current favorite albums

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:35 pm

Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless

Also, a recommendation for Rob and anyone else that likes the fucked up off timed angular grind like Ion Dissonance to check out Car Bomb. I got an mp3 of the song "His Eyes" off the Relapse site and it's pretty loony.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:29 pm

dj shadow - brain freeze

JJG · Post by **JJG** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:30 pm

szycag wrote:laughing at the thought of the dead milkmen writing surfer rosa. laughing even more that you still didn't realize your mistake? wtf?

It was like 5am when I wrote that but yeah ha.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:26 pm

Acid King wrote: Also, a recommendation for Rob and anyone else that likes the fucked up off timed angular grind like Ion Dissonance to check out Car Bomb.

I'll check it out today. I could definitely use some new metal.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:30 pm

I'll check that one as well, thanks! Here are three incredible favorites:

35700 yen - s/t
the dead c - selected works
the sorts - six plus

Thanks to Rob for the first two. It took a while to get through all the material on the dead c collection, but now I'm hooked.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:07 pm

Ghostface - Ironman -- You handle this just like algebra, UFO spot 'em like Galaga

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:49 am

DEP - Ire Works -- surprised I even listened to this, since I thought Miss Machine really really sucked, but it's actually enjoyable. Even though the slower melodic songs sound like second rate Faith No More.
Car Bomb - Centralia
Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Urban Bushmen

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:01 pm

Kenny "Dope" Gonzales presents The Bucketheads - "The Bomb (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)" single
Fela Kuti and the Africa 70 - Shakara/London Scene and V.I.P./Authority Stealing
Ape City R&B - "Dyn-O-Mite"/"No.1 Phantom Killer" 7"
Los Idiotas - "The Blob" 7"
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Mosaic
Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream
Cheater Slicks - Whiskey

and over and over again in my car's cassette player:

Meat Beat Manifesto - 99%

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:06 pm

is it time yet for top albums of 2007? will we do a seperate thread for that?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:45 pm

Separate would be good.

doodude · Post by **doodude** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:25 am

Im such a traditionalist:

Pink Floyd: Anything they do
Jefferson Airplane: Worst Of
Captain Beyond: Captain Beyond
Beatles: Abbey Road
Robert Plant: Fate of Nations
Radio Head: Kid A
Steely Dan: All of it, you grok?
Ramstein: Oh yeah, baby!
Traditional Jazz: You know, the smokey bar stuff
70s soul: Tears of a clown, Me & Mrs. Jones, all that stuff too
Dave Bruebeck: Who is way cool
Ambient music:
Classical music:
And right now Im listening to the Radiant Silvergun soundtrack...

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:18 am

Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers -- 2 hours and 10 minutes of doom, pretty good

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:15 am

Nile [discography]
Behemoth - Demigod
Behemoth - The Apostasy

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:32 am

Currently listening to: Every Times New Viking album ever

I dunno why they didn't click with me the first time Rob linked those youtube vids. Fuckin' sick.

I still haven't undertaken the latest listening projects, but I do intend to listen to every band on Matador and Kill Rock Stars. Myspace isn't always the best measure of a band as sometimes people just post crap but it'll have to do

Mega Mudkip · Post by **Mega Mudkip** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:28 pm

Oxygene 7-13 (Jean Michel Jarre)
The Essential (Emerson, Lake, & Palmer)
Equinoxe (Jean Michel Jarre)
Chariots of Fire (Vangelis)
Blader Runner Soundtrack (Vangelis)
En Attendant Cousteau (Jean Michel Jarre)
Powaqqatsi Soundtrack (Philip Glass)

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:26 am

Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion -- best new metal release I heard this year, easily.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:42 pm

SubArachnoid Space - Also Rising
Deicide - Once upon the cross
Terorizer - World Downfal

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:41 pm

Listening to the latest from:

Car Bomb
Gorge Trio
Colossamite

and Rob mixes, of course.

JacobXScum · Post by **JacobXScum** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:18 am

My band just played with a band tonight called "Last Chance to Reason."

They were AWESOME.

I'm watching them like..."Holy crap these guys are really good."

So i buy their cd. It's called "Lvl 1"

I'm like hmmm...is that a video game reference?

So i read the song titles...

#3 Escape from Brinstar

#7 Kraid Ain't got Shit on Me

#11 Destroy Mother Brain

I laughed out loud. It's so great. Then i realized the whole entire cd is heavily Metroid music influenced. It doesn't sound like Metroid per-se...but they use the same stylle of harmonies and bizarre time signatures. It feels like if Dillinger Escape Plan were to do the music for the next Metroid game.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:06 pm

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding -- finally listened to them and it's really good!
Isis - Panopticon
Henry Cow - Unrest

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:19 pm

Rob wrote: Henry Cow - Unrest

Of the classic Henry Cow, this is one I like, but find it the hardest to get excited about, as though it never finds any particular groove but just messes about for an album length. Good but IMO not as good as the tremendous In Praise of Learning, or the debut (sometimes called 'Legend'.) I don't know if Desperate Straights is considered a proper Henry Cow album or not but I love it, and moments of the live album make it well worth investigating.

I guess the much shorter take on this is to avoid Western Culture. Everything else associated with Henry Cow is pretty good.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:09 pm

Inadvertently bumping this thread:

Been working my way through Sun Ra's 'Lost Reel Collection' which in general I wouldn't recommend to any but the most hard core Sun Ra fan.

That said:

Sun Ra - The Shadows Took Shape (lost reels collection volume 3)

90+ min live set from the early 70's. This collection has the one thing that every other studio recording lacks--intensity! Sure, the sound quality isn't going to compare to official recordings, but the rawness only adds to the overall effect. Given the general archival approach to this series (versus the careful editing that Sun Ra took for his ESP releases), it is surprising how well this set works.

It's also nice to hear a Sun Ra entry where the horns and percussion dominate. Who knows, perhaps it is the lack of production that really makes this set such a gem, but I recommend it whole heartedly, even to folks who've yet to hear Sun Ra and need an entry point.

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:12 pm

OKay it isn't a current favorite album but I listened to that most recent Britney Spears last night at a party. I never get a chance to listen to stuff like that so I always enjoy it when I do. Most of the people at the party were good little shavers who are smart and know that Britney sucks and it was funny to hear them complain about the scenario when I knew damn well that they hadn't heard it either. Perhaps these people aren't completely comfortable in their counterculture hipness act?

At any rate it wasn't so horrible. THere was one song that I liked that went something like "DO YOu Wanna Piece of Me?". I wouldn't buy it but it's nice to know what's happening out there.

In actual favorites we have:

Tha Hitmen "Here Come Tha Hitmen" - Take Rodney O and Joe Cooley at the peak of their gangsta sound and add one more rapper. This is so fucking classic. It's awesomeness is only eclipsed by its genuine obscurity. I think three separate songs make use of samples from The Ohio Players' song "Funky Worm", yet sound nothing alike. Brilliant.

Two Live Crew "Move Somethin" - I had this on CD as a teenager and it had a couple of my favorite songs of the era. NAmely "Ghetto Bass II" "P-A-N" and "Word II". Somebody stole that but I got into DJing shortly thereafter and grabbed a couple copies on vinyl. But I needed it on CD and now I have it agan! Wa-hey!!!

EPMD "Unfinished Business" - Well shit, Strictly Business was overwhelming I had ro ante up the $5 that ebay wanted for this. Fucking amazing if not as ultimately classic as the previous. "PLease Listen To My Demo" is the current favorite on here.

