie type stuff and I love Smog, but this guy is just annoying. I liked the video though.

    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting Voodoo Child:</div><div class="quote_post">John Frusciante - Anne</div>

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    I like most of John's stuff, and Inside of Emptiness is one of my all time favorite albums but I just never fancied this song all that much. Good lyrics, but it didn't have quite the music to push it through.

    I wanted to bring in more Frusciantiness to this thread, but You Tube had nothing I was looking for. So, here's something a wee bit different than his stuff, but nonetheless cool...

    http://www.myspace.com/blindlace

    ONE OF MY BUDDY'S BANDS, AND GUESS WHAT...ROADRUNNER RECORDS ARE GIVING THEM A LOOKY! I'M EXCITED.
     

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