My status on facebook was "bom bah ba bah doo wah-a da dum wah wah-ah" for a while. I love that Louis Armstrong impression--well, the whole song really. Who is Lene Lovich?

Listening to my father roll out pie crust, with a light sprinkling of Andrew Bird floating around above.

I'm listening to the Labyrinth soundtrack, not really sure why but I've been craving it all day!

A fine soundtrack, snoo. Dance magic dance, and all that.

I've been hitting 'Desert Sessions Vol. 9 & 10' today. It's all too easy to forget what a tremendous collection of tunes that is. The versions of 'In My Head' and 'I Wanna Make It Wit Chu' are superior to the later QOTSA versions, I think.

'Mwng' by Super Furry Animals. Welsh-language wonky indie, finally proving that good music knows no nation. No idea what it's all about, but I can't help singing along.

"and now I am looking for a reason why... and the stars don#t even matter... I don#t want to be either"

IU recognise the tune, but I dunno what it's called. Am sitting in Mac Donalds using the wifi whilst my ISP faff around.

There is a song onm the new Primal Scream album that supposedly, a biy soulisha dn disoey. Im curious to hear that too.

and, erm... there wa sa free track offer for a Levellers song on www.lettersfromtheunderground.com- I think, or whatever their new album is called dot com. -It was in the big Issue. I tihnk Spoon took advantage of it. Think it ends today, so mebbe it's still worky?

Ohhhh, Labrynth musics *highfives Snoo*

Way home - 'Betty' by Helmet. Yes sir, I like the rock.

Way in - 'It's Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best' by Karen Dalton. I'm a sucker for a beautiful voice when twinned with a tragic history. What is it about the blues that makes it so uplifting sometimes? Ahh, the joy of other people's misery...

Okies, not I done booked my tickets for Detroit rock City, I got songs with Detroit in the lyrics.

Well, the Detroit rock City lyric. Put your hands up for Detroit. And, erm: trying to make it to Detroit, Detroooit. those are it for th emoment, no doubt ther eare many others I will call to mind over the coming months.

In the rain on the way in today, I enjoyed a little Karma To Burn. Riff 'n' thunder - s'all good.

No problemo, chap. Glad it arrived okay. I'm waiting with bated breath for your reply disc.

Eased my pain in the stupid "sat on the M56 because people can't drive properly in rain" traffic jam with the Ting Tings. Unfortunately the album isn't quite long enough. So I listened to it again

I'll drop your tunes in the post this very night. I ditched the stereo-ready CD in favour of jamming a load more albums onto a disc, seeing as you seem to do most of your listening via 'puter. Lord knows what you'll make of it all - it's a fairly eclectic selection...

They Say - Scars on Broadway. Cool song. *hums*

A mixture of Yo La Tengo and Flaming Lips in the sunshine. Grand.

Another sunny day enhanced by Super Furry Animals - 'Phantom Power' in this case. A-woo-hoo!

I'm sure it'll all be peachy keen, mate. Although I could do with the postie sorting his life out and delivering it into my clammy paws...

...Especially in the light of the fact I've somehow gone all random late 80's and am currently listening to Holly Johnson's sole solo album. Please don't ask me to explain it; I just had this really weird desire to listen to the music of a deceased gay scouser.

Meh. I'm listening to Annie - I'd imagine your desire is similar to the one that made me lust for Scandi-electro-pop.

I was listening to all the good songs by The Enemy earlier...LIVE. I just had to boast and this seemed to be the best thing without starting a new thread.

My iTunes in order with the most played songs first. Can't say I have any complaints.

Got some killer albums recently, which have been getting a good spin. I've had a pair of Boris albums ('Akuma No Uta' and 'Feedbacker'), a similar amount of Swell Maps ('A Trip To Marineville' and 'Jane From Occupied Europe'), the three-disc reissue of everything Young Marble Giants ever did (so good it makes my feet tingle just to think of it), a comparable two-disc Kleenex/LiLiPUT affair, and Conor Oberst's solo effort. Add to that the Skinned Teen album that's on the way, and it's a fine selection of albums that you've like as not never heard of.

This morning was 'Taxidermy' by Queen Adreena, with a sudden changeover to Espers. Lovely.

I've been having a clearout of all my old physical music media, starting with the cassettes. I've dug out my old tape deck and have been transferring the old fuzzy iron oxide tuneage into lovely MP3, along with all the subtle nuances of cassette recordings - such as tape hiss, oxide dropout, azimuth misalignment and the hilariously named "Wow and Flutter".

For anyone not sure what the heck one of those is - and I'm guessing this will be anyone born after 1992 - then this is what one is.



These puppies were the mainstay of mobile music throughout the eighties, being played on our Sony Walkman, before the advent of the mobile CD player (which was utterly useless) and the MP3 player.

