lets start it off right! Listening Post!

[tinobeat]

V/A - Pop Ambient 2003 LP [Kompakt]
Soltero - Defrocked and Kicking the Habit CD [Handsome]
Out Hud / !!! - split 12" [Zum/GSL]
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle LP [CBS]
Ghost - Snuffbox Immanence LP [Drag City]

[otto midnight]

on the home front:

ko & the knockouts- S/T LP [sftri]
von bondies- lack of communication LP [sftri]

on the el:
parliament- chocolate city cd [casablanca]
guided by voices- alien lanes cd [matador]

[gygax]

over the last week

caetano veloso - 7xCD box set
descendents - enjoy!
otomo yoshide - dreams
ichi the killer OST - karera musication (boredoms - eYe)

that's all...

[hstencil]

Love, Forever Changes + some extra stuff from Revisited CDR

Looking forward to hearing these bad boys later:

AMM, To Hear and Back Again (Matchless, MR3) LP
Philip Corner, Pictures of Pictures from Pictures of Pictures (Edition Block, EB 106) LP
Iancu Dumitrescu, Nimbus/Zenith (Generation Unlimited, GU-LP 1005) LP
Brigitte Fontaine/Areski avec Art Ensemble of Chicago, Comme a la Radio (Saravah, SH 10.006) LP
Mauricio Kagel, 1898 (Deutsche Grammophon, 2543 007) LP

and the Paul Pena LP on Capitol I picked up yesterday. Can't beat folk/funk played by a blind guy!

[el maury]

Today at work:

Cat Power--What Would the Community Think?
Frank Black--Black Letter Days
Pavement--Luxe and Redux disc 2
GBV--Tigerbomb, Forever Since Breakfast, Pipe DOIPW
Interpol--TOTBL
Monkees--Headquarters
Loverboy--Get Lucky

[RockAction]

Starlet - Stay On My Side
Sea And Cake - One Bedroom
Iron And Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle
Cat Power - You Are Free

[ophelia]

past two weeks:

Cat Power - you are free, what would the community think, the covers record, live shows/boots

Tegan and Sara - if it was you, under feet like ours, unreleased stuff, live shows/boots, and highschool demos

today:

cover version of the Prince song "when you were mine" by Sara Quin - recorded in her bedroom. check it out at: www.teganandsara.org

[Paul]

Are Tegan & Sara popular in Canada? Because no one knows who they are here in the States.

I like the new album, though. Sometimes, they ever so slightly remind me of the Hersh/Donnelly combination from Throwing Muses.

[ophelia]

hey paul, tegan and sara are popular in canada. but not stupid popular like avril lavigne, they've been playing a lot all around the country for about 4 years, so they have slowly built up a strong and devoted fan base. these days they sell out many of their shows. i wouldn't say they are that popular in the states, but i would have to disagree with you that no one knows who they are. they just did a tour of the west coast and they've been getting great turn outs. glad you like 'em though.

[Paul]

The Ex - Joggers and Smoggers 2CD
Boom Bip - Seed to Sun
Crooked Fingers - Red Devil Dawn
adult. - Resuscitation
Soviet - We Are Eyes, We Are Builders
Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost
Roger Eno and Kate St. John - The Familiar

[bitterfruit]

El-P - Fantastic Damage
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Sigur Ros - ( )
Ladytron - Light and Magic
John Vanderslice - Life and Death of an American Fourtracker
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot demos
Lambs to Slaughter - various

[DefenderOfPants]

hefner - broodmare
magnetic fields - the luckiest guy on the lower east side
stephen malkmus - open and shut cases
hefner - girl from the coast
the smiths - please, help the cause against lonliness

[anagrama]

Failure - Fantastic Planet
Blinker the Star - August Everywhere
Prodigy - Music for a Jilted Generation

[Michael]

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Dylan - Bootleg Series Vol 2
The Magnetic Fields - Charm of the Highway Strip
Get Lost

I've had those on for about a month or more, and not much else.

[Michael]

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Dylan - Bootleg Series Vol 2
The Magnetic Fields - Charm of the Highway Strip
Get Lost

I've had those on for about a month or more, and not much else.

[Ladt]

Tobin Sprout - Carnival Boy
Let's welcome the circus people (eargerly awaiting the new release)
Flaming Lips- Yoshimi battles......
Leafeater- Transit Days
Airport 5- Life starts here
Badly Drawn Boy- Have you fed the fish?

[chabysinisterra]

liars - they threw us all in a trench...
destroyer - this night
neko case - blacklisted
joy division - les bains douches
duke ellington & john coltrane
glenn gould - goldberg variations

[Michael]

hey chaby which of the two Gould records of the Goldberg Variations do you have? Is it the second, slower tempo one that's superior by far to the first, when he was younger and not in quite so much pain? I left mine in a house in Dublin and never saw it again (my friend's mother fell in love with it).

[chabysinisterra]

hey michael,

i've got the 1981 session, the cbs recording.

[Michael]

yeah, that's the one.

[johansen smith]

Will Oldham Joya
Pretty Girls Make Graves Good Health
Smittin CDR
Papa M Whatever, Mortal
Yo La Tengo the Sounds of the Sounds of Science
Songs: Ohia Protection Spells
the Microphones Mt. Eerie

[Patrick]

Sitting on the top of a very precarious stack at the office:

V/A - Hava Narghile - Turkish Rock Music 1966 to 1975
Cat Power - You Are Free
Shivvers - Til the Word Gets Out
V/A - Fading Yellow 3
Public Nuisance - Gotta Survive
V/A - Fading Yellow 1
Wire - Read & Burn 02
Träd Gräs och Stenar - Djungelns Lag
New Pornographers - TBA

Patrick

[Salman]

Patrick, how's the New Pornographers album? Similar to "Mass Romantic"? Any idea when the release date is for it?

Smog - "Burning Kingdom"
The Amps - "Pacer"
Maow - "Unforgiving Sounds of Maow"
Built to Spill - "There's Nothing Wrong With Love"
The Walkmen - "Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone"
Neutral Milk Hotel - "On Avery Island"

[Patrick]

Re: New Pornographers. It's fantastic. It's also got a lot of depth, so I haven't made up my mind as to whether or not it's better than "Mass Romantic". Much better recorded though.

Release date: we're aiming for May 6.

Patrick

[Squall91]

Alice In Chains - Dirt
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Massive Attack - 100th Window (*winks*)
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica

[Noah]

Im digging:

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi and Soft Bulletein . these two never get old.

Charlie Patton - King of the Delta Blues

Noise For Pretend - Happy You Near

John Fahey - Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

Bukka White LP - Sky Songs Vo. 1

Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World

Geoff Muldaur - Theme Song To Brazil

[delgado]

morgan caney & kamal joory-magic radios
richard buckner-s/t ("jewelbomb")!!
to rococo rot-the amateur view
comsat angels-sleep no more
smiths-hatful of hollow ("back to the old house")
e*vax-"glacier"

[dthomas]

hhmmm?

Part Chimp - Chart Pimp
Pavement - Pacific Trim 7"
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Dead Meadow - Howls From The Hills
Papa M - Papa M Sings

Has anybody heard the new Mountain Goats record? Is it worth getting?

[delgado]

hi-fi...lo-fi...i like the mtn goats any-fi!

+ the new album is fantastic.

[soot]

me likey...

Boas- Mansion
Crooked Fingers-Red Devil Dawn
Bob Dylan- Live 1975
The Kinks- Village Geen Preservation Society
Delgados-Hate

[Dave]

Jefferson Airplane "After Bathing At Baxters"
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments "Bait & Switch"
The Speaking Canaries "Last Type"
Träd Gräs & Stenar "Djungelns Lag" & "Mors Mors"
Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves "Drive It Like You Stole It"
Ruth Copeland "I Am What I Am"
ESG "Step Off"
Bo Diddley

[Paul]

Or, more specifcally, the Onion label imprint. Why did it fold so quickly? There wasn't a single bad album released during its run. V3 (although, I know why they're gone), TJSA, Stiffs Inc., etc.

What happened to Stiffs Inc. anyway?

[Dave]

I'm not going to pretend that I know the specifics, but the logistics of trying to run a label w/such low sales through major label distribution channels is tough. TJSA and V3 were fantastic, The Electric Company record was great. I don't know if the Stiffs ever really delivered the goods, but maybe I was just caught up w/their 1900's house styles too much to pay real attention to the music. I used to see that guy walking around, but haven't seen him in a year or two.
Dave

[pabost]

glad the board is back up. Good to see all the old posters (paul, johansen, tinobeat, etc...) sticking it out.

Just drove from Nashville to L.A. and here were the highlights:

Handcream for a Generation - Cornershop (crossing the mighty Mississippi)
Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol (under the dark New Mexican sky)

The other records were good, but those seemed to be perfect in those situations. Once again, glad the board is back up and hope everyone is doing well.

[Paul]

Did you move back to Cali? We never got to grab a cup'a joe or anything.

Drag...

[tinobeat]

Acid Mothers Temple - La Novia CD
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun CD
Boredoms - Super AE CD
The Warlocks - The Phoenix Album LP
Scene Creamers - I Suck On That Emotion LP
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come LP

paul, I just got that Warlocks LP. I should have gotten it right when you started going on about it, because its a killer. It would have made my year-end of last year had I known...

Those Boredoms CDs are just awesome too.. I've been on something of a kick lately...

[Paul]

Currently in rotation:

The Sound - Jeopardy (re-issue)
Madder Rose - Panic On
Calla - Televise
Kinski - Airs Above Your Station
Jack Logan - Bulk

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Today, so far:

Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking
Kommunity FK The Vision and the Voice
Sparks Big Beat
Revelation Salvation's Answer
The Flesh Eaters Live

[Tegid_Dung]

For the past couple of days,

Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To
Serge Gainsbourg - Comic Strip
Mantronix - The Album
The Warlocks - Phoenix Album
Monks - Black Monk Time
Stereolab - Emporer Tomato Ketchup.

