What music you listening to?

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All-important music thread. What you listening to, what you love, fear, whatever. Muso pseudery welcome, mockery of it even more so.

One rule: No Fall allowed. It's for the best.

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1. At this moment I'm listening to:

Shellac - 1000 Hurts (Touch + Go Records)

Earlier I listened to:

Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day (Spinney Records)

This was her only album, recorded by Joe Boyd in 1970 and featuring Robin Williamson of The Incredible String Band and Dave Swarbrick of Fairport Convention. She's lived up in the Orkney Islands I think since 1970, with a load of kids and sheep and cows...but the above is a BEAUTIFUL semi-acoustic folk record.

Here's Bunyan's website:

http://www.anotherday.co.uk/

Last night:

Faust - Ravvivando (Klangbad Records)

Sonic Youth - Goodbye 20th Century (SYR Records)

Edit: To change subject title, the other title made NO sense at all...not that I OFTEN make any sense at all ;)

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4. Nice easy listening

for a Saturday afternoon. :)

Right now I'm listening to the test match. Bad timing. :blush:

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7. I think so!

Sonic Youth, well JUST Thurston Moore doing George Maciunas' 'Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter's Piece)' - which is basically just Thurston hammering nails into the keys of a piano in order to make a "tune"...gosh, that genuinely helped my headache no end last night, SERIOUSLY!

...or perhaps I'm just naturally warped ;)

And, if you want a gentle Saturday afternoon, you just can't go wrong with a spot of Albini, now can you?

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9. Kill Yr Idols!

We all like a bit toneless screwdriver & nails racket now and then surely?

That's for the late hours though, lazy afternoons are just made for mellow fluff like Albini.

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10. Kill Rock Stars!

...actually I THINK I've felt several brain cells evaporate in the past few hours. This is SOMETHING I can't afford, I mean I don't have MANY brain cells to begin with...and it's troubling to be losing some of the few that I have :)

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11. But

that's the whole point isn't it? Brain cells just make you miserable, rid yourself and turn it up to 11.

Good album anyway. Of course. :)

Wanna start a country somewhere
on an island or archipelago...

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12. Yeah, brain cells just get in the way

11? I did have it turned up to 18, MEGA speakers you know, they'll go up to over 20!

What you listening to sugar plum? You haven't yet told us.

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13. I have.

The test match. Not the theme tune mind...

It's finished now though, so I'll scurry off to find the most painfully obscure thing possible. ;)

Something by the Red Faced Sugar Plums perhaps.... give it a rest will you! :P

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14. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft

Every day is Super Furry Animals day.

I wasn't keen on Love Kraft at first, bit bland sort of thing, but it's really really growing on me now.

It's got melodies though, you'd hate it. :)

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15. I'm not a fan of melodies!

...well, SOME melodies perhaps :) But I LOVE my discordant record collection!

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20. If you wanna

racket try Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music - an hour of feedback - the perfect hangover cure, as yuo can't feel any worse after getting through it! :P

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22. Ooh, good one

I'm not familiar with Reed's "unlistenable" period of mostly looped double albums, but I gather even Thurston Moore speaks of it in frightened awe. :scared:

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25. I have this album and I LOVE it!

I've got a natural soft spot for feedback (good feedback mind you) If you listen VERY carefully, after a while feedback becomes tuneful, meaning within the layers of feedback you can hear various little tunes being naturally created. I like it.

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26. You would!

Why not just detune your radio and save a shitload of money?

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27. I've DONE that ages ago!

The detuning of the radio, that's all I use the radio for now, well that AND retuning it to listen to 'The Shipping Forecast' on Radio 4 of course.

I've just finished listening to Belle & Sebastian's 'If You're Feeling Sinister' and just prior to that B&S '3..6..9..Seconds of Light EP' both on Jeepster...ah, THIS was when they were a LOVELY ensemble, none of the utter CRAP they've been putting out since the year 2000.

SEE, those two records are FULL of melody :)

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28. Might have known

lol

I like If You're Feeling Sinister a lot, you probably only listen to them because they're Scottish though. Did you have enough industrial tools going nearby to endure the melody?

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29. Just because I'm Scottish DOESN'T mean that I have to listen to

Bands because they're Scottish. Yes B&S, Mogwai, Nectarine No.9, The Delgados are Scottish and I adore them BUT the following bands are also Scottish and well, yuk:

The Average White Band
Middle of The Road

I'm NOT going on, I feel ill ALREADY!

