What did you listen to today?

[Davey]

Tunesday Tunes!

Today a really nice one from New Zealand way back in 1990 by The Chills. This was their trip to the majors, and is a pretty diverse collection of jangly pop... Part Past Part Fiction at song of the day.

[nobody]

Hmmm... I'll play this Tuesday game. Here's what I'm listening to right now:


Run DMT: Bong Voyage

Yeah, from the cover and title this one may be a bit centered on certain activities. I heard this guy from a cassette release last year called Dreams that I've played a lot and enjoy. This was an earlier web release given away for free. Lots of similarities, but I think I like Dreams better. On Dreams the fractured noodling and atmospheric pieces may have dominated, but they also set the stage for 2-3 really great songs with more structure that sort of rose up out of bits of dialogue and weird background noises. Here, it's all the background stuff without those really good tracks to stand out. Still not bad for some decent laid back background music while at work, but nothing I'm too excited about.

[Slosh]

To tell the truth it really doesn't sound any better than the DVD's 20-bit/48kHz PCM stereo track, except it is in 5.1. The surround mix is pretty subtle most of the time. I'll take that rather than an over-the-top surround mix any day.

[nobody]

And to close out the day, got a stack of 78s spinning...King Cole Trio, Fats Waller, Three Suns, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins...