Quick! What Are You Listening To In May 2007!

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and, hey, maybe you could talk a little about what you are listening to? do you dig it? or what? what's the deal? you don't have to write a book. maybe a sentence or two. i see all these lists on these threads and i never know what half of anything is. thanks!

now playing:

Alternative T.V. - Strange Kicks

*love this album. i forget about it and then i put it on and i wonder why i don't own any other ATV! i need a good singles comp. love mark perry's delivery. love the mishmash of styles. "communicate" is such a great lazy synth-pop number. total rock critic bait!*

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

I've been listening a lot to Orbital II. Not terribly obscure, I know, but something about the way they manipulate their computational devices hits my subconscious "chill out" button.

― Jeff Treppel, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think i've ever heard orbital. seems like i should have. i like the orb anyway. maybe that's enough.

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

Miranda Lambert: Crazt Ex Girlfriend
Fulanito: Vacaneria
Michael Stuart: Back to da Barrio
Anthony Cruz: Para Mi Gente

I've already talked about these and I am technically cleaning my bathroom--right now.

(geez scott even I have an orbital album on my hard drive somewhere)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Crazy not Crazt

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

joni mitchell..steely dan..grover washington jr..cyrus faryar..ronnie foster..lee oskar..doobie brothers..arthur verocai..deodato..sandpipers..fred neil

― 600, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Orbital were one of the big techno acts of the 90s. They had that "Halcyon + On + On" song that was on every soundtrack in the late 90s (Mortal Kombat, Hackers, etc.). I'm pretty sure you've heard it. Not really sure how to describe it, though, being mostly chill electronica with and ethereal female voice on the top.

― Jeff Treppel, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

(They also had the song "Satan" ["Well son, a funny thing about regret is, it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done. Oh, and by the way, if you see your mother this weekend, be sure to tell her -- SATAN!"]. Kirk Hammett played guitar on the caps on soundtrack version, and the live version has a sample from "You Give Love a Bad Name," so I guess that makes it kind of metal.)

― Jeff Treppel, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

Well son, a funny thing about regret is

They must have take that from the Butthole Surfers.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

i like electronica. in fact, now playing:

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Gold Und Liebe

*one of THE great electronic albums of the 80's. It was Germany. It was 1981. We are in Conny Plank's studio. And all is bliss. And sex under water. And absolute body control.*

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that satan thing is the Buttholes. From hairway to steven? what a great album. i do have that around here somewhere.

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Son of a bitch. Spawn soundtrack, not caps on. Anyway, you should listen to Orbital. They're great. II and In Sides are the ones I recommend. And it's very possible they took that sample from the Butthole Surfers, but it works great in the context of the song.

― Jeff Treppel, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

YZ - The Ghetto's Been Good to Me
Great mid-90s NY production. It's all sorta sub-Large Professor, but I'm really into the whole funk-sampling Silver Age thing. It's apparently OOP, I picked it up on the blogs.

Steve Coleman & The Five Elements - Black Science
Weird, dense free funk. Dissonant soloing over mutating grooves. I don't know why I didn't get into this M-BASE stuff sooner, it really kicks.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know if I've ever consciously heard either a record by the Orb or Orbital (at least while I knew what I was listening to. Definitely never put on either of their albums by choice.)

In my CD changer right now:

J.D. Blackfoot The Ultimate Prophecy (crazy proto-metal psych album from 1970 or so, just reissued on CD. In my metal book. I'm pretty sure Scott knows this. I only ever owned it on a home tape before, couresy Metal Mike Saunders I think.)

Culture Killers Culture Killers (cdbaby glam/sleaze-rock EP. Didn't listen to it til now. May or may not like it. Looked promising on cdbaby.)

Fennesz Sakamoto Cendre (Avant garde new age music by two famous guys. Just showed up yesterday. Sounds nice now. May or may not sound boring soon.)

Jordan Pruitt No Ordinary Girl (teen pop album of the year, probably. I talk about it slightly on teen pop thread, where I almost never talk about anything anymore. But only slightly.)

Robin Taylor Deutsche Schule! (cdbaby Kraut rock reviver from Belgium I believe. Occasional whimsy is compensated for by frequent saxophones.)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

I've been listening to a lot of Andrew Hill the past couple of weeks. I had five or six of his CDs before he died, but after he died I ordered four more, plus a 3CD Mosaic Select box. Also salsa stuff, which I've been blogging about and just completed a Voice article about, sort of consolidating a few of the blog entries. Also a fair amount of metal, but nothing's really been leaping out at me the past few weeks the way things like the new Machine Head or Nox did earlier this year.

― unperson, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

The Buggles - The Age of Plastic - I heard this for the first time today, it is all kinds of awesome.
Pet Shop Boys - 'London (Westbam in Berlin mix)' - Tobias Thomas played this at the Kompakt thing on Wednesday and now I've tracked it down I can't stop playing it, it's bouncy and brilliant.

― braveclub, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

You'd probably find Orbital pretty metal, Chuck, in that you'd think it was good background music.

Also listening to the self-titled Kepone record from 1997. I'm not sure how to describe it, but Allmusic says, "hard rock with heavy rhythms that owes more to funk and country than the urban landscape that spawned." Weird grammar aside, sounds about right to me. I guess kind of like early Meat Puppets with slightly better singing and more spazz.

― Jeff Treppel, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

its from locust abortion technician not hairway to steven

― 600, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

right, the sabbath one. another great record. i just don't listen to the buttholes like i used to.

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

went to pick maria up at her office with the kids in the car. klassic rock radio rockin' van halen into green day (but my FAVORITE green day song - the one where he can't sleep and he's counting sheep but he's running out of sheep and they do their best imitation of an ac/dc big beat and back in black riff) into stevie ray into lynyrd skynyrd into aerosmith.

now i'm home and rockin':

Diamond Head - Borrowed Time

*an album that is as much classic rock or aor rock or boogie rock as it is "metal" or nwobhm for that matter. love the jams. love the vibe. love the cover.*

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Willie Rosario: Atizame El Fogon

(Sorry, I'm still cleaning my bathroom, so I can't afford to experiment.) (Why am I apologizing exactly?)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

vintage country-rock esp ian matthews/matthews southern comfort. so fine. like a london-to-la cowboy...

msc: s/t, second spring, later that same year, scion

im: if you saw thro my eyes, valley hi, journeys from gospel oak, tigers will survive

― m coleman, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

I like the elements of Diamond Head's sound that remind me of Free and Foreigner.

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

This Willie Rosario stuff: it manages to move like it has all day, completely taking its time, but without dragging.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

Second Spring is such a good album.

Mark, do you have a copy of Poco's Pickin' Up The Pieces yet? that album was KILLING me the other night. Anyone who calls themselves a Byrds or Buffalo Springfield fan must buy a copy of that album immediately.

Poco is my crusade this year. Though Matthews Southern Comfort is a good crusade too. Not many people listen to those records.

