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[Auryn]

so what are your most recent discoveries? which band have you just run into and can't believe that nobody has ever heard of them?

my recent passion is <i>broken social scene</i>. i haven't bought an album yet, but as soon as cash allows, i'm gonna do so. they are from canada, maybe some of you "freaks" even know them ;), i guess in north america they are more well-known than here. their style is pretty difficult to describe, but if you're interested, just check out "stars & sons", my new favorite, an excellent piece! :)

[Red Frog]

They got a lot of buzz a little while go, and I think there are some big fans around here.

Anyway, I've been listening to Iron & Wine with renewed frequency lately, and old Whiskeytown albums.  Huh.

[inspectorjason]

I've been listening to John Coltrane - A Love Supreme a lot lately.    Also, a lot of Miles Davis albums: Sketches Of Spain, A Kind Of Blue, Birth Of The Cool, Bitches Brew, etc.  

Having avoided jazz for the first 31 years of my life, I'm glad to have developed a (novice) interest lately.    

I've also been listening to James Brown - Live At The Apollo 1962 and Elvis Presley At The Sun (Sun Studios sessions) a lot lately.   Going back to the roots of what's good about the music that I listen to now.    

Other than that, just more post-punk bands that I happen to discover as I keep looking.

[GoonrGrrl]

I'm so late on the bandwagon with this one that I'm not sure the wagon hasn't lost its wheels already, but... Cotton Mather.  I just managed to get ALL their CD's (except the bootleg) on Ebay!

[Auryn]

inspectorjason said:

I've been listening to John Coltrane - A Love Supreme a lot lately.    Also, a lot of Miles Davis albums: Sketches Of Spain, A Kind Of Blue, Birth Of The Cool, Bitches Brew, etc.  

wow, i love A Kind Of Blue, it's amazing and i love the tranquilizing effect it has on me. John Coltrane's fine too... there's nothing better than some good jazz and having a great (candlelight) dinner, lying in bed with your loved one.. ;)

[Kaleidoscope]

Patty Griffin. Heard her on an airline station and bought the album "Impossible Dreams" the day after I got back.  Really beautiful voice and very poignant lyrics. Good stuff.

[Sheik]

My new "discoveries" are oldies, but I came to the conclusion that I quite like their stuff  :cool: : Nick Cave and Jeff Buckley

[lizish]

Kaleidoscope said:

Patty Griffin. Heard her on an airline station and bought the album "Impossible Dreams" the day after I got back.  Really beautiful voice and very poignant lyrics. Good stuff.

Great. Patty Griffin is simply incredible.

I've been sampling the Faces - Five Guys Walk Into A Bar box set with the intention of purchase sometime in the fall.  Never knew that Rod Stewart didn't always suck.



other than that The National has turned me into a huge fan.

Great CD covers:



wonderful songs:

Cold Girl Fever  

and pretty interesting videos:

Son

[inspectorjason]

lizish said:

I've been sampling the Faces - Five Guys Walk Into A Bar box set with the intention of purchase sometime in the fall.  Never knew that Rod Stewart didn't always suck.

You mean that you don't like "Love Touch" or "Some Guys Have All The Luck"?

Seriously, I've been wanting to hear the Faces material, mostly to hear Ron Wood playing with them before he joined the Rolling Stones.

[jedthehumanoid]

this is about as unoriginal as it gets, but i've been pretty obsessed with bob dylan this summer since i saw him in montauban in early july. there was a time, about five or six years ago maybe, when all i would ever listen to was bob dylan, and then the fascination had faded, but seeing him in the flesh was totally surreal - as he walked off the stage he had an aura, a mystery about him that can't really be rendered with words, i'm afraid. and needless to say, the concert was fantastic.
so i've been listening to his albums a lot lately and discovering some that i didn't know before (john wesley harding and world gone wrong, mainly). reading of greil marcus's book led me to download "i'm not there (i'm gone)" today - i have practically listened to it twenty times in a row and am still floored.

other notable recent obsessions include vic chesnutt's "about to choke" and the fiery furnaces, but there are/have been many others.

