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So far for me it's been Eureeka by Jim O'Rourke, Is A Woman by Lambchop, and Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea by PJ Harvey. This afternoon I shall be listening to Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips.

What's every else listening to on this fine Saturday?

― Nick Southall, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Supreme Clientele" by Ghostface Killah, Fountains of Wayne's eponymous debut, and too many fucking singles for this damn newspaper.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeey Bo Diddley!

― Michael Bourke, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My Pop Tart mix CD: Quintessence of Hip - Betty Davis Sex Machine - Ex Girl Smells like booty - Freelance Hellraiser Debbie Harry - Family Fodder Sharp Darts - The Streets Warm Leatherette - The Normal sugar babes remix - Richard X Love Is The Drug - Grace Jones You Don't Know Me - Closer Musik Superpredators - Massive Attack / Mad Professor Sexual Healing (Oops Part 2) - Tweet feat. Ms. Jade Better Days - Basehead Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag - Pigbag Triad Dimensions - Rheingold Walk On By - Smith & Mighty Clear - Cybtron (Juan Atkins) Leave me now - Herbert

― cuba libre (nathalie), Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So far, just Release by the Pet Shop Boys. Stuff I expect to catch up on later: J. Rawls, James Carr, the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, Soul Brothers Six. I'll have time for more, and will see what I feel like.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Assorted mp3s, Green Velvet, Pet Shop Boys, Jon Carter, and the Fischerspooner album which is great.

― Ronan, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've had "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" by Wilco on (the jury's still out, Nick), "Automatic For The People" REM, Some Clash stuff, and Suede's "Coming Up". The latter I haven't listened to for ages, but actually it is pretty good.

― Colin Cooper, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So far, some bootlegs from Boom Selector ... nice Portishead / Fugees mix and of course, today's BeatBlog

― phil, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Before & After Science and that Truth Hurts single.

― Keiko, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Number One Hi-Fi Hair by FONDA 500!!!

OK, it's not as good as their live shows. Because nothing is ever as good as Fonda 500's live shows, I've been to Hull and back to see Fonda 500 live. But it's still 1000 times better than anything else I've heard this year. They need a massive recording budget and a posh studio and a producer who knows how to crack the whip and FOCUS all that genius. It's just not fair where recording budgets go...

― speak of the devil, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yankee Foxtrox Hotel by Wilco, and "Inspiration/Transition" by UR.

I think I've finally grown tired of Yoshimi after about a month of constant play.

― scott, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

am i not yr girl - ms i'm a lesbian pope hater; macarthur park - dionne i'm a psychic stonehead warwick; and lots of classical boring me shitless but i can't bother changing the dial.

― Queen G of the Arctic Nile, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The sounds of birds chirping. Gotta love 8 am on a Saturday. Later tonight I will definitely be listening to Peter Murphy and Michael J. Sheehy, if only because I will be at their concert.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the xinlisupreme album, which is amazing. tool, secret shine, weezer, television, josie and the pussycats, seagull screaming kiss her kiss her, and a bunch of klf mp3s that i just downloaded.

― toby, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So far...

24 Hour Party People soundtrack
Crossfaded Vol.1 compilation
Super Furry Animals>Fuzzy Logic
Capitol K>Island Row
Damon Albarn/Afel Bocoum/Toumani Diabate & Friends>Mali Music

― dek1, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Early this morning it was Parklife, and now I'm listening to Beach Boys' Sunflower/Surf's Up. In an hour or two I'm walking over to the Northwest Folklife Festival. The actually rain seems to be holding off here, so it should be a nice afternoon over there.

― lyra in seattle, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Obviously I can't type this morning. I think the words in that last sentence should be in a slightly different order....

― lyra in seattle, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

First, I continued Easy Toog from where I left off in my car last night. Then, Tarwater - Not The Wheel. Presently, Machine "Boards of Prefuse" Drum. Next in the changer, Manual - Ascend and Metro Area (both spankin' new to me).

― Curt, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Nothing but a) Sluthead - Evil Superstars.
"Oh yes one two three, guess I am meant to be nothing but a sluthead..."
Rock as Confusing Rape

― cuba libre (nathalie), Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My usual post-night-out-salsa-dancing sort of stuff: El Gran Combo, Pedro Conga, Marc Anthony, Joe Arroyo.

― DeRayMi, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since I'll have a new Eminem album any day now, I thought I'd go back and play the last two. Then U noticed Missy next in the stack (alphabetical, obv) so played So Addictive.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mostly I've been listening to Eurovision songs. I want Latvia to win because of the singer's compelling androgyny. Later I will listen to "Dirty" by Sonic Youth and "This is our Music" by Galaxie 500.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when is the fonda 500 album out? their website just says soon.

today i have listened to groovy littlenumbers and plone, also listened to the red wings game online which was somewhat distressing although mr. kournikova played a brilliant game and that could portend a bright tomorrow.

― keith, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mp3s by the Motels and Martha Davis.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alchemy - An Index of Possibilities SYLVIAN

― gilbert farkey, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Frank Black - Self Title, Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance, David Bowie - Hunky Dory & The Man Who Sold The World (taping the best tracks off each for a comp. for a friend) and Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.

Oh, and the new album by Sonic Youth, Murray Street.

― Sean O'Toole, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i just got mary timony and am listening to that now. also got peter sellers/sofia loren in the mail today so listened to 'goodness gracious me'. got a tape from doorag today also yay! haven't listened to it yet, only the first couple songs. sam prekop, peshay, big chief, satchel, inxs - the swing (heheh), jill scott and blake babies

― Ron, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Malcolm McClaren-"Madame Butterfly"
Sheena Easton-"Strut"
Fuzzbox-"XX Sex"
Old Skull-"Homeless"

"I hate you Ronald Reagan!"

― Arthur, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, at work today, I heard (among other things) David Gray. Can you guess where I work?)

After work, I read Dominique's krautrock piece on Pitchfork (good piece, btw) and was motivated to listen to Neu! 2. My favorite Neu! track is the first song on there, and the "singles" are pretty amazing, too. As much as I completely love Neu! to death, though, I don't think any of their albums are in themselves wholly great listens. That's a lot to ask of a band for sure, but it's one thing that frustrates me a teeny bit about Neu!.

Later, I put on Lexicon of Love - that record fills me with such joy (not to mention making me wish I was Dr. C in 1983 ;-) and listening to it makes me feel this almost pungent nostalgia for a time and place I didn't even experience. I feel like I've learned so much "history" from listening to records, especially ones like this. Records breathe their time and place - every record is dated, but some are dated so beautifully that you're convinced being alive when it was made would be the best possible thing in the world. As if your whole life if you lived then would involve sweating and tossing around in your bed at 4 AM, wondering how you're going to get enough scratch to buy the OMD album that comes out tomorrow, all the while knowing that, somehow, you will.

And there'd be a girl at school, maybe you botched your only conversation with her, but damn she's gorgeous, and you look at her and think of that *one song* on the record, and how you feel when you hear it. And when you go home and listen to the record, you think of her face, lying on your bed, intoxicated by melodrama. Listening to the song, thinking of her; looking at her, the song playing in your head - it's all the same anyway. Records that wrap themselves around you, so tight that you can't even tell what you really feel, or what you felt in the first place, and you don't even care.

― Clarke B., Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i just went on a shopping spree tom waits - rain dogs
some johnathan fire eater album
missy e - so addictive ludacris - word of mouf (first listen is dissapoiting. the singles are good though)
julian cope - jehovahkill (not sure what i think of it yet)
fuck - pardon my french(got it free cause it was scratched)
elvis costello - when i was cruel (love it!)

― Brock K., Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A pile of 45s I bought ages ago and had misplaced. So they're all quite oldish - mostly stuff on Elefant, the first Boyracer single (kinda rub).. stuff of that ilk

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ash - 1977, but really only 'goldfinger' and 'jackie chan' again and again
ebtg vs. new buffalo vs. royksopp (avalanches mix from their website)
little bits from declaime album (got it cheeeep @ jb hifi)
copy - vinz (track 7 from disc 2 of tiga's 'mixed emotions'. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. download it right now if you like dance music! quick, before audiogalaxy shuts down. track 4 is good too... 'lies (watch your lift)(club vocal)' by losoul feat. malte. )
annie - the greatest hit.... if you don't know it, get to know it! it's a bloody excellent disco song, samples 'everybody' by madonna.

― minna, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Clarke, that was beautiful.

Right now I'm discovering the Would-Be-Goods. Don't go away, Audiogalaxy, please!

― Arthur, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DJ Teebee Presents Black Science Labs, at this moment. I'll see how I feel afterwards.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

**(not to mention making me wish I was Dr. C in 1983 ;-)**

DON'T wish for that, forgodsake! Anyway, it was 1982!

― Dr. C, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

Lee Perry - Arkology

300% Dynamite, particularly the Prince Buster and Sister Nancy tracks

side 1 of The Clouds Have Groovy Faces - Rubble 6 (The Fairytale/The Kinsmen/The Poets/The Ice/The End/Turqouise/The Pudding/The Attack) - the best side of Brit psyche/freakbeat imaginable.

― Dr. C, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Orbital-Middle of Nowhere/The Green Album.

Groove Armada-Superstylin'

― Ronan, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well this weekend started off as usual by listening to Jonathan Ross on Radio 2. He played Another girl, Another Planet by the Only Ones, funny how much it sounds like the Strokes and the dreadlock holiday/bootylicious bootleg, Bootleg culture invades radio 2. Then it's been a mixture of Saint Etienne's - Smash the System, I love Ibiza and a cd of Dylan cover versions (not the uncut freebie), highlight being Them doing It's all over now baby blue.

