Recent listens

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:57 pm

Hah. I picked up The Stooges - The Stooges pretty much from the bottom of the bargain bin. And it's bloody good.
Retro rock in all honour, but there's nothing wrong with the rock they're retroing from, either.

Scoundrel Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 403

Ha ha momonashi has SFU people.. kinda figured that bassist is
pretty extra awesome since he stands out more in the duo formation
and yeah that girl obviously is the one who makes the weird noises
all the time (Unknown if said noises are japanese or just weird
noises).

Fan Boy Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 29 Location: transit

Saheena Maneesh feels like a mix of Ride and The Jesus & Mary Chain

or something, quite good though

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:49 am

The video clip for "Jocko Homo" is the best ever. Some further listens:

Peoples - Him
Those damn Americans sure know how to create cool, groovy post-rock music, just like how we Japanese know how to create sexy tentacle porn.

Mind Bomb - The The
I've had this one for ages - decided to give it another spin. One of the best albums to come out of the 80s if you ask me, tasteful guitars courtesy of Johnny Marr. You just gotta love Mark Stewart's excessive seriousness.

Rousoku Wo Tomoshite - Shione Yukawa
A single, co-written with ex-Smashing Pumpkin James Iha. I used to be a big SP fanboy when I was a teenager. Yeah, so Shione Yukawa signed with a major label (Toshiba EMI), and her new album will be coming out later this month. It'll no doubt be promoted heavily, and she could very well end up being a big star. Good for her, I guess.

Also, that album by that Swedish chick that pnyxtr uploaded on the staff dump is blissfully good. Looked it up at Amazon Japan, they didn't have it. Fuck.

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:34 am

Summer Soldier wrote:

Also, that album by that Swedish chick that pnyxtr uploaded on the staff dump is blissfully good. Looked it up at Amazon Japan, they didn't have it. Fuck.

I find it pretty similar to Aimee Mann and Beth Orton. And maybe Tori Amos a bit. But thats prolly cause i never listen what are they singing about >.>

(look which wikipedia is better now, bitch)

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:24 pm

Well, if it's Hello Saferide you mean, I can send it to you.
Amazingly enough, it's something like ￥1300 at my usual monger of CDs, even though it's only a couple of months old.

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:34 am

Dunno hows that in your countries, but polish albums are uber cheap here, in comparison to foregin ones. Like two times cheaper. I've bought Smolik 2 limited edition, 2CDs album (2nd one are remixes) recently for 29.99 PLN and new album by Kult - Poligono Industrial cost only 19.99 (39.99 in limited edition with DVD). These are prices i can pay. Music shouldnt be expensive Sad

For comparison, average US album is 59.99 or 69.99 PLN. There are cheaper ones of course - Radiohead albums are about 50 PLN, more popular are usually more expensive... Sad

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:44 pm

Summer Soldier wrote:

Mind Bomb - The The
I've had this one for ages - decided to give it another spin. One of the best albums to come out of the 80s if you ask me, tasteful guitars courtesy of Johnny Marr. You just gotta love Mark Stewart's excessive seriousness.

Who's Mark Stewart? I'm generally torn between digging Matt Johnson's melancholy cheesiness and being annoyed by it. I'd probably go with the singles collection, which has my two favorite songs from Mind Bomb (Armageddon Days and the Beaten Generation), plus the original version of Perfect.

As a (maybe) interesting aside, it seems Johnson was into some really cool stuff in the 80s. He has one great, obscure song that appears on a compilation for Some Bizarre records. It's like this really catchy pop song squeezed in between bands like Foetus, Marc Almond, Einsturzende Neubauten and some Throbbing Gristle spinoffs, all at around the sleaziest points in their careers. Can't remember the title of that song but it's a worthwhile cd to check out, "If You Can't Please Yourself You Can't Please Your Soul".

Picked up a Swell Maps album a week ago, "A Trip to Marineville". about 1/2 of the cd is unbearably slow but the rest is excellent.

