What Are You Listening To: 2006 Santa Ana Winds + Election Paranoia edition

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Midterm election chaos and the giant brush fire in the San Jacinto Mountains got me listening to:

Quartz - Satan's Serenade
Acid Mothers Temple - Power House Of Holy
Klaus Schulze - Cyborg
The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home

But really what I want to hear is the new Tom Waits album...

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Melvins and Big Business set from their current tour. Loud and pissed-off, ergo great.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

3 by An Pierlé - Helium Sunset & Live Jet Set With Orchestra & Mud Stories
&
Various - The all Angels Concerts (rec. 1999, 2000, 2001).

The latter's improv.
The former(s), Belgian pop-rock.

― tiit (tiit), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Now:

The Happiest Guys in the World

Recently:

Trivium; My Chemical Romance

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 28 October 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

iLIKETRAINS
The Almanac singers
The Devil's Interval
Pete Seegar
The Strange Death of Liberal England

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 28 October 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

James Tenney "Postal Pieces".

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 29 October 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Morning listening involving works by Anthony Pateras "Chromophore", Gloria Coates setting Celan to music (no surprises there, but ok) and "Still Life" mp3, to be found alongside this feauture, really does something (just a feeling) terrific with what should be, by now, forms that are tired/spent.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

Melvins and Big Business set from their current tour. Loud and pissed-off, ergo great.

didn't go cause it was raining and gross and tired and i've seen the melvins so much and now people are telling me about the joining of the bands and i'm predictably regretting my decision.

anyhow (last five artists according to itunes):

polvo
sade
basement jaxx
ti
neil young

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 30 October 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Over the weekend: mainly the Art Ensemble Of Chicago, the Horrors, Marisa Monte, Morricone, Pizzicato Five, the Runaways and the Yardbirds.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 30 October 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Number One Cup - Wrecked by Lions

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Sylvano Bussotti "Nympheo" is really doing the trick right now.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

mostly a cappella death metal

― dream torture (blood bitch), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

John Foxx - Tiny Color Movies
Random Azusa Plane tracks

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what to listen to on my way home.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

E.T., I have the AP albums but I'd love to snag a good (homemade) compilation of the many singles and things or what have you...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

My Chemical Romance - the Black Parade
Rose Chronicles
Trivium
Bat for Lashes

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

in the past few days:
Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
Fentanyl - Feeble Existence
Fushitsusha - Pathetique
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Fiery Furnaces - EP
Brazilian Girls - s/t
Bach - Cantatas
Michael Mayer - Immer
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Composer of Desafinado Plays
Mozart - Piano Sonatas
Opeth - Deliverance
Brian Wilson - Smile

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

E.T., I have the AP albums but I'd love to snag a good (homemade) compilation of the many singles and things or what have you...

I've only got a few of the single tracks as mp3s, but eventually I'll put together everything I've got (which is darn near complete as far as I know)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Roxor and thanks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Now its:

David Shire - The Conversation OST
Circle - Miljard

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

V/A: Extended Seventies - suddenly it sounded like genius, apart from Warm Leatherette.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 3 November 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Freedom Of The City 2001 - Large Groups. STRINGS with & without EVAN PARKER
London Improvisors Orchestra, Freedom Of The City 2002
Envy, Insomniac doze

― tiit (tiit), Saturday, 4 November 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Bussotti "Pour Clavier" is def an underrated work cuz i hadn't heard of it till now!

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 5 November 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

sounds of leamington spa v. 4 (any recommendations on the others in this series?)

