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This week, I have been mostly listening to..

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10:31 / 30.09.02

Welcome to a wholly guilt-free list thread designed to keep track of what us finger-on-the-pulse Barbelithers have been grooving to recently..

Beck - Sea Change
The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
Lung Leg - Maid to Minx
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her - I Wanna Be An Angel (single)
Nic Endo - Cold Metal Perfection

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

11:45 / 30.09.02

Woo! Lists are great!

The Smiths - Meat is Murder
The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic (because I finally got the chance to pick these two up, whey!)
Guided by Voices - mostly; Chasing heather crazy, glad girls, game of pricks, everywhere with helicopter, back to the lake, cut-out witch and a few others on repeat. I love this band.
Pixies - Doolittle (forgot how good this is)

12:10 / 30.09.02

The Fall - Hex Education Hour - Jeez! where have I been? I finally realize that Pavement's a rip-off band and Stephen Malkmus is a charlatan.
Jonathan Fire*eater - Tremble Under BoomLights e.p. - Imploded buzz band circa '95. Puts all current New York acts to shame.
Stephin Merritt - 100,000 fireflies (live) - Someone (I think grant) said that this was the best song ever written, and I'm inclined to agree, especially now that I've heard Merritt sing it.
Wire-Pink Flag - again, how did I miss the boat on this?
Interpol - turn on the bright lights

No star here laces

15:39 / 30.09.02

Len - "Steal my sunshine"
Styles P - "Good times"
Jeannie C Riley - "Harper valley PTA"
Jeru the Damaja - "Come clean"
Bessie Smith - "Moan you moaners"
Fabolous - "Young'n (holla back)"

Murray Hamhandler

16:31 / 30.09.02

Alpha-The Impossible Thrill, over and over. I looove this album.
Notwist-12.
Ivy-Apartment Life.
Spoon-Kill The Moonlight
Pixies-At the BBC, because they play it every single day at the coffee shop I frequent.
Weezer-"Say It Ain't So", because my friends are learning how to play it and I'm doing the vocals for them. So I've heard and/or sang it something like fifty times in the last week.

18:00 / 30.09.02

Arvo Part - I am the True Vine, Litany and Kanon Pokajanen. Thanks to Rothkoid, Southampton City Library and long-play mini discs.

Chopin - Etudes, Nocturnes and Mazurkas. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the classics threads (+ MDLP and the Library again)

The Melvins - Electroretard, Cry Baby, Houdini, Maggot and Bootlicker. Courtesy of my metal anorak mate Jason and MDLP, again. I know, I got the trilogy in the wrong order.

The Trojan Records Rastafari boxed set. Courtesy of Danite and MDLP.

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr Skinny Fists... Still my favourite album.

El-P - Fantastic Damage Unbeaten this year. Nothing's come close for me.

I guess you're noticing by now that I'm completely skint. Totally relying on mates and piracy

19:41 / 30.09.02

Weird War - Weird War
Boom Bip - Seed to Sun
The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages of...
The Flaming Lips - The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Independant Intavenshan
Isaac Hayes - The Isaac Hayes Movement
The Jam - Sound Affects
Prince Jammy - Kamikazi Dub

Locust No longer

20:26 / 30.09.02

Burmese "Ape bites man, man gets angry, man destroys ape's evironment" CD
Iran's CD on Tumult
John Coleclough "period" CD
Cephalic Carnage's New CD
Raphe Malike "Companions" CD
new Q and Not U CD
Xiu Xiu

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:02 / 30.09.02

David Byrne- "Look Into The Eyeball"
Alec Empire- "Intelligence & Sacrifice"
Wagner- a box set of the Ring Cycle. Which rules.
Tom Waits- "Blood Money" and "Alice".
and today I rediscovered Underworld's "Dubnobasswithmyheadman".

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:03 / 30.09.02

Forgot to mention also "Sense" by In The Nursery, and "NATO" by Laibach".
Finished now. Honest.

22:11 / 30.09.02

because the weather is getting cooler:
afghan whigs - cause i always do when the weather turns
black box recorder - something about dusky music for cold nights
cousteau - the last good day of the year

cause i've been in a dance round the house naked kind of mood:
the velvet teen - count backwards
solex - shoot shoot
ian crause - head over heels

22:44 / 30.09.02

I guess you're noticing by now that I'm completely skint.