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

I like listening to Diamond Nights (a best of that Metal Blades put out a few years ago) and figuring out which riffs other bands "borrowed."

― Jeff Treppel, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

(When are they going to reissue the other 35 out of print Willie Rosario albums? Okay, maybe not 35, but probably not far from it. Some New York Boricua who knows this stuff lists his five favorite salsa albums, and one is by Willie Rosario, but is it in print? No.)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'm hearing a lot of Dungen - Tio Bitar right now. I will find that thread and rant there instead. Plus that Camberwell Now comp All's Well which is freakin genius all the way through.

― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Poco's Pickin Up The Pieces is sweet, thanks for sending me back to this Scott. I also have Crazy Eyes & Seven, the later band still cooks, plus a 2-cd anthology. the tracks from Deliverin' sound great.

if/when circumstances permit next week I will listen to Ray Baretto's Acid -- gotta be a trip, right?

― m coleman, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

"figuring out which riffs other bands "borrowed."

you listen to the original "am i evil" and you go "aha, that's why runty lars wants his drums to sound the way they do." it's uncanny.

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

The Offspring also grabbed a guitar riff for "The Kids Aren't Alright," if memory serves me correctly. There are others, but I can't remember off the top of my head.

― Jeff Treppel, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

now playing (cuz it's sunny and i just opened a beer):

Steely & Clevie - Frighten Friday

http://www.2-funky.co.uk/images/covers/28673-large.jpg

*i bought it years ago for a dollar at the thrift store. love the cover. love the electro touches. there is stuff about batty men and lesbians on here, but i can't tell if they are for or against. i don't know who these dudes are. or who daddy lizard and singing melody and flourgon and dirtsman are. fun stuff!*

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

1. John McLaughlin: Devotion

I just got this out of curiosity.

2. Thee More Shallows: Book of Bad Breaks

Sensitive-guy rock. My fave SF act.

3. Player Piano Music Recorded at Sutro's, San Francisco

Out-of-tune creepiness.

4. Bobby Bland: Greatest Hits Vol 2

Better than Ray Charles, but this isn't his best work.

5. The Outline: You Smash It, We'll Build Around It

Alt-rock-ish stuff that I like to pretend has something in common with Dismemberment Plan. There are about 4 good songs on it.

6. Lizzy Mercier Descloux: Mambo Nassau

Not as good as her no wave comp stuff.

7. Miasma of Funk: Groove on the Mania

I feel bad that this really won't be getting a whole lot of CD-table time.

― libcrypt, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Steeleye Span - Please to See the King
June Tabor - Airs and Graces
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
True Primes - We Have Won
Traditional Music from Grayson and Carroll Counties, Virginia (Folkways comp)
various Jimmie Rodgers sides

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

Right now I'm listening to Marhaug/Asheim's Grand Mutation, which is Nils Henrik Asheim on church organ and Lasse Marhaug on laptop/electronics. Creepy and big. I feel like my stereo isn't doing it justice, but if I turned it up to a "suitable" volume all the glass in my apartment would shatter and my wife would murder me.

― unperson, Sunday, 6 May 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://bp3.blogger.com/_npTQ9hjjpQ0/RjyenXcc1NI/AAAAAAAAAjw/ojq28M_NmNo/s320/folder.jpg

Some great stuff on this, especially from Mogollar and Mavi Isiklar.

― Mister Craig, Sunday, 6 May 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

Ooooo.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 6 May 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i want that too.

― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

Finally bought BR's [i]23[i/] after all the fuzz on here, and it's pretty much the soundtrack for May by now. Otherwise, the Faint's [i]Wet From Birth[i/] and Thulsa Doom keep spirits up.

― the Dirt, Sunday, 6 May 2007 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

otherwise, I'm working very hard on improving my posting skills

― the Dirt, Sunday, 6 May 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

I'm afraid it's lost in tyme. It'd be hard for you to blogspot it anywhere....

― Mister Craig, Sunday, 6 May 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

an awful lot of Replacements, Bowie, New Order this week

which is to say, nothing too terribly obscure...just the essentials

― stephen, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

Now playing:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c470/c4701558j3h.jpg

Don't get much better than this.

― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, hell. Wrong coding.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c470/c4701558j3h.jpg

― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

(Also, I can't help but think that King Diamond got his whole vocal shtick from the falsetto in "The Lies in Your Eyes")

― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

"Some Slow Afternoon" by the Pines

― youn, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

I still have the same CDs in the changer pretty much, except Charles Mingus In Paris and Iced Earth Overture of the Wicked have replaced Robin Taylor (who sounds whimsical way too often, it turns out, but who just barely makes the cut for being allowed to stay in my collection for the time being thanks to two long cuts I really like, thanks to their saxes -- interesting, my two favorite tracks on his CD are the only ones over eight minutes!) and Jordan Pruitt. Still no opinion about Culture Killers. On deck circle: New Chromeo.

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

"A Toute Alerte" by Delaney

― youn, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

I don't especially love Barretto's Acid, or Barretto in general. (On the other hand, I think vahid was hoping all Fania albums would sound like that one.)

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

MYSELF

― Tape Store, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

Got tired of Culture Killers (they're not too good.)

May be getting tired of Fennesz Sakamoto, too. (Or may just be getting tired, period. Almost bedtime.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

I have been listening to HETCH HETCHY. who i love. post-oh ok post-punk southern gothic loveliness. listening to the one full-length album from 1990 called SWOLLEN and the 1988 EP. Both on Texas Hotel.

― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

Right now I'm really into The Veils record "Nux Vomica" which just got a US release, very late-80s Mute/Rough Trade stuff, overtly Nick Cave influenced, but I'm also hearing Smiths and Gavin Friday.

Von Spar, which is a two song album that drifts between drone metal, krautrock and angsty post punk- a jumbled suite of sound that reminds me of Flux's Uncarved Block.

And I just got the Sword album, which is HUGE. I wish the singer had less Ozzy in his voice, but the riffs kill all the way through.

― bendy, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

The Sword album is pretty cool if you haven't heard any metal in the last decade or so. I don't know, I found it to be okay, but the vocalist is really one dimensional and the riffs not as memorable as I like them to be. I have the record, but every time I start to reach for it I can never quite bring myself to put it in.

― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

Ned Rothenberg: Inner Diaspora. I think I will be mentioning this a lot. I wish clarinet weren't so important in it, but the overall package is pretty great. Tzadik has had the golden touch lately.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

Kilt By Death 'box' set - 3 CDRs plus a DVD of digital files for a grand total of 187 tracks of Scottish post-punk from 77-84. Not even finished my second listen. Full of gems from The Scars, Delmontes, Restricted Code, and more.

― Mr. Odd, Monday, 7 May 2007 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

the Reload "Evolution" compilation. It's OK so far. Also digging Seefeel's "Polyfusia" which is reaaally good and A Guy Called Gerald's "Hot Lemonade" which is delightful.

