Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

The new Modest Mouse album leaked. I've got it on in the background right now, and I'm on track 10. I don't think it sounds very good, but I'll have to give it a proper listen or two at work tomorrow before I really start to make a decision. Either way, here it is. If it sucks, you can thank me for saving you $15.

EDIT: The track tags are reversed. Track 1 is tagged as 14, Track 2 as 13, and so on. I downloaded it in a torrent as a zip file, and just started upping the same zip file before I got it into iTunes. I figured a couple people might be as anal retentive about that kind of stuff as I am, and thought I would make a note of it here. Also, I'm coming around on the album. I don't know where I'd rank it amongst Modest Mouse's other albums, but I definitely enjoyed listening to it today.



1. March Into the Sea
2. Dashboard
3. Fire It Up
4. Florida
5. Parting of the Sensory
6. Missed the Boat
7. We've Got Everything
8. Fly Trapped in a Jar
9. Education
10. Little Motel
11. Steam Engenius
12. Spitting Venom
13. People as Places as People
14. Invisible

The complete Relient K

Woo. Complete Relient K. Good stuff. If anyone has tracks by Matt Thiessen's side project, Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes, it'd be cool if you'd send them over. I can't find the stuff on the "My Other Band, Vol. 1" compilation. Other than that, here's all of Relient K's material.



1998 - All Work and No Play
1. K Car
2. I'm Lion-O
3. Staples
4. Marilyn Manson Ate My Girlfriend
5. Cojack
6. My Good Friend Charles
7. Register
8. Be Rad
9. C.U.R.B.
10. William
11. Softer to Me


2000 - 2000 A.D.D.
1. Hello McFly
2. My Girlfriend
3. Softer to Me
4. Breakdown (Live)


2000 - Relient K
1. Hello McFly
2. My Girlfriend
3. Wake Up Call
4. Benediction
5. When You're Around
6. Softer to Me
7. Charles in Charge
8. Staples
9. Anchorage
10. 17 Magazine
11. Balloon Ride
12. Everything Will Be
13. Nancy Drew
14. K Car



2001 - The Creepy EP
1. Pressing On
2. Those Words Are Not Enough
3. Operation
4. Softer to Me (Acoustic)
5. Jefferson Airplane (Demo)
6. Pressing On (Back Porch Acoustic)



2001 - The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek
1. Kick-Off
2. Pressing On
3. Sadie Hawkins Dance
4. Down in Flames
5. Maybe Its Maybeline
6. Breakdown
7. Those Words Are Not Enough
8. For the Moments I Feel Faint
9. Lion Wilson
10. I'm Lion-O
11. What Have You Been Doing Lately?
12. May the Horse Be with You
13. My Way or the Highway....
14. Breakfast at Timpani's
15. The Rest Is up to You
16. Failure to Excommunicate
17. Less Is More



2002 - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
1. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
2. Breakdown (Performed by Larry the Cucumber and Osscar)



2002 - Employee of the Month EP
1. Trademark
2. In Love With the 80s (Pink Tux to the Prom)
3. Wit's All Been Done Before
4. A Penny Loafer Saved, A Penny Loafer Earned
5. For the Band
6. Failure to Excommunicate


2003 - Two Lefts Don't Make A Right... But Three Do
1. Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry
2. Mood Rings
3. Falling Out
4. Forward Motion
5. In Love with the 80s (Pink Tux to the Prom)
6. College Kids
7. Trademark
8. Hoopes I Did It Again
9. Over Thinking
10. I Am Understood?
11. Getting into You
12. Kids on the Street
13. Gibberish
14. From End to End
15. Jefferson Aero Plane


2003 - The Vinyl Countdown
1. The Vinyl Countdown
2. Five Iron Frenzy Is Either Dead or Dying
3. We're Nothing Without You
4. Five Iron Frenzy Is Either Dead or Dying (Wannabe Ska Version)



2003 - Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand
1. Angels We Have Heard on High
2. Deck the Halls
3. 12 Days of Christmas
4. Silent Night/Away in a Manger
5. I Celebrate the Day
6. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
7. Santa Clause Is Thumbing to Town
8. Handel's Messiah (The Hallelujah Chorus)
9. I Hate Christmas Parties (performed by Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes)
10. Auld Lang Syne


