It's like I've done this before...

aFreshStart4Me · **Posted:** Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:35 pm

oh wait...i have. I am back in the middle east. right now i'm in Krygistan, Manus AB waiting transport to KAF (Kandahar Airfield). My wife is gonna send me a iTunes card and I need some suggestions for my listening pleasure. I bought a 16G nano for this deployment so i will never be without tunes. I have about 7G's left so keep the suggestions coming. Tania, can you sticky this thread?

toots · **Posted:** Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:02 pm

what're you into?

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:58 pm

We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls

pitchfork Wrote:

This debut by FatCat's latest Scottish discovery, We Were Promised Jetpacks, is exactly what you'd expect from the label that gave us the Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit: an anthemic collection of heavily accented singing, insistent rhythms, and intense sincerity. But just because it's not surprising doesn't mean it's not appealing. With songs that marry tough riffs to tender glockenspiels and find a balance between muscular, masculine drumming and singer Adam Thompson’s vulnerable, striving warble, there is much to like within These Four Walls.

It's on eMusic too.

aFreshStart4Me · **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:47 am

I like punk, emo, power pop, hard rock, some metal, indie rock'''
artist like Jimmy Eat World, death cab for cutie, killers, the nationals, old school punk (DK, black flag,X), social D, Tiger army, floggy molly, dropkick murphy's, ...but looking to be exposed to new artist too!!!

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:52 am

My suggestions:
A) Keep your head down.
B) Watch your ass (and your buddys' asses).
C) Come home safely.

Music:
Exploding Hearts, Bad Brains, Barry Adamson, Brazil, Dax Riggs, Jim Ford, King Khan & BBQ, The Move/Roy Wood

aFreshStart4Me · **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:11 pm

thanks todd

Stone · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 am **Posts:** 1562

My rec: Burial - Speed at Night EP.

This is not the electronic band, but a German hardcore band with the same name.

paper · **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:13 pm

What Todd said, except don't watch your buddies asses...that's gay.

toots · **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:16 pm

DADT, homes

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:47 pm

timmy's recommendation is good. also the new king khan and bbq show, invisible girl.

toots · **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:58 pm

probably no chance of this, but are you able to post pictures of innocuous, non-sensitive scenery and activity from where you will be stationed?

im always curious about what day to day life is like for someone who is stationed in a warzone

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:15 am

Also, is there a window of time where you won't be able to download stuff?

Lots of people should be posting their top 20's for the year in the next couple of weeks.

posthumus · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:17 am **Posts:** 589

just by going what you said

The Rammones - s/t
The first and best album. Simple, straightforward punk that sounds fresher than anything else out there.

The Clash - London Calling, s/t
Both are really good. Fun messy punk with better songwriting than the Sex Pistols.

White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Stripped down with a lot of distortion. "Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground" "Fell in Love with a Girl"

Get Up Kids- Four Minute Mile
Debut from one of the pioneers of emo and one of the few credible bands in the genre. Not as dreamy as early Jimmy Eat World but more honest with great songwriting.

Suicide - s/t
Early proto punk. Pretty much influenced the eighties through its moody minimal and noisy style. More accessible than Joy Division, Public Image Limited, Gang of Four.

Sunny Day Real Estate- Diary
Straightforward mid nineties emo.

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Proto rock with amazing songwriting. Godfather of most alternative music. Most accessible thing he ever did. Doesn't sound dated at all. Goes good with the Shins, Why?, The Cars

current

Phoenex - Wolfgang
Just cause. Fun, loud, modern retro rock. Better than the Killers. Hasn't left my CD player since I got it.

Why? - Alopecia
Energetic, crazy album that's all over the place and still accessible.

Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Indie band's major label debut. Great songwriting, diversity and accessibility.
"3rd Planet"

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:48 am

Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
There is an undercurrent of rockabilly. Or maybe that's just because the Stray Cats ripped off the chord progression from the title track that I hear it? Anyway, it's a great album, nonetheless and contains some of the best guitar playing ever on a rock and roll album, courtesy Robert Quine and Ivan Julian.

aFreshStart4Me · **Posted:** Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:44 am

thanks for your input everyone, the reason I want this thread sticky is so I can easily reference it when I get iTunes cards for the wifey in my care packages. I will try to post non-sensitve scenery pics and such as time and mission dicates...one question, I have an iPod nano which can has video camera. It's it difficult to transfer to files from iTunes to YouTube to here?

Dalen · **Posted:** Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:36 am

Stone Wrote:

My rec: Burial - Speed at Night EP.

This is not the electronic band, but a German hardcore band with the same name.

this is a GREAT record. :rawk:

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:30 pm

The Monks - Black Monk Time

It's what every soldier overseas should listen to.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:08 pm

Allergic to Fun

1. The Yum Yums Let's Rock and Roll
2. The Successful Failures Never Moving Out
3. Mondo Primo Dude, Your Girlfriend Sucks
4. Purrbox Shake It Up (Cars cover)
5. Everybody Else Rich Girls, Poor Girls
6. The Cinders Deutscher Girls
7. The Takeover UK Kill Me Dead
8. L'Aventura Black Venus
9. Twisted Wheel Lucy The Castle
10. Beat Angels Celebrate Summer (T.Rex cover)
11. Kevin K. & the Hollywood Stars Cool Ways
12. The Sun Kings Off With Their Heads
13. Heavy Stereo Cartoon Moon
14. Psychotic Youth Elevator Girl
15. 1990s Sparks
16. Silver Sun Can't Get You Out Of My Head
17. Exploding Hearts Shattered
18. Eytan Mirsky Allergic To Fun
19. The Right Ons The Right Song
20. Telekinesis! All Of A Sudden

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?lzqkamirdom

Lots more stored here: http://unherdmusic.blogspot.com/

mugwump67 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:07 pm

The Black Flag-First Four Years compilation (pre-rollins) is excellent 80's punk.

Are you using a public computer to download? Do you have a personal storage area on it? I'm pretty sure the Obners would help you find anything you want, Itunes or no, if you have a place to put it.

aFreshStart4Me · **Posted:** Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:22 am

I have a laptop with 400G of free space on the hard drive, so ya I can definately download stuff

bort · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:47 am

Ben Gibbard put out an album with Jay Farrar recently. I haven't heard it but I like both those guys. Also, if you haven't picked up Jimmy Eat World's 10th Anniversary show (they play Clarity in it's entirety) you should. it's pretty cool.

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