What's everyone listening to today?

[QualityChimp]

On the way to work I listened to the B-sides of a couple of Mansun singles.

They used to put out great double E.P.s as their singles and it wasn't about charting, it was more about getting the stuff out there.

They were gutted when the chart suits clamped down and put a time and track limit on singles.

I listened to live versions of Wide Open Space, Ski Jump Nose/The Chad Who Loved Me and Stripper Vicar.

[fuse]

A lot of Mansun's best stuff wasn't on albums, if I remember rightly I don't think "Closed for Business" was and that's one of their finest imo.

[Orgun]

Listening to Goriliaz new album on We7 http://www.we7.com/album/Plastic-Bea...mId=448645&m=0

[Dogg Thang]

The new Gorillaz album isn't doing it for me at all. For me, it has totally lost the sense that they're actually a band of any sort and there's a lot of stuff that's more about being interesting than being something I'll want to listen to.

[JazzFunk]

Franz Ferdinand's second album. I love it. It helps that I got it for a quid from Poundland a few months back after never bothering with it when it first came out, it makes it somehow even better, like all the trendy **** at the time of its release has passed and now Franz Ferdinand are seemingly irrelevant, and it stands proud as a fcking great album without any level of hype. Love it.

[Orgun]

The new Gorillaz album isn't doing it for me at all. For me, it has totally lost the sense that they're actually a band of any sort and there's a lot of stuff that's more about being interesting than being something I'll want to listen to.

I can understand that, its an odd mix of tracks. I can only think of a few that I might listen to again.

[Ady]

I've had a really sh*tty day at work, and I'm now listening to Filth Pig by Ministry. It sounds perfect right now.

And I know longer want to punch someone (well, not as much as I did a few hours ago, anyway).

[merf]

A lot of Mansun's best stuff wasn't on albums, if I remember rightly I don't think "Closed for Business" was and that's one of their finest imo.

god Mansun where great, one of my fave bands of all time, some of their B's were great and I still regard Attack of the Grey Lantern as one of the finest albums I own.

[prinnysquad]

On the way to work I listened to the B-sides of a couple of Mansun singles.

They used to put out great double E.P.s as their singles and it wasn't about charting, it was more about getting the stuff out there.

They were gutted when the chart suits clamped down and put a time and track limit on singles.

I listened to live versions of Wide Open Space, Ski Jump Nose/The Chad Who Loved Me and Stripper Vicar.

Nice. I've got tons of their singles still knocking around. Take It Easy Chicken (EP2) wasn't on the UK release of Attack of the Grey Lantern either, it was on the US release. I've got both albums and the EP

I think I've got Stripper Vicar (EP3) and Wide Open Space (EP4) too. I've defo got She Makes My Nose Bleed, Taxloss, Closed for Business, etc, all the way up to Electric Man.

A lot of Mansun's best stuff wasn't on albums, if I remember rightly I don't think "Closed for Business" was and that's one of their finest imo.

Too true. You could make another super album out of stuff like Things Keep Falling Off Buildings, Skin Up Pin Up, The Most To Gain, Flourella, The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, Grey Lantern, Everyone Must Win, The World's Still Open, GSOH, Can't Afford To Die, Check Under the Bed, Face in the Crowd and What It's Like To Be Hated, and, of course, Take It Easy chicken and Closed For Business.

god Mansun where great, one of my fave bands of all time, some of their B's were great and I still regard Attack of the Grey Lantern as one of the finest albums I own.

I concur, sir. I even liked Six, sprawlingly inaccessible though it was, I found it to be full of good musicianship, tunes and riffs. Little Kix ... what a crushing disappointment. It was like someone had sucked all of the spunk out of them.

[JP]

I bought the "Beat The Devil's Tattoo" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and I giving it a first play now. Enjoying it more than their last album so far.


Also been listening to a bootleg of the The Beach Boys unreleased "Smile". I really can't get enough of this album.

[Scythe]

In rememberance:

Sparkehorse & Fennesz colaboration.

[Ady]

In rememberance:

Sparkehorse & Fennesz colaboration.

Snap.

[Zaki]

Ray Lynch

Celestial Soda Pop, No Blue Thing and Clouds Below Your Knees:

[Hohum]

Reminds me a bit of Ulrich Schnauss those do, although admittedly they aren't really the same style (Schnauss produces more ambient/ethereal stuff). Here's one of my long-term favourites, great to unwind with.

[JP]

Been listening to a few talkin' blues songs from loads of different people. It was the first time in absolutely years that I'd listened to Bob Dylan's "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues" which may well have been the first of this type of music I'd heard and it still manages to make me smile now.


It's probably just me who smiles at it though!