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What are you listening to right now?

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11:15 / 17.03.03

I thought it was about time we had another one of these threads. I'm listening to 'The Rough Guide to Bluegrass' which I got on Amazon and which arrived today. It's kind of disappointing in the sense that I wanted it all to sound like 'A Man of Constant Sorrow' (from the Oh Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack). But other than that, I like it and am sufficiently awed by the high speed guitar stylings.

How about you?

11:22 / 17.03.03

Right this exact second?

Radio 5 live Rolling news.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

11:25 / 17.03.03

Yeah. Radio 4 World At One.

11:31 / 17.03.03

'Rough Guide to Bluegrass' eh.. what's on that then? I've got quite a bit of stuff that does sound very much in the vein of the 'O brother where..' soundtrack, most of which is culled from the 'anthology of american folk music' which is a huge boxset costing about £80 and full on all sorts of weird forgotten music. I've only got bits and pieces from it, but there's some extraordinary stuff. It's interesting to uncover the songs that people like Nick Cave and Tom Waits have been riffing off for most of their careers. I've got a couple of 'Before the Blues' compilations with loads of good stuff as well: Blind Mammie Forehand, Blind Willie Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, the Carter Family, Doc Boggs, etc.. Fantastic stuff.

I'm currently listening to a Motown 'Hard to Find Classics' compilation I've just bought, along with 'X-Ray Music' (dub compilation), 'Good Time Skank' (Ska/Reggae compilation) and today I picked up the new Black Box Recorder CD to see what it's like. Haven't heard particularly good reviews of this so far, but always interested to see what Luke Haines is up to.

11:37 / 17.03.03

nothing right this second but I'm really excited because I'll soon be going home to listen to the new throwing muses album which I've just bought,

11:42 / 17.03.03

apologies for the multiple posts. weirdness.

The Return Of Rothkoid

11:48 / 17.03.03

Gavin Bryars' Three Viennese Dancers. Icy goodness.

11:50 / 17.03.03

Seafood's When Do We Start Fighting, because some days I need a little loud in my life.

13:12 / 17.03.03

It's completely unreasonable of me - I just really love 'A Man of Constant Sorrow'. This cd has got stuff like Alison Krauss and Union Station, Bela Fleck, Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Moutain Boys. Full listing here.

13:20 / 17.03.03

I'll spend most of today listening to the streams, catching up on all the radio I missed out on this weekend: right now it's an episode of Studio 360.

14:08 / 17.03.03

The deafening ringing in my ears.

Damn that fucking dirty rock music.

14:29 / 17.03.03

Gotta love Bela Fleck. Well, except for every Flecktones album since Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, but his solo stuff rocks!

Right now, listening to Donde Estan Los Ladrones, Shakira's last Spanish album. A guilty pleasure to be sure. The CDs over now, so it's The Clash, London Calling and the self-titled one.

14:57 / 17.03.03

Been listeneing to Stiff Little Fingers - All the Best off and on today, sort of an alternative St Patrick's Day thing.

15:11 / 17.03.03

Just go the new Stephen Malkmus CD

16:48 / 17.03.03

Is the new Malkmus album any good then? I've heard conflicting reports.

I've actually got Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll on right at the moment, but lately I've been mainly listening to Tim Buckley all over again.

18:05 / 17.03.03

Steve Reich's Nonesuch set (Works) arrived on Saturday, as did Yasunao Tone's Solo for Wounded CD. I'm working my way through both, between installments Snapping Turtle's soap opera addiction.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

18:29 / 17.03.03

The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (cd1). It's an ambient procession of sound. Love it. Just bought myself a Creative Nomad Jukebox 3 20Gb MP3 player, which has now become the most essential item in my life. It's the coolest thing, being able to carry your entire music collection around in your coat pocket.

I must say that the taste in music here is pretty eclectic. And at least nobody's replied, saying "I'm listening to the latest album from Blue, it r0x0rs!!".

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:32 / 17.03.03

Well, I was listening to Radio 4, but since I've come into the room where the computer is, my radio has decided that some pirate garage station is more appropriate.

...oh... it's drifted back to 4. Earlier it was great- the bloke who plays Brian Aldridge off "The Archers" was on "Just A Minute"... followed by "The Archers" itself. Kind of cleared my head of all the "wahey, everyone's gonna die"-ness engendered by "PM" and the news.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:33 / 17.03.03

Of course, what I acdtually intended to be listening to at the moment was Rowland S Howard's "Teenage Snuff Film", but I misplaced the CD a couple of days ago in a drunken CD-misplacing incident. Bah.

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:47 / 17.03.03

Dang. That's a top album.

Me, I'm now riding the Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express...

20:57 / 17.03.03

I've recently gotten into Lamb and the Notwist, so I've been listening to them a lot.

Matthew Fluxington

00:23 / 18.03.03

I'm listening to The New Pornographers' new album The Electric Version. I'm on "It's Only Divine Right" right now.

Matthew Fluxington

00:25 / 18.03.03

Hey, La Main Droite - Malkmus' new album Pig Lib is probably the best record that will be released in 2003. Honestly. Don't listen to those who might badmouth it - it's to be expected that fairweather fans will turn against solo albums. Fuck them.

Matthew Fluxington

00:26 / 18.03.03

The best rock and roll record, anyway.

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:29 / 18.03.03

I'm now listening to Urge Overkill's Saturation. And suddenly, it's 1993 again. My god. I haven't heard this for fucking years and know all the words. Yeesh.

01:43 / 18.03.03

Bullshit.

No, that's what I'm listening to. Bullshit.

Lilly Nowhere Late

05:48 / 18.03.03

Robin Guthrie- Imperial. Its new. Its beautiful. I do miss Liz
though. No two sounds ever went together so well as his guitar, her
voice.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

06:19 / 18.03.03

Robin Guthrie? New? I think I may pay you a visit today, lilly. With a small CD-sized bag marked "SWAG".

08:19 / 18.03.03

Not being allowed to listen to music at work, right now I am listening to the witterings of my co-workers, the constant ringing of the phone and the tap, tap, tapitty tap of the keyboards. I want to go and play outside.

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08:28 / 18.03.03

Right now, it's Experimental Jetset, Trash and No Star by Sonic Youth. First time I've listened to Sonic Youth in freakin' ages, though.

Previously in this very internet session were Veni Vedi Vicious by the Hives, which just re-enterd my rotation after a few months on the shelf, and Loud Like Nature by Add N to (X), which is number one in my rotation with a bullet.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

08:39 / 18.03.03

Well, technically at the moment I'm listening to the ambient sounds of the public in a library where I could do with not being, there's the steady hum of the fan in the printer on the desk, the occasional car crash outside, the sound of the door opening...

09:03 / 18.03.03

Flowers: that sounds remarkably like a Hudak and Lescaleet album that Rothkoid mini-disced for me a while ago.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

11:58 / 18.03.03

Right this present moment it's "Slanted and Enchanted" by Pavement, which had been forgotten about for a while there as I remembered how good Sonic Youth are; Murrary Street - every night as I go to bed or when it's sunny, Daydream Nation, and bit's off Goo - Titanium Expose, wee! waaaah diddle doo wahhh screeech! etc.

Oh, and the Rocky Horror show, which I went to see the other day.

But right now, and I realise that's what the thread is about, and I apologise for my extended and unnecessary warblings, right now, it's Trigger Cut.

I've got a message for you!

Oh, and I read a review of malkmus' new record that gave it a 6/10, said it was a bit noodling, and that he was trying too hard to be... eccentric? I dunno. But I think I could possibly agree with some of that.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

14:17 / 18.03.03

And in 45 minutes I will be stamping home singing along to UNKLE, possibly skipping the crap tracks with the women singing in them.

14:27 / 18.03.03

I'm listening to the sound of typing, bad lite-FM radio, people in nearby cubicles on business calls, and my stomach growling because I haven't eaten anything besides stale Nutterbutters and flat 7 Up for two days.

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