This is an obviously quiet Friday afternoon, Labor weekend and all I guess. The phone hasn’t rang at all and I’m all alone in the office. Which usually means I can crank up the volume and listen to whatever I want. Currently in rotation Radiohead, followed by some Mexican Rock (oh yeah! it’s killer).
What music do you listen to when you work? Is there anything that gets you going creatively? Classical, Punk, Hip Hop, Polka?
Ah yes, 'tis a slow, slow afternoon. I'm currently photoshopping dust off of a scan I just got back, and Expensive Shit by Fela Kuti is working wonders for my sanity. the beat keeps on going... Fela easily had the most outrageous and amazing life of any musician I've ever heard of.
Also currently in rotation:
Broadcast, HaHa Sound
Captain Beefheart, Strictly Personal
Ornette Coleman, The Complete Science Fiction Sessions
The Best of The Damned
I really love listening to noodly electronic stuff like Aphex Twin and Autechre when I'm in 'the zone', but right now my zone is back at my apartment drinking a mint julep.
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:18 PMAs far as music goes, it must be on at all times while I work. (Good thing I'm the only person in my office and the boss.)
So since music is a given the selection must be as varying as possible. In one day my playlist will run through, roots reggae, German dance-hall, rock, drumb and bass, speed metal, electroclash, bhangra, traditional Indian music, Cuban hip-hop, tons of completely unclassifiable music and pop from Korea, Japan, Germany, Britain, Mexico and Sweden.
Highlights include Yoshinori Sunahara, Whale, White Zombie, Unkle, Tosca, Thievery Corporation, The Streets, The Pharcyde, Squarepusher, The Cardigans
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:21 PMANDREW W.K.
- It's Time to Party
- Party Hard
- Party Till You Puke
- I Get Wet
- Tear It Up
Other days, Jane's Addiction, Mint Royale (Stop it! I'm straight!), Heat soundtrack, Underworld 100 Days Off, 28 Days Later soundtrack, and more Andrew W.K.
Party Hard!!!
Hey, anybody in Chicago wanna go see him in concert on Wednesday Sept. 3? No one, surprisingly, will go with me...
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:29 PMI hear you, Graham, we just did a video for a band called Less Than Jake, and I can't take that damn song off my head..
Lately I'm enjoying Zwan, Wilco, and Café Tacuba. But on those long nights before a deadline I crank up the live album by Underworld or some compilation by Sasha+Digweed or Christopher Lawrence to keep those brain cells awake...
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:31 PM> and Café Tacuba
BEST GROUP IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
I second that!
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:37 PMBuena Vista Social Club
dc Talk
Tait
TobyMac
P.O.D
Switchfoot
Newsboys
Third Day
The Temptations
Al Greene
The London Symphony Orchestra
Destiny's Child
U2
P.F.R.
The Soggy Bottom Boys
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
John Coltrane
Foo Fighters
Tommy Guerrero
Newsong
Styx
Duran Duran
The Normals
Audio Adrenaline
Russ Lee
Norah Jones
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:43 PMArmin, you know they are playing here in LA next week, together with Kinky? And you know who's got tickets?
:)
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:45 PM> and Café Tacuba
> BEST GROUP IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
(checks allmusic.com)
Hey, these guys sound cool — what's their best album?
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:46 PM>Hey, these guys sound cool — what's their best album?
Impossible question to answer. They are all good. The coolest thing is that they are all different. Their style changes every album. My favorite is Re, but it's not an easy listen at times. I think their strongest album is Reves/Yo Soy, a double album, one is instrumental and I get giddy every time I listen to it. Ashamed to admit, but haven't bought their latest one.
>And you know who's got tickets?
Ah! Wanna hear something even more awful? They were here in Chicago earlier this month and I had no clue. Missed them.
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:50 PMThe one thing I *really* miss about the ol' gig was the open studio and loud stereo playing all the time.
The iPod with headphones in a cubicle just isn't the same :(
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:52 PMLet's check iTunes...
The Mars Volta De-Loused In The Comatorium
Cat Power You Are Free
The Postal Service Give Up
Cave In Antenna
Iron and Wine
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Lot's of Def Juxt beats like Aesop Rock, El-P, Vast Aire, and RJD2
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:54 PMBruce is at Giants Stadium on Sunday night, so he's loud in my car and on my iPod.
On Aug.29.2003 at 04:08 PMBeulah.
Shimmer Kids.
Call and response.
Olivia tremor control.
Neil Halstead.
and always in rotation: The Beach Boys.
On Aug.29.2003 at 04:21 PMBruce
I heard he's a real prick. Requires Stonyfield Farms yogurt in his dressing room, but if there's a Lemon (I think) flavored one - the show is off!