[einzack]

ah...an oldie but a goodie...

here at school:
cat power - you are free
isis - oceanic
throwing muses - throwing muses
the black heart procession - the new one
heavens to betsy - various
mogwai - live in toronto 2002
breeders - live in detroit 2002

[D.A.R.Y.L.]

derek & clive <come again>
destroyer <this night>
the.boredoms <michidai 7'' b/w Fuanteidai>
ELO <discovery>
kraftwerk <radio-activity>
cornelius <fantasma>
britt.daniels/bright.eyes <HOME: The Post-Parlo Split Vol. IV>
postal.service <such great heights>
the.hi-los <kuroina kokoro>

tinobeat: want to get better acquainted with the Boredoms' catalog? if so, I highly recommend the following:

chocolate synthesizer.
super roots 5-7.
'90 Bulls vs. Trailblazers, NBA Champ., Game 3--dynamite fucking game!
pop tatari
(& the aforementioned).
less EYE-minimalism, more yoshimi (of recent FLips acclaim)-experimentation.

whet your whistle, earn your letter jacket.

[tinobeat]

I do indeed want to get better acquainted...

I'm guessing the Super Roots are the next step. now I just need to find them for less than $30...

speaking of which, I just recently realized that the new Black Dice album which I like a lot sounds exactly like the Boredoms with less drums.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Here's a huge Boredoms discography (http://www.ottawa-anime.org/~eyevocal/boredoms/boredisc.htm). BTW, Super Roots 5 is one fifty-minute high volume, ambient "trance" number, Super Roots 6 is mostly quiet, noodly electronic stuff and Super Roots 7 is a 24 minute "cover" of a Mekons song plus two short remixes. I like all three but 5 & 6 are hardly representative of the general Boredoms sound over the years. I'd recommend checking out the "regular" releases first.

[dekone]

Ikara Colt:Chat And Business
The Human League:Travelogue remaster
Zwan:Mary Star Of The Sea
Groove Armada:Lovebox
Signal & Report:No New Rome To Burn
The Human League:Reproduction remaster
Supergrass:Life On Other Planets
Common:Electric Circus
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives:Behind The Music
The Future & The Human League:The Golden Hour Of The Future


silence is a rhythm too (http://www.geocities.com/mss_35/TheRezidence.html)

[Ladt]

Hey, what's the Zwan record like?

[Paul]

Better than I thought it would be, but still no masterpiece. It sounds like the next logical move had Smashing Pumpkins never released anything after Siamese Dream.

[dekone]

Originally posted by Ladt
Hey, what's the Zwan record like?

I really like it.It's way scruffier sounding than I thought it would be.It reminds me of the Pumpkins circa Gish, but it's sounds a lot looser and jangly than they ever did.It seems to me like maybe Billy's gotten over himself and decided to just have fun.There's lots of big 70's rockers, a few mellower tracks, some nice psychedelic bits, and I even hear a bit of that New Order influence too.


-®- (http://www.geocities.com/mss_35/TheRezidence.html)

[Ladt]

I'd be interested to hear that. Never was a massive fan, but I really liked some of their singles, and their greatest hits was a very good album.

[Paul]

I racked up a modest bounty of early 90's britpop and mid 90's stuff the other night for roughly 50 cents a piece.

Trash Can Sinatras - A Happy Pocket
Ian McCullough - Candleland
Ian McCullough - Mysterio
The Primitives - Pure
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - Greatest Hits
Wire - 1985-1990: The A List
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Brainbloodvolume
White Town - Women in Technology
The House of Love - s/t (butterfly album)
Boyracer - In Full Colour
OP8 featuring Lisa Germano - Slush

Yeah, nothing revolutionary, but well worth spending $6 on.

[johansen smith]

Girl's Guitar Club live 10 21 00
Joe Pernice Big Tobacco
SM + the Jicks Pig Lib
a Silver Mount Zion Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward

[dekone]

Originally posted by Paul

The Primitives - Pure



What a fun record...I was just listening to it about a month ago and had forgotten how great some of those singles were.

[Arkady]

Mogwai - Young Team/CODY/Rock Action
Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
The Wrens - Secaucus
Television - Marquee Moon
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Pulp - We Love Life
Sonic Youth - Dirty

[tinobeat]

French Kicks - One Time Bells CD
why is everyone soiling themselves over the walkmen and completely overlooking their sister band, the French Kicks? I think the Walkmen are amazing, but One Time Bells definitely wins over Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone. A far far more solid record.

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Safe As Milk CD
awesomer than awesome

Golden - Summer LP
wave yr guitar in the air, and rock out like you just don't care...

Capitol K - Pillow 12"
one of the best pop songs I've ever heard. redefines "infectious."

Lilys/Aspera Ad Astra - split LP
a necessity, without question.

The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight ... etc. 3LP
thank you, Matador, for introducing me to the joys of this album (and more).

The Make Up - I Want Some CD
The Make Up - Save Yourself CD
forget everyone who talks shit about the Make Up, saying they were all fashion and supposed rhetoric. That band knew how to rock out with the best of them, and the little mod boys and girls strutting around these days wither in their shadow. Save Yourself is one of the best albums I own, through and through.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

A pretty full day today:

Very Pleasant Neighbor The Boy with Only One Head (now known as VPN)
Yes Yes (new remaster bonus tracks, actually)
Motörhead Hammered
Fraser & deBolt Fraser & deBolt (with Ian Guenther)
Fraser & deBolt With Pleasure
Jimi Hendrix Jimi Plays Berkeley
The Fall Extricate
Tom Jones Mr. Jones (hated it at first but it's growing on me)

[RockAction]

one of the best pop songs I've ever heard. redefines "infectious. (Capitol K's Pillow)"

at one point i thought too it was the catchiest song ever...
and with a cool video

[t.d.]

The V-Roys- All About Town
Nada Surf- Let Go
Holopaw- Holopaw
Built To Spill- There Is Nothing Wrong With Love
Superdrag- Headtrip In Every Key

[Buddy B]

The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Sleater Kinney- Call the Doctor
Richard Hell- Time
The Birthday Party- Hits
The Burnside Project- The Networks, The Circuts, The Streams, The Harmonies

[jef]

the Clean - Anthology

Hasil Adkins - Out to Hunch

Savage Republic - Ceremonial & Trudge

Felt - Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty/The Splendour of Fear

Robert Pollard - Waved Out

John Prine - Diamonds in the Rough

Black Flag - thr process of weeding out

[stewrat]

stiff records box set
The Sheila Devine
GBV Universal ...
Soft Boys - Nextdoorland

[delgado]

day spent snowed in on the northeast...

whit dickey quartet-big top
john coltrane-my favorite things
trad gras och stenar-djunglens lag
richard buckner-s/t
richard buckner-impasse
jim o'rourke-insignificance
brian eno-before and after science
sisters of mercy-floodland
gene clark-echoes
edith frost-wonder wonder
f.s. blumm-mondkuchen
cocteau twins-victorialand
lali puna-tricoder
senking-silencer
susanne brokesch-sharing the sunhat

[beekeeper]

Portishead==Roseland NYC Live
Olivia Tremor Control==Singles and Beyond
Television==Marquee Moon
Wings==Band on the Run
Sonic Youth==Washing Machine

[tinobeat]

That Olivia singes comp is superb. I borrowed a friend's copy and have had it for a long time now.. I don't know if he's gonna get it back.

the stack:
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle CD
this is nice enough, but i really don't get the hype. I like it, but its not doing huge amounts for me

Acid Mothers Temple - Electric Heavyland CD
aaaaah! aaaah! eeeeek! aaaah!

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Safe As Milk CD
still can't stop listening to this. eeeeeeelectriciteeeeeeeeee!

Greg Weeks - Awake Like Sleep CD
gorgeous. and awesome cover artwork to boot!

Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes LP
yeah...

V/A - In The Beginning There Was Rhythm 2LP
Soul Jazz will never fail at putting out a brilliant comp, I guess.

[Paul]

I have the same opinion of the Iron & Wine disc -- it's pleasant, but nothing to write home about. But curiously, I can't stop listening to it...

Genesis - Archive 1967-1975 4CD
Checked this out of the library, and, to my dismay, it mostly consists of live material. Worth hearing but not buying.

Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material CD
I bought this on the cheap about 2 months ago, but really only started listening to it this week. Why they aren't regularly mentioned alongside names like The Clash and The Damned remains a mystery.

Loose Fur - s/t CD
Everything Yankee Hotel Foxtrot should have been, but wasn't.

The Undertones - Best Of CD
New Order - 20 Years of New Order CD (promo)
Mirwais - Production CD (now I know where the song in the Victoria's Secret commercial came from -- anxious to hear more of his work on the new Madonna record.)

[Patrick]

Paul, you may be well aware of this, but everything the Undertones did was pure fucking pop-punk genius. Their first album is solidly great. I love the other three too.

Formative music for me.

Patrick

[Paul]

The cd I have is some promotional best of that Ryko threw together in the early 90's to coincide with the rerelease of all their albums. It's got 25 tracks total, drawing most heavily from the first two records. I pull it out and listen to it from time to time, and always wonder why I don't listen to it more often.

Good stuff.

[Arkady]

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Aereogramme - Sleep and Release
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Kronos Quartet - self-titled/various composers
The Notwist - Neon Golden (this won't leave my player for long)

[anagrama]

Massive Attack - 100th Window
Sianspheric - Sound of the Colour of the Sun
Folk Implosion - One Part Lullaby
Mudhoney - Since We've Become Translucent
Sloan - Four Nights at the Palais Royale
Moneen - Theory of Harmonial Value

[Dave]

Scene Creamers I Suck On That Emotion
Weird War - In a Scene Creamers frenzy I went back to this too.
Fire The Magic Shoemaker Ludicriss concept album about magic shoes that make you fly.
Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves Drive It Like You Stole It
Howe Home (Gelb) The Listener
Dirty Three She Has No Strings Apollo

[tinobeat]

whats your take on these? The scene creamers LP made me go back to the weird war LP as well, and it ade me realize how badass the WW is. But then again, Hagerty is almost always a badass and has that midas touch... most of the time. but definitely on the weird war.

