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2003: What's your current musical obsession?

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Matthew Fluxington

12:49 / 21.01.03

My decree:

Tatu's "How Soon Is Now" is a mediocre cover version. It's good because the song is good, no matter how generic and glossy the performance is.

Kelly Osbourne's "Shut Up" is very mediocre pop-punk and the entire charm of the song is coming from her reality-tv and her look, she has virtually no musical talent whatsoever. I think it would be better if we all frowned upon this kind of blatant nepotism, really. There's a lot of really talent girl punks out there who deserve a hit like this more than this spoiled little brat.

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:39 / 21.01.03

Oh, well if she's got "virtually no musical talent whatsoever", that's different! Why didn't anyone say? I'd better teach myself not to like that song...

The Natural Way

13:53 / 21.01.03

The Rough Trade thing is SOOOOOOOOOOO good it hurts.

Guitarwolf's cover of 'Summertime Blues'! 'Dr Buck's Letter'! 'Ain't it Fun?'!

HooRAY!

15:14 / 21.01.03

Rizla:
"the whole NME sponsored nu-r'n'r thing"

I know it's wrong, but I haven't heard a single nu-r'n'r band so far that I haven't liked (except maybe the Vines, who I haven't made my mind up about yet). Each time another comes along I think "ah, this will be the crap one" but they're not, they're bloody good. Bastards! I keep thinking about starting a thread about this, mostly to ask the question: why so little talk about it? Should I bother (starting the thread, that is)?

Matthew Fluxington

16:44 / 21.01.03

Ah! "Dr. Buck's Letter"! Damn, that's a great song. Just when you may have thought Smith was losing it, they go and make the Unutterable album and raise the bar again.

Right now, I'm listening to Stephen Malkmus' Pig Lib, I've just got it today. It's amazing. It's perfect. No one, and I mean NO ONE, is going to make a better album than Pig Lib this year. If someone does, it would be a miracle. This could very well be Malk's best album along with Wowee Zowee, and it's on a whole new level for him. The production is beautiful, the songs are perfect, the performances are inspired. If the world sleeps on this record this year, it will be a miserable shame.

17:47 / 21.01.03

Swedish Heavy Metal is my new thing this year. I started digging it a couple years ago with The Crown (one of the damn finest thrash metal bands ever), but lately my interest has been piqued even more by the likes of In Flames, At the Gates, and the fucking amazing Entombed (their Wolverine Blues is fucking classic, and their newer stuff sounds like Slayer mixed with Nashville Pussy). My obsession with stoner metal is also reaching dizzying new heights with my love for stoner metal stuff that doesn't really sound like stoner metal; this is mostly the work of the mighty Orange Goblin, who paly better rock'n'roll than any of this new crop of garage rock. And Loaded by the Velvet Underground, which has to be in the top five greatest pop albums ever released.

14:29 / 22.01.03

Swedish Stoner-Metal and Loaded? Clearly Cop Killer's house is the place to be!

If the world sleeps on this record this year, it will be a miserable shame.

If it's as good as the last one, I might literally sleep on it..

Goodness Gracious Meme

17:33 / 26.01.03

Thanks to the magic of 'net shopping, I finally tracked down a copy of Lippy Lou's Liberation so am obsessing over that. Which means I might be about to have a big 'More Protein' moment. eek.

(and just *had* to buy Freaks, as they had that as well. This online retail thing is frightening.)

18:01 / 26.01.03

Lippy Lou did that wonderful song in honour of grrl on grrl oral sex, didn't she? Can't remember what it's called, but please play it at my funeral.

I am currently not able to play anything other than 'Magic Happens' by The Family Cat, a band from Southampton (I think, they certainly had a thing for the football team) that split some years back. A friend gave me the album on long term loan - his wife has a copy, and I'm to give it back only if they divorce. So I'm hoping to keep it forever.

The album has quite a folkey feel to it, I think, although my mother heard it and thought it was The Smiths. It makes me think of my friend, too, so there's a nice personal connection every time I play it.

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:59 / 26.01.03

Having seen them play the other night, I'm back into Kraftwerk mode. After a long time away, I'm reminded exactly how fucking superb The Man-Machine is. Hooray for oscillators!

Goodness Gracious Meme

21:44 / 26.01.03

That's her, sfd. She's amaaaaazing. wonder what she's up to now? (one of the 12"s I bought came complete with press release going on about how she'd marched up to Boy George in a club and introduced herself as 'the roughest lesbian chatter he'd ever hear' Class. )

Oh, and Freaks, which i'd never heard, is a brilliant example of a genre I love, records about going out on a Saturday night and dancing....

Oh, and Rothkoid, a similar thing, listened to trans europe express for the first time in ages yesterday and remembered what a brilliant thing Kraftwerk are

The Return Of Rothkoid

22:14 / 26.01.03

Heh. That album's all about the chorus in "Showroom Dummies". It's like you can hear Ralf going "no! But we are! Really!" - goodly stuff.

23:46 / 26.01.03

Kelly Osbourne = Shampoo for sk8r bois.

23:55 / 26.01.03

Or, to put it another, less offhand way, I heard Shut Up for the first time today and it just bored me. There's no kick to it, no real hook.

No doubt Steven Wells is masturbating over her furiously.

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:59 / 27.01.03

Did you just use Shampoo as a *negative* point of reference?

Sometimes I feel so alone here.

10:26 / 27.01.03

My current 'thing' is listening to my sister's CDs. I'm sick of mine, and one of her friends just made her a cool CD with everything from Michael Jackson, to Ben E. King, to Elvis...so I'm listening to that, her disco music, and the soundtrack to Billy Elliot, and other stuff of hers like Incubus (slap wristies) that I'd never buy myself. A change is as good as a rest, as they say. Other than that, I'm selling more stuff on Amazon than I'm actually listening to at the moment. It's a tragic state of affairs. I did actually buy the Vanessa Carlton album (I'm not going to get into Hell now, am I? Fuck), and apart from 'A Thousand Miles', I don't really like any of the songs.

I need a new musical obsession, dagnammit.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

12:15 / 27.01.03

Pavement! Hurrah! Finally got round to getting one of their albums, and I feel more purchases coming on...

As well as my ever present Smiths obssession, which has served me well.

13:44 / 27.01.03

Did you just use Shampoo as a *negative* point of reference?

Shampoo were fucking brilliant.

Austrian Puppet Master

08:31 / 28.01.03

Hello, and welcome myself to barbelith:

I listen to
The Pixies
Nine Inch Nails
Radiohead
Aphex Twin
Prodigy

and you ALL shuould get known of KRUDER AND DORFMEISTER, two fantastic musicmakers from Vienna, Austria. I am from Austria, and I never imagined that my country has such great musicians (they make Drum and bas, trip hop and electronic music)

Auf wiedersehen!

The Natural Way

12:50 / 28.01.03

Many of us probably have heard Kruder and Dorfmeister. Bit too smooth and "chilled triphop beats" for me, really.

Austrian Puppet Master

12:54 / 28.01.03

yeah..of course it'a matter of taste...
i do not really know hoe popular they are in the US

Our Lady of The Two Towers

13:39 / 28.01.03

Could you ever use Shampoo as a positive point of reference? Didn't they just have one hit and then went on to be Big in Japan only?

14:31 / 28.01.03

Could you ever use Shampoo as a positive point of reference?

hell yes.

Didn't they just have one hit and then went on to be Big in Japan only?

what's wrong with that?

The Japanese usually know their shit when choosing which trashy Western pop bands to go mad for..

Old brown-eye is back

14:43 / 28.01.03

Anyone remember Younger Younger 28s? They were good live.

