listening thread..?

[greg]

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armagedom / forca macabra lp
harum scarum - mental health lp
back of dave / prozac memory lp
remains of the day - an underlying frequency lp
asschapel - fire and destruction lp

[laz]

kimya dawson - hidden vagenda
kanye west - late registration
i think chris is watching santana featuring michelle branch on vh1 in the next room. awesome!

[wakarusapunk]

back of dave! i totally played with that band at gee coffee in '97! i hadn't heard of them since. that's awesome. what's it like? i have no recollection.

huston- i totally bought trans. "computer cowboy" is my favorite.

lately, i've been listening to African funk/pop music from the 60's, 70's and early 80's. i got the "pirate's choice" cd by orchestra baobab. it's awesome. it's not totally African music, but it also has African musicians interpreting Latin music. If anyone is interested, check out a cd called "World Psychedelic Classics Vol. 3" it's not really psychedelic. just good. i especially like Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Cotonou Dahomey and Moussa Doubia. Additionally, the Nigeria 70 compilation is worth checking out. And the Ethiopiques compilations, if anyone saw Broken Flowers, they took the main song from Ethiopiques Vol. 4. Maybe you could find MP3's.

I bought a Kimya Dawson cd this summer after several people raved about her second performance in Lawrence. I didn't like it, I thought her singing was obnoxious. I'd still like to see her live; that's changed my mind on performers before.

the new anxiety attack recording from black lodge sounds fantastic.

[riley]

defience ohio
krum bums
tom frampton
menace
johnny cash
discocks
monster squad
this is what ive had playen mostly this week

[JORDAN ALERT!]

wednesday night heroes.

[mookie]

Hammer - the blue LP
Shank - Coded Messages in Slowed Down Songs LP
Bad Asstra Per Aspera - Voodoo Economics/Post-Scarcity Sing Along
Mirah
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
(Young) Pioneers - First Virginia Volunteers LP
Circle Jerks
Nice View (seriously, check this band out!!! crazy Japanese fastcore harshness!!)

[gator]

x- los angeles
neil young - harvest
gram parsons - grievous angel
elliott smith - roman candle
leadbelly - that smithsonian shit
heatmiser - mic city sons
big star - radio city

[L Heckman]

gator said:

x- los angeles
neil young - harvest
gram parsons - grievous angel
elliott smith - roman candle
leadbelly - that smithsonian shit
heatmiser - mic city sons
big star - radio city

Listening thread connection: X cover Leadbelly's "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" on the "Under the Big Black Sun" album.

[flannery]

devo
animal collective
michael jackson
the go! team
minutemen

feelin' good in fall!

[justin anxiety]

los crudos - los primeros gritos LP
fuses - eastern cities LP
mission of burma - signals... CD
james brown - please please please LP (best damn early soul record of all time! listen to that track "just won't do right" OMFG!)
circle jerks - group sex LP
fucked up - generation 7"
naked raygun - understand LP
bikini kill - all american reject LP
crass - penis envy LP
neil young - after the gold rush LP
propagandhi - less talk LP
9 shocks terror - paying homage LP
siousxie & the banshees - peel sessions 12"
wipers - over the edge LP
direct control - nuclear tomorrow 7"

alright damn, that's a good chunck of the past week.

p.s. mr. tuley have you checked out the record called funy lagos or something like that? it's all nigerian funk from the early to mid 70's, i don't have it but recall it being really damn good.

[JH]

Merle Haggard - I take a lot of pride in what i am LP
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of life LP
Mogwai - Peel sessions LP
Kanye West - Late regstration CD
Leatherface - Horsebox CD
12 Hour Turn - The victory of Flight LP
Yaphet Khotto - first and second LP's
The Specials - s/t LP
The news hour on pbs - debate on the war

also i can really jam on the Ethiopiques Vol. 4 i really jam on track number 7. I was talking to the old guy with glasses at the arhoolie record store in california, he was like " yeah, volume 4! that is great! i love the way the songs start in a funk jam and end in an opeim haze". Shit yeah ill light up some humbolt to that, oaksterdam style.

[wakarusapunk]

justin- the nigeria 70 compilation and funky lagos are the same thing. at least the cover has all of those words in that order. is sure is good. i can burn you a copy.

[laz]

today:
playing air drums to yaphet kotto: "syncopated..." in the car
the rumble of the metro bus as i shot a short film starring two guys named chris.

that's about it really...you guys listen to a shit ton of records in one day. good job.

as for mike's comments on kimya dawson. i love that girl. she does have a funny little voice. but i think its really cute. her songs are really heartfelt and she doesnt mind using really silly pop culture references (third eye blind, thundercats, and anthrax to name a few). i dunno. its really sincere and makes feel really good and warm inside. hard to explain. i'm beginning to think her music is the kind of thing you either really love or really hate.

[flannery]

man, does anyone else have seasonal listening tastes? in the summertime, if i listen to punk, it has to be kind of poppy, like the minutemen, or the buzzcocks, or mission of burma, stuff like that. mostly this summer i just listened to sam cooke and steve martin records. i can't deal with something like los crudos until at least october. let alone rudimentary peni. that's like... december. at least, dude.

not that this stuff isn't good year round, it just feels weird listening to THE BODY on the way to worlds of fun.

[wakarusapunk]

damnit. i never watched thundercats. i always considered it the annoying show that was on before heman. let's still be friends, ok?