[Rachelk]

All summer pretty much the same few cds have been on replay. Or I should say the same bands

I discovered Gomez (a few years late I know) and was floored.
The Secret Machines
Oingo Boingo (my live cd) - but that is always always on replay
Rufus Wainwright has been getting lots of time this summer
Tv on the Radio I just found out about as well.

there is more. I just listin to music pretty much all day anyway, no matter what I am doing (it is the ipod thing)

[Auryn]

jedthehumanoid said:

this is about as unoriginal as it gets, but i've been pretty obsessed with bob dylan this summer since i saw him in montauban in early july. there was a time, about five or six years ago maybe, when all i would ever listen to was bob dylan, and then the fascination had faded, but seeing him in the flesh was totally surreal - as he walked off the stage he had an aura, a mystery about him that can't really be rendered with words, i'm afraid. and needless to say, the concert was fantastic.
so i've been listening to his albums a lot lately and discovering some that i didn't know before (john wesley harding and world gone wrong, mainly). reading of greil marcus's book led me to download "i'm not there (i'm gone)" today - i have practically listened to it twenty times in a row and am still floored.

i can understand your bob dylan-obsession perfectly, i just recently bought a greatest hits-cd (just because i found it for only 5 € and i thought that possessing some classic stuff never hurts) and i fell in love with it... his music has this special feeling that's so hard to find... actually my boyfriend burned a cd for me recently, which i haven't listened to yet, there's a lot of bob dylan on there... :)

[mmmaria]

yeah, broken social scene is really cool. i got you forgot it in people a couple of weeks ago and i'm at least semi-hooked.


my new favourite band (not very original either, i know) is the shins. i am very sure of this because i have had lots of situations in the last few months where i had a tune in my head and played it over and over in my mind until i had to admit that it is absolutely fantastic and catchy music, and trying to find out what it was it turned out in at least 90% of the cases that it was something by the shins. another symptom is that i find myself buying their singles. also, their songs really have the best lyrics, just think of "if every moment of our lives were cradled softly in the hands of a strange and gentle child, i'd not roll my eyes so". and then there was this concert.... :)


other than that, i am also listening to iron and wine quite much lately, and kings of convenience/ erlend oye

[Hezalin]

I went an dsaw keane in July and fell in love with the two opening bands
Aveo ( from Seatlle)
and
Matt Pond PA ( from PA and VA area)
I boiught all thier stuff already and am mesmorized by them.
I was so mad because Matt POnd PA came back to  Philly and I couldn't go to the show for them cuz I was working!  But i do love them

[WaterHyacinth]

The Pixies. After only two days, I'm officially hooked to them, and they may become one of my favorite bands of all-time. I'll try to buy Doolittle as soon as I can.

[Nazca]

recently :

The Go! Team : tried top make them known to you (in another thread), but failed miserably

The Arcade Fire : same as above, but I know them for a bit longer.  Still waiting for their new album

Q and not U, Telefon Tel Aviv : just stumbled upon some mp3s.  Great music.

The Cansecos, The Russian Futurists : great totally folk-pop goes IDM indies.  Almost totally unknown.

Junior Boys - Got great reviews yet the album is still nto out (well, not here - If I find out who got it before us...)

[beyond]

I was going to post a thread about Broken Social Scene but I did a search first and found this -- good to find some support of this critically under-rated collaborative band.  You Forgot It In People is a great great album with some stellar tracks, from rock to instrumentals to weird-as-Radiohead stuff.  The single, Cause = Time, is great, and Pacific Theme is very "2 LN," Lover's Spit is a great ballad and Anthem for a 17-Year-Old Girl is absolutely fantastic.  Don't bother with their b-sides collection Beehives, cause they truly suck, but Forgot It In People is totally awesome, everyone should give it a spin.