― youn (youn), Sunday, 5 November 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

What's Your Function?: A Tribute to Franco Battiato

― willem -- (willem), Sunday, 5 November 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I think perhaps Koogsy-Boy knows about the Leamington Spa scene.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Sunday, 5 November 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to Nirvana.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 5 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

What's Your Function?: A Tribute to Franco Battiato

:-D Admittedly I have a personal interest in the album...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Last week I did listen to "Santa Ana Winds" by the Beach Boys.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 5 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Recently played:

Various Steve Reich pieces
Arik Einstein (partly to help me learn Hebrew)
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
Mustapha Baqbou - Djema El Fna (Moroccan Gnawa music)
Willie Colon - El Malo
Ethiopiques Vol. 4
Cecil Taylor - Looking Ahead!
D'Gary - Malagasy Guitar
Lee Konitz - Subconscious Lee
The Occasion - Cannery Hours (I never tire of this album)
Vintage Palmwine

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 5 November 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

:-D Admittedly I have a personal interest in the album...

actually, Marco sent me the album. with a comment saying a certain ilm-regular had something to do with the linernotes :)

― willem -- (willem), Sunday, 5 November 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of ILM regulars, I have been listening to CD 86 this morning. I liked it.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 6 November 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Homemade pub-rock compilation including Dr.Feelgood, Ducks De-Luxe, Graham Parker, Roogalator, Count Bishops, and many more...

Gang of Four - Return The Gift.
Runaways - Queens of Noise
Rolling Stones - Aftermath

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Pardon my preposition use. I am easily embarrassed. That C86 album will be my next purchase. I've been listening to Strange Geometry. Who is K?

― youn (youn), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Steve Howe (with a little help from a lot of friends): Portraits of Bob Dylan
Well the Jon Anderson-sung "Sad Eyed Lady of The Lowlands" I do find very lovely, actually. Most of the rest - o boy. 's and girls.

― tiit (tiit), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Serge Gainsbourg - Melody Nelson and Nazi Rock.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Max Richter - Songs from Before

― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

A couple of Sven Libaek comps today.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

The Missing Brazillians - what a blinking racket!

Macro Dub Infection Volume 2

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

(PJ - which Miss.Brazilians was it?)

Shelton San - Spontaneous Black, their first "full-length", as it is (39:32:)... The title track sports some fine trombone, amidst their regular (Sonic-colored)insistent lava-rock.

― tiit (tiit), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

It was "Warzone". I think it might grow on me if I give it a chance.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

The thread title reminds me of Joan Didion.

Recently:

Nuggets

Antidepressant

Modern Times

Devils & Dust

Ramones: All The Stuff and More

Galaxie 500

― the pinefox (the pinefox), Thursday, 9 November 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

I don't listen to music anymore.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 9 November 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

New York Noise Vol 3
The Church - Hindsight
Old Blues stuff like Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters etc

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 9 November 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Anthrax - Persistence of Time
HIM - Love Metal
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes et Caetera
Mark Stewart - As The Veneer of Democracy Begins to Fade
The Who - Endless Wire

I didn't actually get to the end of any of them.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ian pace (piano) rocking it on Richard Barrett's 'Tract', and further works by Ferneyhough, Chris Dench and James Erber.

'Music is a better noise' by Essential Logic.

Bit rub 'Poesie pour pouvoir' for 3 orchestras and electronics by Boulez contains that slightly annoying fetish for icy surfaces that creeps in the 1980s on works such as 'Repons'.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Friday, 10 November 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Marula Soul Vol2 - various artists.
Just put it on, the opening track - Break Reform's "Ghosts" (Watch TV remix) - sounds rather fine, at least.

― tiit (tiit), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer
Raveonettes - 2nd album, can't remember title
Soft Machine 1

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

delaney but next probably cupid and psyche and maybe even not before the end but I would not want to cut her short!

― youn (youn), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht. Good for commuting.

The Style Council - my compilation. Very good for two songs.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 13 November 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Kathleen Edwards

Nickle Creek

The Boss

― the pinefox (the pinefox), Monday, 13 November 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

Joe Meek Rareties Vol 2 : The Beat Years
New Order - Singles

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 13 November 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dieter Schnebel - "Missa est.." is a Mauricio Kagel type piece for chorus that really ramps up its own schizophrenic logic. Love to see a performance of it someday.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ostrich Churchyard by Orange Juice - "I wore my fringe like Roger McGuinn's"

― youn (youn), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Tortoise rarities collection A Lazarus Taxon (?). I am not surprised they are rare, but it is enjoyable listening. I wonder if their "proper" stuff is better.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Disc 4 of the Joe Meek box - all great but The Cryin' Shames 'Nobody Waved Goodbye' is particularly magnificent.

