What Are You Listening to? 2020

https://img.discogs.com/rAeWaEM_cYEg3aQ0v0y5DfHBrvc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-618659-1519449716-3867.jpeg.jpg

The Mighty Burner! (or one of them at least)

It's so good, I'd never heard this before and picked it up on a whim. Melvin Sparks is really great on gtr here.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/612sPiaCUhL.jpg

I needed a little more organ jazz in my life today.

https://img.discogs.com/z-9kv22DiOkOT7xnKPsTjkJVme0=/fit-in/596x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2074569-1557444476-3897.jpeg.jpg

Jandek - Six And Six LP (original)

The Accüsed- The Return of Martha Splatterhead

https://img.discogs.com/IUbVzPj5qWPFHkHLPY3FlB49vtg=/fit-in/600x604/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-479580-1173919893.jpeg.jpg

Swedish psych/folk/rock

https://www.discogs.com/%C3%84lgarnas-Tr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rd-Framtiden-%C3%84r-Ett-Sv%C3%A4vande-Skepp-F%C3%B6rankrat-I-Forntiden/release/6739962

https://img.discogs.com/HJu4sbuJSHJpQtCEB9NKNP3KBQc=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6739962-1588587381-3753.jpeg.jpg

jvc, I often get confused between Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff, both of them masters on the organ. I once found a copy of McGriff's "The Worm" at the beginning of an LSD trip remains a prized possession because I carried it around with me all day.

https://img.discogs.com/yvMwrXDdCm7gTUgHg5baTaixado=/fit-in/600x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4179-1374909304-7938.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/QYTCgtRR-pGIG0VsiCiH_nKhMpo=/fit-in/600x508/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2226314-1270950422.jpeg.jpg

it’s a fun tracklist, opens with “are you experienced”

then “3rd stone from the sun”

the sound quality is... not amazing

https://img.discogs.com/NgvVIETvQHizP911Sl9wrwRGNaQ=/fit-in/600x543/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9032250-1474277936-4955.jpeg.jpg

jvc, I often get confused between Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff, both of them masters on the organ. I once found a copy of McGriff's "The Worm" at the beginning of an LSD trip remains a prized possession because I carried it around with me all day.

Sorry, missed this one, but that sounds like a ringing endorsement for that album and I have added it to my list to seek out. Thx.

https://img.discogs.com/ljQthA0Z05YwDBa0OhJtjmdd2xk=/fit-in/600x611/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4834811-1540800665-1274.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/sr1nig1ZqcJSq-OA5Gwi_ApSHRk=/fit-in/600x338/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-117529-1244334503.jpeg.jpg

disc 2 (closer + singles etc)

(also me irl)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3140463746_10.jpg

Awesome riffage.

ah sleeve, that Älgarnas Trädgård album is great! i first heard of it on the NWW list, i think

Razor - Open Hostility

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81FcfdqUKGL._SL1500_.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81mYUpfDF4L._SX425_.jpg

algarnas tradgard rule. the guest vocalist on mojligheternas barn/children of possibilities later released an album with backing from arbete och fritid which i really like, though way more strictly speaking in the folk realm. also this.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61MTLFOK1GL._SX425_.jpg

There's a 2nd lp or compilation of Algarnas Tradgard taht i saw advertised a decade or so ago.
I had a track from th e1st lp pop up on my walkman while I was out during the time my phone was outof order so I wasn't listening to podcasts.
Been way too long since I listened to the cd through. THink I was turned onto it by Julian Cope.

There's also another lp by th epairing of John Renbourne and Dorris Henderson from right around the same time and with a similar feel.
I think I have both but need to look. Think both were quite good. Well Renbourne is almost inevitably and Henderson hasa really good voice. I think she wound up in the Eclection though I'm not sure tehy recorded with her.
John Renbourne Group lps are also pretty good, or utterly sublime one of those.

https://img.discogs.com/TwTyxQuzCPKzBtUXy8Kge_zIVoI=/fit-in/500x445/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2303304-1275561863.jpeg.jpg

earlnash, nice to see some Wo Fat love in here. That's a great album.

