The New Music Thread!

[Dinner]

BTW I'm listening to Broken Social Scene's You Forget it in People right now and the song Anthem of a 17 year old girl is better then I remember as well.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Asher
It's just the guy from Something Corporate.

I've only heard one song, "Dark Blue", by them, but I like it.

Asher... I'm impressed that you've heard of Something Corporate. We will make a music snob of you yet.

[Asher]

I saw them live back when I was in TO.

I remember being disappointed by the album (I had never heard them before the concert). The album lacks the energy of their performances.

Edit: BSS, not Something Corporate.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Asher... I'm impressed that you've heard of Something Corporate. We will make a music snob of you yet.

Something Corporate is anything but obscure in my scene.

Konstantine is one of my favorite songs. Gave me chills the first time I heard it in the backseat of a friends car at night. It doesn't help that I was lonely and missing my SO at the time, who was on the other side of the country.

[Asher]

Some trivia: The day Andrew McMahan finished recording Jack Mannequin's "Everything in Transit", he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

The day the album was released (August 23, 2005) he had a bone marrow transplant for it.

He's 23 years old.

[Asher]

Picture.

[C0ckney]

holy old thread revival batman!

[Stuie]

Xmas presents I got:

Fall Heads Roll - The Fall
Listening in... - The Fall
Room to Live - The Fall (finally replacing my old vinyl copy)
King of the Surf Guitar: The best of - Dick Dale and his Del-tones

Not sure how that last one snuck into my otherwise 100% Fall Xmas.

Last CD I actually bought for myself:

The Name of This Band is Talking Heads - Talking Heads (finally replacing my old vinyl copy)

[Zoid]

Ladytrons new CD is awesome. I must´ve listened to it a 100 times by now. Same with Alice in Videoland. The new Rammstein CD is wearing a bit thin though...

[Alex]

I like Kaiser Chiefs. And the new Strokes album.

[Mercator]

Christmas presents:

Daft Punk - Discovery
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Nirvana - Nevermind
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
Soulwax - Any Minute Now

I haven't bought a CD for myself in quite a while...

[Sikander]

Re: Re: The New Music Thread!

Originally posted by molly bloom


Erm, the records you'd be looking for in that respect would be 'Here Come the Warm Jets' and 'June 1 1974' where he appears with Nico, John Cale and Kevin Ayers in a live gig.

Also: 'Another Green World' which also has Jazz and Funk influences.

'Thursday Afternoon' is part of his interest in Ambient Music, along with 'Discreet Music', 'Music for Airports' and 'On Land'.

Oh, and if you don't have it, check out his collaboration with David Byrne, 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'.

I second this, and would add Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy and Before and After Science to the list of stuff he did with bands of his own devising that sounds like Rock-Pop etc. These are all good albums btw. You could toss in the first two Roxy Music albums as well.

Also instructive would be to listen to the albums where he was the producer or an influential guest. Examples would be David Bowies Heroes, Low & Lodger, Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Devo's Q:Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo, Talking Heads The Name of this Band is Talking Heads, More Songs about Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, Remain in Light, U2's The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, Achtung Baby, Zooropa. IIRC he's also produced one of Massive Attack's albums.

[Nostromo]

I almost bought Another Green World by Eno but I really, but really don't like the sound of his voice. Maybe I'll get over it someday...

[Pekka]

In my playlist currently:

Richie Hawtin & Pete Namlook - From Within Vol 1
... Vol 2
... Vol 3

Jean-Michel Jarre - Complete Oxygene
Daft Punk - Homework
Ninja Cuts 3 - Funkungufusion


So mostly oldies, but definitely goodies.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by nostromo
I almost bought Another Green World by Eno but I really, but really don't like the sound of his voice. Maybe I'll get over it someday...

I really rather like his voice, oddly enough. His speaking voice too. He was interviewed on BBC 1 recently as part of a programme that touched on opposition to the continuing 'occupation' of Iraq and also played a (rare for him) gig for the Stop The War Coalition at London's Astoria with Rachid Taha, Nitin Sawhney & Imogen Heap.


I treated myself to a signed copy of Eno's installation c.d. 'Kite Stories' and a publisher's promo. compilation of his work for Christmas.

If you truly can't abide his voice then I'd get 'My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts', 'Evening Star', 'No Pussyfooting' (both with Robert Fripp), 'The Plateaux Of Mirror' and 'The Pearl' (with Harold Budd's glacially beautiful piano work), thus avoiding any possible vocal irritation and encountering instead, cause for much musical jubilation.

You still might want to purchase 'Another Green World' because not all the tracks have vocals- the opening sequence 'Over Fire Island/Sky Saw', 'Sombre Reptiles', 'Becalmed'- and also becaus eit's on this album that Eno first gets into that jazz funk groove he further explored on his own 'Before and After Science' album and with Talking Heads on 'Fear of Music' tour's live shows and on the 'Remain In Light' album and also with Jon Hassell on 'Fourth World Vol 1: Possible Musics'.


Yesterday I bought a 3" c.d. on the V.V.M. label, all 'cos it has a track by 'Hell Interface' - or as they're better known, 'Boards of Canada- oh the wags! because I groove to them muchly.

7 tracks of Coil like disturbances of Christmas songs, sounding like they're coming from a carol singing event organised and decorated by Francis Bacon, the Marquis de Sade and Hieronymus Bosch. A hoot.