Digging Elliott Smith today.

I wish I could have appreciated him when he was around.

Zion I & The Grouch - Heroes In The City Of Dope
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

[QUOTE=Jawaharal;13983208]Zion I & The Grouch - Heroes In The City Of Dope[/QUOTE]Was just listening to this aswell, it's fantastic.

The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity?
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Deerhoof - Apple O'

[QUOTE=Kyle;13983236]Was just listening to this aswell, it's fantastic.[/QUOTE]

Ya I like it alot. Probably in the top 4 of last years rap.

Cunninlynguists - Will Rap For Food

Today:

The Verlaines - [I]Juvenilia[/I]
The Chills - [I]Submarine Bells[/I]
The Long Blondes - [I]Someone to Drive You Home[/I]
The Mekons - [I]I <3 Mekons[/I]
The National Bank - [I]The National Bank[/I]

Today:
DJ Shadow and Depeche Mode.

Today:
Antony & the Johnsons. I cant get over this man's voice. Amazingly beautiful.
Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
Karl Blau - [I]Clothes Your I's[/i]. Upon first listen, its just alright.
Benoit Pioulard - [i]Precis[/i]. I'll probably end up liking this. alot.

how is benoit pioulards whole cd compared to the song on the album review? because i didnt like the song on the album review, it sounded like he was aping grandaddy and doing a bad job of it.

btw ive been digging peter bjorn & john - [I]writers block[/I], so good.

i remember two years ago i never really dug Envy's [I]All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead[/I]...but i'm listening to it now...and it's good.

Dan the Automator - Wanna Buy a Monkey?

Still awesome, going from Zero 7 to De La Soul and Deltron and making it sound like such a smooth exchange.

The new Dan the Automater isn't all that good, you hear it yet?

The 2k7 tracks? Nah, though it looks like it could be good.

It's basketball themed which ruins it for me.

I play basketball so I may like it.

Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone

This is nice, [i]Its Natural to be Afraid[/i] is a great track.

Jamie T - [I]Panic Prevention[/I]
The first quality release of the year for me.

I liked "If You Got The Money", but the other Jamie T that just came out is horrible. I'll probably still check the album.

I discovered Bill Withers. So I've been loving that. I also dug out [i]Angel Dust[/i] for the first listen in ages, and it's (even) better than I remember it being.

Off Minor - [I]The Heat Death of The Universe[/I]

Lifetime - Hello Bastards

Luxor - Is Gay

dude you just don't understand lifetime, you're just not ****ed up enough man.

[QUOTE=Iai;13988859]
I discovered Bill Withers. So I've been loving that. [/QUOTE]

He's great, isn't he. I just ordered [i]Still Bill[/i] last night, actually, having loved [i]Just As I Am[/i] so much. He's got all kinds of songs to his name that I didn't know were him.


Anyway, I've mostly been digging a bunch of metal(ish) CDs I bought recently.

Genghis Tron - Cloak of Love. Bought it because it was cheap and I was interested to hear them. I like it. Short enough that the New Order-goes-grind thing doesn't get old, and some of the songs are just really good.

Black Elk - Black Elk was a bit disappointing. Was expecting some good loud and dirty punk/rock, and while it is loud and dirty, it isn't particularly good. Suppose it might get better with repeated listens, and the last track (8 minutes long, slower, with some reverb and echo and stuff going on) picked it up a bit, but still. Would rather listen to Coliseum.

The Meads of Asphodel - The Mill Hill Sessions. The Meads are yet to disappoint me, and even though this isn't a proper album (six old tracks re-recorded live, and one half-new, half-medley 22-minute closer) it carries that on. Great mix of punky black metal, Hawkwind-style space rock, plain heavy metal and even occasional drum'n'bass. Looking forward to a new album, I hope, and maybe even some live shows.

The others aren't really worth mentioning here, I think.

1 ▲5 Jay-Z 10
1 Air 10
3 The Smiths 8
3 Lee Morgan 8
3 Scarface 8
6 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers 7
6 Michael Jackson 7
8 The Bronx 6
8 Bob Marley 6
10 ▼8 Klashnekoff 5

[QUOTE=Bartender;13988979]The Meads of Asphodel - The Mill Hill Sessions. The Meads are yet to disappoint me, and even though this isn't a proper album (six old tracks re-recorded live, and one half-new, half-medley 22-minute closer) it carries that on. Great mix of punky black metal, Hawkwind-style space rock, plain heavy metal and even occasional drum'n'bass. Looking forward to a new album, I hope, and maybe even some live shows.[/QUOTE]

I've heard a couple of songs by this band, namely "80 Grains Of Sand" from [I]Exhuming The Grave Of Yeshua[/I] I think it was, but never checked out any full length material as such. Which album would you recommend me starting with?

[i]Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua[/i] is probably my favourite of their albums, so go with that, if you can.

[QUOTE=Bartender;13989677][i]Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua[/i] is probably my favourite of their albums, so go with that, if you can.[/QUOTE]

Thanks, I'll try and get a copy cheap off ebay or something. I just listened to '80 Grains' again, it's amazing how the song just switches so dramatically in the middle with the hebrew chanting and middle-eastern style music.

Cocteau Twins - [I]Treasure[/I]

Fly Pan Am - [I]N'ecoutez Pas[/I]