The Millenium Edition of the tedious, yet popular, item for listing what music you are listening to *at this very moment*!! No cheating, now! To keep things interesting, write a line or two about the album or song you are naming, especially if it's at all obscure.607 responses total.
English Country Blues Band, UNRULY. Compilation CD of their two LPs; this is some of my favorite music from the 1980s. (That long ago! eek!) I should get the one or two CDs I've missed from their lead singer Maggie Holland, but I like her better with this band behind her. The ECBB mutated into the all-instrumental electric folk dance band Tiger Moth, and then it broke up, sigh.
Rasputina, "How We Quit The Forest"
Oh, and in keeping with the request in #0.... Rasputina is a now-defunct goth cello trio. This is their second album, a more electric-y effort (with production by Trent Reznor, I believe). Alas, one member quit and another got pregnant and the band broke up. sigh.
A friend of mine produced one of their videos... she said you've never seen so much white lingerie in one place! The Magnetic Fields, "Holiday." I thought I'd lost this (along with "Pet Sounds" and a couple of other prized possessions) and was deep into the mourning process when I found all of them in the back seat of my car. D'oh!
Wendy Carlos, Bach's Brandenberg Concerto #6. Which we did not know, until yesterday, contains the theme for Minnesota Public Radio.
Rasputina is wonderful... I'm also looking forward to buying the Medaeval Babes album (picture that a and e as the old style you know and love from Old English). "Ivo" by the Cocteau Twins - this song is "uplifting" and relaxing all at once. I usually listen to it with candles going.
RE #5 I had always wondered what the intro to "A Prairie Home Companion" (with the voiceover "From Minnesota Public Radio") was, and now I know.
Jan Krist, "Love Big, Us Small", aka "Tarzan Tells All". From her new CD, titled "LB,US". For work.
Brad Mehldau, Art of the Trio volume 4. On at the moment, "All The Things You Are" redone in 7/8 time.
Michelle Tumes, "Listen". Australian singer/songwriter/pianist, ethereal, layered vocals sort of like Enya.
Carefully dropping the needle...adjust the balance...there, RIGHT NOW I'm listening to Dave Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds. Early 70's, and sounds a little like it. Dave's bass is all over the place, side two still hasn't grown on me yet, But the title track is still one of my favorites. That's fusion for 'ya!
The latest STing CD. That and a couple other early November purchases where put to the side to listen to Christmas music. So time to back to the chronological filing system.
"Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips" The title says it all.
Buddy Miller, CRUEL MOON. Just got it. On first listen, it sounds very reminiscent of Richard Thompson's guitar work.
New Order "Perfect Kiss (live)". This version is wonderful... it's a bit more energetic, the instruments sound better, and he sings a new verse over the usual bridge, but it doesn't sound like a verse...it's just cool. =)
Beethoven's second string quartet. I'm still burrowing through the wad of classical music my parents got my from Christmas.
Bach, Brandenberg Concertos, Philip Pickett. Usually I really like Pickett's stuff -- he also hangs out with Richard Thompson and did a stint in the Albion Band -- but I'd like to find a Brandenberg recording with slower tempos. This one sounds like a race.
Sam Phillips, MARTINIS AND BIKINIS. I have to amend my fave-of-the-90s list, this marvelous Beatles pastiche got left off.
The Either/Orchestra, "The Half-life of Desire." Home of quite possibly the world's only big band King Crimson cover. Fortunately, one goes a long way.
Kaiser/Lindley, "World out of Time". This is a collection of music from Africa and such; the Lindley is none other that David Lindley.
Clara Rockmore, "The Art of the Theremin". Rockmore is the most famous theremin player, starting back in the 30's when the instrument was invented (by Leon Theremin!). Still alive as of 4 years ago... and a very classy lady. Would you believe the AA District Library has this CD?
Bruce Springsteen, "The Wild, The Innocent, & the E-Street Shuffle". Bruce's 2nd album, and one of my two favorites from him (the other is the first, "Greetings From Asbury Park"). Sort of an R&B album; the 'hit' is "Roslita". I've got early and fond memories of this album, from the time when my old 2nd hand reel-to-reel deck (with tubes and an 8-track slot in the side, no less) came with a bootleg Bruce concert tape featuring many of the songs from this album. I'm eternally unable to decide which the 2 albums I like better. Both are much more interesting than anything he's made since the late 70's.
I finally got up for the tail end of gnat's radio show. At least, that's what I hope I'm listening to on 88.3. Hey Natalie! What was the song with male-female harmonies and guitars, which followed the spoken/sung piece by the woman whose house burned down?
Ooops, it's not gnat's show any more. Both of the pieces I described above seem to be credited as "Is that all there is?" by PJ Harvey.
Damn. Got curious, did a Web search. Clara Rockmore died in 1998. :(
Ken, I'm on Saturdays now (6-9am) if you still want to tune in. I'm also doing a 8-10pm show on February 2. I appreciate you getting up, though...
My tape recording machine will tune in and I will listen later. Radio time shifting, I love it. Thanks for the update!
New Six Clips, the former Getaway Cruiser folks.
Thanks for listening, Ken. I'd play some Richard Thompson for you, but our box set got stolen... Elf Power, "When the Red King Comes." Any record with a zanzithophone on it is fine by me.
What, pray tell, is a zanzithophone? Now playing, the tail end of "Mr. Heartbreak" by Laurie Anderson. "You know, I see two little pictures of me, and there's one in each of your eyes...."
A zanzithophone is a saxophone-shaped synthesizer formerly manufactured by Casio which produces a weird, eerie nasal sort of sound. I think they were actually intended as toys.
Switched on Bach!!! This CD is available at the Ann Arbor District Library, and of course comes highly recommended. Interesting side note: The cover and the liner notes say "Wendy Carlos", when the original (from the 60's) says "Walter Carlos". Transgender politics can even affect CD re-releases, evidentally. Still the same great adapation of the same great music, anyway.
Big Head Todd and the Monsters, (er, first major CD, since I've got a cat on my lap and don't really want to go look at the CD box). Recently started using my guitar with a distortion pedal again, and the song of choice has been "Bittersweet" off the above CD in a sort of speed punk adaption. I really need to learn all the lyrics one of these days.
Bjork, "Debut". Odd stuff, but what a unique voice she has...
the Beatles -- "the Beatles" (aka "The White Album") (so what's the rule for this item when you start out responding while listening to one album, receive a chat request from a Malaysian Grexer in the middle of editing your response, and then change albums before you finish entering?)
Enter two songs. =) Cflirt is known for having: Was "West End Girls"...now listening to "Opportunities". I'm currently listening to Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'". Of all the songs I love to sing, this one *forces* me to belt it out. =) Corny, yes...I don't care.
"Seven Years in Tibet," by David Bowie, off of "Earthling" -- the only Bowie album that I have any real tolerance for so far.
"Key the Metal Idol" anime soundtrack.
Barnes & Barnes "I married Momma"
I'm not equipped to listen to music computing at school. A small campus makes it easy for admin to clamp down on downloading. anyway, just got Europop by Eiffel 65, so Blue (Da Ba Dee) is running through my head.. just a club/dance tune with cheesy lyrics, but oh, so catchy and just the junk food music I like-- electronic music crossed with DJ mixing. Actually, I heard one other tune from the album, and the rest may not almost promising for this genre. I love to dance but most of the genre sucks..
Lili Haydn's CD 'Lili'. Pretty good violin rock, some Kate Bush and Tori like stuff going on.. I still seem to be the only one that remembers her as a regular on the New Gidget tv show though...
Mothership Connection - Parliament.
I'm listening to Paul Estin's Electica series again.
Heh...cheesy but good: Frankie Smith's "Double Dutch Bus"
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Blood Sugar Sex Magic". I don't listen too this much, but I do like it a fair amount.
Steeleye Span, "The Journey." Review in a week or so in the Steeleye Span item, I hope.
Underworld's "Moaner"...very hyper, exercise-inducing music.
