Whatcha listening to?

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.

Aaliyah

Angel & Khriz - Ven Bailalo
Wisin & Yandel - Pam Pam
Daddy Yankee - Que Vas a Hacer?
Joan & O'Neil - Tigresa
Baby Ranks, et. al. - Mas Flow Version 1
Wisin & Yandel - Rakata
El Vacilon de la Manana - Yo Me Voy
Yandel - Te Suelto el Pelo
Wisin & Yandel - Sacala
Tego Calderon - Cosa Buena
Ivy Queen - Dee Jay
Wisin & Yandel - Paleta
Gallego - Imaginate
Tego Calderon - Los Mate
Gabriel & El Lobo - Se La Monte
Ivy Queen - Papi Te Quiero
Nejo - No Tiene Novio (Dirty Version)
Wisin & Yandel - Llame Pa' Verte
Chezina - Gatas de to' los Colores

My Morning Jacket – Dondante now listening
Minutemen – Two Beads at the End just listened
R.E.M. – West of the Fields 6 minutes ago
Talk Talk – Inheritance 11 minutes ago
Guided by Voices – The Old Grunt 13 minutes ago
U2 – Do You Feel Loved 18 minutes ago
Cocteau Twins – The Itchy Glowbo Blow 21 minutes ago
Explosions in the Sky – Jesu Mix 31 minutes ago
The Cure – Inbetween Days 34 minutes ago
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists – M¥ Vien Ilin 36 minutes ago
Screaming Trees – All I Know 40 minutes ago

rex holman - here in the land of victory

pretty good, mildly offbeat folk stuff from a b-list actor who had parts in a bunch of movies, star trek and the monkees. excess vibrato = tim buckley comparisons. but pretty cool blend of 60s US folk sounds with tabla/sitar bits, also i think he was just drying out after a long alcoholic period so it's a little dark.

also, i think he was in his mid 40s when he recorded the album.

plz Rockist Scientist for a CD-R of what you listened to today

New Interpol since it came out pretty much whenever I'm in my room. The only other disc I've bothered to spin is Hounds of Love, by the mad slag Kate Bush.

Marvin Gaye, How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You
Never a Dull Moment by the mad slag Rod Stewart

coolio's greatest hits
beatnuts - discography
dj quik - discography
Mac Mall
Snypaz' "Lookin Through the Scope"

deathspell omega - si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice

Kraftwerk's "Catalogue" on shuffle. My GOD!!

I only have Cheapo Crypt Sampler Vol 1.

Today I've got (mp3s on my work laptop, as per usual):

4 Skins - Singles & Rarities
Bl'ast - It's In My Blood
Bonde Do Role - With Lasers
Cassandra Complex - Hello America
Chelsea - s/t
Descendents - Enjoy
Half Japanese - Half Gentlemen Not Beasts

I waited 7 years for the new Poem Rocket album in the hopes that they had another song as good as "Karel Appel" in them. And they don't, and most of the new one is kind of awful. Though there is one cute track "Muse Thrower" that sounds a little like, um...

Anyway, that's what I was listening to yesterday. Is there anything more disappointing than a 7 year wait for a meh double album.

I just got a bunch of stuff in the mail, so I'll be checking these out after work...

Cherry Blossoms s/t LP - Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but supposedly some kinda blitzed Dock Boggs-meets-the-Arkestra picnic. Black Velvet Fuckere usually delivers something interesting.

Throbbing Lobster Vol 2 "Let's Breed!" LP (Bisque-2) Checked this out this morning. Real great mix of jangly and powerpoppy and punk-lite bands. Hadn't realised it was Chuck Warner pre-Hyped to Death until I saw the sleeve! From the website... Christmas, Underachievers, Flies, Prime Movers and Chain Link Fence [still playing punk]; Scruffy the Cat [their debut: ex-Law], Noonday Underground [ex-Psychic Youth, pre-Last Stand], Odds [ex-DMZ and Hooker: still good for an occasional reunion], Outlets [pre-Dropkick Murphys], Unattached [ex-Jetsons], Blackjacks [ex-Thrills], Busted Statues [pre-Mindgrinder, Gingerbread Men], The Edge and Dumptruck [ex-Saucers].

Also waiting on the first Throbbing Lobster LP. Has some Kenne Highland stuff, which is what turned me on to these comps in the first place. Hello World! by the Korps is such a sweet record! Why no love for the Korps!?

