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Decade coming to a close, and my fave 2010s series feel settled. S1 must have completed between January 2010-December 2019 (e.g. you can have Glee but no Parks & Rec). No mini-series (inc. belated returns like Top of the Lake & The Missing, nor Twin Peaks: The Return (more of a mini-series/S3)):
1. Game of Thrones (2011-19)
2. Treme (2010-13)
3. The Americans (2013-18)
4. Downton Abbey (2010-15)
5. Better Call Saul (2015-ongoing)
6. Boardwalk Empire (2010-14)
7. The Leftovers (2014-17)
8. Veep (2012-2019)
9. The Affair (2014-2019)
10. Louie (2010-15)
11. Rectify (2013-16)
12. Orange is the New Black (2013-19)
13. Girls (2012-17)
14. The Newsroom (2012-14)
15. House of Cards (2013-18)
HM: Rev. (2010-2013); Dance Academy (2010-14), Community (2009-15), Utopia (2014-17).
Fav S1 cancellations: Hit & Miss (2012); Quarry (2016).Still got a fair bit to catch up on yet, as well as a few of these set to end later this year.
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Yaporigami, all these new tracks are awesome! Especially looking forward to Xinri C / Xinri D on June 6th!
I really enjoy the direction you explore on the Sicher and New Syndicate demos.
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I got back into it heavily around the time of their Australian tour last year (has been in regular rotation ever since). Wrote this at the time:
"ylm0
nth Dafuseder.b
y7
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M62
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Cep puiqMX
pce freeze 2.8i
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This has aged marvelously, one of the quiet classics in their catalogue. All banger, no filler. Like a live sequence of variations cut from the same cloth: a demure Japanese lady who lets loose on summer evenings and busts a groove.
The only two times I ever got pulled over on the road by police were during p[oli]ce freeze, spookily setting this on the outer of rotation for a few years. Live and NTS wrestled this back into my arms, helped me to understand it as more than just a cool EP. On release I slightly preferred this to Oversteps (appreciating the latter more fully in subsequent years). nth Dafuseder.b was one of my jams of 2010, although nowadays I've fallen for the enchantments of y7 & ylm0. There isn't a dud track to be found.
This might have been the first CD I ordered online from overseas. I had just moved into my own apartment in a new city, back-pay took months to catch up with my promotion so I was eating very cheaply, then my income updated and this arrived in the mail!" -
Tool's 2016 guest programming of Rage (long-running Australian music show) is on again this weekend (although the national election on the same channel means regular programming is haywire depending on state). WA viewers get this:
12:00am
- TOOL Stinkfist (BMG)
- MINISTRY Jesus Built My Hotrod (Warner)
- MASTODON Iron Tusk (Riot)
- MESHUGGAH Shed (Riot)
- AC/DC Dog Eat Dog (Sony)
- THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Nick The Stripper (Mushroom)
- NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS The Mercy Seat (Mushroom)
12:30am
- SWANS Love of Life (Shock)
- KING CRIMSON Sleepless (Virgin)
- SEX PISTOLS Pretty Vacant (Virgin)
- PETER GABRIEL Games Without Frontiers (Virgin)
- NICK CAVE and THE BAD SEEDS Do You Love Me? (Mushroom)
- EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN The Garden (Virgin)
- XTC Dear God (Virgin)
1:00am
- TOMAHAWK Rape This Day (Shock)
- KILLING JOKE Seeing Red (Sony)
- RAMMSTEIN Amerika (Universal)
- WEEN Voodoo Lady (Mushroom)
- REVOLTING COCKS Da Ya Think I'm Sexy (Warner)
- FISHBONE Fight The Youth (Sony)
- N.W.A 100 Miles and Runnin' (Polydor)
1:30am
- N.W.A Express Yourself (Polydor)
- ICE CUBE Wicked (Mushroom)
- JIMI HENDRIX - LIVE Red House (Polydor)
- JIMI HENDRIX - LIVE Purple Haze (Polydor)
- AUTECHRE Gantz Graf (Creative Vibes)
- KRAFTWERK Aerodynamik (EMI)
2:00am
- SQUAREPUSHER Come On My Selector (MDS)
- CORNELIUS Drop (Fest/Mush)
- CORNELIUS Point Of View Point (Fest/Mush)
- ISIS In Fiction (Shock)
- TOOL Sober (Universal (MCA))
- TOOL Aenema (BMG)
2:30am
- TOOL Schism (Jive/Zomba)
- TOOL Prison Sex (Universal (MCA))
- TOOL Parabola (Jive/Zomba)
- TOOL Vicarious (Sony / BMG)
Give that it is a Saturday night bookended by election coverage and Eurovision final, could be a solid all-nighter.
