Listening Post III

[jef]

The other one was getting a bit long, plus the Metallica argument was getting old.

Dave Edmunds - Tracks on Wax 4

John Coltrane - Interstellar Space

Curtis Mayfield - Roots

Wipers - Over the Edge

[philipmarlowe]

Blind Willie McTell-Atlanta Twelve String
James Blood Ulmer-Odyssey
Ike and Tina Turner-Greatest Hits
Elvis Costello-Armed Forces
The Clean-Anthology
Albert Ayler-Spirits Rejoice
The Kinks-Something Else
ZZ Top-Deguello

[SlackMF]

Even 20 years ago Metallica was the shittiest band name I ever heard of.

Cat Butt, however, was the coolest. Their classic album: "Journey to the Center of Cat Butt."

[Joseph]

I just want to take this opportunity to say that the new Metallica sucks.

[SlackMF]

Cliff Burton hadn't been crushed to death by an upside-down touring van.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by Joseph
I just want to take this opportunity to say that the new Metallica sucks. So I take it you've heard it in the intervening two days since you said you'd not heard it and hoped you never would, "God willing?"

[bloodflower]

ouch!

[jef]

Chisel - Set You Free

Dischord Box Set

Scene Creamers - I suck on that emotion

John Prine - Diamonds in the Rough

[bitterfruit]

His Name Is Alive - Ft. Lake
Daniel Johnston - Continued Story - Hi, How Are You
Grandaddy - A Pretty Mess By This One Band
Leadbelly - various
Buzzcocks - Modern
Calla - Televise
Wilco - Being There
Lexo And The Leapers - Ask Them
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1


Some new to me, but old to others. Some old to me, but all good.

[johansen smith]

Rachel Jacobs Mechanical Kid
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, and Friends Songs From the Black Mountain Music Project
Quasi Field Studies
Gemma Hayes Night On My Side (UK version, the only version worth listening to)
Mono One Step More and You Die
Frankenixon Depth Perception
Mt. St. Helens You Are a Ghostly Presence

[tinobeat]

tell me more about the Mono...

this is the Japanese droney rock band mono, yes? I keep meaning to get something by them, but am never sure enough about whether I'll like it or not. these days, with the money not being much, I'm less inclined to impulse buys...

[king pong]

yoshimi and yuka - flower with no colour
the residents - king and eye
iron maiden - somewhere in time
dead meadow - bootlegs
led zepellin - presence
cornelius - point

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by tinobeat
tell me more about the Mono...

this is the Japanese droney rock band mono, yes? I keep meaning to get something by them, but am never sure enough about whether I'll like it or not. these days, with the money not being much, I'm less inclined to impulse buys...

You got it. It's not the acid jazz Mono that many know of. You should check out "One Step More and You Die." This record is apparently not quite in the same vein as their other music.

[KoolWhpp]

Right now I'm listening to some Hungarian indie bands whose records only come on old '78s, given away free with bi-annual IWW reports.

Plus, I spend a fair amount of time picking bands I think will make me look cool on Internet bulletin boards, while I really mainly listen to Coldplay and R.E.M.

Because uptight white indie guys need to know how cool I am, DAMNIT!

[tinobeat]

uh oh! you caught us! we really don't like any of the music we list! we just wanna look cool!

I've actually found out about a lot of good music through listening posts, so instead of knocking it as a showoff contest, maybe ask about bands you see listed that sound interesting. I've learned a lot, no joke.

but if you wanna hate, that's cool too... your loss though.

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by tinobeat
tell me more about the Mono...

this is the Japanese droney rock band mono, yes? I keep meaning to get something by them, but am never sure enough about whether I'll like it or not. these days, with the money not being much, I'm less inclined to impulse buys...

their new album is basically built around one song, the 16 minute "Com(?)", but what a song it is!

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by KoolWhpp
Right now I'm listening to some Hungarian indie bands whose records only come on old '78s, given away free with bi-annual IWW reports.

Plus, I spend a fair amount of time picking bands I think will make me look cool on Internet bulletin boards, while I really mainly listen to Coldplay and R.E.M.

Because uptight white indie guys need to know how cool I am, DAMNIT!

you know, I recognize every band mentioned here, and that's 'cause they're all pretty well-known. maybe you should put down your newest issue of NME and try some of the "underground" music websites for suggestions and features on these frightening "unknown, obscure" bands that scare you so.

[bitterfruit]

I get plenty of recommendations from people on this board. I would have never become a huge "50 Cent" fan otherwise.

[johansen smith]

really? I found out about him in da club.



ZING!

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by KoolWhpp
Right now I'm listening to some Hungarian indie bands whose records only come on old '78s, given away free with bi-annual IWW reports.

Plus, I spend a fair amount of time picking bands I think will make me look cool on Internet bulletin boards, while I really mainly listen to Coldplay and R.E.M.

Because uptight white indie guys need to know how cool I am, DAMNIT! Uh oh! Does this mean I need to start lying about what I've been listening to rather than just look at the stack of CDs next to the player and list 'em in the probable order that I partook of them?

That reminds me, though, I think it's been a month or so since I pulled out any of my Vágtázó HalottKémek CDs. I'll have to take one to work with me on Monday. They're not pressed on 78s but at least they were from Hungary.

[johansen smith]

oh please, everyone knows Panta Rhei is far superior, Hungarian-wise.

[bitterfruit]

Revisting some old memories while I convert EVERY one of my CDs to MP3 for permanent storage. Ipod to the rescue.

Dillon Fence - Dillon Fence
Dillon Fence - Outside In
Dillon Fence - Another Other Way EP
The Connells - Slackjawed Import EP
The Connells - New Boy EP
Queen Sarah Saturday - Weave
Bally Sagoo - Bollywood Flashback

[bloodflower]

"I recognize every band mentioned here, and that's 'cause they're all pretty well-known. maybe you should put down your newest issue of NME and try some of the "underground" music websites for suggestions and features on these frightening "unknown, obscure" bands that scare you so."

johansen smith: when you write things like this, it makes you so incredibly ridiculous... reread what you wrote here and just think about how others giggle when they read such misguided attempts at slamming someone.

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by bloodflower
"I recognize every band mentioned here, and that's 'cause they're all pretty well-known. maybe you should put down your newest issue of NME and try some of the "underground" music websites for suggestions and features on these frightening "unknown, obscure" bands that scare you so."

johansen smith: when you write things like this, it makes you so incredibly ridiculous... reread what you wrote here and just think about how others giggle when they read such misguided attempts at slamming someone.

I think they laugh 'cause I'm so goddamn funny.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

including Hungarian music, as promised Rip, Rig & Panic God Peter Schaerli Quintett Schnipp Schnapp The Singing Nun Her Joy, Her Songs Deep Purple Deep Purple (actually, just the remaster bonus tracks) Angel Witch Angel Witch Jeff Buckley Live at L'Olympia EyeHateGod Confederacy of Ruined Lives Vágtázó HalottKémek Asemmi Kapuin Dörömbölve The Monkees Head Eastern Youth - I have no idea what it's called (everything is in Japanese except the name of the band) but it came out in 2001 - I'm really looking forward to their Atlanta appearance next month at The Echo Lounge

[bitterfruit]

Where's a good place to start with Hungarian music?

