so, what cds/tapes/records do you really like? which ones do you wish you never would have bought? this is the item for rating recorded music.50 responses total.
Here's what's currently in my "take to the used record store" pile: Dirty Three "Dirty Three" EMF "Stigma" The Prayer Chain "Shawl" Nine Inch Nails "Further Down the Spiral" Ann Magnuson "The Luv Show" MC 900 Ft Jesus "One Step Ahead of the Spider" Barenaked Ladies "Gordon" Tori Amos "Crucify" Candlebox "Candlebox" Dada "American Highway Flower" Not that I hate all these albums, I just don't lsiten to them and don't want to start. What I've been listening to a lot lately: 311 "311" They Might Be Giants "Factory Showroom" Rage Against The Machine "Rage Against The Machine"
You don't like that Ann Magnuson album? Hmmmm bummer I haven't heard it but I really like everything she did with Bongwater.
there's not a lot in my collection that i don't like, but i'd say the cure , god i can't even member the album title now, but it has picture's of you on it... that one, i don't really like it a lot, that's prolly my least favorite that i own.. i used to have annie lennox "medusa" but that got lost somewhere along the line, that was really good... thought i'd share;)
My new favorite (listened to it every day since i got it) is a talking record. The Boxed Life, Henry Rollins. Also revived "Pop Smear" by The Verve Pipe, found I don't like it as much as I used to.
I don't listen to a lot of my earlier CDs (like "Best of REO Speedwagon"), but I try to listen to all of them every now and then The CDs on heavy rotation: Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Philip Glass - Hydrogen Jukebox Please Save My Earth image soundtrack
Lets see.......... The new Korn "Life is Peachy" makes my want vomit.....twice. What I listen to most right now is: NIN...Pretty Hate Machine NIN...Broken Milla...The Divine Comedy Marilyn Manson...Antichrist Superstar The Crow Soundtrack and XTC...(can't remember the title)
Let's see, what have I been listening to lately??? These are probably my favorites right now: Steve Vai, Fire Garden Bush, Razorblade Suitcase STP, Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop White Lion, Pride
ah, so you like razorblade suitcase? i've heard bad things about it... but i wouldn't be a very good judge myself.. i don't particularly care for most bush..
wow... sounds like what i did.. i took out my old old tapes nd listened to them... things like early Elvis Costello, and ab unch of others... alot of punk/ ska... brought back memories of myself in the bathroom trying to get my hair the perfect shade of green, red, and yellow.... and other wonders like that. Hard to believe that i listened to ska/punk sometimes! but hey! that is just me! =P
This past week in the CD shuffler was: Bing Crosby, Tempest, Heather Alexander, Michael Longcor, and Best Irish Drinking Songs. Of course, it was St. Patricks/ Celtic / Power Celtic week.
Hmmm.. Biggest pleasant surprise of last year, Mad Professor v. Massive Attack -- "No Protection" Dub specialist Mad Professor re-mixes English trip-hop act Massive Attack's "Protection" album into something that I find more interesting than the regular work of either half of the equation. Like many of my all-time favorite albums my initial impression of this one was vaguely negative but my initial disappointment soon gave way to a curiousity that eventually progressed to fascination and it hasn't been far from my CD changer ever since.
Newest fascination is Kim Richey's BITTER SWEET. I hadn't expected to be interested in it, but it was being played at Schoolkids. It's all the things I shouldn't like: a highly polished major label country album out of the Nashville machine. But I find the songwriting and arranging very strong: it reminds me of mid-70s stuff by Bonnie Raitt and Linda Ronstadt. Might not appeal to readers who aren't over 35. :)
Stuff that' been going through my players lately.... Dar Williams (ALL) Rush(ALL) Styx & Supertramp (best of) King's Singers Three men and a Tenor
Fish: Sunsets on Empire Marillion: This Strange Engine Marillion: Six of One, Half-Dozen of Another Blue Oyster Cult: Secret Treaties Black 47: Fire of Freedom
The recent biggies... Rickie Lee Jones: Naked Music, Live and Acoustic Harry Partch: Castor & Pollx and Even Wild Horses, mostly Orb: Orblivion Forest For The Trees: Forest For The Trees
More Fish: Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors Please excuse me for excessive obsessing... I'll get over it as soon as I can...
