10 thoughts on “Music Sharing Post 9/29/13”

  2. “Pollywannacracka” might be my favorite PE song. . . Fear of a Black Planet is amazing – you should read McLoed and DiCola’s Creative License, a book about sampling that explains (in part) why albums like FoaBP and Paul’s Boutique just can’t be made anymore).

    I’ve been listing to a playlist based on this article: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/27/20-best-prince-songs-never-heard

    . . . and have been digging Jungle (the band, not the musical genre): http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/19/jungle

  3. Let’s see… in honor of the new album coming out, i’ve been listening to the original Deltron 3030:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSH8lAYn4XE

    I cannot get Gorillaz “Kids with Guns” out of my head to save my life:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxziFMyRwDg

    I’ve been listening to the new Okkervil River album (the Silver Gymnasium) quite a bit. :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mjb0V9IgGI

    There’s the new Janella Monae. I’ll put the Prince track here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X7ALvwN8Y

    But my favorite thing this month can’t really be linked to because it’s an album long composition. You must must must listen to Dawn of Midi’s “Dysnomia.” Here’s a link to the whole thing:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X7ALvwN8Y

  5. I’m…not that into the Janelle Monae. Sort of my usual problem with neo-soul; I want my pop to be gimmicky and sold out. I like that Aubrey O’Day track a lot more. (Probably I’m the only one, but there it is…)

  6. I am with you, Noah. I had such high hopes for Archandroid, but except for “Tightrope” I found the rest of it kind of hard to listen to (and not in a good way), and the latest single “Q.U.E.E.N” didn’t do it for me either.

    I want to like it. . . but just don’t.

  9. Sadly I’ve been neglecting proper music listening for the past few months, but I have been reading lots about it.

    I’ve been catching up on 4 PJ Harvey albums I missed and the 3 Bat For Lashes albums and a Marvin Gaye album. All good stuff.

    But also I bought a dvd called Romantic Warriors II: About Rock In Opposition. Rock In Opposition is an obscure prog rock movement that has stayed interesting to this day, I’m very happy someone finally released a film about this movement because I dont think there are any books on it.
    The opposition was to the labels and lack of support structures for uncommercial music. I think it’s kinda scary that from my recent reading about music, sometimes it seems that without even just a tiny minority of determined individuals, some wonderful music movements never would have happened.
    There is a book out right now about 4AD that I’d like to get; something that strikes me about that label is how much of a difference Ivo Watts-Russell made and how little of that type of music in britain has been cultivated after his departure. I imagine there are a lot of great guys floating around who could have been a part of that but either exist even further away from the radar than they might have or cannot exist at all without the kind of support a label like 4AD could have given them.

    The dvd mostly consists of profiles of bands like Henry Cow, Univers Zero, Magma, Art Zoyd, Thinking Plague and quite a lot more than that.

    Lindsay Cooper from Henry Cow, Comus, solo bands and many many more bands died very recently.

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