i'm sure we all have phases where we listen to one thing a lot. for days, weeks or months. one band, one album, one song.

currently i'm obsessed with the ex.

that radio show w/ the four new songs, and the video of "waiting" kinda kicked it off.

i always get excited whenever i hear they have something new coming out.

this year is looking pretty good as far as new releases: the new stooges (which i'm thinking will sound like another iggy pop album), nick cave's new band, grinderman, a new shellac record, but what i'm really excited about is another ex album.

the last 3 (released in the u.s.) have been spectacular. and i'm dying for a new one.

anyways, what're you guys current favorites?

Explosions in the Sky. Hardly qualifies as an obsession, though, because it's a rare week when I listen to more than an hour of music of my own choice.

I'm on a massive God is my co-pilot kick the last few days
It's a lot of work liking this band, as they have about 100 CD's each with maybe 3 or 4 really good songs on them, the rest being chaotic noise that I do not enjoy.
I've been going thru them all and I've finally got a playlist finished of all their good shit.
If anyone's curious there's exactally 63 really good songs in their entire catalog.

Masada: Live in Middelheim, Mastodon: Blood Mountain and Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar. I'm obsessed with all three at the moment. Have played them all twice today whilst clearing the shit out of my record collection. Haven't done it properly for a while so there is a fair bit in there.

Jake Berendes- Folk musician from MA.

Red-Eyed Soul by World/Inferno Friendship Society. I'm still blown away by this album after listening to it (almost straight) for around 4 months. They didn't have one song I liked out of their last 4(?) albums... I wasn't expecting much out of this, but boy is it great.

archie bronson outfit and oxbow

I'm currently stuck on

Manuel Gottsching - Inventions for electric guitar

I guess it's a member of Ash Ra Tempel, a band I know very little about and didn't really find all that interesting, but this record is fantastic. It sounds extremely similar to the more electronic krautrock of the day, especially Tangerine Dream, Cluster, Harmonia, etc. However, it's all done on guitar. I can't detect any keyboards except perhaps some sparse padlike things in the back ground...could be guitar as well. Anyway, if you're into this sort of stuff, you must know about this LP.

Marsupialized wrote:It's a lot of work liking this band, as they have about 100 CD's each with maybe 3 or 4 really good songs on them, the rest being chaotic noise that I do not enjoy.
I've been going thru them all and I've finally got a playlist finished of all their good shit.
If anyone's curious there's exactally 63 really good songs in their entire catalog.

I actually would be curious to see this playlist, to save me the very work that you did. Even better would be if you could narrow GIMCP down to a solid 80 minutes, and you posted those tracks in a .zip file to the EA sendspace thread.

clocker bob wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:It's a lot of work liking this band, as they have about 100 CD's each with maybe 3 or 4 really good songs on them, the rest being chaotic noise that I do not enjoy.
I've been going thru them all and I've finally got a playlist finished of all their good shit.
If anyone's curious there's exactally 63 really good songs in their entire catalog.

I actually would be curious to see this playlist, to save me the very work that you did. Even better would be if you could narrow GIMCP down to a solid 80 minutes, and you posted those tracks in a .zip file to the EA sendspace thread.

Here's the tracks
I suppose you can get on soulseek and get them all from me if you like, cuz you aren't gonna be able to find a lot of this shit anywhere I've spent a considerable amount of time, effort and money collecting all their stuff...
a few of these tracks are Hattifatteners songs but it's the same band so it's all godco to me
so yeah here's my godco playlist, in the order in which I prefer to listen to them:
It's 2 CD's long, you can edit it down to one however you like if you are so inclined:
(I found a few more btw the final count is 71 tracks still fits on 2 CD's)

1. Behave ('Best of godco' version)
2. Out in the street
3. North Pole (Hattifatteners)
4. In the forest
5. Grizzly Gizzard
6. Mechant ('Sex is for making babies' version)
7. Caught looking
8. Menarche
9. Girl-crazy girl
10. Rubber or leather ('How to be' version)
11. Pornography and rape
12. You smell like sex
13. Sun, wind
14. Fierce Beast
15. Sissy Dog
16. Handsome Molly
17. Crushing a girl
18. That's how I like it
19. Abducted by aliens ('Get busy' version)
20. Sound of wings
21. Seashell
22. Anyone but you
23. Steal YR Girlfriend
24. Anatomically correct
25. Bjorkfruits
26. Kiss & Tell ('Peel sessions' version)
27. Coffee & Cake
28. Zonnebloem
29. Monkeys
30. Angels in the air
31. 9 1/2 out of 10
32. Butch Flip
33. Marshmallow World
34. Pussy Box
35. Well no wonder
36. Bad Girl (Hattifatteners)
37. Ala Mee (Hattifatteners)
38. Bicycle girls
39. Best friends
40. Secrets
41. Got what
42. Almost Not
43. Down Baby Down
44. Totally Wired
45. I love my love with an F
46. Firecracker
47. Loudmouth
48. Chase Scene
49. Lunch
50. Domestic Partner
51. Careless Love
52. Stella
53. We Signify
54. Vot Ja Niin Niin
55. Scourge
56. Hora
57. Puss in boots
58. Submissive
59. Cunla
60. Don't fuck
61. Any #
62. Queer Disco Anthem
63. Honest
64. Honey ant song
65. Cool
66. Star of the county down
67. Youth
68. Teenage boyfriend
69. Hallowed Ground
70. Asoi Tambien
71. Someone's always telling you how to behave ('Straight not' version)