nice one
very pleasant album, especially the first half

The Beach Boys - Sunflower / Surf's Up

I always thought that The Beach Boys imploded after Pet Sounds and went straight into nostalgia mode/Beach Family eXperience/sitcom appearance hell. I had no idea that they all stuck together for a while and actually recorded some fine albums after that. No one ever talks about them! All I knew about was "Surfin' U.S.A," "God Only Knows," and then "Kokomo." There was a fourth era in there that I missed? Apparently so. These two albums, now available on one CD, have a lot of great songs. I can't tell if this is genius or madness. "Cool Water"? "He Came To My Window"? "Disney Girls"? "Take A Load Off Your Feet"? What could possess someone to write anything like these? There's a lot of great songs here that aren't "wierd" either. "Tears In The Morning" took me by surprise. Devestating stuff. Threadworthy albums.



Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

I like this a lot more than I thought I would! Whether I'm driving home from work late at night or just waking up in the morning, these songs have a quiet intensity to them that's relaxing without sacrificing any depth. I'm definitely going to hear more from her.



Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden / Laughing Stock

I've only listened to each of these twice through, but they're really boring the hell out of me. It's funny, because these were the two albums that I was lead to believe would be really mindblowing, while the rest of their music was supposed to be predictable 80s pop, or something. I haven't heard more than a handful of their songs from the albums before these, but those songs blow this stuff out of the water. I spent money on these albums (you can get them really cheap on Amazon) so I'm not going to give up listening to them just yet. Maybe they'll still click with me. But most stuff like this usually does right away. Early post-rock, as much as it's always been difficult to define, is a sound and an era that has always intrigued me. Slint, Bark Psychosis, Tortoise, Seefeel... I've felt been disappointed by any of this stuff until now.



GZA - Liquid Swords

As good as Enter the Wu Tang? Maybe. Has not and will not leave my car's CD player all week. Put it in my shopping cart on Amazon.com when it was $11.99. Two days later I went to buy it and found out that it had been raised to $14.99. Disgusting.



The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

I usually don't post in this thread until I've actually bought an album, no matter how many times I've listened to something that I've downloaded. I grabbed this album when it leaked and -- along with the Sun & Ice EP -- played it enough to get The Field into my Last.Fm top 10. So buying this was an easy decision. It still sounds great. I hate to ask questions like this, but I wonder how long it's going to hold up before I overplay it?



Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

So, yeah.

not to sound like a hater, but i'd say until the next micro-house nonsense kompakt decides to release.

man, if you don't like Spirit of Eden then whatever, but Laughing Stock is a masterpiece. Give it another try without interruptions, because the production and arrangements are just fantastic. If there's a more organic sounding album in the world somewhere, I've never heard it. It'll hit you.

This is the first Kompakt album that I've actually bought since Here Comes Love, and the first non-compilation release from them that's kept my attention for more than a few weeks.

I take it you're not buying into this album.

like that but it's the rainforest punching you.

great record

yeah, i'm definitely not into that field album.

as far as those Talk Talk albums go, i never found them all that special. very good, but neither of those blew my mind. there's a certain new age sound to them, i think. my favourite Talk Talk album is probably The Colour of Spring. my favourite thing about is is Hollis' vocals. i think on the following albums they put them behind the music for obvious reasons, but that's also what i miss about Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock.

really digging this...

seems a little odd since you pimped a kompakt album a couple posts earlier.

side note: although i've heard people comparing that field record with kaito one, i just don't hear it.

as i've said, i really liked the first half of that kaito's album. there's a certain sense of velocity and pulse to those tracks. they keep going on and on and on. and they're pretty varied too. but the field just sound like some speeded up washed out soundscapes. i'm a bit surprised that people who dig that field's album don't care much about efdemin or pantha du prince albums. i think those two share something soundwise with the field, but they make it more mature and less lazy sounding or something like that.

Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
Idaho - Hearts of Palm
Cherubs - Heroin Man

sucks that OAI has to suffer from Isn't Anything syndrome, it's pretty good. Not great, but pretty good.

Don't stop now. Make sure you grab the two 2-fers before this (Smiley Smile/Wild Honey and Friends/20-20) and the two after it (Carl and the Passions/Holland and 15 Big Ones/Love You)

Xanopticon - Alembic

Hey, what do you know, I do like hardcore after all!

Xanopticon - Alembic

Hey, what do you know, I do like hardcore after all!

EDIT: I must really like it.

Undo, I'm right there with you in regards to the Talk Talk and Jimi Hendrix albums.


Deftones - Around The Fur
This Heat - Made Available
Kylie Minogue - Fever

Beach Boys - Best Of The Brother Years 1970-86

is there ever gonna be a new season of Extras?

Battles - Mirrored
Vitalic - OK Cowboy

Hahahahahaha...I burned through these like a mother fucker. Hilarious stuff.

I listen to favorite episodes every now and again, and they are just as funny on repeat listens.

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nice!


btw that Battles album has really won me over. Time to seek out a vinyl/CD copy.

Cool. I've been playing "TIJ" a lot.

But yea, I've been listening to Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi the past couple days. I need to get Future Days.

i'm addicted.

sometimes you just need to hear "Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox". I wish I was good enough to have written even a third of that song.

oh yeah! i'm going to drive my car!
oh yeah! i'm going to drive real far!

Fuck yeah, you do. Great album. I need to get Tago Mago really badly. Used copies of the most recent reissue aren't easy to come by, though.


Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r.
Unrest - Isabel Bishop
Unrest - Perfect Teeth

The Rolling Stones - Sucking In The 70's

Psychedelic Furs - All This and Nothing
One of the most blatant abuses of a flanger effect, but somehow it works in "Sister Europe".

Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Deftones - White Pony

^ all of the above are great.



Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand: The Director's Cut
Prince - Dirty Mind

It's a "best of" kind of day.

Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg

So good.
Eszter Balint - Un Poison Violent, C'Est Ça l'Amour

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ashen1/ashen/...oon/monkey.html

Just you try to keep this ditty out of your head.

Scarce - Deadsexy

Where do I know that from - is it ten years old or so?


'Go Crazy'

yeah, I think it's '96. Solid album. Like if Brainiac were actual humans.

This slays me.

Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation

I finally got around to listening to this, and wow, this is pretty damn fine. It is a hell of a lot noisier than I thought it would be. Some tracks even sound like Trail of Dead, when, ya know, Trail of Dead still sounded like Trail of Dead. I approve.

Interpol - Our Love to Admire from the first listen i like half of the songs on this, another half are so so.
Richie Hawtin & Sven Vath - The Sound of the Third Season
Groove Theory - Groove Theory

Saturday morning coffee & vinyl.

yeah, a beautiful mess, i really like it. i think a lot of people here would dig this one.

if there's a better album cover this year I want to see it.