Awesome Albums You Should Probably Listen To: Deadboy & The Elephantmen - We Are Night Sky

Some Guy here with his first Awesome Album You Should Probably Listen to on KBFWWSS! An AAYSPLT on KBFWWSS? That just sounds ridiculous. AAYSPLT on 2BGRM also sounded ridiculous but that didn’t stop me from doing so. I’ve noticed that Alan’s reviews are infinitely better than mine and are considerably lengthier. I don’t know how to feel about this, perhaps I should try to one up him? Nah, I’m going to keep doing what I do, write mediocre reviews of stuff on the internet.

I know Alan is supposed to be in charge of the indie rock stuff but I just couldn’t resist this one. Today we have Deadboy & the Elephantmen’s album We Are Night Sky. How is that for a band name? I actually think it’s kind of lame. And that ampersand? No, you just don’t do that. Ampersands in band names make things more confusing than they should be. Anyways I’m sure you are sick of my mindless rambling and would like to know something about what the band sounds like / is.

Deadboy & the Elephantmen is another project of Dax Riggs, formerly of sludge band Acid Bath and the bluesy Agents of Oblivion (And technically this band because they’re no longer together, now he just does solo stuff.). Dax plays the guitar and sings in that amazing baritone of his, while the incredibly hot Tessie Brunet handles drums and backup vocals. I could probably go on for a long time about how hot she is, but I’m not going to. Instead I’m going to comment about just how great this album is. It’s kinda hard to describe really. Dax’s (Hmmm that looks kind of stupid. How do you make something possessive if it ends with an x? Daxes? Dax’? I’m confused) guitar is tuned waaaaay down compared to that of the average indie rock band, creating a sort of stoner rock sound. Drumming is simple and won’t impress you, but Tessie is just so hot you won’t care. Lyrics are anything but typical for the genre; most of them are somehow related to death. Several tracks are a bit on the heavy side, a nod to Dax’s roots in extreme metal most likely.

Overall it’s just an interesting album / band. As with every other band Dax has been in, they only made two albums. His solo stuff is good but damn, it’s just not as good as this band (Or Agents of Oblivion or Acid Bath for that matter). He really needs to stop this whole “Let’s make an awesome band then only make an album or two!” thing.

You’ll love it. And if not well it’s not like you actually paid for it so just delete it from your hard drive and pretend like it never happened.

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?njdjjxjujjt

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Wilco (The Band) makes Wilco (The Album).

I'm going to try something a little different here. I'm going to be reviewing Alt-Country / Indie-Rock band Wilco's new album, Wilco (The Album). What's going to be different, is I'm going to talk less about the album as a whole, and focus on three individual songs: "Wilco the Song", "You Never Know", and "I'll Fight".

First up, we have "Wilco the Song", a rock-based tribute to the band. This sounds like the earlier style of Wilco, on albums such as A.M. Rhythmic guitar and steady drums follow front man Jeff Tweedy's chorus of "Wilco, I love you baby". Apart from sounding arrogant to the point of ridiculousness, this guitar driven track seems to exist only to answer the question "What should the first song be?" It's boring, and repetive almost to annoyance; with two guitars, one is just relegated to wailing in the background, one or two chords throughout the entire song. Even the bridge with the church-like bells and dissonant feedback can't save this song from being just slightly above-average. The best word to describe it is simply "ordinary", and that's unfortunate.

"You Never Know" is a decent song that sounds like the first really original work on the album. The vocals are simple, yet distinct, and the track is led with a strong, but not overpowering piano part. I really wish they skipped the chorus, though. Tweedy's poor execution on the held notes just highlights how little is really going on in the song. Some parts feel like they just don't belong, like the whacky synth overlay about three minutes into the song. It's not a bad effort, and it has some strong points, but as a listener, I spend the entire chorus waiting for it to be over.

Finally, "I'll Fight" is a song that I feel belongs next to some of Wilco's most praised work. A predominately vocally driven track, "I'll Fight" features some really interesting synth organ bits in the back ground instead of a normal rhythm guitar. I really like that, as it goes really well with the sort of ethereal violin bits that are scattered throughout the track. In a way, this song feels like the spiritual successsor to "Jesus, Etc.", a track off of Wilco's critically acclaimed 2004 album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot". The vocals sort of float back and forth between a states of certainty, ("I'll Kill, I'll Kill, I'll Kill, I'll Kill for you, I will") and uncertainty ("I'll die alone on some forgotten hill / abandoned by the mill"). It really is a song that highlights what Wilco is really good at, which is taking country elements, and mixing them with traditional indie rock style.

So, on the whole... yeah, it's not a bad album. It's certainly not a great album, either. It has songs that could one day appear on a "Wilco: Best Of" record, and songs that we'd all like to forget, including Jeff Tweedy and his band of Guitar toting Merry Men. It's worth picking up, if nothing else, just to have.

I'll give Wilco (The Album) a:

6.8/10

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?umj2izvmynm
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Firefox 3.5

Some Guy here with my first review of something that isn’t music. In fact, I’ve got something so different than music it will shock you. OK it probably won’t shock you but here it is. Actually who am I to say that it won’t shock you? It just might, I don’t understand how your brain works. Anyways enough stupid crap here we go.

Firefox has been my favorite internet browser since I started using it 3 years ago. The addons, it doesn’t crash every 30 seconds and it allows me to feel all cool and hip because I’m not using Internet Explorer. What’s not to love? Firefox 3.5 adds a few interesting new features to the browser you adore. While many of the changes don’t really benefit the common internet browser, I’m certain you don’t care about complicated HTML changes and whatnot. However there are a few things I’m sure you’ll love about this.