2004 - Mmhmm
0. Mmhmm (hidden track)
1. The One I'm Waiting For
2. Be My Escape
3. High of 75
4. I So Hate Consequences
5. The Only Thing Worse Than Beating A Dead Horse Is Betting On One
6. My Girl's Ex-Boyfriend
7. More Than Useless
8. Which to Bury, Us or the Hatchet
9. Let It All Out
10. Who I Am Hates Who I've Been
11. Maintain Consciousness
12. This Week the Trend
13. Life After Death and Taxes (Failure II)
14. When I Go Down


2005 - The Apathetic EP
1. The Truth
2. Apathetic Way to Be
3. Be My Escape (Acoustic)
4. Which to Bury, Us or the Hatchet (Acoustic)
5. Over Thinking (Acoustic)
6. In Like a Lion (Always Winter)
7. The Thief

Metal, Rock, and IDM Christmas albums

Here is a second zip file full of Christmas albums. There are four albums in here, three are rock/metal, and the fourth is weird electronic music and IDM.

A Brutal Christmas: Christmas Gone Metal! (Extreme/Black/Death Metal)
1. Angels We Have Heard on High - Archer
2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Kekal
3. Mary Did You Know? - Royal Anguish
4. Coventry Carol (Lully Lullay) - Frank's Enemy
5. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence/O Come Emmanuel - Frost Like Ashes
6. The Little Drummer Boy - Tortured Conscience
7. O Come All Ye Faithful - Hearken
8. Child Messiah - Death Requisite
9. O Holy Night - EverSINcEve
10. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlement (take 2) - Faithbomb
11. Joy to the World - Pure Defiance

Taste of Christmas (Rock/Emo/Punk/Hardcore)
1. Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Street Drum Corps
2. Miracle of Christmas - Funeral For A Friend
3. Jungle Bells - Skindred
4. Alone This Holiday - The Used
5. Last Christmas - Roses Are Red
6. Coventry Carol - The Smashup
7. Christmas Evel - Opiate for the Masses
8. We Three Kings - Amped
9. The Last Christmas - Emery
10. First Noel - My American Heart
11. We Might Be Alone Tonight - Like Yesterday
12. No Smiles On Christmas - Bleed the Dream
13. Blue And Gold - Versus The World
14. Christmas Song - Bedlight For Blue Eyes
15. Saint Nicholas - Gatsby's American Dream
16. Christmassacre - From First To Last
17. Homeless For Christmas - Black Halos
18. Season of A Lifetime - Plain White T's

X-Mas Project (Speed/Thrash Metal, featuring members of German metal bands Rage, Living Death, Steeler, Lions Breed, Mekong Delta, Holy Moses, and Fact)
1. Mary´s Little Boychild
2. Jingle Bells
3. Leise rieselt der Schnee
4. Winter Wonderland
5. Oh Tannenbaum
6. G.K.W.
7. Silent Night, Holy Night
8. White Christmas
9. Alle Jahre wieder

A Mutated Christmas (IDM/Avant-Eletronic)
1. Corporal Blossom - White Christmas
2. DJ Olive - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
3. Fognode - Carol Of The Bells
4. Corporal Blossom - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts)
5. No-L - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
6. Corporal Blossom - Little Drummer Boy
7. Mom And Daddy - O Holy Night
8. Lustmord - Silent Night
9. Grassy Knoll - Silver Bells
10. Lovecraft Technologies - Frosty the Snowman
11. Steven - Let It Snow
12. DJ Kudzu - Do You Hear What I Hear
13. Corporal Blossom - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

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Happy Christmas Vols. 1-4

Thanksgiving is almost here, which means non-stop Christmas music is right around the corner. In the spirit of that, I'm going to post some Chritmas music. Here are all four volume of punk/ska/emo/indie rock label Tooth & Nail's Christmas compilations, featuring such bands as MxPx, Relient K, Emery, Switchfoot, the Supertones, Joy Electric, and more. Enjoy!

