manny...is crystal method included in your electronica section...good stuff...also which is your favorite chemical brothers cd...ill have to go with exit planet dust...and prodigy...ill take music for the jilted generation over fat of the land... as far as radioheas goes...every once in awhile i will throw in pablo honey and it reminds me its not a bad album...id put it over amnesiac when i rate them... but since i play guitar i prefer now to listen to more acoustic guitar music...classic rock and ben harper find their way into my cd player often...
Yes, red, I have 2 Crystal Method CDs - Vegas and Tweekend. Vegas is awesome and is one of the greatest techno/electronica CDs of all-time, IMO. However, Tweekend is not bad...it's just not another Vegas. That CD, Tweekend, may have the most guitars in it for an "electronica" CD. Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots sings on a couple of tracks and Tom Morrell plays guitar on I think like 3 or 4 tracks. I like it, but I have read many reviews from people who couldn't stand it because it was not "Vegas" II. I have all 3 Chemical Brothers CDs & this was the order that I bought them in: 1) Dig Your Own Hole 2) Exit Planet Dust 3) Surrender And yes, I think that Exit Planet Dust is the greatest Chemical Brothers CD of all-time and maybe one of the top 3 techno/electronica CDs of all-time. There are so many good tracks on that one, but my 2 favorites are Alive Alone with Beth Orton (who's an amazing singer in her own right) and Chico's Groove. DYOH and Surrender both are good and have their outstanding tracks, but from start to finish, very few, if any, techno/electronica CDs can beat EPD. As for Prodigy, I actually like their first CD the best, Experience. Try to get this, if you don't already. It may be out of print, but you might be able to find a used copy somewhere. It has great breakbeats, samples, and just plain fun hard-core zaniness. I think that Music for the Jilted Generation is a combination of styles that were found on Experience and The Fat of the Land. Here are my top 25 CDs of techno/electronica for all-time: 1. Leftism - Leftfield 2. Exit Planet Dust - Chemical Brothers 3. Utah Saints - Utah Saints 4. Play - Moby 5. Orbital 2 (Brown Album) - Orbital 6. Risotto - Fluke 7. Second Toughest in the Infants - Underworld 8. Substance - New Order (if not enough electronica for you, then sub in I Care Because You Do by Aphex Twin) 9. The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb 10. Experience - Prodigy 11. Better Living Through Chemistry - Fatboy Slim 12. Bible of Dreams - Juno Reactor 13. In-Sides - Orbital 14. Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld 15. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (import version) - Aphex Twin 16. Vegas - Crystal Method 17. Dig Your Own Hole - Chemical Brothers 18. UFOrb - The Orb 19. Computer World - Kraftwerk 20. Music for the Jilted Generation - Prodigy 21. Selected Ambient Works, Volume II - Aphex Twin 22. Decksandrumsandrockandroll - Propellerheads 23. Everything Is Wrong - Moby 24. Lifeforms - Future Sound of London 25. Walking Wounded - Everything but the Girl Greatest Techno/Electronica Group: Tie between the Chemical Brothers and Orbital Greatest Techno/Electronica Solo Artist: Aphex Twin (Richard James) followed closely by Moby
Manny I can't believe that Groove Armada didn't make your electronica list! "Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub)", their newest one is excellent! So is their last one "Vertigo". If you haven't heard them, I recommend you check them out! And I'll second what you said about Exit Planet Dust. I also like Surrender too!
THANK YOU subtomic for summing up the EXACT reasons why Stiff Cornbread SUCKS. In my own fantasy world, I would travel to the Playboy mansion, knock that STUPID backwards red hat he wears off of his head, kick his ass, and run off with whatever bunny he was trying to tap. Maybe then that NO TALENT ASS CLOWN would realize what a joke he is and how bad his band SUCKS! Ahhhhhh one can dream. Fred Durst is the epitome of all that is wrong with society today. He has the worst voice in the ENTIRE WORLD, yet still makes more than ALL of our salaries combined!!! Life isnt fair.
I honestly believe that Fred didn't make his millions upon millions of dollars all through luck...every single member in that band is talented, it just happens that they play kiddie rapmetal for a living. And what a profitable living it is. Jealous?
Just as a side note, I think a lot of the hating comes from the usual dumb popular music/sell-out angle. You didn't hear anyone b****ing about Limp Bizkit when their first album was out, did you? Not much. Except me, actually. I couldn't stand the Faith cover. But other than that, I grew to like them with Significant Other. Starfish lagged, because they got too far away from the kind of harder rock they focused on in previous albums. Likely the reason Borland left. Well, that and I hear Durst is hard to get along with.
Rudy says Kapaya. I think it was when Cuttino hit the game winning shot the first game of his rookie season, against Golden State. He stood up and said something like "kapaaaayaaa!"
Manny i downloaded some utah saints stuff. its really great. thanks. im downloading most of what you put down on your list.
