What are you listening to?

[PC]

sure. to be honest, a lot of the REALLY underground stuff i've heard, i can't stand. a lot of the REALLY mainstream stuff i've heard, i can't stand. i tend to like the stuff that struggles to go gold and platinum the most, the stuff that the mainstream was exposed to but decided it sucks for whatever reason. i also like some of the more successful indie groups (pavement, sunny day real estate). my original point is that music that's made directly to appeal to mainstream audiences, without any sort of heart or meaning, blows. actually, some of that stuff has meaning, but it's the same old cliched b.s. linkin park can sing about the "pain they're going through" and dashboard confessional can whine about the 20th time the singer's been dumped in the last half a month, but they still suck. probably because that meaning itself is manufactured.

I feel the same way too, Proud. Bravo. It gets the PunkChick award for Best Post of the Day. ;D

[PC]

NP: Gang of Four - Entertainment! (song: I Found That Essence Rare)

[Proud]

*bows* thank you, ma'am. it's an honor coming from someone like yourself.

[RocDoc]

Somethin For Kate - Echolalia
The friggin Auzzies do it AGAIN!
How in the world does this little section of the world come up with SO much great music??

Midnight Oil, the brothers Finn, Powderfinger, AC / DC...and jillion others Strawman and maarts have told us about, and the OZ/NZ axis just amazes!

kat has raved about this disc like forever, and I'm looking through the bins...and there it was.

STILL I was reluctant cos the assholes at this store have zero listening facilities anymore....and I'm going to pay 15 buck for something like this, unheard...as highly recommended as it was?

Something about people constantly breaking them....and I asked, 'How about the marketing reality of all of these obscure bands you have here?'

Idiots. They'd be getting a lot more money from me if I could get a listen to these weird little bands they have, whom I only had a passing familiarity...mostly through you guys...

Having bought the Pixies' Doolittle there, on YOUR recommendations, w/o listening to any of it...had I listened to it, I never woulda bought it....Pixies and the Clash, neither of them make much of a connection for me, sorry.

Something For Kate however is a wonderful thing....imagine a more restrained, classy Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder with singing chops beyond a warbling out-of-control vibrato.

[bowiglou]

currently listening to the Punk Boxset.....but with the X concert next week, I'm sure I'll commence shortly a X-obsession

[JesusLooksLikeMe]

Sales should be no reflection of musical quality, but... like Proud I tend to find myself generally liking the bands who get sizeable cult followings, but are neither huge nor 'real underground' or 'hardcore underground' or 'close-knit communal underground' or whatever fuckin' awful phrase it was that Mary used (j/k Mary). There's a reason that stuff stays so far underground, and I think we all know what that is

Oops... the thread. All I've been playing last few days is:-



Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell loudly proclaims he's better than Bob Dylan to any music journalist that'll listen. I'm not sure about that, but anyone with an ear for the lyricism of early Dylan, The Clash at their peak, and the wit and tones of Jarvis Cocker couldn't help but love the guy's vocals and songwriting. This album is the best album to come out of the UK since Revolver. In short, it's what the NME keeps trying to convince us The Libertines are: Essential listening and the most important London punk band on the planet. I believe it's out in the States on Aug 17th.

[JesusLooksLikeMe]

JesusLooksLikeMe said:

This album is the best album to come out of the UK since Revolver.

I have it on good authority that hyperbole can help increase penis size.

[pattentank24]

So Can Boldface,Not that I neeD it

Jesus I like a couple of the tracks I downloaded(To the Sea,In The City) but so far I checked no release date so far so i'll wait for domestic release

Check this small radio festival coming to my city in Sep
Franz Ferdinand
The KILLERS
Scissor Sisters
The Veils
Delays
Tickets $15 ;D ;D ;D ;D

One small problem it's SEP 12(1st Sunday of NFL football)
which brings up this ? my friends and I were debating

Being a serious present concert fan(3 shows a month or 1 a week usually)and working in a sports atmosphere every day where a routine day is spots and music

