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Davey
11-29-2005, 08:56 AM
Whatcha been listening to this past week?

Got the new Silver Jews Tangleweed thing and listened to that some. Nice album. And a bunch to the latest from the National. Just gets better. A few other of my favorites from the year like Andrew Bird as I was putting together a year end comp.

That's about it.

EDIT: Boy, this is embarrassing! Not a single response in 4 hours on a Tuesday thread? Guess it is me. Same thing happened last time I started one of these. Should've learned my lesson, eh? :)

3-LockBox
11-29-2005, 12:43 PM
I bought my wife an MP3 player, so I spent the better part of the weekend listening to music that I otherwise could go the rest of my life without ever hearing again. Oh...that may be a tad overstated, but you get the drift. She'll use her player mainly for her workout. I myself had no desire to do the "shuffle", ever since I saw that gawd-awful Chicago Bears video. But this little thing will spare me hours of trying to buff scratches from CeeDees, or CD-Rs (usually, and luckily, not my own).

I did hear some new stuff this weekend (on CD):

A couple of 'Disco' comps (no need to list tracks and artists)

A six-CD set called The Circuit Party Mix, a set of remixed dance tracks that I've never heard before, from artists I've never heard of, by self-infatuated DJs who seem hellbent on making an already banal collection of cookie cutter techno even more redundant by over mixing the dance tracks to the point were they all sound like one long contiguous song, for all six discs...seriously, you couldn't have discerned one disc from another. Some of the songs repeated, but had different titles! These guys might be DJs by night, but their day job must be cutting & pasting porno films. Mercifully for me, this set was at a reduced price ($13.99) presumably because, upon first inspection, there was some superficial damage to the jewel case (yes, the jewel case). One of the discs though was actually damaged, so I took it back to CC and blessedly enough, it was the only one in stock, so I was able to recoup my 14 bucks. There is a God.

I washed my ears out with Rush:All The World's A Stage, a King Crimson comp of their Larks period, and some Captain Beyond:Sufficiently Breathless.

I did manage to pick up Coheed & Cambria:Keeping Secrets.... - their second album for a mere $9.99. Other than the ungamely long titles, I really have taken a liking to this band. Yes, the vocals are higher pitched than their latest one, with an even more efeminate lilt, more like a young Wayne Newton than Geddy Lee. But these guys have a way of wrapping unconventional lyrics, story lines and complex song structures in a highly melodic power pop and metallish aesthetic. Still remind me of Rush to a degree. This is a group I actually took a chance on and am very glad I did; eclipsing RPWL as my 'find' of the year.

Dusty Chalk
11-29-2005, 01:15 PM
We need a separate column: Last Post; Replies; Views; Pity Clicks.

LOTW: Foetus, Love -- yes, that Foetus, Jim Thirlwheel. He's still using the same samplers he always have been (sounds like Emulators, possibly v. 3) -- they have a characteristic grittiness, and he doesn't spend a lot of time refining the realism of said samples, but that's not the point. The point is the songs. And he's really back in fine form on this one, quite possibly his best release in years (but I vaguely remember feeling that way about his previous releases). And it's not that he makes bad use of the samples -- the samples that he uses fit together like puzzle pieces that weren't meant to fit together, and yet still accidentally do. It's a talent to find those pieces and make them fit together, and make them look like a collage and one big picture both at the same time.

Lots of Carina Round -- just can't get past her in my MP3 player, every time I get to the end of the second album, for some reason it goes right back to the beginning of the first one.

Lots of Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom's The Days of Mars -- mesmerizing, hypnotic.

Davey
11-29-2005, 01:22 PM
We need a separate column: Last Post; Replies; Views; Pity Clicks.
Yeah, I should've set it up as a poll, like a clicker suggestion box. Wonder if I can edit in a poll?

1. Keep the spirit alive Dave! Love the Tunesday threads!
2. Love reading them but don't often post in them.
3. Pity Click, but I still enjoy reading these
4. Pity Click, that's all, nothing more
5. Really bored so clicked on the only active thread. Not even for pity. You people suck.

Slosh
11-29-2005, 01:41 PM
6. Everyone has avian flu from all that turkey mongering last week.

Davey
11-29-2005, 02:02 PM
6. Everyone has avian flu from all that turkey mongering last week.
Yeah, thanks. As bizarre as it may sound to others, there for a minute I thought it was something to do with me. Glad to know that you're all just deathly ill ;)

7. Not enough cowbell in music today for my taste
8. Next?

Snowbunny
11-29-2005, 03:22 PM
Whatcha been listening to this past week?

Got the new Silver Jews Tangleweed thing and listened to that some. Nice album. And a bunch to the latest from the National. Just gets better. A few other of my favorites from the year like Andrew Bird as I was putting together a year end comp.

That's about it.

EDIT: Boy, this is embarrassing! Not a single response in 4 hours on a Tuesday thread? Guess it is me. Same thing happened last time I started one of these. Should've learned my lesson, eh? :)

Awww... you're so cut and adorable I can't resist giving you some! Pity click action!!!

Just a busy day and way too many Yes fans around these parts.

Sugarplumbum

Davey
11-29-2005, 03:30 PM
Awww... you're so cut and adorable I can't resist giving you some!
Thanks! You're the only one who has ever called me cut so I know it must be special! Whatever it is! Back at ya! Indeed!






Soon to be found in a Christmas card near you, if you've been a good girl this year (but extra points if you've been bad) ...

http://members.mailaka.net/davey/holidaymixer.gif

Snowbunny
11-29-2005, 03:37 PM
6. Everyone has avian flu from all that turkey mongering last week.

Hmmmm...have you been hanging around another board, Sloshmaster?

Snowbunny
11-29-2005, 03:37 PM
Thanks! You're the only one who has ever called me cut so I know it must be special! Whatever it is! Back at ya!



Just acknowledging your awesome six-pack abs, Davey! Woohoo! Long live the Internet!

Snowbunny
11-29-2005, 03:45 PM
Thanks! You're the only one who has ever called me cut so I know it must be special! Whatever it is! Back at ya! Indeed!






Soon to be found in a Christmas card near you, if you've been a good girl this year (but extra points if you've been bad) ...

http://members.mailaka.net/davey/holidaymixer.gif

Oh sure. Just assume that nobody listened to this the first time and send it out again, eh? ;)

tentoze
11-29-2005, 06:21 PM
Only thing of note (and mebbe not even that to some or all)- Born To Run 30th Anniversary Box Set. The 11/75 London concert DVD is nothing short of amazing, performance wise. Video-wise, must have been the most poorly lit Springsteen concert ever. The 24 track 2-channel sound is pretty damned good, with some tape hiss evident. The performance is awe-inspiring, similar to the first time I saw them a few months after this show was taped. Way over 2 hours of a non-stop assault of swaggering, supremely confident musicians going for broke. It will exhaust you.

The remaster of the BTR cd is also very fine.

3-LockBox
11-29-2005, 07:35 PM
Just a busy day and way too many Yes fans around these parts.

and yer such a ray of sunshine :rolleyes:

Snowbunny
11-29-2005, 09:51 PM
and yer such a ray of sunshine :rolleyes:

Heheheh... bet you're wishing for a little ray of sunshine. How are the roads? They're supposed to be even worse tommorow. I'm glad I can walk to work. Drive carefully - I care! :D

3-LockBox
11-29-2005, 10:02 PM
Heheheh... bet you're wishing for a little ray of sunshine. How are the roads? They're supposed to be even worse tommorow. I'm glad I can walk to work. Drive carefully - I care! :D

I work nights to boot, when it freezes over. Wasn't but a couple of inches (the snow) and it cleared pretty quickly, but now its dark :eek:

We'll see

Thanks for your concern

3LB

Snowbunny
11-29-2005, 10:45 PM
I work nights to boot, when it freezes over. Wasn't but a couple of inches (the snow) and it cleared pretty quickly, but now its dark :eek:

We'll see

Thanks for your concern

3LB

Harry Wapler's kid said its going to ice over in the morning. :eek:

Stone
11-30-2005, 05:21 AM
Not much listening time this past week, but I did listen to a couple albums:

Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets (on iPod)

Weezer - Pinkerton (on cassette)

Hopefully later in the week I'll get an opportunity to listen to some CDs.

