They came to Poland recently or are you talking about some years ago? With DCD, well, I've been listening to their records chronologically, and some of their later records I'm hearing for the first time, and at the moment I really appreciate the fact that they tried to recreate genuine Greek, Arabic and so on spirit in some of their songs, and can only imagine how interesting such an experience must have been live, especially in that venue I told you about. Also, I read somewhere that their live sound is much more percussive, which is another aspect I've started to appreciate more

I was at their concert last year and I can tell they sounded live very good, very professional, almost like you listened to their LPs. Some songs are obviously rearranged because due to certain limitations are not easy to play live, but they sounded good. And I think I told you it was a very profound experience to me, I felt the connection with them and for me it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Their music is very versatile, depending on which record you are listening to, their music is influenced by Christian liturgical music (The Serpent's Egg), medieval (Aion), Hispanic (some songs on Spiritchaser), Arabic, African (Spiritchaser again), Greek, Turkish (both on Dionysus), and so on and on. They often merge all those influences with one another to create one universal human music - to reflect on the universal beauty of music is the purpose, as Lisa once said during an interview.

Well, back then I only had a problem with the way they sounded. All this new age stuff has always sounded very superficial to my ears. Back then I didn't know how to elaborate on that, but now I know it's because that movement, as well as pretty much every "spiritual" thing that appeared in the '50s and especially '60s (in the West), all these are in fact superficial, so it's only natural that it's translated into the music itself. Despite this, some of that oriental-influenced music doesn't sound bad (Love You To by The Beatles, for instance). But if you say that Hosianna Mantra sounds Christian, then I will give it a try! Maybe it was the product of the band really delving into our Christian tradition, which would mean that there's a chance it's not superficial. When I first tried listening to Popol Vuh, although never an atheist, I wasn't interested in religion and classical music that much, so perhaps I rushed and prematurely threw them in the same category as other new age groups?

When I first learned about Hosianna Mantra I read an interesting comment in the Internet about this music, somebody wrote that this is a very profound, spiritual journey through your inner self. And I totally dig this opinion. From my, and maybe mine only, perspective Hosianna Mantra is the end of music. It's like the final chapter of music. When I want to listen to a music that would take me to a place that nothing else could ever take, I listen to this album. That's why I called my account like this, to pay tribute to this album. I know that I may sound pretentious, but I don't care, and I don't tell everyone this is the best album in history. It's not the best. But for me it's the final station that music can take you. So, give it another try if you want. And listen to Nosferatu OST as well. Sometimes it's just like this, that certain music evokes some good feelings in you, that music perfectly clicks with you. I have similar feelings with DCD albums.

I see. It's interesting that after all these years you see the album in the same way. I will definitely give it another try! Also, who cares if you're being pretentious? Unless it's that kind of pretentiousness that is meant to make you seem smarter for the sake of it, pretentiousness is not an issue at all.

By the way, I've listened to the first three Popol Vuh albums. I'm going to give Hosianna Mantra another try, and I did like it, but so far it was far less intense for me than, say, Penderecki's Symphony VII. Or DCD's Spleen and Ideal

This website http://www.classicalcdguide.com/main/intro.htm helped me a lot to research classical music records. Highly recommend it. :)

Alright, thank you very much! :)

The information warfare can be won (especially) through propaganda as well, that's why I'm skeptical about the news, even that which fits with the Russian Army's past reputation. It could be meant to fuel the wide disapproval of the conflict and determine other countries to sanction Russia even more

Russia will be defeated. Just like after Afganistan in 1989. I hope I help you totoro-_-

Help me with what?

Didn't they split up?

The vocalist quit because he needs to get his shit together. Depression.

Out of those countries who would also be fucked alongside Romania and Poland in case NATO fails (UK, France, US, Germany), only Germany is not a nuclear power. What does Germany do in the current situation? Moving back and forth between going all-in in sanctioning Russia and pulling back a little bit. I'd say the nuclear powers will do just fine without NATO - it's the minor countries and the non-nuclear ones that have to worry

That's a hell of a pessimistic point of view. But I respect your opinion. We'll see how everything turns out.

I'd rather call myself a realist. There's no reason I should trust others with my protection. Let's hope that we won't get to see anything!

I didn't mean to compare the two of you xD I only said that because usually people don't have patience anymore for lengthier videos, and he is the first example that comes to mind. So I only brought him up to explain my surprise that you're still like you always were xD

By the way, you should give Scott Walker a chance, especially his experimental albums

Which album should I listen first? The 60s albums or the newest?

The '60s ones were rather conventional. You would probably like those too, so you can start there if you're in the mood for soothing pop songs. If that's not necessarily the case, go from Tilt onwards

Oh yeah: this one (October) included!

