What are you listening to right now?

[mood swung]

that is a fabulous outfit.

[nord]

[Otis Westinghouse]

Great photo, but what is it?


See comments under best of 2008. Great cover too! Painted by an old high school friend of the singer. The police are beating someone to the ground in the background. Another painting inside shows a similar scene of two lovers with burning buses outside.

[ice nine]

Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

[nord]

It's Sandinista! It's not "The Best" The Clash album, but it's probably the one I have listened to more than any other over the years. I bought it 25 years ago.

[Otis Westinghouse]

Side 5! I've never actually heard the whole thing, despite being a prety big Clash fan of their earlier stuff. Must pick it up some day.

[mood swung]

somehow I missed this over the summer. very polished for Vic and is that a latin beat I hear???? and some vaguely leon redbone-ish duets?

[mood swung]

I've been asleep since April, it would seem.

[Who Shot Sam?]

Another great Freddie Hubbard session...

[mood swung]

wow.

probably a best of '09.

and how did I miss them all these years?

[verbal gymnastics]

As Is Now - Paul Weller

[Who Shot Sam?]

[mood swung]

this just snuck up on everybody. fantastic cover of Irreplaceable.

[invisible Pole]

Got hold of this one and I'm loving it. Great new album from good ol' Madness.

[mood swung]

Sometimes he annoys, sometimes he delights.

[verbal gymnastics]

Worker's Playtime - Billy Bragg

[mood swung]

[verbal gymnastics]

The Best of - James

[Spiritinthesky]

The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street

[BlueChair]

After reading a few positive reviews, and several negative ones, I thought I'd check this out for myself. I've only listened to it once so far, and while there are a few skip-worthy songs the good ones are pretty great. It's probably the poppiest thing he's done since Tunnel of Love, but I like Tunnel of Love so...

[Who Shot Sam?]

A bit late to the party with these guys. Just watched their set on KCRW, then picked it up on iTunes.

[Otis Westinghouse]

They're OK. A poppier Jesus and Mary Chain etc. Hard to feel it's that exciting or new when you've been around the block, but cool for the teens and worth checking out. Like the cover too.

Blue: if I dig 'Life Itself', which I do, will I dig it all?

I've been watching and am now listening to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/event/elbow/

I guess this won't be available for IP addresses outside Britain/Britain and Ireland/Europe, I'm never quite sure. It's the concert they played at Abbey Road two weeks ago with the BBC Concert Orchestra + choir. I was keeping myself up later than intended watching it on iPlayer on the telly before finding it's available on the website too. They're releasing a £20 box set of CD, DVD + booklet. Won't go that far, but I am taping it. It's fabulous! They've already toured with small string section who sing too, but seeing a full on orchestra perform all of Seldom Seen Kid is perfect. Hope Bad Ambassador's checked it out. 'One Day Like This' with choir was just fabulous, and if 'Tower Crane Driver' is normally epic live, like this it's off the scale, 'Starlings' intro done with full orchestra of course, and the snatch of 'Summertime' at the end of 'Bones of You' played as part of the closing of the song are all magnificent, but my highlight has to be 'Friend of Ours', which they disappointed me by omitting from their set when I saw them, and I'm sure if they've ever played it before, but it's a highlight of the LP, and was a treat live, with mournful French horn, harp and all.

[Who Shot Sam?]

They're OK. A poppier Jesus and Mary Chain etc. Hard to feel it's that exciting or new when you've been around the block, but cool for the teens and worth checking out. Like the cover too.

IMO it's a little better than that. Besides, it was only $7 on iTunes. Worth the investment.

[mood swung]

Paste calls it the best country album of 2008.

I think that's a stretch.

[Bad Ambassador]

They're OK. A poppier Jesus and Mary Chain etc. Hard to feel it's that exciting or new when you've been around the block, but cool for the teens and worth checking out. Like the cover too.

Blue: if I dig 'Life Itself', which I do, will I dig it all?

I've been watching and am now listening to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/event/elbow/

I guess this won't be available for IP addresses outside Britain/Britain and Ireland/Europe, I'm never quite sure. It's the concert they played at Abbey Road two weeks ago with the BBC Concert Orchestra + choir. I was keeping myself up later than intended watching it on iPlayer on the telly before finding it's available on the website too. They're releasing a £20 box set of CD, DVD + booklet. Won't go that far, but I am taping it. It's fabulous! They've already toured with small string section who sing too, but seeing a full on orchestra perform all of Seldom Seen Kid is perfect. Hope Bad Ambassador's checked it out. 'One Day Like This' with choir was just fabulous, and if 'Tower Crane Driver' is normally epic live, like this it's off the scale, 'Starlings' intro done with full orchestra of course, and the snatch of 'Summertime' at the end of 'Bones of You' played as part of the closing of the song are all magnificent, but my highlight has to be 'Friend of Ours', which they disappointed me by omitting from their set when I saw them, and I'm sure if they've ever played it before, but it's a highlight of the LP, and was a treat live, with mournful French horn, harp and all.

Thought the performance was really rather splendid. A few songs got a bit cluttered but, overall, t'was magnificent. I too found 'Friend Of Ours' to be the highlight, had moist eyes by the end. I have chucked £20 their way for the box as I know I'd regret it further down the line. Plus, I've noticed that the original album has been No.1 on Amazon's topsellers list, these last few days.