One of my top favorite albums ever

This album is in my top 5 of all time. Unfortunately, i never got to see them live due to the death of their bassist. There is not a low point on this album anywhere. Yes, everyone has heard Got A Girl, but everyone should also check out Trip Along and their amazing 9 minute freak out called Prick. I can not recommend this album highly enough. I also have all of their other discs, including the hard to find EP's if anyone is interested. Just leave a mention in the comments or the c-box...

"This album sits right in the middle of my top ten albums of all time. Musically, the guitar playing, drumming, and vocals are all top notch and give you plenty to aspire towards. While at times some of the guitar lines are nothing technically amazing, they are creative and fit perfectly with the song. The drumming is the gem on this album and I love every minute of it. The vocals are uniquely Tripping Daisy's own and make this band stand out from the crowd.

Part pop, part hard rock, and mostly a perfect blend of the two, this album provides you with enough types of sound to keep you interested, but keeps them woven together so that it does not sound out of place.

"I Got a Girl" is of course the "hit" from the album, and by all means is the only reason I heard of this band in the first place. But I must say, "I Got a Girl" is the worst song on the album even though it has its moments instrumentally speaking. My favorites are "Motivation" - much quiter than most songs on the album but just beautiful in every way, "Step Behind" - very fun catchy song, but unique in its structure/arrangment, "Prick" - long prog rock style song with sick guitar riffs and some of the most amazing drumming on the album, and "High" - a nice peaceful song with some beautiful guitar lines which I have been told, although cannot confirm, was not originally a song to be on the album, but just a bit of a jam in the studio that was caught on tape, who knows (the lyrics to this song are the only ones missing in the album notes)?

That being said, every song is worth listening to and I have played this album start to finish in entirety hundreds of times. Other Tripping Daisy albums are good and worth listening to, but none of them capture the mix of hard rock, pop, and psychedelic sounds like this one does." (amazon.com)

Band Site: http://www.trippingdaisy.com
Tripping Daisy - I Am An Elastic Firecracker: http://lix.in/-4a2785

Beer, beer, beer, beer, beer

Yea, if you dont like irish drinking songs, there is something wrong with you. This would be a great comp of a bunch of em. BEERS UP!

1. The Mahones - Drunken lazy bastard
2. The Bloody Irish Boys - Drunk Tonight
3. Great Big Sea - The Night Pat Murphy Died
4. Dropkick Murphys - Finnegans Wake
5. The Pogues - If I should fall from grace with god
6. Flogging Molly - May the Living be Dead (In Our Wake)
7. The Mahones - A Drunken Night in Dublin
8. The Bloody Irish Boys - Enniscorthy in a Bottle
9. Great Big Sea - Lukey
10. Dropkick Murphys - Bar room hero
11. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
12. Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
13. The Mahones - Paint this town red
14. The Bloody Irish Boys - Streams of Whiskey
15. Great Big Sea - Home for a rest
16. Dropkick Murphys - Dirty glass
17. The Pogues - Whiskey you’re the Devil
18. Flogging Molly - Seven deadly sins

Irish Punk Drinking Songs: http://lix.in/-470c3d

Canadian metal with smoking solos at their best

"Since their last CD Unbroken, there have been several line-up changes in the camp of A Perfect Member. Three of the five musicians had to be replaced, which had of course some influences on the band's style that has become closer to metal. Their brutal hardcore sound from the past has been replaced by a groovy thrash metal sound with still obvious hardcore feeling. The dominance of the guitars is surprising quite a lot and even the solos don't disturb at all. Wake Up And Die and Snake Eyes are two well arranged brutal metal songs. Another surprise are songs with a strong touch of southern rock or sludge metal combined with more brutal riffs (Rotten, Suffocation Of Thought). But these changes aren't of course so strong that A Perfect Murder will lose old fans because of the new album. Maybe some folks will be disturbed by the huge amount of solos, but the general extreme and angry sound and the still very hardcore like vocals shouldn't prevent the old fans from listening to A Perfect Murder. Even tolerant thrash metal fans may find Strength Through Vengeance also very interesting. The album takes advantage from a very fat production, but a bit more variation wouldn't have harmed either." (disagreement.net)

Band Site: http://www.myspace.com/aperfectmurder
A Perfect Murder - Strength Through Vengence: http://lix.in/-456c75

Why dont they play this on the radio?

Soul Coughing were one of the best bands I have ever seen live and I have had the pleasure of seeing Mike a few times during his solo tours. Always a passionate performer and well worth your time to listen to.

"Haughty Melodic is everything you'd expect from Mike Doughty and more: it fuses his post-Soul Coughing singer-songwriter compositional style with the tapestry of brightly colored sounds and snarled grooves of his now-defunct, aesthetically pleasing -- in other words, fly -- band. In fact, Haughty Melodic is even more ritually adorned than anything Doughty's been involved in previously, quite the opposite from the stark tones of Skittish and Rockity Roll (his two self-released solo EPs re-released by ATO last year). Through the dozen tracks, he's joined by saxophone, trombone, congas, banjo, pedal steel, cello, and various keyboard babbles, all of which really flesh out the record into a densely ornamented merry-go-round. And although Haughty Melodic is a reinforcement of Mike Doughty the Songwriter (as opposed to M. Doughty the Beat-Jivin' Jazz-Funk-Psych Band Leader), it is still a reminder of his idiosyncratic stature in contemporary American music. Doughty makes music that is impossibly unique. He repeats phrases with brain-numbing syntax and a deadpan cadence ("Lonely / And the only way to beat it is to bat it down"), peppers the peripheral vision of introspective songs with pop culture references as if they were intrinsically unavoidable ("Busting Up a Starbucks" cites James Van Der Beek and Sister Sister, not to mention the titular coffee conglomerate), and proves that he can still navigate about all his wits without the safety net of a category-defying band ("I'm done with elephants and clowns / I want to run away and join the office" he sings in "American Car")."

the rest of the review can be read here. its a real good review for a freakin sweet album

Band Site: http://www.mikedoughty.com/

Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic: http://lix.in/-455e5b

Icing on the cake

"The recommended Tales From Slabtown EP adds three non-LP tracks of good rank, the Velvet Underground-cool "Lance" (why wasn't this on the LP?!?!), plus the zany Kinks tribute song "Kinky" -- an extrapolation on the "You Really Got Me"/"All Day and All the Night"/"I Need You" riff, dandified with a striking harmony -- and the slow, meditative, trance-like spiritual grace of "Phone Call." (amg.com)

Dandy Warhols - Tales From Slabtown EP: http://lix.in/-45513b

Split personality disorder perhaps?

Every New Years for several years Local H play a set posing as another band. As the 21st century was ushered in, they played as the Doors. Real good sound quality on this and some great tunes.

Set list:
01 - The End
02 - Light My Fire
03 - Hello I Love You
04 - Roadhouse Blues
05 - Backdoor Man
06 - Five To One
07 - Touch Me
08 - Break On Through

Local H - Live As The Doors: http://lix.in/-530cc6