Dyme Def "Space Music" - Well I'd have never believed it if I hadn't heard it with my own ears but Seattle has spawned a good hiphop act! In all of my ten years in this twon I can say with conviction that the hiphop scene (aside from Circle of Fire) has always been nauseatingly abysmal. I saw these guys on a mixed bill with The Valley and they really impressed. They were out of the CD then but I managed to get one yesterday. Unbelievable. They sound as good as anybody out there right now.

AC/DC "Plug Me In" - Lifechanging. AC/DC has been my favorite band since I was eight years old. But make no mistake, I stopped buying their albums in 1983 after the Flick of the Switch debacle. I have never owned any video footage of AC/DC. Bon Scott is a hero to me. Brian Johnson, not so much. So to have a disc of like three hours of Bon Scott footage filmed at concerts from St Alban's High School Hall to massive arenas in Holland (for instance) is something so epic I can scarcely find words. I've been watching this every day since Christmas. There are promos, interviews and bizarre things too. Inclusing two things I have never ever seen in the last 27 years of fandom. The first and most fucking staggering was seeing these guys on a UK TV show playing through the house gear. Which was 100% ORANGE. It was beautiful to see and listen to but they need Marshalls to be AC/DC for reals. Especially Angus. It's interesting to hear how the Orange gear colors his tone but it really takes the edge off. The other thing I found majorly significant was Brian Johnson doing an entire show in Japan, WITHOUT HIS HAT!!! WTF?!?! I thought I had entered Bizarroworld for a minute. FYI, his hair is like frizzy 1970s pro wrestler hair. Think Jimmy Snuka. THis DVD also contains the most rockingest rock performance of all times. And it's a song that I hated on High Voltage. "Baby Please Don't Go" on 12/5/76 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne. Well words won't do justice so if you can, just watch it. The Young brothers (and I'm definitely including George here) are fucking geniuses.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:46 pm

I really like "Heaven On Earth" from the new Britney Spears album, it's produced by Freescha, some of my favorite dudes making music.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:48 pm

szycag wrote:I really like "Heaven On Earth" from the new Britney Spears album, it's produced by Freescha, some of my favorite dudes making music.

You are a brave man!

(haven´t actually heard that track myself though...)

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:10 pm

That's the thing. Everybody knows exactly what they need to be cynical about without ever having heard it. I can honestly say that I enjoyed my listen last night. It really isn't my bag so I'll never own it in any way, but it was good to get outside of the norm.

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:58 pm

PaCrappa wrote:That's the thing. Everybody knows exactly what they need to be cynical about without ever having heard it. I can honestly say that I enjoyed my listen last night.

Indeed. Music should always be judged on its own merits. I'm sure elitists would shit on me for at least one artist i listen to that they think is mainstream cheeze or otherwise. Marilyn Manson? Enigma? Jay-Z?

Dido? Moby? Madonna? And to that i say, good luck with Nile, bitch hehe. Everyone has stuff they like (or would like) that they'd pretentiously rather not admit.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:52 pm

Do you have a favorite Nile album, unsane?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:06 am

I guess the much shorter take on this is to avoid Western Culture.

Why's that? I think that one was in the lead for early favorite. Then again, I still like Red more than Larks Tongues. We might not be prog-compatible.

Sun Ra

Atlantis was the album I was listening to when I dropped my MP3 player and rendered headphone jack inoperable. I didn't get it. :( It didn't sound like any of the other jazz I've heard, that's for sure.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:29 am

Western Culture...

Is that even really a Henry Cow album or a Tim Hodgkinson album played by Henry Cow. Also very late for this sort of thing (1978). I also recall it sounding a little more like the normal Canterbury sound. A little less atonal, a little more friendly. Where's Dagmar?

That said, I stuck it in writing this and their's definitely some familiar instrumentation that will show up on Art Bears but one can hear why this is the end of Henry Cow with part of the band wanting to do the heavier stuff and another part doing these nice, happy sections.

Still, I'm glad I'm listening to it now...I don't think I've paid it any attention for about 10 years. It probably is time I check it out again.