― Stevie D, Monday, 7 May 2007 02:52 (eighteen years ago)

Ike Reilly Assassination, all the albums but especially the new one, I just think he's the best songwriter in America

Spanish Harlem Orchestra, United We Swing, I am making a concerted effort to understand salsa and this makes it VERY EASY indeed

Duke Ellington's 1938 orchestra stuff, Sammy and I are digging this the most

Fefe Dobson's Sunday Love, such a blast

There's a Riot Goin' On reissue, so happy

Brewers games on the radio because Bob Uecker is one bad-ass mofo on the microphone

― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

oh and tons of African music like Golden Afrique Vol. 2 and Bokoor Beats and Ricardo Lemva's new one and my Ethiopiques discs and Gigi and Teshome Mitiku's great record Topia's Deluge

damn, think of it, next month I might be buying wild-ass cassettes in an open marked in Addis Ababa, hee hee hee awesome

― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

uh markeT not markeD

― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fritschcards.com/reprints/1961_1970/images/cards_UECKER2.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.vintagecardtraders.org/virtual/64topps/64topps-543.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

The Buggles - The Age of Plastic - I heard this for the first time today, it is all kinds of awesome.

I envy your new discovery. What a great album. Now...listen on headphones if you haven't already!

Today I listened to:

Bjork - Volta (Musically it's overstuffed and swollen and spilling over and I really love it. Vocally ... she's become predictable. Can I have an instrumental version of this, please?)

Vangelis - Direct ( used to hate this, now I like it lots. Maybe it's just the way that gated Linn Drum sounds so lonely surrounded by his wall o' synthiness. Probably his most "80's" sounding recording.)

Patrick Cowley Collaboration s 1 & 2 ( found it on some disco blog along with a shitload of Bobby O stuff. I prefer Cowley because his stuff is -- well - it's more funky, but Bobby O is still a sifu in my book. Anyway, this is a bunch of stuff he either played on or produced and it's all faaabulous.)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, on the salsa tip I've also been digging Eddie Palmieri - Vamonos Pal Monte

― Hurting 2, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

This is totally my favourite Bjork album right now.

― Sundar, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:02 (eighteen years ago)

DFA Compilation #2 - kind of spacey dance music so far, turned on to it by my love for LCD Soundsystem's first two albums. I like it but it's an "in the mood" sort of set I think. Three stuffed CDs though!

Mission of Burma - Gun To The Head - One of those '80s acts I've always heard about but never checked out until recently; really digging this kind of aggro punk-pop. Good to get the blood pumping.

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky - Incredibly mellow and traditional compared to their last few but I'm enjoying it, it's got a very "satisfied" sound to it. A couple songs don't do it for me ("Shake It Off" bothers me for some reason) but overall another fine set.

― Nik, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

Tracks:
New Order - Age of Consent
Rihanna - Umbrella
Tiffany Evans feat. Ciara - Promise Ring
Jacques Dutronc - Et moi, et moi, et moi
Fleetwood Mac - What Makes You Think You're the One?
Warhammer 48k - Citizen Pain
Funky Four Plus One - Rapping and Rocking the House
Peter & The Wolf - The Window (Lo-Fi)
Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You

― Tape Store, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

oh forgot to mention a kick-ass low-budget blues rock gem from Howard Glazer and the El 34s, Liquor Store Legend; Phil F. sent me this as a freebie throwaway haha sort of thing but I'll be dogged if it doesn't have more energy than a ton of anything else I've heard this year. Plus some truly apocalyptic metallic-blues guitar solos, which are highly underrated as a way to deal with Mondayism

― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Also listening to the self-titled Kepone record from 1997

I like that one too. I got it based on a review I read in Metal Hammer that compared them to the Minutemen. One of the songs sounds like a hardcore version of the Knight Rider theme tune, which is nice. Yet I kinda prefer their first album, Ugly Dance. (Incidentally, I didn't realise till well after I first heard them that they were a GWAR side project.)

But right now, I'm listening to the new Melt-Banana, Bambi's Dilemma, and Bad Brains' I Against I.

― MacDara, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Golden Afrique Vol. 2, as well as vol. 1 are truly beautiful collections. I can't get enough of them.

x-post

Meanwhile, I was listening to Alice's Love it to Death and Killer this morning.

― JN$OT, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

now playing:

Grand Funk - Survival

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/G/gfunk_survivalf.jpg

*i love grand funk. love the animal noises on "all you've got is money" too.*

― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Dr. John - Mercernary
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
James "Blood" Ulmer - Freelancing
Anthony Braxton and Richard Teitelbaum - Time Zones
Ellery Eskelin - Vanishing Point

― o. nate, Monday, 7 May 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, sorry, I didn't see the top of this thread. Comments:

Dr John - Kind of laid-back, greasy funk, but very slickly recorded. Johnny Mercer-penned pop standards done in New Orleans jazz style. I like this.

Lily Allen - You all know this one already.

James "Blood" Ulmer - Kind of no-wavey, kind of post-Dancing in Your Head free funk, I like this.

Braxton & Teitelbaum - I only listened to side two this time. A good improvisation, with Braxton working a lot in the lower register (bass clarinet?) and Teitelbaum's fun synth noises.

Eskelin - I like the instrument line-up on this one: bass, cello and viola plus vibes and Eskelin's sax. Good improvisation - all the strings take it in more of a modern classical direction.

― o. nate, Monday, 7 May 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Just really got into Bobby Womack over the weekend for the first time. He might be in possession of the greatest "soul scream" I've ever heard.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 May 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Now playing Twin Sharkfins by Battle of the Future Buddhas, which was waiting for me in the mailbox today. My collection of 90's psychedelic trance grows steadily, it soon will be ten years of digging the stuff.

― no-nonsense, Monday, 7 May 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I also forgot to make comments vis a vis the first post

Andrew Hill - Black Fire: First Andrew Hill solo record on Blue Note. I'm embarrassed that I put off actually buying an Andrew Hill record until he was dead, but this is fantastic.

Steeleye Span - Please to See the King -- Brit Folk. Beautiful arrangements where the relative lack of percussion is made up for by other instruments doing neat rhythmic things

June Tabor - Airs and Graces -- more Brit folk revival. Very nice.

Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny -- I'm also embarrassed that I was too pretentious to listen to Judas Priest when I was younger because I thought it was *dumb*. This album rules.

True Primes - We Have Won: young experimental/lo-fi duo on Locust, new record. An interesting listen.

Traditional Music from Grayson and Carroll Counties, Virginia (Folkways comp) - mainly liking this because of the incredible bass voice of Vester Jones

various Jimmie Rodgers sides -- I like but don't love Jimmie Rodgers. However I felt some sort of need to fill a *gap in my musical education* or something by getting more familiar with his stuff, and there have been a few nice surprises in the lesser known tracks.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 7 May 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Nico - The Frozen Borderline
Robert Gomez - Brand New Towns
JD Souther - Black Rose
Ned Doheny - Hard Candy
Young Gods - Superready/Fragmente

― henry s, Monday, 7 May 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

thanks to youtube, i get to watch one of my fave old trance videos. "rock bitch" by the green nuns of the revolution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulPb4Bop624

okay, it's possible that it's my ONLY favorite trance video, but it's still fun to see.

― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

Must say that "Tranceportamental" (track #6 from the BotFB disc) is amazing. I love when tracks like this jump at you from old goa albums, this rush of euphoria I can't find very often in other genres.

― no-nonsense, Monday, 7 May 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

oh, and i was listening to The Reggie Knighton Band. Album from 1978. Reggie was in a 70's incarnation of The Grass Roots and then he went solo to make aor type stuff. i dig the record. lots of phasing and fx and triple diple guitar solos. "rock & roll alien" and "clone in love" are both bested by "ufo" a song about being scared of ufos.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/18528.jpg

http://members.aol.com/gab1239507/reggtr.jpg

http://members.aol.com/gab1239507/regdeb.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

also, this awesome song by an awesome singer with an even awesomer video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6L-xjRwMw

― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

^(virginia rodrigues, "uma história de ifa")

― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.afana.org/GirlCover1b.jpg

I love all the private press stuff that DeStijl re-issues.

― ian, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Sinatra immersion therapy. Digging into the Capitol stuff in earnest. Had my eye on a Vegas box I saw on a pbs pledge drive but it'll have to wait.

― tremendoid, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

My Kepone purchasing decision consisted of "hey, I've heard good things about these guys, and this CD is only four dollars. What the heck." I'll check out Ugly Dance, though.

― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

panda bear, person pitch
gui boratto, chromophobia
no bra, dance and walk--the conceit that makes 'no woman no crime' and 'munchausen' so engaging & effective doesn't do much for me on the remainder of the album. really stimulating and smart, but also kind of thin.
jean michel jarre, oxygene--i blew it and passed over the IASOS record i found in amoeba's new age dollar bin vinyl. to make up for it i picked up this and vangelis' opera sauvage. aided & abetted by simon reynolds
scritti politti, cupid & psyche 85--along with van dyke parks' song cycle, this is fast on its way to becoming my fave album of all-time.

― earth mystery, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

The last two Electrelane albums proper. In advance of their gig tomorrow. Arooga!

― Mister Craig, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Lindstrom & Prins Thomas essential mix.

― littlewhiteearbuds, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

That J.D. Blackfoot reissue xxhuxx mentioned also has a bunch of bonus tracks added to what was their only LP, apparently (see forcedexposure.com). Also: The Saninista Project and Silver Monk Time, both way better than the usual trib, and both of which I'm reviewing; Monotract's Trueno Oscura (another review object, not as exciting as sex objects but at least the money's coming my way)(good for music, though!);on the radio:Rick Holstrom, one of those singer-guitarists who somehow finds something fresh and fun in Fillmore white blooz (we could use you in rock, Rick). Check him in recent archives of Public Radio's Beale Street Caravan. On the same broadcast: Ann Rapson, one of the founders of Saffire The Uppity Blues Women, also fresh & funny, but/and being older and female is def basis of her blues, as is or was Saffire's, albeit with very strong, articulate hands, re playing "straight," tight but not anal blues)Also that Trinity concert linked from the Andrew Hill RIP thread.

― dow, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

Why do I always have so much trouble spelling "Sandinsita"? Cos I'm so patriotic, but it's Rick "Holdstrom," I think.

― dow, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Andrew Hill - Black Fire: First Andrew Hill solo record on Blue Note. I'm embarrassed that I put off actually buying an Andrew Hill record until he was dead, but this is fantastic.

hells yeah. any and all hill on blue note is sensational, especially point of departure. i'm currently immersed in the mosaic select 3-disc set. that and this fucking thrillpillow song ("buffalo") that refuses to leave my brain.

― Lawrence the Looter, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

The last Low record. Wow, it's good, but In Silence sounded so much better live.

― Mister Craig, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

hottnesssssss!!! er, it sounds good to me at this time.

― scott seward, Saturday, 12 May 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

the aislers set - the last match

hottnesssssss!!! er, it sounds good to me at this time.

*GOOGLEBAIT* - HEY, AMY LINTON! WHEN ARE WE GONNA SEE ANOTHER AISLERS SET ALBUM?????

― scott seward, Saturday, 12 May 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Organisation

they were tops. plus, i haven't listened to the 7-inch of 1978 recordings that came with this record in a while.

― scott seward, Saturday, 12 May 2007 03:01 (eighteen years ago)

Emmylou Harris - Blue Kentucky Girl
Just got this today. I chose to get this one next in her catalog because Sharon & Cheryl White do harmony vocals on it, and they sounded so awesome on Light Of The Stable. I think I like Emmylou Harris best when she does slower-paced songs, and this album is full of 'em. Sounds really good after a couple listens.

― Lingbert, Saturday, 12 May 2007 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

A Matos posting in the '77 P&J thread has inspired me to check out Al Green's The Belle Album. I find it fascinating so far ... Al Green's singer-songwriter record. Raw and joyful. Related matter: Can someone remind me which hip-hop artist stole the melody from "Belle" for hip-hop song a few years back. I think it's a Dirty South guy. That's been fucking with me all day, because I can hear the growling voice and the hook in my head.

― Jiminy Krokus, Saturday, 12 May 2007 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

Chubby Checker psych record recorded in Holland in 1971 that just got re-issued. Sounds like a strange hybrid of Arthur Lee's souldful vocals mixed with a harder Hendrix psych vibe, pretty damn brilliant.

― oscar, Saturday, 12 May 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

"that just got re-issued"

i don't know how to do that thing where you cross the word "re-issued" out and write in the word "bootlegged".

and seriously, i feel responsible for the bootleg!

― scott seward, Saturday, 12 May 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

so whats the story behind that bootleggin? cost me a pretty penny to get the "reissue/bootleg", haha.

― oscar, Saturday, 12 May 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

what's the story? some french bootleg label took a clean vinyl copy and transferred it to cd and is selling it.

and i have mixed emotions about it. before i wrote about the album on the web and in Ugly Things magazine it was on absolutely nobody's radar. hardly anyone had heard it. not even psych people. you could buy it on ebay for a dollar. after i wrote about it you couldn't. and after i wrote about it it was sold as a rare psych whatever. but not before. which is fine. my brother actually talked to bob irwin at Sundazed about figuring out how to put it out. but it would take forever to track down tapes and all that. so, i mean, it's kinda cool that someone has put it out there for people to hear, but that had already been done by bloggers after i wrote my thing. and it is kinda funny that everything i read about it on the web is a variation on what i wrote about the album, but at the same time i would love to see a proper reissue exist. it's close to my heart and it means the world to me.

