lets start it off right! Listening Post!

[johansen smith]

the Blow the Concussive Caress or Casey Caught Her Mom Singing Along With the Vacuum
Howard Hello Don't Drink His Blood
Clearlake Cedars
Smog Rain on Lens
Scissor Sisters Filthy and Gorgeous

[tinobeat]

well, I just finished dissing the Howard Hello CD in the "new news update" thread, but I'm curious to see what people who aren't me have to say about it. Maybe I can find some more redeeming qualities about it and take it off my "suck" list. Because the parts that are nice are *so* nice, but thye are overshadowed by the total cheese laid on by that guy Marty from Dilute.

I do love the last song that he sings though.. that acoustic number. s'nice.

[Paul]

Re: Howard Hello

It's not as good as the first one from last year (?), but I wouldn't be ranking it in any "suck" list. At times, it's a little saccharine, but not always to its own detriment. It's what I think the Notwist might sound like if they weren't always so dour.

[johansen smith]

Howard Hello as a rule's pretty uneven, but the highs are quite pleasantly high.

[fuzztony]

Simian - Chemistry is what we are
Spoon - [I]Kill the moonlight[I]
Frank Black - [I]Teenager of the year[I]
Will Haven - [I]Carpe Diem[I]
Kinks - [I](A Pye label collection)[I]

Anyone like Simian - is the We Are Your Friends album worth getting?

[fuzztony]

sorry, freakin' formatting.

[SarahRide]

New Pornagraphers - Mass Romantic
Beck - Sea Change
The Rapture - Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks
GBV - ...Best Of...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Cat Power - You Are Free
Various Dub Narcotic downloads
Decemberists - Her Majesty

[horsepart]

I can hear the heart beating as one (cause my old skippity copy just got replaced)

Mt. Eerie (good winter driving with any Microphones really)

Vince Guaraldi (For obvious reasons and because NPR told me to)

[bitterfruit]

Aesop Rock - Labor Days
BRMC - Take The On, On Your Own
The Rosebuds - Make Out
Matt Suggs - Amigo Row
The Postal Service - Give Up
Four Tet - Rounds
Clem Snide - Soft Spot
Ladybug Transitor - s/t
GBV - Hardcore UFOs
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Enon - Hocus Pocus

[Paul]

Poster Children, "No More Songs About Sleep and Fire" <-- best PC album evah!
B. Fleischmann, "Welcome Tourist"
Gaby Kerpel, "Carnabailito"
Illyah Kuryahkin, "Thirtycabminute"
Mountain Goats, "We Shall Be Healed"
Broadcast, "Work and Non Work"
Jonas Bering, "Sketches for the Next Season"

[vesper]

Magnetic Fields, Holiday
The Microphones, It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water & The Glow, pt. 2
K Records comp, Invisible Shield
The Strokes, Room on Fire
Ex Models, Zoo Psychology
Television, Marquee Moon (re-issue)

[Mr.HCI]

Bone Uses Wrist Grab
Iggy Pop Skull Ring (disappointing)
Yura Yura Teikoku Rame no Pantaron EP
Pelican Australasia
Nico Desertshore
The PB Army Inebriates, Eqivocators and Mockers of the Devil Himself
The Soundtrack of Our Lives Welcome to the Infant Freebase
Subsonics Good Violence

[tinobeat]

Bright - Albatross Guest House CD
V/A - Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 2CD
Danielson Famile - Fetch The Compass Kids CD
Danielson Famile - Tell Another Joke at the Ol' Choppin' Block CD
Volcano The Bear - The One Burned Ma CD
John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death CD

[johansen smith]

Dressy Bessy s/t
all the Urban Legends 7"s
Quasi R&B Transmogrification
Jason Molina the Pyramid Electric Co
Electrelane the Power Out (this is SO good, definitely the first great album of 2004)

[Salman]

Will Oldham - Guarapero Lost Blues 2
Wagner: Tannhouser-Solti
Serge Prokofiev - Symphony No. 3
Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
Rachel's - Systems/Layers
Townes Van Zandt - Flyin' Shoes

[Funk]

Yo La Tengo Today is the Day! EP
The Rapture "Sister Saviour (Remixes)" 12"
Simply Saucer Cyborgs Revisited LP
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the 36 Chambers CD
Lizzy Mericer Descloux "Fire" 12"
various- Nu Yorica! 2CD

[maroonwalrus]

The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man CD
Gram Parsons GP/Grievous Angel CD
Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead CD
R.E.M. Automatic for the People CD
Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking CD
Uncle Tupelo Anodyne CD
Jim O'Rourke I'm Happy, and I'm Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4 CD
Big Star #1 Record/Radio City CD
The Band The Band LP
V/A Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 4x10" LP

Happy new year!

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by Funk
Yo La Tengo Today is the Day! EP
The Rapture "Sister Saviour (Remixes)" 12"
Simply Saucer Cyborgs Revisited LP
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the 36 Chambers CD
Lizzy Mericer Descloux "Fire" 12"
various- Nu Yorica! 2CD

that's one terribly handsome man in your post, my friend.

what did you think of the songs I posted for ya?

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by johansen smith
Electrelane the Power Out (this is SO good, definitely the first great album of 2004)

I cannot wait to hear this. The first time I heard them was when they played in Cambridge opening for Broadcast. I was working in the restaurant attached to the club and I served them dinner, and they were all so sweet and friendly, so I went in to see them play and was blown away. They gave me a couple of 12"s and I just got the first single from that record.

love love love me the Electrelane.

[Funk]

Originally posted by tinobeat
that's one terribly handsome man in your post, my friend.

what did you think of the songs I posted for ya?

1) eh, side-burned Emo kidz are a dime a dozen (and I'm wondering who's supplying the dimes).

2) If I ever meet you, somebody should hold me back or else I'm putting my foot up yr ass for those tracks.

[Paul]

Bob Drake, "13 Songs and a Thing"
Moonbabies, "The Orange Billboard"
Avril, "That Horse Must be Starving"
Electrelane, "The Power Out" (includes a great cover of Springsteen's "I'm On Fire")
Gomez, "In Our Gun"
Lemon Kittens, "We Buy a Hammer for Daddy"

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Paul

Electrelane, "The Power Out" (includes a great cover of Springsteen's "I'm On Fire")


now Paul, that's actually a B-Side from the album.

[Paul]

Is it a b-side? I don't have a legit copy of it yet, so I'm just going by what I obtained on slsk.

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Paul
Is it a b-side? I don't have a legit copy of it yet, so I'm just going by what I obtained on slsk.

yeah, it and "Teach the Sailor to Pray" are the b-sides from the On Parade CD5.

[Paul]

Thanks. It's all sorted out now.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by Funk
1) eh, side-burned Emo kidz are a dime a dozen (and I'm wondering who's supplying the dimes).

har har. I look better with my full beard I'm rockin these days.

2) If I ever meet you, somebody should hold me back or else I'm putting my foot up yr ass for those tracks.

oh well.

[earl grey]

spacemen 3 - the perfect prescription
the shins - chutes too narrow
mercury rev - deserter's songs
more fire crew - CV
andy C - nightlife
rilo kiley - the execution of all things

i wasn't a big fan of 'oh, inverted world' and didn't rush to hear 'chutes too narrow' as a result. but over the last few weeks i've grown to love it - i'm astounded at how much better i like it than the first album. which, even with my newfound interest, still kinda bores me.

never heard mercury rev till last month, when 'deserter's songs' was playing in a club before a show ... a fantastic album. makes sense given the dave fridmann connection, but it's like a darker, noisier version of 'the soft bulletin' - SO good.

[Futureman]

Bonnie Prince Billy--I See a Darkness
The Rapture--Echoes
Liars--We No Longer Knew Who We Were (EP)
Comets on Fire--Field Recordings from the Sun
Animal Collective--Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished/Danse Manatee

[vesper]

The Unicorns, Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone
Animal Collective, Here Comes the Indian
Deerhoof, Apple O'
Fennesz, Endless Summer
Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg, Return of the Fenno'berg
Circulatory System, Circulatory System
Magnetic Fields, Holiday & 69 Love Songs box set (I see what people mean when they call this set bloated.)

Whaddya think of the Animal Collective re-issue, Futureman?

[Mr.HCI]

Yesterday and this morning:

Yura Yura Teikoku Yura Yura Teikoku no Shibire
Yura Yura Teikoku Yura Yura Teikoku no Memai
Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (#2)
Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth Jacobites
Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth Shame for the Angels EP
Tom Jones Country
Halo of Flies Music for Insect Minds
John Lennon Imagine
Jade Warrior Way of the Sun
The Carter Family Last Sessions: Their Complete Victor Recordings (1934-41)
Face Down in Shit Passing Times
The Martha Dumptruck Massacre The Burning Bridge

[Futureman]

vesper--I *love* it.

I try not to overplay the album so that it will stay fresh for me. Also, I won't play it unless I can listen to it from start to finish with few interruptions. There are only a few albums that have such a privileged position in my modest collection.

[jt. r]

the last time i really got to *listen* to music was while i wrote my master's thesis, which is now over 2 years ago. it's amazing how much you can take in while overcaffeinated and sleep deprived. i can't wait to get some employment under my belt and head back for my ph. d.

of course, it was while studying urban political econ that i became a kinks fan for life. how many other bands (apart from the third track on fugazi's "the argument") are about use value vs. exchange value? not many...

and certainly not as poppy.

what i've just purchased over the weekend:

au pairs: sense and sensuality
blue cheer: vincebus eruptus/outsideinside
adverts: live at the roxy
x-ray spex: germ free adolescents
broadcast: pendulum ep
black sabbath: master of reality
m83: dead cities... (does anyone know where there are more mp3's from this?)
simply saucer: cyborg revisited

does anyone know where one can get the books' lemon of pink on LP? i saw it locally a few months ago and couldn't get it, but now i can't find it anywhere. of course, i can't find it on cd either (except online).

compounding matters: due to such things as "urban renewal" abercrombie and fitch is moving onto south st. in philly and the outward ripple (not the wine) is displacing my favorite record store here (AKA) on n. 2nd st. it would not be good if they moved to say west philly, although they said they're committed to staying in the neighborhood. one can only hope.

happy new year.

[Mr.HCI]

Originally posted by jt. r
blue cheer: vincebus eruptus/outsideinsideIs that the new two-fer on Track? If so, how's the sound quality? I've got the Mercury CDs and they could definitely sound better. Then again, my vinyl copies never sounded too (sonically) good, either. Great, great stuff, though!

[jt. r]

well, based on one listen on the video store's speakers and a coupla plays at home, i'd say it sounds as least as good as anything on the nuggets comps.

and yes it's the reissue on track. for 14 bucks it was a steal.

[vesper]

I'm *finally* seeing an end to my year-end write-up, which loosely translates to these -

The Unicorns, WWCOHWWG? (Alien8)
Deerhoof, Apple O' (KRS/5RC)
Animal Collective, Here Comes the Indian (Paw Tracks) & STGSTV/Danse Manatee (Fat Cat)
Ex Models, Zoo Psychology (Frenchkiss)
Jolie Holland, Catalpa (Anti)
Non Prophets, Hope (Lex)
Do Make Say Think, Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (Constellation)

- becoming arrested by my CD player.

[Funk]

Originally posted by jt. r

does anyone know where one can get the books' lemon of pink on LP? i saw it locally a few months ago and couldn't get it, but now i can't find it anywhere. of course, i can't find it on cd either (except online).

I'm unsure of how you want to be tipped off to the Books LP because of the last two words of that paragraph, but: http://usa.scratchrecords.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=41050 Although beware that Scratch doesn't exactly update the availablity of stuff on their website.

Anyway, staying on topic, my listenings:

Make-Up Sound Verite LP
Make-Up Save Yourself LP
Make-Up In Mass Mind LP
Make-Up I Want Some 2LP
Make-Up Every Baby (Cries The Same) 12"
Make-Up Destination Love LP
Make-Up After Dark (Live In London) LP
The Tinobeat O Connor, My Connor CD-R

[Paul]

Originally posted by Funk

The Tinobeat O Connor, My Connor CD-R
I know it's probably a bit early, but I'm going out on a limb and calling this ALBUM OF THE YEAR!

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Paul
I know it's probably a bit early, but I'm going out on a limb and calling this ALBUM OF THE YEAR!
*waits for I Heard a Rumor Matador Was Signing Tinobeat thread*

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by Funk
Make-Up Sound Verite LP
Make-Up Save Yourself LP
Make-Up In Mass Mind LP
Make-Up I Want Some 2LP
Make-Up Every Baby (Cries The Same) 12"
Make-Up Destination Love LP
Make-Up After Dark (Live In London) LP
mmm... I think you might be lying...

The Tinobeat O Connor, My Connor CD-R
indeed.

well *my* list for today is as such (all on my name-brand portable mp3 device):

Dead Meadow - Shivering King and Others
Cromagnon - Orgasm
THEUSAISAMONSTER - Tasheyana Compost
David Axelrod - s/t
Animal Collective - Danse Manatee
Of Montreal - Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies
OOIOO - s/t

[bitterfruit]

Belle And Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
Beyonce - Dangerously In Love
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Clem Snide - Soft Spot
Consonant - Love And Affliction
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Donbravado - The Better Feeling
East River Pipe - Garbageheads On Endless Stun
Enon - Hocus Pocus
GBV - Earthquake Glue
Holopaw - Holopaw
Matt Suggs - Amigo Row
Mission Of Burma - Peking Spring

[Paul]

Originally posted by bitterfruit

Aesop Rock - Labor Days I don't listen to a lot of undie hip hop, but Aesop Rock's alright. Have you heard the Lyrics Born disc? It's hot shit, I tells ya.

[fuzztony]

The Thrills - So Much For The City
Can - Tago Mago
The Mendoza Line - Lost In Revelry
Dylan - Planet Waves
Dylan - The Basement Tapes

have a good 2004 all.

[Mr.HCI]

The Hidden Cameras The Smell of Our Own
Unpersons III
Brass Castle Get on Fire
Yura Yura Teikoku III
Carpenters Close to You
The Fall (We Wish You a) Protean Christmas EP
The Darkness Permission to Land
Unearthly Trance Season of Séance, Science of Silence
Deerhoof Apple O'
Yura Yura Teikoku Nama Shibire Nama Memai
Spaceways Incorporated Thirteen Cosmic Standards by Sun Ra & Funkadelic

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by Mr.HCI
The Fall (We Wish You a) Protean Christmas EP


I saw this in the store yesterday. what's the story with it?

my list:
Mission of Burma - Vs. LP
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches miniLP
Consonant - s/t CD
(I didn't get excited about the news yesterday or nothin)
Spacemen 3 - Forged Prescriptions 2CD
The Unicorns - Who Will write stupid long album titles when we're gone? CD
Jackie O Motherfucker - Fig. 5 CD

[earl grey]

Originally posted by tinobeat

Spacemen 3 - Forged Prescriptions 2CD


tinobeat - how is this? worthy companion to perfect prescription? there seem to be multiple versions of some songs, which i am often wary of. pierce pulled it off with the recent spiritualized anthology though.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by earl grey
tinobeat - how is this? worthy companion to perfect prescription? there seem to be multiple versions of some songs, which i am often wary of. pierce pulled it off with the recent spiritualized anthology though.

I think so. Its got a lot of the same songs, but different versions, and different enough to make it interesting. The stuff on there thats not on PP is great too. so yeah, highly recommended.

One strange question for any Spacemen/Spiritualized geeks out there:
There's a track on Forged Prescriptions called "Ecstacy Symphony," which is a big ol' awesome organ drone. On the Warp 10+3, The Remixes compilation, the very last track is a remix of "Tied Up" by LFO done by Spiritualized (incorrectly spelled 'spiritualised' on the cover, no less) called "The Electric Mainline" remix. The thing of it is, they sound like the exact same track. I have yet to do a head-to-head comparison, but I'm pretty convinced they're the same thing. Anyone know?

It would be kind of hilarious if, when asked to do a remix by Warp, Pierce had just raided the S3 archives for a track he figured would never be released anyway and submitted it as a "remix."

[Mr.HCI]

Originally posted by tinobeat
I saw this in the store yesterday. what's the story with it? http://www.visi.com/fall/newlp/promo.html

[earl grey]

Originally posted by tinobeat
I have yet to do a head-to-head comparison, but I'm pretty convinced they're the same thing. Anyone know?

It would be kind of hilarious if, when asked to do a remix by Warp, Pierce had just raided the S3 archives for a track he figured would never be released anyway and submitted it as a "remix."

sounds like a stunt aphex twin would pull. i'll dust off my copy of 10+3, fire up SLSK for the new spacemen 3, and check it out myself....

i think 'the complete works, volume 2' is coming out soon for spiritualized. if it even approaches the quality of volume 1, i'll be a very happy man.

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by Paul
I don't listen to a lot of undie hip hop, but Aesop Rock's alright. Have you heard the Lyrics Born disc? It's hot shit, I tells ya.

I have not heard it, but I'll have to check it out.

[Funk]

Originally posted by tinobeat
Spiritualized (incorrectly spelled 'spiritualised' on the cover, no less)

It's called the Queen's English, you stupid Yankee.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by Funk
It's called the Queen's English, you stupid Yankee.

I know that, you dumb Canuck, but I figured since every Spiritualized release spells it with a "z", then that was the band's name. so though its correct in the UK and other places where they drive on the wrong side of the road to spell the word "spiritualised" as such, it is incorrect to spell the name of the band "Spiritualized" like that.

cheers!

[fuzztony]

Originally posted by tinobeat
so though its correct in the UK and other places where they drive on the wrong side of the road to spell the word "spiritualised" as such, it is incorrect to spell the name of the band "Spiritualized" like that.

It's only the wrong side of the road when it's the right side of the road ;)

Kings Of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud
The Paradise Motel - Flight Paths
Dinasour Jr - Bug (why is You're Living All Over Me not in my collection dammit!)

[earl grey]

rilo kiley - the execution of all things
akufen - my way
belle and sebastian - dear catastrophe waitress
elvis costello - my aim is true
thievery corporation - sounds from the thievery hi-fi
coldcut - 70 minutes of madness
young people - war prayers

anyone ever seen rilo kiley live? they are playing NYC next week and alas it's sold out. i really like the album, so the question is how hard i try to get a ticket...

[jt. r]

anyone ever seen rilo kiley live? they are playing NYC next week and alas it's sold out. i really like the album, so the question is how hard i try to get a ticket...

they were good as m. ward's backing band, but no thanks on the rilo kiley. snoooorrrrrre!

[Paul]

Originally posted by jt. r
...but no thanks on the rilo kiley. snoooorrrrrre! My sentiments exactly.

[earl grey]

Originally posted by jt. r
they were good as m. ward's backing band, but no thanks on the rilo kiley. snoooorrrrrre!

apparently it's an acoustic gig with just two of them, which dampens my enthusiasm a bit. the album doesn't bore me though, at least not yet. the guy singer sounds WAY too much like elliott smith, but i like the girl's voice a lot. their instrumentation is key though, so an acoustic gig ... not so sure....

[Futureman]

Listening to Television's 'Marquee Moon' for the first time. Not at all what I expected, but I'm enjoying it.

[Paul]

Originally posted by Futureman
Listening to Television's 'Marquee Moon' for the first time. Not at all what I expected, but I'm enjoying it. I've been listening to it for over twelve years and, while I enjoy it, it's still not at all what I expected.

[vesper]

I picked up a Billie Holiday $6 Best Buy 2-fer CD thingymabobber (what?). It doesn't have a title, though it does say "The Greatest Jazz Singer of All Time!" across a rather becoming pic of said lady. I'd be pressed to disagree if Nina Simone hadn't gotten me about 4 years ago.

[vesper]

I like that Marquee Moon re-issue, Futureman. I'm glad they didn't use that alternate take of "See No Evil," though. Lloyd (I think?) with that hyper solo over the verse is just funny. It's like he's masturbating through his guitar.

Paul, I'm confused by what you mean.

[Paul]

Originally posted by vesper
Paul, I'm confused by what you mean. Er, I'd read about it being this *landmark* album that personified the whole post-punk movement and embodied the NYC scene of the late 70s, blah blah blah. In actuality, it's just a nice, smart, guitar record.

[Futureman]

Originally posted by Paul
Er, I'd read about it being this *landmark* album that personified the whole post-punk movement and embodied the NYC scene of the late 70s, blah blah blah. In actuality, it's just a nice, smart, guitar record.

