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Oingo Boingo is so awesome.

Barbarellacult - 08 December 2008 07:53 PM

Oingo Boingo is so awesome.

Damn right.

Lol, I’m a bit of a music nerd, so forgive the ramblings, I just can’t help myself.

Mine goes “Artist (album of choice) - comment”

1) Rilo Kiley (The execution of all things) - Incredible indie pop band with deceivingly complex songs, both lyrically and compositionally. Execution is an album that is heralded as a classic by the few that have heard it, but otherwise left largely unnoticed.

Sample song

2) Tool (Lateralus) - Everyone has heard this band. They’re the first hard rock band I ever got into. It blows my mind that a band can make music this technical that still flows as well as your average pop song. What other band could release a single with the chorus in 13-16 timing?

3) The Drones (Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By) - A really dark, dirty, bluesy noise rock band from Australia. They’re kinda like a bluesy, drunk and tortured Sonic Youth. The bands singer/songwriter is my favorite guitarist, his playing just drips with pain and emotion, and his lyrics are probably the best I’ve heard. If they were an American band they’d be legendary.

Sample song, though most of their stuff sounds much darker than this.

4) Blood Brothers (Burn Piano Island Burn) - Kinda experimental hardcore band. Upon first listen, I was utterly unimpressed with this band, and couldn’t get past the incredibly shrill and almost muppet like vocals. After about 3 months, I started to dig it, as they’re all really good musicians and underneath the wall of chaos, the songs were actually well written. Now, I can’t imagine the band without the shrill screaming/singing, and listen to them almost daily. Chances are you’ll be scared off, but its well worth the effort to try and like this band.

Sample song

5) Queens of the Stone Age (Songs for the Deaf) - Another pretty popular band, but they’re popular for a reason. They are, in my eyes, the personification of “rock”. Really well written music which travels anywhere between catchy pop to stoner jams, to really hard agressive rock.

Props to The Het for picking Pavement, Steven Malkmus is a smurfin genius and one of my favorite guitarists.

lol, I just noticed that this is my first post on the NOTLP front of these forums. What a self indulgent introduction :P

Barbarellacult - 08 December 2008 01:28 PM

My list of favorites is always changing(with only Kate Bush being a constant), but for now:

1) Kate Bush (Never For Ever or The Dreaming)
2) Tori Amos (Scarlet’s Walk)
3) Rasputina (Frustration Plantation)
4) The Cure (Staring at the Sea)
5) Kokia (aigakikoeru)

Nice to see some love for Rasputina and see them in someone else’s top 5.  I can’t pick just one fav album though cuz songs I love are spread across so many.  I do love a lot on Frustration Plantation though.  “Girl’s School”  is a great example of how Melora Creager can tell a whole story in one little song.

“They could catch us, they could kill us but they can never break our spirit…”

They’re so great!!!!

kelleynotlp1 - 09 December 2008 05:33 AM

Nice to see some love for Rasputina and see them in someone else’s top 5.  I can’t pick just one fav album though cuz songs I love are spread across so many.  I do love a lot on Frustration Plantation though.  “Girl’s School”  is a great example of how Melora Creager can tell a whole story in one little song.

“They could catch us, they could kill us but they can never break our spirit…”

They’re so great!!!!

I love Girls School and that album just has great atmosphere.  The only album of theirs that I have a real hard time getting into is Oh Perilous World.  Have you listened to Radical Recital yet?  They’re even better live.

Anybody remember Shakespeare’s Sister?

For some reason I am addicted to their song ‘Stay.’

Oh I loved Shakespeare’s Sister.  Hormonally Yours was a great album.  All except for the “Moonchild” song.

Barbarellacult - 09 December 2008 06:20 AM

I love Girls School and that album just has great atmosphere.  The only album of theirs that I have a real hard time getting into is Oh Perilous World.  Have you listened to Radical Recital yet?  They’re even better live.

