What are you listening to right now?

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:40 am

Yesterday I was cha-cha-ing all day to Honey Cone's One Monkey Don't Stop No Show, which is on the compilation Soul Train: 1972. I think I listened to it about 16 times on repeat, as I would have at age ten (which was how old I was when that song came out, incidentally). I highly recommend you run to iTunes and buy this for $1. Or just go get the Soul Train comp (I think they're on Rhino) for 1972. The 1973 one is also fab.

Heck maybe I'll play it again now...

Post by **DrSpooky** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:58 am

Yesterday we were listening to a CD the kids put together of songs from the Family Guy. It had about 40 tracks. Awesome!

You have to love Stewie on the banjo.

Post by **BlueChair** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:00 am

DrSpooky wrote:Yesterday we were listening to a CD the kids put together of songs from the Family Guy. It had about 40 tracks. Awesome!

You have to love Stewie on the banjo.

I'm a rock-it-man

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:01 pm

selfmademug wrote:Yesterday I was cha-cha-ing all day

SMM, I could handle watching some of that!

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:10 pm

bambooneedle wrote: SMM, I could handle watching some of that!

I'll bet you could!!

Actually I continued the cha-cha-ing session on my way to work, listening to Stevie Wonder's Don't You Worry Bout A Thing.

Post by **DrSpooky** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:34 am

Spooky and I are watching/listening to Singing in the Rain and it is the big scene.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:44 am

DrSpooky wrote:Spooky and I are watching/listening to Singing in the Rain and it is the big scene.

The scene where Alex rapes that woman and beats her to death?

Post by **DrSpooky** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:23 pm

LOL! No, not the Kubrick version -- the much nicer in polite company version with Gene Kelly that doesn't have a milk bar.

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:13 pm

"Grown Backwards" by David Byrne. Lots of strings, more orchestrated songs than ever before in his career, and a very good album.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:20 pm

Doves - There Goes The Fear. masterpiece.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:33 pm

Ebo Taylor - Heaven

Smoking Afro-funk from 1970s Ghana, from the amazing compilation Ghana Soundz, Afro-Beat, Funk and Fusion in 70's Ghana, Vol. 1. This is an unbelievably good disc. It's amazing that a lot of this stuff was retrieved from dusty old master tapes.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:16 pm

Beachwood Sparks - Make The Cowboy Robots Cry.

Sort of spacey country rock ala the Notorious Byrd Brothers. Love it.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:49 am

I have just discovered Josef K, 70s/80s Edinburgh punk band on the same label as Orange Juice - sound like FranzFerdinand...and thanks to a pal, have everything they ever recorded and a few live CDs....brilliant! Check them out!

Beechwood Sparks are great...equally good are Blanche, their debut album If We Can't Trust The Doctors is smashing!

Also, little known Glasgow-band Sons and Daughters released their first LP proper, The Repulsion Box...sounds like Nick Cave singing Johnny Cash songs! Brilliant.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:05 pm

Nice to see you've discovered one of your native country's finest bands, Crow. I have their vinyl output, and the unreleased first stab at the first LP, which was weak. Sadly the second stab wasn't in the same league as the singles, it's a bir rushed and messy sounding, but it's still brilliant. Favourite song? Mine has to be Chance Meeting, but if you can tell me what the last line of it is, I take my hat off to you. I've yet to get the Young and Stupid (which I was happily recommending to MBA just days ago). I've read about the live CD that's available. Any good? I'm exepcting it to be pretty rough. Next up, though, is the Orange juice Glasgow School compilation. That's going to be very exciting.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:08 pm

Right now, I'm listening to Frank Black & the Catholics gig I downloaded from dimeadozen while waiting for his new solo double CD recorded with various Nashville legend types, and which he refers to as his Blonde On Blonde.

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:07 am

Up early and listening to The Silencers' One Inch of Heaven. Classic.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:38 pm

Madeleine Peyroux. It's nice.

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:55 pm

Nick Lowes "The Convincer" - so very laid back compared to his earlier greats like Pure Pop for Now People, Labour of Lust, and the Rockpile album "Seconds of Pleasure". I'll admit to my initial disappointment, but the great craftmanship of this brilliant songwriter shows through, even though these are less ambitious songs than others that he has recorded.

This is, however, for me more of a formula album, and I wish he had stretched a bit more. Still, a very good record with lyrics that are as intriguing yet effortless, as Elvis, Graham Parker, and Dave Edmunds seem to demonstrate over and over again.

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:27 pm

blood on the tracks

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:28 pm

Gang Of Four - Entertainment

suuuuuuuperb.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:18 am

Joss Stone - Mind Body and Soul.

I enjoyed this a lot and I think she's got a fantastic voice for one so young. I got the album having watched her on Jonathan Ross last week. I loved her youthfulness. If James Brown says she's really good then that's good enough for me!

I'll ensure I see her at the V festival next month.

Has anybody got The Soul Sessions by her? Would they recommend it?

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:38 am

Skip James and JB Lenoir's music via the Wim Wenders blues documentary.

Detailed discographies for reference:
http://www.wirz.de/music/lenoifrm.htm
http://www.wirz.de/music/jamesfrm.htm

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:10 pm

Harry Nilsson - Personal Best

Ahh, the theme to "The Courtship of Eddies Father".

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:27 pm

Mike Boom wrote:Harry Nilsson - Personal Best

Ahh, the theme to "The Courtship of Eddies Father".

He's my one boy
My cuddly toy
My up my down
My pride and joy

I can relate!

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:43 pm

ha - yep, thats the one Muggy - that was a great show huh?
Its a Nilsson night here in Boom Town - Im onto "The Point"

"This is the town
and these are the people..."