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Soundgarden - Blow Up The Outside World

The progressive/metal/whatever band "3" has fantastic acoustic guitar. Here's a sample

same thing happened with me. It's one of my favorites now.

These are always great

What do you make of the title "Hours of Wealth" then?

I believe he plays a 12 gauge string...that is, if that what "Takamine 12 String" means. Got the info from Wiki.

How do you guys interpret Hours of Wealth? Do you see it being depressing or uplifting? I think Mikael left it ambiguous on purpose, so I'm not expecting a "right" answer, but I'm more curious on peoples opinions. Here's is my take on the song. I think this song is about escape. An escape...

Porcupine Tree - Stars Die

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by the Smashing Pumpkins. Brutality, hate, love, and bliss all bound schizophrenically together in this package. I think it does a find job matching up with my own rollercoster of emotions, along with being melodramatic at times (see album title). It would...

I don't care about artwork at all. I don't even mentally process the art on the things I own. It's all about the music to me. It's not that I dislike the artwork, It's just that I'm more concerned about the music. I think a lot of people (Steven and Mikael in this case) have a lot of nostalgia...

Gojira - Dawn

Not only did you completely miss the point on what I said (Music device being artificial? what?), but you also dissed Steven! I'm not quite sure how much you could have failed at that post. If you have been to any live PT shows, which obviously you haven't, you would know Steven can sing...

King Crimson - Happy Family

The brand and musical device is irrelevant. Read my post up above.

It's not the ipod Steven discourages...it's the people that don't fully digest any of their music. The ipod is good symbolism of this because of the "Ipod Shuffle" and the robot-like mentality that results from this. Also related to that, it symbolizes the download culture, where full cds (or...