It wasn't.

Better best forgotten.

John Prine at the London Palladium tomorrow, which is about as good as it gets for me.  

Worth a watch, even if it's just to experience the worst Youtube has to offer in terms of fanmade 'here's a picture of what he says' music videos:

Quite liking Joanna Newsom:


Can imagine going off her vocals though, as I find with Bjork after a while, as quite unique and distinct.

Never heard her before.

Also, this is awesome:



She covers loads of metal. Plays the rhythm, guitar, vocals etc. at the same time.

SOAD particularly well suited I find as it's very melodic, and tankian plays the piano - which you can tell in their earlier tunes (written more by him).

10,000 days has the best grooves, but Lateralus is the better album overall. 

Mastodon are pretty much the only metal album that have really grasped. Dirty rhythmic sludge metal, probably heavier than you're into but they tick my boxes. Concept albums about Rasputin, Moby Dick, Cursed Sultans etc. The Last Baron has more interesting riffs in one song than some bands put out in their entire career.

Yeah Lateralus was great. May have been their first two I didn't listen to much. Haven't listened to Tool for a while, go through phases.



Will check out Mastodon cheers.
Not too heavy, although vocals may take some time to acquire a taste for.

Mentioned these guys before but can highly recommend Colour Haze:


Sludgy stoner/desert rock. They've perfected their sound. Each song and album blends into the next really. You can just listen to it endlessly as an ambient soundtrack.

But yeah, still listen to SOAD, sure I'll revisit Tool. Used to listen to a lot of Dream Theater, but stopped around a decade ago.

Tend to explore in cross over or other areas with metal/rock

Recently:


And Jazz inflected stuff:


But most recently been listening to a lot of comedy music, a sprinkling of SOAD, and trip hop and bit of hip hop.
The only thing I don't tend to listen to is mainstream commercial music or for some reason indie. The former for obvious reasons but the latter just doesn't seem to happen.

Mike Patton was a nice recent discovery. He plays in that commercial/big, but alt space I tend to find myself in. Like Puscifer.

How much is 10,000 days? I have the Lateralus one from like 10 years ago, its ace. 

Not my picture:



edit: i've just seen on HMV online that the Lateralus vinyl is £75? What the fuck? Is it a Radiohead/Mogwai style big box? My LP cos me like £20.

Failing that, Baroness is the back-up recommendation.

Cheers Moot, that's a good recommendation!

Sludgy doom with female vocals.

Always on the look out for for female vocal rock/metal - especially progressive folk rock/metal.

Sadly loads of female fronted metal is operatic, ala Nightwish etc. which I'm really not a fan of (especially the vocal style).

And if we're doing solo covers, I saw her perform this last week and she it was lovely.

Some random playlist I really like.
Puurrrrrrfect Chillout music.

There's rumours of a return isn't there? They're doing festivals in the US I heard.

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There's rumours of a return isn't there? They're doing festivals in the US I heard.

Last I heard they were waiting for Keenan to add vocals. But he needs the music to write the lyrics for, so not sure.

They're performing end of May to end of June in the US apparently.

The whole legal stuff they had to deal with seems horrendous.

That got in the way for a long time I think, and Keenan focused on Puscifer.