RE: The last CD to tickle your toes | from jack spataforaJul 25 2001 - 05:13
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check out the 'Mini Bosses'... they cover various classic video game tunes from the old 8-bit NES console with the standard guitar/bass/drum setup. go to www.minibosses.com to download tons of mp3's.
i guess this is not a 'cd' per-se but i feel this band deserves some attention.. i find them quite entertaining..
also, another band that i feel is, dare i say, even more under appreciated than idaho is 'cars get crushed'. i can't stop listening to their 'evolution to thrust' record from 1999. they really cover a lot of ground on it. go to www.epitonic.com and/or www.mp3it.com to download tracks by them.. i won't even attempt to describe their sound here. all i can say is that their sound lies somewhere between the tight prog-ish groove of early don cabalero mixed with the full tilt space rock sound of later failure and cave-in. i have yet to find a decent website on them anywhere. if anyone finds one, please, let me know!
Ed Harcourt with his first album "Here be monsters", produced by Dave Friedman et Gil Norton (ouch!!). Got the new Mercury Rev.It's as good as the last one. In the new beginners the Strokes, I think their first LP will make everybody's ok.
Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills lives in my cd player as does the recent Radiohead. I'm also really digging The Doves-Lost Souls. i recently pulled out an older disk by Velocette called FourFold Remedy. it's sort of a cross between Stereolab and Tsunami. Female vocals.
i'll have to check out that C-Clamp. sounds good.
I'd say 3 bands really moved me in this last year, all of which had previous releases tob their most recent. The first is Illyah Kuryahkin, which is on a label called Arena Rock Recording Company (the name is obviously a joke, due to it's limited quantity of releases). It's very My Bloddy Valentine meets something more interesting. The album is called Thirtycabminute, and his earlier release is called Count No Count, both great as well as strangely mysterious.
Another band which I've been following over the last 4 or so years is a Champaign/Urbana (University Of Illinois), band called C-Clamp. Their most recent release, called "Meander And Return", is quite like Idaho, with groany whispery vocals and layered with both distorted as well as reverberant guitars. This is a Midwest release on Mud/Parasol records, and it's hard to find unless you live in the Midwest. If you liked Hum's last release, youd love it, its very mathy.
Shiner is a band from Kansas City which has played the Midwest circuit a plenty lot over the past 7 years. There first release from 1995 was produced and engineered by Bob Weston, one of Steve Albini's protoges. They've had other releases since then, but the new one stands out as by far their most intense. Its quite heavy, but in contrast, also melodic, with great modulations and bizarre time signatures, as well as a greatly distinct voice by Alan Epley, guitarist/vocalist. Starless, the newest release, is also on a very small independent label, so if you don't live in the Midwest, I doubt you'll ever hear any of it, though I personally think the dark ages of rock are coming to a close, thus opening doors for REAL music to be exposed nationally.
San Francisco, American Music Club.
I just got a the 4 CD Bud Powell set from Proper Records called "Tempus Fugue-It". It's l'll early stuff (pre 1950), and it's amazing. For $24.00, you really can't go wrong.
Invisible Man is brilliant too.
I am currently being tickled by Macha loves Bedhead. Short EP, lots of Macha experimental wanderings, but it has produced one of the best songs I have heard in awhile - Hey Goodbye.
Not sure which Shipping News - saw them locally, bought the CD. I like it but I don't know what I am to compare it to except June of 44.
Ivy, more specifically, Dominique. Mmmmm-what a biscuit she is. New album is out and wondered if anyone has checked it out yet, as I have not? Older stuff is a bit poppy, but great nonetheless.
Red House Painters in town tonight and we are stoked!
Low, thing that got lost in the fire... check out Magazine, Second Hand Daylight a New Wave gem...The new Red House Painters, Old Ramon... Mark Eitzel, The Invisable Man...
thanks ashley for the tip on Sigur Ros- simply awe-inspiring!!!!!