Jim Clark
11-30-2005, 10:50 AM
Sorry I didn't get around to it yesterday, but it's still a worthwhile thread. Not this one perse, but overall. I think I mentioned I'm putting in a new patio, yesterday I moved 10 tons of AB3 by wheelbarrow. That's 19.5 tons of crushed rock for the base and yesterday my hands just didn't feel like typing. Not too much better today, but they work, at least until I get the Whacker plate compactor fired up in a bit.

I listened to a handful of really cool bootlegs. Two Wheat discs stood out. One is a 2003 show at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, very cool. The other a 2003 compiliation of Wheat live doing rare live songs or different versions live. Both are awesome but the Lawrence disc features the better and most consistent on key singing.

Got a chance to listen to a couple of new to me discs, the first ...Introducing the Concussions. This is a very good little surf band pretty standard in what you'd expect them to sound like but it's very, very competent and a load of fun to listen to, especially useful to forget about cold winds outside.

Also played the new Of Montreal album and enjoyed about 75-80% of the songs on that disc right off. My very first Of Montreal experience, and it was a good one. You know who-thanks a million.

Like Davey, I too busted out the old National disc and enjoyed it greatly. I really need to find out what the song "Looking For Astronauts" is about. I know it's not about looking for Astronauts. Must find time to go over the lyrics soon.

Also grabbed one skip button enhanced listen to Slosh's YEC. Mainly just to hear the songs I didn't already have, but also because a couple of tracks I just didn't want to sit through knowing there was something better ahead(there just had to be something better!). That AmAnSet song is killer, plus one I was going to use you bum. Snooze and loose I guess! While I still don't get the almost universal appeal of The Decemberists, that was the best song by them that I've heard. PT track started out really awesome, then by about 20 minutes into the track it kind of devolved into what drives me nuts about prog bands. Thanks a ton for the disc Slosh.

jc

Davey
11-30-2005, 11:52 AM
Like Davey, I too busted out the old National disc and enjoyed it greatly. I really need to find out what the song "Looking For Astronauts" is about. I know it's not about looking for Astronauts. Must find time to go over the lyrics soon.

It would be fun sometime to pick a song like this, except one that more people know and like, and try to analyze what it means. And ya know, in a way, I think this song is about looking for astronauts. Kind of an abstraction for sure, but it reminds me of that old Simon & Garfunkel song from Bookends, "America". You know, the innocent one with the lilting closing line, "They've all come to look for America, all come to look for America". Same sense of being lost, except this one in the post-911 world with everyone questioning our values and wondering what we really stand for as a country anymore. The National (as a band) is very popular in Europe, much more so than here, and so they probably get a lot of those questions. And they probably feel that sense of disconnection from America. Longing for an earlier time, with a better defined vision. "You know you have a permanent piece of my medium-sized American heart." Remember that David Bowie song "1984" from Diamond Dogs? Had a great line where he sings, "I'm looking for a party, I'm looking for a side, I'm looking for the treason that I knew in '65." Different perspective, but kind of means the same to me. But don't quote me on any of this because I'm notoriously bad at reading my own meanings into other people's lyrics.

But that song is a bit obtuse and more metaphoric than a lot of his lyrics, I guess. Some of them come off a little shallow or forced at times, but pretty good overall if you ignore the ones that seem a little too obvious ;)

Mr MidFi
11-30-2005, 12:06 PM
Only thing of note (and mebbe not even that to some or all)- Born To Run 30th Anniversary Box Set. The 11/75 London concert DVD is nothing short of amazing, performance wise. Video-wise, must have been the most poorly lit Springsteen concert ever. The 24 track 2-channel sound is pretty damned good, with some tape hiss evident. The performance is awe-inspiring, similar to the first time I saw them a few months after this show was taped. Way over 2 hours of a non-stop assault of swaggering, supremely confident musicians going for broke. It will exhaust you.

The remaster of the BTR cd is also very fine.

I, too, viewed this concert in its entirety, at full volume, and was blown away. To see the 25-year-old Springsteen and the original E Street Band "going for broke" as a bunch of unknowns is to understand why he became a superstar in the first place.

My newest acquisition is the Red Devil Dawn album from Crooked Fingers. Hard to describe. Sorta like Steve Earl covering Wilco...except completely different. Still evaluating, but favorable so far.

