Whatcha listening to?

anthony braxton "creative orchestra music 1976

One of my very favorite records!!

Venus and Mars
Memory Almost Full
Thrillington

(yeh, feeling great, thank you)

James Carney, Green-Wood
Anthony David, The Red Clay Chronicles
Tibebu Workye, Volume 2
T.I., T.I. vs. T.I.P.
John Coltrane Quartet, Africa/Brass
Himesh Reshammiya/Javed Akhtar, Namastey London OST
Rob Garcia's Sangha, Heart's Fire
Jenni Rivera, Mi Vida Loca
Get Set Go, Selling Out and Going Home
Love, Forever Changes (been reading the 33 1/3 book)
Lord Buckley, His Royal Hipness

BONUS CONTENT: Songs we heard on the radio in Addis Ababa: "Bla Bla Bla," "Umbrella," "Wanna Be Starting Something," "Holiday," that Marc Anthony/Jennifer Lopez duet

Kayhan Kalhor & Erdal Erzincan (kamancheh & baglama improvs on Persian & Turkish themes, good too)
Ivor Cutler & Jammy Smears (was it the AMG review that had some sorta problem with the Smears numbers on this album? Smears's fine, huh!)

Fear Candy 43 (lately I seldom find more than a couple of tunes that sound interesting to me on these Terrorizer comps; the ones I liked from this one were Angelcorpse, Korppiklaani, and Melancolia Estatica ...I guess)

Stina Nordenstam
Jenny Scheinman

(oh, true true, I am listening to a bit of Maccasir as well, on the sly ;)

bull of the woods

necros - conquest for death
ruthann friedman - constant companion
sabu - sorcery
michael hurley - long journey

AC/DC -Highway to Hell
James Chance - Sax Education
Depeche Mode - Violator (because gf couldn't handle James Chance ;-)

Hella's track on the Grass Roots Record Company comp.

tim buckley - goodbye and hello

this album is very gorgeous, dated in an extremely good way

miles davis - miles in the sky - seems sort of impenetrable and clinical to me in a way.

Check Williams' drum solo about 13 minutes +/- into "Stuff."

The Isley Brothers, The Heat is On
The Isley Brothers, Harvest for the World
Ramones, It's Alive

Disc 1 of the Four Seasons box.
Impact All Stars, Forward the Bass

Wipers - Follow Blind
Power Of Zeus - The Gospel According To Zeus
VA - Warp 10+1 Influences
Tyvek - Fast Metabolism
Go Team (no !) - Outside 7"
Gastunk - Devil 7"

Frank Fratkowski vis-à-vis Misha Mengelberg (rec. 2005; Leo)
Betty Davis, This Is It! (anthology)

Ivor Cutler & Jammy Smears (was it the AMG review that had some sorta problem with the Smears numbers on this album? Smears's fine, huh!)

Do you mean that woman who does the red admiral and dust poems? That's Phyllis King. Jammy Smears is the album title. I've got no problem with her contributions either. Ivor's best album, I reckon.

Re: Cutler:Smears - thanks, everything.
Me blind as ah bat, obviously :/
It certainly says "Phyllis April King" in teh Booklet. So that's her I meant, yeh...

(I also "meant" Gratkowski)
(Blimey)

Barabadabada, Beautiful Cosmos, Squeeze Bees, Rubber Toy, Bicarbonate of Chicken, In the Chestnut Tree. There are some wonderful songs on that album.

Agreed.
Actually I've been listening also to An Elpee And Two Epees a bit, lateley. Love 'em both.

Baxendale - I Built This City (Michael Mayer Mix)

Greatest Hits, Johnny Lee
The Best of Doug Sahm & the Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975

two mix-cd's from last year, accompanying saturday's newspaper:

Henrik Schwarz - DJ Kicks
Âme - Mixing

Both very good, but Schwarz's induced a few more 'oh this sounds so good' responses. Have to track down the Amampondo album...

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (Excuse my French, but let me speak Italian/ Black stallions wilin' on Shaolin)
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Woohoo! Just got back from seeing them with my friend who isn't any fun to go out with because he's a total stiff. But it was his birthday, you see. Good show, anyways.)
Zapp & Roger - All the Greatest Hits (OMG. I described a talkbox to a classmate and the first point of reference he could come up with is "Oh, like Peter Frampton". I hope when the revolution happens, this person is swept into the dustbin of history, or whatever it is the reds like to say.)
DJ Quik - Quik Is the Name (I bought five DJ Quik albums the other day, hopefully the next four are this good.)
Ghostface Killah - Live in NYC (Eh. I should have known. I probably won't mind tracks from this coming up randomly, though.)
Prince - Dirty Mind (Listening to this a lot lately. Is that a sign that my brain might be warped?)
E-40 - My Ghetto Report Card (They love us hustlers and dealers/ They wanna tear our houses down so they can build some Ikeas)
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (Not sure if I like this or not. It's a bit Euro-pop for my tastes.)
Bjork - Volta (DON'T LET THEM DO THAT TO YOU!!! Needs another big stomping NOIZE-fest to liven up that sleepy middle section, really.)
Diddy - Press Play (Almost as good as Cambodian breastmilk. Almost.)
T-Pain - Epiphany (OMGWTFBBQ THE AIDS SONG)