Erm, so yeah, basically I've been listening to all the recordings I've made in this manner to be sure they're all worthy of being kept. Which, given the space in time where CDs became more popular, means everything is of an 80s vein.

I have to say, though, that even the tape with the yellow case (which had obviously seen too much daylight) was still capable of having a decent recording wrenched from it, with the combined use of a decent tape deck and some fiddling in Audacity

I miss tapes. Making a mix tape was a true labour of love - planning out the order of tracks, ensuring a good thematic flow, getting the timings right, the all-important arrangement for dropping needle to vinyl (ask your parents, kids) and hitting record just before the tune kicks in, making sure the last track is neither so long that it cuts off, or so short that valuable tape space is wasted... All that, and then assailing old mags and newspapers to create a one-off hand-made cover. Hard, but gratifying, work, that has been made all-too-easy in the recordable CD age.

When it comes down to it though, it's still music, and music is always good, regardless of format.

Late shift. Darkening skies. Warehouses as far as the eye can see.

Burial.

Need I say more?

I've been on a big ol' Dresden Dolls kick lately. Go ahead, make fun of me as you will.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I like them too.

Was browsing some videos on YouTube and found out about this band called In Extremo. Listened to two songs so far, Kuss Mich and Vollmond. The second was too vampirey for my taste, the other was pretty good.

Burial is the emo of dubstep

Today, I have been listening to Duke Ellington records whilst making bread. I'm now living on my own, which means I can't hijack Monty's cd player or speakers. My music is limited to lame laptop speakers, DVD player through TV or mono record player.

I've also been listening to the following albums: Young For Eternity by The Subways; Show Your Bones by the YYYs; Begin To Hope by Regina Spektor; The Album (disc two) from... 2004 I think? It has an excellent track listing; and The American Songbook which was a free CD with Mojo magazine in 2005 or 2006. It's lovely
Mr Scruff has also been in there, as it's brilliant to do housework to.


Aaaaand I'm done.

That's actually quite an accurate description. I was feeling a little emo t'other day. Hard not to on the late shifts when you're alone in the office, and the skies are dark and brooding. Like my soul.

Huge amounts of Young Marble Giants yesterday, with a bit of local band The Recondites and the free CD from the last issue of Word.

Annoyingly, my Skinned Teen album arrived this morning just as I was about to leave, leaving me no time to enjoy its ramshackle wonders. Feh.

Yesterday I listened to one of the three excellent CDs our very own Daria sent in my direction. If all goes to plan, I should have listened to the other two before work tomorrow. Oh joy of joys!

This morning it was largely Urusei Yatsura, with bits and bobs of other stuff culled from the Rough Trade Counter Culture CDs. Yay and also woo.

Today I have been listening to The Monks, and other such organ-fuelled 60s ... rock? It was awesome, to say the least.

Another two CDs of Daria-derived excellence this morning. Seriously, those are some farkin brilliant comps there - a cavalcade of musical joys from start to finish. My mind is already a-whirring with mad designs on how best to show my appreciation in CD form...

Hello!

It is important that I remind you all that once upon a 1995, David Bowie and Brian Eno made a cyberpunk industrial pop concept album called Outside (or 1.Outside, if you're eternally optimistic about ever seeing the remaining four parts of the cycle). It is brilliant and deserves your ears. I might love it a little bit more than Low.

Also been listening to Talking Heads' magnificent Fear Of Music (Animals is such a bloody ace song), the sole Plone album For Beginner Piano, and the soundtrack to Deathproof (mostly for Down In Mexico and Chick Habit).

Long time no see, Doc! Good call on the Talking Heads front - can't go far wrong with that one.

The not so popular but stangely addictive This Book Is So awesome by Harry and The Potters. It's mindblowing!

A spot of 'Fed' by Plush - finally given a UK release after years of being Japan-only - whilst I toyed with the idea of phoning in sick so I could listen to more tunes and play Persona 3. The fact that I am here shows how that worked out. Stupid conscience...

On the walk in, Trail Of Dead and the Wildhearts filled my head with joyous rock. Now all is silence as I anticipate pitying my first fool of the day.

More Bowie! Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) which is simply brilliant. Ashes To Ashes invented the '80s, and you can't tell me any different.

Also been listening to the Warp issued Blue Jam compilation, which is still surreal, mournful, yet disgustingly funny. I used to have all the radio shows in Real Audio format, years ago. I don't even know if RealPlayer exists anymore. Anyway, I've been inspired to start torrenting the lot in mp3, so hooray for that.

