What have we been listening to for the past week? This week's installment of The Listening Room is our largest yet!
Welcome to The Listening Room, your weekly survey of what your BC Magazine writers have been listening to for the past week.…
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26 - Glen Boyd
Thats it! My next listening room entry will be on "Heart Of Glass". Hell, jibes pretty good with Abba right? Heh::Heh::
Okay I'm not serious. But I couldn't resist the temptation, the set-up was just too easy ya know?
So anyway, this was definitely fun and I will definitely be back. We really do have an eclectic bunch of scribes with equally eclectic tastes here don't we?
You guys really should check out that Sly stuff though. Didn't see any comments about it here and it really is some freakadelic shit. I'll be reviewing the whole remastered catalog here in a few weeks.
-Glen
27 - DJRadiohead
Zing, I don't see one as inherently better than the other. We're just here to talk about music. I'm not (always) on a crusade. The passion and enthusiasm is just as worthwhile, to me, as trying to sell someone on something they've never heard. I don't have a predetermined agenda to do or not do anything. Your perspective is interesting, though. I have no quarrels with it.
28 - zingzing
yeah... sometimes i like reading what other people think about music that i like as well. i've been on a bit of a crusade lately, but that's only because i'm swinging back towards avant stuff rather than pop stuff. a couple weeks from now, all i'll want to talk about is the replacements.
29 - Mark Saleski
i used to like Terry Riley but it sounds like he's masturbating with finger knives.
30 - Tom Johnson
Hey, there'll be no Toad bashing while I'm around! One of my absolute favorite bands, and a great song-choice by Mrs. DJRadiohead. And, yes, I'm actually just as likely to cue up something like Toad after Autechre as anything else - that's just how my brain works and why I have to carry around an 80gb Ipod all the time. Before Ipods came along, you should have seen how many CDs I had to have with me to cover my daily needs.
Anyway, let's not force this into being only obscure stuff. Mine was relatively obscure, maybe, but it simply happened to be something that spoke to me at that particular moment and I had to write about it. Next week it might be something completely mundane. The point isn't being obscure and weird, it's simply talking about music - anything that gets a reader to check out something they previously hadn't is a good thing, right?
Toad the Wet Sprocket is 10 years gone now (wow, that's sad) so it's safe to say that there are more than a few people out there for whom the name means nothing, but who might enjoy the music they created a whole lot.
31 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
"i'll just raise my voice above a soothing tone and your heads will implode into the void of your own obvious self-loathing."
I have to disagree with ya Zing(as usual), I love Toad and I'm the one who brought the most obscure plate to the table. My fav releases from Toad would have to be either Bread & Circus or Pale BUT Fear was pretty damn good as well.
It's funny how they came from NWOBHM and ended up capturing the sound that Matchbox 20 ripped off & got ultra famous for...
32 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
*BTW* Thanks to DJR for the space, even if it was at the end*Sniff*... LOL, Atleast I got the Pic spot on this article... YaY!!
33 - Leslie Bohn
Woah, Mark. I saw He's Masturbating with Finger Knives back in '85, and trust me, Terry Riley sounds nothing like them. HMFK's early stuff is awesome, BTW.
In all seriousness, that "You're Nogood" track is great -- hypnotic and soulful, too. Radical, but right, that crazy Moog white-noise crescendo beginning. How many people probably never make it through that!
I love the sort-of-related Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band album called All Night Flight from about the same time. It's excerpted from Terry Riley playing an all-night solo concert on soprano sax, organ and a double tape machine that loops and that he manipulates. It's like trance music, and way ahead of its time, to me.
34 - Mark Saleski
this is all kinda funny because today, in an effort to not do work, i downloaded a software synthesizer that attempts to make sounds like the old analog synths from the Moog/Buchler era. i didn't succeed in anything brilliat, but i did make such a frightful noise at one point that i almost dropped my laptop on the ground.
