The last music you acquired thread

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:28 pm

That doesn't mean anything.

Joined: 23 Feb 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: Wham City

kfunque wrote:

The Paper Chase - God Bless Your Black Heart
The Paper Chase - Cntrl Alt Delete U

Very good, even though listening to it generally makes me question my sanity. It's kind of like the soundtrack to a really disturbing horror movie where the killer is singing his inner-dialogue right before he snaps.

Actually, I've really only listened to the first album, because I sort of have to be in the right mood to listen to them, and I haven't been in that sort of mood in a while. Very good music for making creepy art, though.

I'm also wishing I'd have gotten Now You Are One of Us, because I've heard more songs off that album since buying the first two and they're really really good.

Now You Are Own of Us OWNS
(the other two are good also but)

WE KNOW WHERE YOU SLEEP

Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 5464 Location: dino zone

@ZACH

here are the albums that will sell you on Smog in descending order of meanness:

The Doctor Came At Dawn
Wild Love
Red Apple Falls
Supper
Knock Knock
A River Ain't Too Much To Love
Woke On A Whaleheart

and then after that
Rain On Lens is pretty good but half of it is boring
Julius Caesar is pretty good and it has good cello songs but half of it is stupid
Forgotten Foundation and Sewn To The Sky you will probably only ever listen to once but they have a couple good songs each

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

N.B. The Gudrun Gut version of "Rock Bottom Riser" is better than the original.

(the only smog album I've heard is Dongs of Sevotion, though).

I finally got Reign in Blood by Slayer and it is capital "A" amazing.

Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 5464 Location: dino zone

Rock Bottom Riser is p boring and i dont know why it got released as a single

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

I am going to link to the version I like best for some reason.

http://kundor.org/pub/02%20-%20rock%20bottom%20riser.mp3

oop, there it is.

Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 5464 Location: dino zone

I'M GONNA BE SOOOOOOOO DRUUUUUUUUUNK
AT YOUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRR
WEDDIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:14 pm

Tom Meade wrote:

Uma Thurman rocks?

Uma Thurman's socks, which Quentin Tarrantino secretly has a stash of in his basement.

I have gotten the new Mastodon and At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash, but have not listened to either just yet.

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:00 pm

Tom Meade wrote:

N.B. The Gudrun Gut version of "Rock Bottom Riser" is better than the original.

Boo wrote:

Rock Bottom Riser is p boring and i dont know why it got released as a single

nope

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:40 pm

Anne Briggs - s/t

hi i'm cantlin my interests include acapella english folk music

Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free

superb in parts better than their last one but still ultimately frustrating

Alias - Resurgam

just great

Arthur Russell - World of Echo

more difficult but no less good than Love Is Overtaking Me/Calling Out Of Context (buy those albums)

Belle & Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds/BBC Sessions

how did i not have these already they are fucking great

Bert Jansch - Nicola

flawed but endearing, worth hearing if only for the title track and his arrangement of Go Your Way My Love

Britney Spears - Circus

return to form

Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels/Ongiara

kozeleky in a good way thanks darren good listenin

Kate Maki - On High

starts out sounding nice but basically innocuous then you realise it's just really good

The Monochrome Set - Independent Singles Collection

fine if you like english post-punk bands maybe too """funny""" for me

the Mountain Goats - Live at Ethical Culture Hall

http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=943 if you are a huge fag like me or just really want to hear him do Ace of Bass - The Sign

Peter Bjorn and John - Living Thing

surprisingly aggressive but no worse for it

Kaki King - Everybody Loves You EP

didn't think I liked her that much but seem to be steadily acquiring the discography so

Ratatat - LP3

they still got it

Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings

hate the guy and the lp name but the music owns

Zomby - Where Were U In '92?

breaks :)

The Antlers - In The Attic Of The Universe

nice but essentially unmemorable sorry raz

David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

very good but no My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Beirut - March of the Zapotec/Realpeople - Holland

$$$

still gotta hear: John Cale - Slow Dazzle, The Stone Roses - Second Coming, Neko Case - Middle Cyclone, Emmy The Great - First Love

Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 1255 Location: Canada

I just downloaded a buncha ZZ Top and T. Rex this week

so far $$$$

Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 5464 Location: dino zone

Swan Lake - Enemy Mine

holy hug ! this is the best david bowie album since Destroyer's Rubies

i keep reading all these reviews that shit on carey mercer's songs though i don't get it

i guess i am a frog eyes fan first and foremost tho

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:49 am

i hate frog eyes and it took me a long time to like Enemy Mine because of it

Beast Moans I immediately loved and I don't know why people don't care about it?

but after I got used to Enemy Mine it really owns

Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 6

Torch of the Mystics

Laughing

Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 6011

St. Vincent's new album Actor leaked and it's AMAZING. Even better than Marry Me Raccoon!

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

Dæ wrote:

Anne Briggs - s/t

Dae, do you know enough about Anne Briggs to tell me which albums of hers I should get?

Anyway, here are some CDs I bought on the cheap.

Dusty in Memphis: Pretty good, but maybe a little too lushly produced? I was always under the impression that "Son of a Preacher Man" was a lot more spare and raw than it actually is. I would love to hear these songs with just Dusty, the drums and the guitars (in this statement, the bass is a guitar). Maybe I should get a live album. (edit: actually, I put the CD on a different stereo and now it sounds fine. Damn you, cheap boombox!)

