what are currently your two favourite cd's/albums?

[Elginoid]

note- that doesn't mean that they have to be current cd's

mine:

Moose- High Ball me!

Porcupine Tree- Stars Die

[TaleWgnDg]

1. anything by Diana Krall . . . n/t

. . . . . . . . .

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Mine:

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (double album, so...it might suffice for both answers)

Einsturzende Neubauten - Silence Is Sexy

[Forkboy]

7. What's the new Nick Cave like compared to Nocturama?

I love him but I found Nocturama to be very boring and a big disappointment,so now I'm hesistant on the new one.

I wont ask about Einsturzende Neubauten because I already now that's excellent,as they always are :)

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. His best since "Let Love In", if not ever.

Seriously. I was rather disappointed by "Nocturama", too. But the new album more than makes up for it.

[Mojambo]

3. Favorite two currently are

1. Guitar Romantic - the Exploding Hearts
2. Charm School - Bishop Allen

I can't seem to stop listening to that BA record. It's seriously good pop.

[Gothic Sponge]

4. For this week

Poe - Haunted. (This has been in my CD player for the last few weeks)




School of Fish. (I've had this CD for years, but i still love it.)

[Mojambo]

5. I had that School of Fish record

I remember it quite fondly.

[montana500]

6. hmmm

1. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

2. Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass

3. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

4. Son Volt - Straightaways

5. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

6. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

[Gothic Sponge]

22. It's sad, the singer of School of Fish, Josh Clayton-Felt died

a few years ago of testicular cancer.

[Forkboy]

8. I'll go with current faves

First up,Neurosis-The Eye of Every Storm




The following should come as good news: every song on The Eye of Every Storm is so beautiful and engaging that it’s hard to know where to start discussing them. Album opener “Burn” is the most brisk of the tracks here, but still sparse and melodic enough to mirror the pastoral images of sunlight and warm air contained in the lyrics. The key to the album might be found halfway through “Burn”: when the guitars briefly crash in, they draw more attention to the synth-and-voice tenderness that follows than they do to themselves. It’s clear by the song’s sweet, textured din of an ending that The Eye of Every Storm is going to be an album of warmth, a humid, claustrophobic warmth that first alarms, then sedates and, finally, suffocates.

This atmosphere permeates every track, infusing each song with both beauty and unease. “No River To Take Me Home” is, even at its loudest moments, completely hypnotic. You may even think the repetitive space rock fade-out is a dream until you find yourself drifting amid the ten-minute-plus title track, which is built solely on sustained bass and synth notes until the guitars make an entrance at the nine-minute mark.

From that point on, guitars return to prominence, but wrapped in gauze-y fuzz and accompanied by thick down-tuned bass, they remain invariably narcotic. Classic slow-motion eruptions can still be found in “Bridges”, where the heaviness of the drumless sludge passages is almost unbearable, and in the ten-minute “A Season In the Sky”, but this is a meditative album, a headphones album, one of the finest releases of Neurosis’s career and one of the best records of 2004.

Next is Old Man Gloom-Christmas



The latest release to bear the name of Old Man Gloom arrives a few months shy of the period suggested via its title, but the small crowd who have been acutely anticipating this follow-up to the gloriously dense pair of "Seminar II" and "Seminar III" which brought their destructive ambient properties to the forefront back in early 2001 would probably argue that in fact "Christmas" is long past its season already. Nonetheless, this collaborative effort between assorted members of the Hydra Head family, with individual representees from Converge, Isis and Cave In involved, appears to possess enough of an audial picnic to retain the interest for a similar timespan; for "Christmas" is an outing fixated on blurring the boundaries between milieus of bare drone and cacophonous explosions of nuclear guitars smited with sludgey density. Invoking the power brought forth by the contrasting mediums which are the staples of the Old Man Gloom fraternity, the thirteen tracks scraped out over the course of this outing tear up metal riffs of behemothic properties with extraordinary diligence before casting down into the forsaken realms of drawn-out, extensive meditation, transcending from the bluntness and up-front attack of a battering ram to the cunning, measured guile of a master hypnotist in seconds.

Where Old Man Gloom's ambient instincts take the stage, the group toy with swirling soundscapes of measured, droning feedback, breathing a sinister life into the deathly calm with acoustic strums at some points, even feeding into the soporific possibilities wholesale during the appropiately titled 'Close Your Eyes, Roll Back Into Your Head' with delicately soft-spoken overtones insinuating that the listener should take some rest. Meanwhile the frenzied attacks incorporated within the thick, driving metal passages bring a Eyehategod reminiscent lean to the material, bastardizing hardcore fury with stoner rock tendencies in a heavy swamp of filthy destruction.

on edit-these reviews aren't written by me,just for the record.I'm too lazy today :)

[non sociopath skin]

9. I'm listening to Brian Wilson's "Smile" a lot ...

... a fascinating experience, like listening to a good album that's just fallen out of a time warp! How he managed to get the band to sound EXACTLY like the Beach Boys of the late 60s I do not know.

The other is a real discovery, a jazz album by a Colin Towns' Mask Symphonic called "Dreaming Man With Blue Suede Shoes." It's been around for about 5 years but I heard some of it it on a late night jazz radio show a couple of weeks ago and said, "Must have." One particularly amazing track called "Nighthawks" inspired by the Edward Hopper painting has grear vocals by Norma Winstone and Maria Pia de Vito. Classic stuff.

The Skin

[sundog]

10. Woven - EPrime; Sweetback - Sweetback

on edit -- that's today, I might have a different answer tomorrow

[chenGOD]

11. Right now it's....

Repeat and Watch Play (the Warp mix CD)

Squarepusher - Music is Rotted One Note.

[sundog]

12. is that warp as in the uk record label?

[chenGOD]

13. Yes, yes it is :)

The mix Cd is ownderful, it's got a great groove going on.

The DVD is really nice too. Good to have all those videos in high quality format as opposed to crappy mpgs.

[sundog]

14. right on!

I used to get all those killer 12" tracks in the early 90's - Nightmares on Wax, Tricky Disco, Sweet Excorcist (my fave)... Warp always had a distinct sound, but I haven't heard the more recent stuff. Have you?

[chenGOD]

15. I've heard a fair bit of it...

But they've expanded so much...so it's hard to keep up.

But certainly acts like Boards of Canada, Chris Clark, Aphex Twin and so on are worth checking out. And if you like Tricky Disco/Sweet Exorcist you'll want to check out their latest signing Milanese. Very early 90's sort of sound, but lots of fun.

On edit: Be warned though, as they've diversified so much they've released some material that's certainly of questionable quality...good thing you an preview all your purchases on their site...

[sundog]

17. I never got...

all charged over Aphex Twin for some reason... dunno why :shrug:

I had some XL mixes he did, but I never really got into his sound.

[chenGOD]

18. Ah well, that's fair enough...

if everyone liked the same thing, the world would be pretty boring...

You should grab the new LFO album though, it's really quite good, and Luke Vibert's release on Warp is excellent.

[leftist_rebel1569]

16. My two albums are...

Mr. Bungle - California
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory

I've also gotta mention Faith No More's "Introduce Yourself" because I can't get enough of that, either

[huellewig]

19. mine

Mars Volta -- De-Loused in the Comatorium



Crimpshrine -- Sound of a New World Being Born

[Colin Ex]

21. Two

Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatarium
Small Brown Bike - Our Own Wars