Wish you luck, man! Keep me posted about your book and thesis. :D

Alright, I will! And thank you. This Friday I'm gonna have to spend two hours on the phone talking with an editor... I hate this already.

I will leave a shout here as well just in case you have anything to add (so that I get a notification)

Nah, professional gaming is not fun and I think there is a small number of players who actually make good money out of it. Youtubers, on the other hand, earn more but being a successful Youtuber makes money requires you to be a certain type of person, which I am not, haha. So, yeah, playing video games in order to relax is my kind of thing. Like now it's 8:58 PM and I finally have some time to launch Mafia III.

For some reason I didn't get notifications regarding your replies at all. Hmm. Yeah, I agree with you; you can be more succesful doing gameplays on youtube but that requires a certain skill. I'm regularly watching Modest Pelican's videos; aside from the fact that he plays open-world games, which are what I would do, he makes some humorous videos. You should check him out if you don't know him. Usually his videos don't exceed 10 minutes in length.

Because I'm now hearing it for the very first time in its entirety and, despite all the fuss it's been made about it, I too find it rather dull... The acoustic songs, in particular; can't stand them. While My Guitar Gently Weeps? Jesus, I barely made it through half of that song. It's rather disappointing and I wanted to know your opinion on it.

My thoughts exactly. I don't know why this album received so much praise and is regarded as the best album in music history by some radio personalities or reviewers. It's way too long and boring. For me, The Beatles' best albums are Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, and Abbey Road. I should get back to them, I don't know when was the last time I listened to The Beatles. Like 3 years ago or something.

This is 21st century in a nutshell: EVERYTHING IS SUBJECTIVE, YOU CAN'T JUDGE MY TASTE, YOU CAN'T OBJECTIVELY TALK ABOUT MUSIC, IT'S ALL A MATTER OF TASTE, I CAN LIKE WHATEVER I LIKE EVEN IF LIKE TO EAT SHIT.

YAS BC WHO AM I HURTING BY EATING SHIT?! I CAN ONLY HURT MYSELF AND IT'S MAH BODY AND MY LIFE SO PISS AFF! ALSO ITS GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT TO EAT THE SHIT OFF THE STREETS!

LMAO, man, that poster I quoted above is calling me a liberal xDDD

Yeah, we had a 36m2 flat. One big room serving as a living room, office, dining room, and bedroom. Kitchen and bathroom were small too. We lived in a region of Poznan called New Town and the area was nice but mostly blocks of flats built in 1980 (ours was built in 2006), there were lots of green areas and we had a lake nearby so we really liked that district. Our flat was nice too, we hade a huge balcony but we tended to dry clothes in the bathroom. We had this extendable ceiling airer so it saved lots of space.

The cheapest option you can get in a city like Poznan is renting one room for 170 EUR. But you live with others. Those are usually 60-70m2 flats shared with 3-4 other people. Obviously you share a kitchen and bathroom. You want more privacy and you live with a partner, you may rent a studio apartment like we did - 400-500 EUR (including bills) depending on how big is the apartment and how many rooms it has. I heard that the prices are higher in Warsaw, but similar in Wroclaw, Krakow, and Gdansk (maybe a little bit higher). In Konin - the city I live next to now - has cheaper apartments, my friend rented a studio for 150 EUR but he knows the owner. But Konin is a shithole. More than 70k people living in this town but no decent jobs (almost no big companies, no intl corporations), a high unemployment rate. Poznan has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Poland, around 2% if I recall correctly. So you know, most of my friends fled from Konin to cities like Poznan, Wroclaw, or Warsaw.

Damn it, one room for 170 and you live with others. I shared places three times over the last few years, and the most I paid was 120 (170 at most with all the bills included). Usually you can get a two room apartment for 300 but there are even cheaper ones to be found. For instance, I shared a two room apartment with a friend of one of my classmates and we each paid 120 (170 at most with bills). This is the capital city. In other cities, such as my hometown, you can get a studio for as little as 100 eur.

I never listened to them; was hoping that you did and could recommend me something. They played something like a hybrid between prog rock and prog pop. This is what they sound(ed) like: [url removed] t u b e.com/ watch?v =8Xb8qJaWwLY

Btw, this [url removed] w. yo u tu be. com/w atch?v=NnDpW5vpbDY is a fantastic cover after Robert Johnson

Alright... Instead of url removed you type in youtube dot com

I follow a bunch of similar Youtube channels. Check this one: https://www.you tube.com/channel/UC22BdTgxefuvUivrjesETjg I like this guy's sense of humor and it's really nice the clips are short but packed with content. This one is good too: https://www.you tube.com/channel/UCQD-0MjUbDBwm2UTVYr0Dag or this one: https://www.you tube.com/c/GeoHistory/featured

I'll watch yours later.

