I was going through my profile and noticed the "Albums" thread I started a few years ago must've met its demise.

Anyways, just wondering what you Stones fans are listening to lately. Since having a little baby in March, I haven't been playing albums straight through in the house. She loves music, but the music played has been a hodge-podge of stuff--no real straight through albums.

However, when I've had opportunities to leave the house to run some errands, I've cranked up some tunes in the car (LOL).

So...whatcha been listenting to lately?

Here's a few things I've been listening to and am looking forward to:

*Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Mosquito" (it's not a top album by them, but I like some of the varying styles thrown in; also, the artwork is friggin' ugly)
*Metronomy - "The English Riviera"
*Actually really like the latest from the Strokes (I think it's their swan-song--oh well)
*Haven't listened to the new Vampire Weekend but intend to do so soon
*Really liked some of the album from Atlas Genius--kind of a poppy record, but I like some of the tracks
*Finally listened to the Sound City Soundtrack, which I thought had a few good tunes; really enjoyed the documentary (rented it from Amazon)
*I have a few Third Man Records Vault releases I got in the mail that I haven't listened to yet
*Bought the reissue "Elephant" from the White Stripes on Record Store Day; only record I bought that day. In fact, I sold off a bunch of vinyl (I regret some of them I sold off) last September. I'm curbing my spending on vinyl now, but I plan to pick up some records here and there.

*Looking forward to releases from the National, Daft Punk, Alice in Chains, Portugal. The Man....and the new one from Queens of the Stone Age (can't friggin' wait for this)


So, there's a few bullet points. Mainly my source of music has been my SiriusXM subscription, Pandora (playing lullabies for the little one) and some stuff from iTunes through my iPad.

I haven't bought an album since the last release by The Hangmen but I have been playing Oakland 2013-05-05 and Blood Red Shoes in San Francisco 2013-04-30 constantly.

I have been listening to Tim Timebomb and Friends aka Tim Armstrong (Rancid/Transplants/Op Ivy) single releases…
all great covers of old rock, country, ska and punk… plus some Rancid stuff reworked…

I still haven't listened to the new Stroke, Bowie or YYY's
Really want to read enough on them all…

The new Johnny Marr is great
Bad Religion pretty good
Buckcherry…meh
Jello Biafra… good
Old Firm Casusals… new street punk revival
Noi!se… same as above
on the less rowdy side….
Eric Burdon, beautiful record….

Best of them all….

Nick Cave & Bad Seeds…. never got sick of Nick after all these years, he's only gotten better… amazing performer….

Forgot to mention Bowie. Got it the day it came out--enjoyed it.

I should check out the Johnny Marr record. I enjoyed his work with the Cribs and Modest Mouse, too.

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Buckcherry…meh
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First two records is all I'd listen to from these guys. A few moments on "15" and "Black Butterfly" (but those are forgettable, to me, really).

Yeah, I got the new Bowie album and played it multiple times a day right up until my life took a detour with the rehearsals.

Boomy wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 10:34am:

[quote author=Pdog link=1368630138/0#2 date=1368631400] Buckcherry…meh quote] First two records is all I'd listen to from these guys. A few moments on "15" and "Black Butterfly" (but those are forgettable, to me, really).

right there with you….

A 2 CD George Jones compilation....

:wtf1

The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
Beans And Fatback - With Skin Attached
Ryan Adams - Demolition
Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming

Whatever White Stripes CDs I can get my hands on, especially Under Great White Northern Lights (you didn't say new or current).

Lightnin' Woodcock - Satan's Work Is Never Done Vol 1

For the past few days...

The Hollies - Greatest Hits
Turtles - 20 Greatest Hits
John Prine - John Prine
Ten Years After - A Space In Time
Slint - Spiderland
Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa
Cows - Cunning Stunts / Sorry In Pig Minor

Albert King - Lost Session from 1971   :areyoufuckingserious

MrPleasant wrote on May 16^th, 2013 at 5:25pm:

For the past few days... The Hollies - Greatest Hits Turtles - 20 Greatest Hits John Prine - John Prine Ten Years After - A Space In Time Slint - Spiderland Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa Cows - Cunning Stunts / Sorry In Pig Minor

Thanks for reminding me...I think I will pull out Criclewood Green when I get home. :keithpunky

I really like Pandora! The stores  -plus all the live tunes and  think its dec children, (plus), Lotus, Jon Mayall, Joss Stone, Robert Palmer, foofighters, SuperH eavy, I THINK I listen 2 toooooooooo much and others.

JOHN MELLENCAMP-NO BETTER THAN THIS
THE MOTHERFUCKING BRUSSELS AFFAIR

Don Covay - Greatest Hits
Kinks - Low Budget
Stones - Satanic Majesties (this album truly sucks - worse than I remembered)
Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory
Who - Odds and Sods

Cream: Disraeli Gears
Kinks: Greatest Hits
Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue

Rock Candy Funk Party

Blackberry Smoke-New Honkey Tonk Bootlegs

"I’m a son of the bourbon
I’m a son of a bitch
I’m the dying breed of rock and roll
left ass up in a ditch
I’ve been up against the law
I’ve served some time in jail
I’ve been known for gettin’ stoned
and I’ve raised my share of hell"

I've been on shuffle for most of my listening lately...


