I just thought we should have a forum to say what music we are liking right “now”. Ok so tomorrow we might decide we actually don’t like it that much but what are you really enjoying now. I don’t know about anyone else but every time I discover a new band or genre then I will listen to it endlessly for weeks. Here is what I have been liking a lot at the moment.This week I have been mostly listening to……Tricky - Knowle west boyThis year seems to be a return Trip hop as Tricky, Portishead and Massive attack all have new albums out MA‘s isn’t out yet though). Tricky’s first new album in 5 years and I think it is a return to form. Constantly referencing back to the 90’s with the title(all three groups were from Bristol), lyrics such as “remember boy you’re a superstar! And a half second sample of a Portishead song amongst other things. Really liking this album.Gary Numan- entire back catalogue.You tend to fall into two camps over Gary Numan, you either have never heard that much of him and you don’t think he’s much good or you are an obsessive fan who tries to get hold of everything he’s ever done from his well known hits to his idiosyncratic and obscure work. I am now firmly of the latter and have been trying to get hold of everything he has done. Its amazing the diversity of groups that have covered his work, from NIN, Marilyn Manson, Foo Fighters to Basement Jaxx and the Sugerbabes having massive number 1 hits with reworkings of his songs. I now have all of his albums and really like ‘the John Peel sessions’ because its shows his early synth-pop-rock right up to his present nu-metal industrial type stuff. One thing I really like is the strange titles of a lot of his songs such as ME! I DISCONNECT FROM YOU, are “friends” electric, I nearly married a human and Remember I was vapour. Anyway in the words of everyone who I have been talking to recently….STOP TALKING ABOUT GARY NUMAN!Right I’ll leave it at that for now, what are other people listening to at the moment (it don’t have to have just come out, just as long as you have just started listening to it)?
I just thought we should have a forum to say what music we are liking right “now”. Ok so tomorrow we might decide we actually don’t like it that much but what are you really enjoying now. I don’t know about anyone else but every time I discover a new band or genre then I will listen to it endlessly for weeks. Here is what I have been liking a lot at the moment.
This week I have been mostly listening to……
Tricky - Knowle west boy
This year seems to be a return Trip hop as Tricky, Portishead and Massive attack all have new albums out MA‘s isn’t out yet though). Tricky’s first new album in 5 years and I think it is a return to form. Constantly referencing back to the 90’s with the title(all three groups were from Bristol), lyrics such as “remember boy you’re a superstar! And a half second sample of a Portishead song amongst other things. Really liking this album.
Gary Numan- entire back catalogue.
You tend to fall into two camps over Gary Numan, you either have never heard that much of him and you don’t think he’s much good or you are an obsessive fan who tries to get hold of everything he’s ever done from his well known hits to his idiosyncratic and obscure work. I am now firmly of the latter and have been trying to get hold of everything he has done. Its amazing the diversity of groups that have covered his work, from NIN, Marilyn Manson, Foo Fighters to Basement Jaxx and the Sugerbabes having massive number 1 hits with reworkings of his songs. I now have all of his albums and really like ‘the John Peel sessions’ because its shows his early synth-pop-rock right up to his present nu-metal industrial type stuff. One thing I really like is the strange titles of a lot of his songs such as ME! I DISCONNECT FROM YOU, are “friends” electric, I nearly married a human and Remember I was vapour. Anyway in the words of everyone who I have been talking to recently….STOP TALKING ABOUT GARY NUMAN!
Right I’ll leave it at that for now, what are other people listening to at the moment (it don’t have to have just come out, just as long as you have just started listening to it)?
Elbow - Seldom seen kid - starlings is genius
Suede - The Singles - as my band are going to pick one to cover
Belle and Sebastian :-)
This week I have been mostly listening to...
all because I am going to the greenman festival in a couple of weeks so I thought I had better get into some of the folky rocky bands that will be there. The above four are the ones I am looking forward to seeing the most.
Also
are three comedy music, flight of the conchords is obviously comedy, Julian Cope sings about serious subjects but has a knowing sense of humour thoughout and Joseph Arthur is hilarious but unintentinally. His lyrics are cringeworthily bad but they just about work and he's a junkie who has found god and every single one of his songs seem to be about Jesus. There was one song which seemed to be about a girl he loved but then I realised he never mentioned a name and he never said her so I think it is probably also about Jesus! lol
the kills,the good the bad anmd the queen
This week I have been mostly listening to "His name is alive", an experimental group.
Are we still marriedAre we still?I'm kinda getting shot atI'm kinda getting hurtI'm tired of all the blood dearI'm tired of getting hurtIn pieces unfamiliarIt shatters all the worldCrashing down momentsWill this tear us in two?
Here is a video of one of their songs by the brilliant animators the Quay brothers (pronounced Qway, not key) who I met a few months ago. The video quality is very poor but I can assure you they make very good animations, anyone who likes that sort of thing would probably like "streets of crocodiles". Anyway here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7u3lPcDh50
This week I have been mostly listening to Frank Zappa
Bright eyes...
This week I have been mostly listening to:
Spinning plates-Radiohead....in reverse!!! Check it out on youtube, I think it's even better than forwards. For some reason I feel like weeping uncontrollably and jumping for joy at the same time when hearing it. I could listen to it forever.
The soundtrack to Twinpeaks-The greatest tv show ever, great music too. A lot of the instrumentals still get played on shows today. I remember a few months ago there was a programme about the disappearance of Maddie Macann. Throughout the show they played parts of the instrumental "Lauras song", usually when the father was on the screen. And I thought the BBC were meant to be unbiased!! (anyone who watched the show will know what I mean, about who killed Laura)
King Creosote
The song "Denko/Manuel". I had no idea that Richard Manuel died in a car crash with Denko over 15 years ago!! He was in "The Band". I only realised this when I heard the line "15 years ago they owned that road, now its rolling over us instead. Richard Manuel is dead." So sad. Great song, bit heavy though.
Love is Hell by Ryan Adams
Early Allmand Brothers bootlegs
George Jones
Alan Parsons Project,Caravan,Soft Machine,Tomorrow,The Trees all of them from the psychedelic sixties-seventies..
Amnesiac, when you say Like Spinning Plates in reverse, do you mean the Amnesiac album version? Or some other reverse-reversed-reversed again version?
You can only find it online such as youtube. Its quite complicated but "Like spinning plates" on Amnesiac was using the melody of "I will" backwards. So some people decided to see what it would sound like backwards and I personally think most of it sounds even better! Thom's voice is just weird sounds because it is backwards (although even forwards a lot of it sounds strange!) and the first few seconds are great. Its like the whole backwards talking dwarf dream in Twin peaks. Just search for "Like spinning plates backwards" on youtube (sorry my computer is playing up at the moment and I can't get a link).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaA0pI4eNdc
The above should be the link but can someone tell me if it dosn't work. Thanks
Black sheep- Julian Cope His new album. How can you not like an album with song titles like "All the blowing-themselves-up motherf**ckers (will realise the minute they die that they were suckers)" and "Psychedelic Odin" !!! This album is crammed full with things from so many places. Paul of Tarsus, William Blake, CG Jung, Robert Graves etc etc.
William Orbit "Pieces in a Modern Style"
Agalloch and Devin Townsend Band.
Great album, I haven't heard it in a long time. It has Adagio for strings on it which is great.
Madonna...Beautiful Stranger.
Kid Rock....All Summer Long
Michael Buble....Home.
Michael Buble....Everything.
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