[tinobeat]

yeah, I wanna know about that too, being half-Hungarian myself. All I know is that Vágtázó HalottKémek is a pretty badass name for a band: "Galloping Dead Spies."

There's some really freaking amazing Yugoslav punk rock too, from when it was Yugoslavia (so I guess there's still good Croat and Serb etc. rawk happenin'). Prljavo Kazaliste (Dirty Theatre) used to be awesome, then they turned into a bad soft rock band in the late 80's. Termiti (The Termites) had a great record too... that's sort of the extent of my knowing names.

has anyone heard the "Bloodstains Across Yugoslavia" comp? I know some of the bands on it (my half-brother lives in Croatia and tipped me off on some good ones, or at least a lot of great anonymous songs) but I don't know how it would be as a whole. how are the other 'Bloodstains" comps?

so yes, HCI, dish out the good stuff on the Hungarians!

[tinobeat]

in my pile at work, also:

V/A - Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey 2CD
Deerhoof - Apple O' CD
Tortoise & The Ex - In The Fishtank CD
Trad Gras och Stenar - Mors Mors CD

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by tinobeat

has anyone heard the "Bloodstains Across Yugoslavia" comp? I know some of the bands on it (my half-brother lives in Croatia and tipped me off on some good ones, or at least a lot of great anonymous songs) but I don't know how it would be as a whole. how are the other 'Bloodstains" comps?

so yes, HCI, dish out the good stuff on the Hungarians!

My Croatian Half-Brother

[Miss Tasty Princess]

VHK (short form) is the only Hungarian band I'm really familiar with though I've been meaning to check out more. Here's a link to the label in Hungary that I got most of my VHK stuff from:

http://www.trottel.mentha.hu/

[vesper]

Today:

Built to Spill, There's Nothing Wrong with Love
Spoon, Kill the Moonlight
Stars, Nightsongs
Xiu Xiu, A Promise and Knife Play
The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up/Xiu Xiu split, Insound Tour Support

...and last, "I Luv U" by Dizzee Rascal on repeat. One of the best singles I've heard this year.

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by vesper
Today:

Built to Spill, There's Nothing Wrong with Love
Spoon, Kill the Moonlight
Stars, Nightsongs
Xiu Xiu, A Promise and Knife Play
The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up/Xiu Xiu split, Insound Tour Support

...and last, "I Luv U" by Dizzee Rascal on repeat. One of the best singles I've heard this year.

I like "Just Sittin' Here" from the Dizzee Rascal LP. It's fly.

[vesper]

Have you heard the whole disc? I'd buy it just to have "I Luv U" in my possession.

[bitterfruit]

I've listened to most of the LP. Admittedly, I have not spent as much time listening to it as I should have. It's worth owing. My favorite tracks so far are:

Jezebel
Sittin' Here
Stop Dat
Seems 2 Be
Do It


My most glaringly lacking senses of music are related to Hip-Hop, simply because my exposure has been lean, but I am interested and willing to listen to good Hip-Hop. I've been recently turned onto Murs, which is bad-dass. I'm looking for more.

[bitterfruit]

And to add one more thought to this. I feel that it's a daunting task to explore something so very different than what you currently explore. Everything about it poses an extremely interesting challenge of "where to begin?"

Then I guess it's like anything else in life. Search, delve, ingest, continue.

[vesper]

True, bitterfruit. I was never exposed to much hip-hop (aside from the typical radio/MTV fodder) until this past year when my roommate showed me some really great stuff.

[earl grey]

built to spill - perfect from now on
the clientele - the violet hour
fonica - ripple
elvis costello - my aim is true
deerhoof - apple o'
v/a - branches and routes (fatcat records comp.)

the fatcat 2D compilation was a great $10 pick-up this weekend. disc 1 is great - lots of warm, ambient, glitchy IDM. some excellent acts i'd never heard before - mice parade, process, set fire to flames, duplo remote, stromba, him. disc 2 rocks much harder - cool stuff from the dylan group, xinlisupreme, black dice, etc....

[dekone]

Junior Senior : D-d-don't Don't Stop The Beat
Duran Duran : Duran Duran (remaster)
Cafe Tacuba : Cuatro Caminos
Only Child : Solitaire
Dosh : Numerous Quality Mixes
The Libertines : I Get Around EP
Dandy Warhols : Welcome To The Monkeyhouse

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

[Miss Tasty Princess]

since yesterday afternoon: The Malarkies When Every Metal Shines DAF Fünfzehn Neue DAF Lieder (not as good as the classic stuff but not at all bad or anything for a reunion album) Haco + Sakamoto Hiromichi Ash in the Rainbow (probably the best post-After Dinner thing Haco has done yet; I especially love the plaintive singing saw) Elekibass California (fun Japanese "pop" [not J-Pop, though] band I saw a few months ago and now can't stop listening to) The Malarkies Andiamo (it's criminal these folks are so unknown and I think a lot of people on this board would dig their low-key folky sound) Kung Pao Sheboygan (heavy, sludgey, lurching stuff but RIP, I think:() King Crimson The Power to Believe (checking if I still dislike it and, yes, I do except for the title track, version II) Alchemist Jar of Kingdom (weirdest death metal band I've heard yet and pretty cool to boot)

[Salman]

bonnie 'prince' billy - i see a darkness
robert johnson - king of the delta blues singers vol. 2
joni mitchell - blue
mark lanegan - the winding sheet
bob dylan - john wesley harding
palace music - lost blues and other songs
papa m - whatever mortal
liz phair - girlysound

[Ladt]

Originally posted by bitterfruit
And to add one more thought to this. I feel that it's a daunting task to explore something so very different than what you currently explore. Everything about it poses an extremely interesting challenge of "where to begin?"

Then I guess it's like anything else in life. Search, delve, ingest, continue.
This very message board has opened me up to many a band I wouldn't have heard of due to lack of exposure in the UK. I thank you all for that. However, I'm still stuck firmly in my indie rut and proud to be here.

[jt. r]

enough self-loathing for now:

super furry animals-phantom power (they bring off the quasi-political title and have more eclectic variety than the jicks' touring partner)

earlimart-everyone down here

polyphonic spree-the beginning stages of

the notwist-neon golden (like the strokes, i got into this band well after the sheen wore off. unlike the strokes i think i'll still be listening to this record after the next fifteen minutes. that strokes' disc was fun though, wasn't it?)

going to see grandaddy monday night w/ earlimart.

now viewing: cobra verde (herzog)
now reading: defoe _a journal of the plague year_

[pabost]

Interesting. I still listen to, and love, the Strokes record. On the other hand, I got Neon Golden about three months ago, and have been pretty bored with it. I probably need to give it a couple more spins, though.

[johansen smith]

lately I've been listening to some demo/home recording bootlegs from Iron and Wine.

[Paul]

I found an mp3 of The House of Love's cover of The Chills' "Pink Frost" that was originally released on a 1991 single. I've been listening to it on repeat most of the day. If anyone has a better than 128kbps version, let me know...

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by johansen smith
lately I've been listening to some demo/home recording bootlegs from Iron and Wine.

A buddy of mine is drumming on their album currently being recorded in Chicago. He's an unbelievable musician.

[Paul]

I think I like the Iron and Wine album better now than I did all those months ago when I first heard it. It's a grower for sure.