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Australia's elder statesman of ex-PMs passed away today at 89. Prime Minister from March 1983 - December 1991. Along with his successors in Keating and Howard, left an influential mark over modern Australia, and post-politics was more widely liked than most ex-leaders.
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Perfectly used in that scene as well. If you were only featured in one movie soundtrack, you'd be pretty proud for it to be Pi (I adore that film). The soundtrack itself is fairly canonical as far as IDM soundtracks go.
Of course ae has cropped up sporadically in tv shows and adverts. Like a decade ago when rale was used during a BBC program about feeling comfortable naked.
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No wonder I got into Autechre, Metroid was my favourite game series as a kid. When I first heard Uviol, I was immediately taken back to the ice environs in Prime. I was already into Autechre by the time Corruption came around.
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Honestly, they've earned a good break after their last couple years. I'm more than satisfied for the foreseeable future. As long as we aren't waiting until 2022, and even then it would be worth it I'm sure.
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Last night I finally dug an MCU film:
I'd gladly trade in the rest of MCU for another entry of Ant-Man's quality. Disgraceful that this isn't widely regarded as the ideal, a perfection of formula that isn't just about a good act here or a good act there, but a fully effective execution overflowing with characters, action and humour you actually like.
I'm just thrilled to actually like an MCU film! Thanks Ant-Man! The rest of those Avengers should be bowing down to you.
PS - It took me about 1.5 seconds to realise he was yelling "Ant-hony" instead of "Taxi!", given that either line suits the circumstances.
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3 hours ago, Crossword Enthusiast said:
I thoroughly enjoyed Suspiria (2018). I didn't think I would like it all tbh. I love when that happens.
Yeah I panned it a page or so back, but I gave it a second go in the last week and it is a really good film. Probably needs an adjustment viewing for adoring fans of the original, but watching Johnson during the 2nd viewing is a lot of fun, and the coven company/outside context stuff worked better this time around for me. Likely less divisive with more viewings I'd imagine.
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i guess that was aesthetically cool when it came out... just like matrix... but it's not good stuff...
Brokeback Mountain and Ice Storm are arguably his most recommendable, but all of his films are good. No one is saying he is Kubrick or anything remotely like that, but he is a fine crowdpleaser-friendly filmmaker with a reliably good record.
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@GeminiMan
Not 1 but 2 Will Smiths is foreboding, and the premise is a bit of a groan overdone in recent times.
But hey, Ang Lee. Even his "lesser works" like Taking Woodstock, Billy Lynn and Hulk are worth watching, more victims of a filmography than anything else.
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Suspiria (2018)
Fail.
Oh, let's take one of the genre's most elite cinematic offerings, and, just to be different, remove anything remotely creepy from it, and stuff an extra hour of drivel into it.
Witches have persistently proven to be the horror genre's most reliably spooky subset. If you can't make witches scary, you can't make anything scary. Incredulously, Guadagnino's take on Suspiria manages a self-annihilating excision of that very appeal. He woefully misunderstands what makes the Argento film tick, with fatal results. It became hard to care about what I was watching, or where it was going, it was just there.
From Call Me By Your Name to this...what a disgrace. Thank heavens that I wasn't in the vicinity of an art cinema on release.
4/10
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I don't watch Alien to be terrified.
