weekend listening:

stan tracey and keith tippet - supernova
tom waits - nighthawks at the diner
hms ginafore - and the racket they made
baby dee - safe inside the day

Not had a chance to give them a proper listen yet but latest purchases include:

Sons and Daughters - This Gift
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America - been meaning to get around to buying this one for years.

I'm Not There soundtrack and Juno soundtrack

This Will Destroy You 'S/T'

Absolutely f**king mindblowing

Haven't bought any new music or even taken this cd out for the last 2 or 3 weeks. Probably spend all of March listening to it as well.

karate - pockets
king creosote - rocket diy
new order - power, corruption and lies

I've gone back to The Swell Season and also Beirut's Gulag Orchestra

Am looking forward to gettin' me lugs around the new Howlin' Rain and Malkmus efforts.

Currentlly diggin the new Nick Cave. Douze points!

the Alison Krauss/Robert Plant album - very nice

must check out the Nick Cave latest too - according to the review in the culture, 'musically its astounding'...emmm

PQ

New Nick Cave is really worth checking out. He leaves me cold sometimes and i wouldn't be an ardent disciple but this is a belter.

I agree. Love that Krauss/Plant album.

i am a big nick cave fan... have not listened to the new one just yet...

i have been listening to martin finke - let it ring

in my opinion, martin finke is the best songsmith ireland has produced this decade...

I've had The Specials 'Singles Collection' on repeat in the car since last week.. they'd some absolute classic choons, so they did.

ali roberts - the amber gatherer

XXXChange (http://www.myspace.com/xxxchange)
Neon Neon - 'Stainless Style'
Operator Please - 'Yes Yes'
Grand Pocket Orchestra (http://www.myspace.com/grandpocketorchestra)
Robert Hood - Fabric39
Santogold (http://www.myspace.com/santogold) 'Shove it', Switch (http://www.myspace.com/switchandsolidgroove) remix

mose allison - mose alive

deerhoof - reveille
miles davis - kind of blue

Jimmy Buffett - 'The Asshole Song' (somehow the lyrics seem quite relevant)

"Were you born an asshole?
Or did you work at it your whole life?
Either way it worked out fine
'cause you're an asshole tonight.

Yes you're an asshole
And don't you try to blame it on me.
You deserve all the credit."

you're not very good at letting things lie, are you?

i don't know that song...

It's pure country. Not as good a tune though as Bobby Bare's "Drop Kick Me Jesus (Through the Goalposts of Life) ;

Lyrical genius, that's lifted my bad mood today no end.

Glad to be of service! You have to check out the video I posted on the "Kids' Rock" thread - it's f**king hilarious. Ever wanted to hear Metallica do "B.I.N.G.O."? Or Coldplay do "Incey Wincey Spider"? Probably not, but it's well worth a look!

king creosote - kcrulesok

Nathan - Key Principles - Canadian Folk/Country band I've just discovered in the last couple of days.

http://www.nathanmusic.ca/homepage.html

Portishead 'Third'. Fabulous.

the 2nd State mag podcast: http://www.state.ie/blog/podcast-2-super-extra-bonus-party-rock-star-behaviour-and-trashing-guitars/

weekend listening:

captain beefheart - trout mask replica
nick cave and the bad seeds - dig lazarus dig (i'm not sold on this album at all)
miles davis - kind of blue
king creosote - red on green

Robert Wyatt- Comicopera
Tortoise - Millions now living will never die
Vampire Weekend - self titled

ivor cutler - jammy smears
camera obscura - biggest bluest hi-fi
mick turner - moths vol 1 - 19

Chequerboard - Penny Black
http://www.chequerboard.net/

The ever excellent & hugely under-rated Elbow - new LP, "Grounds for Divorce"

i heard john kelly play this on friday... i liked it in the context of his show... not sure i was that inspired by it though... may check out the album...

it's a really nice record, I would recommend it.

Got the old "not played in ages" playlist out in media player, highlights so far

Roni Size - Destination - from the album New Forms, talk about an album whose critical stock has totally fallen from "cutting edge sound of now" to a bit dated now. Still good to listen to every now and then, it's a good album, if a little dry, shame the follow up was pants.

The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (Pete Hellers Expanded mix) - choon!

Gui Borratto - Beautiful life - I have no idea who this guy is, it's a track thats been lurking in my collection which I probably downloaded and forgot about and only listened to it for the first time, but it's pretty good, sort of an Italdisco/tech-house thing going on if thats not too much dance sub-genre overload..

A lot of yourcodenameis:milo stuff, including the Print Is Dead compilation. I miss those boys.

the evens - get evens
jason molina - let me go, let me go, let me go

jackie-o motherf**ker - fig.5
the mountain goats - tallahassee

Lots and lots of Oceansize - what an awesome band.

Also, lots and lots of Tubelord - a little band from London that are currently blowing me away. A lot.

Bat for Lashes - I was a bit late picking this up, but such a great album.

Berlitz Teach Yourself Italian - I'm going to Italy on honeymoon in 2 months. I can't speak any Italian.

Great band & album names.. funny, though - I can't find them on MySpace.

They ain't on myspace. They're one of these ehhhhhhh anti-everything bands. This month they're anti-technology.

http://www.myspace.com/italiansdoitbetterrecords

Bah - guess I'll have to make do with Girls Aloud "Can't Speak French"..

John Shuttleworth...



"Can't Go Back to Savoury Now"



"Incident on The Snake Pass"

hauschka - the prepared piano (last but one album of f**ked up piano compositions from this german fella)
chequerboard - penny black (bought this because everyone is raving about it... it's very very lovely.... easy to listen to but maybe too easy, little bit predicatble, you know exactly where it's going next... still, a worthy purchase)

john korn - rain horse
magnetic fields - heretic pride
einsturzende neubauten - silence is sexy