Simon and Garfunkel, "The Boxer" from the _Old Friends_ box set. I could listen to this song all day...
Listening into Acoustic Cafe on 93.9fm right now.
who was the guest? Currently on: The Ric Culver trio (live in the room next to me) -- ric is a great trombone player formerly with the Glenn Miller Big Band, with Dan Coulton on Bass, and Jeff (I forget his last name) on Piano. No drums.
Re#41: Interesting....a friend of mine suggested I check out Lili Haydn, but I never got around to it. Her name keeps cropping up. I think she's stalking me. Maybe I'll just buy the (*$&% CD :)
"Voice Union;" Liliana Bertolo from Italy, the wonderful Evelyne Girardon from France, and Sandra Kerr from England, singing acapella material from all three countries. This has been too long overlooked in my collection.
Putting Up With The Jones - Spirit of the West.
Cindy Morgan - The Loving Kind. Ok.. it's an supposed to be an Easter album.. but I'm listening to it now anyway.
Talk Talk -- Spirit of Eden.. Anyone know what Tim Friese-Greene is doing these days? Is he producing for anyone? Also, as I look through the album credits, "Hugh Davies" is credited with playing "shozygs".. What are shozygs?
Ooh...good band. Danny Elfman - "Beetlejuice Theme". I adore Danny Elfman...his music is brilliant.
Of Montreal, "Cherry Peel." This is so sweet and cutesy that it could cause insulin shock, but I like it anyway. Maybe I should have listed it in the Guilty Pleasure item.
Why don't you, then? =)
the Kinks -- "Lola vs. Powerman and the Money-Go-Round" (playing at this very moment: my favorite Kinks' song, "Apeman")
Oscar Peterson, "Live from Chicago"
The last (*sigh*) Morphine album, "The Night." RIP, Mark Sandman...
Video killed the Radio Star - The Bangles. Ececlita series again.
That would be the Buggles, not the Bangles.. now playing -- the Stone Roses' first album..
Beethoven's 9th, 3rd movement, played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
RE #61 BTW, did you know that "Video Killed The Radio Star" was the very first video shown on MTV?
Christine Lavin - Inventions
a Beethoven violin sonata, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis.
Tara Jane O'Neill - former bassist from Rodan, practitioner of the music genre known as "math rock." Quite good.
"Math rock"?
resp:64 resp:61 From what I heard, not only was it the first video shown on MTV (ironic, isn't it?), but the lead singer was Trevor Horn, now a successful music producer.
Math rock... sort of angular, dry, abstract music with an emphasis on texture rather than vocals or melody... lots of improvising. Well- known practitioners include Slint, Gastr del Sol, the aforementioned Rodan. Most math rock is on the Quarterstick or Touch and Go labels out of Chicago. Think of it as "hipster prog." :)
Oh, roight. Okay. Now playing, a webcast of WWOZ, from New Orleans, doing a classic jazz show.
Wow, I'd never put Slint in there with those bands, but would add Rachels, June of 44, and Rex. slint is ROCK straight up! ;-)
Lais, LAIS. Flemish trio of women singers. Sometimes acapella, sometimes backed by the folk rock band Kadril. This came in the mail today.
Antonio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina, "Elis and Tom." I bought this record because it has "Waters of March" on it. I love that song!
Catherine Wheel -- "Adam and Eve"
"Lonely," by Sabalon Glitz, a now-defunct Hyde Park space-rock band. It's all about the theremin solos.....
NIN, "The Fragile", while I dub it onto MiniDisc for travel purposes. Best Buy has Memorex MDs for $11 per 5 pack right now! I bought 5 packs.
I'm doing much the same thing, but with CDs, in preparation for a road trip (I don't much like to risk my CDs in the car, so I dupe the ones I know I'm listen to in the car..)
(Killer Priest, "Masada"... although I had wanted to say Sole's "Year Uv Da $exx $ymbol", lag prevented me.)
the Band -- "Across the Great Divide" (a retrospective box set, on loan from the library..)
A cover of Segar's "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" by long defunct AA Rockers Gondolier...
An MP3 of Aimee Mann from the fresh new album. I need to buy this.
Clannad with Bono - "In a Lifetime". It's a great blend of both their styles...his vocals with hers as undertones, and her music. It's haunting, peaceful, and powerful all at once.
Bonds of Sea and Fire (MP3 from the web, from the Xenogears Soundtrack)
The new 106.7fm (WWWW). Currently playing Talking Heads, "Burning down the House".
Lee Morgan, "Leeway." Jazz trumpeter from 1960 with Art Blakey on drums.
Sabalon Glitz, "Forest."
Cheap Trick's remake of "Magical Mystery Tour".
Some live Richard Thompson from maybe 1986, on a completely unlabelled tape. I'm pretty sure that I hear Clive Gregson, Christine Collister and John Kirkpatrick in there.
Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg (Silly Love Songs from Dr. Demento, February, 1996).
Sin E', "Deep Water Dropoff." Irish folk / world music / jazz / pop fusion band, their third album, favorable reaction on the first play.
Loren Jan Wilson, "Sex is Boring". Mostly I just like the title.
Adrian Belew, "Coming Attractions" sampler
Basment tapes (stuff I did with my brother and other friends in college) being dubbed onto MiniDisc for long term safety.
Winterbrief, "Complaints from the Beauty Class." I volunteered to review this for a Portland e-zine called Indiepop.com. Unfortunately I don't like a lot of indiepop. Silly me. Or silly them.
(FDA, "Taint Of Love.")
Don Savoie, "Minor Leagues".
Morrissey - "Suedehead"
FreeWill Savages: Aboriginal Fishfry
Clan of Xymox - "Obsession"
Shashmouth. The thing the play a lot on the River.
the Folk Implosion -- "One Part Lullaby" rhythm-heavy indie rock from duo Lou Barlow (of Sebadoh) and John Davis (of ?) their second album, afaik, and not the one which contains their surprise hit "Natural One" (which is just fine by me..) I remember passing it over when it first came out because I'd just bought a bunch of CDs and didn't want to take a gamble on what was to me an unknown quantity. I finally bought it about a week ago because (a) I was trying to use up the tail end of a Best Buy gift certificate that some friends had given me, and (b) whereas most new CDs were priced at around $15-16, for some reason this one was only $10, which very neatly used up the remaining gift credit. Without that fortunate coincidence I would almost certainly have passed it over yet again and would never have made my favorite record purchase of the year to date..
My 10-year-old nephew loves Smashmouth.
Clan of Xymox - "In the City"
Is the music that the Xymox folks released on 4AD as "Clan of Xymox"
significantly different from the stuff that was later released on Mercury
as "Xymox"? I kindof liked some of the stuff off of a cheap used copy
of "Phoenix" (by Xymox) that I picked up years ago but have always
wondered whether their 4AD recordings sound more like, well, a 4AD band..
now playing:
R.E.M. -- Life's Rich Pageant
it was the first R.E.M. album I bought (followed rapidly by "Murmur")
and is still my favorite..
I've never noticed a difference. I think it's just in the name. There's My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult and Thrill Kill Kult, but the music never changes...same with Xymox. =) Great band.
Supernatural CD by Santana. Wish I brought the remote over to skip "Smooth". I'm tired of that tune.
Arrigo Boito's opera "Mephistopheles," broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera.
Spike Jones "Der Fuerher's Face" from the Dr. Demento 20th
Anniversary collection. The 30th anniversary collection comes out
on February 29th, 2000.
With 5 disk ramdom mode, "Partical Man" by TMBG is now on
(Dr. D 25th Anniversary collection)
Okay, can't keep up the typing: Allan Sherman "Hello Mudduh,
Hello Fadduh!". (also checking spelling after bringing the disks
over to the computer). Let's see what's next: ....track changing....
"Everybody wants my Fanny" - Benny Bell.
Massive Attack -- "Blue Lines"
(VH1 Behind The Music special on Run DMC.)
