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1 Sam Cooke 22
1 Parts & Labor 22
3 Dan Friel 18
4 Growing 17
4 High Places 17
6 Japanther 13
7 Telepathe 12
8 GZA/Genius 11
8 Ben Reynolds 11
8 Ghost 11

high_action | 08 Jun '08, 16:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

you lie.


:(

I'm a subscriber, but my weekly stats haven't updated, are you just looking at your 7 day totals?


yeah

i wanted to get there first. apologies.


WHAT

it's only four o clocks. i suspect we have a spy, gentlemen.


beta?


indeed

1 Down I Go 55
2 Why? 35
3 Owls 31
4 Erik Satie 20
5 Converge 19
6 Hella 18
7 Tin Hat Trio 17
8 The Terrordactyls 14
9 Sabrepulse 13
9 Hope for Agoldensummer 13

classic week - down i go live, satie concert and why? gig cancelled, got into terrordactyls cos they emailed me at work and hope for a goldensummer and tin hat trio through last.fm streams. owls, converge and hella always rule


Indeed

aspiring bands should note that emailing people at work will make them into fans instead of just pretending to be a fan of your own band on internet forums.

www.myspace.com/whosyourfavoritesongod
it's like Hella ON SOME SORT OF DRUG or another outlandish description that nobody has ever used before


to be fair

they emailed me at work complaining that they couldn't remember their log in details, and i listened cos they had a silly name and bio


:(

Hopefully an emailing random people at work trend will still prevail.

If I forgot my password I would complain to myself as opposed to some poor person who was totally free of blame. For shame Terrordactyls.


i just subscribed, cool

1 Electrelane 64
2 Parenthetical Girls 44
3 Deerhunter 26
4 Arab Strap 24
5 Godspeed You! Black Emperor 18
6 High Places 17
7 A Place to Bury Strangers 13
8 Dananananaykroyd 12
9 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 11
9 Sleater-Kinney 11

i like that high places albumcompilation thing. sissy hits is great. hm!


dooo de do dooo...

1 Minus the Bear
26
1 Saul Williams
26
3 Battles
12
2 4 Health
11
5 Kid Loco
2 1 5 Iron & Wine
2 3 7 My Bloody Valentine
1 7 Lovvers


__________________

1 Sic Alps 52
2 Pavement 44
3 Who's Your Favorite Son God 30
4 Hammerhead 18
5 Benga 17
6 Silkworm 16
7 Captain Beyond 13
8 Pumice 10
9 Circle 9
9 Orthodox 9
__________________

1 Me Sic Alps cd finally arrived! And lo it is good. Too many plays
2 I must have fallen asleep
3 On Holy Mountain. Fecking great!
www.myspace.com/whosyourfavoritesongod
6 Brilliant band but again must have fallen asleep
7 Dancing madly backwards on a sea of air \m/

hiiigh_action, is that Dan Friel album any good? Or does it just sound like P&L with the rest of the band taken out?

'Mad props' for releasing floppy discs! Do they just have mp3s on em?


.

1 Deerhunter 62
2 Ratatat 26
3 Coldplay 25
4 Queens of the Stone 24
5 TV on the Radio 19
6 Radiohead 18
6 No Age 18
8 Battles 17
9 Born Ruffians 13
10 The Cribs 12


the real question is

who is your favourite sun god?

i'm gonna go with this guy in the first instance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyr


actually this one is pretty cool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malina

i am going to spend my evening reading about sun gods


I'm tending towards him now

"He rides the shining dwarf-made boar Gullinbursti and possesses the ship Skíðblaðnir which always has a favorable breeze and can be folded together and carried in a pouch when it is not being used."

He rides on the back of a boar called Goldenburst. Yes.


Whoa

he is left handed. I think that is the clincher.


what's a dwarf made boar

i want one


Or maybe

Huitzilopochtli

"His mother's pregnancy with him disturbed his brothers and sisters who tried to kill her, but Huitzilopochtli sprang from her fully adult and armed and slew his siblings."

You have to be a bit of a badass to do that.


yeah

also this

"Wi

In Lakota mythology, Wi is one of the most supreme gods. He is a solar deity, and is associated with the American Bison. He is the father of Whope. Anog Ite attempted to seduce Wi, but she had one of her two faces changed into an ugly visage as punishment"

not quite as badass 'Huitz' though


look at me!

1 Down I Go 21
2 Fantômas 14
3 Neon Blonde 11
4 The Paper Chase 9
5 Sharks Keep Moving 7
6 Weezer 6
7 Saves the Day 5
7 Chromeo 5
7 We The Kings 5
10 Nerf Herder 3


Some fine choices there

Chromeo are quite excellent. Saves the Day on the other hand can do one.


Chromeo are shit.

They really are.