Matt Pond Pa: i thought you were sleeping and measure.
Kings of Convenience: Quiet is the new loud.
Damien Jurado:Ghost of David.
Low: things we lost in the fire.
Ida: the braille night
Red House Painters: Old Ramon.
Songs Ohia:ghost tropic.
Matt Schickele: Cities Filled with Light.
sunburnt, which shipping news album? the new one is soooooooo weak.
i think i listened to it twice and sold it back. i loved their first record,
but this one was sooooooooooo thin and rife with cliche that i couldn't believe
it was the same band. what does everyone else think? discuss...
steve, i have to agree with you on Hayden, if you like him i think you'll just love a gentleman by the name of Eric Matthews, his album the lateness of hour is genius. a couple of others i like right now are Autor de Lucie, Stereo Lab, Bjork, Paolo & Chiara, Gene, Finn Brothers, Drunk and Morcheeba. all fantastic bands. We'll see if any of you agree.
Hayden - the closer I get
Pedro the Lion - winners never quit
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Shipping News
check out the icelandic band Sigur Ros... they blew me away the first time i heard them.
they're sorta like a cross between Radiohead and Mogwai.
you will find lotsa free videos and .mp3s of them here: http://spazioweb.inwind.it/sigur_ros/
tah tah for now...
-ash
Red House Painters-old ramon is
one of the best of the year so far
I could`nt stop listening to it the
first few days I got it.The new
Mogwai is good but short,I expected
it to be longer like the last two
full lengths but there still some
good songs on it.Low`s Things we lost in the fire is impressive too.
Sunny border blue by Kristen Hersh
also.
great choices. check out silver jews.
You beat me to it, I was thinking Ryan Adams. I've been digging the new Weezer and REM albums quite a good bit (although they've only been out for 2 days).
A list of stuff that's hooked me of late...
Ryan Adams - "Heartbreaker"
Weezer - "Green"
REM - "Reveal" and "Life's Rich Pagent"
Bare Jr. - "Brainwasher"
Jimmy Eat World - "Clarity"
David Gray - "Lost Songs"
Aimee Mann - "I'm With Stupid"
Herman Jolly - "Mad Cowboy Disease"
Jeff Buckley - "Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk"
Mazarin - "Watch It Happen"
Swag - "Catch-All"
T. Rex - "Electric Warrior"
Doves - "Lost Souls"
the list goes on and on and on and on...
this is only the beginning...
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker. This is the kind of voice that'll bring you back to the alt. Country way of life.
So far this year:
Bonnie Prince Billy Oldham - Ease on Down the Road (possibly a classic)
Jim White - No Such Place (the sort of album Beck dreams of making)
New Year - Newness Ends (essentially a Bedhead album and to be treasured for that reason)
Pleasant Grove - s/t (a near perfect marriage of slo-core and alt country)
and of course the new/old RHP album.
Pete Yorn "musicforthemorningafter" is amazing. Alt-country mixed with melodic pop stuff. Check this one out if you like Wilco, Son Volt, Josh Rouse, Guided by Voices. Creeper Lagoon "Take Back the Universe..." yeah there's a Ken Andrews connection there. Bill Frisell "Ghost Town"
well, let's see...right now I'm totally diggin the Kings of Convenience "Quiet is the New Loud", Guster's "Lost and Gone Forever", and especially Bob Schneider's "Lonelyland."
I just got the new Creeper Lagoon (Take Back the Universe and give me Yesterday) and I like it a lot. It's really slick but it works - lots of good rawk anthems on there.
I didn't like "Excuses" and much as "Out of Tune", but Mojave 3 is great. They came through town about a month ago and were amazing.
The Optimist LP from a band called Turin Brakes. Kind of an acoustic based Remy Zero from England sortof thing.
actually i forgot my other fav of this last year...
Mojave3's Excuses for Travellers
for those who don't know... ex main members of Slowdive.. however sound is akin to Nick Drake (but then what aint these days?) ... who cares, it's brilliant. buy buy buy.
failling that : The CAtchers 'Stooping to fit' from a while ago, like the Delgadoes last album 'the great eastern' only i reckon it's loads better
byyyyeeeeee!
Good to see Bark Psychosis' "Hex" album showing up. Paul if you want their other discs.. you can get them from Insound (i did.. recently too).I'm waiting on the NEW National Skyline album to brighten my day.Also C-Clamp's "Longer Waves" is a classic for me.
candy's room is amazing, especially the live version from that E. Street box set
Coldplay huh? To each his own, I guess. I can't seem to get enough of "Darkness on the Edge of Town" by Springsteen. Candy's room is an awesome song........
it does suck when a band you like becomes
mainstream {i.e. nirvana} but you have
to look past the hype. you can't deny
good music. i personally don't listen
to the radio so i don't know what is
"big" on the charts.
I really enjoyed Coldplay until I began hearing them on the commercial radio stations and less on our local Atlanta college station.
Great recommendations on this list. Bark Psychosis - Hex is one of the top 10 albums of all time. Unreal. I tried ordering a couple other BP releases from CDNow but they backordered for 7 months and the order dropped. Real bummer.
I must pick up Kings of Convenience. Too many people championing them.
Listening to the new Crooked Fingers right now and it's a real great record. Love the new Clutch.
Someone was right. 2001 has been a great year for music thus far. But best albums for tickling my toes?
outloud dreamer - drink the sky. I think it's only gettable from outlouddreamer.com but... crazy awesome. Portishead, Sixpence, Slowdive, Bowery Electric... none of them have a thing on od. They're incredible.
I'd list off a few other recent releases I've fallen in love with but I don't want to dilute the ones I've already mentioned.
Oh, and where can I find a complete and thorough discography of Idaho?
Local (Ottawa, Canada) band Kepler's 'FUCK FIGHT FAIL'. One of those rare albums that actually needs to left on repeat. I was equally surprised and impressed. A nice combination of dramatic Mogwai-like crescendos and the sensibilities of the Red House Painters.
Nice.
The new Red House Painters - Old Ramon - is blowing me away on a daily basis.
Has to be Bark Psychosis's "Hex". Unbelievable stuff. Bows comes in second place for recent great stuff.
Any Idaho fan should check both out.
Cheers.
c.
As mentioned above I also loved the Czars, Wheat, and Kings of Convenience. Also rate The Turin Brakes- "the Optimist" and the awesome Low- "Things we lost in the Fire". Jim White's "No Such Place" and the Shanti Project 2.
Jon Brion : Meaningless
i would also like to add kristin
hersh, sunny blue border. along
with jeff, she has one of the
beautifully unique voices in music.
hey alex... i get it! besides i went upstairs after last time and found out already thanks anyway mate
hearts of palm... still being played loads!
hey ashley - i love national skyline as well. have you heard their more recent e.p. "exit now"?
it's a little more fleshed out than the first e.p. i can't wait for the full-length, which is out the end of april.
my fav, strictly non-idahoesque releases from last year include:
NATIONAL SKYLINE - S/T
ON - Shifting Skin
THE FUCKING CHAMPS - IV
SELF - Gizmodgery
the latter of which is pretty amazing because it was performed and recorded entirely with electronic gadgets - not with traditional instruments...
-ajjb
I have (oh my memeory's bad) the grey cover with sea on it, what's it called...?
"This Way Out"
I hav'nt heard Hearts of Palm yet but I am eagerly awaiting my copy.
:)
I have (oh my memeory's bad) the grey cover with sea on it, what's it called...?
"This Way Out"
I hav'nt heard Hearts of Palm yet but I am eagerly awaiting my copy.
:)
I have (oh my memeory's bad) the grey cover with sea on it, what's it called...?
