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"Upcoming albums..."

The next 2 months will see the release of;

- The new Mars Volta album. ~drool~

- The new Queens of the Stone Age albun. ~drooooool~

- The new Foo Fighers album. Which will be a double album. ~drooooooool~

- The new Eels album. Which will be a double album. ~drooooooooooooooool~


And about *&^&ing time quite honestly; the last decent album I bought was The Zutons and that was in October...

omg thread hijacking.

pickups (the things under the strings that "pick up" the sound) can be either 'single coil' or 'humbucker' (double coil).
A humbucker is basically two single-coil pickups that are wired together with the signal out of phase, which cancels out the buzz/hum that they emit, 'bucking' it.

A delay effect simply takes the sound that's going through it and holds it back for a set amount of time before releasing it.

eg a if you used a 1 second delay and played a note, that note would be played again 1 second later.

Omar has 4 delay units, a Line6 DL4, Boss DD-5, ElectroHarmonix Memory Man and a Roland Space Echo. He uses a lot of crazy delay as well as using it subtly. Delay effects are great for making crazy sounds.

He also has a Digitech Whammy 4 (pitch shifter), which I have too! OMG!
That means I'm as good as he is!

If I understood guitar enough, I might be amazed.

Can you please explain music terminology to me?

I.e, a delay, a humbucker....all the names for stuff like that.

I realise half of it's probably obvious. But still.

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Omar and Cedric have the coolest names, haitstyles and look evahhh

Cycloon wrote:
> MV are undoubtedly arrogant and
> ego-tistical in their music - but they pull it off with such skill
> you don't care.

And Omar uses FOUR delays. FOUR.

Hmmmmmm.

My Vitriol anyone?

Mad at Gravity?

It's a concept album yes. It has some great songs. But the lyrics are devoid of emotion. Entirely. It is dreamy, it is clever in parts. Yet they simply don't have the power and finesse to pull off such an album and make it utterly stunning, inventive and anything beyond a pretentious decent rock album. MV are undoubtedly arrogant and ego-tistical in their music - but they pull it off with such skill you don't care.

Dredg don't lack an inspired touch, El Cielo is THE concept album. It's so well done; not only does it have the lyrical concept, but the whole thing feels like a dream and ties in excellently.

ATID rule, however.

Relationship of Command is aaamazzing.

And Chanbara, off In/Casino/Out. OMG.

Mars Volta are pretty rubbish. I'm not really into Italian Electronica.

The Mars Volta, however, r0><0r.

Cycloon wrote:
> Genius part of ATDI + lack of restrictions = Mars Volta
>
> Sparta, the other part of ATDI, sound distinctly average.

Interesting. I may take a look at MV then.

Did they now?

Yeah, I can see that. I have Wiretap Scars, Sparta's first album - like Dredg, they make good music, just they lack an inspired touch. But so do the Foo Fighers and Chillis, and many bands, but I still love them more.

Ho-hum.