What are you listening to? 2011

Neil Young - On The Beach
Danava - UnonoU
Danzig - Deth Red Saboath
Bonde do Role - With Lasers
Destroyer - Kaputt
The Decemberists - The King is Dead (am liking this way more than I thought I would, really tones down all the overbearing shit that made them hard to stomach at times and has a really honest, rustic feel at times)

The 5 EPs.

fantastic mr fox - evelyn ep
morgan zarate - hookid "ep"
destroyer - kaputt

I'm mostly experimenting with stuff I haven't heard much if at all:

Deadboy & The Elephantmen (my favorite Dax Riggs stuff I've tested - discovered him a few days ago)
Dr. Dog
Black Mountain
Brant Bjork
Storm & Stress
Robert Wyatt, Gilad Atzmon, Ros Stephen - For The Ghosts Within (so much better this time around)
Laura Nyro - The Best Of (I'm gonna have to burn a car mix for my mom. amazing ILM discovery)

it has also been a good time to revive The Grifters (my favorite band)
'Give Yourself To Me' really clicked a week ago. so chill, unique kind of bluesy, dark and funky!
amazing run: 'Return to Cinder' - 'Give Yourself To Me' - 'Fixed In The Sky'

Sun City Girls - The Dreamy Draw
DJ Youngsta – Dubstep Allstars Volume 2
TVO/The Village Orchestra – BrokenRoots podcast

Listening to more of the singles poll results, until they make me gag and then I turn them off.

Well not all of them.

I looked at the singles poll results for the first time today. I like J0rdan's jpegs but I hate almost all the music in the top 77 there. I was listening to the #1 just now: Girl Unit - Wut. First of all, what sort of crappy person or group would call themselves Girl Unit. Second, the song was extremely boring. And I won't talk shit about the rest of the results because no one wants to read about a shit tsunami (plus I would have to listen to all that shitty bullfuckery).

open up and bleed

Incredible song sung by George Wassouf (1992):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKVa9FR5q30

destroyer - kaputt (boring...)
ny rock ensemble - roll over; freedomburger (?)

TOE FAT

max b & uv race

all u need btw

As far as I can tell, Rolling Pop is just for teen/chart pop. But this Danish art-popper may appeal to fans of Bat for Lashes, Marina & the Diamonds, Florence etc. Fairly zeitgeisty.

Fallulah - Only Human

I'm listening to all of the Fall's studio albums, one on each day of February.

Oh, and the new Gang of Four album. Fuck the reviews. It's pretty great.

that's a great idea re: the Fall.

Actress - Splazsh

Not quite as impenetrable as I once thought.

Really digging into Blue Oyster Cult (finally!). Particularly the first three albums and Fire of Unknown Origin. Especially loving the early 70s work though, god damn!

What I've been enjoying lately:

Ghostface - Fishscale
Shabazz Palaces - Of Light
Radian - Juxtaposition
Theo Parrish - Parallel Dimensions
Dustin Wong - Seasons
Jay Electronica - Victory
Ambrosia - Ambrosia / Life Beyond L.A.
Ches Smith & These Arches - finally out of my hands
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard A True Star
Tony Williams - Ego
Eduardo Gudin/Noticias dum Brasil - Um jeito de fazer Samba

Actress - Splazsh
Not quite as impenetrable as I once thought.

Yeah... not quite as exciting as I'd hoped for, either.

Deerhoof, Deerhoof vs Evil
James Brown, Foundations of Funk 1964-69
COH, IIRON
Natalie Beridze Tba, Forget'fulness
Rafael Toral, Space Elements Vol. III
Vessels, Helioscope
Bobby McFerrin, Vocabularies
Melvin Gibbs, Phree-Dem Downloads
Sven Kacirek, The Kenya Sessions
v/a - 14 Tracks from Planet Mu
Essie Jain, Until the Light of Morning
Bill Orcutt, A New Way to Pay Old Debts

Ariel Pink - The Doldrums
LA Vampires meet Zola Jesus
Pocahaunted - Make it Real
Anika
Warpaint - The Fool
The new Bardo Pond album
Seijaku - Mail from Fushitsusha
Third Eye Foundation - Semtex
The Fall - Levitate

Depeche Mode - World In My Eyes
Bel Canto -The Glassmaker
Happy Rhodes - Baby Don't Go
OMD - 2nd Thought
Dettinger - Tottentanz
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peek-a-boo
Carl Craig - Science Fiction
Chris and Cosey - Cords of Love
Eurythmics - Who's That Girl
Matthias Schaffhauser - Take Me To Your Heart
Seefeel - When Face Was Face
Basteroid - Against Luftwiderstand
Savage Progress - My Soul Unwraps Tonight (12" mix)

Kind of went download crazy yesterday. Listening to some or all of (some very familiar, some not at all familiar):

Elton John - Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player
Elton John - Honky Chateau
Elton John - Caribou
Elton John - Rock of the Westies
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Psychedelic Furs - s/t
Willie Rosario - Rumbero Companero
Larry Harlow - Harlow's Harem
Eddie Palmieri - Superimposition
Black Uhuru - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Black Uhuru - Red
U-Roy - Dread in a Babylon
Ali Akbar Moradi - The Ritual Maqam of the Yarsan

Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud
Steel Pulse - Tribute to the Martyrs
Citrus - Wispy, No Mercy
Asa-Chang and Junray - Jun Ray Song Chang
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - CARTOOM!

Frank Ocean - 'Nostalgia, Ultra' (OFWGKTA LP, 2011)
Tim Hecker - 'Ravedeath, 1972' (Kranky LP, 2011)
PJ Harvey - 'Let England Shake' (Universal/Island LP, 2011)
Tyler, The Creator - 'BASTARD' (OFWGKTA LP, 2010) and 'Yonkers' (track, 2011)
David Candy - 'Play Power' (Jetset/Siesta LP, 2001)
Velour - 'The Velvet Collection' (Night Slugs EP, 2010)
The Skull Defekts - 'Peer Amid' (Thrill Jockey LP, 2011)
David Thomas Broughton - 'Boating Mistakes' (Static Caravan EP, 2010)
Mellowhype - 'Blackenedwhite' (OFWGKTA LP, 2010)

Tim Hecker record is IMMENSE. Have cooled a little on PJ Harvey but I like it a lot more than I've done anything of hers in a long time. The Skull Defekts record doesn't quite hit the mark for me, was hoping for something more mesmeric now Daniel Higgs is contributing. Not bad though.

Not really feeling most of what I've been listening to. Maybe I overdid it. My most enjoyable musical experience yesterday was probably listening to Oum Kalthoum's Robaeyat El Khayam for the nth time.

Harald Grosskopf 'Synthesis' remixes
D-Day "Grape Iris"
The Dirtbombs "Party Store"
Led Er Est stuff
WBLS radio

cardiacs, spratleys japs, arvo part, mogwai, omar khorshid, esma redzepova, alistair crosbie, oum kalsoum, naif agby, strapping young lad, marina & the diamonds, carla kihlstedt & matthias bossi, olivier messiaen, mina, ravi shankar, zakir hussain, OvO, merzbow, fantomas, sammy davis jr.

the Musicians Of The Nile lp called Ocarana.

lots of folk Pat Kilroy & Shide &Acorn particularly. Waiting for the New Age cd to arrive, thought it'd be today but just got election leaflets.

White Noise An Electric Storm, not played in ages.
Ornette Coleman This Is Our Music great early 60s stuff again been sitting waiting to be played for ages.

Glaxo Babies 85-90 compi, glossier, more psychedelic material

Man, that New Age CD is awesome. Also, Pat Kilroy.

Raymond Scott, Manhattan Research Inc. 2CD (for the past two-three days)

Erhard Hirt - Gute und Schlechte Zeiten

Pretty nice.

Haha, my latest looks like something tiit would be listening to.

penguin cafe orchestra - music from the penguin cafe
sonic youth - ratter ripped

mostly absorbed in these 2 the past wk

Les Rallizes Denudes is quickly becoming one of my favorite bands that remind me of the Velvet Underground...

i need to hear some les rallizes -- where should i start?

only one I got is '77 Live, from the buzz around here I think that's pretty much the essential one, but talk to some other fans, they might know more albums...

Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx - We're New Here
The Clash - Cut the Crap
National Skyline - National Skyline
David Gilmour - David Gilmour
The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules

Lots and lots of Mecano
ABC - Lexicon and Love
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Metal Mountains - Golden Trees
Peaking Lights - 936
Willie Wright - Telling the Truth

Lexicon of Love, obviously.

The wiki entry for Les Rallizes Denudes is quite interesting:

Les Rallizes Dénudés (裸のラリーズ, Hadaka no Rallizes) were an influential, yet reclusive Japanese avant-garde band. They were formed in 1967, and the band was known for their ties to avant-garde theater groups (as typified by Shuji Terayama's troupe) and leftist political groups, as well as for their feedback-drenched live shows. The band's style is typified by simple, repeated bass lines, shrieking guitar feedback and folk arrangement.

In 1970, the original bass player Moriaki Wakabayashi was involved in the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351 orchestrated by the Japanese Red Army. Singer Takashi Mizutani was allegedly offered a role in the hijacking, but turned it down.

One learns something new every day on da ILM

The O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, and Iris DeMent's - Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.

Yeah go for77 live! It has been reissued multiple times under different names so it's kind of confusing.

cool -- so that's the same thing at the top of this page? http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/les.rallizes.denudes.html

yup, that is legit

recently played full CDs~~~

Gang Gang Dance - Kamakura
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
v/a - Total 11
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Felt - several of the reissued CDs...

I downloaded 38 Mohamed Abdel Wahab albums, some of which are compilations that include songs he wrote for other artists performed by those artists.

think you overdid it just maybe a tad

I don't think so, Abdel Wahab was extremely prolific and there's a lot to sort through. Alwan Min Angham (or something like that): especially good collection.

hermit of mink hollow, todd - Rundgren
"forget all about it" - nazz

high time, back in the usa (japanese remasters) - MC5
(sounding crispy crisp, and with a bottom end that i've never heard before. incredible)

Monk - in concert, live in tokyo

the roots - how i got over

Care Bears on Fire - Girls Like it Loud ep