Ditto, although I managed to scrape enough together for a couple of purchases recently. Shall be heading out on an excursion to my attic and the vinyl that got stuffed up there a while ago soon. Hoping to find long-forgotten treasures.

11:54 / 01.10.02

Just bought the new Supergrass album because basically I wanted to buy something from Sainsburys but so far it seems cool, never bought any of their albums before but liked the singles they've released over the years...Funky in a 70's T-Rexy kinda way - anyone else like them??

12:30 / 01.10.02

PJ Harvey- Beautiful Feeling
PJ Harvey- Hardly Wait
Sheila Nicholls- Moth and the Streetlight
Nada Surf- Firecracker
Depeche Mode-Walking in My Shoes
Nirvana-You Know You're Right

12:46 / 01.10.02

I spent yesterday afternoon listening to a friend's collection of some of the stuff she wants to play in her club if/when she gets it up a running - some of it stuff I've never heard of like Apoptygma Bezerk, some of it stuff I'd heard of but never heard, like Snake River Conspiracy, and some of it I have heard and liked, like 'Cowgirl' by Underworld and my favourite U2 song (don't hate me), 'New Year's Day'.

Other than that, I have been listening to:
Rammstein Mutter
Rammstein Sehnsucht
Lincoln Mettle
Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:32 / 01.10.02

Having a bit of a CD singles thing at the mo, so
Fischerspooner - Emerge
-Thanks, you've done your one good song, now piss off!
Underworld - Two Months Off
-Didn't think they would do anything again after the generally 'hu'-ness of 'Beaucoup Fish', but this has me hoping that they will be great again, Karl babbling like some fifteenth century monk that God has plugged into the mains socket of the universe.
Death Cab For Cutie - We Laugh Indoors
-Damn but that's disappointing. Not quite sure what I thought I was getting, extreme noise terror I think, instead I seem to have got a bunch of mild-mannered teens who probably think the pre-spider bite Peter Parker was too butch. Not offensively bad but rather dull. Just glad I've ordered the album from the library and not made the mistake of buying it.
The Dillinger Escape Plan (with Mike Patton) - Irony is a Dead Scene
-Ahh, this is more like it. I've had to skip straight through to their cover of 'Come to Daddy' and it's both extremely funny and bowel-clenchingly scary. Definitely one to have on when the kids come round trick or treating this year. Little fuckers...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:52 / 01.10.02

Oh, I've just (in the last few minutes) rediscovered the song "Brother" by New Model Army... boy does it rock.

18:12 / 01.10.02

Flood by They Might Be Giants
Double Nickles on the Dime by the Minutemen
Best Of Metal Blade Volume 3 Various Artists, and it's from the late eighties and has a kick ass live Slayer track and a bunch of Lizzie Borden, also a bunch of bands that sound like Slayer, so it's pretty hard to beat.

20:29 / 01.10.02

Pump It Up by Elvis Costello. Over and over again.

20:52 / 01.10.02

Steely Dan.
As usual.

21:03 / 01.10.02

Throbbing Gristle-20 Jazz Funk Greats
Tool-Salival
Simon and Garfunkel-Bridge over troubled water
Rimsky-Korsakov-Scheherezade
Perfect Circle-Mer de Noms
King Crimson-VROOOM
Mars Volta-Tremulous

oh yeah, and Kula Shaker.

The Return Of Rothkoid

22:52 / 01.10.02

John Zorn: Filmworks VIII
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Diamanda Galas: Malediction And Prayer
Peter Gabriel: Up
The Smiths: Meat Is Murder
The Beatles Revolver
Miles Davis: Miles In The Sky
Naked City: Live Vol I: 1989

02:31 / 02.10.02

They Might Be Giants w/Doughty - "Your Mom's Allright" and "wicked Little Critta"
Frank Sinatra - "The best is yet to come" and "The Coffee Song"
Kid Koala
Coldcut (i'm looking for a remix of "The Jungle Book" by coldcut... if you know where i can find it, let me know)
some Kodo drumming - "The hunted", "lion", "irodori" (found on WinMX)
NegativLand - "The Perfect Cut/Piece of Meat" (the music industry in a nutshell)
Pedro the Lion
Liz Phair
Neko Case
Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Global a Go-Go
The Beta Band - "Inner Meet Me"
The Minutemen - Why does a Man Start Fires
Fugazi - The Argument
The Muppet Band, covering "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"

02:33 / 02.10.02

Oh, and FischerSpooner has TWO good songs; the other one's "Sweetness". The rest of the album isn't fit for frisbee.

