Music recommendations

'Malcolm Spudbury' @ that was a woman!!!

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

Feeling funky?

Fool's gold - Stone Roses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxD_ShUKxW8...20stone%20roses

Dido - Thank You

"My teas gone cold, I m wondering why...
hmm.. It's not so bad"

For all the lads, the original 80s clone video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3geoXOdnJQ...robert%20palmer

Nouvelle Vague
taking back post punk classics from the eighties with Bossa Nova and Jamaican Music influences.
Their concert in Munich in June was AWESOME!

Back to Neneh Cherry for 7 Seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtarrhkE_NQ...=neneh%20cherry

Jamie Winchester and Hrutka Róbert
(Irish-Hungarian band)

Click on the link and then "Alive" or whichever... couldn't get a direct link to their fulls songs but they are really good!

So, "alive"... even if the game is lost. So long, football, UK... 01.07.2006:

http://www.loo.hu/jamie_winchester_&_hrutka_robert_hole.php

Hey Saturday, I read about them recently, shame I missed the gig. I think I read a review of their gig on http://www.schwarzesmuenchen.de

I just want to point out that you might want to check out Jesus's favorite band: http://www.jesuschrysler.freeservers.com/

Didn't know where to post it, but it is just too good to leave it out!

Here he comes... God Is a DJ. The music is as it is... but the video, wow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZrKgqc1Rnw

If you're into mediaeval music give QNTAL a chance, a German band, many of their lyrics are in Latin. And they've just released a new album: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0009271GU

HOUSE OF JEALOUS LOVERS SSHAKE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!

The Rapture. Fucking ace.

Great for 4.30 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2vYfDh0aWE...happy%20mondays

Just turned my speakers up and played it again, top song for us Mancs

dirty rnr the black keys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EDTXsvphx8...ie%20Winchester

another piece from Jamie Winchester and Hrutka Róbert - "Nice Try"

so this is what i have been fillin' up my pod with lately that i can recommend...

Faithless - Renaissance 3D - DJ Set
Top quality 3 CD package split into Studio, Club and Home. The Club CD is a tad too Euro-House for me but all said and done it is growing more and more on me ...the Studio however is wicked with plenty of Faithless rarities plus their top mix of Living Joy's classic 'Dreamer'. The serious highlight though is Home featuring the UK's most-underated dubified/rapper LSK who namechecks Pete Tong, Plan B and The Streets in 'The Takeover' ..one of the best mix packages this year.

Q Project - Renaissance Man
Hospital Records release another top drum n bass album from an artiste reknowned for a junglist classic called 'Champion Sound'. He's certainly moved on since then and produced a fine fully-mixed debut (?) which provides for some full-on liquid funk.

DJ Fresh - Escape From Planet Monday
More junglist riddims but covering a variety of genres which actually works. One minute you're listening to some excellent breakbeat from DJ Shadow, the next Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys fame turns up ... kind of showcases how versatile drum n bass can be.

Liquid V Club Sessions Vol.2: the Big Picture/Compiled and Mixed By Artificial Intelligence
Yet more jungle ...this time really hitting the summertime vibe. One of those mixes that starts off relaxed and works you up into a lather. MC Stamina is on fine form letting the beats roll without being too in your face.

Röyksopp's Night Out [EP] [Live] [Import]
Nice little live package bringing together both albums with slightly different live versions and vocals. 9 tracks equals more than an EP to me...

Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Now that these American Recordings albums have been 'nice-priced' it has proven to be the right time to catch up. Worth it for Hurt, Personal Jesus and I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Johnny Cash - Solitary Man
Worth it alone for Cash's rendition of Nick Cave's Mercy Seat plus the stunning That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) and U2's One

Gwen McCrae - Live in Paris at New Morning [Live] [Import]
The Queen of Rare Groove knocks out some live soul classics, spreads her love and belts out her back catalogue to serious soul-tastic success.