Catherine Ribeiro – Ame Debout
Blues Control/Heavy Winged split 7”
Red Rhodes & the Road Runners - Blue Blue Day
B.U.G. – cassette on Cast Exotic. One of the only bands I know from my hometown… Edmonton, Alberta. Sounds a bit like Rusted Shut. Alberta is the Texas of Canada, so that kinda makes sense.

R.E.M. Murmur Henry Threadgill Makin' a Move Girma Wolde Michael Loga Vusi Mahlasela Guiding Star Isaac Hayes Live at the Sahara Tahoe The Negro Problem Welcome Black Nirvana In Utero Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime

Calle 13 - Residente o Visitante
EPMD - Strictly Business

plz Rockist Scientist for a CD-R of what you listened to today

Ha, I would do that, but I am lame and just listen to this stuff on pandora.com (which works out, because it plays the same stuff over and over, so it's basically the same mix with a slightly differen shuffle and occasionally some new bits). I own hardly any of that stuff in mp3 form, not enough to make a decent mix.

Me:

http://www.pandora.com/people/al_sucar#

(Rakata Radio for reggaeton)

Massive Attack v Mad Professor, No Protection (love it!) (but I do h-h-h-hate it when friends borrow reocrds and then don't return them for years and eventually there's no other way than to buy the awol discus anew, dogdammit!)

Palais Schaumburg, Lupa
Guruhark, Saepuru ja Giboaboa

"deathspell omega - si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice"

have you heard the new album yet? i'm kinda dying to hear it. and i can't seem to get anyone to send me a copy. might have to actually BUY a cd! imagine!

oh and i am listening to new kemialliset ystavat. which i dig for its everything but the kitchen sink approach to ramshackle clang.

Right this second:

Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline

For that little shot of after-lunch pep.

syr 3 - radio amatoroj

Ned Rothenburg/Elliott Sharp/Samm Bennett

sst 7 inch wonders of the world singles comp. on tape.

have you heard the new album yet? i'm kinda dying to hear it. and i can't seem to get anyone to send me a copy. might have to actually BUY a cd! imagine!

nope, but i was talking to a friend about it in a record store and some random dude just came up and started talking about how good it was. i am totally buying it as soon as i see it.

(and that kemialliset ystavat too.)

Ned, be sure to check out the Ned Rothenberg album that came out this year.

Waiddaminit! Has anyone seen Ned's Rothenberg and Raggett together in the same room? (At the same time, yes??)

(Haa! Thought so!!)

Nas - It Was Written
Masta Killa - No Said Date
Kelly Clarkson - My December

The Cherry Blossoms LP is pretty damn great. Dock Boggs-meets-the-Arkestra was the something like how the label description went, but that maybe makes it sound a bit more 'out' than it is. Hard to draw any real comparisons, really. It's really ramshackle and jalopy-like, with banjos and kazoos, and a real private-press sounding joyous enthusiasm. And on the one track, the one girl singer (there's a bunch of 'em) sounds a whole lot like like Belinda Carlisle! They do Blue Oyster Cult's Godzilla on Side 2, too.

This wonderfully strange Norwegian record I got from Mutant Sounds called Famlende Forsok. It's a bizarre mix of ominous drones, minimal piano, bird sounds, tape manipulation, chanting, percussion, and ethno-musicological scrapings. It’s like a spoken word album made by a doom metal/drone band or overheard transmissions from another dimension. It’s already gone right up into my personal top ten. Where do they dig up this stuff?

cryptic slaughter - money talks
chris knox - almost
C.O.C.O. - s/t
piranhas - erotic grit movies
RL burnside - mr wizard
rough bunnies - toff hevn
skeptix - pure punk rock

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely

The Jacksons - Destiny
ESG - A South Bronx Story
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad

Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool

today, as well as the ascoltare stuff as mentioned elsewhere, its been all about lots of brilliant ambient techno from the dust science record label.
cant believe no-one else has picked up on this label yet.

weird batch in my changer today, I just realized:

Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers - Rumble/Guitar Trouble (American Beat reissue 2007; rec. 1988-1990)
Culture - Two Sevens Clash: The 20th Anniversary Edition (Shanachie reissue 2007, rec. 1977)
Curumin - Archados E Perdidos (Quannum Projects 2005)
Sponge - For All The Drugs In The World (Idol 2003)
Lambretta Suede And The Motel 6 - Not Food Hungry (self-released 2007)

oops -- 30th anniversary, obviously

Tales from the Hood soundtrack

Straight Ahead, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with the Tommy Flanagan Trio
The Isaac Hayes Movement
Eddie Palmieri, Vamonos Pal Monte