Alright, forget what I've said. Just read this and it genuinely terrifies me: [url removed]

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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. It's on r e d d i t.

Yeah, I kinda liked them too when I listened to their albums back in, I dunno, 2015? Gotta listen to their albums again. And what about Slapp Happy? They were a German avant-garde project and recorded some music with Henry Cow.

Actually that same day I was thinking about relistening to Henry Cow I went on rym and found that record they did with Henry Cow; so I am definitely gonna listen to that one first before anything else by any of the two bands. Did you hear it?

Yeah, I liked that record the most back in the day.

Yeah I was interested in it and I still am but as you can see I make very little progress nowadays with music. xD Unde este baia?!

Karol Szymanowski ''Harnasie'' you should check.

Got it, thank you!

Czyli po prostu masz uprzedzenia. A szkoda, bo dużo tracisz. Tak jak pisałem wcześniej, według mnie wszystko co wychodzi ze stajni Instant Classic na pewno jest warte zainteresowania. Dla mnie to jest zjawisko-fenomen trochę jak niemiecki krautrock, tylko że krautrock dział się jednocześnie w kilku miastach, na różnych scenach i wykonawców było multum, a u nas ta awangarda wychodzi tylko z Bydgoszczy + kilka pomniejszych zespołów z kilku innych miast. Daj szansę i posłuchaj te trzy albumy: Późne królestwo, Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem oraz Duch tornada. Dla mnie to jest doskonały noise przeplatany wieloma gatunkami, w tym krautrockiem i black metalem. Z jazzu posłuchaj Zimpel - Lines, LAM - LAM, Saagara - 2.

no moze sprawdze.

Sprawdź sprawdź, nie pożałujesz.

Done. This username is by no means great, but at least I know I will always like Bergman as a filmmaker, so I doubt I would want to change it again. Now, I must be careful with the charts.

Hmm, not really. I mean yeah, there's quite a few of that (alcohol, whores, drugs) to be found in their music, especially on Appetite, but they weren't writing about that like some of those glam metal bands did. On Appetite, they were talking about LA: the city and the lifestyle one eventually gets to live once they set foot in the depravity jungle that LA was/is. I look at the album as if it were a concept album about the mindset of someone seduced by LA. Take a look at the song Night Train: it sure does sound as if it glorifies drinking; except there's that one lyric which can totally slip the listener's ear ("I never learn"). To me, that song sounds exactly like what someone enamoured with alcohol would say, with that particular lyric representing either the still existing voice of reason from the back of the person's mind, or the mockery one would make of his friends and family's concerns about a dangerous behaviour ("Yeah, alright, so I never learn and gonna die, fuck off, man!")

Or take a look at Mr.Brownstone, about heroin. The songs ends with Axl saying that he wishes he'd never met that Mr.Brownstone, aka the drug dealer. Then you have the song You're Crazy, which is Axl lamenting about some woman he fell in love with and who turned out to be a hoe who used him for her (physical) satisfaction. But I agree with you that most of their love songs and pretty much every single one of the ballads SUCK xD I could never describe you how much I hate November Rain.

Oh, and about their lives: I remember reading somewhere that, contrary to the appearances, they weren't the kind of band to put up with the groupies stuff. I believe it was one of their managers who said that? But anyway, I don't think I ever heard about Axl, who would be the most notorious of them all, right?, cheating on someone. Plus, there's a video made for one of their earlier songs that features some sexy women looking like strippers or something; every one of those women was in a relationship with someone from the band, so they weren't just some random chicks that they hired and then screwed. Damn it, I should be GNR's lawyer.

Yep. They sure are a band you'd like! Check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD0-xNWjavM

This ballad is quite nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Lv-5TOtAo&list=PLNujPaykDAMqEia2fj5BQcTBB3XDeVZsV&index=4&ab_channel=Kat-Topic and don't mind the album cover - I know it's shit but hey, this is the 80s (or the 90s? I'm not sure now). So there was no chance they could listen to other 'extreme' bands than Metallica because Metallica was so popular and some of their songs were quite easy to listen, like Fade to Black.

Oh yeah, I know Kat! They were cool when I was into metal. And your parents listened to them as well?

Nope, I just mentioned it because it was the darkest stuff on the market, so to speak.

Yeah, unless you don't wanna talk about it. I will understand.

Nah, it's okay. Only I was thinking of telling you via PM, either here or on FB. Some of the aspects of the story are odd and I don't want strangers having fun on my expense xD That is, if you're okay with that.

