What are you listening to?

Post by **bradisntclever** » July 2nd, 2007, 12:47 am

DollarBill wrote:Ok, say what you want, but I got the latest Muse album (Black Holes and Revelations) after I heard the single "Knights of Cydonia" on the radio. I am loving it. I know they sound like Radio Head and U2 and a lot of other "better" bands, but I don't care. I really don't know a lot about the band. I don't have any of their other albums, but I won't hesitate to buy them after hearing this one. It's grandiose and full of minor progressions, and there's lot's of vocal harmony and lyrics about powerful things which occur in nature.

Absolution is solid if you haven't listened to that album yet. Then, there are some scattered songs from previous albums that are worth a listen ("Micro Cuts", "Sunburn", "Muscle Museum", etc.). I'm not sure why there is so much hate for Muse. The only real Radiohead comparison comes from Matt Bellamy (Muse's lead) sounding a lot like Thom Yorke.

If you haven't seen them live, do so. Their performance at Austin Music Hall a few years ago is still one of my favorite concerts, and I'm not even a big fan. It's just really impressive to watch Bellamy in action.

apiaryist · Post by **apiaryist** » July 2nd, 2007, 10:20 am

The video to Knights of Cydonia perfectly jives with all of my sensibilities:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YygyHCRrKho

beardedlamb · Post by **beardedlamb** » July 3rd, 2007, 6:45 pm

the new bjork is really good. it's like really old bjork with just a little bit of the annoying bjork from last year. it sounds great and i like that i'm acquiring the taste for it over several days.

Miggy · Post by **Miggy** » July 3rd, 2007, 10:54 pm

beardedlamb wrote:the new bjork is really good. it's like really old bjork with just a little bit of the annoying bjork from last year. it sounds great and i like that i'm acquiring the taste for it over several days.

I heart Bjork.

I liked the film Drawing Restraint 9 by Matthew Barney but after watching films by Alejandro Jodoworsky from the 70's I question how innovative he really is. Regardless - I haven't listened to that soundtrack album on its own to judge it but I will say that Medulla, yeah... I thought that was really questionable. I'm not totally writing it off - just need to come back to it sometime later.

For me, right now I am listening to Debashish Bhattacharya who's a master of Hindustani Slide Guitar. No crazy virtuoso stuff, just a really consistently satsifying album with good production:

erin · Post by **erin** » July 4th, 2007, 12:21 am

has anyone else caught on to Ghostland Observatory?? the singer and i worked together for years and he's fucking awesome and is actually in this issue of SPIN magazine. i'm not name dropping-i just think everyone should love them. and their cds.

also, i know my houston pride goes too far sometime but i love paul wall's new album. you heard me.

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » July 5th, 2007, 1:56 pm

I've been listening to:

-Blank Dogs - Yellow Mice Sleep 7"
-Neil Young - On The Beach LP
-a bunch of old John Peel tapes many people have been kind enough to encode/upload
-a bunch of bootleg Beatles concerts and almost-creepy Let It Be outtakes (these are videos)
-but mostly, and over and over and over, this very Animal Collective clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGIsIlL07Kg

Post by **bradisntclever** » July 5th, 2007, 3:12 pm

erin wrote:has anyone else caught on to Ghostland Observatory?? the singer and i worked together for years and he's fucking awesome and is actually in this issue of SPIN magazine. i'm not name dropping-i just think everyone should love them. and their cds.

Yes! They are so much fun to see live. What did you do working with the singer?

scook · Post by **scook** » July 5th, 2007, 10:45 pm

The new Animal Collective leaked and I've been listening to it all day and it is fucking fantastic.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » July 5th, 2007, 10:48 pm

For some reason I'm stuck on the original opening song to "Squidbillies".

I'm also hooked on Wagner (Listening to his Das Rheingold at the moment) Beethoven and Mozart.

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » July 10th, 2007, 10:00 am

[warning: i wrote way too much about this...]

I've been listening to as much as I can find of the Boredoms' 77BOADRUM event from this past weekend. The Japanese band held a special concert to celebrate 7/7/07 at 7:07pm at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park (on the water, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges) with 77 drummers spiraling out from the center. eYe from the Boredoms was at the center, with mixers, mics, keyboards, and a "guitar fence" he built that, when struck with a colored pole, resonated these huge open chords (see approx 2:35 into first youtube vid below). The drummers would either change at a set point, or follow the person to their right (so the sounds spiralled our from the center), or they would hit certain things when eYe raised a colored pole. Apparently when eYe would hold a huge trident (?!?!) to the sky, the drummers went apeshit. By all accounts it was a pretty amazing event and of course everyone had a cellphone, video camera, or audio recorder, so I've been able to listen to various pieces of the almost 90 minute piece. Here's some of the deets:

Drum leaders:

01 Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle / Pixeltan)
02 Tim Dewit (Gang Gang Dance)
03 Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt)
04 Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band / Under Satans Sun)
05 Jaiko Suzuki (Electro Putas)
06 Jesse Lee (White Magic)
07 Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs / Stars Like Fleas)
08 Kid Millions (Oneida)
09 Andy McLeod (Howling Hex / Modest Mouse)
10 Aaron Moore
11 Robin Easton

Other drummers:

12 Sara Lund (Unwound)
13 Jim Black
14 Andrew W.K.
15 Butchy Fuego (Pit Er Pat)
16 Miggie (Blood on the Wall)
17 Brian Tamborello (Psychic Ills)
18 Andee Connors (A Minor Forest / Lumen)
19 John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man)
20 Taylor Richardson (Sunburned Hand of the Man)
21 Chris Millstein
22 Abby Portner (First Nation)
23 Aviram Cohen (Soiled Mattress and the Springs)
24 Allison Busch (Awesome Color)
25 Warren Huegel (Tussle)
26 Nathan Corbin (Excepter)
27 Clare Amory
28 Jonathan Lockie (Sightings)
29 Josh Bonati (Aa)
30 Nadav Havusha (Aa)
31 Aron Wahl (Aa)
32 Jeffrey Salane (Panthers)
33 Jim Sykes
34 David Aron (Koi Pond)
35 Michael Catano
36 Spencer Herbst (Matta Lama)
37 Jim Siegel (Cul De Sac and Damo Suzuki)
38 Mike Pride (MDC, FUSHITSUSHA, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide)
39 Nick DeCarmine
40 Marianne Kozlowski (The Punks)
41 Than Luu (M. Ward)
42 Dave Bergander (Celebration)
43 Michael Evans (God Is My Co-Pilot)
44 Andrya Ambro
45 Justin DeRosa
46 Hart Mingus (Negative Approach)
47 Matthias Schulz (Enon / Holy Fuck)
48 Josh Madell (Antietam, Other Music)
49 Matt (No Neck Blues Band)
50 Jim Abramson (Dymaxion)
51 Oran Canfield (Child Abuse)
52 Adriana MagaÃ±a (Crash Worship)
53 Keith Connolly (No Neck Blues Band)
54 Travis Harrison
55 Jared Barron
56 Jason Kourkounis (Delta 72 / Hot Snakes)
57 Eric Cohen (Caroliner)
58 Daniel Franz (Arbouretum)
59 Christopher Brokaw (Codeine)
60 Jared Burak (Wet Cement)
61 Christopher Powell (Icy Demons / Man Man)
62 Sadie Laska (I.U.D.)
63 Pete Vogl (Koi Pond)
64 Barbara Schauwecker
65 AJ Edminson (Favourite Sons)
66 David Grubbs
67 John McSwain (VICE)
68 Dave Abramson (Climax Golden Twins)
69 Alan Licht
70 Rick Prior
71 Kayrock
72 Dave LeBleu (Prefuse 73 / Mercury Program)
73 Lizzy Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance)
74 Alianna Kalaba (We Ragazzi)

Editted highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDFYwJngpU4
From behind Brian Chippendale, during the freak-out part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3PupB2Lwtw
Behind Kid Millions of Oneida: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj_lKow4BaM
From the bridge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkH59hO2kG4

MP3 excerpt 1: http://aliaspail.com/blog/brooklynbridg ... rum01a.mp3
MP3 excerpt 2: http://aliaspail.com/blog/brooklynbridg ... rum01b.mp3

Great write-up: http://17dots.com/2007/07/08/eyyyyyyye- ... 7-drummers
Another article with great photos (incl. guitar fence): http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/featu ... 77boardrum

Marc Majcher · Post by **Marc Majcher** » July 10th, 2007, 11:51 am

H A R M A R Superstar.

Lants · Post by **Lants** » July 10th, 2007, 12:00 pm

scook wrote:The new Animal Collective leaked and I've been listening to it all day and it is fucking fantastic.

I just got this yesterday... good stuff... especially the first two tracks.

on the gayer side of things, I've been listening to the new Okkervil River for the past month or so and love it the most (of albums that I've been listening to non-stop for the past month or so)

rharrison · Post by **rharrison** » July 10th, 2007, 1:34 pm

Arcade Fire - Neon Bibles
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times

Both really excellent albums. Some of the songs took a while to grow on me. Though the best ones usually do.

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » July 20th, 2007, 11:13 am

RAWK:

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Modern Lovers
various 77Boadrum/Boredoms recordings
Oneida - Secret Wars
old John Peel shows
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Eddie & Ernie - "I Believe She Will" (maybe my favorite soul song ever)
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Belaire - Exploding, Impacting

Milquetoast · Post by **Milquetoast** » July 20th, 2007, 11:40 am

New Queens of the Stone Age album, Era Vulgaris came out last month and I just got it. Soooo sweet. Also new Spoon is awesome, also I've been listening to this internet artist named Cicada. He has an acapella cover album of songs that's actually pretty good. And he has a weird ambient album I've been using as a writing buddy.