You Can Call Me Leisure....

[Davey]

I'm listening to the best album of 2005, Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth.

You're beginning to sound like a SM fanboy, Sloshy. I don't trust you...I'm gonna wait until Ex Lion Tamer gives it the thumbs up

Last I heard there is no Built To Spill this year. They say early next year. Seems like kind of a weak year so far to me. Some great albums, but not many. Guess I'm just not as into the new music scene as in some recent times. Not as much time to listen anymore. Been really enjoying the latest Electreane album, but it's definitely not a sound for everyone. Lots of John Cage type experimentation and space that I like.

[MindGoneHaywire]

It's a weak year to me also, but that's in spite of the Beck rec, Ray LaMontagne, Madeleine Peyroux, and a couple of others. I thought the Springsteen rec wasn't bad. But I thought last year was great, so most years I think would seem weak immediately afterward by comparison.

Yesterday I ended up with another huge haul of CDs, a ton of reissues included therein. Lots of jazz titles that I'm hoping will live up to their promise. So I'm struggling to throw on whatever looks good before it gets shipped out. So far today, two Alvin Lee reissues from the mid-70s (not so great, last year's rec was superior), the Melvins demos from 1983, Atomic 7's hyper-speed surf (a keeper), Rosetta West (not a keeper), and next up are the solo rec by Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers and the most recent Ry Cooder rec, a concept album about the neighborhood in Los Angeles that was razed to facilitate the construction of Dodger Stadium some 45 years ago. Then some Roseanne Cash reissues, a Stiv Bators rec, Family Guy Live In Vegas, the String Quartet Tribute to Mars Volta, Sufjan Stevens' Illinois, the Eels, new Mike Doughty, new Knitters rec, new Paul Anka, a 4-CD comp called "Children of Nuggets" with some post-60s retro psychedelia...looks like I've got a full day ahead of me.

[audiobill]

It's a weak year to me also, but that's in spite of the Beck rec, Ray LaMontagne, Madeleine Peyroux, and a couple of others. I thought the Springsteen rec wasn't bad. But I thought last year was great, so most years I think would seem weak immediately afterward by comparison.

Yesterday I ended up with another huge haul of CDs, a ton of reissues included therein. Lots of jazz titles that I'm hoping will live up to their promise. So I'm struggling to throw on whatever looks good before it gets shipped out. So far today, two Alvin Lee reissues from the mid-70s (not so great, last year's rec was superior), the Melvins demos from 1983, Atomic 7's hyper-speed surf (a keeper), Rosetta West (not a keeper), and next up are the solo rec by Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers and the most recent Ry Cooder rec, a concept album about the neighborhood in Los Angeles that was razed to facilitate the construction of Dodger Stadium some 45 years ago. Then some Roseanne Cash reissues, a Stiv Bators rec, Family Guy Live In Vegas, the String Quartet Tribute to Mars Volta, Sufjan Stevens' Illinois, the Eels, new Mike Doughty, new Knitters rec, new Paul Anka, a 4-CD comp called "Children of Nuggets" with some post-60s retro psychedelia...looks like I've got a full day ahead of me.

You've got some serious listening to do.
Let us know how that "Children of Nuggets" collection pans out. I have the original "Nuggets" on Lp and it's one of my favourites in my collection.

Now git listening you crazy musci guy you!!
audiobill

[MindGoneHaywire]

You've got some serious listening to do.
Let us know how that "Children of Nuggets" collection pans out. I have the original "Nuggets" on Lp and it's one of my favourites in my collection.

