Topic: What are you listening to (and discuss it). (Read 917084 times)

Joseph · « **Reply #2500 on:** 15 Feb 2007, 17:50 »

Q And Not U - Book Of Flags

I love Q And Not U. I'd only heard Power for a while, and it never really clicked with me. Then I went and bought No Kill No Beep Beep on a whim, and loved it instantly. Revisiting Power for the first time since then right now, and I'm finding it a lot better than I remember it being.

IronOxide · « **Reply #2501 on:** 15 Feb 2007, 19:17 »

"The Island" - The Decemberists

A very well spent 12 and a half minutes.

Patrick · « **Reply #2502 on:** 16 Feb 2007, 05:31 »

"40 Feet" - Franz Ferdinand

The guitarist is a failure at life and they haven't done anything in a long time but damned if I don't love this band anyway just because of the bassist.

MasterInquisitor · « **Reply #2503 on:** 16 Feb 2007, 05:38 »

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
One of those songs you can dance to I think. I like old 70s rock...I'm sad.

Crayola · « **Reply #2504 on:** 16 Feb 2007, 13:12 »

We Are All On Drugs- Weezer

I worship Weezer. Rivers is god. Even if Make Belive did suck sweaty balls. Pinkerton & The Green Album were the SEX though.

Jed · « **Reply #2505 on:** 16 Feb 2007, 15:01 »

Liquid Stranger - Knot

Misereatur · « **Reply #2506 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 03:11 »

King Crimson - Fallen Angel

fish across face · « **Reply #2507 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 04:53 »

Quote from: amok on 13 Feb 2007, 22:30

Slowdice - Souvlaki ("Alison")

I've actually never made it more than 2 songs into this album without falling asleep.

Hope you made it, the last song (on the original, my CD's got an EP tacked on it, which is a bit shit...) is the best, IMO. Pretty achingly sad. I love it lots.

...

np. Adem - Warning Call

I like that this guy's voice is kind of blokey and not so soft, in spite of the genre. Still not 100% sold on many of his songs, though.

Jed · « **Reply #2508 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 05:57 »

The Hives - Die, All Right!

Kai · « **Reply #2509 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 09:13 »

Quote from: fish across face on 17 Feb 2007, 04:53

Hope you made it, the last song (on the original, my CD's got an EP tacked on it, which is a bit shit...)

My copy has the EP on it. it's not very good at all and I really wish they hadn't included. So much that I burned a copy without the EP on it.

Sonic Youth - The Sprawl

jimbunny · « **Reply #2510 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 10:51 »

Weezer - Perfect Situation

Make Believe does not suck balls; taken as an ironic pop-rock album, it's actually quite good. And I like Pinkerton as much as the next guy. They're just different. Really, I think Make Believe got tossed out much too quickly. Perhaps I'm in a minority, but I think there's something there under the polished guitars and pop hooks worth listening to, perhaps not in spite of the album's mainstream appeal as somewhere within the appeal itself, if that makes any sense. I dunno. Perhaps I'm just thinking too much about it.

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #2511 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 11:11 »

White Stripes - Black Math

Jack White's such a badass.

greenMonkey · « **Reply #2512 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 15:58 »

Portishead - Wandering Star

I'm just getting into Portishead, and I'm liking them a lot.

anonandmous · « **Reply #2513 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 16:31 »

I really need to be more definitive about my music choices, since they're ridiculously scattered and tend not to develop much.
Current track would be Why is my Sleeping Bag a Ghetto Muppet, by The Shins.
It's on the shortish side, but The Shins' style, as far as I've found, is disarmingly resonant and resonantly disarming. This song particularly so.

Scytale · « **Reply #2514 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 21:02 »

My Dying Bride - The Snow in my Hand

So good...

Misereatur · « **Reply #2515 on:** 18 Feb 2007, 07:49 »

Gastr Del Sol - Black Horse

Kai · « **Reply #2516 on:** 18 Feb 2007, 08:13 »

Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning

IronOxide · « **Reply #2517 on:** 18 Feb 2007, 08:19 »

"Ask DNA" - Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts

WHAT'S UP

SWEET CAKES?

WHO'S HIP

ANYWAAAYS?!

