Jan 302013
Busy day, but let’s keep the chatter going with something free and easy. Please answer the following 3 questions as accurately as possible:
- What are you listening to right now, as you read this post?
- If you’re not listening to anything at the moment, what song do you last recall hearing?
- If you could break away from whatever it is you’re doing and pull one record from your stack/playlist/hard drive that fits your current mood, what would it be?
I look forward to your answers.
Not listening but watching a bit of the Peter Green documentary on youtube during lunch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vkh63QIw-c
Should say “Not just listening…”
1. Dirty Beaches- “Love Is the Devil”, played loud because:
2. One of my students is playing Taylor Swift.
3. I’m in the mood for “Tyed” by Tindersticks because I want to do a “To Turn You On” about them.
“Good Man,” by Rafael Sadiq, was the last thing playing on my iPod, before I had to take a client call.
If I could go home right now and pull out an album to crank up in the comfort of my own living room it would be XTC’s Mummer. There’s a trick on one of their songs I’ve been meaning to break down since I woke up this morning.
1. Streaming a new album by Leagues, fronted by Thad Cockrell, who did a fine rootsy duo album with Whiskeytown’s Caitlin Cary a few years back — but this Leagues album is not anything like that!
http://www.leaguesmusic.com/mtv-hive-streams-you-belong-here-this-week/
3. I just saw Soul Asylum is playing a small venue in Falls Church, VA, on Feb. 12 — so I would love to pull out” Hang Time” or “And the Horse They Rode in On” right now. I can’t believe they’re still out there. I know they’re not a big favorite around the Hall, but I grew up with them.
1. Listening to sports talk now.
2. Listened to a Hank Mobley record this morning, “No Room for Squares.”
3. If I could break away, I dunno, man, that’s tough….maybe Teenage Fanclub, Sloan, BRMC, Lush, Swirlies, Ride, Chapterhouse, Pale Saints, Loop, Spacemen 3, Primal Scream, Slowdive, The Telescopes, The Wedding Present, The House of Love, Curve, All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors, Moose, Garbage, Smashing Pumpkins, The Primitives, Medicine, The Boo Radleys, Yo La Tengo, Mogwai, Fennesz, His Name is Alive, Bowery Electric, Flying Saucer Attack, Windy & Carl, Sigur Ros, Stars of the Lid, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, M83, Asobi Seksu, Deerhunter, The Horrors, The Verve, The Dandy Warhols, The Raveonettes, The Men, Ulrich Schnauss, Boards of Canada, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions In The Sky, Silversun Pickups, Japandroids…:)
Richard Thompson’s new LP “Electric”, produced by Buddy Miller, is being streamed. Only one listen this evening but I’ll be back to it.
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/27/170103841/first-listen-richard-thompson-electric
NP: I Love You But You’re Strange, a compilation of Rolling Thunder-era Dylan from the awesome Doom and Gloom From the Tomb blog.
After this, whatever will help me push through the next hour-and-change of work. Maybe some Mekons.
As a native of Minnesota, I also grew up with Soul Asylum and always thought they deserved more credit than they got. To me they were a great blend of Husker Du intensity with Replacements irreverence. Always fantastic live which never quite translated to studio. Falls Church on the 12th? Hmmm, I wonder if I still have my oldest jager ripoff shirt handy.
http://enterthesoulasylum.com/Personal/jager_front.jpg
Not listening to anything now, but the last thing I listened to was that Wu Tan Clan 36th Chambers record at lunch. Amazon was selling it for $2.99 so I thought I’d see what the hype was. I like it for about 3 songs. By then I’m thoroughly convinced they are the baddest MFs around and that they will defeat all their rivals. The other 9 songs just belabor that point.
The record I want to hear right now is Elvis Costello’s This Years Model. A blog I was reading used the line “When it is only a question of frequency” and it took me 20 minutes to figure out where I heard that from.
Currently listening to Richard Barone’s Glow which I picked up cheap in Houston in July. I loved the Bongos first album but nothing by them or him has come close to it. But I picked this up because (1) the price was cheap, (2) it had a T. Rex cover – as did Drums Along The Mohawk, and (3) maybe maybe it would be good. And it’s not bad but it’s no Drums.
One thing I picked up (downloaded) recently but haven’t clicked on to listen to – and I think I’ll pause Barone right now and click – is the Best Of Billy Harner 1962-1976, 30 tracks for $8.99. It’s not everything by the Human Perculator but it’s not too far off: http://www.amazon.com/Best-of-Billy-Harner-1962-1976/dp/B001YILLQ4/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359582040&sr=301-1
Ignoring That 70’s Show reruns on TV. So, Cheap Trick’s version of “In the Street”.
