What Are You Listening To?

[thefourthwall]

The National "Green Gloves"

I will forever be grateful to Derek for turning me on to such an awesome band!

[Our Aurora]

Junior Wells - Snatch it Back and Hold it

[ledfloyd]

overdosing on grizzly bear's veckatimest. again.

[Spun Lepton]

What's your favorite Primus CD? Ready? Go!!

I ask because I've recently been listening to Sailing the Seas of Cheese and Pork Soda a lot. I'd forgotten how incredibly talented Claypool was, er, is. I'm thinking of picking up some more of their stuff.

[Spaceman Spiff]

"Summertime" is fantastic. There's one other song I like a lot and the rest are okay. I gave it a 3/5 which puts me pretty much right between the absurd hype and backlash. Worth checking out and I'll probably end up seeing them in December for $15.

Really dug Album. Acute pop sensibilities mixed with moments of haunting power. Loved the mix too. 'God Damned' works as well as it does because it sounds like he's playing in another room, while Summertime is lush and beautiful and moving, almost operatic. I love albums that are all over the place, but of course this leads to experimentations that don't work out as well as others. Probably the best album I've heard since 3, though. I'll probably check them out when they hit my city.

[Ivan Drago]

Revolution 909 - Daft Punk

Daft Punk owns my soul.

[Henry Gale]

Phrazes for the Young has only left my ears every so often this last week...

Well, that and Raditude. Even though it's not a particularly strong album, even with my custom tracklist. My love for Weezer doesn't know the bounds to dislike even the weakest of their stuff (which I don't actually feel this is).

Trippin' Down The Freeway, Can't Stop Partying (though it's nowhere close to its Alone II acoustic demo) and Prettiest Girl make it all worth it.
So yeah... Julian Casablancas, sir, thank you for giving me my favourite album of the year.

[Boner M]

Rowland S. Howard - "Pop Crime"

New album (Pop Crimes is kickass. A must for any Nick Cave fan (RSH is ex-Bad Seeds), as well as his prior effort (Teenage Snuff Film).

[Justin]

Just got the new Julian Casablancas, will be listening to that one for a while. And also listening to the new Tegan and Sara, somehow a group I never really cared about(except "Back in Your Head", that was a great song) has crafted one of the more surprising albums of the year.

[Saya]

I'm addicted to David Bowie - Sound and Vision (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYEOlxcirX0) at the moment. I play it way too much.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I'm addicted to David Bowie - Sound and Vision (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYEOlxcirX0) at the moment. I play it way too much.

Though I quite like that particular track, I always felt Low was a smidge overrated. Out of his 70s output, I prefer Ziggy/Hunky Dory/...possibly Aladdin Sane (not 100% certain).

[Adam]

Sound and Vision is fun

I've burned through The Go-Betweens 16 Lovers Lane a few times recently and, man, what a wonderful album that is

[Dead & Messed Up]

Today?

Koji Kondo - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks...
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions...

[BuffaloWilder]

Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up

[Derek]

OOIOO - "Uda Hah"

A Boredoms side-project, so if you dig the psychedelic punk tribalism, this is very much worth checking out. Better than their previous album, but apparently they've been around for a while, so I'll have to track down some of their earlier stuff now.

[SirNewt]

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

[Glass Co.]

New Order - Temptation

Never ever gets old.

[Adam]

Great song, but it's one of a handful I can't enjoy like I used to because of how much I associate it with an ex-ladyfriend. Same deal with Bizarre Love Triangle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOWBX_xP5y8&feature=related)

[Sycophant]

There is this lyrics in Ben Folds's "The Bitch Went Nuts" (off Way To Normal) that he delivers with a laugh. It is simply "holy fucking shit" and it's pretty much transcendent.

I've been listening to that album, Andrew WK's I Get Wet, and Suzanne Vega's 1996 Nine Objects of Desire the last few days.

[Kurosawa Fan]

There is this lyrics in Ben Folds's "The Bitch Went Nuts" (off Way To Normal) that he delivers with a laugh. It is simply "holy fucking shit" and it's pretty much transcendent.


Love this album, especially the song with Regina Spektor (You Don't Know Me).

[Sycophant]

Love this album, especially the song with Regina Spektor (You Don't Know Me).

I'm really enjoying it. I'm pretty sure it's his best solo album, which would make it his best album in almost a decade. "You Don't Know Me" is really incredible. "Hiroshima" is pretty addictive, too. There's seemingly more passion and invention in each song on this record than the entirety of Songs for Silverman, which I never really cared for.

[Glass Co.]

Great song, but it's one of a handful I can't enjoy like I used to because of how much I associate it with an ex-ladyfriend. Same deal with Bizarre Love Triangle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOWBX_xP5y8&feature=related)

Two of the best. I am sorry for your lost.

[Spaceman Spiff]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tj1VRA9rozA/SmipqzpDP2I/AAAAAAAABdc/Ls6ZwXZXZ_o/s400/R+crumb+and+his+Cheap+Suits+Se renaders+-+googlefest.blogspo.jpg

[Adam]

I had Boxer by The National on before when I was studying for finals

Seems like that album fits this time of year, for whatever reason

[MadMan]

Don't Come Around Here No More-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. This video is um....wow. Weird as hell? Cool? Yep and yep. Oh and the song is good, too.

[B-side]

Beethoven's 9th Symphony. So good.

[ledfloyd]

I had Boxer by The National on before when I was studying for finals

Seems like that album fits this time of year, for whatever reason
their sound is very wintry. i've been listening to alligator alot lately.

[Glass Co.]

their sound is very wintry. i've been listening to alligator alot lately.

Wow. I was listening to Boxer earlier and had the exact same thought as both of you.

Now I'm listening to "Paul's Boutique" and I love it so, so much.

[Boner M]

Polmo Polpo - "Requiem for a Fox"

From Like Hearts Swelling, a stunning ambient/post-rock album. Melville/Raiders/Derek would very much enjoy it, methinks.

[Melville]

Polmo Polpo - "Requiem for a Fox"

From Like Hearts Swelling, a stunning ambient/post-rock album. Melville/Raiders/Derek would very much enjoy it, methinks.
Just got this on iTunes, and I'm listening to it now. "Requiem for a Fox" is awesome. It sounds like a luau is going on in the far corner of a car factory, and somebody invited a rock guitarist with a washing machine. (Yes, I have no idea what I'm talking about.)

