BLUE MEANIES-full throttle lp RED LIGHT STING-rub em down, rub em out 12" ep CALIFORNIA LOVE-cant waste death cdep, reap the whirlwind 12" ep i cannot stop listening to cali love. i may need a grindviolence intervention.
i've been either practising or playing a show every night since Sunday, so i haven't had much time to listen to music...
before watching The Beatles Anthology on dvd, we've been playing the Beatles first three albums - Please, Please Me; with the Beatles; A Hard Day's Night.
Promised a friend I'd listen to his Joanna Newsom albums, so I started today. And yes, there's a pleasant folksiness about it all and god knows I've got the utmost respect for anyone who can play anything with more than four strings, but that voice... Sometimes it's endearing, and sometimes it's like someone's forced a thousand fingernails into my brain and then dragged it down a blackboard.
It's certainly a new musical experience for me: I'll need a few more listens to decide if it's a grower or if it's something I never want to hear again, and I don't think I've ever been quite this uncertain about an artist before.
Been seeking out Sweep the Leg Johnny videos after the discussion about live shows. STLJ was great live, not as amazing on record. Awww.
I still maintain the band that puts on the best live show is either Hot Water Music not only because they rock the fuck out but also because they probably have the tightest rhythm section in punk rock. OR the other best live show I've personally been privy to was an Against Me! show before they became a synthpop band.
While I am here I am going to do this, and will probably keep doing it for a while, one of my ex-bandmates just put out a record called Make Way for the Catastrophe and it is fucking brilliant. He is an insane genius. Check out some of his stuff here: CHANG. It's like a drawer full of old, broken toys decided to make a pop record and with Stevie Wonder and Elliott Smith.
@Inexperto - i know what you mean about Joanna Newsom. however, 'Ys' is one of the most amazing albums i've ever heard. it's sonically on some other plane. it makes the horrid squeak not hurt so much..
This is fucking catchy as hell. I've been on this roll lately on bands who have front women with unusual voices - Blonde Redhead, Lykke Li, Dresden Dolls...Kate Bush...