The Lovers Thread

[Ness Rowlah]

Ice cold Coke from a glass bottle on a warm day. Hail Jack White.
Taking a vinyl record out of its sleeve and putting it on.

punk
duets
the web
film noir
Associates
Ben&Jerry's
fishing trout
Stiff Records
The Damned
the World Cup
Mary Coughlan
Stina Nordenstam
Omar and Des'ree
King Crimson's "Red"
Supersilent and nu-jazz
Nick Lowe's "Jesus of Cool"
Annette Peacock (she's back!)
Vini Reilly and Durutti Column
"Prehistoric Sounds"/The Saints
dubstep&grime mixes and mixCDs
The Pistols (never loved The Clash)
Maddy Prior's "Woman in the Wings"
Snowsuit* when in the mood for noise
Kraftwerk, Ultravox!, Eno, Roxy, Bowie
The old Alice Cooper and his friend Iggy
some Tangerine Dream, Szajner, Kate Bush
seersucker, swimming in the ocean, reading
Tom Waits before he became "student-friendly"
Biosphere, X-Ray-Spex, Gillian Welch, Garbarek
Seinfeld, Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther movies
Steve Hillage, John Martyn, Yellow Magic Orchestra
John Peel (RIP. I hardly listen to radio after he went)
living in England and what goes with it like a pint after work
V/VM's Herculean effort of releasing one free MP3 every day
David Sylvian, Young Marble Giants, Motørhead, Tuxedomoon
these new glamguys Gliss and the old glampunkers The Only Ones
"Summer in the City" - through an open car window on a warm early-June day in London
NY punk - Blondie, Television (even "Adventure"), The Dead Boys, Richard Hell, Talking Heads
good C&W - like Lyle Lovett when he's in the mood, Nanci Griffith before she went pop, Emmylou Harris, Townes Van Zandt
Maradona clips on YouTube (even when warming up to stupid songs like "Life is Life", and that Maradona the Original is pure football porn)
would have loved to see Johnny Winter on a good day in the '70s going through some of his better stuff [I reckon that guy in the Big Rock
Discography is right - after Hendrix there was Winter (if he could stay sober) - not
Clapton or Beck]

(list in sort of an England X-mas tree formation with a gangly Peter Crouch up front, actually it looks more like a vacuum cleaner) -
and yeah I do love Joy Division as well

 

[zhao]

I love dissensus and everyone who comes here.

(not being sarky)

 

[michael]

Supersilent and nu-jazz

Be careful using that term, "nu jazz" became a substitute for "acid jazz" around the time artists like Jazzanova were getting big. Might cause some confusion if you played Supersilent to someone expecting something dancey and easy to get into.

 

[Ness Rowlah]

Be careful using that term, "nu jazz" became a substitute for "acid jazz" around the time artists like Jazzanova were getting big. Might cause some confusion if you played Supersilent to someone expecting something dancey and easy to get into.

I can see hippy-jazz girls with flowers in the hair
and lost love in their eyes shuffling hazily along to some of Supersilent ...
Never seen it though - it's more based of an idea of watching the 60s
on telly and having been to a couple of jazz clubs - where most
people are knowledgeable, clapping after the solos and in general feeling
embarrassed (on behalf the artist?) if someone starts dancing to anything coming from the stage ...

I'll be careful though, thanks for your concern. And peace.

 

[In Moll]

loving:

daniele baldelli cosmic mixes
nu-groove reissue boots

 

[Guybrush]

When you snap your fingers you've created a beat
When you find it hard not to get on your feet
Rhythm for the sounds that you hear after dark
Even music for the birds that sing in the park
Something for the way that your love makes you feel

Rhythm for the things in your life that are real

That's music. Life is music.
Life is music. Life is music.

Music for the sound of the summer
Music for the beat of the drummer
Music every stop of the way
That's music. Music for a movie
Or when you're feeling groovy
Music's there to help to start the day
Sweet music. Music for the worst of the sinners
Music for the best of the winners
Music when it's time to kneel down and pray
hey

Life is music
life is music
life is music
Life is music
life is music
life is music
Universal language that we all understand
Music is the bridge to your fellow man
Music is the cure for the ills of the world
Music is the when boy meets girl
Music's what you hear when the chilly winds blow
Smiling at someone that you don't even know

That's music. Life is music
. . .

Music for the jingle of money
Music for the sweet taste of honey
Music for the stars up above
that's music
Music for the season or for any reason
Music when you want to fall in love
sweet music
Music for the rhythm of lovers
Music when we care for each other
Music is the sound when a baby cries hey
Life is music. Life is music
___

Ritchie Family – Life Is Music

 

[Don Rosco]

Galaxie 500... whole album make up of open G, D, and C guitar chords.

Spacemen 3 - drones endlessly through effects pedals, plus.. you call that drumming?

Yeah, i'm hearing you. I should really, really hate Galaxie 500. A fey Indie band with plaintive singing quite high in the mix, proper 'songs'. YUCK, except not. Actually great.

The Spacemen are proper great, if you ignore a lot of the lyrics.