"This Way Out"
I hav'nt heard Hearts of Palm yet but I am eagerly awaiting my copy.
:)
I have (oh my memeory's bad) the grey cover with sea on it, what's it called...?
"This Way Out"
I hav'nt heard Hearts of Palm yet but I am eagerly awaiting my copy.
:)
I'm rather fond of the last PJ Harvey album and this band from
France called Tahiti 80. They remind me of The Zombies.Catchy! Aside from that a lot of local music from here in Columbus.
(OH... and the new Ian Bostridge album of Bach arias...gorgeous)
though i agree Earserhead, Lost Souls is great!
Hello, I'm new to this site... we Brits don't get too much (alright NO coverage about this band!)
Only found Hearts of Palm yesterday when i thought i'd have a quick look in the section of my record store... I have (oh my memeory's bad) the grey cover with sea on it, what's it called...? find out later! Also have Three SHeets.. (until Hearts of palm it was my fav) and Alas (which i'm not sure of) and an Ep... what else is there besides the live stuff?
anyway, i'm going on a bit there---
(the subject being, what other album would i recommend lately)
Guys, you must check out Ben Christophers' My Beautiful Demon. I am determined that more get into it.. think Jeff Buckley meets the sonic expeimentation of later Bjork... fucking wicked stuff!
take care y'all
ROb
that i would have to say is "lost
souls" by doves.
i recently received a copy of "minor setbacks" by gardin. it's the band of michel who's a contributor to this list. it's mentioned n the 'our bands' thread of this list. i can't get it out of my cd player. really strong songwriting and excellent musicianship-really beautiful piano passages and guitar playing. really just beautiful all around.
also have to recommend again the new emmylou harris, 'red dirt girl'. despite a few weak points(read:the song with dave matthews)it's really good. the title track is maybe the best song i've heard this year, even though it came out last year. that's my two cents...
Anyone here the new Windy & Carl? Supposed to be awesome.....
yeah adam - i used to have gene's first album olympian - there was some really good stuff on that. i kind of lost interest in that type of music over the past few years, though. maybe i should take another listen, if revelations is really that good...
That would have to be...
Skip James - "Today"
or
James Brown - "Live at the Apollo '62"
I was introduced to Skip James by reading John Fahey's "How Bluegrass Music Destroyed my Life". He's a blues singer sort of in the Robert Johnson tradition, but he's an incredible fingerpicker and a good pianist too. He has the most haunting voice I think I've ever heard.
James Brown was a world class soul singer in his prime. The live record really captures him at his peak. The sound quality is great, and the live energy is very nice. People tend to look at me funny when I listen to this one on headphones.
has anyone heard about a uk indi band called GENE? They rank right up there with Idaho in my book and the last full studio album called 'Revelations' was amazing. in fact i'll probably listen to it on the way to work now that i've talked about it. :O) anybody see them last year at the Mercury Lounge?
I'm diggin the New Year, the new band from the brothers Kadane. Stunning....
Two recent finds have convinced me
that '01 is going to be a stand-out
year for music:
-Spoon - Girls Can Tell
-Kings of Convenience - Quiet is the
New Loud
Both are exceptional efforts. And if
you're in a mood to push the envelope
via guitar (as Idaho do so well), try
Wheat's Hope and Adams from last year.
It will floor you.
"lift yr. skinny fists like antennae to heaven" by godspeed you black emperor - everything else i've heard lately pales in comparison to this masterpiece.
that would have to be 'Forever Changes' by Love. Not a lot of new music is in the same league to what those guys did 30 years ago. Sad but true.
Jeff started a thread a little over a year ago asking what bands everyone was into. I was hoping to strike that convo back up by asking everyone what was the last CD to really blow you away? (Hearts of Palm doesn't count, that's a given).
Mine would have to be "Before . . . But Longer" by the Czars, a band out of Boulder, Co. The lead singer has the most stunning voice this side of Jeff Martin and Mark Kozelek.
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