I just bought some great gospel records by the Pilgrim Travelers, the Highway QC's and the Zion Travelers. I also bought some great CD's from http://www.aquariusrecords.org : this great 60's Indonesian girl group called Dara Puspita, the second Wooden Shjps singles comp & the final album by Racoo-oo-oon. Wicked.
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane John Cale - Fragments Of A Rainy Season The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion Brian Eno - Another Green World Television - Adventure
at home it's WEEP - "Never Ever" and Smashing Pumpkins "Mellon Collie" ...that's the only stuff that can get me to draw lately. Maybe a little bit of MCR "Black Parade is Dead." I tend to dig that one over the regular album one since it's live and more in the moment and doesn't have that over-produced sound.
playing in the car: NIN - "And All That Could Have Been. Trent, plz get me through this week!
Maybe a little bit of MCR "Black Parade is Dead." I tend to dig that one over the regular album one since it's live and more in the moment and doesn't have that over-produced sound.
i dunno, i actually like the studio version much more: it sounds polished because it is. im all for rawer recordings of stuff, and live recordings are great if they are raw, but that live lp is actually produced and pretty slick. plus it has all of the teenage girl screams and gerards super generic between song banter...i love gerard way but its so cheesy to hear him talk on stage. "we love you mexico!" "mexico-are you ready?!" etc etc.
even more of a letdown was the footage of the charity show on the dvd. i wanted to see a crazy rowdy show in a 300 person room...instead the entire crowd stands still and looks bored. the Life On The Murder Scene footage is way better to me. my favorite is the footage of them on youtube from HellFest back when they were playing with diy bands. kids diving off of G Way and two stepping in the pit always makes me smile
Haha, your right, Those banshees in the crowd gets tiresome. I do get more energy from the live versions of "Mama" and "Sleep" when G. Way let's out some some syrys screams whereas they are kinda just there on the studio version. Still waiting on the new album, damn it. They've come a long way since Bullets. I've never seen them live but now I don't know, I have a feeling when they tour they're gonna be in the Staples Center rather than my kind of rock venue :[
i saw them play a 900 person room two years ago and it was fantastic and crazy. i hatehatehate big shows, but i also saw the full BLACK PARADE experience in a 15000 person arena and it was still pretty great. after the last time i saw them though, i probably will never bother again. their crowd is a very different demographic (ie kids, non show goers who get mad if they get touched in a general admission floor, old people, bros etc etc) than i want to see a show with and it kinda blows.
i would like to say that they are my favorite pop group of all time...and i would also like to say that im terrified of this new record coming out and being crappy. new album is finished and awaiting release date right now.
Just downloaded and donated to Edinburgh Electronic Musician KROWNE. Listening to it constantly. Orders from Mars is the E.P., available for free download /here
Great stuff and quite a nice guy, if you are interested you can read my interview/here
At Home: Lots of Efterklang reissues, new One Ring Zero, new Brad Laner CD, and several (mostly new to me) releases by The Books... And right now a Tuatara release (Cinemathique) I forgot existed (and that I owned).
On the air:
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Aug 29, 2010
Lumin- Izgrala Christian Prommer - High Noon
Uakti - Paru River Tin Hat Trio - Esperanto Prester John - Plain Of Jars Eyvind Kang - (If I sing a song) so good it Rinde Eckert - One of Those Mysteries Ale Moller - Heaven & Earth
Tom Cora - Straylight Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores - Blue On White 3 Mustaphas 3 - A Night Off Beirut Les Triaboliques - Ledmo Tom Waits - How's It Gonna End?
Efterklang - Himmelbjerget The Books - A true story of a story of true love Robert Wyatt - Solar Flares One Ring Zero - Neptune Brad Laner - Magnolia Doubles Ratatat - Mumtaz Khan Brian Eno - Cindy Tells Me
The Books - Be good to them always Pickadelic - Burn Mamacita Ojos de Brujo - Quien engana no gana Aterciopelados - Esmeralda Tuatara - Action Thriller Budos Band - Black Venom Ginger Baker - Mektoub
African Head Charge - The Big Country Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart - Saravane Shang Shang Typhoon - Hi Hi Hi Dengue Fever - Sui Bong Talvin Singh - Butterfly
Bjork - Joga Wimme - Havana Legendary Pink Dots - A Space Between Brian Eno/J Peter Schwalm - Rising Dust
Tub Ring's new album, Secret Handshakes, comes out tomorrow, but we got it early. It is so very different from every other album they've released, though I am warming up to it quickly.
Lots of Washington DC techno/house from the late 90's, mostly from Sharam and Dubfire/Yoshitoshi labels. I have no idea why, but it sounds really good on a crappy hot night.