I was just perusing the awesome 'blow your cred' thread and thought it's about time we had a new 'what are you listening to?' type-thread-thing to go with it. So here it is. Put all your recommedations, favourite tunes, new bands, stuff we might have forgotten about and general musical queries here for some off topic entertainment.
Right then. Everyone should 'ave a listen to...
Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy
Simian - We Are Your Friends
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Let us rock. Or do the 'big fish, little fish' dance. Or gaze at our shoes... oh, you get the idea!
Luv Tanky x
These last few weeks, the iPod has mostly been playing:
Rammstein - Mutter
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Rancid - Indestructible
NOFX - The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us)
New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation
Although I'm currently slipping into a bit of retro-Nephilim phase in anticipation of the gig in November ...
Cheers!
Jim
I can't decide if 'Death by Sexy' just isn't as good as 'Peace, Love, Death Metal', or if I've just outgrown the sound. My best mate bought it for me as a surprise and I think he might be a bit put out that it didn't blow me away like their first album did...
Either way, 'Speaking in Tongues' and 'Kiss the Devil', from PLDM, make it into just about every playlist I ever create. Which annoys Mrs Jones no end.
:)
Alright then... currently getting lots of air time from me
Mesh- We Collide (Fairly miserable synth pop along the lines of Violator era Depeche Mode only a bit dancier)
Corrision- The Rushing End (Sound how The Ramones or Misfits would sound if they grew up in seedy industrial clubs)
Roger Miret and the Disasters- 1984 (Punk rock by numbers but is great fun)
Those are the main ones atm but have also been listening to Steve Earle, Fantomas, Half Man Half Biscuit etc
Also think I should mention that I booked my tickets for The Living End, Less Than Jake and Dropkick Murphys at Brixton Academy in November =)
I think Death by Sexy's a bit of a grower. I've been
annoying Booga with 'Boy's bad news' for some time!
Megadeth: Is that all the same gig?! What a line up! I'm there!
:)
It certainly is Saturday the 11th November, going to be a corker =)
Am currently getting into the groove of...
Opeth - Still Life
Cave In
Korn - See You on the Other Side
MachineHead - (album name escapes me, arse!)
The Killing Joke album thats got Dave Grohl on drums,
Tool - 10,000 Days
And much, much more...
And check my mates out, they're fuckin great!
Link: The Mirimar Disaster!
Is anyone else here signed up to Last.FM?
I'm Harpo_Marxist if anyone is.
I got Trout Mask Replica the other day.
Freakin' wierd.
"Is anyone else here signed up to Last.FM?"
Yup, rather originally named ArtificialIdiot over there too.
At the moment, mostly
Joanna Newsom, 'The Milk-eyed Mender' (album).
also,
London After Midnight, 'Psycho Magnet' (album).
Siouxsie and the Banshes 'Downside Up', disc 2, especially 'Tattoo'.
Morrissey, 'You're the One for Me, Fatty'.
Placebo, 'My Sweet Prince'
...and giving neglected Bjork CDs an airing.
Bin Laden's Daughter
Moray's premiere punk band (which says more about Moray than BLD!)
Heh, one of my favourite games....
This week I am mostly listening to;
Tool - 10,000 Days
Fabric Live - Evil Nine
Fabric Live - John Peel
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
VNV Nation - Matter and Form
Vileevils - pre-release demos
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Coheed & Cambria - Vol IV - God Apollo, Im Burning Star / From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
and other assorted madness.....
What do you think of the Evil Nine Fabric CD?
I wasn't all that impressed really... don't get me wrong I do like it but it didn't blow me away like I was hoping it would.
All sorts of random crap whilst I've spent the summer travelling, drawing and down the pub:
Senseless Things - Postcard C.V.
Senseless Things - Empire Of The Senseless
Senseless Things - First Of Too Many
Senseless Things - Taking Care Of Business
Kinesis - Handshakes For Bullets
Soundgarden - Bad Motor Finger
Ipanema - Me Me Me
Nine Black Alps - Everything Is
Makeshift Wings - Sunset Skyline EP
Billy Talent - Billy Talent.
Also the odd Kasabian, Dogs and Mega City Four track - dandy! Nice goin to Tank G for picking Simian.
Finn Sinn
Lately I've been listening to....
Skyclad
Korpiklaani
Fields of the Nephilim
King's X (greatest band to ever walk the Earth!)
NFD
Gogol Bordello
Coheed & Cambria
Rush
Flogging Molly
Must admit, after hearing the Adam Freeland Fabric cd, which had some Evil Nine stuff on it (and not to mention IIRC that they're signed to his label) I was hoping for great things - it's good, but not as good as the Adam Freeland cd.
That's the thing with the Fabric live series - they're a bit hit and miss - but I can't recommend the John Peel one highly enough!
Yeah I really ought to hear Evil Nine's 'artist' album at some point... the set of theirs I have that I really like starts with their own material.
And to Albion... Skyclad [backslash]m/
everyone should listen to 'the best of radio birdman'. If you hunt around on the net, there's a Radio Birdman jukebox somewhere
Most recently my head has been tuned to:
PIL: This Is What You Want
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
Le Tigre
The Drones: Wait long by the river and the bodies of your enemies float by
De La Soul Is Dead
Television: Marquee Moon
in my car(about the only place I listen to tunes these days) we have
- Tool 10 000 days
- LAcuna Coil new one that I have no idea what its called but god damn thats one hot singer
- NIN With Teeth
thats about it at the moment.
CU Radbacker
Past couple of days, mostly...
"The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot
"The Assembly Line" - Commodores
"Red Light Spells Danger" - Billy Ocean
"Straight Out Of Compton" - Nina Gordon
"A New England" - Billy Bragg
"Rocket Man" - William Shatner
"Have You Dug His Scene" - Yaphet Kotto
"The Wind Beneath My Wings" - Sonata Arctica
"God Is A DJ" - Pink
"Computer Love" - Coldplay vs Kraftwerk
"Detatchable Penis" - King Missile
"Owner Of A Lonely Heart/Baby Got Back" - Sir Mix-A-Lot vs Yes
All good working songs...
Today I have working to....
Skyclad - A burnt offering for the bone idol (seeing them in Hove on Friday.)
Eels - Beutiful freak
Clutch - Blast tyrant
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let love in
The Residents - Duck Stab
Fields of the Nephilim - Mourning Sun
Past few days has been mostly:
Machine Head - Hellalive
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to tell
And the not strictly "tunes" Bad News CD
"Give me another drink oh Mr Bartender.
If you don't I'm gonna stick your dick in a blender"
Just got Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- Abbatoir blues
but my big headphones are far too warm for this weather so I havent heard it yet!
these days im mostly listening to rockabilly and nore rockabilly
"Rocket Man" - William Shatner
Thats the tune im having at my funeral!
Pure, concentrated genius!
I'm kicking it old-school this evening.
Right now, I'm listening to Ministry's "Psalm 69".
Next up, it's Machine Head's "Burn My Eyes".
Rock 'ard, rock 'eavy, rock animal!
GRRR! - M-HEAT
INSPIRATIONAL - STRIKE
TELL-A-TALE - DISTRIBUTORS
SURF - RODDY FRAME
MAGNETIC - TRICHLORATES
JARS - SOMA FAMILY
And 'Pretty Like Drugs', by Queen Adreena.
Drink Me's a great album, isn't it, Ush? Have you got their last one, The Butcher and the Butterfly?
Seeing as I'm here, I'll stick down what I've been listening to over the last couple of days.
Magazine - Real Life
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Skinny Puppy - Bites
Skinny Puppy - Rabies
Soft Cell - Non-stop Erotic Cabaret
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing
Melvins - The Crybaby
Tonight's work-music:
"City Of New Orleans" - John Prine & Steve Goodman
"Wonderboy" - Tenacious D
"The Light 3000" - Schneider TM
"If You Could Read My Mind" - Gordon Lightfoot
"Aquarius" - 5th Dimension
And more, since it's looking like another 3am-er.
I find 'Drink Me' a bit heavy for my tastes. 'Taxidermy' is much easier listening. Haven't got 'The Butcher and the Butterfly' yet, but I'll catch up with it eventually.
Well, it's rather an odd resurgence since the demise of Witness - which came shortly after they produced "Under A Sun", the greatest album that no-one's ever heard, back in 2001 - but lead man Gerard Starkie has 'released' a new album in the form of 11 free tracks you can download from his MySpace page...
Mixed feelings about this approach, but a big "Yay!" coming from Birmingham under the thrilling, driving guitars of "The Script" & "The Recovery".
M@
Link: Gerard Starkie on MySpace
Added to the iPod today and getting a fairly serious listen:
Soulscape - Grave New World
A kind of hybrid of Fields of the Nephilim, with a Bauhaus undertone, Cruxshadows synth/sample vibe, and a hint of Metallica ...
I should have bought this a couple of years ago because ++ SHAMELESS NAMEDROP ++ the lead singer is a friend of mine of many years standing before he permanently departed to the States (not to say that he ceased to be my friend because he went to the US!) but I didn't. Got a copy today, and have been
very impressed thus far.
Samples at the link below ...
