>What did you think of the new Fugazi album? I say don't fix what ain't broken.
them's fightin' words! fugazi's new (year-old by now) album is arguably their best. deep, beautiful, aggressive, raw, organic, etc. or did you mean you liked it? all of fugazi's stuff is in constant consideration when the cd player door opens. in high school when i signed year books with ff i meant fugazi forever. well, not really, but you get the point. also, i just got the decline ep by nofx. brilliant work from a bunch of lazy slobs. in my printing practicum class we listened to whole bunch of music that my mother would be shocked to know i was listening to, like tomahawk (completely out of hand), a little band from suburban chicago called big'un, another out of control band called new brutalism, and this wicked cool canadian band called shotmaker. i still have a headache from it (it had to be loud to be heard over the a.b. dick). probably no one cares about this old string anymore, but there you have it anyway.
try thanassis papakonstantinou's "vrahnos profitis"... it's greek (maybe it will also sound to some of you), but it's still very okay, although it's two-three years old...
The New Mercury Program Fugazi - Instrument Bill Hicks - Philosophy Hoover - The Lurid Traversal of Route 7 NPR - This American Life The Pupils HWM - Caution
well, I'm not much for contemporary stuff, so my play list stays fairly constant.
Cabaret Voltaire (esp Voice of America and 1974-76) Velvet Underground Organisation (Tone Float is the only album I know to exist) Wire (esp 154) The Legendary Pink Dots The MC5
I noticed quite a few mentions for Fugazi. I think Instrument is the only album of theirs that I actually enjoy -- the less Guy the better.
>I think Instrument is the only album of theirs that I actually enjoy -- the less Guy the better.
understandable. when i try to explain fugazi to people who aren't familiar with them, i tell them it's two of the worst singers in the world. but poor guy, he's the raging passion, you gotta love him. btw, lately i've been listening to peter paul and mary's peter paul and mommy (children's) album. art by milton glaser (not anything great, but hey), and puff the magic dragon. my kids dig it.
As for kids music, my girls (age 5 and 3) can't get enough of the Toy Dolls (you know, the 80s punk band that did "Nellie the Eliphant"). Who would've guessed their goofy lyrics, thick british accents and punk flavor would be a hit with kids. Or maybe it's just their name.
Yes!! Soma FM is back again, I know since two weeks. I like very much of that channel. They didn't had some problems to paid the bild of the transmission? Is fantastic to start a great morning of work with all that sounds. hehehe
Regards and good music vibrations to all / Ricardo
jazzfm has an awsome program called the "Late Lounge" 2pm pacific time. They'll play the likes of Massive Attack , Thievery Corporation and Underworld in the same session.
Wow, Michael, that Beck set is great. (And I need to rescind my RealAudio rant. Their RealAudio archives are much, much better with the new--still free--RealOne player).
Stephen is responsible for reintroducing me to Cat Power.
Also, digging Interpol lately. It's like the distilled essence of alterna-eighties, in a modern package (sans the Casio keyboard and the hair).
Oh, and Jared introduced me to Add N to (X). Nice stuff. It's like the Chemical Brothers with a sense of humor, overlayed with Radiohead-esque textures.
Revisiting former bands like Soul Coughing and Kyuss. If it's a rough day may throw in some Rage or Fear Factory. For Groovin' Bad Boy Bill and JunkieXL. And I don't care what anybody says...I like Audioslave.
this may not be very cool. but I liked the last fugazi album
there's a really great act from DC called the Black Eyes. they have 3 drummers and 2 bassists. pretty amazing live So far theyve been releasing their own vinyl, but theyre supposed to have something produced by ian mckaye soon
Words are hard to come by when describing this sound. It will be familiar to some, but difficult to share why its worth searching for. If you can find this cd, take it for a spin, it's very rewarding.
you guys have got some great tastes in music. i love seeing things like fugazi, tortoise, wilco, sonic youth, the pixies, Cabaret Voltaire, the MC5. add (N) to X. some good stuff up in this mix.
if anyone is digging neue wave at the moment you should look into: figurine, the pulsars, zoot woman, fischerspooner, ladytron, console and adult.
Suddenly comeback to The Clash Black Market album after more than 15-20 years without listening it. A great pleasure, its great Rock band from the end of the 70's early 80's, so long.
At the moment I really dig the new, somewhat harder Porcupine Tree Album. And at least yesterday, when some poster and Freehands effing bugs drove me crazy, I listened to Steve Reich's
At the moment I really dig the new, somewhat harder Porcupine Tree Album. And at least yesterday, when some poster and Freehands effing bugs drove me crazy, I listened to Steve Reich's
other than that I listen to kexp.org in Seattle the old Univ of WA station that King of Seattle Paul Allen bought. 'Shake the Shack' is the best. Then for a laugh I listen to me mate Red Hickey on www.wdvx.com they are just down the street from Dollywood and Red a scream. Good ol' Rednecks.. they're just like foreigners. to everyone.
I just got a bunch of re-engineered Jefferson Airplane CDs. Amazing! I haven't listen to them in years and it brings back so many memories. Hot Tuna, too!
And lets not forget Harmony Row and Songs for a Tailor from Jack Bruce.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs! As raw as Beth Orton or maybe Cat Power, but more... unexpected. Check it out.
(No, not Hot Hot Heat -- who's lyrics are as repetetetetive as their name. Anyway, what's with band names nowadays? Soon they're gonna sound like race horses.)
Basement Jaxx 'Kish Kash' featuring Siouxsie Sioux. the Brixton boys are back from 245a Coldharbour Lane... too bad I didn't see Siouxie in the hall of our building but saw her and Felix on BBC Liquid news. .. Evanescence are Pop goth phonies compared to Siouxie.
Amy Winehouse.. 'Frank' 50 cent.... Cheeky Girls...eurotrash. Texas... weak scot pop from pop princess turned into a mum.. Alabama 3... more British southern funky soulful country from another Brixton band. Kiss100.. kisstory BBC London Live 8 Mile sountrack Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. the Osmonds again.. nice car music.
>>When I saw these guys bowing a guitar like a cello I had to look again.
Would that be like Jimmy Page was doing in 1969, or a different technique to that? (Cello implies a slightly different action, but I'm not sure how precise you're being). My 11 year old son plays guitar and I was thinking of giving him a bow for christmas - he was blown away when he saw page using a bow on Dazed & confused on the new DVD, but if there are other people who have used other approaches with bows I'd be keen to find out about them.
As for today's music: Led Zeppelin (of course) NOFX Frank Sinatra Naz Nomad & the Nightmares Steel Pulse Glen Millar Buzzcocks System of a Down Pink Floyd
godspeed you black emperor! sigur ros - ( ) joy division - unknown pleasures, closer high dependency unit - fireworks rotor+ jakob - cale:drew and you will know us by the trail of the dead - source tags & codes arvo p
I listen to Jazz and the best Jazz station around here is WBGO. Its out of Newark New Jersey, but can be heard at wbgo.org (online streaming) Its public radio no commercials. In terms of CDs I'm listening to The Bad Plus, Lizz Wright, Diana Krall, and Morellumbam 2 & Richi Sacamota
Excellent suggestion, JFP. I've been using iChatStatus for a long time and it's an excellent way to catch a bit of what is going into my buddies' ears all day. I suggest more Typophiles get on iChat or AIM and install that sucker.
Yeah, the end of the guitar was on the floor while he sat in a chair and drew the bow across the middle of the neck. Like a cello. Droning ensues, true to their signature sound. Not sure how Jimmy Page did it. Who's Jimmy Page? (j/k)
Allow me to imagine Jimmy Page, err I mean, describe how he held his guitar. Ahem. I mean to say that Jimmy would leave his guitar strapped on, slung low on his hips, and would bow the guitar from that position.
I play guitar, and sometimes I use a bow too. Now, I don't like playing with the guitar as low as Page used to... I use a viola bow on about the 12th fret and mute the nut to get rid of those unwanted harmonics.
That said, I've been listening to:
The Chicago Underground (Quartet | Trio | Duo) Isotope 217 Diana Krall Chet Baker (mostly 'Chet Baker Sings') Miles Davis ('Kind of Blue', 'Sketches of Spain') Belle & Sebastian (The first 3 albums) Tom Jobim & Elis Regina
I have Diana Krall in Paris its so cool. In Manhattan from 12 noon to 4pm Eastern Standard Time, is the Johnthan Swartz show on WNYC FM. wnyc.org he has an elictic program that is based on American Classics, he will go from Ella to Paul Simon
>>Steve, you like System? The lead singer is sort of a friend of mine.
That's cool Hrant - I've reached the point where I'm discovering new music through my kids and the general Kerrang-sound background noise that lives in my house. System are one of the bands that really stood out and made me stop and listen.
>>Who's Jimmy Page? (j/k) Does '(j/k)' stand for 'joke'?
>>I play guitar, and sometimes I use a bow too. Now, I don't like playing with the guitar as low as Page used to... I use a viola bow on about the 12th fret and mute the nut to get rid of those unwanted harmonics.
Thanks for the tips Adriano. How long do bows last when you're using them on a guitar? And is there a reason for choosing one type of bow over another, or is it just a matter of taste?
