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A 'What are you listening to?' thread

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Opps!!

19:22 / 24.11.04

Pappuce, hope this helps.

There is one thing that I look for in music - i what to listen to something new, something that catches my interest and draws me in and I find that all those mentioned in my list do that for me. They are all people who will never be imitated, never matched.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:21 / 25.11.04

Are you sure you don't mean "who may be imitated, but will never be matched"? Because some of them have been imitated a lot.

Haus Of Pain

12:10 / 25.11.04

This week i've been listening to:

Seymour Bits (Klakson records)
- Amazing Disco, Electro, Funk.

Shellac- Action Park
-Steve Albini is great. Get some.(check Rape Man)

Beans - Shock City Maverick (Warp)
-Seriously underated hip hop on warp. Beans is ex- Antipop Consortium, & freaks out on the mic.

Gil-Scott Herron - We Almost Lost Detroit.
-Undeniable best song he ever made.Ever.

USA is A Monster - (LOAD Records)
Seriously rocking psychadelic folk hardcore from the same label that Lightning Bolt are on.

Billy Frazier & Friends - Billy Who? (Champagne Records)
-Ace slow monged out disco from 1980.

last one!

Mu- Paris Hilton (Output)
-just check it out it's fuckin' brutal acid house.

Professor Silly

16:58 / 02.12.04

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of Natural History!!!!!!!

and (shameless plug of my group)

New Ancient Astronauts' "Children of the Vortex"

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

19:19 / 02.12.04

Great little comp called "Why is it so fresh? The Electro Years". Compiled by I think the micronauts, whoever they are. Seriously old school electro: fab five freddy, grandmixer D.S.T. It's so goddamned fresh

Bastard Tweed

20:36 / 03.12.04

I think there's something wrong with me. I'm on my fourth straight consecutive listen to the X-Ray Spex anthology album and I still want more. Always liked them but I never liked them that much and I've never been the biggest punker in the world. I'm probably suffering from a chemical imbalance.

D Terminator XXXIII

23:23 / 03.12.04

I can't go another day without listining to the New Ancient Astronauts.

No star here laces

05:12 / 07.12.04

Roxy Music - "Avalon" (I finally see the point of bryan ferry, after all these years)
Alan Parsons Project - "Ammagamma" (instrumental)
Traditional Hokkien songs (sorry don't speak Hokkien, don't know what any of them are)
Marz - "Wir sind hier" (Possibly my album of the year)
Michael Mayer - "Pride is weaker than love" (to overcome my disappointment at his shitty album)
Marvia Providence - "Hear my cry O Lord"

Whale... Whale... Fish!

16:01 / 07.12.04

Song I'm currently listening to is Junior Vasquez's remix of Maroon 5 "This Love".

Also been recently listening to an old essential mix by DJ Yoda and Dan Greenpeace, A Sharpe Boys set recorded Taste's 10th Birthday... Beside that just random D&B, house and hip-hop...

TeN

22:46 / 08.12.04

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:16 / 08.12.04

Currently it's mostly the Manics' "The Holy Bible" and Brian Wilson's "Smile", both of which I have described my love for at length elsewhere in this forum so I shan't clog this thread.

I'm also quite into various Rammstein remixes I've been downloading, the new Wolf Eyes album and (of course) Firewater. Lots of Firewater, who are in with a chance of making my "best badns EVER" list.

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:49 / 11.12.04

LCD Soundsystem - 'Yr City's A Sucker'

B-side to the single 'Movement' which is also fab (jerky, over-caffeinated punk, with great lyrics such as "it's like a fat guy in a t-shirt doing all the singing"). 'Yr City's A Sucker' has this whole funky fresh walking-the-pavements 'The Message' style vibe going on. I'd forgotten how nice it could be to buy a single and discover a good b-side.

Opps!!

19:02 / 21.12.04

This week one is listening to a shit-load of Squarepusher with a dash of the Miles Davis Quintet (when Herbie was playing piano for him).