Will Oldham, "Guarapero: Lost Blues 2." Oldham has the most cracked, sorrowful, pain-filled voice in the world.
The Grammy 2000 CDs. The Rap CD is on now. I wonder what else Werid Al or The Great Luke Ski will parody from these tracks.
The Round Sound vol1 -- A collection of recordings of aircraft with radial engines. It's not music, but it's a sweet sound to my ears.
Yo La Tengo -- "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out" (their new album, released today.. good month for new releases -- the new Steely Dan is due out next week, as is a new release from The The)
Poignant Plecostomus -- "Touchez La Vache" Damn I wish these guys had stayed together....
Billy and The Bongers on Dr. Demento
Bongers or Boingers?
The Apples in Stereo, "Look Away" EP. This rocks! I can't wait for the new full-length...
The House of Love -- "The Beatles and the Stones", from one of their many eponymous albums..
Sally Timms -- "Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos" this album has grown on me and I've listened to it considerably more than I first thought I would. it's quite short (35 minutes including two throwaway lead-in/lead-out tracks, even shorter when I skip the couple of songs that still irritate me) but she has such a gorgeous voice..
Tom Lehrer ..pigeons
resp:122 Good song-- I used to have the lyrics to that one memorized.
Yo La Tengo -- "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out" I'm starting to really like this one. It's very, very laid back.. I love the song "Tears Are In Your Eyes"..
Adrian Legg, GUITARS AND OTHER CATHEDRALS. Not sure why we stopped following Mr. Legg's career, we should pick up with him again.
Dementia 2000! - Dr. Demento's 30th Anniversay Collection. "The Thing" by Phil Harris just went by.
(jungle remix of Skee-Lo's "I Wish." talk about your one-hit wonders...)
it never even got very big in these parts-- I'd occasionally hear it on Yakima's KFFM, but never in my home town. I got the single plus various mixes from a DJ I used to know.
Dirty Dozen Brass Band, "New Orleans Album". Borrowed from library. Currently skipping and blanking a lot. Now where did I put that toothpaste? Time to do a little public service and polish out the scratches.
Couple more things from the library going on this afternoon: Currently Peter Tosh, a "best of". Earlier, The Who, "The Who Sell Out". An interesting album with a bunch of extra stuff added to the CD. I'd never heard it before, with the exception of the single "I Can See For Miles".
The Either/Orchestra's "Half Life of Desire."
Weird Al on Dementia 2000!, 'Twine Ball'.
(Bloodhound Gang, "A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying." don't ask.)
Gary Lucas, "Sail Up."
Stereolab, "Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements," sold to me by a really cute guy at Tower
After listening to "Transient Random Noise Bursts.." and a few other Stereolab discs, I've never figured out what all the fuss is about..
Obviously you didn't see the cute guy at Tower. Joni Mitchell, "Hejira"
I found myself Grexing to Kottonmouth Kings the other night, Sunday Morning, and it's Grexing with the Beatles.
re. #136, I never figured out what the fuss over Yo La Tengo was about, so we're even.
Fairport Convention, "The Wood and the Wire." Latest album from a once great band. I'd stopped buying their stuff, but the reviews suggested I ought to listen to this one. So far it's OK, which is an improvement.
The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love, "The Legende of Jeb Minor." Local band which got a very positive review in the Ann Arbor News a week ago. Very old-fashioned folk-rock settings of original songs. So far I rather like it. Anybody ever heard of these folks playing locally?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they played recently... I can't remember where. They've got a misleading name - I always thought they were a soul/funk band, before I heard them.
The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love will open for Brian Lillie and The Squirrel Mountain Orchestra at Green Wood Coffee House on Fri, Mar 24. I'm listening to Sierra Hart. I don't care for her CD.
(Jim O'Rourke, "Halfway To A Threeway." again, don't ask.)
Einstein's Secret Orchestra's self-titled album. It has a cool spacy sound. I listened to Dido "no angel" earlier. Outside of the first track, I don't really care for the album.
Enon, "Believo!" I'm reviewing this for WCBN. Big beats combined with found sound and weird samples... shades of Soul Coughing and Beck.
Thelonious Monk, "Monk's Dream"
I'm listening to Santana's "Supernatural" and I am glad I have the CD remote right next to me. Two song are 'gonged' while "Smooth" is bypassed becasue I just heard it too much.
"THe Miseducation of Lauryn Hill." The non-single tracks are mostly pretty weak, but some of them are growing on me. Ask me again in a week or two.
Aimee_Mann,_"Bachelor_No._2".__This_is_the_new_CD,_finally_out.__First_time___ listening,_so_no_real_opinions_yet.___________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________
broken space bar? re #149: another highly hyped album that never grew on me.. my copy was left to languish at Encore before I blew town..
Led Zepplin I. Time to get back into accumulating more LZ.
I and II are the apex of LZ for me. there are some other good things from LZ, but those two records, WOW
"Time between the wars" by Al Stewart. Now this is an album that goes by like a breath of air....it starts, it flows, it concludes.
I like nearly all of the Led Zeppelin albums (except "Coda", and possibly "Presence" when I'm in an uncharitable mood) but I wouldn't agree with Chris that I and II are "the apex of LZ." For me those two albums suffer a bit, in this day and age, from the 60s-English-guys-who-wanted-to-be- 20s-delta-bluesmen syndrome. Although their blues homages are certainly not bad, I enjoyed the band's work more once they developed their own style. I'd say that III and Physical Graffiti are my favorites.
Curiously, I have never heard "III;" that's the next one on my shopping list.
I'm not a fan of III, however IV I can listen to, if I skip over Stairway. I think part of the reason I dislike III is that it's recorded so poorly, but that's just me ;-)
Tom_Waits,_"Swordfishtrombones".__A_classic!__There_are_some_memories________ associated_with_this_album,_but_after_a_few_years_I'm_over_the_bad_ones._____ Still_one_of_my_favorites.___________________________________________________
Mononoke Hime soundtrack.
_____________________________________________________________________________ Pete_Townshend,_"Lifehouse_Chronicles"_set,_first_CD_which_is_demos_meant_to_ be_used_in_the_Lifehouse_production_but_mostly_ended_up_on_"Who's_Next"_and__ other_albums.________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ I've_got_5.5_more_CDs_to_get_through_before_I_can_attempt_a_review;_however__ the_packaging_is_very_nice.__;)______________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________
Talking Heads, "Speaking In Tongues." I think this answers the question of whether it was the Talking Heads or Eno that made me like "Remain In Light." This one doesn't appeal to me nearly as much as "Remain In Light" did.
Dead Can Dance - "Saltarello". It's a great, old Italian dance number. I dig it. =)
re #161: If you like heavily Eno-fied Talking Heads then I'd urge you
to try any of the following that you haven't already got:
David Byrne -- score to "The Catherine Wheel"
Eno -- "Here Come the Warm Jets"
"Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)"
"Another Green World"
"Before and After Science"
Byrne & Eno -- "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
Talking Heads -- "Fear of Music"
"More Songs About Buildings and Food"
Robyn Hitchcock, "A Star for Bram" - a mail order-only CD of outtakes from his latest release, "Jewels for Sophia." It's definitely better than the somewhat patchy "Jewels," but not spectacular.
Ali Farka Toure', "Niafunke'". Electric guitar from Mali.
Go soundtrack. LIke many films of late, I liked the soundtrack better than the movie.
The Warner/reprise Aprill 2000 Guide - a promo CD I got at Borders HQ. Hightlight is snipet of new Don Henley songs.
Jim Croce singing about Rapid Roy, that Stock Car boy.
Hedningarna, FIRE. Good compilation for the US market of the KAKSI and TRA albums from this Scandinavian electro-trad band who I have written about before. Sony Tristar failed completely in marketing it, however. It's now officially deleted, though I still see copies surfacing at Borders now and then.
