Q: What are you listening to? A: Shiina Ringo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN98b6WHw2Q

i listened to touching down lightly. i really liked it, especially how the gaps between 'touchdowns' seemed timed so perfectly as though they were meant to embrace and incorporate the sound of a passing bus or hum of a ceiling fan into the music. i would be interested to read about the harmonic structure and time theory (for lack of a better term) behind its composition. it made me feel wistful and heartachey, a sort of visceral experience. i like the idea of being strongly affected by music but i also feel a bit uneasy and emotional now. perhaps this is a good thing.

there was a feeling of suspension, but also a hyper-awareness of the senses, especially aural and tactile. how do they do that?

it's because nothing resolves. and you lose what you think the resolution is supposed to be while you wait and experience the gaps.
metaphor for life?

i need things to listen to

http://images.teamsugar.com/files/usr/1/15111/NPR-Podcast-directory_0.preview.jpg

actual good music tbh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bnzgOho1QE

(ignore the dumb irrelevant slideshow if you can help it)

my favorite podcasts: a list

fresh air
wait, wait... don't tell me!
real time
all songs considered
nyt music popcast
downtown soulville
radio lab
mudd up
npr pop culture
npr driveway moments
the moth podcast
this american life

downtown soulville

<3

I never actually bother to, er, podcast a podcast. I just stream 'em online while I'm surfing the net & don't download them for the car ride or anything. NPR's Science Friday is good for this.

yes i am a downtown soulville subscriber already!!!!!

my other favorite wfmu shows are this is the modern world with trouble and give the drummer some but i haven't listened to them much lately.

i do not know those!

i love podcasts because i spend a lot of time walking around or on the bus. in ny i had a 40ish min commute, and before that an hour commute each way, so they came in super handy. rip bryant park project!!! <3

i wanted a good cooking podcast but the splendid table lady made me want to track her down and shove a stick of butter up her nose she was so awful. do you know any good ones?

oh yeah neither of those come in podcasts but they are on 9-12 EST on thurs and fri respectively. i usually end up listening to them when they're archived though.

i do not know about cooking podcasts

oh yeah i used to also listen to stochastic hit parade sunday nights but i became angry when the dj played beirut several shows in a row (it's mostly contemp. classical). and i sometimes listen to reggae schoolroom on sunday mornings but i can only take so much reggae

more like reg gay

ray gay

http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Ray-J-music-sp01.jpg

hi here are a couple of DJ sets. very accesible fun disco and pop

Classixx on kcrw
Greg Wilson - ETA 1 Under The West Way

thanks, dude. are either of them good for a jog?

if u a slow jogger, yeah

txs jergins! I'm downloading the first mix now & trust that it'll be http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/9510/dopeonaropeflyerwebl.jpg. are these your own sets or someone else's?

i downloaded this morning but i didn't listen yet!
i am a pretty slow jogger (lolnoob) so maybe they will work - also one of them started playing upon download completion and i thought i heard strawberry letter 23 mix so <3 <3 <3

I heard Yacht about 5 minutes into the first mix so double <3 <3 <3

jergins has the WORST taste in music mostly horrible, gay, homo, house, music

Q: What are you listening to?
A: Carole King.

Q. How come I'm such a whitebread yuppified babybooming motherfucker lately?
A. Not even jergins can help me now.
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins

can chan marshall help? has she done a carole king cover yet? it could be a transitioning thing for u.

unreg is my guy

jergins..., I know.

so it that Cat Power covers album any good?

get a room u 2

the first one is pretty good. the second one is iffy at best.

yeah. ijust put moon pix and what would the community think on the bigpod. it's been a while but i'm looking fwd to hearing them again

uh oh, now i'm gonna go on a cat power binge. this could be dangerous!

iirc "nude as the news" is one of my favorites of all time. i don't know why. i'm not a huge cat power fan to begin with.

listening to it for jergins right now

i still have a flame gun
for the cute, cute, cute ones

aw

i thought of this thread just now because i watched "it felt like a kiss" by adam curtis and it briefly mentions "he hit me (it felt like a kiss)" (written by carole king)

it's rare i can drop an early 60s song on lxy that she doesn't know; this one gave her a case of the WTFs the other day

oh hai listened to the céu bubuia and <3 <3 <3 now listening to whatever is up on last.fm. good call, jergs!