Papa M / Live From a Sharks Cage
Forget Cassettes / Instruments of Action
Henry Cow / Leg End
Henry Cow / Unrest
Borbetomagus / Buncha Hair That Long
The Flaming Lips / Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (saw them first time last Wednesday -- best concert in recent memory)
The New Pornographers / Electric Version (hopefully seeing them in Louisville on the 23rd)

[DefenderOfPants]

radar bros. radar bros.

[Ladt]

The super furies is much better than the jicks *SHOCK HORROR- SFA AREN'T A MATADOR BAND) but there you go.

[johansen smith]

Yuji Oniki Tvi
I've had this CD for a couple years now, but I just pulled it off the shelf, and I'm wondering why I haven't been listening to it more often.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by Paul
Borbetomagus / Buncha Hair That LongI have yet to figure out just where they quote "Blue Jay Way" in their version of "Blue Jay Way." Great album anyway, of course.

[vesper]

Unwound, Leaves Turn Inside You
...Trail of Dead, Source Tags and Codes

[Paul]

Originally posted by Mr.HCI
I have yet to figure out just where they quote "Blue Jay Way" in their version of "Blue Jay Way." Great album anyway, of course.

It's kind of new to me, but after three or four listens I have yet to find any resemblances to the original source material. Fantastic shit, though!

[yovan]

Originally posted by bitterfruit
I've listened to most of the LP. Admittedly, I have not spent as much time listening to it as I should have. It's worth owing. My favorite tracks so far are:

Jezebel
Sittin' Here
Stop Dat
Seems 2 Be
Do It


My most glaringly lacking senses of music are related to Hip-Hop, simply because my exposure has been lean, but I am interested and willing to listen to good Hip-Hop. I've been recently turned onto Murs, which is bad-dass. I'm looking for more.

Is this record out in the US yet? Anyone know of I way I can sample a track?

[vesper]

You might search for it here. (http://www.epitonic.com)

I haven't been, but it seems like something they'd have.

[tinobeat]

records at home today, a big day for Dead Meadow and GbV:

Dead Meadow - Shivering King and Others 2LP
Dead Meadow - Howls From The Hills LP
Dead Meadow - Got Live If You Want It! LP
Dead Meadow - s/t LP
Guided By Voices - Earthquake Glue promo CD
Guided By Voices - Universal Truths and Cycles LP
Guided By Voices - Happy Motherfuckers and Sad Clowns 2LP

non-Matador:
[[VVRSSNN]] - s/t LP
Deerhoof - ReveilleLP
Animal Collective - Here Comes The Indian LP
Black Dice - Cone Toaster 12"
Mono - One Step More and You Die CD
Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished CD

though the new development of having no solid job sucks, I haven't listened to this much music in months!

[vesper]

Deerhoof, Apple O' (God damn, this album is spec-fucking-tacular. If I could only find Reveille...)
Angels of Light, Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home (Ace!)
TV on the Radio, Young Liars EP (I started out only really liking the a capella cover of "Mr Grieves". After 3 or 4 listens, I said, "okay." Couple more, I said, "Pretty good." I guess I'll love it by next week, I dunno.)

Those are the newest ones - otherwise:

Junior Senior, D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat
Dismemberment Plan, Emergency & I
Stars, Nightsongs (Has anyone heard their latest yet?)
Xiu Xiu, Knife Play

[Paul]

I dl'ed the [[[vvrssnn]]] album to get a feel for it since all things Yume Bitsu are just this side of divine. I'm not disappointed with it, really, but I don't know if the next step will be purchasing a tangible copy...I'm over it already. Bummer.

TV On The Radio / Young Liars EP
Grandaddy / Sumday (this will be going to the used cd store upon my next visit, thank you)
Yume Bitsu / Golden Vessyl of Sound
Yume Bitsu / Giant Surface Music Falling To Earth Like Jewels
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club / Take Them On, On Your Own (advance word on this is overwhelmingly negative, but I don't agree)

[johansen smith]

I can't stop listening to the new M. Ward album, over and over.

[bitterfruit]

"A Pretty Mess By This One Band" is much better than "Sumday."

Here's the playlist before vacation:

Superchunk - Cup Of Sand
Danielle Howle And The Tantrums - About To Burst
British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power ( Versus in disguise?)
The Wedding Present - George Plus Best

[jt. r]

beach boys: sunflower/surf's up
beach boys: smiley smile/wild honey

i'm debating picking up the friends/20/20 comp. does *cabinessence* warrant this purchase?

[Miss Tasty Princess]

I picked up Drive by Bic Runga a couple of weeks ago and I can't stop listening to it. She was one of the standouts on the Live at Helen's CD I'd picked up a year or so ago for the David Kilgour and Martin Phillipps tracks so, when I saw Drive in a used CD store, I snapped it up and it was well worth it.

[dekone]

Let's Active : Cypress / Afoot (reissue)
Steve Burns : Songs For Dustmites
Christ. : Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle
Pepe Deluxe : Beatitude
Kraftwerk : Tour De France 03
Straight To Video (http://www.discogs.com/release/171137) compilation (Illicit Recordings (http://www.discogs.com/label/Illicit_Recordings))
Broadcast : Ha Ha Sound


silence is a rhythm too (http://www.geocities.com/mss_35/TheRezidence.html)
matador on the electronic tip (http://www.discogs.com/label/Matador)

[music dude]

Polvo- Exploded Drawing
Shapes
Unwound- Repetition
June 0f '44- Engine Takes To Water
Shannonwright- Maps Of Tacit
Pavement- Brighten The Corners
Neil Michael Hagerty- The Howling Hex
Wilco- Being There
Stevie Wonder- Innervisions
Ginuwine- The Bachelor
Shellac- Action Park
Wierd War- Wierd War
Lenny Bruce- various
Royal Trux- Sweet 16
Foo Fighters- The Colour and The Shape

[Futureman]

Les Savy Fav--Emor
Giddy Motors--Make it Pop
Ex-Models--Zoo Psychology
Comets on Fire--Reissue

[vesper]

What do you think of those albums, Futureman?

For today:
Giddy Motors, Make It Pop
Dismemberment Plan, Emergency and I
Olivia Tremor Control, Peel Session

...and these songs on repeat: "Hey Mami" by Fannypack, "Losing My Edge" by LCD Soundsystem, "Tom's Diner (remix)" by Suzanne Vega f/ DNA, and "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Donna Summer

[KoolWhpp]

Jewel, "0304"

Christina Aguilera, "Stripped"

Robbie Williams, "Escapology"

Beyonce, "Dangerously In Love"

[johansen smith]

aren't we funny.

[Salman]

Originally posted by jt. r

i'm debating picking up the friends/20/20 comp. does *cabinessence* warrant this purchase? [/B]

Hell yes, my friend.

Friends/20/20 is an essential album(s) by the band.

[vesper]

Originally posted by johansen smith
aren't we funny.

