It's Tuesday - What you listening to?

[Ex Lion Tamer]

My turntable is still out of commission, so there's quite a bit of relatively new stuff that is sitting idle, my patience is runnung thin!

I have been listening to quite a bit of stuff at home to help me to break in, so to speak, my new/old speakers....

Joe Strummer - Streetcore: This is my pick for album of the year, best Strummer since LC. The rockers rock, (while "Coma Girl" gets all the press, "Arms Aloft" is the one that gets me out of my chair, fists-a-wavin'), the reggae songs groove, the ballads make you weep, and the whole thing keeps you coming back for more.

Libertines - Up the Bracket (at least the songs that filled out Davey's Oct. Mystery disc): Love these tunes. I think that this album may be better than The Strokes debut, though I guess I shouldn't declare that until I've heard the whole album, but what I've heard I like better that the much-hyped Is This It?

British Sea Power - The Decline of...: Still a great album, but now suplanted by Streetcore for my favorite of '03, though "Fear of Drowning" is still probably my favorite song of the year, or would that be "Farewell Transmission"?

Dropkick Murphys - Blackout

Violent Femmes - s/t, the new Rhino double disc re-master which includes demo material, and live stuff. The bonus stuff is not bad and the original album sounds as fresh as ever.

and some older favorites....

Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
Papa M - Whatever Mortal
Beck - Mutations
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
The Who - Quadrophenia
Van Morrisson - Astral Weeks
Modest Mouse - The moon and Antarctica
Fountains of Wayne - s/t
Electrafixion - Burned
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Blue Rodeo - Five Days In July

There's more, but I can't remember any of them.

[mad rhetorik]

Public Enemy: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
OMG. This rules. Along with Pauls' Boutique the best rap/hip-hop release ever.

Pixies: Surfer Rosa
Hey, it's the Pixies. What else can I say?

Snapcase: Designs For Automotion
Really been digging this lately. One of the best hardcore punk albums I've heard in a while. Gobs of energy.

Joy Division: Substance
Singles and B-sides from the best band of the Manchester scene. Listening to "Novelty" right now, which is a new favorite JD song of mine (although they're all great).

May listen to Cure's Disintegration later.

[-Jar-]

SUBSTANCE is the first Joy Division I had heard. Completely blew my mind. I remember sitting in my friend's dorm room, about the 2nd week of school my freshman year of college... it was 1988, so I was a few years late in hearing this band, but it was only around that time that their material got released in the US. "Atmosphere" was the coolest thing I had heard in years.. completely new (to me), but dark and alluring, an almost magnetic sound world that I couldn't get enough of. It helped that my friend had some killer speakers and.. well, umm.. lets just say we listened to a lot of reggae too..

[mad rhetorik]

And.. well, umm.. lets just say we listened to a lot of reggae too..

Heh. I hear that, dewd. ; P

[Davey.]

Libertines - Up the Bracket (at least the songs that filled out Davey's Oct. Mystery disc): Love these tunes. I think that this album may be better than The Strokes debut, though I guess I shouldn't declare that until I've heard the whole album, but what I've heard I like better that the much-hyped Is This It?

Too bad there wasn't space on that mystery disc for the whole CD because the last few songs are some of the best, including a couple singles. It maybe falters just a bit in the middle but the opening and closing songs are all great! Pretty solid CD. I kind of forgot to consider it for my best of 2003 since it was released in 2002 in the UK to a lot of buzz, but should have anyway since the US release CD I have wasn't until later in 2003. And yeah, I like it better than the Strokes too