The Scene Creamers is growing slowly but surely, but I'm still not sure about it. I miss the Make Up a lot, though.

[Dave]

for the most part I ignored the Make Up and now I feel the need to go back and hear all that stuff. I am super damaged on this Scene Creamers record though. I even had a dream w/them in it last night and woke up singing the first song on the record, "Better All The Time."
Dave
PS You are right, Neil Haggerty is always bad ass

[otto midnight]

on the home front:

detroit cobras- love, life, and leaving
not sure what i was expecting when i ordered this but what i got was far from it. after a couple of spins it's grown on me, the last four tracks of side 2 especially.

dirtbombs- ultraglide in black
the urgency of the living for the city cover gets me every time. mick collins can do little wrong in my eyes. although if he put his mind to it i'm sure he could.

in my ears on the el:
butterglory- crumble
i'd thought i lost this disc but i found it this morning about 2 minutes before i walked out the door so i brought it with me. i still like songs that are minimal without being sparse.

bob dylan and the rolling thunder review- bootleg series vol. 5
i bought this in a fit of uber-consumerism, spending money like i have it but it's not bad. probably would've liked it better a few years ago when my lifestyle was less law-abiding. the opening track of tonight i'll be staying here with you is amazing. totally different from the nashville skyline version as far as arrangement and lyrics for the verses go but a killer tune all the same. so good it made me forget that i wasn't wearing a hat walking to work this morning.

[hstencil]

Brigitte Fontaine/Areski avec Art Ensemble of Chicago, Comme a la Radio (Saravah, SH 10.006) LP
Art Ensemble of Chicago, Kabalaba (AECO, 004) LP
Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets (Island, ILPS 9268) LP
Laddio Bolocko, Strange Warmings of... (Hungarian, no number) CD
Musica Elettronica Viva, Leave the City (BYG/Actuel, 529.335/35) LP
No Neck Blues Band, Ever Borneo (SERES, SER-201) LP +7"
Jim O'Rourke, Eureka (Drag City, dc 162) LP
Pavement, Terror Twilight (Matador, OLE 260-2) CD
Pearls Before Swine, Balaklava (ESP-Disk, ESP-1075) LP
Ray Russell, Secret Asylum (Black Lion/Intercord, 28 456-2 U) LP
Trad Gras och Stenar, Mors Mors (1/2 Special Skivor & Trams, HALV 2-2) CD

Can anybody tell me more about the Trad Gras och Stenar reissues? Picked up Mors Mors last Friday, am really digging it.

[Jesper]

I'm very psyched to see people getting into Träd Gräs och Stenar!!

These two records, Djungelns Lag ("law of the jungle") and Mors Mors ("bye bye") were the last two albums the band released, and the only two released by the band itself, the label was called Tall (that''s the Swedish word for 'pine') and these two records completes the Tall output. - I could go on and on about the greatness of this band and their place in musical history and the climate of Swedish rock-in-opposition and psychedelic music during the late 60's/early 70's but it's probably more intersting to hear it straight from the source... below is the TGS drummer on the band. for more information check out www.tgs.nu - there is plenty of stuff in English on that site.

If you need to invest in more records by this band, the Festen På Gärdet 1970 CD is stunning - all live, one concert, outdoors, very freeee... also, the two Harvester albums are available on CD as well - both are essential. The pre-Harvester band Pärson Sound can be heard on the Pärson Sound DBL CD - you'll need that as well, but it's defintely more experimental, less rock... - the only not-100%-essential album is the first self-titled album, "the green one", it's mostly studio stuff, and it sounds a bit stiff and dry - it was live that this band really could fly.... also the "Rock För Kropp och Själ" ("rock for body and soul") LP is not available on CD yet - but has a mindblowing title track (takes up a whole side of the LP), so whenever that gets reissued you'd wanna pick that up too.
JE

Träd, Gräs och Stenar (Trees, Grass and Stones),
once upon the time also
Pärson Sound/International Harvester

by Thomas Mera Gartz

The Bo-Anders Persson band Pärson Sound (1967-68) created a kind of minimalistic rock music circulating around small melody cells repeated over and over again, very long tunes, faster late parts, like some kind of rock ragas. Bo-Anders played the guitar, Torbjörn Abelli bass, Thomas Tidholm flute and soprano saxophone and was reciting words in a reverb unit. Arne Ericsson played a strange home made electric cello with resonance strings (and later with TG&S on electric clavinett). Urban Yman electric violin. All electric instruments and mikes went through the same valve amplifier of a home made PA consisting of four "round radiating" speakers, which created a tremendous dispersion and power to the sound. In that time this was a very loud group. I played the drums, which Bengt Beche Berger also did, and sometimes we did it together.

International Harvester (1968-69). New name for the group. Involved in the new counter culture movement that were growing these years. Often free music, for the sake of the cause, and out door. Radio, television. Music for the film "Misshandlingen (The Manhandle)". Support act to The Doors at Stockholm Concert House. 2 LP-records: International Harvester "Sov gott Rose-Marie (Sleep Well Rose-Marie)" (Love Records) and Harvester "Hemåt (Homeward)" (Decibel Records).

1969-1972. Träd, Gräs och Stenar. New name for the remain of International Harvester. Thomas Tidholm and Urban Yman both quit. During 1971 Jakob Sjöholm joined on guitar, later Arne Ericsson quit and Sten Bergman took over the elec. piano function. Long tours in Scandinavia, mostly outside the established channels. "Outlaws" who searched for their audience by fans creating gigs in their own small cities and villages. We were trying to create a free and co-creating situation though the music, dance, light show of slides and film, serving food and letting people play on instruments we brought with us. We were participating in actions people did to change their common situation. We lived like our audience. More - "you are the music, we are just the band", the "Spela Själv (Play it your self)" movement. Also meaning "Folkets musik (Music of The People)" (organize your selves - people power). We tried to encourage fans to create their own music meetings, music places.
Together with others we created the first big free outdoor music festivals in Sweden known as Gärdesfesterna 1970 .
1969 Music for the film "Du gamla du fria" by Öyvind Fahlström.
Some records:
1970 "Träd, Gräs och Stenar" (Decibel Records).
1971-72. "Rock för kropp och själ (Rock For Body and Soul)" (Silence Records) and "Djungelns Lag (The Law of The Jungle)" (Tall)
An afterburner 1973: "Mors mors (Bye Bye)" (Tall).

Since then the band have reunited itself several times, first 1979 for a big concert series against nuclear power plants.
1981 in the era of punk for some tours around Sweden, with Thomas Tidholm back, under the name T. GåS (a play with the TG&S characters meaning T Goose)
1995 the band reunion again and we are still playing. We make some concerts every year, some big, some small. We are not a museum of some lost times, the music are really alive when it happens.

[hstencil]

I've got the Parson Sound double, that's what's been prompting me getting into the other stuff. Hopefully I'll win the Harvester "Sov Gott Rose-Marie" LP I'm bidding on!

[Dave]

They all have bonus tracks that are essential so even if you score an original LP, or even an 80's repressing you still pretty much need to pick up the CDs.
Dave

[jef]

the Zombies - best of

Wipers - Youth of America

New Model Army - My best of NMA mix cd

Curtis Mayfield - Anthology

[dekone]

Massive Attack:100th Window
Alpinestars:B.A.S.I.C.
Erlend Øye:Unrest
Funki Porcini:Fast Asleep
DJ Krush:Shinsou: The Message At The Depth


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[pabost]

At the office:

Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
The Byrds - Younger than Yesterday
Teenage Fanclub - Howdy

Ladt - did you ever pick up the first Fountains of Wayne? If so, how do you think it compares to the second?

[yovan]

Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi...."
GZA - "Legend/Liquid Sword"
Spoon - "Series of Sneaks"

[Ladt]

Hi Pabost (Saw Teenage Fanclub on tuesday by the way, was really good although I had to leave early and still missed the train, damn British Rail). I haven't picked up the first FOW album yet, as I haven't actually been able to find it in any shops round my way, but I'll continue looking for it. May have to get it online.
While I'm here, I'm still listening to Tobin Sprout loads, in anticipation for the new album.

[jef]

"Saw Teenage Fanclub on tuesday by the way"

You lucky Dog you

[jef]

Tristeza - Macrame 7"

Tom Verlaine - s/t

the Jam - In the City

Gram Parsons - Anthology

Lets Active - Cypress

[johansen smith]

Sarah Shannon s/t
the White Stripes Elephant (vinyl)
Scud Mountain Boys the Early Year

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Not much so far today:

CINdYTALK Wappinschaw
House of Large Sizes House of Large Sizes
Angizia Das Tagebuch der Hanna Anikin
Julian Cope My Nation Underground
Television Personalities They Could Have Been Bigger than The Beatles

[blanca]

How does that cd sound in comparison to pernice bros music - is it very similar?

[tinobeat]

its a lot less orchestrated and poppy, much more stripped down and sad. stuff that's at once the best music to do shots alone to or the last thing you want to hear when your lady/guy has left you and you want to kill yourself.

in other words, beautiful stuff...

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by tinobeat
its a lot less orchestrated and poppy, much more stripped down and sad. stuff that's at once the best music to do shots alone to or the last thing you want to hear when your lady/guy has left you and you want to kill yourself.

in other words, beautiful stuff...

it's more country-infused as well. great for depressed nights.

[blanca]

i.e. perfect for my valentine's day - thanks boys!

[bitterfruit]

Destroyer - This Night
YLT - President Yo La Tengo / New Wave Hot Dogs
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Vol. 2
John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
Smt. MS Subbalakshmi - Golden Collection - Vol. 1

[Paul]

Originally posted by johansen smith

the White Stripes Elephant (vinyl)

Wow, johansen. I assume that means you have an actual copy, huh? I hope it was sent to you and you didn't buy it on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2505914213&category=22666).

[johansen smith]

holy Jeez, as much as I love the Stripes, I just might have to sell my copy if it really brings in over $200!

