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[Andy]

i was going through the archives a minute ago and i found this post re: me begging people to listen to BTMI! and ole andy's reply gave me a hearty chuckle.

Re: Bomb The Music Industry! - Get Warmer
by Andy » 11 Aug 2025 12:16 pm

Downloaded it a while back, but forgot to post about it. I still don't think I care for them much. Maybe they have 'grow-on' capabilities, but for now I'm not big on them.

reservation of immediate judgment is a very important thing, friends.

[Just!n]

foxy shazam's new album is fun.

[Just!n]

The Alkaline Trio b-sides are incredible. Both the two Dan Andriano offerings that were left off the album and the acoustic versions of the Matt Skiba tracks. I've cobbled together a Frankenstein album out of the album's tracks and the b-sides which I'm more than happy to chalk up as a win.

[Patrick]

I liked Motion City Soundtrack's 2007 effort more than this year's! I guess I am crazy!

The only other album I've listened to this year is free for download, it's http://www.midnightbrown.com 's Deadly Electric, a literally homemade electronic/hiphop duo. I'm a big fan of the lead guy who does it (a somewhat known video game journalist) but what really amazes me is that through all the silliness and weirdness and irony, the dude can actually make incredibly catchy (and good) music.

[Just!n]

I liked Motion City Soundtrack's 2007 effort more than this year's! I guess I am crazy!

v.crazy. 2007's album is such a sappy, saccharine-sweet album with no teeth. i like it, for sure, but there's nothing like how the synth just buzzes through a verse like on hysteria or even my favorite accident. there's just this manic, nervous energy about the other three albums that EIIKM lacks imo.

[Pronounced Bran-dun Ky-la]

So uh, apparently Jimi Hendrix is coming out with a new album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl5K5dDuMAI

[Just!n]

S'up awesome, free music? How YOU livin'?

http://feversleeves.bandcamp.com/

[Just!n]

Oh my god you guys, the new Titus Andronicus album. Oh my god you guys.

Seriously. A 70-minute literal/allegorical retelling of Civil War America including an epic 15-minute musical reenactment of the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack. This is so fresh.

[blacktoothgrin]

a guy i used to work with said he wanted to do a civil war concept album, with costumes and shit

but he wanted to do it progressive rock style like king crimson.

he didn't want a drummer ("they're dicks")

[Just!n]

how the fuck would you do a concept album about the civil war without drummers? does he... does he understand historical significance?

[blacktoothgrin]

well, the music style wouldn't reflect the story very much,

which i think is admirable. you would EXPECT a drummer, wouldn't you? wouldn't you.