[Derek]

Just got this on iTunes, and I'm listening to it now. "Requiem for a Fox" is awesome. It sounds like a luau is going on in the far corner of a car factory, and somebody invited a rock guitarist with a washing machine. (Yes, I have no idea what I'm talking about.)

And yet, you've completely sold me on the album. :)

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

Dat peeanknow solow iz fiyahhh!

[Spaceman Spiff]

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

Dat peeanknow solow iz fiyahhh!

Some days I think this is his best album.

[Derek]

Some days I think this is his best album.

It's okay. Some days I'm wrong too. ;)

[Spaceman Spiff]

It's okay. Some days I'm wrong too. ;)

...and some days I run IP tracks and sharpen my knives.

Merry Christmas.

[Ivan Drago]

Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant

[SirNewt]

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

Cannot stop! Someone help me!

[D_Davis]

Cornershop - Sleep on the Left Side

One of the most underrated indie-pop bands of the last 20 years. God I love these guys. They possess a sense of effortless whimsy, they're quirky without excess, and their minimal approach to loop and sample-filled pop-rock is pure perfection.

Their last album was also quite good. One of my favorites (top 10) of last year, for sure.

[Skitch]

Clutch "Electric Worry". Best. Shit. Ever.

[Sven]

Man in Need

Richard Thompson knows how to wail!

[Ivan Drago]

Real As It Gets - Jay-Z

I may have to buy The Blueprint 3. Every song I've heard from it so far has been great.

[Skitch]

Real As It Gets - Jay-Z

I may have to buy The Blueprint 3. Every song I've heard from it so far has been great.
Same here. That New York song is soooo good. And I hate 90% of rap.

[SirNewt]

Same here. That New York song is soooo good. And I hate 90% of rap.

for some reason "Empire State of Mind" just does it for me.



listening to "Wake Up" - Arcade Fire

[Skitch]

for some reason "Empire State of Mind" just does it for me.

Yep, thats the one! Incredible jam.

[KK2.0]

Cornershop - Sleep on the Left Side

One of the most underrated indie-pop bands of the last 20 years. God I love these guys. They possess a sense of effortless whimsy, they're quirky without excess, and their minimal approach to loop and sample-filled pop-rock is pure perfection.

Their last album was also quite good. One of my favorites (top 10) of last year, for sure.

I remember them being a bit hyped up back then, but i've never heard anything else since.

Nada Surf is an indie band i find underrated, they are active since the 90's and still release some pretty excellent albums, i'm listening to Let Go (2002, their last one is called Lucky from 2008), and it has some great songs in it.

[Russ]

Carl Sagan's Ghost - At the End of It All

Magnificent.

[D_Davis]

Carl Sagan's Ghost - At the End of It All

Magnificent.

Hey, thanks Russ. Glad you are liking it. I just listened to it yesterday myself. It had been awhile.

Got a new EP coming out next month - it's a split with Saffron Slumber and Specta Ciera. We each took a part of a 20-minute long composition. This little Russian ambient-label is putting it out:

http://www.circlesandlines.org/

They have some nice stuff in their catalog. Check it out.

[megladon8]

I am very much digging Carl Sagan's Ghost's "Colonial Spa EP" (http://www.archive.org/details/LUXXAr051501-01).

[D_Davis]

I am very much digging Carl Sagan's Ghost's "Colonial Spa EP" (http://www.archive.org/details/LUXXAr051501-01).

Thanks, Meg. I'm glad you're enjoying it. A little more beat orientated than my previous efforts.

Thanks for your time, I appreciate it. :)

[monolith94]

Funky Kingston -- Toots & The maytals

[Kurosawa Fan]

Funky Kingston -- Toots & The maytals

Love this song. Love the whole album.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Abner Jay - "I'm So Depressed"

[Boner M]

Steely Dan - "King of the World"

Shiiiiit, how did I avoid SD for so long? I grabbed Countdown to Ecstasy, The Royal Scam and Aja from the library last week and have been rockin' all three nonstop ever since.

[Russ]

Dr. Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town

[Derek]

Steely Dan - "King of the World"

Shiiiiit, how did I avoid SD for so long? I grabbed Countdown to Ecstasy, The Royal Scam and Aja from the library last week and have been rockin' all three nonstop ever since.

They're unfairly maligned in some corners, but yeah, I think they're consistently pretty great. Aja is their best cover to cover IMO, but all of their early stuff is worth checking out. Even Two Against Nature isn't half bad. I haven't listened to them much recently, but I have great memories of getting stoned in my friend's basement over breaks from college and listening to these guys non-stop.

[Derek]

As for me, I've been obsessively listening to the new Liars album, Sisterworld, for about 2 weeks now. They're back to the more experimental stuff after the more straightforward, but still awesome, self-titled LP. It's a great mix of slow, ominous nightmarish tunes and balls-to-the-wall hardcore rock 'n roll. "Scarecrows on a Killer Slant" and "I Still Can See an Outside World" are gonna be a tough 1-2 punch to top in 2010 as will the album itself. I'd even give this the edge over Drum's Not Dead.

[D_Davis]

Pelican Daughters, "Exodus" (http://ia311228.us.archive.org/3/items/442-net-008/01-Exodus_vbr.mp3)

This track is awesome. It's so off kilter, almost sounds like it's broken. Cool mix, too. Lots of interesting things happening.

Listen on headphones.

[Derek]

Listen on headphones.

I did - very cool album. I'll be making it a point to check out many of your recommendations in your other thread.

[D_Davis]

I did - very cool album. I'll be making it a point to check out many of your recommendations in your other thread.

Isn't it a cool album? I thought you might dig it. I've been listening to it quite a bit the last couple of days. It has some low points - it may be a tad too long - but it definitely has some great moments.

[Ezee E]

Anyone hear the Peter Gabriel cover of "My Body Is a Cage?"

Here it is. (http://stereogum.com/archives/peter_gabriel_covers_arcade_fi re_stereogum_premier_110491.ht ml)

[D_Davis]

One of the best songs ever...

