Music?

After a hard nights work, theres nothing better than drinking fresh coffee with cream and downloading a Ryan Adams solo gig you attended (especially when the moody sod was all chatty and fun).

Converge - No Heroes.
The Hope Conspiracy - File 03 EP.
Fear Before The March Of Flames - Odd How People Shake.
Fear Before The March Of Flames - Art Damage.

Thank god Converge got it right again this time, with the state of hardcore these days I couldnt stand another 'You Fail Me' type effort. It's stunning though!

This week has been a nostalgic one. More metal and HC.

Most played albums in my mp3:

Refused - Songs to fan the flames of discontent
Refused - The shape of punk to come
Neurosis - A sun that never sets
Neurosis - The eye of every storm
Soulfly -S/T
Soulfly - The dark ages
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Woven Hand - Mosaic

on the plane to NC

Dog Fashion Disco- the city comes alive tonight
Ministry- Pslam 69
NIN - with_teeth
and I dont remeber on the way back cuz I through my Mp3 player on random and slept

Refused - Songs to fan the flames of discontent Refused - The shape of punk to come

Can I reiterate how much I love you Peter? 'The Shape' is my favourite album

As strange as it may sound i have mostly been flitting between

Bob Dylan - The times they are a changin'

and

Mozart: a best of album that has a couple of piano concerto, a few violin concerto and his requiem, oh and the birth/marriage of figaro (love that one)

I dont think its that strange. Someone once told me that Mozartwas the last genius composer and while I kind of see what he meant (the amazing mathematical ability etcetc) I'd argue that songwriters such as Dylan and Bryan Wilson are the 20th century equivalent.

Over the weekend:

Huey Lewis & The News - Greatest Hits.
The Hope Conspiracy - Endnote.
Converge - Jane Doe.
Converge - No Heroes.

tonight MSI at lupos heartbreak hotel...with kenny muhammed the human orchestra...Im excited

Good gig Dan? This'll be like the 12th time you've seen em?

Saw Beirut/Hawkshead and Calexico on tuesday night, both were excellent!

Listening to: Loads of CONVERGE at the minute, I cant get enough.

Oops, wasnt Hawkshead, singer mumbled. Their called Hawk and a Hacksaw.

Nick Simpson wrote: Good gig Dan? This'll be like the 12th time you've seen em? enough.

yup it was the 12th time and a great show...saw some friends I havent seen in a long while and all around enjoyed myself, I find its a lot more fun to watch the show from a little ways back then right up front, dont have to deall with pushing and shoving and idiot crowd surfers....it was a great night...

currently listening to

slugworth- eleveated

New Be Good Tanyas
Touch the Floor
New Bella Morte
Dope Stars Inc.
Gnarls Barkley

today music for me, was um uh nothing I listened to alot of sports talk radio and was very sad by the talk about the pats although teddy bruschi was on the show and I always like hearing him talk

Still loads of Converge.

and:

Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now.
Interpol - Antics.
Neil Young - Harvest.
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm.


I was totally wrong about 'Louder Now', good album.

Damien Rice - 9.
Ryan Adams - Live @ Glasgow Carling Academy 15/02/06.
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker.

And:

Dustin Kensrue - Please Come Home.

Pantera - 101% proof Gotta love dimebag darrel (R.I.P)

Hi,

had to stop by this thread because I bought a really nice CD yesterday, well in a weird way nice... Sting singing songs by John Dowland (1563-1626!), accompanied by a lute... Now I love Dowland and I've heard plenty of counter tenors singing them, it was a bit of a shock to hear Sting start the first one in his recognizable voice lol. But once you get used to it he's really not doing a bad job, actually brilliant timing I think.

I just can't resist a lyric like:

In darkness let me dwell,
The ground shall Sorrow be;
The roof Despair to bar
All cheerful light from me...

Oddly cheering in a way...
kvaak
Pauliina

I heard a track off that on the radio, interesting stuff.

I just picked up Dog Fashion Disco- Committed to a Bright Future, amazing album

I love the variety of music on my computer, it just went from Jurassic 5 to Gwar....

Just got back from seeing Disturbed and Stone Sour, Stone Sour was great not to impressed with disturbed although their pyro was damn cool, next show Gwar at Lupos on dec 15th

I was reading an article today that says scientists have proved that music can help to motivate and improve the performance of atheletes and sportsmen. It then went on to list some tracks that would inspire them to train harder.

It got me thinking, what music do I listen to on my walk to the dojo that makes me want to train harder than I already want to.

Here's 10 tracks that popped into my head, although I could keep going to 100.

mr torture / helloween
dawn of victory / rhapsody
within a mile of home / flogging molly
ace of spades / motorhead
monkey wrench / foo fighters
for whom the bell tolls / metallica
bark at the moon / black sabbath
welcome to the jungle / guns and roses
bat out of hell / meat loaf
run to the hills / iron maiden

I know my list has a metal theme. What songs would you listen to?

My ten songs that I can listen to in the gym are ...

Gonna Fly Now and Going the Distence from the Rocky OST.
Layla / Derrik and the Dominoes (piano exit)
Battle without Honour or Humanity / Tomoyasu Hotoi
Sympathy for the Devil / Rolling Stones
Buttons / PCD
Don't Stop Me Now / Queen
Summer of '69 / Bryan Adams
Prinzesschen / La Fee
Sabotage / Beastie Boys

On the way to the dojo - Classic FM!