It's okay, I didn't need to distort B&S lovely melodies, I happily endured them and it made me feel all warm and twee :)

The best band EVER to come out of Scotland, in my humble opinion were The Vaselines (Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee) and they recorded a bunch of lovely tunes on Stephen Pastels 53rd & 3rd record label, lovely stuff like 'Rory Ride Me Raw', 'The Day I Was A Horse', 'Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam', 'Dum Dum' and 'Molly's Lips'

Aw, fab stuff.

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30. Belle & Sebastian

and twee in the same sentence, yellow card.

Scottish bands and no mention of the The Beta Band... dangerously close to a red. ;)

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31. Not lyrically twee of course

'Um, well except for the twee lyrics in 'Dog On Wheels'

I know I'm yellow and now red carded, I like a bit of feeling twee though and I've not heard anything by that thar Beta Band...so can I appeal the red card decision? :)

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32. Well ok

the appeal is accepted. Feelings of twee are inevitable after listening to Belle & Sebastian, can't be helped.

Just don't mention The Fall. :)

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44. I've been MIGHTY well behaved today

I've not mentioned The F**l ONCE :)

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56. You were.

You know I like my static noise really (pass the detuned radio), just winding you, and I'm sure you can bear nice melody...

You took my mockery well though, so I have no choice but to lift The Fall embargo. Have at it... :yoiks:

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64. Today (Sunday) I've listened to

Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy and Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow (Evidence)

Then I listened to:

The Imperial Lee County Killers - The Essential Fucked Up Blues (Sweet Nothing)

The Imperial Lee County Killers are bloody rowdy blighters from Alabama, they also had the unique honour to record TWO sessions in ONE week for our Uncle John, God Bless 'im.

I'm glad my red card appeal has been accepted ;)

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66. What you waiting for

No Mark E. on a Sunday? :)

I don't know The Imperial Lee County Killers, once again I'll have to check them out!

Yeah, Sun Ra is good lazy afternoon music... for pseuds anyway. ;)

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80. 'This Nations Saving Grace'

I gave in ;)

The Imperial Lee County Killers are FAB, they just make a GREAT dirty noise.

That Sun Ra album, it's actually one of his less challenging to listen to, well, it is in my opinion...:)

[fedsron2us]

36. Try following it up with Fripp and Eno's dire 'Swastika Girls'

from the same period and you will really lose the will to live.

Amazing to think that within a year Lou Reed produced Coney Island Baby which is one of his best albums.

[Kicked in the Taco]

42. I killed Christgau with my big fucking dick!

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46. So obscure

I had to google it!

Think I'm still at least one keyword short. :P

[Kicked in the Taco]

39. ma'am, I salute you.

I like to flatter myself that I'm a pretty big Sonic Youth fan, but Goodbye 20th Century was WAY too far out for me. You must be like a 32nd level SY fan! Have some sweeties:

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43. Aw, Black Jacks!

Fab! Don't mind if I do :)

Probably my favourite Sonic Youth track is 'The Diamond Sea' and there's a slight tune in THAT, but the best parts are when they just go off on one midway and through until the end. Also 'The Kissability Trilogy' off 'Daydream Nation' is totally rad too...you CAN'T beat a bit of Kim Gordon singing badly ;)

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57. I used to have

Daydream Nation on vinyl years back (though I'm mostly into their stuff from before then), long gone, and I've dled a copy since, but I thought there was something wrong with it... only the first nine tracks are there, I'm missing The Kissability Trilogy for one! :blush:

Good album anyway... I'll have to try and get the full thing again and remember that track! Can't beat a bad singing Kim Gordon.

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82. Yeah, get with the programme

Fancy downloading something thats missing tracks! This is obviously something ONLY a Newcastle fan would be silly enough to do ;)

Kim Gordon singing badly, it's a necessity of life.

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83. I did

own the album before! :blush:

Hey man, I was there.

In me bedsit. :P

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84. Okay, I'll give you clemency :)

In your bedsit back in those days, aw bless ;)

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85. I've earned it

I was big on The Smiths at the same time. :scared:

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87. Well...

...as long as you didn't have a bunch of daffodils hanging out of the back of your pants!

Tomorrow, I'll listen to 'The Smiths' and 'The Queen Is Dead', out of honour for the Newcastle fans :)

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88. Not nowadays at least

Then, I had the shirts to match. :blush:

Never conquered the quiff though, so I wasn't too cardboard.

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89. Ha!