Astral Weeks: I bought this after realising that "Sweet Thing" is the prettiest song ever recorded. I haven't listened to this past the first half yet, but it seems pretty good even if most of the album is not really anything like "Sweet Thing" in terms of rhythm and structure. Also, Van Morrison's lyrics are sometimes very pretty but are often very silly. Anyway now I want to buy a Tim Buckley album.

Blue Lines: I already had this, in a form, but I wanted a proper copy to sit by Mezzanine. It really is such a cool album, and it fits neatly into my current soul kick. However I doubt I will be buying Protection or 100th Window any time soon.

And I got Jack Orion, by Bert Jansch too. I like Bert Jansch, although I might like Pentangle better. I am greatly in favour of ten minute ballads about rakes. Also, while Jansch' voice isn't as technically pleasant as, say, Nick Drakes, I think it works much better for the folk material. Then again Nick was really making pop albums more than anything else.

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:40 am

the saturday option wrote:

It leaked a couple weeks ago. I'm a big Metric apologist, but it's pretty boring

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:40 am

(imo)

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:46 am

the leaked grizzly bear is amazing but i think i already said that

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:02 am

trainwreck wrote:

i hate frog eyes and it took me a long time to like Enemy Mine because of it

Beast Moans I immediately loved and I don't know why people don't care about it?

but after I got used to Enemy Mine it really owns

I just got Enemy Mine and so far I only like a couple songs (the Spencery ones) but I just started liking Beast Moans like last week so I might like it more eventually.

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:02 am

Also Marry Me is at least as boring as the latest Metric.

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:24 am

Tom Meade wrote:

Astral Weeks: I bought this after realising that "Sweet Thing" is the prettiest song ever recorded. I haven't listened to this past the first half yet, but it seems pretty good even if most of the album is not really anything like "Sweet Thing" in terms of rhythm and structure. Also, Van Morrison's lyrics are sometimes very pretty but are often very silly. Anyway now I want to buy a Tim Buckley album.

get lorca, it is pretty great

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

Lorca is actually the only Tim Buckley album I have heard, and it is indeed pretty good!

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:48 pm

First listen verdict on the new Mastodon = p. good/great. The thing is I'd only heard Leviathan previously, and I don't know if this is something that just suddenly happened or if there was a little bit of this on Blood Mountain, but the vocals mainly sound like Ozzy all of the sudden. It works with the music better than you'd think though, particularly because they're getting proggier (though not in a Mars Volta sort of way or anything). This needs a bunch of more listens, but it is not getting them just now because I had a tooth pulled today and am still not feeling up to any even remotely heavy music just now.

Guys, Neil Cicierega put up the first four Lemon Demons online for free now. I have only listened to Damn Skippy so far, but it is good if you like really geeky pop music.

The cd swap thing I am on suddenly yielded me a crapload of stuff in the past couple weeks, and said crapload of stuff was:
2001: A Space Odyssey Soundtrack
The Cardigans - First Band On The Moon
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks soundtrack (the show, not the movie)
The Byrds - Greatest Hits (even most of the songs I thought I hadn't heard before were actually things I've heard somewhere and just didn't know by name. Still pretty good when I am in the mood for this sort of thing)
Temple Of The Dog - s/t (I'm increasingly bored with Pearl Jam now and don't even really like "Hunger Strike", but unexpectedly I kinda dig this. Somewhat closer to late Soundgarden but with Pearl Jammier guitar lines, which is sort of interesting because Soundgarden didn't sound anything like this at the time, while Pearl Jam didn't really exist yet).
The Lightning Seeds - Cloudcuckooland (on first listen, it's pretty decent, but nothing else really has the catchy dippyness of "Pure" to it)
Jonny Polonsky - Hi My Name Is Jonny (kind of slight, but fun. I can kind of tell why Frank Black evidently liked him, because a lot of this sounds a bit like his poppier material mixed with Fountains Of Wayne).

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

Blood Mountain was still mostly a variety of alarmed yelling, but it made a couple of vague overtures towards singing. Most of that singing sounded like a chainsaw, but it was singing.

I like Crack the Skye a lot. It's not as immediate as Leviathan or Blood Mountain (I haven't heard the first one), and I'd argue that it's also not as good as Leviathan, but it's a grower. It's also an awful lot of fun to listen to on headphones.

I am still waiting for them to do another song like "Hearts Alive" but I guess they are not that kind of band anymore.

Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 1775

Space Programs by The USA Is a Monster -- It's definitely their most listenable and polished album and it's maybe my favorite? No one else ever likes them, though. ;_;

Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4885 Location: MAN Texas

hey so apparently it is difficult to find a reasonably priced unopened copy of the self-titled qotsa debut album

I'm upset

that is all

Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 382 Location: t dot

mountain goats' all hail west texas

&

the new horrors lp

holy $hit

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:31 pm

the saturday option wrote:

St. Vincent's new album Actor leaked and it's AMAZING. Even better than Marry Me Raccoon!

Fo' serious? I heard that one song from it which was really cool.

I recently acquired the new Black Moth Super Rainbow and it's amazing. The first track on it turned up in my dream; I was in canada, and it was on the radio and I tried to text someone about it but then I woke up.

Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Posts: 1205

Just got a bunch of Nicola Conte

It's like dancing the robot on a turntable on a conveyor belt

This is a good thing