Topic: What Album Are You Listening to Today (Read 25238 times)

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **on:** 26 Nov 2005, 10:25 »

Ho there wanderer, lend me your ear

We have this on another forum and I thought it might fun instead of just listing what you are listening to.
The premise is that you give a wee review of an album you listened to today.
Either recommend it or slack it off, which ever you prefer. You can get a picture of the cover, if you want, from allmusic.com.
I might as well start:

Merzbow - 1930(though my cd has a different cover)

This is only my second noise album, so I admit I don't have that many intelligent things to say about this one.
It works brilliantly as a audio assault and even at a low volume it gives you a mild drowsy headache.
But in my opinion it doesn't really function on any other level.
And I am kind of disappointed that the allusions the title gives doesn't seem to connect with the music itself.
But I will give it a few more spins before I write it off. I would only recommend this to the adventurous or to convinced noisefanatics

Rawr and Stuff · « **Reply #1 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 10:30 »

I always listen to a lot of cd's in one day but today it'll mostly be Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory.

RUMBLEMOOSE · « **Reply #2 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 10:47 »

Praeserpium: if I'm not mistaken, 1930's title track is nineteen minutes and thirty seconds long, so technically it's doing exactly what the title alludes to.
Then again I'm also kind of a convinced noisefreak, so don't mind me.

Tristeza, A Colores

I'm writing a full review of this for a small paper, but rather than include that I'll just write it up quicklike. Basically, it's like a more focused and less jazzy Tortoise. It's all instrumental and very well performed, but for post-rock it's not very progressive or experimental. It's still a very solid album, and a fun listen, but not really the exciting new ground for post-rock.

ElRodente · « **Reply #3 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 10:50 »

mostly the 2 decemberists albums that i have

castaways and cutouts and picaresque

really have to get her majesty sometime soon

pat101 · « **Reply #4 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 12:16 »

I'll give this another spin, it stands as my pick for album of the year I just can't get enough.

Cpt.Fantastic · « **Reply #5 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 12:52 »

I don't know why, but I was in a real Mars Volta mood today, I'm listening to this album for the third time in about 8 hours.

How do you define this album, this band? Post-hardcore experimental progressive rock-metal? Or mere post-rock wank-off? Opinion is divided in the middle, you either love TMV or you dismiss them as music for stuck-up twats. This album, I'd say, has deep meanings that I really can't be arsed to decipher and I just like this album for the depth and wide ranging talent of the music, the ambient noises and the infusion of genres, languages and lives that this album brings about.

Thrillho · « **Reply #6 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 13:07 »

Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S.

Reading a novel where the principle enemy is under the collective pantheon of 'chaos', so I thought it was appropriate, especially with its apocalyptic tone.

It's also a gloriously eighties-sounding, gloriously pretentious record that I love to bits.

pat101 · « **Reply #7 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 13:56 »

Quote from: DynamiteKid

Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S.

Reading a novel where the principle enemy is under the collective pantheon of 'chaos', so I thought it was appropriate, especially with its apocalyptic tone.

It's also a gloriously eighties-sounding, gloriously pretentious record that I love to bits.

Man you've gotta talk to my friend Chris. He's the biggest floyd/waters fan I know. He loves net discussions/debates on floyd. I'll get him to come by here.

pat101 · « **Reply #8 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 13:56 »

Quote from: DynamiteKid

Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S.

Reading a novel where the principle enemy is under the collective pantheon of 'chaos', so I thought it was appropriate, especially with its apocalyptic tone.

It's also a gloriously eighties-sounding, gloriously pretentious record that I love to bits.

Man you've gotta talk to my friend Chris. He's the biggest floyd/waters fan I know. He loves net discussions/debates on floyd. I'll get him to come by here.

pat101 · « **Reply #9 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 13:57 »

Quote from: DynamiteKid

Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S.

Reading a novel where the principle enemy is under the collective pantheon of 'chaos', so I thought it was appropriate, especially with its apocalyptic tone.

It's also a gloriously eighties-sounding, gloriously pretentious record that I love to bits.

Man you've gotta talk to my friend Chris. He's the biggest floyd/waters fan I know. He loves net discussions/debates on floyd. I'll get him to come by here.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #10 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 14:24 »

Count Nosferatu Kommano - Ultraviolence Uber Alles

I am fucking pissed off today. Only one course of action with my current resources: pot of coffee, a few cigarettes and the fucking Terminator Lestat. Fucking aggressive industrial black metal from the genius mind of Anorexia Nervosa's Hreidmarr. I have not a single bad word for this album. The soundtrack to kicking fucking black metal poser scene kids heads in with steel toe-capped boots and then fucking a whore to death.

