Music recommendations

DAMN RIGHT

Could support some locals and buy the Go Panic! ep that's about 6 months old, self titled...pretty darn good, actually...

I know two of the guys are south african, not sure on the rest...

so this is what's been spinning round on my stereo of late:

Fabric Live - The Herbaliser
Some on-point underground and Brit hip-hop fused in with James Brown's - Talking Loud and saying nothing plus Jackon's Five - It's Great To Be Here ...another quality release and very much a party album

Tiga - Sexor
I listen to this sometimes and thinks it's a bit too flimsy like a really weak 80's imitation band, then other times I just think what a crackin' celebration of electro pop filled with irony and kitsch ...poptastic. Because of the immense club singles he released, I think people were expecting a classic hence the slightly poorer reception ...worth checking out though for a good sing-along and boogie

Southport Weekender Vol. 4
If you like soulful house and US garage check this out ...the DJ Spen mix is awesome, totally uplifting and fills you with true feelings of house ...maaaaan

The Jam - Snap (Boxed Set)
Needs no introduction, part of my childhood in a time when vinyl did really get worn out from being overplayed. Definitely a long time coming, now in all it's former glory with a copy of the live 7" EP that came limited with the original

This week, I have been mostly listening to Paranoid and Sunburnt by Skunk Anansie. Dunno why. Must be a combination of mood and good bass lines.

anything by NYC's greatest:
Slavic Soul Party, http://www.slavicsoulparty.com/
and OneRing Zero, http://www.oneringzero.com/

and if you are ever in Brooklyn and you like this kind of music go to my favorite hangout
http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com/

OMG!

Those cunning commies finally rushed us with a popular revolution by the horn section.

There's something about the four mp3's I downloaded from their website that captivates. I've only heard one thing similar, and that was a punk band from Warsaw in the late 80's who were really bloody authentic.

Lewis Taylor - Stoned

Psychedelic soul music, recently had first release in the US. This album is a copy of Stoned, Pt. 1 released in Britain a few years ago, with a few extra tracks added.

Some tracks can be heard in entirety at the Hacktone label website

Vitalic - OK Cowboy

Put on the track LA Rock 01, crank it, and after 2 minutes think to yourself; "who said techno was dead?"

Some absolutely stormin' tracks on this album.

Wales' best band since ever: Mclusky

Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues should be enough to convert even the hardest cynic.

Uffie

'Ready to Uff' is produced by Mr Oizo, who did that Flat Beat jeans ad tune a few years back. 'Pop the Glock' is excellent. 'Ready to Uff' is just wrong, the kid's barely 18...

After a few years of them on the back-burner...I'm really listening to "Sloppy Seconds" again. ...and would definately recommend them.

now, more beer.

...but as Sloppy Seconds say "I'm not gonna drive you home, cause even I'm too drunk to drive..." ...the S-bahn is your friend.

Linkin Park Meteora or Linkin Park hybrid theory.

you cannot go wrong with linkin park.

Obviously gouging your ears out with a spoon would be a less painful alternative.

This week I have been listening to a lot of Elliott Smith and Burning Heads (melodic hardcore/skate punk from France)

Keydeck - buy the Thirteen Senses album mate, called 'Invitation' - they hail from Lands End in Cornwall but these tractor boys play a damn good song.

Hey guys.. interesting to read this thread..

Look out at what came out lately? Remember Gaz back in the 80's.. well..he's back and even better!

http://www.jagged-album.com/video.html

Clear favorite is definately 'In a Dark Place' out of these three.. but beware.. you're only be interested in these if you like industrial and gothic stuff! Numan is also going to be in Munich on the 12th of May.

I'm listening to Airline to Heaven by Billy Bragg and Wilco for about the fifth time today. Already familiar with the live cut from Wilco's latest live album (which you really, really ought to buy if you haven't already done so) but this one is even better.

Gimme that old time religion, it's good enough for me.

a few things that are currently overheating my stereo...

