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06:09 / 17.03.02

i have been having immobilising anxiety attacks, which are soothed by weezer and phantom planet. no joke. weird, eh?

10:34 / 17.03.02

for some reason, "Genie in a bottle" seems to be stuck on a horrible continuous loop in my head. This isn't an obsession, however; more like bad luck...

Matthew Fluxington

12:12 / 17.03.02

Cherry, have you heard the bootleg version of "Genie In A Bottle" which has the music of The Strokes' "Hard To Explain"? You've got to hear it!

16:52 / 17.03.02

actually I heard it last weekend, and I thought it was pretty dang cool, but the problem is only Christina has stuck in my head like a virus, not the remix...

18:36 / 17.03.02

make your own damned mix tape!! (in no particular Order)

sleepytime gorilla museum-sleepytime
brian eno-blank frank/driving me backwards
butthole surfers-kuntz
bowie-we are the dead
90 day men-missouri kids cuss
primal scream-accelerator
idiot flesh-idiot song
negativland-car bomb
kool keith-bow to the master (worship me)
joy division-attrocity exhibition
del the funkee homosapien-virus
ciccone youth-get into the groove
residents-bach is dead
pixies-break my body
leonard cohen-dress rehersal rag
the swans-faliure
soul coughing-5% nation of casiotones
can-vitamin c
coil-restless day
tom waits-swordfishtrombones
anal cunt-just the two of us
john zorn-anything
mr.bungle-mario bros. themesong
the lack-an average

throw in a few fun samples,lots of am radio static and a few backwards-masked tracks by the Ghetto Boys and your mix is complete.

[ 17-03-2002: Message edited by: Ms.Blue ]

19:53 / 17.03.02

The soundtrack to my week has been:

Bis, "Am I Loud Enough?"
The Avalanches, "Electricity"
The Dismemberment Plan, "The Ice of Boston"
Death Cab for Cutie, "Twentieth Century Towers"
Trail of Dead, "Days of Being Wild"

Hrm. Perhaps the rest of this totally unproductive afternoon should be spent making a mix cd...

The Natural Way

07:16 / 18.03.02

Since my bro's house has turned into pirate central - CD burners, Audiogalaxy and mate's massive music collections at the ready - I've managed to get my grubby little paws on more music than I can actually listen to (without putting aside a good 24 hrs).

Choice tracks:

Various things on the 'Kitty-Yo Sampler' - Peaches and Gonzales rant about fucking. Again.

Boards of Canada: 'Mask 200'(I believe it's called) & 'Midas Touch'. I'm sure even Fly will like these two. Early stuff, so the beats remain pretty constant and funky. Atmospheric, vocoder-style "vocals" before anyone else did it. I think.

Peaches: 'AA XXX'. Oh yes. Fucking. Again and again.

Mikabomb: 'Contact Tokyo'. The Ramones w/ cutesy vocals. Generic as fuck, but, when it sounds this good, so what?

Various things by Venetian Snares. Gabba in GOOD! shock. Well, more like "post-gabba", I suppose.

Dirtyarse jungle tunes.

My tastes are getting more upbeat and less navel-gazing. I think I can feel summer coming on.....

07:44 / 18.03.02

Sounds from the Verve Hi-fi -compiled by Thievery corporation

It's 10.42 am and I already heard it twice today...my current obsession

Murray Hamhandler

09:57 / 19.03.02

(Deleted because I wrote almost the exact same post six months ago and only just discovered the fact when browsing through the rest of the thread...
Arthur Sudnam, II)

[ 20-03-2002: Message edited by: Arthur Sudnam ]

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:57 / 19.03.02

Current obsession is "The Host of Seraphim" by Dead Can Dance (who I've recently rekindled my love affair with after buying the 3CD & DVD box set), which I am having to limit my listening to because I don't ever want to get bored with it. (My spine's tingling just thinking about it right now.) Unfortunately I was listening to it on my Walkman at the same time as I finished the Bill Hicks biography- the combination of the two (and a few pints) had me crying like a baby. Very embarrassing.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:00 / 19.03.02

quote:Originally posted by You and Runce:
Various things on the 'Kitty-Yo Sampler' - Peaches and Gonzales rant about fucking. Again.

I also have a CD full of Kitty-Yo stuff burnt from MP3 which I am obsessed with... particularly Taylor Savvy's 'Good Friends' and 'Jealousy', Gonzales' 'Take Me To Broadway', Mocky's 'Heavy Shit' (featuring P&G, inevitably), and best of all, Peaches and Gonzales' 'Hot Pink Hot Sex', which might just be their finest hour yet...

"Are you lickin' it, or are you chicken shit?"

Other main current obsession: Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

11:04 / 19.03.02

(edited out in order not to piss off people)

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The Natural Way

11:25 / 19.03.02

Now, I suspect Fly that we're talking about the same album...BUT, fuck and damnit, I don't have my nice, anal tracklisting...

Bugger. The only problem w/ burnt CDs: no cover (photocopies just won't do). Guess I do care about the surfaces, afterall.

Goodness Gracious Meme

11:34 / 19.03.02

ooh, obviously I'm playing the kitty-yo obsession game as well as sliding into a real phase of slinky interesting house stuff... obviously can't remember names of anything, but lots of slower, downtempo stuff...

edited because I remembered that I've been listening to lots of Viktor Duplaix and Spacek, and a gorgeous Jazzanova remix of a Duplaix song that I can't remember the title of ...

[ 19-03-2002: Message edited by: Lick my plums, bitch. ]

The Natural Way

11:41 / 19.03.02

Loz's got loads of good house. Raid him.

Actually, just outright steal from him. Bastard's still got my scarf (and many other things, I'm sure).

Goodness Gracious Meme

11:53 / 19.03.02

where *d'you* think a skint dole-bludger like me's getting this stuff from

The Natural Way

11:56 / 19.03.02

Aaaah....

Locust No longer

17:44 / 19.03.02

I've been listening to this compilation of experimental english music (from the early sixties to mid seventies) that I got a couple days ago a lot. It's fascinating aural pleasure with tracks from AMM, Evan Parker, Cornelius Cardew, The Peoples Band, Derek Bailey and a ton more. I've become a little enamored with Miles Davis's funk period like the "Jack Johnson" Lp and "In a Silent Way," too. I've also really been getting into the new wave of bombastic, literate, and risk taking punk music from the west coast like Yaphet Kotto, Pretty Girls Make Graves, and Kill Sadie, all of whom have release amazing albums in the past year.

Murray Hamhandler

00:03 / 20.03.02

Been getting into a lot of post-punk/early "goth" stuff recently, especially Siouxsie and the Banshees. I'd been into a lot of the post-punk stuff for a while but I've only just realized how it dovetailed into what the whole goth movement fed off of. Which is much better than the much-maligned goth crap that I've heard for years and unfairly judged all of the earlier Siouxsie/Cure/Bauhaus stuff by. Specifically, I've been listening to:

Siouxsie and the Banshees-The Scream, Kaleidoscope, and Juju
PiL-Second Edition
Cure-Seventeen Seconds
Bauhaus-In The Flat Field
Cocteau Twins-Garlands
Birthday Party-Hee Haw and Junkyard

Does anyone have any further recommendations along these lines?
On the more current front, the new Spoon and And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead albums have been in pretty constant rotation in my stereo lately.
Arthur Sudnam, II

Matthew Fluxington

00:26 / 20.03.02

Arthur, given what you are saying, I bet you'd really love the band A Certain Ratio. You should look them up... if you have Audiogalaxy or whatever, the songs I'd recommend the most are "Knife Slits Water", "Lucinda", "Do The Du", and "Shack Up"... they have that creepy goth vs. post punk evil funk thing down, I assure you.

The Return Of Rothkoid

10:16 / 20.03.02

'70s-era Miles Davis. It's some of the most evil, fucked-up music that I've ever heard: Get Up With It and Live-Evil particularly. Paranoid soundscapes of dooooooooooom, with wah-trumpet. It's worth checking out, though not if you're expecting some kind of cohesion, really. It's the kind of stuff that makes no sense until suddenly, it just clicks. Odd.

[ 20-03-2002: Message edited by: The Return Of Rothkoid ]

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

10:53 / 20.03.02

At present I am listening onyl to bands named after lines from the Brian Eno song "The True Wheel". A Certain Ratio, The Modern Lovers, 801 - there's a surprising diversity.

That and Laptop, who I saw doing an acoustic set last night. Bless him.

"For those of you expecting a 'synth-pop hero', I'm afraid you're screwed."

Quality.

11:42 / 20.03.02

I would be happy to contribute to this thread with useful information, but unfortunately I am skint and have lost many cds. Anyone who would like to make me a cd with which I could become obsessed will be gratefully honored by me.

