Musika

Ξ February 22nd, 2006 | → 0 Comments | ∇ |

I grabbed the Dragonforce album, Inhumane Rampage from Virgin the other day for a tenner whilst in town, and it’s thoroughly entertaining on a level of humour intermingled with sheer astonishment. The speed at which these guys play is just insane. Speed metal combined with power ballad lyrics make it the funniest thing I’ve listened to in a long time. I’ve got to find when they’re touring the UK and go see them.

Yesterday I grabbed an advanced copy of, Placebo: Meds from a mate and am lovin’ that ‘n all. It’s typical Placebo, yet, still fresh. Maybe because the last time I popped in Black Market Music for a whirl was back when I was a teen, so it feels good to go back to my musical youth a bit whilst not feeling as though it’s all too much of the same. My favourite tracks are definitely Meds and Pierrot the Clown. The former for sheer Placebo classic-ness, and the latter because it’s a great sound, slightly acoustic, great lyrics and the fact it reminds me of Yakitate Japan.

I’ve got fed up of winamp, after many-a-year of using it since 2.2-something and downloaded Songbird 0.1 instead. Despite it’s early beta-ness it seems to work very well and is pretty damn stable, at least, on this machine. I’ve yet to stick it on my main rig and have it catalogue my 180gig of music. Winamp crippled itself after that, and I refuse to install iTunes after seeing how invasive it is on my brothers machine. Having said that, Songbird isn’t that great using nearly 20% CPU and nearly 45meg of ram with just two albums queued to play.