Various Artists - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era

Just went out and bought it. So far it's awsome.

Lately, I've been digging Wilco, Simon and Garfunkel, and The Cat Empire.

Wilco Downloads
- At Least That's What You Said
- Misunderstood
- We're Just Friends

Simon and Garfunkel Downloads
- The Only Living Boy in New York
- A Hazy Shade of Winter
- Scarborough Fair

The Cat Empire Downloads
- Hello Hello
- The Chariot

Mmhmm.

I finally got to listen to "Casimir Pulaski Day" and was floored. Stevens can really write a great sad song, even when his other stuff is merely "good."

I've been digging...

Vitalic - OK Cowboy
+/- - Self Titled Long Playing Debut
The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands

[QUOTE=I Was A Kaleidoscope]The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan[/QUOTE]
Awesome album. A really great ambient release from the Stars of the Lid man.

Skyphone - [i]Fabula[/i]
[quote=Rune Grammofon]Debut release from Danish trio, probably closest in spirit and musical ideology to Alog and Phonophani in the way they mix electronic and acoustic elements, either sampled or played by themselves. Side by side you can find slow Joy Division type basslines, acoustic guitar pickings, glitch elements and naive melodies only Kraftwerk could have dreamed up. A highly atmospheric, melodic, subtle and detailed soundscape.[/quote]

[QUOTE=asymm]Awesome album. A really great ambient release from the Stars of the Lid man.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, it is.
It's one of the most relaxing things I've ever heard, I feel like falling asleep now.

[QUOTE=Daniel!]Various Artists - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era

Just went out and bought it. So far it's awsome.[/QUOTE]
Buy children of nuggets too. Its just as awesome.

[QUOTE=cheeto-t]Buy children of nuggets too. Its just as awesome.[/QUOTE]
They had that at the store also, but I used the last of my girft cards on the first one.

the editors, the editors, the editors, the editors, the editors...................................................

I prefer Editors. :p

[QUOTE=EightMilesHigh]I think you and I have very similar tastes in music, what with the Beck and the Smashing Pumpkins and the GN'R and the Radiohead and the Dinosaur Jr. and the At The Drive-In and whatnotmy favorite bands.[/QUOTE]Yeah, those are definately some of the bands which I am really passionate about.

Tortoise - [I]S/T[/I]
QOTSA - [I]Songs For The Deaf[/I]
Minus The Bear - [I]Highly Refined Pirates[/I]

Lots of Hot Cross.

At the moment, I'm digging The Minutemen, and they're not a punk band.

And as I said that, the Jackass theme song came on.

They are too a punk band! Well at heart anyway.

I think the problem is that I'm just dogmatically resistant to calling anything I like "punk."

[QUOTE=JonM]I think the problem is that I'm just dogmatically resistant to calling anything I like "punk."[/QUOTE]

Well you're a stupid whore then.

The core of Minutemen's music very much is the definition of punk rock. They write short, fast, angsty songs, often with politically charged lyrics. They have a lead vocalist that either shouts or sings poorly. The drums are loud, and the music is sloppy and loose. They have the spirit of being true to oneself, and they hold the punk rock interest of skimming off layers of excess from the essence of rock sound.

They don't sound exactly like the Ramones or Dead Kennedys, but that doesn't mean they're not a punk rock band. In fact, in a lot of ways that spirit of originality coupled with their "back to basics" approach to creativity makes them even more "punk."

Minutemen were punk as f[I]u[/I]ck, no dispute about it.

Goldmund - [i]Corduroy Road[/i]
Light, piano ballads. Very gorgeous and soothing. Off the terrific label, Type Records.

Julien Neto - [i]Le Fumeur de Ciel[/i]
Also a Type Records release - so it has the very delicate electro-acoustic style. Similarly terrific.

Prefuse 73 - Security Screenings

Decent set of classic Scott Herren instrumentals. Also a Four Tet collaboration that lives up to its name ("Creating Cyclical Headaches") and a Tunde Adebimpe guest spot. But mostly kinda eh.

Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine

Still letting this one sink in. The only thing I really know about Ry Cooder is that he's worked with every musician who lived, or something. Hits of South western flavor.

[I]Chavez Ravine[/I] is a a really, really good album. It has an unusual warmth/feel to it.

[QUOTE=NachoChez]John Coltrane - [I]A Love Supreme[/I]

This is nice and everything but I still don't like listening to jazz.

edit: actually I'm starting to get into it[/QUOTE]

Well...I guess it's better than nothing.

Okay okay okay, it's punk.

Fela Anikulapo and the Africa 70

^good.

I have really been into this female artist, Edith Frost. Her album, Wonder Wonder, is fantastic. And I believe she's playing in Philly soon, but I dunno if I can see her. :(

Someone in my painting class put on this really amazing femaler singer in class today, too bad I didn't catch the name. It was really nice.

I'm listening to buttloads of Leonard Cohen today.

kayo dot binge

[QUOTE=Floydfanatic]kayo dot binge[/QUOTE]

Check out my review.

I'm digging Private Press tonight. It's kind of inferior by so much to Endtroducing. I'd kind of relate it to the way Bulbasaur is to Venasaur. I mean, he could be good. But if he just evolved into the other, it'd be so much better.