The original stage ensemble singing the songs from The Sound Of Music
Pete Townshend, "Lifehouse Chronicles", disc 3 (experiments). Some pretty interesting things here, like the currently running remake of "Who Are You". Not sure if I like the rapper that appears on a couple of these tracks, but the remakes are really cool productions. (Yes, a lot of songs from the album "Who Are You" were also Lifehouse songs)
(Actually, it's pretty interesting to see how better a singer Townshend has become. He's got a low range and everything!)
(And he's finally become a pretty good soloist, too!)
Ellen McElwain
Mott Middle College Percussion Ensemble -- "Headtalk" A piece performed entirely with drumheads...no drums...just heads. Way cool.
Hall and Oates
Brad Mehldau....currently in the middle of a drum solo, but I think the song is "Solar," whanever he gets back around to it.
"Sailor Moon" soundtrack.
Beethoven's 9th. Solti conducting.
"absolutely free" zappa
Type O Negative, Bloody Kisses
The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love, "The Legend of Jeb Miner."
The Red Elvises, "Grooving to the Moscow Beat".
Primus, "Sailing the Seas of Cheese"
Bartok's 1st String Quartet. I've been taking the reccomended sequential approach.
Type O Negative - October Rust
In the Garden of Eden by I. Ron Butterfly.
"Wrecked and Remixed," Morsel remixes by various Ann Arborites.
Delerium, "Semantic Spaces"
Pink Floyd "San Tropez"
Blue Horses, "Dragon's Milk and Coal." Welsh (?) folk-rock band. (Are they Welsh, Twila? Now I forget.)
Whiskeytown, "Stranger's Almanac."
The Wayout, self-titled cassette. This was a local Lansing band about 10 years ago. I dug this out to help remember a song of theirs on guitar, and ended up transferring it to Minidisc for longterm storage.
Er, make that "The Wayouts".
Leslie's doing that too, moving a lot of old cassettes to minidisc. Celtas Cortos, "Cuentame un Cuento." Favorite album from the ultimate Spanish Celtic party band.
Pete Townshend, "White City". Haven't heard this in a while. It's good!
Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party" I love mp3s at work.
heh im on napster right now downloading mp3's. i was just listening to oingo boingo's insanity. right now im listening to 'black vynal pants' by mission orange.
Napster kicks ass. FWIW, "Insanity" is by Boingo, not Oingo Boingo. ;-) Good song, too. Listening to "Silence" by Delerium (featuring Sarah McLachlan). Good stuff.
(extended dub of Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy." was doing an 80's show, but ran out of inspiration.)
"My Favorite Things" Coletrane
"We are all Gumby" by Flo & Eddie
(Napster will bring bad things in the future....stop the insanity)
"Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" soundtrack, by RZA and others.
i have the cd, insanity is by oingo boingo. well, its carlas cd, but thats what it says.
re #204: (is it available already? I'm still awaiting my copy from
the record company.)
Lounge-a-palooza
Weird...my cd says Boingo. Weird. Does yours have a strange clown-type person on the front?
(Found it at Borders downtown, although I'm now wondering if there were 2 CDs, songs vs. score, and whether I got the one I wanted)
(if I had to guess...) ;) (*NSync, "Bye Bye Bye." I can't get it out of my head, either.)
Styx - "Mr. Roboto"
Dr. Demento's 7th Basement tapes CD. From last year.
some sort of awful "lite jazz" in the executive hospitality lounge of the hotel. I can put up with it as long as (a) someone else is paying, and (b) they're providing me with Internet connectivity..
(Wyclef Jean, "Fugee This, Fugee That." for all the hype over it, it's WAY overrated.)
soundtrack to "The Music Man"
wdet'S 'Folks Like Us'.
genesis, carpet crawlers '99
Bloodhound gang "A Julie song" Heh.
not funny!!!!!!!!!!
is so funny
(Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, "Del At The Helm." I'm listening to one of DJ Itch's last shows on WUPX courtesy of Shoutcast.)
Pharcyde, "Soulflower"
(Rhymes Monumental, "Spaced Out." it's on a mixtape I'm playing in lieu of my show, which can be found in streaming MP3 at www.wupx.com) :) <end shameless plug>
it is NOT called the julei song.
Tori Amos, "Bells For Her".
Tribe Called Quest, "Check The Rhyme"
tool - sober
The Wayouts. Damn that's some catchy music.
alexandra says that her favorite cong to conference by is Capn' Crunch. <whatever that means> She mocks me.
ahahaha i will not be mocked.
she mocks you when you are not there.
The Red Elvises - "Shake Your Pelvis"
Laurie Anderson, "Mr. Heartbreak." Perfect rain music.
rose tint my world.
The Apples in Stereo, "Discovery of a New World Inside the Moone" [sic]. Go baby!
jungle boogie - kool & the gang (get down get down....id like to point out that im in carlas kitchen at the moment getting down)
sewer rat may taste like punkin pie, but I'll never know cause I'd never eat the filty motherfucker. Gee, can anyone guess what cd we're listening to?
Hmm, the uncut version of Toy Story? "Friends" opening theme.
nope
"Be My Druidess" - Type O Negative. I love this song. =)
"Early Morning Rain", Gordon Lightfoot
Jesus Christ Superstar. Garden of Getsemane is on now.
Pete Townshend, "Lifehouse Chronicles" disc 1. Before that it was metallica, "Master of Puppets".
"California", John Mayall off _Turning Point_
Billy Bragg "Worker's Playtime"
The Fullerenes, "Better Dating Through Technology". Local band whose CD I bought after seeing them at Lonely Hearts Club (this very evening)
Battlefield Band, "Across the Borders." Live album from the mid 1990s.
symphonic lloyd-webber
The hum of the computer. I was going to be listening to Peter Ullrich (affiliated with DCD, and mostly produced by DCD's Brendan Perry), but I dismantled my speakers last night and feel too lazy to remantle (heh heh) them.
WCBN's country music show. I just learned that Gurf Morlix and Stacey Earle have new albums coming out.
david bowie - hunky dory
(my roommate's whistling of the theme from "Gilligan's Island.")
Beastly Boys - "Squirrels"
EPMD, "Steve Martin"
Guadalcanal Diary, "Let the Big Wheel Roll". 2x4 LP
Emerson String Quartet doing Dvorak's Piano Quintet.
It's not playing exactly at the moment, because I'm internetting from the public library, but all week long I've been driving around Seattle listening to Augustus Pablo's classic dub album "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown." I still remember buying this album ten years ago after reading an article on dub music which praised it as one of the classic examples of the genre. And I remember my sharp initial disappointment with it. I stuck it away in a corner for six months, pulled it out and listened to it again, and agreed with my earlier decision that it was bland and uninteresting and somewhat annoying. I did the same thing several more times, putting it away, finding it months later, and deciding to give it "one more chance." On about the fourth or fifth such listen, something just *clicked* (very likely literally on a dub album.. ;-) and it was like I was listening to a whole other album, one that was hidden inside the first one.. I still can't describe the experience very well, but I *can* say that there aren't many albums I could listen to this many times and still find unexpected surprises on each listen.. If my allotment of daily internet usage time weren't about to run out, I'd be inclined to start an item to discuss albums like this: the ones you just "didn't get" at first, then learned to love. Or is it just me who does that?
A Bill Haley and the Comets CD of great hits & such.
yes - the yes album
me too well I *was*
brass in pocket by the pretenders is being sung to me all day today at work. heh
The Fullerenes. Yup, we have a new favorite.
im special, so special.....i gotta have some of your ...attention.. give it to me yeah...
cause I wanna make a scene nobody else here something something
nobody but me im special
so special, I gotta have some of your ... attention, give it to me...
awesome gonna use my my my imagination ooohhh....
Moby - "Oil 1"
"my head hurts and i dont wanna go to work today" just composed by moi
"Undertow," R.E.M. I've been giving "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" a second chance this week, after not listening to it for almost a year. I'd forgotten how much I like it.
