Recent Cd purchases

[OceanAngel]

Nightwish Once(UK Special Edition)
Lacuna Coil In a Reverie

 

[The Princess Bride]

ummm....
Journey
Staind

 

[HybridNation]

The New Santana CD

 

[The Theory]

Really? I think Madvillainy is great. I only bought three rap albums last year (Madvillain, Kanye West, Dizzee Rascal), and I thought all three were pretty good. I can see how some of the songs could be considered a little repetitive, but I would hardly call the whole album anti-climatic.

See, here's my thing.

I was listening to the album and I realized that every song feels like a clip of a full song... kind of like what you get when you sample a cd at Barnes and Noble. They throw you right into the track, rap over the same thing for several minutes, then abruptly end the track. It's very formulaic. And then throw in those skits... which, albiet, are better than on most rap albums, still are nothing more than filler.

I don't know. I love how the album feels, production wise. And the rapping voices are satisfying. But it just feels very underdeveloped.

 

[blackwasp]

Califone - Heron King Blues
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow

How are these?

Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse

One of my top ten albums of all time. "Doin' the Cockroach" is the epitome of hard rock.

Here's what I picked up today:

Madvillainy -- Madvillain
If You're Feeling Sinister -- Belle and Sebastian
The Milk of Human Kindness -- Caribou
Rejoicing in the Hands -- Devendra Banhart

I'm only on track 2, but Devendra Banhart is great. Because of the comparisons to Joanna Newsom, I assumed that Banhart was a chick. I amaze myself.

 

[The Princess Bride]

Def Leppard "Rock of Ages" The Definitive Collection...YAY!

 

[philN]

How are these?

I really like them both. I can't even really describe Califone's style of music. It's like part singer/songwriter stuff, part jazz, part tribal music, and part experimental. It all comes together really nicely though. The songs have a really nice feel to them. Cripple Crow is fantastic too. I like it at least as much as Rejoicing In the Hands and Nino Rojo, possibly more. It feels like there is some more instrumentation on it than his past stuff -- no drastic changes, just little flourishes here and there. I was going to wait until next month when it is actually released to get it, but the temptation was too strong.

I'm only on track 2, but Devendra Banhart is great. Because of the comparisons to Joanna Newsom, I assumed that Banhart was a chick. I amaze myself.

Haha. They are both usually clumped together because they are both part of the "free-folk" sub-genre that's been gaining some popularity in indie music. They both also have pretty distinct voices -- as in there really aren't too many other people out there that sound like either of them. I think that's why they get alot of comparisons to one another.

 

[philN]

See, here's my thing.

I was listening to the album and I realized that every song feels like a clip of a full song... kind of like what you get when you sample a cd at Barnes and Noble. They throw you right into the track, rap over the same thing for several minutes, then abruptly end the track. It's very formulaic. And then throw in those skits... which, albiet, are better than on most rap albums, still are nothing more than filler.

I don't know. I love how the album feels, production wise. And the rapping voices are satisfying. But it just feels very underdeveloped.

I can sort of see what you are saying, and while I agree there are parts that end a little abruptly and other things that I suppose could be interpretted as being underdeveloped, none of that is really distracting enough for me to not enjoy the album as a whole.

 

[blackwasp]

I'm only about halfway through Madvillainy, but I really like it. Some of the piano parts and other samples remind me of old school rap, particularly some of Nas' stuff off of Illmatic. Then again, I haven't heard a lot of the rap that is out there, so this is probably just my mind trying to connect things that I like.

 

[blackwasp]

I really like them both. I can't even really describe Califone's style of music. It's like part singer/songwriter stuff, part jazz, part tribal music, and part experimental. It all comes together really nicely though. The songs have a really nice feel to them.

This is all from memory, so I could be way off base, but I think I read that Isaac Brock was real into Califone a few years back, and tried jamming with the band, but it didn't work out because he couldn't keep up with them instrumentally.

^I'm very proud of that terribly constructed sentence.

 

[philN]

This is all from memory, so I could be way off base, but I think I read that Isaac Brock was real into Califone a few years back, and tried jamming with the band, but it didn't work out because he couldn't keep up with them instrumentally.

I've never heard about that, but it's definitely possible. Califone has been around for awhile and has a pretty loyal fanbase; I'm new to the bandwagon.

 

[musicPhan#41]

yesterday i stopped by a sweet cd store on my way to the j. johnson concert, and i picked up:

Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Bush - Sixteen Stone

each for $2.99

 

[cygnusx1]

Steve Hillage .......... Live at Glastonbury 1979

 

[Dying2Live4Christ]

yesterday i stopped by a sweet cd store on my way to the j. johnson concert, and i picked up:

Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Bush - Sixteen Stone

each for $2.99

How was the J. Johnson performance? Any good?

 

[musicPhan#41]

How was the J. Johnson performance? Any good?

it was SOOOOOOOOOOO good. and the openers were good too (Matt Costa and ALO)

now i'm excited about seeing dmb at the end of the month.

 

[stonetoflesh]

Shpongle-- Nothing Lasts
Tony Williams Lifetime-- Emergency!

 

[ZeroXero]

Studio B - I See Girls (Crazy)

Side A: Tom Neville Crazy Legs Mix
Side B: Freemasons Remix, Mike Di Scala Remix

Yes, it's a 12", I tend to buy all my music on vinyl - I DJ

 

[ani]

The Stills
Alanis Morrissette-Jagged Little Pill Acoustic
NIN-The Hand that Feeds
Bebel Gilberto Remixed
Coldplay-X&Y
Common-Be
Beck-Guero
Aqualung-Strange and Beautiful
The White Stripes-Get Behind Me Satan
Oasis-Don't Believe the Truth
Billy Corgan-The Future Embrace
Talib Kweli-The Beautiful Struggle
Jack Johnson-In Between Dreams
The Roots-The Tipping Point
The Postal Service-Give Up

That's all I can remember right now, and I don't think I paid more than $5 for any of them (I <3 Rasputin!)...

 

[cygnusx1]

Entire Queen backcatalog 'gold' cds (I got these for two reasons, they are gold and they are picture cds)

 

[blackwasp]

Nino Rojo -- Devendra Banhart
The Mysterious Production of Eggs -- Andrew Bird
Sung Tongs -- Animal Collective