What CD's you have been listening to this week (and why should I listen to them). - by Vivian
Vivian on 3/2/2006 at 16:14
Sage Francis! Thats something I've been meaning to get hold of. You got any recommendations? I got 'blood money' by way of an introduction to Tom Waits a while back and then completely forgot to get anything more. I think I was planning to buy 'Alice' next.
Yeah, I borrowed 'madvillainy' off a friend of mine once, I didn't really like it. I think madlib's style is just toooo laid back for me. Mind you, that was before I got into this album that I've got, so maybe I should give it another shot.
Stitch on 3/2/2006 at 16:23
Quote Posted by Uncle Bacon
If I were a woman this album would make me want to climb a tree naked and howl at passers-by. As it is, it just makes me wish PJ Harvey would climb trees naked near my house and howl at me.
Oh hell yes. That's <I>To Bring You My Love</I> right there.
As for the new Strokes album, I'm not so sure about it. They got a real producer and forced Julian to sing, which was what I wanted from a new Strokes album until I actually heard the results. The disc is growing on me, but I do think generally the songwriting isn't quite as sharp as their previous two discs, and overall it sounds like they tried to swap in sincerity and skill for attitude, which means that it really isn't much of a Strokes disc.
I just got <I>Twin Cinema</I> by the New Pornographers, and the jury is still out on that one.
henke on 3/2/2006 at 17:42
Quote Posted by Uncle Bacon
Sage Francis! Thats something I've been meaning to get hold of. You got any recommendations?
Get "A Healthy Distrust". Best album of 2005, if ya ask me.
Quote Posted by Uncle Bacon
I got 'blood money' by way of an introduction to Tom Waits a while back and then completely forgot to get anything more. I think I was planning to buy 'Alice' next.
I don't really like Alice. Too sad and depressing for my taste. Mule Variations, from 99, is great tho. It has a good mix of both sad and rowdy songs. Or as Tom's wife Kathleen would put it,
"grand weepers and grim reapers".
the_grip on 3/2/2006 at 17:58
i've been listening to all three of High on Fire's discs lately. These guys are the (IMHO) greatest modern doom metal band. i also like Sleep (the HoF's guitarist/singer Matt Pike's previous band) especially
Sleep's Holy Mountain. i just saw HoF in concert with The Bronx about a week ago, and they were great live (their new bassist used to play with The Melvins, and he kicks some serious ass). Their latest album (
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00073K8AW/sr=1-1/qid=1138989376/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-0330192-8046450?%5Fencoding=UTF8)
Blessed Black Wings is the greatest produced of their three albums, and it totally rocks (complete with Lovecraft-inspired songs - note, ignore the reviews on amazon that compare them to Mastadon... Mastadon has some halfway decent stuff (the
Moby Dick theme of Leviathan is a cool idea, but many of the songs are boring and the second singer sucks), but they are not similar to HoF at all). Check 'em out: (
www.highonfire.net). The only downside is their new video for the song
Devilution... it's pretty blase and boring, but the song is killer.
Apart from that, i've been listening to all kinds of stoner rock lately - like old Fu Manchu, The Atomic Bitchwax, Orange Goblin (esp.
Time Travelling Blues), Kyuss, Unida, old Monster Magnet, etc. i've also been listening to Church of Misery and Sonic Flower - some great Japanese riff rock. Sheavy and Solace are good picks too. i highly recommend any of these bands.
fett on 3/2/2006 at 18:18
Er...
George Harrison - Brainwashed
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Foo Fighters - In Your Honour (Mellow Side)
And then a bunch of random classic 60's stuff just for fun, like the Turtles, Mama's and Popa's (sp?), Monkees, etc. - my little two man-happy hour band is looking for some new songs to do and we've not fully delved into mid-60's pop as much as we probably should have, so I'm getting a bit of an education.
TheGreatGodPan on 3/2/2006 at 18:52
Who needs CDs when there's Pandora? People that get off the computer occasionally, I suppose.
Wyclef on 3/2/2006 at 19:04
Pinback - Offcell EP
Intricate, painstakingly structured indie pop.
Pit Er Pat - Shakey
Sounds very much like the Thrill Jockey record it is, but that's A Good Thing.
The Faint - Wet from Birth
The Faint had the good sense not to let Conor Oberst rejoin the group.
Shakey-Lo on 3/2/2006 at 19:08
Placebo - Meds
Placebo's upcoming album got leaked onto the internet recently, months before its release (the date of which has not even been confirmed yet)
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Just a beautiful album. Listen to it.
Tonamel on 3/2/2006 at 20:40
Dean Gray - American Edit
A MUCH more satisfying mash-up than the Gray Album. I really like how the songs randomly become other songs. For example, the mash-up between Holiday and the Dr. Who theme somehow becomes The Hey Song along the way.
Sigur Ros - Takk...
Enough people voted this into their Top 5 of 2005 that I shouldn't need to extol its virtues here.
The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
I have no idea how to describe this in a way that anyone would understand what I'm talking about. It's psychedelic folk, and they're one of Boards Of Canada's bigger influences. "A Very Cellular Song" and "Mercy I Cry City" are both very good tracks.
trevor the sheep on 3/2/2006 at 20:48
Quote Posted by Shakey-Lo
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Just a beautiful album. Listen to it.
They split up last week. Real shame. But then again V2 did treat them like shit, and Jason says he will continue in some form or other. Just not with V2 and some of the other members.
Aside from the usual diet of (
http://www.last.fm/user/mr_andy) Public Enemy and other things I have been listening to that fucking Raymond & Maria tune that Gray was whining about in his other thread, I only listened to it on and off to start with just for a laugh and now I can't stop listening to it, it's getting ridiculous, I'm turning into some happy clappy Swedish pop person.
(which I have secretly been all these years)
