Converge - Every song is about fucking love

maudlin of the Well - Pretentious bullshit, trying to be "experimental".

Boris - Japan LOL

Drudkh - Total Nazis trying to be poetic.

Ulver - ELECTRONIC MUSIC NOW? you guys sound like fucking daft punk, faggots.

Sonic Youth - Artistic faggots, stop releasing albums and do something useful.

Kayo Dot - motW trying to be even MORE eclectic.

Protest the Hero - Skinny faggots who think PROGRESSIVE MUSIC IS AWESOME AND LOVE DRAGONFORCE, why the fuck do you sing like a whiny emo bitch? stop it already. And you're Canadian, that says it all.

Envy - EMOS

Neurosis - Trying to play sludge music with a new name, what the fuck were they thinking? bullshit.

Isis - Neurosis copycat, but they're skinny and with glasses and trying to sound intellectual trying to save metal for "barbarians".

Infidel?/Castro! - I don't understand their name, and the music is all over the place.

Venetian Snares- Stop releasing the same album over and over again
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Autechre - Who the fuck wears windbreakers? seriously.

Aphex Twin - Refer to Venetian Snares

Boredoms - Using 77 drummers at once? clever, you cunts. Go suck pitchforks dick.

Nick Drake - LOL, depression took over your life pretty quick, eh?

La Quiete - Emo cunts who can't even play the drums.

Fantômas - Mike Patton can't sing worth shit, and the Melvins are awful.

Porcupine Tree - Without Steven Wilson you guys are worth shit, and he is a fucking kike lover.

Pg.99- Worst name in the history of music, and so were their albums.

The Angelic Process - I can't listen to your fucking instruments without the wall of sound, it's tedious and its getting old... Oh wait! You're not releasing another album, are you?

Jesu - Stop releasing so many albums in one fucking year, they all suck.

Mastodon - Whalecore, whaaaaaaaaaat?

Time of Orchids - Toby Driver cocksuckers.

Oh No - You are the worst musician in your family.

Ruins - Your music is all over the place in a BAD BAD way.

Agalloch - Most overrated band EVER. Stop singing about the woods faggots.

Sylvain Chauveau - Why can't you do an album that's not 2 minutes of silence between each fucking song?

Mr. Bungle - Patton, LOL

Battles - Every band you guys have been on fucking suck and this is no exception, and Mr. Braxton your father OWNS you literally.

King Crimson - You guys are old, just quit already.

Pelican - Refer to Isis.

Blacklisted - LOL, modern hardcore is a myth.

Orchid - Scenester music fuck off.

Nashgul - Learn to spell, spics.

Portishead - Pitchfork's best friend, dirty hipsters.

Miles Davis - Junkie, crazy and nigger.

Neil Perry - Go back to You and I please, not another Jersey fucking band.

Charles Bronson - Great name, too many fucking songs douchebags.

Have A Nice Life - Pretentious rich boys from Connecticut, now everyone wanks with you guys...pretentious cover btw.

Insect Warfare - Four simple words... DEATH TO FALSE GRIND.

Spazz - Charles Bronson are better, so if they are shit you guys must be fucking jews.

Manu Chao - French trying to be spic.

Machetazo - Mexicanos grindcores.

Glassjaw - Stop whining in every fucking song. And you guys pulled a Chinese Democracy pretty damn well, assholes.

Fugazi - The Bob Dylan's of the pop/post hardcore movement...and Dylan sucked.

Matmos - Faggots, like yeah... They are lovers, 'nuff said.


William Basinski - LOOOONG SONGS are not cool.

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Don't try to be all so "oh cool we play minimal structured piano masterpieces" because you don't, Japan LOL.

Special thanks to my slavic friend, Anthony or known in the underworld as: http://www.last.fm/user/vast_

Done:

Anti-Flag, Billy Talent, Limp Bizkit, Manu Chao, Mando Diao, Mad Caddies, J.B.O., Die Toten Hosen, Panteón Rococó, The Hives, The Strokes, Seeed, Fettes Brot, The Quicksteps

Not done yet:

Rise Against, Slipknot, Rammstein, Frauenarzt, Jan Hegenberg

As posted at http://jasonkirk.net today:

In late 2001 and early 2002 I finished up my eighth and final year of college (long story for a different day) with a light course load, sharing half of a broken down, high-ceilinged, turn-of-the-20th-century house on Marion Street in Clarksville TN with two of my best friends. The house was divided into two apartments; two artist friends of ours shared the larger of the two, which comprised the bulk of the house, while we occupied the L-shaped railroad-style apartment on the other side with a sunken-floored closet for a bathroom. The rent was cheap and there was enough space for three friends to move around without stepping all over one another, pretty much satisfying every need three kids in college could have.

Both of my roommates, Lindsey Boise and William Gentry, had a musical bent so we spent a lot of time in the house jamming and recording our spontaneity in an open atmosphere that was a welcome relief from both the required courses I’d put off as long as possible and the loneliness of 250 miles’ worth of separation from my then-girlfriend (and now-wife) Rachel. More often than not I stuck to the acoustic guitar, the lone instrument I don’t murder just by touching it; William offered plenty of percussion and vocal stylings, while Lindsey was our multi-instrumentalist, ready and able to break out a mandolin or conga drum or lute at just the right time and make a song complete. I wouldn’t have been a bit surprised if he had ever produced an instrument of his own making, hand-crafted and playable only by him.

A few months into our year living together, Lindsey did in fact produce something new for the jam sessions - or rather, someone. He invited Bill Carrasco to come over and play with the three of us and the widening circle of friends who’d been joining in our musical game. Bill had been teaching language courses at the university, not to mention writing songs of his own. He came over and jammed with us and fit in well, but soon it was clear that there was a chemistry with him and Lindsey that rose above the musical nights that had filled the Marion Street house since the summer. Throughout the school year Bill and Lindsey started working together on songs that the two of them had come up with separately, which eventually bled into creating songs together. The house jam sessions morphed from the focus of activities to an adjunct to the duo’s songwriting, which produced a number of Latin- and reggae-influenced gems that would eventually become the meat of a self-produced demo called Baseado. Lindsey and Bill christened themselves Agua Trip somewhere along the way and the band survives long after the house on Marion Street is nothing more than a memory to us all.



Years later I sit listening to an advance copy of Genetics, the band’s second full-length album since moving to New York City in the summer of 2002, and I realize that some things about Agua Trip haven’t changed since the days in Clarksville. There’s still an abundance of classical guitar and Latin and reggae rhythms at play. A sneaky mandolin peeks around the corner in places unexpected yet wholly appropriate. And the interplay between the different songwriting tendencies and influences that Bill and Lindsey have individually, echoes of Bob Marley and Manu Chao and Django Reinhardt and Lennon-McCartney, survives seven years on. Most of all, the music the two of them create is still as intriguing as it was to me when it took the form of frequent jams in the front room of that railroad-style apartment.

It occurs to me after repeated listens that Bill and Lindsey couldn’t have chosen a better title than Genetics; this new album is the same complex mixture of past influences and current environment, old ways and new, as each and every one of us holds in our own unique double helix. As much as Genetics reminds me of the core of Agua Trip’s beginning, it’s also a product of their time in New York. Some of the album’s songs have an offhand feel yet the production is more lush than anything else they’ve done. There’s a gravity reminiscent of their first album Breakfast Translations but there are also lighthearted touches, in both the songs themselves and the production, that hearken back to the good old days of Marion Street. The album as a whole feels like nothing so much as a culmination of all they’ve done since those heady days of living room jams.

Agua Trip will officially release Genetics on November 5 with a big party at Sage Theatre in New York City’s Times Square. I hope that some of you in the City will be able to make it and experience the band’s music for yourself. In the meantime, keep an eye on this space for a few more features on the band and their plans for the album’s release.

1.How did you get into 29? (Indy & Wich)
From a flatmate in Prague.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Bat For Lashes)
What's a Girl To Do?

