Whatcha listening to?

Silversun Pickups IN MY HEAD.

Help me someone.

Well Deep: Ten Years Of Big Dada Recordings

..is not gonna cut it, I don't think. I'm losing interest fast.

The Birthday Party Masscare

Nope, not that either. Just The Birthday Massacre. Weird -- it's not like the band is new to me or anything; I liked their last album, too. Guess I just need to learn to wake up in the morning before I start posting.

Well Deep: Ten Years Of Big Dada Recordings
..is not gonna cut it, I don't think. I'm losing interest fast.

i with you there, just cant summon up the will to get through this one, or even start it to be honest.

todays selection :

the micronauts - damaging consent
prefuse 73 - preparations

White Noise, An Electric Storm
Jocelyn Pook, Untold Things

Most recently? Lemme think...

Larry Young, Fuel
Beatles' Christmas Album
Demian s/t
Leo Kottke, 6 & 12 String Guitar
The Beatles (clearly prompted by the "Revolution #9" poll)
A Shangri-Las best-of
Hot Chocolate ('70s American, not English)
Körgtones, Vol. 0
Wayne Shorter, Juju
Big Brother & the Holding Company, Cheaper Thrills

...and lotsa shuffle-play selections

Phil Manzanera, 50 Minutes Later
Moody Blues, To Our Chilfren's Children's Children
Lori Carson, Everything I Touch Runs Wild

Bjork, Homogenic
Kraftwerk, Trans-Europe Express
Kraftwerk, The Man-Machine
Marley Marl, House of Hits
Stevie Wonder, Where I'm Coming From
Janet Jackson, Janet
Herbie Hancock, Sextant
Miles Davis, On the Corner
LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
Sly & the Family Stone, Stand!

Joan Manuel Serrat Mediterráneo -- I'm in deep infatuation with this record at the moment. So, so great.

"Beatle George" blog comp of all George's Beatle music.

Gino Soccio Face To Face -- Because the part in "Remember" when the guitar comes in is awesoem.

Miles Davis London 1973 boot -- found this at the B160Z1n3 site. One of the funkiest (as in Sly funky) MD shows I've heard yet. Good recording, too!

Limbonic Art Legacy of Evil (Candlelight)
Little Big Town A Place To Land (Equity Music Group)
Magic Markers Boss (Ecstatic Peace)
Blow Your Cool: 20 Prog/Pysch Assaults From The UK & Europe (Psychic Circle)
Hot Rod (Legacy soundtrack)

Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow

Chaka Khan, Epiphany: The Best of ... Vol.1
Randy Newman, Bad Love (o-yeah, this really is one very good Newman)

Digitalism, Idealism
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis
Dizzee Rascal, Maths + English
Justice, †
Felix da Housecat, Virgi Blaktro & the Movie Disco
Bjork, Volta
Air, Pocket Symphony
Prodigy, Return of the Mac
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, 100 Days, 100 Nights
will.i.am, Songs About Girls
Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Amerie, Because I Love It

Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity (I've had this for quite a long time, but for some reason it really clicked this past week. Played it far, far too much)
Michael Mantler - The Hapless Child
Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite
Merzbow - Venereology
Judy Henske - S/T
Sarah Vaughan - At Mister Kelly's
Fanfare Ciocarlia - Radio Pascani

Robert Wyatt, Comicopera
The Jimmy Giuffre 3 (rec. 1956)
Moody Blues, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Gordon Lightfoot, If You Could Read My Mind
Gordon Lightfoot, Sundown
& also some Lee Konitz, from a CD (1954-55) as well as live on TV (2005).

Johnny "Guitar" Watson And The Family Clone (this record starts very, very wonderfully:)
Meat Puppets, Classic Puppets
Justin Hayward & John Lodge, "Blue Guitar" (erm, niiiice)

& a li'l Hot Tuna and some Michael Gibbs also

Depeche Mode, Ultra

Low/"Heroes"/Lodger in succession

Mannequin Men, Fresh Rot
Arch Enemy, Rise of the Tyrant
The Black Dahlia Murder, Nocturnal
Disco Inferno, D.I. Go Pop

Alice Coltrane, Journey in Satchidananda*
John Martyn, Solid Air*
Nick Drake, Bryter Layter

*Can ya guess what I've been reading?

Ultramarine - Every Man And Woman Is A Star
Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Ape-ology

JN$OT, Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs.

Did you like that Alice Coltrane? You should get "Ptah, the El Daoud" if you liked that one.

Yeah, the Alice is BY FAR my favorite of the three! I think I played it something like five times in a row (something I haven't done with any record in years!). I'll definitely have to check out more of her work soon.

BTW, if you're Geeta, I gotta say that that was an awesome piece.

Not Geeta, just another Alice Coltrane fan. "Journey..." is marvelous.

Isn't the intro to that album incredibly awesome, JN$OT?

Indeed it is.

Pere Ubu, The Modern Dance
The Jackson 5, Moving Violation

Rodney, I wore my Man-Machine T-shirt tonight!

