What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

[thegleek]

Saltillo. Monocyte. CD.

best music ever. do yourself a favor and buy it. download it. listen to it. your life will never be the same again.

http://www.stormingthebase.com/saltillo-monocyte-cd/

I just have to re-bump this as a forced-suggestion upon all readers of this thread. This CD will be far the best release of 2012. Listen to it. You'll dig it. I guarantee it!

[Jambe]

Hey, some elevator music is fine by me! That particular track recalls the SimCity 3000 OST, which I also like having on in the background. I haven't seen the documentary in question (wiki description makes it sound pretty saccharine) but apparently TCO played with the London Metropolitan Orchestra on the OST.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra — Time (from the album Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd, which is all fun)
Neeme Jarvi & The Berliner Philharmoniker performing a bit of Grieg (In the Hall of the Mountain King) - wish this were available in album form
Spitz - Robinson (Live @ Saitama Super Arena 1/18/09) (expertly-shot concert vid, there)
Gotye - State of the Art (wonderful animated video with a progressive loop-builder from Gotye, who is a crazy soundwizard)

When the Cotillion arrived, we threw out the television! Model D575, has custom flute presets and Harmony-Plus in addition!

@thegleek: is there any more to preview than that one track? I'm intrigued by the comic as well...

If you like that, you may like the album Glimmer by Michał Jacaszek (full-length track previews available there). A friend has the marbled vinyl of that and I'm pretty envious. I think she'd notice if I swiped it... You might also like The Black Mill Tapes Volume 3 from Pye Audio Corner. I especially like Electronic Rhythm Number Five from that album, but I'm a sucker for infectious thumpy loops.

[thegleek]

@thegleek: is there any more to preview than that one track? I'm intrigued by the comic as well...

The entire album is up on youtube in its entirety:

01 abeo … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp7nfzIWlio
02 proxy … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg_eZwaSe0I
03 if wishes were catholics … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQjdssc_9ZE
04 the right of action … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs01M5LPyvM
05 the all do it the same … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDyOqacn2sg
06 gatekeepers … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ttJbtq_LQ
07 i hate you … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6UiGfJcqc0
08 forced vision … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a69diqR4E-8
09 hollow … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnAo8g-Uo8E
10 the locus priory … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqN4REEGmbA
11 veil … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtkGZto0ca4 (image that it shows is NSFW)
12 to kill a king … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIUD8JcTH8Q

stellar tracks are #07 and #12... but ALL are amazing. even fans of classical music will find some good parts in this music.

[Welch]

Craig David and Sting - Rise and Fall

The song that led me to this a few years ago was "Shape of my heart" by Sting as the theme song to the movie "Leon: The Professional" with Natalie Portman when she was a little kid and Jean Reno as "The Professional". If you haven't seen this movie, check it the heck out!

[b_naresh]

Who's gonna ride your wild horses - U2(Achtung Baby)

[JohnC]

Tiesto - In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama

[thegleek]

So keeping on the subject of all that is Tom Waits... How does one getting into this artist even know where to begin???

2011 - Bad as Me
2004 - Real Gone
2002 - Blood Money
2002 - Alice
1999 - Mule Variations
1993 - The Black Rider
1992 - Bone Machine
1987 - Franks Wild Years
1985 - Rain Dogs
1983 - Swordfishtrombones
1980 - Heartattack and Vine
1978 - Blue Valentine
1977 - Foreign Affairs
1976 - Small Change
1974 - The Heart of Saturday Night
1973 - Closing Time

2011 - Original Album Series
2008 - Greatest Hits
2007 - Blue Crack of Dawn 76-06
2006 - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
2001 - Used Songs 1973-1980
1999 - Reads on the Road
1998 - Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
1992 - The Early Years, Volume 2
1991 - The Early Years, Volume 1
1986 - Asylum Years
1981 - Bounced Checks

Currently, I only own 2 albums: 2002 - Alice, and 1987 - Franks Wild Years. Based on some earlier posts in this thread.

[Captain Ned]

Fleetwood Mac - Oh, Well, from Then Play On.

Real Mac, back in the Peter Green days when they were but a blues outfit. Oh Well ends in a lovely 6-minute classical guitar composition that could easily be the score for the three-way standoff in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

Been a while since I spun up the turntable.

[Jambe]

Tommy Emmanuel - Lewis & Clark (one of the prettiest acoustic guitar pieces of all time, iyam)
John Butler Trio - Ocean (I'd be surprised if this hasn't found its way here yet, but... wow)

@thegleek: I want that album now. Did you check out Glimmer or Pye Audio Corner's stuff? Do you like that kinda thing?

