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Post by Crushcrushchris on Apr 3, 2009 20:28:08 GMT -5
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Post by pen on Apr 3, 2009 21:00:48 GMT -5
Mastodon is one of those bands I really want to like but find really impossible to get into.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Apr 3, 2009 21:45:18 GMT -5
This song was pretty cool. I hope it charts at active not because it's awesome, but because at least it's interesting.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Apr 4, 2009 2:53:31 GMT -5
They're a good band. Not as good as all these johnny-come-lately hipster critics make them out to be, but they do good work.
I love hearing/watching Brann Dailor play drums. His fills warp my mind.
And it's still funny that a drunken Brent Hinds picked a fight with System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian and some other guy at the 2007 VMA's and got his ass severely kicked by the both of them. (Seriously. Brain hemorrhaging, broken nose, two black eyes. He's fine now.)
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Post by fran182 on Apr 27, 2009 11:01:42 GMT -5
Yesterday, it reached top 50 on Mediabase Active. Here's today's update:
55 50 MASTODON Oblivion 117 102 15 0.482
24 stations playing.
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Post by Chato on Apr 27, 2009 11:32:43 GMT -5
So far Crack The Skye definitely stands as one of the best metal releases of 2009, regardless of what some people think of 'hipster critics'.
Hopefully this will gain them some extra exposure just like "Colony of Birchmen" did two years ago.
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Post by pen on Apr 27, 2009 13:26:14 GMT -5
Mastodon is one of those bands I have no end of respect for and yet I just can't for the life of me get into their music.
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Post by themule on Apr 28, 2009 17:12:01 GMT -5
I can understand not being able to get into some of their older stuff. Very heavy. But Crack The Skye is so much accessible. I can't stop listening to it. It is harsh at some times, but beautiful at other times. I really hope that they get good exposure from this album.
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Post by pen on Apr 28, 2009 17:18:30 GMT -5
People keep saying that and I don't see how it's that accessible. Mostly I think it's the guy's voice that makes it somewhat difficult for me. It's hard for me to remember right now.
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Post by crash46 on Apr 29, 2009 17:17:33 GMT -5
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Post by jvandyck87 on Apr 29, 2009 17:26:21 GMT -5
Their first album was so awesome. 30 Seconds to Mars that is. I don't know Mastodon well enough to comment, but I find this song and the few others I've heard from them above average.
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Post by themule on Apr 29, 2009 17:32:37 GMT -5
30 Seconds to Mars? jared Leto? You are kidding me right? Horrendous in every respect.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Apr 29, 2009 17:36:06 GMT -5
Have you heard the first album? Cuz most people have only heard the second.
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Post by pen on Apr 29, 2009 17:39:18 GMT -5
I actually love the second album way more than the first, although the first was also really really good.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Apr 29, 2009 17:43:13 GMT -5
I like them both too, but I'm guessing the mule was judging based off the second album, which wasn't what I was talking about. And I' partial to the first just cuz it's more unique, whereas the second felt like it was trying to capitalize on the vocal style of trendy screamo bands, a sound Jared Leto can pull off really well, but I didn't dig it quite as much as the space rock of their debut, which featured Jared in full-fledged clean beautiful belts rather than scream-singing at every intense moment like on the second record.
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Post by pen on Apr 29, 2009 17:48:38 GMT -5
I suppose. I think it's easy to lump 30 in with being that way, but I think screaming can be really emotional if done at the right times, and I think the songs where the screaming was done, it was done where it should have been. It didn't feel offputting or done just to be done or anything like that. It made musical sense to me.
Anyway, I hate that whenever there's a band that just so happens to attract young girls and scene kids as part of their audience, it's impossible to take them seriously as artists. It's not 30's fault their music happens to be accessible.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Apr 29, 2009 17:57:23 GMT -5
The dude does have one hell of a voice too. Too bad he is supposedly the biggest asshole in rock music. A lot bands who have played shows with them say Jared Leto is as arrogant as they come, and this is coming from some fairly legit bands who think so. I won't say who, just because they might not want it to be public knowledge that they hate Jared Leto.
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Post by pen on Apr 29, 2009 20:09:22 GMT -5
I dunno, some other dudes really seem to like him. I mean, there was that article about him and Kanye and Brandon Flowers......wait, I'm not making a good case, am I.
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Post by crash46 on Apr 29, 2009 23:18:04 GMT -5
With apologies to Mastodon for me hijacking their topic, since I am very interested it where they go next...the thing about 30 is that they had one highly accessible album following up one that was not so much at all. It also didn't help that Jared went from making every possible effort to conceal, or at least not use his real life identity during his debut album to whoring his name every chance he got (presumably under the influence of his label).