I have heard Radical Recital and I actually got to see them live last year and it was really cool.  I love their version of “Barracuda”.  It was a very intimate show…having said that, because it was an intimate show it made people feel like they could just converse and talk with Melora between songs and sometimes during songs and she clearly is uncomfortable with it but somehow they don’t seem to notice and it gets on her nerves and at one point I actually thought she was going to stop the show.  But other than the annoying chatty fans that were there it was great.  AND it was at a venue where I could smoke indoors so, that was an added bonus.

DZ - 09 December 2008 06:29 AM

Anybody remember Shakespeare’s Sister?

For some reason I am addicted to their song ‘Stay.’

My best friend’s dad introduced me to Shakespeare’s Sister. For years, I was on the hunt for one of their albums. A couple years back, I found a single for ‘Stay’. Definitely a good song. Even if some critics say it is evil and is based on necrophilia.

PJ - 10 December 2008 05:45 AM

My best friend’s dad introduced me to Shakespeare’s Sister. For years, I was on the hunt for one of their albums. A couple years back, I found a single for ‘Stay’. Definitely a good song. Even if some critics say it is evil and is based on necrophilia.

Wow…I never thought of it that way.  I bought that album without knowing any of the songs.  A friend told me ‘Stay’ was awesome, so I got it based on that.  Glad I did now.

PJ - 10 December 2008 05:45 AM

My best friend’s dad introduced me to Shakespeare’s Sister. For years, I was on the hunt for one of their albums. A couple years back, I found a single for ‘Stay’. Definitely a good song. Even if some critics say it is evil and is based on necrophilia.

I wrote a song with Pike called “Breathless lips/Frosted hands” and it was about necrophilia.  It was probably one of my best songs.  It’s not really relevant to this conversation but I thought I’d tell you anyway.

“Stay” was a huge controversy and if I remember correctly, was banned in several countries due to the necrophilia overtones. Personally, I really enjoyed the song and never really thought it had anything to do with necrophilia.

Kelly, I would really like to hear some of Pike’s music. Sounds like my type of music.

I kind of wish Stay was about necrophilia, but having just listened to the song and then just watched the video I’d have to say those critics were beyond stupid.

The song sounds like obsessive love, maybe even suicidal. There is an undercurrent of the supernatural, but necrophilia isn’t supernatural it’s all to real.

The video clearly shows her lover comatose. Death shows up like a Madonna drag queen to take him away, but the lover fights death off and Mr. Comatose awakens to hug her. There is no necrophilia since, clearly no one is dead.

There is a lot of sequin though. I wonder what you’d call that fetish?

Kelley, I wanna hear Breathless Lips/Frosted Hands. I’ll trade you a pitch for it, how’s that sound?

You don’t even have to trade a pitch, send me one I’ll still put music to it…the only recorded copy I have of it was a live performance, not the best quality but also not too bad.  I’ll see if Freddy can put it up on the “Our Sh*t” link.  Here are the lyrics.  I sort of hate posting my lyrics because it makes me feel like a mopey goth kid trying to get people to read their poetry but honestly the recording is not great and it might be hard to understand all the words so, judge me how you will! 

Jamie was an intern in her first year college, med school
Jamie had a job at the morgue
everybody teased her but they didn’t know it pleased her
to be all by herself, at the morgue

She closed the doors,
then opened drawers (this part repeats at the end of the second verse also)

Chorus: Hey, hey Jamie tell me what’s on your mind
      Hey, hey Jamie there’s a word for your kind
      they can’t judge if they can’t open their eyes
      no they never say no

Jamie met Armando at a mixer in October
She asked him to come with her to the morgue
but he couldn’t please her so she put him in the freezer
another lover she kept in the morgue

chorus:

Didn’t lock the door, they caught you in your lingerie
trying to be understood by breathless lips and frosted hands
then security was dragging you half naked down the hall
you decided to accept the name you knew you would be called

FIN——

A tad obvious but it is a tongue in cheek kind of alt rock thing.  I’ll get Freddy to post the mp3.

Nice, I’m sending the pitch now.

I just thought of an image. A guy is licking a frozen corpse and his tongue gets stuck.

Think Christmas Story, but all wrong. Considering the kid who stuck his tongue to the pole in that movie got into porn it’s not a stretch to imagine him making a frozen corpse licking scene.