Hi


I have a plan for the music forum.


Every week we are going to make a weekly discussion of some sort in this forum.


Currently it's just me and thecatamites as many of the other people I've asked are busy or don't have anything at the moment to speak about.


I'm planning to get a small amount of people together and then we each take a turn creating a discussion topic in this forum once a week.
For examples of the type of topics I am talking about check these topics: http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=5378.0  and http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=5288.0 

It doesnt have to be about just a genre by the way either, it can be about anything which gets people talking.  This doesn't mean you can't make other topics! Just don't label them as TOTW (topic of the week) unless that is what you intend.


I have no problem with just me and thecatamites taking weekly turns but I'm extending this offer in case a few others are interested?


The only major criteria you have to fill in making these topics is that a)the topic is well written, b) it's interesting and you make some effort.

(also a mod may want to sticky this)

Lets share awesome hiphop: Music Totw


As thecatamites mentioned in his Proto-Punk topic, I'm trying to get a series of weekly topics together to de-shitify this forum. (If you are interested send me a p​ )


And before you read anymore yeah this is about hiphop so if you dont like it feel free to click that little red box in the corner


This topic was going to be about classic hiphop but then I decided to talk about some current awesome hiphop songs and some of my favourite all time artists.
And yeah of course I missed alot of songs but it's a big genre and just my opinion!
If you have any favourites which are good feel free to share.


Firstly Krs-One.

He's known to be one of the founding fathers of hiphop and one of the key voices in keeping lyricism alive. A very well respected MC, you'll never see Krs-One selling out.

I like this song not only for the video but also for the really good lyrics:





Nas!

Well Nas has an album called Nigger coming out in the next few months and he also wrote one of the best hiphop albums ever when he was just in his teens.
Lyricially he's amazing, most of his albums only suffer from some boring beats but I think he kinda fixed that on Hip Hop is Dead.


This features some classic artists and even Kanye is on point. Listen to the Nas acapella.




If you know anything about your hiphop you'll also be suprised to notice the appearance of Rakim. Everybody loves Rakim, even Ghostface Killah stated

I am better than everybody, except Rakim

haha and he hates everybody!
Nas named himself Gods Son after Rakim who is nicknamed the God.




The Notorious BIG


In my opinion the best rapper of all time. Definately my favourite anyway. Ready to Die is a classic album and Biggie sounds really passionate, its hard to believe he freestyled alot of this album.

This is some gangsta shit but also really cool to listen to. Every line is memorable and witty.

Ladies, my Mercedes
Hold four in the back two if you fat

I also uploaded this song for you guys. Its my fave: http://rapidshare.com/files/108356256/Notorious_B.I.G_-_Nasty_Boy_Rmx.mp3.html



Well I think thats enough for now, next week we are covering Wu Tang, Outkast, UGK and Blackalicious.




I know this whole song by heart and man it is fun to listen to! I bolded my favourite bits in the lyrics:

This topic could be an utter disaster! With that in mind let the excitement begin!

I almost have enough saved for either xbox360 or ps3 (I dont want a Wii because they aren't all that big in New Zealand and the games range is very limited).
Anyway I was wondering which console I should get, I'm leaning towards ps3 mainly because it could succeed in the future and some of my favourite games will be coming out such as: Tekken 5, MGS4, New Final Fantasy and maybe some good rpgs sometime soon.
Which console will come out with more games and could do well in the near future?

Xbox360 has been around for a while and it could be argued that ps3 is yet to gain steam. However Xbox is alot more affordable and there is a chance I could afford a high def tv alot sooner if I got xbox360.
How well do the consoles play without high def?

If ps3 looks good without high def I will probally just get ps3 and deal with my current television.

Also which console would you choose and why?.


Try to grit your teeth and maybe smash your face into the computer screen instead of flaming WILDLY at any stage.

Haha well last night I was super drunk and at Kiss talking heaps of smack to my workmates flatmates, I realized this morning that I was talking so much trash that they really didn't like me and it was kinda obvious.

