what about us

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1. 1 Daniel, Esq. on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

   Welcome back! FWIW (not much, I know), I’ve been listening to a mix of new and old stuff. Here’s some of what’s been on my playlist lately (all of which is available on eMusic unless otherwise indicated):

   • Blind Willie Johnson – Sweeter As The Years Go By
   • Blind Lemon Jefferson – Complete Classic Sides, Vol. 3 — 4
   • Darondo – Let My People Go
   • Cut Copy – In Ghost Colors
   • David Murray – Death of a Sideman
   • Donna Summer – Bad Girls (not on eMusic)
   • Ethiopiques, Vol. 4 and 8 (amazing discs, these)
   • Gary Davis – Chocolate Star
   • Jesus & Mary Chain – Psychocandy (not on eMusic)
   • Jimmy McGriff – Groove Grease
   • Mississippi John Hurt – 1928 Sessions
   • My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
   • Miles From India
   • Neon Neon – Stainless Style
   • Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-sounds and Nigerian Blues (1970 – 1976)
   • Numero Group 021 – Good God! Soul Messages from Dimona (not on eMusic)
   • Rahsaan Patterson – After Hours
   • Recorded Live by Alan Lomax – Negro Prison Blues and Songs
   • Sun Kil Moon – April (not on eMusic)
   • Xanadu – Soundtrack

   I’ve done lots of traveling lately, which means long plane flights and downtime at hotels where I can listen to music. Beyond what’s listed above, I’m itching to pick up My Morning Jacket’s Okonokos, Quiet Village’s Silent Movie, and Robert Forster’s The Evangelist. I’ll get my chance in a few days, when my downloads refresh.

   Oy; Longwinded post. Sorry.

2. 2 Jorge on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

   Portishead’s Third, No Age’s Nouns, Atlas Sound’s debut, The Breeders’ Mountain Battles, Novos Baianos’ Acabou Chorare, Los Zafiros’ Bossa Cubana….

3. 3 Adamm on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

   From emusic:

   Sam Cooke - Keep Movin On
   Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (the best Stones album I never got around to getting before, and maybe my favorite Stones album of all, or at least tied with Sticky Fingers)
   Dirty Mac - Yer Blues (a friend in college had this on a bootleg, and I never thought I’d hear it again)
   Tinariwen - Aman Iman (I waited a while to get this one, and now I’m wondering why I waited so long)
   Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Psychocandy’s a relatively new album to me, so I’ve been learning about these two simultaneously, and from that point of view I really think the emusic reviewer was right in calling Lust Lust Lust the better album. Psychocandy gets points for being there first, but Lust Lust Lust seems to me to have better songs underlying all the distortion)
   David Murray - Ballads for Bass Clarinet

   Out there from emusic:

   Jazkamer - Metal Music Machine (recomended this one to Joe earlier; it’s definitely misfiled under jazz)
   Variuos Artists - Thrash Sabbatical (especially the Kevin Shields songs)

   Not from emusic:

   Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part 1 (4th World War)
   Robert Wyatt: Comicopera

   I can’t get enough of these lately.

4. 4 Mr B on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

   Let’s Wrestle - In Loving Memory Of…
   The Cult - Love
   Black Francis - Svn Fingers
   Bad Brains - Bad Brains
   Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
   Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (saw a Take Away show of theirs and immediately got the album)
   Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
   Machine Translations - Happy (sadly not on eMusic - people search this guys stuff out!)
   Guided By Voices - various albums
   Kiss - The Very Best of Kiss
   Mali Music - Mali Music
   Cadence Weapon -
   Yabby You - any

   Besides all this I’ve been very _slowly_ going through all my songs on my iPod alphabetically…. currently hovering around the Bea’s

5. 5 yancey on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

   oh yeah the new portishead. it’s so good! i didn’t think i’d ever care about them, but it’s amazing.

6. 6 pneumatictubes on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

   So no new releases today?

7. 7 Mr B on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

   Btw, thanks Daniel, Esq. for the Robert Forster reminder… downloading now.

8. 8 dlimiter on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

   I picked up the new Roots record this week. Love the “Rising Up” song. Sounds like an old Roots track and Wale! does a solid guest verse on it.

   From eMusic I’m a little short on downloads and been in a hip-hop mood lately, so I only picked up the Blu & Exile - “Below the Heavens”. Not new, but very good. I added the Herbaliser single and Hayden’s “In Field & Town” to my SFL list. I just started to explore the MMJ stuff and haven’t decided what to get yet. I’ll have to wait until next week anyways when the dls refresh.

   I know we’ve had Daytrotter stuff on eMusic before, so figure it’s ok to mention the Death Cab For Cutie Session added a few days ago. Mostly old tracks, but 2 are from the new record.

9. 9 dlimiter on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

   I wasn’t super clear in the last post. The Death Cab Daytrotter Session isn’t on eMusic. I’m also considering the new Jamie Lidell record “Jim” on Warp, but haven’t picked it up yet. It’s also not on eMusic.