American Music Club - Johnny Mathis' Feet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTMR69pzGk0

[D_Davis]

Rho - Demos of Bloomington

http://www.last.fm/music/Rho/_/Demos+of+Bloomington

[Glass Co.]

Madvillain - Accordion

From possibly the best rap album of the decade.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Here We Go Magic - Fangela

This is some good shit.

[Our Aurora]

I bought new speakers last night.

Rocking -- Howlin' Wolf's "The Back Door Wolf" on my new Klipsch WF-34s. Kind of unbelievable.

[MadMan]

Volcano-Beck. Modern Guilt has greatly and slowly began to build on me-I'm almost thinking of giving it **** instead of *** 1/2, now.

[Russ]

Mento. Lots and lots of mento.

[D_Davis]

Henrik Jose, "Pinpointing the Problem" (http://www.23seconds.org/02%20-%20Pinpointing%20The%20Problem .mp3)

[MadMan]

In Too Deep-Genesis. Amazing song. I love how it was properly used in Mona Lisa, when Bob Hoskins is going through the scummy parts of London.

[D_Davis]

Daniel Lanois' new band, Black Dub

Amazing. Brian Blade is one of the best drummers around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wds6_jrpJpg&feature=related

[Spun Lepton]

Duke Ellington. 80 years later, his music still kicks butt.

[MadMan]

Holiday-Vampire Weekend. Breezy, easy to listen to, pop/rock.

[chrisnu]

Anyone hear the Peter Gabriel cover of "My Body Is a Cage?"

Here it is. (http://stereogum.com/archives/peter_gabriel_covers_arcade_fi re_stereogum_premier_110491.ht ml)
Holy crap!

[Derek]

La Düsseldorf - "Düsseldorf"

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Antony and the Johnsons - One Dove

The Crying Light sounds really, really good on vinyl. I almost splooged with pure ecstacy when this song came on.

[Derek]

Tindersticks' self-titled LP

Jaw
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[Boner M]

Tindersticks' self-titled LP

Jaw
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Floor
Which one? Their first two are both self-titled.

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Raekwon - "Surgical Gloves"

Finally acquired Cuban Linx 2 and I like it a great deal more than its predecessor. This is the standout track for me; best beat I've heard in a while.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Caribou - "Odessa"

[Derek]

Which one? Their first two are both self-titled

First one.

[Milky Joe]

Holy crap!

Yeah... it's terrible!


It took me awhile to really get what [Arcade Fire] were doing, and I think sometimes that's a sign of quality ... I love this [song] title. I have no idea what Win was writing about here. Whatever they were talking about, for me, I got this picture of The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, and it also made me think about relationship moments when you feel totally unable to go into your body properly, and you feel trapped inside and you can't communicate the way you need to....

Ah, so he covers the song having no idea what it's about! Great idea.

[Llopin]

Teh Newsom's new album.

Tee hee.

[Bosco B Thug]

Teh Newsom's new album.

Tee hee.
DIT. TO.

Although I'll throw in an obligatory "It's not Ys, but..." just for show.

[Bosco B Thug]

DIT. TO.

Although I'll throw in an obligatory "It's not Ys, but..." just for show. Yes, not as absurdly genius as Ys, but after a few listens, it clicks and becomes almost as genius, a concept album of an ambition so as not be a step down from Ys. Once you accept the fact she's attempting an album here that could be reasonably placed under the "pop" label (meaning she lessens the nearly symphony-like/opera-like structures of Ys and the rambling minstrel-y structures of MYM, which are so ingenious, for grooves and repetitive hooks, which are less so), you realize they can be just as complex and rewarding as what we've come to expect from her.

HOOM is a folk/country & jazz hybrid/fusion, which is cool, with two digressions, '81 and Kingfisher, both Medieval romanesca-like song. The title track is the one song that approaches the snaky structuring of Ys and less poppy melodies of Milk-Eyed Mender, and so it's my favorite, although In California approaches this, too. Up-tempo Newsom is the best, so other favorites are Easy, Soft as Chalk, and Good Intentions Paving Company. Baby Birch is really beautiful, though, and sounds like a Gillian Welch song with its instrumentation.

[Spaceman Spiff]

http://img.sharedmp3.net/files/pics/344/343069/img_1_pr.jpg

[Derek]

Love the album cover, though that's the one Funkadelic album I didn't much care for. Their debut and, of course, Maggot Brain are classics.

[Spun Lepton]

So, that compilation of music from the 1930s has more songs on it that I liked than I'd originally thought. Seems apparent to me, though, that the best songs are the ones by artists we've all already heard of ... Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway ... there are a number of swing and big band songs by artists I'd never heard of that caught me, too. I deleted every Al Jolson song. He can burn in obscurity for all I care.

I've also noticed that there was an awful lot of popular music about marriage and about how happy the guys were to get married, how much they wanted to get married to their ladies, how much they looked forward to getting married, how they couldn't wait to propose, etc., etc. I wonder how many women swooned for that bullshit.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Love the album cover, though that's the one Funkadelic album I didn't much care for. Their debut and, of course, Maggot Brain are classics.

That's because you're an unfunky cheesedick. Honestly, how can you not care for it? The title track alone is about as funky ad goodfooting gets, and the rest of the album 's funk is just as funky as their other funk staples.

Funk.

[Derek]

That's because you're an unfunky cheesedick. Honestly, how can you not care for it? The title track alone is about as funky ad goodfooting gets, and the rest of the album 's funk is just as funky as their other funk staples.

Funk.

Oh, funk off! I like Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow and Standing on the Verge of Getting It On a lot as well, so I'm not sure what it was about that album that made it seem like a step down to me. I'll give it another chance just for you, k?

[Spaceman Spiff]

Oh, funk off! I like Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow and Standing on the Verge of Getting It On a lot as well, so I'm not sure what it was about that album that made it seem like a step down to me. I'll give it another chance just for you, k?

You should do it just for yourself. It's clearly one of their top tier albums, so I'm not sure what you're on about. I like Funkadelic (and Parliament)'s early stuff, but their polyrhyhtms are far groovier here.

[ContinentalOp]

I'm bumping Wire's album, "A Bell is a Cup Until It is Struck." Didn't listen to any of their post-154 stuff until recently. I think I'm going to be calling Wire my favorite band ever soon. Brilliant stuff.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I'm bumping Wire's album, "A Bell is a Cup Until It is Struck." Didn't listen to any of their post-154 stuff until recently. I think I'm going to be calling Wire my favorite band ever soon. Brilliant stuff.

