What are you listening to right now...

Explorerlover · 2009-06-19T11:01:39+00:00

What tune in your playlist/radio are you listening to currently? I'm digging Danzig so far.

Psean

ftcl wrote
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This band is cool. Got a couple of their albums. His voice on the growly stuff bores me after I while but I like the playing. Good bassist. some of the effected clean vocals are kinda like Cynic. Their Death covers are good too.

... It really is the musicianship that makes me go back to it.

Bob-Dubery

So Mrs X-Rated asks me if I have any Lou Reed. I said "no". I haven't listened to Reed (other than hearing "Walk On The Wild Side" on the radio) for donkey's years. Then when I was going on my rounds on Saturday she asked me if I'd get her a Reed CD from Microgram in Northcliff since I was going that way. So I say "well, OK, but I have no idea about his catalog and what are the good albums and which are the duds, so I might bring a dud home."

So anyway, I pop in at Microgram and find out that since I was last there their prices have gone up, and the prices on the recently deceased seem to have gone up even more. There was a Reed disc there, but R129 and I have no way of knowing if it's a good one.

Serendipitously my cell phone lights up. Incoming mail. Oh look here! It's from Richard Haslop (Y'all read his column in Business Day?) and His Haslopness is waxing eloquent about Reed in general and The Blue Mask in particular. So now there's a bit of a recommendation.

When I get home I check on iTunes. The Blue Mask is available at just R49.99. So I grab that because it's recommended and it's less than half the price of the 2nd hand unknown quantity. Peace and bliss reigns. (iTunes also has just about every Lou Reed album ever - Microgram had exactly one copy of one title)

I haven't listened to Reed for... decades actually. A school mate of mine had a live Reed album with a song about sticking needles in your veins. And I'd never paid him a lot of attention.

And you know, this album is not the worst thing I've heard this month, this year or this decade. It has Robert Quine sharing guitar duties with Reed, and on the title track they kick up a glorious, feedback-rich racket.

So that's my lastest listening adventure.

Squonk

Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor
Loudon Wainwright - Little Ship

No I haven't been spending time with XRB. This is how the day is rolling.....

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor
Loudon Wainwright - Little Ship

No I haven't been spending time with XRB. This is how the day is rolling.....

if you'd been spending time with me today I'd have offered you nothing but Lou Reed.

Mock Tudor is a frustration to me - all the best solos get faded out too early.

Bob-Dubery

X-rated Bob wrote And you know, this album is not the worst thing I've heard this month, this year or this decade. It has Robert Quine sharing guitar duties with Reed, and on the title track they kick up a glorious, feedback-rich racket.

And the production makes it easy. With the exception of the only guitar overdub (on the first track) Quine is in the left channel and Reed is in the right. And there's some tasty playing.

Jack-Flash-Jr

The new White Denim is REALLY good!

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domhatch

just got introduced to black rebel motorcycle club by a colleague - splendid stuff! any recommendations - albums, tracks, singles?
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Bob-Dubery

Death Cab For Cutie - Plans

People I know whose musical judgements I trust have been telling me that this is a very, very fine album. The penny hasn't dropped yet, but I'm giving it another listen today. I think I hear that penny dragging itself a little closer to the edge.

Kush

Wilco, "A.M." Great album

chris77

Shovels and Rope - O be Joyful.

Heard a snippet of a cool song in the second episode of Banshee, googled the lyrics and voila - the song is 'Hail Hail' from this band. The whole album is brilliant though.

Kush

And now, onto some Black Crowes.

LooneyAtTheGate

Psean wrote
ftcl wrote
Psean wrote
ftcl wrote Obscura - Cosmogenesis

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This band is cool. Got a couple of their albums. His voice on the growly stuff bores me after I while but I like the playing. Good bassist. some of the effected clean vocals are kinda like Cynic. Their Death covers are good too.

... It really is the musicianship that makes me go back to it.
+1

Yes definitely my favourite modern death metal band. The lead playing and sweeps are so clean and great to listen to, and the bass is absolutely brilliant and forward in the mix. 'Onivarium' is also a great album.

Psean

Julian Emdon wrote
Psean wrote
ftcl wrote
Psean wrote
ftcl wrote Obscura - Cosmogenesis

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This band is cool. Got a couple of their albums. His voice on the growly stuff bores me after I while but I like the playing. Good bassist. some of the effected clean vocals are kinda like Cynic. Their Death covers are good too.

... It really is the musicianship that makes me go back to it.
+1
Yes definitely my favourite modern death metal band. The lead playing and sweeps are so clean and great to listen to, and the bass is absolutely brilliant and forward in the mix. 'Onivarium' is also a great album.

+1
Awesome playing.

warrenpridgeon

Dragon Force - Through the fire and the flames... I enjoy some shred stuff from time to time.... I have heard reports tho, that they speed up the guitars and add extra layers in the studio... horrors... lol ?

ftcl

warrenpridgeon wrote Dragon Force - Through the fire and the flames... I enjoy some shred stuff from time to time.... I have heard reports tho, that they speed up the guitars and add extra layers in the studio... horrors... lol ?

Bah! Naysayers!

It's my wife's favorite metal band (because of the vocals ?) I always like to claim the erstwhile vocalist as South African (even though he left SA at the age of, like, 4...). Still is lots of fun to listen too. Also, very nicely layered. The vocals especially seem to have at least a clean and a more gritty layer.

ftcl

Doomsower

ftcl wrote

A awesome band. :dance:
I like the Snakes of the Divine album the most. :bopping:

Wizard

Bob-Dubery

The Slide Brothers - Robert Randolph presents The Slide Brothers

I'm trying to remember where I heard about this. I give up. But I'm glad I DID hear about it.

The Slide Brothers are a quartet (possibly put together for this recording) of lap steel and pedal steel players rooted in the Sacred Steel tradition. Randolph is from the same tradition but has a band playing secular music and was named in Rolling Stone's list of 100 greatest guitarists.

The disc opens with two of the guitars (they never seem to have all four active at the same time), one pedal steel, one lap steel, wailing and screaming at each other as an intro to their version of the Allman Brother's "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'".

The tones are biting and dirty. The playing is great - passionate, rocking and skilled. The vocals are pretty good. The whole thing burns and rocks like crazy. Steel players getting funky? Believe it.

Bob-Dubery

This afternoon: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

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