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Scott Walker)
Quick give us your lips
Give us your thighs
Give us your sad and devouring eyes
Cascading tears for every heartbeat
Tonight we'll sleep with The Girls From the Streets

4. How did you get into 49? (The Rolling Stones)
I've been aware of them for as long as I can remember, but the first time I really 'got' them would be listening to Gimme Shelter at about 5am in a Brighton university dorm in 2000.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (The Divine Comedy)
Five. I think I was out of the country for the last two.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Fat Truckers)
Anorexic Robot

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Dave Clarke)
In Short, no. Blue On Blue is a little intense, but it wouldn't make me sad.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Serge Gainsbourg)
La Javanaise

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (The Cabin Fever)
I know you, you know me

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Soft Machine)
Slightly All the Time

11. What is the worst song by 40? (David Devant & His Spirit Wife)
I like most of what they recorded. There are a few b-sides that aren't really up to scratch, perhaps Slip It To Me # (live)

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Kevin Ayers)
Has to be Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Mr. Oizo)
I found the CD in a Levne Knihy shop for about 30p and listened to it a lot the next six months or so, but unusually there are no specific memories attached to the music.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (Selfish Cunt)
Britain Is Shit

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Can)
Bring Me Coffee or Tea produces a wry, but genuine smile.

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (The Jam)
No, however all of Paul Weller's solo work makes me sad for a different reason.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (John Barry)
I expect I heard some of his James Bond stuff when I was very young indeed, but the fist time I was aware of him individually would be with the music from Midnight Cowboy

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band)
"One red bean stuck in the bottom of uh tin bowl
Hot coffee from uh krimpt up can
Me 'n my girl named Bimbo Limbo Spam" - The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Pulp)
Jarvis Cocker probably, but I'd like to put a word in for Russell Senior too.

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (Oneida)
I used to enjoy walking around Zhuhai while listening to Sheets of Easter

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Add N to (X))
Playing Fyuz in a little nightclub in Southampton.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Kraftwerk)
I'll always love Ruckzuck

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Hammock)
Before the Celebration, on a bus in Thailand.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (The Herbaliser)
Remedies, because it's the only one I know properly.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Cassetteboy)
Has to be Fly Me to New York (Featuring DJ Rubbish) for very wrong and very funny wrong funnies.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Jefferson Airplane)
Hard to say as I imagine I heard them when I was fairly young. Something like White Rabbit most likely.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (The Fall
This Nation's Saving Grace is the slightly obvious choice, but Slates is a mini-album of equal quality.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (David Bowie)
Very, very hard to say. Something like Space Oddity, Queen Bitch, Station to Station or even A New Career in a New Town

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Jacques Dutronc)
Et moi, et moi, et moi

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Denim)
Middle of the Road

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Del Shannon)
Since he died when I was 10 I never got to see him. Shame.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Gail Force 3)
WLTM still makes me laugh on what must be the 50th play.

33. How did you get into 12? (DJ Shadow)
The local Indie DJ used to play Organ Donor all the time.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (The Incredible String Band)
There are no really bad ISB tracks, 50% are great, 50% are interminable hippy strumming, and therefore merely skippable.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Gang of Four)
I heard At Home He's a Tourist in about 1998 as my stepdad had the single.

36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48? (Fanfare Ciocărlia)
Asfalt Tango

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Echo & the Bunnymen)
I think I remember being underwhelmed by them at the Phoenix Festival one time. I'm not really that much of a fan.

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (The Beatles)
The Word is pretty much a perfect song.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Joanna Newsom)
Sprout And The Bean, on an NME compilation.

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (The Yummy Fur)
Kinky Cinema has been one of my favourite albums since it was released, and now you can download the whole thing on Last fm. So do that.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (The Mighty Boosh)
Tundra Rap

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (John Cooper Clarke)
All I've got is World of Mouth: Very Best of John Cooper Clarke, which makes me want to get his real albums.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Dizzee Rascal)
Sittin' Here

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Roots Manuva)
Listening to Ninja Tune compilations in a hostel in Dali earlier this year.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Brian Eno)
I honestly think that The Big Ship could be one of the greatest bits of music ever recorded.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (David Sedaris)
Six To Eight Black Men








47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Robert Wyatt)
Rock Bottom is just astonishing.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (Manu Chao)
Manu Chao. Obviously.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (LCD Soundsystem)
Losing My Edge

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (HALCALI)
ギリギリ・サーフライダー, also known as Girigiri Surf Rider

1. How did you get into 29?
Amy Winehouse. Believe it or not, i got into her because of a music magazine I used to read every month (BIZZ), unfortunately it doens't exist anymore =(. BIZZ was way too much fun.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
It was Pearl Jam - Last Kiss, which isn't even close my favorite one.