I'm not the type to go on Cat Power binges, but I just listened to 'Bathysphere' by Pram right after listening to "Bathysphere" by Cat Power, and I damn near had a mystical experience throughout. both tracks came out in 1998 too — eeeerie!

have you heard bathysphere by smog?

nosir. will it freak me out?

it just might.

myra lee <3

btw unreg did you listen to bathyspere bc if not pls do asap thankig u

I did! I like the even-handed duality of the low and high ends, with the tuba and low harmony vocals combining to form the low end, and the guitar and high harmony vocals filling in the high notes. neither of the vocal tracks is obviously set up as the lead vocal (they're mixed at about the same level/volume), so you can mentally follow one or the other each time you listen to the song. Cat Power's version is less complex harmonically, so it's more sonically & emotionally direct to my ears. I'm no muso, so I'm not sure if I explained that too well. great song though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axFnWWMQeMo

forgot how much i love downtown soulville, it is a lot

i just remembered last year on my birthday i had wanted to request a song on downtown soulville but you have to do it way ahead of time. this year i want to do it and i don't know what to request that isn't totally gay. can anyone help?

the california raisins song

harbl did you make a request? when is your birthday?

jergins, i LOVVVVVVE podcasts, too!!!

i know i'm an npr whore but this is a pretty good set:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113499115
and includes the awesome hazlewood/sinatra 'some velvet morning'!!!

my bday is the 29th. i think that's a thursday so ds would be the 30th. i didn't make request yet!

oops i forgot to make a request

anyway, A: ghostdini wizard of poetry ^_^

is it too late now? do it anyway!

i still don't know what i want

good ted talk
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html

it made me dream about playing. i think i will play today.

this week's search engine podcast is worth a listen. ignore the crappy title (the blogfather part II) and enjoy. i love mysteries

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/33619

accidentally started listening to accidental christmas mix

oops!

it just kind of happened!

listened to a bunch of foreigner this week lol

i listen to dancehall all the time everywhere but not by choice. same
6-7 songs over n over

i am listening to miley cyrus
again not by choice

A. Not even jergins can help me now.
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins
A. Not even jergins

New Tokyo Jihen mini-album coming soon:

http://forums.electricmole.net/showthread.php?t=1824

Hopefully it won't be as disappointing as, ah, the last three albums they put out. Much debate about the "color bar" TV theme. (Does this mean they are going on hiatus?)

I like how this thread was turned into something more legitimate than when I started it. Feel free to also discuss what you are listening to, but then there are already some active threads for that.

Apropos: I moved into a new apartment this summer, with a little more noise insulation from my neighbors (and nobody above or below me). I expected to go through at least big chunks of my CD collection that I hadn't been listening to, but that hasn't happened. In fact, I find myself looking at big chunks of it and wondering why I even have it. Maybe there is wisdom in having very impermanent copies of things. It's not as though I have the money to keep my CDs freshly reflecting what I actually currently like and care about.

Still really liking this Kimbra album. A lot of the time I like the sound of her lyrics as sound. Also, I imagine this will be laughed at by the really experts on what can be done in a studio, but I think the production keeps things interesting. Least favorite track is probably "Plain Gold Ring." I don't know the Nina Simone version, but Kimbra probably shouldn't try being Nina Simone, even for a song.

I can sort of see why people find Kimbra boring, and yet, I'm not sure I feel defensive about it. (What, if anything, am I saying?) Also, I think she has a good sense of rhythm in her delivery, for this type of music.

She's going to be working with these big commercial producers for her next album aimed at a U.S. audience, and I will never like anything she does again.

Anyway Shiina Ringo. This is kind of Shiina Ringo doing Shiina Ringo again, thank goodness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34BVyR0K_9c

Still haven't managed to hear the third song from this EP in full, which means I have been lazy.

It's another ornate mid-tempo big band track. Primary rhythm instrument is banjo.

Karen Stackpole with Die Elektrischen - Machine Shop
Perfume - JPN
Roedelius Plays Piano - Live 1985
Biber - Violin Sonatas / Sonata Representiva (Romanesca)
Jean C. Roche - Songs Through The Seasons
Louis & Bebe Barron - Bells of Atlantis
Roberto De Simone - "Secondo Coro Delle Lavandale"
Ranta / Lewis / Plank - Mu