Thom Yorke - The Eraser
I only own one Radiohead album and that's 'The Bends'. And I can only get as far as halfway through the album before I feel like crying ...top album mind. Any road, this one is the f**kin' business and worth it alone for the (electronic) beats that are being dropped all over the place. His voice fits all this and you feel like something of a classic nature is being recorded ...spectacular choons for me are 'Eraser', 'Black Swan', 'And It Rained All Night' and 'Harrowdown Hill'

Stuff I've liked lately...

Hot Chip - The Warning
Electro-pop

Gotan Project - Lunático
Electro-tango

Nightmares on Wax - In a Space Outta Sound
Ambient trip-hop

Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consesquence
Indie-folk-rock

::new/recent albums::

1. TOOL - 10,000 Days
5 years after Lateralus and they still do not fail to enthrall...if you like digesting your music over the weeks, months, and years...this is yet another master-piece of progressive/art/metal.

2. PEARL JAM - (self-titled)
Pearl Jam are defnitely BACK, and it's plain to see why they chose to make their 8th album self-titled. It's good to see them pissed off again

3. ROBERT PLANT & THE STRANGE SENSATION - Mighty ReArranger
This was probably my most-listened-to album of the past summer (back in australia)...I'd say it is Plant's best solo effort to date...it's like the sound of Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti given a makeover, and carried into ethereal and more eastern-influenced flavours...it is just awesome! He got 2 grammy nominations for this for Best Hard Rock Performance, and Best Solo (rock) Performance.

4. DAVID GILMOUR - On An Island
This has been the album i've listened to when i've been lying in bed unable to sleep...the lush soundscapes, and Gilmour's tender stylings...He may be done with Pink Floyd, but Gilmour's still got something to sing about.

5. TEAM SLEEP - (self-titled)
This would definitely round out my Top 3 albums for last year...Chino Moreno's ever-delayed side project takes a life of its own, and the results are golden. Moody, eclectic, chilled-out beats...a great album to have in the car on a long drive.

6. OPETH - Ghost Reveries
My definite vote for best album of 2005...the only album I listened to more than Mighty ReArranger...It just goes to prove that even the death-growl/'cookie-monster' vocals can actually contribute to a song...a totally engaging, forceful, masterful piece of progressive rock. The Swedes have outdone themselves here.

LIFEHOUSE are my band at the moment, I seem to be listening to the album: No Name Face all the time. If you like bands such as Oasis and the verve then I think you should give this band a try, great lyrics too!!!

so more choonage that's been hitting my system...

Pharell - In My Mind
So it was supposed to be released last Xmas, then after Xmas but now it finally sees the light of day. The production and beats are truly marvellous. You could describe this as effortlessly cool, slick and rather smooth in places. The only duff thing on here are the religious lyrics to 'Our Father' ...the rest is a tour de force from Pharell ... his superstar homies turn up (Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z, Kanye West) but he's able to do it well enough on his own with tracks like 'Take it Off (dim the lights)' ...well worth the wait !!

Meat Katie - Vibrator
A full-on 'non-stop-body-rockin'-with-no-messin'-inbetween' UK breakz album ...just when you think the pace might drop, it doesn't ! Holds well together as an album with plenty of vocals and driving beats for the dancefloor. Not just the breakz-album-of-the-year-so-far but quite possibly setting a new standard for the rest of the scene...

Bassbin Twins vs. Marine Parade
Another breakz mix but a double album that's well-worth parting with your cash for. The Twins mash-up some classics from Adam Freeland's very own breakz label creating a total party atmos..

Plan B - Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
Referred to as Britain's answer to Eminem ...sometimes on this album you can hear where that comment's coming from, especially towards the end when things get dark. What really makes this though is the production work with it's use of guitars over beats. Some of the lyrics can get a little cringeworthy but some are most amusing like 'Charmaine' where he realises that he's shagged some 14 year-old burd that looks older than him. Special props have to go though to 'No Good' where he uses The Prodigy's classic 'No Good (Start The Dance) to great effect

ok, the best album ever made is simply

"Reasonable Doubt" by Sean Carter A.k.a Jay-Z. its hiphop, so if you're not into that music then dont buy it, but its the one album i can listen to for the rest of my life and not get bored of. a true lyrical genius.

i hear ya ..666 but lyrically, i thought the Black Album was strongest and sample/beats-wise i would rate The Blueprint Vol.1.