A accurate assessment, in my view. It wasn't nearly as original or groundbreaking as I expected. Frankly, I was a bit disappointed, but my expectations were extremely high, given the way similarly touted albums impressed me (Entertainment!, This Nation's Saving Grace, Vs., Daydream Nation, etc.). Television just doesn't fall into that category. Hell, I think I can hear Steely Dan's influence on the title track!

Still, a very good album. And the drummer fuckin' cooks.

[mac]

lately:

Consonant - Love And Affliction (Fenway)
Phoaming Edison - GWEEE!! (Silly Bird)
Neil Young - On The Beach (Reprise)
Sightings - Absolutes (Load)
The Shins - Chutes To Narrow (Sub Pop)
Neil Michael Haggerty - Plays That Good Old Rock And Roll (Drag City)
The Fall - Country On The Click (Action)

[jt. r]

Originally posted by Futureman
Television just doesn't fall into that category. Hell, I think I can hear Steely Dan's influence on the title track![/B]

too much! i would grant those comments on Adventure, but Marquee Moon is way ahead when you consider the rest of the punk scene in mid-seventies NYC. w/ the exception of Entertainment! those other albums you mentioned don't come out until ten years after Marquee Moon was released!

silliness, pure and simple. you need to put aside that copy of our band could be your life and pick up Please Kill Me by Legs and Gillian.

[Mr.HCI]

The last couple of days . . . The Speaking Canaries Get Out Alive: The Last Type Story
The White Stripes Elephant
Wargasm Suicide Notes - after seven years, I finally scored the Japanese version of their excellent, (sadly) final album with bonus tracks!
Light Pupil Dilate Cascades - really good new local band, though the last few songs are a little too nü-metal, it's mostly solid, heavy and complex "modern" metal
The Fall The Real New Fall LP, Formerly 'Country on the Click'
Alchemist Austral Alien
The Fairclough Group Shepherd Wheel - gorgeous "free folk" album, almost like AMM and Fairport Convention collaborating
k. New Problems - I wasn't blown away live a couple of years ago but this recently purchased album is fantastic . . . so, should I check out Ida if I like this?
Tim Buckley Works in Progress - thank goodness some of the Rhino Handmade titles are now available at regular stores for reasonable prices
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft Fünfzhen Neue DAF Lieder - possibly my favorite DAF album of all, not bad for a "reunion" album after 17 years or so apart

[delgado]

Capitol K-Island Row (XL)
Buff Medways-1914 (Transcopic)
Preston School of Industry-Monsoon (Matador)
Chris Brokaw-Wandering As Water (Return to Sender)
Pluramon-Dreams Top Rock (Karaoke Kalk)
Destroyer-Your Blues (Merge cdr promo)
Paul Newman-Re-issue!Re-Package! (My Pal God)
Davy Graham-The Guitar Player (Castle)

[professor frink]

Day off and nothing to do, so a lot of music today

Destroyer-Test
Bee Gees-Odessa
Records-Shades in Bed
Vashti Bunyan-Just Another Diamond Day
Martin Newell-The Greatest Living Englishman
Yatsura-We Are Yatsura
Dirty Projectors-The Glad Fact

[Futureman]

silliness, pure and simple. you need to put aside that copy of our band could be your life and pick up Please Kill Me by Legs and Gillian.

But I am a silly person!

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by professor frink
Destroyer-Test Is this the new record that's due out in march?

if not, what is it? how is it?

[Paul]

Is Dan Bejar paying you for all this cock worship, or are you doing it for free?

[vesper]

Originally posted by professor frink
Vashti Bunyan-Just Another Diamond Day

Now THAT is a fantastic fucking album.

[professor frink]

Originally posted by tinobeat
Is this the new record that's due out in march?

if not, what is it? how is it?

It's an ultra obscure, tape only album that only I and Bejar's girlfriend have.

Either that, or it's the album Thief, whose name I got mixed up when I typed this.

[professor frink]

Originally posted by vesper
Now THAT is a fantastic fucking album.

Isn't it though? I'd never heard of her until a few days ago. Late 60s hippie acid folk is the most underrated of all genres.

Have you heard Linda Perhacs' Parallelograms? Very much recommended if you're into this kind of stuff.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by Paul
Is Dan Bejar paying you for all this cock worship, or are you doing it for free? Is Funk on vacation? when was the last time I wrote about Destroyer?

he should pay me, though. I could use the money.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by professor frink
It's an ultra obscure, tape only album that only I and Bejar's girlfriend have.

Either that, or it's the album Thief, whose name I got mixed up when I typed this.

Oh, OK...

I just got excited, cos there's a new one coming soon and I'd love to hear what people think of it.

don't mind me.

[professor frink]

Originally posted by tinobeat
Oh, OK...

I just got excited, cos there's a new one coming soon and I'd love to hear what people think of it.

don't mind me.

I didn't even know there was a new one, but I'm excited too. Even though I was pretty disappointed in his last one.

[Funk]

Originally posted by tinobeat
Is Funk on vacation? when was the last time I wrote about Destroyer?

Huh?

[tinobeat]

well, its *your* job to give me shit, so I figured maybe Paul was subbing for you while you caught some sun in the Caribbean or something.

[vesper]

The Majesticons, Beauty Party (Big Dada/Ninja Tune)
Talking Heads, Remain in Light (Sire)
The Sea & Cake, Nassau (Thrill Jockey)
Stan Getz w/ Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto (Verve)

You gonna talk to me about Kites, or what, tinobeat?

[tinobeat]

yeah, yeah...

I was gonna respond, but then shit came up. you know how it goes, bein a hustler and all.

Either way, the shit's crazy (it *is* on Load, after all...). The guy builds all sorts of weird instruments (and apparently, his own clothes, too). I wondered if you had heard it not so much because I had a lot to say about it, but because I'd heard it and had no idea what to make of it, and wondered what you thought. Some of its really fucking abrasive, even by Load standards, and then some is just gorgeous and atmospheric. I still need to live with it a little longer.

[ I don't know much about Khanate or this Hair Police/Viki split.

Khanate make the Melvins sound kinda upbeat and quick. I sort of wish it was instrumental, because the vocals are a bit too "metal" in all the bad ways, but the music is so awesomely heavy, minimal and brutal to the point of being trancelike. If you can get past the singing its amazing.

Hair Police/Viki split is pretty great. The HP stuff is in that Wolf Eyes sort of vein, while Viki is a woman who does that sort of thing too, but with some dancey-ass beats. Its definitely not party music though. I recommend that one.

[jt. r]

Originally posted by jt. r
does anyone know where one can get the books' lemon of pink on LP? i saw it locally a few months ago and couldn't get it, but now i can't find it anywhere. of course, i can't find it on cd either (except online).

available at insound.com again!

hooray!

i can't wait for that new MoB double LP either. was there any confirmation as to whether or not the new PSOI will be double vinyl as well?

[Funk]

Originally posted by jt. r

i can't wait for that new MoB double LP either. was there any confirmation as to whether or not the new PSOI will be double vinyl as well?

First part: D'oh! Second part: It's listed/priced as a single LP in the Matador store.

[earl grey]

morgan geist - the driving memoirs
rhythm and sound - the versions
pavement - terror twilight
lcd soundsystem - singles (CDR)
deerhoof - apple o'
spectrum - soul kiss (glide divine)

VERY excited about having just gotten tix to see the shins this friday - just announced! (bowery ballroom for anyone in NYC who might be interested...)

[vesper]

Japanther, Dump the Body in Rikki Lake
Tim Hecker, Radio Amor
Sunburned Hand of the Man, Headdress LP
Six Organs of Admittance, Dark Noontide

I listened to the two Kites mp3s ("Big Ponytail" & "Execution Style") on Load's site and don't know exactly what to make of it. It doesn't even sound the same guy made them. I'll go by the record store this weekend and check it out.

And I heard the first Viki song from the Viki/Hair Police split. I plan on getting that one, too, if only to have a dance-y Wolf Eyes ('jes like you said).

[tinobeat]

yeah, that's the thing about Kites. I first heard about him when my band played with Hair Police (oop, sorry boot the name drop) and they were really excited about him. So I got it and just can't get my head around it, but it shows quite a bit of promise.

yeah, the dancey Wolf Eyes-y Viki stuff is fun. Kinda tough on headphones (the way I listen at work) but when I fire up the turntable that shit's great.

how is the Japanther? I've yet to hear a lick of their music, but I've been intrigued.

Today for me, all on the ipod:
Consonant - s/t
Friends Forever - Killball
Richard Hell - Time
Yume Bitsu - s/t
Flying Saucer Attack - Distance

[Ladt]

It's been ages since I've done one of these so I've got to remember what I've been listening to.
New Order- Get Ready
Cody ChesnuTT- The Headphone Masterpiece (thanks for the tip Johansen)
Guided by voices- Assorted, including the boxset.
Robert Pollard- Motel Of Fools
Songs Ohia- Didn't it rain (saw it nestling in a sale, very cheap. I like it, good early morning music.)
The Broken Family Band- Cold Water Songs
Chris TT- London Is Sinking
That'll do for now.

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Ladt

Cody ChesnuTT- The Headphone Masterpiece (thanks for the tip Johansen)
Songs Ohia- Didn't it rain (saw it nestling in a sale, very cheap. I like it, good early morning music.)


excellent choices!

Frankenixon Depth Perception
Pernice Brothers the World Won't End
Silkworm Italian Platinum

[Ladt]

Yeah, I'll probably get the Electric Magnolia Co. At some point.

[vesper]

Originally posted by tinobeat
how is the Japanther? I've yet to hear a lick of their music, but I've been intrigued.

I've only listened to it twice so I'm not really sure what to say about it yet. It would be easy to toss them in with Lightning Bolt, Hella, et al, but it isn't either. I don't know if you read Dusted's Destined (http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/198) article but that is how I got turned on to them; I'd say it's pretty spot-on.

I'll post my thoughts once I spin it a couple more times (which will be a couple times per day for awhile). It *is* nice on the ears.