Patti Smith - Horses 2005 edition.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

R is for Razorcuts. Before that, Neu!

― youn (youn), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

"take a look in my cookery book"

― youn (youn), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

On the way to work : Various Motown singles- Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight, Four Tops, Jimmy Ruffin.

On ipod now : Echo and The Bunnymen S/T

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Didion? Chandler.

― From the Moon to Pluto Back Down to Earth (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Toru Takemistsu Film Music Volume 1.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I love the Takemitsu film music series PJ.

Heinz Holliger string quartet is the biz - gradual string disintegration type idea. He has written a lot of music, must check..

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Def Leppard - Hysteria (deluxe edition)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Weezer

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

CD1 of the Children Of Nuggets box - Soft Boys, Barracudas, Watermelon Men, Fleshtones etc

At breakfast - Walker Brothers comp including No Regrets, Sun Aint Gonna Shine etc etc.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 16 November 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

have just finished putting the last of this year's purchases on portable mp3 player and am currently going through them one by one. currently listening to the last of the ebay vinyl, mostly scratchy old tech-step, that i digitised on tuesday night:

Ed Rush: Skylab / Raven / Density
Decoder: Trippin' / Redlight (TI010)
Plasmic Life: Death Trip + 2 (pre-Technical Itch)
Decoder: 8-Tap / Knowledge (TI007)
Decoder: Hord 39 / Cobra (TI028)

Boris on the walk in, Mabuta No Ura

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 16 November 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

...and you will know us by the trail of dead - so divided.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

the aisler set

― youn (youn), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

Lee Ranaldo, Ambient Loop for Vancouver
Aphex Twin, SAW2
various dubstep

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

This covers most of my listening for the past month or so.

Afghan Whigs
Robin Trower
Fu Manchu
Pat Martino
Opeth
Art Blakey
John Scofield
Brother Jack McDuff

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ludvig Berghe trio: Weekend (2005)
The record's fine - but their live last night was really much more impressive. A tight greatlittle jazz band! (Ludvig="piano and tunes")

― tiit (tiit), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Tissp's EP
Various: Shades Of Blackness (dnb comp)
Kraftwerk: Radioactivity

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Children of Nuggets CD3 - some supremely great stuff on this - Stems, Smithereens etc

Niney The Observer - Sledgehammer Dub.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Barbariz, Auh!
Allan Vainola, Unenäopüüdjad
Steve Howe (pre-Yes) comp. Mothballs
Queen II
The Andy Biskin Quartet, Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster
fields, 7 from the village ep
Various: The Music of eric von Essen III

― tiit (tiit), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

sos jfk by the children's hour. before that, a compilation of de falla, franck, poulenc, and massenet performed by duo esterhazy. in the morning, antidepressant by lloyd cole. my favorite song is everysong.

― youn (youn), Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

More from Heinz Holliger - he is an oboist and the piece for that instrument is one of the highlights.

Brian Ferneyhough - "Missa brevis" for 12 voices - good, but not as good when I first heard it on a radio broadcast. Makes me think how the static really enhances..there's a (prob boring) ilm thread in here somewhere.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Saturday, 18 November 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
Pole – 1
Redd Kross – “Hard Luck Woman”, “Dumb Angel”
My Chemical Romance – “Welcome to the Black Parade”
The Smiths – “Unloveable”
Beck – The Information
Sainkho Namtchylak – Lost Rivers
Buddy Guy – Sweet Tea
The Police - "Message In a Bottle", "So Lonely"

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 19 November 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Sundar -- there's a great Sainkho Namtchylak track, from her last year's alb., on the 2CD Atlantic Waves 2006 compilation. Have you got that (with The Wire mag)?

