What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

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Formed in 2007, here is the long awaited debut from Joy Division/New Order guitarist Bernard Sumners new band. It was worth the wait. New Order keyboardist Phil Cunningham comes along for the ride and gets all the writing credt here. The first single and video of Sink Or Swim has been out for awhile, but you wouldn't know it by watching any of the video channels in good ole America where pop rules the video airwaves. There was nothing on here I could say I didn't like, so it was tough picking a worst.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Twist Of Fate

Best Track - Shine Like The Sun

1) Sink Or Swim - ** - video
YouTube - Bad Lieutenant - Sink Or Swim (Official Music Video)
2) Twist Of Fate - ** - audio
YouTube - Bad Lieutenant - Twist of Fate
3) Summer Days - ***
4) This Is Home - ** - audio
YouTube - Bad Lieutenant - This Is Home
5) Running Out Of Luck - *** - audio
YouTube - Bad Lieutenant - Running Out of Luck
6) Dynamo - ** - audio
YouTube - Bad Lieutenant Dynamo
7) Poisonous Intent - *** - audio
YouTube - Bad Lieutenant - Poisonous Intent (Audio Only)
8) These Changes - **
9) Walk On Silver Water - **
10) Shine Like The Sun - *** - audio
YouTube - Bad Lieutenant - Shine Like the Sun
11) Runaway - ***
12) Head Into Tomorrow - **

3's - 5
2's - 7
1's - 0

Rating - 2.4

[Miss Fortune]

New Soul - Yael Naim

[Tiggi]

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen



Classic mid '80s Indie Pop.

Paddy McAloon is a greatly under-appreciated UK song-writer IMV...

&

The Duke & The King - Nothing Gold Can Stay



More lovely Alt-Americana borrowed from Robbie...

[CMB1888]

George Crumb - Voice of the Whale

- quite strange - but a good strange - must listen to more of this guy's stuff.

( I'm sure I used to listen to that Prefab Sprout album years ago - must find it again and see if it still sounds good)

[JonG]

Stephen Burroughs - Goodbye Darling from a split 10" with Sunn O))) & Pan Sonic + Alan Vega entitled Che. [Blast First Petite, 2009]

[JonG]

Sun City Girls - Tarmac 23 from Torch Of The Mystics [Tupelo Records, 1990]

Torch of the Mystics represents the pinnacle of the first phase of the Sun City Girls. A concise, pinwheeling album that captures the band's pure commitment to emotional transcendence through music, the 11 songs here fly off into the netherworld of ethnic avant-garage rock with startling clarity. The band had never fully explored the Middle Eastern tones accumulating in their brains as they did on this 1990 masterpiece, nor had they been as clearly and smartly recorded as they are here...Every track contains a shimmering melodic phrase or haunting undertone that the Girls mine like pure manna, and the occasional bursts of delirious chanting still summon goosebumps on the listener's skin. Every argument made for the greatness of the Sun City Girls has its roots in this platter...

- allmusic.com

[CMB1888]

Maths - To Be Frozen

[Iota]

The Flaming Lips - Powerless from Embryonic (2009, Warner Bros.)

[Tiggi]

^ What do you think of the album, dude ??

It's sitting on my shelf waiting to be spirited away by Santa for wrapping, and I haven't been allowed to play it...

[Iota]

^ What do you think of the album, dude ??

It has its moments but on the whole it's not a quarter as good as At War with the Mystics.