So....What are you currently listening to?

Kevvy Metal · 10th July 2006, 7:27pm

If there is a record/or records currently floating your boat right now then i want to hear about it. Be it a new perchase or a familiar friend post up the names of albums or individual songs that are currently spinning in your CD drives/Turntables/HDD.

Feel free to post as much as you want. Peoples Moods change frequently and often effects their musical tastes.

Also everything is open for discusion.

Kevvy Metal · 10th July 2006, 7:39pm

And hear is mine -

Don Caballero - World Class Listening Problem

Best record form these guys. Even better than American Don.

DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage.

Totally amazing/shite. Sounds like Iron Maiden MIDI tracks played too fast.

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

Quite surprising because they have produced one of their best records, so late in their age. It's pop Sonic Youth, low on noise and high on quality song writing. Really, like top 3 best records they have produced.

Steely Dan - Aja

Smooth. Steve Gadd's drummin' gives me a boner.

Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Trill

Smooth and rocks. Not as good a s Aja but "Reelin' in the Years" is silly good.

Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time

Under-rated. One of my favorite IM studio albums. Proper BattleMetal.

Yes - Relayer

My most recent Yes album. Each one is a huge feast of amazing music and this one is doing it for me right now.

joerattray · 11th July 2006, 12:11am

thom yorke - the eraser
just got this today and quite enjoying it. some parts remind of aphex and some other warp records artists, but yorke's got some really interesting vocal work on this album. reminds me of kid a, but more clever.

at the drive-in - in/casino/out
finally got this album on cd after having it downloaded for a long time, always forget how good it is. great tunes and shit hot guitar work.

the blue nile - hats
was always told how good this album was by every blue nile fan i've spoken to, i only had a walk across rooftops and high. really liked it after a couple of listens, but then stopped being in the mood for the blue nile after a few days.

stevie wonder - music of my mind
a fantastic funk/pop album. don't think this album had any hit singles, but some of his best tunes, notably 'superwoman'. i love stevie's drumming, its so funky.

thelonius monk quartet (featuring john coltrane) - live at carnegie hall
monk was a genius, totally ahead of his time with regards to harmony and just sheer inventiveness. his tunes can be a total mindfuck. you can completely hear his influence in so many modern jazz pianists, especially guys like brad mehldau and ethan iverson. keith jarrett too i suppose.

some other bits and pieces too, got pretty addicted to a jill scott live bootleg last week. she has the greatest band in the world. and the usual dinosaur jr, prince and funkadelic records. also, joe jackson's greatest hits, cos he was a diverse motherfucker.

Kevvy Metal · 12th July 2006, 2:46pm

No one else want to discuss their recent listenings?!!

Is everyone too busy playing with their pee pees?!

Uncle Fritz · 12th July 2006, 5:01pm

Laeto - Zwoa

and absolutley nothing else.

fraserlaeto · 12th July 2006, 10:02pm

kevin, i never posted mine cos they're basically the same as yours

but i'll ellaborate anyway.

Shudder to Think - 'Pony Express Record'.
Magic, obtuse as fuck, brilliant melodies, high camp theatrics. a bizarre mix of really difficult guitar music and total pop.

Jawbox - 'For Your own special sweetheart'
The dischord crowd's big major label album, it's a cracker. The best one i've heard anyway.

David Bowie - all of it
it's all pretty awesome isn't it?. his lyrics are good. his music is great, his voice rules.

Also, snap with Kev on Steely Dan, which i'm listening to maore than anything just now.

fraser

joerattray · 12th July 2006, 10:41pm

my albums have changed in the past couple of days:

Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
just got this last night but lost count of how many times i've listened to it. great piano and vocal-based "anti-folk" (wtf? not my words), really funny and charming.

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
This album is great and moody.

Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
One of my favourite Zappa albums, mostly for the unbelievably good Inca Roads and that he was still playing with probably the best group of musicians he assembled in the 70s. Maybe ever, but that's debatable.

Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
You guys probably know this album (I think it was you Fraser that told robin to check this out a while ago, then he told me), but I always forget how good it is.

**LesMTS** · 13th July 2006, 9:12am

Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Kick-ass thrash/death metal. Every song preluded with a pathology or surgery lecture. Haha.

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela
Guitar awesomeness. Better live though. Album comes with a lesson on DVD, haven't decided whether I think that's cool or not yet.

Tool - 10,000 Days
Still listening to it practically daily.

Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus
It's not clever but it's very big. And fat. And ROCK.

