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^that also "DADA"

tell me more!! btw. although my headphones have a really crappy/cheap touch to them i have them for 5 years now, and i bought them used, no idea how old they really are! i spend about 3 hours a day with them on or atleast around my neck, and that includes walking in the rain and the likes. once had to fix something on the frame due to own stupidity, but apart from that no problem. edit: and i just found out, they've become alot cheaper nowadays, you can get a slightly smaller version (sr60i) on amzon for 80 bucks new... only problem i have to mention about them for outdoor use is, they are open design, means you pretty much hear everything around you (and everyone around hears what you hear ) but for computer-usage ideal, because listening to closed heads for too long is really fatigueing for the ears...

phew, and i thought i would be the one with the massively too long answers xD sooo as for the question i think the most reasons have already been said, nostalgia, inflexibility to change taste etcetc... one of the most important things though tends to be forgotten, marupinku mentioned it biefly this doesn't only consider those tiny artists from around the corner. in contrary quite the lot of the successfull artists are forgotten quite easily (and totally with good reason) of course if i ask my father (1950) about "the time when music was still good" he tells me ledzep, cream, hendrix, deep purple, stones, beatles and perhaps one or two more but thats about it. thats eight bands (one could perhaps make that 15 or so) over a time of about 10 years (1965-1975). actually that is a pretty good number and i think one perhaps might have difficulty to name as many outstanding bands in the time from 2001-2011. this has got a lot to do with what zess explained about the time of the internet. back in the days (lol, that sounds stupid) you had a handfull of selected massively successfull bands/stars, because one knew what to get, nowadys it's more like "oh, i like that, lets download the discography+ three to four different bands that make sort of similar music" so the fame is spread to a large number of bands instead of some selected few. however, this is not the point i was trying to make (quite a lot of words for not making a point). i would like to point out, that the bands mentioned of my father (well, those are what he would by my guessing) weren't those days kesha or lady gaga or justin bieber, they much more compare to the 60s/70s versions of slipknot, manson, korn, metallica and the lot. quite successfull yes, but not the actual mainstream pop-music! if you don't believe me (well even if you do) i challenge you to go to the billboard homepage http://www.billboard.com click on "charts"=>"hot 100"=>"view Chart Archives" and see for yourself. a good place to start might be your birthday, and then look at the top 10 here... this was number one, when i was born (got to mention, this was in germany, in the US i would've been better of with something from madonna...) oGV13lPYLrU this was number one for 6 weeks!! suddenly lady gaga doesn't sound so bad anymore does it? it's just that stupid people, with absolutely no sense for music or beauty and creativity in general will always be the majority, always... so, go back in time and get desillusioned about the "good old days" P.S.: i had my personal moment of truth once when there was a concert compilation of i think woodstock / isle of white or the likes festival somewhere 1969-1972-ish on tv, which i believed to be the absolute peak of quality music. i had to realise "dammn, 90% of this is just utter garbage and even the acts that i thought i like are weak and or bad performed whatever, couldn't watch the whole show to the end...

thanks a lot for the reply ^^ yeah, for some strange reason i did my diploma in classical saxophone... don't ask, i don't know why either -.- i don't really have an album out yet, but i guess one could call those 14 soundcloud-tracks my first album (they're all free for download btw) in general i play all of the instruments myself, although drums are most of the time a drumsampler, but i have some sort of "guestmusicians" whoneedsamplifiers: bass and drums are from friends すっげえ: drums and guitar-solo are from friends the rest is narcissistic intrument-wanking by myself as for the near future i have to do some exam-projects for university, so i plan to do a proper recording of "strange-circus" aswell as a surround production of "celebrating drop-e" with two simultanious drummers (the ones from the tracks above actually), curious about that ^^

GUNIW TOOLS LUNA SEA JILS Syndrome Dir en grey Girugamesh DEATHGAZE Aldious Strawberry Song Orchestra xTRiPx Light Bringer Boris

lol, got children of bodom aswell i completely agree with champs conclusion so please refer to first post (yeah, kinda boring, but no crap)

