What Are You Listening To?

azaghal1981

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 28, 2009 at 08:12 PM UTC #

Hell yeah!
Thanks for the heads-up. Love this band and wish they'd play dc already (Snailhook???????)!

SPARX wrote:
Wooden Shjips "Dos"
Brand new album. Still very repetitive fuzz psych, with nods to Loop, Suicide and Spacemen 3 throughout, and a heavy Neu! feel at times

http://rapidshare.com/files/214640653/Wooden_Shjips_-_Dos__2009_.rar

SPARX

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 28, 2009 at 09:07 PM UTC #

azaghal1981 wrote:
Hell yeah!
Thanks for the heads-up. Love this band and wish they'd play dc already (Snailhook???????)!

SPARX wrote:
Wooden Shjips "Dos"
Brand new album. Still very repetitive fuzz psych, with nods to Loop, Suicide and Spacemen 3 throughout, and a heavy Neu! feel at times

http://rapidshare.com/files/214640653/Wooden_Shjips_-_Dos__2009_.rar

No problem, glad to share. Do yourself a favor and check out that Magic Lanterns as well if you get the time. I was surprised (well, not really I guess) not to see it on anyones best of '08 lists. It got by my radar intially but I've really  been diggin it as of late.

azaghal1981

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 28, 2009 at 09:26 PM UTC #

I've been hearing good things about it for a while now and just haven't gotten around to it.

kosmo

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 28, 2009 at 09:48 PM UTC #

did you catch Kuroma at the Scream show last night? I was listening again to their CD today and am enjoying their psychedelic garage rock with a hint of swagger or something along those lines… It's nice to hear bands which jam with a point i.e. knowing when enough is enough

azaghal1981

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 28, 2009 at 09:54 PM UTC #

I did not.

Lazily hung out in the backbar until close to ten.

Lame I know.

azaghal1981

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 29, 2009 at 06:20 AM UTC #

Just finished Lindstrom and Prins Thomas - II. Now on this:

Merge is twenty years old. Part of the larger "Score!" subscription-based box set, this CD is an amazing collection of songs spanning the label's existence,
covered by some of the most popular (non-Merge) indie bands around, such as Quasi, Les Savy Fav, The Shins, Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, The New Pornographers,
Okkervil River, Death Cab For Cutie, Times New Viking, and many more. This collection is the first of only two commercially available pieces from the box
set. Limited to 7,500 copies. All proceeds benefit charities chosen by the SCORE curators.

Tracklist:

01 Quasi: "Beautiful Things" (3Ds cover)
02 Les Savy Fav: "Precision Auto" (Superchunk cover)
03 The Shins: "Plenty Is Never Enough" (Tenement Halls cover)
04 St. Vincent and the National: "Sleep All Summer" (Crooked Fingers cover)
05 Broken Social Scene: "Complications" (The Clean cover)
06 Ryan Adams: "Like a Fool" (Superchunk cover)
07 Bright Eyes: "Papa Was a Rodeo" (The Magnetic Fields cover)
08 Lavender Diamond: "New Ways of Living" (Destroyer cover)
09 The Apples in stereo: "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 3" (Neutral Milk Hotel cover)
10 Laura Cantrell: "Cowboy on the Moon" (Lambchop cover)
11 Bill Callahan: "Santa Maria" (Versus cover)
12 Barbara Manning: "Through With People" (Portastatic cover)
13 The Mountain Goats: "Drug Life" (East River Pipe cover)
14 The New Pornographers: "Don't Destroy This Night" (The Rock*A*Teens cover)
15 Tracey Thorn and Jens Lekman: "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!" (The Magnetic Fields cover)
16 The Hive Dwellers: "My Noise" (Superchunk cover)
17 Ted Leo & the Pharmacists: "The Numbered Head" (Robert Pollard cover)
18 Okkervil River: "All You Little Suckers" (East River Pipe cover)
19 Death Cab for Cutie: "Kicked In" (Superchunk cover)
20 Times New Viking: "Neighborhood #1" (Arcade Fire cover)

SPARX

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 30, 2009 at 12:09 AM UTC #

8 long years for a new album and the day has
finally come!!!

