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February 15th, 2013 at 11:15 AM
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OT: Friday POSBANG (what are you listening to?)

Happy Friday everyone! Right around now is when the winter doldrums reach their peak. Areas close to Lake Michigan should see more than half a foot of snow in the next day, and the UP will get in excess of a foot, because obviously. Looks like cross-country skiing is in the works for me this weekend. What are your weekend plans?

From time to time it's nice to refresh our stale music libraries with a few fresh songs or artists. I always enjoy hearing something a little off the beaten path. We've all heard the Beach Boys, Metallica, Toby Keith, etc. How about your favorite, less-well-known bands? I offer two:

Chaotech: A rather interesting metal outfit out of Helsinki, Finland. They've come out with one EP, €xi$t, and a couple singles. I strongly recommend listening to the EP straight-through in its entirety if you happen to be a headbanger. Tracks "Apparatus of Reason" and "Decreation" are particularly noteworthy (both Soundcloud links).

Barilari: Argentinian rocker. Adrian Barilari was one of the founders of the heavy metal movement in Argentina back in the 80s as a member of the group Rata Blanca. His current solo project is reminiscent of perhaps early-80s Iron Maiden. In addition to "Abuso de Poder" embedded below, I also suggest the track "Algo Magico"

Anyways, given the diversity of tastes on the board, it's pretty likely that if you suggest some of your favorite music (of any type or genre), at least one other poster will appreciate it. Happy listening!

Edit: By the way, a posbang thread isn't a posbang thread unless you posbang people. So posbang away!

"The straightest line from A to B is straight: From A to B"

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February 15th, 2013 at 11:17 AM | I'm spending this Friday (Score:5 Normal)
Andrew Jackson Jihad
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With the door to my office closed and The Hold Steady's Almost Killed Me cranked up kinda loud. Good day today is. 

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February 15th, 2013 at 11:23 AM | Love The Hold Steady, but I (Score:5 Normal)
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Love The Hold Steady, but I can't listen to them at work - a little to much rock.  With a busy day at the desk and people popping in and out of my door, I'm going with jam bands - Dispatch, Phish, Dead, maybe Wilco.

February 15th, 2013 at 11:25 AM | Maybe a little bit of Solo Craig Finn? (Score:4 Normal)
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February 15th, 2013 at 1:23 PM | Got to do it at the gym, had some Chevelle- Face to the Floor (Score:4 Normal)
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on rotation in the early hours to get the blood going.

February 15th, 2013 at 11:25 AM | "Boys and Girls in America" - (Score:5 Normal)
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"Boys and Girls in America" - best album of the past decade.

February 15th, 2013 at 11:27 AM | That's only my 3rd favorite (Score:5 Normal)
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That's only my 3rd favorite THS album. 

1. Seperation Sunday

2. Almost Killed Me

3. Boys and Girls in America

4. Stay Positive. 

5. Heaven is Whenever

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February 15th, 2013 at 12:08 PM | Favorite THS tracks (right (Score:3 Normal)
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Favorite THS tracks (right now):

1) One for the Cutters

2) The Weekenders

3) Stay Positive

4) Stuck Between Stations

5) Your Little Hoodrat Friend

 

I f'ing love Finn's writing.  The really good songs have a big-screen, cinematic quality.  Imagine if Springsteen never got laid, had to sit thru endless upper-midwest winters and did lot more blow...

 

February 15th, 2013 at 12:08 PM | For Fans of The Hold Steady, Craig Finn and R. E. M. (Score:5 Normal)
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The Baseball Project:  Steve Wynn from The Dream Syndicate, The Miracle 3, Danny & Dusty and other bands; his wife, drummer LInda Pitmon; R. E. M.'s Mike Mills (filling in for R. E. M.'s Peter Buck) and Scott McCaughey of The Fresh Young Fellows and also an R. E. M. tour guitarist.

Here's Craig Finn performing a song he wrote for The Baseball Project about his long-time passion for the Minnesota Twins:

 

 

February 15th, 2013 at 12:17 PM | Steve Wynn and The Miracle 3 . . . "Amphetamine" (Score:4 Normal)
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Maybe not the best song to suddenly pop up on your cell phone when you're sitting in a business meeting or a crowded courtroom during a felony trial or the gallery at the United States Senate during a heated debate . . . but, still good

 

February 15th, 2013 at 12:24 PM | That'd Be The Young Fresh Fellows, NOT The Fresh Young Fellows (Score:5 Normal)
chatster
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Mistakes happen when you don't proofread posts.  Mea Culpa.

The Young Fresh Fellows playing The Kinks' Picture Book

 

February 15th, 2013 at 11:18 AM | Listening to some montell (Score:5 Normal)
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Listening to some montell jordan and going through job applications. you'd think an engineering student from michigan would have some success

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February 15th, 2013 at 11:21 AM | Last name... (Score:5 Normal)
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Assuming you're applying for jobs in the state of Michigan, having the last name "Tressel" may be hurting your prospects.

