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[timwakefield]

It's time for more Soul For Lady Ghey!Alice Clark - Alice Clark (1972)She was one of James Browns' backup singers (I think?) and this is her only album, and it is amazing. I'm not even kidding, it's been in my heavy rotation for about 4 months since I first heard it. (note, it was a sharebee link, but sharebee was acting really wonky so it's just the MU portion - anyways it's my upload)youtube previewAnd this is Swamp Dogg, 2 albums in 1. Total Destruction To Your Mind + Rat On! (1970, 1971)Really, really good. Not gimicky or silly like the album covers might lead you to believe. The album covers might also lead you to believe that he is awesome - that assumption proves true.Some of the waffles comments got me excited, which quite frankly often leads to disappointment (not waffles specifically - just any random quick recommendations from total internet strangers). Swamp Dogg is the real deal though. The music was surprising to me at first - I was expecting straight, pure soul and/or funk, but he's quite introspective and sings much less-loudly than I'd thought he would. Lyrics such as:Friendship's like acidIt burns as it slides away.And this one is not my upload but it is a clean link which I used to get the album. The Sons of Truth - A Message From the Ghetto (1972)Soul/gospel. I've been getting into a lot of gospel-type music lately, including this. Anyways, another excellent album. Strong on the gospel. Source.

[LadyGrey]

Thanks timwakefield, I'm downloading right now. Will let you know what I think when I've had the chance to listen.

[timwakefield]

OMFG I WAS ALMOST LITERALLY PRAYING TO A GOD I DON'T BELIEVE IN FOR THE FOLLOWING TO HAPPEN: Massive freeleech on whatcd. And it just happened, totally out of the blue. ALLLL flacs and all something else too or something (basically most mp3s too), through the weekend. Fuck me in the butt yesssssss!Not even an april fool's joke on my part or on their part.EDIT: Still unclear if it's all flacs or just some.Re-Edit: Yeah, it's all flacs.

[LadyGhey]

timwakefield, on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010, 11:00 PM, said:

OMFG I WAS ALMOST LITERALLY PRAYING TO A GOD I DON'T BELIEVE IN FOR THE FOLLOWING TO HAPPEN: Massive freeleech on whatcd. And it just happened, totally out of the blue. ALLLL flacs and all something else too or something (basically most mp3s too), through the weekend. Fuck me in the butt yesssssss!Not even an april fool's joke on my part or on their part.EDIT: Still unclear if it's all flacs or just some.Re-Edit: Yeah, it's all flacs.

This happened yesterday right? Because I am sceptical of anything that happens on April 1st.

[timwakefield]

LadyGhey, on Thursday, April 1st, 2010, 6:23 AM, said:

This happened yesterday right? Because I am sceptical of anything that happens on April 1st.

I think it happened at exactly midnight GMT or whatever, so it was potentially a joke. But like, the joke is that it's not a joke. Totally real.

[Mercury69]

Avon - QOTSA

[Don Giovanni]

get highway rider - brad mehldau immediately. for those of you who are too lame to be into jazz it was produced by jon brion.

[Tactical Bear]

Don Giovanni, on Friday, April 2nd, 2010, 11:17 AM, said:

get highway rider - brad mehldau immediately. for those of you who are too lame to be into jazz it was produced by jon brion.

I started listening to Brad Mehldau when I saw he was doing Radiohead covers. (Yeah, I'm a fanboy.) I don't really know anything about jazz -- **** it: music in general -- but I really enjoyed his work, and I've been picking up his stuff and listening for a while now. I haven't heard Highway Rider, but I will steal it soon and enjoy it.My fake girlfriend burned me two CDs. She gave me the first earlier this week, and I get the second tonight, as well as the cover art and liner notes. She's stretching it out for as long as possible for some reason. Tracklisting:Tegan and Sara- Back In Your HeadArcade Fire- HaitiArcade Fire- Rebellion (Lies)Cloud Cult- No One Said it Would Be EasyHot Chip- ColoursBloc Party- This Modern LovePortugal. The Man- SaltAndrew Bird- ImitosisYeah Yeah Yeahs- RichDigitalism- PogoFischerspooner- All We AreBand of Horses- FuneralThe Helio Sequence- Keep Your Eyes AheadMinus the Bear- Pachuca SunriseTapes 'N Tapes- ManitobaTokyo Police Club- Citizens of TomorrowBlood Brothers- The ShameI can't explain how ecstatic that I'm sleeping with a girl that knows who Tokyo Police Club is and knows what I'm talking about when I say "Hot Chip fucking blows." Did I mention she's really hot, has mega-sweet breasts, and makes jokes about Albert Camus? I'm going to wake up soon, but until I do I shall enjoy the dream.

[JoeyJoJo]

Tactical Bear, on Friday, April 2nd, 2010, 1:46 PM, said:

I can't explain how ecstatic that I'm sleeping with a girl that knows who Tokyo Police Club is and knows what I'm talking about when I say "Hot Chip fucking blows." Did I mention she's really hot, has mega-sweet breasts, and makes jokes about Albert Camus? I'm going to wake up soon, but until I do I shall enjoy the dream.

I would think she would be equally excited that she found someone who will appreciate a CD with Tokyo Police Club on it and gets her Albert Camus jokes.By the way, I started listening to those songs you shared with me again and I really like As Serious As Your Life by Four Tet. But I don't know how I feel about the genre being "hipster."Mainly because it reminds me of Kramer being called a hipster doofus.Then again, Kramer was pretty sweet.

