post things you listened to / regularly listen to on your headphones walking around the city / campus and so on

wish i could find a larger pic of this

Incarcerated by Abstraction by Flying Luttenbachers



i'm going to order a vinyl of this as the past few walks to class have proven it to be "a masterpiece" of sorts (in the genre of cosmic music)

From some websight, and known as common folklore around the "yard"

There has been a long standing myth that "California Dreamin'" was written to express John Phillips' experience at the United States Naval Academy.[citation needed] Midshipmen call the winter period at the Academy the "Dark Ages" owing to both the short hours of daylight and the extra burden of final exams added to an already strenuous workload. It was believed the song was in essence a day in the life of Phillips during these "Dark Ages" thinking and dreaming of a warmer climate.

Probably bullshit. I still listened to it many times on headphones while there, marching on restriction, concealing the illegal contraband in my watchcap.

Walking to class I also sang what was, at the time, a really rad new song by The Darkness called, I Believe in a Thing Called Love, and it confused many a young man and lady.

That's about it for my fake college experience, as music was largely banned there.

I e-mailed Weasel Walter when this was coming out and asked him if this was going to be available on the iTunes store, lol. Dude responded, too. ^___^

Check out Systems Emerge From Complete Disorder, it's another one man genius album. I prefer the full band stuff from this, er, last decade but s'all good.

Today I listened to and .

Partial playlist for errands this week:

Massive Attack - Psyche
Devo - Mongoloid
Cars - You're All I've Got tonight
Ian Hunter - I Get So Excited
Cheap Trick - On Top of the World
Thee Oh Sees - Ruby Go Home (I don't ignore all the music threads)
Cramps - Surfin' Dead
AC/DC - Rock'n'Roll Train
Black Crowes - I Ain't Hiding
Stones - Emotional Rescue
Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby
ABBA - The Winner Takes It All
Weezer - Let It All Hang Out
The Hold Steady - Banging Camp
Pixies - River Euphrates
Nirvana - Moist Vagina
Dinosaur Jr. - Just Like Heaven
Dump - The Beautiful Ones
Tom Petty/Prince et al - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Beatles - Why Don't We Do It In the Road

At work I tend to listen to podcasts (World Football Daily, BBC Football Phone-In, Guardian Football Weekly, Comic Vine Podcast).

Morning Edition

When I walk around campus I like to listen to MPP, maybe some Daft Punk or Franz Ferdinand. I dunno, anything that gets my spirits up.

My L ride has been dominated by the SOMB Top 100 Singles of 2009 lately.

it was this for me today on the bus

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basic channel

any incredibly minimal, subdued, repetitive electronic music is great for travel.

i'll bet you are a real joy to hang out with "yes".............

that side of me is more about the conversation

don't think i don't listen to:

bob marley - exodus
led zeppelin - physical graffiti
michael jackson - thriller
al green - i'm still in love with you (this one makes me feel like every girl i look at is a potential mate)

fuck this i'm quitting the internet

Someone who likes minimal electro is in my experience a million times more fun to hang out/party with than someone who likes the generic indie turd that you and half of this board exalts over.

bra, i pretty much only talk about Oasis and The Stones on the SOMB.

Exactly.

Classic of our times.

They only surpassed it with 'Dark and Long'.

Lately on the train commute it's been Blind Blake - All The Published Sides, The Psych Funk 101 comp from Stones Throw, Miles Davis' Get Up With It, Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions, with some loose tracks by P.F. Sloan, Gary Glitter, The Chi-Lites, Simon & Garfunkel and Elvis.

this album works best when you are in motion

neon indian - psychic chasms

would hardly call them generic Indie.....

Oasis since 1997 have pretty much been the definition of 'generic indie'. Well, perhaps not the generic indie sound around today, but pretty generic and derivative nonetheless.

The Stones have been generic since about 1980.

But at least it's not Animal Collective.

both bands released their most "out there" records post both of the dates you have mentioned sir.

I'm going on the singles for Oasis and when I saw them live last year, where they were good but seemed pretty paint by numbers. No songs sounded particularly 'out there'.

I haven't listened to any Rolling Stones recently except for a couple of their early 90's albums, which I found pretty boring. I'm not sure why I'm even debating them to be honest.

but, "indie?" the rolling stones... little indie band that could.

yeah, just 2 working class indie groups.

Everything upbeat with a guitar is referred to as 'Indie' in the UK nowadays, so I don't feel bad about tarring them with that brush.

are guns and roses an indie band? lol

So "indie" is the new "alternative." I guess I buy that to an extent, especially since it's UK and I'm out of that realm, hence too ill informed to object. Still though, calling 2 bands "indie" (once stood for "independent") who at one time or another were arguably the BIGGEST and most popular thing in the world, on major lables, and playing rock/roll/pop songs. Man... I'll just never be able to think of that as "indie."

I'm actually starting to hate the term "indie" as much as "alternative."

Yeah, nobody says alternative here, it's just 'indie'. It's just a turn of phrase, a word than has acquired a new meaning, it doesn't mean literally independent. It's a style of music, not a statement about how the band releases it. Language morphs and changes. It's just the cultural differences.

here is a lesson.

this is an "indie band"



this is the worlds greatest Rock and Roll band.



do you see the difference?

I just saw two bands that sucked ass.

You expect me to take patronising music suggestions seriously off a guy who equates someone listening to minimalist dance music with someone being boring to hang out with.