Some recent album purchases that've turned out to be mistakes: Various Artists -- "If Deejay Was Your Trade: The Dreads at King Tubby's" I might once have thought that you couldn't do too badly buying an album with King Tubby's name on it but this one proves me wrong, wrong, wrong. I thought I was buying another King Tubby dub compilation but that's not what this was -- instead I got recycled dub instrumental tracks marred by unenjoyable (for me, at least) DJ toasting. A waste of plastic as far as I'm concerned.. Pixies -- "Doolittle" Yeah, I know everyone else in my generation loves them but after buying this one cheap while on a nostalgia kick I remembered why it is that despite years of living with Pixies fans I'd never before bought one of their albums. In my opinion you could put together *one* killer album if you took all of the best Pixies tracks and put them together. Unfortunately that material's spread out over five or so albums and several EPs and the rest just does nothing for me. Var. Artists -- "Sometimes God Hides: A Young Person's Guide to Discipline" Has a number of good tracks but was a complete failure for me as a sampler as I already seem to have the album of every track I liked and the other tracks on the disc only convinced me to *not* check out the albums from which they were taken. Sneaker Pimps -- "Becoming X" Tricky -- "Pre-Millenium Tension" I guess the best thing I can say is that I bought the two of them together from Schoolkids' used store for $5.99 total -- not sure it was worth it. I don't really like either of them. I'm still looking for a "trip-hop" album I'll like as much as my benchmark for comparison, Massive Attack v. Mad Professor's "No Protection". I've heard good things about Tricky's "Maxinquaye" but after "Pre-Millenium Tension" I'm not sure I want to try it. Recommendations pro/con? Banco de Gaia -- "Last Train to Lhasa" Perhaps slightly better than average for techno but still seems sterile, soulless, and un-engaging. Every once in a while I pick up a techno or trance album based on an enthusiastic recommendation but I never seem to enjoy them. I guess I Just Don't Get It.
i got Ani DiFranco - living in clip, the live double album about a month a go.. it's great, and i listen to it, over and over and over, and over some more:)
This Mortal Coil: It'll End it Tears, Filigree & Shadow Moev: Head Down Cranberries: Everybody else is doing it... Cordelia's Dad: Cordelia's Dad. Getaway Cruiser: Phones Calling soundtracks: Before the Rain, Mary Reilly (that's all I can think of at the moment)
Hmmm.. the single "Head Down" appears on a promotional compilation from Nettwerk but I never bought or listened to it because after a few other purchases from the compilation I learned that the compiler had done an excellent job of picking the only song on the album I liked.. You say the rest of the album is good?
well, I think it is good. It includes the song "In and Out", which was the real reason I got it. I had been hunting for that song for over three years. I was pleasantly surprised to find a copy of the CD NEW at Schoolkids a few months ago.
I really like the new P.J. Harvey "Is this Desire?" It has the passion of blues music but with much more interesting chord patterns. The instrumen tation is interesting too quitly intense piano & guitar pices alternate with driving guitar and and almost electronica but with distortation backed pieces. Her lyrics are also very literate tales of desperation more what you expect from a singer songwriter than from a rocking woman who belts lyrical intensity.
I got the recent Peter White CD at Borders, where it comes with a bonus disk.
Just got the new Cry, Cry, Cry cd....wonderful stuff. (It's made up of Dar Williams, Richard Shinedll, & Lucy Kaplansky) Neil Finn - Try Whisteling This (Former lead of Crowded House)
"In Gabriel's Garden" by Wynton Marsalis is getting a lot of play, and I really like it.
