What Are You Listening To Now?

KingHarry · Post by **KingHarry** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:44 pm

right now -

Gnod & White Hills - Drop Out

shalloboi · Post by **shalloboi** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:32 am

low- 'play nice places'
jessica bailiff- 'at the down-turned jagged rim of the sky'
a winged victory for the sullen- 's/t'
northern song dynasty- 's/t'
unwound- 'live leaves'
beach house- 'devotion'
war on drugs- 'slave ambient'
black angels- 'phosphene dream'
bjm- 'bravery, repetition and noise'
veronica falls- 's/t'
lee hazlewood- 'lhi years'
thee oh sees- 'thee hounds of foggy notion'
windy & carl- 'songs for the broken-hearted'

redcloud · Post by **redcloud** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:59 pm

I pulled out a decade's worth of Pretty Things albums last night and played them all back to back. From their superb first s/t LP to 1972's 'Freeway Madness' (their last half decent record). Wonderful band that sadly never received their fair dues.

redcloud · Post by **redcloud** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 4:07 am

Crystal Syphon - Family Evil (LP)
Pretty Things - Phillipe Debarges (LP)
Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes (LP)

Post by **runcible** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:41 am

The Damned - Music For Pleasure (this album was disowned by the band - time to revalue as it's extraordinary)
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Shack - Waterpistol
Electric Moon - Inferno
House of Love - S/T

spunder · Post by **spunder** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:19 pm

redcloud wrote:I pulled out a decade's worth of Pretty Things albums last night and played them all back to back. From their superb first s/t LP to 1972's 'Freeway Madness' (their last half decent record). Wonderful band that sadly never received their fair dues.

'Parachute' the only Rolling Stone album of the year not to sell 1M copies...isnt that what they say? i love their early snotty R&B stuff

redcloud · Post by **redcloud** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 6:40 pm

spunder wrote:
redcloud wrote:I pulled out a decade's worth of Pretty Things albums last night and played them all back to back. From their superb first s/t LP to 1972's 'Freeway Madness' (their last half decent record). Wonderful band that sadly never received their fair dues.
'Parachute' the only Rolling Stone album of the year not to sell 1M copies...isnt that what they say? i love their early snotty R&B stuff

Yep, they will always be my favorite British band from '63-70. So cool. Love these old vids:

Pt. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MkSupR2qFM

Pt. 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zkau7LRCdw

olan · Post by **olan** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:01 pm

Been listening to Joe Strummer a lot in the last few days. He is gone 10 years tomorrow (22nd Dec) but is not forgotten....

niamhm · Post by **niamhm** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:06 pm

olan wrote:Been listening to Joe Strummer a lot in the last few days. He is gone 10 years tomorrow (22nd Dec) but is not forgotten....

can`t hardly believe its 10 years, been listening to bits and pieces of the Clash the last couple of days as well , particularly the song Broadway from Sandinista , really shows Joes way with words and ability to paint a picture, musically as well its a really evocative bit of music,

anyway , built up some Amazon MP3 download points due the amount of cash spent with them this last month on Xmas , so decided to take a punt on a band I never paid much heed to before ,
God Speed! You Black Emperor- Allelujah! Don`t Bend! Ascend , eh waoh , never really new what to expect ,and its 4/5 listens to get my head round it a little but it sounds amazing !!! can see me listening to this well into the New year,

olan · Post by **olan** » Tue Dec 25, 2012 3:49 pm

John Cooper Clarke doing Xmas tunes on 6Music: epic stuff.

Whether you do Christmas or not, best wishes to all. Also, early happy new year to all, especially those brave souls on here expecting a bundle of joy in 2013.

Excuse my blithering: my neighbour went into labour at midday over drinkies, so we're trying to dealing with our flashbacks today via a second bottle of Combe Aux Jacques.....very civilized.

