I solved the problem of all the songs I couldn't remove from my iPod.
When I'm in a mood for a big change of music, I completely replace my primary iPod playlist, rather than remove individual songs.
At one point, I must have accidentally moved my old "AMR's iPod 4" playlist onto one of my bird call playlists that I kept on my iPod.
But I finally got rid of it, but forgot to add my Halloween collection.
I haven't much to add to last year's. Maybe that new Andy Stott.
There might be something good for it on this new-ish album from Vessel.
I've listened to it a lot in the last week trying to figure it out. I don't think it's as good as that review is making it, but I want to listen again and take it further apart just about every time I want to sit down and listen to something.
I tried out Vessel's previous album Order of Noise when it was on some year-end lists. It never quite grabbed me enough to make an impression. It really seemed like the kind of thing I would like though, maybe I should give it another shot.
* Township Rebellion - Rage Against the Machine - (self-titled)
* A Body - The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood**
* Molten Universe - Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
* Runnin - Heartless Bastards - Stairs and Elevators
* Consumed - The Haxan Cloak - Excavation**
* Stack Shot Billy - The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
* Watch Over Stillness / Matters Principle - AANIPAA - Through a Pre-Memory***
* In Spite of All This - Newspeak - Sweet Light Crude
* Serial Thrilla - The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land****
* Plague of Angels - Earth - Hibernaculum
** More on this later
*** Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O)))) and Mika Vainio (PanSonic and his various solo projects)
**** For some reason I chose this song title as my first online identity. Yeah, me neither.
New music this week: (A tale of opposites)
The Body - I Shall Die Here - This is The Body collaborating with The Haxan Cloak. I'm going to go for comical understatement here and say this is good Halloween music.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiG0nI6r1Qg
Grouper - Ruins - Soft, insistent piano/voice songs. She scaled back the drone of The Man Who Died in His Boat, and this version of Grouper seems like a slightly more song-oriented Leyland Kirby. I like this album, but I doubt it's something I'll keep coming back to once the new album interest wears out.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i31zFiwBFho
I should check out that AANIPAA. But it makes me think of ANBB (Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld), which was less than the sum of its parts.
Oh, but it's ÄÄNIPÄÄ. That's different.
I've never listened to Sunn0))), but what I've heard of them makes me think that it might not be that far from Vainio's Life: It Eats You Up.
I would say Sunn O))) is less abrasive than Life in general. I wasn't particularly impressed with AANIPAA, but it wasn't terrible.
I was actually listening to some Sunn O))) the other day. They...don't quite cut it for me. It's possible that I've just been listening to the wrong stuff. (White2 & Black One have been the two albums I've listened to in their entirety). Black One, in particular never seemed to know whether it wanted to try to lull me (the meaty drone parts), bore me (the more "atmospheric" drone parts, which never seem to instill in me the atmosphere that they're going for), or scare me (all of the black metal inspired parts). It never really gelled for me.
I've heard that Monoliths and Dimensions is pretty good. Maybe I'll give that a try.
I really like Monoliths and Dimensions but I think Black One is probably my favorite. I have to absolutely be in the right mood to listen to them, or it just will not click at all. That being said they fucking ruled live.
Huh. So I should try Black One when I'm in a different mood? I can try it out. Any particular mood work better than others?
Also, I'd put down a 10, but they wouldn't really be random, just a mixture of RTJ2 and Cymbals Eat Guitars.
Wait until a really grey or really wintery day, when you're feeling kind of off from everything. And heed the Southern Lord motto: maximum volume yields maximum results.
I'll second Zack on the mood thing. I can listen to nothing but Sunn O))) for a couple days, but then not touch them for a month or two.
Monoliths and Dimensions is my favorite of theirs. It was also my first real introduction to Sunn O))). "Aghartha" and "Alice" are awesome. That said, Black One is probably my second favorite album of theirs.
Also, have you listened to Earth? They are similar to but different from Sunn O))), and usually are a little less experimental (so don't usually suffer from the trouble with cohesion that you mention).
I'd recommend Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 as a starting point.
Well this sure reads like I stripped my music down closer to my essentials, doesn't it?
a. Tundra Swan “Flight Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
b. Wood Thrush “Songs and Calls” (Dan Gibson: Wildlife Identification by Sound)
c. Blackburnian Warbler “Chip Call” (The Warbler Guide)
d. Long-Eared Owl “Female Nest Call & Male Advertising Hoot” (Voices of North American Owls)
1. KRS-One “Mortal Thought” Return of the Boom-Bap
2. Eels “The Sound of Fear” Daisies of the Galaxy
3. Eric Copeland “Trophy Nuts” Logo My Ego
4. Disclosure “When a Fire Starts to Burn”* Settle
e. Common Raven “Kaaw or Kwaa calls and Interaction Growl Calls (MB)” (Cornell Master Set)*
5. Ha Ha Tonka “Dead to the World” Lessons
f. Canada Warbler “Song Type A2” (The Warbler Guide)
6. Ha Ha Tonka “The Hose in Motion (Live)”* Woxy.com Lounge Act
g. Song Sparrow “Songs and Calls” (Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region)
h. Northern Waterthrush “Song” (Cornell Essential Set)
7. The Field “I Have the Moon, You Have the Internet” Yesterday & Today
8. Ha Ha Tonka “Colorful Kids” Lessons
9. Foxygen “In the Darkness” We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
T. Ha Ha Tonka “Walking on the Devil's Backbone” Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
*Notes:
4. I tried to get into the whole album, but I think that this is the only song I'll be holding on to.
e. I bought myself the Master Set for my birthday. $50, but almost 5000 clips. I'm slowly easing into it, just putting a dozen or so species on my iPod right now. I've got all of the Corvids because I'm reading a book about crows and ravens right now.