Reasonable Doubt is illin' but then so were the debuts from Nas and Mos Def

ok, black album was cool..., vol. 1 was better i felt. i even liked that sh*t he did with R.kelly, best of both worlds...

but reasonable doubt, is un-contestable, there just isn't one song on that album thats bad. not even one. every track is unbelievable.

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but www.pandora.com. You type in an artist or song and it creates a playlist based on the way the song/artist sounds. It's pretty sweet.

I prefer http://www.liveplasma.com/ for getting linked music ideas.

I'll check that one out. If anyone is bored go to Pandora and type in Madonna - am listening the the creme de la creme of the 80s at the moment, including debbie gibson and tailor dayne. helps make the day go by fast.

Quality link BG! I'll buy you some bubble gum when I next see you. Speaking of which, it's been a while.

It has been a while! We need to get back on stage, you know, eminem style.

Best album of the year so far, Laugh Now, Cry Later by Ice Cube.
Best tracks are Smoke Some Weed, Child Support, and Go To Church.

Quite like my new Stone Sour album. Basically Nickelback, but a little harder and a little softer in places.

Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back (YouTube)
Single of the year by miles.
Video looks like Alias.
We all need to learn some tricks from Cameron Diaz if she can take a young guy and turn him into this dirty specimen. Hell yes.

Misa Criolla - Ariel Ramirez

while there are several interpretations, either one of the two performances with Jose Carreras are the best.

Ok sinners. This week's track of the week is The Gentle Waves "Falling From Grace". A pastel coloured project from Isobel Campbell, otherwise known as part of Belle and Sebastian. She has one of those fragile voices which you either think of as delicately beautiful or thin and annoying, depending on your mood. Reminds me of the vocals from "On white horses" song which haunted me as a child. There's cello, violin, horn and harpsichord and it's brill. Yes, I'm bang up to date on this one. Released in 2000.



Link to Jeepsters for more info.

Put it down to my age but I'll recommend STEELEYE SPAN, folk-rockers par excellance.
(Thats the Uk definition of folk-rock).

Its a few month early but go for their CD "WINTER" from 2004. Apart from the
opening track its brilliant.

I saw Steeleye several times in Manchester (FTH) when I was a student.
Then I made the effort to see them in Oxford (April 2004), Buxton (Christmas 2004)
ane even got to meet Maddy Prior & co...

Saw them again in Oxford this year & after almost 40 years in the business
they blew the roof off with the opening number: http://steeleye.freeservers.com/oxford06.htm

Curiously our 17-yr old son likes them as well...

The new TV on the Radio. Grand!

Its an oldy but fuckin good.
Open the Iron Gate - Max Romeo

Peter Bjorn and John: Writer's Block
great album from ppl who have been behind many swedish bands ie. Moneybrother, Hives, Nicolai Dunger, Shout Out Louds, International Noise Conspiracy

I'm from Barcelona: Let me Introduce My Friends

so, recommended choonage this week...

Outkast - Idlewild
So the soundtrack appears, but the film's been delayed. Not to worry mind, because this is a serious grower and is a more than worthy follow-up to the classic 'Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'. Whilst there's a lot of 'Prince' soundalike stuff on this record there's still plenty of creatvity and all round top entertainment. Tracks like 'N2U' and 'Chronomentrophobia' are up there with the very best that Outkast have put out ...basically, a totally happening 1930's style Gangsta record !

