What are you listening to right now?

senior_service · Post by **senior_service** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:49 pm

BlueChair wrote:welcome back, senior_service!

Thanks, it's good to be back. I still lurk occasionally.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:20 pm

senior_service wrote:
Who Shot Sam? wrote:Nice one! You have the new album yet?
Not yet. How is it?

Pop goodness. Took me a few listens to absorb it, but it's one of their best.

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:16 am

miss buenos aires wrote:
PlaythingOrPet wrote:
I've been in a state of utter bunny bliss listening to this.
What is this? Where did it come from? How can I get one?

I don't know... Call yourself a fan of the Jarv, MBA?

His new new album, out Nov. 14 I think.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:45 am

You have to get it as an import though MBA. No North American release currently planned. You might try CD Wow.

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:03 am

Who Shot Sam? wrote:You have to get it as an import though MBA. No North American release currently planned.

Ooh, I did not know that. I'll, er, PM you MBA.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:44 am

The Fratellis - Costello Music.

Really enjoying it.

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:08 am

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

awesome!

Bad Ambassador · Post by **Bad Ambassador** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:36 pm

Who Shot Sam? wrote:Loads of extras - a bonus CD of b-sides, outtakes, duets, alternate versions, and live material accompanies each remastered studio album, and most of it is outstanding. The second box also has a great live DVD and a bonus live CD if you order through Yep Roc.

I think my question about this got buried in the general 'Why people should like Bill' discussion. This bonus live CD you only get if you happen to live in America - is it any good?

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:44 pm

Bad Ambassador wrote:
Who Shot Sam? wrote:Loads of extras - a bonus CD of b-sides, outtakes, duets, alternate versions, and live material accompanies each remastered studio album, and most of it is outstanding. The second box also has a great live DVD and a bonus live CD if you order through Yep Roc.
I think my question about this got buried in the general 'Why people should like Bill' discussion. This bonus live CD you only get if you happen to live in America - is it any good?

By no means essential, but it's a very nice bonus. It's a live performance from Wellington, NZ in 1987. Setlist is:

Ever Fallen In Love
The Milkman Of Human Kindness
Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance
Greetings To The New Brunette
Help Save The Youth Of America
Levi Stubbs' Tears
Ideology
The Saturday Boy
The Warmest Room
Days Like These
To Have And To Have Not
Between The Wars
A New England

Post by **BlueChair** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:04 pm

The Ditty Bops - fun!

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:18 am

The Pernice Brothers - Live A Little (thanks to WSS).

I love this album.

I've also noticed that my friend works for their distribution company so I'm on the scrounge again!

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:56 pm

Good to hear you're hooked verbal. If you're thinking about picking up more of their stuff, I would go in this order:

Overcome by Happiness
Yours, Mine And Ours
The World Won't End
Discover A Lovelier You

I might actually put the Scud Mountain Boys's album Massachusetts ahead of DALY.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:30 am

I was going to PM you and ask you that. Thanks!

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:44 am

Do You Wanna See Something Really Scary? - Hayseed Dixie

it's Halloween, after all.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:49 pm

Observer Music Monthly gave Jarvis a 5 star rave rating.

I'm playing a Beck compilation a friend gave me who's a big enthusiast (in return for the Tower of Ron, now updated to include 4 songs from 'Time Being'!).

Always admired Beck from a distance but never really got stuck in, other than a tape of Odelay from years ago. He's building up a very interesting catalogue though, I agree. This comp has 20 tracks, 12 of which are from the last 3 records. Is The Information a homage to Martin Amis?

Bad Ambassador · Post by **Bad Ambassador** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:07 pm

The Who - Endless Wire

I can't face posting that terrible, terrible artwork. Surprisingly good record, mind. Really well mixed.

senior_service · Post by **senior_service** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:41 pm

Bad Ambassador wrote:The Who - Endless Wire

I can't face posting that terrible, terrible artwork. Surprisingly good record, mind. Really well mixed.

I just picked Endless Wire too. The artwork is appallingly bad......colors and graphics straight off of some lame 1983 "new wave" album. I haven't listened to the album all the way through yet, but it sounds pretty good so far. Better than expected.

Pernice Brothers - Live a Little (more thanks to WSS)
Sounds great so far. How can you go wrong with a song like "Grudge F***" ?

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:17 am

The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:41 pm

Booze soaked, cocaine addled Elton was rockin. Also contains one of his best ever ballady things - "I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford)"

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:00 pm

Wow. Holy time warp, Batman. That was the last EJ record I bought on vinyl, i.e., not 20 years later on CD. Will have to revisit it; doubtless I'll remember every fucking breath and syllable, as I seem to with all music I listened to at that age.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:29 pm

verbal gymnastics wrote:The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come

I want the freedom and the guile...

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:59 pm

doubtless I'll remember every fucking breath and syllable, as I seem to with all music I listened to at that age.

Yeah, its funny how that works. I think maybe I listened to less artists more often, and maybe when your a teenager it sinks in more, or you concentrate more, younger, fresher ears I guess. But also the quality of production of the recordings of that era is awesome. Those records just SOUND so great. Gus Dudgeon, for instance, was one of the greatest producers ever.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:57 pm

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:41 pm

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:50 am

A very familiar cover - one of my wife's favourites.