Music

    ๐ŸŽฒ๐ŸŽถ just saw Tom Morello wandering the halls of #GaryCon

    ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐Ÿด 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. Patrickโ€™s day, which feels kind appropriate, too.

    Me with music ๐ŸŽถ and RPGs ๐ŸŽฒ:

    via

    https://www.gocomics.com/adamathome/2024/03/11

    ๐ŸŽถ I donโ€™t buy many physical editions of music anymore, but I couldnโ€™t pass up this 5-CD special edition.

    Juno Reactor: Imagination, Use It As a Weapoin

    ๐ŸŽถ 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 itโ€™s the Rush elements that sometimes sour it for me (and sometimes donโ€™t).

    ๐ŸŽถ 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.

    ๐ŸŽถ What are some popular bands that somehow had roots in hardcore, before the stuff they are famous for:

    • Fall Out Boy
    • Rage Against the Machine
    • Skrillex

    Got more?

    ๐ŸŽถ 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.

    ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ† 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:

    bloodylamb@metalmennonite.com

    ๐ŸŽถ Remembering that time in college that I DJed on hard mode by playing Toolโ€™s ร†nima, forgetting how many bleeps Iโ€™d have to do.

    I only missed a couple!

    ๐ŸŽถ as someone with a million Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory, Delerium, Conjure One, Noise Unit, Synรฆsthesia, etc. albums, I donโ€™t say this lightly:

    Rhys Fulberโ€™s self-titled techno releases might be his best work.

    ๐ŸŽถ 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.

    ๐ŸŽถ I am destroyed and ground to dust any time Silent Planet performs Panic Room.

    ๐ŸŽถ

    • 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

    Time for some #homeworkcore from Silent Planet!

    ๐ŸŽถ What are the best 2-part songs? A couple I think of off the top of my head:

    I feel a new playlist coming….

    ๐ŸŽถ happy new KMFDM day to all who celebrate.

    ๐ŸŽถ Silly music tricks part 9187234

    This is how I create a “station” for concert prep. (This time for Silent Planet.)

    showing filters that match the artist names and then unrated or greater than 3 star songs.

    ๐ŸŽถ I really enjoy some really stanky house music but I have no idea how to reliably find tracks Iโ€™ll enjoy.

    So I add one to my list something like once a year.

    ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ Pastor Monica writing about tohu vaโ€™vohu this morning. (Genesis, Jeremiah)

    I think she did it better.

    Let there be light!

    KMFDM album cover of the same phrase.

    ๐ŸŽถ 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๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ tracks in my library. It came out like this:

    1. Circle of Dust
    2. Between the Buried and Me
    3. August Burns Red
    4. Black Sun Empire
    5. Clubroot
    6. Underoath
    7. Living Sacrifice
    8. Kardashev
    9. Opeth
    10. Brainchild (tie)
    11. Front Line Assembly (tie)

    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?

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