"Kisses Sweeter Than Wine", The Weavers
"lets pretend we're married" prince
Tool "Prison Sex"
You Really Got Me as done by The Juggernaut Jug Band on their new CD, which just came in the mail today. http://www.juggernautjugband.com
something by dave matthews band that I heard on the radio driving home
crazy, im thinking, knowing that the world is round and here im dancing all around am i right side up or upside down is this real at all or am i dreaming? lovely lady, let me drink you please i wont spill a drop no i promise
no it was the other one I think.
You make it sound like there's only 2 songs. Was it "Blood in the Water"?
just put in Al stewart's Orange Cd. "You Don't Even Know Me." which set me to wondering, being on Grex, if the other Grexer I know of who actually appreciates Stewart is still around... heh... haven't seen him in a while.
I enjoy Al Stewart's work. Particularly "Time between the Wars".
and have a number of CDs (and vinyl Year of the Cat.
I also know one of the top Al Stewart supporters (fan) around
these parts. She travels to England for his concerts.
Currently "Lies" by Stan Rogers on WDET.
That Al Stewart fan would probably be my coworker Kim, up at MSU?
not mine. maybe tpryan's. Veruca Salt just ended...
the pixies
Random industrial music played very loud.
re282: Yup, that's Kim.
hurt - nin and david bowie
Tori Amos and Trent Reznor, "Past The Mission." It appears to be Trent Reznor Collaboration Hour.
lets do it liike they do on the discovery channel this song is awesome and i just listened to street spirit by radiohead (accoustic version)
The latest recital disc from soprano Jane Eaglen; at the moment, it's the last of Strauss' "Four Last Songs."
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: "Christmas Eve in Sarajevo"
drawn to the rhythm - sarah
"Black Man", Stevie Wonder
Techno remix of the Sailor Moon theme song.
language or the kiss - indigo girls
"Somebody Loves You" nik kershaw from the (probably deliberately) ironically named "15 minutes" CD from 1999... (for those who don't know, nik kershaw's a Brit songwriter wo had a pair of New Wave "hits" back in the early 80s, including "Wouldn't It Be Good", then disappeared for a decade and a half, allegedly writing songs for others)
and for those who were wondering, no, he isn't related. =}
Oingo Boingo - "Dead Man's Party"
julie h - dynomite boy
Oscar Peterson, "Chicago." From a live CD recorded, appropriately enough, in Chicago, at a steakhouse. You can hear conversation and occasional clattering forks in the background.
resp:289 That would be "The Bad Touch," by the Bloodhound Gang.. once again, it's just the hum of the fans.. since I compute at school, I don't generally have access to any music.
Hedningarna, "Karelia Visa." (who? what?)
Hey I like them...
The Cuban Boys "Hamsterdance"
Parliament _Flashlight_ Funkentelechy VS. The Placebo Syndrome (My autographed copy!)
Gwenc'hlan, "A Nos Conneries." Fresh out of the box which arrived from France this morning. Very nice folk-rock disc.
Beastie Boys, "Check your head"
"Pink Shack Blues" -- Marc Almond ... five in the bed in the pink shack, but there's only room enough for three, she's calling out to me, she's bawling out to me, she's singing out of key: Oh lover man, where can he be?
Ooh..."Flashlight"...I dig the P-Funk.
Yet another techno remix... this time for a Neon Genesis Evangelion song.
Tori Amos doing "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
"You've Got It Bad Girl", Stevie Wonder
Jumping at the Woodside by Count Basie orchestra
"Sleepy Maggie" - Ashley MacIsaac
ooh but that song rocks.... Not listening to anything at the moment.
Which song rocks? "Sleepy Maggie"? I love it. It combines a lot of my favorites - Celtic sound, violins, new age, trance, pop beat, etc. It came out a few years ago, and I'd been dying to get a hold of it, but I didn't know the name or artist until the River (93.9) played it a couple weeks ago.
rem - that drawing circles around me song w/ kristen hersh
Julie, that's "Your Ghost"
Genesis - "The Lamb Lied Down on Broadway"
Syd Straw "Future 40's (string of pearls)" w/Michael Stipe
Simon & Garfunkel, "Peggy-O"
pjharvey, "The Sky Lit Up"
Frank Zappa, "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes"
iris dement: infamous angel
Guns 'n' Roses, "Sweet Child o' Mine" all right, something of a change since the last one, which was pj harvey, but hey =}
Herbie Hancock, "Fat Albert Rotunda"
Thompson Twins, "Kamikaze"... going through the LPs I've put on CD and trying to actually get serious about this project (I've only done about 20 of, oh, about 500)
Delerium - "Duende"
This Mortal Coil - "My Father"
still listening to when in rome
I was gonna put in Reanimator, but h0bag borrowed it yesterday.
now im listening to the matrix soundtrack
Japanese Pokemon theme.
grosse point blank soundtrack - mirror in the bathroom
williams brothers "Can't cry hard enough"
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tom waites - mule variations
re #334: by the way, the classic (English) Beat album "Just Can't Stop It" seems to have been re-issued, along with a couple of other things that I was sad had gone out of print..
An Indigo Girls live album
The Lain Cybermix CD
genesis - duke
tom waits: early years
HAL(w/ Gillian Anderson) - Extremis
<otaking, please explain further> <jules I'm gonna have to come over and kick yer butt if you are listening to Duke.> I'm listening to the humming of the motor in my refridgerator. I think I'm gonna go borrow some indigo girls tonight from my girl
Re #344: HAL did some ambient track a couple of years ago. Gillian Anderson (yes, Dana Scully) added vocals to the music. I have it on CD. Does anyone have a copy of the video?
Miles Davis, Bitches' Brew. I typed that as "Britches' Brew" at first.
tom waits - mule variations
I'M LEAVING ON A MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA
Totally weird for me, but I love the groovy beat and bass to this: Old Dirty Bastard - "Baby I've Got Your Money" (I'm not known to listen to hip-hop or rap unless it's really groovy...this is really groovy)
Tenchi Muyo TV opening theme
Soft Cell, "Tainted Love" and you think love is to pray, but I'm sorry, I don't prey that way
this heres a story about billy joe and bobby sue 2 young lovers wiiith nothin better to do then sit around the house, get high and watch the tube and heres what happened when they decided to cut loose
they cut the cheese
Refreshments, "Banditos"... the track that got all the airplay, although my favorite on this CD already played, "European Swallow" (I could do anything, anything that you want me to, but it's gonna take a little more money). But I've got the pistol, so I'll keep the pesos. Yeah, that seems fair.
I'm still leaving, on that midnight train to georgia.
What are you listening to? Nada. Don't be a smart-ass... I hear the stereo. What are you listening to? Nada. FINE! Don't tell me! This dialog brought to you by my twisted mind. =} "There ain't no moral to this story at all, and anything I tell you could well be a lie... I've been away from the living, I don't need to be forgiven." From "Nada" by Refreshments. And that CD is finally over. =}
im so excited that i get to cater to the musicians at the frog island jazz festival, that im all listening to jazz. too bad miles davis and john coltrane wont actually be there..:)
with the summer heat it'd probably be pretty unpleasant if they were..
"Blue Canadian Rockies", The Byrds
Jazz on Orchard Radio. http://radio.wccnet.org/
Mike, you think you're sooo morbid, don't you? ;)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Cities in Dust" Oops...just changed to Bach - Brandenburg Concerto #3 - Allegro
Tom Waits, "Mule Variations".
me too scott! great cd isnt it?
bill monroe and his bluegrass boys: early recordings
REM Automatic for the people and Dead letter office
Folk Funnies collected together and put onto a CD by Paul Estin by me using my secret mind control, as he refers to it as Ecelectica #2.
six years - Richard Buckner
yaz, upstairs at Eric's
Neil Young "Silver and Gold" Bill Shapiro is playing it on his Cypress Ave. radio show today. Real simple lyrics, simple songs. Real nice.
the divine Hedningarna, "Tra." They'll never do anything that good again. I get the impression the band has been blown apart by ego tussles.