If you like 'em, the album is available to order at:
http://cgi.www.resurrectionmusic.com/cgi-bin/www.resurrectionmusic.com/actinic/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eresurrectionmusic%2ecom%2facatalog%2fsearch%2ehtml&WD=soulscape&PREVQUERY=RANDOM%3dNETQUOTEVAR%253ARANDOM%26PAGE%3dSEARCH%26SS%3dsoulscape%26TB%3dA%26PR%3d%2d1&PN=Online_Catalogue_Soulscape_502%2ehtml%23a1208#a1208
Dunno how to get an embedded URL to work, so apologies for the line wrap - you'll need to cut and paste.
Cheers!
Jim
Link: Soulscape
"Coheed & Cambria"
Am I the only person who thinks this sounds like a National Park ...?
And, having seen them on Scuzz, thinks that the singer looks like the long lost brother of Hurley from Lost?
Cheers!
Jim
Anyone listening to Muse, Blackholes and revelations? Like this loads.
and Rush, 30 years on and still can't be bettered.
Anyone listening to Muse, Blackholes and revelations?
My 12 year old is and she seems to like it. Not really my bag at all, though.
I am. A lot. It's a fine album and anyone listening to it at the age of 12 has a fine musical future. Go superdad! Also, I can't believe I forgot Tool! Mind you, seems like you've all heard that already!
I've just been having a MySpazz add-a-thon having come across a Lot of top notch reggae. I'm not sure how to post multiple links, so below is my favorite so far...
xTGx
Link: Prince Alla
"King's X (greatest band to ever walk the Earth!) "
No ... I'm sorry ... you can't type that with the Fields of the Nephilim directly above it in the list.
'The Nephilim' is quite possibly the finest album ever recorded ... 'Last Exit for the Lost' is nine minutes and forty-seven seconds of pure musical genius. That moment where, two thirds of the way in, Last Exit shifts up a gear with the words "And it's getting closer" ...
I swear that hearing the Fields perfom that live is as close to a religious experience as I'm ever likely to have ...
Cheers!
Jim
The Cure live at Wembly Arena July 1989 was cloe to a religious experience for me, so I know what you're talking about, Jim.
Seeing them years later on the Bloodflowers tour just wasn't the same. A younger, more complacent audience that didn't realise when the band played 'Faith' that it signified the end of the gig (they didn't play it in 1989), and so sat looking bored or wandered about, hoping for something livelier to follow, and not getting it.
'Last Exit for the Lost' is a great track, but starts off a bit slow and goes on a bit, too. 'The Watchman' is a great track, and 'Phobia' follows it really well. I'd choose 'Love Under Will' over 'Last Exit'.
Oh, and I got quite a buzz out of seeing Hardware on its theatrical release. A buzz of almost sexual excitement.
'Coz, you know, it had Carl McCoy in it. And he's not even a proper actor. Cool!
"Where's the littawl man?"
"Where's the littawl man?"
"Glass flats. Dune Sea. I go all over."
Damn, I love that movie.
See also, Lemmie:
"Used to be, you could go out with a piece of wood, maybe a piece of pipe. Now, you need a gun. All the fucking time."
Damn. I love that movie.
Where the hell is the new Fields video directed by Stanley? Eh?
Cheers!
Jim
Iggy Pop: "... And the good news is ... there is no fucking good news ...!"
"'Last Exit for the Lost' is a great track, but starts off a bit slow and goes on a bit, too."
Oh my word ... you are wrong, with a capital "RUH" and a capital "ONG".
'Last Exit' rocks like a complete bastard. So there.[1]
Cheers
Jim
[1] How's that for a reasoned response?
And you look at him expecting a growly voice and you get the lead singer of Rush...!
*bump*
For anyone who ever wondered what 'Mack The Knife' sounded like given a Brazilian treatment look no further..
'O Malandro' by Chico Buarque de Hollanda
'Mack The Knife' literally translated into Portuguese reads as 'Mack A Faca', (no, really) which maybe one reason why this version was so named 'O Malandro'.
'O Malandro' (slang) roughly translates as 'scheming-layabout-ne'er-do-well' and is the title track of Chico Buarque's 1978 'Opera Do Malandro' a piece of work which is partly a response (of sorts) to Kurt Weil and Bertolt Brecht's original 1928 'Die Dreigroschenoper', (The Threepenny Opera) of which 'Die Moritat von Mackie Messer', later translated by amongst others, Marc Blitzstein into 'Mack The Knife' is arguably the most famous tune from the piece.
Anyway, for those of you with a file-sharing account, who like to listen to obscure covers 'O Malandro' is worth a pop.
Link: Wiki stuff here..