Ehhhh

They've set out to make silly electro funk music and have succeeded mang. Big time. Sort of like Flight Of The Conchords except real and only doing sexy 80s funk.


B-sides

1.Radiohead 219
2.Cut Copy 39
3.Johnny Foreigner 37
3.The Hold Steady 37
5.Born Ruffians 28
6.Nick Cave & Warren Ellis 26
7.Portishead 23
8.Jeff Buckley 21
9.Russian Circles 18
10.Burial 14


Is Nick Cave and Warren

the Jesse James etc etc soundtrack? I thought that was really good. The film too.

If someone murdered a famous outlaw today they wouldn't have to tour the country reenacting it like he did. That can't be good for your brain.


Nice chart.


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1 Times New Viking 16
2 Broadcast 14
2 Grandaddy 14
4 Akron/Family 13
5 Six by Seven 12
5 Ze Malibu Kids 12
7 Redd Kross 11
7 Murry the Hump 11
9 Nick Drake 10
9 Throwing Muses 10


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1 Pavement 18

1 Astral Social Club 18

3 Xiu Xiu 14

4 Harvey Milk 12

5 Nico 8

6 Errors 7

6 7 Richard Youngs 6

8 Throbbing Gristle 5

9 Plastikman 4

9 Aphex Twin 4


Sound as a pound

I replied to that Astral Social Club post ye kna! Admittedly I might as well have just typed 'yeah!' in capital letters for all I contributed, but still! Great music innit


It's wonderful

I have 3 or 4 of the main releases - i.e. not the CD-Rs - in the last couple of weeks and they are taking some absorbing. The guy is a freak - at first, like I first thought of Richard Youngs, I thought there couldn't be much quality control but in both cases nothing can be further from the truth. It's really exciting seeing somebody adapt their sound and come up with a sound that is really new. It also feels like he is only just beginning onto a path that will end somewhere extraordinary. I like.


Haven't heard much Richard Youngs

but I really like all the ASC stuff. When he drops in an acoustic guitar every so often you can sort of see how similar to Vibracathedral Orchestra it is. In a way.


You'd like

R!!! He isn't a million miles away from Campbell and Bower stuff - in spirit at least, although the solo stuff is often just him and an acoustic guitar. Get Sapphie. Tis gorgeous.


Maybe I will

Maybe I will!

Skullflower are playing up here on Tuesday. Skullflower ain't particularly gorgeous at the mo though.


Oh I don't know

that crunching they do could be described as just that!


I guess so

it seems a bit darker than Hototogisu and Sunroof these days I reckon.


Mmm

I've never heard Hototogisu. That is Bower as well, right?


aye

and someone from Double Leopards. They sound a bit more blissful (if you know what I mean) on the cd I have but the Aquarius blokeys seem to see it differently!

"On Some Blood Will Stick, the two are at their most caustic and metallic, huge washes of coruscating guitar, shrieking feedback, droning buzz, a massive roiling black sea of sound, peppered with all manner of industrial grind and corrosive crunch, and for the first time the vocals are actually audible, just barely, still buried way down in the mix like just another layer of furious freaked out sound, but occasionally the howling, shrieking super distorted black-metal-meets-Whitehouse yowl manages to rear it's ugly head before being sucked back under. Intense!"


i win

at life.


1 Parenthetical Girls 71
2 Lucky Dragons 64
3 New Bloods 44
4 Bratmobile 31
5 No Kids 23
6 pwrfl power 20
6 Perfume Genius 20
8 High Places 15
9 Eleven Feet 13
9 Mika Miko 13
9 Sleater-Kinney 13


<3 eleven feet

shit list, btw


!

1 Tom Waits 79
2 Killdozer 20
3 Mike Rep & the Quotas 16
4 Grazhdanskaya Oborona 15
5 Jandek 13
6 Psychedelic Horseshit 12
7 The Great Plains 10
7 The Legendary Pink Dots 10
9 The Hospitals 6
9 (VxPxC) 6

1. i listened to tom waits for the first time this week
2. this band is as awesome as the name suggests
3-7. Junoxcore
7b. better than the name suggests
9a. pretty weird
9b. chill out man

i dont think im gonna comment on my chart again


I might give up after this week

Having seen Juno I just don't feel much of a need to talk about why I like music anymore. She has done it enough for all of us I think.

There are a finite number of ways to say 'great yeah!'

That said this chart is great yeah


12 pt buck

mainly because its what i found first. i'm open to suggestions as to what to listen to next...


Ah ok...

I only have the Uncompromising War on Art Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
I really like that, but it's the only thing I've heard. Think I may pick up something of theirs with my emusic downloads this month.


intellectuals are the shoeshine boys of the ruling elite

is pretty good as well from what ive heard of it, great band by all accounts though, imagine most of the stuff they were putting out about then was pretty good


God Hears The Pleas of The Innocent

is the only one they've got on emusic. I guess I'll get that.