[jef]

Guided By Voices - Assorted Box Set stuff
Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
Left Banke - Theres Gonna Be a Storm
Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse
Harry Partch - The Harry Partch Collection Vol. 1

[Mr.HCI]

Pink Swords One Night High
The Howling Hex Introducing: The Howling Hex (side one)
Artimus Pyledriver 3 song demo
Place of Skulls With Vision
Face Down in Shit Passing Times
Richard Thompson The Old Kit Bag
Kurtz A Metal Heritage for Young America demo
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Pig Lib
Haco + Sakamoto Hiromichi Ash in the Rainbow

[Funk]

Originally posted by Mr.HCI

The Howling Hex Introducing: The Howling Hex (side one)
[/B]

Am I the only one really disappointed in this album? The double record was great, but this one does nothing for me. Although paying the equivilent of almost $21 US for it didn't help with the let down. On the plus side, I do own the digital rights to it....

The Raveonettes Chain Gang of Love CD
The Juan Maclean/The Rapture split 12"
Murder City Devils In Name and Blood LP
Red House Painters Retrospective 2CD
The Meters Zony Mash CD

[professor frink]

Roy Harper-Stormcock
Holopaw-s/t
Sunshine Fix-Age Of the Sun
Billy Nichols-Would You Beleive?
Starlight Mints-The Dream that Stuff Is Made Of
Chisel-Set You Free
Action-Rolled Gold

[Mr.HCI]

Originally posted by Funk
Am I the only one really disappointed in [Introducing: The Howling Hex]? The double record was great, but this one does nothing for me. Although paying the equivilent of almost $21 US for it didn't help with the let down. On the plus side, I do own the digital rights to it....Well, I only got it the other day and this was my first listen and I didn't have time for side two before work. Side one reminded me a bit of the first Royal Trux album.

NP: ZZ Top Mescalero

[jt. r]

british sea power-decline of...
johnny cash-town hall party '59
robert johnson-king of the delta blues singers vol. 2

[earl grey]

the rapture - out of the races and onto the tracks
dizzee rascal - boy in da corner
depeche mode - violator
M83 - dead cities, red seas, and lost ghosts
rhythm and sound - the versions
the shins - chutes too narrow

it has literally been years, so i had forgotten how much i used to like 'violator.' and it still sounds pretty great now. (not sure i could say the same if i dusted off 'songs of faith and devotion' though.)

gotten into the dizzee album lately - love the THICK basslines. "round we go" especially, these days...

[jt. r]

Originally posted by earl grey

M83 - dead cities, red seas, and lost ghosts


forced exposure still listed it, but it's souled out.

sucxks.

[Mr.HCI]

Joseph Vella "Clarinet Quintet, Op. 16"
Halo of Flies Garbage Rock EP
Introducing: The Howling Hex
The Holy Ghost Put on Your Funeral Shoes EP
Flower Travellin' Band Satori
Place of Skulls With Vision
The USA Is a Monster Tasheyana Compost
Iggy Pop Skull Ring
5ive's Continuum Research Project The Hemophiliac Dream EP
The Fall The Real New Fall L.P., Formerly 'Country on the Click'
Laguardia Welcome to the Middle
The Detachment Kit They Raging. Quiet Army
Joseph Vella "Sinfonia (con voce femminile), Op. 48"

[Arkady]

The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Yo La Tengo - Today Is the Day
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Benjamin Gibbard & Andrew Kenny - Home
Prefuse 73 - Extinguished: Outtakes
Air - Moon Safari


Hard to listen to anything with the Sufjan Stevens disc lying around. Damn, that album is addictive.

[SarahRide]

I can't get enough of the ep version of Today is the Day. It's just so damn good.

[the Pawnbroker]

wilco -- A.M.
new pornographers -- mass romantic
cannonball adderly -- somethin' else

[vesper]

Diverse, One AM
Majesticons, Beauty Party
Little Brother, The Listening
ZE Compilation, Mutant Disco (2xCD)
Talking Heads, Remain in Light
Brian Eno & David Byrne, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

This Diverse album is GREAT! Had I heard it in 2003, it probably would've been a favorite.

[jef]

Been listening to Aztec Camera's "High Land, Hard Rain" for the past 2 days. I almost forgot how much I love that album.

also:

Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Gershwin Songbook
The Mekons - Punk Rock
Scrawl - He's Drunk/Plus, Also, Too
Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei

[Mr.HCI]

Halo of Flies "Ritchie's Dog" 7"
Halo of Flies Snapping Back Roscoe Bottles EP
The Gadgets Gadgetree (side one)
Fireball Ministry The Second Great Awakening
Hoahio Peek-ara-boo
Dead Meadow Shivering King and Others
Last Days of May Inner System Blues
Tisziji Muñoz Divine Radiance
Pretty Girls Make Graves The New Romance
Light Pupil Dilate Cascades
The Hidden Cameras The Smell of Our Own
The Holy Ghost Put on Your Funeral Shoes EP

[Mr.HCI]

Originally posted by jef
Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei Oooh, I'm feeling zick
Oooh, I feel zo bad!

[jt. r]

Todd Rundgren-Something/Anything (i have to...he's from Upper Darby-i'm channeling all good feeling for the Iggles tomorrow)

In the past 24 hrs:

Love-s/t
Aesop Rock-Bazooka Tooth

Now watching: Once Upon A Time in the West- S. Leone

Now reading: After the New Economy-Doug Henwood

[Futureman]

Sonic Youth--Dirty (dlx ed)
Califone--Q/C
Dead Meadow--Shivering Kings...
Dead Science--Submariner
TV on the Radio--Young Liars

[jt. r]

contortions: buy

this is nothing like what i thought it would be. i didn't realize that there were vocals. what surprises me more is that whenever i expect an artist to be overwhelmingly austere in their aesthetic choices i'm almost always pleased when it's short of something like MMM.

and this pressing is so HEAVY!!!

i think this record would freak out the housecats here.

[jt. r]

Originally posted by jt. r
Todd Rundgren-Something/Anything (i have to...he's from Upper Darby-i'm channeling all good feeling for the Iggles tomorrow)


this obviously didn't work. and i was totally disappointed when there wasn't more outrage. it's one thing to get a new stadium, but to get two new stadiums each with 60+ million public "buy-in" and no championships to show really sucks.

i'd like to meet the eagles receivers, andy reid, and the offensive coordinator just to say that if i performed my job that way i'd not have it anymore.

or just to say that i work for a living.

[yovan]

us maple - purple on time
the wrens - the meadowlands
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
television - marquee moon

watching: am. idol

[earl grey]

broadcast - work and non-work
tv on the radio - young liars
ministry - psalm 69
dizzee rascal - boy in da corner
pavement - wowee zowee
yo la tengo - painful

finally picked up the broadcast this weekend and it's quite good - some very stereolab moments, much more so than the two full-lengths. but i dig it.

i thought i lost my copy of 'psalm 69' years ago. but many drinks with a friend plus the urge to blast "TV II" and we found it. that song seriously rocks. though i think 'the land of rape and honey' was prob my ministry album of choice in the end...

[the Pawnbroker]

Just got:

New Pornographers - Electric Version (not as much a drop off as some have said)

G. Dead - Workingman's Dead (backfilling collection)

Listening to:

Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special

[vesper]

Playlist:

1. Arto Lindsay - "Mar Da Gavea"
2. Astrud Gilberto - "Dindi"
3. Serge Gainsbourg w/ Brigitte Bardot - "69 Annee Erotique"
4. The Zombies - "Time of the Season"
5. Nolan Porter - "If I Could Only Be Sure"
6. Bedhead - "More Than Ever"
7. The Cure - "Closedown"
8. My Bloody Valentine - "Blown a Wish"

[fuzztony]

Originally posted by earl grey
i thought i lost my copy of 'psalm 69' years ago. but many drinks with a friend plus the urge to blast "TV II" and we found it. that song seriously rocks. though i think 'the land of rape and honey' was prob my ministry album of choice in the end...

That's a helluva album, Psalm 69. I also like LORAH and A Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Taste, but my fave is Filth Pig, great slow and menacing.

And on the stereo:

Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth
Built To Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future

There's something wrong with this most recent BTS album. Does anyone else find it just doesn't have that ol' magic?

[vesper]

Originally posted by fuzztony
Built To Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future

There's something wrong with this most recent BTS album. Does anyone else find it just doesn't have that ol' magic?

I'd go so far to say that it is one of the biggest disappointments I've had. Every other BTS album is incredible; that one has about 2 good songs.

[fuzztony]

Originally posted by vesper
I'd go so far to say that it is one of the biggest disappointments I've had. Every other BTS album is incredible.

Yeah it is pretty crushing. I filed it away last year, hoping it would reveal it's goodies in time. It didn't. From so great to dull...I just don't get it. I don't have earlier than Perfect From Now On, but plan to go further back in the BTS catalog. Keep It Like A Secret is high in my all-time list.

that one has about 2 good songs.

hehe...please tell me which 2!

[tinobeat]

Holy Crap, man, if you don't have There's Nothing Wrong With Love, you don't know BTS!

just sayin' that's all..

[fuzztony]

Originally posted by tinobeat
Holy Crap, man, if you don't have There's Nothing Wrong With Love, you don't know BTS!

just sayin' that's all..

Fair call, that's supposed to be the one isn't it. OK, for me soon!

[vesper]

Every time I try to make a call on THE premier BTS disc, I say, "Keep It Like a Secret! No, I mean, Perfect From... uuh There's Nothing Wrong With Love!"

On Ancient Melodies, I like "Alarmed" and "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss." That's it.

[fuzztony]

Originally posted by vesper
Every time I try to make a call on THE premier BTS disc, I say, "Keep It Like a Secret! No, I mean, Perfect From... uuh There's Nothing Wrong With Love!"

On Ancient Melodies, I like "Alarmed" and "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss." That's it.

Playing these tracks as i type. Fly Around, particularly is nice. Shame about the rest!

Today:

Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Calexico - Feast of Wire
Arab Strap - The Red Thread
ChungKing - We Travel Fast

[Mr.HCI]

Hans Werner Henze Elegie für jung Liebende
The Grateful Dead "Viola Lee Blues" (live bonus track on The Grateful Dead remaster)
Penance SpiritualNatural
Opeth Damnation
Big Sugar Hit & Run (live disc)
King Crimson The Power to Believe <-- growing on me, slowly, but still disappointing
Kiss Symphony: Alive IV (disc two - deliciously horrible)
DMBQ jinni
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham L'Avventura
The Gadgets Gadgetree (side two) (Matt Johnson pre-The The)
Yo Good Tidings (side one)

[Futureman]

Kiss Symphony: Alive IV
For the love of God, why? WHY?!?!?

