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I will now be prepared to be shot down in flames, but this is easily one of my favourite songs ever. To be fair, this isn't your average Ride song and sticks out like a sore thumb in the same way that "Friday I'm in Love" by The Cure does.

You shouldn't be! Twisterella is the best thing I've heard from this thread in a while. Such a wonderful melody that it managed to oust the robotic, stodgy sound of Sick, Sick, Sick (posted by by AJPiles) that I thought was going to be etched into mind for the forthcoming week.I always thought Ride were a bit more noisy but it was like a glorious Smiths/Stone Roses mid-point with Marr's wonderful eye for melody and Ian Brown's airy vocals. I've listened to it about 8 times already today.Aside form that I checked out some songs that I'd downloaded (presumably from this thread) but for some reason hadn't yet checked out..Agnostic Front- Gotta Go I didn't really feel. I love hardcore and the powerful breakdowns, but I actually cringed at the group vocals on the hook. Dated.Shining- Goretex Weather Report was fucking brilliant. Loved the chilled out sax at the start, semmed like it was impossible for that to segue into metal, but it worked. Had a grand-yet-spaced-out sound like Muse but was probably better than anything I've heard from them.TDHOH- California Uber Alles I didn't like either, especially the laid-back hook where Jello was eccentrically (that a word) shrieking it.Nothing With You just seemed like the blueprint for early-Green Dayish pop-punk. I haven't listened to them that much and prefer either less-heavy punk but still really good.Ruff Sqwad- Future just reminded me I need to listen to more grime.Engineers- Home erm.. ugh.The Bronx- False Alarm is awesome, naturally, but I prefer the opener from that album. One of the few current punk bands that I'll make an effort to follow. Second song is also brilliant- "Motherfucker I want your bloooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!!'

Took me less than two minutes to do 6mb. Sendspace knows not to fuck with me.

 

Anyway.. SLUDGE.

 

Eyehategod- Lack of Most Everything

Took the words right out of my mouth, Vito. My Delta Blues knowledge is limited to one early Robert Johnson album so a blues com would be great.

 

Anyway- Da Backwudz.

 

Album is really good, some really jazzy samples ('Welcome 2 Da Backwudz') and Kanye-like sped-up female vocals ('The World Could Be Yours') over bassy, laid back beats. Reminds me a bit of Outkast but not quite as experimental, bit more Southern (especially on songs like 'Getting 2 It')

 

Buuut.. this had a retro, anthemic guitar riff and is awesome. Just as grand as the vastly more popular 'What You Know' by T.I..

 

Da Backwudz- Lock and Load

 

Also, as I'm gonna go seen them next week..

 

The Melvins- Rat Faced Cranny

 

Drums~

Will download some of the recent stuff mentioned and give it a proper listen later.I second the title track of In the Aeroplane over the Sea being the best."And one day we will die, and our ashes will fly from an aeroplane over the sea,but for now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see"Also, it was discussed a few weeks ago but I managed to download the whole Banner Pilot album/long EP recently and it's really good. Love the Buzzocks cover at the end.After reading a positive review this morning in the Independent I checked out a couple songs from (what appears to be) the fourth album from a member of Broken Social Scene (who I've enjoyed but need to listen to more of) called Feist.myspace.com/feist . Nice voice, quite uplifting pop music. Particularly liked '1, 2, 3, 4'. The awesome Jamie Lidell supposedly guests on the album too.

Black Mountain are a fucking top band. 'No Satisfaction' is probably one of my favourite songs ever, guaranteed to bring a smile to my face. Huh, never really thought of them as a stoner-rock group but guess you're right- 'Don't Run Our Hearts Around' definitely has a QOTSA-lite feel to it. Did you listen to Pink Mountaintops yet? Heard a song on their myspace called Sweet-69 and it's like a sleazy Arcade Fire.

 

Anyway..

 

Edan- Smile

 

Really chilling beat with eerie distortion surrounding this alarm-bell sound and very tragic lyrics. The retro-y sample at the end perfectly caps a generally disturbing, seemingly very personal song. Only short, but probably one of my favourite 'alternative' hip-hop songs. 'He's painted his smile on up-side dowwwn'.

 

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Think it's pretty good. Would happily listen to an instrumental of the outro part, that was fucking heavy.I realise it isn't a pop song or anything but the hook is really annoying.Imagine it'll grow on me a bit but can't see it touching 'I luv U' or (from my limited grime knowledge) the even better 'When I'm ere'.Actually, feel free to pimp some further grime if there are any fans here.

Russian Circles- Death Rides a Horse

 

Instrumental metal, with quite harrowing guitar work and exquisite drumming amongst some of those slow, contemplative passages ala Cult of Luna et al.

 

And Edwards was right about Boris. I didn't know the song he uploaded was from Pink, as the one of my mp3 player has a different title. I cannot imagine anyone with a taste for heavier, alternative music not finding something to like about Boris. Pink alone has a rapid garage-punk song ('Electric'), a very noisy, Jesu-y effort with ethereal vocals and droning guitars ('Parting'), a ploooodding psychedlic, stoner tune ('It Paints to be, the Flame') and well, DOOMDOOMDOOMDOOM ('Blackout'). I don't think my tastes have quite evolved to appreciate their earlier drone but I can definitely recommend Heavy Rocks and Akuma No Uta.

For the crack..