Great chart

It's full of stuff I've listened to a few times and gone YEAH I SHOULD BUY THIS. But I never have the ££££


as noted above

this week is the first time i listened to tom waits, its never to late, ese

\m/


let's see

bright eyes in the lead for the second week in a row.... oh dear.

1. bright eyes 58
2. billie holiday 36
3. neutral milk hotel 32
4. the clash 17
5. system of a down 16
6. the raveonettes 15
7. qotsa 13
8. yeah yeah yeahs 13
9. mugison 12
10. the hives 12


My last.fm chart

1 Harry Merry 27
2 Cheap Time 26
3 Factums 19
4 Mac Blackout 12
4 Nobunny 12
4 Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit 12
7 Holy Shit 11
8 Class A Comfort 10
8 Carbonas 10
8 Blank Dogs 10
8 Vivian Girls 10

and my fave sun god is.... UTU

Utu is the god of the sun and of justice, and the implementation of law. He is usually depicted as wearing a horned helmet and carrying a saw-edged weapon not unlike a pruning saw, which it is thought he used to cut through the side of a mountain from which he emerges, symbolising the dawn. He may also carry a mace and stand with one foot on the mountain.


Sounds like a kodak moment

if there ever was one


I like

how it says that "he may", it also implies that "hey may not". He may also, sit on a park bench and have a sandwich.


very true

'he may be a fan of the popular indie film Juno'. not enough other people are picking their favourite sun god, hmmm.

i quite like the cheap time album, i seem to be in a minority there though


well

I really loved the demos/singles, and had high hopes - I was initially disappointed, but it has grown on me.


i havent heard those

i take it theyre worth it if i like the album?


definitely!

Find the "Handy Man" and "Spoiled Brat" singles, none of the tracks made the album for some weird reason, and all of them are better songs (IMHO).


He *could* carry a mace

If he wanted to. He could carry that and the pruning saw. He's not a weakling or anything.


Use your eyes

Notice the replies
Recognise
Realise


Haven't listened to a lot this week.

The Red Krayola 31
Moondog 28
Pere Ubu 23
Sunburned Hand of the Man 20
The Jesus Lizard 14
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 12
Half Man Half Biscuit 9
Matmos 8
American Analog Set 8
Serge Gainsbourg 7

They've filtered last.fm at work which is pretty annoying.
I'm going to start investigating The Red Krayola's back catalogue.
Really looking forward to seeing Sunburned Hand... on Tuesday.


OK...not a Sun God as such...

but I'm a fan of the Trundholm Sun Chariot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trundholm_Sun_Chariot


Cool!

Way to turn night into day, sun chariot


Sunburned

are up here on Thursday! I hope we get Chris Corsano and not that guy who made them awful last time.


Awful last time?

I really enjoyed it. It was one of my favourite gigs of last year.


I took your advice on Pere Ubu

CDs should be arriving this week. Excited.

I might go catch Sunburned. I've heard they're 'interesting' live.


Failed to scrobble everything I listened to at the weekend

1 Oppenheimer 119
2 Holy Fuck 32
3 Radiohead 20
4 Q Without U 18
5 Biffy Clyro 14
5 Timesbold 14
7 And So I Watch You From Afar 13
8 No Age 12
9 Nine Inch Nails 11
10 Fighting With Wire 6

1 Exhausted both albums <3
3 I listened to a lot of them on the ipod for the first time in ages. I wonder why!

Track of the week: Oppenheimer – Major Television Events 8


i really should listen to the new Oppenheimer record some more

i got it like three months ago but i've barely played it..


It's pretty good

And very very short


666!

1 Down I Go 190
2 Liam Lynch 24
3 ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead 13
4 The Night Marchers 11
5 She & Him 7
6 Bright Eyes 6
6 3 Inches of Blood 6
6 This Town Needs Guns 6
9 Holy Molar 5
10 An Emergency 4

Unique Artists: 54
Total Tracks: 177
Total Plays: 327

2 - NOT 'United States of Whatever' played 24 times.
4 - Yet another great Speedo project.
7 - 3 Inches of Blood have got to be one of the most hilarious bands ever. 'The Phantom of the Crimson CLOLak.'
9 - THE WHOLE TOOTH.

Iron Maiden should be in this, but are 'unscrobbled' as I played them on my CD player on Friday night whilst playing Carmageddon 2 for several hours.


My cousin

used to play Quake with Sleeper and Shed 7 as the soundtrack. Bit of an atmosphere killer if you ask me


.

1 Why? 45
2 Sonic Youth 37
3 Animal Collective 34
4 Pavement 26
5 Fugazi 22
6 Antelope 20
7 This Aint Vegas 15
8 Johnny Foreigner 13
9 Mark Kozelek 12
9 Superchunk 12