Trucking beyond the outer rim lured by mysterious distress beacons on shadowy planetoids is simply who I am. Alien isn't merely home (a tender lovin comfort blanket if you like), it is everything, a fertilising formative event. That atmospheric headspace is probably why I later became obsessed with things like Metroid and Autechre as a teenager.
The Nostromo thriller is the mere tip of an intimated plentiful iceberg, an enchanting sci-fi universe in which my mind and dreams were seeded and ran wild. I've always loved the sci-fi aspect of the film moreso than the horror.
The way people go on about loving Star Wars as a kid, that was me and Alien. I guess it might terrify people, but that is beside the point of why I love it. It also provides enchantment, solace, comfort and creative stimulation.
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As far as the modern blockbuster goes, TFA & TLJ were actually worth buying a ticket for, so I'll probably turn up for this. Not day 1 or anything, but maybe day 30.
I admit to kind of loving Force Awakens. It has that special something which A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back had. Coming from someone who had never raved about a JJ Abrams film, I was surprised by how much I took to it. I guess I like SW best before it goes all trilogy angst on us.
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Going Gently
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My most outstanding documentary films (many probably mentioned already):
1. Close-Up (1990, Kiarostami
2. Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Vertov)
3. Baraka (1992, Fricke)
4. Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Reggio)
5. Waltz with Bashir (2008, Folman)
6. Stories We Tell (2012, Polley)
7. The Vietnam War (2017, Burns)
8. Blackfish (2013, Cowperthwaite)
9. 102 Minutes That Changed America (2008, Skundrick & Rittenmeyer)
10. OJ: Made in America (2016, Edelman)
HM: The Act of Killing (2012, Oppenheimer), Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010, Banksy), Forbidden Lie$ (2007, Broinowski)
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Haha badass scale
"Voyager 1, you now need four decades to reach minimum safe distance"
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The Devil's Candy
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Mountains May Depart
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3 best films I caught up with in Jan-Mar:
1. The Duellists (1977, Ridley Scott) - 10/10
2. High Tide (1987, Gillian Armstrong) - 9/10
3. Forbidden Lie$ (2007, Anna Broinowski) - 8.5/10
The four-part Talking to a Stranger from 1966 also felt groundbreaking for TV as a dramatic medium.
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Come now, it's like 40% of their discography ago. Aencient!
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Amber was my entry point to ae, and I'd still have it in my top 3 (marginally over Chiastic Slide, and behind Untilted & Confield).
I still regularly play the Nine-Further-Yulquen sequence, it's a great chill sequence just after a work out. When you add on Piezo & Nil around that, it's surely one of the best sequences in their discography. Amber has a great 1-2 opening as well, but we kind of expect that from them.
The only notable issue I have with Amber is that I never was convinced by Teartear. To me, it is a try hard, darker closer. On other ae albums, that sort of track is fine, but it sticks out like a sore thumb on Amber. Okay track in its own right, but in the context of Amber I don't like it's inclusion a great deal. I usually stop the album about half way through Teartear.
After 12 years of maligning, I'm fiiiiiinally coming around to Teartear. Soz.
Still listen to Amber on a regular basis, among my most played from them. Further was the first 10+ minute track to record 100 plays on my iTunes.
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Cheers for that, getting into her now. Intrigued to see how she develops over time.
Nice! I've started with her newest stuff, gonna work my way back. Really digging 'Rare High' on her newest EP, and the title track to her 2018 EP Mood. Her drums slam hard, and she has incredible finesse with synthesis skills.
Those are the 2 EPs I've taken a listen to as well (Mwah & Mood). She is still early 20s I think, still finding her own voice imo, could almost become anything. I agree with your last sentence.
Bands with at least 2 vocalists
in Music Discussion
Posted · Edited by Roo
These are the best I can think of since the 70s where vocals were fairly democratic, and the band wouldn't be the same without such partnerships:
UK - Massive Attack (3D & Daddy G)
US - ATCQ, Mastodon, Warpaint
Australia - Clouds, The Go-Betweens, Regurgitator
A lot of other worthy ones, but these have meant the most to me.