What are you listening to right now?

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:09 am

Listened to Kreator last night for the first time in years... a little KReator, some Slayer (Dave Lombardo kicks ass! such a heavy but funky player!) and some Laundry... it was heavy night... I was all inspired by Revolver's "top 50 heavy bands of all time"... they listed Black Sabbath as number one... soundgarden # two... I'm not so sure about that, but it's a pretty fun list.. and got me in the mood to listen to some heavy ass shit.

Of course, I polished off my listening by reading the Crue biography... but that is for another thread...

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:50 am

i've been listening to a lot of danzig lately. he rocks so hard.

deshead · Post by **deshead** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:15 am

Generic wrote:
tviyh wrote:
Poor June wrote:a lot of lounge covers of stuff like...shit like that
yeah, that was my favourite song too.
Dont' forget the follow-up Tuxicity.

Shut up .. Shut UP .. SHUT UP!!
Attention Buddy. SHUT UP ... AND STEP AWAY FROM THE DRUM KIT.

Generic wrote:The sad thing is that I'm not joking.

No way that's sad.

Cheese's Hot For Teacher is one of the best covers ever.

Heh, imagine a Richard Cheese Coverfight .... meta.

Poor June · Post by **Poor June** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:35 am

haha i'm sorry it was hilarious... i couldn't help but listen to it... the cover of Closer was hilarious...

anyways on a side note... i haven't been able to stop listenin' to loose laces - red skates song... since i heard it... ahhhh!!! it's in my head!!!

Gazelles · Post by **Gazelles** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:15 pm

I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, Yo La Tengo.

Freddielove · Post by **Freddielove** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:11 pm

Great album. I have a old tape (yeah cassette tape) from years ago with ICHTHBAO on one side and De La Soul, Stakes is High on the other. They still remind me of each other.

Right now listening to Domenico + 2, Sincerley Hot. The group includes Moreno Veloso, son of Caetano Veloso, who you may know.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:31 pm

sigur ros - svern g englar (there may be a typo)
this song makes me think of the dead of the winter, in the night time, snow falling, looking out the window, everything is silent.
awesome.
i saw a concert video on the net somewhere. the dude plays those guitar bits using a violin bow. great guitar sound.
-bill

c.layne · Post by **c.layne** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:15 pm

heuristics - i've seen them live twice, and i must say if you ever get the chance to see them, DO IT! one of the most amazing live shows ever. not so much by what happens on stage, but the power of the music is insane. the last song they play, which i can't spell without looking up the character codes, is by far the most intense musical listening experience i've ever had. i couldn't even drive home for a good 30 minutes after the show ended. word.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 1:24 am

<a href="http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/christmas_2004.html">if brian eno and mc3po had kids and named them "rufus"</a>

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:39 pm

I've been listening to Motley Crue, specifically their first two albums, as I simultaneously read the crue book "dirt"... total party/drug/sex music....ended up going and seeing a band play last night, they were doing tragically hip, cult, jcm, kiss, stuff like that. Had a blast, guitarist's tone was deadly, he's Scott Heatley from Heatley Guitars ... and he was rippin it up last night too!! So, I was digging them, and the Crue all week end... now my neck is killing me!!

j$ · Post by j$ » Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:41 pm

Went to see the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players live last night. Fantastic and fun. They handed round cake. I sat next to Tina, mother and projectionist, in the front row. They wore gold lame, even the 9 year old drummer. They played great songs and chatted. The father got a bit upset when someone implied he looked like Rik Moranis. In short a quietly life-changing experience.

And I bought the album (slideshows from Seattle Vol. 1). Wow. You must get it. It is truly amazing. I meant it, man.

Until Spencer Redmon. grows up to be a turbo-preteen-drum-sensation, The TFSPs are my new favourite family band. Expect to hear the weirdy pretty pop influence in my music soon.

http://www.slideshowplayers.com

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:09 pm

antonymic wrote:heuristics - i've seen them live twice, and i must say if you ever get the chance to see them, DO IT!

man, i get a feeling like that just listening to the album.
their webpage says they're not touring now, but somebody let me know if they do come to the states...

-bill

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:45 am

I've ben listening to Niveous's (or should that be Niveous' , or even Niveouses?) album 'Organisations'. It's well worth a spin. Good work, though imho it would be even better with big production.

http://www.geocities.com/termitehollow/ ... tions.html

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:08 pm

See, I have an obsessive personality at times. Yeah, I BET that's a shock... like as if I'm the only one here to have THAT trait!!! ....(Obsessionfight anyone?)