"None shall fuck with me right now!"

Mr. Oysterhead · « **Reply #11 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 14:29 »

La Creme · « **Reply #12 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 15:45 »

Fishbone - Live @ The Temple Bar (and more)

Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante

Shakti w/ John McLaughlin - Shakti w/ John McLaughlin Live

The first because I realized "Last Dayz, Critical Times" is one of the best songs fucking ever. The second because it came on random and I've just kept listening through it over and over and over. The third is my CD for tonight. What Need Have I For This? -- What Need Have I For That? -- I Am Dancing At The Feet Of My Lord -- All Is Bliss -- All Is Bliss

Tomservo · « **Reply #13 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 17:00 »

Air 10,000 hz. legend
One of my favorite albums
It's beautifully dark and surreal, and sounds like the soundtrack for some hopeless dystopian future.
It also has Beck singing and playing harmonica on it, which is just awesome.

Micolithe · « **Reply #14 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 17:49 »

The first album I ever got from my favorite band. SFA is awesome in every way. Great stage presence, the ability to not take themselves seriously, and the ability to rawk.

Running For Home · « **Reply #15 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 19:52 »

Quote from: Cpt.Fantastic

....How do you define this album, this band? Post-hardcore experimental progressive rock-metal? Or mere post-rock wank-off? Opinion is divided in the middle, you either love TMV or you dismiss them as music for stuck-up twats. This album, I'd say, has deep meanings that I really can't be arsed to decipher and I just like this album for the depth and wide ranging talent of the music, the ambient noises and the infusion of genres, languages and lives that this album brings about.

Salvador Dali on acid, mescaline, speed, and dexedrine.

On today's playlist is Less Than Jake's Borders and Boundaries

Season with John Lennon's Imagine to taste.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #16 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 21:01 »

I couldn't find this fucker ANYWHERE, so I just gave in and downloaded it. Needless to say, it rocks my socks off.

McTaggart · « **Reply #17 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 21:06 »

At the moment: Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress

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I had this plan to write a decent review of the album, but in the time between hitting reply and the page loading (not very long) I seem to have decided that I simply can't be assed.

La Creme · « **Reply #18 on:** 26 Nov 2005, 21:48 »

Dangermouse, I call upon thee to make a mash-up of John Petrucci's "Suspended Animation" and Fantomas' also-titled "Suspended Animation". It will be the musical equivalent to every drug ever times infinity ever.

Willem · « **Reply #19 on:** 27 Nov 2005, 03:37 »

Quote from: McTaggart

At the moment: Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
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I had this plan to write a decent review of the album, but in the time between hitting reply and the page loading (not very long) I seem to have decided that I simply can't be assed.

Hmm, might put that one on later too. Currently listening to grace and probably gonna listen to Damien Rice later. i dunno

Inlander · « **Reply #20 on:** 27 Nov 2005, 04:11 »

Quote from: El-Rodente

mostly the 2 decemberists albums that i have

castaways and cutouts and picaresque

really have to get her majesty sometime soon

I know exactly how you feel!

Thrillho · « **Reply #21 on:** 27 Nov 2005, 06:54 »

Quote from: pat101

Quote from: DynamiteKid
Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S.

Reading a novel where the principle enemy is under the collective pantheon of 'chaos', so I thought it was appropriate, especially with its apocalyptic tone.

It's also a gloriously eighties-sounding, gloriously pretentious record that I love to bits.

Man you've gotta talk to my friend Chris. He's the biggest floyd/waters fan I know. He loves net discussions/debates on floyd. I'll get him to come by here.

If he's got MSN, I'll gladly hit him up.

Kai · « **Reply #22 on:** 27 Nov 2005, 07:45 »

The totally bitchin' Deus Ex soundtrack. God I love that game.

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #23 on:** 27 Nov 2005, 08:09 »

The cover says it all. Creepy and enigmatic but fab noise-rock.
All the songs on EVOL are great in their own right, even the near-pop of Bubblegum, but Expressway to Yr. Skull alone makes the cd worth it.
It starts out with the murderous line "We're gonna kill all the california girls", sung in an odd almost thoughtful kind of way, deadpan you could say. For me it's a monolith of a song, and would have been a perfect closer. That is, if they hadn't included the tongue-in-cheek Bubblegum as an suitably odd off-beat ending. Even though they are improvising, they are never meandering, always moving forward with a certain sense of purpose, albeit an abstract kind of purpose.
I have only heard three Sonic Youth albums, this one, Murray Street and Sonic Nurse but I am very much enthralled.
I love their quirky sense of humour and their obssessions with pop culture. Not to mention that they are guitar-explorers and connoiseurs, always pushing the envelope.
Basically this is just a great cd.

