Whatcha listening to?

This weekend: The Fiery Furnaces, Widow City (rocks); Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Fire Escape (studio album with Kieran Hebden: fun underwater hijinks;goes good with)Prints, s/t. All three are October releases. Also: The Magic Numbers, s/t (better on headphones, get all the cute little sounds around the pauses, which they could still use a few less of, but really like most of it)

Ruth Brown, The Definitive Soul Collection
Kala

I'm all over that one... You listen to some good shit, I happen to notice.

Right now: Dick Segal's non-preachy protest songs on Sing Out! Radio Hour; before that: headsnapping Disc Two (out of Three)of Wattstax, which is now all the actually live tracks from the original 2-LP soundtrack and its sequel(drops the fake live), plus a bunch of prev. unreleased. Comes out this Tues. Not totally but mostly great, so far.

Me? Thanks! xpost

M.I.A. - Kala
Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
LiLiPUT
Thrillpillow - blast off!
(just found out they're playing at my school next week! sa-weet!)

Efterklang, Parades
Various, Runeology

(...Runeology 3, argh)

KALA, HEY VENUS AND THE MENACE

coffins - the other side of blasphemy
the shining path - s/t
iron cross - crucified for your sins

April March, Triggers ('fortlessly fun-mongering pop dudette; with a little help from messieur Burgalat; a breeze)
Missy Elliott, The Coockbook (listened to it for a very first time just today; is good)
Jethro Tull, Roots To Branches (well, blame teh re-pumped Tull thread if ya wanna... anyhow: just chuck out tracks 1 & 3 & 4, and wot's then left is a very fine J-Tull CD from nineteen-fricken-ninety-five)
Spain, I Believe (yeah, yeah haven't heard the earlier ones)

Chris & Cosey Heartbeat
Vangelis Live London 1979
Skream

sonic youth - silver flower. a highlight of the silver session

all kris menace & lifelike mixes and tracks from this year

Soft Machine Legacy, Steam
Hugh Hopper, Numero D'Vol
Claudia Quintet, For ('m confused 'bout this one, their two earlier records kinda got a-hold of me much faster and more firmly)

iron cross - crucified for your sins
Missy Elliott, The Coockbook (listened to it for a very first time just today; is good)

Primitives - Pure
Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room
Renegade Soundwave - Soundclash
Unwound - The Future Of What
and a cool power pop/mod punk mix someone sent us a few years ago

O'Jays, Ship Ahoy
Junior Boys, So This is Goodbye
The Very Best of Ben E. King
Big Joe (Turner) Rides Again
Antonio Carlos Jobim and Elis Regina, Elis & Tom
Impact All Stars, Forward the Bass: Dub From Randy's 1972-1975

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Fugazi - End Hits

Hendrix and Thin Lizzy

The Ex - Singles. Period.
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Laura Veirs - Troubled by the Fire
FM Knives - Useless and Modern

Prince & the Revolution - Around the World In a Day
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
UGK - Underground Kingz
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Justice - †

YMG: Colossal Youth
Culture: Two Sevens Clash (30th anniv. ed.)
mekons: Natural
Rilo Kiley: Under the Blacklight
Sly & the Family Stone: Small Talk

Steve Lacy - Roswell Rudd Quartet, Early and Late ('tis from 1999, 2002, 1962)
Steve Miller & Lol Coxhill (this recent Cuneiform two'fer that collects their various stuff from the early 70s)

The Time - ST

byrds - notorious byrd brothers
talking heads - more songs...
chamermaids - s/t

chamBERmaids

Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain

Think I'll go for Zeph and Azeem - Rise Up after this...

Trans Am, Sex Change
Curtis Mayfield, Short Eyes soundtrack
Parliament, Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome

"Diva" soundtrack
Clipse - Lord Willin'
new Big Business
buncha New Bomb Turks and Candy Snatchers 45s
reissued Black Devil Disco Club singles from a few years back (fuckfuckFUCK 28 After - fucking terrible)

rhadoo
best of faron young 1952-1962
hpeirwtikos gamos - 'traditional music from hpeiros, greece'
idjah hadidjah - tonggeret
honolulu to hollywood
street music of java
matthias aguayo
louvin brothers live at new river ranch

Presenting Isaac Hayes
Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You

3Pead, Ilusaim heli
Jimmy Webb, Ten Easy Pieces
Spirit, 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
Wings, Wild Life
Jethro Tull, Heavy Horses
Perrey- Kingsley, The In Sound From Way Out
The Dukes Of Stratosphear, Chips From The Chocolate Fireball

