What you been listening to recently?

'If Only You Could' by Donna the Buffalo from their cd Live From the American Ballroom - an infectious, eclectic mix of Zydeco, Bluegrass, Folk, Rock, Country, Old-Time Fiddle music, and more. Jamming that's just impossibe to keep your feet still to.

I don't post on here much these days. Apparently AOL users can't log in. :confused5:
Eric (who is a KEXP fan, I've just learned!) said they are trying to fix that though.

Anyway....It's been maybe FIVE years since I've bought something based on hearing it played in a record store... but that's what happend this week. Radio 4. The album is called Enemies Like This. It came out about a week ago.
I had to buy it right then. The clerks even had to take it out of their player so I could buy it. It was their only copy.

It's been on repeat in my cd player for days, except when I have to go in the car, it goes with me there too. I can't say when the last time I bought and album and LOVED every song THIS MUCH.

If you like the Clash and Clash dub stuff.... you need to hear this.
This album is not of this decade. www.r4ny.com

I haven't heard their other albums but I'm planning to get all of them.

know who will like this new Radio 4? Jar.

Mabye MindGoneHaywire too? I know J likes the Clash, I don't know if he's into the Dub stuff though?

and I'm surprised Mike hasn't mentioned it. (or did I miss a post?) Mike?

I liked them so much, I went and saw them live. Pretty good. I agree with the Clash comparison, with the dubbish heavy emphasis on the bass. Also reminds me of early Joe Jackson a little. Haven't picked up the new one yet. I have all the other albums, though.

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know who will like this new Radio 4? Jar.

Mabye MindGoneHaywire too? I know J likes the Clash, I don't know if he's into the Dub stuff though?

and I'm surprised Mike hasn't mentioned it. (or did I miss a post?) Mike?

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If you like the new one, you simply must get "Gotham". I swear to goodness that it's sitting right here beside me since I had it one the CDP this morning. Since the extremely well reviewed Gotham was released many indie types have stayed away from the latter ones with claims of over-production, sell out, and the typical disappointments that follow when more than 10 people have heard of the band.

Looks like something I'm going to need to hear. Thanks.

jc

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Yeah, I have Fallow, which I like, but not well enough to seek out their other albums. I haven't listened to it in a while, though. I need to pull it out and spin it soon. Do you have their other albums?

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I have Reconstruction Site, I like it better than any of the other stuff.

is a group by whom i have an LP.

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue: I just can't get over how instruments sound like instruments. Especially the bass and drums. Listen to that right-channel drum from track one. It sounds like a real freakin drumset! Nothing studio from the last 5 years has sounded like anything but the sampled-drum "donk" sound.

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Originally Posted by KEXPMF

know who will like this new Radio 4? Jar.

Mabye MindGoneHaywire too? I know J likes the Clash, I don't know if he's into the Dub stuff though?

and I'm surprised Mike hasn't mentioned it. (or did I miss a post?) Mike?

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I've listened to some samples and come pretty close to buying it once or twice but not yet....another one on the wish list.

I'll put up a shout for 'Stealing of a Nation' their last album (not as dubby, more clubby!) but just as good.

Cheers
Mike

That Radio 4 sounds like soemthing I'll have to get a hold of.

Been listening to a ton of The Jam recently, motly a compilation I made up from their box set.

Also some Miles Davis, Walkin' has gotten multiple plays over the last few days. It may be my favorite Miles, although my favorite Miles changes often.

Also, played Iggy Pop's The Idiot for the first time in a long while and remembered how great it is. remember that thread about druggy albums? Add this to the list. The track Nightclubbing just instantly transports me to the days of trolling late-night clubs like a zombie looking for dope...not that I would know.

Digging the new Racontuers, but have to admit the single and lead track is so good the rest of the album was a bit of a let down on first listen, but the rest is growing on me.

Still digging Van Hunt's On the Jungle Floor. I read somewhere that its the best Prince album of the year, unfortunately just not made by Prince, and I can certainly see the obvious influence. Since I'm a big Prince fan, I like this one a lot.

A few Chet Baker records have been sitting on the turntable recently as well. Wife just picked up a biography of his, looking forward to reading that once I get finished with a stack I've already got lined up.

Been listening a lot to "Dogs" by Nina Nastasia lately. Love this CD. Steve Albini really recorded this one nicely, especially the cello and acoustic basses. Love the musical saw too. Nice touch. Quite a debut. Like "The Blackened Air", I think it tends to lose some of the urgency and focus in the second half, but the highlights are still plenty for me to keep coming back for more.

Still spinning that new Black Heart Procession a lot and still probably my album of the year. Also a lot of the new Shack. And just got the Lift To Experience "Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads" and Orso "My Dreams Are Back and They Are Better Than Ever" at the same time as the Nina Nastasia, all used from djangos and triggered when two of them popped up on my alert list. Great feature, but bad news for a music junkie like me with way too many items on his alert list. Something is always popping up, but at only $7 or so a pop it's not too bad :).

Love the latest from Willard Grant Conspiracy too. And also been listening quite a bit to the new Eleventh Dream Day and like that one a lot too. No idea yet about the new Scott Walker; amazing music but hard to really enjoy. Expected, but still very eclectic and theatrical, moreso than even his last one "Tilt".

Also been having a good time with the latest Willie Nile CD that everyone's raving about. They're right, it is a good one. I still have a fondness for that first one, so long ago and far away now, but if anyone still has the form and substance and spark of his youth, this is the guy. Really amazing, so far down the line. Gotta thank my sin city benefactor for enlightening me to its charms.