The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret (Music up ins)

Charles Kinbote

hey who wants to talk about cool music for cool people

ignore the shitty all-too-literal video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXZET6BdKs

L|ama

Skillaz wrote: »

I never heard of them before, I guess Hail of Bullets is cool, especially if they are talking about some of my favorite subjects. I love history, and I had no idea that a band would sing about killing Jews and Nazis, that is awesome, if they do talk about killing nazis.

I mean who doesn't like hearing about death and blood.

Oh hell yes they talk about killing nazis. And Nazis dying from cold and disease. Basically all kinds of nazi death.

"MGs rip and tear through hardened flesh
Massive seem the dark tank silhouettes
Invulnerable deadly T-34
Hear the Sturmoviks in the sky roar"


Even better:

Puny figures sleeping
In stinking holes
Thick fog and black smoke
Living like moles
Under-nourished troopers
Turn into dust
Typhoid and dysentery
Vapourizing pus

Eating their comrades entrails
Accomplained by crows
Chaplains commit cuicide
As there's no god above
Everywhere carcasses
Too frozen to eat
Nothing left to fight for

And no more blood to bleed

Skillaz

Shankill Butcher wrote: »

hey who wants to talk about cool music for cool people

ignore the shitty all-too-literal video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXZET6BdKs

I dig it, it has a folky sound that I dig, kind of reminds me of the modest mouse singer for some reason.

Charles Kinbote

I've said it before, I'll say it again

best modern lyricist is either Spencer Krug or Dan Bejar

Skillaz

L|ama wrote: »

Skillaz wrote: »

I never heard of them before, I guess Hail of Bullets is cool, especially if they are talking about some of my favorite subjects. I love history, and I had no idea that a band would sing about killing Jews and Nazis, that is awesome, if they do talk about killing nazis.

I mean who doesn't like hearing about death and blood.

Oh hell yes they talk about killing nazis. And Nazis dying from cold and disease. Basically all kinds of nazi death.

"MGs rip and tear through hardened flesh
Massive seem the dark tank silhouettes
Invulnerable deadly T-34
Hear the Sturmoviks in the sky roar"


Even better:

Puny figures sleeping
In stinking holes
Thick fog and black smoke
Living like moles
Under-nourished troopers
Turn into dust
Typhoid and dysentery
Vapourizing pus

Eating their comrades entrails
Accomplained by crows
Chaplains commit cuicide
As there's no god above
Everywhere carcasses
Too frozen to eat
Nothing left to fight for

And no more blood to bleed

And where are the videos to go along with these lyrics, or songs at least?

Charles Kinbote

Skillaz wrote: »

Shankill Butcher wrote: »

hey who wants to talk about cool music for cool people

ignore the shitty all-too-literal video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXZET6BdKs

I dig it, it has a folky sound that I dig, kind of reminds me of the modest mouse singer for some reason.

you should check out their other stuff! It ranges from electronic to indie folk to baroque pop, but it's pretty great stuff generally

more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awTaN_1gQk4

satansfingers

i could've sworn i didn't like cloud cult, but that was pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W66yhfMb4d0
i am utterly in love with this song. it's just one of those things that, for now at least, makes me feel better every time i hear it.

Skillaz

When it comes to female singers, there are quite a few that I like, my favorite is Bif




Then miss Apple



As well as Miss Spektor



These three female vocalist are the best in the biz, well I think they are, and they are my favs.

Charles Kinbote

hey that's pretty great satans

a litttttle tegan-and-sara-y in the bad way but it's something I would listen to

never even heard of that band either

Charles Kinbote

you know who I've been getting super into lately?

rilo kiley

jenny lewis is incredible

not this song specifically but it shows how awesome she is and isn't half bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70oeD9_R6OU

L|ama

Skillaz wrote: »

L|ama wrote: »

Skillaz wrote: »

I never heard of them before, I guess Hail of Bullets is cool, especially if they are talking about some of my favorite subjects. I love history, and I had no idea that a band would sing about killing Jews and Nazis, that is awesome, if they do talk about killing nazis.

I mean who doesn't like hearing about death and blood.

Oh hell yes they talk about killing nazis. And Nazis dying from cold and disease. Basically all kinds of nazi death.

"MGs rip and tear through hardened flesh
Massive seem the dark tank silhouettes
Invulnerable deadly T-34
Hear the Sturmoviks in the sky roar"


Even better:

Puny figures sleeping
In stinking holes
Thick fog and black smoke
Living like moles
Under-nourished troopers
Turn into dust
Typhoid and dysentery
Vapourizing pus

Eating their comrades entrails
Accomplained by crows
Chaplains commit cuicide
As there's no god above
Everywhere carcasses
Too frozen to eat
Nothing left to fight for

And no more blood to bleed

And where are the videos to go along with these lyrics, or songs at least?

The only videos on youtube for those songs are terrible live ones, so here are some other ones.

Ordered Eastward

Hear the engines roaring
Hear the grinding steel
Advancing divisions
Behind armoured wheels
They're driving through the clouds
They're staggering through the mud
Panic, fear and terror
An enemy on the run

Artillery is ploughing
The earth of foreign land
Screaming stukas drop
their deadly load
Einsatzgruppen murdering
On the Führer's command
Heavey calibre mortars explode

Seven armies marching
About 3 million man
Operation Barbarossa
Sealing Russia's end
Nebelwerfer launching
Granates scourge the ground
Heralds of the Blitzkrieg
Hell can't bear their sound

Iron wall of fire
Glowing melting sand
60 centimetre railwayguns
An earthquaking thunder
From the hinterland
Forged in flames this pandemonium

We were ordered eastward
Hate is on our side
Born and raised to fight
Global domination
Stalwart to the core
The mother of all wars
Brainwashed for destruction
Tools for the third reich
Breed of indoctrination
All of you must die

Annihilate resistance
None of them were warned
Suffering from starvation
Insufficiently armed
Decapitated soldiers
Rattling torsos cry
Horses mutilated
Neighing agonized

Facing Armageddon
Total war is here
Superior material and men
Tiretracks approaching
Gruesome death is near
Another comrade's life
comes to and end

Nachthexen

Summer 1941
Instructors start to train
A night bomber squadron
The 588th
Regiment of women
From pilots to mechanics
Claim their role in history
These aviatrixes

Polikarpov biplanes
Providing ground support
Temperature plummeting
To minus 54
Climbing the dark cloudened sky
Engaged in dog-fights
Up to 18 missions
In one single night

High above Rodina
For the umpteenth raid
Female fighter aces
Send their bombs away
Through the deafening sirens
Struck by heavy flak
Although riddled with bullets
All made it safely back

Shrieking madonnas
Lead spitting banshees
Baptize them in fire
Iron Valkyries
Incoming Nachthexen
Set the ground ablaze
Push the throttle up again
And hear their screams of pain

The second one is about a Russian airforce female bomber squadron, which I had never heard about prior to this.

satansfingers

Shankill Butcher wrote: »

hey that's pretty great satans

a litttttle tegan-and-sara-y in the bad way but it's something I would listen to

never even heard of that band either

takin mad offense at the tegan and sara hate

but yeah i love them. they don't have a full-length out yet as far as i can tell. the other two songs i've heard by them are good too, but they don't seize me as strongly as cradle.

Skillaz

I am so going to Hail of Bullets next concert near me.

Swill

Shankill Butcher wrote: »

I've said it before, I'll say it again

best modern lyricist is either Spencer Krug or Dan Bejar

My vote is for Spencer Krug. Wolf Parade and all their side projects are wonderful.

"I want the best for you, you snake,
You are self-professed, you snake"

satansfingers

i haven't listened to rilo kiley in forever

my hard drive ate it around the same time i heard under the blacklight, and i was so disappointed by that album that i never got around to putting old rilo kiley back on my computer.

e: and the best modern lyricist is john darnielle, duh.

Charles Kinbote

Swill wrote: »

Shankill Butcher wrote: »

I've said it before, I'll say it again

best modern lyricist is either Spencer Krug or Dan Bejar

My vote is for Spencer Krug. Wolf Parade and all their side projects are wonderful.