[emkubed]

Armand Van Helden: My My My

[thegleek]

Armand Van Helden: My My My

Love the house anthems... And ALWAYS love anything MoS puts out. I own the very beginnings of their discography back in the early 90's.

If you like that, you may like the album Glimmer by Michał Jacaszek (full-length track previews available there). A friend has the marbled vinyl of that and I'm pretty envious. I think she'd notice if I swiped it... You might also like The Black Mill Tapes Volume 3 from Pye Audio Corner. I especially like Electronic Rhythm Number Five from that album, but I'm a sucker for infectious thumpy loops.

@thegleek: I want that album now. Did you check out Glimmer or Pye Audio Corner's stuff? Do you like that kinda thing?

Yes. Not bad. Much of it was boring. Some of it intrigued me.

[Flatland_Spider]

Yo La Tengo - Cherry Chapstick

[thegleek]

Yo La Tengo - Cherry Chapstick

Best. Live. Band. Ever.

[Flatland_Spider]

PJ Harvey - Down By The Water

@thegleek: I agree. I've gotten to see them twice, and they just kill it. More so the second time at Cain's then the first, but that's the difference between headlining your own tour and a festival.

[Dizik]

Best. Live. Band. Ever.

Though I've never seen Yo La Tengo live, my vote for the best live band is Sigur Rós.

[Captain Ned]

Best live band? Simple.

The Who.

Summer of 1989; their 25th anniversary tour. It had already been announced that Pete's hearing problems would mean he'd only be playing acoustic; no electric. 70,000 people in the old Meadowlands Stadium in NJ and the concert opens with the Overture to Tommy. That alone is enough to raise 70,000 drunk & stoned music fans to a fever pitch, but when Pete grabs his electric and starts windmilling while the band plays at least 75% of Tommy (way too out of mind at that show to keep track of the set list) there are 70,000 people who, in that moment, would have done anything Pete asked/told them to do. I've been to shows with far better musicianship but nothing I've ever seen before or since welded that many people into a single mass willing to do whatever needed to keep the music flowing.

The Stones were a bunch of choreographed nancy-boys (Montreal Olympic Stadium - Steel Wheels Tour) compared to The Who.

[b_naresh]

Enter Sandman - Metallica

[paulWTAMU]

stan rodgers, barrett's privateers! Helps that I'm 2 sheets to the iwnd

[Jambe]

http://www.archive.org/details/EdibleAudibles171106

I like thunderstorms. I wish good recordings of 'em were easier to find.

[thegleek]

I like thunderstorms. I wish good recordings of 'em were easier to find.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss? ... nderstorms

...shows about 311 results.

[Jambe]

Yes but they're often terrible mono tracks or tracks with lots of constant dripping/gushing.

I need a thunderstorm recording critic.

[JJCDAD]

It must be psychedelic power trio day...

Buffalo Killers - Get Together Now Today

Radio Moscow - Broke Down

[SPOOFE]

How does one getting into this artist even know where to begin???

Well, Tom flies all over the map in terms of style. Some albums are pretty much straight-up blues and jazziness, like Closing Time, Heart of Saturday Night, and Heartattack and Vine. Then some of his other work gets very theatrical, like it was written to be a musical... in fact, Frank's Wild Years WAS written to be a musical! The Black Rider has a similar theatricality.

Then there's stuff that's either just damn strange, like Bone Machine, in which he creates some fascinating music with non-musical soundin' noise. Then there's the mix-it-up albums, like Swordfishtrombone or Rain Dogs, in which some songs are strange, nigh-experimental, and others are more conventional jazz/blues/chillin' light rock kinda stuff.

I recommend Swordfishtrombone or Rain Dogs next. Or maybe Small Change... the titular song on that album is one of my favorites, even though it's basically just a quiet slow sax and Tom muttering about some hood what got got.

[just brew it!]

Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

[b_naresh]

Jugni - Rabbi (Hindi/Punjabi)
Jump they say - David Bowie

[MadManOriginal]

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

[just brew it!]

Blue Oyster Cult - A Long Day's Night

Buck Dharma is an unsung guitar hero. Grossly underappreciated and underrated.

[ordskiweicz]

CJ Harvey - England Shakes - whole album;
Santana - Treat (for recovery)

[PenGun]

Buckethead mostly. Jazz, Zappa, Meters, Zorn, Mr Bungle and of course Laswell.

[Game_boy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByE1cHw3Mbs

Axolotl