The Natural Way

14:59 / 28.01.03

Kruder and Dorfmeister were popular purveyors of stoner beats over here (in the UK) about 5 years ago. Very popular, really. They recorded a bunch of stuff on Coldcut's label, Ninjatune, before dropping off the horizon a bit. I'm a fickle fuck, and, once I went off the whole triphop thing, Kruder and chum went out the door with the Dodo. But ignore me - I care too much about what's fashionable, and they do make a nice noise.

The Return Of Rothkoid

02:17 / 29.01.03

The Temperature In Hell Is Over Three Thousand Degrees by Virgil Moorefield: sort of like cool jazz meets microtonal fucked-upedness. In hell, naturally. It's sort of honking and sawing and grooovy at once.

The Return Of Rothkoid

03:40 / 30.01.03

And, just in, the Bonnie 'Prince' Billy album Master And Everyone. Achingly beautiful, clichéd as that sounds. Slow, slow pace, and a much better record than Ease On Down The Road, I think. Full points for scariest album picture of the year so far.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:55 / 30.01.03

Throbbing Gristle, funnily enough. Though I have to confess there's something of a minor-scale Fields of the Nephilim revival going on chez Stoat at the moment as well... between those and The The's "Naked Self", that's me pretty much covered.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:55 / 30.01.03

But of course, there's a new Bad Seeds album on Monday (unless I manage to blag a free one first... please God...)

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:27 / 30.01.03

Hey Rothkoid - what's different about Master and Everyone that makes you prefer it to Ease Down The Road? I'm asking as someone who really, really liked the latter and is trying to decide whether I need to get the former, so I guess what I'm asking is what you *didn't* like about EDTR...

The Return Of Rothkoid

11:04 / 30.01.03

Stoatie: the Bad Seeds disc isn't as good as the immediate predecessor. Mick Harvey says it was recorded in a week, and that Nick's wanting to release an album per year now - that whole Brill Building approach must be working for him. At any rate, what I heard was more of the same only not as good. Watch, especially, for "Rock Of Gibraltar", which is almost Brett Anderson scary in house/mouse terms.

Flyboy: it's hard to say exactly what. Don't get me wrong, I didn't dislike Ease On Down The Road, but I thought that compared to the pulsing brilliance of I See A Darkness, it was a bit of a letdown. Almost too pastoral or upbeat? I dunno. This new one's a bit more country, sometimes a bit more reminiscent of his Palace stuff, even. But I'd say it's certainly worth seeking out - it sounds more personal, in terms of Oldham singing in your ear with only the occasional strum and bass pulse to remind you that it's not a dream. I think you won't be disappointed.

Oh - and two more words: cowpoke harmony!

12:03 / 30.01.03

This week, I am mostly listening to LemonJelly.

12:33 / 30.01.03

hi everyone! i mostly lurk here, but i thought i would post.

i've been all over the map for the past month or two, but i think the discs in heaviest rotation have been:

DJ Spooky, Optometry
Nurse With Wound, The Swinging Reflective
Handsome Boy Modelling School, So... How's Your Girl?
shudder to think, pony express record
Boards of Canada, Music Has the Right to Children
Coil, Love's Secret Domain
Guru, Jazzmatazz

i have recently also picked up a few things that i'm really excited about, but haven't really had a chance to listen to, including Captain Beefheart, Acid Mothers Temple, Legend of the Liquid Sword, a Def Jux compilation, and a CD of Neu! covers by people like Autechre and Download. i'm also pleased that i finally grabbed a copy of Current 93's I Have a Special Plan for this World. and i've been really wanting to listen to the LPDs lately.

none of this stuff is particularly new, but i guess i've been dwelling mostly in the sort of jazz/hip-hop/experimental/ambient/psychedlic/IDM/apocalyptic weirdness territory.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

15:12 / 30.01.03

muslimgauze
roxy music
the fall
throbbing gristle

Mister Six, whom all the girls

15:15 / 30.01.03

Oh, and the Bonny Prince is on the cover of the local free paper, the Boston Phoenix, my girlfriend is a huge fan

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/index.asp

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