 

[Parson]

i have one of those long lists on my myspace profile:

16 horsepower,bonnie "prince" billy, songshia, iron and wine, sparklehorse, lambchop, neil young, mmj, roy orbison, waylon jennings, simon and garfunkel, spiritualized, explosions in the sky, elliott smith, american analog set, windy and carl, joy division, slowdive, sigur ros, the pixies, new pornographers, atmosphere, louis logic, jedi mind tricks, brother ali, immortal technique, quannum, krush, shadow, cage, roots manuva, devin the dude, z-trip, binary star, matthew dear, luomo, herbert, dot allison, metro area, mothboy, pendulum, exile, edIT, photek, the streets, jamie lidell, high contrast, the postal service, dntel, biosphere, keith fullerton whitman, tim hecker, stars of the lid/the dead texan, einstuerzende neubauten, coil, sp, haujobb, jg thirlwell, venetian snares, justin broderick, mick harris, isis, melvins, also i'm officially addicted to dubstep

 

[Eric]

I will love everything much more when I finish grading these fucking papers (non sequitur)

I like some things on Cornelius's list but have no feelings about his family members.

 

[zhao]

Gerard Grisey. Sugar Minott. Wayan Lotring. Giacinto Scelsi. Sandy Bull. Einsturzende Neubauten. Taku Sugimoto. Thelonius Monk. Pauline Oliveros. John Fahey. Faust. Shivkumar Sharma. Stephen Vitiello. Cheb Khaled. Anthony Braxton. Burial. Beanie Man. Nurse With Wound. (early)PIL. Arvo Part. Patti Smith. Senking. Caetano Veloso. Jimmy Jiufrey. Kano. Robbie Basho. Stephen Matheiu. Morton Feldman. Jan Jelinek. Mahmoud Ahmed. Jack Rose. Thomas Koner. Bauhaus. Steve Roden. Charles Mingus. Wu-Tang. Kraftwerk. Jack Rose. Coil. Eric B &; Rakim. Joy Division. Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn. Mayhem. Robag Wruhme. Caesaria Evora. La Monte Young. ESG (both the NYC disco-punk and Southern rapper). (Baby) Cham. Scott Walker. Suicide. Charles Mingus. Rhythm &; Sound. Toru Takemitsu. SUNN O))). Wolfgang Fuchs. Cheb Mami. Mitchel Akiyama. Slayer. Nick Drake. Ryoji Ikeda. (early) Mob Deep. Shuttle 358. Lady Soverign. Evan Parker. Can. Triple Six Mafia. Toru Takemitsu. Eye Hate God. Georgi Ligetti. Devendra Banhart. The Smiths. Showbiz &; AG. UGK. Thomas Dorsey. Melvins. Thelonius Monk. Klaus Schultz. Alice Coltrane. Sizzla. Horatio Radelescu. Eric Dolphy. Suicide. Asmus Teitchens. Elephant Man. Lady Soverign. Thomas Brinkmann. Brian Eno. Georgio Morroder. Lee Perry. Luciano Berio. Terry Riley. Alva Noto. Gal Costa. Pan Sonic. Dr Zeus. Khaled. Konono. Kit Clayton. DAF.

 

[minikomi]

ugh.

this thread reads like most peoples myspace influence lists . .

better to give a few examples with some gushing praise and suggestions of what to check, no?

 

[mistersloane]

At the moment I'm looooooving an old track by Tinchy Strider called "Desert Storm'; one handclap, one synth sound, 8 bass drums on the end of each 16 bars, accentuated with a backward hihat. It's bare, in every sense of the word, and my neighbours are going to kill me if I don't take it off repeat soon.

 

[zhao]

gushing praise and suggestions of what to check

Ben Frost - theory of machines

From the ominous darkness and intensity of its opening moments, one might expect a death metal album to break out in an instant, but Theory of Machines is an album whose design is as symphonic as it is confrontational—the tempo doesn't pick up, no hooks or vocals arrive, and when the drums finally kick in they're as fragmented and corroded as they could possibly be and still resemble a groove. In Theory of Machines, Ben Frost exploits every extreme of pitch, volume and timbre, the changes in this music sometimes seem as gradual as changes in the weather—and sometimes as violent. As the music changes it changes only in texture, colour and intensity so that the sense is not of something being created, altered or even developed, but of something already present being slowly illuminated.

extensive notes here

 

[MankyFiver]

those mirroring/duelling banjo? guitar lines on the 12" Il Veliero - Chaplin Band, just love the way they go on relentlessly and then the vocal explodes in, then goes and the banjos are still going
perfect

 

[minikomi]

Ben Frost - theory of machines

nice. used to work at a record store i used to frequent

 

[gumdrops]

at the moment i really really love this old grime beat by biggie d called backlash. i only have it on practice hours 2 but i wish it was released. its quite diff to a lot of grime beats in that it doesnt sound 'big' but its quite rich sounding, or weirdly sort of ergonomic, kinda bouncy (texture wise). it has some proper bass, unlike a lot of grime tracks, but its not heavy handed or oppressive like dubstep, its just quite deep, which i love. and the synth riff is kinda sprightly, maybe even trancey? its so so good.

 

[zhao]

nice. used to work at a record store i used to frequent

really? small world. I was really surprised by how good it is. have you heard this?