Volume 1
1. The O.C. Supertones - Joy To The World
2. Joy Electric - Winter Wonderland
3. Chasing Furies - O Come Emmanuel
4. Starflyer 59 - A Holiday Song
5. Five Iron Frenzy - You Gotta Get Up
6. Sarah Masen - Heaven's Got A Baby
7. Plankeye - Away In A Manger
8. Almonzo - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
9. Pep Squad - Feliz Navidad
10. Bon Voyage - Holly Jolly Christmas
11. Seven Day Jesus - O Holy Night
12. One Eighty - Mele Kalikimaka
13. Switchfoot - Evergreen
14. House of Wires - Do You Hear What I Hear?
15. Fold Zandura - Asia Minor
16. Huntingtons - It's Always Christmas At My House
17. The Dingees - We Three Kings
18. Puller - Saviour Of The Fools

Volume 2
1. MxPx - Christmas Day
2. Sixpence None The Richer - You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch
3. All Star United - I Wish It Would Be Christmas Everyday
4. Plankeye - Jesu Bambino (The Infant Child)
5. Hangnail - O Little Town Of Bethlehem
6. Joy Electric - Lollipop Parade (On Christmas Day)
7. Flight 180 - O Come All Ye Faithful
8. Starflyer 59 - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
9. Viva Voce - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
10. The Normals - Peace Child (O Come Emmanuel)
11. Fanmail - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
12. Norway - White Christmas
13. Element - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
14. The Deluxtone Rockets - Santa Claus Is Back In Town
15. House Of Wires - Caroling, Caroling
16. Lost Dogs - The Chipmunk Song

Volume 3
1. The O.C. Supertones - Heaven's Got A Baby
2. Relient K - Santa Claus is Thumbing To Town
3. Cadet - The First Noel
4. Bleach - What We Call Christmas
5. Earthsuit - Wonderful Christmas Time
6. Kendall Payne - O Come, O Come Emmanuel
7. Hangnail - Do You Hear What I Hear?
8. Poor Old Lu - What Child Is This
9. Joy Electric - Mrs. Santa Claus
10. Denison Witmer - A Christmas Song
11. Ace Troubleshooter - Have It All
12. Starflyer 59 - I'll Be Home For Christmas
13. Aaron Sprinkle - A Christmas Song For All Year Round
14. Skyline Drive - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
15. Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes - I Hate Christmas Parties

Volume 4
1. Switchfoot - Evergreen
2. Emery - (Ho Ho Hey) A Way For Santa's Sleigh
3. Anberlin - Baby Please Come Home
4. Eisley - The Winter Song
5. Starflyer 59 - Christmas Time Is Here
6. Aaron Gillespie and Kenny Vasoli - Yule Be Sorry
7. Mae - Carol of the Bells
8. Copeland - Do You Hear What I Hear
9. Relient K - I Celebrate the Day
10. Hawk Nelson - Last Christmas
11. Spoken - Mary Did You Know
12. The Fold - O Holy Night
13. Number One Gun - Of Two Bearded Men
14. Davis, John - God is Real (Jesus is Alive)

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The complete Buckethead - Part One: Solo Recordings

Here is the complete solo Buckethead discography, minus the extremely rare early Giant Robot demo tape (not Giant Robot NTT, but Buckethead's first solo release... check the Buckethead entry on Wikipedia if you are confused). In the coming days/weeks, I plan on uploading his entire discography, so if any of the 8 people who read this thing have any Death Cube K, Corn Bugs, El Stew, Praxis, Pieces, or Thanatopsis (apart from Anatomize) albums and would be willing to upload them, I would in turn upload any album (or albums, if you up more than one) you like. Any soundtracks he's done would be great as well. And now, here are the albums. Reviews/descriptions may or may not be coming shortly, when I don't have an essay and seven one page papers to write. Also, I noticed that I'm missing track 17 from the Bucketheadland Blueprints album. I'm not sure what the title of it is right now, but Decapitation should be track 18, and everything else after that is also one track higher, obviously. Go here to download track 17. There are a couple other Buckethead things for download in that directory as well, including the Giant Robot NTT album.