Hmm. This sounds neat. I love their Pink Flag-Chairs Missing-154 suite, but I haven't heard anything else.

[D_Davis]

I'm bumping Wire's album, "A Bell is a Cup Until It is Struck." Didn't listen to any of their post-154 stuff until recently. I think I'm going to be calling Wire my favorite band ever soon. Brilliant stuff.

Their later stuff is great, too. I really like their most recent album.

[Rowland]

One of my favorite DKC themes given the solid rock remix treatment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUNPnYwBzsY&feature=related). It's rough around the edges, but that's part of its charm.

[MadMan]

Indra-Thievery Corporation. Funky to the max-this is something I'd expect to hear at some hip club, or something. While drunk.

[Adam]

I'm operating on no sleep right now and I'm listening to the first Clinic album and it is blowing my mind

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/49/ClinicInternalWrangler.jpg/200px-ClinicInternalWrangler.jpg

[Glass Co.]

Yeah, Wire are amazing. I can now kill two birds by just recommending Wire to everyone in both music and television form. Pink Flag and Chairs Missing are two of my all-time favourite albums, and 154 is also pretty fantastic. I'll check out this other album soon.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

How to Dress Well - "Ready for The World"

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11781-ready-for-the-world/

this is my roommate's friend.

[D_Davis]

How to Dress Well - "Ready for The World"

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11781-ready-for-the-world/

this is my roommate's friend.

Sounds pretty cool.

[trotchky]

Panda Bear's "Good Girl/Carrots," which is probably the best song of the past decade.

Edit: I mean it's up there with "Motion Picture Soundtrack".

[Adam]

The new Frightened Rabbit album has been spinning in my car nonstop for the last two days

It's almost as awesome/gorgeous/transcendent/devastating/hilarious as Midnight Organ Flight

[SirNewt]

http://www.blackpointmusic.cz/shop/images/covers/7559618402.jpg

[D_Davis]

ETK is awesome. The first half of the album is among the strongest stuff the band ever did.

[SirNewt]

ETK is awesome. The first half of the album is among the strongest stuff the band ever did.

For sure, but don't discount the back half. Motoroller Scalatron is a mix of electronics, 50s pop culture, and politics, only stereolab can pull off.

"What's society built on?
What's society built on?"

"It's built on,
built on bluff
built on bluff
built on trust"

[Spaceman Spiff]

http://t.album.youmix.co.uk/13745.jpg

Eno's best? I think yes.

[Boner M]

http://t.album.youmix.co.uk/13745.jpg

Eno's best? I think yes.
Tiger Mountain > Green World > Before and After Science >>> Warm Jets

Granted, I still like the latter, but it just feels like a blueprint for the epic win of his next three solo pop records.

[D_Davis]

The Pearl and Ambient 2 > all

Although I like most of it.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Tiger Mountain > Green World > Before and After Science >>> Warm Jets

Granted, I still like the latter, but it just feels like a blueprint for the epic win of his next three solo pop records.

No way!

I like the 'actual' pop of HCtWJ. It's something I can dance too as well as appreciate from an armchair perspective. Tiger Mountain is pretty great, but not as great. Haven't heard BaAS, but frankly Green World bored me save a few tracks. A little too abstract, even if that was the point.

[Qrazy]

Just to Good to Be True - Four Seasons

[D_Davis]

Nice track

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[Qrazy]

Don't Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders

[Ivan Drago]

Stylo - Gorillaz

[transmogrifier]

Stutter --> Never Here --> Vaseline

= an awesome 1-2-3 knockpunch of an album ending

http://passionweiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/elastica-frontal.jpg

[BuffaloWilder]

Push - Pharoahe Monch

[D_Davis]

Push - Pharoahe Monch

Nice.

Organized Konfusion is so good.

[D_Davis]

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[Dead & Messed Up]

"Hope" - Apocalyptica.

[Qrazy]

Jazzhole - Free the Robots
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T9r9_8Pd2s)

[Russ]

Linval Thompson - Don't Try to Rob I

puttin' the biggest smile on my face right now..


ZH2SZjuk4_U

[Milky Joe]

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Gettin' High in the Morning

[D_Davis]

Linval Thompson - Don't Try to Rob I

puttin' the biggest smile on my face right now..


ZH2SZjuk4_U

Damn! This is so good. Never heard this guy before...

Should I be ashamed?

[Russ]

Damn! This is so good. Never heard this guy before...

Should I be ashamed?
Nah, he's just one of the many great semi-unknown roots singers that have finally been receiving their just due, thanks mainly to the efforts of some of the valuable reissue labels like Pressure Sounds, Motion Records, Hot Pot, Trojan, Blood and Fire (RIP), etc...

[D_Davis]

Nah, he's just one of the many great semi-unknown roots singers that have finally been receiving their just due, thanks mainly to the efforts of some of the valuable reissue labels like Pressure Sounds, Motion Records, Hot Pot, Trojan, Blood and Fire (RIP), etc...

Yeah, keeping up with old, obscure reggae artists is about as easy as keeping up with all the new, obscure electronic artists.

[D_Davis]

The Cure, A Forest, 1979 (pre-version)

This band blows my mind. So good.

-DE1ndftmPE

[Ivan Drago]

Did You See Me Coming? - Pet Shop Boys

[Ivan Drago]

Little Secrets - Passion Pit

[Qrazy]

Nujabes discography. He's great.

[D_Davis]

Absolutely gorgeous.

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[Qrazy]

Crips - Ratatat

[SirNewt]

X-Ray Specs - Germ Free Adolescents

Great punk album. Too bad it seems to be their only output.

[transmogrifier]

All the songs on my laptop on shuffle. The last 10:

Jimmy Joe Roche, Dan Deacon
Stress, Justice
Scrap, L7
Ain't Talkin', Bob Dylan
Any Minute Now, Soulwax
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Bob Dylan
57 Ways to End It All, The Raincoats
Your Blood In Mine, Serena Maneesh
Babylonian Pearl, Can
The Melody, The Mae Shi

[transmogrifier]

The new LCD Soundsystem album.

