What is East Dulwich Listening to?

[mockney piers]

I've just put on the new New Pornographers album. How excited am I?

I shall report back.....Keef...who's probably the only person interested.

[mockney piers]

After a few listens, interspersed with much Feist and Elf Power, the New Pornographers is definitely a grower.

It's no Twin Cinema, but then I don't think they'll ever manage to match it.

It's a bit more low key, the songs and the melodies building progressively rather than the hook-laden power-pop oomph of the previous one. Neko Case still has one of my favourite voices in the world of new fangled music type stuff.

Definitely a fine addition to any collection I'd say, just don't expect more of the same.

[SeanMacGabhann]

oooh I'll have a listen methinks

[MadWorld74]

New Pornographers...another Mr MW74 favorite.

Laura Veirs and The Go! Team......

[SeanMacGabhann]

Go Team are playing at the Clapham Common festival on Sunday - great live band

[MadWorld74]

me thinks I will have to give my dancing feet to Gaz's Rockin' Blues at the festival on monday...

[Jah Lush]

You'll be dancing in your wellies there then?

[MadWorld74]

wellies yes! rum yes!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Combining two of life's great pleasures, the soundtrack to Project Gotham 4 was announced today - some darn fine tunes on her if I say so myself

Project Gotham Racing 4 soundtrack:

120 Days - Come Out Come Down Fade Out Be Gone

Auto Aggression - The Sky Is Not Yours

Beethoven - Symphony No. 5

Bloc Party - Prayer

Blue Scholars - Sagaba (Remix)

Chick Corea Elektric Band - Check Blast

!!! - Heart of Hearts

Covenant - The Men

Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive (There Is Hope Mix)

Disturbed - Stricken

E Da Boss - Go Left

Edge of Dawn - Elegance

Flesh Field - Forgotten Trauma

Goldfrapp - Lovely 2 C U (T. Raumschmiere Remix)

Goose - Black Gloves

Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King

Grits - Bobbin' Bouncin'

Hot Chip - Over And Over

Hummel - Rondo in E Flat

Incubus - Light Grenades

Insekt - Isolated

Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe - The Bridge

Kittie - Funeral for Yesterday

Lady Sovereign - Blah Blah

LCD Soundsystem - Watch the Tapes

Lily Allen - Take What You Take

Liszt - Hungarian Waltz No. 2

Lupe Fiasco - The Instrumental

Maximo Park - Our Velocity

Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E Minor

Metro - Mr Fruity

Mind.In.A.Box. - Identity

Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusic

Mozart - Sonata - alla Turca

My Chemical Romance - House of Wolves

Natacha Atlas - Bathaddak

Ojos De Brujo - Color

Ojos De Brujo - Todo Tiende

Pride and Fall - Border (Club Edit)

Priestess - Everything That You Are

Prophet Omega - Hit the Deck

RImsky Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee

Rotersand - DTL

Russell Gunn - East St. Louis

Saliva - King of the Stereo

Seabound - Scorch the Ground (Rotersand Mix)

Soma Rasa - One Hand High

Squarepusher - Exciton

The Pinker Tones - In Pea We Nuts

The Roots - Here I Come

The Shins - Australia

TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me

Wagner - The Ride of the Valkyries

Wolfmother - Dimension

Zeke - Ride to Live

Zuco103 - Garganteiro

[mockney piers]

PG4 *drools*

Ojos de brujo!! no way, going to see them at the roundhouse.

I'm still waiting for my ballot ticket to see beethoven, I hear he's the bees.

[Jah Lush]

This week I've been listening to Max Romeo's Open The Iron Gate and his '67 to '76 Anthology and any minute now I'm off out to get the new P J Harvey album. Big fan of hers, got all her stuff. Just found out it's not out until Sept 24th. Doh!

[Keef]

Nah, Beethoven's over rated. Only managed 9 symphonies, and produced his best stuff when he couldn't hear anymore, which you could argue is selfish. Why should he inflict it on us when he doesn't have to hear it?!?!?

