What are you listening to right now?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:52 pm

Tom Waits - Bone Machine. We're all gonna be dirt in the ground.

little martinet · Post by **little martinet** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:02 pm

mug, you've inspired me...I forgot how much I used to like Bjork back in jr high/high school...currently listening to 'Big Time Sensuality'!

lostdog · Post by **lostdog** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:06 am

Richard Hawley - anyone like him?

His new single The Ocean is awesome.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:40 pm

Seen good reviews. Keen to hear.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:57 pm

Heard the new Franz Ferdinand single on the radio this afternoon. Underwhelmed, to put it mildly.

verena · Post by **verena** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:04 pm

On the radio, " 74 - 75 " - The band, is it the "Conels" ?

verena · Post by **verena** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:47 pm

Otis redding - the definitive collection, the dock of the bay

Top !

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:50 pm

lostdog wrote:Richard Hawley - anyone like him?

His new single The Ocean is awesome.

He's good. I interviewed him in the last issue of Being There.:

http://www.beingtheremag.com/content/05 ... hawley.php

We're also having a contest that anybody who signs up for our mailing list (deadline's actually midnight tonight) is entered to win one of two copies of his new album.

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:53 am

I'm listening to M.Ward's 'Transfiguration Of Vincent' and am loving it more with every minute. Amazing, beautifully melancholic album.
And what a fine, mournful rendition of Bowie's "Let's Dance"!
Highly recommended !!

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:33 am

invisible Pole wrote:I'm listening to M.Ward's 'Transfiguration Of Vincent' and am loving it more with every minute. Amazing, beautifully melancholic album.
And what a fine, mournful rendition of Bowie's "Let's Dance"!
Highly recommended !!

That is a great album pole. Glad to hear you're enjoying it. Transistor Radio, which came out this year, is terrific too, although not quite iin the same league as Transfiguration.

Post by **BlueChair** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:43 am

Has anybody heard The Greenhornes EP East Grand Blues? I downloaded it off of iTunes and it's good fun.

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 8:15 am

Ron Sexsmith singing Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know".

Miss Macbeth · Post by **Miss Macbeth** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:09 am

Halleluja by Jeff Buckley..........Hauntingly Riveting

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:15 am

A whole bunch of interesting indie stuff my buddy Tom brought up from Brooklyn yesterday - some straight-ahead pop, a few rootsy discs by Mark Lanegan (the former lead sing singer of Screaming Trees), two discs by Vic Chesnutt, Jayhawks, some ambient chill-out stuff, nasty blues by The Black Keys, electronica and other assorted oddities. I love being able to import large quantities of music at 16x speed!

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:29 am

Who Shot Sam? wrote:some straight-ahead pop, a few rootsy discs by Mark Lanegan (the former lead sing singer of Screaming Trees), two discs by Vic Chesnutt, Jayhawks, some ambient chill-out stuff, nasty blues by The Black Keys, electronica and other assorted oddities

Wow, all at once? Kiddin'. I like that Black Keys record-- great for cranking in the car with the windows down.

I have so much good new music right now I don't know what to do with myself, and yet all I want to do is listen to Liz Phair's Whitechocolatespaceegg on repeat.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:32 am

selfmademug wrote:
Who Shot Sam? wrote:some straight-ahead pop, a few rootsy discs by Mark Lanegan (the former lead sing singer of Screaming Trees), two discs by Vic Chesnutt, Jayhawks, some ambient chill-out stuff, nasty blues by The Black Keys, electronica and other assorted oddities
Wow, all at once? Kiddin'. I like that Black Keys record-- great for cranking in the car with the windows down.

Yep, a whole shopping bag full! I gave him some EC and other stuff to take back to Brooklyn. "That's what friends are for..." *doing my best Dionne Warwick impression*

That Black Keys album is fun. We listened to that a few years ago on the way down to Philly for a Chelsea-AC Milan match. Good road music.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:06 am

Who Shot Sam? wrote:
selfmademug wrote: Wow, all at once? Kiddin'.
Yep, a whole shopping bag full!

Actually I meant 'all at once' in reaction to 'what are you listening to right now?'. Nevah mind...

