your 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck.

2. John B - Blandwagon Poos
What's 'e goin on abaat you muppet?! Banging D'n'B pisstake.

3. Bjork - Bachelorette
Recently bought Homogenic and feel as though she was trying to rip off Aphex a bit too much. Still this song is very powerful.

4. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
This has been plaguing me for weeks.

5. Richard Cheese - Insane In The Brain
Lounge cover of the Cypress Hill classic - swear words intact!

6. Lee Perry & Max Romeo - Disco Devil
Thanks whoever recommended this on the dub thread the other day (nate?). The version I downloaded sounds awfully mid-ranged to me compared to "Croaking Lizard" and "Chase the Devil"- is this normal?

7. Snuff - Take Me Home (Piss Off)
I hate punk music in general - especially 90s punk music but lately I've had a real craving for horrible ska tunes. Snuff is probably one of the more respectable one of the lot mind, which leads me on to..

8. The Pogues - Sally Maclenanne
I like the Pogues but equally they piss me off. This is my favourite one by them though.

9. Katatonia - Sweet Nurse
Rediscovered Katatonia and I'm really enjoying them.

10. Pavement - Strings Of Nashville

11. Ural 13 Diktators - Techno Is Dead
In 2001 I wrote a track called Clean Me. I had definitely never heard anything by U13D but the resemblance to this track is frighteningly uncanny even down to the choice of samples.

2. Fleetwood Mac - "That's All for Everyone"
Gorgeous dream-pop, sounding a little bit like the Beach Boys' "Til I Die".

3. Tom Ze - "Ma"
Discordant bossa-styled track from mid-70s Ze. Awesome horns.

4. Felix da Housecat - "Nina"
Nostalgic pop from Devin Dazzle. Very simple and pretty.

5. Joyce - "Feminina"
Brazilan singer-songwriter has done two versions of this. This one is from the 90s (original 1980), and is sparser. Acoustic guitar, percussion and lots of her vocals.

6. Tavinho Moura - "Cade O Boi"
More Brazilian stuff. Kind of folky, 6/8, with a cool harmonium-like instrument that makes it seem like a tropical carnival hymn.

7. Franco Leprino - "Integrati...Disintegrati"
Italian electronic/folk/krautrock-esque composer from 70s. This is like gorgeous sex-on-the-beach ambient folk.

8. Led Zeppelin - "Carouselambra"
10-minute prog-styled tune from In Through the Out Door. A lot of fans think this song is lame, but I love it (especially all the keyboards).

9. Free Design - "Bubbles"
If James Bond needs to go grocery shopping, he's got this in the discman.

10. L. Voag - "Bedroom"
Short, celestial track from his 1979 record The Way Out. Kind of reminds me of Animal Collective, in its childlike fancy. Dreamy.

11. Faust/Dalek - "T-Electronique"
Last track on their collab album, and the one most like a normal hip hop song. Totally dig the keyboard line (that Dalek got from original Faust instrumental and slowed way down), and the bass is just too much.

is this currently available on CD? great LP. I only have a crap illegal cassette copy and that's in storage

i would gladly and willingly attempt to re-enact this scene with you sometime

Bargain of the new millennium

1) Sweet, "Set Me Free"
2) RJD2, "1976"
3) Funkadelic, "Maggot Brain" (live Hardcore Jollies version)
4) Jason Forrest, "Inkhuk"
5) The Clash, "Kingston Advice"
6) Felix da Housecat, "Nina"
7) MF Doom, "Cookies"
8) Ghostface, "Beat the Clock"
9) El-P, "Ghost Final (instrumental)"
10) The Streets, "Blinded by the Lights"
11) Jay-Z, "My First Song (instrumental)"

2) Autechre, Rae

3) Värttinä, Maahinen Neito

4) Silver Apples, You And I

5) Brian Eno, An Ending (Ascent)

6) Talk Talk, I Believe In You

7) Paul Robeson, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

8) Olivier Messiaen, Louange A L'Eternite De Jesus

9) Sparks, Thanks But No Thanks

10) Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach: Knee 3 (chorus a capella)

11) Squarepusher, Massif (stay strong)

lil jon feat eminem - crunk juice (40 oz remix) (if i'm gonna have to take my shady all gothed-up, then you might as well bring the doom by the crunkload) (don't get TOO excited btw, it's a short, fuzzy mixtape thing)

lfo - blown (on these mediocre earphones that i use for pc listening the bass hurts my ears, but if you close your eyes and think about the snares, it's worth it)

main source - live at the barbeque (i only noticed that gentle background ambient swell in my car the other day. nas always sounds good over functionalist beats)

elephant man - can't stop we now (inspirational broken banjo string stabbing heroics)

noise factory - breakage 6 (really? really!)

sonic youth - i love golden blue (it's all about that guitar figure in the chorus)(plus i'm such a sucker for evocatively named songs and shiny blue things are always real pretty, like this)

camron - yeo man (i don't gotta say much, you already know)

lil' kim - i came back for you (i downloaded this when sterling listed it on that fave rap beats ever thread not too long ago - and look, he reps for it again above! i love how kanye loves the grain of kim's voice. plus "when god made adam, he shoulda made kim!" is a great lyric. oh, and that gorgeous outro).