Last night:

Eddie Palmieri - Vamonos P'al Monte [the remastered one, finally]
Anouar Brahem - Le Voyage de Sahar
King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan
Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom

This morning:

reggaeton

T-Pain - Epiphany (OMGWTFBBQ THE AIDS SONG)

real talk.

My Bloody Valentine - All the Creation ep's. Someone re-release these now please. I think I like them better than Isn't Anything or even Loveless!
Orchestral Manuovers in the Dark - Dazzle Ships. I've got a telegraph!!
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit. Fela on a Saturday morning can't be beat.
Some Powerpop Mix - I downloaded this so long ago I can't recall where I got it. Makes me want to check out some Late Show.

posted this on the noize board. this is what i've been listening to:

cool stuff at a yard sale today:

nice copy of beefheart - strictly personal (which i already own, but what the hell, i wasn't gonna just leave it there.)

nice copy of beastie boys cooky puss 12-inch with picture sleeve

SO EXCITED to find this. a sweet copy of *This Is Phoenix Not The Circle Jerks* the Placebo comp from 1984 with jfa, sun city girls, etc, on it. i've wanted a copy of this since i heard it in 1984! but i never wanted to pay ebay money for one. i don't even know what it sells for. not too crazy probably. but still...

raiders of the lost dub (mango dub comp from 1981)

minutemen - ballot result 2-lp (including a letter from kara nicks explaining that mail-order customers would be getting albums before radio or press or distributors cuz the casettes were screwed up or something. which means this copy is hot of the presses! in 1986!)

black heat - keep on runnin' (cool hard to find horn-y funky stuff on atlantic)

black blood album on mainstream with a.i.e.(a mwana) on it. nice shape too!

the big itch (surf and garage comp on mr.manicotti records)

back from the grave vol.5 on crypt.

VERY cool girlpunk comp on Mystic Records from 1983 called *The Sound Of Hollywood Girls* with la girls, soloman kane, the skirts, screamin' sirens, butch, de de troit, hellion, bitch, sin 34, i.u.d., hot food to go, and toxic fumes!

also got tapes: d.o.a., dk's live in germany boot, jfa live 84, 7 inch wonders sst comp, roir dub syndicate, roir new york thrash comp (which i totally needed)

and two cds: paul's boutique (which i haven't heard since it came out. i had the vinyl at one point. why didn't anyone tell me when strawberry records in philly was selling, like, 50 copies of paul's boutique in the dollar bin that it would sell for so much money some day? i guess i'm no nostrodamus.) and music for your mother 2cd funkadelic comp.

vinyl i got at the record store the other day:

norman blake - blackberry blossom

black oak arkansas - balls of fire

badfinger - airwaves

james brown - cold sweat (not the best shape. not great, but not horrible. listenable.)

tell it like it is - a folk musical about god

new kemialliset ystavat album

at the thrift store the other day:

lots of really super-clean classical vinyl. beautiful London FFSS records, Mercury Living Presence Stereo, RCA Living Stereo. The London records in particular sound amazing. three freddie & the dreamers records in great shape. a monkees record. sealed prefab sprout record(steve mcqueen/two wheels good. which i love). sealed glenn gould/beethoven record on columbia. pristine copy of dionne warwick's valley of the dolls album. sounds amazing. mint copies on Epic of the Juilliard String Quartet. two albums: brahms/piano quintet in f minor, op.34 (with leon fleisher) and mendelssohn quartet in a minor, op.13/quartet in d major, op.44, no.1 (these also sound astounding). and other stuff.

I un-boxed my electronic music, so I have been listening to Autechre, Monolake, Spacetime Continuum, Paul Schutze and Steve Roach.

Jeebus Scott!! Where do you go to garage sales?

right around the corner. dude had cool books too. there are some cool people around here. they just hide, like me.

i don't take these things for granted either. i have like NO money for records, so thrift stores and yard sales are my only hope. even the stuff i got at the record store was cheap for the most part. (with the exception of that damn kemialliset album that i just coudn't resist.)

yesterday:
mahavishnu orchestra - the inner mounting flame
midnight - slays the spits 7"
heathen hoof - 12"
jerusalem - s/t
black sabbath - children of the grave
mcphee - s/t
rockal y la cria - salgan del camino
bob seger - early 45s and ramblin' gamblin' man
the elastik band - s/t
macho - i'm a man lp
lazy farmer - s/t

today so far:
a mix cd with tyla gang, mcphee, scorpion, mecki mark men, etc.
sarolta zalatnay - s/t
kakashi - s/t (right now)

back from the grave vol.5 on crypt.

ooh, is this the one with the jesters of newport? "stormy" fkn kills.

that is the one.

