What are you listening to?

shando · Post by **shando** » October 22nd, 2007, 4:42 pm

What's that third one, Jeff? I don't recognize that album cover.

Here's what I've been listening to today and lately:

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » October 22nd, 2007, 4:55 pm

shando wrote:What's that third one, Jeff? I don't recognize that album cover.

Yeah, I went back and edited it with a name because I realized that it's pretty dang obscure, even for folks like you and Bob. It's an experimental electronic ambient (a la aphex twin, pan sonic, merzbow) artist called Senking, and the album is Ping/Thaw.

It has a great track that samples dialogue from...

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » October 23rd, 2007, 8:05 am

sidebar note--

if anyone here uses OiNK...

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/dis ... ebsite.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7057812.stm

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » November 5th, 2007, 12:22 pm

got a TON of new music recently -- lots of CDs from the SanFran trip last weekend, and then a bunch of LPs this weekend from End of an Ear (S. 1st) and Friends of Sound (S. Congress).

Moby Grape - s/t CD 1967-- 1st album remaster/reissue on Sundazed
Wooden Shjips - s/t CD 2007 + bonus CD of singles
Psychedelic Horseshit - Magic Flowers Droned CD 2007
v/a - Brazil 70 CD 2007 -- great Soul Jazz compilation of post-Tropicalia brazil (erika picked this one out)
Caetano Veloso - s/t (Tropicalia) CD 1968 -- semi-legit reissue on Lilith Records (from Russia)
Quasi - When the Going Gets Dark LP 2006 (erika pick)
MIA - KALA CD 2007 (erika pick)
Karen Dalton - In My Own Time CD 1971 (2006 reissue)
Aretha Franklin - Young Gifted and Black LP 1972
Aretha Franklin - Aretha Arrives LP 1967
Aretha Franklin - Spirit in the Dark LP 1970*
Bruce Springstein - The River dbl-LP 1980
Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark LP 2003 (had this as a cd-r for years, now the real thing. the one album of theirs i can listen to all the way through).
Jana Hunter - Carrion EP 2007
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - I Hope It Lands LP 1995
The Turtles - Present The Battle of the Bands LP 1967
Marlena Shaw - Out of Different Bags LP 1967
Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On LP 1971
Emmylou Harris - Elite Hotel LP 1975 (for erika)
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - King & Queen LP 1967
The Brooklyn Bridge - The Second Brooklyn Bridge LP 1969
The Beach Boys - 20/20 LP 1969
Sam Cooke - Live at Harlem Square Club, 1963 LP 1984
Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer LP 1981

* this album is tremendous. 1st song "Don't Play That Song" has been stuck in my head all day. Check it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAa8vwmeewU

Mo Daviau · Post by **Mo Daviau** » November 5th, 2007, 1:44 pm

beirutband.com

scook · Post by **scook** » November 5th, 2007, 1:55 pm

Also, after reading Bob's post, I put on Kala. Also listening to lots of Amy Winehouse and Animal Collective and some Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » November 8th, 2007, 6:22 am

This is easily one of my favorite threads (probably #1), and I've picked up on some music that I love by reading it. I have a bestest friend who lives in Boston, and we've always had extensive conversations about music and movies and books, so I've emailed him a little here and there about some of the music discussed in this thread (ex. "I just read about and heard Wooden Shjips! Do you know Wooden Shjips?" ... "Yes, love Wooden Shjips." [paraphrased for convenience]) Anyway, here's his most recent email about stuff I've written to him about this thread. For the record (ah, uh), I love all of the below musics, although I have not yet heard an entire album by MF Doom and I feel very insufficently privy to his stuff. One more note- I added a few pictures to his text. Anyway, no further ado, here's Tom:

Swell Maps: in the ever-dwindling arena of remastered/rereleased classic recordings on CD (including in recent years big blowouts for The Fall, The Kinks, Can, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Faust, T Rex, Amon Duul, etc.,) the best by far in the last year and a half has been Secretly Canadian's Swell Maps reissue of the (only) two 'Maps albums.

I bought "Jane From Occupied Europe" as soon as it came out, and dammit if it STILL doesn't shock me that that shit came out in'70/'80. One of those " 'way ahead of their time' doesn't cover it" things. On constant rotation at the Barndting [combined last names of Tom and his wife] household.

Yeah, "Fishscale" may fall a bit short of "Supreme Clientele" in the "Bracingly Original and Completely Unique" category, but I'm the LAST bastard on this ball to tell you that taking a couple of cues from Doom is a bad thing. I loves me some "Clientele," but I prefer some "Fishscale."