Scytale · « **Reply #2518 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 00:16 »

Immolation - Our Saviour Sleeps

The extra letter · « **Reply #2519 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 02:04 »

Rozz Williams - Time

I've got a love hate relationship with Rozz Williams and his era Christian Death, but his cover of Time is awesomeness in a can. See also: his cover of Panic in Detroit. He was one of the few singers out there with a similar quality to his voice as Bowie himself.

Will · « **Reply #2520 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 06:29 »

The Paper Chase - God Bless Your Black Heart.

I have reason to believe that lead singer/lyricist Congleton is seriously disturbed.

guywithoutsocks · « **Reply #2521 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 06:37 »

Cold War Kids - "Hospital Beds"

This is probably the best song on their album. I don't know if I care for them that much; the singer seems to have one setting, and there isn't as much variety in the songs as I'd like.

amok · « **Reply #2522 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 07:01 »

Syrian - Destiny Sunrise

Oh god, new album outta fuckin' nowhere. This is spectacular.

Caspian · « **Reply #2523 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 07:07 »

Sigur Ros- Hufupkar

Quite possibly the wussiest song they've ever, (which is saying something) but it's still so damn beautiful.

Wait, I think Svefn-G-Englar is their wussiest song. Oh well.

amok · « **Reply #2524 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 08:14 »

:Wumpscut: - The Beast Sleeps Within

Unlike the Syrian album above, I pretty much expect this to be another 10 tracks that sound like any of the tracks on his 2-3 previous albums. But it's always worth giving :Wumpscut: a quick download in case Rudi stopped eating pies and wrote an actual song.

MasterInquisitor · « **Reply #2525 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 08:19 »

PJ+Vincent&Matthew+Bjork - Rasputina

Because it's rather weird.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #2526 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 08:50 »

I'm listening to "The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid" because it's damn beautiful and probably the best drone ever composed. This album is nigh unimpeachable.

Kai · « **Reply #2527 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 09:14 »

Wu-Tang Clan - Bring Da Ruckus

WU TANG CLAN AIN'T NOTHIN' TO FUCK WITH

amok · « **Reply #2528 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 09:24 »

That Stars of the Lid album is amazing. Although I do sometimes prefer Avec Laudanum. But still both are great.

The Wounded - Northern Lights

Pretty decent metal album this, the guy has a spectacular voice.

Patrick · « **Reply #2529 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 10:32 »

"Hooked on Polkas" - Weird Al Yankovic

This is heroic.

Valdemar · « **Reply #2530 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 11:04 »

Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn

Some good moments, especially "Alone and Unaware" but the rest of it doesn't seem that engaging.

Misereatur · « **Reply #2531 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 11:17 »

The Jesus Lizard - Gladiator

YOU SHOULD SEE HER USE A GUN!

Technetium · « **Reply #2532 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 18:37 »

Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa

Really fascinating stuff. Seems sort of like a King Crimson of classical (it was written in 1984, so it's not unreasonable to say the influence might be there).

elcapitan · « **Reply #2533 on:** 19 Feb 2007, 20:42 »

Malente - Killer Applikation (The Aston Shuffle Remix)

Down-tempo electro-house. Malente is a German DJ/producer, but The Aston Shuffle is a duo from my very own Canberra (Vance Musgrove and someone else, I believe). This track is doing the rounds at the moment - I've heard it on Triple J a couple of times, and it got slammed at Good Vibrations on the weekend. Lots of bleepy fun.

Scytale · « **Reply #2534 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 02:37 »

Nargaroth - Love Is Always Over With Ejaculation

I think the tittle sums this track up pretty well, just a little ambient peice that serves as the intro to ProSatanica

McTaggart · « **Reply #2535 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 05:29 »

Caribou - Up in Flames

I really want to love this album and I keep giving it chances, but it never quite delivers. It's got all the things I think I like, but it just isn't so awesome. It doesn't seem to go anywhere, and not in the cool static-music kinda way. In the 'I have these 10 cool sounds for tracks and they're kinda similar but I'm gonna try and stretch them across 40 minutes anyway' kinda way.

Pity, The Milk of Human Kindness was great.

fish across face · « **Reply #2536 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 05:35 »

Yeah Manitoba / Caribou is so like that. He has great production, but doesn't write very good tracks IMO. Pretty fun live set when he's got the double-drummer onslaught going.

