That's the best reaction you can get. I remember playing Zappa's "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" (the title track) really loud one time and my dad came running thinking it was some kind of emergency, like I'd blown up the car or something
That's the best reaction you can get. I remember playing Zappa's "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" (the title track) really loud one time and my dad came running thinking it was some kind of emergency, like I'd blown up the car or something
I'm not sure if you have a last.fm account at the moment, but if you do, you can use this thing to scrobble from your boom box until you can rip CDs again.
Ghost Train in particular was practically my favorite album for a good deal of 2008. Sort of mining the same influences as Eisley or Coldplay (I guess) only more interesting.
Listening to Kino's... Black Album, I think? It's the last album before the frontman died. I don't know how to do Cyrillic text on this thing. It's better than I remembered.
A bit ago, people were wondering about other music that sounds like Tortoise. I just stumbled upon something that fits the bill nicely. Adjusted for low noise tape EP by Bluebridge Quartet. It's free, too: https://archive.org/details/aer007
I found a used copy of mbv by My Bloody Valentine in the used music rack at CD Exchange. I was not remotely expecting that. Nor was I expecting it to be so cheap.
Honestly, a lot of prices at CD Exchange make no sense at all.
(00:00) Peter J Woods – A Piece of Monologue (00:35) Elizabeth Veldon – Five Books by Agathia Christie (10:15) Karen Gwyer – Lay Claim to My Grub (20:30) Edgardo Rudnitzky – Nocturno para 7 Monocordios (22:00) Aaron Martin – Palm Trees on the Courthouse Steps (26:30) Bruce McClure – excerpt from Vouchsafe Me More Soundpicture (Fain Make Glories) (33:30) Oddgrad – Carrie Anne (36:34) Tatiana Mercedes – Fat-tub (36:36) Glochids - Dream guitar for synth (38:30) Marie Davidson – Prélude (44:50) BABA-OEMF w/ Jaap Blonk – Dirges (45:50) Jean-Luc Gergonne – Ri Do (49:40) Ether – Dresden (excerpt) (55:52) Paul Rubenstein – Flat Bars (56:06) Liu Wai Tong – From Tak Yu Tea House to Lai Tsuen Sauna, We Look Upon for Lord’s Mercy (56:40) Andrea Borghi – Calibrated Notify (60:29) DJ Scotch Egg – Scotch Moondog (62:44) DJ Delphine Blue – Shoking Blue: The Oracle of Delphine (excerpt) (68:43) Unpleasant Nostalgia – Warm Night in Osaka
I finally got a listen to Red Barked Trees today. Overall, the album feels like an attempt on the part of old rockers to reclaim their youth. Thankfully, this goal seems to have also reconnected them with the songwriting skills they had in their youth, so the results end up working out better than you'd expect.
It's not astounding, but it's a very solid LP in terms of writing and performance. The mixing is a little dodgy, though: It seems to be aiming for the same effect as Read & Burn 03, but it kind of misses the mark and goes into over-compression territory.
Regardless, "Moreover" and "Bad Worn Thing" are great, although I prefer the live versions that I have heard.
In addition to the songs you've mentioned, I also quite like "Please Take" and "Red Barked Trees".
For the most part, I can basically overlook the mixing issues, likely because they're not bad enough to ruin the pretty good songwriting behind the softer numbers. It does mar the harder numbers a fair bit, though. For example, I feel that "Smash" is a pretty good song that got buried under a bit too much white noise.
I'm going to have to remember to check out Read & Burn 03 at some point. Thanks for the reminder.
"Smash" isn't so much buried as it is made less dynamic than it should be. There are much, MUCH noisier tracks on Send and the first two Read & Burn EPs, but all of them are mixed and recorded in a way that makes that noisiness feel like it has depth and contrast, or at least a sense that everything is supposed to be overloaded and claustrophobic. A Red Barked Tree feels nice and warm in places, where the compression works, but where it doesn't, it feels muzzy and overblown.
I was thinking about the New Radicals the other night, and I came to the conclusion that Gregg Alexander or one of his cohorts has listened to, like, a lot of Springsteen and Hall & Oates.
i picked up Xhin's Sword at the record store, a very fun, sprawling album. it's got beautiful, detailed Twerk-esque atmospherics combined with Autechre-y drum sounds, programmed with a decided techno sensibility.
i have been listening to classical curves by jam city which is an album that treads a nice line between the high-tech computerised aesthetic and more housey stuff, with cool organic-sounding structures and influences from hiphop/grime production used in an interesting way. listens like a series of snapshots that connect in unexpected ways
One of the songs on Lauren Bousfield's Avalon Vales is entitled "No More Worlds Like This, No More Days Like That". This is easily one of the coolest literary/musical references that I have yet encountered.
I like some of the whiteboy indie rock pop scene that a lot of people seem to detest. However, I don't like the "type" of indie male vocalist that seems to have become popular lately in bands like Imagine Dragons, Mumford and Sons, and who ever did that Home song.
Comments
it was lovely, my mother was mortified.
Kesha's got you covered, boo.
this album is really good
another dope corporate jam
Yeah, Black Album. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino_(album)
it's a long story
shes cool tho
highly recommended
also i really like the album art
i'm listening to Drukqs now.