Current Listening

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1 TTop's latest
2 Jek's latest

2.1 not as old stuff
2.2 old stuff

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TTop's latest

  • James Hunter (http://www.jameshuntermusic.com/base.html) - People Gonna Talk. You'd swear this was a late 50's / early 60's R&B record. But it's new, and he's a British guy.
  • Band of Horses (http://www.bandofhorses.com/) - Everything All The Time. Check out the free downloads (http://www.bandofhorses.com/media.html).
  • The Black Angels (http://www.theblackangels.com/downloads.php) - Passover
  • Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (http://www.deftone.com/destroyer/index.php?title=Destroyer's_Rubies)

--TTop 04:36, 1 Jun 2006 (PDT)

  • Gnarls Barkley (http://www.gnarlsbarkley.com) - St. Elsewhere. A collaboration between producer Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo. The first single "Crazy" debuted on the UK charts at #1. Hear it streaming at the link above. This album varies a lot from song to song, hard to put your finger on it. Danger Mouse got his fame by creating The Grey Album - a mixture of The Beatles White Album and JZ's The Black Album.
  • The Raconteurs (http://www.theraconteurs.com) - Broken Boy Soldiers. Jack White's new band. Lots of classic sixties rock sounds.
  • The Essex Green (http://www.essexgreen.com) - Cannibal Sea. Kinda of a sixties / Mamas and Papas sound. Reminds me a bit of the Magic Numbers.
  • LCD Soundsystem. This guy has an interesting bio (http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/biog.php). The single "Daft Punk is Playing At My House" is what made me buy this. Pretty diverse styles on this record, it veers from dance/electronic to even some White Album and Pink Floydy-type sounds.

--TTop 09:32, 20 May 2006 (PDT)

I'd like to recommend the show Nite Life hosted by DJ Michelle Myers (http://www.kexp.org/programming/djpage.asp?DJID=319&1413=38821.875-1&96=38821.875-1&20=38821.875-1&256=38821.875-2). You can hear it online at kexp.org -- it airs Friday nights, 9pm-1am Pacific time, but it's also available on demand via KEXP's streaming archive feature (http://www.kexp.org/streamarchive/archive_host.asp) for 14 days after it airs (note it's just called "Variety Mix" at the archive). It's a whole lotta fun. Michelle describes it as "mixing alt-rock with hip-hop, jazz and soul with trip-hop, punk, funk, roots and brit-pop, always legendary favorites mixed with cutting-edge flavors." She always spins a great show.


TTop's Latest Archive

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Jek's latest

Last weekend I picked up a slew of CDs with a few gift certs from Silver Platters. The one I'm really into now is Ayreon's Universal Migrator Part I and II. Ayreon is largely a vehicle for Dutch composer/musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen. He usually gets together Progressive Rock talent for his projects. Part I is an atmospheric and melodic journey through time. One can easily lose oneself in it. Lots of synth and guitar layers--Pink Floyd with a New Age twist and a sprinkling of Beatles is one way to describe it. Part II sways more to the Metal side--lots of notes and high singing. There are nice elements in Part II, but Part I is the better.

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not as old stuff

While I was in OK, I picked up the following: XTC's Oranges and Lemons, Wainwright's Want One, and a Pink Floyd The Wall tribute album by Progressive Rock artists. I'm still digesting the former two, but the latter one, Back Against the Wall might as well be The Wall itself save for two tracks. At times I thought it could have been the actual Floyd version. With all of the talent on the album, it would have been nice if they would have stretched the songs into different areas. Two of the tracks have interesting changes but I can't say that that merits a purchase. It is only interesting from a novelty aspect.

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old stuff

I just picked up Rufus Wainwright's Want Two. It is a lot of sulking fun. Parts of it remind me of The Juliet Letters by Elvis Costello with the Brodsky Quartet.

I recently purchased the massive, 7-disc War of the Worlds box set. This is a new 5.1 mix of Jeff Wayne's musical version, orginally released in 1978. Currently this box set is stuck at work, since Tarn banned War of the Worlds from the CD player. Unfortunately I cannot play the 5.1 mixes at work because I don't have the required playback device or 5.1 system (duh). Fortunately I have listened to the remixes CD (covers by other artists). Those are hit and miss, but some really shine. In fact a couple outshine the originals by removing some of the disco elements from certain songs. (Maybe Tarn will be tolerant of those?)

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