Today Boards of Canada, Music has the right to children in bed. Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay whiule making pancakes and doing the dishes. That crisp digital production sounds right now in a way it didn't back in '87. This afternoon (special request from number one son), we watched Beatles Yellow Submarine as it was too wet to do anything outside.

― Billy Dods, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've just burned the Deadly Avenger Illicit EP, King Tito's Gloves EP and the new Punisher/Day One 12" onto disc and have been listening to it non-stop.

― mech1, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

James Brown. "I don't know I don't know... It may be the last time... I gotta scream..." And I heard this GRATE follow up song to Walk On By.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

um, "scarface"'s moroder-produced backing music and not much else.

― marek, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Music has the right to children in bed

And what kind of memories is that one said to rekindle?

― Curt, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Saturday am, a couple of MDs courtesy of "The Jonester" : First was "(30 of) 69 Love Songs", by The Magnetic Fields; Second was "Nihilistic Bhangra Surfcore 4 StevieB", feat. Sergio Mendes; Free Design; Ryoji Ikeda; Isan; Les Paul & Mary Ford; Julie London; Wu-Tang Clan rmx'ed by Funkstorung; Toumani Diabate with Ballake Sissoko; Others...

Saturday pm, a short, sharp (loud) session feat. Soft Cell, "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" (choon-of-the-week); Carcass, "Edge Of Darkness"; Portishead, "Road" (from Live@Roseland NYC); Guy Called Gerald rmx'ed by Funkstorung, "Humanity"

― Steve Blomeley, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

2 Many DJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax
Ashanti - "Foolish"
Dungeon Family - "Trans DF Express"
Coloma - Silverware

― Tim, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wilco (Summerteeth), Death In Vegas (The Concerto Sessions) and The Magnetic Fields (69 Love Songs).

― Mr Noodles, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the eminem show!

― Josh, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Akufen.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the foxgloves covering laura cantrell. earlier today this is our music.

― youn, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*thinks* I didn't listen to any music all day, now that I think about...oh no, that's not true, I listened to Seefeel's Quique. And quite good it was.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Last night - some not bad 16th or 17th century stuff on a CD left in the apartment by my landlady when I moved in over a year ago. Hadn't played it before. Lots of stuff by "anon". Shall have to investigate further...

― Jeff W, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

More salsa, but I also have a hankering for some Hank Williams and for the Smiths, neither of which I have listened to, or wanted to listen to, for a while.

― DeRayMi, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Beanie Sigel-"The Truth".

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

saturday is long over now, but on that fine day in question i was listening to alice in chains.

i just recently found out layne staley died (finnaly); so does that excuse me?

― dyson, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Story Of The Clash and the affected patois in Guns of Brixton is rrreeally annoying me.

― Wyndham Earl, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The first time I've wanted to listen to the Smiths in over a year, and I can't find my copy of "Meat is Murder." :(

― DeRayMi, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"affected patios"? Good phrase. Theres some references in that song that I don't understand at all ("The Black Maria", and who is Ivan?) Is that the kind of thing you're on about, or maybe its something else and you can shed some light on those bits for me.

Thanks.

― Colin Cooper, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Black Maria = police van. Today's in car entertainment was Tanya Donelly - beautysleep and Dubstar - Disgraceful.

― chris j, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Something went embarassingly awry there.

Black Maria = police van. See here for possible derivation - www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-bla1.htm

I think Ivan is a reference to One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch, given that the next line but one is "his game is called survivin'". But I could be very wrong.

Today's in car entertainment was Tanya Donelly - beautysleep and Dubstar - Disgraceful.

― chris j, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

IIRC:

some tracks from Voivod - Angel Rat
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of the Holy
John Cage - Sonatas & Interludes For Prepared Piano
Boston
Anton Webern - Complete Works, Disc 2, 10 tracks
a couple tracks by Third Eye Blind
Robert Normandeau - Au Clair de Terre
Andrew WK - I Get Wet
some radio thrown in there

― , Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Normandeau is just called Clair de Terre, actually. It's really great. I didn't listen to the first piece on it though.

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also there's no "s" at the end of my e-mail address.

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Reliving the mid 80s this morning with "Treasure" and "Crumbling the antiseptic beauty". Yesterday was "Music has the right to children" which I got after loving "Geogaddi" and it's taken me about two months to get my head around it for some reason, but I finally like it.

― Rob M, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

philip glass: the LOW symphony => it contains more style steals than a JOHN WILLIAMS FILM SCORE (is this good or not: i can't decide...)

― mark s, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have great taste. So what I'm exactly listening to is irrelevant.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

― jel --, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Good man, Jel. As for me -- a bunch of Boo Radleys B-sides.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time

As is my habit, it's on repeat play all day, until I leave from work.

― dleone, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The 'dance' audio channel on TV seems to be playing the entire Stanton Sessions record, so that.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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