Hey. I'm a sucker for "What Are You Listening To" threads.
So,
Sonic Youth - Murray Street - Disconnection Notice, best song ever?
Quasi - Hot $hit (not really a dollar sign...) - Newest (and angriest) from Sam and Janet, blues-touched and great.
William Parker / Billy Bang / Hamid Drake - Scrapbook - Jazz Lives! Highly recommended, as is everything on the Matthew Shipp curated Blues Series imprint, or anything Parker and Drake play on.
Outkast - Love Below -The Andre 3000 album of the 2 album set. If you've worn out the P-Funk collection...
Elliott Smith - R.I.P.
Gories / Blacktop / Dirtbombs - Mick Collins is the real deal. Like the White Stripes? Cuz they like Mick (in all of his many bands).
Damn. Now I wanna start checking out some of the other suggs made. Working at a library has it's downsides.
<em>How long do bows last when you're using them on a guitar? And is there a reason for choosing one type of bow over another, or is it just a matter of taste?</em>
The bow I use isn't mine - the guy that used to play bass with me owns a viola (but never plays it), so I borrowed the bow. It's lasted a good 4 years now.
Back to the thread's original subject (although derailing a bit), I'd like to hear people's thoughts on the new Belle & Sebastian, "Dear Catastrophe Waitress". I really can't see it as B&S... it's a nice pop album, but it's just not the same band. I wonder if it was the lineup changes that got them to change this much, or if Stuart wanted to try something new... or maybe Trevor Horn did have a big influence as producer. The sound is much more polished, a far cry from the signature B&S lo-fi-ish sound, and I'm not sure about some of the lyrics: "I'm sorry if he hit you with a full can of coke, it's no joke / Your face is bleeding". I'll go back to "If you're feeling sinister"...
took the last shins album out of rotation as it was getting annoying. current playlist: collected erik satie / berlin philharmonic; jon brion’s ost for i heart huckabees; cherry twister; the drowners; jason falkner; dogs die in hot cars; kings of convenience remix album; ted leo / shake the sheets; ac/dc / back in black; circle jerks catalog
My latest haul from Amoeba, including: The Haunted — rEVOLVEr / Outbreak Records presents Biological Warfare mixed by Resonant Evil / Yello — You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess / Raveonettes — Pretty In Black / Caesars — Paper Tigers / Rein Sanction — Mariposa / The Velvet Teen presents “Elysium” / Akron/Family / Strapping Young Lad — Alien
But mostly just the ringing in my ears from the incredibly loud Dillinger Escape Plan show I went to last night. It didn’t really seem that loud at the time!
Soilwork , In Flames , Evergrey , Kamelot , Corrosion of Conformity , Opeth , Iced Earth , Shadows Fall , and on the indie side ... the bravery , the faint , phoenix ...
I take walks in Central Park and walk through the “Mall” often (I mention that for the Typecon attendies) and there is a Sax player that rocks, and he plays a lot of Stan Getz and Gilberto. “Tall and tan and young and lovely…”
With shuffle a permanent feature in iTunes everything has become happily random. That said, my recent purchases from the ever-present and completely tempting ITMS:
Nouvelle Vague (Nouvelle Vague)
Keane (Hopes and Fears)
Amos House Collective (Volumes 1-3)
Keren Ann (Nolita)
Sufjan Stevens (A Sun Came)
Beck (Guero)
A.C. Newman (The Slow Wonder)
sure this new, pop, funky stuff is ok... but I prefer...
Taj Mahal - (“Giant Step...” and his self titled cd are phenomenal) Keb’ Mo’ - (try “The Door”) Ray Charles - (the older the better, stay away from “Thanks for Bringing the Love Around”) Robert Randolph and the Family Band - (very very good) Jimi Hendrix - (get “The Jimi Hendrix Experience” box set 4cds, incredible compilation of live and rare recordings with outakes) Led Zeppelin - (most, in general)
Those are some of my current and/or all time favorites off the top of my head
also check out for variety...
Bela Fleck
Blind Boys of Alabama
Clifton Chenier
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Frank Sinatra
Johnny Cash
Man or Astro Man
Norah Jones
Outcast
Orchestra Baobab
Reverend Horton Heat
Rolling Stones
Son House
Tim Reynolds - acoustic live only...
iTunes party shuffle is great... so technically these are all in my playlist. That was a lot I suppose, but worth it. Editing is difficult...
Pixies, Bunbury, Radiohead, Raphael, Ladytron, Ween, Skinny Puppy, Los Pelados del Norte, Mano Negra, Interpol, La Barranca, San Pascualito Rey, Rammstein, ABBA (!), Sisters of Mercy, Starsailor, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Björk, Bowie, Led Zep, Muse, Los Toreros Muertos. All of them being assorted Mp3 on my PC.
Never saw Siouxsie’s Banshees or Creatures as being gothies. In my opinion, they were mostly experimenting with different kind of sounds. For eighties gothies there were the Sisters, the Nephilim...
By the way, ¿is there something of the “new” Goth from this decade not some cloning from the eighties? Still searchin’...
Interpol, yes, of course they are Joy Division clones, but they are great live and have punch to their songs -Joy Division was conceptually great but Ian Curtis “sang” terribly, let´s admit it!!! (Not as terribly as the singer in New Order, though).
kind of eclectic but iTunes said so:
stan getz, a.c. jobim, joao & astrud gilberto, james brown, al jarreau,
michel legrand, quincy jones, madredeus, towa tei, jamiroquai, burt bacharach,
the orb, michael franks, diana krall, fitzgerald +previn (live in berlin or rome, not sure),
pat metheny, charlie parker, toots thielemans, beck, cake, bjork and chemical bro’s...
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famous friends from my hometown www.thebambimolesters.com
I understand why you wouldn’t want to label Siousxie and the Banshees/Creatures and being Goth, however they did have serious impact on the scene itself. I was involved in the Goth/Industrial scene for sometime throughout the 90’s and they were at the forefront of what was happening musically. (I remember some of my friends used to cry when Siousxie would come on stage. :) ) Robert Smith once said that he and Siousxie never intended for people to categorize them in this manner, they don’t consider themselves a part of any scene or genre – but they are flattered all the same.
I am not that familiar with the goth scene anymore (I still stick to the oldies) but it seems that this genre has morphed itself into contemporary “alternative” hard rock/punk. I can’t give any examples as I avoid these records like the plague. I truly believe the goth scene died mid-nineties. Though, Peter Murphy is on tour again, I will be seeing him next week in Portland and I CANNOT wait. :)
Interpol, great band, and yes, obviously influenced by Joy Division, another one of my favorites. No matter how awful some may perceive Ian Curtis’ voice to be, I still hear sweetness in songs like “Atmosphere.” I highly recommend picking up some JD on vinyl – there is a quality to the music that is lost in other mediums. Early New Order did quite well with carrying on the Warsaw/Joy Division sound, but as soon as they went into mainstream discos, there wasn’t much left for me to really enjoy.
Anyone ever hear New Order’s Video 5-8-6? (intense, bass driven, 28 minute track)
Peter Murphy on tour? Who knew. Peter Murphy was one of those who actually grew musically post-goth (see also David Bowie) while others of the era rehash their old crap (see Rolling Stones).
How come David Bowie and Peter Murphy get better as they get older and Sting keeps getting worse? :/
I was lucky enough to see Bauhaus playing in Mexico City four or five years ago. Marvellous. The place where they played in was closed the day after because it was in a very ruined and dangerous state and was not designed to hold so many people. :) Nobody died the day of the concert, though.
I was a big Cure fan for maybe ten years, but I think the “good” Cure’s final record was Disintegration. Others might disagree. The old material is powerful as ever to me. Same with the Banshees’ catalogue.
Joe & Tiffany: I find that P.Murphy has gone a little bland also, but he’s still got it. Sting? Yes, perhaps too much yoga AND wanting to appeal to 16-year olds with mellow ditties. Bowie’s secret?: Get yourself accompanied by young, innovative musicians. His Outside CD was really great and well... chamaleonic.
I saw Bauhaus at the Old Vic in London in 1983, this was a farewell gig (and last performance for the Old Vic before it was gutted and refitted) with Pete Murphy swinging from the curtains, but he lost points for the Maxell ads and Bauhaus never equalled Bela Lugosi’s Dead for me, although they did give a good performance. I wouldn’t categorise Siousxie Sioux as goth, mainly because of their obvious punk roots (not that I really approve of trying to pigeonhole artists), I did see her in the audience at a Nick Cave gig promoting Murder Ballads at which Kylie Minogue performed a guest spot.
Tim
today’s mix yet:
orchestra baobab - specialist in all styles
dälek - from filthy tongues of gods and griots
john coltrane - quartet
roots manuva - run come save me
I have been listening to the Smashing Pumpkins these last days, they remember me the high school. Also I boght the Led Zeppelin Remasters and the last cd of The Mars Volta, sublime.
Nono, Siouxie never really was Goth, not a single moment. The Creatures were to experimental for that label and the Banshees too pop.
That said, at the moment I’m pretty straightforward into retro80s THE-Bands. Athelete, Engineers, Arcade Fire, Snow Patrol, The Faint, Te Doves... stuff like that.