(note my proper use of you're and your)

February 15th, 2013 at 12:02 PM | How can anybody listening to (Score:5 Normal)
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How can anybody listening to Montell Jordan fail to have success at any task?

February 15th, 2013 at 11:21 AM | Howard Zinn lectures at (Score:5 Normal)
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Howard Zinn lectures at work.

As for music, mostly Rabbie Burns' songs

For a' that, an' a' that, 
Our toils obscure an' a' that, 
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, 
The man's the gowd for a' that. 
February 15th, 2013 at 3:13 PM | good for you; where do you access (Score:2 Normal)
MGlobules
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the lectures? Also, that is settings of Robbie Burns by. . . who? (Did you ever hear Greg Brown's settings of Blake?)

February 15th, 2013 at 3:47 PM | Mostly just youtube. Google (Score:3 Normal)
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Mostly just youtube. Google them, there's a decent amount. i just youtube or grooveshark Burns. 

For a' that, an' a' that, 
Our toils obscure an' a' that, 
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, 
The man's the gowd for a' that. 
February 15th, 2013 at 11:21 AM | Bullet for my Valentine. (Score:5 Normal)
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Bullet for my Valentine.  Newly released album and back to The Poison just so I can remember how good they once were.

February 15th, 2013 at 11:52 AM | Awesome! (Score:5 Normal)
MGoMatt30
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I'm doing the exact same today!  The Poison and Scream Aim Fire are so good all the way through.

February 15th, 2013 at 2:54 PM | It is night and day the (Score:2 Normal)
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It is night and day the difference in Tuck's voice and ability on those two albums compared with Fever and Temper Temper.  I know he had surgery (sad), but damn it sure is not anywhere near the same.  It doesn't help either that they consciously made an effort to change styles a bit.  The End and Say Goodnight on repeat.

February 15th, 2013 at 11:21 AM | Flogging Molly (Score:4 Normal)
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Went to see them last night and I am hoping that hair of the dog applies to music, because my ears are still ringing.  Best way to spend a Friday is half-awake until 2pm.

February 15th, 2013 at 11:21 AM | I'm listening to the Fresh (Score:5 Normal)
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I'm listening to the Fresh Air interview from earlier in the week with Charlie Leduff, Detroit News reporter and author of Detroit, An American Autopsy.

I am this close to going all Dark Blue in here.

February 15th, 2013 at 2:37 PM | Wasn't that a great (Score:2 Normal)
BlueInWisconsin
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Wasn't that a great interview?  I'd never heard of that guy, but he sounds like a maniac.

February 15th, 2013 at 3:50 PM | It was a great interview. I (Score:3 Normal)
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It was a great interview. I wish Terry Gross had done it, though, rather than Dave Davies. Thankfully Leduff was just really fasciating.

I am this close to going all Dark Blue in here.

February 15th, 2013 at 11:23 AM | Got my iPhone 5 on shuffle. (Score:5 Normal)
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Got my iPhone 5 on shuffle. Listening to all sorts of music (some country, Billy Joel, Skrillex, Linkin Park, The Lonely Island, for example).

“What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve and those who stay will be champions.” - Bo 

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February 15th, 2013 at 11:26 AM | Christ, this sounds like a (Score:5 Normal)
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Christ, this sounds like a typical shuffle/mix for me daily.  Almost exactly to the T, especially the Joel.  There is a place for him and country (90's country even more) in every day.

February 15th, 2013 at 11:30 AM | There's not much better than (Score:4 Normal)
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There's not much better than listening to Billy Joel. 

“What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve and those who stay will be champions.” - Bo 

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February 15th, 2013 at 11:27 AM | Got the Pandora (Score:5 Normal)
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set to Outcast/Busta Rhymes channel.  There are many raps songs that I used to think were just good beats that have some very insightful/funny stuff going on.  i took a good 6-7 year break from any rap/hip hop but I have to say I miss some of these songs.

February 15th, 2013 at 12:04 PM | Aquemeni is one of my (Score:5 Normal)
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Aquemeni is one of my favorite hip hop albums. Cheers

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February 15th, 2013 at 2:22 PM | great f'ing (Score:2 Normal)
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list!

February 15th, 2013 at 11:27 AM | Today (Score:5 Normal)
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is an R.E.M. day for me

February 15th, 2013 at 11:27 AM | I'm a Shit (Score:5 Normal)
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by Jason Lowenstein from At Sixes and Sevens just popped up on Pandora.  Before that it was newer Guided by Voices song.  The song was good.  GBV has been putting out about 7 albums a year lately and I can't keep up.

