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Songs For The Deaf

Simplistic, straight-forward, catchy Rock. Definatly a CD made for driving around a city, causing some good old fashioned mayhem. Mindless fun, but not the type that makes you feel like a immature kid, more like the type that makes you feel 2 miles tall.

Standout Tracks: You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar...., Song for The Dead, Go With the Flow, Song for The Deaf

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Lullabies To Paralyze

The Follow up album to songs for the deaf. A much darker and more informal Rock album. While Songs for the Deaf was a balls out, driving through the desert in a broke down camaro kinda album, Lullabies to paralyze is more like the kinda album that fits an acid trip in the deep woods, where you discover a whole civilization of strange creatures living out their daily lives in a way that is just so unusual you can't look away, or forget about what you saw.

Standout Tracks: Medication, Little Sister, Burn The Witch, Someone's In The Wolf

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Rated R

Kind of like a mix between lullabies and Songs. This is considered by many people to be the queens of the Stone age's best release. Some songs are interesting, but it just seems to that that creative spark found on Lullabies and Songs...Need to listen to it more though.

Standout Tracks: Feel Good Hit of the Summer, The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret, Leg of Lamb

Ulver - Lyckantropen Themes

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Ulver - Lyckantropen Themes

One of my personal favorite ambient albums of all time. It conjures up images of spaceships docking in ancient cities that have been built over and over again as technology changed throughout the centuries. An Album for mourning the loss of Humanity's once powerful flame. Highly Recommened

Standout Tracks: Theme I, Theme III, Theme VII, Theme VIII, Theme IX

Genre: Ambient/Electronic/Experimental

Sigur Ros - ( )

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Sigur Ros - ( )

Im not quite sure as to why, but this album speaks to me on a level I didn't think music could. Track 1 gave me shivers for the longest time whenever I listened to it. The album is so peaceful and quite you kind of have to have some patience stored up to get through it all. Definatly not an album to listen to when your pissed off. Highly Recomended.

Genre: Post-Rock

Mogwai - Mr.Beast

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Mogwai - Mr.Beast

Mr. Beast has its loud, abrasive moments, but it also has its relaxing and serene moments. All that is wrapped around some of the more memorable guitar riffs and piano passages I have heard in the Post Rock Genre. Its the type of record that you would put on at the end of a long boring day at work to unwind and relax, and ignore all the trouble in your life.

Genre: Post-Rock

Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine : Biomech

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Devin Townsend: Ocean Machine - Biomech

This is my soundtrack for life, and the days when just being alive feels so satisfying. Its my soundtrack for birds soaring through the air, for the feel of grass against your skin, for watching the wind gently blowing through the trees, for the suns warmth against your face, for driving down a normaly busy road at midnight. This album did take a while to grow on me, but now that it has, I can't think of a single song that rubs me the wrong way. And although I have to be in one of those random meditative moods to properly appreciate the emotion found on this album, its still amazing any day of the week. Highly reccomended

Genre: Alternative Rock

Russian Circles - Enter

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Russian Circles - Enter

For fans of Mastodon, Pelican/Isis, and Mogwai. This has got to be one of the most refreshing peices of Post-Metal music I have heard in a while. Im not sure if you've noticed, but recently Post-Rock/Metal has recently become the bees' knees in terms of popularity in the underground music scene since Pelican and Isis took off in popularity. Post-Rock is for the '00s what Indie Rock was to the 90's, something new and interesting that just everyone has to try. So naturally the scene is flooded with bands that sound excactly like Pelican and Isis. Some sound strikingly simmialar to big daddy Pelican and/or big momma Isis. Others take their influences and forge their own sound or flair into the mix. Russian Circles is one of those bands.

PS: The guitar Solo at 2:28 of Death Rides a Horse is damn near godly.

Genre: Post-Metal

Godflesh - Hymns

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Godflesh - Hymns

Classic, ballsy, catchy, and mean. Godflesh is one seriously ugly metallic bastard. Justin Broadrick(the bands frontman, and ex member of Napalm death) manages to craft catchy riffs and choruses into the mix without loosing a drop of originality. Even though this is the bands swan song, it still sounds just as passionate as their first record "Streetcleaner".