I'd rather be a movie star... ;)
On Aug.29.2003 at 04:30 PMKiran, that The Mars Volta De-Loused In The Comatorium album is super dope, one of the best of the year.
On Aug.29.2003 at 04:49 PMRecently on my iPod:
Black Flag First Four Years
Cursive The Ugly Organ
Exploding Hearts Guitar Romantic
Gunmoll Anger Management in Four Chords or Less
The Matt Skiba ep
...but also, this last week I've used Audio Hijack Pro to capture the audio from DVDs and I listen to them at work. I spent Monday listening to Pulp Fiction (Not the soundtrack; the actual movie audio) and today I've been listening to Fight Club. It's interesting if you know the movie well enough to follow.
I want to try it with Amelie, to see how good my French is.
-R
On Aug.29.2003 at 05:02 PMKiran, that The Mars Volta De-Loused In The Comatorium album is super dope, one of the best of the year.
Awesome you had it Anthony, I knew it was up your alley. Knocked me on my ass the first time I heard it. A weird combo of At The Drive In (ex-members are in the band), Bjork, and Rush - not that I've listened much to the last two but anywho... It's a true album.
Ever listen to Refused from Sweden? Similar sound.
I've used Audio Hijack Pro to capture the audio from DVDs
Smart fucking idea Rick. That app kicks ass.
On Aug.29.2003 at 05:40 PM*the new Weakerthans album, which is amazing.
*the new Rancid album, which is pretty good.
*the waifs
*be good tanyas
*van morrision
*cake
what a wacky variety for me today!
i guess it fits because i just had some really wacky client meetings today. One client gave me a gift because he liked me work, a gift of petrified wood and buffalo hair. bizarre.
On Aug.29.2003 at 05:43 PMHell of a mix for me today (like most days):
Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Sheep on Drugs - greatest hits
Ministry - the mind is a terrible thing to taste
chill out in paris 2/by david visan
No Doubt - Rock Steady
underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
primus - pork soda
on the floor at the boutique - both the fatboy slim and lo fidelity allstars
Elvis Costello - spike
Joni Mitchell - Blue
On Aug.29.2003 at 06:08 PMI'm usually just a lurker here, but music topics will almost always draw me from my stupor... On the deck right now is some Johnny Cash, Echo and the Bunnymen, the upcoming Death Cab for Cutie album, and a lot of Café Tacuba...
The Wife and I will be heading out to Bumbershoot here in Seattle on Monday to catch the New Pornographers and Café Tacuba as well... I'm bringing the MiniDisc, so if anyone wants a bootleg, just let me know.
Café Tacuba's latest album is a bit of a separation from their previous stuff as there's a noticeable lack of their traditional sound (a little more latin angle with instruments and rhythms) - it's much more of a rock album than what they've previously done. The nice thing is that having Dave Fridmann produce much of it gives it that tighty-tight tight Flaming Lips quality...
On Aug.29.2003 at 06:14 PM+ Kelly Joe Phelps
+ Flaming Lips
+ Pete Yorn
+ Willy Porter
+ Beastie Boys
Hey Seth! I'm up here in Bellingham and can't make it to Bumbershoot, but check out the Pale this weekend if you can. Local B'ham boys do good!
On Aug.29.2003 at 06:50 PMThe Latest Choice Picks:
The classics...
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Van Halen
G'n'R
Avant garde...
The Party of Helicopters
Hot Water Music
Mars Volta
The Explosion
Hot Hot Heat
Hope you all caught Maiden on tour this summer...
On Aug.29.2003 at 06:51 PMDavid Sylvian Blemish
Neil Finn One Nil
Beck Sea Change
Peter Gabriel Long Walk Home
Michael Brook Cobalt Blue
On Aug.29.2003 at 08:08 PMMusic always gets the creative juices flowing.
Lately I been listening to Verve Remixed 1 and 2, anything from ESL, Babel Gilberto, and Frank Sinatra.
On Aug.29.2003 at 10:05 PMI listen to mostly classical (generally mid-19th century to present). Way too much good stuff out there. I also listen to jazz (bop and beyond), latin music, rap (under-underground rap, especially), electronica (more of the chill-type stuff rather than the dance-type stuff) and occassionally the punk rock I listened to growing up. I can't really get into modern rock, be it indie, pop-punk, emo, rap-rock, whatever.
On Aug.29.2003 at 10:47 PMHey Seth,
I'd love to score a New Pornographers and Café Tacuba bootleg!
On Aug.30.2003 at 12:45 AMLately...
