Some recommendations . . .
I've been wholly remiss as of late in updating. For that, I am sorry. I've been insanely busy at work and frankly, listening to a bunch of new stuff. Recommendations have been coming at me from all sides to hear new things: from customers, people I work with, other customers, Kammie, and the occasional friend too. So I'll just pass a bunch of those on for now and I'll hope to have some kind of mix up tomorrow.
First off, I'm going to recommend a band called Hard-Fi, I believe their getting big and popular in the UK, I could be mistaken. I was skeptical, but after giving them a listen their good English rock, which is something I've always been a bit of a sucker for. Their album is called "Stars of CCTV."
In the more mainstream category, the new Placebo "Meds" is good, not spectacular, but given the Placebo fanbase around here, worth mentioning. It's as a coworker described: what he expected from Placebo, songs about drugs and sex, which is all we ask for from PLacebo.
The new album from Blue October "Foiled" I rather like as well. It's not more of the same from the band, but a good, solid rock album that delves into some world beats and other styles. It also has Immogen Heap doing some backing tracks on of the songs, and again, we know how she plays around here too.
The new Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Show Your Bones" is a lot of fun, though much more laid back than the foot stomper of an opening LP. This is one I might look out for on LP>
I've also been listening to the remastered "No Answer" from Electric Light Orchestra, which is an album where some rockers first got serious about using cellos in rock music. Aurally, it quite nice. The liner notes were an interesting read on the creation of the album and the evolution of ELO from an old English psych band called The Move.
I've had a collection for a good while now that's called Tease: The Best of Burlesque. It's basically what it claims to be, a very good collection of music from Burlesque shows, which were popular long before the modern skin stuff was popular. The whole CD is jazz with a little ragtime that's fairly upbeat and I've been playing it in the stores in the morning to get a little motivated for work. I even sold a copy of this thing. The song called "The Stripper" is included and was where I got it from to use as a peice of music for the original MadTerran Music Shoutcast theme song.
Finally, I'm going to put up a track from a group I doubt anyone here has heard of called Red Temple Spirits, which is kind of like a much more psychedelic version of the Cure. (They're also darker and denser, perhaps like the Jesus and Mary Chain too.) They have not left my mp3 player since I stumbled onto them while digging for Pink Floyd covers. This is there version if "The Nile Song" They've got a couple albums released that I've gotten my grubby hands on. I'd list the titles, but like all good psychedelic titles, their a bible long.
I know this isn't much, but I'll try to get a little more together by the end of this week.
First off, I'm going to recommend a band called Hard-Fi, I believe their getting big and popular in the UK, I could be mistaken. I was skeptical, but after giving them a listen their good English rock, which is something I've always been a bit of a sucker for. Their album is called "Stars of CCTV."
In the more mainstream category, the new Placebo "Meds" is good, not spectacular, but given the Placebo fanbase around here, worth mentioning. It's as a coworker described: what he expected from Placebo, songs about drugs and sex, which is all we ask for from PLacebo.
The new album from Blue October "Foiled" I rather like as well. It's not more of the same from the band, but a good, solid rock album that delves into some world beats and other styles. It also has Immogen Heap doing some backing tracks on of the songs, and again, we know how she plays around here too.
The new Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Show Your Bones" is a lot of fun, though much more laid back than the foot stomper of an opening LP. This is one I might look out for on LP>
I've also been listening to the remastered "No Answer" from Electric Light Orchestra, which is an album where some rockers first got serious about using cellos in rock music. Aurally, it quite nice. The liner notes were an interesting read on the creation of the album and the evolution of ELO from an old English psych band called The Move.
I've had a collection for a good while now that's called Tease: The Best of Burlesque. It's basically what it claims to be, a very good collection of music from Burlesque shows, which were popular long before the modern skin stuff was popular. The whole CD is jazz with a little ragtime that's fairly upbeat and I've been playing it in the stores in the morning to get a little motivated for work. I even sold a copy of this thing. The song called "The Stripper" is included and was where I got it from to use as a peice of music for the original MadTerran Music Shoutcast theme song.
Finally, I'm going to put up a track from a group I doubt anyone here has heard of called Red Temple Spirits, which is kind of like a much more psychedelic version of the Cure. (They're also darker and denser, perhaps like the Jesus and Mary Chain too.) They have not left my mp3 player since I stumbled onto them while digging for Pink Floyd covers. This is there version if "The Nile Song" They've got a couple albums released that I've gotten my grubby hands on. I'd list the titles, but like all good psychedelic titles, their a bible long.
I know this isn't much, but I'll try to get a little more together by the end of this week.
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