The fact that it is awesome should come as a surprise to no-one.

[Boner M]

Coconuts - "Lost Bitches"

Dirge-like, minimalist drone-rock that's somehow relaxing rather than punishing. Most intriguing.

[Spaceman Spiff]

http://up.picr.de/2481810.jpg

[Derek]

The new LCD Soundsystem album.

The fact that it is awesome should come as a surprise to no-one.

Got it last night along with the new Broken Social Scene...expecting greatness from both.


Coconuts - "Lost Bitches"

Dirge-like, minimalist drone-rock that's somehow relaxing rather than punishing. Most intriguing.

Sweet, sounds great.
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Digging the new Yellow Swans album. Pretty great entanglement of melodies and noise.

[Qrazy]

Groove Armada - Easy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqHdm0TIbvo)

[bac0n]

Did You See Me Coming? - Pet Shop Boys

nice. strongest track off their new one. the new order style guitar hook really seals the deal.

[D_Davis]

I was listening to the PSB's Fundamental last night on the way home from dinner. Such a great album. "Minimal" is one of my favorite PSB tracks.

[Winston*]

That new Blur single. 'tis good.

[D_Davis]

:eek:

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[D_Davis]

:eek::eek:

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Holy crap this album is so good.

[SirNewt]

:eek::eek:

EzoomAOQj5o

Holy crap this album is so good.

I dig it.

[SirNewt]

Beach House - Teen Dreams

Norway and a slew of other great songs.

[kuehnepips]

Bijelo Dugme

[Spun Lepton]

M.I.A. has a new CD due in June. Here's a track from it. A track that I don't particularly like.

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2010/04/mia_born_free.php

[right_for_the_moment]

man, High Violet is really, really good

[angrycinephile]

man, High Violet is really, really good

Has it leaked?

[Henry Gale]

Beach House - Teen Dreams

Norway and a slew of other great songs.

Silver Soul is my personal favourite, and the album is still very much my #1 of the year. It's had some fair competition over the last few months though. Just not sure if its sound will fit into the summer months as well as it did in winter.

[Henry Gale]

Things that have gotten constant play from me in the last little while:

Never Give You Up - The Black Keys (maybe my new favourite song of the year, but cannot find a good link)
Untrust Us (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InnEiAncwLY) - Crystal Castles
Fixed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1sEq2ESt1A) - Stars
Shutterbugg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X97RlYjaXg0) - Big Boi
I Found A Whistle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQFnCeoynT0) - MGMT
Empire Ants (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8566UtalG_o) - Gorillaz
Take It Easy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSeAwowu8GE) - Surfer Blood
Stay Close (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QngeN-5wGQ) - Delorean
Reverse Cowgirl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEPx8SA7Slg) - T-Pain (you'll laugh or cringe at every lyric, but you'll probably also remember every melodic line)
World News (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxXegVA_jnA) - Local Natives
The Ghost Inside (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDeO46FwdeU) - Broken Bells
One Life Stand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPXPIx1LlPY) - Hot Chip
USA Boys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiLnOuFyeVM) - HEALTH
The Dream (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT7eqgw_ivc) - Rufus Wainwright

[right_for_the_moment]

Has it leaked?
It's streaming right now on the New York Times website. I wouldn't be surprised if it has leaked though. You can hear it hear:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/magazine/25national-t.html

[B-side]

Just got introduced to Titus Andronicus.

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[Spun Lepton]

Just got introduced to Titus Andronicus.

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Reminds me of early Replacements. Good stuff.

[SirNewt]

Just got introduced to Titus Andronicus.

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yeah I really dig "A More Perfect Union".

It's like a combination of classic indie singing conventions and stadium rock.

[SirNewt]

Silver Soul is my personal favourite, and the album is still very much my #1 of the year. It's had some fair competition over the last few months though. Just not sure if its sound will fit into the summer months as well as it did in winter.

This album is like The xx meet Fleet Foxes. It's my favorite of the new year so far as well.

[Adam]

the 12 discs currently in my car's cd changer...

vs the Greatest of All Time Archers of Loaf
High Land, Hard Rain Aztec Camera
If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastien
The Reminder Feist
EP Fiery Furnaces
Album Girls
Hold on Now, Youngster... Los Campesinos!
Congratulations MGMT
Low-Life New Order
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea PJ Harvey
Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977–92 (disc 1) XTC
Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977–92 (disc 2) XTC

love the new MGMT

[transmogrifier]

Last 10 songs:

Citizen Ship, Patti Smith
My Violent Heart, Nine Inch Nails
Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons, Pixies
Plug It In, Basement Jaxx
Damaged, Primal Scream
Can't Get You Out of My Head/Blue Monday, Kylie Minogue
Sally, Gogol Bordello
Bye Bye Bayou, LCD Soundsystem
Heliosphan, Aphex Twin
Whip It, Devo

[MadMan]

Five Years, Seu Jorge-His acoustic covers of David Bowie songs are fantastic.

[SirNewt]

Brightside's mention of Titus got me to listen to the whole album through via BT. I'll definitely be buying this one. It's now a major contender for my top album of 2010. I'm gonna check out their debut as well.

[Glass Co.]

Quasimoto (Madlib)'s The Unseen definitely sounds that it was produced on shrooms, and I love it.

[B-side]

Brightside's mention of Titus got me to listen to the whole album through via BT. I'll definitely be buying this one. It's now a major contender for my top album of 2010. I'm gonna check out their debut as well.

And yet, I get no rep?:cry:

:P

[Sven]

Listening to Smokey Robinson, doing Nurikabe puzzles, before going into work tonite. A very nice afternoon.

[Winston*]

Latest Ted Leo and the Pharmacists album rocks.

[B-side]

Gonna be imbibing the new Coheed & Cambria album multiple times over the next few days.

*prepares for "Coheed & Cambria sucks" comments*

[D_Davis]

Gonna be imbibing the new Coheed & Cambria album multiple times over the next few days.

*prepares for "Coheed & Cambria sucks" comments*

Sci-Fi themed tech-metal, with an ongoing, overarching narrative told throughout multiple albums can never suck.

[B-side]

Sci-Fi themed tech-metal, with an ongoing, overarching narrative told throughout multiple albums can never suck.

