Thu, 23 May 2013 21:19:51 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314797#Comment_314797 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314797#Comment_314797 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:10:14 -0800 oldhat
So that's what I'd like this thread to be. A placement for what you personally regard as ESSENTIAL LISTENING. Any genre. Any mood. Any length. Youtube links, soundclouds, links to a web site or even 8tracks mixes made by you are all welcome here. Just show us the best of the best of your collection.

If this is too close to looking like the Listening thread, apologies. Meant it more as a general thing as opposed to a "currently listening" thread. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314800#Comment_314800 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314800#Comment_314800 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:21:47 -0800 Fishelle everything by _____. They're the best." My biggest four obsessions when it comes to people who make music are Tom Waits, Andrew Bird, Jesca Hoop, and St. Vincent.

Then every once in a while I get a favorite song. So much of a favorite I want to listen to it basically on repeat for months on end. Sometimes a favorite only lasts a few days or weeks, but when I've been listening to it more than once every day for over a month and still not gotten tired of it, I know it's a good one.

My current favorite song I've had for the last month or so is this.




The one before that was this. It was my favorite for over two months, along with Four Dreams.




I think it was Actor Out of Work by St. Vincent before that. You get the picture. Those four people, on repeat, always. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314805#Comment_314805 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314805#Comment_314805 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:23:47 -0800 joe.distort
i used to be 10000% anti-digital, and even though i have softened on that a bit i still prefer vinyl. this record, above all others, needs to be played loud, with the rich sounds of the birth of modern rock n roll/metal /8 million sub genres bleeds out of the opening sounds of rain and bells. i would link to it...but that kind of is the opposite of what im saying here. i think you could probably find a copy of this record for like $1 anyway. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314815#Comment_314815 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314815#Comment_314815 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:05:18 -0800 allana http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314822#Comment_314822 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314822#Comment_314822 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:15:38 -0800 William Joseph Dunn



]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314838#Comment_314838 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314838#Comment_314838 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:24:05 -0800 phill_sea
Third Eye


Stinkfist ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314847#Comment_314847 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314847#Comment_314847 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:40:47 -0800 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314849#Comment_314849 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314849#Comment_314849 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:43:48 -0800 keyofsilence
Godspeed you! Black Emperor - Lift yr Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven!
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Beatles - Revolver
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sigur Ros - ( )
Tool - Lateralus
Oceansize - Effloresce
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Led Zeppelin - III
Soft Machine - Fourth
Gong - Angel's Egg
Yes - Close to the Edge and Relayer
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Explosions in the Sky - Earth is not a cold, dead place
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
Brian Eno - Apollo Atmospheres and Soundtracks ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314875#Comment_314875 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314875#Comment_314875 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:13:41 -0800 oldhat
Van Morrison's "Cyprus Avenue" from his live album "It's Too Late to Stop Now".

Magic. Just fucking magic.

]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314885#Comment_314885 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314885#Comment_314885 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:27:52 -0800 Alan Tyson

]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314891#Comment_314891 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314891#Comment_314891 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:45:39 -0800 MagicSword! http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314903#Comment_314903 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314903#Comment_314903 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:48:49 -0800 Soviet Rocket No. 9 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314906#Comment_314906 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314906#Comment_314906 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:06:56 -0800 Beamish
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314943#Comment_314943 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314943#Comment_314943 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:10:56 -0800 JP Carpenter Ustad Ali Akbar Khan - Rag Chandranandan

Can't find this recording on Youtube, and to listen to it at that bitrate would be horrific, but playing this CD for the first time absolutely blew me away, in a way that's only happened a couple of times in my life. I'd got it through the post and put it on quite casually. And then within about 30 seconds it had me... I was sitting somewhere above the galaxy watching stars fall, the notes were like shards of light falling away into the black - sounds trite but that's the best way I can describe this. Played late at night, in the dark, it's like you're looking at the universe.

In other words, this is the most acid I've had when not taking acid. If I could only take one piece of music to a desert island, this would be it, and this would get me through... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314961#Comment_314961 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=314961#Comment_314961 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:08:58 -0800 Beamish
Satisfaction ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315046#Comment_315046 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315046#Comment_315046 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:31:09 -0800 icelandbob
]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315047#Comment_315047 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315047#Comment_315047 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:34:43 -0800 icelandbob
QUITE CONTRARY - "the word 'essential' really shouldn't belong in pop" ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315125#Comment_315125 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315125#Comment_315125 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:09:51 -0800 Internaut http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315150#Comment_315150 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315150#Comment_315150 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:01:32 -0800 Alan Tyson


Expressionist-era science-fiction-themed rhythm and blues, produced by some of the most successful names in the hip-hop business, performed by a woman who refers to her on-stage clothing and hairstyle as her "uniform." I don't know about you, but that's my perfect example of "I didn't know I wanted to hear this until I heard it." Which is the best kind of discovery, I think.