[the Pawnbroker]

Every time I try to make a call on THE premier BTS disc, I say, "Keep It Like a Secret! No, I mean, Perfect From... uuh There's Nothing Wrong With Love!"

Generally, I agree these three are very close.

However, "Perfect" seems to be the one that hits me hardest when its been a while since I listened to it.

[earl grey]

Originally posted by vesper
Every time I try to make a call on THE premier BTS disc, I say, "Keep It Like a Secret! No, I mean, Perfect From... uuh There's Nothing Wrong With Love!"

for me, 'TNWWL' and 'perfect from now on' battle it out regularly. i rank 'keep it like a secret' a little below them, though i love - LOVE - the first half of that record. the other two, though, they're just perfect in my book. i'll echo all the disappointment in 'melodies' though i do remember liking the first song. i thought it was interesting that they basically avoided it when i saw them in september. the highlight of said show for me was when they did "distopian dream girl" - was so happy to finally see it live.

anyways, my pile for day:

dizzee rascal - boy in da corner
low - the curtain hits the cast
john scofield - a go go
2 lone swordsmen - stay down
erol alkan - one louder mix
the thrills - so much for the city

i highly recommend the erol alkan for any DFA fans ... similar vibe, maybe a little more playful.... (plus, serious props for the spinal tap reference in the title.)

[Mr.HCI]

Originally posted by Futureman
For the love of God, why? WHY?!?!? Did you not read my comment after it? It [Kiss Symphony Alive IV] is so incredibly Godawful that I love it. The overblown symphonic arrangements and Paul's constant pleas for acceptance are "great." Interestingly, whereas what I've heard on the radio of Metallica's symphonic collaboration, S & M, were gratingly awful, this thing is enjoyably awful. Disc two, that is; disc one is just dreadful, esp. the "chamber" section with accompaniment for their (horrendous) ballads. Even worse, "Shandi" (from their makeuped nadir, Unmasked) was inexplicably a hit in Australia, so they do it and it's probably even worse than the original.

I should add that I was a huge Kiss fan when I was 12/13 but the only stuff I have now is this, Unplugged (also most enjoyably putrid), Double Platinum and You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best (studio and live collections of early, legitimately entertaining material).

[Futureman]

sorry HCI, I had not read your parenthetical remark. But having read your narrative comments on the album, I confess I'm curious. Some things are fun to hear precisely because their so bad. I just can't imagine orchestral arrangements of KISS tunes.

[bitterfruit]

originally posted in the wrong place...


Gang Of Four - 100 Flowers Bloom
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
Lambchop - What Another Man Spills
Lambchop - Nixon
The Rapture - Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks
Träd Gräs Och Stenar - Djungelns Lag
The Long Winters - When I Pretend To Fall

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by bitterfruit

Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder

I'm enjoying this one a bunch.

[bitterfruit]

It's good. I can't wait for the improper Belle & Sebastian comparisons.

[Paul]

Originally posted by bitterfruit
It's good. I can't wait for the improper Belle & Sebastian comparisons.
I think it would be fair to say both bands got their ideas from Sarah Records (http://home.clara.net/koogy/sarah/) anyway...

[maroonwalrus]

Guided By Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars (first GBV album I've bought, quite good)

Pavement - Wowee Zowee!

The Replacements - Tim

Miles Davis - Walkin'

Duke Ellington - Money Jungle (Recommended heartily - a noticeably tense collaboration with Max Roach & Charles Mingus)

Neil Young - Live Rust

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu

The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides (Best Of...)

[winterwooskie]

i've been listening to a lot lately.

the crabs: jackpot
the smiths: meat is murder
the silly pillows: silly image pillowhead
the silly pillows: new affectations
britta and dean: laventurra or however that is spelled
redd kross: neurosis
magnetic fields: holiday
the dead milkmen: bucky fellini
the posies: frosting on the beater
beat happening: black candy

[maroonwalrus]

Originally posted by winterwooskie
the posies: frosting on the beater

I absolutely love that album...did they put out anything else worth checking out?

[Paul]

Originally posted by maroonwalrus
I absolutely love that album...did they put out anything else worth checking out? All of it is worth picking up. Even the 4CD boxset of rarities and alternate recordings.

[winterwooskie]

that is the only album i have of theirs. they broke up for awhile but then got back together or are working together but not under that name and the singer has been doing solo stuff. and has anyone heard their album that they did after frosting on the beater? it's really cheap at my local store but it seems like it might be a bit of a departure from the previous one and darker.

[Paul]

The one immediately after Frosting on the Beater was called Amazing Disgrace, and is the least fulfilling of their three Geffen albums. While that might not sound like a glowing recommendation, it should by all means be heard if only for the brilliant tracks "Grant Hart," "Daily Mutilation," and "Please Return It" (some of the band's best).

As for future Posies releases, it all remains to be seen. Their breakup was sort of sloppy and never really "official." Talk of another studio lp has been circulating for the last four years, but nothing besides the Nice Cheekbones and a Ph.D. ep has ever materialized.

[Salman]

The Velvet Underground - Loaded
Cat Power - Dear Sir
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
Quasi - The Sword of God
Nurse With Wound - Who Can I Turn to Stereo
Fairport Convention - Angel Delight
Merle Haggerd - Introducing My Friends the Strangers
The Beatles - The White Album
Memphis Minnie - Queen of the Blues
Tiffany Anders - Funny Cry Happy Gift
The Streetwalkin Cheetahs - Heart Full of Napalm

[larry]

I was just listening to Frosting On The Beater the other day with some people and commented that it was a shame they had done absolutely nothing very good, solo or band, since then. You should check out their first two records.

[Paul]

Originally posted by larry
it was a shame they had done absolutely nothing very good, solo or band, since then.
How much of that stuff have you heard? Success, the last full-length, is one of their best.

[Mr.HCI]

yesterday:
Goatsnake Dog Days EP
Calamus Road Trax EP
EyeHateGod In the Name of Suffering
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Nocturama
Bone Uses Wrist Grab
Flower Travellin' Band Satori
Erehía Manuzkritoz•Ze
Iggy Pop Beat 'em Up
Jimi Hendrix The Rainbow Bridge Concert (disc one, first few songs)
Allan Pettersson Symphony No. 9

today:
Elias Hulk Unchained
Jimi Hendrix The Rainbow Bridge Concert (disc one, the rest)
Sixty Watt Shaman Ultra Electric
Neil Hagerty & The Howling Hex Neil Hagerty & The Howling Hex
The Fall The Real New Fall LP, formerly 'Country on the Click'
The Black Keys thickfreakness
Yura Yura Teikoku III
Boredoms Super Roots 7

[Futureman]

HCI, how's the new Fall?

[Mr.HCI]

Originally posted by Futureman
HCI, how's the new Fall? Very good! Certainly better than Are You Are Missing Winner? and comparable to The Unutterable. I need more listens to make a truly confident assessment, though.

[tinobeat]

listening at work today:

DNtel - Life is Full of Possibilities
The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown
King Tubby - The Sound of Channel One
Mittens - s/t

mmmm

[earl grey]

tinobeat - great call on the dub. for me today:

erol alkan - one louder
daft punk - discovery
the essex green - the long goodbye
sam prekop - sam prekop
air - talkie walkie
television - marquee moon
stereolab - margerine eclipse

[Ladt]

Originally posted by earl grey
tinobeat - great call on the dub. for me today:

erol alkan - one louder
daft punk - discovery
the essex green - the long goodbye
sam prekop - sam prekop
air - talkie walkie
television - marquee moon
stereolab - margerine eclipse
Thoughts on Talkie Walkie?
I'm considering getting it but....money.

[vesper]

for play:
Natural Dreamers, Natural Dreamers
Explosions in the Sky, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

Nolan Porter - "If I Could Only Be Sure" -> Chris Clark - "Love's Gone Bad" -> Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On" (on repeat)

for work:
Cloud Cult, Aurora Borealis
The Bother, The Night Bleeds Gold
Ned Evett, Franck Vigroux
Petracovich, Blue Cotton Skin
Twittering Machine, Breakfast by the Dunes

Talkie Walkie = my snooze button. The only songs worth anything, IMHO, on that disc are "Run" and "Alone in Kyoto." You might want to consider that I was never a big Air fan, though.

Highly recommend this Natural Dreamers disc for any fans of Deerhoof -- they even share some members. Clawing guitars and crazy structures abound!

[tinobeat]

really... hmm. The Natural Dreamers, you say?

off to investigate!

[earl grey]

Originally posted by Ladt
Thoughts on Talkie Walkie?
I'm considering getting it but....money.


i've only listened to it a few times so far. after the first listen, i would have been inclined to agree w/ vesper. it just blew by, and not too many of the songs stuck with me. they all are definitely very simple. i'm liking it much more now, though, especially after a listen on the headphones. it seems like a good in-between of the pop song aesthetic of '10,000 hz legend' and the lushness of 'moon safari' (if that makes any sense). i gotta give it more time though, before i say anything more.

for what it's worth, i think 'premiers symptomes' is best thing air has ever put out.

[vesper]

Originally posted by tinobeat
really... hmm. The Natural Dreamers, you say?

off to investigate!

I found out about it through Dusted .

clicky-click (http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1209)

-edit-

I was just snooping around on Insound and saw that The Autumn Rhythm is on their mixtape-to-purchase. Isn't that yr band, tinobeat?

-edit pt. 2-

The Jan 23 update on
this site (http://www.catbirdseat.org/catbirdseat/) has 3 Destroyer tracks if you're interested. You're more connected than I am, though, so you probably know about this.

[Futureman]

Sun Kil Moon--Ghosts...
Damien Jurado--Where Shall You Take Me?
The Fall--Totally Wired
Califone--Q/C
Moonbabies--bunch of mp3s. (Thanks for the tip on this band, Paul!)

[tinobeat]

Yeah, the Autumn Rhythm's my band.. that's crazy, I hadn't seen that. I knew our mp3 was on Insound but had no idea it was part of that promotion.. hmm. weird that they didn't notify us about that... but maybe they told the label folks.

That song's from before I was in the band, but its a great one. The version on insound is actually even older than the version on the album. I'll try to see if they'll update it.

aaaaaaaaanywho, enough inadvertent spam outta me.