Did give these albums the "whole" listen time though:
Patty Griffin- American Kid
She and Him Volume 3
George Jones and Merle Haggard- Kickin' Out the Footlights- Again
The Very Best of Nina Simone
Steve Earle- The Low Highway
Josh Ritter- The Beast in its Track
Bowie-The Next Day
Billy Bragg- Tooth and Nail

Saw that Franz Ferdinand is going to release a new album. 'Bout time.

Boomy wrote on May 15^th, 2013 at 10:32am:

Forgot to mention Bowie. Got it the day it came out--enjoyed it. I should check out the Johnny Marr record. I enjoyed his work with the Cribs and Modest Mouse, too.

Its pretty good.

LPs!!!!!

I listened to Zappa's them or us, and a JB Lenior record the other night. I still play records pretty regularly. I still have some stones 45s too

God bless YouTube......

Because of that, I lately heard


George Harrison - Alternates & Ratities Vol. 1 (a fan-made collection)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHAbFH65tmY&list=FLD1Vu4N7AsE5uZ3BUqyTzbg&index=9
Eric Clapton - Clapton
NoMeansNo - Sex Mad
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette

I love these threads because I always pick up new suggestions. Albums I have been checking
"Thriller" by !!!
"Silence Yourself" by Savages
"A Song For Me" by Family
"Spirit In The Dark" by Aretha Franklin
"Alpinism" by School of Seven Bells
"Flamingo" bu Flamin' Groovies
"Miracle Mirror" by Golden Earrings (still had the 's')
"Come On Home" by Boz Scaggs
"Graffiti On The Train" by Stereophonics
"ATLiens" by Outkast
"100 Broken Windows" by Idlewild
"Believe" by A.A.Bondy
"Antics In Forbidden Zone" by Adam Ant

Thanks for the Rancid mention. Have been overlooking them.
Looking forward to releases from PRIMAL SCREAM!, British Sea Power,  Queens of the Stone Age, Vampire Weekend (is supposed to be a good one by them), Empire Of The Sun.

White Light, White Heat, White Trash: Social Distortion
Sticky Fingers: The Rolling Stones
Who’s Next: The Who
Greatest Hits 1974–78: Steve Miller Band
Ænima: Tool
Fathers and Sons: Muddy Waters

Combat Rock - Clash
Greatest Hits - Toots and Maytals
Young Americans - Bowie
America's Sweetheart - C. Love
Face Dances - The Who
Fun House - Stooges

in the car the past few days, Who and Green Day… Who after hearing Daltery interview and Green Day b/c they fucking rock too….

Misfits - KInks
LA Woman - Doors
We Can make It - George Jones

I'm on a Brazilian music kick right now!  (Don't worry!  It is a temporary phase!  I always end up going back to classic rock!)

Naldo E Preta Gil - Meu Corpo Quer Você
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fonlm4OYy14

Amanhã- Sorriso Maroto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpnhpSKPnEc

Guilherme Arantes - Meu mundo e nada mais
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLs6yM5kz1Q

And, my favorite right now!  I blast this one on my car stereo!  Yes!  I sing along and "dance" while I'm driving!(Finally, big booty girls get the recognition we deserve!)

Mulher Melancia - Velocidade 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSk_ft9IEN8

A single.

Eight Miles High - Hüsker Dü



Epic


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKyBlJ_JN8

Q&A: John Densmore on Reconciling With the Doors
He and Robby Krieger plan L.A. tribute to the late Ray Manzarek
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By Steve Appleford
June 19, 2013 12:05 PM ET
John Densmore
John Densmore
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For a full decade, the Doors were at war with one another, entangled in dueling lawsuits and memoirs and locked in disputes over the licensing of their music and use of the Doors name on the road. But when keyboardist Ray Manzarek was hospitalized this year with a rare form of cancer, communications between the old friends and collaborators finally began to thaw.

"The inner circle knew Ray had cancer for a while," drummer John Densmore tells Rolling Stone of his former bandmate, who died last month in Germany. "Then I heard he was really sick and called him. He said thank you for the prayers and told me chemo was fucked. So there was a closing, thank God."

500 Greatest Albums of All Time: The Doors, 'The Doors'

In a new book, The Doors Unhinged, Densmore writes of the unexpected break in the band's long partnership that continued even after Jim Morrison's death in 1971. The trouble began when Densmore refused to sign off on a lucrative deal to sell "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" to a 2002 Cadillac commercial and intensified when Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger began touring as the Doors of the 21st Century.

The book opens with a scene of Morrison enraged and hurt after the band licensed "Light My Fire" for a 1968 Buick commercial in his absence, and picks up decades later in a courtroom, with Densmore suing to stop use of the Doors name on tour. He was countersued for $40 million in damages for the drummer's refusal to accept the Cadillac deal and other offers. Densmore prevailed, and along the way he shares stories from the band's history, about getting moral support from Tom Waits and Eddie Vedder, and of finally meeting Morrison's parents.

