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[strategy]

the new tracks on the new rjd2 are quite awesome

[Tactical Bear]

mk, on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010, 9:17 AM, said:

i like all of these picks, but i'd replace "all i want" with "i can change". girls LOVE that song, and she will want to bone you. i KNOW from experience. no...no you don't. well, a guy i know.....i saw something cool this morning. matador is doing a 21st bday (anniversary?) celebration in vegas in october, and bands on the bill include gbv, sonic youth, cat power, spoon, belle & sebastian, yo la tengo and pavement. thread meet up?

"All I Want" is my absolute favorite song off that album, and is probably Record of the Year for me at this point. It might actually be my favorite LCD Soundsystem track.Plus, it kind of works really well where it is in the mix so far. I needed a good transition from the Shoegaze and Youth portion of the album (tracks 1-4), and "Lord Leopard," being short and instrumental, works pretty well to that end. I've always identified Milk of Human Kindness (the Caribou album) with a kind of Krauty sensibility, which helps me get to "All I Want" via the "David Bowie during his Berlin phase" comparison. The track also ties in well with "Nothing Ever Happened," as they are both anthemic and sweet. Deerhunter, via Bradford Cox, ties in with "Walkabout," which allows me to talk and joke about Chillwave, which gets me to "Deadbeat Summer." I'm working on another version of the mix that gets "Daytona 500" (Ghost) and "Criminology" (Rae) into the mix, the only way to do it, I think, is to lead the mix off with "Criminology," move to "Daytona 500," and then add a DJ Shadow interlude or something. It's hard to move from "Wu Rap" to non-rap unless you go, like, Rap ----> DJ Hip Hop ----> Electronica ----> ?Daytona, Criminology, Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96 (or Organ Donor). Then to what? Bear in Heaven? M83? Then how to do get MBV back on there without it feeling like a bad transition?Sigh. When I'm all done, I'll post the final tracklisting and my absurdly length explanations so you can laugh at Wang talking to women.

[GWCGWC]

SlapStick, on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010, 10:54 AM, said:

I'm liking them. Been youtubing them all day. I work in a smallish office with 7 people. When I played Bloody Valentine from Bears list I had to mute the chorus to stop the complaining so The xx work well here.

Does this mean you get to complain when they play American vanilla top 40 country music? That MBV song is super catchy and totally accessible. It's quite possible you had the volume way too low so that the highs and lows merge and their isn't enough space for the ear to pick up the true wall of sound. Now I totally hate your coworkers based on this singular event. Well, unless of course one of them has chubby cherub like features with wide hips, large chest, giant green eyes and an English accent. Her I could never hate.

[mk]

can't recommend highly enough for all of you what or waffles members to get the 2003 vinyl remaster of loveless. it sounds heaps better than the original cd.

[LongLiveYorke]

Tactical Bear, on Thursday, July 1st, 2010, 8:10 PM, said:

"All I Want" is my absolute favorite song off that album, and is probably Record of the Year for me at this point. It might actually be my favorite LCD Soundsystem track.

Yeah, "All I want" is the money track of that album. I'm starting to think "All I Want" > "All my Friends," though it would take a while to confirm such a thing.

[strategy]

I think my favorite is "home."

[Tactical Bear]

mk, on Friday, July 2nd, 2010, 10:07 AM, said:

can't recommend highly enough for all of you what or waffles members to get the 2003 vinyl remaster of loveless. it sounds heaps better than the original cd.

When it comes to my favorite albums -- or at least the ones that I consider Tier 1 -- I always download every version I can find and figure out which one I like the best. I am glad that I have the version that is mk approved. Despite my giving you lots of shit about your music smuggery (see: the Sick Thread dialog regarding Murphy's vocals on the mix of This is Happening; see also: that I ****ing won that discussion; see further: blind squirrels, nuts), I generally trust your tastes with respect to music fidelity. I don't know much about mixing and mastering and engineering, but I usually know what I like, if not why. I can even be persuaded to change my mind if told what to look for. (On everyone else's behalf: hint, hint)

LongLiveYorke, on Friday, July 2nd, 2010, 11:01 AM, said:

Yeah, "All I want" is the money track of that album. I'm starting to think "All I Want" > "All my Friends," though it would take a while to confirm such a thing.

My first reaction to "All My Friends" was very, very positive, but nothing compared to "All I Want." That song is in pretty select company, as far as first-listen-awesome goes -- "Airbag," "National Anthem" and "Reckoner" by Radiohead; "Immigrant Song" (the BBC recordings version) by Led Zeppelin; "Suicide" by Ghost Rider; "Only Shallow" by the aforementioned MBV; more that I can't name.

[strategy]

mk sometimes sends me previews of new material soon to "drop" (his parlance, not mine) asking for suggestions. I am definitely one of those useless binary people: I have a decent barometer for whether something is good or bad, but I could never come up with the flowery prose you see in album reviews.IMO, there's little that exceeds the ridiculousness of beer reviewers.src

[uncooper]

strategy, on Saturday, July 3rd, 2010, 3:50 PM, said:

mk sometimes sends me previews of new material soon to "drop" (his parlance, not mine) asking for suggestions. I am definitely one of those useless binary people: I have a decent barometer for whether something is good or bad, but I could never come up with the flowery prose you see in album reviews.IMO, there's little that exceeds the ridiculousness of beer reviewers.src

My favorite BA reviews all include the term "barnyard".

[mk]

Tactical Bear, on Saturday, July 3rd, 2010, 1:25 PM, said:

I don't know much about mixing and mastering and engineering, but I usually know what I like, if not why.

there's really nothing better to trust than your own ears.

[timwakefield]

Tactical Bear, on Saturday, July 3rd, 2010, 2:25 PM, said:

My first reaction to "All My Friends" was very, very positive, but nothing compared to "All I Want." That song is in pretty select company, as far as first-listen-awesome goes --

Ooo, now I'm quite excited. I still haven't listened to This Is Happening, I've kind of been saving it for myself. "All My Friends" is an amazing song. Another new album I've been saving: Crystal Castles II. Anybody listened to it?

[mk]

timwakefield, on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010, 3:36 PM, said:

Another new album I've been saving: Crystal Castles II. Anybody listened to it?

yeah, it's an ok listen, some interesting sounds etc, but i find them to be pretty fatiguing after a while.

[timwakefield]

This Is Happening is awesome, not as good as Sound Of Silver to me but I really really like Sound Of Silver. A lot. Hey remember when LLY was gonna make the wmaygltbotd list? Too busy colliding hardons?!Hadrons, but probably hardons too cuz you're gay!

[LongLiveYorke]

timwakefield, on Thursday, July 8th, 2010, 1:09 AM, said:

Hey remember when LLY was gonna make the wmaygltbotd list?

Yeah, remember when I had any free time? I don't.

[mk]

new m.i.a. and new tortoise leaked = yay!

[timwakefield]

Here's the new M.I.A.http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TN4KPSK9

[strategy]

thank you timothy

[bigkg]

timwakefield, on Thursday, July 8th, 2010, 10:34 PM, said:

Here's the new M.I.A.http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TN4KPSK9

Awesome, thanks

[timwakefield]

Fo shizzle.

[mk]

Does anyone else think it's kind of crazy that M.I.A.'s dad was a Tamil Tiger and her politics are sympathetic to their cause? I'm certainly no expert on Sri Lankan politics, but from what I've read, Western consensus seems to be that they were pretty much like terrorists.......