welll, how bout an ol, what bands you been into as of late:
 

Me:

Zeni Geva
The Ex
Kid606
Cephalic Carnage
This Heat
Labradaford
White Mice
Khanate
Fuckemos
Fennesz
Minutemen
Total Fucking Destruction
Erase Errata
Nausea
The Residents (i fucking love 'the commerical alblum')
The Fall (kind of always obsessed with them though)

You:
?

Me:
Blood Brothers
Cursive(again)
The Sic Alps

I've been gonig back and lsitening to all my cds that have been forgotten.

I am in an At The Drive In and Sparta phase at the moment.

It's nice :)

Curtis Mayfield
The Stooges (fast forwarding through the BORING SONGS, yeah you heard me. "penetration" is dull as fuck. "I Need Somebody" is dull as fuck. "Shake Appeal" sounds like little richard on a bad night.)

Rameses III
Gareth Hardwick
Geoff Mullen
Shuttle 358
Thee Silver Mt. Zion (new album rules hardstyle)
Autistici
Bat for Lashes

the stooges are my favorite band (besides the velvets), but yeah their first s/t has some boring ones, but fun house and raw power are perfect in my opinion. anyways, im a huge curtis mayfield fan too. one of the best voices, and some of the best lyrics ever.

raw power is 1/4 dull.
some all time greats though more than m,ake up for it.

the first one is like mudhoney in that half the songs are dirges that go nowhere and leave you feeling like you got cheated.

some stuff I've been listening to a lot for the past few weeks...
autistic daughters
derek bailey ("Standards")
bill laswell ("Invisible Design")
fred frith ("Gravity")
ryoji ikeda
metallica (first 4 albums)
psycho baba
shock city shockers vol. 1 and 2 (the ooioo remixes)
teeth of lions rule the divine
lamonte young ("Well-Tuned Piano")
tar babies
john zorn (filmworks series)
frodus
novo tono
alvarius b (and some sun city girls albums I downloaded that I didn't have)
f.y.p.
pita
autechre (can't wait for the new album!)
alva noto
the ex (funny you mentioned them, I have loved 'em for years but just recently pulled out some of their CD's again -- brilliant)
nobukazu takemaru ("sign", "scope", "animate", and split with zu are always on repeat)
neina
surf coasters
fatal flying guilloteens (early stuff, haven't heard the new one yet)
sloth love chunks
ogre you asshole
gang of four ("solid gold", my favorite...)
mac donald duck eclair
toshimarau nakamaru
oren ambarchi
the nebulas
zazen boys (can't wait for the new album!)
renaldo and the loaf
mx-80 sound (just got into them; i guess they were from around here... truely strange band)
u.s. saucer
harvey sid fisher
secret chiefs 3 (7 inches... can't wait for the new album! Fuck!)
cerberus shoal (the best band no one talks about here)
captain beefheart (honestly, I haven't went a week WITHOUT listening to Beefheart in 5 years, so...)

Fuckemos are great by the way.

"pussy photos make me really hard. it's the SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAMS of the wild women. "

hahahah! I have a long running fight with a friend of ine who lives in austin about how he loves the fuckemops and I hate hate HATE their bullshit music!

Haha. Well, I just heard one album 5 years ago, and it was nothing but pitch shifted slow sludgey rocky shit, but it entertained me in weird ways.

yeah i don't think raw power is that good, but the great songs are really great.


minor threat

Swans (I absolutely love Micheal Gira)
Television (AGAIN)
PiL
Siouxsie & the banshees
Sunburned hand of the man

Fun phase I reckon.

See, there's no reason to post in the other thread, because that's just "bands you've gotten into recently". And that OTHER thread is just "recent listening". This is an all-encompassing "bands I've listened to lately" thread. I like this one.

Blood Brothers suck.

Blood Brothers rule.

I thought they were okay before I'd heard stuff like Yaphet Kotto (why doesn't anyone on here talk about them? Surely one of the best bands ever) but then.. wow. You couldn't pay me to listen to 'em nowadays. So fucking annoying. I think Blood Brothers breaking up was the best news of 2007. The only listenable CD they did was "Adultery is Ripe". They just seemed like if my little sister wanted some kind of pop-parody of Gravity Records or something.

