Gojira

BBP - 28-10-2005 at 19:16

Anyone know the French band Gojira?

Pappawas1975 - 28-10-2005 at 19:19

No...but I know its Japanese for Godzilla.....What are they like?

BBP - 29-10-2005 at 16:14

Death metal... They're doing very well in France. They're described as "The new Morbid Angel, but better."

BBP - 29-10-2005 at 16:29

Just found their web-site:
http://www.gojira-music.com

Hope you speak French!

Pappawas1975 - 29-10-2005 at 18:18

No, dont speak French unfortunately......Love death Metal though....Old skool Death Metal anyway...

BBP - 29-10-2005 at 22:55

Which bands?

Pappawas1975 - 30-10-2005 at 21:41

Jesus....here goes - Autopsy, Death, Carcass, early Entombed, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Immolation, Massacre, Terrorizer, Repulsion, Impetigo, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, early Napalm Death, early Sepultura, Nocturnus, Dishamonic Orchestra, Master, Dismember, early Brutal Truth, Cynic, Atheist, Pestilence, Asphyx, Abscess, Anal Cunt, Cadaver, Carnage, Incantation.........theres loads...I like alot of Doom and Grindcore too.....

BBP - 31-10-2005 at 15:52

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Originally posted by Gojira1975
Jesus....here goes - Autopsy, Death, Carcass, early Entombed, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Immolation, Massacre, Terrorizer, Repulsion, Impetigo, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, early Napalm Death, early Sepultura, Nocturnus, Dishamonic Orchestra, Master, Dismember, early Brutal Truth, Cynic, Atheist, Pestilence, Asphyx, Abscess, Anal Cunt, Cadaver, Carnage, Incantation.........theres loads...I like alot of Doom and Grindcore too.....

:drool: Death! Carcass! Entombed! Morbid Angel! Massacre! Repulsion! Cannibal Corpse! Obituary! Early Napalm Death! Dismember! Atheist! Carnage!

Fancy a chat?

[Edited on 31-10-2005 by BBP]

Pappawas1975 - 1-11-2005 at 15:00

Absolutely!!!....Dont think your online at the moment though! Death Metal is not the same as it used to be....Just got back from seeing Motorhead, cant hear for shit and no one is on here.....

BBP - 1-11-2005 at 15:30

Let's see, your last post was written at 15.00 my time... How often do you come to this place?

Pappawas1975 - 1-11-2005 at 17:22

I come here pretty regular, most days.....Will no doubt bump into you at some point! I got a nightshift tonight, so wont be on until tmr......

BBP - 1-11-2005 at 18:36

Nightshift? Poor dear! What sort of work do you do then?

Pappawas1975 - 2-11-2005 at 10:16

I am a Security Officer at The Port Of Felixstowe......Very glamourous....I read alot of books and watch movies....

BBP - 2-11-2005 at 14:02

Mmm, exciting... I'm just a musicology student who delivers newspapers occasionally.

Pappawas1975 - 2-11-2005 at 14:05

Thats cool....I played in bands for 15 years prior to settling down with a proper job, so I guess I was a musicology student too in different ways....!!!

BBP - 2-11-2005 at 14:08

Really? You found time to put Roman numbers in Beethoven cadenza's?

Pappawas1975 - 2-11-2005 at 14:10

Ha!errr....no, not exactly.....Played drums in Metal bands though, thats kinda close???

BBP - 2-11-2005 at 14:13

Sadly, we never got any loser to metal than listening to Led Zep...
My pop music teacher did claim to be a Zappa-fan. She once read from RFZB in class.

Pappawas1975 - 2-11-2005 at 14:16

Thats pretty good going for a music teacher in a music class though, alot of teachers wouldnt venture beyong the lines of the curriculum, if u know what I mean?

BBP - 2-11-2005 at 14:25

Agree... though sometimes my music teachers amaze me, like my theory teacher (nice, but a bore to be taught by) when he said he saw Hendrix live and loved it. I'm now busy getting the 20th century classic man (a Cage fanatic) to help me with my Zappa-thesis.

