I've been listening to one of my favorite records from the calender year 2007 for most of the day. If anybody here likes Shoegazey sounding music (think: My Bloody Valentine), listen to: The Twilight Sad- Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

It's got the same "soundscapey" feel as a lot of shoegaze albums do, but it's also more accessible in a way, too. It's getting a good ranking in my Year End list.

Seu Jorge, and I think he's Portugese or something, and yeah he did just release something recently.

i was mostly kidding; i don't dislike bright eyes, i just don't ever sit around listening to it.

Anybody watch the tv show Chuck on NBC? I've seen parts of 3 episodes, and so far the soundtrack for the show bears a striking resemblance to my playlist. So far I've heard two songs from Spoon's most recent release (Don't Make Me a Target and I don't remember the one from tonight), and at least one song from Boxer by The National (Slow Show, I believe).

Good call, Producers of Chuck. Using Spoon on the soundtrack isn't incredibly out there, given their odd status as an indie-ish band that's mainstream-cool, but I wasn't aware creative people attempting to appeal to large markets even knew who The National were.

NBC has wood for Spoon, somehow. I've seen them play several NBC post-prime-type comedy/variety shows.

mp3s on shuffle

Mordant Music - We Are The Mean
Bad Brains - Secret 77
Jon Brion - Me, Myself, and I (live)
Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars
Ryoji Ikeda - data.triplex
Schubert - String Quartet D74 in Dmaj, 2nd mvmt.
Schubert - String Quartet D353 in Emaj, 1st mvmt.
John Lennon - Instant Karma
Mozart - String Quartet in G, Kv80, 1st mvmt.
The Clash - Janie Jones
J Dilla - Don't Cry
Philip Jeck - Open
Serge Gainsbourg - Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'En Vais
Rufus Wainwright - This Love Affair
Echo & the Bunnymen - The Back of Love
Fennesz - Laguna
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The Clash - Spanish Bombs
LCD Soundsystem - Beat Connection
Sly & the Family Stone - Thank You For Talkin' to Me Africa

tbc

Seeing him in concert in November.

As for the music that got me through my work today - Say Anything - Chia Like I Shall Grow.

duh

I'm listening to The Marshall Mathers LP and Down on the Upside, by Soundgarden.

Why? What are you guys listening to?

Videotape is really pretty.

While the majority of my day has been devoted to Radiohead, I decided to check out what else was going in the world of music and found this great news.

yo 4rl when they toured last go round that song hurt me

i don't recall having heard all i need previously. fuggin radsicle

Life gets gooder and gooder. When do you guys think the rest of the Radiohead material is going to become available? Early December still supposed to be the when?




Any guesses as to what mk1 and mk2 are?

Yea, the material is still early December from what I've been hearing. Just the CD is supposed to be early 2008, but I've heard it may be in December as well.

As for Ghostface, I can't ****ing wait. He is one of few hip-hop artists that has consistently put out good work. Not to mention I'm going to see him in concert Nov. 13th, I still haven't determined how well I'm going to fit in with the crowd there, oh well.

I've been to a few rap shows, and it always works out surprisingly well. I'm super pumped (<--- super gay) for the Ghostface album, too. He's been pretty hot for the last few years.

I like most of the Wu-Tang Clan. Ghost is the most consistent, but I only semi-recently heard Liquid Swords, which is maybe in my top five hip-hop records ever.

I came up for air from Rainbows, and I ended up listening Da Drought 3, which I completely forgot about. I used to HATE Lil Wayne, but this thing is incredible. *Recommends*

It bothers me how much I like Lil Wayne. But I use it to relate to the hardcore, gun-toting, paroled negroes at work.

I was going back through older rap cd's and came across Richie Rich's album Seasoned Veteran, great west coast stuff from the mid 90's that was way overlooked.

And new Ghostface = awesome news.