I think that must be an earlier Black Keys record-- the one I mean is Rubber Factory which I think came out last spring, though I'm assuming the sound is purty much the same.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:08 am

selfmademug wrote:Actually I meant 'all at once' in reaction to 'what are you listening to right now?'. Nevah mind... I think that must be an earlier Black Keys record-- the one I mean is Rubber Factory which I think came out last spring, though I'm assuming the sound is purty much the same.

Ah, OK! Duh. I guess you take a very literal interpretation of the word "now".

He brought both Rubber Factory and Thickfreakness, which is the disc I was referring to.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:33 am

Sam, which Chesnutt albums did you get?

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:43 pm

El Vez wrote:Sam, which Chesnutt albums did you get?

Is The Actor Happy? and West Of Rome.

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:57 pm

Regulators
we regulate any stealing of his property
and we damn good too
But you can't be any geek off the street,
gotta be handy with the steel if you know what I mean, earn your keep!
REGULATORS!!! MOUNT UP!

It was a clear black night, a clear white moon
Warren G was on the streets, trying to consume
some skirts for the eve, so I can get some funk
just rollin in my ride, chillin all alone

Just hit the Eastside of the LBC
on a mission trying to find Mr. Warren G.
Seen a car full of girls ain't no need to tweak
all you skirts know what's up with 213

So I hooks a left on the 21 and Lewis
some brothas shootin dice so I said "Let's do this"
I jumped out the ride, and said "What's up?"
some brothas pulled some gats so I said "I'm stuck."

Since these girls peepin me I'ma glide and swerve
these hookers lookin so hard they straight hit the curb
Won'tcha think of better things than some horny tricks
I see my homey and some suckers all in his mix

I'm gettin jacked, I'm breakin myself
I can't believe they taking Warren's wealth
they took my rings, they took my rolex
I looked at the brotha said "Damn, what's next?"

They got my homey hemmed up and they all around
ain't none of them seeing if they going straight pound for pound
I gotta come up real quick before they start to clown
I best pull out my strap and lay them busters down

They got guns to my head
I think I'm going down
I can't believe this happenin in my own town
If I had wings I could fly
let me contemplate
I glanced in the cut and I see my homey Nate

Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole
Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold
now they droppin and yellin
it's a tad bit late
Nate Dogg and Warren G had to regulate

I laid all them busters down
I let my gat explode
now I'm switching my mind back into freak mode
if you want skirts sit back and observe
I just left a gang of those over there on the curb

Now Nate got the freaks
and that's a known fact
before I got jacked I was on the same track
back up back up cause it's on
N A T E and me
the Warren to the G

Just like I thought
they were in the same spot
in need of some desperate help
the Nate Dogg and the G-child
were in need of something else
one of them dames was sexy as hell
I said "ooo I like your size."
she said "my car's broke down and you seem real nice,
would ya let me ride?"
I got a car full of girls and it's going real swell
the next stop is the Eastside Motel

I'm tweaking
into a whole new era
G-Funk
step to this
I dare ya
Funk
on a whole new level

the rhythm is the bass and the bass is the treble

Chords
Strings
We brings
Melody
G-Funk
where rhythm is life
and life is rhythm

If you know like I know
you don't wanna step to this
It's the G-Funk era
funked out with a gangsta twist
if you smoke like I smoke
then you high like everyday
and if your ass is a buster
213 will regulate

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:14 pm

Passport, from Infinity Machine (Klaus Doldinger): "Juju Man".

Oh Man! This is really great jazz fusion. Doldinger was such a pioneer with little recognition in the states. Between Infinity Machine, Iquacu, and the Doldinger Jubilee series, this is great stuff if you like 'real' jazz fusion.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:39 pm

Hope you like Is The Actor Happy? Definitely one of my favorite albums. I still haven't checked out West of Rome which I've heard nothing but amazing things about.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 3:36 pm

Finally blowing a X-mas gift certificate at my local Barnes & Noble (man, I'm gonna have a lot of listening to catch up on):

Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
The Decemberists - The Tain (EP)
Frank Black - Honeycomb

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:26 pm

Honeycomb has really grown on me. Give it time.

My fave Chesnutt album is the one he did with Lambchop, The Salesman & Bernadette, but they're all worth listening to.

At work I play the Wallflowers, Desmond Dekker, Martha Wainwright, and the aforementioned Frank Black album a lot. And Richard Thompson as always.