[Paul]

The way I see it, you have a 2 month window of opportunity before the actual release -- the price will take a sharp tumble once it's commercially available.

The eBay motto? A fool and his money shall soon part.

[earl grey]

Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Stereolab - ABC Music
Tindersticks - Nenette et Boni soundtrack
Metro Area - s/t
V/A - Clicks and Cuts 2

[pabost]

earl grey - how's the Metro Area album? I'm not a huge dance fan or expert, but I know what I like (i.e. Matmos, Basement Jaxx, Kid 606, Playgroup). Will I dig it?

[Paul]

If you like the Playgroup album, chances are good you'll dig Metro Area (or at least some of it). I think some songs drift into elevator disco mode without them realizing it.

[D.A.R.Y.L.]

what came before after...sonic boom
make-up & soldier...tujiko noriko
meadowlands...the wrens
holopaw...holopaw
have twangy guitar will travel...duane eddy
neu!2...neu!
series of sneaks...spoon
burning blue soul...the the
rise & fall...the warlocks

[earl grey]

pabost - just started listening to metro area, but i am into them so far. not quite as adventureous as matmos, certainly not kid 606 ... they're much more straightforward with lots of old R+B/funk/disco references - mellow but dancy, and they add an edge to it. nothing groundbreaking, but definitely cool. just my early take on it, but i recommend it.....

[Salman]

Neko Case and Her Boyfriends - "The Virginian"
Lou Barlow and Friends - "Another Collection of Home Recordings"
Songs: Ohia - "Ghost Tropic"
Hayden - "Everything I Long For"
Mirah - "You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This"
Solex - "Pick Up"

[dekone]

Electric Six:Danger! High Voltage
Public Enemy:Fear Of A Black Planet
Les Negresses Vertes:Trabendo
The Time:What Time Is It?
Queens Of The Stone Age:Songs For The Deaf


Metro Area in heavy rotation (http://www.geocities.com/mss_35/heavy.html)

[rmcphedr]

Cat Power - 'You Are Free' (Streaming)
Calexico - 'Crumble' & 'Woven Birds'
Nas - 'It Ain't Hard To Tell'
Machine Translations - 'Amnesia'

Erm. Cannae think of any others right about now.

Oh, and watching:
The Cricket World Cup

[Paul]

Camper Van Beethoven - 'Tusk' 2CD (brilliant Fleetwood Mac album covered in its entirity by CVB -- excellent)
The Warlocks - 'The Phoenix Album' CD (Mark Maritelli can pucker up and kiss my butt)
Broken Social Scene - 'You Forgot It In People' (not the easiest cd to get ahold of, but worth the effort)
The Oranges Band - 'On TV' (band I'm most looking forward to hearing a full-length release from)
The Bevis Frond - 'What Did For the Dinosaurs' (been waiting for Nick to kick it up to this notch for years)

and yes, I'm unashamed of this next selection, I'm separating it from the rest of the list in order to amplify its presence...

Ratt - 'Dancing Undercover' (found this on cd cheap, and have been listening to "Slip of the Lip" ad nauseam all day long)

[tinobeat]

Ted Leo & Rx/Pharmacists - Hearts Of Oak LP (as posted elsewhere, a killer)
Shopping - Civil War Generals CDR (some friends of mine, really great stuff)

live listening:
The Rapture & Out Hud downstairs at the Middle East. Rapture were fantastic. Shockingly without affect (I expected full on Interpol-level fashionistas), a genuinely fun time, as opposed to Out Hud. I guess they were called in late as LCD soundsystem cancelled, so they had no drummer, just keys, bass, drum machine, and a whole lotta embarassing-looking dancing on stage. I actually couldn't watch, as it was too lame to bear.

Shipping News & Helms upstairs at the Middle East. Shipping News were a complete snore. slow, brooding, "intense" without any sort of depth whatsoever. A shame, really. Helms were astounding though. A Boston band that most of you folks probably haven't heard yet, they actually are quite simiar to that Shipping News/Slint/Jo44 sound, but do it so interestingly and uniquely (I didn't think it was possible)...

[bitterfruit]

For a rainy Sunday:

Dillon Fence - Outside In
Queen Sarah Saturday - various
The Glands - Double Thriller
Superchunk - On the Mouth
White Stripes - Elephant
KV Raman - Vedic Chantings

[9000]

scene creamers - i second that emotion
nick cave - nocturama
dj tiga - dj kicks

[jt. r]

microphones (or should i say mount eerie): -ount -erie
bonnie prince billy-master and everyone
fall-this nation's saving grace
-must dig out the RTX, esp. since i checked out scene creamers, which necessitates the vinyl procurement of _weird war_.

also in the changer:
MoB: Vs. (psyched to see them this weekend, if philly doesn't witness the convergence [not confluence] of the delaware and schuylkill).
spoon-soft effects and love ways e.p.'s

[Ladt]

The Beatles
-The White album
-Revolver (Minus Yellow submarine)
-Rubber Soul
-The best ones off Let It Be.
And on another note, playing the ancient Blade Runner PC game.

[tinobeat]

everything hagerty's been involved with lately (Weird War, the last few Trux records, his 2 solo records ) have been pressed on some heavy, awesome vinyl, with nice printed inner sleeves, etc. etc. Clearly special productions. With Scene Creamers, now that Hagerty isn't in the Svenonious/Mae fold, the record is on thinner vinyl, generic white-with-hole sleeve, minimal liner notes...

I mean, Hagerty is *the* original Drag City brotha, so premium treatment makes sense, but I was really hoping that Scene Creamers would be as nicely put together as Weird War.

[hstencil]

and yes, they are lame.

[Noah]

Well, accompanying the white wash yesterday and the little bit today:

john fahey - red cross (he will be coming out with posthumous records forever)


sigur ros - the blue one (very good but perhaps a tad bit overrated)


messengers ep - ep (my cousins band... like bar room blues, not that good but he sure can sing.)

thats about it... i'm kinda on a dry spell lately, as i havent heard anything that has knocked me off my ass in a while.

[jef]

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nocturama

Godspeed you black emperor - Slow Riot...

Vss - Nervous Circuits

Postal Service - Give up

Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes

Skip Spence - Oar

New Order - Low Life

[Miss Tasty Princess]

since I got up this morning:

CINdYTALK In This World
Sir Lord Baltimore Kingdom Come
Sir Lord Baltimore Sir Lord Baltimore
Deep Purple Fireball

Speaking of Hagerty, I've been following his career since he was in high school (I think) and I've always been impressed. It's tempting to bootleg the cassette his first (?) band (Man Ray) did but that wouldn't be right. BTW, Pussy Galore went from a band I detested to a band I loved when he joined.

[anagrama]

Freaky Flow - Fire (http://carter.ath.cx/Misc. Music Hosting/Doktah/Jungle- Fire ( Freaky Flow.mp3)

Its jungle...take a listen if yr curious. Probably the most popular jungle track ever, funky as hell....I love it.

[Longsleeve]

Originally posted by Dave

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments "Bait & Switch"

I shop at Ron House's store all the time -- I'll have to pick this one up, I've been meaning to for awhile.

[D.A.R.Y.L.]

whoever said "New Jersey's a fucking pile of steamy poo", wasnt lying...BUT this record's got moxie!

Meadowlands > the Wrens: Jezus fuck! Garden State craftsmanship at its finest. if youve yet to smear those grubby paws on promotional copies, not to worry. word in the trenches is that opening track 'happy' will soon be saturating college radio airwaves.everywhere. Paul/Tinobeat, you gentlemen felt the verve?

terrible things happen > the Aislers Set
twin infinitives > royal trux
mount eerie > the microphones
red > king crimson

best,

D.A.R.Y.L.

np> secaucus.wrens

[pabost]

The latest issue of Rolling Stone has a little feature on Cex. He names "Mount Eerie" as his favorite record of all time.

At work today:
Sonar 2002 compilation
Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
The Beatles - Help
The new Cat Power
The new Supergrass

I'm still very undecided about that last record.

I saw Interpol last night. It was good but they cut their set short due to a sore throat. Sort of dissapointing.

[Paul]

Undecided about the Supergrass record? It hit me like a ton of bricks when I heard it, and continues to do so with each ensuing listen. They've had a few better songs in the past, but no album has ever been this solid.

What I'm hearing and liking...

Herrmann & Kleine - Our Noise
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
Evan Dando - Baby I'm Bored (download "Waking Up" and marvel at the blantant theft from Talking Heads' "Stay Up Late.")
White Stripes - Elephant
The Thermals - More Parts Per Million

[D.A.R.Y.L.]

Paul.

Im assuming you eschewed my last entry by mere accident. Tinobeat, try not to make the same mistake. Please.

great,

D.A.R.Y.L.

np>neongolden.thenotwist

[tinobeat]

felt them a little, but really not enough to warrant further investigation. There were some great tracks on the last album (the one with the "Bittersweet Symphony" on it), but I was always content hearing them at a friend's house, never intrigued enough to check it out further...

If you mean Verve Records, they did some nice reissue work with the Louis Armstrong/Oscar Peterson CD, the Getz/Gilberto CD, and of course there's the VU records...

were there any other rock bands on Verve other than The Velvet Underground? I looked a little but couldn't be bothered to find anything else...

[D.A.R.Y.L.]

Tinobeat,
you crazy kook! hurry, delete your last post. was inquiring about The Wrens, homeslice. the question is three-fold; A) have you come across the much-anticipated "Meadowlands" yet? B) would you deem their latest effort 'genius'? and, C) are my posts that cryptic?

Richard Ashcroft for Social Welfare Minister in '06,

d.a.r.y.l.

[Ladt]

Still into the Beatles - Help and Hard Days night have been my latest listening treats. And still listening to "Let's welcome to Circus People in eager anticipation for Mr. Sprout's latest offering. Anyone got it yet? Mine's in the post.