I'm sure you guys already know about her since youre up on the music scene, but I found this great new artist. I can tell she's going to be huge.* Give her a listen, so you can say you heard her first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BfAOQX34dA

















*I'm talking bigger than rickroll huge. In fact, since this is a "poker" song, I say we make this the new rickroll. If that's blasphemy, well, sometimes youve just gotta have no feeaarrrrr.

My first reaction was, "oh my God, that's the worst song ever. I'm going to need revenge." But then my overdeveloped sense of irony kicked in...

QFTMFT

If you look at my CD collection it is predominatley mid 90's rap and that cd was sic. E 40 and the click popped out of all that. I live on the wet coast and my neighbor (black guy) used to live in oakland and new Dru Down. I had his sons do some work for me and asked them if they had ever heard of rappin4tay and they looked at me like I was crazy....I put Luda on them while they were doing work and new all the lyrics, so they obvioulsy new that type of music.

From that time you have 2pac, Dre, Snoop, Richie Rich, E 40 and the click, Dru Down, Too SHort, Ant Banks, Ras Kas, South Central Cartel, Tha Dogg Pound, JT Tha Bigga Figga, etc. etc.

Oh.



Oh...




A+ would watch again.

I was just listening to Some Things Will Never Change by him, by far my favorite song he ever released.

I love that Seasoned Veteran cd - Pillow, Let's Ride, It's on (f. E-40), Niggas Done Changed (f. Tupac), Touch Myself Remix (f. T-Boz) and the best tribute to Tupac ever done... Do G's get to go to heaven?

Another good rapper/producer that gets widely overlooked from back then (and even today) is DJ Qwik.

note to self: page 14



He who shall not be wangednamed is still winning as of page 14. I hope someone steps up to the challenge.

Go back an listen to some of the beef that DJ Quick had with MC Eight, it was pretty funny

I think by like page 30 "he" drops down to like #3 or #4, which is probably where "he" resides now (wink wink, nudge nudge).

So as I previously mentioned I'm going to see Ghostface this November, and my friend is on some board (I don't know exactly what they do but that's irrelevant) and they got Ghostface to do some panel where students can ask him questions and what not because apparently there are some hip hop classes run through our music school. Any ideas for questions I could ask him?

Still listening to Gogol Bordello, from the concert I went to a few days ago.
Good stuff.

I'd ask him whether he's every felt like he is/was in The RZA's shadow, and how it felt to finally release an album without RZA producing, especially one that was so successful and well-received.

Strawberry Jam. I needed a break from "the Head." I actually really, really dig this album. And no, I'm not only saying this so that Wang will think I'm cool (or, something Bear, I guess. I have no idea what's going on anymore). I still really want to get the new Sunset Rubdown. I think I'll pick it up tomorrow.

velvet underground - white light/white heat

To cleanse my palate, I've been listening to The Twilight Sad - 13 Autumns and 14 Winters. I pimp this album as much as I can.

Strawberry Jam is really cool, right? I haven't listening to the Sunset Rubdown album much, yet, but what I've heard I don't love all that much.

I like the SR album, but I'm a huge Spencer Krug fan anyway, and I cannot wait for new Wolf Parade stuff. Heard them live this summer and it sounds like it's all going to rock.

Shut up I am Dreaming was one of my favorite records last year, but the new one just sounds too... well, it sounds too much like a fucking self-indulgent carnival album. I might enjoy it, yet. Won't hold it against them if I don't

In the queue for today:

In Rainbows
the new Jimmy Eat World
1988 by Blueprint
maybe some Blue Scholars

Radiohead is good. I don't think it can be said enough.

I always wondered why he came up with Ghostface in the first place, why did he want to be the invisible member of the Wu-Tang and why did he decide to drop it eventually.

Also ask him if he can get Method Man's dealer to cut down on the weed they are shipping him so he won't be so fucking lazy about putting out new music.

Anybody else watch the Sox/Indians game, and hear "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" before the 4th or 5th inning?

Also, in order to cover up my double post, I'm going to say I really enjoy the song "Tribulations" by the same band

Excellent song, great band!

