I am Listening To This At The Moment....

BigMaxBranning · **Joined:** Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:10 pm **Posts:** 39

Mutley, My Morning Jacket are top class!!

Try "It Still Moves" its the album before Z, Golden, Masterplan and One Big Holiday are quality :coool:

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:10 am

Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat.........

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:03 am

Been listening to a lot of 'Anarcho Punk/Reggae' type stuff tonight....but this is superb....

"Yet another band from my crusty traveller yesteryear who kinda lost the plot for a bit when they signed to a major label, disappeared for quite a while and have now popped up on the radar again. Mixing some classic ska'd up keyboard sounds with infectious punky guitar and a suitably large chunk of energetically dubby bass, the tunes were guaranteed to get the great unwashed up on their feet and dancing. Add in the strong female vocal delivery of simple but honest lyrics and you've got a band that could cut it with the best of the rest of the muddy field contingent.

With any luck, I'll get an opportunity to check out just how well time has treated them somewhen soon. In the meanwhile, I can still stick this on the deck, crack a couple of tins of brew, wear a pair of week-old pants, dance like a muppet and instantly take myself back 15 years. Except for the dodgy hair, obviously."

:grin:

Salty · **Posted:** Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:35 pm

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6471

Hoi Mr Salty give this one a try, it is quite folky rock

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:33 pm

This....

Quite mad in places but plenty of Gems!!!! :grin:

Salty · **Posted:** Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:00 pm

Fensy wrote:

Hoi Mr Salty give this one a try, it is quite folky rock

hmmmmmm, they're ok fensoir - nothing more though! :wink:

thereverand · **Joined:** Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:47 pm **Posts:** 99

the yeah yeah yeahs, went to see them at the academy last night and they were awesome, I could have watched Karen O for the rest of the year, she is one of the best women in music today, absolutely class clappp

Dugoutpaddy · **Joined:** Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:23 am **Posts:** 1772

The very best of Frank Zappa
:laugh:

Salty · **Posted:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:29 pm

Salty · **Posted:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:01 pm

I'm having an Unthank afternoon...

grabec · **Posted:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:03 pm

Is that different from a thankless afternoon? :grin:

Salty · **Posted:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:23 pm

*sighs*

wheres the pot house again grabey?!

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:15 pm

Got this through the Letterbox this morning....

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:18 am

Just got this this morning....

Just had a listen....cushty!!!! :coool:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:09 pm

Got this the other day to replace my 'Borrowed' version....

I just LOVE this Album!!!! :coool:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:18 pm

This....

Battlestar America is a mix of hip-hop, trip-hop, country and soul music. This mixture bings together the influences of Outkast and Gram Parsons, Portishead and Kitty Wells, Morcheeba and Otis Redding, Missy Elliott and George Jones. The result is a new breed of American music that brings old-time and old-school together at last.

"Rocking two turntables and a fiddle, Battlestar America will get you bobbing your head until your neck turns red." - Vibe Magazine

"Adding hip-hop beats, raps and turntables to the plaintive wail of Hank Williams, This is a band as comfortable with Cypress Hill's 'How I Could Just Kill a Man' as with Dolly Parton's '9 to 5'" - New York Daily News

"Hip Hop Country. Take a second to digest that. Believe it or not, they make a pretty interesting and complementary couple.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:03 pm

This....

And here's a couple of reviews....

"Although these guys have adopted the hairy bearded look of the Band and occasionally sound Dylanesque they stamp their own identity firmly on this disc - a set of 15 songs without a dud to be found. Tales of the old and new West predominate as evoked in titles like Frankie's Gun, Whiskey in my Whiskey and Helen Fry. In a strange way the sound evokes not just alt-country legends like Green on Red but also the swirling organ and heavy back beat of the Wailers at their best. This is an outstanding collection which rewards repeated listening."

" This is music that comes out of the soil. With a mix of styles ranging across the east coast of America via the Florida Everglades, through to New Orleans and back into the Catskill Mountains, the music also seems to acknowledge its roots in English and Irish folk, and there's the odd whiff of salt air as they veer almost towards sea chanteys.

Some have compared them to Dylan and The Band especially with some of the phrasing and the cadence of the songs. But if you can call up some video's on YouTube then you can see that the lead singer's perfomance is perfectly natural and his voice just happens to sound like Dylan rather than being an affectation. And for me The Band were a lot slicker and on the "soul" side of affairs, whereas The Felice Brothers are more slapdash and rustic. And I mean that in a good way.

There is a range of tempo's, and on tracks like "Frankie's Gun" just try not to sing along. But it's in the ballads that they really show their strength.

Lyrically this is dark stuff with seemingly a murder around every corner, but there are some delightful touches, such as on "Don't wake the scarecrow", a reprise of the subject matter Springsteen touched on in "Candy's Room". In particular I loved "In that cold room your breath would twist just like ghosts do" hinting at far more than the the words actually say.

Somehow they have produced a an album of warmth and great fun, but at the same time having great depth and sadness.

Hopefully these first two albums are the beginnings of a long career for the band (the three eldest sons of a carpenter and an "adopted" brother who was a professional dice player). Hopefully they'll not let the undoubted success that they deserve go to their heads.

My current favourite band."

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Whose gunna be the next big thing this year then?

need summit a bit new to listen to on my ipod.

Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3115

Depends what you like - my current favourites are: The Besnard Lakes, The Tenebrous Liar, Erland and the Carnival, South Westerns and the new Midlake album 'The Courage of Others'.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6471

Yubep wrote:

Whose gunna be the next big thing this year then?

need summit a bit new to listen to on my ipod.

Not exactly new but I have just listened to the new 30 Seconds From Mars album and was fairly impressed with it

Dugoutpaddy · **Joined:** Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:23 am **Posts:** 1772

Not new either
ACD Half Man Half Biscuit

long time since I had a listen :grin:

Doug the head · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:26 pm

Yubep wrote:

Whose gunna be the next big thing this year then?

need summit a bit new to listen to on my ipod.

Think you may like these.

Doug the head · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:57 pm

When they on Chip?

TforTurner · **Joined:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:37 pm **Posts:** 689

Doug the head · **Posted:** Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:34 pm

Had this on all week brilliant album.

born toulouse · **Posted:** Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:09 pm

Gil Scott Heron- I'm New Here. Very good indeed and I'm not that big a fan of a lot of his old stuff.

jish · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:01 pm

Superb album...

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:48 pm

Funny as f*ck, anybody else got any thoughts.....

yloop · **Posted:** Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:59 pm

Saw these at the Cluny not long back, absolutely brilliant.

WestParkPoolie · **Posted:** Sun Apr 04, 2010 6:59 pm

Doug the head · **Posted:** Sun Apr 04, 2010 7:39 pm

yloop wrote:

Saw these at the Cluny not long back, absolutely brilliant.

great album an all.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:34 am

The New Band Of Horses Album....'Infinite Arms'....which comes out May 17th!!!! :coool:

A bit more mellow than the previous 2 but still a masterpiece!!!! :coool:

Is this gonna be Band Of Horses year....I think it is!!!! :coool:

WestParkPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:14 am

Mumtaz's rucksack · **Joined:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:38 pm **Posts:** 1643

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:16 pm

WestParkPoolie wrote:

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:27 pm

I'm listening to the audiobook of the bible. I'm onto exodus at the minute, old testament, Moses is causing chew in Egypt. I'm not religious in the slightest, just thought it would make interesting listening.

Some naughty stuff in the book of genesis like! Two sisters get their dad drunk so they can get preggers by him :shock: