This week I have mostly been listening to industrial stuff. Here's what I can remember:
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca Cabaret Voltaire - 2x45 Combichrist - What The Fuck Is Wrong With You People? Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (Deluxe Edition) KMFDM - Nihil (one of my favourite albums of all time) Rammstein - Mutter
I have also been listening to some of feima's archived shows, which have been an excellent source of new industrial / ebm stuff.
So far this morning, I have enjoyed a portion of Massive Attack's Mezzanine, Basia Bulat's Oh, My Darling and a large serving of Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal. I'm not religious at all, but that shit is off the chain.
HIS HERO IS GONE-15 counts of arson + dead of night (downtuned crusty hardcore) STREET TRASH-s/t ep (snotty ass socal punk) BECK-the information cd (electronic weirdness) RUN WITH THE HUNTED-find your own way out ep (melodic east coast influenced HC) BOUNCING SOULS-maniacal laughter (melodic epitaph style punk) MCR-life on the murder scene (pop music for the whiny. catchy as all hell though)
The various punk discussions have put me right in the mood. Currently listening to:
Choking Victim - Victim Comes Alive 7'', Crack Rock Steady 7'', Squatta's Paradise 7'' Dub Rifles - Notown His Hero is Gone - 15 Counts of Arson Guitar Wolf - Rock 'n' Roll Etiquette The Dwarves - Blood, Guts & Pussy The Dillinger Escape Plan - Under the Running Board The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House The Offspring - Americana Melt-Banana / Big D and the Kids Table - Split 7''
all mixed together with a bunch of stuff from 7inchpunk
@williac : The 2nd Sleeper album is just not the same. It's good, mind you, just not quite as awesome as Smart was.
speaking of mid-90s alternative bands, I've been listening to a lot of Hum, My Bloody Valentine and old-school Smashing Pumpkins lately.
A friend of mine sent me a giant Juliana Hatfield compilation, most of it truly wicked.
I picked up the Matthew Sweet 'best of' Time Capsule and ... not everything on it is an instant classic and there's some tracks missing (hello? where is "Ugly Truth (ROCK)"? The acoustic version is too wussified... Where's "Super Baby"? I for one could've gone without "Divine Intervention" being the first track, ugh.).
I caught up with my 90s Crush Object Du Jour, Lisa Loeb and found that I wasn't missing much. Though "Firecracker" and "Hello Lisa" stand out.
Salt (not to be confused with Veruca Salt) has a record Auscultate which was quite good...
Caught up with Letters to Cleo singer Kay Henley and found out she did the soundtrack for the stoopid live-action "Josie & The Pussycats" movie. It's a cheesy power-pop soundtrack, but I like it all the same. The movie, however, re-tar-ded.
thats her?! i actually really like the josie and the pussycats soundtrack-its in my car right now. its cheesy as hell, but poppy and fun. wow. i really just admitted that. one of my old bands was going to cover "three small words" played at double time with screamed vocals.
hahahaha, i like a lot of different stuff, its just 75% punk related. i was being sarcastic about "admitting to that". if youve seen my "listening to" posts, theres always something random in there....
Listening to Does It Offend You, Yeah?, which is dirty bass-filled electro-rock all the way from Reading. They've turned out a few decent remixes of existing tracks such as:
Bloc Party - The Prayer Muse - Map of the Problematique
Their work is pretty amazing in my opinion, they have a MySpace, of course... . Some of their best tracks in my opinion are Battle Royale, Se7en and Doomed Now.