Guess what day it is...

[Dusty Chalk]

Wow, you're listening to Secret Chiefs 3? I thought I was the only one who listened to that. What I like about them is that they're all over the place. The introduction of the death metal tracks was so subtle that I didn't even notice it -- I don't think the first three albums have any growling vocals, but I could be wrong. All of the albums will have highlights and not for you. There's some real bad moments on the first album, even by my standards -- sounds like outtakes, and they shoulda took them out.

Frameshift, Unweaving the Rainbow -- some good stuff on there, really good stuff, but I still like the Ayreon better. It just resonates with my gloomy gus nature more. Actually, I like Be (by Pain of Salvation) more as well. It's a keeper, but it's not a year-end list contender.

Juniorboys, Last Exit -- do not understand the hoopla around this, it's just not that good. It's good -- it's a keeper -- but again, it's not a year-end list contender. Will listen again later, though. It sounds like it's got some good stuff going on.

Seal, Best|1991-2004 -- I may have to sell all my other Seal records, this is all I really need. I'm still not sure I understand "Killer" (no, not the lyrics, just ... the song -- it just kinda stomps around).

:-- - { - Wired: Rip, Sample, Mash, Share. } / + -- pretty cool little CD.

Ulrich Schnauss, A Strangely Isolated Place
Oceansize, Effloresce
Rammstein, Reise, Reise -- really good, a lot better than Mutter
Peccatum, Lost in Reverie -- also better than the Frameshift
Decree, Moment of Silence -- almost a contender for year-end list, one of those that sounded a lot more exciting on first listen than it did upon revisit
Seabound, No Sleep Demon V2.0 -- excellent synthpop, my cupo' tea.
The Cure
Marillion, Marbles -- yuck, bleck, way too schmaltzy. I keep expecting them to break out into "I Want To Know What Love Is". Ralf.
Justin Sullivan, Navigating by the Stars -- a more acoustic-y album from the head of New Model Army. Or is it 'heart'?
Auf der Maur, Taste You -- yeah, I'd like her to. ;p
Client, In It for the Money -- I need to investigate these guys further, electroclashy
Serie Noire: Dark Pop and New Beat -- excellent old and new electroclash sampler -- I mean, whoever can transition Alan Parsons Project into A Split Second is cool in my book
Mum, Summer Make Good -- definitely making my year-end list now, which is up to eleven about now
Aimee Mann, Live at St. Ann's Warehouse -- very cool live thingy, and funnily enough, shortly thereafter, I watched the episode of Buffy where she does a guest appearance and does a couple of funny things (stops the song in the middle as an incident occurs, "I hate playing vampire clubs")
Eleni Mandell, Afternoon -- a little too country, will only be playing this when I'm in a very specific mood
Mum, Dusk Log EP -- I love these guys, and will eat up everything they make.
Red Flag, Fear Series of singles -- gosh, I miss these guys.
Paatos, Kallocain -- oh, yeah, I need to visit progears...
Killers, Hot Fuss -- I do enjoy this record, just not as much as others do
Styrofoam, Nothing's Lost -- very cool record, sounds like crap
Dykehouse, Midrange -- definitely making my year-end list
Cut Copy, Bright Like Neon Love
Front 242, Pulse and Still & Raw -- great pair of releases
Flesh Field, Strain -- surprisingly good EBM/techno/synthpop/industrial/whatever
Voivod, Kronik -- weird release
Peaches, The Teaches of Peaches -- meh, I like her better in small doses
Keith LeBlanc, Freakatorium
Matthew Parmenter, Astray -- it's funny, I can hear other people accusing Happy The Man's latest album of having too many ballads, and yet, to me, it's not; and yet, this is.
Einstur, Perpetuum Mobile -- another definite
Diabolical Masquerade, Ravendusk in my Heart and The Phantom Lodge
Nine Inch Nails, Broken and the new deluxe edition of The Downward Spiral -- when listening to the latter, realized I haven't listened to it since I got into audiophilia -- heard a lot of things that I've never heard before (most cool, but not all good), so I pulled out the former as well
Retrosic, God of Hell

[nobody]

That mum EP slipped by me. I'm gonna have to have a look around for it.

And Troy, there are a couple songs on Hip Hug-Her that you may feel fall into the cheesy cover category. They do Groovin and Sunny. I like 'em both, but you may disagree with me.

[Davey]

Juniorboys, Last Exit -- do not understand the hoopla around this, it's just not that good. It's good -- it's a keeper -- but again, it's not a year-end list contender. Will listen again later, though. It sounds like it's got some good stuff going on.

Wow, that's quite a list you got there, Dusty Man! Don't know how you can listen to so much, let alone remember it all! I tend to listen to only a few a week in recent times but usually listen to them a few times each if I like them. Anyway, you probably saw some of the talk over at obner about the Junior Boys, some of it started by me. I don't really feel all the excitement either, but it has grown on me quite a bit. Very nice CD for getting the weekend groove started. Quite a bit more depth than I at first suspected. Remember what the girl Aimaa at obner said? "its like a minimalistic funk timebomb that carries so much energy in each throbbing beat and burp. its an electro-funk revolution waiting to happen (or maybe already is. .)" Hehehe, I do like the sound of that description a lot better than the CD though. Definitely a grower

[Dusty Chalk]

Wow, that's quite a list you got there, Dusty Man! Don't know how you can listen to so much, let alone remember it all!

Well, first of all, that's not all in one week, that's all since the last time we did a Tunesday thread.

I don't remember -- I have them in a stack, and the stack was about ready to fall over.

I don't remember them all, usually, but for some reason, I did this time.

Anyway, you probably saw some of the talk over at obner about the Junior Boys, some of it started by me. I don't really feel all the excitement either, but it has grown on me quite a bit. Very nice CD for getting the weekend groove started. Quite a bit more depth than I at first suspected. Remember what the girl Aimaa at obner said? "its like a minimalistic funk timebomb that carries so much energy in each throbbing beat and burp. its an electro-funk revolution waiting to happen (or maybe already is. .)" Hehehe, I do like the sound of that description a lot better than the CD though. Definitely a grower

I concur -- I want to hear the album that description describes. What I like about it is that it's open-ended enough ("...waiting to happen...") that if you say something like "it's not funky", she can always defend it by saying "I didn't say it was funky, I said it was funk waiting to happen -- proto-funk, mebbe." So perhaps it is apt.

By the time that 'revolution' happens, I'm going to be dead and gone before the first bullet flies.

Like I said -- I can tell it's a grower, it just hasn't yet. Not on me, anyway. Perhaps I need to listen to it louder -- worked with Lamb, anyway.