That little blushing face is SO cute :)

Well to be honest, in those days Morrissey's quiff was SLIGHTLY over-the-top!

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91. Could've been worse

At least I never got into Stray Cats.

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93. OH NO!! *Phew*

The Stray Cats.

:scared: :scared:

[donsu]

2. Asian Drums by Kiyoshi Yoshida

after the never ending hurricane has just gone away, I needed some Asian Drums

[Kicked in the Taco]

3. somewhat fall-esque, but....

I've been listening to Wowee Zowee by Pavement a lot lately, curing myself of the misguided critic-influenced belief I used to harbour that they lost it after their first two albums.

Also the Village Green Preservation Society by the Kinks, which I foolishly dismissed as a bit silly and twee when I first heard it, but has really grown on me to the point where it's one of my favourite albums now.

Unfortunately I don't really have any ultra-obscure musical loves that would get musos too excited- my personal favourites would include everything by the Pixies and most of Frank's solo-stuff (including the much-maligned effort that gave rise to my username), Bob Dylan, Dead Kennedys, early REM (up to Green), Television, Sonic Youth, Throwing Muses, Fairport Convention, the Byrds, the Replacements and similar sort of stuff.

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5. Hey

You like Pavement * Sonic Youth and Fairport Convention, which is GOOD enough for me!

Pavement were pretty fine UP until 'Terror Twilight' which I can't stand. Anything pre- 'TT' is very good and very angular musically, as they say.

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8. So have I

Not just Wowee Zowee, different stuff by them, but I'm often in the mood for Pavement. Didn't know the critics thought that thankfully! :)

Pixies, Kennedys, early REM, Sonic Youth, Throwing Muses... yeah, I'm going to enjoy this!

[wake.up.america]

6. "Wassermusik" by Händel, Ravel, Los Romeros, Bach...

Stones, Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, music from South America, classic from A to Z, Tibetan chants, sevillanas, volkmusik, you name, I like it, with few exceptions

[mr blur]

16. Well, I can't leave out Television,

as I produce the best (nay, the only, really) Television/Verlaine website (http://www.marquee.demon.co.uk) and this stuff never grows stale for me. Also at the moment, VdGG, Richard Thompson, The Waterboys earlier stuff and Lenny Kaye's Nuggets collection. But that's been today.

At this very moment I'm listening to a Bedouin band called Tinariwen (I know, I know, pseud enough for ya?) which is excellent.

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24. Pseud enough

Tinariwen... yeah you win!

Bedouin, sounds intriguing, I'd be interested to hear it. Always good to hear of stuff you don't know.

Thanks for your site too! Haven't listened to Television much, I'm only passingly familiar with them, but their fans always seem to be very passionate about them.

[mr blur]

33. Actually, they're Tuareg.

A group who were freedom fighters and at the forefront of the struggle for rights for nomadic people who don't fit in anywhere these days because wherever they travel people try to make them conform to local "rules". They travel the Sahara.

http://www.eyefortalent.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/artist.detail/artist_id/59

The fascinating thing is that you listen to their music and you hear where the blues, for example, came from. Wonderful stuff.

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37. Maybe they have been buying B B King records

African music does not exist in a timeless vacuum. It actually feeds off outside influences just like the rest of the world. I remember hearing one English folk violinist being interviewed about a trip to Kenya where he hoped to learn about African music. He ended getting roped into a recording session by some locals who wanted him to add some Kentucky bluegrass fiddle playing to one of their records.

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51. Yes, of course you're right, but

my point is that the blues didn't just spring from nowhere, it was made by people who brought their own musical influences from somewhere and, in Africa, the source of those sounds and structures is still apparent in indigenous styles of making music. If you've seen Scorcese's Blues Series you'll recall the part where the American blues musician goes to Africa and finds common musical ground, and it's not because they've been listening to his records.

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53. I do not disagree that the key influences on blues and jazz

originated in Africa so common elements are bound to occur. All I am saying is that the view that these musical forms were being played by African slaves the moment they arrived in New World plantations is too simplistic. In reality music has practised misegenation even when it was taboo on racial grounds. African music styles were hugely influenced by coming into contact with European music in America. There would be no gospel music if slaves had not been forced to convert to Christianity and sing hymns composed by white song writers like Isaac Watts. By the same token Europeans hearing their own tunes by being played in a completely different manner by Africans could not help but be forced to reinterpret their own musical traditions. In my experience the idea of musical purity is a fanatasy usually propounded by non musicians who have some sort of political or racial axe to grind. When you actually mix with practitioners you will find that they beg, borrow and steal musical ideas from whatever source they can. In this respect African musicians are no different from those in every other part of the planet. If they hear something they like or which they think will help their records sell then they adapt it for their own purposes. For example, if you go to South Africa you will find that domestic musical styles have always been heavily influenced by what has been going on in the USA. Indeed, throughout the continent,for good or ill, the current American rap scene has a powerful influence on contemporary African music. This makes it really hard to pin down where a particular musical idea orginated.