Sure, ping me on FB. I'll reply when I have time. You know, I'm at work now. :P

BOLLOCKS!

Yeah. Admittedly, I exagerrated with it. For instance, look at my post from here https://rateyourmusic.com/board_message?message_id=7685798&show=20&start=740

Happy New Year, doll!

Yeah, Happy New Year, man!

Don't forget about those five messages xD

You mean, fabulous. xD Those were the 70s, man. What do you expect. XD He had them pussies back in the 70s for sure.

Thanks to the sideburns.

And now he's got Daryl Hannah. If he doesn't lose the sideburns, I'm gonna steal his woman!

ses trans people and their supporters of violent behaviour. Therefore I am a bigot who'd better keep his mouth shot for a month and use that time away from the forums to think about what I've said. I have screenshots if you want to see quotes from my messages and their responses.

Well, that escalated quickly. I wouldn't argue with such people. Most of them are radicalized freaks.

You're right, but still I can't always control myself. If I could kick their ass, oh man... xD

You're welcome! You know, probably the main reason that Romania wasn't back then the shithole that it is in the present is the fact that, with all his cult of personality and wacky ideas, Ceausescu was a patriot. He wanted the country itself to look good, so he made sure that our industry and law system was highly functional.

What about Poland's leaders from back then? I know very little about it, and I'm not even sure that the information I learnt is accurate or not

It seems that Sean Malone of the band Cynic has just died...

Alright

Did you just assume that I can't achieve happiness from highbrow and productivity?! What's next, assuming my gender?!?!?!?!

Don't apologise to me, man. It's okay, really. I agree that I am radical and snobbish, but in the same spirit I'm gonna say that this is "the way" with serious things - and culture should be something serious and treated as such, especially in these times where there's all kinds of retarded 'movements' going on. The thing is that we're looking at difficult times ahead of us, on every layer of our existence

Yeah, I agree, high culture > low culture. Besides, I was recently browsing Facebook and somebody wrote a very long post on the same subject we discussed. How pop music devalued over time. Like, we had Phil Collins, Aerosmith etc. (I'm not saying their music is good, I'm paraphrasing the post), and now, there is Cardi B and the song WAP which is a hit nowadays, people love it. And speaking of songs like that (see the lyrics), I have the very same point of view that you have. That song is gross and for fucking monkeys.

And she has a kid. A three year old. Don't mind me saying, but that sounds horrible xD

For how long have we been talking? You were 19-20 when we first 'met'?

My old last.fm account is from 2009, so I guess we first 'met' a long time ago. 7-8 years might be. Now we are old!

But I do love it!

It's a decent effort, I'd say. Only heard it about three times, and my opinion is the same as after the first audition. One thing I really admire at Bowie is how he rose up after the disastrous period that was the '80s and managed to make stuff that is at least decent. Usually once you fall down as a band, you stay down (The Stones, for instance)

By the way, I read somewhere yesterday that Bowie visited a psychic back in the '70s and heard that he was gonna die between the ages of 69 and 70

Heil Fripptler!

Zgadzam sie, zacne sa ich pierwsze plyty. :) Ogolnie Incunabula, Amber i Tri repetae to mistrzostwo.

o kurde. Ja nie lubie kasować historii swojego zycia bo za taki uznaje lastfm ;] czlowiek nie jest cale zycie caly czas ten sam

Dawno temu to bylo, 7 lat temu zrobilem pierwszy reset. A potem drugi raz juz calkiem 3 lata temu. xD Glupi bylem, co tu duzo gadac. Teraz bym tego nie zrobil. :P

jak lubisz cos ambitniejszego to sprawdz Godflesh. Nie pożałujesz.

Kojarze z nazwy, ale chyba nigdy nie sluchalem. Obczaje. Widze na RYM, ze ich debiut jest calkiem udany i ze maja Killing Joke w related artists. Spojrzalem sobie na angielska Wiki i wyglada obiecujaco: "Drawing inspiration from early industrial and noise groups like Throbbing Gristle and Whitehouse, as well as from ambient musician Brian Eno, noise rock band Swans, post-punk innovators Killing Joke, fellow Birmingham heavy metal band Black Sabbath and a wide range of hip hop artists like Public Enemy, Eric B. & Rakim and Run-DMC, Godflesh were among the pioneers of both industrial metal and post-metal and are considered a significant experimental metal and extreme metal band." Same dobre rzeczy wymienione jako korzenie.

bylem na ich koncercie we Wroclawiu w 2k11 na festiwalu Asymetry. Gig zycia. Tyle moge powiedziec ;]