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What's everyone listening to...?

Started by Gonk, 01 February, 2012, 09:53:17 PM

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Am in work early so am currently sat listening to Massive Attack - Blue Lines for about the 5th time in 3 days. Was gutted they were not televised at Glasto so just needed to reminisce.
This is still a classic album and has stood the twist of time. It still sounds like it could have been released last week not 23 years ago!! :o

Frank


Incredible to think Blue Lines was contemporaneous to the first wave of grunge - it's aged so much better. Probably not destined to maintain its cool beyond this Summer, Bullit, by Watermät, still gets up in your brain like neural syphilis. It has one if those lady videos, and if I was feeling generous I'd say its use of a looped woodwind sample exhibits some of the charm of The Avalanches:

http://youtu.be/HoMzLLWNV1g


JayzusB.Christ

After seeing The Pixies last weekend, my love for them has rekindled.  In my book, they pissed all over Nirvana and their ilk, and if Black Francis had looked anything like Kurt Cobain rather than an everyday Joe Sixpack*, I believe they would easily taken Nirvana's place in rock history.

Nobody screams and yelps in Spanish like The Pixies, and I hope they do it forever.


* Though with a name like Black Francis, you would expect someone looking a bit like Jack Sparrow.
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

Colin YNWA

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 04 July, 2014, 11:08:55 AM
* Though with a name like Black Francis, you would expect someone looking a bit like Jack Sparrow.

I remember back in the day when my friend John first saw Black Francis he was gutted that he looked more like a Charlie Thompson than the thin skeletal brooding lord of the night he'd always imagined!   

JayzusB.Christ

Yep, 'Frank Black' probably suited him better appearance-wise, looking as he does like the type of man you'd have a Budweiser and a game of pool with once you'd changed out of your overalls. Nevertheless, I'm glad he's gone back to Black Francis, which is a name that befits someone capable of such dark, enigmatic lyrics and mad-dog barks and howls.
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

I, Cosh

First time I ever saw the Pixies live was at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh on the Dolittle tour the day after my 16th birthday. Couldn't see Dave Lovering's feet for the drums but Kim was wearing a pair of red patent kitten heels, Joey a well worn pair of steel toecapped workie's boots and Black Francis was screaming away barefoot.

Always thought his frame suited the voice and vice versa.
We never really die.

Frank


Who pays any attention to how the squidgy wee guy roaring his head off at the front of stage looks when Kim Deal's being Kim Deal five feet to his left? Nordic Numanette Robyn was already responsible for one of my favourite tunes ever, and her previous collaboration with Röyksopp took her score on my top ten to two. The latest product of their union hasn't quite made it onto my list of the very best, but it still shits imperiously upon everything else around from Olympian heights:

Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again: http://youtu.be/HIG7PVa8SS8


I, Cosh

Lately, I've been listening to The Coral Sea. This started out as Patti Smith's epic poem in memoriam of her friend, partner and lover(?) Robert Mapplethorpe. As with much of her stuff, the text switches in the same verse or line from deeply touching to unbearably precious. I guess that real "fuck Cosh and his bullshit opinion" artistry is why she's still going long after so many have fallen by the wayside.

The record I've linked to above is a public performance of the poem with accompaniment by Kevin Shields from out of my bloody valentine. The performance, as opposed to the poem, is by turns touching, elegiac, laughably purple, pretentious and then gut-wrenchingly emotional. The record has two separate performances of the same piece separated by a couple of months: there are differences but it'll take a few more listens to tell if one's better or just different.

The common anchor is definitely Shields' [attention Banners] guitar playing. Waves of controlled noise ebb and flow around Smith's voice, giving way to the occassional squall of feedback or tempestuous chord as if the hum and throb of electricity is the sea her memories are adrift in.

fucking hell.
We never really die.

I, Cosh

We never really die.

Frank


I appear to be taken with melancholic Scandinavian cuties at the moment:

Lykke Li - No Rest For The Wicked: http://youtu.be/Hh-0y8Qe0Sw


I, Cosh

Quote from: sauchie on 06 July, 2014, 10:24:17 PM

I appear to be taken with melancholic Scandinavian cuties at the moment:

Lykke Li - No Rest For The Wicked: http://youtu.be/Hh-0y8Qe0Sw
I really love the title track from her new one, I Never Learn, but I think she might be one of those artists who is doomed to never write anything as good as the first track on her debut album: Melodies and Desires.
We never really die.

8-Ball

I heard this on the radio this morning. It reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it.

Haley Bonar - Kill The Fun
http://youtu.be/nkrKKk1VL9s
Whatever happened to Rico, Dolman and Cadet Paris? I'm sooo out of the loop.


Frank


You can achieve the same effect by tuning your kitchen radio to a different station than the one in your living room and wandering in-between rooms, Cheech. The Fat White Family are doing the sleaze and shock thing, but they make some genuinely interesting music:

DON'T WATCH IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED


CheechFU

Quote from: sauchie on 12 July, 2014, 06:03:39 PM

You can achieve the same effect by tuning your kitchen radio to a different station than the one in your living room and wandering in-between rooms
not enough radios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-8Rd9QBlJI