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
None. There is a lot of things I would do for a 椎名林檎's album... but you know.. I'm a student. (8)Oh, my pride is all I have.... (8)

4. What is your favorite song by 15?
The day I first listend to Fleetwood Mac was the happiest day of my father's life. I was a 8-year-old kid completely addicted to The Beatles and my dad used to make a selection of albums to listen in the car and I always wanted The Beatles among them. He was just TIRED. "KID, STOP LISTENING TO BEATLES, PLEASE!", then he showed me Fleetwood Mac and I got another addiction. Thank you very much, daddy.
It's hard to say THE favorite song, but... I'd say Blue Letter, Crystal or Rhiannon.

5. What is your favorite song by 5?
I just told you about my story with The Beatles... It's been a long way together and it's haaard to say what's my favorte one.. buts let's take a chance:
Golden Slumbers, I Want You (She's So Heavy) and Fixing a Hole are the most meaningful for me.

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
There's no doubt: Kings of Leon - Razz.

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Again, sure thing: Blonde Redhead - Hated Because of Great Qualities.

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Muse. It was the love of my life's favorite band, so I've got pretty good memories...

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
東京事変? dynamite. Makes me wanna dance!

10. How many times have you seen 25 live?
I've seen Chicas live around five or six times. They are really incredible...

11. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
The Strokes - Reptilia.

12. What is your favorite album by 11?
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die

13. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Himself. David Bowie ♥

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
YES. I've seen Björk live and it was one of the best lives I've ever seen...

15. What is a good memory involving 27?
Beirut's Nantes and Postcard from Italy brings to me good feelings and scents (yes, scents) of past times of my life.. real good times. I tend to remember the smell of things.

16. What is your favorite song by 16?
Queens of the Stone Age - Tangled Up in Plaid.

17. What is your favorite album by 18?
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

18. What is your favorite song by 21?
Echo & the Bunnymen - Rust.

19. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
The Dresden Dolls - Shores of California

20. What is your favorite album by 2?
Chico Buarque - Almanaque

21. What is you favorite song by 3?
Dir en grey - AMBER and audrey

22. What is you favorite song by 8?
I find Los Hermanos boring nowadays.. but let's see.. Do Lado de Dentro

23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
I've never seen Gal Costa live, but I would love to go back to 1969 and go to A Todo Vapor.

24. What is the worst song by 12?
utagoe. Too happy.

25. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Jamiroquai - Seven Days in Sunny June

26. What is you favorite album by 7?
Ouch. That's a hard one, but I'd say it's Caetano Veloso's Transa.

27. What is your favorite song by 24?
Wilco - At Least That's What You Said.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Manu Chao - Bongo Bong

29. What is your favorite album by 4?
Novos Baianos - Acabou Chorare

30. How many albums do you own by 20?
None. And I don't want it thaat much...

mr_maxis's top albums
1. Nirvana - Nevermind (96) 2. Looptroop - The Struggle Continues (84) 3. Lisa Gerrard - The Silver Tree (74) 4. Nujabes - Metaphorical Music (68) 5. Wax Tailor - Tales of the Forgotten Melodies (65) 6. Noir Désir - 666.667 Club (59) 7. The Offspring - Smash (58) 8. Bauchklang - Jamzero (54) 9. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (51) 10. Bérurier Noir - Carnaval des agités (50) 11. EZ3kiel - Barb4Ry (50) 12. 2Pac & The Outlawz - Still i Rise (49) 13. Manu Chao - Radio Bemba Sound System (47) 14. Alexander Kowalski - Echoes (47) 15. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (46) 16. Busta Rhymes - Genesis (45) 17. The Beatles - 1 (44) 18. Joris Voorn - Future History (43) 19. Khoiba - Nice Traps (42) 20. Miniman - En Marche Pour Sion (42) 21. Massive Attack - Mezzanine (42) 22. Alexander Kowalski - Progress (42) 23. Sinéad O'Connor - Universal Mother (42) 24. Cypress Hill - Los Grandes Exitos en Espanol (42) 25. Katie Melua - Piece by Piece (41) 26. Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (41) 27. Sinéad O'Connor - Throw Down Your Arms (41) 28. Akhenaton - Sol Invictus (41) 29. Boss - Born Gangstaz (41) 30. Tryo - Grain de sable (41) 31. Sublime - Second Hand Smoke (40) 32. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty (39) 33. Tiken Jah Fakoly - Coup de gueule (39) 34. Necro - Death Rap (38) 35. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (38) 36. Lali Puna - Scary World Theory (37) 37. Trust - Anti Best Of (37) 38. Mano Negra - Best Of (37) 39. Blockhead - Music By Cavelight (37) 40. KoЯn - Life Is Peachy (36) 41. Looptroop - Modern Day City Symphony (36) 42. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (36) 43. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York (36) 44. KRS-One - Adventures In Emceein (36) 45. The Beatles - Abbey Road (35) 46. Nirvana - Incesticide (34) 47. Laurent Garnier - 30 (34) 48. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (34) 49. Gus Gus - Polydistortion (34) 50. Count Bass D - 2006 (Some Music pt. 2) (34)