I actually just saw those three Destroyer tracks at the Merge site. I'm gonna dl them later tonight.

though part of me wants to just wait and hear the whole thing at once. call me old fashioned...

[vesper]

Off the strength of those 3, I think the album could be spec-fuckin'-tacular.

to review:
Electrelane, The Power Out (extra great!)
Stereolab, Margerine Eclipse
The Emergency, How Can You Move?
Oxford Collapse, Oxford Collapse EP
John Vanderslice, Cellar Door
Olivia Tremor Control, Dusk at Cubist Castle (re-issue)
Frenemies, Friendship
Urban Noise Vol 1, Traffic
The Pale, Gravity Gets Things Done
Jason Collett, Motor Motel Love Songs

for play:
Electrelane, The Power Out (because it's that good)
David Grubbs and Avey Tare split
Natural Dreamers, Natural Dreamers
Kites, Royal Paint...
Petracovich, Blue Cotton Skin
Silver Apples, The Garden
Serge Gainsbourg, Comic Strip
Japanther, Dump the Body in Rikki Lake

[Mr.HCI]

The Moving Sidewalks Flash
3d5spd Faster Gravity
Mondo Generator A Drug Problem that Never Existed
Konk Pack Warp Out
The Shaggs Philosophy of the World
Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans
Dysrhythmia Contradiction
The Soft Machine Volume One
Royal Trux Hand of Glory
The Punkles Punk!
The Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead (twice, actually)
Slow Horse Slow Horse
Tatsuya Yoshida/Satoko Fujii Erans
San Agustin The Expanding Sea (disc two)
Blonde on Blonde Contrasts
The Martha Dumptruck Massacre "White Christmas" CD single
Fraser & deBolt With Pleasure

[bitterfruit]

Chavez - Ride The Fader
Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos
Chris Brokaw - Red Cities
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Silver Jews - Bright Flight

[vesper]

Tortoise, It's All Around You
Explosions in the Sky, The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Do Make Say Think, Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn

Good for the studies.

[SlangKing]

Hi all- this is my first post here, and this seemed as good a place as any to start. At work today:

The Clientele- "The Violet Hour"
Spiritualized- "Pure Phase"
Stereolab- "Emperor Tomato Ketchup"
Olivia Tremor Control- "Dusk at Cubist Castle"
The Fall- "Hex Enduction Hour"
Buzzcocks- "Singles Going Steady"
Beatles- "Rubber Soul"
Bob Dylan- "Bootleg Series #4"

[earl grey]

Originally posted by vesper
Tortoise, It's All Around You


hey vesper - how's the new tortoise? i heard part of it last week and it sounded very different. i liked the first song though. need to give it a proper listen soon.

my pile for today:

yo la tengo - the sounds of the sounds of science
alpha and omega - dub philosophy
cujo - adventures in foam
miles davis - sketches of spain
the notwist - neon golden
colder - again

[vesper]

The new Tortoise is very solid. It sounds like the album they made between TNT and Standards (w/ a lean toward the former). I've only listened to it twice through but it is very pleasant on the ears -- "It's All Around Us," "Lithium Stiffs," "Stretch (You Are All Right)," and "Five Too Many" are probably my favorite tracks. We'll see how it sounds after a couple more listens (esp. considering the only 2k4 discs I've really wrapped my head around are from TV on the Radio, Electrelane, and Xiu Xiu).

[earl grey]

Originally posted by vesper
The new Tortoise is very solid. It sounds like the album they made between TNT and Standards (w/ a lean toward the former). I've only listened to it twice through but it is very pleasant on the ears -- "It's All Around Us," "Lithium Stiffs," "Stretch (You Are All Right)," and "Five Too Many" are probably my favorite tracks. We'll see how it sounds after a couple more listens (esp. considering the only 2k4 discs I've really wrapped my head around are from TV on the Radio, Electrelane, and Xiu Xiu).

cool - i can't wait to hear it. i've been waiting for a long time....

that TV on the radio album is a great one. i'm still digesting it, but i think it delivers on all the promise of 'young liars' and then some. excellent stuff.

[vesper]

All that love is from someone who only liked "Satellite," "Staring at the Sun," and "Mr Grieves," from Young Liars, too. Someone that was head-over-heels for the EP will probably need new pants once they hear this one. IMO anyway.

[bitterfruit]

The Glands - Double Thriller
The Clientele - The Violet Hour
The Books - The Lemon Of Pink
Daniel Johnston - Continued Story
The Rapture - Out Of The Races And Onto The Tracks

[SlangKing]

Today's stack-

Outkast- "Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below"
Silver Jews- "American Water"
Belle and Sebastian- "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
"King's Serious Soul: Too Much Pain"
Jacques Dutronc
Dump- "A Grown-Ass Man"
Howard Tate- "Get It While You Can"
Neutral Milk Hotel- "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"

[Dayne1234]

Just got an MP3 of a new live version of the Modest Mouse Song, "The Ocean Breathes Salty" (I think that is the title). Anyway, it is really good and has a big Cure influence.

Also digging the song, "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeah's. Very Chrissie Hynde.

[vesper]

New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies
Weird War, If You Can't Beat 'em, Bite 'em
Kaada, MECD
Tortoise, It's All Around You

[earl grey]

Originally posted by vesper
The new Tortoise is very solid. It sounds like the album they made between TNT and Standards (w/ a lean toward the former).

just listened to the new tortoise a couple times, and i couldn't agree with you more. i think it strikes a great balance between the two - the sounds/instrumentation of standards with the melodic sense of TNT. great soundscapes. it does, though, seem to have more focus than either one. the songs are all very tight - short and to the point, but still able to surprise you. not that i minded the meanderings, but i like the new sound. of course, it's still unmistakeably tortoise. i don't have the song names but the last song absolutely rules.

anyway, in addition to the tortoise, today i've got:

- franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand. very enjoyable ... they may actually deserve all the hype. the first 3 tunes are stellar.
- the national - sad songs for dirty lovers. this loses my attention in spots, but the leonard cohen-esque vox make for some great highlights (esp. on the noisier tracks).
- ghost - hypnotic underworld. i'm new to them but really dug this on first listen.

[jt. r]

m83-dead cities, etc
sam cooke-the man and his music
decembrists-her majesty...

[Mr.HCI]

Floor "Loanin'"/"Fig Bender" 7"
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly triple 7" comp.
S. Process S. Process 12" EP
Budgie In for the Kill
Yura Yura Teikoku comp. I made for a friend
Träd, Gräs och Stenar Djungelns Lag (first listen -- I don't get the massive praise heaped on these folks; it sounds like The Grateful Dead to me)
Tairituokoto vs Sanmuyakuonna Perfect Hell
Unearthly Trance Season of Séance, Science of Silence
The Stalk-Forrest Group St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings
Eastern Youth The Whistle, Late Night It Echoes (title translated courtesy of Babel Fish)

[Futureman]

Originally posted by Dayne1234
Just got an MP3 of a new live version of the Modest Mouse Song, "The Ocean Breathes Salty"

Where?

Me today:

Tortoise--Millions...
Consonant--Love and Affliction
Yo La Tengo--Painful
Califone--Heron King Blues

and the latest set from No Love for Ned

[jef]

Slim Smith - Born to Love
The Last - Painting Smiles on a dead man
Silver Jews - Bright Flight
XTC - English Settlement

[9000]

dj koze - all people is my friends
thomas fehlmann - visions of blah
arthur russell - the world of arthur russell

[vesper]

Originally posted by 9000
arthur russell - the world of arthur russell

How is this?

[9000]

in regard to the world of arthur russell: it's an enjoyable listen, which showcases his diversity of styles and talent. when you listen you totally get the sense that he was so far ahead of others at the time and incredibly influential to dance music. actually, to all music in general. listening for the first time was weird because i recognized songs that i had previously never known were arthur russell tracks. in anycase, if you're into more avante garde style dance music, you'll like it. if you want more diversity, i suggest starting with the new york noise soul jazz comp instead though. that has some really fantastic stuff on it.

[vesper]

New York Noise is what introduced me to him (through Dinosaur L, anyway).

[jef]

Maitreya Kali - Apache/Inca
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Knife in the Water - Red River
TFUL282 - Strangers from the Universe
Booker T. and the MG's - Green Onions
The Fall - Grotesque

[earl grey]

x-wife - feeding the machine
air - talkie walkie
dizzee rascal - boy in da corner
villalobos - alcachofa
superlongevity 3

[johansen smith]

Maple Leaves by Jens Lekman
the Power Out by Electrelane
It Still Moves by My Morning Jacket
Make Out by the Rosebuds
So Wound by Jale

[Basal]

Big Heavy Stuff - Dear Friends and Enemies
McLusky - Alan is a Cowboy Killer (single)

[Mr.HCI]

Weird War If You Can't Beat 'em, Bite 'em
Hans Werner Henze "Royal Winter Music (Sonata No.2)"
Hans Werner Henze "Carillon, Récitatif, Masque"
Hans Werner Henze "An Eine Äolsharfe"
Railroad Jerk We Understand EP
Hans Werner Henze "Le Miracle De La Rose"
Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.
Nikki Sudden & The Jacobites Texas
Knead Knead
Snowmen in Orbit

[Futureman]

>Menomena--I Am the Fun Blame Monster
>Guided By Voices--Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (the only compilation CD I own)
>Songs: Ohia--Didn't it Rain
>The 90 Day Men--various mp3s (absolutely rocks)
>Enon--Believo

[fuzztony]

Love Of Diagrams - The Target Is You
Pavement - Slanted
GBV - Bee Thousand
The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
The Box Diagrams - The Box Diagrams
The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
...Trail Of Dead - The Secret Of Elena's Tomb
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Will Haven - Carpe Diem

Wasn't getting into the Sleepy's album, until I tried the random approach...ahh, I feel a thread topic coming on.

[SlangKing]

The Fall: "Middle Class Revolt"
Beatles: "Revolver"
Tortoise: "TNT"
The Zombies: "Begin Here"
MBV: "Isn't Anything"
Belle & Sebastian: "Boy With the Arab Strap"
The Walkmen: "Everyone Who Pretended..."