I took some time to revisit Interpol's Turn On the Bright Lights disc. I didn't really care for it the first time or two I heard it, but I'm beginning to see the error of my ways. But there still is a certain...sameness to these songs. At least to my ears. The opening untitled track and NYC are both awesome tracks, though.

Other spins included (but not limited to):
Deadwing - PT
Twin Cinema - New Pornographers
Open Season - British Sea Power
Kill the Moonlight - Spoon
Stevie Ray Vaughn compilation
Moondance - Van Morrison

NP: "No Quarter" by Led Zeppelin

Mr MidFi
11-30-2005, 12:12 PM
It would be fun sometime to pick a song like this, except one that more people know and like, and try to analyze what it means.

Interesting idea. Anyone want to take a crack at "Ashes of American Flags" from YHF?

Davey
11-30-2005, 12:44 PM
Interesting idea. Anyone want to take a crack at "Ashes of American Flags" from YHF?
Hmm, good one. Kind of an abstraction for sure, but it reminds me of that National song from their recent album, "Looking For Astronauts." You know, the innocent one with the lilting refrain, "We're out looking for astronauts, looking for astronauts". Same sense of being lost, everyone questioning our values and wondering what we really stand for as a country anymore...

Hehehe, Wilco is tough because most of the lyrics are so fragmented and don't mean much as a whole. At least that's my impression. Lots of unique imagery in the lines, but not with much development or foundation. Some of the songs show that approach more than others, but when he sneaks it out in that creaky voice, "Oh, all my lies are always wishes", I feel like I know just what the song is about ;)

Snowbunny
11-30-2005, 12:55 PM
Interesting idea. Anyone want to take a crack at "Ashes of American Flags" from YHF?

Hi Mid! Didn't we talk about that one in the past.

I remember that it came out just before 9/11 and we noted that the words seemed premonitory. I believe the song was on one of Davey's Comps, and I remember listening to it a lot as I painted my bedroom a beautiful, periwinkle blue.

Good idea though...

Snowbunny

Jim Clark
11-30-2005, 01:53 PM
And ya know, in a way, I think this song is about looking for astronauts.

But that song is a bit obtuse and more metaphoric than a lot of his lyrics, I guess. Some of them come off a little shallow or forced at times, but pretty good overall if you ignore the ones that seem a little too obvious ;)

The main reason I picked that one is I have this bootleg (wouldn't ya know?) and he specifically says it's not about looking for astronauts! Other than that I have no specific insight or knowledge. It's probably my least favorite song by The National so I'm hopeful that there's something deeper there that continues to elude me. That obtusness gets me every single time.

jc

Mr MidFi
11-30-2005, 02:10 PM
Hi Mid! Didn't we talk about that one in the past.

I remember that it came out just before 9/11 and we noted that the words seemed premonitory. I believe the song was on one of Davey's Comps, and I remember listening to it a lot as I painted my bedroom a beautiful, periwinkle blue.

Good idea though...

Snowbunny

Hey, Snowie. I don't remember that discussion, but 'premonitory' does sound like something I would say.

To me, that song sounds like directionlessness and missed opportunities for success or happiness or even greatness, buried under the choking rubble of the mundane. And, ultimately, inertia.

But I'm probably just projecting again...

Davey
11-30-2005, 02:12 PM
The main reason I picked that one is I have this bootleg (wouldn't ya know?) and he specifically says it's not about looking for astronauts! Other than that I have no specific insight or knowledge. It's probably my least favorite song by The National so I'm hopeful that there's something deeper there that continues to elude me. That obtusness gets me every single time.

jc
Well, when I say it is about looking for astronauts, I don't mean that in the literal sense of a NASA advertisement, I mean that nothing is really more American than astronauts, not even apple pie. And to me it references the vision we had leading up to the moon shot in '69, a defined American course. Something totally lacking in the post-911 rudderless America. I was just trying to draw the analogy in the previous post that looking for astronauts means looking for America. That's all.

Mary Timony of Helium did a cool spacey song called "Aging Astronauts" on The Magic City album and there's a stripped down version on one of the Matador samplers that is also very cool. Probably not about astronauts either, huh? ;)

Davey
11-30-2005, 02:31 PM
Hey, Snowie. I don't remember that discussion, but 'premonitory' does sound like something I would say.