Quote from: Technetium on 19 Feb 2007, 18:37

Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa

Really fascinating stuff. Seems sort of like a King Crimson of classical (it was written in 1984, so it's not unreasonable to say the influence might be there).

Really? What are you thinking of? Fripp's Frippertonic solos? One of my best friends is a fairly obsessive Part fan, also likes Crimson, and he never mentioned Part being interested in any pop stuff of any kind... I know you don't know me, nor my friend, but just thought I'd say that I'd be very surprised if one of the leaders of Holy Minimalism or whatever it's called was secretly rocking out on his off-days.

There's a crazy earlier Part piece where he has a whole section / movement / whatevs played on toys. Not exactly in the same spirit as his super sombre later stuff!

MasterInquisitor · « **Reply #2537 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 07:16 »

We Are Scientists - The Great Escape.

Because I passed out when these guys were playing, and it makes me giggle about that.

Ernest · « **Reply #2538 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 07:19 »

Wire- Heartbeat
Lightning Bolt- Snake Assassin

Misereatur · « **Reply #2539 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 08:57 »

Shellac - Didn't We Deserve a Look

Valdemar · « **Reply #2540 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 11:35 »

Akimbo - The Art of Asphyxiation

Barking mad this lot but rocking at the same time

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #2541 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 12:08 »

I would -like- to be listening to Matchbox Twenty, 3 A.M.

(However, that is impossible as I forgot to pack my headphones this morning, and I am sitting in the campus library.
Damn you, Campus Library and your -silence-. Seriously, anyone else hate quiet places?)

Technetium · « **Reply #2542 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 15:00 »

Quote from: fish across face on 20 Feb 2007, 05:35

Yeah Manitoba / Caribou is so like that. He has great production, but doesn't write very good tracks IMO. Pretty fun live set when he's got the double-drummer onslaught going.

Quote from: Technetium on 19 Feb 2007, 18:37
Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa

Really fascinating stuff. Seems sort of like a King Crimson of classical (it was written in 1984, so it's not unreasonable to say the influence might be there).
Really? What are you thinking of? Fripp's Frippertonic solos? One of my best friends is a fairly obsessive Part fan, also likes Crimson, and he never mentioned Part being interested in any pop stuff of any kind... I know you don't know me, nor my friend, but just thought I'd say that I'd be very surprised if one of the leaders of Holy Minimalism or whatever it's called was secretly rocking out on his off-days.

There's a crazy earlier Part piece where he has a whole section / movement / whatevs played on toys. Not exactly in the same spirit as his super sombre later stuff!

Well, I'm completely new to Arvo Part (that was actually my first listen ever as I wrote that), so I really had no idea what his influences are/were.

greenMonkey · « **Reply #2543 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 18:27 »

Arvo Part is really nice, and can be very very soothing.

The Evens - All These Governors

My latest order from Dischord just arrived today, and I am absolutely loving this album (the s/t). I also am enjoying some Minor Threat and a lot of Fugazi. It just occurred to me that all the albums I ordered have Ian MacKaye on them.

amok · « **Reply #2544 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 19:00 »

Ted Leo - A Bottle Of Buckie

Tyler · « **Reply #2545 on:** 20 Feb 2007, 19:15 »

Beirut - Brandenburg

Patrick · « **Reply #2546 on:** 21 Feb 2007, 06:17 »

"The KKK Took My Baby Away" - The Ramones

I had a neighbor once who was a Klan member. I remember egging his house on several occasions.

Valdemar · « **Reply #2547 on:** 21 Feb 2007, 08:33 »

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

I am finally beginning to get this album. It is quite awesome! especially the title track and Inner City Streets. I still think Save the Children is very sentimental and not that good. You probably should have been there, Vietnam and all.

Misereatur · « **Reply #2548 on:** 21 Feb 2007, 10:21 »

Pat Metheny & John Scofield - No Way Jose

IronOxide · « **Reply #2549 on:** 21 Feb 2007, 19:12 »

"Therapy" - tick, tick... BOOM!

I feel bad that you feel bad
about me feeling bad about
you feeling bad about
what I said about
what you said about
me not being able to share a feeling

I like this more than any of the songs from Rent. For serious.

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MasterInquisitor

Crayola

anonandmous

Scytale

Scytale

guywithoutsocks

MasterInquisitor

Valdemar

Scytale

MasterInquisitor

Valdemar

Valdemar