What you listening to at the moment?

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 05 Sep 2004, 11:36

I'm still stuck on Kid A with the Mull HS a distant second and Mylo has run its course.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 05 Sep 2004, 11:40

Some Black Uhuru stuff.

Was listening to Bjork's latest album earlier but it was so weird I had to give up on it fairly early on. Another one for the recycle bin.

God Bless, Soulseek

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 05 Sep 2004, 11:46

I used to have a Black Uhuru album, I loved it and listened to it for ages. Can't even remeber what its called now? African ....?

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 05 Sep 2004, 12:11

"Dead Ringers" on R4!

Jamesie · Post by **Jamesie** » 05 Sep 2004, 12:17

Finn Brothers - Everyone is Here

Morrissey - You are the Quarry

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 05 Sep 2004, 12:34

Jamesie wrote:
Morrissey - You are the Quarry

I love him but can't see what the fuss is about on this one. its average at best, clumsy is the word I'd use.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 05 Sep 2004, 12:35

Jamesie wrote:Morrissey - You are the Quarry

That's a brilliant album - I've been listening to it a lot lately.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 05 Sep 2004, 12:36

You didn't see him at The Corn Exchange the other night, did you?

It was sold out before I even knew about it!

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 05 Sep 2004, 12:39

I didnt even know. I did see him at the Usher Hall a few years ago "The Boxer". He was very good and I could not believe how many guys got out the audience crawled across the stage to kiss his feet. A step too far from me.

How's the windaes?

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 05 Sep 2004, 12:48

Sparkling but it's about to piss down - typical!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 05 Sep 2004, 12:59

Let me get this straight. You're man resembles Morrissey?
He should be easy to spot then.
Does he sing like him too?

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 05 Sep 2004, 15:20

Snow Patrol - 'Final Straw' Excellent album

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 06 Sep 2004, 20:19

Marya wrote:Now forced to listen to other half's most recent purchase , Kraftwerk's Tour de France themes

Your avatar says it all to that one!

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 06 Sep 2004, 22:14

Marya wrote:Now forced to listen to other half's most recent purchase , Kraftwerk's Tour de France themes

ooohhh - that gets played to death every July here in magnolia mansions.

If its a recent purchase it must be this summers remix?

Otherwise its Bob the Builder for us all, all day long.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 06 Sep 2004, 22:40

I thought the Kraftwerk was disappointing. Maybe my expectaions were too high.

Love the Scissor Sisters - esp "Chaffinches on the Radio" and their cover of "Comfortably Numb".

Currently listening to "War" by U2. I've been increasingly disillusioned by them recently -- this album restored my faith.

<Edit: Bob -- you really do want to add that word to the profanity filter.>

jimann · Post by **jimann** » 16 Sep 2004, 01:13

I must be the auldest hippy in toon! I'm back in 1974 with "The Free Story" some brilliant early British blues from a very underrated band - they're more than just "Alright Now".

Also re-visiting Jeff Buckley's "Grace" - blows me away every time I hear it, especially his version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".

Picked up on Alex's point with U2 and "War" - my all time favourite of theirs is " The Unforgettable Fire" - don't think they've beaten that album yet!

Is it just me, but I get the feeling that we're getting offered less quality in today's range of popular music, not just being an old fart, but some of the tunes are plagiarised from '70's stuff big time and the actual performances are mediocre - but that's just my opinion!

I'll re-inforce my opinion with an exercise you can all try - on an average night in front of the telly, see how many times music from '60's and '70's bands are used to support a drama, sport, magazines, or even sell to us in the adverts - Jimi Hendrix being the current favourite - at first I didn't like "my" music being used in this way, but being the musical snob I am, I realised that it's being used because it's memorable and it's quality!
God, I can blether a bit!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 16 Sep 2004, 07:08

Jimann,
Notice you posted at 1.13am - hope you were listening through headphones.

I would disagree about the quality of contemporary music. There's an abundance of great, innovative artists out there. And their music is featured on as many TV programmes and adverts as are Hendrix and the like.
The trouble is it can be difficult to find the good stuff amongst the derivative crap of today that's featured on the majority of radio stations and TOTP type shows.
I hear a lot of great stuff on radio scotland, Vic Galloway airs a lot of home grown stuff, Bryan Burnett's "Brand New Oprey" is great for contemporary americana stuff.

Personally, I can't recommend Rufus Wainwright enough.
He is the most original singer/songwriter at present imho. He's the son of Loudon W III and Kate McGarrigle and he's playing at the Usher Hall at the end of next month. I've seen him play live before and he's very entertaining. Very camp and comical. His music is quite unique. Like Jeff Buckley, his musical style is hard to define.

