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A 'What are you listening to?' thread

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12:44 / 29.03.04

You should record it - The Wire would be phoning you up asking you about "new weird america" within the week..

13:33 / 29.03.04

Another reason to love the library:

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Weld

YES!

The first disc is somewhat lacking, in that I'm not really much of a fan of the songs from "Freedom", and the cover of "Blowin' in the Wind" is pretty pointless..

..but the second disc! Man! It just has all the hits!!

And 14 WHOLE MINUTES of "Like a Hurricane"!!!

*shrieks like an over-excited little girl*

Halfway through and my air-guitaring muscles are already snapping.. you couldn't get more guitar-mangling than this if you commandeered a guitar factory and assembled a platoon of Sonic Youth fans to mangle it for you..

uncle retrospective

04:24 / 30.03.04

Probot and lots of it. This is one for D.i.G, Riz and Stoatie. Dave Grohl decides to stop writing the theme tunes to Jack Black films and rock the fuck out. Dave plays most of the music and brings in singers like Lee Dorrian, Cronos, Max Cavalera and Lemmy. It took a while to get into to it but this is Fists of Steel stuff.

Sophia. I loved the God Machine and was gutted when they broke up. Sophia were always a little disappointing. Too much acoustic guitars and moaning in place of the GM's love of guitar white noise. Now at last Proper Shepherd has mixed the sound of both bands and come up with a great mix. The desert song no.2 is the best thing I've heard in ages. A mix of piano and acoustic guitar sliding to full on white noise. Great.

Einstürzende Neubauten Perpetuum Mobile. I'm going to see them on Sunday and am trying to get into it. It's not as harsh as I was expecting (I haven't heard much of their stuff) but it sounds great. Needs more time.

08:56 / 30.03.04

the hauntingly beautiful mousemoon....these guys are going to take over the world.

i went to an event they put on during the This Is Not Art festival. It was inside a dis-used glorious old Post Office. Something magical happened there. Cosmic forces or whatever.

Listen to their stuff at http://www.mp3.com.au/thehauntinglybeautifulmousemoon but you really have to experience it live to have the full impact.

16:51 / 30.03.04

currently i'm listening to a copy of Roots Manuva's Brand New Second Hand which a friend was kind enough to burn for me.

03:42 / 31.03.04

I saw Prince last night in LA. And I listened to the sweetest guitar work I have heard in person since the first time I saw Prince.

He gave out his upcoming album for free to everybody at the door (not personally). It's a little tame, but it's Prince. And thus, I am listening to it.

Haus of Mystery

14:49 / 31.03.04

I had another Prince day today. Liking 'I would die for you' and 'Let's Go Crazy' especially.

Would also like to mention 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields, which is fucking aces.

16:50 / 31.03.04

I'm listening to 'The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari', which is a Count Ossie 2 CD boxset containing all manner of mad and interesting pre-reggae Jamaican drumming stuff, including the original version of 'Oh Carolina' by Prince Buster - which was the specific historical moment when Rastafari connected up with Kingston rude boy soundsystem culture. Also contains a 30 minute recording from a Nyahbinghi congretation, and loads more stuff. Currently in HMV for a fiver.

The Return Of Rothkoid

05:24 / 01.04.04

Currently listening to The For Carnation's Marshmallows EP, which arrived today, and a Keiji Haino 2CD album that I can't remember the name of: it's mostly hurdy-gurdy stuff. I'm also listening to The Immortal Lee County Killers II's Love Is A Charm Of Powerful Trouble which is fuckawful genius.

07:02 / 01.04.04

I'm so buying that Count Ossie. Got some really good 7" represses of his stuff on Moodisc, including "Sodom & Gomorrah" which is like a kind of piece of 50's Jamaican Doo Woop with the heavyweight drumming, going on about the fall of Biblical cities. Fucking great. (it's on that tape Riz, did you ever listen to that other one btw, that soundclash is a KILLAH!).

Been listening to "Heathen Earth" by Throbbing Gristle, which rocks pretty damn hard. Drones, shouting, percussion and shapeless aggression 10 years before everyone else. Though was a bit incongrous with yesterday's sun. Last night was pirate radio (Mystic 98.1)and Peel action, heard some really nice garage MC/"grime" tracks by a geezer called Chyna, had some nice lyrics, really back-of-the-us-in-Hackney, chatted out at 90 miles an hour. Then felt completely generation gapped by the DJ trying to chat up a girl live on air on his mobile. I love pirate radio. That's a great thing about this sort of music, it's too full on and mad to be "nice" music for hip thirtysomething dinner parties, with the attendant re-commoification (yet). I felt out of breath just listening. Anyone else checking the pirates?

The most incredible music experience of the last few days though was The Boredoms live at the Scala. Over an hour of the most furious, tightest percussion possible. Absolutely fucking incredible. I have limited recall as I was too busy screaming. Transcendent stuff. Defintely one of the top five best gigs I've ever seen. If you ever get the chance GO AND SEE THEM.

10:12 / 01.04.04

Just finished listening to Mother Earth: You Have Been Watching for the first time in several years. It reminds me of uni...

Otherwise:
* The Grey Album
* Photek: Modus Operandi
* Gotan Project: La Revancha Del Tango

Keith, like a scientist

12:16 / 01.04.04

got a bunch of albums recently:
madvillian - madvilliany (brilliant mf doom/madlib collab)

funkstorung - disconnected (funkstorung go all pop idm on this one with lots of guests)

blockhead - music by cavelight (aesop rock's producers turns in an amazing instrumental album for ninjatune. the charlie brown samples are key.)

proem - socially inept (the king of plug-in madness returns with the most melodic of his releases)

quench - dyn (the funckarma bros kick another idm masterpiece)

Haus of Mystery

15:42 / 02.04.04

I'll second the Madvillain album - absolutely cocking essential. DJ Signify album 'sleep no more' is also worth a listen. Minimal horror movie beats with weird spooky narratives from Buck and Sage.

16:05 / 02.04.04

Good to know that people are still going for Photek. He rules.

Right now I'm listening to Standards by Tortoise.

My latest purchases have been Mellow Out by Mainliner (found it in Selectadisc on Tuesday, and it rocks mightily) and The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky (nothing new but very beautiful indeed).

My time at work has been spent listening to the Boredoms, Cornelius, Jay-Z, OOIOO, Oneida and El-P. I run the tightest bar in Southampton. Pity there's not much competition!

08:05 / 03.04.04

hmm.. this week in particular i've had this on heavy rotation:

Q and not U
Adult.
Metric
My Bloody Valentine
Bjork
Sigur Ros
Felix da Housecat
Buzzcocks
Velvet Underground
Mars Volta
David Bowie
the Faint
Death Cab for Cutie
Mew

and many more..

heh..

11:28 / 03.04.04

Oooh, very nice selection... and sharing some stuff with mine.

Lately, I've been listening to Broadcast, Felix da Housecat, Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine (recent obsession) and The Mars Volta... with, as usual, an ocasional bit of Ladytron.

15:33 / 08.04.04

Well...
I had this really long list of bands that I wanted to listen to but hadn't yet. I was trying to download MP3s by some of them, but with 56k, its really hard. So my freind tells me about AMAZON MUSIC SAMPLER at amazon.com. It plays thirty second streaming clips of the first five tracks on almost any album amazon sells. So, In picked a band randomly to give a try... that band just happened to be:

Of Montreal

Now I'm addicted. I'm trying to buy their album, but I've checked 9 record stores now and non of them even carry the band! I'm going to order it from amazon as soon as I get the $15 (yeah, I'm broke) to buy another album and bring the cost up to $30, thereby qualifying for free shipping. Until then, I'm stuck listening to all the 30 second clips.

P.S. If you haven't heard of Of Montreal, they're incredible. They sound A LOT like The Beatles.

15:36 / 10.04.04

M83: Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts.

Excellent blend of early Air and My Bloody Valentine.

Madlib / MF Doom: Madvillian

Awesome jazzy, obscure-sample-laden hip hop record. Hip-hop has been getting better of late, at least the underground stuff...though I hate having to use that term.

10:05 / 11.04.04

Currently listening to Anaal Nathrakh, Wu-Tang's Iron Flag and the Boredoms Rebore, as well as having downloaded Erase Errata, the 5, 6, 7, 8's and Le Tigre.

And I've just been lent a CD compilation of Goldie Lookin' Crew's early EPs, and I'm both in hysterics and amazed. If you're going to check them out, download The Maggot.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:21 / 11.04.04

Yesterday I was given a great CD called Under The Beach, A Heart Attack which came out last summer and showcases Brighton bands - lots of great stuff ranging from dirty lo-budget electro to ridiculously energetic shouty indie/punk pop. Particular highlights from Shrag, Neo-Miyako, Miss Pain, Fujiya & Miyagi, Castro, and The Blue Minkies.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:48 / 11.04.04

Currently on my desk in front of me are CDs by the Ramones, Dizzee Rascal, Bowie, Black Heart Procession, Coil, Bobby Conn and Rammstein.

00:58 / 13.04.04

at the moment: Philip Jeck (damn fine first name there)

recently: bit of a Godflesh for old times sake, the new Two Lone Swordsmen goth stuff, Fennesz, and Sophia

03:01 / 13.04.04

Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood - Love It

Wilco - A Ghost is Bored - Not so sure about this

Nico - Desertshore - Utterly fantastic...if you like Nico.

Darth Phil, what is this new Two Lone Swordsmen goth you mention? The new CD? Do tell.

07:24 / 13.04.04

It's not out just yet, but if you head over to the new (ish) mp3 blog fairly sharpish you can download a couple of tunes, I'm really liking what I'm hearing so far...

22:08 / 13.04.04

Listening to my older Manic Street Preachers stuff. [i]The Holy Bible[/i] is a brilliant album and features the band at their peak.

Also been plying my copy of Queens of the Stone Age's [i]Songs for the Deaf[/i] again.

Last new album I bought was BRMC's second release [i]Take Them on Your Own[/i], which I highly recommend.

And I have a lot of Modest Mouse and Built to Spill in my playlist right now.

The Natural Way

13:14 / 23.11.04

Sadly I left six CDs at my Father's last week, but the albums/tunes that have been receiving heavy rotation are:

Squarepusher: Tomine

Easily the most gorgeous tune on the Lost in Translation album and further proof, if ever any was needed, that Tom Jenkinson has an ear for beauty and understatement. Reminds me of the sad, evening smells of a strange city, just as it should. Probably considered boring by too many 'lithers to mention.... Also reminiscent of the gorgeous, fragile, beatless little progressions that BoC seem to be churning out more of now (deffo my favourite stuff by them). Fucking wonderful.

DJ Rupture: Strange Bullets

You want fun, original production? Action? Yeah, it begins with bloody street poetry, but the mutant, electronic dancehall vibe that fills this album is one of the freshest things I've heard for ages. Surprisingly un-sound-clashy for Rupture, though.

Animal Collective: Spirits They Come, Spirits They Leave

Does anyone else sound even remotely like Animal Collective? Weird dream-rock that I've just realised I can't really describe - it hasn't found its place in the old conceptual filing cabinet yet, but I like it.

Fennesz: Endless Summer

Well, I've bigged him up before, but Mr. Fennesz's second from last(?) album is really, really the tits. I love the way, like a great many of my favourite musicians, he makes it a mission statement to demonstrate not just the beauty of melody, but the beauty and atmosphere of sound in general. He doesn't sledgehammer the listener with a gorgeous tune, instead, he's restrained enough to know just how much the listener actually needs..... Fennesz has depth, subtlety and imagination and - and TBH I can't say this about a great many artists - I just know I'll be listening to his stuff next year and the year after that and the yeworld without end.

20:30 / 23.11.04

Last five CD's I played:

You Can't Hide your Love Forever - Orange Juice
Babes in Arms - MC5
Geogaddi - Boards of Canada
When it All Comes Down - Miaow
If You Can't Beat 'em Bite 'em - Weird War

10:43 / 24.11.04

Currently listening to the following artists:
David Bowie
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
Bjork
Aphex Twin

The Natural Way

12:39 / 24.11.04

Fucking say something about them, then....

Yyarg.

13:04 / 24.11.04

No, no lists are fascinating. More lists.

Haus of Mystery

13:29 / 24.11.04

Today I listened to;

The sound of the fridge in my girlfriend's kitchen
The tannoy in a shop
The hum of the computer monitor at the moment
The sound of the keyboard keys

13:35 / 24.11.04

You see? Fascinating.

15:29 / 24.11.04

Today I listened to... the sound of ign't 16 years old rapping to themselves and swearing at me under their breath.

But at home - not been listening to much really. I pulled out a Sonny Sharrock LP ("Monkey-Pookie-Bo" last night which is basically 40 minutes of free jazz wailing. (Makes girlfriend leave room. Always a sign). Makes me laugh but am unsure of it's musical value. Always feel there's something jazzual I'm missing, then put it on every 6 months - "hmm, no, it still sounds like some women screaming while he smashes his guitar up".

And also been listening to the latest Rough Trade comp - Indie Pop! which is greeeeeaaattt. Just happy, happy eighties jangly guitars, popsongs with fringes - all the bands people associate with that period, Primal Scream, The Vaselines, The Pastels - lovely fey 3 minute love songs about being dumped basically. Great - fave so far The Popguns "Waiting for the Winter".

This reminded me to play an old tape with loads of Televisions Personalities stuff on it. Anyone into them? Just great charming pop ditties with Dan Treacey's off key voice, sounding like a depressed infant school child. Wonderful stuff. Downloaders - check out "Smashing Time" and "Magnificent Dreams" and oh, anything by them.

15:40 / 24.11.04

Just read a few reviews of that Sharrock LP - reminded me that the funniest thing about it is that he plays slide whistle all the way through side 1. As one review said "that's like John Coltrane playing kazoo".

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:56 / 24.11.04

Fucking say something about them, then....

Surely the boldly electic nature of that list speaks volumes in itself!

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