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Running off to DC next week and looking for music selections. Whatever albums you suggest here I will (a) steal, (b) listen to, and (c) write reviews of.

Let's go with the first great pop punk album ever made, "New Found Glory" by New Found Glory. Released 2000, Drive-Thru Records.

Kvelertak - s/t is one of the funnest albums in the world. Sure it's in Norwegian, you won't care. It's great for driving, you're all WHEEE and speeding and shit. Second track 'Mjod' is Norwegian for mead. Before you think this is someone's bs niche album, this was on many list's Top 3 that year. Here, link: [youtube][/youtube]

I have added New Found Glory's s/t album to the playlist.

I will not be adding anything in Norwegian to the playlist.

Flack wrote:I have added New Found Glory's s/t album to the playlist.

I will not be adding anything in Norwegian to the playlist.

OK. I predict you will still like the album I recommended less.

Can you give a brief idea of things you like, so that I can tailor recommendations? I'm sure it's somewhere in one of the bases but I'm lazy =(

Death: For the whole world to see.

It's a 45 minute tape that Clive Davis rejected because the band wouldn't change their name. So instead of selling out they shelved the band and changed to gospel.

Imagine what they could have been.


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Can I put a second one on this thread, Flack? I will put a second one on this list. The next one for you is the CRYPTOZOOKEEPER SOUNDTRACK by Bachelor Machines and others. Thanks, and I'll hang up and listen off the air.

Greg has the finest taste in music out of all of us so far, by the way. Flackwell, it would be wise to listen to him!

Greg, I can tell you that he won't like the first album I posted, if that guides you.

I actually think Robb would like that Kvelertak album in more aggro moods. It really is so good!

I listened to the New Found Glory album earlier today. I don't know that much about Pop Punk but I don't find it offensive and I've listened to other bands of the genre before.

My only problem with the album was I thought it sounded kind of generic. The first song had a couple of heavy tom parts and I was hoping that would continue but by song two or three I thought it sounded like most of the other bands I've heard like Blink 182 and Less Than Jake. By song five or so I felt like I had heard the whole album and started skipping around.

So, I didn't hate it, but it just sounded like every other Pop Punk album to me. I thought it was catchy but not memorable. Maybe a second listen would change my mind.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Can I put a second one on this thread, Flack? I will put a second one on this list. The next one for you is the CRYPTOZOOKEEPER SOUNDTRACK by Bachelor Machines and others. Thanks, and I'll hang up and listen off the air.

Is the Crypto soundtrack available online somewhere? I already left and don't have my CD with me.

gsdgsd wrote:Can you give a brief idea of things you like, so that I can tailor recommendations? I'm sure it's somewhere in one of the bases but I'm lazy =(

Sounds cliche, but just about anything. I just appreciate good music. I like everything from rock, metal, rap, 80s, new wave, alternative ... I don't listen to classical and I don't listen to country, although I've been digging through some of the original Sun recordings lately.

Flack wrote:

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Can I put a second one on this thread, Flack? I will put a second one on this list. The next one for you is the CRYPTOZOOKEEPER SOUNDTRACK by Bachelor Machines and others. Thanks, and I'll hang up and listen off the air.

Is the Crypto soundtrack available online somewhere? I already left and don't have my CD with me.

No, you will have to drive back. How far did you get today?

Ok, if you can find 'em on the road, here are a few suggestions:

Jesu "Conqueror" -- Crushingly heavy and beautifully melodic at the same time. Former industrial band guy goes from dark to soaring.

Clawhammer "Pablum" -- Everyone on the internet likes Captain Beefheart except me. This is Beefheart-inspired punk; despite myself I love it. This is their punkiest album so that's probably why it's my favorite, but all of their albums have something to recommend them.

The Crown "Crowned in Terror" -- I've heard this called the best metal album ever. Don't listen to enough any more to comment on that but this is truly great.

16 Horsepower "Low Estate" -- Hard to describe but "if Joy Division were a 19th-century cowboy bar band" comes close. This is their skippiest album.

Firewater "Get Off the Cross" or "The Ponzi Scheme" -- klezmer and gypsy music mixed with more straightforward rock and a little punk. Great lyrics. Two of my favorite albums ever.

Fucked Up "David Comes to Life" -- once a straightforward (if great) thrashy hardcore band, now doing ambitious and complex "concept" (my word not theirs) albums. This is the best one yet.

Ok, good luck, hope you can find these, etc!

Just ordered Pablum from Amazon since it wasn't readily available anywhere else on the internetz. Digging the playlist overall though - thanks a bunch for posting that playlist.

Don't like classical! I've got some classical you'll love!

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RetroRomper wrote:Just ordered Pablum from Amazon since it wasn't readily available anywhere else on the internetz. Digging the playlist overall though - thanks a bunch for posting that playlist.

Hope you like it. It was one of a few albums Epitaph put out right before they hit it big with Offspring/Rancid and it kind of vanished into the ether. When I got into Clawhammer a while back I had to scour to find anything by them, which is a pity.