Webcasts:
Radio FG
Netmusique
JazzMusique
SomaFM
Freefall Archives on Live365
On Aug.30.2003 at 03:37 PMtoday:
dulce liquido (industrial from mexico! no way!)
dub sex (punk punk punk)
ruxpin (minimal, idm-ish)
wumpscut (german angsty industrial disco)
oghr (former skinny puppy resurfaces)
On Aug.30.2003 at 08:39 PMNIN
Del / Hiero / Prince Paul
Z-Trip
David Bowie
Talking Heads
Pharcyde
Ozomatli
White Label rmxs
and... ummm... Hilary Duff
On Aug.30.2003 at 09:04 PMnorma jean
johnny cash
hot water music
blindside
denison witmer
living sacrifice
On Aug.30.2003 at 09:34 PMThe Mars Volta
Architecture in Helsinki
The Postal Service
Further
Battle Axe Compilation
Modest Mouse (Moon and Antarctica)
FBI Radio station - New public station in Sydney - only 3 days old
Nick Drake
On Aug.31.2003 at 02:58 AMPretty much anything by Matchbox Twenty :D
Oh adn teh Evanescence album
On Aug.31.2003 at 04:47 AMpile nearest the cd player:
bill withers: greatest hits
paul weller: days of speed
faithless: back to mine
dizzee rascal: boy in da corner
john cale: fragments of a rainy season
alpha: the impossible thrill
flute: risotto
king geedorah: take me to your leader
prefab sprout: two wheels good
peter gabriel: up
dukes of stratosphear: anthology
elton john: greatest hits 70-02
would have to agree with Kiran that just about anything that Def Jux has put out in the last couple has been solid gold.
intrigued by Cafe Tacuba
On Aug.31.2003 at 07:58 AMthis is totally a plug, but it's on-topic. i work for the college radio station at vassar as the publicity director. we webcast and play a wide variety of music and public affairs shows. check us out here (the site design was def. inspired by speak up).
On Aug.31.2003 at 10:48 AMJets to Brazil
Modest Mouse
Wilco (all of the Wilco albums and Mermaid Ave. with Billy Bragg)
and last but not least, John in the Morning on KEXP in Seattle. (I am in Kansas, so I can listen until noon.)
On Aug.31.2003 at 05:02 PM
From Monument to Masses
Song of Zarathustra
This Machine Kills
Camera Obscura
Marz Volta
New Order
Joy Division
Pixies
Cure
On Aug.31.2003 at 05:28 PMNorthern State Dying in Stereo
Punjabi MC Beware
Fountains of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers
Dr. Lonnie Smith feat. David "Fathead" Newman Boogaloo to Beck
Glenn Gould The Goldberg Variations
Orchestra Baobob Specialist in All Styles
John Coltrane My Favorite Things
Sly and the Family Stone Fresh
On Sep.01.2003 at 07:18 AMI listen to spoken word. NPR, the BBC, old Dragnet radio shows, whatever.
On Sep.01.2003 at 07:55 AMI've been listening to Lyfe...I saw him on Showtime on the Apollo and he brought the house down.
He's out of Toledo without national distribution, so I can't get ahold of his albums, but Audio Hijack saved the day and I can listen to the Showtime clip over and over...
On Sep.01.2003 at 11:55 AMI've been listening to Lyfe...
Kyle, nice find. He's good.
On Sep.01.2003 at 02:33 PMA friend and myself just got back from Vancouver for the Radiohead/R.E.M. concerts, so I've been spinning them along with their opening acts Wilco and Dandy Warhols on my ipod. Aside from those, here's a couple more;
Blur: Think Tank
Hot Hot Heat: Make Up The Breakdown
Idlewild: 100 Broken Windows & The Remote Part
Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights
Morcheeba: Charango
New Pornographers: Electric Version
Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power
If those artists sound familiar, check out John in the morning at kexp.org
Another grab bag mix of music would be Punjabi Lounge (double cd) and Cinematic Orchestra: Man With a Movie Camera.
On Sep.01.2003 at 02:37 PMAwh I'm so sad I caught this post late but I still feel led to share what I'm currently spinning.
+ Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
+ Switchfoot - Beautiful Letdown
+ Jane's Addiction - Strays
+ Refused - Shape of Punk to Come
+ Radiohead - Hail to the Theif
+ Bjork - Vespertine / Greatest Hits
+ Deftones - Deftones
+ Hum - Downward is Heavenward
+ Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide
+ Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
On Sep.02.2003 at 07:34 AMLamb - What Sound
Solea Amiphibia - Say "Infected"
Sasha - Air Drawn Dagger
Delerium - Chimera
Gotan Project - La Revancha del Tango
Chicane - Behind The Sun
Balligomingo - Beneath the Surface
LTJ Bukem - Journey Inwards
On Sep.02.2003 at 08:32 AMThis wet, dreary Upstate NY morning...Cake and Toad the Wet Sprocket.
