Music
- Fall Out Boy
- Rage Against the Machine
- Skrillex
- Johnny Booth: sorry I missed them because it seems like they had some brain-smashing hardcore energy
- Aviana: good tunes online but pretty monotonous in person
- Thornhill: too often trying to be a Buffy band singer, but hard tracks were good
- Circle of Dust
- Between the Buried and Me
- August Burns Red
- Black Sun Empire
- Clubroot
- Underoath
- Living Sacrifice
- Kardashev
- Opeth
- Brainchild (tie)
- Front Line Assembly (tie)
๐ฒ๐ถ just saw Tom Morello wandering the halls of #GaryCon
๐ถ๐๏ธ๐ด sang My Soul Cries Out/Canticle of Turning today, as part of Lent litany. One of my faves.
Landed right between Ides of March and St. Patrickโs day, which feels kind appropriate, too.
๐ถ I donโt buy many physical editions of music anymore, but I couldnโt pass up this 5-CD special edition.
๐ถ Protest the Hero sits somewhere between (heh) Between the Buried and Me and Propaghandi which means I should probably like them a ton, but I think itโs the Rush elements that sometimes sour it for me (and sometimes donโt).
๐ถ In the next couple weeks I’ll be coming up on my 100,000th scrobble.
I’m contemplating whether I should pick something amazing, iconic, funny, or just let it pass by and see what lands.
๐ถ What are some popular bands that somehow had roots in hardcore, before the stuff they are famous for:
Got more?
๐ถ Sometimes I think about how Quake II soundtrack is still one of the best (industrial) rock albums of all time and what that means for the stuff other bands are slinging at us.
๐๏ธ๐ถ๐ Seriously considering creating an alternative to the Dove Awards called the “Bloody Lamb” awards, specifically for hard music. Non-commercial, grassroots, etc.
Send thoughts to:
๐ถ Remembering that time in college that I DJed on hard mode by playing Toolโs รnima, forgetting how many bleeps Iโd have to do.
I only missed a couple!
๐ถ as someone with a million Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory, Delerium, Conjure One, Noise Unit, Synรฆsthesia, etc. albums, I donโt say this lightly:
Rhys Fulberโs self-titled techno releases might be his best work.
๐ถ How did I not know that there’s basically a new Cornerstone Festival? (Audiofeed)
That said, likely to be way more bands I want to see at Furnace Fest, which I intend to go to again this year.
๐ถ I am destroyed and ground to dust any time Silent Planet performs Panic Room.
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Time for some #homeworkcore from Silent Planet!
๐ถ What are the best 2-part songs? A couple I think of off the top of my head:
I feel a new playlist coming….
๐ถ happy new KMFDM day to all who celebrate.
๐ถ Silly music tricks part 9187234
This is how I create a “station” for concert prep. (This time for Silent Planet.)
๐ถ I really enjoy some really stanky house music but I have no idea how to reliably find tracks Iโll enjoy.
So I add one to my list something like once a year.
๐ถ๐๏ธ Pastor Monica writing about tohu vaโvohu this morning. (Genesis, Jeremiah)
I think she did it better.
Let there be light!
๐ถ Tracking Artists by 5-Star Tracks
I usually use last.fm to look at my top artists by number of plays. Today, I decided to look at who have the most โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ tracks in my library. It came out like this:
A couple of these are in my all-time top-listened artists (August Burns Red, Front Line Assembly) but many of them aren’t. Some of that is because my top-listened artists have great albums that get a lot of plays. Others (like BtBaM and Opeth) might not be at the top because their songs are so long and account for fewer plays per time listened. Others (Kardashev) are newer to me.
Also, as usual, Rhys Fulber and Klayton would rocket off the top of charts if each stuck to one project name. Klayton (already at #1, #10, and remixer of some of #7) would be even higher if I threw in Argyle Park, AP2, Celldweller, and early work with Klank. Rhys Fulber (#11) would be in second place if we included self-titled work, Fear Factory mixes & remixes, and Noise Unit.
I think I’ll revisit this view again after I get more tracks in my library rated.
Who hold the most 5-star tracks in your library?