What albums are you listening to this week? And like, why?

Been looking all over for it to no avail. Stress wasn't an easy album to find either.


Also, google blog search. Third link.

Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living

Scarce – Red EP

This is the only image of the record anywhere on the internet, which is sad. I got into this band years ago, on a recommendation from Everett True, who was to us what Lester Bangs was to you. The record is a fucking masterpiece. The closest thing I’d compare their sound to would be the Replacements, but Scarce were a different beast altogether. The band never reached their full potential, and the lead singer Chick Graning suffered a brain hemorrhage in around 1995 and was never really the same again.







Scott 4 – Works Project LP

More memory lane. I love this band, and this record was sort of an alt-country tribute to Kraftwerk, but none of it's as bad as that suggests. Not really selling it to anyone, but you probably couldn’t find it anyhoo.

I was only kidding! I don't do spite! Oh god, I had a few beers, and it seemed funny at the time. Admittedly that was 3 minutes ago.

SeaHan said:
Rocadelic said:I can send it to you if you'd like

Yeah, I don't have an account to either of those, but I've heard they're really great sites for music. Do you mean you could send an invite?

And thanks eagleheartt, I'll do that.

PM me your email, I've got waffles invites. It might be a while until I catch the site when invites are open though.

MarioParty3 said:
SeaHan said:
Rocadelic said:I can send it to you if you'd like

Yeah, I don't have an account to either of those, but I've heard they're really great sites for music. Do you mean you could send an invite?

And thanks eagleheartt, I'll do that.

PM me your email, I've got waffles invites. It might be a while until I catch the site when invites are open though.

Sent.

Also, Rocadelic, I found the album through google search, so thanks anyway.

generalmalaise said:
I was only kidding! I don't do spite! Oh god, I had a few beers, and it seemed funny at the time. Admittedly that was 3 minutes ago.

...and put me on the slow bus yet again. =/

Then again, I was already a little touchy earlier today since I was thrust into a completely foreign environment. Which may very well become my home for four years come August.

(Still, glad to hear that you weren't serious. You've got a decidedly hyperbolic sense of sarcasm...this could really work to your advantage.)

Thanks, this would have passed me completely by. Any good?

On first listen I love it...

NB to frequency regarding our oddly prescient argument: this one actually is about Grant's death.

I feel relaxed, while listening to this. Also covers are sexy. No, that's not it. Let's just stick with the relaxation thing :)

Jean-Paul Bourelly Boom Bop

because I've been listening lately to a lot of the Hendrix-era & post-Hendrix jazz/blues/funk guitarists (Bourelly, Vernon Reid, James Blood Ulmer, Bern Nix, Pete Cosey, Sonny Sharrock, Eddie Hazel) to see where they've taken the idiom.

Bourelly is probably the least known of that grouping--though all would qualify as lesser known in the pop pantheon. Vernon Reid, Eddie Hazel, Sonny Sharrock should all be household names for some of their most popular associations (Living Colour, Funkadelic, Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast, respectively), but sadly aren't. At least not in most homes.

Bourelly is criminally underexposed in the land of his birth, the U.S. of A. Years ago, he settled in Germany, and Europeans can see him on tour frequently. If he's appearinng near you and you like free form funk, do not miss him.




post script: 2nd'd and 3rd'd on Arvo Part. The stark, serene auralscapes are beautiful. I, too, am a sucker for Cantus, though I don't have a film association.

Diamanda Galás - Plague Mass

I liked this on first listen (though I thought it was way too weird), but I gave this a second spin today and the difference was abysmal. It tore my mind into little pieces and rearranged them. One of the most intense listening experiences I've ever had.