This is probably what Smokey was trying to link...I don't know if it's reliable or not and don't really care..just thought I'd pass it along. ........................................................................ Some of you may have heard about the Limp Bizkit guitarist search. Basically, the band has been "touring" the country visiting Guitar Center stores, holding auditions for a new guitarist to replace the one who left the band. The deal is this. From 7:00 to 11:00 AM you can sign up for a slot to try out that day. The tryouts are from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. During this time, they take you into a room to play your stuff. At the end of that time, you leave. They call three to ten people at 5:30 to come back to the place and play in front of Limp Bizkit. Out of those people, one is selected to return at 9:00 to jam with the band, and anyone who participated is invited to watch -- a free concert, basically. So I arrive there, with a copy of our band's full CD in hand. I'm with a friend who wants to try out, so I go ahead and sign up too. We get there at 5:00 AM and we're pretty far back in line. Not incredibly bad though. Free donuts and coffee, so all isn't too bad. 10:00 rolls around. The line is moving slow, but that's to be expected. We finally get up around the corner of the building to the front of the line at about noon. Current total time there: 7 hours. Get to the table, and I notice there's a waiver you have to sign. No problem, standard stuff. Then I notice it's a three page contract. This contract basically said that if you play, you must sign the contract. Okay. No big deal here either. So I keep reading it. An interesting note. Anything you play can NOT be copyright, and can be used by Limp Bizkit in audio, video, or recorded form of any sort. Other big words which basically translated to the fact that if you play something, they are fully authorized to steal it and use it on a CD. The artist agrees to zero compensation and zero rights over the track, and will get their name in the liner notes "if possible." This didn't sit well, as me and the guy I was with were planning on playing something we wrote. So we sign it and decide to make something up. An annoyance at the very least, but we'd waited seven hours to get this far. Then we got to stand in the parking lot for another two hours. We finally get inside at about 2:30, where it's another 30 minute wait for your turn. Current total time there: 10 hours. So then we get the "rules". They are outlined for us straight out. No guitar solos. No playing cover songs. No playing copyrighted material. No playing Limp Bizkit songs. This effectively means that you're forced to play something that you made up, but don't have a copyright for. You may see where this is going. Entering the room, there's one guy. He's got a mute button under his foot. His job is to make sure you follow the rules. If you break any, you get muted and kicked out immediately. So I go in, and there's one amp for me to plug into, and the settings are turned to "mud". It sounded awful, and was not pleasing to the ears. And it was loud enough that the awfulness didn't go away for some time. Then comes another fun part. "You have 60 seconds to play. Starting now." One ****ing minute?! So since the thing I'd been planning was two minutes and thirty seconds, I cut most of the parts out. Kept it under time (about 57 seconds), but it still sounded worse than a handful of ass due to that beautiful amplifier (hmm). And I leave the room and the line proceeds. We're told that the winners will be announced at 5:30. And that we are to remain in the front parking lot until that time. No leaving. Period. This makes for unhappy people. We're talking 200+ people here, plus any wives / girlfriends / husbands / boyfriends / family / friends which accompanied them. But what can you do? We stay until 5:30. Total current time there: 12 hours, 30 minutes. 5:30 rolls around. People are getting ansi. The clock keeps ticking, and it's 6:00 before we notice anything going on. Guitar Center management flags all their people and security to come inside to discuss something. They go in there, and the guy in charge walks out with a megaphone. After getting everyone's attention, the guy on the megaphone speaks: "he competition has been called off effective immediately and will not be rescheduled. The band will not be performing with nor for anyone. They most likely will not be signing autographs. This is beyond our control, but we are ending it." The guy then proceeds to enter back inside the huge glass doors, and two cops stand behind the door. They lock the building. After about an hour, most have gone home. The radio station is completely screwed, having brought their entire broadcast booths out to cover it. Everyone is very, very pissed. Me and the other guy stayed awhile to figure out what was going on. It's now about 7:30 PM. Limp Bizkit now has over 200 guitar parts, written by various artists around here, which are unowned and not copyrighted. Limp Bizkit now owns these riffs. Limp Bizkit just stole 200 pieces of material right out from under these guitarists' noses, myself included. If I'd played something off our CD, I would be ABSOLUTELY pissed. I *am* absolutely pissed. They have completely ripped off hundreds of people, and they're getting away with it because they can. They're on their way to their next stop, and the radio station here has given out request line numbers for the stations down there for us to call and let them know what's happening over the course of this event, to warn them. But people aren't going to buy it. They're going to go and get their **** stolen too. To add insult to injury, Guitar Center ran a contest where the winner would get to watch the band play even if they didn't play guitar. One person and a friend. That person also won an autographed Gibson Les Paul Studio ($1500+ guitar) by the band. She showed up after a near 200 mile drive to the area. Guitar Center told her that the band refused to acknowledge the contest at this point, and so not only did she drive three and a half hours for no performance (which she took her ten year old kid to see as his first concert), but apparently the guitar wasn't given either. All because the band wanted to be one giant collective *******. If any of you know anyone who's considering going to these tryouts, show them this message. If they have any questions they can contact me directly. I'm doing everything I possibly can to make sure this does NOT happen to anyone else. It's not my stuff I'm concerned about -- our CD is copyrighted completely and legally -- but I'm guessing 90% of the local bands who passed Durst a copy of their CD are going to be ****ed. Many bands, especially newer local ones, don't have the money or know-how to copyright their stuff, and by giving it to them tonight, they just basically tossed them a new Limp Bizkit CD if Fred wants to do that. I wouldn't be surprised if he copyrights their **** tomorrow. It hurts to look around and see hundreds of people get excited at the chance to be able to make something of their guitar work; to have a shot at being in a popular band, making a living doing what they dream of. Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit are taking that dream and ****ing it over. And anyone who wasn't there who just caught the coverage at noon and 5:00 on the news just think everything is perfect. Happy Fred Durst in front of the cameras behind the place, fenced off, saying how good the turnout is and how happy everyone seems, and talking about all the great **** he's hearing. That man is the true meaning of a music label representative. He's the perfect salesman and nice guy in front of the media, and turns around and screws everyone involved in the ass without having to take any hit in his overall popularity, and possibly gaining a **** ton of new music in the process that he's ripped from people. Not many things piss me off, but I'm pissed off. I'm not the only one. All sorts of "this band is playing tonight at this place, and they'd like me to announce to Fred Durst that if you're still in the area and you come to this venue, you will be able to see what a REAL band is like -- right before the real band beats your skull in." This radio station is sick of the **** from this band, and so are its listeners. If this keeps happening, I wouldn't be surprised if some **** goes down somewhere really damn soon.
