Your Daily Song Tip Thread

[Chrille]

Song: The Bogus Man by Roxy Music

Comments: Forget about Love Is The Drug and More Than This (though I guess I like those as well ) Roxy Music peak  way above that. This 9-minute gem of a jam can be found on their awesome second album "For Your Pleasure" (when Brian Eno was still in the band). The creepy music matches the great (and slightly cheesy ("The Bogus Man is on his way, as fast as he can run. He's tired but he'll get to you, and shoot you with his gun") ) lyrics perfectly. Great performances by all. Nice treatments by Eno. However, Ferry's vocals is what I like most about it.
How I discovered it: I first heard, or rather, listened to Roxy Music when an old live performance was shown on TV here.

Fun fact: I've heard of the boogie man but what the hell is a bogus man? Bogus, dude!

[Tuomas]

Song: The Samuel Jackson Five - If You Show Off The Milk, Who's Gonna Buy The Cow? (from their homesite www.sj5.no
Comments: as the album title of this says, Easily Misunderstood. The music is defined Experimental/Post-Rock. This is not their best track, but it's the one available at the website, and is pretty good anyway.
How I discovered it: I was looking for info on Spock's Beard, when I spotted this in an aphapetical list, and thought it was funny so decided to take a look.
Fun fact: "Their name is most likely a joke based on the combination of Samuel Jackson and Jackson 5" (no shit)


Nice one Chrille. There's nothing Roxy Music would do bad, again I find Brian Eno mentioned, (3rd time I think).

[Hammerite]

Song: Mogwai - Close Encounters

Comments - outtake from the Rock Action album, previously only included on the Japanese release.

How I discovered it - looking around the official site I found an audio section, it was here: http://www.mogwai.co.uk/podcast/index.php?id=6

Fun fact - David Pajo (from Slint) contributes guitar.

[Nikolas]

Shouldn't this be moved to the popular forum already? I find it a brillaint thread! Really!
Helm: Thanks



I will edit the post to include my new track, please do not delete yet.

[Esseb]

Song: Kontroll på Kontinentet, by Kaizers Orchestra
Comment: Not my favourite song of theirs, but this video shows their live show the best. According to Wikipedia "Kaizers Orchestra are notable for being among the first Norwegian bands or artists singing in their native language to become popular in non-Scandinavian Europe", probably in large part because of their live shows
How I discovered it: They're fairly popular here
Fun fact: Each of their albums tell a story. The first album, as far as I can interpret, dealing with a mafia formed in the post-war society of an unspecified eastern European country by former members of the war resistance. This song in particular is the mafia leader trying to discover who in "the family" betrayed him, by pretending to be dead, having an open casket at the funeral, and waiting for the culprit to reveal his sins to the dead body only to discover that it was his sister. Oh, I spoiled it now.

[GarageGothic]

Song: Start Wearing Purple by Gogol Bordello
Comment: Crazy Balcanic Gypsy folk-punk from New York. I've seen these guys live twice, once in Denmark, once in Bologna, Italy, and loved it both times (though the show was slightly less energetic the second time as their chinese dancer broke her leg during the concert).
How I discovered it: They played at the Roskilde Festival last year, easily among the top-three acts of the whole festival.
Fun fact: The song is on the soundtrack of the film version of Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated. Lead singer Eugene Hütz plays a major part in the movie as Elijah Wood's Ukranian guide Alex.

[Tuomas]

Song:Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Comments: One of the best from Kate Bush. The Kick Inside must be her best album, this one is on it. I know it's a hit song but it truly is a masterpiece. Just got to love her voice.
How I discovered it:Well I'm a huge fan of Peter Gabriel. And I read somewhere, that it was he who found this young exceptional girl and made her big. So I trusted him, and bought an album, and now I have all of them, as does my aunt btw.
Fun fact: She wrote the song when she was 19 after the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë who has the same birthday as she.

[Hammerite]

Song: Sonic Youth - I Don't Want To Push It

Comments: Early, difficult Sonic Youth from their eponymous mini-album

How I discovered it: Purchasing said mini-album

Fun fact: the camp-sounding vocals are the result of Thurston Moore trying to imitate Damo Suzuki, the vocalist of German experimental band, Can.

[voh]

Song: Omerta, by Katatonia
Comments: I'm a big Katatonia fan, but this is the only song I can listen to all day long. It's calm, with frustration looming beneath the calmness, but the message comes across. This song, as, seemingly, an old comment on youtube states, has helped me through some rough patches. Whenever I felt down, I'd listen to the song and I'd feel massively better.
How I discovered it: I got the CD the song is on through an ex-girlfriend, and suddenly this song starts, and I'm sitting up in my chair and scurrying to find the booklet so I can read along with the lyrics.[/b]
Fun Fact: Due to the very abrupt ending, I thought the CD was broken the first couple of times I heard it. After downloading the song, I found out it was supposed to end that way

[Nikolas]

Song: The Game, Levellers
Comments: Great violin traditional irish, or something, playing, along with great rock on the back. I love it!
How I discovered it: A friend back in 91 introduced me to that Album (Vinyl back then), called "Levelling the land", and exactly that song as the best from the album. I went on and copied the album in a tape and then after a couple of years or so, bought the CD (which I lost afterwards... :@)
Fun Fact: hmmm.. can be too sure there is any. Just that it's a qutie old song and that the  band is still around here and there. Back then it was consider far superior to the James, but future proved them wrong...

[Haddas]

Song: Finntroll - En Mäktig Här
Comments: Finnish Folk-metal. Though a very untraditional song
How i discovered it: A friend and a big fan of Finntroll introduced me to this song
Fun Fact: Sounds VERY much like the theme from Monkey Island.

[Ghormak]

Song: Ocean Land, by Orphaned Land
Comments: I have a weak spot for "eastern" melodies and instruments, and it's even better if the band is from the area and not just a bunch of westerners experimenting with scales.
How I discovered it: "Hey Ghor, check this band out... "  "Ok."
Fun Fact: It's about the only metal band I can think of at the moment that I'd recommend even to people who don't generally like metal. Jewish metal! A concept album about Noah's ark and the great flood! What's there not to like?

Finntroll

Ooh, new album? Must get. Finntroll are hilarious, great fun.

[Haddas]

Ooh, new album? Must get. Finntroll are hilarious, great fun.

Yes. It is to be released on the 28th of March (My birthday!) However it's already been leaked on P2P for a while, if you're inclined to do such things.

[Rincewind]

Song:
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething by Our Last Hope Lost Hope

Comments:
Being quite a huge post-rock-fan, and a near-fanatic follower of the band Godspeed you black emperor!, it's rare that I get the opportunity to hear bands that comes close to the intense emotional impact of that from above mentioned band. In recent years, the only two bands that has managed to really impress me in the genre has been british band Yndi Halda, as well as this bunch. A ten-piece collective with members mostly coming from the area in and around Sundsvall, Sweden, where I live. Not signed, and unfortunately not very active any more,(they haven't done anything new since around 2003, I think...) but brilliant anyways.

How I discovered it:
A friend told me that some mutual friends of ours; Leif Elverstig and Lotta Andersson, had played in a post-rock collective a couple of years ago, and gave me the link to their website.

Fun Fact:
Leif Elverstig, one of the guitarists in the band, is also a kickass solo singer/songwriter. Check out his stuff here.



You can also exclude Samuel Jackson Five from my above post-rock-comment. They are indeed a great new band in the genre.
Great choice, Toumas!

[Chrille]

Song: Myrrhman by Talk Talk

Comments: Not a fan of post-rock, but I love Talk Talk's experimenting in that genre. Much more quiet and subtle compared to most other acts I've heard. The song brings on images that appeal very much to me, a bit like Tom Waits' "9th & Hennepin" story.

How I discovered it: Nothing special, I'd gotten lots of recommendations for the album "Laughing Stock" and ended up buying it. Sadly they disbanded after this album, though Mark Hollis (frontman) released a solo album some years later which is supposed to be as good as the last two albums of Talk Talk.

Fun fact: Talk Talk started out as a 80's synth-pop band and then suddenly went from that to experimental post-rock.

[Tuomas]

Song: Three of a Perfect Pair by King Crimson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt3BNoK7ZO4

Comments:A great song with the most longlasting lineup of this classic band. I love it how they play it, and ask no appologies.

How I discovered it:I bought the record some years ago having heard King crimson before a lot. Must have been because of the cover. This song hit me the first minute, the album is great too.

Fun fact:Three doesn't make a pair. It's wordplay. Yay fun.

[LimpingFish]

Song: Peaches en Regalia by Frank Zappa, from the album Hot Rats

Comment: Jazz fusion groove, with the overall effect of producing a big smile on the face of the listener.

How I discovered it: In Tower Records, under "Frank Zappa".

Fun Fact: Yes, facts can be fun.

(Thanks to Tuomas for the audio link. )

[Tuomas]

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1023 Here's a link for your song Fish, or a streaming of it if you want it . Please remove this post once it's edited.

[vict0r]

Song: The Odyssey - Symphony X

Comment: Symphonic rock. My favourite band, and the best song I've ever heard. It's about Odyssevs or something.. Not sure how you write it in English. A legend.

How I discovered it: I heard it on a trip to Italy, but I didn't bother listening to it. I later remembered, and thought I should check it out.

Fun Fact: The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

[Tuomas]

Song: Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2024739669
Comment: From the new record, Porcupine Tree really hit it this time making high on charts. I listened to this 25 times a row and never got bored with it.

How I discovered it: I heard them first 5-6 years back, a slightly different style back then. All the same, I bought their album in 2002, and then I heard this was out, I had to buy it immediately.

Fun Fact: The video here was drawn back due to the virginia Tech shootings, if you check the video out, you'll know why. That's not really fun, but it's a fact.