my wife liked parts of this one

Before you know it you'll be performing an impromptu a cappella duet rendition of "Crazy" in the car.

I know this comes up once in a while and I never pay enough attention to know the answer but can you folks play stuff on the BBC iPlayer over there?

I ask because this week I have been mostly listening to the shows by Marc Riley (ex-fall) which have incoprorated lengthy clips of old John Peel shows.
If you can catch them you should, I've been filling up. The shows have been themed by decade - track listing and links:

1970s http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wpbdw
1980s http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wpcbj
1990s http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wpzbg
2000s http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wq151

Good record, I was just listening to this today. Not too long and almost no filler. Also, I love the way his voice sounds on this record.

NP:



Electro-Shock Blues is devastating every time I listen to it. Beautifully sad.

There's a great, hilarious interview with producer Bob Johnston in the latest Tape Op issue. Don't know if it's available online, but it's worth hunting down. That guy had so much to do with Dylan's best albums. And Johnny Cash's. And Leonard Cohen's.

a real gem. possible sleeper pick to remember for end of decade lists.

^
Pretty amazing album.

yeah, there really isn't a bad song on there. nobody does a two chord groove better than erykah

As it says, this is a load of old Billie tracks remixed into trip-hop/house/electronica shit, and it's fucking amazing. I'm a massive Billie Holiday nut, and I'm mad on electronic music as well, so amazing it took me so long to get round to this. It sounds superb, they've kept a lot of the jazz solos in, I can tell this is going to sound absolutely incredible on a summer day chilled out with a barbecue. Highly recommended.

Sleigh Bells - Treats: First time I heard the single, I thought it was terrible. I listened to it again after it placed on the countdown and was rather unaffected by it. Gave it one last listen before deleting it and dug it. Then I really started to like it. Then Eskmo Kisses started talking it up and all of a sudden I liked the single. And now I like the album. Has to be played loud, though; it's pointless to listen to quietly while I go through pre-sleep routines.


Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot: Was really digging this, then I realized it was only half over and I went to bed. Good but maybe way too long.

Part of this band's songs with twin guitar harmonies >>>> everything else.

yes


edit: try listening to mountain jam, it's pretty epic

melvins - lysol



listened to this on my way to walk my girlfriend's dog. this album is so heavy for 1992.



earlier it was....

om - gebel barkal



om/six organs of admittance - split 7"




two of om's very best songs right here



harvey milk - life... the best game in town





things are starting to get heavy around here....

essential listening of course

their studio material is just so flat and unneccesary

The Church - Priest=Aura
They are playing this album, my personal favorite of theirs, in its entirety at Park West on 2/11, along with Starfish and Untitled #23. As good a time as any to see them for the first time.


Junip - Fields
I can put it on when my parents come visit without raised eyebrows or "please turn this off" glares! I like it too.


Elton John - Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy
I was singing along with the whole of this while taking down the Christmas tree last night, so indelibly stamped was it from my 70's youth. "It's 4 o'clock in the morning DAMMIT. Listen to me good!" My CD copy also adds the non-LP "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" single cover (delightfully overdone), "One Day At A Time" (with John Lennon on harmony vocals, one of EJ's best b-sides) and "Philadelphia Freedom" (near the top of my favorite Elton John songs).

^ great album

Lots and lots of that crazy Andrew W.K. Guy.

10.0 type of album

this is sounding really good tonite... RIYL:spacey Sonic Youth, droning guitars, tremolo, Mountains, static, the woods at nite


Winter Drones - Blood In The Coffin

http://www.weirdforest.com/store/bandPages...s.html#blood-lp

earth - angels of darkness, demons of light 1

Top 2 of the year for me

Since I had only ever heard "Animalize," I figured I ought to give this band another chance. I'm actually surprised at just how awful this is. I'm going to give them one more chance by listening to "Goin' Blind"--they have to some redeeming value somewhere if they made it possible for the Melvins to produce that cover, which is one of my all-time favorite tracks.

the octopus project - hexadecagon



missed this on my "2010 eoy list." damn.

Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II.

^^^ almost purchased that today.

How is it?

This is unmitigatedly great. Don't get how folks could be so into Offend Maggie and not have a lot to chat about w/r/t this.

it's good!

not a huge leap from bees made honey in the lion's skull. "old black" opens it up with a more major sounding tonality, which is really the inevitable direction of where this band has been headed, and reveals carlson's growing country music influence. it's like really slow, dark, heavy, instrumental country. it's pretty much awesome. the last song is 20 minutes long and has some cool bass playing. i expect this to grow on me so much more with repeated listens.

perfect atm

"It Must Be A Camel," y'all.