On Sep.02.2003 at 10:02 AMI bet there's a really interesting meta-project in this... something that can visually chart the responses to this question (which I've seen posed numerous times to various blogs and discussion areas, but rarely with very interesting results) and give us an idea what the community's tastes really are. I mean, I see a lot of obscure chic here, but very little bling bling (for lack of better terms) and I wonder why? Wouldn't it be interesting to know? Someone give me a grant...
On Sep.02.2003 at 11:21 AMBummer, but el minidisc se muri�. No luck getting things to fly for the illicit taping of music, but I did get a lot of blurry photos and a few quicktimes of Cafe Tacvba.
We showed up too late to get into the the New Pornographers' show, but we had an absolute blast at the Tacuba show. If any of you have the opportunity to see these guys live, do not miss it. I'll have the pics up at the site in a day or so. If anyone else was there in Seattle last night, I was the tall blond white guy standing center stage and right on the back edge of the mosh pit... The funny part was the looks from everyone around me wondering how the guero knew all the words...
On Sep.02.2003 at 12:03 PMSo I'm also one of those people who must have noise in order to concentrate. Stereo, TV, street noise, whatever -- the more noise, the better.
I have an eccletic mix of things pumping through all day:
- NPR
- This American Life
- Dido (still love it)
- Cake (Comfort Eagle)
- Elliott Smith (XO)
- Badly Drawn Boy
- Flaming Lips
- Cold Play
- any James Taylor
- Chris Cornell
- Radiohead
- Fugazzi
- any Van Morrison
- John Mayer
- Morcheeba (Big Calm)
- Diana Krall (the sexiest voice ever)
- the Vines
- White Stripes
On Sep.02.2003 at 09:46 PMhmm...
in no particular order...
• radiohead - hail to the thief
• wilco - being there
• verve remixed 2
• mos def - black on both sides
• howie day - australia
• jeff buckley - live @ bataclan
• damien rice - o
• ben folds - speed graphic
• justin timberlake - justified (no, seriously)
• the roots - phrenology
what a great topic - we all know we're cooler than everybody else, so why not proove it thru the music we listen to at work?
On Sep.03.2003 at 08:28 AMI bet there's a really interesting meta-project in this... something that can visually chart the responses to this question (which I've seen posed numerous times to various blogs and discussion areas, but rarely with very interesting results) and give us an idea what the community's tastes really are.
That would be cool, like some kind of Moodstats thing, which I've never used just seems like that. Or like the app that lets you broadcast what you are playing in iTunes at the moment. Harness those feeds into a graph of some sort. Anyone use that on their site?
On Sep.03.2003 at 10:29 AMFor me one of the biggest perks in not working in an office anymore is being able to listen to music without headphones. My heavy rotation as of late:
- Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights
- Beck Midnite Vultures
- Doves The Last Broadcast
- Fischerspooner #1
- Groove Armada Love Box
- Frank Black & The Catholics Black Letter Days
- The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- The Vines Highly Evolved
- !!!
Others that get played often: Guided by Voices, Yo La Tengo, White Stripes, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Man...Or Astroman?, Bjork, Dandy Warhols, Massive Attack.
On Sep.03.2003 at 11:17 AMBeck - Sea Change
Mojave3 - Excuses for travelers
Neil Halstead - Sleeping On Roads
EVERYHTING Ryan Adams has been on, from Whiskeytown to the Graham Parsons tribute stuff.
Evan Dando - I swear that the Griffith Sunset EP is his best stuff ever.
Jay Farrar - Terroir Blues.
Mostly trailer park digs . . . but that's where I'm from.
On Sep.03.2003 at 04:53 PMjason mraz - howie day - the postal service - damien rice
On Sep.03.2003 at 09:13 PM• black crowes
• chris robinson new earth mud
• days of the new
• tantric
rock on!
On Sep.08.2003 at 09:19 AMicky, snowy monday morning with long weekend on the mind...
pixies - doolittle
violent femmes - 3
tricky - blowback
orbital - in sides
the go-go's - beauty and the beat
anyone else having a weather crisis?
On Nov.24.2003 at 09:13 AMwheat: hope and adams
beck: sea change
it's monday, it's grey, it's cold. i need something mellow.
On Nov.24.2003 at 09:18 AM
currently-joe budden, dizzee rascal, new killing joke cd, arvo part (alina), dead can dance (always). i've got an underworld tune buzzing in my head because i'm doing a video for it.
On Aug.29.2003 at 03:17 PM