Santana, first album.
What I Want - The Flying Lizards. It's on edge 102 Toronto
er make that Money - The Flying Lizards now I'm listening to the wanker song or something like that. Woah.
the complete recordings of robert johnson
Llan de Cubel, "IV." Spanish celtic-ish band; this CD part of the haul from Mad's Records near Philadelphia.
Loreena McKennit - "The Mummers Dance"
REM dead letter office <with chronic town attached to it, import> ,
Bjork "It's Oh So Quiet"
Dynamite Hacker - Boys in the Hood. remake of a NWA (?) song, its hilarious.
"Tobira wo akate" from Card Captor Sakura soundtrack
And Christ Wept, "Killing Addiction" death metal meets techno... death techno? actually not too far off from FLA, ca. Millenium anyway... I got it for $0.99 from a discount bin, and it isn't TOO terrible =}
"Weird Al"'s Yoda on the Live Concert DVD.
met him int he swamps down in dagobah im listening to soul coughing - el oso
Gwenc'hlan, "A Nos Connieres." Breton folk-rock band, very good, I need to write a review.
Sorcerer Hunters opening theme
I'm listening to the humm of the box fan blowing in my kitchen window right now.
Ministry - "So What"
Say Hello (to my penis) the new Barnes and Barnes tracks on their Essentials CD.
hahaha I want to hear that, from the grandfathers of fishheads.
still soul coughing
When the shit goes down (ya better getready) when the shit gows down When the shit goes down (ya better get ready) when the shit goes down <That's Julie's cat's favorite song by cypress hill
Lords of Acid "I Sit On Acid"
Shania Twain, actually. Heh.
The soundtrack from "Brazil" (Terry Gilliam film).
random techno my roomie is playing
"Do It Again" by Steely Dan. (Their first big hit, from 1973!)
hobag and i were just listening to radiohead.
Anastasia soundtrack
Kilt, "Four In The Crib." Rather blah album; the streak of really good stuff I'd been picking up couldn't go on forever.
Wow...otaking...I was listening to "Sit On Acid" when I read your earlier post. =) Moby - "Oil 1". Oops...changing to Underworld's "Moaner".
the alice in wonderland techno remix
smoke some fags and get a job... You'll never fail like common people, you'll never watch your life slide down the drain, and dance, and drink, and screw, 'cause there's nothing else to do... Pulp, "Common People" Sing along with the common people, and it just might get you through, laugh along with the common people, even though they're laughing at you and all the stupid things you do
Kate Bush - "Rocket Man"
Electric Light Orchestra -- Discovery
EV, "Huechal." Breton band which is about 3/4 80's style rock/pop and 1/4 Breton folk, with good helpings of the bombarde, the Breton national instrument. Fun.
I'm still leaving, on that midnight train to Georgia.
Lain Cyberia Mix
Fish (with an F), "A Plague of Ghosts." The latest release by the ex-lead-singer of Marillion, an 80s band who wished they'd been around in the 70s when prog rock was the next big thing. As far as I'm concerned, the best thing they had going for them was Fish's Darth-Vader-With-A-Scottish-Accent voice.
"Brazil Soundtrack" again, and I stuck the repeat button on. Time to put this one into the "heavy rotation" category. Funny, because this is the most I've listened to it since I bought it last year.
The Darins - Crosses and Crowns. Lovely harmonies..
"Pokemon" end theme.
Public Enemy, "He Got Game" soundtrack.
syd straw "suprise"
i want you - third eye blind .,
Mussorgsky & Ravel, "Pictures at an Exhibition." Old mono recording of the Chicago Symphony conducted by Rafael Kubelik. Leslie thinks the tempos are too fast.
Ben Folds Five, "Army" "I've been thinking a lot today..."
"Rump Shaker" by Wreckx-N-Effect. Heh...
People laughing People dancing A man selling ice cream Singing Italian Songs.
When did this tun into the "guess the song" contest? Well, I know it's by Chicago.
("Saturday, In the Park")
(The album with the woodcut cover: "Chicago V." That was probably part of the batch I unloaded on my sister 25 years ago. Me, I'm binging on Hedningarna's TRA again.
Pig, "My Santuary" from Praise the Lard
(Hey, remember when "Chicago" was called "Chicago Tranit Authority" and they were a real rock band? All the albums after the first or so sound pretty lame compared to the original, despite that dopy guitar solo track) "Key the Metal Idol" anime soundtrack.
Yup, but I think CTA told them they couldn't use that name anymore. Morrissey - "Suedehead"
that would be an interesting set of trivia... albums or groups that had to change their names rumor has it that STP's original name was Shirley Temple's Pussy, and they changed it to Stone Temple Pilots to avoid lawsuit... although the rumor that KMFDM stands for Kill Mother Fucking Depeche Mode is false. =} And Prefab Sprout's major release had to be retitled in this country to "Two Wheels Good" because US lawyers balked at it being released under its original name (Steve McQueen). At any rate, I'm listening to Starfuckers, Inc. (NIN), which for some inexplicable reason had to be censored before MTV would play it.
Very strange indeed. NIN, "The Fragile", "left" disc. (The story I'd heard about the Stone Temple Pilots is that they had put a bunch of STP stickers [as in the fuel additive] on their gear, and ended up making up a bunch of names to fit the initials)
i used to have all the original chicago on vynal. just you n me, simple n free
The band currently known as Green Jelly used to be Green Jello (with an umlaut over the o, no less), but were forced to change it. Don't ask me why I know that.
many many moons ago there was a pretty darn good detroit band called the rhythm method. they changed their name to rhythm corps when they started getting almost-national attention.
Listening to 'The Pirate Song' by Grey Eye Glances, who by coincidence had to change their name from Sojourn because another band already had that one. So the took their new name from a Edgar Allen Poe poem. Speaking of Chicago, I always thought '25 or 6 to 4' had one of the best guitar solos in it.
Tom Lehrer "My Home Town" from the triple CD set.
Patti Loveless "I Try to Think About Elvis"
YOu spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round
I thought that was 'a ragged baby'? doesn't make sense, but that's what it sounds like to me.. haven't heard any of the original Chicago Transit Authority to claim it was superior.. I grew up on their pop jazz stuff, and I liked it, so you can just stick it if you've got a problem. sugary and sometimes a bit saccharine, but hey-- very pleasant to listen to-- 13, I believe (which was the one of them painting the logo on the cover from a scaffold) is the one I like.. lot of hits from that album.
it's "like a record, baby" carla's right =}
Especially since the song title is "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". ;-)
"Ureshi Namida" from the Video Girl Ai soundtrack.
Tori Amos "Rapsberry Swirl" I just finished listening to the Lain soundtrack.
The Beatles, "Revolver".
resp:436 resp:437 exactly.. it made more sense.. hmm.. maybe should start an item of "what lyrics have you thought were something, but turned out to be something else?"
I think we did have that kind of item at one point...
Yeah...it's called "Revved Up Like a Deuce?"..."Pompatus of Love?"
personally, I'd thought it was "rolled up like a douche"
I just heard the ICP parody of Eminem. Man, that was harsh.
wow I'm gonna look for that on Napster tonight! If I could afford the cd I'd buy it but I am broke. I'm listening to Oingo Boingo "Boingo" What a great albumn, it's on constant rotation mode currently with The Mission UK "Carved in Sand" and Diamonda Galas and John Paul Jones "The Sporting Life" Oh, and The Smiths "Meat is Murder"
ICP?
Insane Clown Posse
("Insane Clown Posse" is a Detroit rap act. Two guys, who typically wear
clown makeup over marginal facial hair, are somewhat confused over whether
they should be baddass or funny)
King Crimson, "THRaK".
Blink 182 - Adams Song On CFNY Toronto
Jefferson Airplane, VOLUNTEERS, very loud. As it should be. Bands don't sing like that any more, alas. (I'll roll this item over in about a week, the way it's going. 500 responses and it's on to the next one.)
