Austin Improv

kaci_beeler wrote:

kaci, did you just recently get into the aquabats, or are you just listening to them lately?

I'm lazy, so no pictures for now.

I've been listening to a lot of White Denim after seeing them at FunFunFun a few weekends ago. I'm also still listening to Radiohead's "In Rainbows" a lot and relaxing to various songs by The Books and Andrew Bird.

White Denim are from Austin, yes? Do you like Ume?

shando wrote:White Denim are from Austin, yes? Do you like Ume?

Yes and yes.

I saw the Swell Season last night at Stubb's. Craigy was there too.

Sweet, sweet, beautiful music. Great performance. Glen Hansard sang Daniel Johnston's "Devil Town" and had the audience snapping their fingers along to the song as we left Stubb's. How awesome is that?!

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:

kaci_beeler wrote:

kaci, did you just recently get into the aquabats, or are you just listening to them lately?

I heard of a few of their songs before, but I suppose I really just got into them recently, through Roy. And I love the Charge! album. I like to listen to it when I pull all-nighters on art projects.

So can you hear me? Can you get hip to what I'm sayin'?

kaci_beeler wrote:

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:

kaci_beeler wrote:

kaci, did you just recently get into the aquabats, or are you just listening to them lately?

I heard of a few of their songs before, but I suppose I really just got into them recently, through Roy. And I love the Charge! album. I like to listen to it when I pull all-nighters on art projects.

So can you hear me? Can you get hip to what I'm sayin'?

most assuredly. My friends in highschool were really into the aquabats and one of them has a sweet aquabats costume that he still wears under his clothes some nights.

I'm listening to WOXY.com.

Here's what they played from 2 PM until now:

Too Much To Ask For -- Radio 4
Lazy Eye -- Silversun Pickups
Head Home -- Midlake
Letter From An Occupant -- The New Pornographers
Walking The Plank -- Apollo Up!
Matrimony -- The Avett Brothers
Teen Angst -- Cracker
All Hands Against His Own -- The Black Keys
Jonathon Fisk -- Spoon
To Fix The Gash In Your Head -- A Place To Bury Strangers
I Hope I Become A Ghost -- The Deadly Syndrome
Hold It In -- Jukebox The Ghost
Wicked Game (Lounge Live) -- Giant Drag
Sad And Lonely -- Secret Machines
Hurricane Jane -- Black Kids
Lily And Parrots -- Sun Kil Moon
Duplexes Of The Dead -- The Fiery Furnaces
Let's Dance To Joy Division -- The Wombats
Droppin' -- Soft
Rainbowarriors -- CocoRosie
Eels -- Souljacker Pt. 1
The B-52s -- Rock Lobster

They also have a "Request a Song" application right below the mini-playlist at the top of the page I've asked for everything from The Clash to Atmosphere to Tegan and Sarah, and they've played it. When I listen to something at work, it's WOXY or This American Life.

Musics I miss, because I haven't owned them in a number of years:

Ooooh, I love the Moog Cookbook. Used to play it on Nummy Muffin all the time.

I actually have something similar involving concertinas. Well, actually it's similar to Switched on Bach, but it's all in the same vein.

mcnichol wrote: 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.

Ditto. Just listened to the samples and ordered the disc. I love the Ethiopiques series and need to get more of them. It's kind of like my plans to own the whole Masada series....it's a long term project. I chip away at it now and then but if I bought them all at once and listened to them they wouldn't be unique and special (and I'd also be poor).

Roy Janik wrote:Ooooh, I love the Moog Cookbook. Used to play it on Nummy Muffin all the time.

I actually have something similar involving concertinas. Well, actually it's similar to Switched on Bach, but it's all in the same vein.

What's the moog cookbook?

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:

Roy Janik wrote:Ooooh, I love the Moog Cookbook. Used to play it on Nummy Muffin all the time.

I actually have something similar involving concertinas. Well, actually it's similar to Switched on Bach, but it's all in the same vein.

What's the moog cookbook?

It's cover songs played on moogs. My favorite track is Black Hole Sun.

The Brigadier wrote:

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:

Roy Janik wrote:Ooooh, I love the Moog Cookbook. Used to play it on Nummy Muffin all the time.

I actually have something similar involving concertinas. Well, actually it's similar to Switched on Bach, but it's all in the same vein.

What's the moog cookbook?

It's cover songs played on moogs. My favorite track is Black Hole Sun.

Score. I want a quality Moog soooo bad.

Neat! I just discovered that The Moog Cookbook came out with a third album in 2005, and the track listing makes it seem possibly really cool.
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I'd thought that 1997's Ye Olde Space Bande was their last record.