WELL - HELLO THERE - STEP RIGHT IN BUT, PLEASE, MY MIND YOUR FACE
Music That Will Eat Your Face is designed to introduce you to bands that you may have not heard before because there is no room for them on the airwaves with all that trash that they play. Well - here's your chance to listen to this great music and see or hear for yourself.
And if you like what you see don't be afraid to check these artists out further - which you can do on the right panel. Thanks for dropping by.
This theme is dedicated to videos that kind of make you go - "What the hell did I just see?" Either that or it's going to be something that is visually striking, a bit that is sweet, sweet, cornea rotting eye candy. Though, I will try to put stuff that comes along with great music not all of it will have great music to it if I find it brilliant enough to be put up here. For now I'll give you two videos.
The first one is for a pretty good song by a group called Coma Cinema, who are new to me but put out some pretty good music. You might want to check them out.
The second video is from an older group that's been around called Depeche Mode. They don't put out a lot of stuff I like but they do pull it off every once in a while. I love their song "Personal Jesus". Anyway - here's there newest video, which is BAD ASS.
When I think about Michigan - however misguided I may be - I don't think post-hardcore music when I think of the music scene up there. What I think about is country music if I think of it at all - which I don't really. I mean - I guess you have Kid Rock and Eminem in Detroit - well - that proves I don't know shit about the Michigan music scene. But I don't concern myself with those two anyway so it's not like they are on the forefront of my mind.
So - to get back to what I was talking about.
Once upon a time there was this bad ass band named Bear vs Shark. They got tired of touring and they quit. But before they did they put out some of the best post-hardcore music of recent years. And it's just beautiful - something you wouldn't think to describe any kind of hardcore music with. Though - I wouldn't say they were the only ones you can assert that adjective to they - in my opinion - fit it more than anybody else. The music though loud and raucous comes together in fits and starts and jumps and twists but it blends into a beautiful melange that is like rainbows for the ears. The singer - though - he tends to yell a lot does it right unlike so many people - he know not to go overboard with it and when to scale it back. Listening to him sing is akin to watching a tennis ball bouncing back and forth from a wall - yelling to melody to yelling - but it works without being grating and it's almost as glorious as the most melodic music you've ever heard.
His lyrics are pure frigging heaven. They actually make statements without shoving anything down your throat. Hell - you'll probably learn shit and not even know it listening to them. It might not even be what they meant by the song but you'll still pick stuff up - it's all very open to interpretation. I mean even their song "I Fucked Your Dad" isn't a childish juvenile song despite its title.
How can you pass a singer by that sings one of the most beautiful lines ever, "This is a poem/ A combination of a sentence broken up to form a rhythm/ You are a poem little pieces of my senses broken up to form an image".
Well, this isn't that song but after you hear it you won't be disappointed.
Man - who doesn't like to sit back and chill while listening to some truly mind twisting music. Letting the music twirl through the air - float into your noise mitts - and sink into your brain causing your thoughts to wander into that far off place that is anywhere but right here, right now? I'm talking about music that makes you feel like your on drugs - music that probably enhances them if you're into that kind of thing.
I - myself - love it. This type of music just fills your senses - all of them - and makes you want to sink through whatever you are sitting or lying on and soak yourself up into sky on the other side of the planet. There's nothing like it.
Since longer than most of us remember there has been many bands either fully into this style of music or bands that just dip there toes into without rocketing off and beyond the aurora borealis.
Here are two bands that definitely go full throttle with it. One from the way back and one that is a little bit more modern.
The first band - Country Joe and the Fish - didn't - at first -record this song the way it turned out. But one day on the influence of LSD - which was legal back in those days - they played around and came up with this result.
And many years later the Black Angels gives us their take on psychedelic rock. Whereas not all psychedelic rock.
I've mentioned before how disappointing it can be for a beloved band to go the way of the dodo and fade away into obscurity. And despite how awful that can be sometimes - every once in a while you get good things that come from it. I don't have much time to get into it today but for now I leave you a pretty damn good example.
The first group is a from Huntsville, Alabama. They lead singer is Nick Torres - who evidently got tired of playing the music that he felt that record companies only wanted because it was what was popular instead of letting him do his own thing.