I never really thought of vocal performances as one of the great strengths of the Jefferson Airplane sound.. If I weren't still 2500 miles from the bulk of my CD collection, though, your post would probably inspire me to pull out my copy of "2400 Fulton Street", the greatest hits/box set collection.
I'm gonna live my life like every day's the last not a simple goodbye, it all goes by so fast and now that you're gone I can't cry hard enough no I can't cry hard enough for you to hear me now
King Crimson, "Court of the Crimson King"
Knots and Crosses - Creatures of Habit
disturbed, "Down with the Sickness"
XTC - "Generals and Majors"
((dave / sspan -- cool, I'm glad you finally caught up with a copy of that Knots and Crosses collection.))
rrrrrRRRRRRRrrrrrrRRRRRRrrrrrRRRRRRrrrrrRRRRR <edison purring in my ear. can't hear anything else.>
aw
R.E.M., "Green." Most of my REM collection has finally resurfaced, hooray.
ll cool j, "Doin It"
Madonna, "Beautiful Dreamer"
Mary Chapin Carpenter, "Party Doll and other Favorites"
Beki Hemingway - rinse. repeat. really great stuff from the former 'This Train' vocalist. good strong straight ahead rock. I still need to get a copy of her new CD... krj- I picked up the K&C a while back from a place you suggested, thanx
Gwenc'hlan, "A Nos Connieres," again. Certain to be one of the favorites of the year. I should go paw at their web page (in French) again and see if there is any clue about a followup album.
Tom Waits, Chocolate Jesus Eagle Eye Cherry, Save Tonight Radiohead, Street Spirit
the Hard Drive Calypso by Bill Roper, as now heard on the compilation CD made at the 1998 World Science Fiction Convention.
"How I Learned My Lesson" --X
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Fishin in the Dark
Kelly Hogan and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, "Beneath The Country Underdog."
who are they again to me?
Poi Dog Pondering, "Pomegranate"
(I assume Carla's question was to me. Kelly Hogan was in The Jody Grind, Atlanta-area band, back around 1990. The Pine Valley Cosmonauts are a name Jon Langford of the Mekons uses for pickup bands for various special projects. More in the Mekons item, I expect.)
Interesting.. I had a roommate at one point who was seriously into the Jody Grind at a time when I was going through a big Mekons phase. Looks like someone got chocolate on my peanut butter, and vice-versa.. ;-)
I seem to recall a mike mills/mekons relationship.
Interruptions have prolonged the CD, so it's still Pomegranate, though now
on the last track ("Alleluja")
Eiffel 65 "Blue"
The Gourds, "Stadium Blitzer." Another alt.country band commended to Carla's attention.
Bartok's first string quartet.
like a freshly fallen, silent shroud of snow I am a rock I am an island.
Slowdive -- "Souvlaki" I caught on to a lot of the shoe-gazer bands after the fact, but since then I've been making up for lost time..
Whatever became of Lush, anyway?
They broke up after their drummer(?), Chris Acland, committed suicide.
The last album they produced was "Lovelife". I didn't think it was very
good compared to their others, but then I liked their third album, "Split",
best.. Most of their fans seem to prefer their first two full-lengths
("Spooky" and "Gala".) I have no idea what the individual members,
particularly Emma and Miki, are up to these days..
Lush are another one of those bands which support my hypothesis that every
band in my collection will eventually have its music used in a Volkswagen
commercial..
neutral milk hotel - naomi pixies - motorway to roswell radiohead - street spirit luna - moon palace sushi bars and saxaphones heh
You must get quite the interesting sonic collage effect from listening to four songs at once..
all i want is you-U2 rattle and hum
Rosina de Peira & Martina, "Chants traditionnels occitans." Or, "Traditional Occitan Songs." Rosina & Martina have been favorites of mine for 15 years, and little of their stuff has come out on CD. I'm unclear if this is a compilation or a new recording -- possibly a new recording, since I don't recognize any of it. There is zero recording or date information provided. Oh, Occitan is a region in France, centered around Toulouse.
nothing now, but I *was* listening to a band called Ugly Beauty... which I bought for less than a buck but was worth much more. Definitely worth a listen, if you ever run across it.
Radiohead "Paranoid Android"
neutral milk hotel - naomi
golden palominos "ID"
I thought I knew the Golden Palominos' catalog decently, but I don't recognize that title. Santana, "Live at the Fillmore '68." This was marked down $4 at Tower's Sony/Columbia sale. Right now I'm a sucker for almost anything from San Francisco in 1967-1971, and I've been a fan of early Santana since I started listening to rock music in 1971.
Sugar Ray-danzig needs a hug (from the 1st and cool album)
sorry ken I meant I. D. "Let's see....some I. D." I forget which albumn it was originally on, I was listening to the collection and I'm too lazy to dig through a disaster of cd's.
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Peek-a-Boo"
superstition is a great albumn, I need a new copy of it.
I thought "Superstition" was the album with "Kiss Them For Me", not "Peek-a-boo".. (if so, I thought it was mostly unremarkable except for the single. should I give it another try?)
Led Zepplin I.
(I decided that instead of rolling this item at 500
responses, I'll let it go to the end of June.)
"peek-a-boo" is on Peep Show.
velvet undderground - andy warhol
Recent CD 'Piza tapes' out, Gratefull Dead Greatest hits in.
Uncle John's band is on right now.
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Joni Mitchell, "Court and Spark" Peep Show is a great album. I'm rather peeved that I lost my copy.
Everyday I've got the Blues - Chris Chown daammn, he is so good. I'm seeing him Friday and Saturday. This weekend is gonna be the fucking greatest.
the mention of siouxsie made me think of how much I missed that albumn that's all.
I'd assumed as much, but others apparently didn't =}
radiohead - the bends
The latest Moody Blues CD.
miseducation of lauryn hill
i dont dig lauren hill at all dude. sorry. she doesnt want us white people listening to her music. tom waits
The Fullerenes, "Better Dating Through Technology".
macy gray
Yo La Tengo -- "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out"
Psychic TV.
neutral milk hotel - naomi
pink floyd the wall
Carl Orrf, "Carmina Burana"
wow, do i ever hate carmina burana. velvet underground european son
The Cure - "A Forest"
its orff. trust me, this i know. \ har
Yeah. I thought that was familiar.
beethoven's ninth
Yeah, I noticed the typo. Empire Records soundtrack
The Heathens "fiRe" - A compilation of Scandinavian artists (like the Nordic Roots compilations) with all songs written by Hedningarna. Right now, I'm listening to "My Trees Shall Stand" by Min Skog. This CD is great! It's hard to believe I found it for $1 at Record Exchange.
Yay, otaking found one of my favorite recordings! A correction: actually what you have is a Hedningarna album compiled from their two best recordings, KAKSI and TRA. Hedningarna translates as "The Heathens," and it looks like Sony/Tristar was going to try to market them under the translated name. The songs titles are given in both Swedish (or Finnish) and English; so "Min Skog" is a song title, not a band name. Sony/Tristar did no visible promotion for this excellent compilation, and they immediately gave up on the band; their rights were picked up by Northside, who released the KAKSI and TRA albums in their original format.
Spinal Tap, "Break Like the Wind". Has anybody mentioned the big release of of the movie and original soundtrack coming up this year?
Re #526: Thanks for the info krj. It's a great recording.
Troublesome Waters: Iris Dement
Juan de Marcos & the Afro Cuban All Stars, "Distinto, diferente." Another World Circuit/Nonesuch Cuban release.
the complete recordings of robert johnson
Jimi Hendrix - Catfish Blues.
Kid Rock, "F**k that", History of Rock
radiohead - the bends
sonic youth- confusion is sex/kill yr idols
Re: Spinal Tap The documentary "This is Spinal Tap" was listed as one of the top comedys by the AFI this year. Great show! What's up with the release?