Did you buy the Will.i.am disc?

Deodato 2

Soft Machine Third

Terry Riley A Rainbow In Curved Air

assorted trax by Magazine esp. "Permafrost" & "A Song From Under The Floorboards"

Judee Sill s/t album and "The Donor" off Heart Food

Richard & Linda Shoot Out The Lights

throwing muses hunkpapa

stuff I recently enjoyed:
Jean-Luc Ponty - "Ethereal Mood"
Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air
Can Singles (ripped from a double lp I never knew existed. early tracks feature a woman (?) on vocals. anyone knows anything about this?)
Sacred Hearts and Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology (this is so great. esp when driving)
Dada Life - "Fun Fun Fun"
Chrisma - "C-rock" & "Black Silk Stockings"
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Black Dice - Load Blown
Farah - "Law of Life" 12" (8 minutes is not long enough! a song that could/should go on forever)
Henrik Schwarz - "Walk Music" (same applies here)
ESG - A South Bronx Tale
Hot Chip - "Shake A Fist"
Imagination - "Just An Illusion" (Nexus remix)
Len Faki - "Odyssee I"
Redshape - "Unfinished Sympathy" ep
Sleeparchive - "Dusty Galaxies"

Radiohead, In Rainbows
The 1900s, Cold & Kind
Boris with Michio Kurihara, Rainbow
Band of Horses, Cease To Begin
Dethklok, The Dethalbum

in the past week:

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Going Places
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem (Chandos)
Justice - +
Naked City - s/t
Gene Clark - No Other
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
Espers - II
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves

Rickey, yeah. It's good. It's this year's version of last year's Diddy album: Much-maligned hip-hop auteur makes inconsistent but highly-enjoyable dance-pop album. I ranted about it in a possibly coherent fashion here: Will.i.am - "Songs About Girls"

Anyways, I've been listening to the will.i.am, Justice, & Felix albums some more and the Temptations Psychedelic Soul comp, which just beats everything.

Flesh Quartet
Walter & Sabrina

Prefuse 73 - Preparations
History is Bunk (Parts 1 and 2) : Hefty Records compilations/reinterpretations
Retina.IT - Semeion
Telefon Tel Aviv - remixes comp. (been on a lush glitch trip recently)
Space Monkeys vs Gorillaz (easy pop dub)
Freddie Mercury vs Glimmers (the full non edited version hidden on the extra disc of the recent best of set - the rest is shyte, but that one remix is superb)
Solo Andata - Fyris Swan (perfect end of shift comedown album)
Menomena - Friend of Foe

deaf center - pale ravine
earth - hex
rwake - voice of omens
flying canyon - s/t
megafaun - bury the square
hauschka - room to expand, prepared piano, substantial
gyorgi ligeti - continuum

The Stylistics - s/t
The Dramatics - Watcha See is Watcha Get
Lata, Asha others - Bengali Film Hits
Daniel Owino Misiani and Shirati Band - Benga Blast!
Shirley Scott - Queen of the Organ: Shirley Scott Memorial Album
Delaney & Bonnie - Home
Sea and Cake - s/t
Thelonious Monk - Monk

!!!, Myth Takes
Air, Pocket Symphony
Amerie, Because I Love It
Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
Battles, Mirrored

I'm surprised you like !!! somehow. Course you didn't say you liked it.

It's alright. The back half drags. "Heart of Hearts" is probably one of my top twenty singles of the year, though.

Why have I listened to this Timbaland/OneRepublic track three times in a row?!?!?!

Eluvium - Copia
Erik Friedlander - Block Ice & Propane
Gonzales - Solo Piano
Henry Mancini - Charade

Strategy - Future Rock (Kranky)

One of my records of the year...defo

Eluvium - Copia
Erik Friedlander - Block Ice & Propane
Gonzales - Solo Piano
Henry Mancini - Charade

I love Eluvium, I didn't realize he had a new record out. What's Erik Friedlander?

If you're into Gonzales you should definitely check out Hauschka, Erik Satie, Swod and Goldmund.

Erik Friedlander's a contemporary cellist. He's worked on some interesting collabs with Sylvie Courvoisier ("Abaton") and more recently with Teho Teardo on an album based on Pasolini. Not crazy about his solo stuff, though.

(He's also worked on hundreds of other collabs which I haven't necessarily found interesting enough to mention)

Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (that's more like it)

Frank Bridge - String Quartet No. 1

Awesome.

Yeah Friedlander's a cellist, I discovered him through his work on Zorn's Masada String Trio stuff (which is also totally great). His first solo record is called Maldorer and it's awesome. He's interesting to me in that he sees the cello as an instrument that can be used for something other than just making you weep. His newest solo disc is the above mentioned Block Ice & Propane and he's mostly finger-picking the cello and kind of approaching American roots music with it. It's a really different sound for the cello, not so much moody as joyful, and I'd really, really recommend it if that sounds like it'd push your buttons.