35 - zingzing
"I love the sort-of-related Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band album called All Night Flight from about the same time."
actually, the song "you're nogood" was released on an album with a composition titled "poppy nogood" and riley was doing on of his "all night flights" the night that he was approached to make "you're nogood."
mark, i'm sorry you feel that way. i think it's absolutely beautiful.
and why didn't i know that the big guppy was behind the obscuro metal band? also, brian, your love of toad is the only thing that keeps you sane, i believe. too much metal (and i'm groovin' on some justin broadrick as we speak) can damage the senses.
tom--obscure isn't the point. but, methinks, blatantly obvious isn't the point either. a balance should be struck between exposing the reader to something new and, i suppose, making sure the readers can get SOMETHING familiar out of it... even if i think it should be a relatively unknown track by a well-known artist... like a b-side or alternate version by the who, or something like that. you know?
hmmph. maybe i'll just start up an obscuro column. obscuro meaning all process music! hahaha! (process music is so easy to write about...)
36 - El Bicho
Terry Riley is irrelevant.
37 - zingzing
bitch.
38 - zingzing
i mean, bug?
39 - Mark Saleski
mark, i'm sorry you feel that way. i think it's absolutely beautiful
uh...it was a joke son!
p.s. the "You're NoGood" piece is way cool
40 - Mark Saleski
oh, on what this column is "about": to me, the interesting thing to discover is...what have people been listening to that week and why. whether it's completely obscure to most (brian's metal, or me & pico's jazz weirdness), very popular and 'mundane' (nobody picked "Heart of Glass" but that might just happen now), or something that grates against the nerves of dj radiohead (lisa's Steely Dan)...is really beside the point.
now if you'll excuse me, i've got to go dig out my copy of Parallel Lines
41 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
Zing,It's really not that obscure if you are pasionate about the genre. I mean, you point to alot of weirdo techno/synth stuff quite often.
I can agree that Toad keeps me grounded in a way but Dream Theater has been doing that to me for years. Though, I think some high decibel levels can be good for the soul!
Mark, I agree 100%... This article is/was totally about sneaking a peak into people's iPods/Mp3/CD/LP/Cassette/8-Track players and getting a piece of what moves them for that week and why. I love it!! And, I hope I can be apart of this every week because my taste runs the gamet...well you guys/gals already know that.
42 - Mark Saleski
and why isn't zingzing writing music articles for bc?
43 - DJRadiohead
Yes, yes, let's bring on the Obscure Column by Zingzing. We need one more sane voice to drown out the pooflingers and fingerknife masturbators.
44 - Glen Boyd
Somebody just needs to invent a "logic-check" (works kinda like spellcheck) for the "fingerknife masturbators". Not to mention a "fact-check".
-Glen
P.S. I'm all for zing's mondo obscuro deal.
45 - Glen Boyd
And while were on the subject of new writing blood for the music section, I've been trying to encourage Vern Halen (a frequent commenter) to try his hand. Very sharp lad who seems to know his stuff.
-Glen
46 - Pico
I'd love to see zing and Vern become writers here, too. At the least, I'm pretty sure they could come up with less vulgar metaphors to describe someone's singing.
47 - zingzing
maybe i will write something. but i don't really have a blog for anything but putting up articles for a few friends to proof before i publish elsewhere... and i don't even do that too often.
how strict is the "have a blog, write for us" rule these days?
48 - zingzing
pico, my writing, should it be published here, will be the most vulgar stuff in the music section.
49 - Christopher Rose
zinger: As far as I recall, that requirement has been relaxed almost entirely but writing samples may well be asked for. Eric O is the definitive source for this...
50 - zingzing
i'll email you with links.
51 - zingzing
um... villa rentals?
52 - Christopher Rose
Not me dude, send them to Eric Olsen direct. Oh, and it's one villa, the one I spent two years modernising. You got a problem with that? ;-)
53 - zingzing
ok, i'll talk to eric.
no, i have no problem with you owning a villa just outside Antequera in the heartland of Southern Spain, no problem whatsoever. you fuck.
54 - Christopher Rose
lol. Why don't you rent or buy it off me?
Let me know if/when you get hooked up, I'm looking forward to seeing your work. And, when you're in, make sure you get signed up for the all new BC Forums too.
55 - zingzing
like i could afford it. maybe you could give me a discount. i'll live in it and keep your insurance rates down, if you want.
right after i power-dump into the toilet 4 floors up, i'll email eric.
56 - Connie Phillips
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