Yes! I'm happy I'm not alone on this. I half-feared another debacle on the scale of my declaration of love for Panic at the Disco. Granted, there wasn't much of a debacle, though I suspect I was crossed off 99% of MC's lists of "people with good taste in music".:lol:

[Russ]

I also like the scientific/sci-fi themes that ambient, or electronic music in general, have frequently gravitated towards.

Daniel, have you ever heard Pharos by SETI? (this SETI is Savvas Ysatis and Taylor Deupree, not the side project by former Lustmord member, Andrew Lagowski). It contains two CD's (titled Arecibo and Phoenix, after the real-life SETI projects) and each CD contains 7 "beacons", some incorporating samples from a scientist's lecture on the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

My favorite track is Beacon 05. I love how it starts off all minimalist pops 'n bleeps and about 1/3 of the way into it, becomes something much more melodic. It's awesome. Here it is:


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[Sven]

Speaking of sci-fi, today, it is Blue Oyster Cult and random word puzzles. A nice couple of days here, next to my open window. Dig it.

[Derek]

Yes! I'm happy I'm not alone on this. I half-feared another debacle on the scale of my declaration of love for Panic at the Disco. Granted, there wasn't much of a debacle, though I suspect I was crossed off 99% of MC's lists of "people with good taste in music".:lol:

Really, there's nowhere to go but up after declaring you love Panic at the Disco. :) I hate C&C, but I'm biased against about 98% of modern prog metal, so I can chalk that up to not being my thang.

[D_Davis]

I also like the scientific/sci-fi themes that ambient, or electronic music in general, have frequently gravitated towards.

Daniel, have you ever heard Pharos by SETI? (this SETI is Savvas Ysatis and Taylor Deupree, not the side project by former Lustmord member, Andrew Lagowski). It contains two CD's (titled Arecibo and Phoenix, after the real-life SETI projects) and each CD contains 7 "beacons", some incorporating samples from a scientist's lecture on the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

My favorite track is Beacon 05. I love how it starts off all minimalist pops 'n bleeps and about 1/3 of the way into it, becomes something much more melodic. It's awesome. Here it is:



Never heard that before, but it's great. I always got the SETI projects mixed up.

I was heavily into the Peter Namlook and FAX records space/ambient during the '90s. Those guys put out like 10 albums a week.

[Russ]

I was heavily into the Peter Namlook and FAX records space/ambient during the '90s. Those guys put out like 10 albums a week.
I hear ya. Hope you held on to some as they were all limited editions and go for big big bucks these days, so I hear.

Did you know that Pete Namlook was actually Peter Kuhlmann ('cause Namlook is 'Koolman' spelled backwzrdz)

(/from the TMI file) http://209.85.48.10/html/emoticons/tongue.gif

[D_Davis]

I would have been Peter Koolman

:)

I've got a few of the CDs still, but not all of them. I know I have a couple of the Dark Side of the Moogs, and AIR I and II

[Russ]

Woob - On Earth

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[D_Davis]

That's a nice track, Russ. Kind of a 'fourth-world' thing ala Jon Hassell.

Last night I was listening to the latest CSG album watching Life on Discovery. I'd like to do a soundtrack for a nature doc someday.

[transmogrifier]

Last ten songs:

1. There's Hell in Hello, but More in Goodbye, Jim O'Rourke
2. Giga Dance, Deerhoof
3. Rhyme Sharks, Drunken Tiger
4. Let Me See You, Girl Talk
5. Whitetail, Low
6. Got Glint?, The Chemical Brothers
7. Suburbia, Nite Jewel
8. Backspace Century, Deerhunter
9. Beautiful Girl, Flight of the Conchords
10. Keep Time, The Thermals

[D_Davis]

Quickly becoming one of my favorite albums of the year:

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Man it's good to hear hip hop like early De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest, especially in this day and age. So good.

[Boner M]

Puerto Rico Flowers - "Not My Idea"

Awesomely dirgey goth-rock from the Clockcleaner dude, like Swans meets Depeche Mode, just on the right side of kitschy. My favorite release of the year thus far, which is shaping up to be a great year for post-punkish stuff.

[Russ]

I like to eat fish..


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Mr. Scruff - Fish

[Russ]

I like to eat drugs..


Wow, this is a great blast from the past: David Moufang, who recorded as Deep Space Network with partner Jonas Grossmann, in his solo guise as Move D, with parts 1 and 2 of the "seminal" classic, "I've Been on Drugs" (love the Paris, Texas sample at the end).

I lurve the Tube

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[D_Davis]

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[D_Davis]

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God this band is so good.

[Russ]

Early OMD is awesome. I love the studio versions and this live stuff is great, but what's up with the singer? Was it in vogue to act like you were having a seizure on-stage? :)

But yeah, this reminds me how I used to love so many of their songs, especially the two you posted, and a couple more of my favorites: Joan of Arc and Maid of Orleans.

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[D_Davis]

Early OMD is awesome. I love the studio versions and this live stuff is great, but what's up with the singer? Was it in vogue to act like you were having a seizure on-stage? :)

But yeah, this reminds me how I used to love so many of their songs, especially the two you posted, and a couple more of my favorites: Joan of Arc and Maid of Orleans.


I think it was a requirement in the early '80s to dance like that.

I like just about all of their early stuff. Messages and Tesla Girls are also amazing.

Although I think my favorite 2 tracks are from the early mid-period: So in Love and If You Leave. Totally reminds me of my earliest Hollywood crush - Molly Ringwald.

[D_Davis]

And speaking of wildly-dancing bass players, nothing, and I mean nothing can ever touch:

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Avila is the man.

[Russ]

Here's a couple of Brian Eno songs that I adore (ones that most here probably haven't heard as they're pretty rare). From the My Squelchy Life sessions:

Stiff

I wanna be thin
I wanna be small
I wanna be pinned up high and studied on the wall

I wanna be sold
I wanna be fit
I wanna be there.

I wanna be hooked
I wanna be base
I wanna be served up lightly dressed and on a plate

I wanna be cut
I wanna be dried
I wanna be there.

I wanna be changed
I wanna be rode
I wanna be made to handle very heavy loads

I wanna be his
I wanna be hers
I wanna be theirs
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh.

I wanna be held
I wanna be schooled
I wanna have every plea for mercy overruled

I wanna be milled
I wanna be rolled
I wanna be there.