The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make A Living
Had the CD for over 72 hours now and it rocks ...progresses on from the first couple of albums and just grows and grows ...all about being famous with the usual happening lyrics about birds, drugs, ASBOs, alcohol, etc ..beats that are all over the place too

The A To Z Of The Cuban Brothers
worth it alone for the Spanish version of Kool & The Gang's - Celebrate ...some serious street strutting choons straight out of the cheese parlour ...party album that truly takes the pissssssss

Echo and The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (Remastered)
A blast from my youth ...and an utterly utterly beautiful album that still stands strong today ..the production work of the strings and acoustic guitars way back in the mid-80s are still truly outstanding

Moby - Live The Hotel Tour 2005
Am not actually a huge fan of Moby post-Play but this live DVD is well-directed and covers his whole output from the rave days ...ahhhhhhh ...to unfortunately today's stuff. The included remixes of his last singles complete a top package ...

nice choices there mr. acockerel! Also well worth checking if you are into the streets is The Mitchell Brothers 'A Breath of Fresh Attire'. They are signed to Mike Skinners label and they are pretty good too.

@ Worm ...not really managed to get into The Mitchell Brothers ...don't know why, just not feeling it yet ...for the 'latest' in UK Hip-hop Skinnyman - Council Estate of Mind is where I'm at

Dj shadow- entroducing
This guy is a genius, the album is completely made from samples. It is instrumental but definatley an album everone should hear. Probably my all time favourite album.

Clinging on to the thread topic by the fingernails...

Recommended to me by Steve Slut (The fifth Art Vandal), I'm reading Behind the Glass: Top Record Producers Tell How They Craft the Hits which is absolutely incredible. This is a manual on the understanding of the finer points of music - and most importantly, irrelevant of what genre. It starts off with an interview with Al Schmitt, and his experiences and techniques in capturing the big band sound, and vocalists from Sinatra to Diana Krall. Occasionally it waffles off into the heavy technical (no, I can't really grasp what 160Hz on a Telefunken 521 with -3 VU sounds like), but most of the time it is a description of the opinions of how to capture mood.

And this got me thinking: Last night I ventured out to The Arc in a slight daydream. The U-Bahn was screwed, so I waited 25 minutes on the platform listening to Secondhand Daylight by Magazine. I hadn't listened to it in about a year, and the last time was before reading the book. And this is what I thought:

For most, if not all music, the best place to hear it is probably live. However, you can't spend six to eight hours every day in a live music situation if you are not a professional in that industry. So, the next best thing is the creation of the right mood ambiance for the particular music and the particular listener.

Secondhand Daylight by Magazine, with Barry Adamson's awesome bass playing, cranked up on decent headphones, on a paranoid U-Bahn platform and then on the U-Bahn ride itself, was the perfect mood ambiance for me and that piece of music.

Going back to the book; one remark from Toni Visconti really sprung out:

Just throwing out that I've been cruising through everything I own of both The Grass Roots and The Monkees. It's a very 60's pop kind of day.

(anyone who wants a good sample of either should probably pick up a 'best of' record... my personal favorites from both bands have tended to be the ones that were the most popular anyhow.)

(or even better, in the monkees' case, grab a vhs of their old TV show. quality, indeed.)

I'd recommend old Dropkick Murphys albums (Do or Die, the early years, and The Gang's All Here)...went to their show with Less than Jake and Far from finished last night...

Speaking of Far From Finished, I bought their album last night too...pretty damn good, though short. www.farfromfinished.com

On Tuesday I'm going to No Use For a Name...their most recent album kinda blows, but if you've never heard them, I'd recommend a listen to "More Betterness"(1999) or "Hard Rock Bottom" (2002)...or "Live in a Dive" (2001)of course...

In fact, any of www.fatwreck.com 's live in a dive series, I'd recommend.

mmmm, good call. I haven't listened to DropKick Murphys in far too long.

"Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley's been blowing my mind all week. So soulful.

that whole album is amazing, especially 'Gone Daddy Gone'. You can't not dance to that track.

dragging this thread out again, I've been shoving the album "Little Plastic Castle" by Ani DiFranco through my speakers all morning. She's got better ones, but this one's caught my mood.

If you don't know much by her, this is definitely an album to pick up.

