What MUSIC are you listening to? ARCHIVE

Speaking of Sitars, I have no great interest in world music, but an Indian friend of mine once gave me this album and it's utterly, utterly beguiling.

I just discovered Nomeansno. I'm happy. (OK, I already knew about them, just never got around giving it a shot.)

Nomeansno is excellent, check out Wrong if you already have not.

Its Crimbo Day here in TKWIL.

Decided to break out Tom Robinson Band from 1979 so singing along to Sing if you're Glad to be Gay, Martin, Winter of 79 and a brilliant cover of The Band's I Shall be Released. In 1979 when Gay Lib in the UK was a total joke, TRB really had the balls to take it on. I remember being 17 and singing Sing If You're Glad to be Gay at the top of my voice at a party (none of us were gay). It just has the best opening lines

"The British police are the best in the world, I don't believe one of these stories I've heard, 'bout them raiding our pubs for no reason at all, lining the customers up by the wall..."

Followed this up with Billy Bragg's Worker's Playtime (1988) album. His love songs are brilliant on this album and bring tears to my eyes....particularly poignant to me is Little Time Bomb but loads of others reach out for me through the years and still cut like a knife when I hear them..

Little bit of Stiff Little Fingers with a large Irish Whiskey I smuggled in for the occasion and some Clash (London Calling). Do they even make music like this anymore or am I just getting old and grizzled??

George Thorogood and the Destroyers followed by Dr Feelgood and the brilliant Jason and the Scorchers. Now we're rocking.....

I just stumbled upon a Canadian electronic duet called Purity Ring. Jaw dropping, a bizarre mish-mash of thudding beats, juddering yet ethereal hooks and really quite disturbing lyrics. It's a bit like the Witch House stuff Mr. Barnes unearthed a while back, only more melodic and, unexpectedly, somewhat weirder.

Witness:



I feel elevated yet unsettled. And I can't stop listening to it.

Nice, I really like this sort of ethereal electronic pop

I've been listening too;

Village; Takeover EP


The Unthanks; Songs from the Shipyards

Chipzel; Phonetic Symphony

DukeofChutney wrote: The Unthanks; Songs from the Shipyards

I'll have to give that a spin. I really enjoyed their early material (recorded as The Winterset) but the change to The Unthanks bought a rather tedious, maudlin note to their songs.

Can't seem to get Devo's first record off the turntable. Then I found this video which I've become obssessed with. They were so incredibly tight. It gives me goosebumps. The song starts at about the 1:20 mark.

I really have to sit down and give Devo a chance one of these days, they're a very interesting band that I never gave credit to when I was younger... electronic music in general I kind of brushed past because I was always so obsessed to listening to acoustic musicians for my own training.

I do love Tangerine Dream though, John Adams, Bill Laswell ... people like that.

Lately it's been all Sesame Street music. So many great music video's. That should mean Cookie Monster non-stop because I love his googley eyes and fantastic singing voice... and I never liked Elmo. Who does most of their songs now. But, unbeknownst to me, my wife introduced Elmo to our son before I could intervene. To my shock I was wrong, Elmo has one of the best Sesame Street songs ever in Be Doodle De Dum:



So much unfiltered joy in this. I just love the last stanza:

Elmo woke up feeling grouchy he was grumpy as a bear
He tried to find his niceness but his niceness wasn't there
But there he remembered what to do when things go wrong
He let out a big BE DOODLE and stayed happy all day long

I don't give a fuck if Leonard Cohen is your favorite songwriter (he should be anyway) that is some fantastic songwriting that'd give any Leiber and Stoller fan a cause to take a listen.

So yeah, Be Doodle De Dum is what I'm listening to right now. Great stuff!

Sheeeit, I forgot how to make the video show up I guess. Can someone help a brother out?

Here ya go dude. Just take away the video quotes and paste it as is.

jay718 wrote:

Can't seem to get Devo's first record off the turntable. Then I found this video which I've become obssessed with. They were so incredibly tight. It gives me goosebumps. The song starts at about the 1:20 mark.

A friend just forwarded this to me.

Well, at least it's better than that crap he did with Danny Diablo or Yelawolf, but dude seems to be grasping for anything.






(EDIT: Well, it seems he's been putting out a song a day since late October. Covers and originals. Some of it is pretty good.)

I went down to DC to see Dag Nasty, Government Issue, and Scream a few weeks back and Dag Nasty's 1st album's been on heavy rotation ever since. Then my buddy found this video of the show we were at. Best show I've seen in years, but I'm sure the nostalgia factor had quite a bit to do with that.

jay718 wrote: I went down to DC to see Dag Nasty, Government Issue, and Scream a few weeks back and Dag Nasty's 1st album's been on heavy rotation ever since. Then my buddy found this video of the show we were at. Best show I've seen in years, but I'm sure the nostalgia factor had quite a bit to do with that.

Kudos! I'd like to have seen 'Dag with Shawn'.

The 'English Beat' play down here about once a year and I never go always thinking 'I'll catch 'em next time'. It's one of those things where when he stops touring I'll kick myself having never gone. Thinking about going even though not of the usual suspects can make it out.

I have been pruning Sean Parker's Hipster International into a pleasant Jebster International playlist on Spotify. Less Gotye, more Die Antwoord. My current top 3:

Does anyone else sound like this? Let me know if so.




I am not terrible into Starfucker, but this song is awesomely catchy.




There's some bombast here that I like a lot.