Anyway, I'm STILL listening to Crue. If you told me last year that I' d have listened to "Too Fast For Love" ten times in a row, digging it more and more...I'd thought you were nuts.

I love so much about this album!! The others have moments, Dr. Feelgood is a pretty solid album, but the first one has so much arrogance, blind ignorance, and you can hear the weed in Tommy' Lee's drums, the alcohol raging through Mick Mars, the coked out vocal efforts of Neil and Mr. Sixx's total musclehead punk mentality. The speed up, they slow down, they rage. It's a dry mix, very similar in tone to Kill 'Em All, cept more bass... a meaty bass... sounds like a slightly overdriven ampeg... although I don't think he used those, but that raw, heavy tone...and Tommy' Lee has ideas!! That guy is the real musician in the bunch... so much flair, and clever little ideas that push the drums from not just this hard thumping pulse machine, but also a melodic voice. The band says they have no memory of the album, they were so wasted at the time.. but it sounds like it would have been a kick ass party to groove to these tunes in some LA club in the early 80's.... yeah, not done the book yet either!

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:46 pm

i'm currently listening to grief. atonal half-riffs played at glacier speed while the vocalist moan gargles lines like
"in my sleep
unsuspecting
put a gun to my head
I hate my pathetic life".

and it's totally sweet.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:40 pm

earlier i was listening to my new mortician cd -- a re-release of two classic albums (hacked up for barbecue and zombie apocalypse) on one disc. since this was the band that served as the primary inspiration for my song "papercuts and spilling guts", i was amused to see that within this collection there was one song that's a full thirteen seconds *shorter* than mine. if memory serves correctly, the full lyrics to that song ("ripped in half") are "ripped in half/left to die/the body bleeds/from both sides".

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 8:38 pm

Old Time Relijun. Hooooooly shit. I love bands that hate me.

Poor June · Post by **Poor June** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:04 pm

i've been addicted to E (the solo project the dude does from the Eels)

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:43 pm

Poor June wrote:i've been addicted to E

haha that explains a lot

Poor June · Post by **Poor June** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:59 pm

tviyh wrote:
Poor June wrote:i've been addicted to E
haha that explains a lot

hahaha... what's that supposed to mean!?!?

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:05 pm

tviyh wrote:earlier i was listening to my new mortician cd -- a re-release of two classic albums (hacked up for barbecue and zombie apocalypse) on one disc. since this was the band that served as the primary inspiration for my song "papercuts and spilling guts", i was amused to see that within this collection there was one song that's a full thirteen seconds *shorter* than mine. if memory serves correctly, the full lyrics to that song ("ripped in half") are "ripped in half/left to die/the body bleeds/from both sides".

the best thing about mortician is either their absurdly overdrawn sampling or their absolute refusal to progress musically. either way they're awesome.

as far as song lengths go, you've heard napalm death's 'you suffer', right?

nicegeoff · Post by **nicegeoff** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:56 am

The Unicorns - I guess they're old hat now, but I finally got around to hearing them and they are pretty amazing. Dirty guitars, out-of-tune synths, exquisite drumming, and wonderfully boyish singing,

Jenny Toomey Sings the Songs of Franklin Bruno - If there was one thing I didn't like about Franklin Bruno, it would be his (sometimes) off-key singing voice, but this is all the expertly written and arranged songs but with Jenny Toomey fronting...She has a perfect voice for Bruno's lyrics.

LMP - Century of a Song - One song from every year of the century. Not all of it is that great, but there are definite moments of brilliance.

The United States of America - If anyone has an appreciation for 60s psychedelia, they should already know about this...But yeah...a perfect blend of pop and chaos with no guitars, but at least three of them play the calliope...synthesizers, ring modulators...music concrete...

Jeremy Enigk - Return of the Frog Queen - I'm not really into Sunny Day Real Estate, but apparently this is the guy from that band...It's got lush orchestration and kind of screamy, delicate vocals...and it's a pop gem, no doubt....

Jeff Lynne - This dude is pretty great. The Idle race is brilliant, and the Electric Light Orchestra has definitely produced about 20 perfect pop songs in their day...And to think, I avoided them for so long because of their gay name.

Erin McKeown - A less wild, but all-the-while still fantastic version of nellie mckay...kind of...in the young female open-minded-genre singer songwriter clever lyrics pretty voice kind of way....