Whatcha listening to?

Holly and the Italians - Tell That Girl to Shut Up
Folkways Armenian Choral Music
Ex-Cocaine - Esta Guerra
Clorox Girls - J'aime Les Filles
Early Girls Vol 3
Dorothy Ashby - Afro-Harping

the holy ghost reception committee #9 - collected works

which sounds like it was mastered from 96kbps mp3s. hope someone does this right someday, it's pretty charming jesus-folk-rock.

Roxy Music's debut alb. (still great)
Walter & Sabrina, We Sing For The Future (the title track is a Cornelius Cardew, um, "cover")
Various, Songs from the Material World: A Tribute to George Harrison
Jocelyn Pook Ensemble with Natacha Atlas (a live recording on Mezzo TV; very enjoyable)

i have the first holy ghost reception committee album on vinyl. my brother bought it for a dollar and gave it to me. wasn't that nice of him? i've never heard the 2nd one. if i see it for a dollar, i'll buy it and listen.

been playing:

Kathleen Battle & Christopher Parkening - Pleasures of Their Company (Music for voice & guitar. Dowland songs, Bach/Gounod, Villa Lobos, Brazilian & Spanish songs, Spirituals.)

Marilyn Horne - Rossini:Giovanna D'Arco & Songs/Melodies/Lieder (Martin Katz, piano)

Durufle:Requiem/Danse Lente (New Philharmonia Orchestra/Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano/Siegmund Nimsgern, baritone)

roxy music - pyjamarama
kathy diamond - between the lines (great bass line)

M.I.A. - Arular
Mala Rodriguez - Malamarismo
Kavinsky - 1986
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
Common - Be

Nostalgia for two years ago = u_u

Oh, well. Both the Common & M.I.A. albums hold up. I just need to hear their new albums.

Because of another thread, pulled out Smashing Orange's "1991" and am rediscovering how great "Sugar" and "Any Further, It's All Over" are.

08.04.07 - 3:10 PM - Last Night - Diddy
08.04.07 - 3:05 PM - Umbrella Remix - Rhianna
08.04.07 - 3:01 PM - Party like a Rock Star - Shop Boyz
08.04.07 - 2:53 PM - Ayo Technology - 50 Cent
08.04.07 - 2:47 PM - Go DJ - Lil Wayne
08.04.07 - 2:37 PM - Tambourine - Eve
08.04.07 - 2:33 PM - Buy You a Drank - T-Pain
08.04.07 - 2:29 PM - You Make Me Better - Fabolous
08.04.07 - 2:25 PM - Toxic - Britney Spears
08.04.07 - 2:08 PM - Like This - Kelly Rowland

charlotte gainsbourg "the operation"

i have the first holy ghost reception committee album on vinyl. my brother bought it for a dollar and gave it to me. wasn't that nice of him? i've never heard the 2nd one. if i see it for a dollar, i'll buy it and listen.

the second one has "know they're you," which is a great tune. it rocks a little more, i think. but yeah, good on yr bro.

the cult - 'love' just now

previosly, some robyn

Sexmacines - Onstage (I go crazy)
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered EP

atomic hooligan - papercuts / weed
total 8 kompakt sampler

Def Räädu & J.O.C., Succiety 2
Neil Young, Freedom
Riho Sibul, Must
Riho Sibul, Poeet külmetab klaasmäel
10cc and Godley & Creme, Changing Faces: The Best of
10cc, Original Soundtrack
Various, Danny Dark Records Taster
Walter & Sabrina, Rock'n'Roll Darkness

Milt Jackson, Sunflower (recorded Dec. '72; Jackson, Fr.Hubbard, Hancock, B.Cobham, Ron Carter, Jay Berliner (g), Ralph MacDonald (perc.), "Plus reed and strings" arr. by Don Sebesky. There's mellowness galore but, um, in a good way :)

Daniel Lanois, Shine (well, mellowness galore here too - in a not so fine way, tho. Plus: Bono on one track... which to my mind actually isn't the worstest thing on this not-too-interesting alb)

Grateful Dead, Skeletons From The Closet: The Best Of (yeh, that 1974 11-track Warners comp.)

Santogold aka M.I.A. Jr. - "Creator"

I got some CD's out of the library...

Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun
Cabaret Voltaire - BBC Sessions
Ghost - In Stormy Nights
Andrew WK - I Get Wet

standells - try it (this is more blue-eyed-soul-ish than the garage rock of their 1st album, good stuff though)
stranglehold - crash and burn
suicidal tendencies - join the army
television personalities - privilege
va - house hallucinates

suicidal tendencies - join the army

Also....

Mnemonists - Horde
Milton Nascimento - Club da Esquina
Stalk Forrest Group - St Cecilia
Cactus - Restrictions

How's that Cactus, then? Well sharp or pretty blunt?

i second the question. need more cactus, don't know where to start.

currently listening to music dewolfe vol. 1 comp of funky, ridiculous library music. killer.

It's great! The only Cactus I've heard, so not much to compare it to, but yeah, it's what I hoped it would be. There's a track called Token Chokin'!!

All good thud.