Paul McCartney: Wingspan
M.I.A.:

curses...that should have been:

M.I.A.: Kala

rich & low - blan
death of you - gentelman drivers remix
jerome sydenham, willie graff - brokeback
strategy - future rock

Grupo Niche - Listo Medellín

"Foundations" - kate nash
"for real" - okkervil river

The Very Best Brainbox Album Ever (somehow expected this 1969-1972 comp to give off a stronger, er, foretaste of the Focus-to-come, with Akkerman and 'verything)

Jethro Tull, This Was ("A Song For jeffrey" is such a marvelloussomest piece... and there sure's more flute on this than on the Braibox sampler)

David Lndley, El Rayo-X (teh 1981 studio alb)

Wipers - Power in one
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next
Rubella Ballet - 42F 7"
split - Napalm Death + SOB flexi
Shoot It Up - Pop 7"
Civil Disobedience - In a few hours of madness 7"

Queen, Made In Heaven (that 22-minute ambient weirdoodlenoodlethon - another "Reprise"? -- 'hidden' at the very end ..o boy)

The Kinks, The Village Green Preservation Society (somewhere's the thread for "classic alb's you've heard only recently", that i cannot find [=cant be arsed t'search]... wot a great batch of songs, this!)

Urge Overkill - Exit The Dragon (what a fuckin' great record!)

Various old soul/mod stuff : Drifters, Chris Farlowe, Billy Stewart...

Betty Davis - s/t, Nasty Gal (hard to trust anyone who doesn't find something to like about these)
Joji Yuasa - Obscure Tape Music of Japan Volume 4

in the changer:

Gary Allan Living Hard (MCA)
Aqua De Annique Air (The End) [rough mixes, apparently -- just put this in, and haven't heard any songs off of it yet)
Bobby Bowens The Rump Shakers (T.S.)
Warfare Metal Anarchy (Neat/Castle Music reissue)
Witchcraft The Alchemist (Rise Above)

this local band from mpls called the blackthorns. i guess they are breaking up.

http://www.myspace.com/blackthornsdeath

Dolly Parton: Coat of Many Colors
John Stewart: California Bloodlines
Pet Shop Boys: Very
Handraizer

Betty Davis - s/t, Nasty Gal (hard to trust anyone who doesn't find something to like about these)

true!

Warfare Metal Anarchy (Neat/Castle Music reissue)

i was so excited about that until i realized i have most of it on that 2cd anthology that castle did in 2002 or so. i fucking love warfare.

the past 24 hours:
various - soft sounds for gentle people 4
various - who needs tomorrow?
wizard - the original wizard
ya ho wha 13 - the operetta
moses - changes
the contortions - buy
bunch of mp3s (old hip-hop, funky stuff, traffic sound)
new trolls - new trolls atomic system
ibis - ibis, sun supreme, canti d'innocenza...
rudimentary peni - cacophony
throbbin gristle - in the shadow of the sun OST
sharon tandy anthology i can't remember the title of

right now: spk - auto da fe mixed with the sound of fireworks from the park a couple of blocks away. and kinda pissed i'm going to have to re-buy auto da fe on CD cause my lp only has 8 tracks.

Nelly Furtado w)K'naan, "Going Away" samba/Carribean-cruise-ship-informed r&b, with her suburban hip-hop nasality returning for a whiff of raunch (little early-Van-Morrison outbursts): not great but nice like Italian ice, on MTV dot com. Also, forthcoming EPs: Bear Hands' Golden with four tracks, at least two of which ("Sickly Brunette" and "Bad Blood")find their own way through some familiar Minnesota fallen rock zones. And Gang Gang Dance's Rawwar only has three tracks, and they've gone wilder, but this zigzagzick marks the spot, must admit.

I made a salsa practice mix (with several unusual slowly-tempoed tracks clustered in the first half) for someone at work who is going to start taking lessons, so I've been listening to that, and then other mixes, uhm, the usual stuff.

Konono No. 1, Congotronics
Daft Punk, The Official Album of ILM
The Best of E-40: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Camp Lo, Black Hollywood
TLC, CrazySexyCool
The Rapture, Echoes
M.I.A., Kala
Kanye West, Late Registration
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life

what dp album? ;)

sunday morning:
Franz Schubert - Die Schöne Müllerin (Werner Güra/Jan Schultsz)
afternoon:
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
Fleetwood Mac - Mirage