rolling what did you listen to on work commute THREAD
this morning: 'Early', the Scritti Politti early singles compilation.
so good. I genuinely think these singles are the zenith of post-punk. thrilling invention in the space between the scorched earth and the pop world.
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The Walkmen - Heaven
only about the third time I've listened to it (I'm listening to music less and less these days for some reason) but I like it very much (Lisbon didn't do much for me)
I got a seat on the train too - so all in all a very good commute
very nice summer listening.
Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior
Can't beat it, those bass lines are boss.
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
good reading music
Cop by Swans
then Physical Release by Her Parents.
Why? Because I'm a bellend brah.
Maraqopa by Damien Jurado
This is a thread I can really get behind.
Outstanding choice mister.
It's a commute staple
As well as being awesome it's about 36 minutes long, which is roughly the same length as my commute.
The Grimes album
So nothing worth telling everyone about
Does walking count as commuting?
I listened to Stage Names by Okkervill River, but only the start and end, because I sat next to somebody I knew on the train.
John Talabot - Fin
What do I win?
My commute is in two stages - train then tube
Train is always something quieter/more ambient so I can read/sleep.
Tube is always more rowdy to help distract my attention away from annoying commuters and pump myself up for a dull day of avoiding work. Today was:
Train: Supreme Cuts - Edits vol. 2
Tube: Mike WiLL Made It - Established in 1989 pt. 2
Morning - Middle Cyclone by Neko Case
Afternoon - Flight Muzik by DJ Diamond
Great choices
Really can't wait for a new Neko Case album!
Me too
Haven't had a chance to listen to this yet, but America's NPR are apparently doing a series where they "will check in from time to time as singer-songwriter Neko Case creates the follow-up to her 2009 album Middle Cyclone."
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/24/153513270/birth-of-an-album-in-the-studio-with-neko-case?sc=tw
i always put it on shuffle
for your delights ill list them all
paranoid - the dillinger escape plan
cities on fire - reuben
me vs morrissey in the pretentiousness contest - a wilhelm scream
attitude - the misfits
counting 54321 - thursday
43% burnt - the dillinger escape plan
lament of the mouurnful sailors - down i go
everybody's girl - dwarves
setting fire to sleeping giants - the dillinger escape plan
everbody is someone in LA - felix da housecat
nothing but hits bitch
nothing but nothing but hits
Not sure I actually want to listen to it...
...but 'Me vs Morrissey in the Pretentiousness Contest' is a very good song title.
Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
Was at his Old Vic gig last night so felt inspired to revisit his back catalogue on the way to work this morning.
I haven't heard this in years
But it blew me away when I first got hold of it. What a strange, imaginative, original record. Wind in The Wires is also amazing.
Steffi mixmag podcast
Extremely lovely house music
NZCA/LINES
Not convinced by it, to be honest. Will listen to CHLLNGR on the way home, prolly. Or Tycho.
The guy I carpool with always goes on about
rap and how it got lame after like 91 and how so and so sucks so bad. So anyone who he says sucks I make a playlist of and show him the good side of said artist. Mostly it's the big names in rap. Every time he's like "can you get me some of this stuff?"
So today we listened to Too $hort, haha. Showed him Blowjob Betty and got him laughing so hard.
play him dalek
then he'll shut up
Nah, keeping him away from that type
cos I know he'll like it and then continue on like Dalek fans do about how all rap should sound like Dalek (rock) snore.
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Great choice.
Since we got a horrendous new manager at work
Listening to the Dead Kennedys rage against authority on the way in is a great comfort.
My 'commute' is a ten-minute bike ride so I don't fit a lot of listening in
I listened to the first couple of tracks from Dirty Projector's newest one on the way in and I think I'd just gotten to Avatar on Swans' new one for the ride home. Interesting post!
new DP's is great. might be their favourite LP of mine.
certainly the most listenable.
er, not so much commute as bloody long return journey from Edinburgh to Worcester
Matthew Dear - Beams
Fink - Perfect Darkness
Black Keys - selfmade comp of best bits from Attack & Release and Brothers
Sebadoh - Bakesale
Liars - Drums Not Dead
Maccabees - Given To The Wild
is Beams good?
I like the one song I've heard from it.
impulse buy on visit to Edinburgh Fopp. they were playing it and it sounded good. certainly still interested after a few listens.
one of life's small pleasures that...
Selecting the cds for a long trip...
Morning - Fondo by Vieux Farka Toure
Some desert blues. Fairly certain he's the son of the late great Ali Farka Toure. Got no idea how he stacks up in any technical proficiency sense, but in terms of my enjoyment he's on a par with his dad (which is a good thing).
I had a weird thing where when the new orbital album came out I listened to it quite a lot, walking past the Olympic stadium on the way too/from work
and then the other day I was walking back without headphones and heard it echoing distantly from the actual stadium (presumably a rehearsal for the paralympics opening) it felt pretty surreal.
I like this
I haven't actually listened to that album, though...like, is it good?
I like it, I think it's probably good :) It's quite a mixed bag
I preferred the singles they released the year before, but it's still pretty good.
My playlist of the last Casiotone gig at Cargo
ab soul - pineal gland
new yeasayer - fragrant world
just gets better and better with every listen, first 5 tracks are just glorious
Fiona Apple - The new one with the long name
First listen, quite liked it. Like a really indie lounge act.
Swans - The Seer... although obviously not all of it as the damn thing
is 17 hours long.
On the way home yesterday - Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
This morning - Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
Verwüstung
_I First Saw You On That Snowy Night And Couldn't Shake An Overwhelming Feeling Of Sadness_
just missed my train, so added 25mins onto my journey, so I got a few tracks off the Pernice Bros' _Live A Little_ bonus disc too.
Swans live album on way in
...and way out.
I need that new album. pay day on Friday, I'll go buy it, why not.
of course I meant the most recent live one
it's great, but no recording equipment can adequately capture the live Swans experience. roll on November, amirite?
Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, We Are
For the way home. Well, the first 4 songs.
I can only listen to that in deep autumn/winter
the last track is the best. I remember the first time I ever listened to the album, lying in bed feeling hibernative, and I came to just as 'Lullabye for Christie' reached its climax. it was the most hair-raising thing.
Much longer commute today
Got through Eye Contact by Gang Gang Dance, Space is only Noise by Nicolas Jaar and Kindred by Burial.
I might go for 'America' today
I feel like Deacon is a guy I've always negelected because his music is a bit too hyperactive and high-sugar, but fuck it.
also maybe some Max Tundra afterwards.
Tame Impala
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
WIXIW
Still love it
Canterbury - Heavy In The Day
(after some Breaking Bad)
If you like melodic rocky poppy stuff (but not overly manufactured/cliched) you should give them a listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV12QUnbwI4
Did the whole of
Vecktamist- Grizzly Bear
Following Wednesday's gig. Need some new stuff on my Ipod to be fair...
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
I hadn't really woken up properly and didn't really want to
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
I don't really get that album.
I don't either
I got really excited by Good News.. but when i've gone into the back catalogue I don't find it very satisfying. Maybe I just need hooks and M&A doesn't supply them.
really?
first: you need to check out 'Building Something out of Nothing', which compiles earlier singles plus the 'Interstate 8' EP, because it's great, and if you don't like it, then idk.
as for TM&A: what makes it great is the way they took their trademark eerie, lonely and unhinged interstate road tundra sound and extrapolated it onto an even vaster and more alienating existential, metaphysical canvas.
it's colder, trippier, harsher on all accounts, and the lyrics...oh god, the lyrics. Brock punched square through the wall with his earthy drunk cynicism and faced right up to some really man's place in the universe stuff.
to cut right to it, it's the way it takes you right to the sub-zero desert plains it aims for and chills right through your bones, in a way beyond spacier music with more flowery lyrics, that makes it special.
You talk it up well
I've got both of them as well. I'll re-listen and report back.
terribly structured, iffy syntax
but the I think my point just about surfaces.
I think approaching MM
from their newer albums and working backwards sets you up for a fall as it creates an impression of the band that isn't really representative of their wider body of work. A lot of their earlier material is pretty far away from the TV-friendly GNFPTLBN.
It's best understood in context so if you're interested I would really recommend you check out Pitchfork's short documentary about The Lonesome Crowded West. It's not exhaustive but it's worth your time.
http://pitchfork.com/tv/pitchfork-classic/1912-modest-mouse-the-lonesome-crowded-west/3115-entire-film/
Listened to BSOON
It is good, I just needed to separate it from GNFPWLBN, as I love that album. And i'm not even a transvestite.
this description made me just put it back on my Ipod.
Thanks man.
Knifeworld - Buried Alive: Tales of Crushing Defeat
All of it.
I saw them on Saturday night.
They were really good. Great sax!
So did I
I went all the way to Bristol to see 'em and didn't meet you?!
Battles Fact Mix.
went for 'Minima Moralia' by Chihei Hatakeyama insteadnt f
it's a beautiful September day and I'm feel tranquil.
oh, and Supersilent 8 last night; 8.5 went really well with the moon and stars and gauzey clouds.
*instead
This morning's commute...
...took me up the M1 from Nottingham to Bradford as I work up here during the week. This morning's soundtrack was:
'Keychain Collection' - Gang Colours
'Bubblegum' - Mark Lanegan
'Other People's Problems' - Breton
Madteo - TTTree Low G. Tapes: Mad Dip Revue
I only have a tape deck so its either that... Ben UFO or Kassem Mosse from Trilogy Tapes, Tuff Sherm on Opal Tapes, a Jimi Hendrix Best Of, Themes from Gladiators the TV show.
Possibly the best collection i've ever heard :D
you should hear the gladiators tape
the track at the end for the eliminator is something else: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkl5JTVuC_o
Drexciya stuff
OPPA GANGNAM STYLE
DIIV
lovely little record.
sorry, the new one - OSHIN
have they got others? i suppose i could just google that.