But, alas, him and guitarist, Tyler Odom, also from Northstar became Cassino. Notice the very different sound that this new band takes on compared to the one that predated it.
Fuck. This is addicting. Post one blog and then you're hammering them down. All this after months and months of saying that you're going to start a blog - one day. But I guess I can safely say that this is just me trying to find my ideas and themes. I mean for a monkey to evolve into one of us it had to evolve from somewhere, huh? Creationists be damned.
Well - this here is for - you guessed it. *puts finger on nose, points at you* Electronic music - or electronic-ish music. Either/or. Which is funny because I use to hate any type of music outside of Nine Inch Nails that was anyway near electronic. But that has changed to an extent; I still can't stand techno, you can give that shit to the birds and scare them off or whatever.
Well - I might as well - since I'm keeping with "firsts" themes here; first favorite bands, first group was disappointed in disbanding, etc. I might as well give you something from the first "electronic" band that I fell in love with. Though, I should say "electronic-ish" before some elitist asshole jump down my fingers' throat. Ha! See what I did there.
Any - welcome - to the stage...Radiohead. Yes - Radiohead - who are - by the way - my favorite group ever. This group - man - is to be the embodiment of never do anything twice and true to that they have never released two albums that are remotely the same. You can argue that Amnesiac and Kid A are separate albums and you'd be correct but seeing that they were recorded together I'm counting them as one. Anywho - if you're also saying Radiohead is not an electronic band or even electronic then I say you've missed out on a bunch of songs from the Kid A/Amnesiac era. And even if they aren't to you they are to me and they are what opened my mind to electronic/electronic-ish bands like She Wants Revenge (who are good but on the bottom end of the spectrum of it), Cut City, Death From Above 1979, Les Savy Fav, and El Ten Eleven.
Here it goes:
And just because I love it so much I'm going to put a cover song done by a madman name Jack Conte, who made one of the best covers PERIOD let alone a great Radiohead cover. Here's his rendition of National Anthem.
You know what I hate? I hate people that bitch about movie remakes and cover songs. What the hell are wrong with these people. They act like these redo(s) - evidently there isn't a plural form of redo - are those little fish that swim up their urethra and take all the fun out of having genitalia. I mean mention one word of somebody remaking somebody else's "art" and they go into all kinds of hissy fits complaining that these folks are raping their childhoods. As if the very existence of the new project will erase any worth - if any - the old material by had just being - well - what it is. It's fucking ridiculous, sorry.
Well - I'm here to honor the cover song and I'm doing it here. My first foray into this is a little gem I found the other day from one of my favorite groups called The Flaming Lips. They aren't alone in this raping of childhood, though. They have accomplices in the form of the band Stardeath and White Dwarfs - who are - in fact - one band despite the "and' up in there.
The song? Borderline by Madonna. And yes, it is the rare song that kicks the original's ass. If you don't like my opinion you can go read another post, blog, or go for a swim - I don't care.
To me there is almost nothing worse than losing a great band for whatever reason - be it an unfortunate death of a band member, the group no longer getting along and later separating ways or they were just to damn tired - whether it be from touring or just the whole frigging scene all together. I mean it's like losing a fucking pet. These bands are the bands I will explore with the theme that this very post - no not that one over there - is about. Not to be confused with the direct opposite of the other theme: Damn We're Out of Money - Let's Make a New Record (Do You Think We're Still Any Good?)
The first band I'll explore is one that I cannot understand the lost of. This is a band from Champaign, Illinois that should have been as famous as their other peers from Chicago who you might have heard of called the Smashing Pumpkins - who are kind of lame now and really only consists of pretty much Billy "I'm the Master" Corgan. Anyway - this isn't about them. This is about the wall of sound building - getting into your head - making sounds into color band called Hum.
The latest incarnation of the band was Matt Talbott (vocals, guitars), Tim Lash (guitars), Jeff Dimpsey (bass), and Bryan St. Pere on drums.
And I'll tell you what - St.Pere could play the fucking drums like a maniac. Not to take away from all the other members of the band but St.Pere is one of my favorite drummers and is terribly underrated. But so was the whole band.
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