Whatcha listening to 2009?

12 Songs, Randy Newman
the "Jumpin' in the Woodshed" or whatever it's called disc of the Quincy Jones boxed set
Passing Ships and Judgment, Andrew Hill
More Songs About Buildings and Food, Talking Heads
Robin Trower Live!

dont care

lol just playing

im bumping

kardinal offishal - set it off remix feat. dr dre and the clipse
ricky blaze - feel free feat. ron browz
the-dream - rockin that shit

and countless gucci mane traxx

today been listening to:

Minnie Riperton - Come Into My Garden (Finally answers my question as to where the sample in Nas' "Where Y'all At" is from)
Q-Tip - The Rennaisance (Liking this better but still not overwhelmed by it)
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Janelle Monae - The Audition
Calle 13 - Los de Atras Vienen Conmigo
Platinum Pied Pipers - Triple P

"Let the Beat Build" multiple times
The Meters
A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Miles Davis

Zomby - Where Were U in '92? (I think this is pretty great even though I was about 8 years old in 1992 - I'm sure others may find it a pointless nostalgia fest).

Earth - The Bees Made Honey... (basically my go-to record when I don't know what to listen to)

Sunn0))) - Flight of the Behemoth (picked this up for £5 in the Zavvi clearout. Still think BlackOne is their definitive record)

Why? - Alopecia (my gf got this up the other day. Really don't understand the appeal)

Future Islands - Wave Like Home (I really like this. Indie-Electro-Pop with Springsteen-ish vocals.)

Robert Forster, The Evangelist (pretty good, as per usual, but nothing to really write home about. i miss Grant...)

Marlo Thomas and Friends, Free to Be...You and Me (great fun!)

Still really enjoying the DJ Sprinkles album.

Checking out Mountain People - which I prefer to a lot of the deep house revivalism.

Peverelist I wished I'd found before - Infinity is Now is classic.

Rollmottle's remix of Radiohead's Reckoner is great. I wish that guy released more stuff!

Bytetone's Death of a Typographer - best glitch album in a long time.

Finally like everyone else, Merriweather Post Pavillion.

Jóhann Jóhannsson, Fordlandia
Freddie Hubbard, Ready For Freddie
Bitter Funeral Beer Band w/ Don Cherry & K.Sridhar, Live in Frankfurt 1982

huh, these sound all great!

moonshake - eva luna

"Dear Science" - TV on the radio (forgive me, I'm late)
"Spacemate" - Sudden Sway
"Motor City" - Age of Chance
"Dance away the terror" - Capitol Years

And it's good to be back, it's good to be back...

Trinity - Shanty Town Determination
Cat Power - Jukebox
Nisennenmondai - Neji/Tori
Basic Channel - BCD-2
Disco Not Disco 1974-1986
Ultimate Spinach - Best of
Miles Davis/Stan Getz/Lee Konitz - Conception

yazoo - you and me both
john coltrane - my favourite things

PPP - Abundance mixtape
Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'N All
Company of Thieves - s/t
A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack
Alela Diane - To Be Still
Ella Fitzgerald - Best of the Songbooks
Gilberto Gil - Cidade do Salvador
The October Trio + Brad Turner - Looks Like It's Going to Snow
Saxon - Into the Labyrinth
Chicago - Live at Carnegie Hall (IV)
Anthony Hamilton - The Point of It All

The Dirtbombs, We Have You Surrounded
Monster Magnet 25, Tab
Funkadelic, Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
The Posies, Frosting on the Beater
Urge Overkill, Saturation

This week so far:

Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO - New Geocentric World of Acid Mothers Temple
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Antony and the Johnsons - Another World EP
Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Mission of Burma - Four Hands EP
The Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Thom Yorke - The Eraser Rmxs

Dorothy Ashby - Afro-Harping
Erkin Koray - Elektronik Turkuler
Gas - Konigsforst and Zauberberg
Nilsson Sings Newman

"Now That We Found Love" (12-inch version), Third World (this is so monstrous, I don't see how anyone could put it on without blasting it from the speakers)
Specialty Records Greatest Hits (Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Jimmy Liggins, Larry Williams, etc.)

The The - Soul Mining
The Black Dog - The Book of Dogma
Cassy - 2008 RV Mix
Original Junglist Vol's 1 & 2
Donato Dozzy - Labyrinth Mix

Movement. Meh.

Though it's funny how the vocals are buried. Maybe Hannett didn't like his lyrics.

Miranda Lee Richards - Light of X
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
Fever Ray - S|T
Alela Diane - To Be Still
The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules

I'm digging the new Andrew Bird and Animal Collective... it makes me cautiously optimistic that 2009 will provide me with material that I can actually enjoy.

I would like to emphasize the word 'cautiously'.

The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules

This is awful.

new Animal Collective = is that all there is? BFD!