[tinobeat]

no, not so much cryptic so much as I was sort of tired and a couple drinks in when I posted last night... hence the misunderstanding. you called me out to answer your question, so I sort of just looked at the sentence that said "Paul/Tinobeat, you gentlemen felt the verve?" and neglected to look at the context entirely.

sorry, I know nothing about the Wrens. I used to know a girl named Wren, though, and she was tremendously hot. I was 14, she was 19, it wasn't meant to be...

recent rumblings around here:
The Locust - The Flight Of The Wounded Locust 7"
The Juan MacLean - By The Time I Get To Venus 12"
The Juan MacLean - You Can't Have It Both Ways 12"
Erase Errata / Black Dice - split 7"
The Make-Up - Destination: Love; Live! at Cold Rice LP
LiLiPUT - LiLiPUT 2CD
ABCs - ABCs CD

[earl grey]

Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
Silver Jews - American Water
Squarepusher - Go Plastic
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Air - Premiers Symptomes

Really digging the BSS album - great stuff...

[Longsleeve]

Pavement - S&E reish, second disc
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
Destroyer - Streethawk
Pizzicato 5 - 5th release

[jef]

Jim O'Rourke - Insisgnificance

Pagans - Pink album and more

Gun Club - Pastoral hide and Seek

Serge Gainsbourg - Historie de Melody Nelson

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking

[johansen smith]

Cody ChesnuTT the Headphone Masterpiece

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Art Ensemble of Chicago Phase One
P16.D4 Distrukt
Bert Jansch L.A. Turnaround
Horslips The Unfortunate Cup of Tea
The Fall Fall in a Hole
The Barry Sisters Sing

[tinobeat]

but tonight I got me all this, cheep!

Papa M/Entrance - split 7"
The Tom Tom Club - Close To The Bone LP
Nancy Sinatra - Sugar LP
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell LP
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro LP

the last one there's really pretty great...

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by tinobeat

Papa M/Entrance - split 7"


I've been trying to find a copy of this. Papa M = God.

[Noah]

john lennon - imagine (i got this for x-mas, just got around to listening to it and it's not really that good... country honky-tonk bullshit)


charles wilp - bunny (this came outta nowhere... i'm not really sure what it is, jazzy loungy type stuff but not so easily pinpointed, the back of the jewel case says music by marvin martin and produced by charles wilp... so i'm not sure why the it's called a charles wilp album. from what i've gathered from the booklet i think wilp was a photographer/film maker but im not sure.)


deerhoof - reveille


john fahey - red cross (18 minutes of silence between two tracks... pretentious??? i just don't know... but i dont like to use that word because i think it gets thrown around too much these days in describing music.)

sorry if some of this post doesnt make sense, its late (for me anyhow) .

[Paul]

Originally posted by tinobeat
Papa M/Entrance - split 7"
The Tom Tom Club - Close To The Bone LP
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro LP


Good call on the Tom Tom Club LP. Have you got the first one yet? "Wordy Rappinghood" is an overlooked classic. As for the Teardrop Explodes album, if you end up liking it, you have a whole world of Julian Cope ahead of you to explore -- a wise man might start with picking up the other Teardrop album, Wilder, though (followed by Cope's World Shut Your Mouth).

And then there's Entrance. I cannot say enough wonderful things about him...nice score.

[Paul]

Originally posted by Noah
john lennon - imagine (i got this for x-mas, just got around to listening to it and it's not really that good... country honky-tonk bullshit)

I've never heard anyone refer to Imagine in that manner. I just urge you not to dismiss it so quickly (although Plastic Ono Band might have been a better starting point).

[tinobeat]

the funny thing is with those two I'm really enjoying them, but the 80's production sounds are pretty intense. I need to get over my fear of overly clean reverb, chorused guitars, and synthy washes to create "atmosphere," cos there's some great stuff there...

What else have you heard by Entrance? I was under the impression that this split 7" was the only thing he'd released (with the Tigerstyle LP forthcoming)..

to Noah:

yeah, like paul said, give the Lennon album a chance. I don't understand where the honky tonk is, but its a great album..

also, I'm sure John Fahey has his reasons for the silence between tracks. The guy might have been crazy, but I don't think he would do something like that purely for the sake of "this is arty," which is what I think you mean by "pretentious."

anywho, that Deerhoof album should bring you no end of joy...

[tinobeat]

I don't have the first Tom Tom Club album.. I'll need to hunt that down...

[Miss Tasty Princess]

I didn't check out Julian Cope's solo stuff for years because I hated The Teardrop Explodes (I had a roommate who loved 'em). Then I heard Fried and liked it but didn't buy it. 10 years or so later I came across a copy of 20 Mothers for $2.99 and now I'm a huge fan. I've even bought all three albums by The Teardrop Explodes (cheap) and the singles compilation and they're not as bad as I'd remembered but Wilder is definitely way overproduced. I just wish Julian's newer stuff wasn't all sold via his website. I just checked it last night and the prices have jumped on several items. Dammit.

[Noah]

also, I'm sure John Fahey has his reasons for the silence between tracks. The guy might have been crazy, but I don't think he would do something like that purely for the sake of "this is arty," which is what I think you mean by "pretentious."

now that i'm looking in the booklet included with this cd, there are only seven track titles listed, and the silence is between tracks 7 and 8, so i guess it is a hidden track.

yeah, like paul said, give the Lennon album a chance. I don't understand where the honky tonk is, but its a great album..

i'm listening to this right now. i don't know if honky tonk is the right word... the track with the slide guitar and the rollicking piano in the background seem a little cheesy to me and stood out in my as representative of the whole cd.
but a lot of the songs are just piano w/ vocals and falsetto strings and i'm not really a fan of that kinda stuff. it's me, not the album i think... maybe i just had really high expectations for it. i'll keep listening though.

[mitchell]

interpol - TONBL
i really cant stop listening to this record, saw them live a few weeks ago, they have a great sound
Zwan - mary star of the sea
the more i listen the more i enjoy
Sammy - debut album
this is one of favourite albums of all time, does anyone else love this record i never hear about it (it is a little old now).
the tigers - space coyote
cat power - moon prix + you are free
sonic youth - goo
Gandaddy - the broken down comforter collection

think i'm gona try some wilco soon, what do you think?

[Paul]

Wilco's a good idea, and other people might suggest Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. But I'm suggesting the Billy Bragg/Wilco collaboration Mermaid Avenue (volume 1, anyway) and then maybe Being There.

[tinobeat]

I myself would investigate in this order:

1. Summerteeth
2. Being There
3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. A.M.

[jt. r]

i think that summerteeth is a good starting point, but it may be a little jarring to listen to say a.m. after that. being there is a good album, even if the lyrics can be a bit slipshod. i think that being there is most representative of wilco's albums, as much as jeff tweedy would like to dissemble.
yankee hotel foxtrot has become an ideology-and i think the only fair comparison to radiohead would be in the context of backlash against an album. i think that critics fell over themselves to be the first to praise it as album of year, which made for critical consensus. any detractors were treated like holocaust deniers.
for the mermaid ave. stuff, i prefer vol. 2 over 1, but they are fairly distinct and i think that both warrant good listens. if you're familiar with woody guthrie, they've really done good by his memory.

[Ladt]

Personally I wouldn't start with the stuff with Billy Bragg. Don't get me wrong, it's good, but not as a starting point.

[Paul]

Perhaps you're right. I turned a friend on to Wilco that way, but she was already a diehard Bragg fan.

[pabost]

Did a drive up to Modesto, CA this weekend for a friend's wedding. The musical highlights:

About a Boy - Badly Drawn Boy
Soundtrack to Morvern Callar: The Holger Czukay (of Can) song "Cool in the Pool" is maybe the best song I've heard in the past year. Totally intriguing and danceable. Unbelievable.
You are Free - Cat Power
Fever - Kylie Minogue

Paul, I think I've decided that the new Supergrass is a good record. Still, I don't think it is as fun as "I Should Coco," and it still seems somewhat thin on substance. Not that substance was ever their big thing though.

Why not start with the best Wilco record: Summerteeth

[jef]

Personally, I like "Being There" best.

[jef]

Scott Walker - No Regrets 65-76

Supergrass - Life on other Planets

the Saints - Wild about you

Beachwood Sparks - Make the cowboy robots cry

Magazine - Real Life

[Arkady]

Loose Fur - s/t
Calexico - A Feast of Wire
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
The Sea and Cake - Oui
John Coltrane - Blue Train
The Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are
Kronos Quartet - Nuevo

The Calexico album is absolutely beautiful. This is my first exposure to these guys, and I'm very impressed.

Nuevo is really brilliant, as well.

Maybe I'm just in the mood for southwestern US/Mexican flavored tunes.

[Ladt]

Pabost- Got the FOW debut today. I'm pretty much liking it. I don't think there's enough bad in it to mock christianity, although first listen doesn't sound as good as Utopia parway, some of the tunes sounding a bit simple. That said, there are a few sheer songs that just shine through: She's got a problem, leave the biker, please don't rock me tonight. Overall though, it has a great familiarity to it, which both works in favour and occasionally works against it. All in all though, it's good.

[dekone]

Tosca:Delhi9
The Music:The Music - don't think I like this one too much.
A Band Of Bees:Sunshine Hit Me
Alpinestars:White Noise
The Notwist:Neon Golden
Gilles Peterson:BrokenFolkFunkLatinSoul (http://www.discogs.com/release/109762) -featuring an interesting take on Nirvana's 'Come As You Are'...

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[Paul]

Anyone know if the UK Bees had to change their name to Band of Bees because of a local Nashville group (who's supposedly a hotshit up-and-comer) was already using the name here?

Just curious.

[pabost]

Paul - don't know anything about the Bees thing. Have you heard the Nashville group? I'm pretty sure David Mead is in the band, and he's, you know, alright.