Shinesalight · Post by **Shinesalight** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 12:57 pm

A whole bunch of Christmas vinyl:-

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
(back to his his brilliant best)
Cheval Sombre - Mad Love
(lush, gorgeous sounds with plenty of Mr Sonic Boom's handiwork)
Goat - World Music
(this really is good isn't it...why did I doubt you all?! If ever there was a good time to use the word "groovy" then this is it!)
Tame Impala - Lonerism
(was on the Xmas list long before the negative comments about it started appearing on the forum. Though, I must say, Mrs Shines and I really like it)

niamhm · Post by **niamhm** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:53 pm

Swans-The Seer, just got round to listening to this , quite an album , 2hrs worth , challenging but I`m admiring the ambition, alot to get your head round,

Kurious Oranj · Post by **Kurious Oranj** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 12:21 am

a.r. kane - complete singles collection

their studio albums never did much for me but there's some really gorgeous stuff on here.. particularly the first disc

Post by **spzretent** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:16 am

Goat- World Music. I just dont get it. Its me, not you guys who have championed this record. I am clearly missing the point.
The Orbserver In The Star House- The Orb with Lee Scratch Perry. Pretty interesting on first listen.
Kenny Tudrick LP. Ahhhhhhhhh.......
Crazy Horse- At Crooked Lake LP

toomilk · Post by **toomilk** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:16 am

I just got Graveyard's Lights Out and it's a decent record. Bluesy and psychedelic, but the vocals are a little too over-the-top for me.

However, I think a lot of people here would like it. Definitely check it out if you get a chance!

redcloud · Post by **redcloud** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:34 am

spzretent wrote:Goat- World Music. I just dont get it. Its me, not you guys who have championed this record. I am clearly missing the point.

I'm with you spzretent.

debased · Post by **debased** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 4:01 am

Tamaryn - Tender New Signs
Symmetry - Themes For An Imaginary Film
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Cellar Doors - The Melody Haunts My Reverie
Soft Moon - Zeros
MMOSS - Only Children

spzretent wrote:The Chills- Heavenly Pop Hits CD

Whoever indexed that disc did a horrible, horrible job.

TheWarmth · Post by **TheWarmth** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 4:25 am

Lumerians : Horizon Structures 12" EP. Stellar. Can't believe I'm the only one here who has this! No talk about it at all in the thread I posted a week or so ago.

semisynthetic · Post by **semisynthetic** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:18 am

spunder wrote:
redcloud wrote:I pulled out a decade's worth of Pretty Things albums last night and played them all back to back. From their superb first s/t LP to 1972's 'Freeway Madness' (their last half decent record). Wonderful band that sadly never received their fair dues.

I am a big fan of the "Pretty Things"; another great band that got lost in the crowd; so may did.

Good Choice of Listening Pleasure!

semisynthetic · Post by **semisynthetic** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:21 am

runcible wrote:The Damned - Music For Pleasure (this album was disowned by the band - time to revalue as it's extraordinary)
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned

My two Favorite "Damned" albums.

moop · Post by **moop** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 10:51 pm

spzretent wrote:Mercury Rev- Boces. Flawless. Susanne Thorpe rules!

i recently listened to that bootleg of dinosaur jr in New York where they had loads of other people guesting on tracks. was really pleased to see she joined them for 'thumb'. wonder if she's doing anything musical these days?

Post by **spzretent** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 11:22 pm

It always amazed me how her flute rose above the noise. I'm sure it was mixed higher but it still sounds amazing.

moop · Post by **moop** » Sat Dec 29, 2012 11:33 pm

considering how chaotic the recording of Boces is said to have been, it sounds incredible. Lucky Dave Fridmann was in the band, i guess!

Post by **MODLAB** » Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:20 am

Swirlies â€”Â They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In The Glittering World Of The Salons

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Sun Dec 30, 2012 1:37 pm

moop wrote:
spzretent wrote:Mercury Rev- Boces. Flawless. Susanne Thorpe rules!

i recently listened to that bootleg of dinosaur jr in New York where they had loads of other people guesting on tracks. was really pleased to see she joined them for 'thumb'. wonder if she's doing anything musical these days?

Yeah, that was a superb Dinosaur Jr show.

redcloud · Post by **redcloud** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:45 pm

Aura - 'Sativa'
(Mid-late 70's funk/soul/psych (ish) band from Northern Cali. Horn heavy but with some blistering guitar and a lot of funky bass. Imagine if The Savage Rose were from Oakland instead of Denmark).

coffeepotman · Post by **coffeepotman** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 1:51 pm

Going through the T-Rex collection, I used to be really big on Marc Bolan.

coffeepotman · Post by **coffeepotman** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 1:53 pm

semisynthetic wrote:
runcible wrote:The Damned - Music For Pleasure (this album was disowned by the band - time to revalue as it's extraordinary)
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
My two Favorite "Damned" albums.

Saw them do Damnedx3 and the Black Album last year, was excellent. I highly advise seeing them if you haven't in a while, they still got it.

beaker73 · Post by **beaker73** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 5:33 pm

Mercury Rev - Deserters Songs, wonderful vinyl reissue from Light in The Attic
Still a beautiful album

redcloud · Post by **redcloud** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:08 pm

Cargo -s/t

Brilliant Dutch rock album from '72. Tremendous!! Cheers to Laz69 for pointing me in the direction of this gem.

angelsighs · Post by **angelsighs** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:54 pm

tonight I listened to:

Dream Syndicate- Live at Raji's
Dirty Three- Ulterior Motives
Velvet Underground- Loaded (Fully Loaded edition)
Yo La Tengo- Today Is The Day EP

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 10:47 pm

redcloud wrote:Cargo -s/t

Brilliant Dutch rock album from '72. Tremendous!! Cheers to Laz69 for pointing me in the direction of this gem.

Couple of newies added to that site too... will be checking them out soon!

Hofstadter · Post by **Hofstadter** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:29 pm

I can't remember, I think it was one of you two who posted about the dutch freakbeat stuff a few weeks ago? I meant to ask about all that, it sounded really really cool, particularly the compilation one of you guys mentioned. I have zero knowledge of any of that stuff, what is some good stuff to introduce me to it? I couldn't find that compilation on the webz, didn't look too too hard though.

Recent listening:
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts Box Set (Betrayed In the Octagon, Russian Mind, and Zones Without People)
So very ambient indeed.

Post by **spzretent** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:36 pm

That was me.
Beat From Europe LP on Philips

redcloud · Post by **redcloud** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:55 pm

Laz69 wrote:
redcloud wrote:Cargo -s/t

Brilliant Dutch rock album from '72. Tremendous!! Cheers to Laz69 for pointing me in the direction of this gem.
Couple of newies added to that site too... will be checking them out soon!

I like the album so much I picked it up on vinyl!

redcloud · Post by **redcloud** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:00 am

Hofstadter wrote:I can't remember, I think it was one of you two who posted about the dutch freakbeat stuff a few weeks ago? I meant to ask about all that, it sounded really really cool, particularly the compilation one of you guys mentioned. I have zero knowledge of any of that stuff, what is some good stuff to introduce me to it? I couldn't find that compilation on the webz, didn't look too too hard though.

I have a cool Dutch comp too (made for me by a collector). I know it's on cassette but I may have transferred it years ago to a cd-r. I'll have a look and if so I'll share it with you. I'm totally with spzretent though....Dutch freakbeat is only bettered by the UK bands. Personally, I enjoy the Dutch bands more so than the Krautrockers. But that is a matter of taste.

Regarding where to start with 60's Dutch bands though....can't go wrong with Q65, Group 1850 or The Outsiders.

jadams501 · Post by **jadams501** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:00 am

Johnny Ace - Memorial Album (+ bonus tracks)

Johnny Ace was a R&B singer from right before rock 'n' roll, who kinda splits the difference between postwar blues and 50s high school dance jukebox music. He famously died preposterously young, either in a game of Russian Roulette or otherwise mistakenly killing himself. Anyway, despite tributes from Paul Simon and Pete Kember himself I'd never gotten around to listening to him until I came across a copy of the Memorial Album at my hometown record store.

Good stuff!

redcloud · Post by **redcloud** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:36 am

redcloud wrote:
I have a cool Dutch comp too (made for me by a collector). I know it's on cassette but I may have transferred it years ago to a cd-r. I'll have a look and if so I'll share it with you.

I found it!! Tape only I'm afraid, but it is called 'Happenin' Holland' and is GREAT 60's Dutch freakbeat comp a collector friend made me back in the halcyon days of tape trading. Other than The Outsiders it is all pretty obscure stuff (45's?).