It's a wierd feeling being disliked and something which very rarely happens to me, I think it's happened with like two people before. It's usually me disliking someone else, not the other way around. I have no enemies whatsoever.



So my question to you is Do people often dislike you?  

Man I went to this last night and it was so amazing I had to fight the urge to rub one out whilst watching.

Queens of the stone age were up first and they were really awesome live, heaps of soloing and he sounded like a pretty charismatic dude when talking to the crowd, I'm sure a few people saw him out on the town afterwards, he talked about drugs and sex quite alot and starting singing a cover of Amy Winehouse "Rehab". The band members were all really into the performance unlike the two newbies in Smashing Pumpkins who kinda just stood there.


QOTSA


Smashing Pumpkins did the whole 9 minutes of the track "United States" off their new album which was awesome, it was so cool live it was like some Dream Theater shit honestly!
Jimmy Chamberlin killed the drumming, Billy played really really well (I never realised how good he is at guitar!), they did acoustic covers of Perfect and Thats the way my love is.
They also did like a 15 minute instrumental led by Billy and everyone sung him happy birthday afterwards as it was kinda recent.

They did an encore and Billy climbed up on the rafters, waved directly at me haha and was insulting Jack Johnson quite alot which was really random I remember exactly what he said:

Sorry we arent that jack johnson surf shit that you all seem to like....nah i love jack johnson!
He just could never beat me in a fight, I'd call him curious george, after all he wrote that song

Was quite strange.


So yeah AWESOME gig and I'd been really excited about it for a while.

What bands are you guys looking forward to seeing or what was the last gig you went to?


Here are the best pictures I took:




Smashing Pumpkins singing today with the crowd.

Seems to me like this forum needs a bit of a wake-up call to be honest! I think it could be cool if we started up this topic again, remember no lists!
Try to give the album a decent review around a paragraph long so someone can see if they are actually want to check the band out that you are listening to, this gives meaning to the topic beyond constant name dropping!

Here's the current album I am listening to



Between the Buried and Me: Colours
Genre: Progressive/Mathcore/Jazzheavyfun

I heard about this band through gw and despite their emo or metal-core sounding name they are actually really really good and Mike Portnoy loves them also ​.
Between the buried and me is like everything you wanted Dream Theater to sound like: Less boring, less cheesier, heavier and waaaay more experimental.
At first listen BTBAM is some pretty heavy shit and it didnt really click with me all that much apparent from obvious observations like "man this is tech as fuck".
This is one very varied cd, it definately takes a few listens to appreciate but it is pretty exciting to listen to and once you get an ear for it it's the type of album you could listen to for like a whole month. Vocals are like either really soft or screaming which is actually kinda reminiscient of Lamb of Gods vocals IMO (Despite them being a horrible band).
My favourite moments on the album are actually some of the Jazz and Country acoustic moments and bits where suddenly the intensity REALLY picks up!


Also check out their website it has some really cool art work! http://www.victoryrecords.com/albumtrailers/colors/ 


What about you!?

Hello there.

Every single weekend I have is usually AWESOME, often I go to a friends, drink heaps, go out and then spend the next hungover day inside watching cable and eating junk food.


However this weekend I have a problem! My friends are all busy and I been pretty lazy doing nothing all week so I don't really feel like being on the computer all weekend so.....


HELP ME PLAN MY WEEKEND!

I have no idea what I should do, it can be as geeky or whatever you like just give me some ideas ok! Thanks. Anything you want!

Me and Climbtree were semi talking about this on Irc and I know it's been done before but it did get me thinking.

Alot of my friends play sport or go to the gym, people here seem to be always working on projects or making music and when I think of myself not at school or at work I'm the laziest person ever. Like I hate working so when I'm not at work I do almost nothing and I want to be somewhat more productive with my free time. I usually have at least a few hours a day free.


How productive are you guys with your free time? Are you always working on something new or do you just play games or whatever when you aren't busy?


Also what is your attitude towards working!? Do you hate it so much that when you know you have work later in the day you just dwell about it the whole day!? (I do this)

In case you havent heard Patrick Swayze might have about five weeks to live thanks to Cancer in the Pancreas.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/patrick_swayze_cancer_weeks_live/celebrity/64581

He was in Dirty dancing, Donnie Darko and Point Break in case you've forgotten who he is.