soooo, the slayer album: i've actually know that for quite a while now, perhaps since when it came out, was my first slayer album too. first the bad stuff. i need to adress how distracting i find, that an album of one of the biggest bands in thrash, if not metal at all can be so poorly mixed and mastered. i know that metal kicks tend to sound a tad weak, tend do have some veeery prominent high-frequency-range. all just so in mastering overcompression they still have a chance against guitarwalls and the final master can be still made loud enough to make your ears and any good taste bleed to death. but even in the age of such riddiculous loudness there are ways to still not steal away all the power of the drums and bass. hell if i hammer my fingernails on the table right in front of me it sounds fatter and more powerful than those two 24ich kickdrums! not to mention the complete lack of the bassguitar. but the biggest problem of all is the mastering. aside from compressing it all beyond the horizon they don't have their limiter under control, because this album is a complete digital-clipping-mayhem par excellence (example just running, "exile" 2:20, but generally more or less everywhere in the guitar-intros or with guitar-solos, clippclipp *knrzrtzrtzrtz, krrrkrkrkr). i first suspected the rip i have to be faulty and got me a *flac rip, but the same here. so to the music itself i really like what they did there, quite a fan of the riffing and also of arayas shouting. best parts on the album are the slower songs actually i think, like bloodlines, threshold or deviance. kings guitar solos unfortunately never where my cup of coffe, but at least they are special^^ on the other hand every time i accidentaly listened to the lyrics it was kind of like one cool one-liner following the next. don't know about the lyrics as a whole but some phrases where just epic xD "i hate everyone equally" (see kids, slayer aren't nazis) "you're either on my side, or else you're in my way" "can't stop the violence, I LOVE IT!" etcetc... pretty cool album in essence, a nice listen sometimes. as for suffocation i can't really judge. i don't know why, but oldschool deathmetal is just a kind of music that does exactly nothing to me (except perhaps bore me to death ), i just don't get it. which is funny, because i really like deathmetal influences in other music (stone me, but i say DirEnGrey - MOO has quite a lot of prog-death in it, and personally this one is my album of the year) so yeah, i have no idea if this is any good at all, as for sound you can imagine if i already ranted that lot about the slayer-album how laughable i find the sound of this (yes it was early 90's, but still) so, that's for this week, looking forward to the next

awesome!"!! didn't notice the primus-thread here and also missed that last album dammit. also hyper-lol on that restaurant dancing-scene

*sniff* what a heroic animal http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_new ... 1111250013

i can recommend all of the mentioned, personal favorites of those are: -i'm a cyborg but that's ok -Bittersweet life -i saw the devil -oldboy -man from nowhere and i would like to add - a movie is a movie/rough cut, - the host (!!), - city of violence (!!!!!!!!) - Aachi & Ssipak (111) - white night - secret reunion - guns & talks (exclamation mark's) - woo chi - save the green planet

i don't know how frequently you listen to music on headphones, but if it's more than just once/twice a week do not underestimate the significance of quality earplugs!!! i never understood how apple could create an mp3-player with fairly decent soundquality (the ipod) and then ruin all the efforts of the sound-department with sort of the worst headphones this universe ever crapped out, that is simply beyond my comprehension. seriously, i once bought earplugs in the supermarket for 5 bucks, with flashy words like "ultra-bass" and "power-whatever", usually quality indicators for sub-garbage-quality, and even those sounded better than those ipod-noise-vomiters. i for myself was pretty lucky, as i started with sound-engineering/producing etc.. i looked for mainly studio-headphones, which would also occasionally work on an ipod and in public aswell and ended up buying those on ebay for 80 bucks (new would be around 200), just because someone recommended them to me. Grado Labs Prestige Series SR80 so i didn't originally buy them for the everyday and everytime musiclistening but mainly for work. that was five years ago now and in the end i would say i spend 30% of the time of the day with those on, simply because listening to music is so much fun in high quality, i'd never have expected to listen to so much music before. of course one doesn't have to spend that much on headphones, but don't just go with "those look cool" and/or "knowing myself i'll brake them in two weeks time", quality sound can really open new worlds for the intelligent and good looking music-enthusiast ^^ you can already get some good earplugs somewhere in the 20-40 bucks pricerange, the problem is to identify quality products. so this is what one can do. take your ipod with some of your favorite albums to the sound-shop of choice (the bigger the selection of headphones, the better) then listen to some of your favorite tracks on the most expensive headphones they have there. after that grab all the headphones of your pricerange of choice and compare, which one comes closest to that ridicculously pricy headphone of before. key trick is to pay close attention to the bass-frequencys, because that's where the most bogus happens. i don't know what kind of music you listen to, but assuming it's somewhere in the heavy-rock-genre focus on the bass drum. if you happen to put on a headphone where you think "jolly unicorn-testicles, now that is a lot of bass!!!" put them down and immediately cross them of your list this is usually a gain-raise in the somewhere not-so-bassy-frequencys to distract from the actual lack of real low-frequencys. assuming the mix of your song of choice is top notch, the most prominent sign of quality is to actually still hear the kick-drum in the really loud parts not just the stereotypical metal 4khz 'klacklack', but in some bass-range that if heard live or over huge speakers would punch you in the stomach. aah crap, look at that shit, i wrote a fuckin 2000-pages epic again, meh... tl;dr: 1. compare headphones of your preferred pricerange to the most ridicculously expensive you can find and pick the one that comes closest 2. do NOT EVER underestimate the power and joy, that comes from quality sound and headphones!!! particularly if you're pretty much constantly on the move = constantly listening to something on your headphones EDIT: and don't pay any attention to the frequency-scale that supposedly is provided by the headphones, those numbers are the bullcrappiest bullcrap any bull has ever crapped...

