What's everyone listening to...?

[DaveGYNWA]

And to cheer me up before going to bed, it turns out it wasn't Black Rose Immortal but Advent instead.

Bollix.

[Third Estate Ned]

Opeth are my without doubt my favourite group so I'm gutted I can't make it to see them on this tour as it would mean a six hour round trip after the heaviest day of work of the week, with more work to follow the next day. I find it hard to get in the party mood for post-work gigs on a Monday night.

What do you think of their new, non-growly albums? I didn't like Pale Communion at first but now it's practically on permanent rotation.

This week I have been listening to the group Russian Circles, which you could describe as a mix between Mogwai and Tool but without vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFzAd4PNCaY

[amines2058]

Sat in work doing my usual Saturday morning catch up on what I couldn't do in the week, listening to the Chili Peppers back catalogue. You forget how good their earlier stuff was (Mothers Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magic etc) 

[Frank]

I keep trying to tell folk La Roux's recent stuff is really great, but it looks like that ship has sailed. Shame, because it's got hooks like a Japanese whaler - Uptight Downtown sounds like eighties suit-wearing Bowie, at the exact moment before he turned shit:

http://youtu.be/pnCLiNDx1qU

It's funny you should say that, Sauchie, but in La Roux's recent show for BBC 6 Music at the world famous Maida Vale studios, Elly Jackson's rocking a ludicrous orange quiff, tight black top, and beige slacks combination which conspicuously references late-seventies Bowie in Cracked Actor.

There were a few more interesting performances from that week's shows: I like First Aid Kit, even though they're a bit tasteful; Underworld are always good value, and Johnny Marr's new single's the kind of bouncy fun you won't get from Morrissey anymore. James played too.

[mimikeke]

And to cheer me up before going to bed, it turns out it wasn't Black Rose Immortal but Advent instead.

Bollix.

Oh man.  Black Rose Immortal is like, my favorite.  You should listen to Agalloch.

I feel like this song pretty much sums up my love for 2000AD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Rn09k6DqU

Also since I've been recently reading Rogue, No Remorse and Seek and Destroy by Metallica seem oddly appropriate.  God, I just reread the lyrics to both and I'm pretty sure this album was about Rogue.

[DaveGYNWA]

What do you think of their new, non-growly albums? I didn't like Pale Communion at first but now it's practically on permanent rotation.

I don't mind them - I'll still jump back to the "My Arms, Your Hearse" and the like if I need my fill of GRRRRR. The past few albums prior to the full dropping of the death vocals have eased me in to the current state. I had feared that they would end up dropping the death vocals from their set lists, but that Bristol gig had the following:

Eternal Rains Will Come
Cusp of Eternity
Bleak
The Moor
Advent
Elysian Woes
Windowpane
April Ethereal
The Devil's Orchard
The Lotus Eater
The Grand Conjuration
Deliverance

That's a good mix of old and new right there.

I still think my favourite gig of all time is their Albert Hall appearance 4 years ago, on the BlackWater Park 10th anniversary:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/opeth/2010/royal-albert-hall-london-england-5bd48f4c.html

That one blew me away.

[8-Ball]

Daniel Johnston  - Casper The Friendly Ghost
http://youtu.be/HBHhCRH9m3c

No, don't thank me.

[Spikes]

This freaky sh*t - here

Which came free with the first issue of this

If this came out in '80/81, then i was either 13, or 14. And though the advert freaked me out, i still bought the magazine, and was freaked out further, and clearly recall regretting that decision. And now thanks to Youtube, im freaked out all over again, ;-)

[8-Ball]

Another tune that popped into my head...

Switchblade Kittens - All Cheerleaders Die
http://youtu.be/vfof6BhfW-E

[von Boom]

Daniel Johnston  - Casper The Friendly Ghost
http://youtu.be/HBHhCRH9m3c

No, don't thank me.

I won't.

The Ramones - Spiderman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5P8lrgBtcU

[Colin YNWA]

The Ramones - Spiderman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5P8lrgBtcU

Much to my shame I've never heard of the album this comes from, even though it was realised at the height of my indie kid pomp and while I'll almost certainly wonder why I did after the second play when the novelty wears off I'm off to the internet to buy this... such fun!

[Third Estate Ned]

Like the end credits to 80s straight-to-video action films. But good:

Mega Drive - 198XAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3NoYyNKSXQ

[SuperSurfer]

Sebadoh. Came across them recently online. Haven't listened to their new music but am really impressed with their 90s stuff.

While some of their tracks are quite conventional, lots are disjointed, random and lo fi. Jam packed with ideas. Remind me of the good Captain Beefheart and early Mercury Rev.

[Colin YNWA]

Lou Barlow da Man from his early days in the early days of Dinosaur Jr, to Sebadoh, to Folk Implosion to some great solo work I love the man's work BUT I've heard enough bad things about the recent 'da 'Doh record to avoid it so as not to sully my feelings for the man.

Still that 90s Sebadoh stuff is some of the finest Lo-fi indie rock there is... as the man says

Just Gimme Indie Rock

[Frank]

While we're talking guys in plaid shirts and unwashed hair from a quarter of a century ago, Thurston Moore's new tune sounds like he hired the hillbilly version of ZZ Top from Back To The Future III as his backing band:

http://youtu.be/1u_2BcmMDq8