10. 10 ihatewesley on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

    Night Marchers’ “See You in Magic” and Les Savy Fav’s “After the Balls Drop” (which just came out yesterday) are the main new emusic albums I’m listening to. Non-emusic goodness includes Man Man’s “Rabbit Habits,” Nick Cave’s “Dig Lazarus Dig!!!,” and Be Your Own Pet’s “Get Awkward.” Also been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash lately for some reason.

11. 11 Mike on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

    Grabbed the Ravonettes ‘Whip it On’ after ODing on the great Lust Lust Lust last month.

    Bought Underworld’s Oblivion with Bells at retail about 3 days before emusic got it, but I’ve not been grabbed by it (thinking it’s another A Hundred Days Off rather than another Dumbnobasswithmyhead).

    Also had the Stones ‘Beggars Banquet’ and ‘Let it Bleed’ on rotation - still not seeing the genious although it’s obviously not shabby (and it did prompt me to spend all Saturday listening to the Beatles catalog). Maybe you can’t love the Sones after being a lifelong Beatles fan?

    And the Laura Gibson ‘If you come to greet me’ disk from 2006 is still getting regular play.

12. 12 Alex on Apr 30th, 2008 said:

    At the end of the semester I generally listen to a lot of ambient (a la Tim Hecker, Stars of the Lid, and Pauline Oliveros) and classical/minimalist composition (a la Gould, Reich, and Bryars) along with some odd choices that I can’t really explain because the desire for them sits somewhere deep in my unconscious (last fall it was a ridiculous amount of Steely Dan and the spring before that it was Born to Run on repeat!!). However, just over the course of today I managed to go from John Adams Shaker Loops to Fela Kuti’s Zombie to Alex Delivery’s Star Destroyer to Christine McVie’s The Legendary Christine Perfect Album to Black Devil Disco Club’s 28 After to Bark Psychosis’ Hex, most of which are on emusic whether I got them from there or not. I’m trying to crank out an entire paper in one-go tonight, so eventually I’ll put on Music for 18 Musicians, The Solitude Trilogy, The Disintegration Loops, or The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid. However, I also know that around 4 a.m., I will feel the urge to listen to Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush and, consequently, start to pour myself some bourbon.

    Otherwise, I’ve really been enjoying Roisin Murphy’s Overpowered, Prosumer and Murat Tepelli’s Serenity, and White Noise’s An Electric Storm. If I get a solid amount of my paper done tonight (and definitely if I finish it), I am going to treat myself by buying Quiet Village’s Silent Movie and Portishead’s Third tomorrow afternoon.

    Going a little nuts over here, by the way, in case you couldn’t tell.

13. 13 WJPurdy on May 1st, 2008 said:

    My last comment post was flagged as spam. I guess that’s what I’ve been reduced to…

14. 14 WJPurdy on May 1st, 2008 said:

    The first time I tried this, I put links to all the eMu albums — and I was flagged as a spammer for it. So, here it is without the links!

    I’m in the process of ripping my CD collection to a format that is compatible with my iPod (and because it’s time to box up the CDs and stick em in the attic — they take up way too much of my precious living space), so I’ve been listening to some random stuff lately (currently playing: Devo’s Recombo DNA, followed by Luminitza by Balanescu Quartet).

    Recent (ie, in the last week) non-eMu purchases to which I’ve been listening quite a bit:
    • Portishead - Third
    • Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid (sooooooo good)
    • Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
    • 54-40 - The “Green” Album
    • The Human League - reissues of the first 4 albums, Travelogue, Reproduction, Dare!, and Hysteria
    • Fleet Foxes EP
    • Crystal Castles (I know — could’ve used 17 DLs on eMu, but I decided to drop the $7 at Amazon instead and save the DLs for later)

    This months’ eMu DLs include new ones from:
    • The Black Angels
    • The Constantines
    • Frightened Rabbit
    • Cut Copy
    • South

    • …and Slowdive - Pygmalion (I already had Souvlaki in my primary collection, and found Just for a Day in a box that had been stored in the attic for, like, the last 10 years — so I felt compelled to round out the Slowdive ouvre with Pygmalion. Glad I did — it’s gorgeous.)

15. 15 Adamm on May 1st, 2008 said:

    . . . and Crystal Stilts, which I was not initially a huge fan of has grown on me an incredible amount. I think it’s emusic selects best “grower” album yet.

16. 16 kinqaid on May 2nd, 2008 said:

    I am surprised no one is talking about the huge VP Music Group/INgrooves catalogue that has rolled out across the site this week.

    Having been born in the Caribbean, and raised in a relatively West Indian section of Brooklyn, my eyes welled up when I saw tons of albums by Freddie McGregor, Gregory Isaacs, Sanchez, Lady Saw, and newer artists like Tanya Stephens and Gyptian.

    I know we like our freak folk and psych-rock on this site (heaven knows I have downloaded my share of both), but plugging some of these great roots reggae and dancehall artists might draw a whole new set of subscribers and fans.

17. 17 yancey on May 2nd, 2008 said:

    this is joe’s whole bag, and i know he is incredibly pumped about it. i am sure he will check in.

18. 18 Daniel, Esq. on May 2nd, 2008 said:

    I love roots reggae, Kinqaid, including Horace Andy, Cornell Campbell, Keith Hudson, Lee Perry, King Tubby, virtually everything from the Blood & Fire label, and so forth.

    I hadn’t noticed these new arrivals. If there’s anything outstanding, please mention it.

19. 19 joe on May 2nd, 2008 said:

    The amount of VP releases put the fear of god into me. I’ll try to sort ‘em out today!

20. 20 Tim on May 2nd, 2008 said:

    Belated thanks for naming your post for one of my favorite tracks by The Fall!

    For the rest of the class, you can find the studio version of What About Us on Fall Heads Roll here at emu.

    (Note that The Fall’s Mark E. Smith is clever enough to follow Yancey’s example, eschewing expected punctuation in the title.)

    After you’ve downloaded that, check out this monster clip of a “Sparta FC/What About Us medley, or this truly evil version of the song by itself: 8 minutes of classic, stomping Fall-ery, complete with Mark singing into 2 mics at once and twiddling everyone else’s knobs.

    This is ESPECIALLY appropriate the same week that The Monks come to emu! Check out Mark’s love note on Black Monk Theme II. Even though I normally hate best-ofs, I linked to A World Bewitched here because it has so many essential Fall tracks not otherwise available at emu. I won’t go into details — impossible to stop once started and I’ve already hijacked this thread enough.

    Anyway, thanks for the trip to the back of the rack. Waaaaay too long since I’ve listened to this.

    PS. If you weren’t making a Fall reference, you should have. But you are, so it’s cool.

21. 21 kinqaid on May 2nd, 2008 said:

    Hey Joe, I am looking forward to what gems you will pull out from the VP stash! May god be with you:)

    Daniel, my favourites from the catalogue include:

    Marcia Griffiths — Reggae Anthology (Melody Life)
    Gyptian - My Name is Gyptian
    Beres Hammond - Sweetness
    Any and everything by Gregory Isaacs
    Lady Saw - Raw (Best of) - She has got the dirtiest mouth in dancehall!
    Sanchez - One in a Million
    Garnett Silk - 100% Silk

    …and that is the short list. I’ll leave it to Joe to outline the greatness of the collection.

22. 22 MiDoJo on May 2nd, 2008 said:

    While 17dots was gone I got lost in my emusic releases (and lost 18 downloads, no I don’t rely on you that much I had to hardreset my vista machine), but I did get some stuff.
    The New Herbaliser is great if you like Sharon Jones and the Daps Kings
    I got the last track off of the Jim Jones (Jonestown Cult not the Rapper) yo that’s messed up listening to those children cry.
    Got another track off the Autums (can’t remeber if both of the tracks were “today’s free track” or not.
    The Apocalyptica version of Hall of the Mountain King is hott (yeah two tt’s) Metal Electric Cello Classical music is awesome.
    The Mislabeled as Hip-Hop “Dead Love Junkies” Scratched my itch for music like Hooverphonic
    Frightened Rabbit (My friend says he sounds like Dave Mathews, I can see where she gets that from but I disagree)
    The Herd (Australian Hip-Hop from elefant
    Song off’a the new JXL (Mad Pursuit)
    I also got (from Z-Trip’s Website) a Remix of a song off the 2 disc Version of the “Run Run Run” Album Endless Winter (Emusic has the Single disc version) It’s an awesome remix of their (also) awesome cover of Mazy Star’s Classically Awesome Fade into You (Come what 30 something isn’t in love with that song)
    Oh yeah and it gfoes without saying I got some of the unbelievable awesome (lol) Ace of Base (sorry I just shot milk out of my nose)
    By the way on todays Fresh tracks, from Ninja Tunes Xen Cuts. Some cool Saul Wiliams, Latyrx and Quannam on there (am I the resident 17dots Hip-hop person (I always seem to be (for the most part) the only one with Hip-Hop on my list.)
    Also everyone keeps talking about The new Roots is this a Non-Emusic aquisition because I can’t find it of Emu. I want the New Portished and will probably pay record company dollars for it (I saw them perform songs from it of Current TV) Machine Gun is frickin AWESOME!!! and Genre redifining as Portishead always is.

23. 23 MiDoJo on May 2nd, 2008 said:

    your image verification software ate my post because it wouldn’t show the image. I am sad as I typed a long (varied from everyone else’s) list grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

24. 24 MiDoJo on May 6th, 2008 said:

    Update haha didn’t have to pay extremely high price for Third got it from Amazon Download for 8.99 (Still emu would have been better sigh)

    Warning I’m about to get mad @ the Spam filter eating everything and only sometimes posting my posts :-X

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