What Are You Listening To?

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As gaye as this is gonna sound, I'm really digging the Santogold disc, and shockingly, the new Death Cab disc.

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for some reason i always thought that this album was some inaccessible noise-rock mess

umm, it's pretty awesome

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for some reason i always thought that this album was some inaccessible noise-rock mess

umm, it's pretty awesome

Atomizer is pretty awesome too.

Those Big Black albums were a joy for me when they came out, but now I view them as an inaccessible noise mess. Or as nerdy white guys trying to sound tough.

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for some reason i always thought that this album was some inaccessible noise-rock mess

umm, it's pretty awesome

incredible stuff - bad penny may be one of my favorite songs of all time

These last few posts inspired me to put on Pigpile.


Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….Cables! So brutally awesome.

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for some reason i always thought that this album was some inaccessible noise-rock mess

umm, it's pretty awesome

I'd expect that as a staple in any serious music collection. Possibly mindblowing.

This is nice and haunting so far:


Tom Carter & Christian Kiefer - From The Great American Songbook

"This second collaborative work from the pair is an expansive and ambitious recasting of American music now in the public domain. The influence of the songs
collected here is long and widespread for their style and lyricism, forging a rich tradition and ever evolving history. With their interpretations, Carter
and Kiefer have taken the songs that have seeped into their souls and extended upon them in such a way that brings something entirely new to their original
ideas. Itâ??s something thatâ??s entirely theirs in spite of such source material, and with that, From The Great American Songbook brilliantly reveals a true
hallmark of American music invention.

So, we have the infamous murder ballad Pretty Polly, the comic Camptown Races, the funeral Will The Circle Be Unbroken, the outlaw tale of Jesse James,
the depression piece Hard Times Killinâ?? Floor Blues, the ragtime of The Entertainer and the doomed love trysts of Railroad Boy and The Coo Coo Bird. Carter
and Kiefer have taken the spirit of these as a starting point for their spectral guitar improvisations, then fleshed them out with piano, percussion, bass
and drums. In this thrillingly vast sonic terrain are moments of foreboding, tenderness, melancholy and gut-wrenching rawness.

Two of Kieferâ??s longtime cohorts, Scott Leftridge and Chip Conrad played bass and drums respectively, while Califoneâ??s Ben Massarella handled percussion.

Also contributing to From The Great American Songbook is a host of American musicians â?? including Tony Conrad, James Jackson Toth, Glenn Jones, and Sharron
Krauss â?? with their reminiscences and insights into these songs with which they also found great personal resonance."

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can someone explain why this album gets shat on? i really like weller branching out, was it just a contemporary knee-jerk reaction to weller diversifying the jam's sound?

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can someone explain why this album gets shat on?

Not me. I love it. This was the record that initially turned me on to The Jam.

May have just found a new favorite album of '08.


Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista


Pretty dead-on review here:

"It's hard to pin down precisely what it is that's so alluring about
Finland's hugely acclaimed Paavoharju, but the consensus seems to
have been that their
remarkable debut album "Yha Hamaraa" quite simply managed to marry a
myriad disjointed influences and sound sources without ever sounding
like it was trying
too hard. If you've never heard the music of Paavoharju, prepare
yourself for one of life's more considerable and uncontained
pleasures. They are a band
who take in influence from the "Radio India" style shortwave pop
transmissions of the Sublime Frequencies label, freak folk, Europop,
modern classical,
plunderphonics, choral, devotional, experimental and multicoloured
music of almost every description imaginable - and yet they embody a
specific sound
that's unmistakably their own. Their aforementioned debut "Yha
Hamaraa" made such an impact when it first came out that it seemed
to unify music critics
and the buying public from all ends of the musical spectrum,
worshipped by chin-stroking journalists and passers by alike - one
of those records that you
could play almost anywhere and guarantee people would virtually
queue to ask who it was by and where they could buy it. Their long
awaited follow-up "Laulu
Laakson Kukista" does that remarkable thing and doesn't disappoint.
The scope and energy here is once again impossible to contain -
opening with drone
washes, de-tuned music box tones and vocals degraded by worn down
analogue tape, it sounds like a day in the park, a far away ice
cream van, an orchestra
rehearsing and Fennesz doing a soundcheck all at the same time. From
there we go to "Kevätrumpu" - an absolutely genius generic jamboree
that sounds like
Kylie Minogue playing with a backing band that's half Finnish folk
and half Bolywood session band, recorded to a four-track recorder
that's been thrown
into the sea and discovered 20 years later by some fortunate
anthropologist. Heck, there are even some Autechre-style rhythmic
distortions towards the
end of the track - you just couldn't make it up, and it sounds SO
good. Next - "Tuoksu Tarttuu Meihin" takes in some far away solo
piano and quietly malfunctioning
distortion pedals in a Tim Hecker meets Akira Rabelais sort of
fashion, while "Ursulan Uni" sounds like a cross between Isan and
Philip Jeck - and is just
utterly beautiful. It's virtually impossible to sum up the sheer
brilliance and scope of this schizophrenic yet brilliantly coherent
album, it shimmers
with all the excitement and knowledge of a seemingly endless stream
of influence and once again manages to sound unlike anything you'll
have ever heard
before in your life. And believe us when we say that recommendations
really don't come much higher than that. An utterly Essential
Purchase."

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Good stuff. My Lanegan best of mix is quickly becoming a box set.

just listened to some earlier bootlegs (folksinger's choice & the gaslight tapes), now putting this on:
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