This Week's Playlist

[kingdom hoop]

I've gone for a Brazilian playlist at the mo.

Marvilhosa! I must say I like a bit of Brazilian myself.

What album are the Os Mutantes songs off? Any good? I have and love the first two albums...

Favourite Brazilian artist (well, I've only heard ten but anyway) is Caetano Veloso. Would extremely highly recommend anything of his, particularly his early stuff, for example any of Tropicalia, Irene, Little More Blue, Joia, or Domingo (which is a bossa album with Gal Costa). Can fill you in a bit more if interested. If you're looking at getting one, try Tropicalia - no exaggeration to say it's one of the best albums I've ever heard, and I can't understand most of the lyrics! It's one of his livelier efforts, a little similar to Os Mutantes without the haphazard schizophrenia that characterises their first couple of albums!

Any 'must-get' Brazilian albums in your opinion?

[superfrank]

What album are the Os Mutantes songs off? Any good? I have and love the first two albums...

"Posso Perder..." and "A Hora e a Vez..." are both from Mutantes e Seus Cometas No Pais Do Baurets from 1972. It's a lot heavier than their early stuff, a lot rockier. "Ando Meio Desligado" is from their third album A Divina Comedia in 1969. From what I've heard of the first two albums (Panis Et Circenses, A Minha Menina, Banho de Lua), Divina Comedia is about halfway between those two and the one from 1972.

Favourite Brazilian artist (well, I've only heard ten but anyway) is Caetano Veloso. Would extremely highly recommend anything of his, particularly his early stuff, for example any of Tropicalia, Irene, Little More Blue, Joia, or Domingo (which is a bossa album with Gal Costa). Can fill you in a bit more if interested. If you're looking at getting one, try Tropicalia - no exaggeration to say it's one of the best albums I've ever heard, and I can't understand most of the lyrics! It's one of his livelier efforts, a little similar to Os Mutantes without the haphazard schizophrenia that characterises their first couple of albums!

Any 'must-get' Brazilian albums in your opinion?

The only Brazilian albums I have are the two Mutantes ones. I'd strongly recommend both. I also have a few Brazilian compilation CDs which are mostly soul and tropicalia.

I've heard about the Tropicalia album and I'd buy it if I ever came across it.
Only Veloso song I have is Joia. It's kinda hard to get a feel of his sound though cos it's only 90 seconds long.

[Pauro 76]

TLZ - TV On The Radio
Nowhere - Therapy
On The Turn - Kerbdog
Geraldine - Glasvegas
First It Giveth - QOTSA
Midlife Crisis - Faith No More
Head Like A Hole - NIN

[kingdom hoop]

I've heard about the Tropicalia album and I'd buy it if I ever came across it.

Yeah if you like the stuff from around that time it's a must. Btw I think I saw a Caetano Veloso 'Best Of' downstairs in HMV Grafton St a few months ago so maybe they'd have something there.



I'm gonna go for a kinda classic techy, minimal, chilled buzz this week I think:

Banco de Gaia - Amber
LTJ Bukem - Watercolours
Joey Beltram - Jazz 303
Booka Shade - In White Rooms
John Tejada - The End Of It All
Jona - Northern Love
Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (James Holden Remix)
Four Tet - Ringer
Drexciya - Sea Snake
Ellen Alien - Naked Rain
Gui Boratto - Mr Decay
Deepside - French
Ricardo Villalobos - Hireklon
Claude Von Stroke and Christian Martin - Groundhog Day
F.U.S.E. - A New Day
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

[gustavo]

LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die ( return to form IMO )
Glasvegas - Geraldine
Beyonce - Single Ladies
The Killers - Spaceman

[Wangball]

12 Crass Songs Jeffrey Lewis

Get it bought

[ken foree]

some more:

john coltrane - village vanguard sessions
mv/ee - drone trailer
dirty projectors - rise above
ocean - pantheon of the lesser
wrnlrd - oneiromantical war

p.s. kingdom hoop and superfrank - you might want to check out Soul Jazz Records, british label that re-issues all sorts of semi-obscure native music and sounds. they've published at least 2 "tropicalia" compilations as well as cuban, latino, jamaican, noise, dub, dance, retro hip-hop, tons of cool looking stuff:

http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/dis...ex.php?l=0&t=1

[The Optimist]

Albums currently listening to:

U2 - No Line On The Horizon
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Seven Mile Island
Bell X1 - Blue Lights On The Runway

[Pauro 76]

What's the new Bell X1 album like?

[The Optimist]

What's the new Bell X1 album like?

It's not bad.At the moment i would'nt rate it as high as there last two albums.I'd have to listen to it a bit more before i'd make up my mind on it.
For now i'd give it 3/5.

[Pauro 76]

It's not bad.At the moment i would'nt rate it as high as there last two albums.I'd have to listen to it a bit more before i'd make up my mind on it.
For now i'd give it 3/5.

The single isnt too bad, the lyrics are ropey enough though. 'Roller-skate waitresses?'.. Listening to Prodigy's 'Invaders Must Die', liking it so far. Thunder is a class track!

[Pauro 76]

Run With The Wolves - Prodigy
Thunder - Prodigy
White Water Song - Bell X1
Grounds For Divorce - Elbow
Reckoner - Radiohead

[gustavo]

Prodigy - Omen
U2 - Breathe
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Zero
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams

[Pauro 76]

REM - Leave
Prodigy - Take Me to the Hospital
U2 - Moment of Surrender
Muse - Blackout
Justice - Genesis
Stone Roses - Tears

[jebus]

The Wire soundtrack (that is all I'm listening to at the moment )

[jamie m]

Nine Inch Nails- Closer
Rage Against The Machine- People of the Sun
Beastie Boys- So what'cha want
EL-P Smithereens
Deftones- Back to School

[Pauro 76]

Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes
Given to Fly - Pearl Jam
Avon - Queens of the Stone Age
Rise - Doves
Until the End of the World - U2
Say Hello To the Angels - Interpol
Battery - Metallica

[Wangball]

Got the new Bonnie Prince Billy album, its maybe not as good as some of his others but its still head and shoulders above most of the thrash recently released

[ken foree]

Got the new Bonnie Prince Billy album, its maybe not as good as some of his others but its still head and shoulders above most of the thrash recently released

i've gone off him a bit myself wangball. since 'i see a darkness' - he's gotten more polished in his sounds and i don't think anything newish i've heard has been anything close to his palace music/bros. days. still, the man's a genius and there's no one really like him at present.

[Wangball]

i've gone off him a bit myself wangball. since 'i see a darkness' - he's gotten more polished in his sounds and i don't think anything newish i've heard has been anything close to his palace music/bros. days. still, the man's a genius and there's no one really like him at present.

Nobody even close Ken, I would recommend Justin Townes Earle new album for a slice of Americana though! It has an excellent cover of "Can't Hardly Wait" by the Replacements