Biffy Clyro

I've just been subjected to three hours of extreem bit-pop by my friends boyfriend... my head almost exploded!

Deathmole - Quantum Unicorn Horns of Diamond

>_>

Easyworld - You and Me

*dances*

I got the new Ministry of Sound Chillout Classics cd compilation. It's really good, I love the choices of music.
Some of my fav songs on it are Finshed Symphony by Hybrid, Madworld by Michael Andrews, Gorecki by Lamb, Clubbed to Death (No, it is not a crazy heavy metal song, in fact it is a very good chillout song, featuring some really nice piano) by Robert Dougan, there are more, but that is just some of them.

9 Crimes by Damien Rice....It's a beatiful song, and I've been going around for the past few days singing it at the top of my lungs (to the extreme displeasure of those who are around me often) and I suggest that you listen to it.

Feel Good Inc (The Gorillaz) , Anna Molly (Incubus) , and The Clincher (Chevelle) are some new favorites too.

The National's new album, Boxer. It. Is. Fab.

I've been listening to my last.fm recommendations radio a lot in the last few days, if anyone wants to recommend stuff for me then I would be grateful!

Currently it's playing Rage Against The Machine for me

Of Montreal!

"you'll never be as weird as Uncle Alice"

Chopin's Op.10 etudes. Makes me want to do ballet.

^ much agreement

edit: 3003 posts. palindromey!

I'm jiggling about in my chair as we speak type in excitement for seeing them tomorrow night. YAY!

I have been listening to them, and Jack& Jeffrey Lewis and The Jam recently.

Decemberists, Bright Eyes, NIN, SFA, Pavement, Boards Of Canada and teh new, teh rox0r, teh best album of teh year so faaaaaar, Arcade F@cking Fire.

Youknowsit.

Hello again, by the way.

[edit] Did I drop my brain on the way to work this morning? Did I really forget that I was listening to the one album that everyone on these here forums should own? Do you all have Dillinger Escape Plan's 'Irony Is A Dead Scene', feat. Sir Mike of Patton? Hmm? CHINGA, y'f@ckers!!!

*gives bashful "i-likes-your-music" nod*

Listening to Angelique Kidjo, trying to stick a song of hers behind a slideshow. argh.

Current musical addictions are Panic! at the Disco, Three Days Grace, and Mindless Self Indulgence. I need to track down my Glassjaw CD, so I can get their other songs on my iPod, instead of just Ape Dos Mil (another recent song addiction)

Out of curiosity, has anyone heard the new Modest Mouse album yet? Dashboard sounds great but I want opinions on the rest of the album before I buy it, the samples on iTunes aren't enough to tell really....

I have 'People As Places As People', if you want me to email it to you then PM me.

I know it's probably no better than the samples on iTunes but you can listen to 30 seconds of every song on the album on last.fm (here) and if you go to similar artist radio you can listen to full tracks, but it's pretty random on what it'll play at you so you might need to be patient!

INKY!!! I got the Arcade Fire album last week, it is awesome. I'm going to see them in July

EVERYONE should own the new Arcade Fire album, snoo. No exceptions. And I am sorely jealous of your gigging.

Also, vimh, the new Modest Mouse is mighty fine. A quality sea-shanty-esque festival of greatitude, now with added Marr.

Yes, that's Marr, of Morrissey and Marr fame. The Smiths' guitarist plays in Modest Mouse!!! Oh yes!!!

More excitement to follow...

Inky is not dead! And listening to nice things.

Inky. Go listen to 65daysofstatic. You know it makes sense. If you like fabulous noise, and I'm sure you do.

And I meet your urging of DEP's Mike Patton collaborations with the poking of you to get the Peeping Tom album, for Mike Patton pop goodness is always an exciting time in people's pants.

FU - as if I don't already have the Peeping Tom album. It's the cat's flaps!

Especially worth owning for 'Sucker', I think. Who'da thought that Norah Jones was so damn filthy?

Pants excitement, as endorsed by we two merry noiseniks.

"The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How To Be In Love" -The Flaming Lips

Nice. I'm always pro-Lips. I picked up an armload of their back catalogue stuff a little while ago to complement the albums that everyone has (or should have...), and was very happy to discover that their older tunes are a bit good too. Everyone needs a bit of 'She Don't Use Jelly' and 'Everyone Wants To Live Forever'.

Recently, I've been all over the new Modest Mouse, along with my Fall best of '50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong' and the Rough Trade comp 'Counter Culture 06' - a must have item for anyone with diverse tastes and a willingness to explore.

Za!

And Rahzel just makes the whole damn album. Seeing them live last year was every kind of love. This was shortly after seeing the Fantomas Melvins Big Band live. Oh, Mr Patton. Have you heard the pretties he's done with Kaang? And obviously the work on Bjork's Medulla album is a class act.

I too am digging the new Modest Mouse, and I love the element Marr is giving them. It's not as good as 'Good News...' but it's still toasty.

Also brilliant is the new Battles album, which I suggest with much enthusiasm. A bit of Ted Leo and the Pharmacists for your pants if you like lovely ska-punky-poppy-political fun

You've tasted a bit of Fantomas live fun? Very jealous, I am. Also remembering that one of my old colleagues still has my 'Delirium Cordia'. Feh...

Tell me more about Kaang, FU. But don't bother telling me about Bjork. I know all I need to know, and more besides. Lovely, lovely Bjork...

This morning was enhanced by DJ Format and his second platter, 'If You Can't Join 'Em, Beat 'Em'. Very fine stuff - possibly even better than his debut 'Music For The Mature B-Boy'. If you like old school hip hop done the Jurassic 5 way, you need some Format.

I have indeed tasted the live goodness of Fantomas. It was mental - Patton spazzing out, having the best fun, acting kinda like a composer. Two drummers! Grand. It came together much better live than I expected.

The Eyvind Kang project with Patton ('Virginal Co-ordinates) is very pretty. Kang is actually a violinist and composer, so the work is all kinda classical (but with a twist, of course) with Patton adding vocals to a few and doing some production work as well (I believe). It's glorious - very rich, involving a 16-piece orchestra. And all recorded live, although you'd never be able to tell.

It is more of a 'sit down, glass of wine' kinda album, and long, but if you don't come out of 'Innocent Eye, Crystal See' with a feeling of warm jubilation then you are dead inside.

Also good for a laugh is 'Romances', Kaada & Patton. Kaada is a composer for films, so it's bizarre and fun, a little heavy handed and dramatic. It's grand. And something I've not listened to for an age, actually... I should rectify that this weekend.

I have to admit to hating Modest Mouse because his singing style confuses me when I listen to it, but that Fall album is fab. I also own a copy of that RT comp and it is awesome. A little too diverse sometimes, but good all the same.

Recently, I have been listening to The Trip by Tom Middleton.

Good to finally find another Fall fan on here. Top marks, there! And an owner of Rough Trade comps as well. Winner. Granted, it does get a bit wonky in places, especially on disc 2 (can you actually listen to that Wolf Eyes track? Sweet lord...), but when it's good it's great. I can't get enough of the Crystal Castles and Metronomy tracks, and all of disc 1 fills me with love.

Today it was more DJ Format, but the first album. Top banana - if you need convincing, check out the vids for '3 Feet Deep', 'Vicious Battle Raps' and 'We Know Something' (with Akil and Chali 2na from J5) on YouTube. You won't be disappointed.

Why should anyone need convincing of DJ Format? Scotch Egg... now that could take some time.

I have been listening to Wytu's external hardrive full o'music on shuffle (well, yesterday anyways.) Amongst the strange Dutch rock music and the Sweedish Rhythm and Blues, I found some X-ploding Plastics, so I queued a few up, as with Blur and the Guillemots.

Inky, it is awesome to see someone being all energetic about musics. Wytu and I have some ridiculously pretentious conversations about it sometimes, but in private so we can pretend we are "normals" who listen to the radio...

I will naturally second Eff-You on 65daysofstatic; The Destruction Of Small Ideas is epic and immense and gorgeous and frantic and many flavours of glorious.

I also concur that We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank by Modest Mouse is an enormous amount of fun. It's got the composition and arrangement qualities of The Moon and Antarctica blended with the insane pop catchiness of Good News For People Who Love Bad News. I think Isaac Brock is perhaps my favourite lyricist ever.

Other things I've got on heavy rotation right now are Patrick Wolf's The Magic Position, which is a staggering work of pop classicism; Mirrored by Battles, an album of awesome rhythmic spasticity; and the most recent album by Do Make Say Think, which is simply brilliant, and is called You, You're a History in Rust.

