What's that? Music's too loud. NP

[Babar]

i'm on lil wayne today.

i love that use of language.

what are you on?
i'm on crack, you?
Lil Wayne.

much love to Weezy, drop the album when you're ready buddy. but don't wait too long!

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Alice Cooper - Schools Out
I'm really loving early Alice Cooper at the moment. Stuff from before he went solo but after those first couple of albums. Before this is was Town Without Pity by Gene Pitney which I shouldn't have to tell anyone is pretty fucking sweet.

[G.C.R]

"Poison" is totally my best song on Singstar! You are so making me want to hear some Alice Cooper.

[G.C.R]

NP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSasf8GBfV4

REALLY LOUD.

[RavingLunatic]

Eleanoora Rosenholm - Vainajan Muotokuva

This is some crazy-sounding music from I think Finland. I'm really enjoying it now that I've listened to it about 4 times. Very hard to absorb. This sounds something that'd be right up your alley, Nick. I'll get some YSI's prepared.

[RavingLunatic]

OK, here they are:
Eleanoora Rosenholm - Vainajan Muotokuva - 01 - Musta Ruusu
Eleanoora Rosenholm - Vainajan Muotokuva - 02 - Japanilainen Puutarha
Eleanoora Rosenholm - Vainajan Muotokuva - 04 - Kopiokissa

[coldforge]

well, it's definitely Finnish.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Jacques Dutronc - 1966-1967 comp
He was easily the coolest Frenchman of the 60's. Maybe the coolest Frenchman ever.

[novaheat]

[img width= height=]http://www.heathenharvest.com/images/articles/200803140634183_1.jpg"[/img]

It's growing on me a little. While the bulk of the songs definitely suffer from samey-ness, hearing this album on vinyl is definitely helping it make more sense. Side 1 ended with a locked groove that took a couple of minutes for me to register, and side 2 started with some nice found-sound samples...

Still nowhere near the best Death in June album out there, but I'm starting to come around a bit... Hard to argue with the "songs mostly all sound the same" criticism, though. And a bit more production would've definitely helped these songs up a bit.

Nevertheless, the vinyl format seems to favor the album more than the CD rip that I originally heard.

[Good Intentions]

NP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSasf8GBfV4

REALLY LOUD.

Hey. This is AWESOME!

[Good Intentions]

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

I've been binging on this quite a bit tonight.

[Anne the Man]

This mix from my dad pretty much on repeat. It's the first new music I've had in a little while. It's nice when you can honestly say you love a mix someone gave you.

Smokestack Lightnin': Howlin' Wolf
Caress:   Drive Like Jehu            
Jealous Girls: The Gossip
The Reasons: The Weakerthans   
Civil Twilight: The Weakerthans   
Relative Surplus Value: The Weakerthans   
Stars: Hum
Outta Reach: S.H.E.
Start With: Seaweed
Hyperspace: Nada Surf
Government Center: The Modern Lovers
Sweet Little Rock And Roller: Chuck Berry
Almost Ready: Dinosaur Jr
A Jack With One Eye: Texas Is The Reason
For Real: Okkervil River
Seven Chinese Bros.: R.E.M.
Why Did Ever We Meet: The Promise Ring
Sidewalking: The Jesus & Mary Chain
Crimson And Clover: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Bad Reputation: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

[Maaik]

It's a really pretty day.  Earlier when I was out running errands, I was blasting M.I.A.'s first album, then AC/DC's Highway to Hell.  With the windows down.  It was nice.

Right now, it's A Silver Mount Zion - "Black Waters Blowed"

[RavingLunatic]

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

I've been binging on this quite a bit tonight.

I played that one earlier this week. Still one of the best albums ever. Top 5 for me.

[Maaik]

LES SAVY FAV - IN THESE WOODS (LIVE IN ATLANTA)

HOW AWESOME IS THIS BAND?  SHUT UP.  THAT'S HOW AWESOME.

[Wally]

the new Kathleen Edwards. Which is pretty decent. She knows how to write a song.

[davy]

the new Kathleen Edwards. Which is pretty decent. She knows how to write a song.

for me, the jury is still out on that one. i can't decide whether it's subtle or just boring.

that's not an officially critical statement...i really do think it might be the former.

[Wally]

I'm thinking at the moment that the similar improvement that occured between Failer and Back to me, has happened between Back to me and this. That is, there aren't maybe as many tracks that make the hairs on the back of your neck, but there's gradual, and yeah, subtle, emotional core which is stable. Rather than fits of awesome, followed by bits of meh, there's a nice flow which moves from song to song. Although I wouldn't pretend I wouldn't mind a little jolt a al "six o'clock news", "Hockey Skates" "Back to Me" or "What Are You Waiting for?". I'm only a couple of listens in though, so we'll see.

[alex]

John Prine, "Yes I Guess They Oughta Name a Drink After You"

Does anyone know if there's been a cover version of this song at some point? Can't really find any evidence of any such thing, but I remember this song so vividly, yet if I've ever heard this version before, it must have been a very long time ago indeed. Which is entirely possible - I know I had that same feeling about a few songs when I first listened to his debut album a few years ago, also without knowing why I knew them so well, so a likely explanation is that, back when I first had access to filesharing software, I may have just downloaded everything by John Prine I came across (R.E.M. did a live cover version of "Hello in there" at some point, after all, so I must've been curious), which back then certainly meant a few scattered songs from a couple of different albums. But, yeah, it just seems so strange to remember a song so well without really having any concrete memory of having heard it before.

[davy]

john prine songs are like that. i felt the same way when i heard "dear abbey" a couple years ago.

[alex]

I guess there's just something about a John Prine tune that engrains itself into your cerebral cortex even if you hear it only once, thus changing your brain forever.

I'm okay with that.

[Good Intentions]

Bill Direen and Friends - New York Sack

I'm going to go completely out on a limb and guess that none of you have heard this album. I don't expect that more than a couple hundred at best have been sold. Anyway, I've YSI'd a song off of this album recorded by another guy who was part of something big and exciting which kind of just went away, but who still goes on doing what he always did regardless. Bill Direen is a songwriter of sincere sensitivity, who tends to his melodies like gardeners do to the bulbs they planted in winter. He occassionaly gets strange ideas in his head - probably part of the territory for being a noteworthy firgure in 'outsider pop', or whatever people call what he's been doing all this time. He also regularly gets hold of a melody line and thrashes it out i his understated, unassuming way, making use of every performer's trick he's learnt in 30 odd years of musicianship.

Bill Direen - Serious

Enjoy.

[Good Intentions]

And immidiately afterwards, something that makes Bill Direen sound like he graduated magna-cum-laude from Get Rich For Sure School:



The Puddle - Songs for Emily Valentine

Turn out this is pretty great as well.

[alex]

Bill Direen - Serious

Enjoy.

Thanks for this, GI. Great song indeed.

[difficult]

New York Sack is the re-release of the Bill Direen & The Hat cassette from 1988, featuring Allan Meek, who was in the early Bilders line up - he's playing scorching organ all over Split Seconds, and here he's playing muted piano.
He also played guitar on the really great Victor Dimisich Band EP - early version of the Terminals, recorded in 1983, though the band had mostly broken up by then, Stephen Cogle going back to the soft drink factory and Peter Stapleton going on to Scorched Earth Policy.
Allan used to get videos couriered from the video shop I worked at. I mentioned once that I really liked the organ stuff on the Builders albums, and he seemed completely nonplussed that anyone knew or cared.
N P here, after pulling out records all night, is the very lovely first solo Roy Montgomery LP , Scenes From The South Island.
Temple IV is my favourite, but this is such a beautiful album.