I finally got around to listening to Animal Collective. I downloaded Strawberry Jam, and it sounds pretty much like I thought it would. Some good stuff, but a lot of just scattered noise that I can't quite get my head around. Maybe it'll grow on me, though. I might also try Merriweather Post Pavilion since My Girls is such a killer song.

Since Sarah Mclachlin has faded from radio waves and every damn scene of a TV show/movie that involves someone crying, I can finally listen to her again.

The new Black Dahlia Murder.

80's stuff.



Van Halen - Women and Children First

Some old MF doom tunes that I recently rediscovered.

Thrice - "Beggars". Latest album just keeps impressing me ..

The Weight
In Exile
All The World Is Mad (Remix) - Pretty Funky

I hadn't heard anything on off the B-sides, pretty interesting. My favorite song on the album is a toss up between Wood & Wire and The Great Exchange.

Tonight I'm listening to the only decent album Green Day has ever released, Warning. I think most consider that to be their worst work, but I have terrible taste in music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_IQY...eature=related

What was I subjected to as a kid? I remember this vaguely; intro looks 70's acid-craze influenced.

I'm thinking much of my taste in film/ art today is a result of early shows like this that I probably watched much of up to ~ 6 yr. old.

Tra la la... la la la la

Listening to,
Sam and Dave backed up by Booker T and the MGs.
And Otis Redding ".

Stax/Volt Tour of Norway 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4YEW7tRxHw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCjDdPmAzVM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWCRG4TtOmw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6XPM_L7F2c

lulz yeah, I'm finally starting to see her suffering dog and cat commercials less often too, thank gott.

In My Secret Life

Written by Leonard Cohen, from the Till Bronner album Oceana (one great piece after another), sung by Carla Bruni. Not a good upload as to the audio, much richer when heard properly, but the singer is spot on and so is the instrumentation. Fantastic song. You have to hear it right, maybe, to believe how good it is.

In My Secret Life

I saw you this morning.
You were moving so fast.
Can't seem to loosen my grip
On the past.
And I miss you so much.
There's no one in sight.
And we're still making love
In my secret life.

I smile when I'm angry.
I cheat and I lie.
I do what I have to do
To get by.
But I know what is wrong,
And I know what is right.
And I'd die for the truth
In my secret life.

Hold on, hold on, my brother.
My sister, hold on tight.
I finally got my orders.
I'll be marching through the morning,
Marching through the night,
Moving cross the borders
Of my secret life.

Looked through the paper.
Makes you want to cry.
Nobody cares if the people
Live or die.
And the dealer wants you thinking
That it's either black or white.
Thank God it's not that simple
In my secret life.

I bite my lip.
I buy what I'm told:
From the latest hit,
To the wisdom of old.
But I'm always alone.
And my heart is like ice.
And it's crowded and cold
In my secret life.

Listening and trying to learn how to play these songs on my accoustic guitar

David Gray-This years love (easy)

George Harrison- My sweet lord (mostly easy)

Squeeze- Up the junction (easyish though i cant get the riff to sound right)

A lot of Hilary Hahn lately.

And today I have been listening non-stop to Chopin. I can't get enough of his piano pieces.

Felix Laband's "Miss Teardrop": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17sMozRQlVU

Brilliant electronica/trip-hop/whatever you call that genre.

richie hawtin vs dubfire @ exit festival.

Soma Online radio....the "Lush" channel. Mostly trip-hoppy, Lounge type stuff with female vocals

Listening to the new The Jet Age CD, "in 'Love'", and the d.biddle demos and B-sides disc, "Monsters and Beds".

Can't believe some of that d.biddle record didn't see the light of day on "The Rabbit & the Moon".

Oh, and listening to Fanfarlo's "Reservoir", in advance of their show tomorrow.

Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

Makes me feel weird.

Past three weeks I've been listening almost solely to first LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver then The Strokes Room on Fire and now Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica.

Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke – Sacrifice

seriously, that voice bring me to tears

Causes won't get you anywhere, foolin with a gun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTnijX0TH-w

My new favorite that I stumbled upon listening to nonesuch

Amadou & Mariam (West African singers) - the first two songs are from their Welcome to Mali CD

Sabali

Djama

Je Pense a Toi

And they're both blind! It's a great love story, how they met in Africa at a school for the blind. This is a great song of theirs, La Realite, produced by the great Manu Chao:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZYLh...om=PL&index=22

Aaaaah, The Q. Steely Dan for enlightened rednecks. If no-talent purveyors of aural feces like Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney had been listening to NRBQ instead of The Eagles and the Jimmy Buffett...well, they'd still be no-talent purveyors of aural feces, but at least the world would be a shade more interesting.

This is a clip from the show Night Music, in which pianist Terry Adams seriously gets his Sun Ra on...

Incidentally, Night Music was a Lorne Michaels-produced show that used to run on weekends, and featured lesser known, newer, and cult musical artist, and frequently had them playing together.

Sonic Youth
Jeff Healey with Dr. John
Miles
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Kronos Quartet
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Maria McKee
Pixies
MJQ
John Cale, Shawn Colvin, and Richard Thompson (doing Cale's arrangement of "Heartbreak Hotel")
Richard Thompson and Jo-El Sonnier
The Night Music house band with Maria McKee, Van Dyke Parks, and Stevie Ray Vaughn doing Little Feat's Sailing Shoes

Lotsa stuff on YouTube. Also, not from Night Music, but too funky not to be heard. Note to Lillith Fair devotees: this is what a real woman sounds like.

Mavis Staples

Rants, because I've been gone for awhile

Sarah McClachlan? Please. Makes me want to strangle a puppy, on GP. Please, someone shove a rag in that drippy ****'s mouth..

The difference between Kings of Leon and the Jonas Brothers is one of taste, not degree. Buy the hype if you wish.

Dear Lord, Switchfoot and the Fray still walk the Earth, and the Creed is coming back. Please, show us your love and mercy by smiting these and similar bands into the dust, as you really don't want your good name being associated with that smug and shallow horse****.

That said, the Thrice tracks which were posted were surprisingly good.

Actually, LOTS of good stuff mentioned in this thread. Today I have listened to My Morning Jacket Evil Urges, Guns 'n' Roses Appetite for Destruction (just read the biography...AFD holds up far better than I thought it might...yeah, "Rocket Queen" is stupid, but it's gloriously so), and a single sampler disc I made from Eric Dolphy's Prestige box set.