6. My favorite song about Sherman's March, but it works as a metaphor on several levels, too.
Needs more Ha Ha Tonka.
A bit heavy, actually. But now that I've got space on my iPod again, I can better prioritize.
speaking of disclosure they are the one dollar album of the week on Google Play this week
Seems like the right price.
Yeah, I don't know how much I enjoy the album other than the song you mentioned earlier and "Latch". Ah well, can't pass it up for that price - it's still 50 cents per good song, which is a steal these days.
1. I Found You – Alabama Shakes
2. Life On Standby – Hawthorne Heights
3. Californication – Red Hot Chili Peppers
4. Soma – The Strokes
5. Walk – Foo Fighters
6. The Distance – Travis
7. A Little Biblical – Band Of Horses
8. Thelonious – Thelonious Monk
9. Young Hearts – Kujay Dada
10. F*<k You And Your Cat – Goldfinger
B. Sick Sad Little World – Incubus
1. Look At You Now -- Golden Smog -- Blood On The Slacks
2. Nude -- Radiohead -- In Rainbows
3. Our Singer -- Pavement -- Slanted & Enchanted
4. Living In The Real World -- Blondie -- Eat to the Beat
5. Crunch Pillow -- Guided By Voices -- King Shit And The Golden Boys
6. Spiderfighter -- Guided By Voices -- Let's Go Eat The Factory
7. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock -- U2 -- Zero: A Martin Hannett Story 1977-1991
8. Sidewalk -- Built To Spill -- Keep It Like A Secret
9. Talk About The Passion -- R.E.M. -- Murmur
10. The Great Curve -- Talking Heads -- The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
B1. Cut Me Off -- Gear Daddies -- Let's Go Scare Al
B2. One Hundred Years From Now -- The Byrds -- Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
Notes
4. Eat to the Beat was probably one of the first "new wave" albums I got into, way back in 1980
6. Rare GBV song where a Tobin Sprout ditty gets tacked on to the end. Usually Sprout's songs are standalone
10. TNOTBISTH is a great live album, highly recommended
Just a reminder that Lydia Loveless at Turf Club November 29. I know it's the tough T-day weekend. I will be there.
Yes! I have my ticket already.
I'm taking the freealonzo Friday not so random challenge:
1. "Look at Me Now" -- Wang Chung, Points on the Curve
2. "The Nude" -- Catherine Wheel, Chrome
3. "Our Song" -- Yes, 90125
4. "Living in the Plastic Age" -- The Buggles, The Age of Plastic
5. "Crackerblocks" -- Ozric Tentacles, Erpland
6. "Spider Fingers" -- Bruce Hornsby, Hot House
7. "6:00" -- Dream Theater, Awake
8. "Sleepwalk" -- Jadis, More Than Meets the Eye
9. "Talking Out of Turn" -- The Moody Blues, Long Distance Voyager
10. "The Great Gig in the Sky" -- Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
1. "Quiet as a Mouse" Margot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat
2. "Your Honor" Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch
3. "Fantasy" The xx The xx
4. "Imuhar" Bombino Nomad
5. "Grass Stain" Waxahatchee American Weekend
6. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
7. "For Hallis" The Tiny Closer
8. "Baltimore" The Quavers Fell Asleep on a Train
9. "You Ain't Alone" Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls
T. "Ode to Odetta" Courtney Barnett The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
B. "As Tall as Cliffs" Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Animal!
Lets see if my list fits any Halloween themes.
01. Candlemass - "The Well of Souls", Doomed for Live
02. Metal Church - "Weight of the World", The Weight of the World
03. Solitude Aeturnus - "Days of Prayer", Adagio
04. Sonata Arctica - "The Boy Who Wanted to be a Real Puppet", Reckoning Night
05. The Sanctuary - "Future Tense", Into the Mirror Black
06. Carcass - "Exhumed to Consume", Wake Up and Smell the Carcass
07. Metallica - "Harvester of Sorrow", ...And Justice for All
08. Meshuggah - "Suffer in Truth", Destroy. Erase. Improve.
09. King Diamond - "Follow the Wolf", House of God
10. Opeth - "The Moor", Still Life
Bonus because it more or less sounds Halloween-ish: Overkill - "Horrorscope", Horrorscope
Would probably scare small children at the very least.
Steve Gunn's Way Out Weather slots in nicely next to Nick Drake on any autumnal music playlist.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSY12Dmw8Q&list=PLGLGDT-9ZI4Jxy3xTypg3umwxsJ2cmofM
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
"Love is the Answer" - Aloe Blacc
"Susanne" - Weezer
"Never Mind" - The Replacements
"Royals" - Lorde
"New" - No Doubt
"A Girl Like You" - Edwyn Collins
"Maps" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Hard Luck Woman" - Kiss
"Graceland" - Paul Simon