Cut Copy's Bright Like Neon Love has been persistently on play lately. They're like the Australian Daft Punk.

I agree with Barkley as a recommendation. All is top except song number one. But the Gone Daddy Gone I can not decide if I like, since I am a big Violent Femmes fan.

"Crazy" is easily the best track on there. Great album, though.

Jay Dilla, Donuts: Incredible, Schizophrenic, longest song is under three minutes and most around one minute.

Didn't Jay Dilla die this year or something?

yes, sniff sniff
February 7, 1974 - February 10, 2006
" It is with great sorrow that the Family and Friends of J Dilla announces his spiritual transition on the morning of February 10th, 2006 in the loving arms of his mother, Maureen Yancey.

J Dilla had suffered for over three years with an incurable blood disease, and had also been diagnosed with lupus.

He leaves behind a body of work which will be loved and rediscovered for years to come. His most recent album "Donuts" on February 7th, the day of his 32nd birthday. Two other projects, "The Shining" (BBE) and "Jay Love Japan" (Operation Unknown) are completed. Other production work has been completed for artists Madlib, Busta Rhymes, Ghostface Killah, A.G., Visionaries, Truth Hurts, Phat Kat, MF DOOM, Skillz, and Frank N Dank."

Funny Ghostface Killah should be mentioned, as apparently his new album Fishscales is supposed to be pretty damned good.

With two tracks from Jay Dilla's sampling hands.

Just got my hands on The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike.
Tis thuper duper so it is.

Great album, that.

so the choons that have been doing it for me lately...

Stanton Warriors - Stanton Sessions Vol.2
Not quite Vol.1 but a top body-poppin' party-on-down mix. Top value 2CD set means one disc for the dancefloor and one disc for slightly more downtempo choonage. Just have to wait for Ils, Plump DJs, Adam Freeland or some other breakz krew to up the stakes...

Fabriclive27 - DJ Format
From the Mature B-boy for the Mature B-boy ...not just another great Fabric release but a a top mish-mash of hip-hop, soul and beats ..Ella Fitzgerald on the same playlist as Ugly Ducking ...vibes not just for the Mature B-boy !

Gnarl's Barkley - St. Elsewhere
So some dudes and dudettes in the press have made comparisons of this to 'De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising' and 'Outkast's The Love Below' ...certainly, it's inventiveness and psychedelic leanings move in that direction but it doesn't or hasn't quite reached that level of classic yet (though there are some top drivin' Northern Soul beats on one choon). Still ... top top album from Dangermouse who produced Gorillaz last one and cut and pasted Jay-Zs Black Album with the Beatles White Album. Also, the vocalist Cee-lo isn't just a soulful vocalist but a rapper too ...if you dig his voice, it's worth checking out Cee-lo Green is the Soul Machine

Pale Fountains - Pacific Street
For people who have heard of Micheal Head or Shack, this is his long-lost band that put out this classic way back in 1982. Top singer-songwriter acoustics and full-band/orchestral tracks ...some describe it as Scouse Power-pop but I think it has a more European feel to it ...well-worth a listen

*sigh*
And early cocteaus - lizzy frazer is my girl!!!

someone mentioned it already - but here it is again.
Elbow - leaders of the free world

heard about these up-and-coming guys out of NYC from a Rock critic radio program, heard part of one song on the show, then purchased the new album (iTunes), and now can't get enough (ok, maybe 2 songs are questionable). Highly recommended for the Alt/Independent Rock lovers:

The Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops

Their first two albums are also very good.

Watch out for Rodrigo y Gabriela - they're brilliant !

http://www.rodgab.com

@Chicago. I saw Secret Machines support Foo Fighter in Hamburg. Not really my cup of tea, but well presented and stylish.

let's Safety Dance. I love the girl in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c34JxPKEYI...=safety%20dance

Vanessa Mae - is there any fan here, except for me?
"Contradanza"

Here, some biography.. http://www.vanessamaeonline.com/bio.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwENE3vN8iU...assive%20attack

this is such an awesome song and video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DVFGsqJD7Y

I believe