Share your thoughts or get praying! 



EDIT: I don't know how legtimate this information is as the site isn't the most believable site out there so maybe have a look around before you start crying.
I just read a few more legitmate sites which say the opposite so if I fucked up sorry! I tried deleting the topic.

Hello there friends.


This topic dedicated to your childhood heroes! So tell us a little about who you looked up to when you were younger or even who you look up to now!


It's pretty straightforward and I will start us off with some people who I really thought were amazing when I was younger, this topic should actually be pretty fun.


Jordan was always my biggest hero.


Back in the day I used to love Michael Jordan, I collected all his basketball cards and had like 50 some of which were just of Michael Jordan doing routine things around the house.

I remember when Space Jam came out. I saw it at the movies and I took it so seriously it actually affected me emotionally and I thought it was amazing.
I brought the cd and knew every song by heart (first album I owned), I knew every little thing about him, Where he grew up, how he got famous, what shorts he wore to every big game etc.


I had other favourite NBA players but Jordan was always the king for me. I even memorized his kids names and sometimes I look him up on wikipedia or whatever to see what he's up to haha. (f*ck charles barkley)



   



The Undertaker


For a while I thought wrestling was pretty cool,I remember constantly having arguments with my mum about how real it was.
Even last year I was a little interested when WWE was on tv just because the undertaker was on.  He was so dark and cool, I was never quite as obsessed with him as I was with jordan but still the undertaker was pretty badass, he always won, he rode a motorbike and he liked heavy metal.




Chad Muska
The only wigger I ever liked, Muska had the best skateboards and the coolest style, he hung out with Wu Tang and was just the man overall.

Even now I think he is pretty cool (same with Jordan). Probally my last sports hero.
He somehow made this name for himself just based on his style; kids everywhere thought he was like the white 2pac who skated or something, back when me and my friend played tony hawks pro skater we used to have big fights over who got to be muska.










Metallica

Metallica don't really deserve me posting a photo of them, I remember when I first joined gw I used to argue with HybridZero all the time about how good they were. Now they are pretty boring for me and have gotten shittier with age. However when I really really liked them I was obsessed, it was the first band I truely loved and I nearly cried when Lars did the heavy metal sign and pointed at me, I actually remember saying to my best friend "I cant believe he saw me, he realises I'm alive", haha what a dick.
I had such a big obsession with them, I swear I had memorized every fact I could about them, I knew which paintings kirk had at his house, I knew what James' tatoos all looked like etc.
I guess I have them to thank for getting me into music and onto better things.



What about your childhood heroes?

We havent talked about hiphop in here for a while.


Just this year I discovered the amazing Ghostface Killah, big doe rehab came out this year and only sold 30k, Ghostface seemed pretty gutted about it and said it makes him consider quitting rapping! So my first point is dont fucking download his new album go buy it ok.
Some of his stuff (like his latest single) is just party music but he does some really cool creative songs, anyone remember the one about mermaids on fishscale?

Anyway Ghostface would definately have to be one of my personal favourites, every album he does it awesome and some of the beats and wordplay he does is also really cool.


Heres his latest video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2iwiVaX5Xu0.


Ghost's storytelling is definately up there with Nas, it's a pity the latest wu tang album was a snore fest because Ghost is horribly underlooked.


Any other fans? Favourite songs/albums?

buy this ok.

I'd say my favourite rappers at the moment are:

1) Notorious BIG
2) Ghostface
3) Nas

Honorable mentions: UGK, Busta.

Hello all.

Perhaps you can help me locate a good music website which I could write for? Currently I write for www.firesideometer.com but they seem to be pretty inactive at the moment so I am considering writing for another site. I'd prefer something which isn't too biased towards one genre as I'd want to interview musicians from plenty of genres (actually probally just metal or hiphop haha) Also if the site can be a little popular but small enough so my reviews and stuff is appreciated that would be cool.

