Np

[r00]

So David Bowie's all like, "Oh, BTW, new song."

And I love the new song and video too.  I am so happy to see him releasing new material.

[rynne]

Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
Swans – The Seer

Scott Walker is 70. Micheal Gira is 58. Both of them are at the age where most musicans would be comfortably costing on their past highlights (if they were even active at all). Instead, they're making epic albums that are more daring than musicians half their age.

Not to mention going 1–2 on the 2012 Brainwashed Readers Poll.

[sin]

Due to financial constraints, I have not purchased new music in awhile.  But with both gift cards from Christmas and reception of my post Christmas/New Years paycheck (buttloads of holiday pay and overtime) I bought a few albums recently.

Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
The Mission - Dum-Dum Bullet
New Order - Lost Sirens

[r00]

DJ Shadow -- "I Gotta Rock"
The video is as good as the song, especially for any child or fan of the 80's.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y6m6pwBbg5w

[r00]

Listening to With Teeth on vinyl right now.  Goddamn it's been a long time!

(got some new powered studio monitors for christmas thanks to my awesome mother in law.  They sound awesome.)

[luna]

I had an urge to listen to with_teeth the other day...listened to The Slip and The Downward Spiral instead (which led to a day of reminiscing about our wave goodbye California trip

I'm sure it's not nearly as bad as I remember it

[rynne]

Coincidentally, I was listening to The Downward Spiral and The Slip on my drives to work this week. I think it must've been at least a year since I last heard either. The Downward Spiral reconfirmed its place as my favorite album of all time. I remain ambivalent about The Slip.

In fact, as the years go on I find that Trent's post-Year Zero output seems less and less important to me. Even the stuff I liked upon first listen, like Ghosts I–IV and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I find less interesting when I put it on now (and HTDA hasn't really interested me at all). Meanwhile, I still think With_Teeth is a fun and worthwhile, if not spectacular, album. I wish I could identify that certain special component that makes some of Trent's work supremely enjoyable to me, while his other work lacks appeal.

I'm not making an indictment of Trent being lazy or losing some "spark" of creativity. Unlike, say, Al Jorgensen, I think Trent is still making efforts to push his own boundaries. But wherever he's going, I only seem to be intermittently along for the ride. Oh well, here's to hoping the next NIN album has it, even though I can't articulate what it is.

[luna]

I agree. I think the only reason I enjoy listening to The Slip at all is because it reminds me of that last show. TDS on the other hand is still one of my favorite albums of all time
I was telling someone the other day how I actually remember the night I bought it! I was 14 (and yes I still have my original copy)

[rynne]

Ha, I also remember the night I bought it at age 14. It was the day after it came out (OMG I'm so old). I have my original copy, too, but I can't play it 'cause I don't have a cassette player anymore.

[luna]

That's awesome! Mine is on cd and I bought it in '95

[r00]

remember when we would get people showing up at PI telling us that if you used paint thinner to remove the design on the TDS disc, you could then flip it over and play the hidden track?

[luna]

I think that was before my time

[Aaron]

Been listening to Tomahawk. Their new album drops Tuesday.

Also a lot of El-p. Then the normal mash of SP TOOL and a sprinkling of other stuffs...

[luna]

OK I'm apparently having a reminiscing kind of week
Tool - Lateralus
It's amazing how this album is still so significant in my life after all this time

[Aaron]

I have had the song Lateralus on loop today. Fucking love that song.

also been playing some TMV since they died.