Brought home a fair armload of stuff this weekend. Went over board, wAaaAAaaaAAay over board, and I don't regret it one bit.

Big Black - Songs about Fucking (Vinyl)
When I bought my stereo this album was at the top of my list of things I needed buy on vinyl. The CD has your typical poor vinyl CD transfer thing happening. The sound is simply blunted, claustrophobic and shitty. I took a listen of it tonight but wasn't able to really crank it up the way I wanted to. It still kicked a lot of ass.

Burial - Untrue (Vinyl)…

This came through me email today and since it's neubauten.org mail I figure it best to just pass it along here. I'm also going to add some of the tags, and an exposed Youtube link, cause you know I'm cool like that.

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English version below!

Liebe alle,

es gibt spannende Neuigkeiten zu vermelden!
Auch wenn derzeit keine Konzerte der Einstürzenden Neubauten geplant sind, tut sich doch einiges hinter den Kulissen der Band. So sind alle Mitglieder weiterhin mit ihren Soloprojekten beschäftigt und auf den Bühnen dieser Welt unterwegs. Und ganz nebenbei werden in Hinblick auf die im nächsten Jahr…

Lately, it seems my worldly experience has as much to do with reality as Tarot has with the future. No, I'm not on drugs. I'm just going insane in a crazy world. Or, more accurately life is upside down, and I've no clue wear I stand, and the activity preference of the day is loud music combined with wall staring. Not even bothering with the beer. Why? I'm already checked out.

Here's my loud music for the day.

Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night
(vinyl)
This is a great album and seems to be much more at home on Vinyl…

Recently received an email from Boris and Marco. They will be doing some webcasts of the bands they are working with at www.anderebaustelle.com with chat. No registration or password required.

Should be going to bed, but for some reason I'm in the mood for a few select songs..

Monster Movie - Waiting
A beautiful and hopeful song that reminds me of a weekend I spent with a lovely woman. It didn't work out. But, it's a fond memory and I'm happy every time I hear this song now.

Japancakes - Blown a Wish
A warm flowing take on the My Bloody Valentine classic. One of my favourite songs, period.

James Hardway - Speak Softly
An upbeat gem with grooving bass line and a smoky voice singing with confidence about making…

For those who haven't been visiting the Neubauten.org webpage lately the store has a few interesting items.

From Einsturzende Neubauten :
- Musterhaus 8, 7, 6, and 5
- Live CD-Rs from the "Alles Wieder Offen" Tour 2008

There's still some stuff available from the previous tours as well.

Also…
N.U. Unruh - AirShow DVD
Alexander Hacke, Danielle de Picciotto, and Tiger Lillies - Mountains of Madness DVD

www.neubauten.org

The new format and the lack of "Recommended Reading" has kind of deflated my interest in writing journals for the moment. I'm not totally freaked out that Last.FM has reduced focus on the journal, but it's still a bit of a disappointment. I'm still hopeful they'll bring in back, and I've been musing about what I'd like to see.

My recommendations for a new Recommended Reading:

1) Allow us to recommend journals and have that exposed to our friends/neighbours. Perhaps be able to tag it with a small set of preset tags such as: funny, informative, great read, good links,…

Mrs. Miller - Artist Collection Wild Cool
I'm not going to bother listening to this one right now. Mrs. Miller is an old church type lady who warbles and caterwauls several hits of the 50's and 60's. It's an enduring experience really. Something you slip in somewhere in the middle of the party to get a good laugh. Some will be in on it and laugh along, while others will just gape at you while you're an idiot. All I can say is I was kinda worried that this might be out of print. What would an Ultra Lounge collection…

These Are Powers - Terrific Seasons

I discovered this group about a week ago through there very cool Guy Maddin influenced video for Silver Lung.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZEtnoVJ1Ro

These are Powers is a "Ghost Punk" band out of Brooklyn. It's a noisy style of punk with heavily distorted and droning bassline, with clamouring treble/reverb drenched guitars. The sound is not too distant from The Liars (apparently they share a member) with more attack, and a less experimental approach. Other worthy associations (at least in my mind) include: This Heat, Sightings, Erase Erata, and Magick Markers.

Relativism
I have a friend who believes you can develop a wider appreciation of music without knowing anything about the music you're listening to. She said this while sitting in my living room. My living room is almost covered in CDs and she has no clue what 99% of them are. She wouldn't even leave it at: The piece of music you're listening to.

I don't think I could appreciate music near as much as I do now without playing the game of "who is that?" where can I hear some more? Or, "what's this about?" Yah… too much of…