I don't know about KoolWhpp, but I was serious. I really was listening to those songs on repeat.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Since last night:

Allan Pettersson Symphony No. 13
Yura Yura Teikoku Me No Car
Mark Dresser Banquet
Erasure I Say, I Say, I Say
White Zombie La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1
Lost Breed Save Yourself
Tairikuotoko vs Sanmyakuonna Perfect Hell
The Troggs Cellophane

[tinobeat]

in the tour van this past week:

The Aislers Set - How I Learned To Write Backwards
Friends Forever - Killball
Kepler - Fuck, Fight, Fail
That new Joe Gibbs comp on Soul Jazz
Star Star Quarterback - Spacious Phrasing
Galaxie 500 - shit.. I forget which G500 CD
Pavement - S+E: L+R
Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Ganger - Hammock Style

a buncha other things too.. can't remember now though...

purchased at an awesome record store in Newark, Delaware:
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Wormed By Leonard 2LP
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn/Ginger Brooks Takahashi & Friends - Songs from the Black Mountain Project LP
Yume Bitsu - Auspicious Winds LP
Marble Valley - Sauckiehall Street LP

[Futureman]

vesper,

love them. I've been blasting the stereo the way I did when I was in middle school.

LSF is tamer than I expected, its enjoyable and I like the album the more I play it.

Giddy Motors is just stinkin' groovy. Funky metal like. Cool.

I have not had a chance to listen to ex-models since getting the CD.

Now, Comets on Fire has me off my ass. I can only describe it as Led Zepplin meets (dare I say it?) Nazareth--but much much faster.

[tinobeat]

which Comets On Fire album didja get?

If the LSF you're listening to is Go Forth, then yeah, its a bit tame, especially considering those songs are insane live. I don't know why they've decided that Phil Ek's their new fave producer. He takes the edge waaaay off..

oh, I just looked and saw your list... disregard the above...

ROME (upside down) is easily my favorite Les Savy Fav recording. its one of those perfect EPs, not too long, not too short, you listen, it ends and you say "fuck yeah!"

the 2nd Comets on Fire album is even crazier, but not in terms of energy. A lot more stretched out and earth-scorching. but I love that reissue so much too...

[Futureman]

tino,

I got the reissue (again, WOW), and I will defintely get "Field recordings from the Sun."

By the bye, how is LSF's "3/5" and "Cat and the Cobra"?

[tinobeat]

3/5 - the first record, they were a 2-guitar band then, and it shows... I like it a lot

The Cat and the Cobra - AWESOME. their last as a 2-guitar band, a little more interesting lyrically, and the production suits them a lot better.

Go Forth - their 3rd album, first LP with only one guitarist (rome being the first recording with 1 guit.) amazing songs, but the production is way too lush. Phil Ek recorded it the same way he did the later Built To Spill albums, and though that sound suits BTS perfectly, LSF needs some edge, and there isn't any. The songs are my favorites though.

man, I just realized its been almost 3 years since I've seen them play.. wtf?

[vesper]

Yeah, tinobeat...wtf? ;)

Both of the LSF records you asked about are great. I lean more towards 3/5 myself just because it has so many great anthem-rockers. The stuff of port-town bar fights and fuck-all pranksters; ace!

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by Futureman
Now, Comets on Fire has me off my ass. I can only describe it as Led Zepplin meets (dare I say it?) Nazareth--but much much faster. I haven't heard the records but live they struck me as a combination of first album-era MC5 mixed with Hawkwind-style synth noise.

[jef]

Compulsive Gamblers - Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing
Drifters - best of
Replacements - Tim
Jon Langford & His Sadies - Mayor of the Moon
Old 97's - Too Far Too Care
Roger Miller - Return of

[bitterfruit]

GBV - Sandbox
The Glands - The Glands
Gang Of Four - Peel Sessions
Bally Sagoo - Bollywood Flashback
Jello Biafra - I Blow Minds For A Living (disc 1)
John Fahey - The Legend Of Blind Joe Death
Joy Division - Permanent


I almost forgot how much I love Sandbox!!

[johansen smith]

this week, I ran out of shelf space for CDs. it's been quite trauamtic for me, really.

Light Green Leaves Little Wings
a Negative Capability Fancie
Earthquake Glue Guided by Voices
the Beginning Stages of... the Polyphonic Spree
Is Princess Superstar

[Miss Tasty Princess]

yesterday:

Kenny Howes Back to You Today
Skid Row Thickskin (very disappointing on first listen)
Love Da Capo
Earthride Taming of the Demons
The Blech Ich wollte meine Schuhe zerschneiden
Pelican Pelican
Pere Ubu Cloudland
The Blue Humans Live - N.Y. 1980
The Fall [austurbæjarbíó]
The Birthday Party The John Peel Sessions
Kevin Ayers Bananamour
Olivier Messiaen Réveil des oiseaux/Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine

[tinobeat]

Friends Forever - Killball LP
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Trickle Down Theory... LP
Bruce Springsteen - _The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle LP
Suntan - Send You Home CD
Paul McCartney - McCartney LP
Fuck - Baby Loves A Funny Bunny LP

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by johansen smith
this week, I ran out of shelf space for CDs. it's been quite trauamtic for me, really.



And that's why I converted every CD I own to VBR MP3 and bought a 30GB Ipod. No more real estate concerns.

[vesper]

Originally posted by tinobeat
Friends Forever - Killball LP
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Trickle Down Theory... LP
Bruce Springsteen - _The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle LP
Suntan - Send You Home CD
Paul McCartney - McCartney LP
Fuck - Baby Loves A Funny Bunny LP

What is that Suntan CD like, tinobeat? I reviewed a sampler last year and it showed some promise.

[tinobeat]

The CD is great. 7 longish, delayed and reverbed songs with monstrous wah-wah filled solos, but never seeming wanky. also surprising is how songy it is. I was expecting it to be more shoegazey and droney, but its really more like way slowed down psych rock.

its awesome.

they just moved to NYC, which is kinda too bad, as I liked that they were boston band, but as long as they keep coming up to boston often...

[vesper]

Boston, eh? Have you heard Helms? I haven't heard their debut, but I listened to McCarthy last year and found it rather nice. Not groundbreaking stuff, but all the songs were solid on there. I guess the easiest way to pin them down would be the Chicago school of post-rock (a la Slint) with a little bit of Sonic Youth (Sister-era) thrown into the mix.

-edit to add-

I haven't pulled out any albums, but I have the following on repeat:

Q and Not U - "Black Plastic Bag"
The Rapture - "Sister Saviour"
LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge"
Dismemberment Plan - "Time Bomb"

[tinobeat]

man, I loooove helms. I've been seeing them play for years now, since back when they used to be called The Swimmer.

McCarthy is a great record. your description is pretty on-point, but I'd give them a bit more credit for originality though. If they ever venture out your way, though, do NOT miss them playing live. fiery!

[vesper]

Yeah, the day after I heard their album I checked their tour dates. Turns out that they played in Richmond (roughly an hour away) the night before.

Certainly, they are much more original than what I described. I was just trying to give you a feel in case you hadn't heard them.

[jef]

The Last - L.A. Explosion
Zumpano - Goin through changes
Gun Club - Pastoral Hide and seek
My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
Elliott Smith - Pretty (Ugly Before)/A Distorted Reality... 7"

[pabost]

What a great band.

ELO - Greatest Hits
The Clientele - The Violet Hours
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
The Band - The Band

[jef]

RE: Zumpano

Yeah, I just got that album and had never heard them before. It's pretty good, haven't listened to it too much, but so far I don't like it as much as the New Pornographers.

