This week I have been mostly listening to...

[Mercator]

I haven't been listening to much...

A bit of:
Soulwax - Any Minute Now

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - bits and pieces of their last 3 albums. Their last one isn't quite as good as their earlier ones.

Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, borrowed from my sister. I had expected I'd like The Love Below best. Then when I first skipped through it, Speakerboxxx seemed to be better, but I think I've settled on The Love Below now after all... I'm not sure if it's quite good enough for me to consider buying though.

At the moment I'm listening to:
Dälek - Absence - Some pretty wicked "heavy" rap (no I don't think that's a proper genre name, just how it feels to me). I'm liking it.

[Agathon]

As of today: Fields of the Nephilim, Dawnrazor and Elizium.

I had these on tape from the early 90s, but I bought the CDs today.

[Dis]

Anthrax now. imitation of life.
and I was burning some CD's for my brother, so I admit I was listening to Motley Crue . I actually like their old stuff though. Live wire was actually a halfway heavy song.

[monolith94]

Right now, the b-52's selftitled debut. Now I think I'm going to listen to Can's Tago mago, though.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Agathon
As of today: Fields of the Nephilim, Dawnrazor and Elizium.

I had these on tape from the early 90s, but I bought the CDs today.

Kiddy-Goth!

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

On the stereo now-

Bright Eyes- "Digital ashes in a digital urn"
Patrick Wolf- "Lycanthropy"
The Radio Dept- "Lesser matters"
The Raveonettes- "Whip it on"
Coil- "The golden hare with the voice of silver"

[Agathon]

Kiddy-Goth!

With cowboy hats and guns!!

Are you implying that there is serious Goth music?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

You bet your arse there is- Killing Joke, Birthday Party. None more serious.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
You bet your arse there is- Killing Joke, Birthday Party. None more serious.

Spookily serendipitous, Lazzy.


I listened to Jaz Coleman and Anne Dudley's 'Songs from the Victorious City' yesterday and thought back fondly to nights at Eighties discos listening to 'Release the Bats' and 'Requiem' and 'Follow the Leader'.

Also went back in time with Pulp, and listened to 'Common People' and 'Do You Remember the First Time?' and the Verve's 'Bitter Sweet Symphony'.

Then I just fancied some noise, so I put on Cabaret Voltaire's 'This is Entertainment' with the bass up high and Suicide's 'Live in Berlin'.

[Dis]

I have finally screened and went through all my new songs. . I had a few hundred new songs I had to check to make sure they were good copies and/or if I actually liked them. I like to experiment with different bands and such. The ones I didn't like I deleted. I tried Lacuna Coil, I just couldn't get into their music. It didn't draw me in.

[Agathon]

You bet your arse there is- Killing Joke, Birthday Party. None more serious.

Sorry, the whole Goth thing is just daft. Either you realize it's a joke, or there's something really wrong. At least Fields are aware of how silly the whole thing is (hence their ripping off Ennio Morricone).

Goths are like drama students - in fact they are often drama students. What harsher indictment could there be?

[Buck Birdseed]

Today I was at Skärholmen market (which is the place in Stockholm to buy cheap, second-rate pirate copies of middle eastern music from questionable vendors). There I purchased for way too much money a CD of my Turkpop favourite Ebru Gündes (who has a hell of a voice despite looking somewhat like Kylie) and a compilation of recent Arabic pop music. Both are good, though the latter only has ten tracks which feels like a bit of a rip-off. Plus the track listings are all in arabic which makes it a bit hard to follow.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

You weren't there. You wouldn't understand.

The trailblazers- The Banshees, Birthday Party, Killing Joke- made astonishingly ferocious and deadly serious noise.

Then the kiddy bands like The Sisters, The Mission, Fields of the Naff discovered backcombing and turned it all into a turgid joke. There is no comparison. It's like saying Punk is a joke on the strength of hearing Busted and Blink 182.

[Combat Ingrid]

The last few days I have been listening to Ayreon - "Into The Electric Castle" a lot. Great CD!

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

This is the good stuff-

The Birthday Party- "Dead Joe"
The Birthday Party- "Release the bats"
Killing Joke- "Psyche"
Killing Joke- "Love like blood"
Killing Joke- "Exorcism"
Killing Joke- "The death and resurrection show"
Nick Cave- "The Mercy Seat"
The Gun Club- "Ghost on the highway"
Bauhaus- "In the flat field"

Get them down your neck and tell me it's a joke. It's bulging eyes and bulging veins all the way, not Amateur-dramatics posing.