Caithness Map :: Links to Site Map Paying too much for broadband? Move to PlusNet broadband and save£££s. Free setup now available - terms apply. PlusNet broadband.  
Results 1 to 20 of 64

Thread: What Are You Listening To At The Moment?

Hybrid View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #1

    Default What Are You Listening To At The Moment?

    Ok, I thought it might be good to have a music thread where you share what you're listening to / good albums / things other people might not have heard of or gotten round to listening to yet.

    My favourite albums I have on just now are

    Grizzly Bear - Shields (brilliant melodic album, with some hints of John Lennon Instant Karma era stuff in there, beautiful melodies and vocal lines)
    Alt-J - A Different Wave (just won the Mercury Music Prize, not that that means anything anymore, but its a good album, some will hate it)
    Deerhoof - Breakup Song (this is completely off the beaten track, very different but immensely fun and brilliant musicianship)
    Graham Coxon - A+E (Blur's guitarist is so much more than just being Blur's guitarist. Love his new album)
    Jack White - Blunderbuss (He's just brilliant, Jack White. Bits of Motown, the blues which I ordinarily don't like, and his own unique slant on lyrics and guitar playing. Brilliant)
    Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge (He's usually a crooner, but has turned up the guitars loud. Very atmospheric)
    Tame Impala - Lonerism (it sounds like 70's prog rock with massive synths and guitars!)

  2. #2

    Default

    a little bit retro

    pixies
    rory gallagher
    steely dan

    newer stuff
    the black keys
    vintage trouble
    and the new bellowhead album-broadside

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Jan 2010
    Posts
    6,651

    Default

    Same as for last 35 years. I swear no music has been written since 1976

  4. #4

    Default

    What did you listen to 35 years ago?

    Its funny, I went through a phase of denying new stuff too. I was sure that everything I needed to listen to had been written int he 90's. I was wrong

    I had Yes - The Yes Album on today.

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Jan 2010
    Posts
    6,651

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by mike.mckenzie View Post
    What did you listen to 35 years ago?

    Its funny, I went through a phase of denying new stuff too. I was sure that everything I needed to listen to had been written int he 90's. I was wrong

    I had Yes - The Yes Album on today.
    They wrote music in the 1990s? Chris Kristofferson today.

  6. #6

    Default

    The yes album ? Never get past fragile myself

  7. #7

    Default

    Anyone listening to anything new then? I'm enjoying Currents by Tame Impala. Especially the opening track Let It Happen

  8. #8

    Default

    Neon Waltz!

  9. #9
    Join Date
    Oct 2011
    Posts
    1,756

    Default Mogwai - Central Belters

    “We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine....
    And the machine is bleeding to death."


  10. #10
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Location
    Edinburgh
    Posts
    103

    Default

    Last night it was Husker Du's "Zen Arcade" and the first two Moby Grape albums (first one's great, second not so great).I may just be going through a phase of listening to bands with ridiculous names.

  11. #11
    Join Date
    Jul 2006
    Location
    Highlands
    Posts
    3,124

    Default

    The bugle podcast

  12. #12
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Location
    Edinburgh
    Posts
    103

    Default

    Charles Lloyd and Lucinda Williams, Vanishing Gardens cd. Jazz sax and a country-ish singer doesn't look like a good idea, but it works really well.

    Also heard Mike Peters of The Alarm do an acoustic set in a music shop in Edinburgh on Monday. Never a huge fan in the 80s, but he was in good form and the new Alarm album's pretty sound.

  13. #13
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Location
    Edinburgh
    Posts
    103

    Default

    This Mortal Coil's first album, It'll End In Tears. Odd sort of a band, as far as I can mind they only really existed in the studio and were made up of musicians on the 4AD label. Their cover of Song to the Siren still gets me after 35 years.

    And yet another live Neil Young album, Songs For Judy, recordings from a 1976 US tour. He's someone that could do with some quality-control, especially some of his more recent stuff, but this is him on top form.

  14. #14
    Join Date
    Jul 2006
    Location
    Nr Bremen Germany
    Posts
    336

    Default

    Do any of you listen or watch Radio paradise on the net ? I think it is a good alternative to regular radio...
    whats your views?

  15. #15
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Location
    Edinburgh
    Posts
    103

    Default

    Listening to the Long Ryders, "Psychedelic Country Soul". It's their first since 1987 and well worth the wait. Didn't Sid Griffin the singer play the Pentland, back when Wildcat was putting on gigs?

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •