What Are You Listening To?

Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing

I am not sure how I skipped this one… I have all of the rest of their catalog.

flashback to the Chicago Wax Trax days:

ZZ Top Tres Hombres cranked at 11… fabulous…cool gatefold

ja,ded wrote:

Relaxer wrote:
I still love the new Grimes album. It's so all-over-the-place and as saint said, there's some great bangers on it. I played it for my Thai lady last night and she was over the moon on it.

I think that was a reaction to the slimy, possibly still-alive animals in her stomach.

Gold star for Jaded! But seriously, I'm glad Relaxer agrees with me. Dude, I still love the album too. Totally agree how it's all over the place, yet there's this great cohesion on it. More pop music should sound this cool.

killsaly wrote:
I just started Heaven Up Here (Remastered & Expanded version)

killsaly wrote:
I just started going through Echo & the Bunnymen discography - another 80s band that I had not checked out before but knew their name.  On now: Crocodiles

Oh man!!! I grew up on Echo and the Bunnymen! My dad was obsessed with their psychedelic tendencies, but I went nuts for their post-punk early days as a teenager. I have this memory of being 17, lying in bed late at night and listening to Heaven Up Here and Porcupine!!! And this was back in 2002. Ocean Rain is a fucking masterpiece. Enjoy discovering those amazing albums.

walk,on,by wrote:
yes, dp, like pf, was one of those bands to me, at a certain period in my life, which controlled me and forced me to only listen to it for a while.  I think it has to do with the fact that humans can plug their emotional needs into the outlets of music.  of course, violator was the key.

I can absolutely relate. Violator is one brilliant album. I don't feel like there's a single wasted track. And the programming and arrangements Alan Wilder did was what made it so different. Plus, you got Flood's incredible production work.

hutch wrote:
+1 on Depeche Mode up to and including Violator…. huge band for me.. could have made my top 5 but New Order and the Cure took up those slots… basically for a good while anything synthy and gay I was into…musicwise that is…

if I had a time machine I would love to be at the 101 shows in LA… the last few albums do nothing for me.. but for a good while everything they touched turned to gold…

Very nice! It's funny to me how folks say particular music was "gay" when nobody in Depeche was gay. Ditto with New Order. Not many synth pop bands were aside from one member in Erasure and Pet Shop Boys. Anyhow, it delights me to hear that you were all about this sort of stuff, Hutch. I'm totally with you on that time machine thing. I'd give anything to have seen DM at the Rose Bowl, but I'd also give anything to have seen them on the World Violation tour with Nitzer Ebb as the opening act. I still debate over whether I'd want to have seen DM during the craziness that was the Devotional and Exoctica tours. Dave Gahan strung out on smack not exactly my idea of fun. I will say that I've not missed a tour since first seeing them in 2001 at Merriweather. Sure the new albums usually only have a few songs I enjoy, but there is something always fantastic about seeing them live. It's thrilling when they pullout songs they haven't done in years/decades. I might be a younger fan, but I'm critical about them. I've yet to be disappointed with a live show.

So far I have really enjoyed them and will be at the 930 Club show!  My parents were not cool enough (and possibly a few years older than your parents) to listen to stuff like Echo & the Bunnymen.

killsaly wrote:
Oh man!!! I grew up on Echo and the Bunnymen! My dad was obsessed with their psychedelic tendencies, but I went nuts for their post-punk early days as a teenager. I have this memory of being 17, lying in bed late at night and listening to Heaven Up Here and Porcupine!!! And this was back in 2002. Ocean Rain is a fucking masterpiece. Enjoy discovering those amazing albums.

Ragnarok - Chaos And Insanity Between 1994-2004

Sounds good so far… Black Viking metal

I am not listening to it, but thought the name was funny while browsing new death metal, the amazingly named Anal Exorcism.

Nekrogoblikon - Heavy Meta

Goblin melodic death metal

KMFDM - Our Time Will Come

fotheringay - s/t
sandy denny nirvana.

thelonius monk - solo monk
piano bliss.

I decided to run through the KNFDM catalog.  I already finished Opium and just started What Do You Know, Deutschland?.  I think I have only heard three or four of their albums before today, mostly 90s ones…

killsaly wrote:
I am not listening to it, but thought the name was funny while browsing new death metal, the amazingly named Anal Exorcism.

porn movie . . . band name.  better choice?  you, decide.  perhaps, both.

Both of course!  ;D

Currently rocking out to:

BAMBARA - SWARM
https://bambara.bandcamp.com/album/swarm

Finally the noise rock band BAMBARA released a new album!  I Love it, and am not surprised at how good it is…

KMFDM - Don't Blow Your Top (Remastered version)

one of my all time favorite records.. certainly in my top 100.. finally acquired an original copy from 1969… this record was recorded while Caetano and Gil were jailed by the military.. Rogerio Duprat and his crew overdubbed everything on the raw vocals by Veloso and guitar tracks by Gil (how he recorded them I have no idea.. they are killer fuzzed out..)… truly a wondrous album.. I used to have a copy of the Brazil 80s  LP reissue… but was taken from me when I left a lot of records in storage in Buenos Aires and many of the gems dissapeared mysteriously.. in any case.. I finally acquired the original mono pressing and I'm tickled pink/pleased as punch…

KMFDM - UAIOE  ;D

Margo Price.

killsaly wrote:
So far I have really enjoyed them and will be at the 930 Club show!  My parents were not cool enough (and possibly a few years older than your parents) to listen to stuff like Echo & the Bunnymen.

killsaly wrote:
Oh man!!! I grew up on Echo and the Bunnymen! My dad was obsessed with their psychedelic tendencies, but I went nuts for their post-punk early days as a teenager. I have this memory of being 17, lying in bed late at night and listening to Heaven Up Here and Porcupine!!! And this was back in 2002. Ocean Rain is a fucking masterpiece. Enjoy discovering those amazing albums.

Hold up - they're coming to the club? When?!

And if my dad was still alive, he'd be 64 years old. My mom is 63. I seem to have parents older than most of my friends who are around my age (late 20's/early 30's…I'm 30 going on 31) Anyhow, I figure I have pretty cool parents or at least my dad was super cool. (True story - he got me into Sonic Youth when I was 10, but to my mom's credit, she got me into Aretha Franklin and INXS by the age of 8. And both of them got me into Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Pretenders, and the B-52's while I was still in elementary school)

Okay as for what I've been listening to lately - still on that primal scream kick, but a friend reminded me that I should listen to Elliott Smith. He made a post on Facebook about getting XO on vinyl and I lamented about how I remember listening to various songs off of that during the 8th grade when it was first released. (While my peers were listening to Brittney Spears, I was all about real music ha.) Anyhow, I said something to my friend about how it's been ages since I've listened to a full Elliott Smith album. I pretty much stopped listening to any of his songs after he died, because that shit was just so upsetting. These days if a song comes on Sirius XMU, I'll listen and even sing along. But my friend made a great point "So it's been at least 12 years since you've listened to XO or Figure 8?! You need to remind yourself the brilliance of it. There's no better way of keeping someone alive than playing their music!" So last night, I added a few tracks from Either/Or and XO to a playlist and listened. It was strangely refreshing!

saintangelsin wrote:
Hold up - they're coming to the club? When?!

September 9th!