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55. Yep, agree with all of that.

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47. Thanks

Can't play streaming ram files at the moment (Linux, long story...) but I will definitely get back to that.

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41. No kidding!

Your website is a work of art! I love Television (though apparently not an ouce as much as you do!) and I can only salute you for providing such a treasure trove! I get that rush from the first few bars of 'See No Evil', too.:)

[Taxloss]

17. Sasha:Airdrawndagger

A nice bit of ambient.

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18. In the last few days, I've listened to:

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Beck - Guero
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Dandy Warhols - Come Down
Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex/Kill yr Idols
Various - Electric Soul Vol. 3: Summer Sessions

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

19. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

a triple album I haven't played for ages & am remembering just how great Stephin Merritt is.

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23. Aw, Stephen Merritt :)

I'm HUGELY relieved that we all seem to have some pretty rad and fab musical tastes.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

38. I can't believe

I'm not the only one who owns a copy of "Just Another Diamond Day"!

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45. Oh heck, Vashti Bunyan!

Isn't that album just LOVELY? And you like Stephen Merritt too :)

You know, whenever I've mentioned Vashti Bunyan before, many people have always said "Who?" So, it's nice to know that someone else has a copy of that album!

[Kipling]

21. The Coral.

[fedsron2us]

34. Every day I have the blues

so that is the music I choose to listen to more and more as I get older. Along with soul and jazz it is the sound I have found weathers the passage of time best. This may be because most of the music was originally written and performed by adults for grown ups rather than being the angst ridden musings of pimply teenagers. A lot of the bands I liked when I was younger just don't cut it for me any more and I am too lazy to keep upto date with modern trends. Any way where am I going to find modern musicians who can produce a better saxaphone break than that which appears on Eddie Clearwaters 'A-Minor Cha Cha' or a greater song than Curtis Mayfield's, 'We People Who Are Darker Than Blue' . It is the best. You can keep the rest.

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48. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Now playing, after reading your post.

You probably hate it though, too recent and not proper jazz, bah. :)

[fedsron2us]

49. Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew

are reckoned to be Miles Davis two ground breaking records. I like them both although I actually think Frank Zappa's Hot Rats album can lay equal claim to being the seminal jazz fusion record as it came out in the same year as Bitches Brew. I was listening to Zappa's record this morning and still find his guitar playing amazing.

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58. Zappa!

I'm not too familiar with many of his more heavily jazz influenced or "orchestral" albums, sort of thing, but I do love Zappa. Who doesn't!

I haven't listened to Hot Rats much in truth, sure I have it somewhere though, I'll have to dig it out.

[Mr Creosote]

61. Kind of blue

lives in the car CD player on sunny summers days. Hot rats is a terrific album - if you like it you might like "Sugarcane's got the blues" by Don "Sugarcane" Harris.

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105. The best guitar playing EVER appears in a Howlin' Wolf song, it's

In 'Goin' Down Slow' and it's played by the mighty Hubert Sumlin. The guitar throughout the entire song is FAB, but there's one particular bit of guitar that completely stands out, it's directly after Mr. Burnett warbles:

"Please write my Mama, tell her the shape I'm in."

Heck, so fab, it sends shivers down the spine.

Well, it's the best guitar playing in a song in my opinion anyhow.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

35. Electric Six

I know, so 2002... but "Fire in the disco!"

[Kicked in the Taco]

40. I wanna take you to a gay bar!

:scared:

[fedsron2us]

50. Any Tasavalan Presidenti fans out there

I saw them live in Guildford in the 1970's and thought their lead guitarist, Jukka Tolonen, was one of the best musicians I had ever heard. Needless, to say because I liked them their recordings have been erased from the face of the earth and are not even available on the internet.

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59. I really

really hope you get a useful answer, and not just replies like mine, wow.

That said, I salute your pseudery, you win. :D

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70. You tried gemm?

http://www.gemm.com/

Great site for hard to find stuff, searching for Tasavalan Presidenti gives a couple of results for an album called Lambertland.

