What are you listening to? Is it good?

JohnnyGoodyear · May 2020

Anyone know this guy/this album? Especially any folks from Manchester I guess or thereabouts...Sounds intriguing (as reviewed here by 'popgun' who I like):

My favorite album of the first half of this weird year is the very strange and wonderful ‘Shortly After Takeoff’ by BC Camplight, the stage name of multi-instrumentalist Brian Christinzio from Philadelphia. Christinizio relocated to Manchester, England, a few years ago, and has created an album full of references to things like Oldham chip shops and the infamous Arndale Shopping Centre while simultaneously keeping a strong sense of his American roots.

https://ngpopgun.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/shortly-after-takeoff/

Samu · May 2020

ICE-T with a new 'iPhone Video' for a new Body Count track

Samu · May 2020

This one can not be 'unheard' or 'unseen' period

It's damned catchy though...

AudioGus · May 2020

Fuck yah it's good!

Jocphone · May 2020

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
Anyone know this guy/this album? Especially any folks from Manchester I guess or thereabouts...Sounds intriguing (as reviewed here by 'popgun' who I like):

My favorite album of the first half of this weird year is the very strange and wonderful ‘Shortly After Takeoff’ by BC Camplight, the stage name of multi-instrumentalist Brian Christinzio from Philadelphia. Christinizio relocated to Manchester, England, a few years ago, and has created an album full of references to things like Oldham chip shops and the infamous Arndale Shopping Centre while simultaneously keeping a strong sense of his American roots.

https://ngpopgun.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/shortly-after-takeoff/

Cant claim to know anything about them but he keeps catching my ear on Radio 6 and have made a mental note to sidle over to his outpourings when i can stop distracting myself with others.

Jocphone · May 2020

@MonzoPro said:

@RockySmalls said:

@MonzoPro said:
My scrotey neighbours are having a noisy end of lockdown party on their front lawn, even though it hasn't ended.

So I've upped the ante, dragged the stereo into the garden and treating them to The Fall - Fall Heads Roll.

You're welcome.

this , and Country on the Click are the only ones of the last decades Fall output i have purchased..
I should not be such a penny pincher!!

I didn’t really like them, from what I’d heard on John Peel, then a few years back a mate did me a copy of Fall Heads Roll. I wasn’t fussed, so it sat on the desk for weeks I played, until I’d exhausted my usual playlist and gave it a go.

That first track - the bang bang drumming, and then in staggers Mark E like an unwelcome drunken uncle at a christening party.

I was hooked. I got to the end and hit repeat. For weeks.

And then went out and bought everything they’d ever done, even the MES solo stuff.

Bloomin expensive, I wish I’d got hooked on a less prolific band!

Hope you managed to get your hands on Slates, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slates_(EP)

Yes its early, but one i luckily scored when it came out and has remained a personal favourite. Especially Prole Art Threat and Leave The Capitol!

Relentless and catchy racket, love it.

Jocphone · May 2020

@RockySmalls said:

@Jocphone said:
http://payitallback.bandcamp.com/album/pay-it-all-back-vol-2

Recommended by a mate at the time, this wasn't far from my record player for years afterwards. Found it on Bandcamp last night/morning. Only knew about VOL 1, 2 and maybe 3 previously but it seems they are working on Vol 7.

Now That's What I call Music!

good call, i still have the first 2 on vinyl, all those other volumes look like a good way to catch up on the on-U vibe again... had noticed all The African Headcharge up on blandKampf last year.. now that’s what I call “the evenings Psychotic Jonkanoo sorted” tanks

Yeah, I’m ok with vinyl, got one of those cheap little modern boxes to play it on but CD’s are pissing me off since my last mac and CD player died. One Upsetters collection in particular that I haven’t been able to find on a streaming service..

Enjoy the Sherwood, will catch up with them myself at some point.

noob · May 2020

waka_x · May 2020

sleepingwave · May 2020

20syl - 36 (Beats & Types)
36 short but detailed and diverse tracks. Love it!

JudasZimmerman · May 2020

@MonzoPro said:

@RockySmalls said:
what! AAAALLLL of da FAAALLLL , hell that is an outlay and a half... i reckon i only buy aprox 4 LPs a year now.. still... you can’t go wrong with the first 12 years of MES .. and after that there’s usually one or 2 classics on an album .. i was mistooken , i did actually get Your Future, Our Clutter as well as those other two... and I really like the track Alton Towers.. but i’ve no idea what LP it’s from.. Smith at his uninteligiblelist-able..
Gob Rest his Literature Sodden Soul

I bought a lot of them. I’ll just leave it there.

The last few albums where it sounds like he’s gargling booze, false teeth and pork pie are my favourites, I’m still not a massive fan of the early stuff.

Stout Man’s good - BIG FAT MAN, PUSHIN A LEEDDLE PRAYUMMM

WHUP

When I was a young man and very pretty, a friend had "fall in a hole", the live record from Australia or somewhere like that, which got played quite often for a live record. It sounded like mostly pointless noise to me, except for one song, "Marquis Cha-cha", which after one listen just stayed with me. But I didn't follow the band, and when everything became CDs I really just stopped buying music.

Then at one point not many years ago having bought a subscription to the google streaming service, I started re-listening to a lot of music I halfways remembered including the Cha-Cha song, and via that discovered country on the click, which totally blew my mind - like, the whole album straight through. so I thought, "I wonder if this Mark E. Smith person has made some other notable music", and after a couple of days I had made a playlist of something like one hundred songs that were my personal favourites.

I then listened to pretty much only this playlist for something like two years straight. True story. Then Mark E. Smith died. It felt like it was my fault for having drained him of all energy.

[Deleted User] · May 2020

@JudasZimmerman said:

@MonzoPro said:

@RockySmalls said:
what! AAAALLLL of da FAAALLLL , hell that is an outlay and a half... i reckon i only buy aprox 4 LPs a year now.. still... you can’t go wrong with the first 12 years of MES .. and after that there’s usually one or 2 classics on an album .. i was mistooken , i did actually get Your Future, Our Clutter as well as those other two... and I really like the track Alton Towers.. but i’ve no idea what LP it’s from.. Smith at his uninteligiblelist-able..
Gob Rest his Literature Sodden Soul

I bought a lot of them. I’ll just leave it there.

The last few albums where it sounds like he’s gargling booze, false teeth and pork pie are my favourites, I’m still not a massive fan of the early stuff.

Stout Man’s good - BIG FAT MAN, PUSHIN A LEEDDLE PRAYUMMM

WHUP

When I was a young man and very pretty, a friend had "fall in a hole", the live record from Australia or somewhere like that, which got played quite often for a live record. It sounded like mostly pointless noise to me, except for one song, "Marquis Cha-cha", which after one listen just stayed with me. But I didn't follow the band, and when everything became CDs I really just stopped buying music.

Then at one point not many years ago having bought a subscription to the google streaming service, I started re-listening to a lot of music I halfways remembered including the Cha-Cha song, and via that discovered country on the click, which totally blew my mind - like, the whole album straight through. so I thought, "I wonder if this Mark E. Smith person has made some other notable music", and after a couple of days I had made a playlist of something like one hundred songs that were my personal favourites.

I then listened to pretty much only this playlist for something like two years straight. True story. Then Mark E. Smith died. It felt like it was my fault for having drained him of all energy.

Great story

Very similar to my experience - one day something in their music just clicked with me, and I had to hear more. I think it’s the ‘Marmite’ factor with his voice - you either really, really hate it, or really, really love it.