Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine So, what are you listening to?

Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic and Katy Lied.

The Doobie Brothers' What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits.

Oh, and a George Benson live concert.

Rebel Beat by Goo Goo Dolls

R.E.M.'s "Automatic for the People." If more music from the 90s had been like this, I'd have enjoyed the decade a lot more.

This week I have mostly been listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Today, I paid my respects to Lou Reed (R.I.P.) by listening to my favorite work of his, the great 1972 solo album "Transformer."

I had New York on when I came home. >sigh<

It's a terrible loss, and it's depressing to consider that the rock icons of Reed's generation are just beginning to leave us.

Ah well. We'll always have the music. I think I'll listen to the VU's "Loaded" later.

Fans of poppy Norweigian jazz won't want to miss out on the new Pixel album!

Right now, I'm listening to the Lightning Seeds' wonderful debut album "Cloudcuckooland."

I had Pure on a few weeks ago. I really liked Sense from the next album and the Life of Riley.

I remember a punk/post punk series of interviews and someone mentioning that the person she knew would do well was Ian Broudie. He was constantly working away trying to improve, while some of the others really didn't have that kind of drive at all.

Yeah, Broudie's fantastic. I wish he'd had more than a "walk-on cameo" in Julian Cope's otherwise great Liverpool Scene memoir "Head On."

After the teardrop...well exploded, I only really knew Cope from World Shut Your Mouth. Good single, which I kept seeing him perform on some elaborate chair thing. Then seemingly nothing.

I next heard about him when he released his book The Modern Antiquarian. It's that kind of work I know him best for now.

Cope's solo career is basically three phases, divided roughly by decade: there's the 80s, when he was burning with a creative fire but didn't quite know what he was doing or what he wanted to be. That's actually his best work, IMO; there's the 90s, where's he's much more self-assured, but also too much crustiness for me; and there's the 00s to date, where he no longer worries about meeting the masses halfway, real love-it-or-hate it stuff -- I, sad to say, hate it.

The Cope albums I'd recommend without hesitation are his first two, "World Shut Your Mouth" (which, cheekily, doesn't have that song on it), and "Fried." The third one, ("Saint Julian", which did have "WSYM"), is half a great album, half uninspired. Of the 90s stuff, "Peggy Suicide", "20 Mothers", and "Interpreter" still get the occassional spin from me.

[quote=Fanfic Lady]The Cope albums I'd recommend without hesitation are his first two, "World Shut Your Mouth" (which, cheekily, doesn't have that song on it)/quote]

That's naughty. Way to mess with people looking to pick up your album, just for that one.

IIRC, all he had at first was the title, which was a favorite expression of one of the Liverpool scenesters. He wrote the song either right before the WSYM album or right after, but didn't record it until after the Fried album.

Well, I just got home with a crate full of LPs given to me by a co-worker, most of which are 80s rock, so I guess that's what I'll listening to for the next few weeks. So far all 65 of them look to be in excellent condition (except for one that is missing its cover and is covered with dust).

Wow. World Shut your mouth is even better than I remember it.

I have a couple milk crates in the garage, along with a rather at one time middlin to high end stereo/amp/player that will probably never again see the light of day. I think I have Saturday Night Fever, lol.

Here's some fun steampunk-y trip hop.

At the moment, Mozart's Adagio for Violin and Orchestra.

Pizzicato Five.

Stylish, fun and great pop.


Following on from some Cibo Matta, earlier in the week.

Today, to celebrate the release of Morrissey's autobiography on the American side of the Atlantic, I had an all-day musical Moz-a-thon, playing in chronological order:

The Smiths, "Louder Than Bombs"

The Smiths, "Strangeways, Here We Come"

Morrissey, "Your Arsenal"

Morrissey, "Vauxhall & I"

Morrissey, "Southpaw Grammar"

Morrissey, "Maladjusted"

Morrissey, "You Are the Quarry"

About the only thing I listened to this week were some Joe Jackson albums.

^^My favorite Joe Jackson album is "Night & Day."

Korn- Never Never
Alice in Chains- Stoned
Rev Theory- Hell Yeah
Theory of a deadman- Bad Girlfriend