StupidityKills · « **Reply #24 on:** 27 Nov 2005, 12:38 »

in my car: the free CD on the front of the NME.
on my cd player: Zwan - Mary star of the sea
on my laptop: Elliott Smith - Figure 8

Luke C · « **Reply #25 on:** 27 Nov 2005, 14:03 »

In Your Honour - Foo Fighters and Hypnotize - System of a Down

chamberk · « **Reply #26 on:** 27 Nov 2005, 15:27 »

Listened to the Boo Radleys' "Wake Up" and Ted Leo's "Tyranny of Distance" in the car, and am currently working on Andrew Bird's "Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs".

HeroX · « **Reply #27 on:** 27 Nov 2005, 15:47 »

i was listening to rage at work. since i got home it's been mostly the get up kids. havn't listened to GUK for ages.

dancarter · « **Reply #28 on:** 27 Nov 2005, 16:16 »

This has been spinning consistently in my player for about two months on and off. Why? Because it is Skinny Puppy at their absolute best. Just prior to the amazing trilogy of Rabies, Too Dark Park, and Last Rights, you get something that is pretty unheard of for an electronic album that is almost twenty years old. It doesn't sound dated. Even classics from bands like NIN (see Pretty Hate Machine) sound thin and tinny by comparison, whereas this disc is an assault of layers; sound samples of radio broadcasts and horror movies, noise, guitars, distortions, and Ogre screaming, kicking and whispering, often all at the same time. Standouts are hard to choose, but I'd have to pick VX Gas Attack, Who's Laughing Now?, Human Disease, the great and listenable Testure, and of course, Fritter(Stella's Home), which is perhaps the scariest thing you'll ever hear on headphones while walking streets at night.

theenginedriver · « **Reply #29 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 20:05 »

metric- live it out.

aggressive and sexual without sounding trampy or forced. you can dance and sing to it but "shake your head, it's empty" as well. clever lyrics and great instrumentation. and emily haines is so succexy....

old world underground, where are you now? is pretty incredible, but lately i have been listening to the newer album.

and i got tickets to see them in february... but i got tickets for toronto, when i should have got them for peterborough because that would have been a smaller venue. now i am saddd.

ayePod · « **Reply #30 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 20:31 »

'One Time For All Time' by 65 Days Of Static.

I only have one thing to say about this band. Best live band in the UK.

I only have one thing to say about this album. Better than their debut,and that's some hard shit to beat.

LIVE!Forever · « **Reply #31 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 20:58 »

i listen to mum - finally we are no one at least once a day. it's my inspiration, really.

it's great ambient, electronica stuff and it reminds me of a rainy day in summer and usually i listen to it going to sleep.

cacahuate · « **Reply #32 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 21:10 »

Quote from: pat101

I'll give this another spin, it stands as my pick for album of the year I just can't get enough.

Read my mind.

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #33 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 21:47 »

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000019PA.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

The Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. I'd be listening to Fischnerspooner's #1 album but myboyfriend still has it *shakes fist*.

Valrus · « **Reply #34 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 21:52 »

In my HEAD

...ALL DAY

Bunnyman · « **Reply #35 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 22:53 »

http://lecactusurbain.com/EDSQE/cd/portishead.jpg

Portishead - Portishead

Is it possible to not love this album? It's like DJ Krush and Boards of Canada had a jam session and invited an amazing vocalist

Hat · « **Reply #36 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 23:39 »

I want to do Beth Gibbons voice. Her body can come too if it likes, but yeah, I want to break off a little somethin'-somethin'

OT: www.tism.wanker.com

I Might be a Cunt, but I'm not a Fucking Cunt is possibly my favorite song ever, that I can't listen to with my parents.

"I might be a rockstar, but I'll never be a critic.
I might like porno, but baywatch is fucking sick.
I might have screwed your sister, but I'll never screw your mum.
I might have gone to uni, but at least I know I'm dumb"

McTaggart · « **Reply #37 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 00:46 »

Because of Inlander's thread (I forget what it was called or who mentioned this): Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape.

It's pretty varied, compared to what I've heard on the radio but it's still got those Foo Fighters moments. Not really my sort of thing, but not nearly unpleasant.

StupidityKills · « **Reply #38 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 04:04 »

Quote from: chamberk

am currently working on Andrew Bird's "Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs".