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:06 pm

ion_ford wrote:

Who's Mark Stewart?

An American painter, it seems like. No idea where that came from. I always mix up Marc Almond and Matt Johnson for some odd reason (kind of like how I often mix up Tatsuya Egawa and Hisashi Eguchi), but this is a first for me. I can definitely understand how his over-the-top melancholiness can be off-putting, but when you spend a good deal of your youth listening to the Smiths, you become pretty immune to that kind of stuff. Though it would be nice if he showed a sense of humor occasionally, which Morrissey actually did quite often. That song you mention, was that does under the The The moniker?

pnyxtr - No, it's that other one, Anna something. If you have that in CD form, I would absolutely love to have it. Though we'll have to work out payment. I'm kind of uncomfortable doing paypal, since that would entail me entering my information on a public computer (still don't have a pc, you see). Maybe we could do a trade-off where I send you something of equivalent value (CD? manga? porn?) in return?

petr - Well both the Japanese and Polish wikipedias have 100,000 articles, so we're even. Though yeah, when adjusted for our respective countries' population (or GDP Wink

), I guess you have us beat. Does wikipedia advertise itself intensively in Poland or something? As for CD prices, I actually took the trouble of converting your evil currency to real money (aka the Japanese yen) - fuck me that's dirt cheap. I wonder if there's any country out there besides Japan where imports are actually cheaper than domestic releases...

New Zazen Boys album out today!

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:42 pm

Oh, right, Anna Ternheim. Yeah, her music is better.
The unfortunate thing there is that the acoustical versions (which at least I like better) are on a different CD, and I still haven't found that for purchase anywhere. The ordinary version I already have, though. It's even cheaper than that other one, actually.

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:32 am

Summer Soldier wrote:

petr - Well both the Japanese and Polish wikipedias have 100,000 articles, so we're even. Though yeah, when adjusted for our respective countries' population (or GDP Wink

), I guess you have us beat.

We have 3 thousands more articles now! Who's the bitch?! :}

Summer Soldier wrote:

Does wikipedia advertise itself intensively in Poland or something?

Not at all. Well, there were some articles in mags and papers, but not that much. And no actual adverties in tv or even net. Its all generous ppl doing. Impresive.

Summer Soldier wrote:

As for CD prices, I actually took the trouble of converting your evil currency to real money (aka the Japanese yen) - fuck me that's dirt cheap. I wonder if there's any country out there besides Japan where imports are actually cheaper than domestic releases...

And hell, you always get some neat bonuses on your releases. Like every artist out there cares more about jap ppl then cool and neat europeans Sad

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:41 am

Right now, I'm listening to The Greatest by Cat Power.

pnyxtr - Dude, I'd be happy with just the non-acoustic disc. She's amazing. I'll send you a pm.

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:06 pm

I finally got some of the albums summer recommended... Sugar Mama and Modern Conya are pretty good. SFU is very good in parts and average in others. That would be it :}

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:27 pm

Summer Soldier wrote:

Though it would be nice if he showed a sense of humor occasionally, which Morrissey actually did quite often. That song you mention, was that does under the The The moniker?

The song is called Flesh and Bones and was credited to the the, but I think it was pretty early and wasn't ever released as a single of on any of Johnson's albums.

For humorous 80's music, I have to confess to being a big fan of Yello. I've been picking up all the recent German reissues of their early albums for the bonus tracks. For a while there I think Dieter Meier had one of the coolest vocal styles since the Residents.

Scoundrel Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 403

Finally scored some Scoobie Do albums and have been enjoying
them heavily. It's just so happy and upbeat... a quality that has really
been lacking imo in mainstream US music for awhile!

I mean sure I have no idea what the fuck the dude's saying but I
assume its not about unrequited love, his truck/dog dying or that some
scrubs are hating on his playin instead of hatin on da game.

Might be, sure, but ignorance is bliss!

Also the selftitled bugy craxone album was pretty fun if you like
the slightly aggressive (in a cute manner), decently fast girl
rock.