1991 - Bucketheadland Blueprints
1. Blueprints Theme
2. Giant Robot vs. Cleopat
3. Wonka in Slaughter Zone
4. Gorey Head Stump & Nosin'
5. Computer Master
6. Chicken for Lunch
7. Sterling Scapula
8. Seaside
9. Let's Go to Wally World
10. Robot Flight
11. Earthling Fools
12. Guts & Eyeballs
13. Haunted Farm
14. The Rack & Alice in Slaughterland
15. Skid's Looking Where
16. Buddy on a Slab & Funeral Time
17. Decapitation
18. Virtual Reality (Part 2)
19. Giant Robot Finale
20. Robotic Chickens
21. Park Theme (Intro)
22. Swamp Boy Square Dance
23. Pirate's Life for Me


1992 - Bucketheadland
Disc 1
1. Intro/Park Theme
2. Giant Robot Interlude
3. Giant Robot Theme
4. Enter Guillatine
5. Giant Robot Vs Guillatine
6. Bucketbots Jig
7. Enter Slipdisc
8. Bansheebot Vs Buckethead
9. Slaughterzone/The Haunted Farm
10. Hook & Pole Gang
11. Cattle Prod
12. Phantom Monk
13. The Rack
14. Nosin'
15. Gorey Head Stump
16. Sterling Scapula
17. Skid's Looking Where
18. Steel Wedge
19. Wonka In Slaughter Zone
20. Nosin' Part 2
21. Diabolic Minds
22. Alice In Slaughterland
23. Bleeding Walls
24. Buddy On A Slab
25. Buddy In The Graveyard
26. Oh Jeez...
27. Funeral Time
28. Computer Master
29. Virtual Reality
30. Home Run Derby Part 1
31. Home Run Derby Part 2
32. Home Run Derby Main Theme
33. I Love My Parents
Disc 2
1. Intro/Park Theme Extension
2. Gullatine Battle
3. Giant Robot Theme
4. Robot Dance
5. Virtual Reality
6. Banshee Bop
7. Baseball Buddy


1994 - Giant Robot
1. Doomride
2. Welcome To Bucketheadland
3. I Come In Peace
4. Buckethead's Toy Store
5. Want Some Slaw?
6. Warweb
7. Aquabot
8. Binge And Grab (Instrumental Version)
9. Pure Imagination
10. Buckethead's Chamber Of Horrors
11. Onions Unleashed
12. Chicken
13. I Love My Parents
14. Buckethead's TV Show
15. Robot Transmission
16. Pirate's Life For Me
17. Post Office Buddy
18. Star Wars
19. Last Train To Bucketheadland


1996 - Day of the Robot
1. Destroyer: Speed Flux Quadrant/Inclusion/Exhaust Release
2. Flying Guillotine
3. Quantum Crash
4. Collision
5. Caution Drop


1998 - Colma
1. Whitewash
2. For Mom
3. Ghost
4. Hills Of Eternity
5. Big Sur Moon
6. Machete
7. Wishing Well
8. Lone Sal Bug
9. Sanctum
10. Wondering
11. Watching The Boats With My Dad
12. Ghost/Part 2
13. Colma


1999 - Monsters and Robots
1. Jump Man
2. Stick Pit
3. The Ballad of Buckethead
4. Sow Thistle
5. Revenge of the Double-Man
6. Night of the Slunk
7. Who Me?
8. Jowls
9. The Shape vs. Buckethead
10. Stun Operator
11. Scapula
12. Nun Chuka Kata


2001 - KFC Skin Piles
1. A1
2. A2
3. A3
4. B1


2001 - Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse
1. Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse
2. Help Me
3. Pin Bones and Poultry
4. My Sheeetz
5. Day of the Ulcer
6. You Like Headcheese?
7. Burlap Curtain
8. You Like This Face?
9. Wires and Clips
10. Knockingun
11. Conveyor Belt Blues


2002 - Funnel Weaver
1. Blind Centipede
2. Kurtz Temple
3. Covert
4. Death Card
5. R.I.P.
6. Plans Within Plans
7. Eye in the Sky
8. Freezer Burns
9. Sky Drones
10. Operation Gateway
11. Bantam Rising
12. Combat Shadow
13. Azzim's Lectures
14. Channel of Secrets
15. Comet Shower
16. Worm Turns
17. Silhouettes Agianst the Sky
18. Sleeper Agents
19. Recreational Cryonics
20. Blind Sniper (Fred Rogers)
21. Atlantis Found
22. Spider's Web
23. Blue Crystal
24. Reaping the Whirlwind
25. Hills Have Eyes
26. Other Side of Midnight
27. Sea the Hollow Man
28. Unsound Methods
29. Hall of Records
30. Aluminum Clouds
31. Lost Threads
32. Killing Mask
33. Rattlesnake Hill
34. F-4 Phantom
35. Stub Pylons
36. Armour Piercing Projectile
37. Stolen Identities
38. Shriek of Revenge
39. 5-Card Trick
40. Caretaker of Memory
41. Kingdom of Nie
42. Kangaroo Kranes
43. High Seat With the Devil
44. Jessy
45. From the Foxholes
46. (F.L.I.P.)
47. Frozen Head
48. Who Is the Enemy
49. Nappler Radar