The new Porcupine Tree album is fairly good, although not as breathtaking as the last three outings.
Jem is surprisingly good pop.
The new Mars Volta is pretty much the same as the last album, there is no other band like that, at the moment.
There’s some good German bands at the moment, Bosse, Tomte, Niels Frevert, Kettcar.
The new New Order is, alas, boring as hell. I think I should just buy the Saville-covers and leave the actual CD in the stores. Same goies for the new Tori Amos CD, very been-there-done-that, but with the addition that not even the coverdesign is pleasant.
The Tord Gustavsen Trio (on the great ECM label) is wonderful stuff, great Jazz.
These days, thanks to iTunes, my listening habits have changed a bt. Where formerly any new CD would run for a few days in the studios CD-Player, now a new-bought album will get MP3-d pronto and put into the maelstrom of thousands of tracks played at random in itunes, so here in the studio AC/DC is followed by Schubert, Chet Baker by Slime. It makes for pretty weird surprises, but I haven’t digitalized my whole CD-collection yet. As I have an ipod in my car now as well, the same principle applies there. As a result, my listening habits have a bit... fractalized, strangely enough.
Looking forward to Roisin Murphys first solo-album «Ruby Blue», shame about Moloko, though. ro is a great singer and Herbert should guarantee a nice soundtrack... but Moloko was one of the best pop bands these recent years, along with Lamb, who seem to be vanishing as well.
Thanks to iTunes shuffle: Louis Prima, Captain Beefheart, The Durutti Column, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Johnny ’Guitar’ Watson, Soul Coughing, The Fall, Ivor Cutler, The Chemical Brothers, Anton Karas,Alice Cooper, Elbow, John Barry, N*E*R*D, Air, Snow Patrol, Brian Wilson, Gonzales, Ian Brown, Sly & The Family Stone, The Beatles, Brian Eno, Goldfrapp, 808 State, Coil, The Flaming Lips, Neil Young, Buddy Holly, Grandaddy, Django Reinhardt, Cornelius, Spike Jones, Pink Floyd, Associates, Nick Drake, Magazine. The Beta Band.
Normally I use either a PC with WinAmp or Media Player, or a portable -cheap but reliable- Mp3 player to hear my music, so I have to ask: what’s so marvellous about iTunes?
I am able to store/transport whatever music/data I want. I am able to shuffle, have visualizations for the songs, etc. Standard features. Am I missing something?
the Tears -
Pixies - Bosanova
Pixies - Surfer Rosa & Come on Pilgrim
Kylie - Ulitimate Kylie ( http://www.thepinkbraceletfund.org/ )
Basement Jaxx - Rooty and Kish Kash
Dominatrix Sleeps tonight - Dominatrix
Rockin’ it - Fearless Four
Step on - Happy Mondays
Last night a dj saved my life - Indeep
Buffalo Gals - Malcom McClaren
Cavern - Liquid Liquid
Buffalo Stance - Nenah Cherry
Fetenhits - neue deutsche welle 2
Yesterday I stumbled upon a CD my sister forgot in the house (she studies contemporary dance in other city). The CD is only labelled “Wim Mertems” yet it became one of my favourites in a single day.
I actually couldn´t find anything about this Wim Mertems on the internet so I guess I’ll have to wait a couple of weeks to ask my sister about it.
That’s cuz it’s probably actually Wim Mertens, who has about ten billion albums out.
While I’m here, now I too have an Audioscrobbler feed: http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/othiym23/. Apparently this week I’m really into The Fall, Ikara Colt, Roots Manuva, and the Epoxies. I’ve also been listening to the new Sleater-Kinney pretty relentlessly, but it’s not made it into my Audioscrobbler listing yet.
more pink martini: this time it’s hang on little tomato
glen phillip’s winter pays for summer
and paul anka’s version of blackhole sun, smells like teen spirit and wonderwall
When you come to Typecon in NYC and want to listen to the best jazz 88.3 FM WBGO. Listener sponsored radio and from 3-4 during M-F is the Blues Hour. If you would like a taste on-line streaming wbgo.org
It was a great loss when my son left home and took all his CDs with him, several of which I had become quite attached to (I missed the boy too). The other day I felt like a bit of Schnittke, in particular the Kronos recording of the String Quartets (great sleeve design BTW, featuring Alias’ Granite face), but it was gone with Eric. So I went down to the local classical store to see if I could get a copy, but they didn’t have one. Desparate for a Schnittke fix, I bought “Oleg Kagan plays Schnittke”. Really enjoying Concerto No. 3 for Violin.
Always liked Peggy Lee but never heard her early work with Benny Goodman. My dad has a compilation album in his car, which he’s lent me while he’s on vacation, so I popped it on, and was gobsmacked — she sounded so different then, and even more world-weary.
Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Kasabian... Lots of stuff beginning with “K”. Saint Etienne and The Specials have also being appearing a lot recently on my iPod.
Blood Brothers — Crimes, Book of Dead Names — Blood of the Young EP, Digitata — Sexually Transmitted Emotions, Ice Cube — Amerikkka’s Most Wanted, The Knife — Deep Cuts, Start Destruct — UNTITLED, All Thunderbirds Are Now, All Tracy and the Plastics.
Cripes! It’s happened: I’ve turned into my father. I am utterly clueless on about 95% of the band/artist names being bandied about here. And what worries me more is that, lately, I have come to believe that Rosemary Clooney rocks...
Don’t worry oldnick... All of the bands I’ve mentioned here are British... we know how difficult it for UK artists/groups is to break into the US music market (unless you’re The Beatles). But, it also works the other way round as I’ve never ever heard of Rosemary Clooney! =)
Fountains of Wayne, my favorite purveyors of power pop, just released a 2-CD set* of b-sides, non-album singles, demos, etc. Awesome stuff — their discards outclass most bands’ official output.
*”Out of State Plates,” for those shopping at home.
I just picked up the new Audioslave album, “Out of Exile” - seems great so far.
Am also listening to:
Paul Van Dyk’s Reflections
Thievery Corporation’s Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi which features a whole plethora of songs by Stan Getz, Chico Hamilton and Sergio Mendes, just to name a few.
Thievery Corporation’s new album “The Cosmic Game”
Wilco’s “A Ghost is Born”
and finally, some good local group music, Rheostatics; “True North”
At moment listening to quite a lot of power pop, like:
Brendan Benson, Oranger, The Sights, Jason Faulkner, Bronco Bullfrog, Death Ray Davies, Cotton Mather, etc, etc.
Blackalicious Nia - it’s so, so good
Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas - Madlib getting stoned
The Arcade Fire (their recently re-released first EP) - if you liked Funeral, you’ll like this
Plane Hello More - picked it up on a recommendation from my record store, compared it to Modest Mouse, Interpol, and Postal Service
“In the days that follow look at our airports, look at our sea ports and look at our railway stations and, even after your cowardly attack, you will see that people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfil their dreams and achieve their potential.”
“They choose to come to London, as so many have come before because they come to be free, they come to live the life they choose, they come to be able to be themselves. They flee you because you tell them how they should live. They don’t want that and nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail.”
Nice one Tiffany, you’ve got to love the bands coming out of the UK recently.
At the moment I’m into The Doves (the Last Broadcast being their best work to date - Some Cities gets (imho) overrated reviews and doesn’t live up to the hype). Saw them recently and they’re great. My new favourite band is The Magic Numbers, they’re also great live. Other than that, Royksopp are great as background electronica. Not feeling the latest Coldplay album quite yet, though. James Blunt’s also getting a lot of airplay in our house due to my girlfriend - and REM (they played Nottingham last week and were superb). Oh, I mustn’t leave out Athlete who are well worth a listen.
Speaking of the UK... I found this podcast, Not Your Usual Bollocks (iTunes link requires v4.9). Very tasty, half hour block of various indie tracks with very little talk. The host plays some obscure stuff (to my ears) - Brit electronica, German electronic. He mixes in just enough recognizable stuff from Kasabian, Autolux, Aphex Twin, to keep it at least a tad familiar. Very highly recommended! (Isn’t it rare to find a podcast you can actually recommend?)
Ah, c’mon. What’s like with out a little hairband? =^D Their ’best of’ was released on iTunes and I found myself having a flashback to torn jeans, black leather, and big
17.Oct.2002 9.39am
I've been in a dazey mood lately. Beck's new album, Sea Change, is helping me thrive.
3.Nov.2002 10.54pm
>What did you think of the new Fugazi album? I say don't fix what ain't broken.
them's fightin' words! fugazi's new (year-old by now) album is arguably their best. deep, beautiful, aggressive, raw, organic, etc. or did you mean you liked it? all of fugazi's stuff is in constant consideration when the cd player door opens. in high school when i signed year books with ff i meant fugazi forever. well, not really, but you get the point. also, i just got the decline ep by nofx. brilliant work from a bunch of lazy slobs. in my printing practicum class we listened to whole bunch of music that my mother would be shocked to know i was listening to, like tomahawk (completely out of hand), a little band from suburban chicago called big'un, another out of control band called new brutalism, and this wicked cool canadian band called shotmaker. i still have a headache from it (it had to be loud to be heard over the a.b. dick). probably no one cares about this old string anymore, but there you have it anyway.