Buzzcocks, Antony & the Johnsons, Roy Orbison, Rokia Traore, Toto Guillaume, The Twins, Mary Hampton, Cappo, Scorzayzee, Lambchop, Mott The Hoople, Planet Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, that Roska FACT mix... and, inevitably, Animal Collective.

Computer World, Kraftwerk
Full Force, Art Ensemble of Chicago

The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules

This is awful.

― Moka, Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:13 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Untrue!

Dorothy Ashby-The Rubaiyat of...
Animal Collective-MPP
Byetone-Death of a Typographer
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou-The Vodoun Effect
100 Flowers-100 Years of Pulchritude
Group Bombino-Music of Niger
Chris Carter-The Space Between
Jonas Reinhardt-s/t
Senking-Silencer

Asmus Tietchens box

and Runaway Child by the Necessaries over and over

miles davis - a tribute to jack johnson (over and over, in my car)
the-dream - love hate
fabric 43 - metro area
john fahey - death chants, breakdowns and military waltzes
a tribed called quest - low end theory
rotary connection - hey, love
dead can dance - toward the within
fennesz - black sea

good stuff there, Matt. shame about your elitist last.fm hatred.

Esoteric, The Maniacal Vale

jay reatard - singles 06-07
lou reed - animal serenade
medicine - shot forth self living
e-40 - in a major way

Xymore Quintet, s/t (2007; has got a good funked-up version of Radiohead's "Optimistic" on it)
Various, Dirt Beneath the Daydream: A Collection of Sound from Aotearoa/New Zealand (very much of the "sound" is el.guitar-based; then again, Bruce Russell's track is an imrov "for Tibetan singing bowl & spring reverb":)
Agog, Some Frump Punk
John Zorn/ George Lewis/ Bill Frisell, News For Lulu
&
Record Label Records' upcoming vinyl releases sampler (Lich; Tomoroh Hidari; Nommo Ogo; Contagious Orgasm)

Wighnomy Bros/Robag Wruhme - Remikks Potpourri II
Fennesz - Black Sea
Dominik Eulberg - Heimlische Gefilde

Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc.
Pontiak - Sun on Sun
Joe Gibbs Productions
The Alps - III
Nana Vasconcelos - Africadeus
Nisennenmondai - Neji/Tori
Justice - Cross
Booty Classics Throwback
Trinity - Shantytown Determination
Basic Channel - BCD-2
Discco Not Disco 1974-1986

Full Force, Art Ensemble of Chicago

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, January 23, 2009 11:34 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

Great record.

The new Marianne Faithfull, Easy Come Easy Go. Most especially Sing Me Back Home with Keith Richards for historical and musical qualities.

Freddie Hubbard, First Light (falling for this stuff more and more)
Animal Collective, Water Curses EP
Imitation Electric Piano, Bloe It Up, Burn It Down, Kick It 'Til It Bleeds
Steve Reich, Daniel Variations (darn, this sounds boring)
Professor Longhair

I - Between Two Worlds
Candlemass - Essential Doom
ESG - A South Bronx Story
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Living Things - Ahead of the Lions
Wolves in the Throne Room - Malevolent Grain
Portishead - Dummy
Portishead - Portishead

I'm just now listening to that Neon Neon album from last year. "I Told Her on Alderaan" would've been on several mix cds last year if I'd bothered to hear it in a timely manner.

The Blues and The Abstract Truth
Sing Me A Song of Songmy
Who's Next
Stormwatch
One World

12 Songs, Randy Newman

I have totally been in a Randy Newman mood lately. (Guys, guess what, the 70's are back, with all its old sorrows wrapped in a kerchief tied 'round a stick). 12 Songs is the only one I haven't been in the mood for again lately. Maybe I've heard it too much. Maybe I prefer the first album, with those songs that late at night can lay you under the floorboards.

Anyway.

Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws
Jeff Buckley - Live at Sin-e (double-disc version)
Sam Phillips - Don't Do Anything
Dodos - Visiter
Callers - Fortune
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Jolie Holland - The Living and the Dead
Wavves

Unknown Session, Duke Ellington
The Raincoats

Thanks for repping, Hurting and Kenan!

I sort of forgot I had a copy of On the Rise here, then idly looked at a big stack of LPs in the living room, so:
"Just Be Good to Me," The SOS Band

Just as I was starting to think "Greatest record ever?" about that nine-minute track, I found this 12-inch:
"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick"/"There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards"

Then (I was discouraged by you!):
"Wheel Me Out"/"Hello Operator . . . I Mean Dad . . . I Mean Police . . . I Can't Even Remember Who I Am"

This makes me wanna take a drive, but the car I "have access to" isn't equipped with a record player:
Little Feat
"I haven't made sense in so long, I almost quit tryin'."

I sure don't owe that record anything; I've gotta so much pleasure out of it and I think I paid a buck for it in Philly one time.

dj paul scale-a-lot
green day 21st century breakdown
staff benda bilili tres fort
courtney love nobody's daughter

^^^
these are all good, to varying degrees.

She and Him - volume one, The Bird and the Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future, Bat for Lashes - Two Suns

Mouthus/Axolotl - 12-25-04

great LP

jericho jones - junkies, monkeys & donkeys

it's in the high 70s, there's no humidity, this album is fucking PERFECT right now. go download "there is always a train." or the whole album.

it is like totally the best israeli psych/acid rock/heavy rock/hippie crossover album.

thomas fehlmann - visions of blah

Evie Sands - Any Way That You Want Me
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Against the Wind
Thomas & Richard Frost - Visualize
Gary Ogan & Bill Lamb - Portland
Yura yura Teikoku - Sweet Spot

Norbert Möslang & Andy Guhl - Deep Voices
Dr. Hari Simran Singh Khalsa - Therapeutic Gong Volume 1
Harry Bertoia - All And More / Passage
Woebot CD
Shiina Ringo - Superficial Gossip
Kim Wilde - "The Touch"

michael and maxwell

check this out:

jupiter black ft fred ventura - hold me

Impact! (Soul Jazz comp)
Wayne Shorter - Native Dancer
Mikey Dread - African Anthem Deluxe
Weather Report - Sweetnighter
Jan Hammer - First Seven Days
Heart - Little Queen
Gil Evans Orchestra - Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
Einsturzende Neubauten - The Jewels
Glenn Gould - Bach Well Tempered Klavier Book One

Pastels/ Tenniscoats, Two Sunsets
Cat Power, Jukebox
Lee Konitz, Sax Of A Kind (Disc 3)
Heiner Goebbels, The Italian Concerto

Here's what I can recall from recent weeks:

Earth - Radio Earth ("The Driver" and "Engine of Ruin" in particular)
Suishou No Fune - Where the Spirits Are
LSD March - Under Milk Wood
J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid
Echo and the Bunnymen - s/t
The Field - new album, whatever it's called ("Leave It" is AWESOME)
Grouper - Dragging a...
Keiji Haino - Keeping On Breathing
The Juan Maclean - new album
Merzbow - Senmaida
KK Null - Kosmik Engine
Dirty Three - Horse Stories
The-Dream - Love Vs Money
Young Jeezy - The Recession

e.s.t - Leucocyte
Grupo Fantasma - Sonidos Gold
Pupy y Los Que Son Son - Tranquilo Que Yo Controlo
Los Soneros All Stars Featruing Cesar "Pupy" Pedroso - La Timba Soy Yo
Ned Rothenberg - Inner Diaspora (which I had stopped liking, but which I happily like again)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb - Mayim Rabim
Shiina Ringo - Sanmon Gossip

john coltrane - meditations
townes van zandt- live at the old quarter
v/a - going back to tifton (blues field recordings on flyright.)

Pastels/ Tenniscoats, Two Sunsets

How is this^?
<3 Tenniscoats btw. And the Pastels too i guess.

Mr Fingers - Introduction
Peter Van Hoesen RA

This year has been all about Billy Joe Shaver, the Sonic's Rendezvous Band box set, playing the Royal Trux song "Juicy, Juicy, Juice" on repeat, LATE '60S WILSON PICKETT, and Grant Green because the record store down the street doesn't stock any of the other jazz guitar guys I've been looking for; not even Charlie Christian. Dude. Oh and um, the Mnemonists and Biota a lot, and Smegma. And the Maths Balance Volumes Lower Forms LP though maybe I shouldn't count that cuz of personal bias and also I had to leave that in America. Plus a few dozen other fleeting obsessions.

Distinct lack of Happy Flowers in my life TBH..!

Grouper - Dragging a...

How is her recorded output? I saw her live and was kinda bored but thought there was potentially enough there for me to "get it" if I had an lp.

Well... I haven't seen her live (ask me again in 3 weeks after ATP NY 2009), but her recorded stuff is really really great. From what I understand she's gotten progressively more "song" oriented as the albums have gone by -- I'm not the best person to ask as I haven't followed her career in any sort of linear fashion, though. All I know is that most of her stuff sounds almost ghostly, barely there, like a whisper through the clouds. And reverbed waaaaay the fuck out.

I'd say last year's album, the Dead Deer one, is as good a place to start as any. Speaking from experience, of course.

