Today was a Liz Phair day and now I am all horned up.

rage
against
the
machine

didnt they just get back together?

i think that was just for one show in LA

are you sure? i thought i heard something about Chris Cornell going out and doing another solo project while RATM were playing together. but i could be wrong.

I'm in kind of a weird mood today, so I figured I'd go with it, and all I'm doing is listening to math rock. Nothing but math rock. All day.

Math Rock.

I started by listening to Slint's Spiderland, the paragon of math rock. A friend reccomended the new/first Battles EP Mirrored, so I've been "jamming" to that, too. I listened to some Tortoise, too, but I don't know if that really counts as math rock, or just jazz-influenced post-rock.

Whatever, anybody who doesn't listen to Math Rock is just a fucking pussy.


Since Dutch is always in here trolling around to fill the empty void where his soul should be with music, I'm going to suggest he broaden his horizens a little and listen to Mirrored and Spiderland. I was never a huge Spiderland fan, but I'm in the minority.


Wang

Beaten to it (I went to Pitchfork a week ago and loaded un on some stuff. I felt dirty, but it works). It's cool; not my favorite.

Shifting Forms by Sarcolytic

lately:
lil wayne- drought 3
wilco- yhf
mos def- black on both sides
andrew bird- mysterious production of eggs
animal collective (i need to get panda bears album)
bowie-rise and fall of ziggy stardust
dee dee warwick
echo + the bunnymen- ocean rain
mobb deep- infamous
of montreal

when i dont know what to listen to, i just put on "hey" by the pixies, such a strangely great song.

cd i rediscovered my love for this week:
the avalanches- since i left you

just great construction of an album

The Chariot- Fiancee(I might have spelled that wrong)
Minor Threat - Discography
Modern Life Is War - random songs, no particular album

and my band is currently recording an ep. I'd link our myspace page on here, but you guys would probably just make fun of me. It's real sugary rediculously catchy powerpop music. Not to mention the songs on our page are terrible. We'll have good recordings soon though(finishing up this weekend) and if you want to listen I can send you the link.

Bonnie Prince Billy- I See a Darkness One of the coolest, strangest albums ever. Fire it up, Dutch, if you dare.

No luck. Rare, I guess?

Maybe you can AIM transfer it next time our AIM paths cross.

Amos Lee - check him out!

http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/612899/Amos_Lee

Deltron 3030

Yes! Yes. D-E-L, he wrecks microphones.

I am currently enchanted by Squeeze's greatest hits. Up The Junction is an incredible song. Pulling Muscles From A Shell is also a classic. Great underappreciated stuff.
*L*T*

I went to a show this weekend (Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie/Postal Service fame), and Ben Gibbard covered Up The Junction.

The master has become the student.

Dutch told me to listen to The National's new album Boxer, and it's quite good. I'm trying to think of a good comparison, because I'm unoriginal in the sense that, until I become intimately familiar with a band, I can only relate to them in the context of another.

Interpol comes to mind, but in a weird, weird way. The lead-off track from the new disc- "Fake Empire"- is one of the better tracks I've heard this year.


Wang

i think this means that pitchforks front page is actually the master.

You vanished last night before I could make that clunky comparison.

For some reason I remain hesitant to (openly) embrace Pitchfork. I haven’t had better than 20% success with the Listen-to-Pitchfork method, but it’s better than nothing.

Anyway, this is the one time in one-hundred you’d be wrong, Don, and I only mention this because I feel like I should be ashamed to take my cues from them. I caught them opening for Arcade Fire, and dug the show.

oh, sweet. i only said that because that band was all over pitchfork when i checked it earlier. i dont think you should be ashamed of taking cues from them though, they have introduced me to some good stuff. but they can be hit or miss.

anyway i downloaded that slint album that wang mentioned a page or so ago and that **** is weird. everything the band is doing is awesome but sometimes i just can stand the off key yelling of the "singer." but it does have a cool kinda depressing, creepy feeling to the whole thing.

Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. If you like some of the crazy off-beat sounding stuff they do, download Battles- Mirrored. It's a little less weird, and alot more accessible, but still all math-rocky.

Wang

Deliverer Of Evil - Immolation

When you say math rock, what do you mean? Are they, like, taking derivatives or something in the lyrics?

I don't even know. It's hard to explain. It's like obscenity; you know it when you hear it.

Basically, it's a loose term that's used to describe bands who intentionally use weird and dynamic time signatures. It's often strangely cacophonous, too, if that makes any sense.

Also, your question is very nerdy.

the scorpions - the zoo
rolling stones - doo doo doo doo

Dutch is ready for some weirder shit. Everyone give me five albums? Ready? Blow my mind.

The first 5 CDs I can see from my computer desk...

The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Billy Bragg - Reaching To The Converted
The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
Moist - Mercedes Five and Dime
Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold Volume II



Enjoy!

dutch-
how about 5 names? all musically interesting in their own way, at least one should grab your ear.



andrew bird
blonde redhead
clinic
girl talk
m83

i got me some queen playing

^ Just a reminder, boys...and inversions thereof. ^

Bonnie Prince Billy is sweet as fuck.

Also, last we spoke, Wang, I didn't really like I am the Fun Blame Monster. After a few more listens, I'm in love with it. Those saxophones (I think. I know nothing about horns) are so weird and awesome. I can't believe they even work, but they do, somehow.

If this is their first, I assume there are more? Worth a listen?