Today I woke up with a need to listen to some White Stripes. Since going from many many GB of MP3s when living with Monty, to none since moving up to Scotland, I have been stuck with the small amount of CDs I've managed to wrangle off record companies, some 7" singles (but they are annoying to faff about with when you're working) and a bunch of 12" albums, all pre 1990 (I need to get a new needle, and newer records jump all the time).
Within all that, I have no WS ;-;
So, I dug out the 6 CDs that a friend made for me a couple of years ago, and have been listening to artists like Nick Drake, Radiohead, Nirvana, Gogol Bordello, Bill Munroe, Pulp, The Datsuns, Jurassic 5, Franz Ferdinand, Groove Armada, King Creosote and most importantly the White Stripes. Yay!

I had a mad craving for two tunes this morning - 'Candylion' by Gruff Rhys and 'Summertime Cowboy' by Husky Rescue.

Those listened to, I then gave full room to Broadcast's 'Ha Ha Sound', and am all the better for it.

Doc - Blue Jam, eh? Niiice. And superior to the televised series in pretty much every way.

I was given a copy of David Bowie Live Santa Monica '72 as a leaving present from my only male co-worker!

Needless to say I am listening to it to make packing that bit better!

I'm jealous, snoo! And Summertime Cowboy is a great song.

Recently, The Dollyrots, and now I'm starting to worry about how I'm going to last the first week of college without music, or if I'm just going to have to lug my stereo since my laptop won't be here yet...

Isn't it just, gothic? Like a camp(er) Moloko.

Today I needed something pounding to get me in to work. Bomb20 fit the bill nicely.

Don't Shoot Me Santa, by the Killers.

I love it, and the video for it. And yet, I am one of the few who've laughed at either one.

While the humor is debateable, no one could deny that Brandom Flower's voice could cause orgasm just from sheer amazingness.

But he used all that software for their first album...you can hear it and he admitted to it...

Argh, nevermind. I hate killing moods and I'm going to listen to that track right now. I bet it is great and I hope my orgasm isn't too loud because my suitemates would look at me funny.

Currently listening to "Le Phare"--Yann Tiersen's non-Amelie album. I am delighting. It would be great if you could store an excess of happiness for winter, like acorns or blackberry preserves.

I've had Le Tigre in my head all day.
I've been listeing to Deloran, LCD Soundsystem Tom Vek and Saul Williams. Good music to go shopping to.

Ratatat's remix albums are just fantastic. Their second album Classics is great as well. I've gotten LP3 and haven't given it a good listen yet.

I also discovered a band called Chromeo. Upon procurement of their newest album, Fancy Footwork, I discovered that they were made of awesome.

staind - its been a while

Inky will be pleased to note I've been giving some serious airtime to the collection he sent to me. After already ploughing through HMHB's "CSI: Ambleside", which is very good indeed, I'm now listening to Desert Sessions. Which is also jolly good. I'm hoping that the rest of it lives up to these.

Good work leo! Glad to see '...Ambleside' has made an impression on your sig, too. Hope the rest of it meets muster - it's a varied selection, make no mistake.

My time away gave much opportunity for tune-caning - eight hours each way on a coach was filled with Camille, Stella Maris, Sunn O))), Sonny J, Portishead, Sigur Ros, Sparklehorse and a few other bits and bobs. Triffic.

This morn, I listened to my new favourite compilation, a minor work of genius known as 'My CD Marker Sucks Vol. I'. Thanks, Daria.

EDIT: Not sure how I forgot, but on the way back from hols I listened to Scheer's entire back catalogue in alphabetical order. It lasted a disappointingly short amount of time. *sigh*

Software?

I've been listening to "You're gonna go far, kid" by The Offspring over and over.

Tonight we had:

British Sea Power walking me home.
Iron & Wine's the Shepherd's Dog taking the elevator with me.
Manu Chao helping me develop a crush on a boy.
Edith Piaf explaining that it's all good.
Louis Armstrong utterly beating Piaf as far as renditions of "La Vie En Rose" go.

All of which have been making my ears happy.

Voices--he used voice-correction software on their first record, which stretched his pitch when he missed notes and makes him sound like a robot in some tunes.

Of The Night EP by the Guillemots, some Blur, some Caribou, some YYYs and some Velvet Underground. MMMmMmmmmmm... muuusics.


Also, InKy. I am making you another CD- but I need to get some blank CDs before I can send it. I think they sell them at the Post Office and I'm going there tomorrow, so you might actually get this soonish!

O_O

New moosic of a soonness? Be still my throbbing organ! As you know, I've got a couple on the go for you, but every time I sit down in front of the 'puter my mind goes completely blank. I'll have to start making notes every time I hear something I think you'd like...

I've got the second disc of Counter Culture 07 on random at the moment. Bangin' and triffic. I also picked up a Jeffry Lewis album and the Moshi Moshi singles club comp recently, and enjoyed both to a very large degree. Got albums by Royksopp and The Bug on the way, so my ears are very happy right now.