And that's who I'm listening to mostly these days.

rathbone · Post by **rathbone** » 16 Sep 2004, 09:32

Free weren't really hippy.
Principal Edward's Magic Theatre , now that was hippy.

If you go back and look at the charts in the sixties and seventies there was just as much crap around then as there is now. I think we just use the same nostalgia filter as we do for sunny days: your mid blocks out all the bad stuff and you only remember the really good - like Ken Dodd, Engelbert Humperdink, Renee & Renata and Girls Together Outrageously.

While writing this I'm listening to The Wizzard by Black Sabbath

Check-out_Chick · Post by **Check-out_Chick** » 16 Sep 2004, 13:21

Im listening to Guns n' Roses-Dont Cry

But im jus bout to change it 2 Nine inch nails-Closer cus it makes me Happy

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 16 Sep 2004, 21:22

Lately I've mostly been listening to Evanescence, Scoissor Sisters (how camp is he?), and some old (pre-break up/reunion) Metallica. But tonight my music of choice is Tori Amos, her first album, and in particular the song Me and a Gun.

Gemini · Post by **Gemini** » 16 Sep 2004, 22:29

Well call me old fashioned and nostalgic - but I have been listening to Led Zepplin and The Moody Blues - Did anyone else think Justin Hayward was to die for? (that is of course if you can remember that far back)

waits for a cheeky comment from guess who?

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 16 Sep 2004, 22:30

I loved forever autumn, and thought he was lovely, but i was only five when it was in the charts. I performed Nights In white Satin for my GCSE music exam though.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 16 Sep 2004, 22:32

Check-out_Chick wrote:Im listening to Guns n' Roses-Dont Cry

Mmmmm, Guns n' Roses, great band. 'Sweet Child o' mine' still one of my favourite tracks ever, and most memorable concert for me was spent at Wembley Stadium in the '80's with Guns n' Roses, and funnily enough Nine Inch Nails were supporting

Post by **wangi** » 16 Sep 2004, 22:34

While decorating this week I've had the following CDs on:

Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Mull Historical - This Is Hope
Wannadies - Before & After
REM - Best Of, In Time
Ash - Intergalactic Sonic 7"s
Gomez - Split The Difference

If i'd only played on of them It would have been more varied than listening to Forth 1 (which I've done too)!

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 16 Sep 2004, 22:35

I remember the MBs way back when too. [mid-late 60s]

And,

, for ages I thought it was 'Knights in White Satin' [and, yes, I could read!]. Had mental image of knights on horses in flowing robes riding in the dark under the moon - and still see that image even though I now know they were, I suppose, referring to satin household linen!!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 16 Sep 2004, 22:54

Poppy wrote:and still see that image even though I now know they were, I suppose, referring to satin household linen!!

That'll be the acid flashbacks then.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 16 Sep 2004, 23:01

Well, as revenge for daring to suggest I was dropping acid at 13 I will now tell the whole of Portobello that El Presidente remarked to me that your behaviour in VES put him strongly in mind of Patsy in Ab Fab.

Ha!!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 16 Sep 2004, 23:04

Well, we all need our role models.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 16 Sep 2004, 23:04

And that you look not unlike her!!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 16 Sep 2004, 23:11

It's uncanny, right enough!

Check-out_Chick · Post by **Check-out_Chick** » 17 Sep 2004, 12:29

bearcub wrote:
Check-out_Chick wrote:Im listening to Guns n' Roses-Dont Cry
Mmmmm, Guns n' Roses, great band. 'Sweet Child o' mine' still one of my favourite tracks ever, and most memorable concert for me was spent at Wembley Stadium in the '80's with Guns n' Roses, and funnily enough Nine Inch Nails were supporting

dies at the thought of not beeing there.....

ive lost my guns n' roses greatest hits album....i thgink my dad threw it got cus it looks all scratched....unless i left it in fife

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 17 Sep 2004, 20:12

Things I am listening to at the mo

Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Franz Ferdinand
The Best of REM
Cerys Matthews - Cockahoop
Beverley Knight - Who am I
Girls Girls Girls - Elvis Costello
Dido - No Angel
Evanescence - Fallen
Shaznay Lewis - Open
Stereophonics - You gotta go there to come back

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 17 Sep 2004, 20:13

not all at the same time!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 17 Sep 2004, 20:44

song of today has been and still is

no-one knows - queens of the stone age

it makes me want to learn the drums - the drumming is mental!!!!!

Post by **wangi** » 17 Sep 2004, 21:03

The Dandy Warhols. All the albums, aven the ones you can't buy in the shops.