Ok Dirty here's 5 random albums of varying quality and genre.


Canibus - Rip the Jacker
Esthero - Breath from Another
J-Live - The Best Part
Joe Satriani - The Extremist
Typical Cats - Typical Cats


Probably not 'weird' but whatever. I do what I want.

Did you like "I See a Darkness"? It's a weeeeeird fucking album, man. The song "Knockturne" still creeps me out, but in a good way. He's one morose and somber motherfucker. Listen to "Superwolf," a Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy) album he made with Matt Sweeney. It's a little lighter, but I loved it.

Yeah, I think those horns on the Menomena album are baritone saxaphones, but that's only a guess, and has no chance of being correct. They do some really strange stuff that seems oddly haphazard or like it should be contrived, but it ends up working out perfectly. "I Am the Fun Blame Monster" is their first release, and "Friend and Foe" came out recently (end of last year? early this year?) to pretty widespread critical acclaim. I haven't listened to it yet, though.


Have you ever listened to any Unicorns stuff?

If not, give them a try. Weird, in a goofy kinda way. The album "Who Will Cut Our Hair when We're Gone?" is really fucking sweet.

I don't know if you've ever listened to any Guided by Voices or not, but I think you have. (Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes)

Yo La Tengo? (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)

I also think you've listened to DJ Shadow (Endtroducing)

How about Grizzly Bear, or Beach House?



Wang

Agree with the bolded.

does anyone listen to dubstep yet? i tried to hype up the Burial record a while back, but I don't think any of you downloaded it. it's the sweetest electronic music i've heard in such a long time. it's like the 'loveless' of electronic music.

Say no more.

does nayone have a link wehre i can lesten to that awesome rap prahlad friedman did at the wsop last year?

















sw

mk, I downloaded that Burial album. Let me first start off by saying that I am by no means a huge electronic music guy, I listen to my fair share of it but am probably nowhere near as into it as you are. With that said, I really didn't like it, something about it just didn't go over well. The overall sound just was not appealing to me at all. I'll probably give it a few more listens and see if I can come around.

Tonight, I rediscovered the brilliance that is R. Kelly's Trapped In The Closet. I read that new chapters are coming out this summer, probably in July.

Broken Social Scene- You Forgot it in People


I listen to this album every once in a while. The first few times I thought a few tracks were cool, but I thought it was slightly interesting at best. I just put it in last night, and decided- though I'd grown to appreciate it more and more- that I've really been missing out. Man, what a great album. I don't think there's a single song on the entire album that rates anything less than "very good." I feel anxious when I listen to it now, because I love the song I'm listening to, but really can't wait for the next one. It's like this feeling of constant anticipation.

Wang

My favorite band this decade. [youtube.com]

Been on a Pharoahe Monch kick that led to a new av and sig.

i can see how it might be unpalatable if you aren't into electronic music. i think the reason i like it so much is that it sounds so drastically different from everything else in that genre. everyone does the same stuff, but his beats are totally unique. they have great feel and the bass is absolutely other-worldly. it definitely needs to be heard on a high-end system or through some good headphones. there is stuff happening sub-sonically in the 20-50 Hz range that will be lost on most consumer grade systems. it's pretty dark - a concept record about london flooding during a hurricane, yet it's somehow infused with more emotion than basically any other electronic music i've ever heard outside of professor yorke. i just listen with my mouth agape mostly. it's club music that you would never listen to in a club. i don't know. i love it.

Don't get me wrong, I am definately "in" to electronic music, I have actually almost been exclusively listening to it for the past couple of months.

Anyways, what I came here to say, I listened to it again, and again, and again, and... I'm hooked.

Oh and I better be hearing all those sounds because I just dropped $150 on new headphones.

download the band "quixotic" ASAP.

edit: not the jam band, the one w/ the chick singers.

double post.

in that case also joanna newsome and coco-rosie

The Sweet Sound of Silence

The Black Keys. "I'll Be Your Man" and "10am Automatic". They have a 70s southern rock and blues sound, I like what I hear so far.

for dutch's request:

some possibly-obscure-but-still-generally-liked-by-pitchfork albums i had to make sure were on my ipod nano after my bigger ipod blew up (or the click wheel stopped working, whatevz):

broadcast: tender buttons (everyone i know either loves or hates broadcast, give em a shot--amazing band to see live, too)
DACM: stereotypie (dj from tujiko noriko, i believe--not sure, but this is some pretty interesting **** done with knobs and buttons)
kante: die tiere sind unruhig / the animals are restless (a german band i can't say enough good things about--all their albums are extremely varied and sound profoundly different from one another; this one's more vocals-oriented, but if you like what's going on behind that more, try "zweilicht" or "zwichen den orten" instead; gotta find these on soulseek, though, and kante's hard to come by even there)
the radio dept.: lesser matters (this is on my top ten fave albums of all time list. get it.)
psapp: tiger, my friend and/or the only thing i ever wanted (i go back and forth on which one of these i like better, but i was introduced to them by a friend responding to the question, "what other bands sound like broken toys, you know, like piano magic?")
neutral milk hotel: in the aeroplane over the sea (best. album. ever.)
new buffalo: the last beautiful day (if you can find the ep, called the last party or something, it's better, imho, but this is the full release. they're austrailian. a girl sings. it's pretty.)

Johann Sebastian Bach - Pachelbell's canon in D major