Matthew Fluxington

03:08 / 02.10.02

I would say that the only good song (barring the Wire cover) on the Fischerspooner is "Ersatz", and the rest isn't very good at all.

09:26 / 02.10.02

"Throw ya hands up" by Phat Doug & "So Amazing" by Omniscience, bothe off "Fisticuffs" CD by DJ Yoda
The new RJD2 album
The second Outkast LP, "ATliens"
New thingy by Polyphonic Spree
Northern Soul Tapes! Which rule!

10:20 / 02.10.02

Been listening to (in no particular order) :

Eminem - The Eminem Show - great in the car
Belle & Sebastian - Storytelling. Pretty little album.
Morcheeba - Charango (The instrumental disc)
Doves - Last Broadcast - can't stop listening to this one...
Tom Waits - all sorts but mostly Blue Valentine
Martin Grech - Open Heart Zoo - still to make up my mind about that one...
Bill Hicks. Not music but very rock and roll all the same!

10:51 / 02.10.02

with me it's been all about:

"u.g.i" julie ruin
"kandi" trina
"les & ray" le tigre
"oh" sleater kinney
"california" joni mitchell
"hypnotize" notorious b.i.g.
"speeding motorcycle" daniel johnston with yo la tengo

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:39 / 02.10.02

I've been enjoying the delights of a recently-acquired turntable and a multitude of charity shops so stuff by:

Patti Smith
Donna Summer
Cabaret Voltaire
The Shamen
The Stylistics
The Platters
Saint-Saens
Chopin
Bronksi Beat
A selection of DJ Premier/Gangstarr stuff, highlights: remixes of Janet Jackson's 'Together Again' and 'Go Deep', Nas' New York State Of Mind 1&2, Mobb Deep 'Peer Pressure', Gangstarr 'Discipline', 'Words I Manifest'

and I've been playing 'Hunky Dory' and a Carpenters greatest hits to DEATH.

I'm so finger-on-the-pulse, me.

Matthew Fluxington

15:32 / 02.10.02

John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Lee Ranaldo "Isolation"
The Kills "Wait"
Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Coldplay "Clocks"
Cam'ron "Hey Ma"
Scarface "On My Block", "Guess Who's Back"
Clipse "Young Boy"
Norah Jones "Don't Know Why", "Cold Cold Heart"
Nickel Creek "Spit on a Stranger"

10:45 / 03.10.02

The songs from Pearl Jam's new album. Rest assured, they suck.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:56 / 03.10.02

Clipse - the album, Lord Willin'. This is the first album I've been able to afford to buy in ages, and I've been fiending for it... It doesn't disappoint. Might have to start a thread about it. It's sprain-ya-neck music, lots of irresistably funky James-Brown-gone-sci-fi production from The Neptunes, unashamedly nasty lyrics (Clipse like guns, girls, and (selling) cocaine - a lot)... Nice and concise too, doesn't drag like a lot of hip-hop albums can do. Highlights: 'Young Boy', 'Cot Damn', 'When The Last Time' (so freakish and electro it will make Timbaland & Missy green with envy... the main sound is like a computer going pyscho), 'Ego', 'Let's Talk About It', the dreamy 'Gangsta Lean'... it's all good.

Other than that: Mos Def, Le Tigre, The Auteurs, Yeah Yeah Yeahs - old and not-so-old favourites, basically.

Old brown-eye is back

12:06 / 03.10.02

In my bag of listening today:

Gaucho
Two Against Nature
The Battle of Los Angeles
Tear the Roof off the Sucker
The Holy Bible
Waiting for Columbus
The Grand Wazoo
Electric Ladyland
The Last Waltz
American Beauty
Billion Dollar Babies
Songs for the Deaf
And that song Beyonce did for the Austin Powers soundtrack.

Plus - if Pearl Jam's new songs suck so bad, why are you giving them your ears?

12:41 / 03.10.02

[rot rot rot]
How would I know that they suck if I didn't listen to them? I downloaded the songs from the web, so I would make sure I wouldn't waste my money on the cd if it turned out to be bad. It sounds incredibly pretentious. And boring.
[end rot]

Old brown-eye is back

12:53 / 03.10.02

Fair enough.

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