Music! What are you listening to now?

[Barrus]

Take the Skinheads Bowling is on daily rotation in the shop. Not sure that the Kiwis get it, but damn I do.

I also love long plastic hallway

 

[L'arriviste]

I'm going through a phase at the moment which I could usefully describe as politico-latino-coffee-trad-jig.

This musical nexus includes Lila Downs and Chilean band Quilapayún. Then adds in lots of Penguin Café Orchestra and the appealingly named Russian guitarist Ivan Smirnov.

Goes well with the stronger De Dolle beers.

 

[tubularglue]

"A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Aha3JjELY

It's a nervous tic motion of the head to the left
It's a nervous tic motion of the head to the left
Of the what, of the head to the left
So exercise yourselves to your bereft
'Cause it's a nervous tic motion of the head to the left of the, of the, to the

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Started out the day with "Heart of Gold" by Neil Young, in honour of his 65th birthday.

Susan

 

[Finbouy]

This weeks seen a change of tunes for me:
Led Zep - Song Remains the Same Live
Bob Marley - Exodus

Who knows what mood I'll be in next week..

 

[mortand]

Started out the day with "Heart of Gold" by Neil Young, in honour of his 65th birthday.

Susan

Wonderful! I'm gonna celebrate the old man with one of his finest moments, if not the finest moment of his career:

Expecting to Fly

 

[tubularglue]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPaO5Yw63Jw richard bona

 

[L'arriviste]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPaO5Yw63Jw richard bona

What an unfortunate name. Or am I pronouncing it incorrectly?

 

[Black-Balled]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp0x0aT0X8s

 

[RedheadDane]

Lordi: The Deadbite Girls Gone Wild

 

[Anonymous]

Melvins-Honey Bucket

 

[usedtobefast]

Tom Waits-Hold On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knII3S0MZtY&feature=player_embedded

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

 

[hrotha]

Lemuria - Clean

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Melvins-Honey Bucket

Tom Waits-Hold On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knII3S0MZtY&feature=player_embedded

Nice line of great tunes there.

I have Gilberto Gil e Os Mutantes - Domingo no Parque
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbv3M-AdxC0

 

[TexPat]

Good one!
Os Mutantes-Batmacumba is one of my favourites.
Add to that Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso--Tropicalia 2, which contains a splendid cover of Jimi Hendrix--Wait Until Tomorrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAC0E5asTCc
If there is music in heaven, then it's certainly afrobrazilian.

 

[Anonymous]

Nina Simone: Mr. Bojangles
Just Like Tomb Thumb Blues
Why(The King of Love is Dead)

I am fairly certain that I have never loved any woman's voice more.

 

[TexPat]

Nina Simone: Mr. Bojangles
Just Like Tomb Thumb Blues
Why(The King of Love is Dead)

I am fairly certain that I have never loved any woman's voice more.

I would have agreed until I first heard Neko Case.

 

[Anonymous]

I would have agreed until I first heard Neko Case.

I never have, but I will give it a shot, though I don't think I will be more moved than I am by Why? That song brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it.

 

[TexPat]

Had to go dig out my Nina Simone- It is Finished LP to get the title right; The Pusher is brilliant. Highly recommend it.

 

[tubularglue]

I would have agreed until I first heard Neko Case.

Saw her live last summer. Her band/her voice - tight

 

[tubularglue]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyTejjdHejs

listener

 

[Finbouy]

Change of mood again..

Paul Simon.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Good one!
Os Mutantes-Batmacumba is one of my favourites.
Add to that Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso--Tropicalia 2, which contains a splendid cover of Jimi Hendrix--Wait Until Tomorrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAC0E5asTCc
If there is music in heaven, then it's certainly afrobrazilian.

I absolutely adore the Tropicália movement. Os Mutantes' self-titled is one of the all-time greatest albums, but Gilberto Gil's Frevo Rasgado (with Os Mutantes as his backing band) is also fantastic, as are Jorge Ben's and Caetano Veloso's self-titleds, plus Tom Zé has some more off-kilter stuff that's mindblowing. I also highly recommend Soul Jazz Records' excellent compilation Brazil '70: After Tropicalia - new directions in Brazilian Music in the 70s, a compendium of the post-Tropicália bands and the later work of the Tropicália stars. Novos Baianos, Secos e Molhados and Jaime Alem e Nair de Cândia are good discoveries of mine, while though it's cheesy I can't help but enjoy Raúl Seixas. The best stuff on there comes from Gilberto Gil and also Mar Revolto, whose album closing track for the compilation is absolutely the perfect record for when the sun rises and you're still out partying.

If you're interested in what happened after THAT, there's a great compilation called Não Wave out which covers the post-punk era from '82 to '88 in Brazil. Agentss are by far my favourite of these, but Fellini are very good as well, and their album O Adeus de Fellini is well worth seeking out if you can find it, but highly influenced by British post-punk such as Joy Division and the Fall.

 

[Cobblestoned]

Nirvana
unplugged in New York 1994