To me, that song sounds like directionlessness and missed opportunities for success or happiness or even greatness, buried under the choking rubble of the mundane. And, ultimately, inertia.

But I'm probably just projecting again...
The CD didn't come out before 911, but it was of course recorded well before and available online. There was a little discussion in the archives, but it's mainly between Mr MidFi and his best bud Mr MidFi ... http://archive.audioreview.com/10/0EF89C3E.php ... could be more but that's all that readily turned up by Google for that song, except for some rudderless blabbering by some guy dbi ... http://archive.audioreview.com/10/0EF8F617.php ... ;)

Jim Clark
11-30-2005, 03:01 PM
Well, when I say it is about looking for astronauts, I don't mean that in the literal sense of a NASA advertisement, I mean that nothing is really more American than astronauts, not even apple pie. And to me it references the vision we had leading up to the moon shot in '69, a defined American course. Something totally lacking in the post-911 rudderless America. I was just trying to draw the analogy in the previous post that looking for astronauts means looking for America. That's all.

Mary Timony of Helium did a cool spacey song called "Aging Astronauts" on The Magic City album and there's a stripped down version on one of the Matador samplers that is also very cool. Probably not about astronauts either, huh? ;)

Man, and I thought there was new slang for uppers. Yours makes more sense but mine is more fun (no smiley here, not gonna do it, just can't...)

jc

Davey
11-30-2005, 03:16 PM
Man, and I thought there was new slang for uppers. Yours makes more sense but mine is more fun (no smiley here, not gonna do it, just can't...)

jc
I don't know about the makes more sense part! He seems to be a very bitter, this Matt Berninger guy. Lots of it directed at women too, with the occasional vulgarity tossed in, including this song. He runs hot and cold like a rheostat, I mean a thermostat :)

Anyway, who knows what it really means? Maybe not even him.

audiobill
11-30-2005, 06:38 PM
Click!

audiobill
11-30-2005, 06:38 PM
Click, again!

Mr MidFi
12-01-2005, 07:08 AM
There was a little discussion in the archives, but it's mainly between Mr MidFi and his best bud Mr MidFi ...

Ouch. True, but ouch. ;)

-Jar-
12-01-2005, 10:04 AM
I was just thinking the other day about tracking down my review of that Wilco show. Man, that was a while ago.. how things can change of the course of a few years !

-jar

Davey
12-01-2005, 10:38 AM
I was just thinking the other day about tracking down my review of that Wilco show. Man, that was a while ago.. how things can change of the course of a few years !

-jar
Yeah, it's always fun to go to Google and type in "audioreview" and some band or album. We used to have some hellagood discussions around here that branched off into a bunch of great topics. Has anyone else noticed that I used to be a lot smarter too. I mean, not based on any of the threads below, just in general ;)

Here's a few more YHF discussions that turned up when I searched yesterday ...

http://archive.audioreview.com/10/0EF892EC.php

http://archive.audioreview.com/10/0EF90720.php

http://archive.audioreview.com/10/0EF905D0.php

http://forums.audioreview.com/showthread.php?t=1677

http://forums.audioreview.com/showthread.php?t=8019

Mr MidFi
12-01-2005, 12:17 PM
Jeez, that's a preachy little screed I have in the first of Davey's stack o' links. I barely remember writing any of that.

Fun stuff...thanks, Davey.

Dusty Chalk
12-01-2005, 12:24 PM
Just a busy day and way too many Yes fans around these parts.Hey now! You used to be a Yesfan, too, once.

Davey
12-06-2005, 11:29 AM
Probably no point in doing a fresh one, but got in a couple listens to that Mary Gauthier (Go-Shay) CD that tentoze and JD are so high on, and starting to come around for me too. Originally JD sent me a copy for consideration on the last CRS, and I did initially use his tune but then subsequently opted for a different CD since it just didn't seem to fit very well. Probably my mistake, maybe shoulda just gone for a different tune from that CD. Oh well, time is the revelator ;)

Also spun another one high on the tentoze year end list, Al Kooper Black Coffee. Very nice CD. Don't know why the last listen left me a little cold, but this time it really started to click. Pretty nice recording too. Seems to go on forever, but some damn tasty music. Gonna listen to this one some more. Old geezer music ;)