Leonard Cohen - Live Songs
Lyrical genius. Brilliant performance of "Bird On A Wire".

fraserlaeto · 13th July 2006, 10:07am

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Originally Posted by LesMTS

Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Kick-ass thrash/death metal. Every song preluded with a pathology or surgery lecture. Haha.

I love carcass. I know a lot of people love the early 'gore' stuff more, but i thought they started to get their shit together on Necroticism, and by the time they got to Heartwork (in my opinion, the 'best really heavy album made by anyone'), it was unbelievable. I can't say enough good shit about Heartwork, everything from the cover to the end of the last song is fucking awesome.
What a band. Bill Steer is a fucking weapon guitar player.

**LesMTS** · 13th July 2006, 10:58am

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Originally Posted by fraserlaeto

I love carcass. I know a lot of people love the early 'gore' stuff more, but i thought they started to get their shit together on Necroticism, and by the time they got to Heartwork (in my opinion, the 'best really heavy album made by anyone'), it was unbelievable. I can't say enough good shit about Heartwork, everything from the cover to the end of the last song is fucking awesome.
What a band. Bill Steer is a fucking weapon guitar player.

"Heartwork" was the first Carcass album I owned. It's an incredible album. So many songs that are both uncompromsingly heavy and complex yet still manage to immediately root themselves in your consciousness. Not listened to it for months though.
I may dig it out when I get home from work.
Might bring in "Necroticism" and "Heartwork" to work tomorrow. A constant, endlessly repeating shit-festival of Chilis/Kaiser Chiefs/Snow Patrol is the backdrop I usually have to work against courtesy of my colleagues.

fraserlaeto · 13th July 2006, 11:40am

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Originally Posted by LesMTS

"Heartwork" was the first Carcass album I owned. It's an incredible album. So many songs that are both uncompromsingly heavy and complex yet still manage to immediately root themselves in your consciousness. Not listened to it for months though.
I may dig it out when I get home from work.
Might bring in "Necroticism" and "Heartwork" to work tomorrow. A constant, endlessly repeating shit-festival of Chilis/Kaiser Chiefs/Snow Patrol is the backdrop I usually have to work against courtesy of my colleagues.

looking at your avatar les, you've heard 'Budd' by Rapeman, right?
101% awesome.

Kevvy Metal · 13th July 2006, 11:59am

Budd Don't!!

LOLz

+1 for the Carcass love.

Necroticism is a very good death metal album but Heartwork really is something else. I bought that record 12 years ago and it hasn't aged one bit. Could well be the pinical extreme metal album.

I'm still diggin' the new tool album too.

I love Emperor Tomato Ketchup lots and lots. It's the only Stereolab record I have bought for some strange reason. I've heard lots of other records that they've done and thought they were great.

fraserlaeto · 21st July 2006, 10:36am

Moniack - 'Grand Mal II'
Edinburgh's finest, maybe the best band from scotland ever. King Crimson prog (like they actually sound like that rather than just saying they do) meets Jesus Lizard awkward jaggy noise. Fucking brilliant. A proper cult legend, stone-age style. Moniack members don't even age, which is impressive.

Megadeth - 'Rust In Peace'
I think Metallica's a better band all things considered, but this album (undoubtedly my favourite Megadeth record by a long long way) is possibly the pinnacle of the 80's /early 90's thrash genre. All the songs are truly awesome. The recording is awesome. The playing is fucking incredible. Rust in Peace rocks very very hard. It's probably my most listened to metal record, and not without reason. If there's ever an example of a good band that all of a sudden produced a genuine masterpiece, then this is it. A classic in the truest sense.
Don't buy the remixed/remastered version though, it sucks in comparison to the original mixes and masters.

**LesMTS** · 21st July 2006, 11:15am

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Originally Posted by fraserlaeto

looking at your avatar les, you've heard 'Budd' by Rapeman, right?
101% awesome.

To be honest I think the only exposure to Rapeman I've ever had has been years ago on mix tapes compiled by friends. I might have to sort that out.

fraserlaeto · 21st July 2006, 12:14pm

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Originally Posted by LesMTS

To be honest I think the only exposure to Rapeman I've ever had has been years ago on mix tapes compiled by friends. I might have to sort that out.

rapeman is greatman.
it's not as good as big black, but it's better than shellac, in my opinion.
their album is definitely worth getting your hands on.
Also, i don;t want to seem patronising here, but if you're into that kind of thing, you NEED to get all the touch'n'go Jesus Lizard albums. They're totally outstanding, the very best of that kind of music.