Levon Vincent's Fabric mix on the way home
Followed by Madman Across the Water by Elton John (bit of a Levon themed evening).
On my way home tonight I did ...
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast and then most of Glassjaw's Everything You Wanted To Know About Silence.
on my way home
Voices From The Lake. immersive.
Chore of Enchantment by Giant Sand
Then Valtari by Sigur Ros.
Black Sabbath
No idea why. It seemed to suit my packed train though...
Oren Ambarchi - Saggitarian Domain.
Pretty perfect for my 33 minute commute :D
I did three of those this morning
How odd.
Matthew Dear - Beams
Also had time for 'Car Trouble' by Adam and The Ants, wonderful.
Dan Deacon - America
for the first time. Might take a little time to get into, I found my attention wandering a little.
Title Fight - 'Floral Green'.
It's very, very good
Future of the Left - Plot Against Common Sense
turned phone off random and listened to the whole thing on the train today.
Crossed Out
man...or astroman
damn, they good at guitar.
Chromatics - Night Drive
Not sure if it's the ideal album for a morning commute, excellent all the same though.
yesterday
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (growing on me)
Matthew Dear - Beams (great straight off the bat)
Roy Montgomery - Scenes from the South Island (stargazing psych drone magic)
this morning:
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
I'm getting properly back into metal. gonna start playing guitar really fast again.
would i like this
montgomery chap? The description sounds pretty awesome...
yes!
he has roots in New Zealand lo-fi, released a great album on Kranky, has worked with Bardo Pond as Hash Jar Tempo, released a split EP with Grouper...lovely drifty guitar stuff.
Misfits - Famous Monsters
King Tuff - Mindblow CDr
got me pretty much from door to door.
Listened to Alex Chiltons Free Again for only the second time..
I can't wait to finish work and listen to it on the way home again.
This morning - Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Always liked the first half more than the second so I sort of zoned out and did some reading half way through.
This House - Jodis
hadn't listened to it for a while and it's a nice one to drift off to
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Took ALMOST as long as the communte. The last few notes of 'I remember nothing' faded just before I hit the staff carpark. Love it when that happens.
Radio 4 this morning.
Have a courtesy car with no CD's. Will dig something out from the crates for tomorrow.
Cat Power - Moon Pix
this sounds best loud and in the dark on summer nights
one of the great growers. I never thought much of it until recent years, but it's as indelible as the rocks in a desert. i.e. only as slowly as rocks weathering, and even then it'd persist as sand and dust.
My copy of The Seer (finally) arrived when I was at Bestival
Taken three commutes to get through it all. Bit good isn't it?
i cant remember
some gay for johnny depp
some kvelertak
some cephalic carnage
some down i go
some MF DOOM
some the movielife
yadda yadda
On shuffle this morning, one of those occasions where it completely gets the mood right
Cold, slate grey skies, spitting with rain:
Closer by Low followed by
Mistress by Red House Painters followed by
Ecstasy by New Order
I listened to;
Ryan Adams - So Alive
Ryan Adams - Luminol
Polvo - The Peddlar
That is the length of my commute, on foot.
Amanda Palmer - Theatre is Evil
The full download (with extra tracks and b-sides). I've recently moved and my new commute to work can take anything between 1-2 hours so if I get to listen to all of the 23 tracks I know it's been a bad journey!
the swearin' album
which sounds like superchunk and throwing muses and things my mate shaun would write on his guitar. it's excellent.
Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics - OST
although a really quick journey, so had to listen to the last few tracks in the office.
Matthew Dear - Beams
Yesterday on the way home I listened to the Benjamin Damage and Doc Daneeka album and the first half of Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home by Angels of Light.
sonic youth - dirty
this morning, quite long. commute was only about 5/6 songs.
Neu 75
Warm Digits - my new favourite album
Even though it's old
Fushitsusha double live!
Listened to it to work, when walking around at lunchtime and from work. Still not finished it.
Paste Magazine put up a new Ben Folds Five song so I listened to that! It was pure joy.
This is the link: http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2012/09/song-premiere-ben-folds-five-hold-that-thought.html
Finished LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening on the drive in
Started The Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme) on the drive home.
new Tame Impala
About half of As Heard on Radio Soulwax.
My Aim Is True
last few days
The Seer on rotation. sounds so good in the encroaching autumnal nights.
right now: Menomena - Mines.
I need to get 'Moms'. it's funny, I said before 'Mines' that maybe one more record would make them one of my favourites; I've only recently really fallen for the brilliant 'Mines', and I think perhaps 'Moms' will seal the deal.
iPod shuffle of all 6 decemberists albums
Hammered home that I only REALLY like 2 of their albums
Odz Manouk - self-titled
plus the last couple of tracks of The Caretaker's _Patience (After Sebald)_
Mala in Cuba
Undecided.
I've been listening to lots of Unrelated Segments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZiqOev70KA
Most of a CDr of a couple of live sets by MMoss
frabbits
winter of mixed drinks. you cant fail.
The new A Place To Bury Strangers album - Worship