Listening at work:

Guitars, Cadillacs, etc... - Dwight Yoakam
Island Row - Capitol K
Little Honda e.p. - Yo la tengo
Goin' Through Changes - Zumpano
Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol
Honey in the Hive - The Bigger Lovers

[hstencil]

Art Ensemble of Chicago, Kabalaba (AECO, 004) LP
The Dead C., s/t (Language Recordings, 1 & 2) 2CD
Luc Ferrari, Presque Rien (INA GRM, 275482) CD
Godz, Godzhundeit (ESP-Disk) LP
Julius Hemphill, Blue Boye (private) 2LP
Hugh Hopper, 1984 LP
Alvin Lucier, I Am Sitting in a Room (Lovely) LP
Musica Elettronica Viva, Leave the City (BYG/Actuel, 529.335/35) LP
No Neck Blues Band, Ever Borneo (SERES, SER-201) LP +7"
That other Trad Gras och Stenar re-ish CD
a Les Rallizes Denudes CDR I got in the mail

[gygax]

datach'i - wearealwaysswellthankyou
xiu xiu - chapel of the chimes
burger/ink - [las vegas]
the books - thought for food
laddio bolocko - the strange warmings of...

[jef]

Gene Clark - white light

25 yrs. of Rough Trade 2cd

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Faust Abzu box set (wow!)

Lately, I've been going through entire artist catalogues one album per day. Right now I'm working on/up to: Cathedral Statik Majick (Japanese version with many bonus tracks)
Brigitte Fontaine Vous et nous
Pink Fairies What a Bunch of Sweeties
Television Personalities I Was a Mod Before You Was a ModI've also been listening to the Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack a lot again lately; it was far and away my favorite album of 2001.

[pabost]

Ladt - your memory astounds me. Glad I won't have to be a martyr.

[tinobeat]

Boyracer - To Get A Better Hold You Have To Loosen Your Grip CD
Azita - Enantiodromia CD
The Talking Heads - <i>77</i> LP
V/A - Telltale Signs Of Earworm Vol 1 2CD
Robin Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Globe of Frogs LP
The Rapture - "House of Jealous Lovers" 12"
The Rapture - "Olio" 12"
Bitter Bitter Weeks - s/t CD

reading:
The new Chunklet zine
The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven

[earl grey]

gygax - great call on the burger/ink, really love that album ... "elvism" is fantastic. they might be my favorite find on everything is nice. (though i now enjoy pole quite a bit as well....) have you heard the modernist album?

[Paul]

Tino, dawg...what's the Azita lp like? Drag City's not sharing mp3's and I'm curious.

Enjoying these:
adult. - Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)
Black Box Recorder - Passionoia (One Little Indian)
New Order - 20 Years of New Order (Qwest/Reprise)
Smog - Supper (Drag City)
The Anomoanon - Asleep Many Years in the Wood (Temporary Residence)
Swayzak - Dirty Dancing (Studio K7)

[tinobeat]

Paul, holmes... The Azita is really really great, but it took a coupla listens to get into it.

Its very classy in that sort of Plush or Jim O'Rourke way, piano-driven pop. Sort of sounds like old Laury Nyro stuff with a little less sugar. I highly recommend it. I'll put an mp3 from it into the next round of three mp3s on my site, probably this weekend.

[Ladt]

Eyesinweasel- Wrinkled Thoughts. Bought it today, whoever doesn't like it is wrong. Plain and simple.

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Ladt
Eyesinweasel- Wrinkled Thoughts. Bought it today, whoever doesn't like it is wrong. Plain and simple.

"Dusting Coattails" had to have been written by God Himself.

[Ladt]

Pure Flesh is a dream. I love the harpsichord intro. I think we have George Martin to thank for that! (Hoping people will get the Beatles reference)

[delgado]

life without buildings-any other city (dc/baltimore)
the clientele-the lost weekend ep (acurela)
the clientele-a fading summer ep (merge)
the clientele-suburban light (merge)
the boas-mansion (overcoat)
sally crewe and the sudden moves-drive it like you stole it (12xu)

[Miss Tasty Princess]

An interesting day:

The Homosexuals The Homosexuals' Record
Faust Abzu
Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror
Television Personalities I Was a Mod Before You Was a Mod (Good Lord, what a horrifyingly depressing album)
New York Dolls New York Dolls
Brigitte Fontaine Le nougat
Puka Puka Brians A Sad Sound, a Velvet Sound and a Happy Sound (I'm surprised they're not better known outside Japan)

[bitterfruit]

The Aislers Set - How I Learned To Write Backwards
Ted Leo and The Pharamacists - Hearts of Oak
Marshmallow Coast - Ride The Lightning
Nick Cave - Nocturama
Rainer Maria - Long Knives Drawn
Imperial Teen - On
The Go-Betweens - Bright Yellow, Bright Orange
The Mendoza Line - Lost In Revelry

[johansen smith]

Burn and Shiver Azure Ray
the Magnolia Electric Company Songs: Ohia
Didn't it Rain Songs: Ohia
Kids: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Since I Left You the Avalanches
What Would the Community Think? Cat Power
Weekends of Sound 764 Hero
the Unmasked Organ Light-Year of Inifinity Man Quintron

[dekone]

Julian Cope:Dancing Heads EP
Buzzcocks:Singles Going Steady
New Order:Retro - the live disc
The Notwist:Neon Golden
The Feelies:The Good Earth
Prince:Sign of The Times


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[bitterfruit]

The Imperial Teen "On" record that I posted about earlier is taking quite a few spins in the ole' player. It's quite fun.

Merge and Matador are coming out with some really good shit this year. Can't wait.

[Longsleeve]

Originally posted by dekone

The Notwist:Neon Golden

This album was actually easier to find before it was released in the US. I went out this weekend to five or six good record stores and only a few had even heard of it, much less had it in stock.

[earl grey]

it's nice that the domestic is cheap (picked it up for $9.99 this weekend), but i'm a bit disappointed in the three new tracks. all are instrumentals and none are horrible, but they're a bit mediocre compared to the album proper. i guess i was expecting more. ah well.

does anyone know shrink - the notwist album before neon golden? i've heard it's different but good - thinking about picking it up....

[tinobeat]

Shrink is fantastic. Also often extremely easy to find in the used or cheap bins at record stores.. probably something to do with the collapse of Zero Hour, I dunno.

[jef]

AK79 compilation

Flamin Groovies - Teenage Head

Teenage Fanclub - Howdy

the Impressions - Further Impressions

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

[earl grey]

Tosca - Delhi9
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Low - Long Division
New Order - Substance
Tortoise - TNT
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

BTW, tinobeat - I like Shrink quite a bit after one listen ... looking forward to seeing them next month.

[Noah]

I just discovered something really cool.... you can rent cd's at the library! and good ones at that!


i picked up some high profile releases that I never checked out due to lack of money:

white stripes - white blood cells

im really into this. from the singles i thought i wouldnt like it, but the album as a whole is really good. they rock pretty hard for a two piece.

Yo la tengo - and then....

the kinks - kink kronikles

folksongs of the louisiana acadians

charles ives - symphonies 1 and 4

david byrne - look into the eyeballl

benny goodman - complete victo recordings

joe pass - virtuoso

ella fitzgerald sings the george and ira gershwin song book


I haven't listened to everything yet... I was just so excited that you could go to a place and take out Cd's for free. I talked to a friend just now and he seemed rather uninterested at this fact. My library has lots of jazz and folk music, classical too... its pretty neat.

i wonder who the hipster they have working there is, the one who makes sure YLT and the white stripes are in stock? I dont think the little sweet old ladies with their eyeglass retainers manage to read their copy of NME every month to keep up on the times....

[Throwmymuse]

This is something I've relied on for years, Noah. I remember being young and seeing the Beastie Boys Ill Communication tape at the library...now I just jump online and reserve every decent CD the system owns and have them ship em over to my local branch. Its great! Since I can't afford to buy cd's either (well I just had to buy the new Throwing Muses...but some things are necessary) I find the public library a great way to make up for my lack of funds. And I live in Ohio...so someone who works for the system must be on the ball, I've found everything from Sleater Kinney, Sonic Youth, and Cat Power to the Beatles and Stones. Now if I could only stop feeling ashamed for never checking out any books.

[Ladt]

Yeah, me too, I've got tonnes of cds there. In fact my whole Pavement related collection apart from the DVD has been rented from the library at some point. That's not to say I won't by them, just waiting til they re release them.

[Ladt]

Oh and by the way, you have to pay in my library, so it's not as bad.

[interrust]

today, records i spun included:

blur - parklife [food]
the special goodness - s/t
nada surf - let go [barsuk]
blur - think tank [virgin]

think tank is very good .. mighty impressed with it.

-- rusty

[tinobeat]

Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun CDR (sorry. I promise I'll buy the 2LP tho if you promise to not make it $18+)

Blur - Think Tank CDR (they should be sorry, its a piece)

Ganger - Hammock Style CD (first time I've listened to it in like 2-3 years, forgot how killer it is)

V/A - Rocket Girl Compilation 2CD (save for a coupla new-agey sounding stinkers, one of the best label comps around)

Nancy Sinatra - Sugar LP (whoah.. not what I was expecting at all)

V/A - Stand Up and Be Counted: Soul, Jazz and Funk from the Revolutionary era Vol. 1 2LP (awesome)
V/A - Stand Up and Be Counted: Soul, Jazz and Funk from the Revolutionary era Vol. 2 2LP (awesomer)

the Stooges - Fun House LP (yow!)

Nels Cline & Gregg Bendian - Interstellar Space Revisited CD (good lord! Nels Cline is a god among men...)

[interrust]

now im sad ... i wanna hear summer sun so bad!!!

-- rusty

[Paul]

I know that arguing over whether or not an album is good or not serves no real purpose, but I can't see at all -- knowing what I know about your musical inclinations -- how you couldn't find anything redeeming about "Moroccan People's..." or "Jets." Actually, I'm liking almost all of it, with the exception of "Good Song" (which it's not) and "Sweet Song" (which it totally is).

Other spins...
Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information CD
Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black CD
Dave Chappelle - Killin' 'Em Softly HBO Special CD-R
Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe CD (sorry Matador, but this one's my favorite)
Ted Leo + Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak CD

[tinobeat]

The songs you named aren't terrible, but they don't grab me at all, and some of the other stuff on there is pretty darn bad. I was generally pretty turned off by 13 and this album hasn't done much to turn me back on, unfortunately.