Now, I love both of their albums very much and am as excited as anyone about their upcoming one, but that's two blaring reasons to dismiss their music before even hearing it.
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Post by pen on Apr 30, 2009 0:43:33 GMT -5
With apologies to Mastodon for me hijacking their topic, since I am very interested it where they go next...the thing about 30 is that they had one highly accessible album following up one that was not so much at all. It also didn't help that Jared went from making every possible effort to conceal, or at least not use his real life identity during his debut album to whoring his name every chance he got (presumably under the influence of his label). Now, I love both of their albums very much and am as excited as anyone about their upcoming one, but that's two blaring reasons to dismiss their music before even hearing it. Because one album is more accessible than the other one and because they told people he was the lead singer, these are reasons to not give their music a shot? Cause I think those are some godawful reasons, to be honest. |
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Apr 30, 2009 4:30:35 GMT -5
I dunno, some other dudes really seem to like him. I mean, there was that article about him and Kanye and Brandon Flowers......wait, I'm not making a good case, am I. James Montgomery, MTV.com's weekly op-ed writer, seemed to think Jared was a pretty swell guy this week. www.vh1.com/news/articles/1610180/20090428/30_seconds_to_mars.jhtmlThe two times I met Jared Leto he was a very gracious, polite, nice guy. I just read the recent Revolver Mastodon cover story, and while Brent is a volatile, loose cannon who probably deserved to get his ass kicked, I feel bad for taking his VMA incident so lightly, knowing now that his family was called to the hospital because he was close to death, he spent 3 days in a coma, was bedridden for a month, had vertigo for 8 months, and then had to wait all that time in order for doctors to safely re-break his nose to set his breathing back to normal again. No rowdy, provoking drunk deserves all of that and I'm sure Shavo's friend had no idea Brent would be banged up that badly. |
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Post by Matt4319 on Apr 30, 2009 9:38:44 GMT -5
The only song I've heard from Mastodon is that song that showed up in the opening of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. I don't even remember its name, but it kicked ass. I think I even charted it.
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Post by crash46 on Apr 30, 2009 9:43:35 GMT -5
With apologies to Mastodon for me hijacking their topic, since I am very interested it where they go next...the thing about 30 is that they had one highly accessible album following up one that was not so much at all. It also didn't help that Jared went from making every possible effort to conceal, or at least not use his real life identity during his debut album to whoring his name every chance he got (presumably under the influence of his label). Now, I love both of their albums very much and am as excited as anyone about their upcoming one, but that's two blaring reasons to dismiss their music before even hearing it. Because one album is more accessible than the other one and because they told people he was the lead singer, these are reasons to not give their music a shot? Cause I think those are some godawful reasons, to be honest. I should have said "two blaring excuses to dismiss their music". I don't like it anymore than you do, but I guarantee you, anytime someone says they hate the band, those two excuses--maybe privately to themselves--are on their mind. |
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Post by fran182 on Jun 4, 2009 15:25:12 GMT -5
Today, it reached top 40 on Mediabase Active:
44 40 MASTODON Oblivion 224 208 16 0.717
47 stations playing.
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Post by metalfan87 on Jun 4, 2009 15:27:30 GMT -5
ALL RIGHT! KEEP THOSE SPINS COMIN
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jun 5, 2009 22:33:22 GMT -5
I'm starting to dig this a lot more than "Colony Of Birchmen." Their metal single "Divinations" is also really good. I may have to consider looking into this album. We'll see if they can impress me consistently.
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Post by metalfan87 on Jun 9, 2009 16:26:53 GMT -5
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Post by metalfan87 on Sept 25, 2009 7:03:15 GMT -5
top 30 in Active
40 30 MASTODON Oblivion 291 233 58 0.66
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Post by jvandyck87 on Sept 25, 2009 11:38:08 GMT -5
^That's kinda ridiculous! This song has been bouncing around the upper 30s and lower 40s for months now. And then out of the blue, the song jumps up 10 spots to #30 when two weeks ago it looked like it was gonna fall off once and for all? Man, how many songs fell off this week for this to happen? It had to be a lot.
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Post by themule on Sept 25, 2009 11:41:42 GMT -5
Great song, from great band and great album. Probably their most accessable song. Pick up the album, you won't be disappointed. Also, if you like ahrder stuff, pick up Blood MOuntain. ANother awesome album with amazing musicianship.
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