4.Nov.2002 4.52am
Nice radio: http://www.last.fm
4.Nov.2002 5.05am
try thanassis papakonstantinou's "vrahnos profitis"... it's greek (maybe it will also sound to some of you), but it's still very okay, although it's two-three years old...
16.Nov.2002 2.35pm
Lonely beer Midnight kerning music:
--------------------------Jeff Buckley
20.Nov.2002 6.05am
The last Mimi Maura's CD: "Raices de Pasión"
The best bolero-ska-reggae mix!!
http://www.mimimaura.com.ar/
Ramiro.
20.Nov.2002 6.21am
The New Mercury Program
Fugazi - Instrument
Bill Hicks - Philosophy
Hoover - The Lurid Traversal of Route 7
NPR - This American Life
The Pupils
HWM - Caution
20.Nov.2002 7.43am
issac - naw, i didnt like the last fugazi album, it was different in a way that i didnt like.
shotmaker, however, were a great band.
right now, im listening to:
Black Dice
Blood Brothers
Erase Errata
Song of Zarathustra
An Albatross
yep.
20.Nov.2002 10.39am
Plastyk Elephant.
http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/mbr/mbr1cd016.html
hhp
20.Nov.2002 3.41pm
PAvemenT
2.Dec.2002 10.47am
well, I'm not much for contemporary stuff, so my play list stays fairly constant.
Cabaret Voltaire (esp Voice of America and 1974-76)
Velvet Underground
Organisation (Tone Float is the only album I know to exist)
Wire (esp 154)
The Legendary Pink Dots
The MC5
I noticed quite a few mentions for Fugazi. I think Instrument is the only album of theirs that I actually enjoy -- the less Guy the better.
2.Dec.2002 5.11pm
My Napstered MP3s ... The Katies, Belmont Playboys, Bosstones, etc.,etc. ...
I'm all for supporting artists but damn, do I miss Napster...
2.Dec.2002 8.21pm
>I think Instrument is the only album of theirs that I actually enjoy -- the less Guy the better.
understandable. when i try to explain fugazi to people who aren't familiar with them, i tell them it's two of the worst singers in the world. but poor guy, he's the raging passion, you gotta love him. btw, lately i've been listening to peter paul and mary's peter paul and mommy (children's) album. art by milton glaser (not anything great, but hey), and puff the magic dragon. my kids dig it.
2.Dec.2002 9.51pm
I was glad to hear Soma FM is back online.
As for kids music, my girls (age 5 and 3) can't get
enough of the Toy Dolls (you know, the 80s punk band
that did "Nellie the Eliphant"). Who would've guessed
their goofy lyrics, thick british accents and punk flavor
would be a hit with kids. Or maybe it's just their name.
3.Dec.2002 1.54pm
Yes!! Soma FM is back again, I know since two weeks. I like very much of that channel. They didn't had some problems to paid the bild of the transmission?
Is fantastic to start a great morning of work with all that sounds. hehehe
Regards and good music vibrations to all / Ricardo
3.Dec.2002 2.19pm
Fugazi? Its all in the drums.
6.Dec.2002 2.55pm
guy makes that band. he whines like a champion. love it.
7.Dec.2002 5.08pm
Need New Body / Rock Your Body
http://www.neednewbody.com
11.Dec.2002 11.07am
radio42 : Music for Lounge-Lovers. Ambient.Chillout.House.Soul.Funk.
http://www.radio42.com/
11.Dec.2002 12.02pm
"VERVE REMIXED" IS GREAT!!!!
Ramiro.
12.Dec.2002 11.39am
MINGUS PLAYS PIANO
spontaneous compositions and improvisations
&
VINCENT GALLO
when
Of course.
18.Feb.2003 9.25pm
KCRW (http://www.kcrw.com). The world-class "Morning
Becomes Eclectic" show is finally an MP3 stream and no
longer a lame Real Audio broadcast.
(Note: It's a true 'simulcast' so you can see the
programming on the site.)
Enjoy.
19.Feb.2003 5.34am
Current list:
Lisa Ekdal: Heaven Earth and Beyond
Brad Mehldau: Largo
John Scofield band: Uberjam
Paul Weller: Illumination
19.Feb.2003 6.28am
kcrw is great, and they (MBE) have a lot of their sessions archived. Two sessions to listen to, Beck with the Falming Lips and Paul Weller. http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=mb&tmplt_type=program
Two other sites worth visiting include http://www.kexp.org/ and http://www.jazzfm.com/
jazzfm has an awsome program called the "Late Lounge" 2pm pacific time. They'll play the likes of Massive Attack , Thievery Corporation and Underworld in the same session.
If that's your type of music, run out and get Winter Chill http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000075A1U/qid=1045664794/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-2493026-7641656
19.Feb.2003 2.46pm
Today:
Zen and the art of Chilling
The Stone Roses (The Stone Roses)
Massive Attack (100th Window)
T
20.Feb.2003 10.43am
Wow, Michael, that Beck set is great. (And I need to rescind
my RealAudio rant. Their RealAudio archives are much,
much better with the new--still free--RealOne player).
12.Mar.2003 10.41am
Stephen is responsible for reintroducing me to Cat Power.
Also, digging Interpol lately. It's like the distilled
essence of alterna-eighties, in a modern package (sans
the Casio keyboard and the hair).
Oh, and Jared introduced me to Add N to (X).
Nice stuff. It's like the Chemical Brothers with a sense of
humor, overlayed with Radiohead-esque textures.
12.Mar.2003 10.54am
What Tiffany meant is T
13.Mar.2003 7.07am
if you dig Interpol and alterna-eighties, i think you'll probably like Radio4 and Liars too.
24.Mar.2003 5.12pm
Notwist, "Neon Golden".
28.Mar.2003 9.50am
Revisiting former bands like Soul Coughing and Kyuss. If it's a rough day may throw in some Rage or Fear Factory. For Groovin' Bad Boy Bill and JunkieXL. And I don't care what anybody says...I like Audioslave.
4.Apr.2003 8.36am
this may not be very cool.
but I liked the last fugazi album
there's a really great act from DC called the Black Eyes. they have 3 drummers and 2 bassists. pretty amazing live
So far theyve been releasing their own vinyl, but theyre supposed to have something produced by ian mckaye soon
17.Apr.2003 7.56pm
Tortoise - Thrill 013?
Jim O'rourke - Bad Timing
Sonic Youth - Murry Street
17.Apr.2003 8.03pm
Respect for Tortoise! Here's my stuff.
17.Apr.2003 8.18pm
I do not know what that is Stephen, but I'll have
to put a call out for the American Analog Set.
18.Apr.2003 11.30am
Sigur R
23.Apr.2003 9.59am
16 Horsepower thanks to Stewf.
Yee-Haw!
24.Apr.2003 6.16pm
Words are hard to come by when describing this sound. It will be familiar to some, but difficult to share why its worth searching for. If you can find this cd, take it for a spin, it's very rewarding.
Punjabi Lounge
http://www.fusion3.com/albums/flubulcd07/
25.Apr.2003 12.27am
How you listen music at work? with you computer, with an ipod, with another medium?
I wonder that, because I waited long long before to finally purchase last saturday these
25.Apr.2003 7.20am
Bonjour M. Porchez
J'utilise le dvd-rom de mon G4 qui utilise un convertisseur usb iMic. Le convertisseur est brancher via de tr
25.Apr.2003 7.35am
Oh, those creatures look nice, J-F. ;-)
I usually listen to music with my computer, but I still listen to K7s with my walkman every day.
Btw, I'm like 4 years late on this, but I've just discovered Wilco's "Summerteeth" other day. Really great album, a classic.
25.Apr.2003 7.48am
> How you listen music at work?
http://www.shoutcast.com
hhp
12.Jun.2003 11.57am
you guys have got some great tastes in music. i love seeing things like fugazi, tortoise, wilco, sonic youth, the pixies, Cabaret Voltaire, the MC5. add (N) to X. some good stuff up in this mix.
if anyone is digging neue wave at the moment you should look into: figurine, the pulsars, zoot woman, fischerspooner, ladytron, console and adult.
13.Jun.2003 1.57pm
sigur ros (),
kings of convenience - erlend oye
iron and wine
always reliving: galaxy 500, velvet underground, nick drake, red house painters, slowdive, ride.....
13.Jun.2003 2.56pm
Suddenly comeback to The Clash Black Market album after more than 15-20 years without listening it. A great pleasure, its great Rock band from the end of the 70's early 80's, so long.
13.Jun.2003 8.24pm
This is my current play list shuffled in itunes (heavily influenced by kexp.org)
Blur
Hot Hot Heat
Interpol*
Morcheeba
New Pornographers
Pete Yorn
Polyphonic Spree
Radiohead
Sigur R
13.Jul.2003 5.54pm
SLOWDIVE
18.Jul.2003 3.28pm
slowdive... rad!!! ride? my bloody valentine?
14.Aug.2003 4.18pm
Evanescence, REALLY loud.
14.Aug.2003 4.42pm
The Osmonds 'Ultimate connection' driving in Tuscany. First CD sounds like Guns and Roses.
14.Aug.2003 9.13pm
Ha, I must admit, I've been listening to Evanescence too!
