What are you listening to?

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:01 pm

Haven't had a music thread in a while, and I need a break from writing about the media

So what music are you bastards buying or stealing off the Web?

As for me:

Guided by Voices, Half Smiles of the Decomposed -- last album from my favorite band of the last 20 years. A good but not great curtain call of power pop along with some quirky, introspective songs.

The Streets, A Grand Don't Come for Free -- If the Kinks made a rap album, this is what it would sound like. It follows one guy through his day as he loses 1000 pounds, takes too many pills, and deals with his girlfriend. Great samples and I like his quirky, off-kilter rapping.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell -- Turn the Strokes up to 11 and add PJ Harvey as the lead singer. Kind of uneven, but I highly recommend at least checking out the songs "Rich," "Maps," and "Y-Control."

Franz Ferndinand, self-titled -- Yeah, I bought it because of that song in Madden. Yet another group that listened to a lot 80s New Wave. "Take Her Out" is easily the best song but there's some other good stuff on here worth checking out.

Velvet Revolver, self-title -- Finally got around to buying this. I know it sounds like Use Your Illusion II.5 but 3/5 of Guns N Roses is still better than 100% of most bands. Sometimes a man just has to rock.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:07 pm

Mobb Deep "Amerikaz Nightmare": A really sweet album. It goes back to the old school Mobb Deep sound. A really underrated rap group in my opinion.

The Beatnuts "Milk Me": Another really underrated group that has never really had a hit song in the mainstream. That's a good thing to people like me who don't really dig the 'popular' rap.

The Pharcyde "Humboldt Beginnings": A group that's also on the 'underground' tip...very well written and produced.

Spooky · Post by **Spooky** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:12 pm

Hmmmm...

Well, I really do't have time to list the 8,967 songs that my iPod is shuffling through everyday, so let's just say a mix or rock, jazz, more rock, rap, metal, pop and more rock.

Diablo25 · Post by **Diablo25** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:19 pm

dbdynsty25 wrote:The Beatnuts "Milk Me": Another really underrated group that has never really had a hit song in the mainstream. That's a good thing to people like me who don't really dig the 'popular' rap.

Good call. Their first album, "Street Level", was great. Very underated. I've been listening to some old school from the late 80's early 90's...Lords of the Underground, Schooly D, Leaders of the New School, and a few more. Just some select songs I downloaded (legally

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Post by **ScoopBrady** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:19 pm

I'm listening to:

Nag, Nag, Nag by the wife - It's just one of those songs you can't stop listening to. Trust me, I've tried.

Wah, wah, wah by the overtired kid - Again it's just one of those songs you can't stop listenin to.

Lately I've been listening to a lot of Sevendust. I love Lajon's voice.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:23 pm

Diablo25 wrote:
dbdynsty25 wrote:The Beatnuts "Milk Me": Another really underrated group that has never really had a hit song in the mainstream. That's a good thing to people like me who don't really dig the 'popular' rap.
Good call. Their first album, "Street Level", was great. Very underated. I've been listening to some old school from the late 80's early 90's...Lords of the Underground, Schooly D, Leaders of the New School, and a few more. Just some select songs I downloaded (legally )

Yes it was...I actually like all their albums A LOT...Musical Massacre is probably my favorite of the bunch. Lords of the Underground...awesome group as well.

GTHobbes · Post by **GTHobbes** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:25 pm

The new John Fogerty cd is very good, if you liked CCR at all.

The new Black Keys album is also really growing on me.

And it seems like there's always some Cash in the car cd changer.

Leebo33 · Post by **Leebo33** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:18 pm

ScoopBrady wrote:Wah, wah, wah by the overtired kid - Again it's just one of those songs you can't stop listenin to.

That's much better than their last album, "Ooops, I pooped again"

TheMightyPuck · Post by **TheMightyPuck** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:19 pm

Modest Mouse -- Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Dimmu · Post by **Dimmu** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:20 pm

Megadeth - The System Has Failed

Sounds in the same vein as Countdown To Extinction and Rust In Peace. I'm diggin it.

Leebo33 · Post by **Leebo33** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:24 pm

I'm going into U2 mode now in anticipation of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. I've been listening to War and The Joshua Tree quite a bit.

James_E · Post by **James_E** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:10 pm

At work mostly cycling through my MP3 player which is a mix of metal, classic rock, rock, jazz and industrial, with classical in the mix depending on the moode.. but since the last rap/WASPS thread I've tried to find some rap I started with listening to some free samples of tunes off of Phrenology by The Roots, and I dig it. I found a site that was selling the tunes for $0.10 per tune... seems cheap and wasn't sure it was legit.

In the car I've got Foo Fighters, Unit 187, Radiohead, Dire Straits.

mobiggins · Post by **mobiggins** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:40 pm

Some very different stuff.

Stevie Wonder: I picked up a best of CD the other day, and am enjoying his aural creativity. That man had the Midas touch for about ten years there in the 70's.

Gus Viseur: Compositions 1934-1943. Accordion jazz. Played with Django Rheinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.

G. Love & Special Sauce: The Hustle. Their latest is better than their last two albums.

Orchestra Baobab: Pirate's Choice. Senegalese band whose magical 1980 session drips from the speakers like honey on this double disc.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:06 pm

Sesame Streets Greatest Hits. Volume One I do believe. I can't get enough of "C is for Cookie" and "I Love Trash".

I guess nobody bought the new Nelly cd? Sales were pretty strong here in the Lou'.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:10 pm

Wilco - A Ghost is Born - sometimes brilliant, sometimes maddening

Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man - just started listening to it though

Ryan Adams - Gold - moving backwards through his collection after listening to Rock & Roll for a long time

A bootleg Weezer CD I'm borrowing from a guy at work - These guys are, to me, a modern, more cynical Beach Boys, which leads me to...