I have also been listening to a selection of Super Furry Animals, because they're ace and so very summery.

65daysofstatic - Don't Go Down To Sorrow
Modest Mouse - Missed The Boat
Battles - Atlas
Patrick Wolf - Accident & Emergency
Do Make Say Think - A Tender History in Rust
Super Furry Animals - Lazer Beam - Juxtapozed With U - Smokin' - If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You

Some more 65 so you gets a taste:
Retreat! Retreat!
Radio Protector.

What did we do before YouTube, eh?

Zap! Kapow! Why didn't I think of Patrick Wolf? I am rubbish.

Super Furry Animals sex my love - in space! Long term fan of the fuzzies - I even made my own 2 CD compilation of my favourite tracks. Now that's what I call nerdsome!

Daria - some people need convincing of many things. I find a blunt instument useful in such cases. But yes, Format love should be instinctual.

Today I've been on the Mew. I just couldn't decide what I wanted to listen to on the way to work, and 'Frengers' just looked so appealing. Yesterday, though, it was my free CD with the new copy of Word magazine (choice cuts abound!) and Espers 'II', which is my new spooky album of choice for those days when my Silent Hill soundtrack is just a little bit... much...

Good to see the spirit of anally retentive music discussion is still alive in this thread. Brings a tear to my eye it does.

Mew.

*shakes head in disgust*
For me, they're just as bad as The Crimea. I've seen both bands live, willing to give them a chance, but I... I just can't force myself to like such boring drivvel.

Yesterday, the music I most enjoyed listening to was from a band playing Eastern European Gypsy music. I had never seen a sax being played like that before. It was awesome, albeit a little short (the gig was 30 minutes long and we got there late).

Oh dear. Our first tiff. I shouldn't expect everyone to love Mew as much as I do, but I will anyway. Feh. Though I do agree on The Crimea.

Moloko graced my morning listening. I'm a big fan of 'Things To Make And Do', especially the track 'Pure Pleasure Seeker'. Good tune to get up a fine strut to.

Interesting note for you, Daira - Radiohead's 'Hail To The Thief' was the last album to grace the Hanley branch of Music Zone (whilst it was still under the aegis of Music Zone Services Ltd., before the Fopp handover). I put it on. Thought you'd like to know that.

I saw Mew exactly a week after I saw The Crimea in the same place. The Crimea absolutely sucked but Mew were awesome and I love them.

The last few days I've just been watching lots of MTV2, K! TV and Scuzz 'cos I'm lazy and having one of those "I don't know what to listen to" moments. I find myself watching the adverts more than listening to the music... maybe I'm just addicted to brainwashing.

I've never really "dug" Mew. That says more about you than it does about me.

An addendum to my previous post; Do Make Say Think have actually kinda crept up into my list of all-time favourite bands. They did it by stealth! Probably. The List, so-capitalised for its impossible degree of importance, expands quietly, without my notice, all the damned time.

Sorry, People Who Like Talking About Music in A Serious Manner, I have been listening to the Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack. It makes me happy and I don't think about it.


(but it makes me dance!)

Hedwig soundtrack, eh? And what makes you think that doesn't belong in serious music discussion? It's only one of the best musical soundtracks going. Fine film, too.

My ears rejoiced this morn to the sound of Half Man Half Buscuit's 'Achtung Bono', which represents the perfect meeting of music and comedy. If you need convincing, the tune 'Joy Division Oven Gloves' awaits your inspection.

No no no no no shhhh...

you just enjoy it



listening to LCD Soundsystem

Sorry, kid. Nothing gets between me and a good bout of willful over-analysis. Heck, that's why I made this damn thread in the first place! Question is, which version of 'Wicked Little Town' do you prefer - Hedwig's or Tommy Gnosis'?

And LCD Soundsystem good. Me like. Which album? Or is it some kinda crazy mixture?

First album of the self-titled (Daft Punk is playin' at my house = best opening line of any album ever)--and Hedwig's for the definitely. Vaguely german man-girl singing always beats teen idols. Always!

I'm listening to Drinking in LA by Bran Van 3000. On repeat. Many times.

Are they a good band as voted for by The People Who Talk About Music Seriously?

I love Drinking In LA, but it's the only Bran Van 3000 song I know.

Also, I'm not a person who talks about music seriously. I don't know enough about music to talk about it seriously, I either like it or I don't.

Anyway, I'm listening to Air. Air are good.

I also like Drinking in LA, and I am actually able to talk about music seriously, as long as you seriously want to talk emo.

For example: 65daysofstatic's The Destruction of Small Ideas must indeed be a good album, since the last track on it, The Conspiracy of Seeds, features vocals by screamo* band Circle Takes The Square's two singer/screamers Drew and Kathy.

*I totally know what I'm talking about when I use this word. I think.

Can emo be seriously discussed, though? It is a very funny genre of music. And I don't mean that in a negative way at all, but emo is very very silly.

I listened to Pardon Me by Incubus this morning and realised that I'd been listening to emo before I even knew what emo was.

Also, Conspiracy of Seeds is my least favourite song on the new 65. 'S not to say it's bad, 'cause it's 65 and therefore ace, but there are better pieces on that album. Little Victories, for example, is so stunning it turns my ears into pandas.

Finally, I am listening a lot to Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty. I haven't listened to it in years, but I've decided it's definitely their best effort. I understand that this is probably not a popular opinion, but no other Beasties album is so accomplished or consistently enjoyable. Also, listening to it for the first time in something like six years has revealed remarkable attention to detail that escaped a much younger Wookiee.

'Drinking In LA' is to Bran Van 3000 what 'My Sherona' is to The Knack, viz. the only song that anybody knows by the band in question. Damn fine songs both. I bought my copy of the former from a Cancer Research charity shop a couple of months back. Word.

snoo - Air good. What Air? Me like 'Moon Safari'.

elph - LCD's first album good. Me also like 'Daft Punk...', but like 'Losing My Edge' more.

Wookiee - favourite Beasties album is a totally subjective pursuit. Mine is 'Paul's Boutique', which says more about me than it does about you. I will more often than not, however, rock my 'Sounds Of Science' best of.

Today's ear joy came from my portable tune machine, via electronic cleverness, through vibrating air particles to my mind, courtesy of revolutionary tablemaestro DJ Shadow, album being 'Endtroducing'. It's become fashionable to know that he invented trip-hop, but not to say that he did. He did though. And we all know it.

I was going to dispute that note about emoism, and point out that they have now all come off drugs and got soft with old age. But actually, they are still emo- listening to Light Grenades only emphasises this: "Love hurts/ but sometimes it's a good hurt". God damn Boyd, god damn Lance leaving.

They better play something from Enjoy Incubus (Ha! no chance >_>) or at least S.C.I.E.N.C.E when I see them in September, or.. or.. or I will cry.

I was in Sainsburys in Brixton this morning, buying something to eat on my way to work, and not only did they play Material Girl by Madonna, but next on their playlist was Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead. I thought I had lost all hope of good shop music when I moved away from the Stepney Green Co-op that would, without fail, always play great music but Lo! There is hope!

I have the National stuck in my head, though. (Mr November, if you wondered)

I think at the time I was listening to something from 'The Virgin Suicide Score' but 'Moon Safari' is my favourite album.


Currently I'm listening to my random March playlist, I'm too lazy to create a new one. It's Jeremy Enigk at the moment, queue talk about emo?

I fled Incubus back whenever it was they released that song, Megalomaniac. I was all like, "Oh, hells no."



I'd contend that Geoff Barrow did, with Dummy, a good two years before Endtroducing.

A Crow Left Of The Murder, 2004 I do believe.

I have been sneakily listening to Silver and Fire by M Craft here at work. It is so beautiful, and the album is too.

I saw Incubus during their festival season of 2003, I believe. I did not get much from 'S.C.I.E.N.C.E' and absolutely nothing from 'Enjoy...'. The future looks bleak for you, Daria. Unless you enjoy Boyd with his shit off, because that's 100% definitely going to happen. Blargh.

But if they play Hot Dancer, I will probably be terribly jealous.

When I saw them last (2004), they played A Certain Shade Of Green and I almost wet myself.
They also did this 15 minute drum instrumental, which was awesome, and a cover of Milkshake by Kellis. Which was, surprisingly, awesome as well.

I think if they did You Will Be A Hot Dancer, I may leap about like a fool. More so if they played Azwethinkweiz.