What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

The Handsome Family - Through The Trees


More dark Alt-Country, with strange but brilliantly written songs, & a healthy dollop of black humour.

Originally recommended on MD mark 1 maybe 3 years ago, & I've only just got round to getting my hands on a copy.

Very good, will be investigating further.

[Tiggi]

The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro


Mildly psychedelic UK Post-Punk.

Contains one of my favourite songs ever, the bass & brass-drenched Reward...

&

The Aliens - Astronomy For Dogs

[Singsong]

Today I have listened to 2 albums from Editors, and a few interpol songs and I am currently listening to Waltz #2 by Elliot smith

[Music Head]

from my library

Airborne Toxic Event - Airborne Toxic Event - 2008 - ***

First full length album from this LA band formed in 2006. Very nice use of the strings. An awesome debut for me. Will be hard to have a better follow up.



Favorite track - Sometime Around Midnight

And it starts, sometime around midnight.
Or at least that’s when you lose yourself
for a minute or two.
As you stand, under the bar lights.
And the band plays some song
about forgetting yourself for a while.
And that white dress she’s wearing
And the piano's this melancholy soundtrack to her smile.
And that white dress she's wearing
you haven’t seen her for a while.
But you know, that she’s watching.
She’s laughing, she’s turning.
She’s holding her tonic like a cross.
The room’s suddenly spinning.
She walks up and asks how you are.
So you can smell her perfume.
You can see her lying naked in your arms.
And so there’s a change, in your emotions.
And all these memories come rushing
like feral waves to your mind.
Of the curl of your bodies,
like two perfect circles entwined.
And you feel hopeless and homeless
and lost in the haze of the wine.
Then she leaves, with someone you don’t know.
But she makes sure you saw her.
She looks right at you and bolts.
As she walks out the door,
your blood boiling
your stomach in ropes.
Oh and when your friends say,
“What is it? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
Then you walk, under the streetlights.
And you’re too drunk to notice,
that everyone is staring at you.
You just don’t care what you look like,
the world is falling around you.
You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You just have to see her.
You know that she’ll break you in two.


1) Wishing Well - ***
....YouTube - The Airborne Toxic Event "WISHING WELL" - full audio track
2) Papillon - **
....YouTube - Papillon by The Airborne Toxic Event
3) Gasoline - ***
....YouTube - Gasoline - The Airborne Toxic Event
4) Happiness Is Overrated - *
....YouTube - Happiness Is Overrated (UK Video) - The Airborne Toxic Event
5) Does This Mean You're Moving On - ***
....YouTube - The Airborne Toxic Event - Does This Mean You're Moving On (Official Video)
6) This Is Nowhere - **
....YouTube - The Airborne Toxic Event- This Is Nowhere
7) Sometime Around Midnight - ***
....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfLM-LwTurQ
8) Something New - ***
....YouTube - The Airborne Toxic Event - Something New
9) Missy - ***
....YouTube - Missy - The Airborne Toxic Event
10) Innocence - **
......YouTube - The Airborne Toxic Event - Innocence

3's - 6
2's - 3
1's - 1

Rating - 2.5

[Music Head]

from my library

Fiona Apple - Tidal - 1996 - **



Debut album. Such a mature voice for her age at the time. Several singles lifted off here with Criminal being the smash, and winning a Grammy in '98. A lot of this stuff was mostly to laid back for me, Mood I guess. Album went 3X platinum.

Favorite Track - Criminal

I've been a bad, bad girl
I've been careless with a delicate man
And it's a sad, sad world
When a girl will break a boy just because she can

Don't you tell me to deny it
I've done wrong and I want to suffer for my sins
I've come to you 'cause I need guidance to be true
And I just don't know where I can begin

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal
And I need to be redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love

Heaven help me for the way I am
Save me from these evil deeds before I get them done
I know tomorrow brings the consequence at hand
But I keep living this day like the next will never come

Oh help me but don't tell me to deny it
I've got to cleanse myself of all these lies 'till I'm good enough for him
I've got a lot to lose and I'm bettin' high so I'm begging you
Before it ends just tell me where to begin

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal
And I need to be redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love

Let me know the way
Before there's hell to pay
Give me room to lay the law and let me go
I've got to make a play
To make my lover stay
So what would an angel say, the devil wants to know

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal
And I need to be redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of looooooooooooooooooooooooooove
Yeah yeah yeah uhh uhh uhhhhhh...

Hey hey hey

1) Sleep To Dream - **
....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stuyVj8IOPg
2) Sullen Girl - *
....YouTube - Fiona Apple-Sullen Girl
3) Shadowboxer - ***
....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1DyE5LG8A
4) Criminal - ***
....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTpvjNn2BUM
5) Slow Like Honey - *
....YouTube - 'Slow like Honey, heavy with mood' - A Fiona Apple fanvid
6) The First Taste - **
....YouTube - Fiona Apple - The First Taste
7) Never Is A Promise - *
....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0FbIDuugLY
8) The Child Is Gone - **
....YouTube - Fiona Apple - The Child Is Gone
9) Pale September - *
....YouTube - Pale September by fiona apple
10) Carrion - *
......YouTube - Carrion

3's - 2
2's - 3
1's - 5

Rating = 1.7

[CMB1888]

The Used - Artwork



seems pretty solid writing and good vocals, as per usual really - but I know I will listen to this quite a few times, still a bit of a fan really

[Tiggi]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz



Bit of a dramatic change of direction, as the band embrace keyboards & drench the entire album in electronics.

The direction change probably moves them closer to what I like in my music, and this is a groovy little album.

[Tiggi]

The Delgados - Hate



Scottish Alternative band. The outstanding thing about this one is its' sophistication.

Dave Fridmann (of Flaming Lips production fame) mixed the album, so it has his characteristic sledgehammer sound, despite being a relatively laid back album.

[CMB1888]

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes



I haven't listened to this in ages but I always thought it was a bit pretentious - it might be but it's blinking great.

[jwee5467]

Nofx - linoleum