Oh, and 'Crystallization' by the Cosmic Dealer is another great Dutch rock album!

Hofstadter · Post by **Hofstadter** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:24 am

Sickk! I really look forward to tracking down this stuff and investigating!!!!

Post by **MODLAB** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:24 am

Ceramic Hello â€”Â The Absence Of A Canary

Lovely early 80's Canadian synth.

B,

M

PS: If you can get a re-issue, DO IT!

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 1:42 pm

Currently listening to Pavement's Wowee Zowee (Â£1 for the CD out of Poundland!) but also the new Twelve album... email came through about it and its really rather good...

niamhm · Post by **niamhm** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 1:56 pm

Vatican Shadow- Ghosts Of Chechnya, rec. from The Quietus top 75 of the year , industrial/techo/ambient I suppose , hate trying to labels on something like this, but its strangely calming and atmospheric ,has a detached kinda feeling that seems to suit the mood I generally have at the start of a new year,

Minky · Post by **Minky** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:54 am

Ike & Tina Turner / B.B. King sets from The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya Ya's Out 40th Anniversary (LP/CD/DVD) Box Set which my Sweetheart bought for Xmas. Very Nice!!!

Hofstadter · Post by **Hofstadter** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 3:17 am

Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Every time I put it on I am totally amazed by how seamlessly it flows from krauty, pulsating jams to swirling, watery, synthesized ambiance to almost punk screeching. Just a fucking cool album...

Going to throw on some o that stuff from holland tonight! You know what they say about 'em... got GET in TOUCH with the DUTCH.... I don't know if that's actually said by anybody other than my father when he wants to seem like he was wild/hip when he lived in Amsterdam for a year in the 70s.

spacemanrich · Post by **spacemanrich** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 5:57 pm

Picked these up yesterday:

Mogwai : A Wrenched Virile Lore - it's okay, just remixes of HardCore Will Never Die.
Raveonettes : Observator - enjoying this immensely !!!!

Post by **runcible** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:18 pm

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - 1st 4 albums

moop · Post by **moop** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 7:15 pm

Hofstadter wrote:Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Every time I put it on I am totally amazed by how seamlessly it flows from krauty, pulsating jams to swirling, watery, synthesized ambiance to almost punk screeching. Just a fucking cool album...

i keep returning to that album and somehow it always feels fresh and inspired. I quite like that the original sessions were such a failure, (i think he said it sounded like listening to loveless on shrooms..

) and that the album was actually the second sort of desperate attempt to get the tracks recorded. maybe it took that initial failure to get them to really focus...

niamhm · Post by **niamhm** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 8:39 pm

Crass-Stations Of The Crass, still something quite fresh sounding about this punk classic,

Post by **runcible** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 5:47 pm

niamhm wrote:Crass-Stations Of The Crass, still something quite fresh sounding about this punk classic,

Quite a tough listen though. I played loads of old Crass about a year ago and found it hard work despite being curiously inspiring. I wish there was some decent footage of that band live but the lighting was so limited almost nothing exists.

shalloboi · Post by **shalloboi** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:46 pm

listened to a bunch of stuff recently-

cocteau twins- 'heaven or las vegas'/'victorialand'
death and vanilla- 's/t'
ty segall- 'twins' (finally got it on vinyl after all of the holiday madness wound down)
swans- 'the seer'- WOW i really dropped the ball on this one- something was telling me to buy it when i found the vinyl at reckless and i didn't. currently 3/4 of the way through my first listen and i've scoured the internet to find a decently priced triple lp copy of it. i've never heard much of their stuff, but this album has proven to be thoroughly convincing! it's somehow beautiful, fucked-up, transcendent, cathartic and pummeling all at the same time.
talk talk- 'spirit of eden'- checked this out after all of the talk about it on this board. it was really nice for my commute this morning.

angelsighs · Post by **angelsighs** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:04 am

The Clash- Combat Rock. Joe Strummer now gone for 10 years, thought I'd give a spin to a Clash record I don't really listen to much.. it's still a right old mixed bag. some amazing songs (love Know Your Rights and Ghetto Defendant) and some weak songs.. the whole thing just sounds tired and dejected too.. like they were worn out.. out of the big singles I could happily never hear Should I Stay or Should I Go for the rest of my days, but still think Rock the Casbah is an utterly classic pop song!