Califone - Roomsound

Crypt Cheapo Sampler Vol. 2!

the 90s "garage" revival smokes the early 00s "garage" revival cuz it was all fucking dickhead asshole dudes huffing glue and making a godawful racket that sounds like it was recorded in a dumpster behind hell.

1. Serve The Man - Revelators
2. She's A Hole - Oblivians
3. Two Headed Woman - DM Bob & The Deficits
4. Miss Luxury - Bantam Rooster
5. Cheesecake - Devil Dogs
6. College Rock Shit - Los Ass-Draggers
7. Satan's Highway - Fayette County Hookers
8. Steamroller - Nine Pound Hammer
9. Fingernail Chomp - New Bomb Turks
10. Time & Money - Lazy Cowgirls
11. Ghostrider - The Gories
12. Feel All Right - Oblivians
13. Everybody Loves Yo Mama - Raunch Hands
14. Cowpower - DM Bob & The Deficits
15. Goin' Places - The Wyld
16. Black Change - Country Teasers
17. Hook Or Crook - Cheater Slicks
18. Shine It On - Chrome Cranks
19. I Walk Alone - The Beguiled
20. Mosquito - Country Teasers
21. Right Now - Teengenerate
22. Earthshaker, Yeah! - The Revelators
23. Summer Romance - The New Bomb Turks
24. Shitty Instro - Los Ass-Draggers
25. On My Floor - Los Primos
26. Got To Get You Outside My Head - Mighty Caesars
27. Shit Town - Bantam Rooster
28. Dead End America - Pagans
29. Viet Nam War Blues - Oblivians
30. Let's Talk About Girls - Lyres
31. I'll Tell You Why - Lazy Cowgirls

Kelly Clarkson My December in the minivan
James Brown Star Time when Molly was with me in the office
Curtis Mayfield Curtis/Live! during her bath yesterday
EPMD Unfinished Business on the way home

Molly's your daughter, I'm presuming? Lucky kid.

cuz it was all fucking dickhead asshole dudes huffing glue and making a godawful racket that sounds like it was recorded in a dumpster behind hell.

wait, is this a positive statement about the 90s stuff or a negative about the 00s?

it has to be a positive statement about the 90's, no? aren't a bunch of those bands still around? and the lyres are from the 80's! and the pagans from the 70's! god i love pagans.

i still haven't heard country teasers. i know they get lots of love on ilm. they had a new album from some country teaser dude at the record store.

el sabor, do i need an electralane album? is that their name? i'll ask you.

electrelane.

oh jeez never mind i am listening on myspace. they are more indie rock or something. i was thinking they were more droney or something.

i like my too pure acts to sound like da faith healers.

it was a positive comment about 90s!

yeah the lazy cowgirls were older dudes too. but all the no name 90s dudes on that thing rock.

the oblivions were so sweet, it's unreal.

scott, the country teasers sounds a lot like the fall. a littler garagier maybe.

(i.e. they are awesome)

Matthew Shipp - Harmony & Abyss

I've gone back and forth on this one, but am currently enjoying it (or was currently enjoying it within the last 45 minutes--now I'm listening to Ned Rothenberg's Inner Diaspora again, after not listening for about a week maybe).

LTM strikes again: after months of sitting unloved on my iPod, the Berntholer compilation just jumped up and demanded attention. Somehow I initially dismissed it as more lightweight Siesta-type fluff (not to slam Siesta, who I often like).

Also kind of enjoying the Dean Roberts (thanks people in the "Best of Kranky" thread) album, which really does kind of sound like Mark Hollis, vocals excepted which is too bad.

I think everyone I work with used to own that Crypt sampler. Holy shit there is so much good stuff in the 90s garagepunk scene. i was listening to oblivians "soul food" today. teengenerate. the devil dogs. new bomb turks "destroy oh boy."

also, i am really jealous of the people who live on the scott's island. the fleamarkets there get picked over so goddamn early, and i like my rest. stoop sales are blah. i went to one today that was about 8 crates of 12" singles and 3 crates of LPs sitting in the sun for hours. best record there (admittedly i didn't look through all of them) was t. rex 'the slider' but totally destroyed. actually, everything was kinda destroyed. there was some private christian folk thing i woulda paid a dollar or two for if it were in listenable shape.

It's Monk's Time.

prodigy- return of the mac

Radiohead - let Down

This song crushes me constantly.