Can You be a quote/un quote "hipster" as I get tease and tease others all the time if you have a harcore interest in both sports,music

(this being if you if believe Hipsters don't like sports unless it's ironic)

[pattentank24]

Bruce Springsteen-Live in Nyc("Hope of Land and Dreams" should be the national anthem)
BSS-Feel Good Lost
Junior Boys-Last Exit(My -I worship this album-
so far this month)
AND a New Music mix I'll share

1.Oasis-"Angel of the Insaine"(This F--- Rocks,Noel should just takeover at this point,hope it's on the next album)

2.Dogs In A Hot Car-I Love you because I have to(lead singer sound like Robert Smith on a ska influenced rocker)

3.The Features-That's The Way(Nashville' next stars)

4.Faithless-Weapons of Mass Destruction(theme song of the Rep. Convention)

5.The Explosion-Here I am(Catchy Pixies era punk rock)

6.Red Letter Agent-Tonight(best local band in Atlanta)

7.The Libertines-Can't Send Me Now(best since "Death on the Stairs")

8.Hope of States-"Friends/Enemies(can't wait for the domestic release)

9.13 Senses-Do No Wrong(Really Moving)

10.Radio 4-Party Crashers(my party song right now)

11. Muse-Sing for Absolution(rare accoutic version)

12.Bad Religon- The Empire Strikes First(Need to get this album)

13.The Zootons-Pressure Point(strange brit pop)

14.Interpol-Slow Hands(live version)

15. West Indian Girl-Hollywood(just real primal scream like)

16.The Open- Just Want to Live(great new band)

17.The Streets/Chris Martin version "Dry your Eyes"

18.The Music-Freedom Fighters(anybody heard the new album yet)

19.Beta Band-Assesment(my favorite beta band track)

20.The Start-Only A Dream(the new Garbage?)

[phil]

K.D. Lang's Absolute Torch and Twang ...

If only more Country music was
as unassumingly joyful and fun ... !!

[Rit]

a great CD from one of my favourite bands:

np: Pere Ubu - New Picnic Time



orgasmically good band.

[Mary]

I'm actually with you, Proud, insofar as my tastes usually include bands with decent cult followings who get attention from mags and media outlets like The Big Takeover, the NME, pitchforkmedia (though I find many of their reviewers insufferable), etc etc. I'm pretty much totally out of it as far as what's going on in the CLOSE-KNIT, COMMUNAL PUNK ROCK UNDERGROUND (that was just to make sure jllm would be able to appreciate that lovely phrase a second time!) these days - I picked up the most recent issue of Punk Planet a few days go and I've barely heard of a single one of the bands reviewed in the back. There's just still a part of me that, even if I don't care for the music or keep up with it or whatever, still loves the sheer balls and gumption it takes to carve out a music scene totally 100% out of the spotlight. Same thing applies to scenes like death metal and experimental industrial - not necessarily shit I listen to, but you gotta just appreciate the commitment and passion of the folks who keep these scenes alive, and I guess I'd tend to reserve the word "underground" for that kinda scene - being a hard-lined nit-picker and all

As for what I've been listening to lately. All I can say is: FUCK YOU RITALIN, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?? .......











That's all that I've listened to since yesterday. My poor boyfriend told me that I'm going to wind up in a mental institution if I don't stop listening to the Birthday Party on top volume 24/7.

Cheers,
M

[Rit]

bahahah ;D

jus' doin' mah duty, ma'am.

[Mary]

Just look at Nick Cave and Tracy Pew on the cover of the John Peel Sessions, incidentally. All you have to do is look at them to know that they are, at that moment in time, the two coolest people on earth. Fuckin Tracy Pew, what a nutjob. How I love nutjobs.

If you get me started on some kinda weirdass Pere Ubu extended listening obsession, I'm gonna send you a fuckin letter bomb, you hear me?!

Cheers,
M

[Rit]

gotcha!

(psst, the pere ubu album of choice to get is Modern Dance)