Anne Clark, "I of the Storm" (Wealth is another spelling of the law...)
Anne Clark is something of an underestimated talent, I think. Her early 80s
work, Dorothy Parker meets Pet Shop Boys, was at times too superficial, and
definitely too viciously cynical, but I bought this later CD ("The Law is an
Anagram of Wealth"), and was surprised by how artistic she'd gotten. Of
course, "I of the Storm" is more heavy-drum anarchist/socialist anti-Brit-govt
sentiment, but most of the album is soothing violins and synths, with lyrics
translated from Friedrich Ruckert.
the doors waiting for the sun
A Perfect Circle, "The Hollow"
So how is that? I saw some of the pre-release hype. The Original Brothers & Sisters of Love, "The Ballade of Jeb Miner." Local folk-rock band which I rather like; alas, I have to miss their Top of the Park appearance.
bob marley natty dread
It's definitely Tool-lite. If you like Maynard's singing, it's worth it. The instrumentation is pretty, but not as unique as Tool's, nor as "hard." The single, "Judith," is the most Tool-like track on the CD, which is probably why it was chosen.
Eclectica #16: Attention Deficit Disorder
radiohead - black star
great song.. I can't figure out why "OK Computer" was the album that got all the critical hype.. I think "the Bends" is much better..
zepelin-stairway
Zabe i Babe, "Drumovi." Faux Balkan music from Tim Eriksen and Peter Irvine of Cordelia's Dad, together with some other folks of Balkan ancestry.
Me'shell NdegeOcello, "Bitter." Really, I'm only in it for that last name......
Michelle shocked singing the ballad of penny evans
the police sychronicity
pink floyd dark side
Yes, but are you watching THE WIZARD OF OZ? News item: Turner Classic Movies is going to show THE WIZARD OF OZ at some point this weekend with DARK SIDE OF THE MOON playing on the SAP (secondary audio program) track. See USA Today if you need more details.
Won't it sort of ruin the mood the first time they cut away to a Miracle Whip commercial?
No Commercial Interruption, said the USA Today story.
Emily and I were just listening to Duke Ellington and friends.
Stan - Eminem
Its... disturbing.
Kasia Kowalska - 'I Need You' from her album 'Gemini'. 9min41secs of pure heaven.
zeppelin fool in the rain
Pete Townshend, "Lifehouse Chronicles" disk 1.
sound of silence
re #472: (only about a week ago, and 90 responses since..) Your mention of Kelly Hogan and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts and connections to both the Jody Grind and the Mekons prompted me to give their album a listen today when I found it in one of the listening stations at a Seattle-area Borders this afternoon (well, truthfully, I had no idea who they were when I saw the album cover, and I was actually trying to listen to the Jayhawks' "Smile", but someone in the store had misloaded the listening station and by the time I figured out that I wasn't hearing the new Jayhawks' album, the lonely synapse in the back of my brain that shall forevermore be responsible for holding responses 472-475 managed to fire off an interrupt and I remembered who she/they was/were. Anyway.. I might go back and consider the album again sometime: it didn't grab me, but it sounded like something I might like. What amused me, though, was that it's the first place I've spotted a cover of one of Stephin Merritt's "69 Love Songs". Unfortunately it was probably my least favorite of the entire 69, but still interesting, to me at least..
"Stan," Eminem. Poignant song. Except now that's over, and it's on "Who Knew?"
Nichole Nordeman - "This Mystery". Brilliant.
Ministry "New World Order"
Zeppelin- over the hills and far away
"Gethsemane", JC Superstar, the Japanese Live Cast recording from MP3 which a friend sent to me. Wow. This is a trip. Hearing something you could sing in your sleep in another language is wild. And thinking about how the story would affect the Japanese is also wild.
Meg Lee Chin, "Nutopia" (her "Piece and Love" CD, although it's also on Pigface's "A New High in Low" CD) snivelling grovelling moaning groaning snivelling grovelling moaning groaning I think we may have to lay low for a while...
"Firth of Forth" by that one band who I think is Genesis but I'm never sure. (It's on a mix CD). A touching epic about a lawn-maintenance guy. I'm not being sarcastic.
Gwenc'hlan, "A Nos Connieres." Again. Yee-hah, I love this disc. The band's second album is out, and I eagerly await its listing on the French web dealer www.alapage.com.
Spinal Tap, "Break Like the Wind".
Chicken Skin Music: Ry Cooder
Paul Kwin and Puzzlebox - "Jean's Odyssey".
madeski marten and wood
A Caribbean dance hall number on 100 Jamz, Nassau, Bahamas
kula shaker- gokula
Type O Negative "Summer Breeze"
luna - dont remember the name of the song, but its the album penthouse
Sarah McLachlan - "Fear"
La Bottine Souriante, "Xieme."
Pat Boone in a Metal Mood, "No More Mister Nice Guy". Yup, my curiousity finally won. Heavy metal and rock classics arranged for big band and sung by Pat Boone. Oddly enough I'm enjoying it. The arrangements are really cool.
Thank goodness I'm not listening to it now, but the last thing to sully my CD player was "Golden Greats", the solo album by Ian Brown of the Stone Roses. This album has done a *lot* to increase my respect for John Squire and the other Stone Roses..
Pulp, "I Spy" Pulp's been on heavy rotation for about six months, since I went ona mad spree and bought a complete set of CDs.
Flight 180 - "sing sing sing". You know.. that Louis Prima song.. pretty good CD, swing music with 2 girl singers.
power puff girls.
Barenaked Ladies "enid"
Charlie Gillett's "World Music Countdown" for May 2000, on http://www.wen.com . I want to buy almost half the featured albums, dammit. If we don't have an Internet Radio item I'll start one shortly.
Blowzabella, "Pingha Frenzy." Live album by what was probably the premier British folk dance band of the 1980s.
im listening to sector 9
I'm listening to an Islamic extremist in his erstwhile guise of a peace-loving folk singer. Cat Stevens, "Teaser and the Firecat," right now it's Bitterblue.
Absolute O'Brien, "Listen to my Heartbeat"; Richard O'Brien's
1999 CD.
Yup, Raff Riff.
Palm Fabric Orchestra, "Thawing Spring" from Vague Gropings in the Slip Stream. PFO being a New Age-ish variant of Poi Dog Pondering, at least from the standpoint that the frontman is Frank Orrall and the music is even more artsy than PDP has become. =}
I sort of wondered what became of the Poi Dog Pondering crowd. Santana, "Live at the Fillmore 1968" or some title like that. Sony Legacy release drawn from some jam filled shows at the dawn of their career, lots of Latin percussion.
actually, PDP has released albums since PFO... it's a few years old now. Pretty much, Frank Orrall moved to Chicago and puts out an album whenver he feels like it.
The Hannibals, "Monkey Suit".
The June 3 show of London "world music" DJ Charlie Gillett, via www.wen.com.
Psychic TV, "Smile (Greedy Beat remix)"
Mary McCaslin and Jim Ringer
Hedningarna, "Vikloren"
Anna Egge
The Hannibals, "From Can to Can't". These guys were a band I knew in E. Lansing a few years back. Somehow they got 3 CDs out before giving up, and this is the first (I think). I've been listening to it lately, and I like it a lot. The current copy is a CD-R that I did today (just got my CD burner working, and I'm backing up out-of-print stuff) and I'm testing it. Some of the band became the current-day "19 Wheels".
Charlie Gillett's "World Music Charts Europe Countdown" for April 2000, starting with Geoffry Oryema (yeah!!) and continuing with Youssou N'Dour. Oh yeah, real audio from www.wen.com again.
Tones on Tail - "Go"
(otherwise known as the "yaa yaa yaa" song.. ;-)
I love that song. =) I bounce around and sing the "ya ya ya"s really loud.
The Beach Boys "Help Me Rhonda" Greatest Car Songs CEMA Special Markets
As previously announced: June has ended, so I'm freezing this item and starting a new one. The lists continue in item:264.
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