Your CD

Spacemen 3, Playing With Fire.

But only musically, obviously, no lyrically because I don't take drugs, I'm not politcally revolutionary and, erm, I'm not religious. So go figure. Maybe I should change my favourite album or something...

Mine would be "How Would I Laugh Tomorrow..If I Can't Even Smile Today" by Suicidal Tendencies. I first heard it in 88 or 89 (whatever 8th grade was), yet I still go back to it. It is MY
record.

ACK! beaten to my own thread....:p

and that should be MINE...not MY....I am an idiot....

Um, people can probably guess mine at the moment.

can anyone guess what Ned's gonna say?

Trout Mask Replica

That was "my CD" btw, not my guess for what Ned's going to say!

Nick - could it POSSIBLY be the new Manitoba album? Did I guess right? Do I get a cookie?

Ned will say this.

ehehehehehe, kate yooo isst rong!

Lexicon of Love

I rephrase - not mine at the moment, ie; not my current newest tippermost toppermost fave, but the one what makes me wanna believe in God and stuff...

:-(

I was so looking forward to that cookie, as well.

I'll get you one anyway!

borbetomagus-snuff jazz

but its on LP! so i sabotage another thread so yay for me!

Is 'snuff-jazz' like a 'snuff-movie', ie; can you hear them die? (I imagien you'd like that, julio.)

Death by stereo! Dude!

Unfortunately they don't die. but they do kill jazz and rock and whatever else and make music that is just theirs.

actually minuteman- double nickels on the dime is another candidate for this but i have it on double LP so there.

The Cure - Disintegration

Pulp - Separations.

The Old 97's, probably Wreck Your Life, maybe Too Far To Care

It couldn't be anything other than my own curated compilation. (That, incidently is why the music industry must die, they're incapable of creating the compilations I want.)

It would contain :

Momus, Current 93, Plaid, Plone, Steeleye Span, Spring Heel Jack, The Cardiacs, Los Cucas, some ragga, some bhangra, some jungle, some dub, something bollywood, (UK garage or is that just a passing fad), some other electronica ... uh this is a CD of MP3s right?

oh man! this is hard!
i think it's either the boo radleys' "Giant Steps" or the beach boys "smiley smile". both are similar and both are flawed but i love them so.

excuse me, a personal observation that's been triggered by phil, so apologies to phil, this might not be the right time or place, but here goes :
it's (just) that i find it extraordinary/ wierd that this term curated has crept into rock'n'roll parlance

ie i think rock/popular music (and ok serious music residing in that distribution chain, forum, media & associated discussion forums et. al.) is just too snotty an artform

yes, it's an artform, granted, and i'm as enthusiatic a discussion participant as anyone else here i suppose, but curate grates me greatly -- it seems and feels wrong (and that's putting it mildly -- of course i could go on and on)

(i'll repost this in what looks like a more appropriate thread, but thank you phil for reminding me to mention it, 'cause it _really_ grates with me, and it's been bugging me every time i read it -- as though i'm just getting too old for _modern_ english)

to me "some ragga, some bhangra, some jungle, some dub," can be compiled, indexed, listed, discussed, dissed, etc., no doubt belonging in any open-minded discussion, publication, compilation, what-have you,.. but curating it !!
(i'll discuss this somewhere else, so again, excuse me phil)

oh, and

a)i have a cd for this activity, another for that,
and
b)my choice of music for this activity, that activity and so on will change over time, no matter how excited i am over some music for some given period
and
c)i strongly refute the notion that i've heard it all, or that i've heard all that i need to hear, to the extent that i'm not going to be bowled over by some "new dimmension in listening engagement" sometime in the future and that this may well change my outlook on music i'm fond of now (ie i believe i will continue growing and learning, and believe that music new to me may well change my perception of something in the world, maybe simply the "new music" itself perhaps, but in any case that it will teach me something i don't know)

so while there are so many albums/ tapes/ cds i have such a long-standing (yet ultimately transient) high regard for, i cannot think of any one meta chunk of music, be it an album, cd, recording of a gig or a compilation that could correspond to such a large part of thinking, ambient non-thinking listening, sleeping, .. uh, living

and i think a lot of people who like discussing music are keen on finding some new experience or knowledge in the course of that discussion -- i certainly don't believe that i'm singular in this maybe slightly pretentious belief and hope

As far as albums that both speak to me and work as an accurate audio reflection of what it's like inside my skull, I'd probably have to say Mr. Bungle's California is one of the front-runners. Just the right blend of humor, heft, serenity, paranoia, confusion, sexual tension, romanticism, all in a form that pretty well reflects the steady unsteadiness of the jittery cycles that are my moods. Lyrically it hits a variety of nerves for me, especially in it's more mortality obsessed moments ("sadly the heavens have opened the storm is over so let's start the parade" or "all my bones are laughing as you're dancing on my grave" fr'instance). Musically it perfectly juxtaposes ADD/schitzo-style jumpiness with very patient and appropriate moments of tranquil beauty, and this appeals to me greatly as I myself am a person with one foot flittering in the stream of mania and the other on the shore of Zen. Along with the way it takes these disparaging elements and mashes them into such a nicely homogenized whole...well okay enough from me. California ROCKS!

Right this second, it's the Kanye West "I'm Good" mixtape for me. It'll likely be something else in a couple of hours. That's my way out of George's thing.

This'll probably change by the next cup of coffee, but I have to go with "Death of a Ladies Man" by Leonard Cohen so far today. I can see "13" by Lee Hazlewood and "The Touch of Leonard Nimoy" by, of course, Leonard Nimoy, making a quick jump to most important by lunch time, though.

mwng by the super furry animals

fellow travellers - just a visitor (or maybe things and time...)

JBR crucified dinner

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