Today's CDs (9/19)
 

The Disco Biscuits - Senor Boombox
Tin Hat Trio - The Rodeo Eroded
The Gourds - Cow Fish Fowl or Pig
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
moe. - Warts & All Volume 2

The new Coldplay and Disco Biscuits discs are surprisingly great. I didn't care much for Coldplay's first disc. There wasn't much not to like; it was just a bit too bland. Their new disc is such a huge step forward...few bands make such a huge leap from their debut to their sophomore album.

The Disco Biscuits are a great live band, but this is their first great studio album. It sounds like a mix tape full of great songs you've never heard before. Songs are all over the place...for instance, track 1 is jammy rock, track 2 is live house, and track 3's got a bit of a hip hop feel. For anyone who knows who Bran Van 3000 are, Senor Boombox reminds me of a jam band Bran Van album. Good stuff...

Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo (I keep thinking I should return this to the library, but it's such great background music for work)
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
U2 - ATYCLB
Neil Young - Silver & Gold
Old 97s - Fight Songs

Erase Eratta - Other Animals
Rocket from the Crypt - Group Sounds
RFTC - Scream, Dracula, Scream
RFTC - All Systems Go
RFTC - Circa: Now
RFTC - Live from Camp X-Ray
The Action - Rolled Gold
Oneida - Each One Teach One
Oneida - Come On Everybody Let's Rock
Oneida - Anthem on the Moon

So, as you might guess, I'm working on Oneida and RFTC pieces today. Each of their new albums are excellent.

As far as Coldplay is concerned, "Trouble" is a wonderful song. Everything else is as inoffensive as music can get. Which is not a good thing.

Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
The White Stripes - self-titled
Lord High Fixers - Is Your Club a Secret Weapon?...
Compulsive Gamblers - Gambling Days are Over
La Consecuecia De Tus Pecados (Scooch Pooch records compilation)

Beck - Sea Change
the Ramones - Road to Ruin
2 Many DJs - As Heard on Radio Soul Wax, Pt. 2
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Paul Westerberg - Stereo/Mono
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!

Son Volt - Trace
Captain Beyond - Sufficiently Breathless
Host - Hardt Mot Hardt
Richard and Linda Thompson - Sunnyvista
Colisseum II - Wardance
Flower Kings - Space Revolver
John Hiatt - Bring the Family
Whitford/St. Holmes - Whitford/St. Holmes
Campo Di Marte - Campo Di Marte
Soft Boys - Invisible Hits

Ben Folds- Rockin' the suburbs

Dishwalla- Opaline (DVD Audio DD 5.1)

NIN- The Fragile

Wyclef Jean- The Carnival
Guided by Voices- Isolation Drills
Magazine- Real Life

Television - Marquee Moon
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Classic Alternatives - Vol. 4
Ben Kweller - Sha Sha
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - s/t
Idlewild - The Remote Part

manic street preachers - this is my truth tell me yours
suede - a new morning (advance promo)
suede - sci-fi lullabies ( in the car)
dj shadow - endtroducing

Filter: The Amalgamut
Jars Of Clay: The Eleventh Hour
Norah Jones: Come Away With Me
Pet Shop Boys: Release
Simple Minds: Cry

Sharlock Poems - "Left"
Mary Prankster - "Roulette Girl"
Mary Prankster - "Tell Your Friends"
Mary Prankster - "Blue Skies Forever"

Musicals:

Urinetown
Rent
Scarlet Pimpernel

Doug Martsch - "Now You Know"
Neil Young - "Time Fades Away"
Television - "Marquee Moon"
Don Caballero - "What Burns Never Returns"

I am digging the Doug Martsch disc.

What do you think of this? How does it rate with their other stuff. The first disc of Sci-fi Lullabies may be my favorite thing by them, although their first 2 records were killer.

I am liking it a lot, it's mostly mellower stuff and a lot of it is quite poppy. but as far as I am concerned anything from Suede is genius, esp Brett's voice.


So far my favourite track is Obsessions.

I think that if you enjoy disc 1 of sci-fi like I do, thats what was in the car today, you will really like this...

its released in the uk on sept 30... I advise a purchase.

The Meteors - Wrecking Crew
Mad Sin - Survival Of The Sickest
Toadies - Hell Below/Stars Above

Thrice - Identity Crisis
Ataris - Anywhere But Here