I can't say I loved their album, but there are some nice tracks there.
:-)
14.Aug.2003 11.19pm
At the moment I really dig the new, somewhat harder Porcupine Tree Album.
And at least yesterday, when some poster and Freehands effing bugs drove me crazy, I listened to Steve Reich's
14.Aug.2003 11.19pm
At the moment I really dig the new, somewhat harder Porcupine Tree Album.
And at least yesterday, when some poster and Freehands effing bugs drove me crazy, I listened to Steve Reich's
15.Aug.2003 2.17am
other than that I listen to kexp.org in Seattle the old Univ of WA station that King of Seattle Paul Allen bought. 'Shake the Shack' is the best. Then for a laugh I listen to me mate Red Hickey on www.wdvx.com they are just down the street from Dollywood and Red a scream. Good ol' Rednecks.. they're just like foreigners. to everyone.
12.Sep.2003 3.40pm
I can't get enough Beth Orton lately. Don't know what it is... her voice is like butter.
12.Sep.2003 4.11pm
Jean, Black Market Clash is one of the best albums of all
time. Perfect for driving.
12.Sep.2003 6.50pm
I know what you mean about Beth Orton.
Stars from Montreal is not bad either.
I just got a bunch of re-engineered Jefferson Airplane CDs. Amazing! I haven't listen to them in years and it brings back so many memories. Hot Tuna, too!
And lets not forget Harmony Row and Songs for a Tailor from Jack Bruce.
5.Nov.2003 1.00am
Yeah Yeah Yeahs! As raw as Beth Orton or maybe Cat Power, but more... unexpected. Check it out.
(No, not Hot Hot Heat -- who's lyrics are as repetetetetive as their name. Anyway, what's with band names nowadays? Soon they're gonna sound like race horses.)
5.Nov.2003 2.10am
Ever heard of Bob Dylan?
You guys make me feel like Rip Van Winkle
5.Nov.2003 2.47am
Basement Jaxx 'Kish Kash' featuring Siouxsie Sioux. the Brixton boys are back from 245a Coldharbour Lane... too bad I didn't see Siouxie in the hall of our building but saw her and Felix on BBC Liquid news. .. Evanescence are Pop goth phonies compared to Siouxie.
Amy Winehouse.. 'Frank'
50 cent....
Cheeky Girls...eurotrash.
Texas... weak scot pop from pop princess turned into a mum..
Alabama 3... more British southern funky soulful country from another Brixton band.
Kiss100.. kisstory
BBC London Live
8 Mile sountrack
Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
the Osmonds again.. nice car music.
5.Nov.2003 2.53am
Don't you worry Gerald you are not alone, I'm listening to Dylan right now - John Wesley Harding.
5.Nov.2003 3.11am
>>When I saw these guys bowing a guitar like a
cello I had to look again.
Would that be like Jimmy Page was doing in 1969, or a different technique to that? (Cello implies a slightly different action, but I'm not sure how precise you're being). My 11 year old son plays guitar and I was thinking of giving him a bow for christmas - he was blown away when he saw page using a bow on Dazed & confused on the new DVD, but if there are other people who have used other approaches with bows I'd be keen to find out about them.
As for today's music:
Led Zeppelin (of course)
NOFX
Frank Sinatra
Naz Nomad & the Nightmares
Steel Pulse
Glen Millar
Buzzcocks
System of a Down
Pink Floyd
5.Nov.2003 3.21am
Millar??
Miller, obviously, as its Glen not Gavin
5.Nov.2003 3.30am
Peter,
Did you know I spent some time with Janis Joplin?
http://lanstontype.com/GiampaIntroduction.html
5.Nov.2003 3.30am
hmm. It seems typophiles have a generally good
taste in music. I dig the local scene. There is
nothing like picking up a wicked homegrown album.
Can anyone tell me what Tortoise is like? I am meaning
to purchase one of their albums.
www.pitchforkmedia.com is a wonderful place for
reviews.
current:
godspeed you black emperor!
sigur ros - ( )
joy division - unknown pleasures, closer
high dependency unit - fireworks
rotor+
jakob - cale:drew
and you will know us by the trail of the dead - source
tags & codes
arvo p
5.Nov.2003 5.42am
I listen to Jazz and the best Jazz station around here is WBGO. Its out of Newark New Jersey, but can be heard at wbgo.org (online streaming) Its public radio no commercials. In terms of CDs I'm listening to The Bad Plus, Lizz Wright, Diana Krall, and Morellumbam 2 & Richi Sacamota
5.Nov.2003 8.02am
The Bad Plus is amazing, I like also theses days Brad Mehldau, Lisa Ekdahl, Roy Hardgrove last one.
When not listening Jazz, The last Paul Weller "Fly on the Wall", Black Eyed Peas "Elephunk", Beyonc
5.Nov.2003 8.29am
Excellent suggestion, JFP. I've been using iChatStatus for a
long time and it's an excellent way to catch a bit of what is
going into my buddies' ears all day. I suggest more Typophiles
get on iChat or AIM and install that sucker.
Here is an old list of Typophile AIM names. I've reactivated
the thread. Add yours to it.
5.Nov.2003 9.27am
Steve, you like System? The lead singer is sort of a friend of mine.
hhp
5.Nov.2003 10.26am
I have been listening to Messer fur Frau Muller and Messer Chups lately. Russian inde wierdness.
Anyone else know them?
5.Nov.2003 12.05pm
I've been listening to Anoushka Shankar Live at Carnegie Hall again and again and again. 'Tis excellent.
5.Nov.2003 1.30pm
> Bowing a guitar like a cello.
Yeah, the end of the guitar was on the floor while he sat in a chair and drew the bow across the middle of the neck. Like a cello. Droning ensues, true to their signature sound. Not sure how Jimmy Page did it. Who's Jimmy Page? (j/k)
5.Nov.2003 1.43pm
Allow me to imagine Jimmy Page, err I mean, describe how he held his guitar. Ahem. I mean to say that Jimmy would leave his guitar strapped on, slung low on his hips, and would bow the guitar from that position.
(If only I'd been born 20 years earlier!)
5.Nov.2003 1.59pm
I play guitar, and sometimes I use a bow too. Now, I don't like playing with the guitar as low as Page used to... I use a viola bow on about the 12th fret and mute the nut to get rid of those unwanted harmonics.
That said, I've been listening to:
The Chicago Underground (Quartet | Trio | Duo)
Isotope 217
Diana Krall
Chet Baker (mostly 'Chet Baker Sings')
Miles Davis ('Kind of Blue', 'Sketches of Spain')
Belle & Sebastian (The first 3 albums)
Tom Jobim & Elis Regina
5.Nov.2003 3.31pm
I have Diana Krall in Paris its so cool. In Manhattan from 12 noon to 4pm Eastern Standard Time, is the Johnthan Swartz show on WNYC FM. wnyc.org he has an elictic program that is based on American Classics, he will go from Ella to Paul Simon
6.Nov.2003 2.59am
>>Steve, you like System? The lead singer is sort of a friend of mine.
That's cool Hrant - I've reached the point where I'm discovering new music through my kids and the general Kerrang-sound background noise that lives in my house. System are one of the bands that really stood out and made me stop and listen.
>>Who's Jimmy Page? (j/k)
Does '(j/k)' stand for 'joke'?
>>I play guitar, and sometimes I use a bow too. Now, I don't like playing with the guitar as low as Page used to... I use a viola bow on about the 12th fret and mute the nut to get rid of those unwanted harmonics.
Thanks for the tips Adriano. How long do bows last when you're using them on a guitar? And is there a reason for choosing one type of bow over another, or is it just a matter of taste?
6.Nov.2003 6.59am
Current iPod faves:
New Pornographers - Electric Version
T
6.Nov.2003 7.28am
I'll throw a couple ipod favs up too.
Belle & Sebastian
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Death Cab For Cutie
Transatlanticism
Grandaddy
Sumday
Kings Of Leon
Youth & Young Manhood
The Long Winters
When I Pretend To Fall
My Morning Jacket
It Still Moves
Pretty Girls Make Graves
The New Romance
The Detroit Cobras
Love, Life And Leaving
The Shins
Chutes Too Narrow
The Wrens
The Meadowlands
Yo La Tengo
Summer Sun
6.Nov.2003 7.38am
Hey.
I'm a sucker for "What Are You Listening To" threads.
So,
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
- Disconnection Notice, best song ever?
Quasi - Hot $hit (not really a dollar sign...)
- Newest (and angriest) from Sam and Janet, blues-touched and great.
William Parker / Billy Bang / Hamid Drake - Scrapbook
- Jazz Lives! Highly recommended, as is everything on the Matthew Shipp curated Blues Series imprint, or anything Parker and Drake play on.
Outkast - Love Below
-The Andre 3000 album of the 2 album set. If you've worn out the P-Funk collection...
Elliott Smith
- R.I.P.
Gories / Blacktop / Dirtbombs
- Mick Collins is the real deal. Like the White Stripes? Cuz they like Mick (in all of his many bands).
Damn. Now I wanna start checking out some of the other suggs made. Working at a library has it's downsides.
David Roughs
6.Nov.2003 9.09pm
Here's my WinAmp playlist:
http://members.aol.com/kakaze/playlist.html
7.Nov.2003 5.13am
Some current favs:
The Zombies, "Odissey And Oracle"
Neil Young, "After The Gold Rush"
B&S, "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
... and, The Darkness! :-)
14.Nov.2003 2.37pm
<em>How long do bows last when you're using them on a guitar? And is there a reason for choosing one type of bow over another, or is it just a matter of taste?</em>
The bow I use isn't mine - the guy that used to play bass with me owns a viola (but never plays it), so I borrowed the bow. It's lasted a good 4 years now.
Back to the thread's original subject (although derailing a bit), I'd like to hear people's thoughts on the new Belle & Sebastian, "Dear Catastrophe Waitress". I really can't see it as B&S... it's a nice pop album, but it's just not the same band. I wonder if it was the lineup changes that got them to change this much, or if Stuart wanted to try something new... or maybe Trevor Horn did have a big influence as producer.
The sound is much more polished, a far cry from the signature B&S lo-fi-ish sound, and I'm not sure about some of the lyrics: "I'm sorry if he hit you with a full can of coke, it's no joke / Your face is bleeding".
I'll go back to "If you're feeling sinister"...
10.May.2005 2.47pm
Mmm, currently enjoying Tegan and Sarah.
10.May.2005 2.56pm
what??? can we wake up old threads now?
two disks of Carpenters classics. sweet!
10.May.2005 2.58pm
You always could Paul... They’re all still here, just obscured by the lack of search currently.
See my post about searching: http://typophile.com/node/12344
10.May.2005 3.27pm
Various albums from Amon Tobin, and Ed Rush and optical are in high rotation here.
10.May.2005 4.26pm
Tindersticks and Idlewild in heavy rotation. And a lot of Gregorian chant that I’m trying to learn.
10.May.2005 4.30pm
Royksopp ( still ...)
Aphex ( still ...)
Japan ( again )
Peter Licht
Boards of Canada ( still ...)
and a bunch of live CAN which was on bitorrent!
10.May.2005 4.34pm
took the last shins album out of rotation as it was getting annoying. current playlist: collected erik satie / berlin philharmonic; jon brion’s ost for i heart huckabees; cherry twister; the drowners; jason falkner; dogs die in hot cars; kings of convenience remix album; ted leo / shake the sheets; ac/dc / back in black; circle jerks catalog
—-
jlt : http://www.hewnandhammered.com : rock & roll mf
10.May.2005 4.49pm
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/stewf
10.May.2005 5.33pm
My latest haul from Amoeba, including: The Haunted — rEVOLVEr / Outbreak Records presents Biological Warfare mixed by Resonant Evil / Yello — You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess / Raveonettes — Pretty In Black / Caesars — Paper Tigers / Rein Sanction — Mariposa / The Velvet Teen presents “Elysium” / Akron/Family / Strapping Young Lad — Alien
But mostly just the ringing in my ears from the incredibly loud Dillinger Escape Plan show I went to last night. It didn’t really seem that loud at the time!
10.May.2005 7.00pm
Nice choice eben_sorkin, Boards of Canada are awesome, I quite like much of Aphex Twin’s stuff as well.
10.May.2005 9.19pm
Soilwork , In Flames , Evergrey , Kamelot , Corrosion of Conformity , Opeth , Iced Earth , Shadows Fall , and on the indie side ... the bravery , the faint , phoenix ...
and a little Vanilla Ice to top it all off...
10.May.2005 10.27pm
Orchestra Baobab - Specialists on all styles. Can’t seem to get enough of it.
10.May.2005 10.40pm
Josh Rouse
Oranger
The Pernice Brothers
Kaiser Chiefs
11.May.2005 2.03am
I saw Orchestra Baobab in Salt Lake, roballoo. They played a free festival there and their energy was contagious. Nothing else like it.
11.May.2005 2.12am
I’ve recently re-discovered the masterpiece that is Weezer’s debut album.
11.May.2005 5.39am
RIP Weezer.
11.May.2005 5.54am
I take walks in Central Park and walk through the “Mall” often (I mention that for the Typecon attendies) and there is a Sax player that rocks, and he plays a lot of Stan Getz and Gilberto. “Tall and tan and young and lovely…”
11.May.2005 8.58am
With shuffle a permanent feature in iTunes everything has become happily random. That said, my recent purchases from the ever-present and completely tempting ITMS:
Nouvelle Vague (Nouvelle Vague)
Keane (Hopes and Fears)
Amos House Collective (Volumes 1-3)
Keren Ann (Nolita)
Sufjan Stevens (A Sun Came)
Beck (Guero)
A.C. Newman (The Slow Wonder)
11.May.2005 9.10am
In the Twin Cities (and everywhere via streaming webcast) 89.3 The Current redeems radio.
11.May.2005 1.34pm
sure this new, pop, funky stuff is ok... but I prefer...
Taj Mahal - (“Giant Step...” and his self titled cd are phenomenal)
Keb’ Mo’ - (try “The Door”)
Ray Charles - (the older the better, stay away from “Thanks for Bringing the Love Around”)
Robert Randolph and the Family Band - (very very good)
Jimi Hendrix - (get “The Jimi Hendrix Experience” box set 4cds, incredible compilation of live and rare recordings with outakes)
Led Zeppelin - (most, in general)
Those are some of my current and/or all time favorites off the top of my head
also check out for variety...
Bela Fleck
Blind Boys of Alabama
Clifton Chenier
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Frank Sinatra
Johnny Cash
Man or Astro Man
Norah Jones
Outcast
Orchestra Baobab
Reverend Horton Heat
Rolling Stones
Son House
Tim Reynolds - acoustic live only...
iTunes party shuffle is great... so technically these are all in my playlist. That was a lot I suppose, but worth it. Editing is difficult...
r.k
11.May.2005 5.22pm
Roballoo, good choice: Orchestra Baobab are amazing.
11.May.2005 8.29pm
Ask Joe about his fabulous Alanis collection, and the warm reception it always gets when it finds its way into the studio playlist.
:groan:
11.May.2005 8.41pm
I think I’ve posted in this thread already, some time ago. Oh well!
www.audioscrobbler.com/user/zara
(having trouble using the < a > tag)
12.May.2005 12.32am
michael buble :: feeling good
tom jones
rem
norah jones
cassandra wilson :: harvest moon
st. germain
de phazz
12.May.2005 12.57am
A.D.F., Blade, Breakbeat Era ( Thanks, Yves :), Buelent, Interpol, Kings of Leon, Kosheen, Lamb, Mardi Gras.BB, Morcheeba, Various DJs
12.May.2005 2.23am
http://www.typographe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=125#p125
Last purchased or digitized songs/albums from early january (last month update).
PS. first post on this new redesigned forum! Great new design. Congratulations.
12.May.2005 3.04am
Pixies, Bunbury, Radiohead, Raphael, Ladytron, Ween, Skinny Puppy, Los Pelados del Norte, Mano Negra, Interpol, La Barranca, San Pascualito Rey, Rammstein, ABBA (!), Sisters of Mercy, Starsailor, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Björk, Bowie, Led Zep, Muse, Los Toreros Muertos. All of them being assorted Mp3 on my PC.
12.May.2005 3.09am
Vincent,
Never saw Siouxsie’s Banshees or Creatures as being gothies. In my opinion, they were mostly experimenting with different kind of sounds. For eighties gothies there were the Sisters, the Nephilim...
By the way, ¿is there something of the “new” Goth from this decade not some cloning from the eighties? Still searchin’...
12.May.2005 3.14am
Interpol, yes, of course they are Joy Division clones, but they are great live and have punch to their songs -Joy Division was conceptually great but Ian Curtis “sang” terribly, let´s admit it!!! (Not as terribly as the singer in New Order, though).
12.May.2005 3.35am
Welcome JFP!
At this very moment: Super Discount
12.May.2005 4.42am
This is my first typophile post ever!
Currently listening to everything by 2 Many DJ’s. I went to see them last Friday at Fabric and they were awesome!
12.May.2005 6.48am
I intend to inflict some of these tracks on my co-workers
http://prewarblues.org/
12.May.2005 12.34pm
kind of eclectic but iTunes said so:
stan getz, a.c. jobim, joao & astrud gilberto, james brown, al jarreau,
michel legrand, quincy jones, madredeus, towa tei, jamiroquai, burt bacharach,
the orb, michael franks, diana krall, fitzgerald +previn (live in berlin or rome, not sure),
pat metheny, charlie parker, toots thielemans, beck, cake, bjork and chemical bro’s...
+
famous friends from my hometown www.thebambimolesters.com
and just friends www.soulfingers.net
12.May.2005 2.33pm
Mosh,
I understand why you wouldn’t want to label Siousxie and the Banshees/Creatures and being Goth, however they did have serious impact on the scene itself. I was involved in the Goth/Industrial scene for sometime throughout the 90’s and they were at the forefront of what was happening musically. (I remember some of my friends used to cry when Siousxie would come on stage. :) ) Robert Smith once said that he and Siousxie never intended for people to categorize them in this manner, they don’t consider themselves a part of any scene or genre – but they are flattered all the same.