― scott seward, Saturday, 12 May 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

and i'm not a braggart or anything. just simply stating that before i wrote about it it did not exist at all on the internet. not one mention. and i know, because i searched for years. it was one of the first things that i did when i got my first computer in 1999! no mention on ANY chubby fansite or discography. nothing. not even an ebay description. which is why i felt a responsibility to do it justice.
one of the reasons that i wrote a long piece on baltimore club music years ago is because there was absolutely NOTHING written about this music. not in long-form. not in-depth. it had no presence whatsoever. no excitement about something that i found/find very exciting indeed. so, i thought if i wrote something, at least that would be something! and that's how i felt about chubby's album as well. "Goodbye Victoria" just might be my favorite song on earth. How could I go on knowing that others hadn't heard it? so, the mixed emotions. I'm glad more people can now. But....i wish it could get better treatment.

― scott seward, Saturday, 12 May 2007 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

thats a shame. i would much rather had bought a proper release on Sundazed then the shoddy version i got. but yeah its pretty frickin great.

― oscar, Saturday, 12 May 2007 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

Howling Bells, Joni Mitchell, Fiest, Laura Viers, Moler.

It's just girls, girls, girls at the mo'.

― SeekAltRoute, Saturday, 12 May 2007 07:56 (eighteen years ago)

Just got Orbital's in-sides, Autechre's tri repetae, neon bible and Volta. And love'em all

― the Dirt, Saturday, 12 May 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

ruth copeland gimme shelter: the invictus sessions

outside of the maudlin bits, i love it.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Saturday, 12 May 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu, Joystone (quite good, inna lounged-out-Fela-Kuti kind of way)
Silje Nergaard, Darkness Out Of Blue (also rather good)
Clara Moreno, Meu Samba Torto (dunno... "decent enough", like)
Percy "Thrills" Thrillington, Thrillington (hm, n-n-n-n-nice, 'sppose)

and inna minutes, Gene Clark's No Other ...hey, which would be the next-Clark-solo-record-to-get? anyone??

― t**t, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

Bjork - Volta
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - s/t
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Fefe, Yes, EW&F, Los Tigres, Cheap Trick, Isaac Hayes, Chingo Bling, Pizzicato Five, BOC, 1997, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, L.L. Cool J, Stan Freberg, Wings, Winterpills, Jenni Rivera, Kahil El'Zabar's Infinity Orchestra, Hélène Corini & Béatrice Graf, Golden Afrique Vol. 3, Dionne Warwick, Los Burbanks, Jerry Butler, Run-D.M.C., Howard Glazer and the El 34s, Carla Thomas, Reto Suhner Quartet, The Pilgrim Travelers featuring Lou Rawls, Ornette Coleman, Sly and the Family Stone, El Gran Silencio, Roots of Rumba Rock, David Binney & Eduardo Simon, Love As Laughter, Santana, Frank London, James Blood Ulmer, Trick Daddy.

― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

probably some others too

― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

i'm still on a huge tropicalia kick. caetano veloso...mmm...

i am rocking the new bjork.

i also snagged this album by a band called grails. they are on temporary residence and make opeth-esque proggy metal stuff. i likes.

oh shit, yeah, and battles - mirrored. i'm trying to let that album sink in. it may be right that the best track is "atlas" but i'm willing to give it a few listens to really decide. i like "leyendecker" too.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah, and the new fucking champs is totally awesome as usual.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

Street Survivors by Skynard purchased on a whim and completely unrelenting
A Bigger Bang by the Rolling Stones which is actually pretty great
The Patti Smith covers record which is good for a few songs

― dan., Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

Ditto on the Patti Smith covers album. Really loving the new Detroit Cobras, Reid Paley, and Juliette and the Licks.

― Je4nne Fuhfuh, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

Sonora Poncena: Back to the Road (2004)

This album is more worthy of attention than all that over-hyped Spanish Harlem Orchestra stuff.

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

LOVING this last nite when i was drunk:

http://www.sebododisco.com.br/imagens/1651.jpg

― scott seward, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm catching up on old stuff that I loaded onto the iPod for 3 months out of the country. some faves -

Brainticket's Cottonwood Hill LP
Ghedalia Tazartes - Transports
Heat & Birds comp on Jewelled Antler
Sandy Denny - A Boxful Of Treasures
all those F.P. and The Doubling Riders albums. I should start a thread about those.

― sleeve, Saturday, 12 May 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah Scott ATV are great, there is a singles comp called Action Time Vision on old LP if you can find it, plus the recent reissue of their 1st LP on Get Back has three bonus trax from singles.

― sleeve, Saturday, 12 May 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

The Field - From Here We Go Sublime. Revisiting album after living with last year's EP tracks for a while, loving the trance of the beats and ebb and flow washing over them, although I wonder how long it will be before I tire of it.

PiL, Magazine, Pere Ubu, et al - first and second albums by each. (Listening along with Rip It Up and Start Again) I've been quite surprised how conventional and "rock-y" Pere Ubu sound, after knowing them only from their 88-92 "mainstream" phase. Ditto for Devo, where Mothersbaugh's geek voice seems the only thing that makes them oddballs. PiL is still out of this world, though.

Not listening to: Feist, The Reminder - MOR jazz pop, maybe it would grow on me if I let it (fooled us with "My Moon My Man," didn't you? Patrick Wolf, The Magic Position - First two tracks okay, then you lost me.

Singles/leaks - Roisin Murphy, "Overpowered" (one of my favorites this year so far); various Siobhan Donaghy; Sneaky Sound System, "Pictures"

― mitya, Sunday, 13 May 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

arcade fire
manu chao
alan jackson
nas
the national
television
ornette coleman

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Gudrun Gut--I Put a Record On
Jessie Mae Hemphill--She Wolf and Feelin' Good
The National--Boxer and Alligator
Mekons--first 2 lps
Panda Bear--Person Pitch
Sort Sol--Under en Sort Sol

― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Les Georges Leningrad
The Complainer
Alfredo Zitarrosa
Afrirampo
ZNR
YMO
Vance Gilbert
ABBA
An Albatross
Wooden Wand and The Vanishing Voice
Talking Heads
....I'm in a weird mood lately, obvs

― django, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Wolfgang Dauner, Get Up and Dauner (a compilation from 1965-1976; quite good too)

Bruce Bossteen, Greeting From Ashbury Park, N.J. ('s this, like, teh most Dylanesque-est-est Bruce there is?? Well, up to today I knew "Blinded By The Light" & "Spirit In The Night" only in their Manfred Mannned cover versions; teh originals, I gotta say, sound to my ears now really hilariously busy -- in a good:)

Data Direct, La Dolce Vita (Discordia, 1995)

― t**t, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

...in a good way:(

― t**t, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

Sly's Fresh, Stand and Life re-masters. And they just keep getting better and better all the time.

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

quique redux turned up yesterday as did dubstep allstars vol 5. am not sure about the minnie ripperton on the latter and wanted more from the extra tracks on the former.

browsed over to net-lab.co.uk this morning to find a re-done website and 7 new freebie downloads. the synthamesk is probably my favourite of the three i've so far heard.

and garagepressure.com podcasts.

and radio 2.

