What Are you Listening to Right Now?

[Marky Dread]

Yes, they've used those same masters for a CD release as well, and I'm finding Another Music to be fairly brickwalled and and a little muffled, but A Different Kind sounds the best it ever has. Why can't they have consistency with remastering a series like this?

I've never considered remastering the Buzzcocks albums. But I think I will now so I'll let you know how I get on.

Finally, a definitive version.

Looks like there's a 1995 remaster of the Product box, but you're saying the 1989 one is best, right?

Well I used to own the long box edition originally then I got the fat boy edition which is the one I have in storage. It's on my iTunes and I've always been happy with it. But I simply don't know if the two are the same master.

[Dr. Medulla]

Another of those "great albums nobody [it seems] has heard." Another pastiche record, built from samples, it's sort jazzy, sorta funky, always playful, even celebratory. It sounds like music ripped from oddball comedy movies from the 1960s.

I listen to Solex a couple times a year, good stuff.

I guess I have to forgive you for your Swiftian heresy.

Also, this is pure childlike joy:

[Silent Majority]

Every Day Is Saturday - The Dictators

[muppet hi fi]

John Coltrane - 'Crescent' (1964; 1998 remaster)
Excellent music for keeping cool yet righteous when dealing with a banker about how to get your money from their broken, thieving, fucked up ATM system without going full on Muhammad Ali on them, physically as well as verbally.

[muppet hi fi]

Bo Diddley - 'I'm a Man: The Singles, A's & B's 1955-1959' (2011)
Just phoned a certain young lady - here's hoping Bo's hoodoo works its magic in my favor.

[Dr. Medulla]

CK recommended that I check her out. Good stuff. Darkwave, emphasis on industrial and sludgy metal, yet it can turn quiet on a dime.

[Kory]

CK recommended that I check her out. Good stuff. Darkwave, emphasis on industrial and sludgy metal, yet it can turn quiet on a dime.

I like some of her albums more than others—I prefer her in a less metal mode.

[Kory]

Another of those "great albums nobody [it seems] has heard." Another pastiche record, built from samples, it's sort jazzy, sorta funky, always playful, even celebratory. It sounds like music ripped from oddball comedy movies from the 1960s.

I listen to Solex a couple times a year, good stuff.

I guess I have to forgive you for your Swiftian heresy.

Also, this is pure childlike joy:

Wonderfully weird and good. I think I'll be listening to her today.

[Dr. Medulla]

CK recommended that I check her out. Good stuff. Darkwave, emphasis on industrial and sludgy metal, yet it can turn quiet on a dime.

I like some of her albums more than others—I prefer her in a less metal mode.

I'm just dipping in my toe. Any albums that you recommend?

[Dr. Medulla]

Wonderfully weird and good. I think I'll be listening to her today.

There's just such an obvious fun spirit to her work, a creative joy to it all. Those first three records are a celebration of goofy weird.

[Kory]

CK recommended that I check her out. Good stuff. Darkwave, emphasis on industrial and sludgy metal, yet it can turn quiet on a dime.

I like some of her albums more than others—I prefer her in a less metal mode.

I'm just dipping in my toe. Any albums that you recommend?

I'm fairly new to her myself, but I think I recall Apokalypsis being more up my alley.

[Dr. Medulla]

CK recommended that I check her out. Good stuff. Darkwave, emphasis on industrial and sludgy metal, yet it can turn quiet on a dime.

I like some of her albums more than others—I prefer her in a less metal mode.

I'm just dipping in my toe. Any albums that you recommend?

I'm fairly new to her myself, but I think I recall Apokalypsis being more up my alley.

That was the one CK first recommended. I listened to it in chunks while doing various stuff around the house, tho, so I didn't give it the best hearing.

[Kory]

I wonder if any folks could help me with a playlist I'm putting together at a friend's request. He really likes the 90s alt-pop sound of the song below and wanted a list of other stuff like it, and bands like Lush. Not so much the shoegaze aspect of Lush, but the melodic (mostly girl) vocals against this sort of jangly 90s sound. I'm a bit at a loss for similar artists because I don't know what the subgenre could be called and I'm having a hard time searching for similar stuff. I think I would put the Pete & Pete theme song by Polaris in there too.

[101Walterton]

I wonder if any folks could help me with a playlist I'm putting together at a friend's request. He really likes the 90s alt-pop sound of the song below and wanted a list of other stuff like it, and bands like Lush. Not so much the shoegaze aspect of Lush, but the melodic (mostly girl) vocals against this sort of jangly 90s sound. I'm a bit at a loss for similar artists because I don't know what the subgenre could be called and I'm having a hard time searching for similar stuff. I think I would put the Pete & Pete theme song by Polaris in there too.

Transvision Vamp
Catatonia

[Marky Dread]

I wonder if any folks could help me with a playlist I'm putting together at a friend's request. He really likes the 90s alt-pop sound of the song below and wanted a list of other stuff like it, and bands like Lush. Not so much the shoegaze aspect of Lush, but the melodic (mostly girl) vocals against this sort of jangly 90s sound. I'm a bit at a loss for similar artists because I don't know what the subgenre could be called and I'm having a hard time searching for similar stuff. I think I would put the Pete & Pete theme song by Polaris in there too.