What are you listening to right now?

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 4:33 am

Don't laugh, this is one of the most fun album of the year !

Bad Ambassador · Post by **Bad Ambassador** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 5:30 am

invisible Pole wrote:

Don't laugh, this is one of the most fun album of the year !

No laughing here. I adore that record. Perfect indie-pop. Off to see them in a couple of weeks.

Currently rotating all three Pulp reissues, the 2CD edition of the REM IRS best of and the Nuggets II box.

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:00 am

Bad Ambassador wrote:
invisible Pole wrote:

Don't laugh, this is one of the most fun album of the year !
No laughing here. I adore that record. Perfect indie-pop.

Agreed x37625348.

There's been SS overload on TV/radio this week, but I really can't get enough of this record.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:06 am

Bad Ambassador wrote:Currently rotating all three Pulp reissues, the 2CD edition of the REM IRS best of and the Nuggets II box.

Pulp reissues? Are they available in the US? Do they have extra tracks?

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:12 am

1) Not yet; 2) Yes.

Fingers crossed these will be issued over here as well.

Bad Ambassador · Post by **Bad Ambassador** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:15 pm

Pulp Site for reissues

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:55 am

Pulp doing Whisky In The Jar must be fun!

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:06 am

There are some very good Pulp rarities among the extra tracks - Ansaphone, Mile End... top notch stuff. Don't know many of the others.

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:55 pm

Isobel Campbell - O Love Is Teasin'

It's a new song from her upcoming album (2nd release this year !).
Very folky, almost medieval-sounding. Not quite sure if I could absorb a whole album's worth of such songs.

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:44 pm

I keep alternating between John Hiatt "Crossing Muddy Waters", T-Bone Burnette "The True False Identity", Los Lobos "The Ride", and Richard Thompson, "Rumour and Sigh".

There is something in this rotation that accentuates the talent in each of the individual pieces, but I have no idea what it is. Every cycle (thanks to Itunes playlists) brings out more admiration for each of these artists.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:43 pm

I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:46 pm

Bad Ambassador wrote:Pulp Site for reissues

Thanks! This might be a job for the Hanukkah Fairy.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:48 am

Noddy Holders voice is just a wonderous thing and the songs are great - Everyday, My Friend Stan, When The Lights Are Out. They dont make em like this anymore (unless of course the Walkmen decide it would be fun to "recreate" it

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miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:04 pm

I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

again...

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:56 am

Noddy Holder of Slade was on BBC Radio 2 being interviewed yesterday and they played quite a few excerpts from Slade's new anthology. You forget how good they were.

I'm currently listening to REM Dead Letter Office.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:57 am

Ray LaMontagne on Morning Becomes Eclectic. Great live set, but is there anyone more shy and self-effacing than this guy?...

http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl? ... _type=show

BTW, the new album, Till The Sun Turns Black is definitely worth picking up if you're a fan of his first album, Trouble. Darker and a bit more understated than the first one (and 2-3 indifferent tunes), but at least 5-6 songs that are real quality and his music is evolving in an interesting way.

strangerinthehouse · Post by **strangerinthehouse** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:09 am

Dinosaur-Dinosaur jr.

first listen and its a very good one.

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:59 am

Tony Williams Lifetime; Collection

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:30 am

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska.

I love the sparseness of this album.

I understand Bruce recorded a full electric version of this album which is available on bootleg. Has anybody got it (and more importantly would said person do a copy for me)?

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:23 am

Old 97s - Fight Songs

Picked it up for $3 at the supermarket (A&P) this morning. Bizarre.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:01 pm

Got Lloyd Cole's Antidepressant today courtesy of CD-WOW, played once, instantly very impressed, played again, even more impressed. Yep, it's good. In the same vein as Music in a Foireign Language, low-key, often downbeat, generally lovely. Lloyd's entire career is strewn with moments of genius and a generally awesome degree of quality, and this is no exception. Often songs remind you of others of his (e.g. 'Woman In a Bar': 'Aha! It's another Music In a Foreign Language'!) and then it shifts and sounds nothing like it. Opening song The Young Idealists is an amusing tale of loss of ideological beliefs among the realities of neo-con and trading futures. This and other songs reflect some sense of location in his adopted US, but the general area of concern is relationships, thwarted, failing, melancholic, in general first person, full of novelistic detail. Fans of jangly Commotions era guitar pop might not go for it, but for anyone remotely into his solo work, this is another great collection, and definitely more coherent than MIFL, though possibly not with anything quite to match My Other Life. It's funny, though, with nearly all Lloyd's stuff I've generally felt a bit underwhelmed at first and then a few plays in it starts to click. I was immediately impressed and enjoying this, and knowing I'd want to play it loads (isn't that one of thye best feelings?), but I'm sure all songs will come out as very distinct. Not a weak one on it, either. Great sense of care about it, as reflected in his often hilarious recording blog. Lovely musicianship, and one big difference to and improvement on MIFL is the fact that often the Negatives are backing him, whilst still retaining a lot of low-key intimacy. Lots of nice detail in the playing and, of course, the lyrics. Great stuff, more than lives up to its name.

Right now I have on the other thing that arrived: Modern Times. So far I'm getting more into it than Love and Theft, but it isn't setting my world alight in the way that Lloyd did straight off. Is it a crude simplification to feel that whereas in his glory days Dylan took on genres and refashioned them to create something genuinely different and thrilling, whereas now he is happy to inhabit favoured genres, and much of the thrill has gone? That's how the first three strike me on a first hearing, but the ones most people have cited are all to come (when The Deal Goes Down is excellent). Great sound to the band, for sure. Voice nothing like as bad as it might be. Not too much of the Scooby Doo effect! Nice packaging on limited version + DVD.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:50 pm

Yeah, gets better as it progresses. Some very good stuff. Nothing anywhere near Not Dark Yet, but then that is in his 'career best' top 10 for me. Emotional/mental/physical connection is what I want from him. Can tell MT is going to repay lots of listening.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:47 pm

Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress...

Great album. Very dark, but right up my alley. Can't wait to hear his new one.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:52 am

Missing image?

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:00 am

Image doesn't work? Ah well, good old text will have to do.