[Noah]

David Byrne - Look Into The Eyeball

Sam McGee - Brown's Ferry Blues/Railroad Blues 78

Notwist - Neon Golden (I didn't like this very much at first, but now I can't get the songs outta my head.)

Charlie Parker - The Complete Charlie Parker


Whoever recommended Mooncurser Records in City Island thank you very much (was it Patrick or Gerard? I can't remember and I am too lazy to check)

The Island was an odd little place... a couple of second hand stores, lots of lobster eateries, and a record store.

I ended up finally buying a record player from Roger (although he was reluctant to part with it..."Aww, I'm just giving that thing away for the price" or something along the lines of that, but maybe it was just good business), which I am pretty excited about. He is the sweetest guy. He gave me a couple of free records, too.

I'm going to have to go back another time, as I didn't have time to really dig in and look for some records I want. You weren't kidding when you said "stocked to the rafters."

[smith_maxwell]

currently:

pocket rockets - love or perish (teenbeat)
sm & jicks - pig lib (matador)
scene creamers - suck on that emotion (drag city)
fennesz - endless summer (mego)
beck & flaming lips live boot LA 11.25.02
metropolitan - down for you is up (crank automotive)
minus 5 - down with wilco (yep roc)

[onedeadjet]

yields impressive treasures. While a major shakeup in my house hold has resulted in a cracked door frame and a broken desk, I did stumble across a stack of forgotten discs and mixtapes.

Supernova - Ages Three and Up...
Why is it so good? I don't understand...

Tomahawk - Tomahawk...
If you like Jesus Lizard, you hear Jesus Lizard. If you like Jim Martin-less Faith No More, you hear Jim Martin-less Faith No More... weird...

Pavement - Stereo single
Stupid Pavement and their fucking singles being almost better than the albums... Possibly excepting Kennel District, Winner of The is Kannberg's shining fucking moment

Odd mixtape seemingly collecting every song off of CMJ newmusics discs, (199x-whenever they went fullsized and shitty)that I didn't actually buy the discs of. No Matador stuff, although there is a pre-Mat (Zero Hour, right?) Notwist song... Did Matador shun the CMJ when it was still relevant? I remember Malk's Hook popped up eventually, and Debris Slide popped along before I started reading, but...

A very bruised and battered copy of The Arizona Record...
Does it sound like it does because of it's horrible condition, or does it sound like it does because the recording budget came from three hours worth of recycling scavenging?

[Miss Tasty Princess]

In the last few days:

American Hi-Fi The Art of Losing
Tim Buckley Blue Afternoon
Kate Bush Never For Ever
Cathedral The VIIth Coming
Brigitte Fontaine Les palaces
Genesis Archive: 1967-1975
Jimi Hendrix South Southern Delta
Bert Jansch Moonshine
The Malarkies When Every Metal Shines
The Malarkies Andiamo
Evan Parker & Eddie Prévost Most Materiall

[dekone]

Casino Versus Japan : Whole Numbers Play the Basics
Baxter Dury : Len Parrot's Memorial Lift
Adult. : Resuscitation
The Folk Implosion : The New Folk Implosion CD
The Free Association : David Holmes Presents...


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[johansen smith]

Originally posted by onedeadjet


Pavement - Stereo single
Stupid Pavement and their fucking singles being almost better than the albums... Possibly excepting Kennel District, Winner of The is Kannberg's shining fucking moment

what about "Mussle Rock"?

[pabost]

Good afternoon friends. Today at work:

Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen
Wonder, Wonder - Edith Frost
KXLU Internet Radio

[jef]

How is the new Folk Implosion album?

[jt. r]

shellac: at action park, terraform
the girls: live at the rathskeller
mc5: back in the usa (how did this not take over the radio? oh, the white panther party, right.)
the make-up: sound verite, in the mass mind

apologies right now to ian svenonius for overlooking him for the jsbx induced anxiety toward nu-soul/blooze. of course, i'm still pissing on him for spoon when scene creamers come to town. sorry.

[jt. r]

Buzzcocks:Singles Going Steady

my roommate burned a mix of singles going steady and operator's manual, which he then entitled operator's manual for singles going steady. i told him that he should find a way to contact them to release it, especially since they're on tour with pearl jam this summer. of course, the buzzcocks couldn't match say aerosmith with such an indulgence, but they definitely deserve it.

[jef]

Have you heard the Buzzcocks new album yet?

[Seneschal Gox]

right about now

White Stripes, Elephant
Little Stevey Malkmus, Pig Lib
Wilco EP
Shins, Oh Inverted World
Monks of Doom, Meridian
Pavement, Wowee Zowee

[jef]

Billy Bragg - Back to Basics

Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint

Tristeza - Dream Signals in Full Circle

Filthy Thievin Bastards - Our Fathers Sent us

Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break

Scott Walker - Scott 4

Love - Da Capo

the Thermals - More parts per Million

[Ladt]

Hey Jef, what's your favourite Billy Bragg? I really like Worker's playtime.

[tinobeat]

Bob Pollard and Doug Gillard - Speak Kindly... CD
Erlend Oye - Unrest CD
Mogwai/Bardo Pond - split 10"
Lilys - The 3-Way CD
T. Raumschmiere - Anti- 2LP
Bablicon - The Orange-Tapered Moon LP

[onedeadjet]

Firewater - Get Off The Cross...
Jesus Lizard - Lash
Poster Children - Junior Citizen
Holger Czukay - On The Way To THe Peak Of Normal
Pell Mell - Interstate (fucking phenomenal, I might add...)
Shellac - 1000 Hurts (or at least 'Prayer To God' on repeat)
Ugly Casanova - ('Things i Don't Remember' on repeat)
Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry
and
Fugazi - 'Instrument' sountrack/companion

and now, for mexican.

[jef]

Ladt, Gosh I pretty much like all of em. But 'Back ta Basics' is probably my Favorite followed by "Don't try this at home".

[Paul]

I've been on a Lips kick for a coupla days, especially In a Priest Driven Ambulance and Hit to Death in the Future Head, but I've managed to find time to listen to other things...

Deerhoof - Apple O
Four Tet - Rounds
Four Tet - Pause
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Plastic Fang
Pink Floyd - Meddle
The Bevis Frond - Valedictory Songs
The Natural History - s/t EP

[bitterfruit]

I also had Hit to Death in the Future Head on yesterday. I forgot how strangely beautiful it is.

[tinobeat]

So, Paul, share with us your thoughts on the new Four Tet.. I can't wait to hear it

[bitterfruit]

New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Death Cab for Cutie - You Can Play...
Destroyer - Street Hawk
Microphones - Glow Pt 2.
Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Charles Mingus - various
Toby Sprout - Carnival Boy

[Paul]

Originally posted by tinobeat
So, Paul, share with us your thoughts on the new Four Tet.. I can't wait to hear it

It's not a radical departure from either of the previous albums, but using the same ingredients (beats, acoustic guitar, piano) the songs just seem more "together" this time around. A+

[p_money]

hello all, new to list....


stooges.... fun house
seaweed..... various cdr
neutral milk hotel.... on avery island
bettie seervert.... log 22
erics trip..... love, tara / forever again
red house painters.... all of it always on heavy rotation
pavement.... spit on a stranger ep
acetone.... york bl
built to spill.... ancient melodies of the future
sloan.... navy blues
grandaddy.... signal to snow ratio/under the western freeway
lou ford.... alan freeds radio ..... check these carolina boys out, alt country at its dadgummed finest..... louford.com

[jef]

Jicks - Pig Lib

Smog - Supper

Chess Blues Comp.

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis

[Jackie]

Hey all, I'm a newbie.

Foo Fighters - Bootleg of their Bridge School Benifit performance
Beck - Mutations
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
Beastie Boys - "In A World Gone Mad" downloaded off thier website www.beastieboys.com (http://www.beastieboys.com)
Nick Cave - Nocturama
The Finger - We Are Fuck You (import)
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

[Ladt]

Hi. Well if any of you pay attention you may notice that I'm a creature of habit, here's what I've been listening to the past few days.
Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Fountains Of Wayne- Fountains Of Wayne
Tobin SProut- Lost Planets...
- Sentimental Stations
Eyesinweasel- Wrinkled Thoughts
Stephen Malkmus- Stephen Malkmus (Some of us can't get Pig Lib yet)

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Today, so far:

The New Christs We Got This!
Rose Tattoo Pain
Can The Peel Sessions
Misfits Static Age (box set version)

Recent faves:

American Hi-Fi The Art of Losing
The Holy Ghost Color Sympathy
The Malarkies 10,000 Back Doors
Solbakken Klonapet

[Ladt]

MR HCI: How does the new American Hi Fi compare with the other one, assuming you have it. I didn't like their debut so much, the production loses any subtleties that could've been in the songs.

[pabost]

Pig Lib - the jicks
Everyone who pretended to like me is gone - the walkmen
s/t - the specials
Neon Golden - the notwist
ATP 1.1 - various artists
KXLU internet radio (played a great Birthday Party cover of the Stooges)

I finally heard that Beastie Boys song, and after a couple listens, my disappointment was confirmed. I really think it's terrible.

2 more things: I love that walkmen album, and I'm undecided about the notwist album. It's so subdued that it almost seems passionless.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

The production is more "live and raw" sounding, I think; it's also not quite as "metal" sounding, I suppose. In general, I really like it (I loved the first one). My only beef is the whole thing comes across as a sort of "love letter" to pop music with the lyrics constantly referencing hit songs and sounds. For example, the title track opens like an Adam and the Ants song and ends with the band singing, "We're the kids in America." Other songs name drop "Station to Station," imitate Will Smith briefly, etc. (I'm at work and having a mental block on the rest). If it was a little more subtle it'd be easier to take. Then again, like I said, I like it as a whole.

[bitterfruit]

I really like the Walkmen album. And I am kinda with you on the Notwist album. Try listening to it with the volume down really low; it may grow on you a little.