Fri 22 Aug – Outside Lands Festival 2008

Saw Radiohead in San Francisco at the Outside Lands Festival on Friday, August 22nd. Sound went out twice...they screwed up on Idioteque, Thom even said, "Faster Johnny" because the timing was off, Thom looked pissed about that. Light show was cool, there really wasn't an encore, or a genuine one at least...was just a short break which shortly developed into 3 songs. Too many people were at this festival creating a lack of intimacy with the music, kept getting bumped into and some coked out girl laid her hands on my shoulders, like wtf? The festival is/was supposed to be "eco-friendly" however the event was tremendously corporate-ized, with greasy ass vendor food, bottles of water for $3, beer for $7. Further, after the night all of the fields were filled with trash. There was a lack of communication between the audience and the event coordinators with where stages were actually set-up. The set times were too close together, so I practically only saw 3 minutes of Manu Chao which was ok, and just waited for Radiohead to come up. There were many lines, especially at the ATMs, where some happened to be broken but managed to keep people in line. The event was fenced off within Golden Gate Park making it seem like the people attending were utter sheep, just like they were in lines and how they soaked up Radiohead and claiming it was an "amazing" performance. It was short of that. And the festival, as it still goes on...I have no hope for. Hopefully the coordinators will clean up (pun intended) their coordinating and planning and make the festival better next year and so on, considering this was the first "Outside Lands" (fill).

Overall grade:
Radiohead's performance: B-
Festival (based on Friday night): C-

- KY

1998-11-28 Deep Purple – Sofia
2001-12-02 Asian Dub Foundation - Sofia
2002-06-05 Manu Chao - Sofia
2002-07-07 Stereo MC's – Sofia
2003-05-16 Ladytron - Sofia
2003-09-12 Placebo – Sofia
2003-10-11 Moloko – Sofia
2005-06-04 Ian Brown - Berlin Festival
2005-06-04 The Kills, Ladytron, Sons and Daughters - Berlin Festival
2005-06-04 Die Sterne, The Undertones, Animal Collective - Berlin Festival
2005-06-06 Oasis, Secret Machines - Berlin
2005-06-10 Oasis, The Stands, Kettcar - Hurricane
2005-06-10 Wir sind Helden, The Robocop Kraus - Hurricane
2005-06-11 Millencolin, Slut, Beatsteaks - Hurricane
2005-06-11 Audioslave, Phoenix - Hurricane
2005-06-12 I Am Kloot, Beck, New Order - Hurricane
2005-07-09 Ian Brown - Beograd
2006-06-21 Depeche Mode – Sofia
2006-07-05 Underworld - Sofia
2006-08-29 Ian Brown - Sofia
2007-06-18 Placebo - Sofia
2007-10-06 Muse - Bukurest
2007-10-06 Brett Anderson - Bukurest
2007-11-30 Ian Brown - London
2008-04-11 Molotov - Sofia
2008-06-18 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Vienna
2008-06-20 Elbow, British Sea Power, Razorlight- Southside
2008-06-20 Sigur Rós, Radiohead, The Kooks - Southside
2008-06-21 Enter Shikari, Rodrigo y Gabriela - Southside
2008-06-21 Tegan and Sara - Southside
2008-06-22 The Enemy, The Subways - Southside
2008-06-22 Rise Against, Kaiser Chiefs - Southside
2008-06-22 Oceansize, Foo Fighters - Southside