John B - Electrostep
Possibly, the most creative drum n bass record ever put out. Eletrostep, as he calls it, is a fusion of junglist riddims and electro so there's some pretty f+cked-up versions of 80's classics like 'Tainted Love', 'Hey Mickey' that are causing some serious dancefloor destruction. To top it all, this has to be the first drum n bass record that just takes the piss out of itself and the scene ...the woman talking over the track 'Russian Bride' is priceless !

Another classic that I recently dug out of the collection, this one vied with Efil4zaggin for the most owned album in our class at school.

The original, and probably last great rap/hard rock/grunge collaboration album.

Judgment Night

Best tracks are Judgment Night by Oynx and Biohazard, and Disorder by Slayer and Ice-T

Actually all tracks are fucking awesome, even the Cypress Hill/Pearl Jam one (I dont usually like PJ).

outlandish: closer than veins
NICE!

This weeks track of the week is "I'm just from Buffalo" by Big Breakfast. A prog country rock track with mean spirited/tongue in cheek lyrics. All is not well in this relationship.

You tell me get your shit together
You tell me lay off the beer
You say I'll amount to nothing
You say I listen don't hear
You say that I'll bruise your reputation

Sounds fimiliar to anyone? His retort is

You're a healthy 40-year-old mother of none
Food stamp user
Welfare abuser
Two-time suicide failure case
Three's a charm, so keep the faith
You're a trash-talking, backwater klansman's daughter
Velvet Elvis hangs on your wall
[img]http://cdbaby.name/b/i/bigbreakfast2.jpg[/img]

Sorry no Amazon link.

The Raconteurs are a project by Jack White (of the White Stripes) and Brendan Benson. Here is their first single released in April 2006. "Steady As She Goes" is a catchy song.
[img]http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EU1LP4.02._SCMZZZZZZZ_V56515092_.jpg[/img]

Find yourself a girl, and settle down
Live a simple life in a quiet town

Sounds like one of my talks I give to the local youth club.
Link to Amazon

The Knife - Silent Shout

The Swedish bro-and-sis duo's 3rd album.

Perfect pop songs drowned in a very dark, lush, and metallic electronic production. I reckon anyone could enjoy this, as long as the seriously warped voices don't scare you off.

Colours Are Brighter is a charity project from Belle & Sebastian to raise money for Save The Children.
Although it is an album for kids, the songs are pretty cool with tracks from Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, Half Man Half Biscuit, Divine Comedy...
Site link plays some tracks as samples - released on October 16th and all profits and artist royalties going to Save The Children.

I just listened to some tunes from Jared Leto's band 30 Seconds to Mars. I was pleasantly surprised. Not only is he hot, he's got a great voice. If you are into alternative rock, check it out!!

This week's track is "I hate you" by the Stranglers. Sung from the heart by a pissed off JJ.

I hate you now
I always will
and when you’re dead
I’ll hate you still

A classic. Evidently the Stranglers are reborn again. Praise the lord!

[img]http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000GG4T3W.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_V40012320_.jpg[/img]
Link to Amazon UK

The phrase dancing and myself can't even be used together in the same lifetime but recently I was digging through some old CD's and found a load of Members of Mayday stuff. I'ld forgot how brillant tunes like "10 in 01" were and now I'm driving workmates demented through youtube.

Amazon link.

doin' it at the mo' for me are...

Jan Delay - Mercedes Dance
So, 'Searching for the Jan Soul Rebels' was a quality German reggae release but this funky pop thing is equally on a par if not better ! As well as the heavily-rotated 'Klar' single (the vid where he's going about the demolition of a house with his backing group), there's plenty of cracking choons - 'Fuer immer und dich' is up there with the first single. Basically, music to put a smile on your face ...roll on 7 October 2006 when he plays the Muffathalle !!!

The Roots - Game Theory
Yet another quality release from one of hip-hop's greatest. There's some serious beats and some serious bass on here. The record really does capture their live feel and at times it can be quite dark but without going to the extreme of putting people off. No jazz-noodling on here ...everything is straight-up, in yer face and killer !