Pages heavy in Javascript will load noticeably faster. I’ve even noticed several flash games running a bit nicer as well. A few memory leak problems have been fixed. Furthermore there is support for

Tennis Announcers: Why They Suck

Leading off, I know this is a soccer commentator. I'm okay with this, because tennis announcers suck so much, they don't even have pictures of them on the internet.

Alright, so I am watching the Wimbledon final, being all patriotic and shit (Go American! Death to the Foreign Born!), and these two idiots calling the match are just ridiculous. They spend less time talking about the actual match than they do observing on other things.

What sort of other things? Fans, the weather, notable people in the crowd, the quality of the grass, the FRENCH, and Andy Roddick's perspiration problem. I kid you not, at one point, WHILE PLAY WAS GOING ON, the announcers did an impersonation of HENRY FUCKING KISSINGER, (notable U.S. politician and war criminal).



So, when they finally got down to talking about the match, we heard such gems as "Hushed, quiet silence." as the crowd erupted in applause, or "It doesn't feel good, falling down like that" when Roddick took a tumble. They also made references to "the rope-a-dope" (wrong sport), clay courts not being Roddick's forté, (wrong tournament), and, the movie Top Gun.

What Tom Cruise has to do with Tennis, I have no idea. The whole thing is rather ridiculous. I suggest muting it and doing the commentary yourself.

I give Tennis Commentators a:
3/10

Astronautalis -- The Mighty Ocean & Nine Dark Theaters

Alright, first off, let me start by saying that I like music too. A lot of it is not the same music that Some Guy likes. Metal? Prog-Rock? Go to Some Guy. Indie Rock? Hip Hop? Folk, Punk, or Folk-Punk? I might just be your man.

Keeping that in mind, I bring you a very unique album today. Astronautalis, the stage name of Andy Bothwell out of Seattle, Washington, released "The Mighty Ocean & Nine Dark Theaters", in 2006. As a second album, "The Mighty Ocean" is a very mature effort from the aspiring hip-hop lyricist. It features, most notably, deep lyrics, and great orchestration. Pieces on the violin, harmonica, piano, even xylophones give more than enough depth to the tracks to make them worthwhile as purely instrumental tracks.

Which brings me to my favorite part of this album: the lyrics. Astronautalis is a brilliant lyricist, and I don't use that word lightly. While the tracks meander from orchestral indie-rock to beat-driven hip-hop, Astronautalis effortlessly piles lyric on top of lyric. It ties the entire album together perfectly, and is above and beyond what you'd expect from any established hip-hop artist.

So, yes, I know this album is nearing 3 years of age, but the fact that it is not platinum by now is reason enough for me to plug it here

Enjoy!

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zxymtmkmgty

Birds!

First, some housekeeping stuff. Since Some Guy imported a bunch of his old reviews, the dates show them posted a little bit before this blog actually started. So there that is.

Alright! Birds!

I was skeptical, at first. Living in the mid-Atlantic region, the birds I was most familiar with were Canadian Geese, Crows, and Pigeons. If you have heard or seen any of these birds, you can understand my apprehension when I received not one, but TWO birds for Christmas a few years ago.

Now, I am a shitty pet owner. I am sometimes neglectful, and I play music too loud, and I do not like poo on my personal effects. I also enjoy sleeping all the way through the night, without being woken up. All of this changes when you get a bird.

Here is a video to help you comprehend what happens constantly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFnpUrDXVLo&feature=related

Despite their loud, incessant squawking, I was really sad when one of my birds died.

So, about a year and a half into my bird-owning experiment, I was left with:

• Headaches
• Lack of Sleep
• Guilt
• A mess

Now, despite the all the bad things, I've had several people tell me they thought my bird was "cute" or "okay". These are the kinds of compliments that can take your relationship with your significant other to the next level, if you happen to be allergic to dogs and cats.

So, taking into account the annoyance of birds as pets, the grossness of city-birds, and the portrayal of Vultures as Disney Villains, I will give birds a...

5.5/10

Blog can be spelled with any vowell. Bleg. Blag. Blug. Blig.

Blogs are a place to learn about stuff that, until finding the blog post, you didn't care about. Well, we're here to make sure there is plenty of stuff that you care about.

First off, the "We".

I am Alan, I like things like music, movies, books, games, and whatnot. I will tell you about these things in EXCRUCIATING detail. My partner in crime is Some Guy. That's not me being vague, that's what he likes the internet to know him as. He's a neat guy, and very knowledgeable, especially about music ! He's coming to you from his old blog, Two Bored Guys Reviewing Music.

So, what is it that we do? We review stuff. And stuff is about as specific as we can get. Literally, if it exists, it is fair game for reviewing. Even things that don't exist tangibly, we'll review it. I give The Human Condition an 8/10.

Where does that leave you, the devoted reader? Well, for starters, learning about stuff you didn't really plan on knowing. Who knows, if we like it, maybe you'll like it. Secondly, (and I hate numerical adverbs), you'll be getting a lot of free stuff. We'll do our best to provide whatever we can of the product we're reviewing. If it's an album, expect to have a direct download link in the post. It's not a promise that we can provide you a full product, or it would be impossible to review things like cars, computers, or Johnny Depp's smile. We are not Opera, folks.

Well, this is pretty much the basic information concerning our blog.

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-Alan