What are you listening to right now?

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:34 pm

Did not know that. More originals on the upcoming record? What covers? etc

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:05 pm

1. Help Me (Larry Gatlin)
2. God's Gonna Cut You Down (Traditional)
3. Like the 309 (Johnny Cash)
4. If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)
5. Further on up the Road (Bruce Springsteen)
6. The Evening Train (Hank Williams)
7. I Came to Believe (Johnny Cash)
8. Love's Been Good to Me (Rod McKuen)
9. A Legend in My Time (Don Gibson)
10. Rose of My Heart (Hugh Moffat)
11. Four Strong Winds (Ian Tyson)
12. I'm Free From the Chain Gang Now (Klein Herscher)

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:26 pm

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:10 am

Some great Elliott Smith bootlegs. Martinfoyle's already mentioned the Warren Zevon boots at http://www.archive.org , that's where I found them. There's all sorts of audio stuff at that site, presidential speeches, etc. I even downloaded the earliest known recording of any human voice, Thomas Edison's voice. Here's a direct link to the ES, he's amazing: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query ... 20Smith%22
He does the best Beatles covers I think I've heard from anyone. Had 'For No-One' stuck in my mind for days after hearing it covered by him.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:19 am

don't care who knows it.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:29 am

Hey moody, I love that album - a great band with Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn. That was one of the first records I ever owned!

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:32 pm

Giving The Dresden Dolls' latest another listen. Really terrific. A lot of Morrissey in there in the clever, daring, literate lyrics, but a unique sound with the piano and percussion and absence of guitars. Really growing on me in a big way.

Post by **BlueChair** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:01 pm

"Johnsburg, Illinois" has got to be one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:52 pm

don't like it as well as Thus Always To Tyrants, but it has its moments.

Bad Ambassador · Post by **Bad Ambassador** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:16 pm

Hard to imagine anything bettering this in 2006 for me.
The Belle and Sebastian, Beth Orton and Candi Staton records are all superb, but this will just clinch it, I suspect.

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:52 pm

Two great albums on one CD:

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:57 pm

Listening and watching: tonight's Later show was just cracking. I'm no huge Strokes fan, but loved the sound of them. They seem to be maturing nicely. Straightforward songs that felt very memorable. Flaming Lips typically silly and fun. Cat Power very lovely. Great sound, great band, strong songs. Divine Comedy good. Two solo revlations: Raul Midon - have you ever heard anyone play the guitar like that before? And sing like that and doing a trumpet solo with their lips at the same time before? Amazing. Plan B: getting good reviews, and not hard to see why. London white boy affecting Bronx rapper accent with acoustic guitar, shifting seamlessly from rap verse to gorgeous soul chorus, with a quote from 'I can't go for that, no can do' for good measure. And to top it all off Factory legends Anthony Wilson and Peter Saville talking about the new factory graphics book, though it would have been better to only have Saville there as Wilson can't help dominating, witha snip of the peak of Joy Dov's Transmission from Something Else from Sept '79. Made me think how Neil Hannon would be appreciating it as a serious JD lover, and then a nicce connection in that his song Mother Dear quotes direct from Ian Curtis from Isolation: 'I'm doing the best that I can'. Given that it's addressed to a mother and Closer is pretty much his favourite LP ever (me too Neil!), this seems a direct act of homage. Very affecting.

More details here, and they do have a watch again facility, I think for a week like the radio, so wait for this to load up if you want to see the best live music TV show going with a better than ever line-up:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/show/index_20060623.shtml

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:50 pm

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

Very, very good.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:58 pm

Agree - great record.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:55 am

This is the good stuff.

1. "Blue Train" - 10:43
2. "Moment's Notice" - 9:10
3. "Locomotion" - 7:14
4. "I'm Old Fashioned" - 7:58
5. "Lazy Bird" - 7:00

Recorded on September 15, 1957.

John Coltrane - Tenor saxophone
Lee Morgan - Trumpet
Curtis Fuller - Trombone
Paul Chambers - Bass
Kenny Drew - Piano
Philly Joe Jones - Drums

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:51 am

The Cat Power discussion made me want to revisit this, because the first time I heard CP I thought it was Beth Orton. Listening now, I can hear the obvious vocal difference but also the similarities.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:10 am

Rickie Lee Jones' Pop Pop.

It's hot and steamy and occasionally stormy here, and it's a perfect accompaniment for not moving around too fast.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:37 am

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:11 am

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:14 pm

The year may only be halfway through, but I have a strong feeling this will end up on my Best of 2006 list. Norah Jones and a bunch of other New York musicians (most of them relative unknowns) playing country music... originals as well as great covers of songs like "Roly Poly", "Streets of Baltimore", "I Gotta Get Drunk" and "Tennessee Stud."

Apparently the original intent was for the group to be a Willie Nelson tribute band but only two Nelson songs ended up on the album.

Anyone who has criticized Norah Jones of being boring ought to check this out... a far cry from her own ballad, singer-songwriter oriented stuff. She only sings lead on about half of the album's tracks, though. The others are sung beautifully by guitarist Richard Julian.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:05 am

it really speaks to the anger I feel as a marginalized, 40-something soccer mom.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:13 am

It's baffling to me that excellent music like this fails to get a North American release while a pile of other cack somehow makes it overseas. The ultimate underappreciated band - a hell of an album.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:04 am

The Best of Morrissey - in anticipation of seeing him at the V Festival in August.

It seemed like a good place to start.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:42 pm

Important information! (I know what to omit - I ain't forgotten, honest!)

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:48 pm

My son got this, heard it before it disappeared upstairs and liked it, but loved their Later performance and checked it out, and now I can't stop playing it. Several tracks are outstanding, in particular the total rock thrills of You Only Live Once, which has to be the best guitarry rocker I've heard in a long time. Lovely guitar chords and sounds. The singing is good, if obviously Iggy-influenced at times, particularly on Heart in a Cage, which is The Passenger revisited. the next song, Razorblade, has a chorus heavily indebted to Barry Mannilow's Mandy, but at least the vocals aren't influenced there. The amazon.com review here is pretty spot on, and also here from Mr ADJ McCulloch, who points out that 11 songs would have made it perfect, and instead they put on 3 b-sides as filler. Couldn't agree more. The curse of the CD age.

I don't really know their first two, so can't compare, but I would recommend this to anyone who likes a bit of guitar and 80sish new wave thrills. I guess they're deeply unfashionable now, and it seems if you're a NY band, you have to be painfully fashionabel until people have heard of you, then you're over, but to me this sounds like a band beginning to find their feet and mature a little.