<<bats eyes coquettishly>>

11:51 / 20.03.02

(edited out blah blah blah)

[ 20-03-2002: Message edited by: Rancid Maggot Circus de Jade ]

Matthew Fluxington

11:56 / 20.03.02

Yes, Jade. You mention it all THE FUCKING TIME. But you never ever describe what yr talking about. And you take the fact that apparently no one is interested in chatting it up as an excuse to bring it up again and again and again, but never trying to sell it to us any better.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

12:00 / 20.03.02

Far too much Smiths. Non stop. Only pausing momentarily for a spot of Joy Division.

I. need. to. stop. this.

But do I? How can it be wrong when it feels so right? la laaa laaa la la laaaa etc.

12:38 / 20.03.02

quote:Yes, Jade. You mention it all THE FUCKING TIME.

Sorry. But that's what obssession it's about, right? Take it lightly, pal

, I'm not trying to sell it to anybody(this is not the pimpin' thread, after all), I'm just venting. I just have to say these guys are great. Just ignore me, Mr. grumpypants...

(edited to say I'm deleting my previous posts, since they seem to possess amazing irritating powers...)

[ 20-03-2002: Message edited by: Rancid Maggot Circus de Jade ]

Math is for suckers!

23:18 / 20.03.02

the locust, racebannon, sigh, and anyone else that leaves you feeling like youve just gotten a good skull fucking after youre done listening.!!! is pretty good too

[ 21-03-2002: Message edited by: unity235 ]

00:35 / 21.03.02

Still Derrick Carter. I heard a new mix CD the other day and fell in love all over again...

05:12 / 21.03.02

I bought a Dead Can Dance cd, 'Towards the Within', as a treat for having 'finished' my dissertation. And I can't leave it alone. I really really really like it. I'd only heard a couple of their songs before - and I was worried that gothy 'world music' would be too close to Enigma for comfort. But it's gorgeous. Beautiful voices, and not at all 'fake' sounding, not pseudy.

'Sanvean' is one of the few songs that has ever come close to making me weepy - I know it's advert music, but it has such emotional intensity if you listen to it closely. And I particularly love 'Song of the Sibyl' and 'Desert Song' too... I will have to get more of their stuff...

14:47 / 21.03.02

stuff I'm currently obsessing about ( well, today anyway):

Teenage Jesus & The Jerks
Ikara Colt
Joan of Arc
Shonen Knife
Sonic Youth (just for a change)
The Von Bondies
Television
Jonathan Richman
The Boredoms
Slint

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

17:51 / 21.03.02

For about three days I was obsessed with Frank Sinatra and his music. It's slackened off quite a bit, but I still dig his voice and songs. I think the initial attraction was the whole Ratpack lifestyle anyway.

Murray Hamhandler

20:19 / 21.03.02

quote:Originally posted by unity235:
racebannon...and anyone else that leaves you feeling like youve just gotten a good skull fucking after youre done listening.!!!

Yyyyyyesssss!!!! Just saw Racebannon again last night (I'm so glad they're a Bloomington band! I get to see them again next week, too) and I'm still deaf. They're unsettlingly threatening and exceptionally fun at the same time. And loud as all hell. Probably one of the top five live bands I've ever seen.
Arthur Sudnam, II

00:45 / 22.03.02

Bikini Kill, Loreena McKennit, and DMX. But I'm listening to a fair amount of Stuart Davis cause I promised to attend a show on Sunday...

How is Joan of Arc? Rizla? Flux?

Matthew Fluxington

01:07 / 22.03.02

I've said a lot of nice things about Joan Of Arc here in the past - I think that at their best, they are one of the most "Barbelith" bands in the world. And at their worst, they are pretty unlistenable. Their entire catalog is comprised of uneven records, but Live In Chicago 1999 and The Gap come highly recommended by me. I believe that best songs on those lps - "Me (Plural)", "I'm Five Senses (None of Them Common)", "If It Feels/Good Do It", "..The Parish Children..", "Me And America (Or The United Colours of the Gap)", "Black Pants Make Cat Hairs Appear" stand among the best recordings of the 90s.

However, I'd stay away from the first two JoA lps, they are bit more pedestrian. Cap'N Jazz, the more famous band that evolved into JoA is pretty uninteresting despite their novelty - when they reformed as Owls last year, they managed to sound like a watered down Joan of Arc, it's just not worth it, even though there is a song called "I Want The Blindingly Cute To Confide In Me" on that record.

Oh, and unless yr really into Jandek and ee cummings, you should stay far away from Tim Kinsella's solo record.

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