What are you listening to right now?

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:06 pm

I have a great VU box set that's called Peel Slowly And See, which I've always thought was very clever. The covers to the 5 individual CDs are photos of the reel-to-reel boxes of the masters. Very cool, and you can get it used for about $30 and be all complete with the VU basics.

I'm not listening to much of anything right now, as I'm immersed in Dombey and Son, 475 pages in with 500 more to go... and I fear it won't be long enough! I always feel that way with a good book, but Dickens especially.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:11 pm

selfmademug wrote:I have a great VU box set that's called Peel Slowly And See, which I've always thought was very clever.

Nice looking box set.

Yeah, great cover. One of my best friends in high school used to listen to this album obsessively. He turned out surprisingly normal - no skag habit or weird fetishes (that I know of) and he's happily married and teaching literature to college students in Milwaukee now.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:48 pm

Sounds like he's following in the footsteps of Sterling Morrison (not in terms of health, though, I hope - poor Sterling).

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:24 pm

Lambchop - Is A Woman.
It does soothe me.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:56 pm

And here all this time I thought Lamb Chop was a sock puppet...

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:04 pm

Tell me, momma.. what is it? What's wrong with you this time?

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:15 pm

John Coltrane "Crescent"

This guy died way too young.......

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:04 pm

I've been grooving to Paul Anka's Rock Swings . Fave
at the moment is his take on The Pet Shop Boys Its A
Sin. He even makes Eye Of The Tiger sound kind of
good. That song has seared in to mind by a happening
from my mercifully brief sporting career at school ,
curtailed by deteriorating eye-sight from age 14
onwards. I remember sitting in a Tempalogue College
changing room , waiting to lineout with the Under 14
C's for C.U.S. From the host's room could be heard ,
thumping through the wall, Survivor's opening riffs -
DANN! DANN! DANNDANNDANN! - as our opponents worked up
their bloodlust to run out on the field and lay waste
to us all. Of course , when they saw the skinny ,
spotty shower that we were they rapidly backed off ,
and adopted the air of derision that was all they
needed to flatten us. I , of course , spent the game
watching for our coach to be looking the other way so
that I could rub mud into my knees and shorts so that
, when we left the field, he couldn't point to my
spotless state as a sign of my lack of willingness to
'get stuck in'.

Getting back to Anka. He cleverly alters
Spandau Ballet's True by changing the line 'Listening
to Marvin all night long ' to 'Listening to Ella all
night long'.

Check it out!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=music

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:05 pm

And how about the novelty inclusion of Smells Like Teen Spirit. heard that the other day. Sounds like a a very ironic joke, but not unpleasant.

The Knack - My Sharona! I kid you not. I loathe it, but it's on some 80s comp that landed up, and I was testing out whether the pearLyrics widget WSS has just alerted me to would get the lyrics straight off for it. It took a while, actually. I was really hoping that it would say 'not found' so I could report that The Fall's Rebellious Jukebox appeared immediately, but not this.

This was followed by Wizzard's See My Baby Jive. Now there's a classic.

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:36 pm

Doofmonkster's car CD player currently contains:

Wild, Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle - Bruce
Crossing Muddy Waters - John Hiatt
All this Useless Beauty - EC&A
High Land, Hard Rain - Aztec Camera
The Boatman's Call - NC and the Bad Seeds
Grace - Jeff Buckley

Tomorrow I have a long drive and am planning to swift swap to:

Clash on Broadway (CD2)
I Should Coco - Supergrass
Specials and Desmond Dekker Compilation
Ella Fitzgerald - Essential
Graham Parker - Struck by Lightning.
Electronic - Electronic

I shall be having a large bowl of Corn Flakes for brekkie.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:02 pm

What colour trousers?

I don't know if we could get lost in a city this size if we wanted to. (Electronica song with lovely clarinet bit, can't remember title).

