Today I've been listening to Six Organs of Admittance's School of The Flower, Wilco's Summerteeth, Shearwater's Palo Santo.
Also been listening to (and loving) Whiskeytown's Pnuemonia recently, along with:
Beirut,
Jeniferever,
Tapes n' Tapes,
Spoon,
Calexico
Yes, I do realise people think these topics are just a tool to show off your music taste, but I like reading what people are listening to, particularly if they have similar taste to me.
at the minute !
record player just stopped so nothing...
it was Porcelain.
Now Stellastar*
After that Seekonk :! AGAIN ! AND AGAIN !
today, mostly
www.myspace.com/thequietkill
just found..
http://www.myspace.com/anonymouscollective
the books
only realised today that there's a sample of Jabberwocky in one of the songs.
ooh, which song?
Vogt Dig For Kloppervok
Burial, Beirut, Foals, Loscil, Safetyword, Massive Attack, Ali Farka Toure, Shapes and Sizes, The Low Miffs, Larrikin Love.
Winnebago Deal
The Kramers
Rancid
Some breakcore comp I downloaded
Jimmy Eat World
gay against you, jane
That's about it.
my record players broken so it only plays 45rpm
I've been playing many a 12" speeded up.
the beirut and jeniferever
albums are amazing, two of my faves this year. today ive downloaded all the :( i can find. theyre great.
I'm particularly enjoying the
recent reissue of Sebadoh III, particluarly as Sebadoh are a band I've never got round to hearing anything by. I thought it would be more indie rock than it is, but to me a lot of it sounds like folk music which is a pleasant surprise. I like the scene analysis in 'Gimme Indie Rock'.
Also, have been listening to the 'Once in a Lifetime' Talking Heads boxset which has a brilliant alternate version of 'Cities' on amongst other great things, and rude nudey artwork. My only gripe is the way the boxset has been designed - the notes are not particularly easy to read.
I am just listening
to loads and loads of The National.
I think they are great.
i've been listening to
the dead c
archeopteryx
take a worm for a walk week ( www.myspace.com/takeaworm)
behold...the arctopus
insect warfare
hmm
I guess the last.fm charts will answer this question at the end of the week, but I'm sure...
Adrian Orange
The Skygreen Leopards
Will be on there.
Youth moviezzzzz
block partie
hendriksss
(the) foogazi (fighters)
Old school.
OOOOo oO o
have a bit of a revival with my music today as well. Ifinity Land and Silent alarm yo.
piney gir country roadshow new 7"
and camera obscura at the mo...
i'm listening to
jazz, 60s surf rock and Black Sabbath.
i'll get my coat...
John Stammers EP
called 'The Fridge'.
Also been listening to 'Demon Days' a lot today for some reason...
dubstep
and doom
Currently,
Its Wolfmother (WOM-ON!)
but I've had Dark Side of the Moon on a lot.
Also, the new Razorlight and Muse albums.
Some National as well. Apparently I look and act like the lead singer.
I really like
that Spank Rock cd right now. That and Hot Snakes.
hot
snakes. Don't make me nostalgic...but I heard they are releasing a sessions album.....anything Reis related = SWOON
Don't forget
Froberg. He's awesome.
Tis already out
if you're talking about the Peel Sessions disc. Got in the Virgin sale for £3. Sweet.
Strong drinks.
Plum wine.
Salmon nigiri.
Late nights.
Brown pinstripe.
Purple 80's belts on tall girls.
Beeps, lots of them, and fast.
Books with slightly browned pages.
Style.
Content.*
Sleeping until I'm not tired.
Dream analysis.
*(yes, I know, style is over content).
O wait you meant music.
The Knife
The Like
Nico
Best Fwends
Final Fantasy
The Velvet Underground
Leonard Cohen
Uffie
The Dirtbombs
Von Bondies (pre-major label shittness)
don't you
know you can't analyse dreams? All they do is remind us of the elusiveness of our own selves and of the futility of any form of self-knolwedge...Freud was right about a lot of things and there is a lot of truc k to what Interpretation of Dreams has to say but its more about the elliptical, self-deceiving (and unravelling) nature of his theory.
