I'm a plebeian ! (aka, the Tuesday listening thread)

[Jim Clark]

What tired, vacuous music did all you ignorant people manage to listen to over the course of the past week? As stupid as I am I remain grateful that I was able to operate the music machine without electrocuting myself.

Newest listens:

Tantric-After We Go. Saw it at the library and had forgotten that "The Chain" was on the latest CRSV disc. Had I remembered I would have left it on the shelf. Can't say I enjoyed much of anything on this disc.

Ryan Adams-Demolition. Not much of a Ryan Adams fan. I guess a lot of that is owed to the reports I've read that pretty much document that the guy is a jerk. Maybe it shouldn't impact my feelings about the music, but it does. At any rate, I was once again very pleasantly surprised especially by a disc that garnered a mere two stars at AMG. The roughness they cite as a fault appealed to me. Lot's of great songs on this disc and it's been a pleasant diversion the past couple of days.

Xiu Xiu-Fabulous Muscles. Was very leery of this disc as the slant is very far to the left judging from some of the reviews I've read. True enough there is a song or two that just rub me the wrong way like "Support Our Troops Oh" which is a very dark song about the killing of a little girl. Not had much time to spend with it but it's very dark, has so much going on musically that it retains an unpolished edge (though they had to work hard to make it sound rough) so it was pretty much right up my alley.

Others which were equally low brow and distasteful:

Pet Shop boys
Smoking Popes
Paul Simon
Afro Celt Sound System
Death Cab For Cutie
Smoother
Clan of Xymox
Snow Patrol-which gets better and better each time.

and a few others I cant' recall at the moment. Hey, I admitted I was stupid. My mind needs some serious training.

jc