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:19 pm

Haven't listened to this in ages. "Castles Made Of Sand" is such a good song.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 2:11 am

I thought I knew the basics about Hendrix, but I have to confess I didn't know that cover, have never heard (of) Castles in the Sand, and don't recognise Axis: Bold As Love as a Hendrix LP title. Where have I been all these years? I do know Little Wing, though.

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 3:50 am

Listening to an excellent 2 disc compilation I picked up in Brighton last weekend - Dawning of a New Era (The Roots of Skinhead Reggae) - some righteous skank from 1968 and 1969, 42 tracks mostly by people I don't know at all (The Tennors, Derrick Morgan, Glen Adams, The Crystalites, Lloyd Charmers) - with a few I'm familair with (The Ethiopians, The Pioneers, Rico & The All Stars). good shit once again from Trojan.

verena · Post by **verena** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 2:57 am

Fats Domino - Is that a Shame

(radio on while checking the mail)

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:49 am

Verena - is that a different song to Ain't That A Shame or are you just posh in your part of the world

Like the Doofmonkster I have a long trip coming up and in readiness have placed

The Magic Numbers (eponymous)
Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and
The Beautiful South - Gold Diggas Head Nodders & Pholk Songs

in the car.

Unlike the Doofmonkster I have not decided what I will be having for breakfast as I like to live life by the edge (not The Edge of U2 in case you were confused).

My clothes will be whatever Mrs VG lays out on the bed for me

verena · Post by **verena** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 2:34 pm

VG the song was really on the radio, and I repeated what the guy announced. I don't know the exact title, don't have anything of Fats Domino. "Ain't That A Shame" ?

I may seem to be, but I ain't no posh gal dear. I can cope in posh circles very well, indeed too well (people who know nothing of me imagine I got everything while it ain't true, and paradoxically that doesn't help, even though I don't give a damn). I certainly feel comfortable in certain posh surroundings , but I don't belong there. I feel closer to the outcasts always. But I don't belong nowhere really, don't want to. I guess that's why I can fit anywhere and I am very happy with myself about that (fortunately, cause in a number of respects do I lack !).

By the way who is the "doofmonkster" ?

Post by **BlueChair** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 2:47 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:I thought I knew the basics about Hendrix, but I have to confess I didn't know that cover, have never heard (of) Castels in the Sand, and don't recognise Axis: Bold As Love as a Hendrix LP title. Where have I been all these years? I do know Little Wing, though.

Axis: Bold As Love is the 2nd of three Jimi Hendrix Experience albums (the third being Electric Ladyland)... it was released in 1967. It's not as hit-heavy as Are You Experienced?, but it's pretty awesome.. "Little Wing", "Spanish Castle Magic"...

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:07 pm

On the must-check-out list.

Ain't it a shame that when you commit a typo, as is my wont, and you get quoted, an amendment to the original doesn't yield a concomittant amendment in the quote? (cf 'Castels') Now that would be smart software!

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:42 am

Nick Cave & The Bad Seed's "There She Goes, My Beautiful World." I am starting to get a little obsessed with this song which may not be a good thing because it makes me want to find a big ol' bag of pharmaceuticals and show the cast of 24 Hour Party People how it's done.

verena · Post by **verena** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 3:23 pm

The Immaculate Collection - Madonna

I put it on for "Live to Tell". In fact I prefer the more recent songs (she did good ones, ya know.)

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:40 am

Stephen Duffy - "Julie Christie"

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:23 pm

Eskimo - Damien Rice

verena · Post by **verena** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:24 am

Enough Is Enough (No More Tears) - Barbra Streisand

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:06 am

The Ocean, Richard Hawley

I can't remember which thread it was wherein WSS was discussing Richard Hawley, but somehow I had a large DUH moment (those becoming alarmingly more frequent, I should add) that he was on the current WORD Magazine comp. DUH.

Anyway, boy it's really gorgeous if you've got the appetite. Not for the small of stomach, this is full-butter-and-hard-liquor stuff.