What CD's you have been listening to this week (and why should I listen to them). - by Vivian
CandyStick on 7/2/2006 at 00:07
"Don Edwards- Best off", good stuff.
BlackErtai on 7/2/2006 at 02:50
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Originally Posted by: AjaI don't know if you've heard it or not
Yes, and I've previously told you (or Carini) that I enjoy Martin Medeski and Wood. I wish I was going to Bonnaroo this summer just to see them and the side project, the Wood Brothers.
And just to add, I've been listening to CAKE's version of Mahna Mahna over and over again because I just love that song. I wish I had the Muppet's version of it too...hard to believe it was written for a softcore porn documentary...
dvrabel on 7/2/2006 at 14:20
I'm currently listening to the (
http://ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103607) 'Official' Thief: Deadly Shadows soundtrack by Eric Brosius. Some excellent ambients to have playing in the background while working.
Carini on 7/2/2006 at 15:02
Word on the MMW. A friend of mine just let me borrow "It's a Jungle in Here" but I've yet to give it a good listen.
I've got a 20 min bike ride to and from work everyday so I've started to give my library a good listen. Mostly live shows and the last 2 weeks look something like this...
Keller Williams
Xavier Rudd
Both of these guys, it's like listening to a one man band, especially Rudd. I swear sometimes I think he's playing 3 or 4 different things at once. I love his tribal and spiritual sound <3 didgeridoo!
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
This stuff is great too. I love the percussion/bass/sax/banjo combo. If sop sax gets to you this stuff might be a bit much. I think Bela's plucking more than makes up for all the sax.
and just because it's been a while...
Phish - Billy Breathes
Only a few harder songs this CD is mostly lofty and not like earlier Phish releases at all.
Tocky on 7/2/2006 at 19:37
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Let's see...
Right at this moment, I'm listening to
Rilo KileyWhen she sings "baby you're bad news... I don't care I like you" I swear my tail wags.
Or maybe that's not my tail.
Vivian on 7/2/2006 at 20:59
Well, I've now ordered some Sage Francis (Cheers Henke), and some Mastodon even though no one recommended it (The enhanced version of Leviathan for six quid! good old amazon) and I'm keeping an eye out for the Modern Lovers and that Rilo Kiley... well, I have no idea what she sounds like, but I like her hair.
I just got the very best of gary numan in an unmarked case (well, lets not be flashy, a bag) for 50p! I have to say, 'Everyday I die' is one of the most hilarious songs I've heard all week. I love it. The rest of it is also a pleasant suprise - having only really heard the obvious ones, Numan's stuff is nicely uplifting and bouncy for the most part. Makes me want to play-box with kitty and beat my chest.
Aja, you were right about Trout Mask Replica. I have had it for about six months, and had given up on it after one listen. I was expecting something that sounded like Frank Zappa for some reason, not the insane gibbering of some dirty tramp. But it definitely does grow on you. I found myself unconciously singing 'China Pig' on a nearly empty bus and getting odd looks.
Also on my stereo so far this week have been:
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey
This album is a brooding mass of booze-soaked filthy evil that makes no absolutely no attempt to hide its intention to rape you with a rusty stanley knife. Its also hauntingly brilliant, particularly the wretched, guttersnipe crawl of 'Up Jumped The Devil' and the boss-eyed clutching whirl of 'Deanna' (my current favorite chorus ever). It even stops for a little tenderness with 'Watching Alice', a lovely song that sounds like a sex-pest's lullaby. If you dont have this wonderful bastard of an album you should, speshly as its pretty cheap in many places.
Lightning Bolt: Wonderful Rainbow
Everyone keeps saying I should get Hypermagic Mountain, but this record is still the nuts. For those of you who dont know, Lightning Bolt are a drummer and bass-player that manage to make more noise than a herd of detonating cattle. Sounds like a wildly veering cross between grossly fuzzed-out power metal, stoner rock, techstep jungle and ITS GREAT. Particularly 'Dracula Mountain' and particularly THAT break in 'Dracula Mountain'.
Anti-Pop Consortium: Tragic Epilogue
This is old, and wierd. But its still jaw-dropping. Archly abstract rap that somehow manages not to fall into the stinking mass of bullshit that most anticon records flap about in, this has to be one of all-time favourite top records. Its just brilliant. Compellingly funky sci-fi synth beats with clever, intricate but NOT BORING lyrics and killer deliveries squatting on top. BUY IT OR SUFFER FROM NOT HAVING IT.
Aja on 7/2/2006 at 22:10
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Aja, you were right about Trout Mask Replica. I have had it for about six months, and had given up on it after one listen. I was expecting something that sounded like Frank Zappa for some reason, not the insane gibbering of some dirty tramp. But it definitely does grow on you. I found myself unconciously singing 'China Pig' on a nearly empty bus and getting odd looks.
Well Zappa did produce it, but it really doesn't sound like any of his stuff (maybe Bongo Fury, but Beefheart's on that one too). The thing about TMR that intrigued me the first time I heard it was that as I listened to it, despite the fact that it's an outright cacophony of noise, it didn't irritate me. I'm not suggesting that every note is meticulously placed (though some people have), but it's definately more than meets the ear.
Shoshin on 7/2/2006 at 22:46
Been listening to the Longwave CD "There's a Fire". Really like some of the guitar tones, wish the guy could sing better.
Also I've been listening to The Beach Boys "Sounds of Summer", which is a greatest hits collection. Yes, the Beach Boys are a little overrated in the history of pop, but damn can they harmonize.
And of course there's always a Beatles CD around somewhere.
BlackErtai on 8/2/2006 at 00:10
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Originally Posted by: Shoshinthe Beach Boys are a little overrated in the history of pop
Your opinion is obviously overrated then, as the Beach Boys Pet Sounds remains one of the best albums ever created. Hands down it's in the top 10, if not the top 5. Arguably better than some of the Beatles records of the time.
And the magic of SMiLE was enough that it's the most popular unreleased album ever. Brian Wilson's retred of those songs managed to sell how many almost 35 years after it was suppost to have been released?
Beach Boys > you.
Stitch on 8/2/2006 at 01:02
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Your opinion is obviously overrated then, as the Beach Boys Pet Sounds remains one of the best albums ever created. Hands down it's in the top 10, if not the top 5. Arguably better than some of the Beatles records of the time.
Note to the rest of TTLG: reading BlackErtai's music posts in the voice of Comic Book Guy makes them remarkably more tolerable and even somewhat welcome.