I don't mean analysing them in some symbolic bullshit Dali-esque way
I mean attributing them to events, fears, anxieties in your life... I think they are a valuable window into the subconcious that can be understood instinctively sometimes.
gotcha
but the window opens out into a space that is serial and imbricated with meaning to such an extent that it is never really understood...but thats the transient beauty of all of Freud really...sorry i've been ramming my head with this shit all day, I should go to bed i'm sounding like a cunt
No you aren't.
Expound your personal theory! It's interesting. I'll be right back, I'm just going to look up 'imbricated' at dictionary.com
(you are really)
its not really my personal theory
sort of a mish mash of the uncanny and deconstruction I guess...its all about how such attempts at self knowledge ultimately cause us to lose track of where we are, we go round in circles and ‘every attempt to find the marked or familiar path may bring one back again and again to one and the same spot, which one can identify by some particular landmark.’ This landmark jumps out at us in all its unfamiliarity and demonstrates the susceptibility of solidity and certitude to a tumbling dissolution. This is the logic of the uncanny, which entails a falling, or felling, with ‘the tendency for one event or character to blur and bleed into another.’ (there is your imbrication for you). And this, in all its paradoxical subtlety, enables us to chart both the collapse of distance, whereby object returns to the subject and the subject returns home(less), as well as positing a space beyond this conflation, wherein awaits nothingness.
And that is bits of my dissertation copied pasted and merged for your reading pleasure!
So is there a place for truth and notions of reality
in this morrass of subjective experience?
that all goes out of the window
in a way, I guess, but only in a Nietzschean sense where we just have to go with the flow and accept that truth is that with most will to power behind it and reality is just an interpretation...It doesn't have to imply subjectivity, I guess it dissolves subjectivity/objectivity distinctions and brigs everything back down to pure swirling nature, of which we make of what we will. That is why for Nietzsche you should never take anything too seriously.
Do you think there is such a thing as a fact?
I think
I would be forced to say that 1+1=2 etc are facts but then perhaps only because we are cognitively unable to break outside of the way we are programmed to understand and interpret the world. It is sort of similar to how my experience (or qualia) of red might not be identical to your experience of red. I suspect, however, that fact is probably that which is most beneficial for the survival of whatever intelligent species we are talking about. Ie thou should not kill is a fact because what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Ha.
I just got a flishback to studying philosophy. I which usually, at each end of an argument, there are two extremes, and the reality lies somewher ein the middle and is impossible to prove.
*In which
*flashback
buh
its all about
sitting on the fence! And with that, enough of this balderdash for one night!
Me?
I've listened to:
TV on the radio's newest - my album of the year thus far. Tapes'n'Tapes. A load of Justice remixes. Yo La Tengo Best of. Ash - Free All Angels. Matisyahu - Youth.
Listening to....
Tapes N Tapes
Come
Butthole Surfers
Cortez
Built To Spill
Jesus & Mary Chain
A compilation of commodore 64 music called input 64
Currently, my ears are musically masterbating to:
iLikeTrains albumn
Quad Riot
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
THE NEW
Justin Timberlake song! Its the BOMB!!! No, SERIOUSLY!
BAN REQUEST
No seriously.
Its
about 2000% more adventurous than the majority of guitar music thats around at the moment
Pffft.
Well, you might be right, but it's MANUFACTURED more than my TV. And my TV is made by Sony.
Thus, it is souless. Experimentation because of a passion for music is one thing. Experimentation to sell records is quite another good sir.
yeah but you can't help dancing to it can you?
justin timberlake is great.
no seriously
the new justin timberlake song is AWESOME.
best pop song of the year, FACT.
SEE
TOLD YOU
i like good music
whether its made in bedrooms or by platinum-selling r&b producers. FASCIST!
that youth movies track
tngiam. well good.
viking moses
grizzly bear
black bear
mountain goats
the decemberists
David Thomas Broughton
Jenny Lewis
The new Decemberists record.
The new Max Richter album.
Jeff Mangum
Emmy
Rather predictably
like every other DiSer I have been utterly consumed by Return to Cookie Mountain. The best record since Feels. I also have been listeing to Beirut, Built to Spill's new one, Tapes 'n Tapes, the Knife, and a Joe Meek compilation.
The new(est) Morrissey album
going to Rome made it totally click for me, with the artwork, the police sirens used at the beginning of The Youngest Was The Most Loved and his refernces to Piazza Cavour etc.
And Jeff Buckley - Sketches For 'My Sweetheart, The Drunk' after i picked it up for about 8 euros.