Pappawas1975 - 2-11-2005 at 14:28

I have a couple of John Cage cds, and they are good, keep meaning to get into more....This week I bought a Conlon Nancarrow cd, which is very good, not a world apart from Zappas classical music actually....

BBP - 2-11-2005 at 14:29

Do you have Amores? I love Amores!
I'm more of a Berio-fan personally. And Saint-Saëns.

Pappawas1975 - 2-11-2005 at 14:31

No.........Havent Berio or Saint Saens either?

BBP - 2-11-2005 at 14:38

Berio is a recent composer, died in 2003, right after I'd adopted him as my favourite still living composer. I was broken stiff.
He's best known for Symfonia, a work with a very unusual atmosphere, fairy-tale like almost.

Saint-Saëns lived from 1835 to 1921, pianist, composer, childhood prodigy. Often considered archaic. Best known works are his 3rd symphony (Organ) which has been prominently placed in a film about a pig called Babe in the city.
Also well-known are his Danse Macabre (theme to Jonathan Creek) and the Dying Swan from Carnival of the Animals.

Pappawas1975 - 2-11-2005 at 14:41

Cool, thanks for the info.....My classical doesnt really stretch too far at the moment, namely Steve Reich, Cage, some Phillip Glass, John Zorn, Conlon Nancarrow, Tod Dockstader, Edgar Varese, Stravinsky and of course Zappa

BBP - 2-11-2005 at 14:43

Zorn is classified "Jazz" with us.

No Webern in your list? Webern is cool.

Pappawas1975 - 2-11-2005 at 14:48

Zorn is unclassifiable!! Thats why hes an absolute genius! For his clasical stuff, Angelus Novus, Rituals, Elegy, Magick and Masada String Trio albums, among others are well worth checking out.....But hes classical one release, then Hardcore for the next, then jazz, then this, then that....covers every damn thing...I do have some Webern actually, on a Pierre Boulez / Ensemble Intercontemperain cd.....Havent heard that in years though, so cant really comment...

BBP - 2-11-2005 at 14:57

We've just analysed Webern's piano variations last Thursday, picking out the series. I'm afraid I was the only one who liked them.

Same thing with listening to Varèse in class: there's always some bastards who can't keep their mouth shut.

Pappawas1975 - 2-11-2005 at 14:59

Thats maybe cos they just dont get it....Sounds like an interesting class though...

BBP - 2-11-2005 at 15:03

It was, it was. A year ago, we'd treated Webern's Concert in class (the very short bits of Klangfarbe), and the teacher we had then, was a total Webern freak. He played the same 40 second bit for seven times on end. "It gets better every time you hear it!"

Pappawas1975 - 2-11-2005 at 15:08

Ha! Sounds like fun.....

BBP - 2-11-2005 at 15:16

That guy was fantastic... He liked Zappa as well.

mutronboy - 19-11-2005 at 09:21

Hi BBP,

I like Webern...I like to try to blow up stereos with his funeral march
(I think he wrote that after his mother died)

I also like his earlier 'Passacaglia'...that's nice

I found a sheet of his music if you need a scan

It's 'Drei Kleine Stucke' OP.11

BBP - 19-11-2005 at 15:56

Thanks, but I have those already.
I agree with you on Passacaglia, it's one of my favourites.

BBP - 24-11-2005 at 17:18

Just got this little beauty...

Great stuff!

Pappawas1975 - 25-11-2005 at 09:58

Saw some of their stuff recently in London....didnt have the dough to buy it, but it wasnt until we were leaving that HMV in London have this great new system - To hear whatever album you want, you just go up to one of the listening posts, put the bar code over the senser and you can check out any cd before you buy. Pretty fucking good idea if you ask me! If Id had more time, I wouldve checked out alotta albums I think......

BBP - 25-11-2005 at 13:01

We've had that for years... Our local classical CD dealer has a listening corner with a very comfortable bank and free candy.

Puptent - 25-11-2005 at 15:11

Mediamarkt has that system as well. Pretty neat, but they only allow you to listen to 30 second samples, that doesn't really work well with 20+ minute compositions...

We don't have a decent record store in the town I live in, I buy most of my stuff online or go on a spending spree in Amsterdam. The only fairly decent record shop here doesn't even have a proper listening post, you even have to ask the guy behind the counter to skip to the next track.

Pappawas1975 - 25-11-2005 at 15:53

I very seldom go into those sort of places now either, apart from the stores in London, which are ridiculously massive, and when the local stores have sales on.......All my music shopping is done online......Hence those bar code readers being a novel shock....

BBP - 25-11-2005 at 16:19

...The only time I got a record on-line it was because it wasn't available in Dutch stores here yet. That was the sound track to the South Park Movie.

Either way, just listened to my Gojira CD again, reading along with the lyrics this time. Man those lyrics suck. Shame, spoils the music here and there. Though the words are unintelligible most the time.

Pappawas1975 - 25-11-2005 at 16:21

Are they the usual blood guts and gore, or ghosts ghouls and satan?

BBP - 25-11-2005 at 17:32

No, they're save the whales and stop global warming.

BBP - 26-11-2005 at 19:21

Global Warming

Four hundred thousend years ago
they came from outer space
and gave us life here
we are taking everything for granted
I don't think we should do this now
and when I see the smoke al around
I feel like I'm not
from humankind down there
I feel like glaciers are my eyes
and mountains are my head
my heart is my ocean
and I feel all alone
because everybody's wrong
I feel the living
what is this thing that we call hate
and that's inside of me
get out of here!

A world is down
and none can rebuild it
disabled lands are evolving
my eyes are shut, a vision is dying
my head explodes
and I fall in disgrace

I hold my inner child within
and tell him not to cry
"don't fear the living"
one day you will stand as king
and no fear can erase
this light below us
each one of us is now engaged
this secret we all have
this truth is growing
and as a warrior I have to fight
I can already feel
the love I'll discover

I had this dream, our planet surviving
the guiding stars always growin
and all the worlds
the fates all the countries
they're all rebuilding at the same time
I never fell and always believed in
we could evolve and get older
open your eyes and let all this flow
now see a new hope is growing inside

we will see our children growing

Pappawas1975 - 26-11-2005 at 20:15

Oh my god, a Death Metal band singing about saving the world?....eeewww...Well, I guess they are French after all....

BBP - 26-11-2005 at 23:11

Hahaha!

Some of it is fantasy dragon-slaying though.

Pappawas1975 - 26-11-2005 at 23:15

Oh, that makes them cool again then!

BBP - 26-11-2005 at 23:25

Their music's OK, really... did I post http://www.gojira-music.com yet?

Pappawas1975 - 26-11-2005 at 23:31

No, but you have now! Nice one....

BBP - 26-11-2005 at 23:32

I did... check the first page!

Pappawas1975 - 26-11-2005 at 23:40

Pretty cool...Ill have to check their music out....

aquagoat - 15-3-2006 at 09:58

Glad you "advertise" some french band BB, Gojira's a cool band, I'm astonished Gojira1975 doesn't know this one. The guys are really cool, I met them before they released their first record-cause a friend of mine coming form the same region knew them well-and we had a few drinks after the show. I had a cassette of the preproduction demo of their first album, it sounded a bit rawer and brutal then than the final result. You would have liked it Goji.

I know you bought their last record BB does it sound the same as "the link" or "terra incognita" ?

P.s.: if you like that band, check out Carnival in Coal, it's very good too.

[Edited on 15-3-2006 by aquabot]

BBP - 15-3-2006 at 14:04

I don't have "the link" or "Terra Incognita", sorry. Just From Mars To Sirius, which is very enjoyable, if you're not reading along with the lyrics. Thanks for the tip!

You met Gojira? Wow!

aquagoat - 15-3-2006 at 20:17

Yes, but they were "nobody" at that time. Now it would be a bit more difficult.

I've just listened to a few excerpts of "From Mars to Sirius" and they sound akin to "The link" more than to "Terra incognita". Even though we can still hear Morbid angel's influence sometimes.

[Edited on 16-3-2006 by aquabot]