0Jon

[Nazca]

beyond said:

I was going to post a thread about Broken Social Scene but I did a search first and found this -- good to find some support of this critically under-rated collaborative band.  You Forgot It In People is a great great album with some stellar tracks, from rock to instrumentals to weird-as-Radiohead stuff.  The single, Cause = Time, is great, and Pacific Theme is very "2 LN," Lover's Spit is a great ballad and Anthem for a 17-Year-Old Girl is absolutely fantastic.  Don't bother with their b-sides collection Beehives, cause they truly suck, but Forgot It In People is totally awesome, everyone should give it a spin.

0Jon

Well, maybe you're just a little late.  The band got some quite huge recognition here on murmurs, and even got in 2003 official Murmurs top 20, which is really great for such an indie-dedicated band.  [Thanks to Antti, who was the first one to publicise the album here - we all owe him a beer].

I do agree however that the band is awesome.  'Beehives' ain't that bad however.  You probably don't know the more post-rock work they put out before : 'Feel Good Lost' (re-released this year), and 'Beehives' spans from that first album to after 'You Forgot It In People'.  They sure are B-Sides however, but still quality work IMHO.

[Dream Brother]

jedthehumanoid said:

this is about as unoriginal as it gets, but i've been pretty obsessed with bob dylan this summer since i saw him in montauban in early july. there was a time, about five or six years ago maybe, when all i would ever listen to was bob dylan, and then the fascination had faded, but seeing him in the flesh was totally surreal - as he walked off the stage he had an aura, a mystery about him that can't really be rendered with words, i'm afraid. and needless to say, the concert was fantastic.
so i've been listening to his albums a lot lately and discovering some that i didn't know before (john wesley harding and world gone wrong, mainly). reading of greil marcus's book led me to download "i'm not there (i'm gone)" today - i have practically listened to it twenty times in a row and am still floored.

I've been quite the same lately actually.  I too have been a huge Dylan fan for years now, and he's still the only artist that has been constantly fighting R.E.M. for the distinguished title of my favorite.  But I had burned myself out on Dylan a touch in the last few months.  However, I just saw Dylan with Willie Nelson in Lexington Kentucky last weekend and it was absolutely brilliant.  I've seen Dylan three times now, once in 2000, once in 2002 and once this year and this was certainly the best of those.  Dylan seemed absolutely revitalized, he played harmonica much more than in the past, and he even grinned like a little kid during a couple of songs (and if you've seen Dylan in the last 10 years you know how unusual that is).  Plus his voice sounded much better than it has in years.  So anyway, since that show I've been listening to a lot of Dylan albums and I've been pulling out some underappreciated ones too, like Good As I Been To You and World Gone Wrong.  I've also been listening to some Willie Nelson as he too was amazing live.

About that song you mentioned, Jean-Yves, it seems that I have that on a couple of bootlegs but I have never taken note of it before.  I really should pull those out and give it a listen, especially if you think so highly of it.  From what I can tell, it's from the Basement Tapes, right?  Is it a cover or an original?  Also, how is that book you mentioned?  I should probably give that a read since I'm such a huge Dylan fan.

I've also been listening to the new deluxe reissue of Jeff Buckley's Grace as well as the two disc version of Live at Sin-e' quite a bit lately and I've been rediscovering my love for Mr. Buckley.  

Aside from those three, most of what I've been listening to lately is hip hop.  Nas, The Roots, Jay-Z, Notorious B.I.G., Mobb Deep, Cee-lo, Outkast, etc.

[Nazca]

beyond said:

I was going to post a thread about Broken Social Scene but I did a search first and found this -- good to find some support of this critically under-rated collaborative band.  You Forgot It In People is a great great album with some stellar tracks, from rock to instrumentals to weird-as-Radiohead stuff.  The single, Cause = Time, is great, and Pacific Theme is very "2 LN," Lover's Spit is a great ballad and Anthem for a 17-Year-Old Girl is absolutely fantastic.  Don't bother with their b-sides collection Beehives, cause they truly suck, but Forgot It In People is totally awesome, everyone should give it a spin.

0Jon

Still, if you want to start a Broken Social Scene thread, you're welcome.  I'll participate in that (though, I doubt it will get very popular outside of 'You Forgot It In People' - the band being quite unknown overall).