What are you listening to right now?

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 6:29 am

Between The Buttons - Rolling Stones

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:41 am

Time of No Reply - Nick Drake

(YAY! New iPod!)

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:27 am

Tom Waits - Closing Time. Bit early in the day, but it's great to listen to. Impressive trajectory, instead of starting out radical and ending up bland, Tom started out sounding quite conventional, and now just sounds mental. A great body of work.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:04 am

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Chavez Ravine - Ry Cooder. It's a great LP. Long and expansive, but stuffed with great music and sounds.

Otis, Nic Harcourt did a great interview with Ry Cooder yesterday on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic", along with selections from the album. You can view it here (scroll down to "Recent Programs"):

http://kcrw.org/show/mb

MegJS · Post by **MegJS** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:01 pm

Taking The Tiger Mountain - Brian Eno

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:29 pm

Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation

superb.

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:17 pm

The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo

The edition with the extra tracks, so you can put Gram back in where he should have been all along.

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:50 am

Last four on iTunes:

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:44 am

Wow , the Clean! All the way from Dunedin to Liverpool eh? Do you have any of the Chills or the Verlaines as well Plaything?
I was listening to David Kilgours latest "Frozen Orange" just yesterday.
Tally ho tallly ho!

- ah it updates - or else Im having "Clean" hallucinations - which isnt beyone the realms of possibility at all at all.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:21 pm

I'll have to give that a try:

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:23 pm

Cool. Will put in in my sig from now on. Thanks PoP.

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:29 am

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:36 am

Bobby Fuller Four - Never To Be Forgotten 2cd retrospective - full of unreleased tracks and alternate versions of the hits!

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:54 am

Ed Harcourt's Here Be Monsters

"She Fell Into My Arms" is my favourite track so far.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:26 pm

I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash

Now Dusty Springfield - No Easy Way Down - what a terrific song!

Now "Needle Time" (the Clarksdale Sessions version). Love this verse:

I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense
These twenty-seven or so years
You'd think I (would have) made them some cents
Now they want me fingerprinted
Like I was smuggling drugs
While the government does deals with the most convenient thugs

audioscrobbler down this weekend for maintenance!

Chrille · Post by **Chrille** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:15 pm

Get Happy, again. I just wanted to convert some tracks to mp3 and listened to Love For Tender to see if it worked. Once the album starts playing I have to listen to all of it. Brilliant.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:10 pm

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:37 pm

King of Confidence · Post by **King of Confidence** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:58 pm

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:58 am

three new Stones songs streaming on Rhapsody. Pretty darn contagious, esp. Streets Of Love.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:16 am

SMM - Ben Lee is a current darling of the Australian music scene, along with Missy Higgins. Catch My Disease is currently getting loads of airplay. He first appeared when he was about 15 I think, and he's surely got the smarts and talent to be around for a long while if he wanted to. I'm very impressed with how he handles his celebrity, and I think that album title suitably reflects his postmoderny carefree yet switched on sort of attitude. Extra points to him also for being Costello-aware, he once recorded Girls Talk for a b-side.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:02 pm

Dimanche A Bamako - a terrific new album by Amadou & Mariam, a blind couple from Mali. Little bits of R&B, Afro-funk, street sounds - great, joyous music, with the occasional political edge. "Sénégal Fast Food" and "Politic Amagni" are probably my favorite cuts.

I know some people are allergic to the entire notion of "World Music", but those who are are missing out on some great stuff. Albums like this, Tinariwen's Amassakoul and the two Ghana Soundz '70s compilations deserve a much wider audience. So do groups like Ojos De Brujo from Spain, who use traditional sounds (in their case, flamenco) in a new way.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:19 pm

Awake Is The New Sleep should be the title of my autobiography. Anyone would think I was dormophobic.

Blur - Think Tank. It's been a while. Some of it is patchy and forgettable, some of it is great, especially the lovely Out Of Time.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:28 pm

Mike Boom wrote:

Such a great album.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:39 am

yep , its a real beauty Vez.

at the moment Richard Thompsons dulcet tones are telling me once again the story of Red Molly and the Vincent 52 - which always brings a little tear to these hard old eyes when James dies at the end.

"He reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys
He said I've got no further use for these
I see angels on Ariels in leather and chrome
Swooping down from heaven to carry me home
And he gave her one last kiss and died
And he gave her his Vincent to ride"