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
I wanna be there.


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Some Words

Words, but nothing clear
What channel are you on?
It's hard to hear.
You speak to the world
From such a feeble system;
So... far away.

The thought, not falling
Just drifting in the early morning.
You pass from the world
Out to the Solar System
So... far away,
So... far away.



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Whaddya think?

[D_Davis]

Some Words is one of my favorite Eno tracks. I really like the My Squelchy Life sessions. Can't believe the album was never properly released. Didn't he scrap this in favor of Drop or something?

[Russ]

Dunno the whole story behind it, but at the last minute, Eno pulled this pop masterpiece in favor of the more prog-sounding Nerve Net. I had always read that it had to do with some fueding with the label, tho about what, I have no idea.

[D_Davis]

Nerve Net, that's right. I think I read that Eno scrapped it because it sounded more like where he had been, and not where he was going, and he always liked his albums to be more forward pointing.

[SirNewt]

Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

Chock another one up for 2010. This is fast becoming an amazing year for indie rock.

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[D_Davis]

Analog Workshop - Emporium of Broken Toys (http://testtube.monocromatica.com/releases/tube207/tube207-04-analog_workshop_-_emporium_of_broken_toys.mp3)

Amazing.

[Winston*]

Listening to the latest Tallest Man on Earth Album. This guy's fake Bob Dylan voice is starting to sound a bit fake Jamaican.

[Derek]

Is his fake Jamaican as good as his fake Bob Dylan?

[SirNewt]

Maxinquaye - Tricky

Great album. Aftermath is friggin' amazing!

[Spaceman Spiff]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Nj81NPnhggU/RzQA-B2_vYI/AAAAAAAAACc/LOJIr2vc4-Q/s320/caetano-veloso.jpg

[D_Davis]

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[endingcredits]

Band - Album
-----------------
Morphine - Good & Cure for pain
WILCO - A Ghost is Born
Talking Heads - Remain in The Light
Medeski Martin and Wood - Radiolarians
Portishead - Third

[Russ]

My goodness, gospel music is some of the best stuff ever.

I'm not kidding.


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[D_Davis]

My goodness, gospel music is some of the best stuff ever.

I'm not kidding.


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Heck yeah!

Have you ever listened to any of the sacred steel stuff?

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[D_Davis]

This performance is amazing.

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[Russ]

Wow, D. I had no idea steel could be such an integral part of gospel. Both those were of the "Jaw, meet floor" variety.

And Miss Lime Green with the Pink Hat has got it going on! Great stuff.

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5596/limegreen.jpg

[D_Davis]

Wow, D. I had no idea steel could be such an integral part of gospel. Both those were of the "Jaw, meet floor" variety.

And Miss Lime Green with the Pink Hat has got it going on! Great stuff.

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5596/limegreen.jpg

Yeah - It's kind of new, modern form of gospel. The Campbell Brothers and Robert Randolph & The Family Band are two of the most popular acts. They play it in a completely different style than country steel. Usually, rather than a volume pedal they use a wah pedal, and they also usually distort it.

And yes, Miss Lime Green is a total riot. This video always makes me smile.

Gospel is awesome. I need to listen to more.

[D_Davis]

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[D_Davis]

Do you have that album from the song you posted?

[Russ]

Do you have that album from the song you posted?
I don't, but I've been tempted to order it.

[D_Davis]

I don't, but I've been tempted to order it.

Yeah - that song is something else.

[SirNewt]

New LCD Sound System album. Thoughts later.

[Raiders]

I've been pretty obsessed with this awesome local blues/funk band Old Man Brown. They got a new CD release on April 20th called Blue Light Special. It's on iTunes. For those who would like to see some white boys givin' da funk, check it out. They're great.

[Qrazy]

Madcon - So Dark the Con of Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h96Qo0tRBQ)

[Qrazy]

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Nice.

Big fan of those guys for a few years now. This one's probably my most listened to, but they have so many great tracks.

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[transmogrifier]

New LCD Sound System album. Thoughts later.

It's still awesome, and gets better and better and better. LCD's best album, I think.

[SirNewt]

It's still awesome, and gets better and better and better. LCD's best album, I think.

Yeah, I'm really enjoying it. I don't really like "Drunk Girls" that much. Not sure why they went for it as their first single.

"Dance Yrself Clean" would've been a better choice in my opinion.

[Derek]

Yeah, I'm really enjoying it. I don't really like "Drunk Girls" that much. Not sure why they went for it as their first single.

"Dance Yrself Clean" would've been a better choice in my opinion.

It's 4 minutes to DYC's 9. "Drunk Girls" is one of the weaker songs on the album, but I still enjoy it a good deal. I still chuckle every time it hits the "Drunk boys, they steal from the cupboards...drunk girls like to file complaints!" line. Such perfect delivery.

[Raiders]

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way

Probably my favorite album of his if I was to try and pick something other than Kind Of Blue.

[Derek]

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way

Probably my favorite album of his if I was to try and pick something other than Kind Of Blue.

Have you heard On the Corner? That's my favorite of his next to Kind of Blue. It's gloriously funky.

And the album cover is tough to beat:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s10400.jpg

[ledfloyd]

i've always been fond of a tribute to jack johnson. yesternow is just ok, but right off more than makes up for it. god i love that tune. 25 minutes of bliss.

but my favorite overall period of miles is the hancock/shorter/carter/williams band. so good.

[Qrazy]

Bitches Brew is infinitely better than Kind of Blue.

[Boner M]

I'm not really digging the new LCD. Bookending tracks are great, "All I Want" and "One Touch" are good, the buildup to "You Wanted a Hit" is good but the lyrics are terrible, and everything else is pretty boring with the exception of "Drunk Girls" which is below comment. I've only given it two listens tho, so I hope it grows on me like Sound of Silver did.

A Tribute to Jack Johnson is one of my 5 or 10 favorite musical recordings ever, but "I Loved Him Madly" from Get Up With It is probably my favorite Miles piece.

______

Balaclavas - "Up the Newel"

[D_Davis]

Bitches Brew is infinitely better than Kind of Blue.

Sketches of Spain is better than both.

[Qrazy]

Sketches of Spain is better than both.

I was going to say that was my second favorite so kudos.

