What's on your stereo?

[blixa bartab]

... good god, it's years since I've heard that. Next you'll be listening to the Rip.

Reckon 'The Lie' is the standout track; love Gutteridge's keys on it. The Rip were before my time, but I did once see Plagal Grind, who weren't too shabby

... nice new profile pick, btw. think he used to be in the Aesthetics?

I kinda get the feeling that with MM, anything is possible, lol. But it won't be up long - I'll be changing it fer Halloween

[stormo]

yeah, I pretty much reckon that of all the music from the golden era Peter Gutteridge's has aged the best. Reheard the Pure cassette a while ago and it's really great - all casiotone and if you listen you can hear how the drums on the Snapper ep are basically just casiotone beats but played on a drumkit. Genius really. it was great to actually see them play at the Dunedin fringe festival in 2000. Wasn't so fussed with Plagal Grind - in fact I've only really liked Alastair's solo stuff... but the Dead C ruled that night. Possibly the best gig I've ever been to.

[stormo]

ah, early 90's junkie music - the first Swans album, Filth, and the Royal Trux's 'Twin Infinitives'. Is it good? is it, in fact, [shirt]? it's art...

[stormo]

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... nice new profile pick, btw. think he used to be in the Aesthetics?

I kinda get the feeling that with MM, anything is possible, lol. But it won't be up long - I'll be changing it fer Halloween

I think Ronald was their second bass player?

[blixa bartab]

Was he? Damn. A lot of the time I never really notice Bass Players. As they say, ‘the bass player's mainly there to translate for the drummer. 'Course, since I’m most likely Dunedin’s crappiest viola player, I’m hardly in a position to criticise, lol

Semi-token attempt at getting on topic –

Psychocandy

Dug it out for 'just like Honey' & have been listening to the LP incessantly all week. Always liked bits of it, but lately the rest of it’s been growing on me like nits on a Hippy.

[stormo]

yeah, is very good!

Darklands is fantastic too... went to see them play in Ak in - ah [fork] - 92? 94? never seen so much Goth in my life, it was like watching Edward Scissorshands and the DVD skipping.

[stormo]

gotta bunch of australian post punk recently which is all fantastic. A box set of stuff on a label called M-Squared - really good, and a couple of compilations called 'I Can't Stop'. Totally worth checking if you're in or into Brains and you want to see what your dad was up to back in the day.

Also another a boxset of noise on a label called Crucial Blast - haven't heard it all yet but it mostly seems to be sunn styles drone/black metal or Black Dice styles power electronics. And I found myself the back catelogue of Pom Pom's early releases - lofi house, who knew.

Annnnnnd, reading 'Electric Eden' by Robb Young - the best music book I've read in ages - about the history of radical and psychedelic folk music in England. Bascially, I couldn't imagine a kind of music I'd be less into, but it's great, really stirring emotional stuff and making me rethink my ideas about art and politics and combining the two...

Plus, RIP those poor buggers in Greymouth. Pretty sad stuff despite the horrible hypey media circus voyeurist bull [shirt] surrounding it - so awful for their families and people in their lives. And yet another moment of towards our Great Leader, Pissweasle, for butchering what was clearly a fairly passionate and inspired, Philip Larkin quoting effort by his speech writer, who probably has comitted hari-kiri after seeing him destroy what could have been their defining moment - good one, John (plus, bonus sneaking through the 90-day bill in the ensuing chaos...)

[stormo]

Wolves in the Throneroom - Black Cascade, and the !2 Diadems or whatever it's called.
Nadja - When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV
Spank Rock - Yoyoyoyoyo

[stormo]

Also, Shackleton's Fabric mix cd, and a collection of Chicago footwork called Bangs and Works Vol 1. One of these is immaculately produced, radical reshifting of the goalposts in its genre, every second is beautifully thought through and worked, and the other is a cynical cash-in, shockingly produced, tracks literally ending in mid-beat, half of them downloaded off Youtube, in the main completely unimaginative and needing such a parcel of drugs to appreciate that beating your head on a concrete pavement would sound just as good.

Needless to say I'm finding (a) pretty much unlistenable and am obsessed with (b). Anything with a title like, Whea Yo Ghost At, Whea Yo Dead Man is choice in my house. You can listen to it here:

www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2010/06/whea-yo-ghost ... o-dead-man

[hounddogking]

I've got no stereo yet....just these frikkin' laptops without power supplies.

[Dager]

Stink Magnetic's Wolf Party compilation LP.

Turns out I was very lucky to get one of these, they sold them all on tour.

[stormo]

Kraftwerk. that's all.

[blixa bartab]

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis -
‘Assassination of Jesse James’ Soundtrack.

From ‘The Boatman's Call’ onward I kinda lost interest in the Bad Seeds; too many 'Sensitive Ballads'. Cave has a knack for them - and doing them well, rather than being cloying. Still... ‘too much of a good thing’ y'know? Grinderman redeemed Nick a hell of a lot; maybe Warren Ellis blew out a few cobwebs?

This is kinda the other end of the spectrum; ambient & moody, lots of Nick’s piano & Ellis’s violin. I’ve been playing it a lot for non-wallpaper background. It's rather lovely, & I'm relieved that Nick has shown once more that he isn’t getting sedate or complacent.

Now, if he’d only get rid of that stupid facial hair…

[justin_ruch1180]

Glee soundtrack..because my kids love it.hahaha

[Dager]

Man, poor you.