Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa Posted July 22, 2003 Report Posted July 22, 2003 First row: Black Flag - Damaged Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights Second Row: The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious The White Stripes - Elephant Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Third Row: Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order
Guest R2DFooster McSockman Posted July 22, 2003 Report Posted July 22, 2003 (edited) I've only heard Jim O'Rourke through his work with Sonic Youth (being familiar with SYR 3, some of SYR 4 and Murray Street). How does his solo stuff compare? Radiohead - Edinburgh Corn Exchange, 21/05/03 (I WAS THERE!!!) Edited July 22, 2003 by R2DFooster McSockman
Guest Incandenza Posted July 23, 2003 Report Posted July 23, 2003 I've only heard Jim O'Rourke through his work with Sonic Youth (being familiar with SYR 3, some of SYR 4 and Murray Street). How does his solo stuff compare? Depends on the album. Some of it is electro-acoustic (not really my bag), but he also does avant pop (Eureka) and straightforward--for him, anyway--rock (Insignificance). Unlike Sonic Youth, he doesn't delve into noise very often, but his music remains inaccessible to the impatient or inattentive listener.
Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa Posted July 25, 2003 Report Posted July 25, 2003 Row 1: Johnny Cash - The Sun Years Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street Row 2: Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order Row 3: Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Guest Edwin MacPhisto Posted July 28, 2003 Report Posted July 28, 2003 Today: Right now: On deck: The only one that isn't obvious is what I'm listening to right now, which is Bonnie Prince Billy's I See A Darkness. I'd heard a bit of Master and Everyone, but I *really* like this. It's immediately more affecting, and resonant and low-key at the same time. Today was also the first time I listened to Songs for the Deaf all the way through. Doesn't quite hold up to R--it's overlong by 2 or 3 tracks and the heavy distortion makes a lot of stuff too samey, but I still dig it deeply. I even like the radio DJ bits, which probably makes me a strange beast.
Guest Anorak Posted July 28, 2003 Report Posted July 28, 2003 The Kinks -- Something Else By The Kinks Noahjohn -- Tadpoles Gorky's Zygotic Mynci -- Barafundle The Queers -- Love Songs For The Retarded
Guest Incandenza Posted July 29, 2003 Report Posted July 29, 2003 (l-r) A Northern Chorus--Spirit Flags (reviewed for radio station; decent shoegaze stuff) Spiritualized--Lazer Guided Melodies Bedhead--Transaction de Novo And Edwin, I See a Darkness is indeed better than Master and Everyone. The latter is a little too unassuming; it's almost as if didn't exist.
Guest saturnmark4life Posted July 30, 2003 Report Posted July 30, 2003 (edited) Mr Bungle - 'Mr Bungle' Another Patton release that laughably was slated in many 'reviews' Sparks - 'Propaganda' The second album from the band that own you for free. If you don't like at least 80% of this, we can never be friends. Wire - 'On Returning (1977-79) Hugely influential Brit punk, but more than that. And 'Strange' the REM track was originally theirs. Residents - 'Roadworms' alternative versions of stuff from 'Wormwood', and really, I cannot praise it enough. Incredible. Edited July 30, 2003 by saturnmark4life
Guest saturnmark4life Posted July 30, 2003 Report Posted July 30, 2003 ^Sorry that took me a while, I normally communicate by pigeon.
Guest Edwin MacPhisto Posted July 31, 2003 Report Posted July 31, 2003 Kyuss, Blues for the Red Sun - Pretty cool. This is the first major band of the Queens of the Stone Age guys. A bit heavier, a bit fuzzier, and with less pop sensibility. I prefer Queens, but this is still pretty good. Michael Jackson, Off the Wall - Even better than Thriller? It doesn't have that album's amaaaazin' singles, but it's more coherent and oh MAN is it just cool. "Girlfriend" beats Justin Timberlake to the psychosexual poppy braggadocio by a measure of two decades and a better hook. Burn this disco out indeed. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Hearts of Oak - Much-vaunted indie rock/power-pop/sorta-punky-new-wavey outfit. Lives up to the hype pretty nicely--a few stinkers lyrically that remind me of Ben Folds with a guitar and some amphetamines, but damn infectious all the same. A lot of it's just flat-out good pop-rock. Heard a couple songs off his 2001 album too; that one seems like it might be a slightly better version of this, with "Biomusicology" as the leading evidence. Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights - My favorite new band of last year. "NYC" and "The New" remain gorgeous, "Obstacle 1" continues to rock. No bad tracks, great feel, and a really tight concert too.
Guest Incandenza Posted July 31, 2003 Report Posted July 31, 2003 The Birthday Party--Junkyard Bedhead--Tranasction de Novo The Blood Brothers--This Adultery is Ripe Les Savy Fav--The Cat and the Cobra Don Caballero--American Don
Guest Incandenza Posted August 6, 2003 Report Posted August 6, 2003 What having the day off work and no school will lead to.
Guest saturnmark4life Posted August 6, 2003 Report Posted August 6, 2003 It leads to Kraftwerk? ARRRRRRGH! (I like Kraftwerk)
Guest evenflowDDT Posted August 8, 2003 Report Posted August 8, 2003 The Queers -- Love Songs For The Retarded How are The Queers? I've never heard any of their songs...was looking forward to seeing them a couple weeks back when I went to one of Lookout! Record's 15th Anniversary shows, but Joe Queer got messed up on heroin, freaked out, and cancelled at the last minute (not sure if the first two are true, but the last one definitely was). Anywho... The first time I've ever listened to a Bowie album in its entirety, rather than just Bowie singles. I've always loved Bowie singles, but singles are singles...luckily, the entire album held up really well, so well in fact that I spun it twice again back-to-back, and will probably spin it again several more times today. I don't really get the concept behind the concept album though...a few songs connect pretty well, maybe I just need to pay more attention to the lyrics. Or is this a Sgt. Peppers-ish concept album where it's not really a "true" concept album, but has been called one for years anyhow.
Edwin MacPhisto Posted August 8, 2003 Report Posted August 8, 2003 It's more about the concert persona, really. It was his first album/tour with the really glammed-out, now-archetypal Bowie image, as far as I know. On the album, it's pretty just sort of about the psychedelic rock-out feeling. The only stuff that really holds together is "Ziggy Stardust" itself, which is about the character, plus "Rock n' Roll Suicide," which is sorta supposed to be about his death. More or less, it's just a great, cohesive album with nary a bad track. I'd put it more in the Sgt. Pepper's concept camp than, say, the Nick Cave's Murder Ballads concept album camp.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted August 8, 2003 Report Posted August 8, 2003 Only half of the album is about the Ziggy character.
Guest BAR Posted August 10, 2003 Report Posted August 10, 2003 Kyuss, Blues for the Red Sun - Pretty cool. This is the first major band of the Queens of the Stone Age guys. A bit heavier, a bit fuzzier, and with less pop sensibility. I prefer Queens, but this is still pretty good. You really need 'Sky Valley'. It'll show you how pathetic Queens are compared to Kyuss. QOTSA: Their first album was great. 'If Only' is a personal favourite. Rated R is decent, 'Auto Pilot' is great. And 'Songs For The Deaf' doesn't appeal to me at all. Kyuss: The first was poor, moving on. 'Blues' is very un-commercial but considered their best by many. 'Sky Valley' is amazing, one of my top 10. 'Circus' is very experimnetal and up their with the big two. The best of is only worth getting for the live tracks.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted August 13, 2003 Report Posted August 13, 2003 I--along with a couple of friends--went to Gainesville today. The bulk of what you see hear comprised of what we listened whilst driving: Miles Davis--In a Silent Way Miles Davis--Get Up With It The Lounge Lizards--s/t Tom Waits--Closing Time Anal Cunt--It Just Gets Worse Sigur Ros--( ) Tindersticks--Curtains The first Davis album listed was actually listened to before I even left the house (it was my morning wake up music); the Tindersticks album was purchased in Gainesville--haven't given it a spin yet, but will before the night is through.
Henry Spencer Posted August 13, 2003 Report Posted August 13, 2003 Row 1: Elvis Costello - Armed Forces Sparks - Balls Patti Smith - Horses Row 2: Mojo Nixon - Bo-Day-Shus!!! Nick Lowe - Dig My Mood
Zorin Industries Posted August 14, 2003 Report Posted August 14, 2003 I've been in a very electronic mood today
Giuseppe Zangara Posted August 20, 2003 Report Posted August 20, 2003 (np) The ones without titles are Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings and Food and Jim O'Rourke's Eureka.
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