I'm listening to Person Pitch. I'm really trying to get into this album, and I really dig that other Jam album, and I really enjoy what of this album I've heard. I was only so-so on Animal Collective's old stuff, but I'm hoping my enjoyment of their new material will make me appreciate their older stuff more.

I figure if I'm going to take a break from that rainbow related album, I should be listening to something really good, right? Plus it's pretty relaxing for when I have to grade papers, which can be unbelievably boring!

So far, this is my Album of the Year. I always exclude Radiohead albums, because I can't be trusted to be objective.

I always feel like I'm talking to noone in this thread but the new Clockcleaner album is great. Also Blank Dogs have several releases this year that are amazing.

just got back from the echo project in atlanta. its a music festival, first year so everything was real chill and the acts were very into the crowd.

i saw:
lyrics born
stephen marley
polyphonic spree
gza
cyp hill
les claypool
flaming lips
bassnectar
discobiscuits
perpetual groove
common
moe.
rjd2
michael franti and spearhead
spoon
the roots
phil lesh and friends

i heard all these shows were good but missed them:
brazilian girls
thievery corporation
tea leaf green
clap your hands
the avett brothers
album leaf
jj grey and mofro



crazy weekend. real good acid + polyphonic spree + flaming lips= quite a friday. everyone in the crowd was literally speechless after polyphonic. flaming lips put on an awesome show as well. the roots were the other highlight of the weekend, playing a long set on sunday, including a 15 minute drums-tuba-guitar interlude where they covered "masters of war" by bob dylan. HIGHly recommend going to this festival next year if you're near the atl area.

sounds cool except for the fact that you were no doubt surrounded by thousands of gd dirty hippies.

Maybe he is a gd dirty hippy, DID YOU THINK OF THAT!????????

Awesome tune...

Joy Division - No Love Lost

I was there, too. Weird.

The Roots have to be the greatest live act in the history of hip-hop.

You definitely should have seen Brazilian Girls

They were amazing when I saw them. Big Daddy Kane was one of their opening acts, and he was pretty awful.

I'm making a CD for my father. He's always been slightly interested in some of the music I listen to, but he's... well, he's old. He's a big Beatles fan, likes a lot of classic rock (Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, The Who) and old R+B (Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, etc.), and digs some semi-solid non-terrible music, like Coldplay and Ben Folds Five. He also really REALLY likes the song "Wolf Like Me" by TV on the Radio, for some reason. I don't even know how he heard it. I think I accidentally put it on his iPod when I was setting it up for him a long time ago. He likes the song "Smile" by Lily Allen, too. I don't know.

So I'm fielding suggestions. He asked me to make a CD for him, but I don't want to scare him off with anything TOO weird or progressive or dense or anything. Here's what I've got so far:

The Clientele- (A few songs, probably from Geometry of Lawns. I'm thinking "My Own Face Inside the Trees" and "Since K Got Over Me.")

Arcade Fire- Neighborhood No. 1/ Tunnels

Beck- (Not sure... could choose like 100 songs... ideas??)

Bloc Party- Banquet

Wolf Parade- Shine a Light

Feist- Mushaboom (or One Two Three Four)

Flaming Lips- Buggin'

The Hold Steady- Stuck Between Stations (or How a Ressurection Really Feels)

LCD Soundsystem- All of My Friends

Modest Mouse- (I have no idea... anything but Float On)

The National- Slow Show

The New Pornographers- Use It

Radiohead- (Must have one Radiohead song, but don't know which to pick)

Spoon- The Way We Get By (and maybe something from the newest album, either "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" or "Don't Make Me a Target")

The Streets- Fit But You Know It

Sufjan Stevens- Upper Peninsula

Wilco- Shot in the Arm (or something else from Summerteeth)



This is just a random list of songs I thought of real quick. Any other suggestions to a Beginner's Guide to My Music would be helpful. I obviously can't fit everything on one CD, so I'm just going to compile a huge list and then cut it down. I've got plenty of time, so no rush.

What about:

Built to Spill- Reasons
GBV- Smothered in Hugs

I know you're a big fan of both