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Posted: **November 15th, 2007, 1:25 am**

Did I mention I listen to audiobooks a lot?

Posted: **November 15th, 2007, 1:32 am**

Roy Janik wrote:

Did I mention I listen to audiobooks a lot?

I've been looking for that one song by that group of people who were in a parade begging God for mercy from the Plague.

Posted: **November 15th, 2007, 1:34 am**

Kaci - I, too, just bought that Feist CD. I like it bunches

mcnichol wrote:Mike McGill also knows quite a bit about this stuff.

Says the man who has probably forgotten more than I will ever know... I will try my best.

Lisa...If you're looking for a good entry into Afro-Pop, I'd recommend Orchestra BaoBab which is pan-african but based in Sengal and Fela Kuti who's already been talked about a bunch. I also like Amadou et Mariam They're a blind couple with really fascinating polyrhythms and touching vocals from Mali.

While I like all of their work, in particular I enjoy the three discs below:

Posted: **November 15th, 2007, 10:33 am**

kaci_beeler wrote:

YAY!!!!! Did I have anything to do with this, or is it just coincidence.

Posted: **November 16th, 2007, 7:30 am**

kaci_beeler wrote:

Have you seen the video for "Knights of Cydonia?" That song's so effing epic a kung-fu sci fi western is the only feesible visual interpretation.

Posted: **November 16th, 2007, 8:38 am**

some stuff i bought recently and am now listening to:

Brazil 70 - singles from the post tropicalia scene

MIA's Kala

Posted: **November 16th, 2007, 8:45 am**

erikamay wrote:

MIA's Kala

!!!

There are a handful of tracks I'm not that into, but overall it's pretty amazing.

Posted: **November 16th, 2007, 9:59 am**

I know you guys are into lists and recommendations and stuff, because, well, that's what this thread is.

Every Friday I try to go check out Dusted Magazine, which has a weekly feature called Listed, wherein they get two bands to list their favorite stuff. One of this weeks contributors is the wooden Shijps, recently much talked about in this thread. Go see what those dudes like.

http://dustedmagazine.com/features/667

Posted: **November 16th, 2007, 10:15 am**

shando wrote:Chris--the Pere Ubu is really good. It's from 1979, so it might have been one of the ones you listened to in college. Not like it's a new album or anything. There are some great trax on there--Navvy, Drinking Wine Spodyody, Dub Housing, I Will Wait, and maybe best of all, Ubu Dance Party. Fuck it, every song is good. Blow Daddy-O, all good. They should have been as popular as Talking Heads. This album came out the same year as TH's Fear Of Music, by the way, and they have similar feels. To get a taste, I stuck Navvy on my blog, here.

Marc, I agree, the Ethiopiques series is awesome. I have Volumes 1,2, 3, 6, and 18. What do you have?

C'mon people, the UCB thread is trying to break the record it took us years to build in a matter of days. What tunes are you listening to right now?

Edited to say--19!

Thanks, Shannon! I do own Fear of music. I do love Talking Heads!

Posted: **November 16th, 2007, 10:49 am**

HerrHerr wrote:
shando wrote:Chris--the Pere Ubu is really good. It's from 1979, so it might have been one of the ones you listened to in college. Not like it's a new album or anything. There are some great trax on there--Navvy, Drinking Wine Spodyody, Dub Housing, I Will Wait, and maybe best of all, Ubu Dance Party. Fuck it, every song is good. Blow Daddy-O, all good. They should have been as popular as Talking Heads. This album came out the same year as TH's Fear Of Music, by the way, and they have similar feels. To get a taste, I stuck Navvy on my blog, here.

Marc, I agree, the Ethiopiques series is awesome. I have Volumes 1,2, 3, 6, and 18. What do you have?

C'mon people, the UCB thread is trying to break the record it took us years to build in a matter of days. What tunes are you listening to right now?

Edited to say--19!
Thanks, Shannon! I do own Fear of music. I do love Talking Heads!

OK, I should also say I understand why Pere Ubu weren't as popular as Talking Heads, so if you go to Dub Housing expecting "Burning Down the House" you will be disappointed. But in the way that Fear of Music can be creepy ("Air can hurt you, too"), Dub Housing is as well.

Posted: **November 16th, 2007, 10:52 am**

shando wrote:http://dustedmagazine.com/features/667

Thanks for the link man! I haven't heard many of those bands they mention, but Los Llamarada's records are insane. That 7" he mentions (the a-side, at least) is great. There's some samples at S-S Records' site: http://207.228.243.82/ss/cat.html

ALSO -- Shannon -- I found Ethiopiques 21 and was listening to that at work yesterday after seeing that on your list. Holy Crap! that is some of the most gorgeous, infectious, but uncategorizable piano I have ever heard. I'd expected the whole serious to be more group-oriented, funky but this took me by surprise completely.

Posted: **November 16th, 2007, 10:57 am**

Posted: **November 16th, 2007, 11:05 am**

mcnichol wrote:
shando wrote:http://dustedmagazine.com/features/667
Thanks for the link man! I haven't heard many of those bands they mention, but Los Llamarada's records are insane. That 7" he mentions (the a-side, at least) is great. There's some samples at S-S Records' site: http://207.228.243.82/ss/cat.html

ALSO -- Shannon -- I found Ethiopiques 21 and was listening to that at work yesterday after seeing that on your list. Holy Crap! that is some of the most gorgeous, infectious, but uncategorizable piano I have ever heard. I'd expected the whole serious to be more group-oriented, funky but this took me by surprise completely.

Ah, I don't have Volume 21. Now I gotta get that one. Between the Ethiopiques Series and the Smithsonian Folkways series of Music From Indonesia, I will never have time for any other music.

Posted: **November 16th, 2007, 11:09 am**

shando wrote:

By the way. Best. Sweater. Ever.

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