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"Lots of good new music"

Having broadband really is a rather wonderful way of refining your taste in music. Whereas before you'd have to spend £13.99 on an album from Virgin Megastores to discover whether you like a band, this method allows me to sort the wheat from the chaff, as it were. As such, I have discovered some excellent new bands whom you might wish to seek out yourself (and then buy your albums):

Eighties Matchbox Beeline Disaster - Really dumb, dumb and stupid rock, but loveable with it. Big fuzzy basslines, a singer what goes 'RRAAARRRGH' and songs about intercourse with members of YOUR family. It's all quite chaotic really, but a few of their songs are great, notably 'Celebrate Your Mother', 'Chicken' and 'Fishfingers'. Wapow!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah, the NME have been going ape over them for ages now, but their music quite appeals to me. It's fairly hectic and you'll either love it or hate it, and to be honest, they look like New York art students and are probably the most annoying people you'd ever meet, but songs like Graveyard, Date with the Night etc. are definitely worth a listen.

The Thermals - Recommended to me by (again) the NME, only heard a few tracks from them but I like them already. Kind of like The Stooges, but not as good, yet still... quite good.

Sleepy Jackson - If you can, get hold of a song called Glass Houses, it's ace and will be the best thing you'll hear all day.

Other songs rocking the Snuggly-meter at the moment include:

Cave in - Inspire
The Mars Volta - I Cut My Teeth
Radiohead - Myxamatosis
The Rapture - Out of the Race and Onto the Tracks
The Thrills - Santa Cruz
The Zutons - Creepin and a Crawlin
Transplants - Diamonds and Guns

Honestly, you wouldn't know it was a separate track.

Yeah, it is a bit abrupt, but I've heard plenty of songs do it anyway so I didn't notice.

Well you did get a pretty mismatched set. A listen to an entire album would make more sense - all the tracks flow into one another, so if you just listened to it all the way through it'd be hard to define where one track started and another finished.

Tracks one and two in particular - track two is basically an ending to symbol song. Does it sound like an abrupt ending? I've never listened without "Movement I" on the end.

None of it's terrible, but I don't find any of it fantastic either.

Symbol song is excellent, the first track from the first album. Movement IV is one of the short ones, and the other two are from the second album (both fairly long tracks).

Blank wrote:
> Yes! Do you still have that song? Which one is/was it? I could
> recommend some if you like, although it's better to listen as an
> album.

Right I have 4:

Of the room
Same ol' road
A track calling itself "Movement IV: RR"
Symbol Song

Nothing else would find a decent host.

Rob Zombie rules muchly.

Yes! Do you still have that song? Which one is/was it? I could recommend some if you like, although it's better to listen as an album.

There's an "Excerpts of Leitmotif" CD that has ten minutes (four songs - two long, two short) worth from the first album on. I suppose I could copy it for you, although maybe I can't. I dunno.

Blank wrote:
> Would someone listen to Dredg? Just once?

I started downloading some last night, had one song, and would have had three or four others in about 5 minutes except the computer decided to crash out on me.

So I cried and went to bed.

Goatboy wrote:
> Mr Snuggly wrote:
> The Thermals - Kind of like The Stooges,
> but not as good, yet still... quite good.
>
> --
>
> Really? What's your favourite Stooges song?


Hey, I like the Stooges! I'm just terrible at placing bands' sounds and comparing them to other bands, don't even try and ask me what certain bands sound like.

And you can't beat a song like C0ck in my Pocket.