"I want the best for you, you snake,
You are self-professed, you snake"

that songs great

there are so many good ones
lyrically, I think my favorite wolf parade song is Kissing the Beehive

as far as Sunset Rubdown goes I'm partial to The Courtesan Has Sung if only for
"Five actors have arrived
They are good-looking but they’re hungry
They start looking with the trash found on the
Safety
Of the stage

And you see a crowd is forming
But the winged things are swarming
Yelling, “Stop, it's fucking poison”
But the deaf, they hear no warnings"

L|ama

Skillaz wrote: »

I am so going to Hail of Bullets next concert near me.

Good man. They've done a bunch of shows in europe, not sure if they're popular enough to tour in the states but they could get lucky.

Swill

Shankill Butcher wrote: »

Swill wrote: »

Shankill Butcher wrote: »

I've said it before, I'll say it again

best modern lyricist is either Spencer Krug or Dan Bejar

My vote is for Spencer Krug. Wolf Parade and all their side projects are wonderful.

"I want the best for you, you snake,
You are self-professed, you snake"

that songs great

there are so many good ones
lyrically, I think my favorite wolf parade song is Kissing the Beehive

as far as Sunset Rubdown goes I'm partial to The Courtesan Has Sung if only for
"Five actors have arrived
They are good-looking but they’re hungry
They start looking with the trash found on the
Safety
Of the stage

And you see a crowd is forming
But the winged things are swarming
Yelling, “Stop, it's fucking poison”
But the deaf, they hear no warnings"

Something about "The Men are Called Horsemen There" s repetition strikes me too.

Here is a good one from Shut Up I Am Dreaming of a Place Where Lovers Have Wings
He wants to send you drawings
Drawings of men with faithful hands
They will make such good boyfriends
He wants to tell you stories
Stories of boys who stomped their feet saying,
“Shut – shut up I am dreaming of places
Where lovers have wings"

uberneko

I recommend everyone to check out this band: www.myspace.com/cymbalseatguitars If it means anything, their album was produced by the guy that produced Modest Mouse's last album.

Forever Zefiro

I have always really liked the lyrics in Every Time I Die songs. I don't know what it is exactly. Like how cocky The New Black is. Or how he describes night life in Ebolarama.

Anyway, I am going to see Girltalk in March and that's pretty exciting

Swill

uberneko wrote: »

I recommend everyone to check out this band: www.myspace.com/cymbalseatguitars If it means anything, their album was produced by the guy that produced Modest Mouse's last album.

If you want good Modest Mouse, check out Moon and Antarctica and earlier.

Even though it is just an EP, "Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks" is a fucking great album.

Also, Sun Kil Moon did a wonderful MM cover album, called Tiny Cities.

That is not to say i didn't like that band you linked though, it was pretty good.

Bedlam

Shank can eat like ten dicks beacuse Tegan and Sara are p good.

Call it off

Dang I was looking for more videos but youtube has so much live stuff to sift through.

Bedlam

Also I am super excited for new Metric this year. They just keep getting better and better.

Help, I'm Alive

Give me Sympathy @ a myspace concert

Snork

regina spektor is the best kind of person

i hope she marries ben folds and they make millions of albums and pianobabies together

Quetzi

Skillaz wrote: »

Straightzi wrote: »

Also I ought to tell y'all about The World/Inferno Friendship Society

Because that there is a damned good band

They play what I guess is being called cabaret punk, but to hell with labels, give them a listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7DANF6hgd4
The actual song starts about 1:45 in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBaSxM73dlk

I have not heard of this band before, but I dig it, it reminds me of lounge music, if it was done by weirdos.

Try and find either Addicted to Bad Ideas or Red-Eyed Soul, those're their two best albums, at least in my opinion. Best quality, definitely, is Addicted to Bad Ideas, given that it's their most recent. Of course, it's all about Peter Lorre so if you don't love Peter Lorre maybe you won't be as big a fan as I.

Skillaz

Snork wrote: »

regina spektor is the best kind of person

i hope she marries ben folds and they make millions of albums and pianobabies together

Regina is awesome, and she seems down to earth enough, that she would be cool to chill with too.

muninn

Boris is awesomesauce, but all their videos are intentionally bland and super-boring....

cj iwakura

My two favorite bands are probably Five Iron Frenzy and System of a Down.

Talk about polar opposites.

