The All-New "What are you listening to right now?"

[Guest Desensitized]

Without elaborating on what's being listened to, I'm not sure if this thread has any purpose at all. I mean, it doesn't negatively affect me to have people just post "Jeff Buckley - Grace" and "Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps"" for 197 fifty-post pages, but it would positively affect everyone were we to give recommendations and other thoughts on what we're listening to, or "what we're spinning," so that maybe discussion can arise, or new music can be discovered, or something. This is a thread I go without reading for months and months on end.

[The Niggardly King 0]

yeah, well the president wants you to get fucked in the BUTT

[Ketamine Disaster 0]

Aesop Rock - Daylight E.P.

 

Quality beats, save for two throwaway tracks. The opening numbers, "Daylight" and "Nightlight", respectively, play well off of the overall theme of the album, one of polar opposites in regards to life.

 

Notable lines: "Daylight"

Life's not a bitch

Life's a beautiful woman.

You only call her a bitch cause she wouldn't let you get that pussy.

Maybe she thought you didn't have any similar interests

Or maybe you're just an asshole

Who couldn't sweet talk the princess.

 

"Nightlight"

Life's not a bitch

Life's a biatch

Who keeps the villagers outside circling,

Searching for the g-spot

Maybe you don't share any similar interests

Or maybe you're an asshole.

Maybe I'm an asshole.

 

There ya go, Desensitized. My input.

[FroGG_NeaL 0]

Without elaborating on what's being listened to, I'm not sure if this thread has any purpose at all. I mean, it doesn't negatively affect me to have people just post "Jeff Buckley - Grace" and "Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps"" for 197 fifty-post pages, but it would positively affect everyone were we to give recommendations and other thoughts on what we're listening to, or "what we're spinning," so that maybe discussion can arise, or new music can be discovered, or something. This is a thread I go without reading for months and months on end.

 

 

Now goddammit, I started two "Reccomend a Song" threads, and nobody wanted to particpate. I uploaded songs, and told you a little bit about the artist/song and all that.

 

Go dig that thread up and start upping some tracks with a brief intro to the music, and let's start some good music swapping. For real. Go do it.

[Guest !!!]

Don Ellis - Haiku

We've always been one of the more haiku-obsessed message boards around (I shudder to think there are some out there that are worse), and I've been looking for more Don Ellis to add to my collection besides the amazing Tears of Joy and the score for The French Connection, so I pumped my fist a little when I found an out-of-print Ellis album with a unique concept on one of the jazz blogs I frequent. Even though the post warned me that it was "a departure," I figured every Don Ellis album is some sort of departure from something, and so I expected this to nonetheless carry his hallmarks of dissonant strings and virtually inconceivable time signatures. I was wrong, but it was a good wrong: this is basically just Ellis on trumpet with an orchestra, and a lot of it seems to be just in plain old 4. Some of these heavily orchestrated arrangements, like "Blossoming," "Parting," or "Two Autumns," have more in common with Michel Legrand, another jazz-blog-fueled favorite of mine, than anything on Tears of Joy. Even the arrangements aren't stereotypically Oriental, other than a few touches of harp and percussion. Ellis is a fantastic trumpet player, but that's to be expected. I guess my expectation was that everything would be written in some haikuesque 5/7/5 compound meter and employ lots of shamisen and koto, but that's too gimmicky, even moreso than musical arrangements of Japanese poetry already is. If you're like me and have a soft spot for syrupy soaring string sections in your jazz, you should enjoy this.

 

Get it here: http://orgyinrhythm.blogspot.com/2008/06/d...llis-haiku.html

The poems being interpreted: http://mattendahl.com/donellis/liners/haikuliners.html

[Steviekick 0]

Sentenced - "Neverlasting"

[Guest !!!]

Oh good, thanks for following up a blurb I spent like five minutes on to burn a post telling us that you're listening to a song by a band. For a sec, I almost thought somebody gave a fuck.

[Steviekick 0]

Oh good, thanks for following up a blurb I spent like five minutes on to burn a post telling us that you're listening to a song by a band. For a sec, I almost thought somebody gave a fuck.

 

I'm sorry...I thought people really didn't give a shit about Finnish metal.

 

"Neverlasting" comes off of 2002's The Cold White Light, which was much better than their previous effort. At this point in their career, Sentenced finished their transition from doom metal to straight up melodic goth metal. "Neverlasting" shows how they've mastered their craft, fusing dark lyrics about the futility of accomplishment to a catchy, raw accessible mainstream rock sound, but still clearly maintaining their metal roots. Even though the song has the usual verse-chorus-verse-chorus, guitarist/songwriter Miika Tenkula still gets to inject a wicked solo before the bridge, which drops to a muted and really scratchy, raw analog produced harmonizing vocals section, allowing the final chorus to kick in at full volume and punch the shit out of the listener.

 

Does that work better?

 

[Guest !!!]

I'm willing to bet more people here care about Finnish metal than Third Stream jazz.

[The Man in Blak 0]

so I expected this to nonetheless carry his hallmarks of dissonant strings and virtually inconceivable time signatures.

 

I read this everywhere and yet, whenever I take some random sampling of Ellis, it comes across as Chuck Mangione bullshit. Please tell me I just have terrible luck and haven't found the right starting place with this guy.

[Guest !!!]

so I expected this to nonetheless carry his hallmarks of dissonant strings and virtually inconceivable time signatures.

 

I read this everywhere and yet, whenever I take some random sampling of Ellis, it comes across as Chuck Mangione bullshit. Please tell me I just have terrible luck and haven't found the right starting place with this guy.

Tears of Joy. What were you listening to?

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

Inspired by this thread I went looking for Don Ellis videos on YouTube (since I'd never heard anything by him before) and found this one where him and Benny Golson both get pretty much demolished by Eric Dolphy

 

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

 

!!! - "Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard"

 

Yo I know "dancepunk" is so '03 that it's not even funny but, shit, this is still the fucking jam. A nine minute monolith of endless grooviness. Remember when this shit was supposed to change the face of indie rock forever and rescue us from the tyranny of guitar-toting unwashed bearded dudes? What the hell happened?

[King Kamala 0]

ZZ Top- "Got Me Under Pressure"

 

 

My dad would hate me but I think synthesizer driven blues rock ZZ Top better than 70s just plain blues rock ZZ Top. You wouldn't think it work but it does. I don't think it would have worked with just any old 70s journeymen hard rockers (who'd want to hear a synthesizer driven Foghat record?) but those beards and fuzzy guitars made it work. Sure, it only worked for one album but that album was one of the biggest rock albums of the 80s. And I'm a big fan of any song that mentions cocaine. Bonus points if it's a non hip-hop song that mentions cocaine.

[Steviekick 0]

"March of the Goober Woobers" by 47 Times It's Own Weight

 

Nothing like some cool jazz influenced funk to groove through the afternoon. The horn section is really what makes this song zip.

[Guest The Elements of Style]

 

Buddy Rich - Big Swing Face

 

I'm on a high school jazz band nostalgia kick, evidently: we played two of the charts on this album, which we played because I found the album on vinyl--never opened!--in the garage of our summer home we were selling and brought the gem to my director's attention. This was in the summer of 2001, at which point it was finally reissued on compact disc with nine bonus tracks in addition to the original nine, but not before my big coup. We played the title track and the arrangement of "Norwegian Wood," which I thought was pretty bomb-ass as a 14-year-old, but could pretty much take or leave nowadays. The one I pushed for but never got to play is "Willowcrest," an awesome minor-key 6/8 sax feature. (There was also a trumpet solo that I wanted.) The theme from the old NBC Monitor radio show is another one I always wanted us to play, but again, arrangements could not be procured. The lowlight here is Buddy's daughter singing "The Beat Goes On." The highlight is Buddy Rich on drums. What a guy. I treasure the clandestinely recorded tour bus rants almost as much as I treasure his drumming. I'm going to listen to this a lot today. Do that mouse button thing on the album cover and you can too.

 

yeahhhhh

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

Buddy Rich - Big Swing Face

 

I tried listening to this but I just cannot get into, like, "traditional" jazz at all. Pretty much anything heavily steeped in a pre-The Shape of Jazz to Come aesthetic just sounds like boring background music to my uncultured heathen ears.

[Guest The Elements of Style]

That's fine, but I'm a little surprised: I always felt Buddy Rich's stuff was pretty mass-appeal, which was the intent. Nothing fancy, just a throwback to the good old days of great musicians (who would be fired for attempting facial hair) and clear melodies. Power-pop for the jazz crowd, in a sense, I suppose. And ohhhh, stop that "uncultured" self-effacing, (playful shoulder punch and some shit)

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

Nothing fancy, just a throwback to the good old days of great musicians (who would be fired for attempting facial hair) and clear melodies. Power-pop for the jazz crowd, in a sense, I suppose.

 

See, that whole description just shouts BORING to me, ya dig? I can definitely understand what people see in this stuff, it's just not for me. I like my jazz served with a heaping helping of atonal skronking.

[Guest The Elements of Style]

Cool. Do you have any Peter Brotzmann or Last Exit?

 

Sometimes I have to get off the bus with bebop, or "post bop," or whatever we're calling too much talking without saying anything, though exclusionary musical muscle-flexing was the whole idea behind bebop, so mission accomplished.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

Cool. Do you have any Peter Brotzmann or Last Exit?

 

ShareMiner has yet to turn up satisfactory results for either, unfortunately. I found some live shows and shit, but Machine Gun and all proper Last Exit albums still elude me.

 

 

[King Kamala 0]

The Beach Boys- "Marcella"

 

 

 

The Beach Boys attempt at country rock. Definitely a slightly jarring listen- no matter how hard they try, it still kind of sounds like The Beach Boys and it sounds odd to hear them vaguely rootsy sounding. I really like it though for some reason I can't quite articulate. Maybe it's the fact I kind of enjoy good songs from lesser albums of iconic bands. Maybe it's because the song was named after a prostitute Brian Wilson visited. I've been meaning to get into The Beach Boys post-Brian Wilson, early 70s material for quite a while now. The combination of rootsy, country rock and the Beach Boys harmonies is intriguing. I shall download the Carl and The Passions---So Tough/Holland 2 on 1 CD collection on Ruckus after I'm done with this post.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

So I'm at work last night, just blasting Mortician out of my office, and the Burmese guy that knows the most english came in for some shit, and got this really confused look on his face. I turned it down enough to where I could hear him talk, and he asked "What is that??" Not in disgust, but more in confusion.

 

"Is that some kind of...rock?"

 

"That's Death Metal, Ba. Ever heard anything like that before?"

 

"No. What do you listen to?"

 

"Well, all kinds of stuff, but this band is called Mortician."

 

"No, no, I mean, are you listening to the beat or..?"

 

It was here that I finally realized that this guy has never heard anything this heavy, and had no idea how to even approach it. Finding some common ground within his vocabulary, I likened it to horror movies.

 

"Well, do you like horror movies?" He looked confused. "Bloody movies. Scary movies."

 

"Oh! Yeah."

 

"That's kind of like what this is. All of these songs are about horror movies, or about things that horror movies are about, too. Bloody violent stuff that's really entertaining."

 

"Ok man."

 

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Nothing fancy, just a throwback to the good old days of great musicians (who would be fired for attempting facial hair) and clear melodies. Power-pop for the jazz crowd, in a sense, I suppose.

 

See, that whole description just shouts BORING to me, ya dig? I can definitely understand what people see in this stuff, it's just not for me. I like my jazz served with a heaping helping of atonal skronking.

 

Albert Ayler Albert Ayler Albert fuckin' Ayler

 

 

 

[Guest The Elements of Style]

Good descent-into-madness stuff.

 

Here's some Last Exit: hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/09yjcp

 

but I would be remiss in not mentioning that I got this album from The Man in Blak. So thank you, The Man in Blak.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

Here's some Last Exit: hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/09yjcp

 

This is rockin my socks pretty hard right now. Thx.

[Copper Feel 0]

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

 

 

So, I had never really been into industrial music before - primarily owing to the fact that most of what I had heard from the genre had been complete and utter tripe. Or atleast, it had been far too dance orientated for my liking. But today was a good friend of mine's birthday, and in lieu of actually buying him a present I thought I would give his favourite genre another try. Much to my suprise, I actually find 20 Jazz Funk Greats to be a really compelling listen. Only three of the record's nine tracks have sung vocals, although there are many spoken word pieces in the background throughout. So what that leaves is a collection of instrumentals, and by jove the grand majority of them are pretty evocative. "Beachy Head" sounds like a follow up to "Warszawa", "Still Walking" like a clearly produced Velvet Underground with an awesome drum machine, "Hot on the Heels of Love" and "Walkabout" do actually sound like they would be club tracks, but they're great regardless, the title track does not sound like very much, but I dig its atmospheric nature, "Convincing People" is humorously mindless and "Six Six Sixties" is rather good for a spoken word piece. My only major complaint would be the six minute atrocity that is "Persuasion", a "minimalistic" dirge into creepyness about "persuading" a girl to do a nude shoot in an adult magazine. I'm sure that it was supposed to seem creepy anyway, it just comes across as juvenile really.

 

Anyway, I've rambled far too much. I shall just say that the album as a whole is really good and leave it at that.

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

Lightning Bolt - Dracula Mountain

Website

Lightning Bolt - Wiki entry

 

I first heard Lightning Bolt due to a band called Muse who played one of their riffs to open up their gig at Earl's Court back in 2003. Working in a record store at the time, I quickly abused my powers and ordered in some imports of Lightning Bolt to buy (£18 a pop). Its just a duo, one on drums, one on bass, that rock out some loud, often noisy, riffs and crazy drum beats - but it works for me.

 

A snippet of Dracula Mountain

 

Extended version

 

They have other songs that are basically in the same vain, lots of noise, lots of riffs lots of drums hit at once - but it gets my hyped up. On the recorded versions of the song it all kicks off around about 2:34 when the 'vocals' (telephone, taped to drummers head fed into mic feed) start with the riff before the bass takes over, then the drums pick up into madness.

 

Here's the album versions on MP3: http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=3b4...93faf4a2bdd87a9

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Y'know, I think my favorite thing about Gore-Porn death metal is that while being totally sick and heavy, it's absolutely hilarious and stands up very well to mockery. Observe.

 

 

How about some Lividity lyrics?

 

 

7. Brains For Lubrication

 

My God help me, rape the dead, your head severed, my cock

to your face, cerebral cortex, tight as a cunt, I'll

fuck! Stick it inside the hole in your head, cum stained

brains now splatter my chest, guts and semen smeared on

your tits, I'm done! Fucking your brains into oblivion,

planting my seed between your eyes! Skull caves in

decaying mess, rancid body, full of shit, defecating

rotten crusty brains! Defecating rotten crusty brains! I

fuck your fucking skull! Rancid piece of meat, stinking

from the burning sun, fetish for the sick, won't take

long for me to cum! Defecating rotten crusty brains

 

Defecating rotten crusty brains

 

That's fuckin' beautiful.

 

[Guest The Elements of Style]

Aw, we've had some fun with Lividity lyrics in the past. I wanted to put them to Moody Blues music once.