kylie - slow (chemical bros remix) (ask ronan)

mochipet - desert search 4 techno baklava (i found this hiding in the nether regions of my hard drive - an old GABBA.net relic, kind of what i always hoped muslimgauze would sound like)

the idea of a kaito remix of superpitcher's tomorrow

Cachaito - A Gozar El Tumbao
The Contours - Do You Love Me
Aretha Franklin and Luther Vandross - Doctor's Orders
David Grisman Quintet - Key Signator
Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Know a Little
Mahlathini/Nezintombi - Ngicabange Ngaceda
Orchestra Baobab - On Verra Ca
Public Enemy - Bring the Noise
Raekwon - Glaciers of Ice
They Might Be Giants - Doctor Worm
Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright)

1. "Kidney Bingos" by Wire - Been on a bit of a Wire kick in the past few days. The friends of mine who appreciate Wire all seem to hate this track for some reason, but I'm strangely compelled by it. Has an odd plastic sound to it. Dunno, but I love it.

2. "Lucy" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - I glom onto The Good Son every Spring since 1990 for some reason.

3. "Granadaland" by the Wedding Present - One of my favorite tracks off Bizarro. Electric strum frenzy and great punctuated quotes. "STOP TRYING TO TELL ME HOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL!"

4. "Dragnet" by the Vibrators - Off one of those somewhat embarassing Punk & Disorderly compilations from the early 80s. Not sure if its on any of their albums, but it's just a great, chugging track that kicks a big bag of ass.

5. "Burn" by Deep Purple - My Deep Puple kick from early in the week lingers on. Far and away David Coverdale's best ever recorded moment. Kiss basically ripped this song off for "I Stole Your Love" (if that sort've meaningless trivia means anything to you). The Purps fuckin' ROCK.

6. "Special One" by Ultra Vivid Scene - Like The Good Son, this album (Joy 1967-1990) is one I come back to every Spring. The whole record has a bit of a samey sound, but it works in its favor to my ears -- sort've a candy-coated continuity. I always considered Kurt Ralske (the one-man-band that is UVS) to be the Gallant to Trent Reznor's Goofus. Both are diminutive little studio musos with big ideas, but where Trent goes for the needlessly wrought, Kurt has no problem going all soft and mellow. In any event, this perfect little summery slice of dysfunctional romance (augmented by Kim Deal's angellic vocals on the chorus) is my fave track on the album. Like you care.

7. "Hannah" by House of Love - Opening track to their second eponymous album (the one with the butterfly on the cover) and it gets me up and outta my seat every damn time. "THIS IS NOT MY SKY!" When the guitars break through the whispery, encroaching fog like shiny locomotive, its practically the greatest sequence of plucked notes to ever grace my ears. No fuckin' clue what the song's about, but oof does I loves it. And seguing right into "Shine On"? FORGET about it. This rocks and if you don't like it, you should catch a chest cold tomorrow and spend the rest of your Spring indoors watching Ditech.Com commercials.

8. "All Mine" by the Cure - Wobbly recorded live fragment originally on the Curiosities cassette (widely available on a host of bootlegs). It used to be at the exact opposite spot after "Charlotte Sometimes" on the other side of the cassette (Concert), and I used to listen to them back to back to back to back ad nauseum. After playing "Charlotte Sometimes" (am I the only person who finds the live version on Concert to be superior to the studio version?), for my oblivious little offspring who shares its title, I had a hankerin' to hear "All Mine" again. So I've been playing it. Again and again and again and again. There've been other versions (I believe the song became "Forever", if I'm not totally wrong), but this particular rendition (just Robert, his guitar and a snare drum) is so haunting and mournful that it still gives me the chills seventeen years after first hearing it.

9. "3Am Incident" by Cop Shoot Cop - Prompted by that thread about how awful the OST to "The Crow" is (which morphed into a discussion of 90's OST and compilations), this lone track by the late, great Cop MotherShootFucking Cop (not available on any of their albums) turned out to be their swan song. After Tod [A]shley left the band, the rest of the boys stripped his vocals and re-recorded it as "Pushing Overload" on the very hard to get ahold of Red Expendables (CSC with Tod [A]) album. Stick with the original. "THIS CELL IS SO CO-CO-COLD!!!!"

10. "For Dear Life" by Prong - Prompted by that Prong thread last night, I was severly chastised by my better half for playing this opening track off of Beg to Differ at inadvertantly child-waking volumes (she didn't wake up, by the way, but she might've had it kept playing). Someone on that thread mentioned that no one really loved Prong, but fuck that. I love this track, and I loved this band (for a while at least). If you can listen to this song without grimacing manically and balling up your fist, you're probably a member of the Janis Ian fanclub.

11. "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" by the Smiths - The wife's been playing it constantly after I played her the new Morrissey single.