Thanks for reading, and good night.

Mirror

15:39 / 27.12.04

The last few months have had me listening to Radio 1190 at work, which has led me to the discovery of exactly two worthwhile artists.

First, the slightly less interesting of the two, Rilo Kiley, a clever girlie-folk-rock band with a song that caught my attention I think solely because of its title, "Portions for Foxes." I like that phrase.

Second, and much more interesting, is Songs: Ohia. This is lo-fi melancholy goodness that just doesn't stop. "Lioness" and "Coxcomb Red" are choice.

rizla mission

16:07 / 27.12.04

The CDs which accompany me as I hijack my mum's laptop are Can - Ege Bamyasi and the DFA Compilation#1 which I'm sure all you cool kids were listening to three years ago.

TeN

18:25 / 28.12.04

Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer - Symphonie Pour un Homme Seul

the best example of "musique conrete" - electronic/mash-up/sampling/avant-classical music from 1950s france. if you want to know where prefuse 73, Kid Koala, DJ Spooky, Matmos, The Books, and just about every other electronica and modern-electric-classical musician got their inspiration, this is it. fascinating stuff.

the Fool

20:14 / 28.12.04

Currently

Lusine - Iron City. Strange futurist bleeping landscapes at the hard end of acid comedown. Odd sounds of running water in the room next door. Sound so visual it seems to force me to make stories around it.

Alexander Kowalski. Reminding me why I loved techno so much in the first place. Driving, spacious, sometimes hard sometimes soft. Commanding beats. Yum!!!

Boards of Canada. More dark bleepy landscapes.

I seem to be into dark and bleepy at the moment, with a bit of bangbangbang thrown in for good measure.

A fall of geckos

11:12 / 31.12.04

Right now I'm listening to Cocorosie - odd ethereal music apparently recorded in the bathtub of a Parisian flat by a pair of sisters, and originally only meant for the consumption of their friends.

I can't work out if it's really really good, really really bad, pretentious or all of the above.

One of their tracks is available to download here if anyone's interested.

Also listening to Tom Waits - Bone Machine which I picked up in the sales. Stunning ugly beautiful stuff.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

14:45 / 01.01.05

Utterly obsessed with Devo right now. I breathe Devo. I even find merit in their dreadful Enigma Records nadir.

And 1980s electro. Specificaly: Grandmixer DST & Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin - Mean Machine. And Broken Glass - Style of the Street, because holy fucking shit.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

10:11 / 20.02.05

Not strictly a 'listening to right now', more a 'I've got the order in at Amazon.com', for Dälek's Absence (blame Flux) and Subtle's A New White (blame Mixing It).

wicker woman

13:54 / 20.02.05

A disturbing amount of Nine Inch Nails lately, the new Tori album, Gary Moore's Scars, and Indigo Girls' All That We Let In

Haus of Mystery

15:13 / 20.02.05

Been having an eighties renaissance with My Bloody Valentine, Jesus & Mary Chain, House of Love et al. Enjoying the feedback. Also Fennesz' 'Endless Summer', a thing of beauty (cheers Pappuce). The new Sage Francis album 'a Healthy distrust' is pretty good - less busy than 'Personal Journals', and Sage is on top vitriolic form. I still maintain that his best stuff is the 'Sick of..' series (skits, radio stuff and odd jobs) is his best work, and the best demonstration of his versatility as an MC.

uncle retrospective

15:17 / 20.02.05

I've been listening to Push the Button but the Chems. It's great!
Mono have been envoloping me in loud bursts of distortion, which is nice.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

15:15 / 05.03.05

Yep, just finished Push the Button and can agree about it's goodness, I can't understand why I believed the NME's 'bah, it smells of wee' review for a second. It's better than the awful Come With Us but not as good as the singles off Dig Your Own Hole and Surrender.
(You might want to try the official nonofficial remix album Flip the Switch too)

Now listening to The Kaiser Chief's debut Employment and it's great. But then I was a britpop kid so that's probably why it's teasing my cockles so much.