if you can get the EDU-versions protools and cubase cost around 280 bucks i think, or if you put in a little criminal energy cubase 5 is pretty easy to find. also worth considering is samplitude which is pretty cheap (or sequoia, which is really expensive, but again, v7.0 is easy to find and only 70MB!). as in performance of the programms they all are pretty much on the same line, it all comes down to what appeals to you the most, what you get your hands on first and what runs the most stable on your system. i'm a cubase-user to the bone myself, although leaning to get protools for finalmix/mastering purposes (since it sounds a little better, i couldn't believe it myself, the software itself with the exact same audiofiles in it actually sounds better!), but protools is kind of a bitch honestly, the "pro" in the name always seems like bitter irony to me...

that might be one of the reasons why i mainly listen to japanese music. as far as i can remember understanding the lyrics makes the song worse in like 90% of the cases. that's because lyrics are most of the time just so utterly stupid and/or embarrassing that i can't stand actually listen to the music anymore. (in any language that is, our japanese co-earthlings are in no way better on that frontline) funny thing is, although i consider myself a pretty decent english speaker due to countless years of british and american movie/tv-series/pc-games consumption, there still is a major difference between listening to an english song or a song in my motherlanguage german. whilst in a german song (well, or whatever your mothertongue is) the lyrics burn right onto your brain, no way to escape the epic stupidity of the vocalist, its a different story with english songs. there is sort of an "actualy listen to those lyrics now"-Switch in the brain, that i perpetually try to keep switched OFF in order to avoid the verbal diarrhea of the singers. (there are some triggers that force this switch on and indicate "this is gonna get baaad", like clean phrases that start with "baaaaabybaby" or the sort of...) this is probably the one single reason i'm thankfull not to be a native english speaker, it must be the horror to be cannon fodder to some of those brainfarts. obviously no need to worry about that in japanese, but still here you have to live with the fear of those awkward moments when you listen and think "that sounds familiar, what is he... the heck? this supposed to be english???" had those quite a lot with gazette and -oz- so the few cases of lyrics that i like are easily counted, there would be: 1. some that are just unique and interesting in their setting or concept (i know it's the standard-example on any jrock-topic, but singing from the point of view of an about to be aborted fetus in "mazohyst.."? come on that's just plain cool! [edit] ) or the main portion 2. lyrics that are entertaining and/or tell a story, which are most likely to be found in hip-hop-ish or funpunkrock-ish songs, which are unfortunately not really that prominent on my hard-drive. really black humor is a special bonus like this so yeah, while most of the time it is favorable to have a vocalist (instrumental tracks/bands have a tendency to get boring quite easily, exceptions have to be quite outstanding) understanding the lyrics most of the times pretty much kills it for me most of the time EDIT: if the protagonists don't take themselves too seriously it can be creepy, cheesy, kitsch or whatever all the way, the mentioned slaying dragons, or a band that calls themselves sex machineguns opening their discography with a hymn on masturbation..., anything goes!

ok, just finished downloading and starting to listen now. exitement neofolk? no idea what to expect (starts reeeeeally cool though...) EDIT: through now. man what a find! like jigsaw said, definitely not for every time, but these days or on long boring trainrides etc. music like this, moody as fuck, is certainly very legit! but yeah, it really is long. nothing to consume in full-length at once i guess. also i guess this kind of music is perfect in the morning in the kitchen, when making the first coffee of the day, will try that out tomorrow! q4 coming up next EDIT: so this seems to be the moody week i like this album also follows a pretty melancholic vibe, of course not as dark, but still. pleasantly surprised also by the high number of instrumental-tracks, which make the album also sort of a trip-hop album, if i have my genres right here. this also won't be something that makes the heavy-rotation on my ipod, but it seems perfect just to groove-up the background a little ^^ great library additions this week, curious aout the next ones

radwimps - track nr.5 on their album (don't know the name) just had to try to get on page "1234" of this thread

my feet are kinda cold, but my socks are waaaay over there. fml #firstworldproblems

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listening to wintersun right now. so far (track three now) i like the epicness of it all, but as with amon amarth before i think i pretty much know the whole record already, but what really kills it for me is the overall sound, the guitars (to cope with the shredding lightspeed) sound pretty weak. to top it of, as pretty common with fast metal drums, the first image after hearing the drums that jumps to mind is sorta like that once more, maybe when i become a pirate and kill virgin baby kittens or whatever this might be my soundtrack, but apart from that melodic death just doesn't seem to do it for me^^ edit: through now, on second thought the sound ist that bad actually, just not really heavy, more technical. the album also has lots of nice bits to it, but i guess to me it will just be "that pirate-metal"-album no matter which song i put on, nothing really that remeberable to it... therefore top-thumbsup-track: (["starchild"]:editedit read wrong title, meant)"beautiful death" most epic and technical folk-shred-pirate-guitar-porn on the whole album

sweet mother of god this is awesome!!!!