Highlights are "Deaf, Blind and Dumb", and "Animals"

Genre: Industrial Metal

Roger Waters - Amused to Death

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Roger Waters - Amused to Death

Definatly reminiscent of Waters work on "The Wall" when Pink Floyd was still around. And although this verges on being another one of Waters pompous protest albums, this one seems just to sit with me better. The music flows together better then any of his other solo work I've heard and just generally sounds more Pinkfloydian. The concept of the album is pretty blunt, war is hell, violence is becoming mainstream, etc. He compares war to being like a game that you can watch on TV, and links that to why people are patriotic. And although what Waters Conveys on Amused to death is true, its just a very basic idea that kinda came to late to teach me a lesson I've already been lectured about; war is bad.


PS: the Tracklisting is a bit fucked so here is the actual order the songs go in:

1	The Ballad of Bill Hubbard	4:19
2	What God Wants, Part I	6:00
3	Perfect Sense, Part I	4:16
4	Perfect Sense, Part II	2:50
5	The Bravery of Being Out of Range	4:43
6	Late Home Tonight, Part I	4:00
7	Late Home Tonight, Part II	2:13
8	Too Much Rope	5:47
9	What God Wants, Part II	3:41
10	What God Wants, Part III	4:08
11	Watching TV	6:07
12	Three Wishes	6:50
13	It's a Miracle	8:30
14	Amused to Death	9:06

Genre: Progressive Rock

Fredrik Thordendal : Sol Niger Within

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Fredrik Thordendal - Sol Niger Within

This is honestly one of the weirdest albums I have heard in a while, and I've heard many types of weird. The guitars on Sol Niger Within are to die for. They paint such a vivid picture of astral patterns and alien worlds in my head it might as well be real. IMO Fredrik Thordendal(also the guitarist for the extreme progressive band "Meshuggah") is rising in the ranks of best guitarist in metal. When Fredrik does a solo, you know its him, and you know its going to be insane. The guitars go from old school thrash, wailing solo's that hardly sound like they came from a guitar, to the structured machine like riffs found in recent meshuggah albums, to peacefull jazzy doodles. The Vocals might be a little underwhelming, but hey, they're done by a guy who isn't a singer so it really doesn't bother me.

Genre: Who the fuck knows?

Queens of The Stone Age : Era Vulgaris

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Queens Of the Stone Age: Era Vulgaris

It seems like most people feel that there is some sorta ommph lacking in the Queens new album, and I have to agree, it does have some really memorable moments. But while some tracks sound good, they just seem to slug by, not really going anywhere. Later on I will get ahold of a link for the B-sides off "Era Vulgaris", which add a couple great songs onto the albums listenability. All in all though, this is a welcomed addition to their catalogue to me anyway. And "sick sick sick" is possibly one of the most catchy songs i've ever heard by the Queens of the Stone Age.


Genre: Alternative Rock
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Well, not completely useless... it all depends who you are. lets call it "Useless for most, but useful for people who can tell up from down. Yes! that rolls right off the tongue!

Anyway, this just happens to be the weekend before my final exams and my escape of the virtual prison known as the modern day educational system. Yes, I am aware that I should be studying right now, I don't need you to remind me of that fact, my parents are already way ahead of you. But hey, it looks like im studying damn hard right now, what with all the voracious typing and all. I wish I could have the determination to get my studies out of the way, but it's hard to find inspiration to study for something that I don't believe should even exist.

Ah high school, how little I will miss you... when I look back at the last four years all I can remember are the pointless homework sessions, the randomly retarded teachers that think they are the physical manifestation of knowledge, the rules of the school whose reasoning constantly revolves around the phrase "Because I said so!". Yes highschool, you will be deeply missed. And I shall place you on my mental wall of stupid, right next to parachute pants. The celebration has already begun in spirit, but alas, it has yet to begin in body. Mostly because im sure studying will have to commence sometime or later this weekend.

This blog was also birthed to give me something to do during my annual kidnapping to Toronto for yet another 3 weeks visiting relatives. Now don't get me wrong, I love my relatives, but theres only so much you can do in Toronto with no friends, while trapped in a room with 70+ year old seniors who's idea of fun is drinking tea and knitting, catch my drift?

Well enough of that, Welcome to the Tavern! this site hopefully will grow into something usefull for friends and comeplete strangers. An Ideological Oasis where everyone can come together, and find something that they all have in common; a love for free shit. And by shit I mean music, which, contrary to popular belief is not dying... well on a mainstream basis maybe it is, but hey, who really cares about fat-cat celebrites finally making a second album? 9.9 times outta 10 its still god-awful, and was only made because they ran out of all the cocaine money they made from their first double platnium hit.

At this moment I consider this blog akin to a small molecular cloud, about to give birth to a tiny star, one that will most likely be ignored by most of the known universe, until it turns supernova, and totally fucks up your afternoon in the park.