Probably the most hilarious vocalists ever, though, gotta give 'em that. And their lyrics are so over-the-top funny at times. And those one string guitar lines actually were pretty comedic. Come to think of it, their art/song titles/etc -- they were a joke band, RIGHT?

But yeah, I'm glad people like them, I just think they're amongst the worst bands ever, and every side project involving their members is even worse (Head Wound City? I mean, seriously!).

As far as similiar bands spawned from the same scene, I really dug that last Daughters album, "Hell Songs". They cut out the screaming, it sounds like David Yow is vocalizing for them now, cool shit.

been listening for the last while to much more folky shit.
like
and drony shit
like
religeous knives
sir richard bishop (possibly my top album of 07)
sleep
om
way too much sun city girls
middle ages/renissaunce music.
butthole surfers

Hmm I can't compete with that... Don't own any of their albums, love what I've heared so far though. Cecilia and the silhouette saloon is fucking ace.

anamanaguchi
hum
failure
m83
parts & labor
spacemen 3

wait??

u dont like mudhoney?? ive never heard someone say there a straight up bad band.

some stuff i forgot:
rapeman
the new oxbow (narcotic sotry)
polvo
howlin wolf

and yes, blood brothers are SOOOO bad, this kid who lived in the same dorm as me last year, prolly one of the worse people oive ever known, bitchy personality, arrogant, hideously ugly, etc... anyways, his favorite bands were blink 182, daft punk, and the blood brothers, haha.

and yeah fuckemos are awesome, ive always found them preferable to their most oft-compared tu fellow austin acid punks the butthole surfers (whom i love as well).

and the new autistic daughter is great too, i picked it up on your reccomendation. standards is my favorite derrick bailey.

whats your favorite "the ex" alblum. i love them, remind me of crass but more no wave.

and what oren armbarchi would you reccomend, ive only heard "afternoon tea".

I fucking LOVE mudhoney, just comparing their dirges to the stooges dirges. I prefer mudhoney's.

none. during the last couple of days I've been listening to mogwai because I haven't been bothered to listen to anything with relevant substance or something you need to pay attention to.

me:

holy fuck
white hills
reek and the wrecks
black lips
the lost sounds
pales saints
bruce stringsteen
sons and daughters

pink floyd
spiritualized
blondie
bowie
talking heads
hawkwind

basically my favorites for all time

mudhoney is easily one of the shittiest bands to have ever exist and get any kind of exposure. they have only a single and an ep of good music.


you really can't go wrong with him, grapes from the estate and in the pendulum's embrace are great, they are the opposite of his dark side, that's the ones i've dug the most lately.

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on topic:

hild sophie tafjord
pain jerk
yes
deep purple
incapacitants
robedoor
colossus
merzbow's live destruction at no fun 2007
masayuki takayanagi

Wise words.

funky four plus one
crebain
mayhem
unsane
demons
guided by voices
retsin
dead c
fushitsusha
wu tang
pink reason

rush's first 8 albums

Hi everyone!

Here's a list of bands I've been lately listening to, most of them are faves of mine, others are new darlings:

Tom Waits
Swell Maps
Talibam!
Stereolab
Brötzmann/Bennink/Mischa Bengelberg
High On Fire
Krysztoff Komeda
Robert Wyatt
The Magnetic Fields
Nico
Larry Young
Six Organs of Admittance

i duno i love 'superfuzz bigmuff' and 'since weve become translucent'. theyre really the only bands of the grunge era i dig, besides maybe in utero.

i read an interview with mark arm on buddyhead once:

bh:so what seperates mudhoney from all the other grunge bands"
mark arm: we like and play more fucked up music.

amen.

truer words have never been spoken

M. Ward
Cat Power
Psychedelic Furs
Nirvana
Blondie(Atomic Fucking RUUUUULES!!)

The Cure
Einstuerzende Neubauten
The Verlaines
Haunted Henschel
Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd
Television
Velvet Underground
The Saints
Happy Mondays
The Smiths
Suede
Supergrass
Blur
MBV

atomic is like the greatest song ever
i still can't figure out the bass solo

Talking Heads, Gang of Four, Ryan adams and the Cardinals, Kill 'Em All by Metallica, Q and Not U, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Daniel Johnston, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pulp, Johnny Cash...

Get "Suspension", "Insulation" and "In the Pendulum's Embrace"