What are you listening to right now?

colrow26 · Post by **colrow26** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:06 pm

tonight the streets are ours - Richard Hawley

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:17 am

Havin' a Sunday morning chill and sipping my coffee to...

Post by **BlueChair** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:41 am

I was not let down by my high anticipations of the I'm Not There soundtrack, two CDs of incredible Dylan covers. Some are obviously stronger than others, but it's consistantly good throughout. After a few listens, my early favourites include Roger McGuinn & Calexico's "One More Cup Of Coffee," Cat Power's "Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again", Karen O's "Highway 61 Revisited," Sufjan Stevens' "Ring Them Bells" and Yo La Tengo's "I Wanna Be Your Lover" (features John Sebastian on harmonica!)

If you're at all into covers, definitely pick this collection up.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:46 am

Blue, you have that Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man covers thingy, don't you? How do you like it (should probably check BT but I'm too lazy)? I saw the clip of Martha Wainwright on Letterman and was pretty impressed. Is the rest up to this standard?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry25U2gaQio

Post by **BlueChair** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:48 am

I thought the movie was shite, but mostly because it tried to do too many different things at once. Some of the covers were good - Nick Cave doing the title track, in particular. Jarvis Cocker was great too. I thought some were kind of lousy.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:54 am

BlueChair wrote:I thought the movie was shite, but mostly because it tried to do too many different things at once. Some of the covers were good - Nick Cave doing the title track, in particular. Jarvis Cocker was great too. I thought some were kind of lousy.

Thanks. I was considering buying the soundtrack, but may just get selected songs through iTunes. In addition to the Cave, Cocker and Wainwright, are there any others worth my time?

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:14 am

colrow26 · Post by **colrow26** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:35 pm

Protest Songs by Prefab Sprout - a hidden gem!

Chrille · Post by **Chrille** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:58 pm

The last batch of cd's I bought were all from the 60's as I havn't listened all that much to music from that time. I finally got around to getting Pet Sounds and also The Kinks' Arthur, The Doors' debut, Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (though I knew that one from before) and the first album by 13th Floor Elevators. However, of all the albums I bought, this is my favourite by far:

Just wonderful.

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:00 pm

My copy of this great ep should be arriving in the post this week hopefully. Rich Girls was all over the radio in Paris a few weeks ago while I struggled to deal with the flu that afflicted me while I was supposed to be on holiday. The song kept me going and is easily one of the tracks of the year. Here's the demo,
http://www.digitalwell.washington.edu/d ... d3fa5b.mp3

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:33 am

Somehow, beyond any formula or like-recording, this stays fresh with repeated listening. Very talented fellow.

Can't listen to the Michigan album. I'm a Buckeye.

senior_service · Post by **senior_service** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:52 pm

Joe Henry - Civilians

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:35 am

Haven't seen the new Coen brothers film yet (I really want to), but this strikes me as the dumbest piece of film criticism I've read in a long while.

http://www.slate.com/id/2177685/nav/tap3/

The Big Lebowski was on TV the other night and even though I was exhausted and have seen it umpteen times I had to stay up and watch it again. If anything, I would argue that their films are more consequential than they are given credit for being.

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:41 am

The Coen Bros remain my favourite contemporary filmmakers, despite a few misfires (Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers were okay, but not up to their standard).

This is the only bad review I've seen of No Country For Old Men, Sam. It's being hailed as a masterpeice by practically everyone else. It was very close to winning the Palm D'Or at Cannes and did very well at the Toronto International Film Festival as well.

Red and I are going to catch it tonight.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:55 am

but are you LISTENING to it????

I am listening to the radio this morning.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:56 am

mood swung wrote:but are you LISTENING to it????

I am listening to the radio this morning.

Ooops, meant to put this in the Recent Films thread. What happened there? Off for another cup of coffee!

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:14 pm

cds, dvds, it's all ds.

Random Ronstadt, thanks to BWAP. I know it's not cool, but I really love her early stuff.

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:17 pm

Can't get enough of this one.

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:28 pm

Brilliance of Morricone...

and if you haven't yet the pleasure of viewing the film, it is well worth the time. Jeremy Irons, Robert DeNiro. A moving experience and some of the greatest cinematography ever.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:51 am

iTunes on shuffle for a lazy Saturday morning...

Hog-Eye Man - Martin Carthy & Family
I Found That Essence Rare - Gang Of Four
Merchants Of Soul - Spoon
Reason For Our Love - Ron Sexsmith
Loretta - Neko Case
Race For The Prize (Sacrifice Of The New Scientists) - The Flaming Lips
Insistor - Tapes 'N Tapes
Boy From The Moon - The Milk And Honey Band
Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Elvis Presley
Go Karts - A Band Of Bees
The Everyday Story Of Smalltown - XTC
Something In The Night - Bruce Springsteen
Double Talkin' Baby - Gene Vincent
Nightingale - Roxy Music

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:32 pm

BlueChair wrote:

So, so good.

Had the song whose name I forget but has a verse like Dylan's I Want You and a memorable course that goes 'I thought I heard someone calling my name' on my mind this morning. Knew it was on a Word sampler CD, so looked through for a song title based on that, and then found the one in question. Delightful. How does it compare to the rest of the record?

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:05 pm

and

Great Sunday Afternoon music.

colrow26 · Post by **colrow26** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:40 pm

Our Love to Admire - Interpol

one of my top 5 albums of this year...

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:45 pm

Post by **BlueChair** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:46 pm

Is that Hanson?