[earl grey]

royksopp - melody AM
odetta sings dylan
SM + the jicks - pig lib
mia doi todd - the golden state
radiohead - kid A
33.3 - plays music

still forming my opinions on pig lib - i'd say i really like about half of it right now, but the rest doesn't really stay with me.

heard the odetta album very randomly, but if any of you are dylan fans i highly recommend it ... i know a shamefully small amount of his stuff and i imagine i'd like the album even more if i knew all the originals.

[Longsleeve]

Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun

god i love spring break.

edit: and until somebody else writes a song with Don Cheadle in better context, Moonrock Mambo is the greatest song ever.

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by bitterfruit
New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Death Cab for Cutie - You Can Play...
Destroyer - Street Hawk
Microphones - Glow Pt 2.
Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Charles Mingus - various
Toby Sprout - Carnival Boy

In reply to my own post, I regret even owning a copy of Death Cab's You Can Play These Songs with Chords. I can't bear to listen to it.

Otherise, I can't get enough the Microphones and Destroyer records.

[Paul]

If every song by Death Cab for Cutie was even half the caliber of "Movie Script Ending," I could see myself listening to them almost habitually. Sadly, that's not the case.

[tinobeat]

well shit yeah you can't live without Destroyer. I'm still trying to get that mook paul to even listen twice to that shit, but having turned many friends onto the genius of Bejar, I'm confident that the adenoidal bliss will win him over.

Destroyer: never has a band name been so inappropriate yet so apt.

"you've got to be critical or die, be critical or die..."

[jef]

I recently saw DCFC play again, and I was impressed with their new songs that they played. I think they are a good band. I definately like the "We have the facts..." album better than the newest one though.

[jt. r]

stones: between the buttons
deerhoof: apple o'
sm: pig lib + bonus ep
neil michael hagerty: s/t

any word on what happened to that wilco kamera ep?
on dcfc: i saw them at mercury lounge a little over a year ago, and it was roundly disappointing. i liked we have the facts...and i didn't think the photo album was so bad. then one of my roommates fell in love with the photo album, and played it incessantly. they went from being a pop band i could enjoy to an intolerable emo band. i wish ben gibbard would stop being so prolific.

[Squall91]

El-P - Fantastic Damage
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (is the exclamation mark in the right place?) - Yanqui U.X.O.
Nirvana - In Utero
Radiohead - The Bends
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Pig Lib

[Paul]

Pylon - Hits
Royal City - Alone At the Microphone
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Laurie Anderson - Life On a String
Kicking Giant - Alien i.D.
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Live 1975-85

[onedeadjet]

the Coctails - Peel

Tomahawk - Mit Gas... still trying to figure out whether or not I like it

Hot Hot Heat - make up the Breakdown

shit I put together in fruityloops last night when I was drunk

the goddam AFI disc that been blaring from the next cubicle over for the last fifteen minutes

B52's Time capsule

[onedeadjet]

I saw the last stop of the death and dismemberment tour in Minneapolis. dcfc and the plan had been alternating headlining status, and that night, death cab headlined. After the stompy goofiness of Cex and the general madness of a Plan set, dcfc's set just seemed weak and ineffectual. I was bored out of my mind. Fortunately, First Ave. has nice big bottles of Newcastle...

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by tinobeat
well shit yeah you can't live without Destroyer. I'm still trying to get that mook paul to even listen twice to that shit, but having turned many friends onto the genius of Bejar, I'm confident that the adenoidal bliss will win him over.

Destroyer: never has a band name been so inappropriate yet so apt.

"you've got to be critical or die, be critical or die..."

Long Live Bejar!

Interesting statement about the band name.

[einzack]

Isis - oceanic
Kristin Hersh - the grotto
Sigur Ros - live ()
bonnie prince billie - master + everyone
sleater-kinney - one beat

[onedeadjet]

Coctails - LIve at Lounge Ax

Beta Band - Threeps

Disc two of the Dischord 20 (can't get Smart Went Crazy's 'Good Day' out of my head...)

Six Finger Satellite - Paranormalized

Number One Cup - Possum Foxtrot Plan

Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies

Requiem For a Dream score (bee nee neenaneena neenaneenaneenaneena neena...)

Jaki Lei... the fucking Can drummer - Phantom Band

[onedeadjet]

add fucking Black Grape - great when straight
stupid things probably not going to leave my CD player for days now, goddammit

[tinobeat]

The Aislers Set - How I Learned To Write Backwards LP
The Eyesores - Bent At The Waist CD
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Pig Lib CD + EP
Arbete och Fritid - Arbete och Fritid CD
Trad Gras och Stenar - Mors Mors CD
Bablicon - A Flat Inside A Fog, The Cat That Was A Dog 2LP
Sandy Bull - Inventions LP
Black Tambourine - Complete Recordings CD

[Ladt]

Guns and roses- Apetite For Destruction
LEmonheads- Car button Cloth
World Party- Dumbing up
The Groundhogs- Assorted stuff.
GBv- Same Place The Fly Got smashed and King shit and the golden boys.

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by tinobeat
The Aislers Set - How I Learned To Write Backwards LP


This is such a fun fucking album to play. It's innocent and charming at the same time.

[dekone]

The Libertines : Up The Bracket
Bent : The Everlasting Blink
Stephen Malkmus + The Jicks : Pig Lib
Ms. Dynamite : A Little Deeper
Bettie Serveert : Log 22


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[Miss Tasty Princess]

last night & today:

King Crimson The Power to Believe (disappointing)
Fraser & deBolt Fraser & deBolt (with Ian Guenther)
Fraser & deBolt With Pleasure
Tom Jones Velvet + Steel = Gold (disc 1)
Groin Thunder (Troggs tribute)
UFO Strangers in the Night
Television Personalities Fashion Concious
Kevin Manthei Music from the Animated Series Invader Zim
Ornette Coleman Free Jazz
Royal Trux Cats and Dogs

[jef]

The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic

Pavement - Wowee Zowee

Naked Raygun - All Rise

CCR - Green River

Palace Music - Viva Last Blues

[onedeadjet]

aereogramme - story in white or whatever
tomahawk - mit gas (it gets better)
ODB - the O.D.B.E.P.
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam

[jt. r]

deerhoof: apple o
sm + jicks: pig lib
trad gras och stenar: djungelns lag (dette ar souverane! i maa nok unskylde mit danske svenska)
fairport convention: what we did on our holidays
the fall: this nation's saving grace
the kinks: muswell hillbillies

anyone know if the new m. ward is available on vinyl?

[Paul]

Originally posted by jt. r
anyone know if the new m. ward is available on vinyl?

If it is, it's been released on a label other than Merge. They only list a cd as being available. But a mighty fine cd it is!

[johansen smith]

I'm listening to the new Radiohead. I'm not exactly a Radiohead expert, so I have nothing to guage it against. it's okay.

[Paul]

Did you make it through the whole thing without nodding off?

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Paul
Did you make it through the whole thing without nodding off?

ah ah ah ah! I actually like the song they've chosen for the single, "There There," but a lot of the album is dull, though at least it's not as pretentious as Kid A.

[Ladt]

Ah, the lost art of waiting until albums are actually released........
On a side note, does the new radiohead album have songs on it, or is it like its two predecessors?

[jef]

the Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side

Yo la Tengo - I can hear the heart...

Wipers - Over the Edge

Deerhoof - Apple o

[onedeadjet]

Revco - linger fickin'

aphex twin - richard d james

Q and Not U - erm... the newer one

Q and not U - erm... the older one

Various Steve Bartek (the other guy from Boingo) themes from Tales From THe Crypt

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Ladt
Ah, the lost art of waiting until albums are actually released........
On a side note, does the new radiohead album have songs on it, or is it like its two predecessors?

they all appear to be songs, and not as much dicking around with the sound effects like they're Pink Floyd.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by johansen smith
they all appear to be songs, and not as much dicking around with the sound effects like they're Pink Floyd.

I never heard much of Amnesiac, but Kid A, aside from a transitional track or two, is a very songy album to my ears.

Radiohead could only dream of being nearly in the same rank as Pink Floyd, though.

[Noah]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who doesn't think Radiohead is the best thing since sliced bread. I've tried getting into them but I just don't get it. Wish I could.

Listening to:

Pig Lib EP (Mostly the one-two punch of Fractions and Jerry)

Silver Jews - Dime Map of the Reef (Cannaadaaa!!!! Cananda!!!!! I never thought I could love lo-fi wankery as much as I love this.)

Pavement - Brighten the Corners (Slowly becoming one of my favorite Pavement albums. Flat out fantastic.)

Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse

John Fahey - Red Cross

By the way, how is the new Deerhoof Jt.R or Jef? I liked Reville a lot. Will I dig this one?

[jef]

It's not bad. Some great songs, but I don't like it as much as their last one.

But I'm not the biggest fan.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by Noah
Glad to see I'm not the only one who doesn't think Radiohead is the best thing since sliced bread. I've tried getting into them but I just don't get it. Wish I could.


don't get me wrong, I like Radiohead a bunch, but yeah, they're just another good band. The Pink Floyd comparisons don't really strike me as valid though. I think anyone who compares them to Floyd hasn't really listened to Floyd, they just have this assumption that they were some big space-rock sound-effects band. In my mind, Pink Floyd ended when Roger Waters left the band, and everything before then was a wonderful mix of truly great songwriting mixed with *some* special effects (some successful, some not), but when it all comes down to it, Pink Floyd were a "song" band, not a "sound" band.

I see no correlation b/w Radiohead and Pink Floyd other than the tendency towards delusions of grandeur on the part of both.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by tinobeat
I see no correlation b/w Radiohead and Pink Floyd other than the tendency towards delusions of grandeur on the part of both. You're obviously overlooking the fact that both band names have nine letters.

[Paul]

"b/w" is shorthand for between? I thought it meant "backed with."

[tinobeat]

I think for most people "b/w" is "between," but for geeks like us its "backed with" as in 45s..

maybe? I dunno.. I feel like I've seen it be "between" before