Today I am Listening To...

[Simonb]

Neu! (again)

[Chris S]

Jónsi - Go (on We7)

It's like listening to Sigur Ros, but different. Quite like it actually.

[CrinklyLion]

Unhappy Anniversary.

Such a cheerful brass section, so at odds with the lyrics.  Ouch.  Forgot how much I like this album.

[PaulF]

Now onto 6Music via R.E.M., Metronomy, Steely Dan.

[CrinklyLion]

And now onto a bit of Eartha Kitt.

Dearly_Beloved wandered in earlier and said 'so, you've finally bothered to work out the ipod and spotify then?'.

[clarion]

Um, Gary Glitter

Although his tastes are vile and rightly criminal, he was a fantastic performer and produced some magnificent singles.

[clarion]

Now Dusty Springfield, by way of Slade.

My musical taste makes no allowances for logic.

[Deano]

Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News.

[jogler]

The neighbours are out so U2 is playing at nuclear noise levels.Next up is ZZ top to herald ear-drum armaegeddon

[Rhys W]

Inspired by the turntable-porn thread I dug out some old vinyl, stuff that doesn't come up on iTunes:

Lone Justice - the first album, a masterpiece of 80s country-rock;
Anhrefn - Defaid, Skateboards a Wellies;
Herp Albert & the Tijuana Brass - South of the Border, a classic I salvaged from my grandfather's collection.

[Redlight]

And now The Lady With the Braid.

Good lord, that brought back some memories of teenage angst.  I may never plait my hair again....

Fantastic lyric; I love the way her mind wanders: there's a comb on the shelf, I papered that wall myself etc

My favourite though is still Wake Up Slow on We're All Children of Coincidence. 

Late last night, you said you loved me
I just thought 'he's just coming on
And by tomorrow, he'll have come, and gone
Gone and left me'...

STILL not available on CD 

[nicknack]

Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

Not something I would have chosen myself, but my daughter's just bought it and put it on.

Not bad, actually.

[Deano]

The Beatles - The White Album.

I'm finding it a hard listen - to my ears, it's mostly quite poor or horribly dated.  The headline tracks are still wonderful, though.

[nicknack]

The Beatles - The White Album.

I'm finding it a hard listen - to my ears, it's mostly quite poor or horribly dated.  The headline tracks are still wonderful, though.

Ah, but which ones would you say they were?

[Deano]

The ones that stood out

Basically, the ones that I remember as being good from the last time I listened to it:

- Dear Prudence
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
 
And especially Helter Skelter.  I love the basic garage band effect. 

[valkyrie]

Midlake - The Courage of Others. Thanks to Fopp in Edinburgh for playing some Midlake the last time I was in there, I'd never heard of them before.

[nicknack]

The ones that stood out

Basically, the ones that I remember as being good from the last time I listened to it:

- Dear Prudence
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
 
And especially Helter Skelter.  I love the basic garage band effect. 

I still like the rather haphazard nature of it all. To your selections I'd add: Back in the USSR, Yer Blues, Happiness is a Warm Gun and, I probably shouldn't but I often find myself singing Savoy Truffle.

[Deano]

It is charming, in a way.  I still like listening to albums as albums, and that certainly feels like the proper way to listen to it - I've just picked out the tracks which I thought worked in isolation.

I'll give it a few more listens, but I probably came to it too late.  It must have made more sense (or failed to make sense in a more interesting way) in 1968.

[Redlight]

The ones that stood out

Basically, the ones that I remember as being good from the last time I listened to it:

- Dear Prudence
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
 
And especially Helter Skelter.  I love the basic garage band effect. 

Blackbird is still pretty flawless, even though, like much of paul's work on that album, it isn't really a Beatles track.

[Chris S]

Jónsi - Go (on We7)

It's like listening to Sigur Ros, but different. Quite like it actually.

This. Again. For on-the-bike motivation, Animal Arithmetic has to be The Choon of the album, but the lyrics are truly bizarre. However, the first verse¹ does contain the line "riding bikes, making out" - so that's OK by me.


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¹
Wake up, cut my hair
Making food disappear
Riding bikes, making out
Elephants run you down

 

[tiermat]

WMMR's choice of music, this (USA) station and TripleM (Australia) seem to have the best playlists available on the web...

[Tourist Tony]

One channel on my venerable antique sound centre has failed. Arse. Now listening to Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears.

[Chris S]

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing (Hits)

[microphonie]

This month's eMusic downloads:

Demdike Stare - Tryptych - very nice electronica

v/a - Generation Bass presents Transnational Dubstep - decent mix of 'ethnic dub' (crap term, I know) plus dubstep.

Sawako - Bitter Sweet - rather pleasant ambient/post-rock type stuff from Japan

Still to be listened to:

Bibio - Mind Bokeh

Bola - Mauver

Subeena - 23

Tholen - Sternklang

[Legs]

Jon and Vangelis - The Friends of Mr Cairo
If you don't mind Back To School, it's one of those No-Weak-Link Albums.

And the title song has got the cycling-related mondegreen: "Sam Spade's Sturmey Archer"...