Swans- The Seer. only just got his myself, wish I could share shalloboi's enthusiasm but it's not really grabbing me... will keep trying as it's a lot of music to take in!

Spacemen 3- Forged Prescriptions. excellent collection. some great guitar work- Jason is almost shredding on Starship!!

KingHarry · Post by **KingHarry** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 12:29 pm

There's a great podcast on MixCloud - Weatherall talking music with Richard Fearless, loosley around what music contributed to the making of the last DIV lp.
Excellent stuff, lots of Krautrock.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 2:24 pm

Throwback today for me...

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Just For Love
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service - S/T
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Vanilla Fudge - S/T
Moby Grape - S/T

angelsighs · Post by **angelsighs** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 3:00 pm

Laz69 wrote:Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails

great album! some impressive jamming on there.
I've recently bought the Vanilla Fudge album myself too, might give it a spin tonight.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:52 pm

I always preferred the S/T QMS album to the others so i tend to forget about the others, butHappy Trails is indeed a brilliant album!

Post by **MODLAB** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:57 pm

New Order â€”Â Lost Sirens

It's quite good and most likely their last(who knows right).

I cant say it's amazing, I can say that New Order fans will enjoy it.

Best,

M

Shinesalight · Post by **Shinesalight** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:07 pm

Not quite what I'm listening to now, but (without painting too much of unwanted image for you all

) I've just had a bath with baby Dylan while listening to:-

Gnod - Gnod Drop Out With White Hills

He seemed to enjoy it.... the bath AND the music

He also seemed to calm right down after a mammoth screaming session when I played him:-

Cheval Sombre - Mad Love

I'm hoping my son is going to be just as into (good) music as I am

Post by **MODLAB** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 10:41 am

New Order â€”Â Lost Sirens

I like it! Some really nice moments, guess kinda nostalgic . Probably will be their last.

Best,

Mark

olan · Post by **olan** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:38 pm

MODLAB wrote:New Order â€”Â Lost Sirens

I like it! Some really nice moments, guess kinda nostalgic . Probably will be their last.

Best,

Mark

I've had this for a while but am not too impressed by it. I guess it is quite nice and poppy and inoffensive, but in reality these are tracks that were deemed not good enough to make the Waiting For The Siren's Call album, itself not really a high point of their career. I wonder if they will bother to make another record or simply play the hits live a la The Pixies instead? That seems to be where the money is these days

I picked up the latest Fuxa LP and 7" today. The album is really quite good and I am ashamed to admit appeals to me simply on the grounds of being a fabulous picture disc. Haven't listened to the single yet though.

attraction · Post by **attraction** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:51 pm

beaker73 · Post by **beaker73** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 6:48 pm

Was gonna post about my general cheer about just recieving the Kenny Tudrick record on vinyl, along with the Ken's Kitchen EP, which Fountain Records threw in for free cause there was some mix up with my order, and how good it sounds, but I'm kinda distracted by Kate's boobs in that tank top in the picture in the previous post

attraction · Post by **attraction** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 6:56 pm

Now listening to Mazzy Star girl, Hope Sandoval and her band...........

Post by **MODLAB** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 7:34 pm

New Slowness â€”Â https://soundcloud.com/slownessmusic/se ... ish-to-see

WOW! Fantastic!

Best,

M

Hedspace · Post by **Hedspace** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:41 am

MODLAB wrote:New Slowness â€”Â https://soundcloud.com/slownessmusic/se ... ish-to-see

WOW! Fantastic!

Best,

M

WOW! indeed

olan · Post by **olan** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:42 am

The Heads: Inner Space Broadcasts - Volume 1 Part 1

Arrived this morning. Just listened my way through it while setting up for the day's work. Very impressed on first listen.

Post by **spzretent** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:17 pm

George Harrison- Collected Works 1962-1990 4x CD. Amazing outtakes and unreleased tracks from those years including Beatles and All Things Must Pass material. 87 tracks from my all time favorite Beatle.

http://www.amazon.com/George-Harrison-C ... B001PRH8T8