I am not that familiar with the goth scene anymore (I still stick to the oldies) but it seems that this genre has morphed itself into contemporary “alternative” hard rock/punk. I can’t give any examples as I avoid these records like the plague. I truly believe the goth scene died mid-nineties. Though, Peter Murphy is on tour again, I will be seeing him next week in Portland and I CANNOT wait. :)
Interpol, great band, and yes, obviously influenced by Joy Division, another one of my favorites. No matter how awful some may perceive Ian Curtis’ voice to be, I still hear sweetness in songs like “Atmosphere.” I highly recommend picking up some JD on vinyl – there is a quality to the music that is lost in other mediums. Early New Order did quite well with carrying on the Warsaw/Joy Division sound, but as soon as they went into mainstream discos, there wasn’t much left for me to really enjoy.
Anyone ever hear New Order’s Video 5-8-6? (intense, bass driven, 28 minute track)
12.May.2005 2.45pm
www.nebadje.org/sound/tracks/arctic96.mp3 [12.4 Mb]
www.nebadje.org/sound/tracks/kernfusion.mp3 [12.1 Mb]
www.nebadje.org/sound/tracks/Ladung.mp3 [7.4 Mb]
12.May.2005 4.34pm
Peter Murphy on tour? Who knew. Peter Murphy was one of those who actually grew musically post-goth (see also David Bowie) while others of the era rehash their old crap (see Rolling Stones).
How come David Bowie and Peter Murphy get better as they get older and Sting keeps getting worse? :/
12.May.2005 4.42pm
Too much yoga. He’s too relaxed.
13.May.2005 2.47am
Zara:
I was lucky enough to see Bauhaus playing in Mexico City four or five years ago. Marvellous. The place where they played in was closed the day after because it was in a very ruined and dangerous state and was not designed to hold so many people. :) Nobody died the day of the concert, though.
I was a big Cure fan for maybe ten years, but I think the “good” Cure’s final record was Disintegration. Others might disagree. The old material is powerful as ever to me. Same with the Banshees’ catalogue.
Joe & Tiffany: I find that P.Murphy has gone a little bland also, but he’s still got it. Sting? Yes, perhaps too much yoga AND wanting to appeal to 16-year olds with mellow ditties. Bowie’s secret?: Get yourself accompanied by young, innovative musicians. His Outside CD was really great and well... chamaleonic.
13.May.2005 4.43am
I saw Bauhaus at the Old Vic in London in 1983, this was a farewell gig (and last performance for the Old Vic before it was gutted and refitted) with Pete Murphy swinging from the curtains, but he lost points for the Maxell ads and Bauhaus never equalled Bela Lugosi’s Dead for me, although they did give a good performance. I wouldn’t categorise Siousxie Sioux as goth, mainly because of their obvious punk roots (not that I really approve of trying to pigeonhole artists), I did see her in the audience at a Nick Cave gig promoting Murder Ballads at which Kylie Minogue performed a guest spot.
Tim
13.May.2005 7.24am
today’s mix yet:
orchestra baobab - specialist in all styles
dälek - from filthy tongues of gods and griots
john coltrane - quartet
roots manuva - run come save me
14.May.2005 10.07am
Momus, Pet Shop Boys and the high-velocity flying roast beef that is Rammstein.
14.May.2005 12.12pm
That Roots Manuva album is FANTASTIC. I love it a lot.
14.May.2005 4.37pm
There’s another Catholic typographer names John who is a Momus fan? What are the odds?
14.May.2005 10.42pm
I have been listening to the Smashing Pumpkins these last days, they remember me the high school. Also I boght the Led Zeppelin Remasters and the last cd of The Mars Volta, sublime.
15.May.2005 1.03am
Nono, Siouxie never really was Goth, not a single moment. The Creatures were to experimental for that label and the Banshees too pop.
That said, at the moment I’m pretty straightforward into retro80s THE-Bands. Athelete, Engineers, Arcade Fire, Snow Patrol, The Faint, Te Doves... stuff like that.
The new Porcupine Tree album is fairly good, although not as breathtaking as the last three outings.
Jem is surprisingly good pop.
The new Mars Volta is pretty much the same as the last album, there is no other band like that, at the moment.
There’s some good German bands at the moment, Bosse, Tomte, Niels Frevert, Kettcar.
The new New Order is, alas, boring as hell. I think I should just buy the Saville-covers and leave the actual CD in the stores. Same goies for the new Tori Amos CD, very been-there-done-that, but with the addition that not even the coverdesign is pleasant.
The Tord Gustavsen Trio (on the great ECM label) is wonderful stuff, great Jazz.
These days, thanks to iTunes, my listening habits have changed a bt. Where formerly any new CD would run for a few days in the studios CD-Player, now a new-bought album will get MP3-d pronto and put into the maelstrom of thousands of tracks played at random in itunes, so here in the studio AC/DC is followed by Schubert, Chet Baker by Slime. It makes for pretty weird surprises, but I haven’t digitalized my whole CD-collection yet. As I have an ipod in my car now as well, the same principle applies there. As a result, my listening habits have a bit... fractalized, strangely enough.
Looking forward to Roisin Murphys first solo-album «Ruby Blue», shame about Moloko, though. ro is a great singer and Herbert should guarantee a nice soundtrack... but Moloko was one of the best pop bands these recent years, along with Lamb, who seem to be vanishing as well.
HD Schellnack
15.May.2005 2.26am
I am currently listening to Boards of Canada - Turqoise Hexagon Sun.
Next up is a piano sonata by Mozart.
15.May.2005 9.57am
Lately I’ve been addicted to Russian Orthodox choral music, as well as Mass in B Minor by Bach…
peace
16.May.2005 10.38am
Thanks to iTunes shuffle: Louis Prima, Captain Beefheart, The Durutti Column, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Johnny ’Guitar’ Watson, Soul Coughing, The Fall, Ivor Cutler, The Chemical Brothers, Anton Karas,Alice Cooper, Elbow, John Barry, N*E*R*D, Air, Snow Patrol, Brian Wilson, Gonzales, Ian Brown, Sly & The Family Stone, The Beatles, Brian Eno, Goldfrapp, 808 State, Coil, The Flaming Lips, Neil Young, Buddy Holly, Grandaddy, Django Reinhardt, Cornelius, Spike Jones, Pink Floyd, Associates, Nick Drake, Magazine. The Beta Band.
I could go on.
I love iTunes shuffle.
Nick Cooke
17.May.2005 2.47am
Normally I use either a PC with WinAmp or Media Player, or a portable -cheap but reliable- Mp3 player to hear my music, so I have to ask: what’s so marvellous about iTunes?
I am able to store/transport whatever music/data I want. I am able to shuffle, have visualizations for the songs, etc. Standard features. Am I missing something?
17.May.2005 12.16pm
The hum of flourescents, the click of others’ keyboards, the murmur of muffled voices.
I forgot my headphones today.
::silently grumbles::
19.May.2005 7.41am
today downloading to me Ipod photo:
the Tears -
Pixies - Bosanova
Pixies - Surfer Rosa & Come on Pilgrim
Kylie - Ulitimate Kylie ( http://www.thepinkbraceletfund.org/ )
Basement Jaxx - Rooty and Kish Kash
Dominatrix Sleeps tonight - Dominatrix
Rockin’ it - Fearless Four
Step on - Happy Mondays
Last night a dj saved my life - Indeep
Buffalo Gals - Malcom McClaren
Cavern - Liquid Liquid
Buffalo Stance - Nenah Cherry
Fetenhits - neue deutsche welle 2
19.May.2005 3.40pm
and the
Stranglers Hammersmith Odeon album 1981
19.May.2005 3.57pm
fannypack & ya gotta dig that lettering, yo!
19.May.2005 4.22pm
Right now I’m into Bløf while learning some Dutch.
20.May.2005 4.29am
http://www.nme.co.uk/features/111564.htm
’Oh my gosh’ Basement Jaxx new video
20.May.2005 11.30am
Rachid Taha’s hilarious yet rocking Arabic version of ’Rock the Casbah’. Over and over again.
20.May.2005 12.14pm
The “Letterman” :-)
ChrisL
23.May.2005 11.59am
I am listening to a lot of shit that makes me feel like a 35 year old lawyer.
Kathleen Edwards
Beth Orton
Adem
Damien Jurardo
I feel like I should be sitting in a Starbucks, instead of the studio!
23.May.2005 12.04pm
Bjork’s Vespertine
Air 10,000 MHz
Zen and the Art of Chilling, Volume 2
23.May.2005 10.29pm
Yesterday I stumbled upon a CD my sister forgot in the house (she studies contemporary dance in other city). The CD is only labelled “Wim Mertems” yet it became one of my favourites in a single day.
I actually couldn´t find anything about this Wim Mertems on the internet so I guess I’ll have to wait a couple of weeks to ask my sister about it.
Héctor
26.May.2005 5.16pm
That’s cuz it’s probably actually Wim Mertens, who has about ten billion albums out.
While I’m here, now I too have an Audioscrobbler feed: http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/othiym23/. Apparently this week I’m really into The Fall, Ikara Colt, Roots Manuva, and the Epoxies. I’ve also been listening to the new Sleater-Kinney pretty relentlessly, but it’s not made it into my Audioscrobbler listing yet.