Well...
Mike Cooper, Borders
Slint, Spiderland
Dave Pajo's Pajo and 1968
Doobie Brothers, Minute By Minute (Argh! This version of "What A Fool Believes" here is so totally different from the one I heard/saw on VH1 lately...)
Various, Domino on The Wire (from '99)

― tiit (tiit), Sunday, 19 November 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have the comp, the track, or the album but I'm interested. I didn't know she released an album last year. It doesn't seem to be listed on AMG (unless it's Who Stole the Sky from 2004 - I don't have this either).

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 19 November 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Right now, Anthony Braxton - "Composition No 69 M"

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 20 November 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

the magnetic fields, the charm of the highway strip
throwing muses / kristin hersh / 50 foot wave
the sea and cake, oui
the pursuit of happiness, love junk
richard and linda thompson, pour down like silver

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 20 November 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sundar -- Sainko Namtchylak: Forgotten Streets of St. Petersburg (Leo, 2005)

― tiit (tiit), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Walter Zimmermann "Beginner's Mind".

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Neil Young Live at the Fillmore
Oasis Stop the Clocks EP
British Guitar Music (Naxos)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Over the weekend: various things by Duncan Browne, Burning Spear, Jarvis Cocker, Alma Cogan, Andrew Dice Clay, Chaba Fadela, Housemartins, Jeru The Damaja, Mobb Deep and Roswell Rudd.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

James Brown - Dead On The Heavy Funk
Burning Spear (yes, me too, Marcello) - At Studio One.
Black Sabbath - greatest hits

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I got a Black Sabbath book out of the library - Rat Salad.

Is thast the 3CD Alma Cogan thing, Marcello? I was thinking about getting that.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 20 November 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

The Sweetest Power Hits 2CD - The Sweet

This is, in parts -- particularly parts of the first CD where the big hits are! -- one really weird sounding compilation. I mean, the second CD with mostly hitless (though frequently rather rough sounding) material evidently is The Sweet,
now as for the first CD... huh, I do wonder! The instrumental parts of the songs (though *sometimes* somewhat-sorta different from how I remember them:) ain't too weird all the time, but the lead vocal does frequently feel, like, "this just cannot be Brian Connolly?!!"

Well, well. It sayeth on the cover: "(p)2001 TIM The International Music Company Ag, licenced from Carinco AG, CH" ...
...and now I take a closer look, heheh, track 10 on CD1 is credited thusly: "Love Is Like Oxygen" (Jean-Michel Jarre).

― tiit (tiit), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

A different Sweet compilation today. 'For a change'!
16 tracks, the hits, early Chinn-Chapman ones as well as a 6:52 version of "Love Is Like Oxygen" (credited on this CD to Scott>/Griffin, 'for a change' ha) -- yesyesYES, these sound precisely the way I remember them from 30+ years ago...

― tiit (tiit), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Over the last 2 days :

Old Chess stuff : Muddy Waters/Howlin' Wolf/Rotary Connection etc
Soft Machine 2
Keith Hudson - Entering The Dragon (just don't sing Keith, alright?)
Blur - The Great Escape
Sparks - Mael Intuition

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Our Peel Box - I wonder if anyone has become a big Cheeze fan through this project. I enjoyed the Anaemic Boyfriends - "I've got a real tight botty, and I wanna get naughty". Some good lyrics throughout, in fact.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

Are you sure you haven't put that Cheeky Girls album on by mistake, PJM?

Listening to now : V/A : Garage Beat Vol 5 'Readin' Your Will'. For all garage fans this contains thee best recd ever made : The Bad Seeds "A Taste Of The Same".

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

JJ Cale & Eric Clapton: The Road to Escondido (oh, o-o-o-key...)
Lucie Silvas: The Same Side ("they" still haven't quite figured out wot to do with her, like)
Tutty Moreno feat. Joyce: Magica (reissue of a '81 recording ... "nice")

― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 23 November 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Trivium - the Crusade
Killers - Hot Fuss
Weezer - Make Believe
Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
In Flames - Come Clarity
James Kochalka Superstar - Spread Your Evil Wings and Fly
Guided By Voices - Human Amusements at Hourly Rates

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 November 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

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