Shakin' (& cookin') along to Tussle's great Kling Klang, love that album.

the first three cactus albums with jim mccarty are great. especially the first album. then jim left and the band made one half studio/half live album that is okay too. different singer too (leaf hound dude). THEN there was another album credited to The New Cactus Band started by the keyboard dude who played on 'ot 'n' sweaty (the half live/half studio thing) and nobody needs that album cuz it's not very good. and there is lots of archival live stuff coming out that i haven't heard. george probably has it all. rhino handmade stuff. i would imagine that it's very cool stuff indeed.

the chameleons - what does anything mean? basically

jake holmes - a letter to katherine december

Mondlicht - Xmal Deutschland
Pretty Boy - The May Fire
Christine - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Dylan, Modern Times (um, er...)
ZZ Top, Greatest Hits (hehe)
Minu Isa Oli Ausus Ise/ Gaute Kivistik ja Mergo Mitt (mm, don't ask; this just doesn't translate, not to any reasonable 'xtent)

Shop Boyz - Rockstar Mentality (Kerrazy)
Jay-Z - The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse (Way more silly EW&F pomp than I remember)
Darryl Hall & John Oates - Rock 'n' Soul, Part 1 (Beautiful)
Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
Rich Boy
The DFA Remixes, Chapter One
Ying Yang Twins - U.S.A.: United State of Atlanta (Why did they fall so hard after this? I hope they can recover.)

shiina & xtc

Stacey Pullen - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (1996)

Om. in anticipation of 'Pilgrimage'.

Cheater Slicks - Walk Into The Sea (new album - first for several years but sounds like they've never been away)
Accion Mutante - Fear EP (crust punk)
World Burns To Death/Sick Terror Split EP (more crust punk)
Asobi Seksu - Citrus

Rita Lee e Roberto De Carvalho, ~ (unexpected, somewhat strange, but still fun - in moderation)
Bryan Ferry + Roxy Music, Platinum Collection 3CD (lotsa great songs on three disks, sure, yet a coupla Ferry solo alb's and the first coupla Roxy's in their original entireties 'd be needed)
Carlinhos Brown & DJ Dero, Candyall Beat/ electronica artesanal (when was the last time i danced? damned if i remember ...five years ago??)
Boney M, Hit Collection (unlike some o'our venerable disco critics, getting to hear these tracks just once in every 10-15 years will suffice for me; do love "Painter Man", tho; "Night Flight To Venus", however, ain't even on this compilation, bah!!)
Denny Laine, The Masters 2CD comp. (a whole other kind of "strange" - and not that much of fun, to be frank)
Jocelyn Pook, The Flood (wot a weirdly wonderful woman)

Gilberto Gil - s/t (1969)
Yamamoto Seiichi - Nu Frequency
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
Pavement - Brighten the Corners

<i>Om. in anticipation of 'Pilgrimage'.</i>

that was me for three days in a row. right now:

the meters - s/t

V/A I Don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore
Beautiful compilation of songs from the 20s to the 40s encompassing a spread of folk musics from around the world. Calypso, Rembetika, all sorts. Maybe all immigrants to America or something? No sleevenotes!

Same label (Mississippi) also put out a Dog Faced Hermans reissue, which also arrived this morning, but I haven't yet listened to.

John Anderson John Anderson reissue (American Beat)
Stiv Bators L.A. Confidential reissue (Bomp!)
Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)
Ted Nugent Love Grenade (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
Taylor's Universe With Karsten Vogel Once Again (Marvel of Beauty)

Various songs from 1985, plus a bit of M.I.A. and Kula Shaker.

Also...

Mnemonists - Horde
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
Dukes of Stratosphear
This old Brazilian compilation called Festival Au Bresil. Weird cover with an S&M minstrel theme.

tiit, you need to shake your groove thing more often!

thanks for teh suggestion, rockist-0!

Spring Heel Jack, 68 Million Shades... (Great record. (And no, I amn't just listening to track 7! :))

Walter & Sabrina, Walter & Sabrina Play Pop; Walter & Sabrina Play Classical
Sabrina, Sadness And Life

Ned Rothenberg's Inner Diaspora is fantastic, but I continue to have trouble finding anything much to say about it. (I can just imagine people comming across this CD ten years from now and asking: why didn't I hear about this at the time?)

"Honest With Me," Bob Dylan
"Love Ritual (remix)," Al Green
"1 Thing," Amerie
"Punky Reggae Party," Bob Marley and the Wailers

The Motor Booty Affair
Curtis/Live!
The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, Duke Ellington
"I've Been Lonely for So Long," Frederick Knight
"Feel the Need," Detroit Emeralds
"If You Talk in Your Sleep," Little Milton
Acid, Ray Barretto

hole - the first session
deathspell omega - fas-ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum
hrsta - ghosts will come and kiss our eyes*
brainbombs - s/t second singles collection

* GYBE! related pansy rock that has a handful of pretty okay songs (mostly the ones that sounded like they belonged on kranky albums by dean roberts or labradford). but then there's the ones where homeboy sings in a painful thom yorke keen, those aren't so good. can't believe constellation can still milk those quebecois angst-farmers.

iTunes is finally carrying Magic Dirt's "Beast" ep, so I have that at last. And it's pretty great, though it makes me kind of sad that they had to wander in the pop wilderness for so long before returning to what they're actually best at (noisy, Stooges/Motorhead-esque guitar stuff).

Very weird that they continue to have zero US presence. You'd think some indie lable could license this and make a buck or two.