2002 - Bermuda Triangle
1. Intro
2. Davy Jones Locker
3. Flight 19
4. Mausoleum Door
5. Sea of Expanding Shapes
6. The Triangle, Pt. 1: Extrakd
7. Bionic Fog
8. Forbidden Zone
9. Telegraph Land of the Crispies
10. Pullin the Heavy
11. Phantom Lights
12. Jabbar on Alcatrazz Avenue
13. Beestro Fowler
14. Splintered Triplet
15. Whatevas
16. Sucked Under
17. Isle of Dead
18. The Triangle, Pt. 2
19. 911


2002 - Electric Tears
1. All in yhe Waiting
2. Sketches of Spain (for Miles)
3. Padmasana
4. Mustang
5. The Way to Heaven
6. Baptism of Solitude
7. Kansas Storm
8. Datura
9. Mantaray
10. Witches on the Heath
11. Angel Monster
12. Electric Tears
13. Spell of the Gypsies


2003 - Bucketheadland 2
1. Welcome
2. Slaughter Zone Entrance
3. The Cobra's Hood
4. Transportation Options
5. Machoto Mirago
6. Slaughter Buddies Outside The Revenge Wedge
7. We Cannot Guarantee Bodily Harm
8. john Merrick-Elephant Man Bones Explosion
9. Taxidermy Tots
10. Bloody Rainbow Spiralling Sherbert Scoop
11. Can You Get Past Albert?
12. Vladimir Pockets' Incredible Bloated Slunk Show
13. The Ballad Of The Inside-Out Face
14. The Battery Cage Brawls (Cage Announcer: The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln/Winner Has To Eat His Way Out)
15. Forris Wheel Apology
16. Can You Help Me?
17. Grimm's Sponsorship
18. Roalistic Coop Replica
19. Frozen Brains Tell No Tales
20. Rooster Landing (1st Movement)/Limo Timo (2nd Movement)
21. Two Pints
22. Health & Safety Advisory
23. Digger's Don
24. One-Way Ticket To Grab Bag Alley
25. Fun For You
26. Carpal Tunnel Tomb Torker
27. Today's Schedule
28. The Corpse Plower
29. Unemployment Blues
30. Slaughter Zone Exit


2004 - Island of Lost Minds
1. Island of Lost Minds
2. Shock Therapy Side Show
3. Dream Darts
4. Vacuum Tube Planet
5. Scull Scrape
6. Ice Pick Through Eyes
7. Four Sided Triangle
8. Korova Binge Bar
9. Bruised Eye Sockets
10. Mud Of The Gutter
11. The Cuckoo Parade
12. Viravax
13. Lobotomizer



2004 - Population Override
1. Unrestrained Growth
2. Too Many Humans
3. Population Override
4. Humans Vanish
5. Cruel Reality of Nature
6. A Day Will Come
7. Earth Heals Herself
8. Clones
9. Super Human
10. ...


2004 - The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
1. Descent of the Damned
2. Spokes for the Wheel of Torment
3. Arc of the Pendulum
4. Fountains of the Forgotten
5. The Treeman
6. Pylegathon
7. Traveling Morgue
8. One Tooth of the Time Train
9. Bedlam's Bluff
10. Beaten with Sledges
11. Woods of Suicides
12. Yellowed Hide
13. Moths to Flame
14. The Ravines of Falsehood
15. The Black Forest
16. Haven of Black Tar Pitch
17. The Escape Wheel


2005 - Enter the Chicken
1. Intro
2. We Are One f. Serj Tankian
3. Botnus f. Efrem Schulz
4. Three Fingers f. Saul Williams
5. Running From the Light f. Ejigayehu "Gigi"Shibabaw and Maura Davis
6. Coma f. Azam Ali
7. Waiting Hare f. Shana Halligan and Serj Tankian
8. Interlude
9. Funbus f. Dirk Rogers and Deith Aazami
10. The Hand f. Maximum Bob and Ani Maldjian
11. Nottingham Lace