Now git listening you crazy musci guy you!!
audiobill

Yeah, I've spent most of the last day or so trying to sort the wheat from the chaff in this pile here that I don't want taking up space anymore that will likely soon be taken up by another pile of stuff I don't know what to do with. The Children Of Nuggets thing, I put it in & Musicmatch didn't recognize it. I don't want to spend the time typing in every artist & title so that one's going to have to wait. There's a bunch of stuff on there that I recognize--think Hoodoo Gurus, Fuzztones, the Cynics, Chesterfield Kings, Fleshtones, even the Flamin' Groovies...along with stuff I wouldn't have expected like the Soft Boys, the Posies, the Bevis Frond, the Smithereens, Dream Syndicate, Teenage Fanclub, & Inspiral Carpets...but then there are some unexpected surprises like the Dukes Of Stratosphere, DMZ, the Vipers, Laika & The Cosmonauts, the Cramps, & the Lime Spiders. Actually looks like more of a mixed bag than I would've expected. But Rhino usually does good-to-great comp work & I am psyched to eventually get into that one.

There have been a few I've been mildly interested in, like Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, the Spooky Daly Pride, Luminous, the most recent Hot Hot Heat, the Pleased, & some jazz & world titles from Youssou N'Dour, Lila Downs, Patrizia Scascitelli, Benny Green & Russell Malone, Joey DeFrancesco with Jimmy Smith, & even Skye Sweetnam. But most of these, as well as a pile with names I don't see the point in mentioning, I just don't have the time to listen to all the way through. These, though, I do want to hear properly. And hopefully I will, though for some the prospects are, realistically, dubious. Especially the jazz titles, which are pleasant, but none of them are earthshattering in any way & I'll almost always end up reaching for the older stuff when that's what I want to hear.

The Paul Anka is of course a joke, but I'll have to listen to it side-by-side with Pat Boone's similar offering to see which one is better. Weird thing, this is something I really want to do--when I have a lot of time on my hands. Certainly not now.

But there has been one so far that's been a very pleasant surprise--the Sights. Their self-titled disc from a couple of months ago is right up my alley. I didn't do a search on this, anybody hear it? Great stuff. Definitely a keeper.

[audiobill]

Yeah, I've spent most of the last day or so trying to sort the wheat from the chaff in this pile hereBut there has been one so far that's been a very pleasant surprise--the Sights. Their self-titled disc from a couple of months ago is right up my alley. I didn't do a search on this, anybody hear it? Great stuff. Definitely a keeper.

Hey, MindGoneHaywire,

Sounds like the Sights' s/t disc is their third album, proper. I was just reading up on them on a few sights and there are some comparisons to Badfinger made. FYI, I also did a search on AMG and this is what they have to say:

"This is how the Sights make rock & roll. They're restless in every song, pushing fluttering vocal harmonies into blistering psychedelic guitar and melodic left turns on the keys, writing what seems like a warm late-'60s ballad ("Waiting on a Friend"), but then dropping its punch line — "I don't care about what happens to you". It makes for a wildly unpredictable album, but one that succeeds mightily on real, warm-blooded songwriting instead of easy-to-please hooks. (No mistake though, it has those too.) He was no slouch on 2002's Got What We Want, but Baranek's voice has somehow grown stronger. The greater breadth in Sights' songcraft not only gives him room to scream, it lets him show off some wickedly cynical lyrics."

Sounds like you've got a RaveRecs discovery on your hands.
Thanks for giving us all the hedsup.

Cheers,
audiobill

[newtrix1]

It's a weak year to me also, but that's in spite of the Beck rec, Ray LaMontagne, Madeleine Peyroux, and a couple of others.

I listened to Madeleine Peyroux's Careless Love this weekend as well. Perfect album for leisurely listening! I haven't mentioned this beautiful album here before, since I didn't think recc'ing a Billie Holiday knock-off artist would pique much interest, however Ms. Peyroux (pay-roo) pulls it off with class, dignity, and a voice that's eerily simlar to Billie Holiday's. Nice call Jay!

[Slosh]

You're beginning to sound like a SM fanboy, Sloshy. I don't trust you

Wrong! It really is that good

'Course I suppose I sounded like a fanboy for Castaways & Cutouts and Inches and The Mysterious Production Of Eggs so what do I know?