Only my third spin and I'm agreeing with you so far. More immediately loveable to me than Offend Maggie was (up there for me with Friend Opportunity as far as instant accessibility/loveability), and I certainly don't see it getting boring or losing any of the punch on repeated listens. Some of these tunes do have that certain loungey vibe compared to some of their other stuff, but LOL at a Deerhoof "lounge" album. It'd have to be something like that lounge in Star Wars, but.. you know.. with different music. I can't imagine songs like Let's Dance The Jet and The Merry Barracks playing in one of those lounges for earth squares like the members of the Balls & Shaft fraternity in PCU.

Donny Hathaway - These Songs For You: Especially the cover of 'You've Got A Friend' where the crowd goes nuts from the opening and breaks into a spontaneous and loud rendition of the cover where Hathaway just stands back and lets them sing and says "That sounds good to me!" I listened to a previous Hathaway album because of stumbling across him singing 'Jealous Guy' and the album did nothing for me, it turns out I needed to listen to him live where he sounds so much better.

And maybe this is the thing: Deerhoof is a great band, but you just can't love all their albums. I'm not into Friend Opportunity at all really. Maybe other people don't feel Reveille or Apple 'O or this one. And obvs "lounge album" was something of a joke, but this thing has a more laid-back vibe and soothing groove kind of feel compared to pretty much everything else in their catalogue. imo.

They're definitely a band that has something for every kind of fan of the group. That's how it is with a lot of consistent and adventurous acts, though, like Smog or Sonic Youth, where each listener has like one or two or three albums that they hold in especially high regard. I get why any Deerhoof album would be someone's favorite and the only bullshit stance is to say that they've sucked since The Runners Four or Apple O' or whatever.

As lame as it seems (and, to be honest, feels) to delve into the catalogue of someone who recently died, there's a certain comfort to it as well. Selfishly, it's nice to know that what you're listening to is part of a finite corpus, something that - no matter how messy and globular it seems - has definite boundaries w/r/t its beginning and end. Even though, e.g., Alex Chilton and Capt. Beefheart were anything but prolific in their later years, there was still - for me, at least (and certainly this says more about me than it does about anything else) - a lack of closure, of uncertainty, of constant shift in trying to listen to the classics. And then there's the matter of distance. For some reason, right now Don Van Vliet's records seem more like documents to me of a time and place, whereas listening to them before they just seemed part of vast continuum of music, certainly of a time and place, but not any time or place I could relate to. As much as I dislike the idea of fixing something in place, of not allowing movement and vivaciousness to influence my interpretation of art or whatever, the fact that the book is now - eesh - closed on Captain Beefheart, is just enough of an anchor for me to moor myself to while listening to this music. I find it easier, for whatever reason, to love this music right now, posthumously, then I did, y'know, two months or a year or a decade ago.

Enjoyable article:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/135037-captain-beefheart/

Although, "he never once pandered for the sake of critical or commercial expediency" isn't 100% accurate, I don't think.

First track of this is stomping my balls off in a good way. Don't know what to expect from the rest of it, other than "similar to obscure brazilian death folk."
Thanks RoBKoZ.

Additionally:

Deerhoof. Totally agree with you guys re: the way this band's albums seem to appeal to people differently across the board without much of a consensus pick. I've never really been able to get into Apple O' for instance, but am probably gonna give it some more listens.

Oddfuture stuff, specifically the Earl album. A lot. I slept on that this year. I guess cause I'm too old.


The entire recorded output of Andrew Wilkes Krier. The Japan Covers album and Close Calls are just owning my mind these days.


EDIT: oh man.... that Elaine album is ENERGETIC and fun and awesome. Take it Away is reminding me of something from the 90s. I'm thinking Baseketball soundtrack. Weird. The rest of the album does not sound like the Baseketball soundtrack, but despite this, it's still great.

Well, he didn't in any sane or logical way. I think in his heart he wanted to make a pop record, but he just wasn't meant for it.

Safe As Milk is probably his best attempt at that. A lot of it has to do with the producer and label, but I think Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band as a bubblegum pop group is an insanely brilliant idea. I wish they did a few more like that one.

I used to own a Buddah Records sampler LP when I was a kid. It had "Electricity" and "Plastic Factory" alongside tracks from Melanie and 1910 Fruitgum Co., and Beefheart just came off as the somewhat more subversive and bluesy artist on the roster. He was their Sam The Sham.

Been looking for this for a while. Picked it up at a flea market for 2 bucks yesterday. What a steal. A really enjoyable record too.

NP: Money, Money, Money

don't laugh, don't ask why. it's pretty great though.

mitochondrion - parasignosis

NP: Homeward Rolling Soldier

pretty great actually

NP: Limit To Your Love