Also spun that Sunlandic Twins by Of Montreal that is so high on Stoney's list, but haven't quite made the transition on this one yet. Maybe won't since it kind of makes my head feel like it's being deformed a bit, but it is some pretty fun music ... in short bursts, that is ;)

Listened to the latest from the Electrelane girls, and really have a lot of respect for it, but it just doesn't come togther asa satisfying whole for me. Too much stuff that feels kind of noodly and unfocused. Still, when they're good ... they're really good. Remember that line from Bowie's "The Candidate"? "When it's good, it's really good, and when it's bad I go to pieces." ;)

And that new Silver Jews Tanglewood Numbers - really been liking that one. Lots of good songs that scratch some of my itches. Better than that damn ineffective fungal spray, anyway ;)

So that's all I got for now.

tentoze
12-06-2005, 05:03 PM
Damn, you all by yrself in this one today, Davey? I guess I need to put that Silver Jews on my list. I only have one other of theirs, Starlite Walker I think. The new one got some dreadful initial reviews I read a couple of places that made me a bit dubious about pulling the trigger. Naturally, I agree with you about the Kooper- and the recording IS pretty darn good, at least on my Shahinians.

I stayed away from any new cd's the past week- been on a cheap vinyl scrounging binge that netted several old gems, but not much anyone would have any interest in, I suspect..

Davey
12-06-2005, 07:07 PM
Damn, you all by yrself in this one today, Davey?
Yeah, been doing a lot of things by myself lately. Sometimes ya just gotta discipline the little monkey before things get out of hand. Hey wait, didn't I already use that joke in the George Michael thread? Like it really matters when I'm just talking to myself, eh Davey?

;)

Hey, thanks for stopping by. That Al Kooper is some damn fine listening. I'll concede that on occasion you do know what you're talking about. Just don't get all cocky about it. Better yet, let's just forget I said cocky! What does cocky mean, again? I always confuse that word with sloshy for some reason :confused:

Not much the haps over at your other site either. Here it's been kinda like a neighborhood picnic at Love Canal back in the 80s. Not many takers. Did somebody spill something toxic around here, I mean besides some Rogue Wave :)

<blog>Just got home and popped the top on a creamy Bass Ale and got some Autolux plugged into the merry-go-round before we head out for a walk and then cook some steaks.</blog>

tentoze
12-06-2005, 07:37 PM
Hey, thanks for stopping by. That Al Kooper is some damn fine listening. I'll concede that on occasion you do know what you're talking about. Just don't get all cocky about it. Better yet, let's just forget I said cocky! What does cocky mean, again? I always confuse that word with sloshy for some reason :confused:

Even a blind hog roots the occasional acorn. :) Sometimes, a little well done blue-eyed R&B can hit the spot. You and Cocky, errr.I mean Sloshy, can sort those other things out. I found the first 2 Biff Rose albums in a junk store this AM for fitty cent a piece- in NM condition-

"I Got You Covered"...

3-LockBox
12-06-2005, 07:47 PM
Probably no point in doing a fresh one

just to make it look like a really popular thread

geez

3LB

Dusty Chalk
12-06-2005, 10:04 PM
I've been ...uh... like... listening to...uh...a lot of ...like...music?

Slosh
12-07-2005, 01:12 AM
man with hole in pocket feels a little cocky all day

fortune cookie folklore

nobody
12-07-2005, 03:23 AM
IN an unusual move for me, I've been listening to a lot of Rolling stones lately. While I get really sick of them these days abd wish they'd just quit already, I do still think they put out some great records in their prime. This week, I've listened to Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street and Let it Bleed. Sticky Fingers is probably my favorite...I love the song Dead Flowers.

Also been listening to a bunch of old industrial 12" records, Thrill Kill Kult's Kooler than Jesus, Front 242's Headhunter, NItzer Ebb's Join in the Chant and a few more.

Spun a really unusual compilation I hadn't played in a long time called Darker Skratcher, put out in the 80s by the LA Free Music Society, mostly avant garde noise and stuff like that.

Pulled out Joe Strummer's Streetcore and that one holds up really good to multiple listens.

Considering its been a while since I've posted to this thread...too much more to list, and I gotta run. Just thought I'd stop by.