[Salman]

I've been listening to these in the last little while quite a bit:

The Ronettes - The Best of the Ronettes
The Replacements - Tim
The Raindrops - The Complete Raindrops
Bettie Serveert - Palomine
The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus
Guided By Voices - Earthquake Glue
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master and Everyone
The Crystals - The Best of the Crystals
The Aislers Set - How I Learned to Write Backwards
Scout Niblett - I Am
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
The Chocolate Watchband - One Step Beyond
The Sonics - Here are the Sonics

[maroonwalrus]

Stuff revolving through my stereo lately:

Slowdive - Pygmalion
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
Modest Mouse - Interstate 8
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
The Sea & Cake - Nassau
Les Savy Fav - Emor (Rome Written Upside Down) EP
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

[dekone]

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club : Take Them On, On Your Own
Terry Hall & Mushtaq : The Hour Of Two Lights
Kraftwerk : Tour De France Soundtracks
The Raveonettes : Chain Gang Of Love
Richard X : Presents His X-Factor Vol.1
Verve Remixed Vol.2 compilation
Interpol : The Black EP
7 Hurtz : Electroleum


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

[vesper]

To keep me awake while I drove back from my hometown:
Deerhoof, Apple 'O
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell
The Notwist, Neon Golden

To review:
Steve Burns, Songs for Dustmites
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Take Them On On Your Own
The Raveonettes, Chain Gang of Love

Waiting for me back at college:
The Rapture, Echoes !!!!!!!!

The Rapture, far and away >>>>> my most anticipated album of the year.

[Futureman]

McLusky--McLusky Do Dallas
Enon--High Society
Comets on Fire--Field Recordings
Giddy Motors--Make it Pop

as you can see, I've been...er...rawking.

but tempered by Sigur Ros' Agaetis byrjun.

[jef]

Enon - Hocus Pocus
Frank Black - Show me your tears
Glen Branca - The Acsension
The Impressions - Further Impressions
Major Lance - Okeh best of
Byrds - Younger than Yesterday

[tinobeat]

I'm gettin' all quiet up in here:

Kepler - Fuck, Fight, Fail CD
Tarentel - Ephemera CD
Tarentel - From Bone To Satellite 2LP
Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide CD
The Clientele - The Violet Hour CD
Oval - Dok LP
Oval - Diskont LP + 12"

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by jef
Glenn Branca - The AscensionA most excellent album! I played the title track on my college radio show and a friend of mine called to complain that it sounded like a bad acid trip. Actually, I played it lots of times but I guess that was the only time he was listening. The same guy called to thank me (seriously) for playing Metal Machine Music in its entirety once.

My day so far:

Yura Yura Teikoku Yura Yura Teikoku no Shibire
Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers
Motorpsycho It's a Love Cult
Saint Vitus Die Healing
Dump A Plea for Tenderness
Mark Feldman Music for Violin Alone
Sum 41 Half Hour of Power
Unpersons III
The Blue Humans Live in London 1994

I bought the brand spankin' new ZZ Top CD, Mescalero, on my lunch break today so I'll be listening to that on my way home from work.

[bitterfruit]

HCI,

You're not a DJ at 88.5 are you? It's a fuggin' fantastic station for those who don't live in or around the A-T-L. I've been told that it's the "largest college radio station in the country." I don't know the details on what metrics were used, but I can tell you that I get great reception waaay out in the sticks.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by bitterfruit
HCI,

You're not a DJ at 88.5 are you? It's a fuggin' fantastic station for those who don't live in or around the A-T-L. I've been told that it's the "largest college radio station in the country." I don't know the details on what metrics were used, but I can tell you that I get great reception waaay out in the sticks. No, I was a DJ (and rock music director for a while) at WTJU in Charlottesville, VA (from 1982 through 1991). So were James from Yo La Tengo, Stephen & Bob from Pavement and Dave from Silver Jews. Oh, and the violin player from The Dave Matthews Band was in our news department for a while. I'm probably forgetting other "luminaries" but it was a long time ago. I still miss it, though.

[jt. r]

boards of canada: music has the right...
decembrists: castaways, etc.
broadcast: ha-ha sound
todd rundgren: something/anything
radiohead: httt
ex-models: zoo psych

[cobra killer]

Original Hamster : Nuthin' but a G4 thang
Bruce Haack : Electric Lucifer book 2
Sensational : Natural Shine
Ween : Quebec
Dataclast vs the Earwigs
Flaming Lips : Yoshimi battles the pink robots
Mouse on Mars : Idiology

[Futureman]

Jeff, How's the new Enon CD?

A student of mine just gave me a Drive Like Jehu CD (s/t). I like it!

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by cobra killer
Bruce Haack : Electric Lucifer book 2How does that compare with the original Electric Lucifer?

[jef]

Futereman, I like about 3/4 of the new Enon album. It's good, but not as good as High Society. Still worth getting if you dig their other stuff though.

Right now:

Silver Jews - Bright Flight
Broadcast: ha-ha sound
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Big Star - 3rd/Sisters Lovers
John Prine - Diamond in the Rough

[earl grey]

broadcast - haha sound
tortoise - standards
super furry animals - phantom power
tears for fears - tears roll down
the rapture - echoes
white stripes - elephant
spiritualized - amazing grace

[yovan]

Ted Leo/Pharmacists "Hearts of Oak"
Ted Leo/Pharmacists "Tyranny"
Oranges Band "All Around"
Frank Black/Catholics "Nadine"
Deadly Snakes "Ode to Joy"
GZA "Legend of the Liquid Sword"

[dekone]

Ulrich Schnauss : A Strangely Isolated Place
Shapes One compilation (Tru Thoughts)
The Notwist : The Notwist
Pretty Girls Make Graves : The New Romance
Ulrich Schnauss : Far Away Trains Passing By
Swell : Whenever You're Ready
Radio 4 : Electrify EP
The Stills : Rememberese EP
Spiritualized : Amazing Grace
Lost In Translation soundtrack
Black Box Recorder : Passionoia
The Matthew Herbert Big Band : Goodbye Swingtime
Young Marble Giants : Colossal Youth (reissue)
Roots Of Hip Hop compilation (Mojo Magazine)


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

[Futureman]

How's the new PGMG's album?

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by dekone
Young Marble Giants : Colossal Youth (reissue)It's nice to see that one's finally available again. All I've listened to today is Stankonia by OutKast and a few Kevin Ayers songs but yesterday I listened to the new ZZ Top album Mescalero and I give it a HUGE thumbs up.

[dekone]

Originally posted by Futureman
How's the new PGMG's album?

I've listened to it once, so I can't really say much more than I liked what I heard - vague-o.

@Mr.HC - re:YMG...

I've had the vinyl since way back, and have often been tempted to pick up the CD in the past, but somehow it just never happened. PIAS America picked up this reissue, and it's the one with all of the bonus tracks, so I'm pretty psyched - and have been playing every day for the last week!



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

[Miss Tasty Princess]

It is pretty wonderful, isn't it, dekone? BTW, there's a demoes CD on Vinyl Japan called Salad Days that you might want to check out. The recording quality is rough but it's always nice to have more YMG.

[vesper]

I'm trying to tear through these albums for the radio.