"I was made to believe there's something wrong with me" always kicks me in the chest. Every damn time. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315183#Comment_315183 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315183#Comment_315183 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:46:26 -0800 vandalhandle Miles Davies: Bitches Brew
Mad Season: Above
Chris Cornell: Euphoria Morning
Mr. Dibbs: The 30th Song
Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan: Ballad of the Broken Seas
Hope of the States: The Lost Riots
Death in Vegas: The Contino Sessions
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
Gil Scott Heron: I'm New Here
Saul Williams: The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
Refused: The Shape of Punk to Come
Team Sleep: Self Titled

Chris Cornell: Wave Goodbye

Saul Williams: Sunday bloody Sunday ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315309#Comment_315309 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315309#Comment_315309 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:09:16 -0800 Nostromo

Bomb the Music Industry

ALL of Bomb's stuff is available for free off quote unquote records http://quoteunquoterecords.com/ ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315383#Comment_315383 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315383#Comment_315383 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:22:44 -0800 JECole this in my fathers music library. Ripped it to MP3 on a whim. Been listen it on replay while writing the second draft of my novel.

Particularly this gem which is probably one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y7nJL1hpUU ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315436#Comment_315436 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315436#Comment_315436 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:43:46 -0800 icelandbob


something Icelandic that's not one of the "Big Two"?



and finally

]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315448#Comment_315448 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315448#Comment_315448 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:06:39 -0800 scs
There are few artists whose entire catalog I will recommend, but here are a couple of disks I unreservedly adore:

Melody Gardot's "Worrisome Heart." One of my great hopes is to hear Gardot cover Hoop.

Sam Baker's "Mercy." This man was severely, severely damaged, and has come back from it.

And for sheer fun, Richard Thompson's "1,000 Years of Popular Music." Thompson selects and performs his favorites from the last 1,000 years. Just plain fun. Listen carefully for the exit music at the end; it's a madrigal arrangement of something much more recent. If you can read Chaucer in the original Middle English, the title gives you a big clue: "Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt." ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315451#Comment_315451 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315451#Comment_315451 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:34:10 -0800 Internaut ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315491#Comment_315491 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315491#Comment_315491 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:14:21 -0800 keyofsilence

Everybody loves Death Grips. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315495#Comment_315495 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315495#Comment_315495 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:32:47 -0800 texture
I've thought long and hard at what to post on this thread and I'm going to limit myself to one artist.

His lyrics inspired me to start writing. His production work redefined hip-hop. He's never let himself be defined by the fact he is a 'white rapper' - that shit is irrelevent to him and to his fans. He has a Dylan-esque ability to nail complex concepts with a couplet. His sonic pallette brings back the explosions, air-horns, sirens and screams of urban New York to a hip-hop scene that has embraced gentrification and the nouveau-riche. He's angry like Chuck D, and as horror as Tyler, and more consistent than either. Ladies and gentlemen, YOU MUST LISTEN to... El-P.

Starting with my favourite:



Some older stuff:







Awesome collabs:







I managed to get an interview with him last year - one of the proudest moments of my life. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315542#Comment_315542 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315542#Comment_315542 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:28:04 -0800 roadscum this from time to time. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315567#Comment_315567 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=315567#Comment_315567 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:49:48 -0800 Sonny
#Analogue Ribbon Synthesizing Illyness:

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Billy Joe Shaver...



Waylon Jennings




And DAVID ALLAN FUCKING COE...



(and this one is pure POETRY...)
]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=316177#Comment_316177 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=316177#Comment_316177 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:04:32 -0800 scs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=316223#Comment_316223 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=316223#Comment_316223 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:31:04 -0800 Alan Tyson Friggin' MORPHINE

This guys are one of those bands that I discovered long after they were done and gone, and went "how the HELL did I not hear about these guys when they were big!" Angry, growly pop jazz for the Nirvana era.

Have a Lucky Day

Cure for Pain

Really, really good smoky late-night city music. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=316646#Comment_316646 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=316646#Comment_316646 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:18:52 -0800 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=316739#Comment_316739 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=316739#Comment_316739 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:31:48 -0800 Vornaskotti
If it's possible to fall in love with someone's voice...

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From one of my favourite albums, Paradise of Replica, which I just can't recommend enough to anyone who likes any music at all.

]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=317105#Comment_317105 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10333&Focus=317105#Comment_317105 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:21:25 -0800 flecky