2005 - Kaleidoscalp
1. Frankenseuss Laboratories
2. Stunpike And the Jack In the Box Head
3. Musicbox Innards
4. Breakfast Cyborg
5. The Bronze Bat
6. The Last Ride of the Bozomobile
7. Rack Maintenance
8. The Sticker On Hallucinogens
9. Pylon Shift
10. Citadel
11. The Slunk, the Gutter and the Candlestick Maker
12. The Android of Notre Dame
13. She Sells Sea Shells By the Slaughterhouse


2005 - Inbred Mountain
1. In Search of Inbred Mountain – 3:26
2. Johnny Be Slunk – 8:42
3. Lotus Island – 6:33
4. Flock of Slunks – 4:30
5. Advance To the Summit – 6:03
6. Plastination Station – 5:47
7. Escape From Inbred Mountain – 8:21


2006 - The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock
1. Thai Fighter Swarm
2. Final Wars
3. Baseball Furies
4. Elephant Man's Alarm Clock
5. Lurker At the Threshold Part 1 (Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft)
6. Lurker At the Threshold Part 2
7. Lurker At the Threshold Part 3
8. Lurker At the Threshold Part 4
9. Oakridge Cake (Tribute to Kool Keith)
10. Gigan
11. Droid Assembly
12. Bird With A Hole In the Stomach
13. Fizzy Lipton Drinks


2006 - Crime Slunk Scene
1. King James
2. Gory Head Stump 2006 the Pageant of the Slunks
3. The Fairy and the Devil
4. Buddy Berkman's Ballad
5. Mad Monster Party
6. Soothsayer (Dedicated to Aunt Suzie)
7. Col. Austin vs. Col. Sanders aka Red Track Suit
8. We Can Rebuild Him
9. Electronic Slight of Hand
10. Mecha Gigan
11. Slunk Parade aka Freaks in the Black

Random - Necrophonic Zombie Rocket

Random is a band whose members used to go to my old high school. Then they graduated and broke up. This was their last album. It's full of awesomeness and good times. It's a hybrid of funk and ska with some weird touches and a keyboard thrown in for good measure. Their bass player is really really good. Enjoy.


(This is not the cover for the album. I couldn't find it on the internet, and I was too lazy to scan in my copy.)

1. Hello, my name is Man Costume
2. Amerigo vs. Existentialism
3. Martania
4. Find me a Curve
5. Bulldog's March
6. Coffee Coffee
7. Radical Adequacy
8. 5th Ave.
9. Funk-O-Tron
10. Until She's Dead
11. Primeate
12. Shotgun
13. Secret Track

Langhorne Slim - When the Sun's Gone Down

I'm too lazy to write a lot about this album, so take my word when I say it's a mix of country, folk, rock, and a little bluegrass, and that it's also one of my favorite happy albums. If this doesn't make you smile, you're wrong.



1. In the Midnight
2. Set Em Up
3. Mary
4. Sisterhood
5. Electric Love Letter
6. And If It's True
7. Hanshaw Shuffle (Drunken Horse)
8. Drowning
9. I Ain't Proud
10. Loretta Lee Jones
11. By the Time the Sun's Gone Down
12. Hope and Fullfillment
13. I Will
14. Checking Out
15. I Love to Dance

Nurse With Wound - Livin' Fear of James Last or... Joy in the House of Dada!!!! a Nurse With Wound variety pack

Nurse With Wound is one of the most prolific musical groups ever, though to call them a "musical group" is probably misleading for two reasons:
1. Apart from their first three releases, NWW has been one man, Stephen Stapleton, along with a small collective of people he frequently collaborates with, and
2. Quite often you'd be hard pressed to call what Stapleton does "music", at least in the common sense of the word.

Stapleton is more prone to rampant sonic experimentalism than actual music. Contained on this album alone is everything from typical rock instruments randomly being "played" and then chopped up and processed like crazy ("The Six Buttons of Sex Appeal") to extreme industrial music ("Cold") to Brian Eno-esque ambient music ("Sea Armchair") to an almost normal rock song ("Two Shaves and A Shine" with David Tibet of Current 93 on vocals). Every song presents a different facet of Nurse With Wound, whether dark, scary, comedic, upbeat, relaxing, and pretty much everything in between.