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/93528/large/original.jpg

Considering how much of a Matador fanboy I was back in 2001, I'm surprised I missed this one. That said, it's not a long lost gem, but in the moments when they aren't being a less interesting Mogwai, there are some hints at something special.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ykw7FeyQL._SS500_.jpg

Gradually getting so strung out on this, adjusting the plates of my head (in 'phones) every time I listen, which is sometimes 2-3 times in a row (it's 36" minutes, not a second wasted). Reposted from Afro-Latin etc:

in recent years, thee gloriously notorious La Montra, AKA Rita Indiana, has become better known for her dystopian novels, but now she's back with Mandinga Times, which is pretty amazing, and well-covered here, by Daniel Alarcón:
Last year, Indiana felt ready to come back to music. Much of the recording was done in the fall, just months after Puerto Rico’s most tumultuous time in recent memory, when two weeks of raucous street protests forced the resignation of the governor. The political energy of last summer is evident on the album; its songs, sung in the voice of Mandinga, Indiana’s gender-neutral alter ego, feel like anthems of discontent. The finishing touches were applied after the world had shut down, making the album feel less like a warning about a dark but still avoidable future and more like musical stenography documenting our current predicament. But, like Indiana’s earlier music, and like her work more broadly, Mandinga Times is also an immersion in hybridity: it’s merengue with a heavy-metal heart; it’s gagá mixed with thrash, reggaetón and punk, dembow, trap, and Middle Eastern melodies; it’s love songs and battle raps and protest music. When I asked Cabra to describe the album to me, he struggled. To say that it was eclectic was only half true, he said. In fact, each song was eclectic, diverse moods and styles alternating in a single track. “I find it hard to place Rita’s project within a genre,” he said. “If I describe how her music sounds, I think that takes away its power.”
That's the album's producer, Eduardo Cabra, of the legendary Puerto Rican band Calle 13:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/rita-indianas-songs-for-the-apocalypse

The Ex - How Thick You Think 7"

xp This goes into more detail, re backstories of several tracks---to my ears, the social commentary, though dealing w harshscapes etc., *sounds* soulful, lyrical, and urgent; the sadness can be sweet, but never sentimental or otherwise self-indulgent.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/rita-indiana-mandinga-times/

Also doesn't slow down much.

https://adulktlife.bandcamp.com/

Adulkt Life - guy from Huggy Bear and some guys from a band called Male Bonding

real good ass post punk

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3791015577_10.jpg
Jam City - Pillowland

*double take*

https://img.discogs.com/YQWg7Gc0Vo3dYgPgdJnqOCEy1G4=/fit-in/600x588/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-13196469-1549752202-6387.jpeg.jpg

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5929bb3eeb335119a49ec9c1/1:1/w_600/7be6cd63.jpg

I completely missed these guys when they were around, not bad. In fact, probably better than 70% of the "garage rock" I was actually listening to back in 2004-2005.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51QWv41GbVL.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/IymRhccES8C1mLp3QX3u6EBku9w=/fit-in/472x470/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-519560-1273561321.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/JBBlYXbBlhbhgYYC9icpEGpLmC0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-940208-1179551808.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/hOci3dxdmz2s6ZfnRFTx9RasO1E=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6186573-1413257156-2515.jpeg.jpg

yknow ive listened to this focus group album dozens of times but dang im really feeling and “getting” the humor this time around... this british deadpan absurdist vibe.

I watched a bunch of The Day Today clips last night and I keep picturing Alan Partidge’s disembodied head spinning around chanting “gooooaaalll”.

all my listening is way too basic for this thread

I probably listen to 5-8 records/cds/playlists a day. I usually throw up the days outlier disc instead of Molly Hatchet, Johnny Winter or Mudhoney.

Stooges - Fun House LP (Elektra 80's pressing)

all my listening is way too basic for this thread

Of Feather and Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration

https://img.discogs.com/vp0OpB5LNiITnm0vvGt-8RmEL4I=/fit-in/500x491/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9764025-1486676450-9454.jpeg.jpg