― koogs, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

Today I heard Flower Travellin' Band- Satori for the very first time. On headphones at my desk at the office. I purt near died. The shit is heavy, my fellow xtians. And really good sound for a psych-death-blues recording of its era!

― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Astronauts - Peter Pan Hits the Suburbs. This record is all over he place, a mix of folk, punk, garage rock, and some psych elements coupled with bitter lyrics about the death of idealism. My favorite song is the first track, a funny/sad bit about being unable to go down the protest because, "Someone's gotta watch the kids." Nobody does resentful better than the English. Classic line: Whadda gonna do when babys sussed you out.

Blue Orchids - Underrated at the time. Maybe Rough Trade's only psych band before that was fashionable. Una Baines's organ playing is their secret weapon.

Gianluca Becuzzi & Fabio Orsi - The Stones Know Everything. Drone, enviro-sound manipulation with some live instruments. Good stuff.

Beatles - Abby Road. The medley on the second side is my favorite piece of Beatle music.

Plus/Minus Rainy Koran Verse. This is barely-there music. Two guys, Berhard Gunter and Max Wastell, improvise so quietly and sparely that you can hear the echoes from the performance space itself. A perfect example of knowing what to leave out when playing.

― leavethecapital, Thursday, 24 May 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

Been listening a lot to the Fleetwood Mac BBC Sessions and to the Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac disc. Am surprised by how much I like both, since I don't usually think of myself as a fan of blues (not that that's all that's on these). Mentioned it elsewhere, but Sandy Mary which appears on none of their studio albums, is one of the best things they ever did and the BBC version kills the live at Boston version.

Also finally got around to downloading (eMusic...strange they had this) Simon Fisher Turner's old Revox album. More creepy Deux Filles-like sound-things.

Also got the new Mary Timony, which is just *crazy* proggy (and I've followed her through the Unicorn days). Not sure I like it.

― dlp9001, Thursday, 24 May 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

Ned Rothenberg's Inner Diaspora. Great album, and if I haven't said more about it, it's partly because I'm having a difficult time finding an adequate description of it. Ugh, I'm definitely not going to get it in this tired moment, but it's just really brilliant.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 24 May 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

It's good. It's got instruments and melodies and rhythms and distinct sections and stuff.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 24 May 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

recently,

Bernard Paganotti - Paga
Eskaton - Ardeur (both of these are *very* good zeuhl records, aka prog borne of Magma and jazz fusion)

Excepter - Streams (new 2CD set of live stuff)

Ray Barretto - The Message (1972 salsa)

Minilogue - "Inca" (slow burning, minimal, droney)

Pauline Oliveros - The Wanderer, Accordion & Voice (new reissues on Important)

― Dominique, Thursday, 24 May 2007 02:13 (eighteen years ago)

great oliveros albums! glad to see those in print again. she's got a ton of great records, actually

― oo, Thursday, 24 May 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

how is the tudor bonus track? worth getting the cd for maybe?

― oo, Thursday, 24 May 2007 05:24 (eighteen years ago)

since i'm on some pain killers following a surgery i've been in the mood for listening to:

Pauline Oliveros Accordion and Voice reissue
Paul Dresher Liquid and Stellar Music (another fantastic Lovely vinyl release, whose CD reissue doesn't do it justice)
Mirror Visiting Star
Terry Riley Les Yeux Fermes & Lifespan
Musica Eletroacustica Brasileira Vol.1 & 2 (really great GRM style music coming out of Brasil in the 90's!?)

― oo, Thursday, 24 May 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

Are you enjoying the Terry Riley album? I'm thinking I might acquire it soon.

― Drooone, Thursday, 24 May 2007 05:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ray Barretto - The Message (1972 salsa)

One of my least favorite "classic salsa" albums.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 24 May 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Paul Dresher Liquid and Stellar Music (another fantastic Lovely vinyl release, whose CD reissue doesn't do it justice)

Great album. Sorry to hear that about the CD, I always wanted to get that. (Actually, I thought it was long out of print or never made it to CD or something like that.) One of the best Fripp sound-alikes I've heard. (I know, I know, according to him he was doing this sort of thing before Fripp. It's certainly possible he didn't get it from Fripp, but still, it's pretty similar in approach to the Fripp/Eno collaborations, however it got that way.)

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 24 May 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

Right now I'm listening to Down By The Jetty by Dr Feelgood, which is probably the best pub rock album ever not released by Eddie & the Hot Rods.

Then I've got Fall Heads Roll, which I haven't heard before, and Not So Brave by Flux of Pink Indians, which I think is the original mix of their Strive To Survive album augmented with a load of live tracks including a couple of old Epileptics songs.

And this morning while attempting to cope with actually having to work (due to absence of co-workers today) I listened to New Traditionalists by Devo and got all impatiently excited about finally seeing them live in a few weeks!

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 24 May 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

Cheap Trick: Dream Police
Foreigner: The Definitive Collection

Hm, never noticed how "Urgent" and "Addicted to Love" are, more or less, the same song.

― JN$OT, Thursday, 24 May 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s18777.jpg

I'm listening to Split by The Groundhogs quite a lot and loving it. They're on tomorrow down the road from me...it's often risky seeing bands live whose pomp was in the early 70s though..

― Mister Craig, Thursday, 24 May 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Scott 2
Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
That second volume of Jack Nitschze stuff

Good to hear that someone's enjoying Dr. Feelgood, Colonel! Great album, that.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 24 May 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

r kelly - double up
amerie's new one
kramer (gpm 072)
karl blau's new one
lingbert cdr

― jergïns, Thursday, 24 May 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

Are you enjoying the Terry Riley album? I'm thinking I might acquire it soon.
-- Drooone, Thursday, 24 May 2007 05:44 (6 hours ago) Link

The Terry Riley reissue is essential Riley, I think. Great stuff.

Great album. Sorry to hear that about the CD...
-- Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 24 May 2007 11:05 (1 hour ago) Link

The CD is weird because Lovely throws in a really cheesy-toned guitar piece in between the two sides of the LP. Also, I think this is a case where the more detailed CD sound works against the album a bit...

― oo, Thursday, 24 May 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

sinking of the titanic by gavin bryars, the wonderful new clientele album (their best yet by some way), the born heller lp, on another ocean by david behrman and odyshape by the raincoats

― cw, Thursday, 24 May 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

i like dan deacon. a lot.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Thursday, 24 May 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

William Basinski Watermusic II
Lubomyr Melnyk KMH: piano music in the continuous mode
Loren MazzaCane Connors Portrait of a Soul

― oo, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Lubomyr Melnyk KMH: piano music in the continuous mode

Hm! Tomorrow night he'll be performing, mmm, about a two-hour bus-ride from where I live. At a little festival. (Where, I've realized, I cannot go to:(

― t**t, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

You live in Estonia? I was looking at that festival. It looks pretty cool.