Rose Kemp
Totalselfhatred, Spirituelles Equilibrium
Witchery, Disturbing the Beast
My Brightest Diamond, Gone Away
Made Out of Babies
Krisiun
Madder Mortem
CHTHONIC
Ava Inferi, Last Sign Of Summer
Gillian Welch, Orphan Girl
Hate Eternal, To Know Our Enemies
Bloodbath, Blasting The Virginborn

A few of the later Clinic albums that I never bothered with
The unreleased Cardinal reunion tracks
Haysi Fantayzee "Battle Hymns for Children Singing"
Love "Forever Changes" the alternate mix thing
Sparks "A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing"
Telex "Sex"
The Bats "The Guilty Office"
The Velvet Underground "Squeeze"

Tom Ze - Best of : Brazil Classics Vol. 4
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Bob Dylan - Saved
Vampire Weekend - s/t
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings and All

Pastels/ Tenniscoats, Two Sunsets

How is this^?
<3 Tenniscoats btw. And the Pastels too i guess.

I like Two Sunsets mighty fine. Don't know actually what to compare it to - haven't heard much else by Tenniscoats, except for a couple of tracks.

Lately:
Jobriath (some of it sounds pretty good :)
B'Dylan, Together Through Life (Eh, doesn't quite, er, grab me)
Smõuk, Tere tulemast koju ('stonian stoner rock, b'sically; half-good intermittently)
Nancy Elizabeth, Wrought Iron (Wheew... )

rudi arapahoe, only just found this, i am slow, so so beautiful, like an modern update of 'home is in your head'?

Nancy Elizabeth

as in Cunliffe? i have an EP of hers which i really dig, must check this out

^The same person, apparently.

finally tracked down and bought a copy of buckingham/nicks. what a relief after years of listening to a 128kbps rip!
terrific sleeve to hold and look at, too. and a lyricsheet!
happy man, me.

Abner Jay
Tonetta777

cos of the other thread :

dusk - the the (a perfect headphone album)
nakedself - the the (which i have just realised is listed in WMA as 'genre = britpop')

Florence Price / Mississippi River Suite

Rebecca Clarke / Viola Sonata

Terry Callier

Judee Sill “Emerald River Dance” & Harry Nilsson “I’ll Never Leave You” on repeat obsessively

Maurice Ravel / Gaspard de la nuit (esp. Ondine)

Beatles reissues

Hildegard von Bingen

Tonetta777
Moebius - Kram (2009)
Victor Jara - Pongo En Tus Manos Abiertas
http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Cut-Up-A-History-Of-The-Scratch/release/584424
Mark Ford / Drake-Chenault Enterprises - History of Rock and Roll Time Sweep
http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Protest-Songs-Smithsonian-Folkways/dp/B001Q704WA
Laurie Spiegel
X Minus 1, Dec 12, 1956: 'Hostess' by Isaac Asimov
Beethoven, 9th, Ferenc Fricsay & the Berliner Philharmoniker
Karma Moffett - Golden Bowls of Compassion

Murderbot's Belgian Rave mix. ITS FUCKING AWESOME.

new order from blogspot
neil young from doomandgloomfromthetomb
the baseball project - frozen ropes and dying quails
Lady Gaga (yes, i am ill in the head)
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey - here and now
Duran Duran - remixes and night versions
Ornette - Science Fiction Sessions
the beaTles - past masters, please please me

Burzum & Mayhem

Feelies remasters
Beatles remasters

(Guess which is more impressive...)

D'oh! The former of course. I hope they're in the local shops 'cause I'm going into town and want to return with both of them (bought Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and Abbey Road two days ago ;)

Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
Arvo Pärt - Alina
The xx - xx

Oneman - Autumn Mix
DJ Pete - Wax Treatment Podcast Vol 1
Nuel - Mnml Ssgs Mix
Triosk meets Jan Jelinek, 1+3 + 1
Various Sonic Sunset shows
Eno / Budd - The Pearl

Blech II: Blechsdöttir
Coldcut - 70 Minutes Of Madness
Bvdub - We were the sun

Fricara Pacchu - Lucy
Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts
Foetus - Limb
Parmegiani - INA.GRM 2cd thing
Love - s/t, Da Capo
Bad Brains - Banned in DC
Ohi Ho Bang Bang - The Three

TBA (Natalie Beridze) - Size And Tears/ Alice in Wonderland
Siouxsie - Mantaray
Various - The Very Best of Ethiopiques
Bad Apples - The Autumn People
Polpo Motel (selftitled)
Kelpe - Cambio Wechsel
Michiko Minakata - 54321~Chorale
Annie Whitehead/ Bill Wells/ Barbara Morgenstern/ Stefan Schneider - Paper of Pins

This week's mainly been:
Little Feat
David Sylvian - Manofon
Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
Bergraven - Till Makabert Vässen
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
a Billie Holiday compilation
Kompakt Total 10

The E.N.D. just now.

lester young, small group recordings 1936-1944
miles, nefertiti
outkast, aquemini
r kelly, chocolate factory
usher, confessions

Philip Sherburne - TimeCast 02

From last year, but it's a goodie. Loving me dubstep mixes at the moment.

man, you're watching too much Lost