Tunesday time again - show us your dirty laundry

[-Jar-]

love THE TAIN!

gotta love THE TAIN.


what else did I hear.. lots of RAFFI.. weeee those songs get stuck in your head! arrghgh

so then I have to blast some Mastodon and Kyuss..

also spun Dub Syndicate FEAR OF A GREEN PLANET.. hehe nice title huh? Huh? what were you talking about? Ferget it man, pass the Dorts.

played some old mix tapes I dug up thave have been out of rotation for about 2 years.

I guess I got a whole lotta nuthing to add.

laterz
-jar

[Jim Clark]

Listened to a lot of compage lately. Davey's which I've made a conscious effort to give more than an immediate reaction to and I'm glad I have since the first spin coughed up only two new tracks that I really liked. Things seem to be getting more listener friendly now.

Chrisnz's which I not only listened to a couple of times the past week, but also burned a copy to hand off to KEXPMF. I'll do a stand alone, short and to the point post for that comp, which only seems right.

2 Comps from KEXPMF which are also review worthy. Included in that little exchange was a Jar comp-The Indiedertimency Principle. Seems she has a thing for Jar comps and this was the first one I came across thumbing through a comp binder.

Others included some that needed a bit of dusting off first:

Ryan Adam-Gold
Travis-The Invisible Band
Libertines-S/T
Stan Ridgway-Snake Bit which finally goes back to what he does best.
Colin James Hay-Looking For Jack Has he done anything else worth listening to since this effort. Seems like a great talent that just kind of lost his way.
And the usual Snow Patrol, Killers, Morrissey, Reindeer Section, and all the others that I forget at the moment.

jc

[-Jar-]

2 Comps from KEXPMF which are also review worthy. Included in that little exchange was a Jar comp-The Indiedertimency Principle. Seems she has a thing for Jar comps and this was the first one I came across thumbing through a comp binder.


jc

well that's pretty wild.. that comp is great for short attention span listening. I got the title from this physics concept called the Indeterminacy Principle..(except I changed the beginning of the word to "Indie" hehe) it's about little tiny particles and such.. like subatomic particles.. mesons and quarks and stuff.. well they move around so fast that you can't ever really pin down where one of them is at any given moment.. instead of a bunch of little pieces of matter floating around, you can visualize it as a sort of froth. Anyway, I thought it sort of fit because the comp is full of mostly short little chaotic blasts of indie rawk, pop and punk, you never know where it's going next. actually it's part of a 4 disc series of indie rock I put together over the past few years.. the first three are Indiependence Day, Indiecent Exposure and Indiecision Time. Fun stuff.

if KEXPMF is listening, shoot me a message I'm always happy to spread the werd.

masonjar2004(at)sbcglobal.net

-jar

[Jim Clark]

if KEXPMF is listening, shoot me a message I'm always happy to spread the werd.

masonjar2004(at)sbcglobal.net

-jar

I thinks she's a bit shy about diving in although I've told her there's nothing to fret about, with you in particular and everyone in general. Oh, and she's seen your lists at the Art Of The Mix and doesn't even know where to start! You got some presence there buddy.

jc

[-Jar-]

I thinks she's a bit shy about diving in although I've told her there's nothing to fret about, with you in particular and everyone in general. Oh, and she's seen your lists at the Art Of The Mix and doesn't even know where to start! You got some presence there buddy.

jc

well my comp-crank-outage has slowed way down recently. Actually seems to me the activity at that place kind of goes down over the summer.. ya know, we've got the 5 year old in kindergarten, her teacher is a major P-I-T-A and well things are crazy around the house, getting new windows this summer, chasing the baby around is almost a full time job in itself.. she's at that age where she gets into anything and everything she can get her hands on..climbs in/on/under/over everything, and then there's yard work.. what's that? it's like I have to choose between sleep and comps.. lol :-) it's a fun hobby and all but sometimes some things come first.

-jar

[nobody]

No time to list much, but I will mention one thing...

Jackie Mittoo: The Keyboard King of Studio One
Ever wonder what Booker T. Jones would sound like if he was born in Jamaica and had a reggae band behind him? Wonder no longer. Go out and grab something by this master of the Hammond B3. Simply fantastic stuff.

Others, of course, but maybe I'll post them later.

[Davey]

Listened to a lot of compage lately. Davey's coughed up only two new tracks that I really liked.

Ouch! Only 2 out of 18, eh? Well, just to try and salvage some of my rapidly diminishing self-esteem, I did warn you that it probably wouldn't have much on it that cranked your shaft

Hehehe, I would've guessed that you might like some of that middle stuff like Bomb Squad or the Arto Lindsay songs, but sometimes our taste is so divergent it's impossible to predict. Didn't really anticipate your appreciation of the National song but kind of forgot about your love for the Interpol sound and I tend to hear it more from the Americana angle than as 80s post punk anyway. Cool sound from either angle

[Jim Clark]

Ouch! Only 2 out of 18, eh? Well, just to try and salvage some of my rapidly diminishing self-esteem, I did warn you that it probably wouldn't have much on it that cranked your shaft

Hehehe, I would've guessed that you might like some of that middle stuff like Bomb Squad or the Arto Lindsay songs, but sometimes our taste is so divergent it's impossible to predict. Didn't really anticipate your appreciation of the National song but kind of forgot about your love for the Interpol sound and I tend to hear it more from the Americana angle than as 80s post punk anyway. Cool sound from either angle

When is a quote, not a quote? When Davey edits out the most important part!

What I actually wrote:
"and I'm glad I have since the first (emphasis not in original) spin coughed up only two new (again, emphasis not in original) tracks that I really liked. Things seem to be getting more listener friendly now."

Happy to get that cleared up although I'm sure you did it on purpose for entertainment value. Either that or you like getting kicked and that's information I don't need to know though I'd be happy to work moose schlong into my comments now that I have working knowledge into it's proper usage thanks to Chrisnz! You're right of course that the whole Americana schtick isn't really my thing. I'm content to let you and Tentoze narrow that list down to the very few that I actually like. That's pretty much the great thing about hanging out here.

jc

[Davey]

When is a quote, not a quote? When Davey edits out the most important part!

Oops! Did I do that? Guess my trigger finger must've slipped???

[KEXPMF]

Hi here I am.
My job is a time vampire. eek. Wish I had more time to chat on here with you all!
From just skimming, and I'm probably missing a lot of posts... I think I would like most comps from JAR, Jim, Mike from York (does he make them too?) and ChrisNZ. J made me some cool Elvis Costello comps that I like too.
I haven't listend to JAR's comp and ChrisNZ's comp that Jim gave me the other day but will be getting to that asap. I know I like most of the bands on them.
I made 2 comps specifically for Jim. One has Radiohead's Go to Sleep. Jim isn't a Radiohead freak like I am but I said, just listen to this one, carefully, loud, with headphones. Listen to the layers and if you still don't like Radiohead, I'll leave you alone about Radiohead.

Anyone heard of the Books?
A KU student (I'm still in Kansas for a few weeks) gave me a cd and I like it a lot. I don't even know how to describe it. The first thing I noticed is that they employ a folky finger-picking guitar style instead of the usual strumming. (Like Michael Hedges). I much prefer that style. Here is a bit from their bio I found very interesting. It's a confusing description and yet, if you hear the band, it begins to make some sense. When asked to describe their style,
"It took them almost as long as the making of their album to come up with this remotely suitable answer: blipworld / fakegrass / speedblues / chamberclick / eccentrock / country&eastern / glitch post-anything music with samples, closely followed by "food band"That description alone should spark some interest in the press. I can't figure out what 'food band' means though and perhaps I never will. Bands like to say things to throw us (and especially journalists who ask them to describe themselves) off sometimes. It amuses them to no end.
Anyway, that and Jim's comp and Gomez are what I've been listening to over the past few days.

[tentoze]

I like all those descriptors- sounds like EZ T and mebbe Jim White to me. BTW, welcome to RR, initial-lady.

[tentoze]

Jim, my friend, I thnk I've got a couple of things you may actually like, instead of just tolerate. After I get back to Lost Wages in a few days, I'll toss ya off a couple.........
QUOTE=Jim Clark]When is a quote, not a quote? When Davey edits out the most important part!



What I actually wrote:
"and I'm glad I have since the first (emphasis not in original) spin coughed up only two new (again, emphasis not in original) tracks that I really liked. Things seem to be getting more listener friendly now."

Happy to get that cleared up although I'm sure you did it on purpose for entertainment value. Either that or you like getting kicked and that's information I don't need to know though I'd be happy to work moose schlong into my comments now that I have working knowledge into it's proper usage thanks to Chrisnz! You're right of course that the whole Americana schtick isn't really my thing. I'm content to let you and Tentoze narrow that list down to the very few that I actually like. That's pretty much the great thing about hanging out here.

jc[/QUOTE]

[Slosh]

I haven't made a comp in eons and it looks like I'll be working 12 hour days for the rest of the year so I've been mostly listening to new stuff to try to figure out what I may want to use on my year-end comp. Maybe by then I'll actually have time to put one together.

The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (Chief Inspector Blancheflower)
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born (Hummingbird)
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News (The View)
Clinic - Winchester Cathedral (Anne)
Les Savy Fav - Inches (Hold On To Your Genre)
McLusky - The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire (This Man Will Not Hang)
Mastodon - Leviathan (Blood And Thunder)
Chris Whitley - War Crime Blues (Made From Dirt)
Giant Sand - Is All Over The Map (A Classico Reprise)

The only other things I can recall spinning are Jar's and JD's and Davey's latest comps and Sparklehorse - Good Morning, Spider . . . . all of which are very good.

Hey, didja see Grandaddy's comp? Looks pretty damned good. No wonder I like them

[tentoze]

Huh, the only one on yr list I've heard is the Modest Mouse...............I'm so out of touch with cool these days...............wait: I always have been.