What Are You Listening To?

[immortaloldshool.]

Daylight- Matt and Kim.

[Tiggi]

Editors - In This Light And on This Evening



Third helping of their Joy-Division-Slitely-Lite Post Punk.

More keyboard heavy than they've been before, but none the worse for that. Seems to suit them well...

[Music Head]

from my library

Beck - Odelay - 1996



Influences abound from L.A. born Beck. Unique throughout, you certainly can't pigeonhole him. Fourth release and the only one I own. Don't mean that negatively. Just the only one I got around to. Hell, a man can't buy everything. I love the eclectic taste here of just being all over the board. Not a great album for me but pretty good. Album charted at #16 with singles of Devils Haircut (23), Where It's At (5), Jack-Ass (15) and The New Pollution (9). Single positions are Modern Rock charts. Also a grammy for album and another for Where It's At. We used to call those the kiss of death. Love that 60's look in track #4.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Favorite Track - Sissyneck

I don't need no wheels
I don't need no gasoline
'Cause the wind that is blowing
Is blowing like a smoke machine

If I said to you
That I was looking for a place to get to
'Cause my neck is broken
And my pants ain't getting no bigger

I got a stolen wife
And a rhinestone life
And some good ol' boys
I'm writing my will
On a three dollar bill
In the evening time

All my friends
Tell me something is getting together
I got a beard that would disappear
If I'm dressed in leather
Now let me tell you about my baby
She was born in Arizona
Sitting in the jailhouse
Trying to learn some good manners

I got a stolen wife
And a rhinestone life
And some good ol' boys
I'm writing my will
On a three dollar bill
In the evening time

Matchsticks strike
When I'm riding my bike to the depot
'Cause everybody knows my name
At the recreation center
If I could only find a nickel
I would pay myself off tonight
'Cause nobody knows
Where the good times have passed out cold

I got a stolen wife
And a rhinestone life
And some good ol' boys
I'm writing my will
On a three dollar bill
In the evening time

I got a stolen wife
And a rhinestone life
And some good ol' boys
I'm writing my will
On a three dollar bill
In the evening time

Don't talk to me
If you're looking for somebody to cry on
Don't talk to me
If you're looking for somebody to cuddle


1) Devils Haircut - ** - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG3sS8RBdms
2) Hotwax - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpqTFCGpOFo
3) Lord Only Knows - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GROZm6wqshk
4) The New Pollution - *** - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIf7wEJrjEk
5) Derelict - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUfoX275lOs
6) Novacane - * - live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2hvp9u1QBI
7) Jack-Ass - *** - live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDh_hzNh_Vc
8) Where It's At - ** - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uQ9W4KexnA
9) Minus - * - live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH98B3HdhUk
10) Sissyneck - *** - live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfO9IKmOav4
11) Readymade - * - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiJmU1nKbpY
12) High 5 (Rock The Catskills) - * - live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4il1Otk8Ho
13) Ramshackle - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV295R0DfAo

3's - 3
2's - 6
1's - 4

Rating - 1.9

[CMB1888]

Pulp - Common People

(like the Beck CD, by the way)

[Music Head]

from my library

Nick Lowe - Abominable Showman - 1983



Brinsley Schwarz frontman back with his 5th solo effort. Album reached #129 with no charting singles, at least in the U.S. Surely a disappointment after previous releases which may explain a shift in successive efforts, but that didn't work either. Nick's cult following would continue. Raging Eyes is the standout for me, and a nice live clip from American Bandstand. The strings in tracks #9 and #12 are nice. And I don't know what that stupid Tanque-Rae thing is.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Favorite Track - Raging Eyes

1) We Want Action - **
2) Raging Eyes - *** - live
YouTube - Nick Love - Ragin' Eyes
3) Cool Reaction - ** - audio
YouTube - Nick Lowe THE TIDE IS LOW ? (audio)
4) Time Wounds All Heels - ** - audio
YouTube - Nick Lowe Time Wounds All Heels (audio)
5) Man Of A Fool - *** - audio
YouTube - Nick Lowe Man of a Fool (audio)
6) Tanque-Rae - * - audio
YouTube - Nick Lowe Tanque-Rae (audio)
7) Wish You Were Here - *** - live
YouTube - Nick Lowe - Wish You Were Here (& Interview)
8) Chicken And Feathers - ** - audio
YouTube - Nick Lowe Chicken and Feathers (audio)
9) Paid The Price - ** - audio
YouTube - Nick Lowe Paid the Price (audio)
10) Mess Around With Love - **
YouTube - Nick Lowe Mess Around With Love (audio)
11) Saint Beneath The Paint - ** - live
YouTube - Nick Lowe Paul Carrack Saint Beneath the Paint
12) How Do You Talk To An Angel - ** - audio
YouTube - NICK LOWE How Do You Talk To An Angel? (audio)

3's - 3
2's - 8
1's - 1

Rating - 2.2

[CMB1888]

Giraffes?Giraffes! - When The Catholic Girls Go Camping, the Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme

[Music Head]

Giraffes?Giraffes! - When The Catholic Girls Go Camping, the Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme

Now that's gotta be good based on the title alone.

[CMB1888]

Say Anything - Say Anything

[Tiggi]

Blanche - If we Can't Trust The Doctors



More Alt-Country. Recommended on here ages ago by lapsed member Dogbreath.

[Music Head]

listened online

Painkiller Hotel - Black Roses - 2008



Chicago band formed in 2006, self released this debut in 2007, then signed by Nashville independent label which re-released this in 2008. I'm guessing it has yet to make any waves, but it was ok.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Favorite Track - Lead Me On


1) How Was I Supposed To Know - **
2) Brightest Flame - *
3) Voices In My Head - ** - video
YouTube - Painkiller Hotel - "Voice in My Head"
4) You Don't Know What You're Missing - * - live
YouTube - Painkiller Hotel Live from Sydney, Australia
5) Becoming Someone Else - **
6) All I Ever Wanted - **
7) Lead Me On - *** - live
YouTube - Ep : 18 Painkiller Hotel Segment 2
8) Changes - * - live
YouTube - Painkiller Hotel "Changes" Acoustic Live in Sydney
9) Weakness - **
10) So Far Away - **

3's - 1
2's - 6
1's - 3

Rating - 1.8