― oo, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Yep, it is a cool festival, that "Kumu öö". They've been doing this particular fest just for a couple of years, though the same organizers've done other fine events for musch longer ("HUH" or "Hea uus heli", e.g).

― t**t, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

Betty Davis - s/t
DJ Quik - Live at the House of Blues
Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer
Sly and the Family Stone - A Whole New Thing
Mistah F.A.B. - The Baydestrian
The Knife - Silent Shout
Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound
Fulanito - Vacaneria!
Prince - Controversy
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation
Zapp & Roger - All the Greatest Hits
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Madvillian - Madvilliany

― The Reverend, Monday, 28 May 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, yeah. And...

Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue
Crime Mob - Hated On Mostly
Ne-Yo - Because of You

― The Reverend, Monday, 28 May 2007 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

Aaron Copland - Organ Symphony (Bernstein, Biggs, NYPhil)
CCR - Willy and the Poor Boys
Aa - gAame
Gary Numan - Pleasure Principle
Smithsonian Folkways Indonesian Music Vol 20 - Indonesian Guitars

― Hurting 2, Monday, 28 May 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh400/h413/h41352t6f67.jpg
I am absolutely loving this album. It combines everything I love about 70s prog rock with everything I love about modern post-rock. I don't know if it was released in the US (although they've had lots of copies in the dollar bin near me), but you must check it out, Scott.

― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 28 May 2007 02:28 (eighteen years ago)

(It's Pure Reason Revolution - the Dark Third. Didn't realize that the title would be so hard to read.)

― Jeff Treppel, Monday, 28 May 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

In the CD changer:

American Dog - Hard
Crime Mob - Hated On Mostly
Hot Chip - DJ Kicks
Joy of Cooking - Back To Your Heart
New England - Greatest Hits Live

― xhuxk, Monday, 28 May 2007 02:36 (eighteen years ago)

Yep, it is a cool festival, that "Kumu öö". They've been doing this particular fest just for a couple of years, though the same organizers've done other fine events for musch longer ("HUH" or "Hea uus heli", e.g).
-- t**t, Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:14 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

http://moonfolk.blogspot.com/2007/05/kumu-vol2.html

t**t, this seems to be a review of the fest (though I can't find an estonian translator...) what did they think about Melnyk, etc?

― oo, Monday, 28 May 2007 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

listening to: Nu Creative Methods

― oo, Monday, 28 May 2007 07:35 (eighteen years ago)

the proclaimers - liked that one song the radio played back in the day but there's so many great tracks on their 1st 2 albums.

― nonightsweats, Monday, 28 May 2007 07:46 (eighteen years ago)

The sound of a CD being burned.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 28 May 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

Lily Allen is still the best thing to happen this year.

― Bimble, Monday, 28 May 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

Until the new White Stripes comes out, probably.

― Bimble, Monday, 28 May 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

right now its the joakim resident advisor mix - top stuff
solomun & stimming stuff, obviously
hot chip's dj kicks
24 hours blog mix later
joakim's remix of cut copy

das it

― occamsrazor, Monday, 28 May 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

That's your opinion, Bimble! ;-------o)

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 28 May 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

Btw this Charlotte Hatherley (The Deep Blue) album is fucking incredible! I need to rave about it a bit. This is as awful a description as I'll ever come up with, but it's like an underwater dream with periodic punk-pop interruptions (not actual pop-punk, more like if you told someone who'd never actually heard any actual pop-punk of its existence, and they had to work out what that sounds like in their own mind), but not as tuneless as that sounds. The melodies are absolutely wonderful, and her voice is unbelievably sweet. (Sorry, I just woke up.)

― The Reverend, Monday, 28 May 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

conlon nancarrows arrangement for ensemble modern
joni mitchell - court & spark
witthuser & westrupp - lieder von vampiren, nonnen und toten
piano music by nancarrow and antheil
oldham tinkers - for old times sake
deodato - 2
elsie carlisle collection
deep lancashire songs ballads and verse from the industrial northwest of england
flappers vamps and sweet young things 1924-1931
wayfaring strangers - ladies from the canyon
charlie haden - liberation music orchestra

― 696, Monday, 28 May 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

highly recommend the first nancarrow one, only listened to a bit of the witthuser & westrupp so far, seems as good as trips & traume so far

also playing

sofia gubaidulina - musical toys [fourteen piano pieces for children]

― 696, Monday, 28 May 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

oo - that particular blogger who mentions the mini-fest Kumu öö, writes 'bout Lubomyr Melnyk very briefly, saying basically that "the slightly hypnotising" Melnyk was their second favourite performer there -- after Jimi Tenor :)

― t**t, Monday, 28 May 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.asiamusic.net/imgdata/artist/us/b_album/b/bobbrookmeyerbillevans_theivoryhunters.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 28 May 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/p/publicenemy_yobumrush_101b.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 28 May 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B0001WPSI6/sr=1-1/qid=1180374904/ref=dp_image_0/202-6023791-6219064?ie=UTF8&n=229816&s=music&qid=1180374904&sr=1-1

― JN$OT, Monday, 28 May 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

curses

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― JN$OT, Monday, 28 May 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

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― JN$OT, Monday, 28 May 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

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― JN$OT, Monday, 28 May 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

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SO pissed i didn't know about the rhino handmade version of this when it came out. so i bought a bootleg. the bootleg is badly mastered and three or four tracks have horrible, jarring skips. but apparently water is going to reissue it shortly with EVEN LESS BONUS TRACKS (none, rather than two on the bootleg or five on the rhino). yay...?

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 28 May 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

way upthread somebody mentioned Mirror's "Visiting Star" and that is so freakin' good, side 2 is my favorite thing they did. Unwavering bliss-drone.

This week I have had a lot of free time b/c my girlfriend is out of town and I am in Peru with few distractions. So I've been catching up on stuff from the iPod that hasn't gotten a proper listen yet:

Day before yesterday:
two Jewelled Antler label comps, "Heat & Birds" and "Windswept Trees And Houses". The first one seems stronger but both are packed to the gills with the label's unique blend of folk/pysch/trance/environmental field recordings. That series of 3" CD-EPs they did is really good too.

V/A "In Fractured Silence" LP old United Dairies comp. One pretty run-of-the-mill side with Un Drame whatever-they-are doing vaguely prog-like improv scrape, and a Helene Sage musique concrete track that was OK at best. Side 2 picks up with a great Sema track (I want to talk about this band more on ILM, may need to start a thread) that is a shorter/different version (or edit, or something) of a track from their "Anatomy Of Aphrodite" album. Then a Nurse With Wound track ("Strange Play Of The Mouth, one of my faves) that of course is different than the version on Automating.

V/A "Hoisting The Black Flag" LP, another early UD comp. GREAT track by Truth Club (Robert Haigh's pre-Sema band), fantastic Lemon Kittens track, and of course another NWW track ("Duelling Banjos") that is totally and utterly different than the "regular" version on Automating #1. Also a very interesting track by David Cross (he was the violinist for mid-period King Crimson and somehow fell in with this scene), a fairly bland Hamilton/Duarte track, and two pretty bad early Whitehouse tracks.

