Exmagma - Exmagma 3 (2006)

Wrong. You want them all as LPs. Shape up.

Amazon.com: Ellipse: Imogen Heap: Music

I love this fucking album

Amazon.com: Ellipse: Imogen Heap: Music

I love this fucking album

You're not alone, it's very good and in heavy rotation around here too.

Portishead - Roseland NYC Live

REM -- Murmur

Swallow the Sun - New Moon

So. Very. Good.

Tom Waits - Orphans: Bawlers

Swallow The Sun -- New Moon

This is way off my usual beaten track, but I like it. Maybe I should expand my horizons to include more guttural screaming?

Or not.

Here:

Hank Mobley -- Roll Call [Retard Records ND]

Gidon Kremer -- Astor Piazzolla - El Tango

Swallow The Sun -- New Moon

This is way off my usual beaten track, but I like it. Maybe I should expand my horizons to include more guttural screaming?

Give Gojira a try -- that's probably the most intelligible guttural screaming short of the actual cookie monster.

For me, it's about the music. Cookie monster vocals suck, plain and simple -- some more than others. But they suck. It's not singing. I don't even think there is an analogy to other instruments -- hitting the lowest notes on the piano exclusively? Playing an open chord on a guitar or other stringed instrument? Basically, it's trying your damnedest to try to hit an octave lower harmonically than you are normally capable of.

So for me, the music has to be good enough for me to listen to it anyway. Which is one of the reasons I enjoyed Nightingale so much -- clean vocals are so refreshing after so much of that crap.

I forgot some other stuff:

Lots of Lester Young, and now:

Chris Bell -- I Am The Cosmos

Sunn O))) -- Monoliths And Dimensions

In for penny, in for pound.

Ralph Alesssi Quartet

Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster

Golden Palominos -- Visions of Excess (Vinyl)

The Jam -- This Is The Modern World (Vinyl)

Love the back cover so much, gotta show that too

I know I am old, but I get really sick of people in front of me at concerts holding up their damn phones and filming incessantly.

You're just jealous the cameras are pointing the other way.

Propeller Island - Hermeneutic Music (1988)

Cannonball Adderley - Dizzy's Business

Cannonball has become one of my favorite Jazz artists.

vinyl

Scarling -- So Long, Scarecrow

Being woken up at 5:15 makes me emo.