Steve Burns, Songs for Dustmites (Surprisingly good.)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Take Them On, On Your Own (Some decent tracks, but the middle loses all of it's steam. The first four tracks are rockers, for sure, and the last 2 tracks are perhaps the finest on the disc.)
The Rapture, Echoes (Straight up gold. My album o' the year pick.)
Year of the Rabbit, Year of the Rabbit (Listening to this now, immensely bored.)
The Raveonettes, Chain Gang of Love (Pending...)

Maybe if I'm feeling hyper-critical, I'll also review
Jet, Get Born
April March, Triggers
Vic Thrill, CE-5

As a refresher between albums, I'm listening to a boatload of Circulatory System tracks. "Inside Blasts" is my "perfect song" of the moment.

[jef]

My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Iron and Wine - Sea and the rythym
Gun Club - Fire of Love
Jonathan Richman - Rock n Roll w/ the Modern Lovers
Silver Jews - American Water

And I plan to listen to a ton of Johnny Cash this weekend. R.I.P.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Today, so far:

Th' Faith Healers Imaginary Friend
The Fall Words of Expectation
Pentagram Review Your Choices
Kevin Ayers "best of" CD I made for a friend -- gotta make sure it's OK afore I give it to him tonight

Aside from that, the new ZZ Top album has been majorly kicking my butt. I've already listened to it three times since I bought it Tuesday afternoon.

Also, a friend of mine brought back a bunch of Yura Yura Teikoku albums for me from a recent business trip to Japan and they are all pretty incredible. The earlier ones are sort of garagey with lots of spastic, noisey guitar (one nice little tune on Me No Car is destroyed by the finest "I Heard Her Call My Name"-style freakout I've heard in a long time) whereas the newest is more out-and-out weird: J-pop (I wondered at first if it was the right CD) into krautock w/stun guitar into garage rock into WTF? I highly recommend them to any Japanophiles though no one in the US imports their stuff that I've been able to find (the Japan-based www.CDJapan.co.jp has a bunch of their stuff, though).

[vesper]

I'm listened to the K Records Invisible Shield comp for the past couple days. This [[[[VVRSSNN]]]] song ("Bruise Blood") is really great.

[Eleven O'Clock]

The Icarus Line - Mono
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
Codeine - Frigid Stars
The Rutabega - Cobus Green
The Velvet Underground - Bootleg Series Vol. 1
The Beatles - 1967-1970
Radio Birdman - Essential
Vaselines - The Way of the Vaselines.

[jef]

Joe Meek - I Hear a New World
Wanda Jackson - Greatest Hits
Billy Bragg - Workers Playtime
Satisfact - _The Third Meeting at the Third Counter
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Green on Red - Gravity Talks

[vesper]

Animal Collective, Here Comes the Indian
Wolf Eyes, Dead Hills + Mugger + Dread
The Hidden Cameras, The Smell of Our Own
Polysics, Neu!
Enon, Hocus Pocus
Yume Bitsu, The Golden Vessyl of Sound

[Paul]

IRON MAIDEN - Dance Of Death!

Yeah! I'd almost forgotten what metal was all about.

[johansen smith]

Sally Crewe Drive it Like You Stole it

holy jeez, why is she not being hyped all over the place? in a perfect world, this would be the Ravonettes or whatever the retro, pseudo-indie flavor of the month is.

[bitterfruit]

v/a Merge Records - Survive And Advance Volume 2.
Iron And Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Volume 2.
Saturday Looks Good To Me - All Your Summer Songs
Stratford 4 - The Revolt Against Tired Noises
Superchunk - Cup Of Sand, disc 2

[vesper]

Black Dice, Beaches and Canyons
Wolf Eyes, Dread
Kaada, Thank You For Giving Me Your Valuable Time
Sleater Kinney, Dig Me Out + One Beat
Parts and Labor, Groundswell

[tinobeat]

tell me your thoughts on Dread.

I got the Dead Hills 12", and thought it was interesting enough, so when I saw the Dread LP I bought it right away, but it really hasn't hit me.

Don't consider it a challenge as much as a "recommend me this band I've actually already heard and have two albums by"

Vesper: why do you like Wolf Eyes? (besides the totally badass name)

[vesper]

I only really like noise acts (like Wolf Eyes and Black Dice) when I can listen to them through headphones. There are so many nuances to dig through once you get personal w/ it, and I love to just pop on my headphones and listen to all the fucked up sounds those guys can make. Besides, I'm the kind of listener that is more often interested in sound's (rather than lyric's) expressive capabilities. The noises that Wolf Eyes create are bizarre - I think you'd agree - but I feel like they say a lot in all of those tones & layers. I've actually come to like Dread more than Dead Hills, though they are both very good to me. I have Mugger, too, but haven't listened to it enough times; it's by far the most violent of the three.

[Futureman]

Drive Like Jehu--s/t
Consonant--s/t
Mission of Burma--Signals, Calls, and Marches
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs--Fever to Tell
Unwound--Leaves Turn Inside You

[jef]

Broadcast - Haha Sound
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Bonnie Prince Billy - I see a darkness

[earl grey]

matmos - the civil war
rilo kiley - the execution of all things
prefuse 73 - extinguished
spiritualized - amazing grace
miles davis - in a silent way

[Miss Tasty Princess]

since last night . . . Yura Yura Teikoku Yura Yura Teikoku no Memai (I can't get enough of this band)
Galie Galie (very light prog from Mexico from the mid-70s and oddly addictive, like if Seals & Crofts were an instrumental prog group and, yes, I know that sounds horrible but that's why I said it's oddly addictive)
MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse Resonance magazine 7" EP (really Eye Yamatsuka and Otomo Yoshihide)
Cindytalk Transgender Warrior 7" (new single nearly a decade after their last, excellent album, Wappinschaw)
Subsonics "I'm Looking Over My Shoulder" 7" (great Atlanta band that I somehow overlooked for the past decade)
Genesis Live
Erasure Erasure
Unearthly Trance Hadit CD-R demo
Audio Sports Era of Glitterring Gas (Eye's rap group from the early 90s)
DAF Fünfzehn Neue DAF Lieder (new reunion album that I can't seem to stop listening to)
Cathedral The Carnival Bizarre (getting excited to see them tomorrow night)

[mac]

yesterday:

Glands of External Secretion/Decaer Pinga - Tubular Bells (Starlight Furniture)

Curtains - Flybys (Thin Wrist)

Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home (Young God)

Dumbwaiters - Titles (Screw Music Forever)

Neil Young - Arc (Reprise)

[tinobeat]

thanks for the response, vesper. I'm just interested in what people find appealing about noise acts, as I find its something different for everybody.

anywho, in the past day or two:

Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills LP
Weird War - s/t LP
Scene Creamers - I Suck On That Emotion LP
Sunburned Hand of the Man - s/t LP
Aspera Ad Astra - Peace CD
Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction LP
Destroyer - City of Daughters LP
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime CD
Lilys - A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns CD

[vesper]

Why do you like Wolf Eyes, tino?

Today...