BOB HUND - "Folkmusik För Folk Som Inte Kan Bete Sig Som Folk"

which roughly translates as "Folk Music For People Who Cannot Behave As People"

http://tinyurl.com/d773vy

azaghal1981

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 30, 2009 at 01:08 AM UTC #

Giving that Wooden Shjips a first listen. "Down by the Sea" is a fuzzed out explosion of awesome.

azaghal1981

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 30, 2009 at 04:10 AM UTC #

Wooden Wand - Born Bad

Nice return to form after that turd of an album he put out on Warner as James Jackson Toth last year. Guess he's over his stupid little Jeff Tweedy complex!

sweetcell

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 30, 2009 at 04:41 AM UTC #

callat703 wrote:

Fans of Junior Boys or the Notwist would be well advised to check this out.

per callat's recommendation, checked this one out - wow. i'm impressed. not unlike Late of the Pier, which is also & still recommended.

sweetcell

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 31, 2009 at 03:42 PM UTC #

ladies and gentlemen, i present to you the current front-runner for album of the year:

first time in a long while that a leak has prompted me to order the CD before i've finished listening to it all the way through. this one is going to be huge.

BookerT

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 31, 2009 at 03:52 PM UTC #

callat703

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 31, 2009 at 04:07 PM UTC #

sweetcell wrote:
ladies and gentlemen, i present to you the current front-runner for album of the year:

first time in a long while that a leak has prompted me to order the CD before i've finished listening to it all the way through.  this one is going to be huge.

Seconded.

DeathFromAbove1979

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Re: What Are You Listening To? March 31, 2009 at 04:35 PM UTC #

I got an email from Wolfmother about their new song, you can download it here:

http://www.wolfmother.com/

SPARX

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Re: What Are You Listening To? April 01, 2009 at 12:26 AM UTC #

BookerT wrote:

Nice. That should kep you entertained for awhile. Good stuff.

BookerT

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Re: What Are You Listening To? April 01, 2009 at 01:04 AM UTC #

SPARX wrote:
BookerT wrote:
(pictures of lots of GBV 7"s)

Nice. That should kep you entertained for awhile. Good stuff.

ha, not really. on the "entertained for a while." five GBV 7"s, so about 30 songs, so about an hour, a little less. man, those alternate versions of "hunting knife" and "game of pricks" are so fucking awesome.

nkotb

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Re: What Are You Listening To? April 01, 2009 at 01:17 AM UTC #

I can barely listen to the album version of "Game of Pricks" anymore. That single version is just too killer.

BookerT wrote:
ha, not really. on the "entertained for a while." five GBV 7"s, so about 30 songs, so about an hour, a little less. man, those alternate versions of "hunting knife" and "game of pricks" are so fucking awesome.

SPARX

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Re: What Are You Listening To? April 01, 2009 at 02:37 AM UTC #

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those alternate versions of "hunting knife" and "game of pricks" are so fucking awesome.

Indeed. Imagine what bliss we'd get if Bob finished his best ideas. I guess my sarcasm meter was stuck.

HoyaSaxa03

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Re: What Are You Listening To? April 01, 2009 at 03:33 AM UTC #

azaghal1981 wrote:
07 Bright Eyes: "Papa Was a Rodeo" (The Magnetic Fields cover)

just the thought of this makes me want to vomit

HoyaSaxa03

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Re: What Are You Listening To? April 01, 2009 at 03:37 AM UTC #

nkotb wrote:
I can barely listen to the album version of "Game of Pricks" anymore.  That single version is just too killer.

BookerT wrote:
ha, not really. on the "entertained for a while." five GBV 7"s, so about 30 songs, so about an hour, a little less. man, those alternate versions of "hunting knife" and "game of pricks" are so fucking awesome.

and if you don't feel like pulling out the 7", it's on Hardcore UFOs