What I've Been Listneing To

Here a list of some stuff that I’ve been listening to lately:

Joan Jett and The Blackhearts/Bad Reputation-What a cool punk rock inspired classic. I guess I remember the single, but felt compelled to get it after watching Freaks and Geeks, which uses the tune as it’s theme song during the intro. I always thought she was way mainstream, but shows that she did have an edge at one time.

Gang of Four/Entertainment! I really liked the song “Natural’s Not It,” which was on the Marie Antoinette soundtrack, so I tracked down this album that is said to be a post punk classic and I have to concur.

The White Stripes/Icky Thump-I thought I was over these guys. I didn’t even get Satan’s Pilgrim, but I have been hearing good things about his album and I have to admit there are some good tracks on it.

Spoon/Ga Ga Ga Ga-I got a bunch of their stuff awhile back and a lot of it’s quite good. I still don’t know this one too well. I guess I need to listen to it some more.

Lloyd Cole/The Collection-I was a huge Lloyd Cole fan back in the day, but somehow he didn’t make the transition to CD in my collection. "Lost Weekend" is brillant.

The Rushmore Soundtrack-I think this is one of my favorite films and I really love Wes Anderson’s choices of songs in this film: “Here Comes My Baby” & “The Wind” by Cat Stevens, “Making Time" by Creation, “Ooh La La” by The Faces, “Nothin In The World Can Stop Me Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl” by The Kinks, “Oh Yoko” by John Lennon, “A Quick One While He’s Away” by The Who.

Rushmore inspired these choices as well: The Kinks/Something Else, Creation/How Does It Feel to Feel, The Who/Who’s Next.

My friend Eric inspired me to listen to the Violent Femmes/Violent Femmes with his "what I'm listening to" list.

The guys at Flowering Toilet inspired me to listen to some old Husker Du/Candy Apple Grey & Warehouse: Songs and Stories.

The guys at Flowering Toilet are big Love fans and seeing Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket again reminded me what a great song “Alone Again Or” is. So it led to Love/Forever Changes.

Comments

[Pete]

Thanks for the plug! What did you think of the drum sound on Candy Apple Grey? I have decided that the "bad" drum sound was an aesthetic choice. I think the tinny, treble-heavy sound was what the band was going for. It sounds more abrasive then well recorded drums.

[Captain]

Flip Your Wig and New Day Rising were always my favorites. But I don't think they made one that I wouldn't want to listen to. Well, maybe Land Speed Record. This appearance on the Joan Rivers show (to promote Warehouse) is pretty entertaining:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vefkvjcjNj8&mode=related&search=

[MC]

To be honest I never really noticed the subpar drum sound on Candy Apple Grey.

I think I relied on friends' record collections a lot in high school/college. So a lot of the stuff that the guys at Flowering Toilet write about makes me want to go back and listen to again. But in many cases I never owned the record or had it dubbed on a cassette.