[vesper]

Kanye West, College Dropout
Missy Elliott, This is Not a Test!

this Sunday Morning playlist from a couple weeks ago:

1. Gastr Del Sol - "Mouth Canyon"
2. The Microphones - "ii. Solar System"
3. Landing - "Wrapped Up in Flight"
4. The Birdtree - "Sleeper Under a Tree"
5. Campfire Songs - "Doggy"
6. Vashti Bunyan - "Just Another Diamond Day"
7. Mum - "Green Grass of Tunnel"
8. Do Make Say Think - "Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!"

and these three songs on repeat:

Last Town Chorus - "Change Your Mind"
Last Town Chorus - "Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1950"
Noise For Pretend - "It's Oh So Quiet" (excellent Bjork cover)

[Mr.HCI]

3d5spd Fever in the Ice Age
Can Monster Movie
Kim Salmon & The Surrealists Sin Factory
Ché Sounds of Liberation
X I Love Rock'n'Roll EP
Jucifer War Bird EP

[earl grey]

sufjan stevens - seven swans
prefuse 73 - vocal studies + uprock narratives
super furry animals - phantom power
tortoise - it's all around you
dizzee rascal - boy in da corner

audio crack - exactly.

[one]

Super furry animals-both recent cds are great..
Grandaddy-under the western freeway
Elliott Smith-any of his stuff
Built Like Alaska-Hopalong
Dios-arboles
Outkast-their new release is really good
Flaming Lips
Neutral Milk Hotel-In the Aeroplane over the sea

just to name a few..

[larrylove]

Sleater - Kinney 'The Hot Rock'
Sleater - Kinney 'All Hands on the Bad One'
The Wedding Present 'Hit Parade'
The Wedding Present 'Seamonsters'
Slint 'Spiderland'
Sonic Youth 'Daydream Nation'

[vesper]

This Heat, Deceit
Pere Ubu, Dub Housing
Destroyer, Your Blues

[tinobeat]

you and your havin'-an-album-before-its-out self... how's Your Blues?

me?

Mogwai - My Father My King
The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
SM + Jicks - Pig Lib
Paul Westerberg/Grandpaboy - Stereo/Mono
Dizee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner

[vesper]

It [having an album before release] is terrible, I know.

The disc, on the other hand, is very good -- up there in my notebook list-'o'-notable-releases (which says a lot). I'm a newcomer to Destroyer so I can't really tell you how it measures up to the rest of his work, but if Hunky Dory, like I've heard, was a sort of base for his previous albums, then this one is his anomaly. He uses some big, reverbed out orchestral instruments but it's so subtle it doesn't come off as corny and/or dramatic. It just sounds really good. The first thing I noted is some flighty keys that reminded me of Air's Virgin Suicides soundtrack without the dour sheen. Bright and lovely.

Keep in mind that since I'm just making my rounds on Destroyer my opinion may not be shared by the hardcore followers.

[tinobeat]

well, the last one (This Night) was pretty different from the old stuff in its reverbiness and long-songiness, but I loved it. As long as he's got the lyrics and melodies, I'm all set.

March whatever-the-hell day-its-out-th can't come soon enough for this guy.

[mashuguna]

Let's hear it for "Seamonsters"!! Certainly one of Gedge's best and quite possible in my all-time top 10!!

How's "Hit Parade"?

[jef]

I heard "Your Blues" recently, and it is pretty different from his other stuff. There wasn't much drumming at all on it. I remember it being very orchestral too. The length of the songs on this one aren't as long as "This Night", in fact they are pretty much all around the 3 minute mark. I was really into it, and can't wait to get it.

[Basal]

McLusky - Undress for Success
Led Zeppelin - II
Kelis - Tasty

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by tinobeat
well, the last one (This Night) was pretty different from the old stuff in its reverbiness and long-songiness, but I loved it. As long as he's got the lyrics and melodies, I'm all set.

March whatever-the-hell day-its-out-th can't come soon enough for this guy.

The new Destroyer record sounds damn fine --- or at least what I have heard so far.

[maroonwalrus]

Funkadelic - "One Nation Under A Groove"
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - "Safe As Milk"
Butterfield Blues Band - "East-West" (This is truly, truly awesome)
Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Birds of Fire" (John McLaughlin = GOD)
The Sea and Cake - "Nassau"


OK, so I have had "Under the Bushes, Under the Stars" for about a month now, and I definitely like it quite a lot. What GBV album would y'all recommend that I get next?

[tinobeat]

I'd say Bee Thousand or Alien Lanes.

If you can get down with UTBUTS, then these'll be good to you. more lo-fi, but unstoppable...

[Salman]

In the last two weeks:

Tortoise - Standards
The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
Rachel's - Systems/Layers
Gastr del Sol - Crookt, Crackt, or Fly
Pierre Boulez - Structures, Book II, for 2 Pianos
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Television - Marquee Moon
Swell Maps - Collision Time Revisited
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
The Dicks - 1980-1986

[johansen smith]

Scissor Sisters "s/t"
the Eaves "s/t"
My Morning Jacket "It Still Moves"
the Cardigans "First Band on the Moon"
Electrelane "the Power Out"

[mac]

today:

Mudhoney - March To Fuzz (Sub Pop)
Hala Strana - S/T (Emperor Jones)
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (Sire/Quest)
Wilco - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart DVD


Mr. HCI? Tino? Vesper?

how's that new Weird War ?

[otto midnight]

deerhoof- apple o lp
the ponys- wicked city 7"
the ponys- so sentimental 7"
the ponys- prosthetic head 7"
the cripples- dirty head lp

i f'ing love days off from both jobs.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by mac
Mr. HCI? Tino? Vesper?

how's that new Weird War ?

AWESOME! AWESOME!

very "trux"

[mac]

otto!


what's the deal with these Ponys? is this the Portland, Maine Ponys? with a LP/CD on Time-Lag. or ...?

is one Ponys dead, and another been born?

[fuzztony]

Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
XTC - Fossil Fuel, The Singles 1977-92
British Sea Power - The Decline Of...
Cocteau Twins - Milk & Kisses
Augie March - Sunset Studies

(Sunset Studies is an amazing record, ye olde pastoral hymns in debt to Sonic Youth and Shakespeare. And yes they are from Melbourne, but no it's not my band!)

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by mac
otto!


what's the deal with these Ponys? is this the Portland, Maine Ponys? with a LP/CD on Time-Lag. or ...?

is one Ponys dead, and another been born?

these Ponys of which he speaks are the Chicago Ponys, who seem to have a much greater buzz around them than the Time-Lag Ponys.

The only release the Maine Ponys have are the 7" (Hilly Town) and the 2LP (Shishimumu), both on Time-Lag.

Chicago Ponys are some sort of garage thing, I guess, as opposed to the psych pop of the ME Ponys...

[vesper]

Originally posted by mac
Mr. HCI? Tino? Vesper?

how's that new Weird War ?

I was skeptical of the Weird War at first, but I like it more every time I listen to it. Different bag than Make Up and other Svevonious stints, but tres chic nonetheless.

[otto midnight]

Originally posted by mac

what's the deal with these Ponys? is this the Portland, Maine Ponys? with a LP/CD on Time-Lag. or ...?

[/B]

as tino said, these are the midwest ponys. saw them again at the empty bottle this weekend, great show. great songs too, check them out when the make it to the hinterland. when you coming back this way, mac?


back to hibernation for me.

[mac]

is there room for two Ponys?

I'll check both of them out at some point.

I should be able to make it to Chicago sometime this year, Spring or Summer, for sure. Take in a ball game and some Old Style. I'll be sure to let you and the Missus know.

[earl grey]

spiritualized - the complete works, vol. 2
linval thompson + friends - whip them king tubby!
outkast - stankonia
sufjan stevens - seven swans
x-wife - feeding the machine

i'm a little disappointed in the new spiritualized. volume 1 of the complete works is pretty much essential in my book ... might even be my second favorite SPZ release. this new one reeks more of the b-side collection only for completists. some good stuff on there, but not two discs worth.

the new sufjan stevens, on the other hand, is outstanding. i'm a few listens in and i think i might even like it better than 'greetings from michigan'. it does get a bit religious in spots, though, which caught me off guard....

[bmmello]

Originally posted by earl grey


i'm a little disappointed in the new spiritualized. volume 1 of the complete works is pretty much essential in my book ... might even be my second favorite SPZ release. this new one reeks more of the b-side collection only for completists. some good stuff on there, but not two discs worth.


My thoughts exactly.

[jef]

The Pony's are great. I just heard their new album "Laced with Romance" on In the Red Records and it is very good.

[Dayne1234]

Ah yes..."Float On", the new Modest Mouse single is brilliant! I can't wait for the full length!

[bitterfruit]

v/a - No Thanks! The 70's Punk Rebellion

Because of these compilations, I'm listening to more stuff that I've only marginally been aware of than I ever have before.

I've had very little exposure through the years to artists like Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Eddie & The Hot Rods, The Adverts, and X-Ray Spex.

This will keep me happy, busy, and poor for the near term.

[lenny]

Hey, How much did that punk compilation cost ya? I've been interested and now even more so after what pitchfork said(not that they have the final say though).

I've been "spinin'"-----and my rating-----
---Sufjan Stevens- Michigan----???
---King Geedorah-----4.5/5
---M83- Dead Cities,,,---5/5 (only 2 others this good this year-wrens--shins--)
---Yo La Tengo- Then Nothing....-4.5/5
---Andre 3000- Love Below-3/5 (diappointing to the max....70 minutes filled with filler i have speakerboxxx to listen to next...i've heard it is better)

[bitterfruit]

It was just under 60 bucks and worth every dime.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by lenny
---Andre 3000- Love Below-3/5 (diappointing to the max....70 minutes filled with filler i have speakerboxxx to listen to next...i've heard it is better)

my take on the OutKast:

Love Below's highs are really fucking high, but the lows are odious. Speakerboxxx is pretty much rock solid all the way though, though its best moments don't match the best moments on Love Below...

I choose you, Speakerboxxx!

[yvonne]

cat power - you are free
mouse on mars - idiology
bjork - vespertine
ladytron- softcore jukebox
bent - the everlasting blink
gilles peterson - journeys by dj

and everything else plus some.

[Mr.HCI]

Originally posted by tinobeat
my take on the OutKast:

Love Below's highs are really fucking high, but the lows are odious. Speakerboxxx is pretty much rock solid all the way though, though its best moments don't match the best moments on Love Below...