I N V I C T U S

muninn wrote: »

Boris is awesomesauce, but all their videos are intentionally bland and super-boring....

One of the best bands making music today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hlr14DtoI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAJg4U32_5c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeSwal4jqyk

Charles Kinbote

my top 5 right now are
Sunset Rubdown
Wolf Parade
Rilo Kiley
Of Montreal
The Dodo's

edit: just thought I'd throw that out there, I guess

Fabricate

Love Boris

I also like Stars Of The Lid

Skillaz

So I have been rocking Oasis all day, and they are pretty rad, here is

Wonderwall





I hope you guys like it.

Morgenstern

Sons and Daughters.

Johnny Cash

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7728685478865067363&ei=JiptSb2mKIuQ-wHYpZDFDA&q=Sons+and+Daughters+Johnny+cash&hl=en&emb=1

Gilt Complex

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-440669647654473598&ei=dCptSZn7IaGG_AH8wM1n&q=Sons+and+Daughters+Gilt&hl=en&emb=1

Swill

Shankill Butcher wrote: »

my top 5 right now are
Sunset Rubdown
Wolf Parade
Rilo Kiley
Of Montreal
The Dodo's

edit: just thought I'd throw that out there, I guess

Seen Wolf Parade live twice in Portland. Once for Apologies and once for Zoomer.
Had tickets but no gas money for Sunset Rubdown once.
Just saw of Montreal a couple weeks ago for the Skeletal Lamping tour. Holy shit it was so crazy. Probably the most theatrical show I will ever go to.

Skillaz

I would have to disagree with most of you about the best lyricist ever, I would have to say that the best would have to be Thom Yorke.

Poorochondriac

Skillaz wrote: »

I would have to disagree with most of you about the best lyricist ever, I would have to say that the best would have to be Thom Yorke.

That's like saying the best part of Bob Dylan is his voice.
Yorke is a good frontman despite his lyrics, not because of them.

My favorite lyricist is probably Craig Finn, of the Hold Steady. Love that guy's stuff.

To Quetzi: Good call on the W/IFS. I haven't heard their latest record, but Just the Best Party and Speak of Brave Men were fuckin' stellar.

Sars_Boy

i'm so excited to see Boris this february

and Neurosis

and Mastodon

and Wolves in the Throne Room

oh god the Scion rock fest is going to be so great

also who here likes Fuck Buttons? Definitely my favorite album of '08

Sweet Love for Planet Earth

Charles Kinbote

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Skillaz wrote: »

I would have to disagree with most of you about the best lyricist ever, I would have to say that the best would have to be Thom Yorke.

That's like saying the best part of Bob Dylan is his voice.
Yorke is a good frontman despite his lyrics, not because of them.

My favorite lyricist is probably Craig Finn, of the Hold Steady. Love that guy's stuff.

To Quetzi: Good call on the W/IFS. I haven't heard their latest record, but Just the Best Party and Speak of Brave Men were fuckin' stellar.

oooh Craig Finn is great, yeah. How A Resurrection Really Feels and Cattle and the Creeping Things have incredible lyrics.

and yes, Thom Yorke is an awful lyricist, and you used exactly the same simile that I would have. h^5

Sars_Boy

as far as lyrics/pop music goes i've been listening to a lot of Los Campesinos! lately

that's some good shit

Poorochondriac

Shankill Butcher wrote: »

Poorochondriac wrote: »

Skillaz wrote: »

I would have to disagree with most of you about the best lyricist ever, I would have to say that the best would have to be Thom Yorke.

That's like saying the best part of Bob Dylan is his voice.
Yorke is a good frontman despite his lyrics, not because of them.

My favorite lyricist is probably Craig Finn, of the Hold Steady. Love that guy's stuff.

To Quetzi: Good call on the W/IFS. I haven't heard their latest record, but Just the Best Party and Speak of Brave Men were fuckin' stellar.

oooh Craig Finn is great, yeah. How A Resurrection Really Feels and Cattle and the Creeping Things have incredible lyrics.

and yes, Thom Yorke is an awful lyricist, and you used exactly the same simile that I would have. h^5

Cattle and the Creeping Things is a very strong contender for my favorite song of all time.