[bac0n]

Damn, if my church had music like that, I'd be there every day.

On a completely (polar) different note, in anticipation of the just-days-away release of Read Dead Revolver, I'm getting into the spirit by listening to the greatest Wild West Album Ever Made (this is not debatable. It's scientific fact. I have proof!)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Gunfighter-Ballads-Robbins-CD.jpg

[bac0n]

Sketches of Spain is better than both.

Dan - you should check out Miles Davis' Panthalassa. It's about as close as Jazz gets to ambient music.

[D_Davis]

Dan - you should check out Miles Davis' Panthalassa. It's about as close as Jazz gets to ambient music.

Closer than Jon Hassell?

Don't think I've ever heard that Davis album before. I'll check it out.

I love Marty Robbins. That dude is the true OG!

[D_Davis]

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[Raiders]

Bitches Brew is infinitely better than Kind of Blue.

Infinitely? Give me a break.

[Qrazy]

Infinitely? Give me a break.

So much better it makes my eyes bleed?

[Raiders]

So much better it makes my eyes bleed?

I have to say, if you like jazz, then Kind Of Blue is damn near as close to an objectively great album as there can be. It is the pinnacle of modal jazz and technically it is pretty much perfection. I can understand preferring the electronic jazz of Bitches Brew, but to claim it is that much better just makes me roll my eyes.

[Qrazy]

I have to say, if you like jazz, then Kind Of Blue is damn near as close to an objectively great album as there can be. It is the pinnacle of modal jazz and technically it is pretty much perfection. I can understand preferring the electronic jazz of Bitches Brew, but to claim it is that much better just makes me roll my eyes.

Ahh but you're not Jewish or Black so your rolling eyes mean nothing to me.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Ahh but you're not Jewish or Black so your rolling eyes mean nothing to me.

Hahaha.

But still, I kinda agree with Raiders here. It honestly just depends on what's your type of jazz. Kind of Blue is smooth and melodic. Bitches Brew is anxious and weird and frantic. They're both good albums, but I prefer my jazz to flow than to clash.

[Qrazy]

All joking aside, infinitely was certainly hyperbolic and Kind of Blue is a very good album. But claiming it's his best is to me like claiming Seven Samurai is Kurosawa's best or The Seventh Seal is Bergman's best. They're both very good, iconic films from these two respective filmmakers but in my opinion they've both done much more interesting, nuanced work elsewhere. Similarly with Davis, Kind of Blue is a quality album, but he's put out a lot of more interesting material, at least for me.

[Derek]

Kind of Blue > On the Corner > A Tribute to Jack Johnson > Sketches of Spain > Bitches Brew

All are pretty great to perfect though. Sorcerer is a sweet album as well.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I love Pandora.

I've been listening to my "Ben E. King" channel for the past two weeks, mostly cause I love "Stand By Me," cliche as it is. So I've suddenly come to love the Shirelies and Sam Cooke, and I've heard more from the Temptations, Jackie Wilson, and the Righteous Brothers.

And now, because the channel played The Band's "The Weight," and I'd never heard The Band before, and I gave it a thumbs-up, I'm now listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival and Led Zeppelin. It's amazing hearing the strains of soul/blues that made its way into these rockers.

Music, man. It's crazy.

[D_Davis]

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[D_Davis]

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[Russ]

On a completely (polar) different note, in anticipation of the just-days-away release of Read Dead Revolver, I'm getting into the spirit by listening to the greatest Wild West Album Ever Made (this is not debatable. It's scientific fact. I have proof!)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Gunfighter-Ballads-Robbins-CD.jpg
Robbins will always be fondly remembered by me, if only for his song, "Don't Worry", which was the first song to ever feature a "fuzz-tone" guitar.

From Wiki: Nashville session musician Grady Martin discovered the fuzz sound in 1961 during a recording session for Marty Robbins' "Don't Worry", due to a faulty recording console preamplifier circuit.

Happy accidents, gotta love 'em.

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[kuehnepips]

Let's Start a Riot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN9NL7V2ueA

[BuffaloWilder]

Biggie - Microphone Murderer

[D_Davis]

Roger Waters with The Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

The saddest music in the world.

[SirNewt]

So I promised thoughts on LCD's new album and it's really good but I went back to listening to The Monitor.

[Spaceman Spiff]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61WPDEAYB7L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[Glass Co.]

Roger Waters with The Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

The saddest music in the world.

"The Gunner's Dream" is still one of the most depressing songs I have ever heard, but the whole album is a drag. I can only listen to it once a year at this point.

[Qrazy]

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[D_Davis]

"The Gunner's Dream" is still one of the most depressing songs I have ever heard, but the whole album is a drag. I can only listen to it once a year at this point.

I listened to it twice in a row the other night, and I actually cried.

It's a top 5 Floyd album for me. But yeah, I can't listen to it more than a few times a year.

[B-side]

Whatever this is, it's awesome:

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[right_for_the_moment]

Buncha new Arcade Fire songs from a show in Sherbrooke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NohB-JGRhHc&feature=channel

[D_Davis]

Whatever this is, it's awesome:

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Bela Fleck is amazing. One of the most amazing musicians in the world.

Never pass up a chance to see him live.

[D_Davis]

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[Sven]

Sign O the Times: I'm continually amazed at how much is done with so little. Truly a masterpiece.

[SirNewt]

Bela Fleck is amazing. One of the most amazing musicians in the world.

Never pass up a chance to see him live.

Yes, seeing The Flecktones in December here in Seattle.

[SirNewt]

Zappa plays Zappa. Just saw this show tonight so I've been listening to the Amaray concert.

[D_Davis]

Yes, seeing The Flecktones in December here in Seattle.

Nice. Where are they playing? I'll have to go. Victor Wooten is a monster on that Drum-axe-simitar thing.

The last time I saw them was at the Concert at the Zoo, a few summers ago.

[D_Davis]

If I ever made a top 100 songs list, this would probably be in the top 20.

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Pure pop genius.

[Glass Co.]

Could not agree more Davis. The fact that it was one of the first songs I listened to when I was getting into music (thank you, Big Shiny Tunes, for when you were still good), adds a heavy nostalgia factor that makes it even greater for me.

Oddly enough, I've never checked out any other songs by them. If you have, how do they rate?