I've been listening to a whole lot of barenaked ladies lately - but that's just in preperation for the concert on the 27th of next month. Woo Woo! Other than that, the usual Ani DiFranco has been getting a lot of play on my semi-new stereo, as have the beatles, and Red Hot Chilli Peppers - What Hits? which I bought last night.
I Just picked up Sinaed Lohan's CD, N Mermaid....really good...sounds like Sinaed O'Conner at times, like Sheryl Crow at others, but it's just a really listenable cd. :)
I was pretty pleased with the Sinead Lohan album as well. Now, where did I put it? :( She has an earlier album, released only in Ireland, which I never heard; reviews I saw indicated that the the NO MERMAID album was a big improvement, so I probably won't hunt down the earlier release.
Err, Ken, I have it. Grin. It's right by my hand (at work) as I type this!
I just picked up Poignant Plecostamos' CD. It translates into "Touch the cow" but I can't remember the record title in French. It's a great blend of fusion jazz, traditional folk music, funk, and ska. I love it!
I went looking for it at Borders today. The Borders staff said they wished the band would bring some over for them to sell.
I've seen copies at Tower Records. I'm sure you could contact Poignant Plecostomus at poignant@cyberspace.org and get mail-order info.
I really like Bare Naked Ladies:Gordon (group:album)
I met them when they were touring small music shops for the Gordon tour. They were pretty fly for some white guys,
oh wowzers, I'm extra jealous now carla. last time they were in detroit they heard from this girl who had cancer and couldn't make it to the show cause she had chemo that day, they canceled all their stuff for the afternoon and visited her. Now if only they'd come back on a day I was in chemo.... <grin>
I just got a really cool album by Queensryche. It's called Mindcrime, and is a heavy-metal concept album! The really amazing thing is that they pull it off, and do it really well!
Yup, "Operation Mindcrime" put Queensryche on the map. I still listen to it once in a while. It's a "rock opera"!
Yeah, they even have a "cast" listing...
A few years ago in my life as a stagehand I worked the "Empire Tour" show in Muskegan. This was the last tour where they did the whole of Operation Mindcrime. It was a pretty cool show, with some projected animation. But the best part was when the band suddenly stopped and the lead singer asked "...So who knows how Mary died?" (hears shout from front row) "Death by electric pleasure toys? No, but that would be a good way to go...".
I suppose this is trivia, but wasn't she stragled with a rosery?
I don't actually remember. Hmmm.... time to listen to it again.
Never listened to Queensryche, but that sounds exciting. I remember when they were getting popular and how it was so anticipated because they were rather local (well, Seattle is local for most of WA state) before the Tacoma sound took off-- ah, no, most bands that are associated with the 'Seattle sound' and 'grunge' are actually from Tacoma.
I was a stagehand for Toad the Wet Sprocket and Hootie and the Blowfish, Evan Dando, They Might be Giants and Freedy Johnston played at record stores that I worked at and I set up their equiptment. That's my only claim to fame in the music world. Well, that and the fact that My cousin is Wally Plesant.
I think that's more of a claim to fame than most of us mere mortals have...
Yeah, maybe so, but Hootie was such an asshole, that I can't listen to his music anymore.
The closest I've ever come to fame is that "Weird Al" Yankovik shook my right hand following a concert in my home town.
Being related to Wally Pleasant is much cooler than going anywhere near Hootie and the Blowfish. :)
heh ive had a brush with fame. im currently listening to: david bowie - changes bowie the police - synchronicity the gross pointe blank soundtrack
I've tried over the years to give Bob Weir's _Heaven Help The Fool_ a chance but on the -rare- occasion that I pull the album out and actually listen to it, all I can think is "Man! This is *so* cheesy!" But for some reason it never ends up in the return CD pile. I probably need some sort of counseling.
I recently got the Crowded House rarities cd......WOOHOO!!! :) That's some wonderful stuff. And Great Big Sea's UP. Those are my main plays right now, although there is another one that I know that I am missing that just really rocks...
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