What are you listening to right now?

Miclewis · Post by **Miclewis** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:38 pm

Some of my current favs:

"The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" : Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

"Everybody Loves a Winner" : William Bell

"Madison Blues" : Elmore James

"Yes We Can Can" : Allen Toussaint : from [u]Our New Orleans[/u]

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:47 pm

Sheer bliss

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:55 pm

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:03 pm

An MP3 of the Suburban Lawns' "Janitor":

http://www.peteykins.com/Audioblog/Janitor.mp3

Not the greatest recording but it's all I could find on the net. When I went to see that outdoor showing of "Repo Man" in LA, the DJ played this before the show began and it brought back a lot of memories of listening to Rodney Bingenheimer's old radio show on KROQ. My cousin Carrie couldn't keep herself from laughing every time they got to the chorus. What a beautiful little nugget of new wave goofiness.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:03 am

I finally got around to burning a CD from the bonus discs (with 10 bonus tracks). I also did Girls Girls Girls, which is a great selection of originals that could be better sequenced in places.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:28 am

The unusual thing about Girls Girls Girls was that the tracks were different depending on the format you bought it.

I'm currently listening to Elvis and the Imposters from Bristol in 2003.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:47 am

"John in the Morning" streaming on KEXP.org - Nick Cave, Neko Case, Camera Obscura, loads of other new stuff. God I love Internet radio!

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:07 am

On initial listens, not quite as good as 1998's Weird Tales. Still good though... Jeff Tweedy & Gary Louris' version of The Kinks' "Strangers" is beautiful.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:41 am

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:30 pm

With half a year behind us I'm pretty sure this will make my Top 10 of 2006.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:16 pm

Great cover. Another one to check out...

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:59 am

Bad Ambassador · Post by **Bad Ambassador** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:54 pm

Annie, Let's Not Wait is as good a pop song as I've heard all year.

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:59 pm

Giving this a revisit, cuz I was sorta spaced out when I first got it. Great stuff.

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:44 pm

Bad Ambassador wrote:
Annie, Let's Not Wait is as good a pop song as I've heard all year.

This has got to be one of the most talked-about bands in the last couple of months. Is the hype deserved, Bad A ?

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:30 pm

I'm so pissed off I was in the bar when Guillemots supported Rufus Wainwright.

Saw these late last year supporting Broken Social Scene (and kicking their collective asses). This is the new tour EP.

Bad Ambassador · Post by **Bad Ambassador** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:30 pm

invisible Pole wrote:
Bad Ambassador wrote:
Annie, Let's Not Wait is as good a pop song as I've heard all year.
This has got to be one of the most talked-about bands in the last couple of months. Is the hype deserved, Bad A ?

Without doubt. I shambled onto them as my local record emporium had their last EP in stock. As it's one of those stores where their recommendations are almost always spot on I took a punt and wasn't disappointed. The album, however, is a far superior work. Some of the music is quite stunning. A couple of listens should cement its reputation as a fine, fine record.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:17 pm

http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/inde ... multimedia

Re-recorded version of Franz F's Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On with cute animated video. Prefer the LP original, but this is a nice reworking all the same.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 12:18 pm

Also, a couple of things I stole from my sister's collection last week, Stuart Staples' Leaving Songs and this insanely fun album:

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:17 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/inde ... multimedia

Re-recorded version of Franz F's Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On with cute animated video. Prefer the LP original, but this is a nice reworking all the same.

Just listened to this (trying to ignore the tastefully puerile video.. God if there's one thing worse than videos that have absolutely no connection to the video and play to some cheap teen appeal, it's videos that hew to the lyrics like a script for the sake of teen appeal) and realized how very nouveau-Kinks it is, you know? Couldn't you just hear Ray D. singing it?

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:06 am

Excellent stuff from Joe Strummer's pre-Clash band.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:27 am

excellent

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:10 am

Frank Black is as prolific as Elvis, I'll tell ya. Have only heard one track off the latest one-- how would you characterize it, KH?

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:21 pm

It's very much a followup to Honeycomb (a lot of the same musicians etc.) but this one isn't as laid back. There's plenty of stuff that would suit the Pixies style of playing as well. I don't think there are any weak tracks, really, and if I could have chosen my favourites and made it a single disc it would have been his best, I think. Check out If Your Poison Gets You, Johnny Barleycorn, In The Time Of My Ruin, Fitzgerald, Don't Cry That Way or Raiderman.

Some guys from his forum has put this cool little introduction together:

http://www.katsiris.com/Fastman-Raiderman-Preview.mp3

or check out three highlÃ¶ights here:

http://www.myspace.com/fastmanraiderman

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:26 pm

I inadvertently got off the Frank Black track after Show Me Your Tears, though I think Tallulah (who is 30 today, btw) gave me a copy of Honeycomb... if I can just find it...

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