[Speed Limit]

Tactical Bear, on Friday, April 2nd, 2010, 3:46 PM, said:

I can't explain how ecstatic that I'm sleeping with a girl that knows who Tokyo Police Club is and knows what I'm talking about when I say "Hot Chip fucking blows." Did I mention she's really hot, has mega-sweet breasts, and makes jokes about Albert Camus? I'm going to wake up soon, but until I do I shall enjoy the dream.

Sounds like she lives in 2008.

[Tactical Bear]

JoeyJoJo, on Friday, April 2nd, 2010, 4:55 PM, said:

By the way, I started listening to those songs you shared with me again and I really like As Serious As Your Life by Four Tet. But I don't know how I feel about the genre being "hipster."Mainly because it reminds me of Kramer being called a hipster doofus.Then again, Kramer was pretty sweet.

Whenever I have to categorize a song by genre, I label it "Hipster" or "Hipster/Faggot." Download the album Rounds by Four Tet if you can. It's one of my favorite albums ever. If you can't download it, I'll just put it together and ship it over to you or share it like last time. His newest album, There Is Love in You, is fantastic as well.

[JoeyJoJo]

Tactical Bear, on Friday, April 2nd, 2010, 2:48 PM, said:

Whenever I have to categorize a song by genre, I label it "Hipster" or "Hipster/Faggot." Download the album Rounds by Four Tet if you can. It's one of my favorite albums ever. If you can't download it, I'll just put it together and ship it over to you or share it like last time. His newest album, There Is Love in You, is fantastic as well.

If by "download" you mean: acquire for free, then: I can't. I still get all my music via iTunes purchase.

[JubilantLankyLad]

JoeyJoJo, on Friday, April 2nd, 2010, 1:59 PM, said:

If by "download" you mean: acquire for free, then: I can't. I still get all my music via iTunes purchase.

If by "can't" you mean: won't, then: can.

[JoeyJoJo]

JubilantLankyLad, on Friday, April 2nd, 2010, 3:45 PM, said:

If by "can't" you mean: won't, then: can.

If by "won't" you mean: don't know how, then: correct.

[strategy]

JoeyJoJo, on Friday, April 2nd, 2010, 5:52 PM, said:

If by "won't" you mean: don't know how, then: correct.

I will happily provide the means of acquisition.Am I drunk on jelly?

[LongLiveYorke]

I'm seeing Atoms for Peace tonight. It's going to be odd to see Thom Yorke dancing with Flea, but I'm pretty excited.

[RonBurgundy]

madlib never ceases to amaze me. you would think someone who smokes that much weed could never release this much music.

[timwakefield]

Music players: what does everybody use?I have been using itunes for a long time. I've learned all the little quirks, it's easy, the equalizer is decent and easy to manipulate, etc. The biggest problem for me is that it can't play FLAC files. I tried Winamp sometime last year - it was also the first mp3 player I used way back in college. Anyways (last year) I wanted to use it to play my FLACs, but I found it to be very frustrating. The equalizer it came with is shit and on top of that is also difficult to use. I tried installing some other equalizers and just got frustrated with all the plug-ins and whatever. I just discovered Foobar2000 though. It plays FLACs beautifully, has a simple interface, a good and easy-to-use equalizer, etc. I just got it last night, having grabbed about 100 gigs of FLAC last weekend (freeleech is seriously better than christmas). It'll probably take me the rest of the month to finish converting them to mp3 on my shitty computer, and now I can not only listen to them immediately, but I've also found a program to play all my old flacs too. Up until now they've mostly just been sitting on my drive, while I rocked out to the mp3 conversions. No longer!Anyways, this post isn't meant to be advertising Foobar - like I said I just got it and have barely used it. I'm just curious what music players everybody uses, and why. I'm gonna keep using itunes for my mp3s, mostly because they're already extensively organized in itunes, and also I like the layout of it.

[strategy]

foobar is definitely the chosen player for music snobs. I still use winamp. can't remember a time when I had a pressing need for an equalizer.I download solely V0s so I guess I don't get too frustrated over iTunes' lack of support for FLAC in favor of ALAC.

[SuperJon]

timwakefield, on Thursday, April 8th, 2010, 8:36 PM, said:

Music players: what does everybody use?I have been using itunes for a long time. I've learned all the little quirks, it's easy, the equalizer is decent and easy to manipulate, etc. The biggest problem for me is that it can't play FLAC files. I tried Winamp sometime last year - it was also the first mp3 player I used way back in college. Anyways (last year) I wanted to use it to play my FLACs, but I found it to be very frustrating. The equalizer it came with is shit and on top of that is also difficult to use. I tried installing some other equalizers and just got frustrated with all the plug-ins and whatever. I just discovered Foobar2000 though. It plays FLACs beautifully, has a simple interface, a good and easy-to-use equalizer, etc. I just got it last night, having grabbed about 100 gigs of FLAC last weekend (freeleech is seriously better than christmas). It'll probably take me the rest of the month to finish converting them to mp3 on my shitty computer, and now I can not only listen to them immediately, but I've also found a program to play all my old flacs too. Up until now they've mostly just been sitting on my drive, while I rocked out to the mp3 conversions. No longer!Anyways, this post isn't meant to be advertising Foobar - like I said I just got it and have barely used it. I'm just curious what music players everybody uses, and why. I'm gonna keep using itunes for my mp3s, mostly because they're already extensively organized in itunes, and also I like the layout of it.

I just use itunes. I hear people complain about it a bit, but I have no problems with it.As for flacs, I use Free Audio Converter to convert to .mp3s. Took about 4 minutes to do the latest Mraz which was close to 600MB.