Before I left work I skipped though Neko Case’s Fox Confessor… .
np. Diablos del Ritmo 1960-1985: The Colombian Melting Pot
I think it will be something by Gilberto Gil after this, a recent one like Fé Na Festa.
What are you listening to right now, as you read this post?
Cub Koda and the Points!
If you’re not listening to anything at the moment, what song do you last recall hearing?
I was listening to Dr. Feelgood earlier.
If you could break away from whatever it is you’re doing and pull one record from your stack/playlist/hard drive that fits your current mood, what would it be?
I actually just put this on, and The Cubmaster is taking care of business nicely. I’m gonna watch TV at ten and see if I like that new FX show with Felicity playing a Russian spy, so Cub will probably be it tonight.
Just watched that a couple of nights ago…Really makes me want to revisit that era of the band in a less cursory fashion than previously…y’know, if I find the time…
Hudson, right? Sorry to pince nez.
Driving home from ballet, I turned off the “Oxford-Style Debating” on KQED to listen to Broadcast’s “The Noise Made By People.” Now I’ve got my favorite song from that album stuck in my head: “Come On, Let’s Go.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw5ztuhEat4 It’s pretty addicting: a nice blend of 60’s girl group sound with haunted electronics.
Work has been extremely soul-sucking these days so I need to put on something that doesn’t make me think. I’m so washed out that I’ll probably reach for some more Broadcast, something else electronic, or something with Postpunk with a good bass line.
I change my mind; what I really need to listen to is “Loveless.” That really suits my work mood.
Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity
They’re coming to Philadelphia in April and I highly recommend them after seeing them for the first time about a year ago.
Geo
1/2 – I had Stan Ridgway’s latest CD playing on the car ipod driving home just now.
http://youtu.be/6MspCu1S3Ws
3 – For some reason, taking a Robyn Hitchcock album for spin would sound good right now.
2. Last song I listened to was “Love Like a Man” (long version) by Ten Years After.
3. I’m in the mood for something by Blue Rodeo, “Casino” maybe.
Their most recent album has been in heavy rotation in this household.
I’ve got a new New Year’s Resolution – to post something without something wrong in it!
What a coincidence. As I read your post I’m listening to Sleepless Nights, The Traditional Country Soul Of Patty Loveless which I really like a lot.
But I don’t suppose that’s what you meant…
Muswell Hillbillies – my favourite Kinks disc.
‘I said good-bye to Rosie Rooke this morning –
I’m gonna miss her blood-shot, alcoholic eyes…’
I watched the DVD of ‘One From the Road’ yestiddy and I guess it put me in the mood…
Patty is the bomb! Got to see her once at a county fair circa 1987 in South Dakota, where she and her band were playing three shows a day on the back of a flatbed truck. She was smokin’ hot and I became a fan for life. I was not surprised at all when she became a big country star for awhile.
She seemed like a very nice person too.
As a Kinks fan going way way (way) back I’ve never understood the love for Muswell Hillbillies. To me, it was the beginning of the long swoon downward. I felt that at the time of its release and it hasn’t aged well at all to me.
A high five for Casino!
I like a few songs from Muswell Hillbillies a lot, but I agree with Al that it’s the beginning of a downward slide. The album’s conceipt and execution grow a little stale on these ears, but “Oklahoma USA” is a KILLER! I’m also a huge fan of “Skin and Bones.”
I should add (and have now done so) that it’s the last Kinks album I have loaded on my iPod, so it’s not an album I dislike or don’t feel like hearing a half dozen times a year.
I came to all of the Kinks’ “golden age” well after the fact (and I am sure I’d never heard anything from MH until at least 15 years after it came out), and clearly MH represents a sort of break from what had come before it. Even though I see how you could think that MH points the way to “the long swoon downward” (which for me begins with Everybody’s In Showbiz), I think everything on it is fantastic, sounds great, and the record’s preoccupations are mostly as current today as they were then. Rather than the beginning of the downward turn, for me it is the last of the era of greatness, a six-year run that has few equals.
Give me a single of 20th Century Man b/w Oklahoma and I’m fine. Faux country ill suits Ray and faux country Ray ill suits me.
Buck Owens “Collection” disc 1
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The Rutles, of course. Somebody posted a link to their “Rooftop Concert” on one of the other threads, and that teaser was enough to get me to dig out the whole album. Have not listened to this in a long time.