Haydn's 26th "Lamentation" symphony, now that's a symphony, using the gregorian plain chant to great effect ;-)

[mockney piers]

A colleague has very kindly dropped the new Radiohead album into my music share.

First impressions are it's very Radiohead, but Thom does seem to have cheered up a bit.

Incidentally if you pay less/nowt for it the digital download is at a much lower sample rate (160 kbps) than if you fork out for it.

Personally I hate compressed music, it sounds really dead, but I can't see myself forking out 40 quid for the CD frankly.

And impressions so far are that it's definitely not that good.

[capt_birdseye]

They peaked with OK Computer I think, which is now 10 years old. All that experimental stuff is quite unlistenable. The temptation to download it for nowt is tempting though, it's a clever way to hook in to people who are not normally interested in their stuff. I can see this catching on.

[Bleep]

Rubbish! Kid A and Amnesiac are their best pieces. I find OK Computer terribly boring nowadays.

[Jah Lush]

I have enjoyed some of Radiohead's stuff in a small way in the past but on the whole I find them boring, dull, tedious miserablists. I tired of them years ago. I blame them for other boring, dull, tedious miserablist shite like Coldplay. Bastards! Music for bed wetting students as someone else once said.

[ben]

Just listening to In Rainbows now, I bought the diskbox and you receive the download as part of the deal along with the tracks on double 180gsm vinyl, a CD version and a CD of 'extra' tracks. Radiohead are certainly not my favourite band, in fact it was Kid A and Amnesiac that pulled me into their orbit, but I'm a bit of a collector and prefer a physical format.

For Radiohead this is a great way of getting their music out there but I can't see it working for the majority of new bands that will still need the financial input of a label to tour, buy gear, pay rents etc. Not too sure what band's publishers will say if the music starts being given away for free.

PS - quite like the first 3 tracks so far

[mockney piers]

It's definitely their most listenable since The Bends I'd say, but still with that signature production.

TBH the only one I ever really put on of theirs is the first. I can appreciate what they've done, I just don't really enjoy it enough to actually play it.

[Keef]

Creep and High and Dry are the only songs I would say I thought were really good.

I tried and tried years ago to get in to the albums, because so many people were telling me they were so special man, and the best thing ever written... I thought they were sh!t!.

[Keef]

... Do think they're talented though, I'll give them that. But so were Pink Floyd, and they also wrote a load of w@nk (in amongst some of the greatest tunes ever - "Wish you were here" being top of my list).

[Brendan]

Anyone Can Play Guitar is one of my favorite songs ever and Creep is a classic but everything after Pablo Honey (that is what that album is called isn?t it?) is rubbish IMOO (in my opinionated opinion)

I think Jah said it best; ?I blame them for other boring, dull, tedious miserablist shite like Coldplay. Bastards! Music for bed wetting students as someone else once said.?

[Keef]

Exactly.

[Azul]

Miss Kittin & the Hacker

Koop

Rinocerose

Tilly and the Wall

Nouvelle Vague

SuperSystem

Balkan BeatBox

St. Germain

The Blood Arm

Bat for Lashes

The Long Blondes

Smoke City

Sons and Daughters

Young Gods

The Faint

Chicks on Speed

David Kitt

De-Phazz

Spektrum

Fischerspooner

Gotan Project

Ladytron

Nitin Sawhney

http://www.last.fm/user/blue2005/

[Incitatus]

Never been a big fan, though I did use to go and see them when they were still called On A Friday, seem to remember EMI disliking the acronym and insisting they change name. Anyway I agree with bleep, Kid A is their best so far.

[Jah Lush]

The new P J Harvey album (White Chalk) has hardly been off my sound system since it came out a couple of weeks ago. Completely different from what she has done before and I have all her stuff. Other listening pleasures over the past week or so have included:-

Augustus Pablo

Lee "Scratch" Perry

The Heptones

The Faces

Ronnie Lane

Primal Scream

David Holmes

M.I.A

Bat For Lashes

Martha Wainwright

Any Winehouse