V/A "Live at Target" LP. Never heard this before! Factrix sound way different than their albums, rawer and louder. Nervous Gender were pretty great, don't think I had ever heard 'em before. The Uns tracks were disappointing, I think I prefer his Z'Ev incarnation. And those Flipper tracks, of course, rule over 95% of the records I own. Somebody reissue this!

― sleeve, Monday, 28 May 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Yesterday:

Throbbing Gristle - Camber Sands 2002. Getting psyched up for their new album which I will buy the day I get home. This is a resounding return to form, the new stuff sounds great and the old stuff even better.

Sand - Ultrasonic Seraphim. Never gave this a proper listen and I think I could just listen to the first and last tracks all day. Some of the rest strikes an odd note, almost like a wanna-be 70's boogie band.

Amon Duul 2 - Phallus Dei. Fuck Yeah. "Luzifer's Ghilom" still blows my mind. Not as good as "Yeti", but what is?

Shub Niggurath - S/T cassette. I think this came from Noize Board, god damn what a piece of work. What else sounds like this weird dark chamber-prog mutation?

Also Cranioclast's "Lost In Karak" but I fell asleep to it. Today it's been a Sun City Girls day, gave a good listen to the most recent of the Eclipse double LP sets as well as the Piano Bar LP.

Up next: The Fall's Peel Sessions, discs 1-3. Can't wait!

― sleeve, Monday, 28 May 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

Trouble Funk - Saturday Night Live. This is an mp3 rip from a old cassette recording. The sound isn't the best, but the performance is energetic and raw. Go go bands should only do live recordings. Good stuff.

This Heat - First Album. I'd only heard Deceit which I like well enough. This is rawer, meaner, and more abrasive. Made in an old meat locker. You can almost feel the dank walls closing around you.

OMD - Dazzle Ships. Don't fear the future.

― leavethecapital, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

Sun Ra: Janus

(A bunch of you should really get this.)

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I've been listening to This Heat - s/t a fair amount too.

Scott, what's the deal with that Evans/Brookmeyer record? Does Brookmeyer play piano on it too? I thought he played, like, valve trombone or something weird like that. And is it only two pianos, bass and drums?

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

loren connors/alan licht LP
thomas f browne - wednesday's child
religious knives "luck"/"in the back" 12" (this is immensely killer.)
mark fry - dreaming with alice
blank dogs 7"
charalambides - market square
a lot of popol vuh
junior delahaye - showcase
royal trux - thank you
tom rapp - stardancer
phantom family halo LP (most anything on blackvelvetfuckere is awesome. along with hp cycle and, of course, siltbreeze, it's one of my favorite labels lately.)
the shadow ring - lighthouse

― ian, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

superfine dandelion LP
free design - kites are fun
jimme lunceford 37-39 LP (and a bunch of other prewar jazz LPs and compilations)
satwa LP
steve davis - music
brinsley schwarz - nervous on the road
high mountain hoedown

it's been a long month.

― ian, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

jimmy campbell - half baked
comus - first utterance
that dandelion reissue on guerssen is fucking great.
harry pussy - schoolbus 12"
ian matthews - valley hi
rick nelson - garden party
oblivians - popular favorites
bobby brown - enlightening beam of axonda
contact high with the godz
guided by voices - alien lanes
necros - conquest for death
crime - sf's still doomed
siege reissue LP

― ian, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

"Scott, what's the deal with that Evans/Brookmeyer record? Does Brookmeyer play piano on it too? I thought he played, like, valve trombone or something weird like that. And is it only two pianos, bass and drums?"

great record. and, yes, brookmeyer is well-known as a trombone player, but he played piano too. originally, he was just gonna duet a little in the studio on piano and play trombone as well, but they liked the sound of what they were doing so much, he never played any trombone on the album! and, yeah, they are backed by percy heath on bass and connie kay on drums. great two piano improv. you can tell they were digging it.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

An archived music show about Brandon Ross & his music on WNYC (originally broadcast last February, and actually it'll be broadcast again tonight, as I understand...) Interview passages alternating with songs from BR's new alb. Puppet, that kind of thing.

― t**t, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Rush, Snakes & Arrows
Till Brönner,Oceana
James Brown, Dynamite X
Phlox, rebimine + voltimine

― t**t, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

mix cds from my brother, "rock you like a hurricane" slamming right into obscure bollywood tunes, x and joe walsh and sugarcubes and a whole bunch of stuff that i never heard before

also: sandra st. victor, andy milne, color guard, bobby hutcherson, lil mama, m.i.a., ll cool j, heart, eilen jewell

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

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― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

thelonious monk - it's monk's time
the byrds - notorious byrd brothers
joni mitchell - court and spark
bruce springsteen - the wild, the innocent, the e-street shuffle
JC & the microtones - cow people

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross - I've been reading some of LeRoi Jones's jazz criticism from the 1960s recently, and thinking about his commentary on Monk's band of this period. He talks about Rouse's elegance on sax, and finds himself wishing that perhaps he were willing to be less elegant, that he'd been edgier, more willing to take risks - more like the "new" thing Jones heard in Coltrane, Ornette, and Rollins. As usual though, Monk preferred to chart his own course, in his choice of band-mates as in other things. Though it's interesting to think about what these pieces would have sounded like with a freer horn player, I'm not sure the end result would have been preferable. Rouse keeps the intricate wit and natural abrasiveness of Monk's compositions to the fore, and his elegance holds pleasures of its own. One thinks of the playful elegance of Satie's piano pieces - though Monk was never afraid to lob bombs at the listener as well.

― o. nate, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Thelonius Monk - Brilliant Corners
Sly & the Family Stone - Riot & Fresh
Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes - first five albums
Rod Poole - December 96 for microtonal guitar

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

Thoughts on the Ribeiro? Her intensity and some of the musical turns are interesting, but I remember that material as never quite reaching being memorable or meaningful for me.

― oo, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Brightblack Morning Light - s/t
Andy Partridge's Fuzzy Warbles Vol 1-5
early 70s Miles Davis live bootlegs from darkfunk
Pharoah Sanders - Karma

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ringo, Ringo Rama
("Someone's knockin' at the door/ someone's ringing the bell" - indeed!:)

― t**t, Thursday, 31 May 2007 08:39 (eighteen years ago)

right now i'm listening to the crippled youth 7". bonus tracks on the bold anthology cd. a favorite since 1987 or so.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 31 May 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

Snivelling Shits - I Can't Come (comp of fake punks unreleased stuff, mostly not as good as the eponymous single unfortunately)
Cramps - Stay Sick!
Temptations - Psychedelic Shack (downloaded this thanks to ILM thread about it, it is most definitely a classic and I'm getting Cloud Nine now as well!)

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

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