 

Afghan Whigs- How Soon is Now

 

.. the vocals don't do it for me but good cover nontheless.

I think rather than just putting genres (which people can write off as shit etc.), putting a little blurb and pimping your song helps in getting someone to download it. The Nintendo song is pretty cool, although I can't envisage ever listening to it again, kind of a novelty thing- are all his beats derived from old Nintendo stuff? The Banner Pilot song is great. Can definitely see the Dillinger Four influence in the vocals (really like some strange mid-point between the two DF vocalists) and melodic guitar distortion which gives a pretty epic feel, which I don't often find with punk. Couldn't find them on wikipedia- have they got an album/ep done?

Born Against- Janelle

 

Erm.. punk rock. Specifically hardcore, quite melodic.

 

Born Against- Murder the Sons of Bitches

 

Bit heavier, groovier and slower.

 

Did quite enjoy your song Weezage- couldn't help but be moved when the sax's hit .

Not Dolt of the Year, but the person who tried so hard to be funny/crazy/wacky but failed and ended up being laughed "At, not with".

I failed. If I remember during last year some posters said I was a 'qenuine shoe in for LOL poster of the year'. If I managed to maybe have keeped off the drink during last year Hell I would have been fine.Oh well I could have been put in a worse end of the year thing when I look at it.RATWWE.

You had drink trouble!?!?!

Quite easy the hardest one. I've been weighing up the pros and cons of each person from my short list of 6 for hours.

This thread reminded me of my brief(ish) obsession with some chick from an old Orange tv ad. So much so that I've spent a good 15 minutes of Googling to try and find out who she is. No luck on a name, but a clip of the ad can be foooowwwwwnd...HERE.. Although it is pretty cool that I eventually found it, my optimistic Googling had me expecting galleries of naked pics, pissing vidz and all that other stuff which form the natural career progression for one-time Tv ad stars.

NOAH 25/4

Is that the Akiyama/Kobashi show, if so, seconded !!Although, maybe Akiyama/Kobasho was July 10th ?

For what it's worth, yeah, Kobashi/Akiyama was at the Dome, 7/10. 4/25 was Takayama/Akiyama and MarufujiKENTA/OgawaMisawa at the Budokan.I've seen very few full shows, so I'm going to go for 5/3 Raw for the great 6-man opener and the awesome Benoit/Michaels main, not that it'll make any difference .

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Eddie Gee, my man.

Brock/Eddie NWO

I have a feeling this is going to get the widest variety of answers ever, with the winner collecting two votes, and honorable mention being affixed to the.With that in mind, I'll add another- Flair/Orton promo at the UK Raw show, Flair boasting about the women he's kissed ON THE LIPS. So many lips, so little time, Ben..

I was going to say Feinstein, but Chyna's an interesting one CTX- I'll take her.

Eddie Guerrero, easy.

About three/four weeks ago at the pub I actually no-sold one of my ''mates'' drunken punches after a petty argument which, if I'm not mistaken, actually developed from rudo-slaps-to-the-face-in-public. I *hate* violence, but *love* winding people up and trying to make fools out of them if they deserve it, as people around were bemused seeing this one, angry guy spewing out rage to this other placid, cocky guy taunting ''tell you what, I'll give you one more chance to do it properly..''.RF- Going to get hurt quite badly one day.

Genki Horiguchi, Susumu Yokusuka & Ryo Saito vs Mochizuki Masaaki, Dragon Kid & Kenichiro Arai, Toryumon 6/03From the Toryumon 5th Anniversary show.  I'll take this over the MPW These Days 10-man every time, because the finish is built up much better and makes more sense.  While the sprint sections are just as lunatic, this match has EVIL GENKI~, and that's enough to tip the balance.

Yes, yes absolutely yes, this was easily the match that most pleasantly surprised me from last year. I loved how they started off all comedy-ish, but then gradually progressed into this intense battle. You forgot Araken too! He, IMO, was the star, and his story as the injured, weak-link who battled through for the fall was awesome. The finish was amazing too, and I nearly jumped off my seat when Dragon Kid (I think) came out of nowhere to break up a pinfall with a springboard dropkick. You should watch the 'Heartbreak' 10-man for a better MPro offering too. The 'These Days' tag seemed more of an exhibition than, the heated awesome-o-fest that the former was. As far as my list goes, my shit wank toss computer crashed when I was writing about match #8 of 10, and as there's there's no way I'm redoing the lot, I'll just include my first choice in brief...Dragon/Ohtani (J*Crown Tournament)Yeah. I'm really pleased that through my wrestling viewing, I've come to appreciate the more finer aspects of wrestlers work like execution, selling and great psychology. It makes it much easier to 'mark out' to someone pulling off a beautiful plancha, put over someones offence perfectly to make them look like a milion bucks or demonstrate tons of learning from previous bouts by countering an opponenets moves etc. On the flip-side, however, it gets increasingly tricker to actually physically care about someones plight in the ring knowing they are only doing it to sell tickets. Ohtani. Fuckers of mothers. That is all. Yes.

Bobbins

I'll bump up the count for Terje as well. Not just for quality of posts, but is a helpful guy too. As cynical and sweeping as he sometimes is, BionicRedneck post's get me thinking more than anyone elses, so he probably comes in second.*EDIT* I got pimped in CM's post!

No ones said him, so it won't make a difference, but Ryusuke Taguchi.