Hear, hear: NP

[Killdozersnakeboy]

I loved this around '93-'94 but for whatever reason I never followed up and got anything else. I should probably do something about that as this is still really good and has barely dated at all.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Sunken - Live At Cross St
Sunken being Stephan (Pumice) Neville & Andrew (various bands) Middleton . I was at this show a couple of years ago. One of the best performaces I've seen in the last few years. Apparently it was to be released but it hasn't happned yet. Amazing recording even if it's a bit rough.

[Ah_Pook]

http://www.last.fm/music/Loscil/_/The+Making+of+Grief+Point

its this Loscil track with Dan Bejar doing a spoken word bit. Loscil is some quality ambient stuff, this is the first time hes had any vocals or anything though. im a pretty huge Bejar fan too so thats cool. i think this track works really well, and am curious how it fits with the rest of the album.

[FreddyKnuckles]

http://www.hankforcongress.com/multimedia/campaignsong_wma

[Killdozersnakeboy]

I just noticed on facebook that jeb saw Aluminium Knot Eye play with Psych Horseshit. I immediately decided to play AKE's Silo Monster 7" and then the Trunk Lunker lp. They really are a total monster of a band. I'm just glad to know they're still in existance.

[FreddyKnuckles]

Latin Jazz version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps by Ron Murray

I love Pandora sometimes

[ellaguru]

Highlights from Carmen starring Maria Callas.

Man Carmen is the best musical ever. I love it! It is much better than Cats. I will see it again and again.

[FreddyKnuckles]

Highlights from Carmen starring Maria Callas.

Man Carmen is the best musical ever. I love it! It is much better than Cats. I will see it again and again.

I was reading your post without looking at who wrote it and for some reason (maybe seeing it start with an e out the corner of my eye) I thought that this post was elpollodiablo

[diesel_powered]

Listening to the session I did a couple weeks ago with Papier Tigre. Jesus Christ these guys fucking rock. And they dialed it back a little for us because the room was pretty small.

[davy]

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci is a band who hasn't gotten a whole lotta love on this board. It's a shame, but I'm partly to blame.

Anyway, listening to this:



...and things are looking up.

[ellaguru]

Liking the new Bonnie "Prince" Billy & The Cairo Gang, two songs in. Sounds kinda Superwolf-y, so far.

[edison]

Liking the new Bonnie "Prince" Billy & The Cairo Gang, two songs in. Sounds kinda Superwolf-y, so far.

Domino sent this last Saturday, apparently (not so awesome that they would send a pre-order one week *after* release date, but anyway) - looking forward to hearing it maybe at the end of this week!

[edison]

Man! I just found out that on "Frightened", the fantastic first song of the Fall's excellent debut album, Live at the Witch Trials, the opening line isn't "Summer's always on my tracks" but "Someone's always on my tracks". That is less good, and now that song has only about 9 memorable lines instead of 10.

[ellaguru]

Liking the new Bonnie "Prince" Billy & The Cairo Gang, two songs in. Sounds kinda Superwolf-y, so far.

Domino sent this last Saturday, apparently (not so awesome that they would send a pre-order one week *after* release date, but anyway) - looking forward to hearing it maybe at the end of this week!

Mine came with a 7", and the one in the store that I was in last night did not have a 7". So I won out on the preorder (although mine, too, came late. I don't mind much, though, as it has to go through customs to get to me from Chicago or wherever Drag City is).

[davy]

The Twilight Singers have made some of the most impressively slow-burning rock albums in recent history. I liked these records well enough when they came out, but not nearly as much as the Afghan Whigs stuff, and I wouldn't say that I loved them. But now, with Blackberry Belle and Powder Burns especially, I love them to death, and I love them more with each passing year. I'd put these two albums up against most anything in the Afghan Whigs discography (...I mean, they obviously have no chance of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Gentlemen, but what records do?).

[Antero]

Hm.  I feel like I've soured on the Twilight Singers a bit.  Their sound is more conventional than the Afghan Whigs, and while Dulli's always been operating in (and subverting) mainstream rock sounds the Whigs had that massive rhythm section and a bit more roughness.  That said, Blackberry Belle does have the title track and the unfuckwittable "Esta Noche."

[davy]

Non-Gentlemen Afghan Whigs albums were always something of a disappointment for me, though. I love all of that stuff, but their catalog, ultimately, does not live up to the promise of that one record. The musicianship on Gentlemen was miles beyond anything else they did, except for parts of 1965 (which had a different drummer--the same guy who played on Tom Petty's Wildflowers).

The Twilight Singers records are maybe more conventional, but that's not saying much. They are much more consistent and more focused on establishing a rich atmosphere for the songs to slide around in. There are fewer homeruns, true, but I think that could've been a conscious artistic decision.

[Antero]

1965 is an amazing satire of pop music.  That awful, creepy "yeah" at the start of "66," everything about "John The Baptist," &c &c.

[diesel_powered]

Even though I'm sober as a preacher and a little tweaked on coffee, this record still makes me feel really, really stoned.

[auto-da-fey]

is that Flying Saucer Attack? man, I haven't thought of them in ages, I was into that waaaaay back when. now I'm curious how I'd feel today.

meanwhile, NP: just the sounds of the street down below my window; just got home, 9am, not much sleep and now time to focus before work. I find the traffic noise, shouts and conversations, delivery trucks, and city work sounds all quite soothing sometimes.

[davy]

I've been listening to the Joe Jackson Band a lot lately (in between Julian Cope albums). That's gotta be one of my favorite rhythm sections ever. So tight, so catchy...they just bounce right along, stuffing like 3 clever licks into every measure. A delight to listen to.

I determined this morning that I've been unfair in regards to Beat Crazy, which I always thought was inferior to the first two albums. Not so! In fact, it may be even stronger than I'm the Man, though certainly less radio-friendly. Unfortunately, their run ended there. The next album was an ode to bebop (without Dave Haughton), and then JJ went straight into the classy metropop of Night & Day (which I also like a good bit).

[Good Intentions]

Morbid Angel:
Blessed are the Sick -- Covenant
Entangled in Chaos -- Gateways to Annihilation

Morbid Angel is a thing. The greatest thing.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

I do not have to messily organize Morbid Angel records by date in iTunes because they are titled alphabetically. I cannot begin to explain why that makes me so damn happy.

[davy]

This is one of those pretty great records that can sound absolutely perfect on the right afternoon.

[Good Intentions]

Todays' stop on the 'Death Metal is the Height of Human Achievement' train:



Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal