Quick! What Are You Listening To Tonight?!

I listened to a lot of stuff today work.

But since I've gotten home:
palace - days in the wake
royal trux - thank you
heart of the congos

always shuffle

i heart the APP so much.

Were the last few..undecided on what will follow..

previously:
Girl Called Eddy, Girl Called Eddy
Sleep No More, Comsat Angels
Siberia, Echo and the Bunnymen
Stepping Out of Line, Au Pairs
Propaganda, Sparks
Wild Planet, B-52s
Coulourbox, Colourbox

No, I do have a Clean compilation on tape. And I've got a copy of Submarine Bells I bought when I was buying and selling stuff that I haven't listened to. I'll put it on.

It's basically the same thing as Nevermind, so it's great.

On the way home, with my wife, her brother, and her brother's wife, we listened to Ghostface's "Be Easy", Old Dirty Bastard's "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" and "Got Your Money", Outkast's "Last Call", and sat in the driveway with the car running to make sure that we heard all of Audio Two's "Top Billin'". Good times were had by all.

How did you like that Maxine Sullivan he started off with, Don?? Very nice! I added that new reissue to my Amazon wishlist.

Earlier today at the bluesfest:

Honeyboy Edwards
Homesick James
Henry Townsend
Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Super Chikan
James Blood Ulmer

Ulmer was phenomenal...

I'm so lonely!

and more later, probably starting with the hirax cd that compiles their 80s releases.

After that, while I was closing up shop, I listened to my demo CD on the store speakers, just cuz.

At this very moment I'm listening to The Mountain Goats - "The Sunset Tree," which is my current favorite album. After this, I'll probably continue drinking and listening to whatever other parts of the Mountain Goats discography catches my eye.

Damnation.

It's been a really smooth day, I guess.

Alan Parsons Project as good as Klaatu? I do like "Eye in the Sky" OK.

Now: The Acorn, an Ottawa band I caught at a festival today and liked.

the deviants - nothing man / gang gang dance - stanton street (live) / rah bros - pancheera / octopus project - exit counselor / hella - famnail / redbone - the witch queen of new orleans / meat puppets - beauty / love - laughing stock / beach boys - ten little indians / cryan shames - dennis dupree from danville / the id - just who / the beatles - everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey / wimple wench - i really love you / fad gadget - the box / legendary pink dots - no matter what you do / psyche - one last kiss / various artists: cordless recordings sampler - the rejection (i assume that's the artist's name; not really sure about the song title) / jason blivens and ian davis - cuskeel / derek bailey & jamaldeen tacuma - what it is / miles davis - directions / fred frith and ray lussler - fun in america / neil young - rockin' in the free world / stevie ray vaughan - love struck baby / graham parker - another grey area / little feat - heaven forsaken / towers of london - on a noose / tricky woo - pink thunder / the cops - don't take it personal dave / rufio - my escape / motorhead - live to win (bbc sessions 1980) / reverend horton heat - like a rocket / ac/dc - whole lotta rosie / black oak arkansas - hey y'all / quiet riot - slave to love / ozma - battlescars / scott weiland - about nothing / don henley - i will not go quietly / ancient winds - la samaratina / various artists: flute music - el condor pasa / conunto kollahura - el condor pasa / leon gleco - aguita de putina / little axe - take me back to the country / funeral for a friend - history (thumbs down) / the wallflowers - the distance (thumbs down) / olivia newtown-john - dancing round and round / bebo norman - back to me (thumbs down) / anne murray - a little good news / terri clark - she didn't have time / lee ann womack - the wrong girl / julie roberts - first to never know / shannon brown - these pearls / baby huey - listen to me / clarence carter - the feeling is right / isaac hayes - soulsville / jackie wilson - for your previous love / ranking joe - slave driver

(and then i tried to add u-roy, accidently hit the backspace key, and the station crashed, as happens way way way too often)

"make it easy on yourself," yes, one of the walker bros' two big pop hits, which are, not coincidentally, the two best things scott walker has ever laid his hands on. (the other one is "the sun ain't gonna shine anymore".) and i LIKE a lot of solo scott walker. it's a bachrach/david song, and jerry butler did it before either the walker bros or dionne.

Was out briefly and heard the "Ah-Ah/O-No" cover from that new album. It drifts into reggaeton, and while it ends up being a kind of funny novelty cover, it's still fun (and anyway, the original song is funny, even for those of us who have almost no Spanish--Hector Lavoe is just very amusing on El Juicio--great album, yes that's a recommendation), and I think I'm going buy a copy. Also, I mean George Lamond sings it! WTF?! George Lamond doing a salsaton cover of Hector Lavoe in 2006, when he hadn't been heard from for in salsa for several years? It's highly unexpected, but it works. (I guess this should have been on the salsa thread, but then nobody would read it.) And I heard that looooong cut from a live Marc Anthony recording (I think it's from a DVD actually) which builds up into the most incredible percussion soloing. Really powerful. Whatever you think of Marc Anthony, he usually is backed up by amazing musicians. And unexpectedly hearing Santana's "Oye Como Va"--great song, and all you posers who put it down need to stop hating.

(I need to buy a legitimate copy of this.)

Utterly amazing and rich: Marvin Santiago's percussion solo vocal delivery pummels you, and then the horn arrangements get really brilliant, and then he pummels you some more. I live and die by this music.

Rick Wakeman "Retro": Godawful and great in equal measures. Go Rick!

Rolling Stones (Glasgow, 8.25.06) : Keith does "Before They Make Me Run" and it sounds like the last time he'll ever sing it. Kind of heartwrenching. Plus, they do "Ruby Tuesday", "Tumbling Dice" and "Sway". Surprising show.

TAGO MAGO! all you ilm canaddicts have got me pulling out da can. haven't listened to this in, seriously, YEARS. wow, what was i waiting for? an engraved invitation? sounds like fucking god on a stick. wait, not actually FUCKING god on a stick. just god on a stick.

Just watched the BBC Fall Documentary on youtube. Brix is much more girlish than I expected (never saw her speak before).

Brix is a fox!

actually, i haven't seen Brix in over 20 years. Brix WAS a fox!

I'm playing and re-playing this!

Bouncing Souls.

A Joy Division boot of The Paradiso, Amsterdam, show from January 1980. Still pretty lukewarm after all these years on the studio albums, but damn they were awesome live.

Expo 70 "Psychosis" just arrived in the mail. So far I like it better than "Night Flights" but not as much as "Animism"

Virgin comp - Various - A Brief History Of Ambient Volume 1

Califone, Vamping Again.

Cristina - Doll in the Box

that new Bill Callahan live record. mesmerizing.

The Beatles - Please Please Me
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4

not trolling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu1aQvm5MrU

Andrew Liles - Monster Munch EP
Leslie Winer - & That Dead Horse
Night Control - Death Control

and an orange cat purring.

http://soundcloud.com/tpbsecretleaks/uffie-add-suv-feat-pharell-prod-by-mirwais

Heldon- Electronique Guerilla
White Hills

volcano related surf

Local bands Carnivores and Sunglasses are playing a house show. On the way to and from I'll probably be playing Harry Nilsson's "The Point" soundtrack.

can - flowmotion

Oh snap, a reason to go home early after that show: I just remembered I have 6 new discs of Smile outtakes to listen to!!

i just listened to that hour long sleep album dopesmoker, totally sober. it fucking sucked. no, it was cool, i just would much rather have been baked.

now i am listening to we've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it. i was reading alex in nyc's blog and he name-dropped like ten bands in a row here, so i downloaded something from a couple of 'em.