I love that album, I found it after Jeffrey Brown did a mini-comic about Nervous Tic

OT: Today is all about British Sea Power after seeing them last night, AMAZING

lastclearchance · « **Reply #39 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 05:48 »

Quote from: McTaggart

(I forget what it was called or who mentioned this): Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape.

I mentioned it!

Today I'm listening to Talib Kweli's "Right About Now: The Official Sucka Free Mix CD," which I am reviewing for my college newspaper. So I can return and post a review on it once I've listened more. For now: the rhymes are excellent but the beats are what you'd expect from a mixtape that had to follow RIAA rules. That is to say, not that great.

amok · « **Reply #40 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 06:46 »

Anything Box - Peace

one of a few random synthpop albums I've acquired and fallen in love with recently. Kinda sounds like a slightly more interesting Technique-era New Order and hey, I loves me some New Order. Anyone who likes their music beepy would do well to track this CD down, or at least the song Soul On Fire.

Dara · « **Reply #41 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 07:45 »

I checked out 1930 recently as well and really liked it. Whenever I think about it, my ears hurt. But in a good way.

Today I'm listening to Jens Lekman. Hadn't heard of him before the Fork review, but he is really cool.

Tinjessla · « **Reply #42 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 08:01 »

I have been listening to this (along with his most recent album, One Plus One Is One) aaaaall day.

I'm not too great at reviews but if you're a fan of lo-fo, acoustic music with kooky lyrics, i'd recommend giving it a go.

Quote from: StupidityKills

I love that album, I found it after Jeffrey Brown did a mini-comic about Nervous Tic

Ooh, he did!? Oh man, i must own this comic!

KharBevNor · « **Reply #43 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 09:22 »

ZOMG. They stole a Skyclad pun! The 'clad wrote a song called 'Bewilderbeast' back in '93. POSARS.

I've been mainly listening to:

Wyrd-Huldrafolk

In-fucking-credible folkish black metal.

StupidityKills · « **Reply #44 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 09:40 »

Quote from: Tinjessla

I have been listening to this (along with his most recent album, One Plus One Is One) aaaaall day.

I'm not too great at reviews but if you're a fan of lo-fo, acoustic music with kooky lyrics, i'd recommend giving it a go.

Quote from: StupidityKills

I love that album, I found it after Jeffrey Brown did a mini-comic about Nervous Tic

Ooh, he did!? Oh man, i must own this comic!

No he didn't, my bad.
It was actually 'Headsoak' from 'The Swimming Hour'. Still Andrew Bird though.
The Mini-comic is called 'These things'.

yelley · « **Reply #45 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 09:48 »

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e710/e710864ss6w.jpg">

mogwai - rock action

dial: revenge... since the first time i heard it i rarely go a day without listening to it.

Mikintosh · « **Reply #46 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 09:55 »

Brandy's "Afrodisiac." I'm normally a rock-ish type guy, but she has pretty damn good vocals and production on this one. Thumbs up.

Tinjessla · « **Reply #47 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 10:41 »

Quote from: StupidityKills

No he didn't, my bad.
It was actually 'Headsoak' from 'The Swimming Hour'. Still Andrew Bird though.
The Mini-comic is called 'These things'.

Ah, oakie dokie. Thanks! T'is duly noted.

MilkmanDan · « **Reply #48 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 10:43 »

Quote from: ayePod

'One Time For All Time' by 65 Days Of Static.

I only have one thing to say about this band. Best live band in the UK.

I only have one thing to say about this album. Better than their debut,and that's some hard shit to beat.

AMEN to that. Did you see them in Glasgow a month or so ago? I was there, rocking it out with a muchness. I've been listening to the album pretty constantly since then.
Also, 'The Infamous' by Mobb Deep. One of the best winter albums ever, no doubt.

thew · « **Reply #49 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 10:58 »

Nellie McKay's "Get Away From Me" since I'm super excited about seeing her at the Troubadour tonight!

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Author Topic: What Album Are You Listening to Today (Read 25238 times)

Praeserpium Machinarum

Rawr and Stuff

RUMBLEMOOSE

Cpt.Fantastic

Mr. Oysterhead

La Creme

Tomservo

Micolithe

Running For Home

La Creme

Willem

Praeserpium Machinarum

StupidityKills

chamberk

HeroX

theenginedriver

ayePod

LIVE!Forever

cacahuate

Bunnyman

StupidityKills

Dara

Tinjessla

StupidityKills

Tinjessla

MilkmanDan

thew