28.May.2005 11.53am
“Narcotango”, by Carlos Libedinsky.
http://www.carloslibedinsky.com/english/home.html
25.Jun.2005 5.14pm
more pink martini: this time it’s hang on little tomato
glen phillip’s winter pays for summer
and paul anka’s version of blackhole sun, smells like teen spirit and wonderwall
26.Jun.2005 1.16am
fela kuti
26.Jun.2005 3.30am
A few nice radio stations:
- If you are using iTunes you can also find these
stations when browsing through the radio section
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Bassdrive
Jungle, Drum´n Bass
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BeatBlender
Downtempo, ambient, lounge, house
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Groove Salad
Ambient beats & grooves
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Jazzmusique - My favorite!!!
Downtempo, ambient, lounge, house
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KKJZ 88.1 FM
Jazz, jazz, jazz
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Housemusique
Continous house mixes
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26.Jun.2005 3.47am
When you come to Typecon in NYC and want to listen to the best jazz 88.3 FM WBGO. Listener sponsored radio and from 3-4 during M-F is the Blues Hour. If you would like a taste on-line streaming wbgo.org
26.Jun.2005 4.47am
>I stumbled upon a CD my sister forgot
More family stuff:
It was a great loss when my son left home and took all his CDs with him, several of which I had become quite attached to (I missed the boy too). The other day I felt like a bit of Schnittke, in particular the Kronos recording of the String Quartets (great sleeve design BTW, featuring Alias’ Granite face), but it was gone with Eric. So I went down to the local classical store to see if I could get a copy, but they didn’t have one. Desparate for a Schnittke fix, I bought “Oleg Kagan plays Schnittke”. Really enjoying Concerto No. 3 for Violin.
Always liked Peggy Lee but never heard her early work with Benny Goodman. My dad has a compilation album in his car, which he’s lent me while he’s on vacation, so I popped it on, and was gobsmacked — she sounded so different then, and even more world-weary.
29.Jun.2005 7.09am
Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Kasabian... Lots of stuff beginning with “K”. Saint Etienne and The Specials have also being appearing a lot recently on my iPod.
29.Jun.2005 8.05am
Blood Brothers — Crimes, Book of Dead Names — Blood of the Young EP, Digitata — Sexually Transmitted Emotions, Ice Cube — Amerikkka’s Most Wanted, The Knife — Deep Cuts, Start Destruct — UNTITLED, All Thunderbirds Are Now, All Tracy and the Plastics.
SIMS — Lights Out Paris!!!
29.Jun.2005 8.33am
Headphones
Crystal Skulls
Copeland
Denison Witmer
Frou Frou
Massive Attack
Damien Jurado
Over The Rhine
Matisyahu
Mae
29.Jun.2005 10.24am
Cripes! It’s happened: I’ve turned into my father. I am utterly clueless on about 95% of the band/artist names being bandied about here. And what worries me more is that, lately, I have come to believe that Rosemary Clooney rocks...
29.Jun.2005 8.55pm
Botellita de Jerez: naco es chido, abuelita de batman, guacarrock del santo, alarmala de tos & al.
Héctor
1.Jul.2005 4.20am
Don’t worry oldnick... All of the bands I’ve mentioned here are British... we know how difficult it for UK artists/groups is to break into the US music market (unless you’re The Beatles). But, it also works the other way round as I’ve never ever heard of Rosemary Clooney! =)
1.Jul.2005 9.33am
Fountains of Wayne, my favorite purveyors of power pop, just released a 2-CD set* of b-sides, non-album singles, demos, etc. Awesome stuff — their discards outclass most bands’ official output.
*”Out of State Plates,” for those shopping at home.
1.Jul.2005 11.22am
at the moment... Funeral by Arcade Fire.
1.Jul.2005 12.33pm
Right now — 13 & God, a collaboration by German glitchpop rockers The Notwist and Anticon electro-rap experimentalists Themselves.
1.Jul.2005 12.54pm
The Supperclub volumes (1-8) are superb and always hot for me! The first CD on each pac makes you mellow, CD 2 keeps you awake on the night shift.
3.Jul.2005 4.23am
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Green Day - American Idiot
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
...are the most played albums on my iPod.
4.Jul.2005 11.22am
Lots of streaming & downloading from WeFunk Radio. Great funk and hip-hop, and every show has a playlist for easy ID’ing of good tracks.
4.Jul.2005 12.16pm
Montreal Jazz festival, live from 2-6 on WBGO.org
4.Jul.2005 4.14pm
Wow! What a great diverse list of music!
I just picked up the new Audioslave album, “Out of Exile” - seems great so far.
Am also listening to:
Paul Van Dyk’s Reflections
Thievery Corporation’s Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi which features a whole plethora of songs by Stan Getz, Chico Hamilton and Sergio Mendes, just to name a few.
Thievery Corporation’s new album “The Cosmic Game”
Wilco’s “A Ghost is Born”
and finally, some good local group music, Rheostatics; “True North”
4.Jul.2005 9.58pm
Steve Reich
Spankrock
Devin the Dude
Express Rising
Delarosa&Asora
Paul Wall
A few of J-Rocc’s mixtapes (Soul, Hip-Hop, Funk)
5.Jul.2005 4.18am
Savath & Savalas
Fennesz
Matthew Herbert Big Band
Always:
Gil Scott Heron
Miles
to name a few.
5.Jul.2005 4.32am
Thievery Corp, Boards of Canada, nice choices :)
Ever since Saturday, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon has been in high rotation!
6.Jul.2005 4.42am
Most recently:
6.Jul.2005 5.55am
At moment listening to quite a lot of power pop, like:
Brendan Benson, Oranger, The Sights, Jason Faulkner, Bronco Bullfrog, Death Ray Davies, Cotton Mather, etc, etc.
10.Jul.2005 12.28pm
Listening to my own work.
Now I’m really lost between music and typography.
10.Jul.2005 6.34pm
Ooh, Oranger! I was introduced to them a couple of months ago — great stuff. Can’t wait for their new disc in September...
11.Jul.2005 5.40am
New discs!
Blackalicious Nia - it’s so, so good
Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas - Madlib getting stoned
The Arcade Fire (their recently re-released first EP) - if you liked Funeral, you’ll like this
Plane Hello More - picked it up on a recommendation from my record store, compared it to Modest Mouse, Interpol, and Postal Service
11.Jul.2005 6.27am
“Proud” - Heather Small
Jerusalem - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
London Calling - The Clash
“In the days that follow look at our airports, look at our sea ports and look at our railway stations and, even after your cowardly attack, you will see that people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfil their dreams and achieve their potential.”
“They choose to come to London, as so many have come before because they come to be free, they come to live the life they choose, they come to be able to be themselves. They flee you because you tell them how they should live. They don’t want that and nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail.”
— Ken Livingstone - Mayor of London
http://www.thelondonline.co.uk/theline/article.php?articleID=495
11.Jul.2005 6.40am
Just got the new Beck album ’Guero’ today and it’s playing on the stereo right now. It’s cool.
11.Jul.2005 8.50am
well last night, it was Michael Buble in concert. now i’ve got jazz standards playin in my head.
11.Jul.2005 1.23pm
Paul go over to WBGO.org and listen to the live streaming and you will be hooked.
11.Jul.2005 3.05pm
a little rock: keane, snow patrol, the killers, franz ferdinand, embrace, blur, bush, the bravery, doves, the vines
and
some led zeppelin and def leppard for good measure
=^D
11.Jul.2005 11.21pm
Nice one Tiffany, you’ve got to love the bands coming out of the UK recently.
At the moment I’m into The Doves (the Last Broadcast being their best work to date - Some Cities gets (imho) overrated reviews and doesn’t live up to the hype). Saw them recently and they’re great. My new favourite band is The Magic Numbers, they’re also great live. Other than that, Royksopp are great as background electronica. Not feeling the latest Coldplay album quite yet, though. James Blunt’s also getting a lot of airplay in our house due to my girlfriend - and REM (they played Nottingham last week and were superb). Oh, I mustn’t leave out Athlete who are well worth a listen.
12.Jul.2005 1.32am
Tiff, you had me up until Def Leppard... =)
Speaking of the UK... I found this podcast, Not Your Usual Bollocks (iTunes link requires v4.9). Very tasty, half hour block of various indie tracks with very little talk. The host plays some obscure stuff (to my ears) - Brit electronica, German electronic. He mixes in just enough recognizable stuff from Kasabian, Autolux, Aphex Twin, to keep it at least a tad familiar. Very highly recommended! (Isn’t it rare to find a podcast you can actually recommend?)
12.Jul.2005 8.32am
Katamari Damacy Soundtrack.
http://music.for-robots.com/archives/000567.html
This tends to stick to you. Really a J-Pop sampler but thematically written around the game, which you should play if you have a PS2.
Other tips.
1.) Scott Walker 3
2.) Robert Wyatt Cuckoland
3.) Brian Wilson Smile and the other bookend Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle
4.) Jim O’Rourke Eureka
None of this is really new but so good, and back in rotation at the moment.
12.Jul.2005 8.47am
Ah, c’mon. What’s like with out a little hairband? =^D Their ’best of’ was released on iTunes and I found myself having a flashback to torn jeans, black leather, and big