February 15th, 2013 at 11:28 AM | Biding My Time At Work... (Score:5 Normal)
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I'm just hanging out updating the normal 400 reports here, waiting for a call from the optometrist so I can pick up my new glasses and put all this off until Monday. In essence, using work as a way to bide my time. As for music, I've got some Yellow Magic Orchestra in the player right now. Japanese techno plus the early 1980s equals some pretty cool compositions.

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February 15th, 2013 at 11:35 AM | Well I think we have a (Score:5 Normal)
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Well I think we have a clubhouse leader for strangest music. I kind of like it, though.

"The straightest line from A to B is straight: From A to B"

"When you have Denard Robinson, you can have everything"

~George Walden

February 15th, 2013 at 11:28 AM | http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/y (Score:5 Normal)
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http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/yelawolf-way-out-song.1211177.html

February 15th, 2013 at 11:29 AM | Still bumping (Score:5 Normal)
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some kendrick lamar, thinking about the swimming pool of liquor I'm gonna dive into after I finish schooling some chillins on the golf course.

I do it for my love of the Streets

February 15th, 2013 at 11:29 AM | Vallenato (Score:4 Normal)
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Vallenato

 "gonna twist the cap off a green lizard" - Jim "Mad Dog" Mandich 

February 15th, 2013 at 11:31 AM | (No subject) (Score:5 Normal)
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February 15th, 2013 at 11:32 AM | Listening to MST3K episodes (Score:5 Normal)
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Listening to MST3K episodes on YouTube while at work. It's hard to stifle the laughs sometimes.

My username is spelled "mgordoblue", but it's pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove".

February 15th, 2013 at 11:33 AM | Crazy week for me capped off (Score:5 Normal)
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Crazy week for me capped off with a lazy Friday, so the soundtrack of the day is Blues Traveler - Travelogue.

Your friendly neighborhood contrarian.

February 15th, 2013 at 11:33 AM | My secretary complain (Score:5 Normal)
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about how hard she has to work as I contemplate a second maple and candied bacon donut... YUM!

February 15th, 2013 at 11:34 AM | Listening to the same thing (Score:5 Normal)
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as all those Russian people who get off on videotaping themselves driving around in the bleak wasteland on their way to work.

In other words, I'm listening to meteor-induced sonic booms... and Mariah Carey?  In RUSSIA??!

February 15th, 2013 at 11:34 AM | Listening to Dizzy Wright! If (Score:4 Normal)
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Listening to Dizzy Wright! If you don't know him then you should take a look.

Also, I found this interesting. (Rivals)

"His arm is every bit as strong as [Pittsburgh Steelers Pro-Bowler] Ben Roethlisberger, and I've worked with Ben," Clarkson said. "He's not Cam Newton-strong, but he's plenty strong. There's not a throw he can't make, his deep ball can probably go 75-80 yards with just the snap of his wrist. He spins the ball very well."

This is from Wilton Speights quarterback coach, So can we please stop with the his arm isn't that strong comments.

Shoelaces flapping in the wind!

February 15th, 2013 at 11:40 AM | Doesn't Flacco have the strongest in the NFL? (Score:5 Normal)
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He recently said he can bomb it 75 yds. So Speight's arm is stronger than Flacco's?

I spin more rhymes than a lazy Susan and I'm innocent until my guilt is proven.

February 15th, 2013 at 11:46 AM | Frightened Rabbit's new one, (Score:5 Normal)
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Frightened Rabbit's new one, Pedestrian Verse. yes, there are a lot of beards.

 

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February 15th, 2013 at 12:36 PM | I had no idea that Frightened (Score:5 Normal)
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I had no idea that Frightened Rabbit had a new album out.  I know what I'll be listening to now for the rest of my day.

USING GRATUITOUS AMOUNTS OF CAPS LOCK SINCE APRIL 2011

February 15th, 2013 at 1:08 PM | they are touring the states (Score:4 Normal)
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this winter/spring too, if you are into that sort of thing.

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February 15th, 2013 at 12:42 PM | Listened to 'Backwards Walk' (Score:4 Normal)
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Listened to 'Backwards Walk' a lot during my last break-up. Woo boy. That was fun...

 

or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

February 15th, 2013 at 12:46 PM | I feel like just about any (Score:5 Normal)
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I feel like just about any Frightened Rabbit song is appropriate post break-up music.

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February 15th, 2013 at 11:37 AM | My own Umphreys 2007 (Score:5 Normal)
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My own Umphreys 2007 playlist.

Bears Beets Battlestar Galactica

February 15th, 2013 at 11:37 AM | Going Back In The Day (Score:5 Normal)
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Spooky Tooth -Spooky Two and Jimi Hendrix hits!! All of them!! 

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