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frankB wrote:
Nice. I didn't like The Midnight, it was too dancey or something, but the others were good. Have you ever listened to Stars?

Never heard Stars before. That song was okay, but not good enough to get me interested.

With the bands I mentioned - The Midnight is easily the best overall. I picked the wrong song for you to listen to, I think. I mean I LOVE tonnes of Midnight songs and a lot of it is different depending on the album. I've picked out one more for you to listen to that I think you'll love also, as it's definitely more to your taste, but if you don't like it I'll shut up.




I'm new to Gunship. They have two albums, with one that is new, maybe not out yet. But they have about 5 or 6 songs that are amazing and a bunch of others that aren't.

FMAttack are awesome, but they don't have many songs that are better than any other song they have. They have a few albums that all have their own feel, but they're just great for putting in the background and chilling to.

I also like Timecop1983 who is like FMAttack in a way but more techno.

Maybe it's time to confess that I'm done with rock music because of gems like this.
Devin Townsend as a great 80s wave musician :

DON wrote:
That was a good song. The thing about liking old music though is there's only going to be so much new stuff you can discover. And I need new stuff constantly.

The Midnight just released their new album which is clearly 80s inspired. It might not be legit 80s music, but at least people are still trying to carry on the genre today.

frankB wrote:
They were both pretty good. I liked the progginess of Crystaline. Timecop1983 was probably a bit *too* 80s-sounding for me overall, but still kinda fun.

Just scrolling down the Steven Wilson website in the hope of a new album announcement.
He's releasing a live blu-ray now, consisting of some stadium performance. The tracklist looks quite nice, with only some stinkers from his latest abomination and lots of great solo era and Porcupine Tree tracks, BUT the footage, the footage....
Is this supposed to be a joke?
Steven Wilson in a stadium with all those dancers?
Who does he think he is? Nickelback or Bon Jovi?
What happened to the sympathetic nerd from UK that would do the ultimate blend of classic prog, modern rock and weird shit?
We're talking about Corgan's failures most of the time here and I was pretty much awed by anything Wilson did ever since I found out about PT in 2006 (minus parts of The Incident maybe, which felt a bit lazy to me). But right now, it feels like he completely lost me as a listener.
It seems like his attitude towards art and the perception of his fanbase has changed by a 100%. I could have ignored the awful To The Bone album (and I must be honest here, I would rather listen to Monuments than to this trainwreck, because Monuments is at least so bad it's amusing).
But this is something extra, the footage is worthy of a disgusting rockstar not of one of the greatest musicians alive.
He's chumming up to all the people and an industry who would have pissed on songs like Anesthetize and Russia On Ice and who would have taken a dump on albums like Signify.
It makes me feel sick.
I'm shocked, saddened and disgusted.
It's sell-out time in Porcupine land!

The movie is genius. Music is great too.