What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part IV

[P-TNT]

I could never fully get into the Lost Sounds not even Black Wave....good songs here and there,  but something doesn't work for me with that band...

and I love them both... the LP's are bit too much to listen in one run but it's pretty much golden when you listen one side at once or something

Today: Marked Men, Heartburns, The Drags, Achtungs (new great band), Moderni Elama, Joy Division...

[enthusiast]

future touch is the best

listenin to the extremely annoying construction noise right outside my window

[I Am Not Marty Feldman]

I'm nursing a fair-to-middling hangover, listening to Harold Budd's The Pavilion of Dreams.  This is stupid.  Not the record.  Just... this.   

[Vinnie]

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic Great album, my favorite aside from Countdown To Ecstasy. Title track + Any Major Dude Will Tell You steal the show.

feedtime - Shovel their best record, haven't listened in a while and since I'll be seeing them soon thought i'd give it a spin

Lou Reed - The Bells, Coney Island Baby, The Blue Mask, New York, and Soul Man 12" All of these records suck except for Coney Island Baby and Soul Man. The Bells is above and beyond the worst. Lou Reed crunch time for zine coming out soon!

Ice Cube - The Predator Big fan of this one since I was very young, a very scary record. If Cube wasn't in Disney movies now I'd be scared of "winning the wet t-shirt contest"

Scarface - The Fix The coolest record the wiggers I hung out with liked. 'On My Block' is still the sickest hip hop song of the 00s.

[Shaun A]

They were playing The Dan this afternoon when I was buying car paint. Made the whole process super rad!

Biff Bang Pow! - Debasement Tapes. Dunno what this is as I found it on Soulseek Records. It seems to be super early Biff Bang Pow recordings. There's some great stuff on here - some great TV Personalities / Times type moments. Really really great

[smiller]

They were playing The Dan this afternoon when I was buying car paint. Made the whole process super rad!

Biff Bang Pow! - Debasement Tapes. Dunno what this is as I found it on Soulseek Records. It seems to be super early Biff Bang Pow recordings. There's some great stuff on here - some great TV Personalities / Times type moments. Really really great

It's a comp & at least some of it is old - some of the songs I'm not sure when they're from. But yeah, I LOVE that era of Biff Bang Pow. 85 - 87 you can't go wrong. Seems like due to his involvement with Creation, McGee never really pushed his own band so they remain pretty underrated.

[hillside_wrangler]

I'm nursing a fair-to-middling hangover, listening to Harold Budd's The Pavilion of Dreams.  This is stupid.  Not the record.  Just... this.  

Budd rules. Don't know where my copy of The Pearl went, but I miss it. I heartily endorse the Budd albums/collabs I've heard: The Pearl (with Eno), Pavilion, and Plateaux of Mirrors (also with Eno). Apparently he did a record with Gavin Bryars and Jon Hassell (whose Dream Theory in Malaya I've been rotating lately) which I'd like to find. Hector Zazou from ZNR is another collaborator I'm curious about.

Peter Sjardin - Africa Is Calling. Not unlike the Hassell album I mentioned earlier in that it uses a lot of layered and processed environmental sounds. The sampling may be a little more "raw" (i.e., discernible) in places. Very very good ('specially side 1).

Dick Raaijmakers - The Complete Tape Music. CD from 1998 = Discovery of the year. Raaijmakers was a founding figure of the vanguard of Dutch tape composers working in the 1960s. Some of his early stuff could be compared to Raymond Scott's more experimental pieces from the same time period, but Raaijmakers's compositions tend to be more minimal, a bit leaner, and somewhat less playful (although not without a sense of humor). A few of the more stripped-down compositions might even be comparable to contemporary guys like Joe Colley or Jason Lescalleet.

Sandoz Lab Technicians - S/T LP. NZ improv on Siltbreeze, an excellent companion to the records already mentioned.

The Bats - Daddy's Highway. Mandatory.

Also listening to a bunch of rips of nature/environmental sound cassettes. Loon Talk is ruling the house right now...

[SSR]

Detective s/t LP
  Much better than this other album of theirs. City + cocaine vibes abound.  ...or maybe not better than their other record!

Them - Backtrackin LP
  Odds & sods collection. Great band! Why they dont get the run around here that say the Equals get is puzzling. Is it because the Equals are perceived as obscure and Them not?

Fugs - 1st Album LP
   Great great great!

[Mark of the Beast]

I've been thrashing that Sweet Tooth demo I found in the Demo Tape thread and dowloaded yesterday. Killer stuff. Right now I'm reposting with the Hard On's Love is a Battlefield of Wound Hearts and a hearty bifta while my wife is out drinking. Hi there. How are you then?

[allergictofun]

They were playing The Dan this afternoon when I was buying car paint. Made the whole process super rad!

Biff Bang Pow! - Debasement Tapes. Dunno what this is as I found it on Soulseek Records. It seems to be super early Biff Bang Pow recordings. There's some great stuff on here - some great TV Personalities / Times type moments. Really really great

It's a comp & at least some of it is old - some of the songs I'm not sure when they're from. But yeah, I LOVE that era of Biff Bang Pow. 85 - 87 you can't go wrong. Seems like due to his involvement with Creation, McGee never really pushed his own band so they remain pretty underrated.

From what I gather, at the time most people didn't really take them very seriously either. They're great until he got into Neil Young.

[DaveK]

Fugs - 1st Album LP
   Great great great!

I was playing this on the way to work - Slum Goddess is just tops.

My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realize
Melvins - Lysol
Mark Hollis - S/T [the cool down]

[Whet Bull]

I loves da (Harold) Budd.  Pavilion of Dreams got a lotta play 'round here last year.  Feel better, Eric Cecil.

[Damn]

I'm more of a The Pearl guy if I'd have to decide between the mentioned. Concerning that other dude Hassell, I massively like to listen to Aka / Darbari / Java.

[Damn]

Cockney Rejects Greatest Hits I & II - best after work music there is.
Blitz All Out Attack - best after work music there is.
Blitz' New Age is the current "ambivalent fave" in this household. Still not decided.
some Fall
John Cale Guts and 2 other albums I may mention in the next days but not now.
Nico Desertshore - kinda forgot that I should remind myself more often about how much I love her oeuvre.
Mekons Where Were You - a really perfectly interesting song on earth.
Coil and Sleazy solo A LOT AGAIN.
Rudi Peni
Sebadoh Smash and Bubble 'n Breeders Pod - both OK and can't stand Albinio
Stone Harbour
Milk Music - really cool stuff.
Rolling Stones Connection - dunno, enjoy this a lot. no reason, just it.

[erickelric]

Sandoz Lab Technicians - S/T LP. NZ improv on Siltbreeze, an excellent companion to the records already mentioned.

thassa gut one

Pulled out a Flies Inside the Sun CD to listen to the other day. Luv dat NZ almost-song 'prov.