I choose you, Speakerboxxx! I'd agree with that. It's amazing to me how albums so full of filler win album of the year awards time and again. They should probably rename the "best album" category on most awards shows to "album containing the best one or two singles and a lot of crap."

today, BTW:

3d5spd Fever in the Ice Age
Allan Pettersson Symphony No. 6
Trees On the Shore
High on Fire Surrounded by Thieves
Carpenters Close to You
Faust Edinburgh 1997
Peter Laughner Take the Guitar Player for a Ride
Railroad Jerk Sauberes Hemd EP <-- What's up with these folks???

[jef]

Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind
Robyn Hitchcock - Moss Elixr
Electralane - The Power Out
The Ponys - Laced with Romance
V/A - Best northern soul all nighter...ever

[SlangKing]

Originally posted by jef
Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind
V/A - Best northern soul all nighter...ever

I'm on a soul kick myself today, jef. Love that Tyrone Davis, how is that Northern Soul comp?

James Carr- "You Got My Mind Messed Up"
Clarence Carter "Snatchin' It Back"
Solomon Burke- "Home In Your Heart"
Spoon- "Girls Can Tell"
Modern Lovers
Soledad Brothers- "Steal Your Soul and Dare Your Spirit to Move"

[jef]

The comp. has a mixture of rare/pretty popular stuff. It has the brilliant Frank Wilson song "Do I Love You(Indeed I Do)", as well as other favorites of mine "Too Late" by Williams & Watson, and "Seven Days Too Long" by Chuck Wood.

I recently got one of the new Best of Wigan Casino Comps. and that was great too.

P.S. That James Carr album is awesome.

[yovan]

dizzee rascal - "Boy in Da Corner"
mos def - "Black On Both Sides"
sufjan stevens - "Greetings From Michigan"
cat power - "You are Free"
us maple - "Purple on Time"

still lovin' the last one, hasn't gotten old yet...

oh, and dizzee's pretty fly too....

[blueeyes]

Elliott Smith - EIther/Or, XO, Figure 8 (I've been getting out the old Elliott records to pay homage: I'm still not over it)

Belle and Sebastian- "If You're Feeling Sinister"

Modest Mouse- "Building Nothing OUt of Something" (got it back out)

Metric - "self-titled" (I think) - new band -ok, kind of trying too hard

My Morning Jacket- "IT Still Moves"

Patrick Park - "Lonliness Knows mY Name"

and some old Liz (Phair): "whip-smart"

[jef]

Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Scrawl - Velvet Hammer
v/a - Best of Blaxloitation

[johansen smith]

Pavement "Terror Twilight"
Lambchop "Aw Cmon / No You Cmon"
PSOI "Monsoon"
My Morning Jacket "It Still Moves"
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness "s/t"
Raise the Fawn "By the Warmth of Your Flame"

[earl grey]

DJ koze - all people is my friends
olivia tremor control - dusk at cubist castle
franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand
x-wife - feeding the machine
ricardo villalobos - taka taka

so johansen, what's your take on the lambchop? i've read enough good reviews that i think i'll pick it up this weekend.

[Mr.HCI]

Floor Floor
Rise demo CDR
Probot Probot (first few songs before I left for work, late)
Sarax 570.Kythera
Venom Resurrection
Träd, Gräs och Stenar Djungelns Lag <-- second listen and it still sounds like The Grateful Dead to me
Budgie In for the Kill
Fatso Jetson Power of Three
The Forty Fives Get It Together

[vesper]

Originally posted by johansen smith
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness "s/t"

I asked about this a couple weeks ago and didn't get a response. Is this the EP or a full-length, and how is it?

Today, I'm all about

Sam Prekop, Sam Prekop
The Sea and Cake, Nassau
Jim O'Rourke, Insignificance

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by earl grey

so johansen, what's your take on the lambchop? i've read enough good reviews that i think i'll pick it up this weekend.
I actually think it's pretty over-rated, to be honest. some good tracks to be sure, but... I don't know, it lacks the "it" that makes a good thing great. also, be aware that it's not technically a "double album," but two seperate albums.

Originally posted by vesper
I asked about this a couple weeks ago and didn't get a response. Is this the EP or a full-length, and how is it?

it's a 5 song EP and it is not quite as good as the demo tracks they had floating around. I suspect that their full-length could be really killer though, the potential is there.

[Futureman]

Shellac--1000 Hurts
New Order--Power, Corruption, and Lies
Explosions in the Sky--Those Who Tell the Truth...
Deerhoof--Apple O'
Flaming Lips--Soft Bulletin

[fuzztony]

Doing some serious catching up:

Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth...
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Ween - Quebec
Arab Strap - The Red Thread

Naturally enough, a major production difference on those 2 Explosions records. Enjoying heaps though.

[tinobeat]

Spiritualized - Complete Works Vol. 1[ 2CD
Trans Am - Liberation LP
Avey Tare/David Grubbs - split 12"
Ride - Nowhere CD
Various - Down in the Basement (best of Joe Bussard's 78 collection) CD
DNtel - Life is Full of Possibilities CD
Plastic Crimewave Sound - Flashing Open LP

[fuzztony]

Originally posted by tinobeat
Ride - Nowhere CD
[/B]

Ahh, must dig out my Nowhere copy right now - that's a great listen.

Johansen - how you finding MMJ's It Still Moves after a bunch of listens? Am still enjoying it, though I cannot quite make up my mind on it.

[bitterfruit]

Originally posted by johansen smith
I actually think it's pretty over-rated, to be honest. some good tracks to be sure, but... I don't know, it lacks the "it" that makes a good thing great. also, be aware that it's not technically a "double album," but two seperate albums.


it's a 5 song EP and it is not quite as good as the demo tracks they had floating around. I suspect that their full-length could be really killer though, the potential is there.

I was tempted to get the new Lambchop along with my order for the Superchunk DVD last night, but I hesitated. Instead, I opted for the hip as fuck (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=hipasfuck) Merge t-shirt. But I did get the older Matt Suggs record "Golden Days Before They End."

[vesper]

in the morning/afternoon
Animal Collective, STGSTV/Danse Manatee
Animal Collective, Here Comes the Indian
Cat Power, Moon Pix

this evening
Camera Obscura, Underachievers, Please Try Harder
Electrelane, The Power Out
TV on the Radio, Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes

Whaddya think of that Grubbs/Avey Tare split, Tinobeat? I rather like it but I haven't spent much time with it, either.

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by bitterfruit
I was tempted to get the new Lambchop along with my order for the Superchunk DVD last night, but I hesitated. Instead, I opted for the hip as fuck (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=hipasfuck) Merge t-shirt. But I did get the older Matt Suggs record "Golden Days Before They End."
I'm not sure what definition of Hip As Fuck they're going by with entries like this: http://www.livejournal.com/community/hipasfuck/34008.html

[bitterfruit]

Notice the GBV poster in the background....

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ibrokeup/

[johansen smith]

boy I hope Bitterfruit doesn't find MY Live Journal.

[bitterfruit]

You're saying that this is not you?

[johansen smith]

you'd think he'd wait 'til after his eyes stopped dilating before posing for pictures.

[earl grey]

spacemen 3 - perfect prescription
v/a - the sound of young new york
the cansecos - the cansecos
depeche mode - violator
dizzee rascal - boy in da corner
mellow - perfect colors

[johansen smith]

Modest Mouse "Good News For People Who Love Bad News"
Gemma Hayes "Night On My Side (UK version)"
Jale "So Wound"
Nellie McKay "Get Away From Me"

[Futureman]

How 's the new Modest Mouse, JS?

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Futureman
How 's the new Modest Mouse, JS?
a hell of a lot better than the Moon and Antartica and the Ugly Casanaova stuff. still no more long songs like the days of yore, but it does remind me a lot of their singles collection. so, a return to form. also, "Float On" is one of the weakest tracks on the album, don't know why it's the single. "Bury Me With It" would have been a much better choice.

[Paul]

I'll be willing to give MM another chance if:

a) Brock isn't still a shitty singer.

b) the guitar playing isn't self-consciously "complex."

c) they recorded a duet with Cher.

Are any of the above true with regard to the new record?

[johansen smith]

Paul will be sitting this one out, I think.

[vesper]

Deerhoof, Milk Man
TV on the Radio, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Prince, Sign 'O' the Times
Camera Obscura, Underachievers Please Try Harder
Lali Puna, Faking the Books
Electrelane, The Power Out

Also found copies of Weird War's If You Can't Beat 'em, Bite 'em (now I'm legit!) and Mission of Burma's Vs. (please don't ask me why I didn't own this earlier) in the local money vacuum'$ used bin.

Oh yeah, I guess you missed the first time, so. Whaddya think of that Grubbs/Avey Tare split, Tinobeat? I rather like it but I haven't spent much time with it, either.

[TheSadDebaser]

right this second: June of 44 - "Have a Safe Trip, Dear"

WAITING THERE
RIGHT IN THERE
I'M STATIONED
I'M STATIONED
I'M STATIONED
I'M STATIONED

I've been listening to:
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Stooges - Fun House

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by vesper
Whaddya think of that Grubbs/Avey Tare split, Tinobeat? I rather like it but I haven't spent much time with it, either.


sorry, saw it the first time around, but was too busy to think and respond properly...

Its still real new to me too, so I don't have a particularly smart opinion yet, but the Avey stuff sounds on par with some of the best Animal sounds, if a bit more stripped down. I definitely want to live with it a bit more before fully throwing down opinions on it.

I was pleasantly surprised by the Grubbs side, having been bored to tears by his post-Gastr output (I bought this 12" purely for the Avey Tare business). But its real nice, meditative stuff.. like the Avey side, though, I need to hit that a little harder to have fully formed thoughts...

[nosferatu man]

Today I have listened to...

Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be On Time
Explosions In the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Hood - Cold House
Microphones - Mt. Eerie
Slint - Spiderland
Lift to Experience - Texas/Jerusalem Crossroads
Mike Doughty - Skittish

Right now I am listening to...

TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes

[earl grey]

yo la tengo - the sounds of the sounds of science
cass mccombs - A
mellow - perfect colors
morrissey - bona drag
the exploding hearts - guitar romantic

i'm really enjoying the mellow album. don't know much about them but it's like air gone britpop with hints of pink floyd. doesn't seem to be released in the US yet, which is unfortunate.