The self-published book has Densmore on a new tour of indie record stores for signings, including a stop last week at Amoeba in Hollywood, which drew several hundred fans. Doors activity has never stopped, with last year's collaboration with Skrillex, "Breakin' a Sweat," and a comprehensive iPad app released in May; Densmore expects to join Krieger for a live tribute to Manzarek in Los Angeles.

For years, the Doors always seemed to be on the same page, then something went sour.
We were always on the same page musically.

You did a VH1 Storytellers special in 2001, the American Prayer album in 1978 and many other things together after Jim died.
The Doors are back on our hinges. Ray and Robby – I just think they made a mistake thinking the Doors [could exist] without Jim, like the Police without Sting. That's straightened out. It was a really rough struggle.

What made you want to write a book on this very specific event in the Doors story?
When it was over, I was very pleased that Jim's estate and I persevered, but it was pretty rigorous. In the beginning, when I started the lawsuit, the hardcore fans thought I was ruining the band. I really wanted for anyone who was interested to see the journey I went through and what I was trying to do. And maybe it's metaphoric for other people's personal struggles with money. In there I say, "Money is like fertilizer: when it's hoarded, it stinks. When spread around, stuff grows."

You include a moment when the Doors had new managers who approached Jim with something like "You don't really need these guys. You're the star." What was Jim's reaction to that?
The managers said, "You're the money. Dump these guys." And at the next rehearsal, he says, "Let's dump them!" We were really equal. And that's why somehow, even for L.A. Woman, where Jim was clearly an alcoholic with a disease, when we were alone we were blessed by the muse. We don't own that.

The book opens with a pretty dark scene: Morrison is enraged about a deal the band made to sell "Light My Fire" to a Buick commercial.
I'm very proud of the first two words of the book: "Fuck you!"

You describe it not just as a blowup but an actual turning point, shaking trust within the band.
What blows my mind is that "Light My Fire" was primarily Robby's song – Jim threw in "love become a funeral pyre." Typical Morrison. If he flips out over "Come on, Buick, light my fire," what does that mean about his caring for the whole catalog, everything we represented? I'm not going to forget that.

Early on, the Doors decided to split and credit everything equally. Was that from conviction, or were you not yet educated about the standard ways of the music business?
That was Jim's suggestion before we ever had a record deal, before we had a gig. It was maybe naïve, but he could have later changed it, and didn't. He was the lyricist and could have got half of everything.

What does that say about what mattered to him?
Community. Amazing. There's sacredness when people are committed together for something.

It was once the norm for bands to refuse to sell their music for commercials, but now that's flipped around.
If you're a new band trying to pay the rent, then what the hell, do what you've got to do. But if you get going and you've got a toehold on success, you might want to look at that again. Tom Waits wrote a letter in response to my article in the Nation that said, "You want to look at changing your lyrics into a jingle. Is that what you want to do? Then it's the sound of coins in your pocket." I love that guy.

It's a big question. And I have Pete Townshend say in Rolling Stone, "You fell in love to Shirley to my song? I don't give a fuck about Shirley, I'll do what I want." True.

The Doors aren't billionaires, but we have deep pockets. I know that Ray and Robby, like me, have a nice house and a couple of groovy cars, so I'm going to veto this stuff. If they were struggling, it might be different. I knew money was going to be a very volatile subject. I've already been called a socialist elitist weirdo from the right.

In the book, you seemed especially hurt by the break with Robby.
Well, we were best friends, and it really feels nice to connect again. I said to Robby a few weeks ago in an email: "Let's have our musical reunion for Ray. Let's play some Doors songs at the Whisky or Wiltern – there's a lot of great musicians in L.A. that we know and love and admire the band. I'd like to break the ice that way." It should happen pretty soon.

The three of you did appear on a Skrillex track last year.
That was fun. At first, I was like, drum machines? When drum machines were first invented, Ringo said, "I'm the drum machine!" We pride ourselves on the groove. But I was into electronic music in high school – Stockhausen, Stravinsky, Schoenberg. I met [Skrillex] and he's a musician and plays guitar and piano. I needed to hear the stuff before I committed. It's got to feel right, and it did. In fact, I called him a month or two ago, and said, "I've got a beat that I think would fit with you . . ."

You were joined in your lawsuit by Morrison's parents.
I never thought that entering into this horrible train wreck would produce a blessing like meeting Jim's dad. Wow. Here's this guy who was on the other side of the fence during Vietnam. He was over there on a battleship, and we wrote "The Unknown Soldier" against it. He at 86 comes to support Jim's legacy? Whoa.

Did you discuss "The End" with his father by any chance?
I heard that he got nervous when he heard it.

Getting to know him, did it tell you something about Jim that you didn't know before?
Maybe there was a will, a strong sense of presence. Jim had that too. Jim had a will to get this rock concert he heard in his head before he even met us to come to fruition. Maybe there's something there.

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