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79. Cool. Thanks.

It appears that the correct spelling of their name in Finnish is Tasavallan Presidentti (Presidents of the Republic) which is why my search got so few hits. Their UK promoters and distributors anglicized their name for their 70's albums and tours by removing some of the double consonants. I have now found quite a few web sites dedicated to them. Amazingly they last released an album in 2001 and from their gig list they were still performing in 2004. Maybe if I travel to Helsinki I will get lucky and see them again.

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81. You're welcome

Here's to typos, hope they still live up to what you remember.

[T_i_B]

52. Anything from Enya to System of a Down

This week I have been mostly listening to TheMusic, Muse, Love and Deep Purple.

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54. Recent listens:

Amon Tobin: Bricolage
Ben Harper: Fight for your mind (skipping some of the slow tracks)
Can: Future Days, Cannibalism II
David Hykes: Mostly from Solar Wind
Dead Can Dance: Spleen and Ideal
Hariprasad Chaurasia: The Valley Recalls
Kruder and Dorfmeister: KD Sessions
Plastikman: Musik
Sun Ra: various
Woob: emit 4495
Bill Laswell, Jah Wobble: Radioaxiom
Bugge Wesseltoft: Moving, Film Ing
EST: Seven Days of Falling
Food: The Last Supper
Popol Vuh: Apape Agape
Roy Harper: Sophisticated Beggar
Thomas Brinkmann: Tour de Traum
Tim Buckley: Happy Sad.

Now listening to Elvis: Memphis Sessions (under sufferance!)

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62. Ah

Lots of things I don't know (take notes).

I like Can a lot though, including those albums. I like a bit Sun Ra too, when I'm feeling suitably Jazz Club and turtleneck. (heh)

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65. Of those you listed, I'm very fond of

Can, Sun Ra (see above post #64), some Popol Vuh and some Tim Buckley (I can't handle his commercial sounding stuff, it gives me a headache)

As Tim was FORCED to do said headache-inducing commercial stuff by his record label, one can forgive him.

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77. Yeah, I like Starsailor a lot - can't accuse that of being

commercial ;-)

(Edit: though some might find it headache-inducing!)

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104. Gosh no ;)

Earlier this evening I was listening to 'Goodbye And Hello', which I find such an uplifting album.

Have you heard the album 'Lorca'? It's very experimental and has five tracks, I've had a nightmare locating it and I still haven't :( Although I heard tracks from the album about two years ago, and immediately took to it.

Heck, I'd sell a kidney for that album (not REALLY, but it's NEARLY that bad) ;)

[fedsron2us]

86. I remember buying Can's Tago Mago back in 1971.

It was definitely an album to possess if you wanted to impress your contemporaries.
At the time I was ridiculously taken by the idea of a German band with a Japanese lead singer.
A corner stone for every good music pseuds record collection.

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95. I imagine you were also caught up in the Neu buzz

a couple of years later, and had the original clear copy of the Faust Tapes, too?

Good for you! I still listen to Neu and (less often!) Faust, myself :-)

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100. Krautrock

Throws in obligatory Kraftwerk mention (feels pseud embarrassment at obviousness). :)

[Mr Creosote]

60. I am currently listening to the greatest album of all time

"Pills n'thrills n' bellyaches". Before that, at the beach, it was Las Ladrones, and then Africando. And or those that are interested in these things, on the way back from the beach I had a Roskilly's wild raspberry and white chocolate.

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63. That Roskilly's are torturing me AGAIN!

Wild raspberry and white chocolate, sounds damn fine too :)

Happy Mondays 'eh?

[mr blur]

67. Which beach is that, then?

and was it full of upper-class chavs on a drinking binge?

[Mr Creosote]

68. No it wasn't

there was a very attractive young lady with 2 dogs. One other couple. And us. Not a cloud in the sky. Not a breath of breeze. Idyllic. And on Bank Holiday weekend too. And when I got home the King of Spain capped a perfect day for me :-)

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69. How can you say

that Pills 'n' Thrills is the best album ever, when Bummed is so much better? :-)

PS. The best album ever is actually Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation

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71. Agreed

On Bummed at least!

Best album... that's a different thing all together... do you really want to go there? :yoiks:

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74. Yes!

Preferably on a new topic - it'd get lost in this one! :P

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76. Didn't

mean it, by all means best ever flame away! Wherever. :)

Daydream Nation best album ever? You've been listening to too much looping Lou Reed I reckon.

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96. Best ever

I'll go one further... Daydream Nation isn't even the best Sonic Youth album ever!

(taps foot patiently) :P

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97. Which is it then?

:P

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98. Sonic Death of course!

Proper screwdriver music! ;)

http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/lp/lp2.html

Edit to add link to atone, heh.

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99. Ta

I'll try & get a copy! :-)

[sweetheart]

72. The wind

whistling in the chimney,
rattling the roof
surrounded by silence immeasurable;
undescribed and empty
filled with the potential of
all the sound that has ever
been and ever will be.

Broken by the incessant whine of a Computer fan,
and clicking keyboard chatter
whilst dogs whine and drink their water bowl
scratching on the door
rattling the bones of a storm.

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108. yawn

Enjoying yourself on all those other threads? What's wrong, the wind stop or something?

[sweetheart]

109. The wind is lovely

Yes, in fact, i am.

I'm allowed to... yes?

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110. So am I

If you insist on it.

[sweetheart]

111. Ok

Then what have you to share... perhaps
you can write a poem yourself...

Maybe how muisic inspires you, but to poopoo
other poetry with yawns without putting up a
better stanza is poor form... iz all i'z sayin.

I think silence is magnificent muisic. It
is filled with potential and subtlety, not
the egos of some musicians.... and why
not celibrate music by its absence?

[moggie]

73. Just finished watching 'Swing Girls'

Japanese film, delinquent high school girls dragooned into playing in the school brass band. It's really not my kind of music (big band swing), but it's an excellent, feel-good funny film, and the final concert scene would get anybody's toes tapping. Recommended.

I decided to continue the Japanese brass theme, so now playing is Cicala Mtva's album 'Ching-Dong: the return of Japanese street music', which fuses traditional Japanese chindon with influences from Nepal, Turkey, Jewish klezmer... it's messy and really rather wonderful.

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75. The Fall

In: Palace of Swords Reversed

Had to happen. }(

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106. Hex Enduction Hour

Fucking great album.

He had a weak pisser
And one night at darts match
Decadent sandwich quaff
He showed he was a big fan of double-entendre
Saw Not the Nine O'Clock News History of the World Part One
Twice each at least
Twice each at least...

[tjwmason]

78. At this precise moment - Die Schoepfung (The Creation)

By F.J. Haydn.

[fedsron2us]

90. Wish you had not started this thread

I have now dug out my old record collection and I am currently listening to an EP by Australian 1970's punk band 'The Saints' which I can't have played for over twenty years. I remember seeing their antipodean compatriots 'Radio Birdman' in Sheffield in 1977 whom the web sites now hail as being 'one of the most influential forces in the history of Australian rock music'. I thought they were shit. My main memory of my student years was how under the influence of the 'New Wave' everyone ditched their prog rock record collection and flared trouser disappeared overnight. There must have been warehouses full of loon pants that no one could sell for love for money. Hope the wholesalers hung on to this gear because they could have unloaded it on the unsuspecting kids over the past few years. Looking at my play list I expect that before the end of the Bank Holiday I will have listened to the following

Stooges - The Stooges
Stooges - Raw Power
Iggy Pop - Kill City (definitely his best album)
New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon
MC5 - Back in The USA

I would rate 'Looking At You' released by the MC5 in 1968 as one of the best singles ever made. I have not heard any music in the last twenty five years that can get anywhere close to matching it for energy and excitement.

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92. "I thought they were shit"

Fucking class, if I may say. lol

Love The Stooges. MC5 I only know Kick Out the Jams, I'll look out for what you mention. I thought you must be into loads of good stuff!

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94. What better soundtrack for a bank holiday?

"Looking at my play list I expect that before the end of the Bank Holiday I will have listened to the following

Stooges - The Stooges
Stooges - Raw Power
Iggy Pop - Kill City (definitely his best album)
New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon
MC5 - Back in The USA"

and all wonderful albums!
(how is the weather in Lancing this b.h.? Just along the coast from us)

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101. Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn

Currently playing...

Don't know a great deal about them beyond I really like them. Tuneful, multi-layered, uplifting, very nice. For a change. :)

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102. Tut tut tut!

"Tuneful"?

"Uplifting"?

:P

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103. Embarrassing I know,

but those are the music mag cliches that fit their music and leap to mind I'm afraid.

Wasn't up to me though, I lied, my Mam was round and she likes them. :blush:

Now playing - Throbbing Gristle bootlegs. Honestly.

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107. I'll let you off then!

;-)