Muse are popular here but nothing compared to FF ect. I only like 2 Muse songs but I really really like them and i hate the rest of their stuff.
I have very specific taste when it comes to headbanger music, i either love it or i hate it.

Talking Heads' Brick (box set) is out; anyone planning on getting it? I haven't seen it in stores yet. I also heard that the remastered CDs will be available separately later on.

i've been thinking about that Talking Heads box set, but really don't need all the albums since i'm not too much of a fan. saw it at Virgin Megastore for $150.

if it comes out individually, that'll be great news! i'll definitely get Remain in Light (love this album) and perhaps Fear of Music and More Songs About Buildings and Food. is Stop Making Sense part of the box set too? i forget... i'll get that one too! never got the recent version where they added all the tracks straight from the feature film.

in the meantime, i'll stick with my old CD copies of Remain in Light and Sand in the Vaseline... and my really old Stop Making Sense on cassette!

Yeah - allmusic.com says that Remain in Light gets the best results from the remastering. It is pricey ($220 CAD!) so I might do the same and stick to buying one or two and hanging on to my older copies.

do you have all the albums then, EC? all i have are Remain in Light, Sand in the Vaseline, and Stop Making Sense. i wanted to pick up Fear of Music for the longest time, but for some reason or another never did. anything you'd recommend?

i'd reckon Remain in Light would sound awesome on 5.1 surround. it already sounds very lush with all the polyrhythm tracks and built-up layers of sound (Brian Eno trademark)... and those unfinished demos sound very prominsing as well.

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Oops my comment was misleading, I just have Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues right now + some David Byrne and a bunch of MP3s (shhh); I figure I'll add to the collection with the earlier stuff, I hear the later stuff can be hit-and-miss. I think Speaking in Tongues is worth it for Naive Melody alone, but by other accounts it is a solid album as a whole.

You're right about the 5.1 Remain in Light, I bet it's a trip to hear it on a nice setup.

ahh.. ok. i though you might have all their albums, i won't tell anyone about the mp3's. ;)

from what i've heard/read, every album up to Speaking in Tongues are supposed to be very good, with Remain in Light and More Songs About Buildings and Food being the best ones. i've got a handful of songs from Speaking in Tongues from the Sand in the Vaseline collection ("Burning Down the House," "Girlfriend is Better," "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)," Swamp"), they're very good but didn't particularly wow me like the ones from Remain in Light. "Memories Can't Wait," "Heaven," "Life During Wartime," and "I Zimbra" from Fear of Music seem more exciting to me.

anyway, i'll definitely look out for a Remain in Light reissue. this album is nearly flawless, except for that audible quick cut/edit in "Crosseyed and Painless" where David finishes his rap and sings "...still waiting."

was just listening to the Evanescence album again today and i just forgot how spectacular it is, the lead singers voice is one of the best i have ever heard.
if you dont own this album yet YOU MUST GET IT.
im not a big fan of headbanger music but i LOVE all the songs on this album.

Evanescence is not headbanger's music. Alt Rock at best.

Or some form of... Emo.

Ouch!

oh my god, you guys dont consider them headbangers. you guys must listen to some pretty serious stuff then.
Evanessence is about as hard as i get, lol

Hehe, this is my usual fare:

http://www.dcjproductions.com/songs/Metal/Death%20Metal/Six%20Feet%20Under%20-%20Maximum%20Violence/01%20-%20Feasting%20On%20The%20Blood%20Of%20The%20Insane.mp3

hmmmm, the only difference i can hear is they dont have nice female vocals.

and what is emo?

The new wave of 'punk' where skinny kids try to scream and be angsty. Stuff like Chevelle. They try to be hard rock, but it just comes off as a whiney garage band. Basically it's the new Boy Band only with a facade.

Or, it can be the EMOtional end of punk. All these whiny, angst filled teens want to rock and be punk (which is dead) but they aren't, so they get wrangled into this genre whether they're geek rock like Ozma, semi goth like HIM or even whiny bitches like Dashboard Confessional. Most of the bands you'll see played up in Hot Topic or waht reaches top 40 radio like goddamned Fall Out Boy.

Check this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo

And what is up with that Heart shaped pentagram. It's as out of place as Motley Crue's use of it.
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It's the heartagram. HIMs logo. (I only figured all this out recently after seeing it all summer.) Motley Crue uses it?

http://www.heartagram.com/

Yeah I knew it was HIM's logo, but I just thought it out of place.

Crue doesn't use it, but they do use the pentagram for some reason, even though all their songs are girls drug and rock n' roll.

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Even the action figures have that too.

A band called GWAR is playing in Fargo tomorrow. I'm thinking of putting on a freshly pressed white shirt & going to give them a listen.

That would be handy if you plan on leaving with a freshly coated red shirt.

what great posts i missed, LOL. love it!

i'll agree that Evanescense isn't headbanging music... i think Dann's right in saying it's Alt-Rock. i'd file Evanescense as pseudo-neo-goth or whatever they think the genre these days are, where they try to wear their heart on their sleeves but look "good" and "hip" in the process. very much like A Fire Inside or Linkin Park, etc...

not dissing Evanescense though, i can enjoy them every now and then.

Emo... Emo could be good when it's done right. i like it when it's witty and humourous with a slight introspective introvert bent... see Weezer, Nada Surf, or Nerf Herder. i guess it can be classified as geek-rock. Phil definitely hit the main points on bad Emo, with whiney "feel sorry for me" bands very much like Dashboard Confessional.

and don't get me started on what they call "Punk" these days... yeah, whatever, pop-punk wannabe's. skip the Blink 182, Sum 41, blah blah balh and listen to some Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Clash, The Jam, or the first two Siouxsie and the Banshees album! ;)

hehe, I knew you'd rip apart the 'punk' scene. Good one.