While cramming 27 years and 100+ albums into two and a half hours may seem impossible, this two disc set, compiled, mixed, sequenced, and edited by Stapleton himself, does an honorable job. It may trip up a little in including multiple tracks off a couple albums when there were over a hundred albums to choose from, but the tracks are all so different that had the back of the CD case not listed what album each song was off of, I never would have guessed that some of the tracks were off the same album.

Expect more NWW albums in the future, as I'm only a handful of albums away from having their entire catalogue.



Disc: 1
1. Six Buttons of Sex Appeal [Edit]
2. Dirty Fingernails [Edit]
3. Stick That Chick and Feel My Steel Through Your Last Meal
4. Subterranean Zappa Blues
5. Ag Canadh Thuas Sa Spèir
6. Die, Flip or Go to India
7. Cold [Edit]
8. Strange Play of the Mouth [Edit]
9. Swansong [Edit]
Disc: 2
1. Optical Illusion Pad
2. Sea Armchair
3. Piece of the Sky Is Missing
4. Home Is Where the Heart Is/Monument for Perez Prado
5. Intravenous [Edit]
6. New Dress
7. Yagga Blues
8. Two Shaves and a Shine [Edit]
9. Rock 'N Roll Station [Edit]
10. I Was No Longer His Dominant [Remix]

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Yay! I finally got around to uploading the greatest album of all time! I'm not even going to write anything about this one, suffice to say that it literally changed my life, something only 4 or 5 bands have managed to do. Enjoy, and all that nonsense.



1. The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1
2. The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 & 3
3. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Two-Headed Boy
5. The Fool
6. Holland, 1945
7. Communist Daughter
8. Oh Comely
9. Ghost
10. Untitled
11. Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2

Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic (Full Album)

What's this? Two updates within an hour of one another? You best believe it! I stumbled across Mike Doughty's (of Soul Coughing fame) solo release from last year, Haughty Melodic on All Imperfect Things as well. If you like Counting Crows or Dave Matthews Band, apparently you should check this out. I wouldn't know, since I've only heard a couple Counting Crows songs and I can't stand DMB. However, I love this album. Also note that this isn't a MegaUpload link, but an open directory on some random guy's website, which means no waiting around. Win!



1. Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well
2. Unsingable Name
3. Madeline And Nine
4. Busting Up A Starbucks
5. White Lexus
6. American Car
7. Tremendous Brunettes (feat. Dave Matthews)
8. I Hear The Bells
9. Sunken-Eyed Girl
10. Grey Ghost
11. His Truth Is Marching On
12. Your Misfortune

Showbread - No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical

YAY! Ben has a music blog! For my first post, I decided to upload a few tracks by Showbread off their album No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical, which I thought was fitting since I stole the title from their song "The Dissonance of Discontent". It took me a while to get into Showbread, a lot of which I blame on some of the vocals. When I first heard the album, I think I was expecting spazcore in the vein of Norma Jean or Training For Utopia. What I got instead were elements of hardcore, math rock, a little spaz, and a ton of straightforward face-melting ROCK... with both clean vocals and high-pitched screaming. I liked the clean vocals, but the screaming seemed out of place at times. So did the keytar. Yes, I said keytar. However, the song about Evil Dead II ("Dead By Dawn") drew me back simply because of its subject matter, and after a few listens, what had formerly sounded disjointed and chaotic (in a bad way) started to make sense. From the weird electronic bounce of "Mouth Like A Magazine" to the "raw rock" (the band's term) power of "The Dissonance of Discontent" to the sad, yet somehow uplifting and entirely relatable "Matthias Replaces Judas", which I'm sure features Reese Roper from Five Iron Frenzy on vocals, Showbread manages to be diverse while still making a cohesive album. If you're into the likes of the Blood Brothers or labelmates He Is Legend, you may want to give Showbread a listen or three, since it may take time to sink in.



1. A Llama Eats A Giraffe (And Vice Versa)
2. Dead By Dawn
3. Mouth Like A Magazine
4. If You Like Me Check Yes, If You Don't I'll Die
5. Sampsa Meets Kafka
6. So Selfish It's Funny
7. The Missing Wife
8. Welcome To Plainfield Tobe Hooper
9. And the Smokers And Children Shall Be Cast Down
10. Stabbing Art To Death
11. The Dissonance of Discontent
12. Matthias Replaces Judas
13. The Bell Jar