What are you Listening to? 2012 Edition

[triggercut]

MOJO lists Jack White's Blunderbuss as album of the year.

MOJO is right.

[nKoan]

Been listening mostly to P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here



My favorite track is still the first one released, Bumper, and the live version he (with what I assume is the Marijuana Deathsquads guys backing up) did for Pitchfork is amazing

Bumper - Live

Speaking of which, almost everything I hear from Marijuana Deathsquads is impressing me. Heavy percussion and noisy synths.

Crazy Master
John Cage Match

http://soundcloud.com/marijuanadeathsquads/
http://marijuanadeathsquads.bandcamp.com/

[Relayer71]

I've been doing my regular cycle through Midnight Oil's history.

So I own only one Midnight Oil album, Blue Sky Mining, which I picked up way back in 1990. I really like the album and listen to it every couple of years but strangely enough, never got anything else by them. What album of theirs would you recommend I get next?

[Relayer71]

First new Lilys song in years?

Why yes, actually:

http://snd.sc/PxxqnI

Eccsame The Photon Band is such an overlooked, underrated album... even if their/his other stuff is only just mediocre with occasional flashes of brilliance. Wish Kurt would have stuck to that sound.

[triggercut]

Eccsame The Photon Band is such an overlooked, underrated album... even if their/his other stuff is only just mediocre with occasional flashes of brilliance. Wish Kurt would have stuck to that sound.

Love that record too...but even with two of my favorite musicians--Kurt Heasley and Art DiFuria collaborating, it's not my favorite Lilys record.

I don't think that Better Can't Make Your Life Better can be denied, frankly. It's one of the great rock and roll albums of all time. Yep, said it.

All.

Time.

[Avtar]

That's Bill Rieflin. Yes, the same Bill Rieflin of Ministry/Revolting Cocks/Swans/KMFDM fame. He's all in with Robyn buying into the IWAK thing as well. I wasn't kidding when I said they were attracting the attention of some pretty discerning musicians.

Bill produced a non-album single for my band earlier this year(http://music.atomic-bride.com/track/crush-vaccine), and will be playing drums with us at our next Seattle show, December 15th, opening up for Walking Papers(Barrett Martin from Screaming Trees, Duff McKagan from Guns n Roses, Jeff Angell from The Missionary Position), btw.

Hot damn!

[triggercut]

Eccsame The Photon Band is such an overlooked, underrated album... even if their/his other stuff is only just mediocre with occasional flashes of brilliance. Wish Kurt would have stuck to that sound.

Shortly after I started a blog back in 2003 or 2004 or so, I thought: "I'm going to jot down a few words to explain why the two album run of Kurt Heasley's 1990's Lilys albums are so supernova brilliant and why they're so important to me, and why they should be so important to other folks and why Lilys across those two records--Better Can't Make Your Life Better and "The 3-Way"--did for guitar pop music what David Foster Wallace was doing for pop fiction."

That blog post swelled to nearly 4,000 words, with no hope of finally arriving at whatever points I was trying to make. Over the last ten years I've taken multiple stabs at it, to no avail. On at least 20 occasions (and probably more, sadly) I've gone back to it and attempted to edit it, add to it, better articulate it, whatever. Sometimes I've wholesale deleted thousands of words....and then added another thousand. I'm not sure I'll ever get it.

But...thanks to this exchange, yesterday I was talking on the phone with a friend about Lilys, and that friend asked offhand if I'd ever heard the remixed/remastered UK version of Better Can't Make Your Life Better. Apparently Heasley had meant for that record to be totally backed by an orchestra, but time and money ran short in equal amounts and that was that. The remxed/remastered version restores a lot of the horns and strings that were originally meant to be on the record but got pulled for thematic reasons (for Heasley, it was either "all or nothing" with the orchestral stuff). I've been aware of the existence of this version of the record since it came out in 1998, but never had it. Said friend then loaned me his copy, and I made my own (shhh, no one tell!) and now that's fueled me to once again try to take a stab at articulating lengthy thoughts about these albums. Again.

[rrmorton]

If you build it, they will come.

[charmtrap]

I don't think I could possibly find 4000 words to say about them, but both Better and 3-Way are indeed sublime works of genius (especially The 3-Way, an ambitious work of psych-power-pop perfection that Ray Davies can only wish he'd made).

One of the main things stopping me from fully committing to Spotify for all my music needs is that neither of those albums are on it.

[triggercut]

I don't think I could possibly find 4000 words to say about them,

I managed to just write 325 words about writing 4,000 words about them. As in all things: I need an editor. ;)

[Manta]

New solo album from Joey Kneiser. I prefer the full-band stuff from Glossary but this is awful good also, just more mellow. Stream below

http://ninebullets.net/archives/stre...raveyard-heart

Triggercut's praise from earlier this thread/year....

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

(This is Glossary, who are incredible, and in the last few years singers Joey and Kelly Kneiser have gotten divorced. Oh, and Joey? He's now legally blind as a result of a degenerative ocular disease. And this song? It will rip your heart right the fuck out as two people who used to be husband and wife sing about their feelings for one another. If there's someone on this planet writing better, more poetic lyrics than Joey Kneiser, I want to know who that is.)