Arab Strap, Monday at the Hug and Pint
Stars, Heart
KC Accidental, Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub
The Hidden Cameras, The Smell of Our Own
Ms John Soda, No P or D

[tinobeat]

you know, I don't know...

when I first heard of them, I thought they had a badass name. I got Dead Hills and liked the sort of pulsing nature of it. Its one of those things though, where every, say, 4th time I listen to them or maybe early black dice or really abrasive noise stuff, I kind of snap and think "this is garbage! we've all been fooled into thinking this is anything other than pure bullshit." Then I ask people why they even bother pretending to like the stuff. Then I reconsider and try again, and I get back into the stuff, realizing its not just random crap.

but yeah, I guess wolf eyes have nice pulsing scariness happening. I'm still not as into Dread as Dead Hills, but I've listened to the latter a lot more. I'll leave it at "I'm not sure why I like them, but sometimes it just hits the spot."

kind of like how HOT SNAKES! are hitting the spot right now... except that I'm also really hungry. a nice grilled cheese would really make my noon. mmm.. Grilled Cheese and Hot Snakes.. sounds like it should go in the deep fried battered mars bars thread.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Alan Vega Collision Drive
Yura Yura Teikoku Yura Yura Teikoku no Memai
Rebel Truth Everybody Hates Everybody
Yo La Tengo Summer Sun
Motörhead Bastards
Carole King Tapestry
Overhang Party Live at Showboat 8/22 1994
Rose Tattoo Nice Boys Don't Play Rock 'n' Roll
Rudimentary Peni Rudimentary Peni
Rudimentary Peni Farce
Sunny Murray Sunshine
Sunny Murray An Even Break
The Clean Slush Fund

[Salman]

For the last couple of weeks:

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
The Beach Boys - Wild Honey
The Hellacopters - Grande Rock
The Supersuckers - La Mano Cornuda
Smog - Wild Love
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers Vol. 2
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Nirvana - In Utero
Sebadoh - Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock
Howlin' Wolf - Evil
The Immortal Lee County Killers II - Love Is a Charm of Powerful Trouble
Essex Green - Everything is Green
Cynthia Dall - Sound Restores Young Men
June of 44 - Tropics and Meridians
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
Marshmallow Coast - Marshmallow Costing

[yovan]

"Aquemini" Outkast - I absolutely adore this record
"Parachutes" Coldplay
"Rush Of Blood" Coldplay
"Soft Bulletin" Flaming Lips
The new Frank Black LP

[Squall91]

I just got The Wrens - The Meadowlands (limited edition) in the mail today. So I'm listening to that non-stop. It's fucking brilliant.

[dekone]

Meat Beat Manifesto : Storm The Studio R.M.X.S.
Outkast : Speakerboxx / The Love Below
Mutant Disco compilation (2CD reissue)
Sondre Lerche : Don't Be Shallow EP
Television : Marquee Moon (reissue)
Ima Robot : Ima Robot
South : With The Tides
April March : Triggers
David Bowie : Reality
Plump DJs : Eargasm



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

[vesper]

Big study day, so:

Dntel, Life Is Full of Possibilities
Ms John Soda, No P or D
Fennesz, Endless Summer

[mac]

over a six pack of Becks :

David Kilgour - Here Come The Cars (Flying Nun)

Blue Orchids - Darker Bloom (Cherry Red)

My Cat Is An Alien - Il Segundo (Starlight Furniture Co.)

Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (Sire)

Dead C. - White House (Siltbreeze/Matador)

[tinobeat]

Pussy Galore - Dial M For Motherfucker
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
Chris Brokaw - Red Cities
Bright - Albatross Guest House
David Axelrod - s/t
Electrelane - Rock It To The Moon
Mates of State - Team Boo
Parlour - Googler

all today on my rad new iPod.. whoo! its kind of weird, though, having all that music right fucking there... I already have some 300 albums on it, and its kind of disconcerting... almost too easy.

[earl grey]

i think i only slightly overstate things when i say that the ipod truly changed my life. having so much music so quickly accessible is an incredible thing, especially when you can fit it in your pocket and put it all on shuffle.... like a perfect radio station, it seems to have a sixth sense about picking the right songs at the right time.

today's pile:

my morning jacket - it still moves
yo la tengo - summer sun
viktor vaughn - vaudeville villain
radiohead - hail to the thief
fonica - ripple
david holmes - come get it i got it

[vesper]

I Am Kloot, I Am Kloot
British Sea Power, The Decline of British Sea Power
Kaada, Thank You For Giving Me Your Valuable Time
Grandaddy, Sumday

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by earl grey
i think i only slightly overstate things when i say that the ipod truly changed my life.


It satisfies my constantly changing desires to listen to what happens to match my fancy.

[vesper]

Made a bunch of progress in my studying, so I'm celebrating with uuuh a bunch of noise-rockers...

Hella, Hold Your Horse Is + Bitches Aint Shit But Good People EP + Total Bugs Bunny on Wild Bass EP
Lightning Bolt, Ride the Skies + Wonderful Rainbow
Parts and Labor, Groundswell
Boredoms, Soul Discharge '99
Friends Forever, Killball

Any of you Lightning Bolt and Hella fans ought to check out Parts and Labor. This disc gets better every time I pop it into my disc changer.

-edit-

Oh yeah, and The Rapture, Echoes just to make sure that I still love it as much as the first couple times I listened to it. Still my favorite this year.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Speaking of Boredoms (and an extra long day at work) . . .

The Malarkies Best Map
Yume Bitsu Auspicious Winds
Buzzcocks A Different Kind of Tension
The Forty Fives Get It Together
Slow Horse II
My Dad Is Dead Let's Skip the Details
The Cure Boy's Don't Cry
Jesse James Dupree Foot Fetish
Von LMO Future Language
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Ice Cream for Crow
Lights in a Fat City Somewhere
Boredoms Vision - Creation - Newsun EP
Dagmar Krause/Harold Schellinx/Ronald Heiloo Commuters
Motocaster Stay Loaded
Tenko/Ikue Mori Death Praxis

[jt. r]

Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth
Kraftwerk: Trans-Europe Express
Johnny Cash: Town Hall Party '59
Echo & the Munnymen: Crocodiles

[gwai]

mogwai live @ lyon, france 3rd of june 2003

[Paul]

Just picked up Neil Finn's One All from last year and have been listening to it with sickening frequency. How did I forget that he's so good a writer?

[earl grey]

matmos - the civil war
metro area - metro area
my bloody valentine - loveless
led zeppelin - how the west was won
monolake - hong kong

the new matmos is really fantastic. their stuff has always had tremendous rhythm, but this album infuses it with a new sense of melody. it makes for their most accessible album to date. doesn't seem to be a ton of interest in them around here but i highly recommend this one.

hadn't listened to MBV in a while but "lost in translation" stirred things up. kevin shields scored the film, and "sometimes" is used brilliantly in one scene....

[bitterfruit]

Earl Warren Project - "May It Please The Court," Tape 1, A & B
Iron and Wine - "The Creek Drank The Cradle"
v/a - "Survive and Advance 2"
Yume Bitsu - "Yume Bitsu"
Yo La Tengo - "I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One"
The Stratford 4 - "The Revolt Against Tired Noises"

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Not much today at all but good, nonetheless:

Queen Jazz (twice)
Laguardia Welcome to the Middle

[johansen smith]

lately I've been listening to mixes people have made me, and I also got like the entire Papas Fritas discography off eBay, and it's pretty good as well.

