OK...it's Tuesday...watcha listenin' to?

[nobody]

Front 242 reminds me...I made a CDr for a friend with a bunch of old 12" singles, including Front 242: Headhunter/Welcome to Paradise, Revolting Cocks: Attack Ships, Nitzer Ebb: Join in the Chant, some Severed Heads, and some other stuff...fun day spinning the 12" versions of all that stuff.

[richmon]

Jean Luc Ponty 'The very best of' -concentrating on the 1975-1985 period, top notch fusion.
Green Day 'American Idiot' - I like a coupla songs, maybe it's a grower.
Joe Walsh 'The smoker you drink, the player you get' - 3 or 4 good cuts here.
Oscar Peterson 'Live to Live' - man I'm digging his stuff, jaw dropping piano runs.
Allman Bros 'An evening with - second set'
Indigenous 'S/T' -their latest disc, they finally signed with a big label, more excellent blues rock from them.
Derek Trucks Band 'Soul Serenade' - Saw them in concert last weekend, the kid has progressed a lot in his chops and slide playing. not sure you'd call it rock, it's got jazz in there also. They sound like early Traffic at times, can't recomend seeing them live enough - watchout Warren Haynes, Derek's playing is really coming into his own, unique tone and technique. Unfortunatly, the album doesn't reflect what you see live, it's only ok.

[Troy]

The Church- too bad the band was a turd on stage. The earlier the album, the better they are. "The Blurred Crusade" is the one to get, IMO. There's good songs on every album, I've heard them all except the most recent releases. The last few were pretty repetitive. I hear a lot of Pink Floyd in this band . . . Also very interesting are Marty Wilson-Piper's 2 solo albums on Rykodisc; "Art Attack" and "Rhyme".

WTF did I listen to this week . . .

Rheostatics 2067. Played this a couple of times and I really enjoyed that "Tarleks" song. Much of the rest just kinda lays there for me, I dunno. Maybe I'm just not in the mood for this at the moment, but it doesn't seem nearly as creative as stuff like "Whale Music". I'll stick with it.

Genesis- calling All Stations. prompted by another message board. Not nearly as bad as the rap on it, there's about 15 minites of excellent "Tony Banks lush minor-key Genesis synths©" songs.

Jellyfish- Bellbutton. Brilliant album. One of my favorites from the 90s.

Zappa- Zoot Allures. One of my favorites from the FZ catalogue. "I got a girl with a little rubber head . . ."

Buncha my old prog comps in the car too.

[KEXPMF]

Beck "Que Onda Guero"
Beck "Scarecrow"
Beck "Girl"
Beck - all of Mutations
Out Hud "It's For You" (!!! side project, I think)
Ima Robot "Song No. 1"
The Shins "New Slang"
Kasabian/My Bloody Valentine mashup "Processed Beats ..."
K-OS "Crabbuckit"
Elefant "Misfit"
Chemical Brothers "Galvanize"
The Ditty Bops "Ooh La La"
LCD Soundsystem "Yeah"
Mike Doughty (from Soul Coughing) "Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well"

hammering all morning. apartment above me is doing construction. ugh.

[Troy]

Severed Heads

Where does one find Severed Heads CDs? I've heard a couple of tracks that I really dug, but have never seen them in a store . . .

[nobody]

Don't know. I just have some old 12" singles, although I may have a cassette of them somewhere.

I didn't realize their CDs weren't readily available.

If you'd want the cassette, I can look for it. I don't play 'em anymore, so if I find it, it's yours if you want it.

[Troy]

Don't know. I just have some old 12" singles, although I may have a cassette of them somewhere.

I didn't realize their CDs weren't readily available.

If you'd want the cassette, I can look for it. I don't play 'em anymore, so if I find it, it's yours if you want it.

Thanks, but I have no casette player except in my wife's car . . . and getting her to play severed heads in her car just ain't gonna happen.

[Kaboom]

what have i bin listening to...
Spock's beard: Snow, Octane, The Light
Porcupine tree: in absentia, deadwing
Oscar petersen trio: we get requests
Marillion: Misplaced Childhood, Marbles
Yes: Close to the Edge, 90125, relayer (i remember getting this as my first Yes download ever, and thinking it was utter trash. two months later i cant stop playing it)
Frank Zappa: Hot Rats
The White Stripes: white blood cells
The moody Blues: Threshold of a dream (godamn isnt dear diary just WICKED)
Jefferson Airplane: Bark, volunteers and After Bathing at Baxter's
aaaand today, a friend passed me Nikolo Kotzev's Nostradamus. i am FLIPPING OUT as i listen through it for the first time... AMAZING stuff
aside from this, loads of random trash i wasted my time on... including that dreadful new bad religion album (well not that dreadful, just not up to scratch)
oh if anyone could tell me what they think about Kotzev's work, specially this rock opera, i'd appreciate it. Its a name i had never heard and its making a very impression on me...
Cheers!

[DarrenH]

Some stuff from the previous week namely Marillion and Hawkwind and Mofro.

Jethro Tull - Bursting Out (recent remaster)
Mostly Autumn - The Last Bright Light
Spock's Beard - Octane

A nice care package from Tentoze. The Decemberist latest album that's been raved about around here. It's not bad. Kinda sorta in the same vein as Oasis. The vocals are sung with a fairly prominent British accent. Not my usual listening style but it could grow on me. Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera. DBT's ode to Lynyrd Skynyrd. It's really a great album. This band hasn't let me down yet. From Decoration Day to The Dirty South, all good music. And Jade Warrior's Last Autumn's Dream . First time hearing this band for me. Not bad. Arty rock from the early 70's. Lots of flute reminiscent of early King Crimson. The song Demon Trucker was completely out of place here though. I guess it was hit for the band but this song ruined the flow of the album and quite frankly, I didn't think it was all that good. How's their s/t debut? Worth listening?

Thanks 'toze


Jazz

Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure. Andrew is an excellent pianist and he has surrounded himself with some great players here. Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, Richard Davis and a very young Tony Williams. The music is a slighly on the avante garde side which doesn't surprise me considering the cast of players assembled here. Not bad jazz. A little "free" but not out there like some stuff can get.

Miles Davis - In Person Friday And Saturday Nights At The Blackhawk Complete. This four cd set was recorded at the famous San Francisco Blackhawk in April of 1961. Backed by a great rhythm section with Jimmy Cobb on drums, Paul Chambers on bass and the superb Wynton Kelly on piano these nights smoke. Sets are filled with a nice mix of soft ballads and swingin' bop standards. Superb playing from my favorite tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley.

And finally, one lone classical cd (hey, I am trying to incorporate more of this music into my listening repertoire) Beethoven's Sonatas Moonlight, Appasionata and Waldstein Vladimir Ashkenazy piano. London label. Our friend PatD said this was a must and I agree although I think he was referring to the Pathetique moreso than the Waldstein. I enjoyed this very much anyway.

[Dave_G]

Troy,

I used to have a Severed Heads cd, sold it years ago, sorry. I'll keepa look out for ya.

My toonage:

Mi-Sex - Space Race/Computer Games. Killer new wave 80's stuff.

IQ - Tales from the Lush Attic. Yum yum uh huh.

Galahad - Sleepers

Collage - Moonshine. Great neo-prog stuff.

XTC - Nonsvch. Excellent XTC stuff. But of course I like them a lot anyhow.

Also way cool is I heard today on the radio that DEVO is playing here in June! Whoo hoo!

Dave