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - going through my monthly Pet Sounds phase, just can never get enough of that album, which I consider the best album by a US group (I'm a geek).

I'm out of my talk radio rut, so I'm digging relaxing and listening to tunes during my hellish drive to and from work.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:15 pm

The Roots-- The Tipping Point

Hasn't left my car CD player since release day. It's a brilliant, brilliant record.

cootdog · Post by **cootdog** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:44 pm

ditto on GBV - Half Smiles of the Decomposed. A fitting swan song. First three songs show off their strengths: "Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)" - rousing mid-fi power pop, "Sleep Over Jack" - offbeat catchy weirdness, "Girls of Wild Strawberries" - creamy anthem glory. Second half drags, but the last song's their natural career closer.

The Television Personalities - The Painted Word. Singer's got a voice from the Billy Bragg / Paul Weller school, but not as melodic as either. Velvets-y guitar jangle backs slice-of-middle-class-English-life lyrics that read like a deeply depressed Ray Davies. Personally political in an affectingly real way.

The Fall - Bend Sinister. Cool paranoia n' precog missive from one of the modern era's most enduring unknown artists. Edges into goth-pop at points, which would be lame except that the group's trademark edginess is maintained. Mark E. Smith notes atrocity and subterfuge with seething detachment, revives Faust legend, laments the theft of the band's live backdrop, and that's just the tip of this black iceberg. Still not one of their five best records; I don't know why I'm listening to it now. Maybe it has to do with the night and fog of current events. "Why do all good reasonable people hang out in realm of dusk?"

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:46 pm

sportdan30 wrote:I guess nobody bought the new Nelly cd? Sales were pretty strong here in the Lou'.

Don't you mean CD's? Funny...usually when artists release a double CD you can buy them both for a good price (maybe 19.99 at best buy), but not Nelly...dude has two completely separate discs, both at fully price. Screw that. I downloaded them...Suit sucks. Sweat on the other hand is pretty good.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:49 pm

The Roots-- The Tipping Point

Hasn't left my car CD player since release day. It's a brilliant, brilliant record.

Kazuya · Post by **Kazuya** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:16 am

Hot damn! All of this doggone rap music being discussed and not one old fart has hopped off his ass to say it sucks.... maybe they're in the basement strumming their gee-tars?

Let's see, here's my Top 10 Beatnut jams of all time (note: I don't think anything off of Milk Me is going to make it, but I am still evaluating that album) in no particular order:

1. Becks N Branson
2. Off the Books
3. Beatnuts Forever
4. Bionic
5. Props Over Here
6. Se Acobo
7. Do You Believe
8. Party
9. Watch Out Now
10. We Got the Funk

Listening to: Zeppelin (Houses of the Holy), Bjork (Greatest Hits) and King's X (Ear Candy).

I'm also currently evaluating or re-evaluatiing: Boston (Corporate America) and Above the Law (Uncle Sam's Curse).

Current cheeseball record I'm listening to: Ian Van Dahl (ACE).

Kazuya · Post by **Kazuya** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:22 am

Brando70 wrote:Velvet Revolver, self-title -- Finally got around to buying this. I know it sounds like Use Your Illusion II.5 but 3/5 of Guns N Roses is still better than 100% of most bands. Sometimes a man just has to rock.

Really? I think it sounds like Core: B-Sides and Oddities thrown in a blender with some progressive cock rock.

I think my tastes have changed to where I can't dig Velvet Revolver. There are a few nice songs but it overall sounds like super duper Weiland rock and I just don't dig that kinda stuff anymore. A decade ago I would have gobbled it up I'm sure. I do love Big Machine though...

Airdog · Post by **Airdog** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:24 am

From the last week of listening:

1. The Postal Service - Give Up;
2. Death Cab for Cutie - pretty much the entire discography;
3. The Notwist - Neon Golden;
4. Garden State Soundtrack - Various;
5. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow;
6. Wicker Park Soundtrack - Various;
7. The Roots - The Tipping Point;
8. Outskirts: The Lost Outkast Remixes
9. Outkast/Andre 3000 - The Love Below
10. Cody ChesnuTT - The Headphone Masterpiece.

I've been listening to a ton of music lately. I know that I've missed out on some other stuff.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:29 am

Kazuya wrote:Above the Law (Uncle Sam's Curse).

Oh man...another of my favorite groups. That album is truely a classic in my book. 9 out of 10 rap fans have never heard of em.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:31 am

Well, here goes nothing

The Fall - "50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong"

2CD retro of one of Manchester's finest exports, ranging from time travel to the war in the former Yugoslavia, taking in the decline of skill in English soccer along the way (not in the same song, though). ME Smith is a miserable, surly, sarcastic get with a keen intelligence and little time for sentimentality - typical Manc, in other words.

Mogwai - "Happy Songs for Happy People"

Title might not accurately represent contents within..

Trans Am - "Liberation"

'Is Trans Am your friend ?' That indeed is the question. One thing is for certain though ; they aren't Dubya's friend.

Half Man Half Biscuit - "Back in the DHSS"

A reminder of my student days that I hadn't seen for ages..unemployed Scouse wasters sing of the delights of daytime TV, Subbuteo and the angst of modern existence (possibly). Once turned down an appearance on a Channel 4 TV program and national media exposure because it clashed with a Tranmere Rovers home game. Cheerfully deconstructed a children's TV classic with their seminal song "The Trumpton Riots".

Some other random tracks spinning through my iPod

Rammstein - "Amerika" (classic video..bodes well for new CD)

At The Drive-In - "Pattern against User"

Talking Heads - "Crosseyed and Painless" ..finally released their best live album "The name of this band is...", a mere 20-odd years after I picked up the vinyl version.

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