[earl grey]

i don't know a whole lot of papas fritas, but i LOVE helioself.

[jt. r]

Originally posted by Mr.HCI
Laguardia Welcome to the Middle [/B]

i saw these guys open for interpol. welcome to the middle is so apt it's almost tautological. crowd went wild with the coldplay comparisons. i kept choking down yuengling.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Originally posted by jt. r
i saw these guys open for interpol. welcome to the middle is so apt it's almost tautological. crowd went wild with the coldplay comparisons. i kept choking down yuengling. Well, all I know are Coldplay's hits which are OK but don't drive me wild. I saw Laguardia open for and blow away Eyes Adrift a year or so ago and then saw them again a few months later and they were even better so I snagged the album when it came out this week. It's a bit overproduced compared to their demo (which I quite like) that I got at the first show but it still sounded good on first listen.

[jt. r]

Originally posted by Mr.HCI
open for and blow away Eyes Adrift

rest assured, they didn't blow away interpol, although they opened for them and the raveonettes who parenthetically reeked. they're like Live back in '97-refusing to leave the Philadelphia region until they've browbeaten all residents with affectless Danish quasi-garage wank.

i thought laguardia were pleasant, but it might've been a coping mechanism for dealing with the guy sitting next to me, who went on and on about new order & coldplay, before revealing that he saw his ex-girlfriend making out downstairs. at first he laughed it off. halfway through the 'pol's set, he raced out of the troc balcony to stare at the necking couple.

[dekone]

Japan : Gentlemen Take Polaroids (reissue)
Monarques : My Imaginary Move EP
The DFA's Compilation #1
British Sea Power : The Decline Of British Sea Power
The Chemical Brothers : Singles 93 - 03

Silence ist ein Rhythmus auch (http://www.geocities.com/mss_35/TheRezidence.html)

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by earl grey
i don't know a whole lot of papas fritas, but i LOVE helioself.

I like that one lots, but Buildings and Grounds is like magical pop goodness. download "Questions" and be floored.

[William]

The albums most in rotation for me are..."I Often Dream Of Trains" by Robyn Hitchcock, "Lazy Line Painter Jane" (All 3 of the EP boxset) by Belle & Sebastian, and "Her Majesty, The Decemberists" by The Decemberists.

[Futureman]

The Replacements, Let it Be
The Wrens, The Meadowlands
Hot Snakes, Suicide Invoice
Gang of Four, A Brief History...
Unwound, Leaves Turn Inside You

[vesper]

King Geedorah, Take Me To Your Leader
Viktor Vaughn, Vaudeville Villian
Masta Ace, Disposable Arts
Sole, Selling Live Water
Antipop Consortium, Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp

[jef]

Ted Leo - Balgeary ep
Impressions - One by One
Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black
Mekons - B Sides Collection
The Rapture - Echoes
Planxty - Planxty

[Miss Tasty Princess]

House of Large Sizes Portfolio EP
House of Large Sizes I Ate the Painting EP
The Malarkies Best Map EP
Bloody Butterfly from Overdrive Cloudy Skyes - Jap. comp. with Ita-Roh, Yura Yura Teikoku and Dip The Flag
Unorthodox Balance of Power
Dead Fingers Talk Storm the Reality Studios
Solbakken Klonapet

[dekone]

Japan : Tin Drum (reissue)
Stereolab : Instant 0 In The Universe
Luke Vibert : YosepH
Matmos : The Civil War
Jet : Get Born
Terranova : Peace Is Tough
Death Cab For Cutie : Transatlanticism
Television : Adventure (reissue)


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

[vesper]

Polmo Polpo, Like Hearts Swelling
Wolf Eyes, Dead Hills
Iran, Moon Boys

I'm only working off one hour of sleep, so I'm thinking about boldly throwing on Fennesz, Black Dice, and Wolf Eyes during my radio set today - nevermind the playlist. Meh.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Lovechild Witchcraft
San Agustin The Expanding Sea (disc 1)
Black Sabbath Born Again
Marc Bolan & T. Rex Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow
The Darkness Permission to Land <- boy, is this band gonna make people angry but I think they're a lot of fun
Manitoba's Wild Kingdom . . . And You?
Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro
Chris Lee Chris Lee
The Forty Fives Get It Together

[fuzztony]

Awesome - so much good music being discussed on this site, what a find.

The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass

Also, can anyone recommend the British Sea Power album?

[Paul]

I'll recommend the British Sea Power album, but a lot of the Joy Division comparisons it receives seem a bit off base to me. It's more influenced by an era than by any band in particular.

Another thing I've found is that you don't need to listen to it really often to truly enjoy it. Overplaying it might actually lead to burnout.

[fuzztony]

Hey paul - thanks, sounds promising. The little BSP I've heard I found startling and wanted to find out more. Maybe the immediacy of it is what would lead to burn out if played a lot.

God, all those Joy Division comparisons are getting tedious. I even heard British Sea Power getting dubbed "the english interpol" the other day, compounding the whole thing further.

Oh well, point of reference i guess.

[bitterfruit]

I found the BSP album to be rather dull and boring. The Joy Division and Interpol comments are unwarranted.

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by Squall91
I just got The Wrens - The Meadowlands (limited edition) in the mail today. So I'm listening to that non-stop. It's fucking brilliant.

I've been listening to it as well. Driving around alone, I still feel embarassed for them.

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by tinobeat
Pussy Galore - Dial M For Motherfucker
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
Chris Brokaw - Red Cities
Bright - Albatross Guest House
David Axelrod - s/t
Electrelane - Rock It To The Moon
Mates of State - Team Boo
Parlour - Googler

all today on my rad new iPod.. whoo! its kind of weird, though, having all that music right fucking there... I already have some 300 albums on it, and its kind of disconcerting... almost too easy.

I got the tape adapter and am about to buy the RF transmitter for the iPOD. Next purchase to go along: noise cancelling headsets.

[Salman]

The Kent 3 - Stories of the New West
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Starlight Mints - The Dream Stuff Was Made of
The Hellacopters - Grande Rock
Steve Turner - Searching for Melody
Superchunk - Foolish
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
The Sonics - Boom

[johansen smith]

the new Belle and Sebastian and Ladytron albums, and the Kill Bill soundtrack.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

The Darkness Permission to Land - over-and-over-and-over again - my other CDs are getting jealous

[earl grey]

the streets - original pirate material
belle and sebastian - dear catastrophe waitress
songs: ohia - magnolia electric co.
radiohead - hail to the thief
beth gibbons and rustin man - out of season
spiritualized - amazing grace
broadcast - the noise made by people
SM + the jicks - pig lib

i'm not quite sure where i stand on the new B+S yet. much of it i really like, but i think the album lags in parts. the poppy over-the-top choruses seem to overshadow the quieter tracks - not necessarily a bad thing, but the mellow songs used to be just as arresting. i dig it though, more so than the last two albums, and it's nice to finally have a new full-length of theirs to listen to. the first three songs are brilliant in my book, especially "if she wants me."

[yovan]

The new Outkast has me on a hip-hop kick...

Outkast "Speakerboxx/The Love Below"
Outkast "Stankonia"
Sadat X "Wild Cowboys"
Roots "Illadelph halflife"
Pharcyde "Labcabincalifornia"
Talib Kweli "Quality"