Any ideas (thanks!)

Just read about the new inflames and children of bodom cds. My hopes aren't very high to be honest.

Here's a new In Flames track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljvfHGl_jVE 

With album cover (Looks like Korn)


I had to fight the urge to kill myself.


New Children of Bodom cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1_q_A8mSDE&feature=related Children of Bodom New Song "Tie My Rope"

Well well I just aquired a copy of FF online and for the first time ever since I joined gw I have a faster connection than 56k so I am pretty keen to play it.
However it is massive to install and you have to pay cashmoney! So just curious is the game itself any good? I've never heard anyone mention it much so I'm unsure whether ff online is worth getting into.

I thought this topic would be better placed in the general forum than the movie forum.


There is a movie called Zeitgeist which is streamed free on the internet here: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/



Part I: The Greatest Story Ever Told Part I evaluates Christian beliefs established in the Bible and critiques the historicity of the Bible. In furtherance of the Jesus myth hypothesis, this part argues that the historical Jesus is a literary and astrological hybrid, and that the Bible is based on astrological principles documented by many ancient civilizations, especially pertaining to movement of the sun through the sky and stars.


Don't Mind The Men Behind The Curtain asserts that the powerful bankers of the world have been conspiring for world domination and increased power. According to the documentary, the rich of society have been using their wealth to increase financial panic and foster a consolidation of independent competing banks. The film details the Theory of Electronic Conspiracy that the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, was created in order to steal the wealth of the nation. It showcases the amount of money that has been made by these rich few during World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and now the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It describes the goal of these bankers as world power over a completely controllable public.[2]



It discusses an opinion about the myth of jesus and electronic conspiracy. Pretty interesting stuff and though it might be cool to discuss, click the link below for more info


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

Fairly obvious question here folks, I've some promising things about it but after they broke my heart the third time I've kinda moved on and I personally don't have high hopes.

It has been described as more progressive and, at times, melodic, featuring a number of guitar solos, and has been called the "missing link" between ...And Justice for All and Metallica (better known as "The Black Album").

But the difference between this time and last time is that last time there was no real separation between the writing process and the recording process; it was one thing, and that was the whole kind of 'St. Anger' experiment — to do away with the separate processes of that, and nobody brought in any pre-recorded stuff or ideas; it was just make it up on the spot, be in the moment, put the fucking thing out and next time remember to put the snare on, all that stuff — we've covered that.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum described his impressions of the unfinished songs:
“    Lars (Ulrich) is a good friend of mine. He played me the demos from San Francisco, and I turned and looked at him and I said, 'Master that shit and put it out.' It's ridiculous. The demos were sick. Eight-minute songs, all these tempo changes, crazy fast. It's like, 'Dude, don't get slower when you get older, but don't get faster!? How are you gonna play this live?' And then me and Lars were out partying all night, and he had to go in the studio the next day and do this stupid like nine- or ten-minute song, and I was laughing at him — because he played me the demo of it, and it was [sings really fast drum part], so fast. I called him, and said, 'Dude, how are you feeling?' He was like, 'Dude, I'm hurting.' They're cutting everything to tape, no fuckin' ProTools — live, no clicks. Bitchin'. I dig it. I'm really excited for them."

Meh, you decide.

Hi


Well you may not have noticed as I did post every now and again. But because I was super busy with college and didnt have the net at home I didnt post on gw or visit it all that often for the past six months.
(Also I lived with six other people who were all really good friends so we basicially hung out 24/7), but yeah I have moved to New Zealand's capital city to make a new start and now for the FIRST TIME EVER, I actually have a connection faster than dial up and it is in my room so yeah working over summer but other than that I will be at gw more often.




oh yeah cool stuff that has happened in my old place:



  My friends cling filmed my car when I went on holiday.

  Thats how messy our old crib was.

Covered the whole floor in bean bag balls for a snow like effect.




It's been a good year.

I think it's pretty cool what he's doing, Hiphop is dead was probally one of his best albums and it also looks like this album could end up being something special.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1572287/20071018/nas.jhtml