Triplets

21:35 / 05.03.05

Minibosses

Four guys bang out old NES game tunes on guitars. Fucking WEAPON.

You can download some of their stuff above.

uncle retrospective

05:36 / 06.03.05

The Great Destroyer by Low. It's just so good! Nice and slow, with some great melodies but now with added distortion. Yea! Great stuff. 2005 is already looking great for music.
Slint, Spiderland. Never bothered with them before, but I'm going to see them tonight so I thought I'd give them a spin. Dunno why I never cared for it before.

Still listening to Mono, it's like 3 new Mogwai albums.
Oh, Goverment Commisions by Mogwai. It's the Mogwai Peel sessions. Fantastic!

poly

15:19 / 06.03.05

Accidents with Nature and Each Other - Harris Newman
Post Fahey guitarist

missnoise

10:15 / 06.06.05

phantom orchard - zeena parkins & ikue mori - recommend if you like bizarre textures
le pas du chat noir - french compositions - recommend while writing
richard lewis and the magic barrell - recommend for circus freaks

GogMickGog

11:16 / 06.06.05

I'm digging on "Cheap Thrills" a helluva lot at the moment.
Great, great acid blues, and their version of Summertime beats all the rest. Janis's voice was just something special..the ol' shivers-down-the spine cliche deserves resurrecting for this one.

Love it.

And

"Henry at Rawlinson's End", because I laugh out loud, and find the song "Wheelbarrow" oddly touching.

Is that wrong?

astrojax69

23:28 / 06.06.05

just got my turntable set up again after years and am enjoying some vinyl i haven't heard for yonks...

quadrophenia - second best album by anyone ever

pete townshend's 'rough boys'

some old reggae - 'countryman' soundtrack and steel pulse's track off 'urgh: a music war" - 'ku klux klan' brilliant!

old blues - eddie clearwater, early john mayall, freddie king. fabtastic. i love vinyl!

btw does anyone else remember 'urghh; a music war' i think one of the police guys and his brother did it - three gigs in three countries. very much before live aid. a great film - is it anywhere on dvd??

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

11:29 / 07.06.05

Scientist, in many of his 'Encounters the Pac Man' and 'Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires' and other brilliantly stoned dub album titles.

Salmonella Dub, 'Inside the Dubplates' and 'Killer Vision'.

Dr. Alimantado, and loads of stuff on Greensleeves records.

Dub dub dub. Loving that dub.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:11 / 07.06.05

'Since U Been Gone' by Kelly Clarkson. As someone said, it makes one want to fall in love and get dumped so you can sing along and mean it. Well, almost. Angst-filled indie rock single of the year!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:59 / 08.06.05

Right now, I'm rediscovering Swans.
All the stuff I have on vinyl (which, afaik, is ALL of their stuff) which I haven't been able to listen to in many years due to the lack of a deck, I'm now replacing with CDs and downloads (though "Love Of Life", "White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity" and "The Great Annihilator" are proving elusive). And by Christ, it's good. I totally remember now why they were my favourite band once upon a long ago. I think they might be again.
NOBODY BEATS YOU LIKE A COP WITH A CLUB. THE HEAT HURTS.

diz

07:46 / 08.06.05

i finally picked up Run the Road over the weekend, and yesterday i got the Drums of Death CD and Faust vs. Dalek. all of which are good, but i haven't had a lot of music listening time the last few days. last week i was on a road trip to Texas and i accidentally erased the iPod, so i was kind of boned.

Seth

09:02 / 08.06.05

I'm listening the the new Aphex Twin stuff put out under the name Analord, as much of the new Doleful Lions stuff as I can track down online (courtesy of Flux' tip-off on his blog), Mux Tundra, TTC and a homemade Ghostface compilation that may just be the best CD in my collection.

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