Speaking of Hiphop's last (and maybe greatest) god of stream of consciousness lyrical flow, every time I think my tastes are becoming more steadfastly American, I'm proven wrong. Like last week: I walked into a shop and they were playing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band - an Americana sort of band if there ever was one; and I was so taken by it, so suddenly, that I had to immediately go to a store and buy one of their CDs (which I'd been meaning to do anyway,) and the liner notes immediately informed me they were from Toronto. Then the other day I was (for whatever reason) compelled to look up MF Doom on allmusic, and the first thing I saw was the bio note "born 'Daniel Dumile' in London, 1974." Well, fuck. Here's my Doom comment - everybody who wants to know, already knows that the guy's a lyrical shitstorm. His production work is less revered, and if only for that reason, you NEED to get yourself "Special Herbs: The Box Set" (not a box set) which includes the otherwise impossible-to-find, utterly shocking "Secret Herbs & Spices" bonus disc, which is just about the best god-damned instrumental hip-hop beats disc ever recorded. Seriously. Addictive shit.

Teenage Fanclub just so happens to be the most timeless, classic, kickass-good band in the entire Creation roster (which also included My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Swervedriver, Saint Etienne, Primal Scream and a dozen other great bands,) but their discography is difficult. The band seemed to swerve from nakedly sincere to maudlin at the drop of a hat, and there are few albums that don't contain both.

"Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-six Seconds" (I think it's called) is a really good intro. singles comp. "Bandwagonesque" is probably their finest hour and "Thirteen" is the noisy-ass album their label either didn't want to hear or did (it was 1993, after all.) "A Catholic Education" is the pre-Nirvana noisy pop album that was an actual Nirvana influence, and doesn't 100% sound like them, though it's still good.

I love Springsteen, and I didn't completely realize that until I actually moved to the Northeast (believe me, it helps.) Here's the thing: even if he didn't produce anything else of artistic value (which he did,) I'd be forever beholden to him for "Nebraska." There are entire genres of American fiction I'll never need to read because of "Atlantic City" alone. But the whole album's a jaw-dropper.

S3 was, and is, one of the great psych-rock bands in history. Having said that, as big a fan as I am, there's really only one Spacemen album for me, and that's "Performance: Live at the Melkweg, Amsterdam." There just had to have been some extra-extra-good drugs in town that night.

Post by **bradisntclever** » November 8th, 2007, 9:18 am

mcnichol wrote:sidebar note--

if anyone here uses OiNK...

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/dis ... ebsite.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7057812.stm

That was a really crappy day. Most of my audiophile friends have already moved on to waffles.fm, but my ISP has found a way to cap upload speeds and effectively screw me out of obtaining power user status.

apiaryist · Post by **apiaryist** » November 8th, 2007, 10:18 am

bradisntclever wrote:
mcnichol wrote:sidebar note--

if anyone here uses OiNK...

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/dis ... ebsite.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7057812.stm
That was a really crappy day. Most of my audiophile friends have already moved on to waffles.fm, but my ISP has found a way to cap upload speeds and effectively screw me out of obtaining power user status.

Have you tried changing the ports that are used by your application? If whatever client you're using lets you, that is. Change it/them to some crazy port number. That's how I got around the caps placed by my ISP.

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » November 8th, 2007, 10:55 am

bradisntclever wrote:[That was a really crappy day. Most of my audiophile friends have already moved on to waffles.fm, but my ISP has found a way to cap upload speeds and effectively screw me out of obtaining power user status.

I'm afraid to move onto something new... still sticking with #it, KG, etc. for now.

can i ask, what ISP do you use? I'm on Time Warner, but haven't noticed anything funky, yet at least. Though I've been using a crazy high port number so maybe they haven't noticed.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » November 8th, 2007, 3:12 pm

There's a scene in The Sarah Silverman Program where the two guys have had such a crazy hilarious day, and they run home so they can tell Sarah about it, but before they can say what happened, Sarah, holding back tears, asks them, "Did you lose a daughter today?" So they didn't get to have that conversation they waned to have. That's an exaggerated version of how I feel with this technical talk about lost music after my post.

shando · Post by **shando** » November 14th, 2007, 12:47 pm

Just because I think this is still our longest thread and it's nice to remind ourselves that as far I remember not a single fight has broken out here, here's what I've been listening to for the past few days.

Also been blogging about some of them here.

Subtle's A New White and For Hero: For Fool
Pere Ubu's Dub Housing
Sun City Girl's Torch of the Mystics

Sweet albums all, in the too tart way I like.

Lants · Post by **Lants** » November 14th, 2007, 1:28 pm

I dig Subtle... seen them twice now... first time was amazing, second time was a little low energy and the sound mix was effed.

HerrHerr · Post by **HerrHerr** » November 14th, 2007, 1:54 pm

How is the Pere Ubu, Shannon? I listened to a couple of their albums in college.

Marc Majcher · Post by **Marc Majcher** » November 14th, 2007, 2:07 pm

I just discovered Ethiopiques. Man, that's good stuff.