thats the closest i got, hair is lighter, but not that orange-yellow-type from the colorset, more like dust/dirt/waste-kind of color ^^ also funny how widely spread huge headphones seem to be amongst MH-users, our people seem to really appreciate good quality music

this topic epic or what? so, pretty much zess's opening is spot on, i might just add some things. as for protection wear think motorcycle-clothing, it pretty much covers the whole body, you get decent helmets, its agile and not too heavy, it's built to protect you when you're 100mph fast sliding over tarmac, i doubt a zombie without tools will get through that at first unless the zombiefication includes dramatical changes to the teeth. i mean, it looks like ironman already, doesn't it? while you're looting at the moto-shop you could try to get a motorcycle aswell, it's the best thing to move around for quick interventions (obvious silent is always better, but if the job has to be done fast you need to outrun them). you can't hit the zombie like with a car, but as we all know from the movies, the streets are always full of obstacles so in the end you need something small that fits through everywhere (so not race-bike, but moto-cross or similar should do the trick) try to get the noise down as much as possible, but don't get your hopes up, it'll be still loud as fuck won't help much to have run over 15 zombies with your spike and pitchfork equipped musclecar, when you're stuck behind a crashed schoolbus/firetruck after 50 meters. so, the main problem i find with zess's plan is that it only covers the beginning, it's nothing that'll last too long, because obviously you'll run out of food-clothes-air-newmusic etc. sometime and a small team has to gather new supplies, which may work for sometime, but without doubt at some point teammembers will be noticed (worst case, bitten) when on looting-tour and in no time at all you'll have the zombie-hordes around your safe-place like flies. that's pretty much when everything ends (unless you have placed treadmills around the entire building and a small reactor in the basement to power them all 24/7, then you can last forever, no zombie will ever pass that ) after all one needs to think long-term solutions. one thing already noticed was a boat, a pretty good suggestion for all i can think of. i assume zombies are too dumb to swim, but even if they are it's just swimming (f*ckyoujesus, nothing walks here!), so you just have to be far enough out on the ocean and there's no way you could ever be surprised by hordes of zombies, because before that the ocean-streams and winds will have spread them all over the place, you just have to put up some safety-nets-whatever for single accidently flushed over zombies. another pretty good point for the boat is the possibility to get food from the ocean (fishing duh) and if you have the equipment to create drinking water from ocean-water, so up-suppliing is downsized quite a lot. obvious bonus points are if you can get your hands on a decent-sized sailing ship with a petrol-engine for emergencies (not having to re-supply petrol is, as zess mentioned, crucial) now the jackpot is, when you manage to make it to one of those usually they are not too far from the coast, so they are pretty accessible with a small boat, they are fully equipped with generators for electricity, some have even their own wind-/watermills for electricity, most of them also have tons of communication-equippment, which might come in handy at times ("someone listeing? we found the cure!!! it's unicorn-testicles!!!) they are pretty easy to make inaccessible from the water they have bathrooms! they have all the benefits of the boat without beeing f*cked by the weather and the sea. (storm? big f***ing deal, imma play pokemon...) the only remaining risks are still re-suppliing-trips to the land, you would need to have a detailed map of the coast and the closest city/town and plan long beforehand, you'll need to overtime create a sorta-safe landing-zone on the coast with a reasonable amount of vehicles and weapons (DO NOT TAKE FIREWEAPONS ON THE PLATFORM!! humans kill each other). but depending on the size of the transfer-boat those trips could be limited to a minimum, perhaps once a month or so. obviously you'd still have to watch groupsize here, i think best chances are if you're alone actually, but 3 might be manageable too, more gets difficult... EDIT: this alltogether is pretty much what my flatmates and me narowed it down to on the kitchen table lately. but it still has too many unknowns, for example the platform thing is pretty much busted, if birds transmit too. that would mean back to the boat and faaar into the ocean, but then perhaps zombiebirds don't need rest, so they can fly wherever the heck they want. birds are srs bsns, they pretty much crap all over most of the plans (quite literally). need a zombie-research-lab first ^^

lol, didn't expect that^^ would be ok if not for the engrish, but still listenable, very kyutai-esque indeed. also: intro metallica master of puppets much

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oh god, please don't let them go down that symphonic trail (unless they improve significantly) that amon-syth/symphonic was such utter garbage, sloppy as hell programmed sample-orchestra without any connection to the (already not that great, the single one i always skip on the album) song...