So what 5 albums have been in heavy rotation in your life this week?

I tend to listen to an album (or an artist) over and over again until I have to put it away for a while.

These are mine for this week, that I will be getting sick of very soon....

Pulp - We Love Life


Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (I know I just said last week that I only like about 2 of their songs, but apparently that's not true because this is a great album )



The Animals - Winds of Change/The Twain Shall Meet



Booker T. and the M.G.s - Green Onions



Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak



Now you.

Goldfrapp- Supernature
Tim Love Lee- The Trip(a great compilation)
The Tears- Here Comes The Tears
Pet Shop Boys- Back To Mine(Neil's disc 2 brings tears to my eyes)
Dusty Springfield- Best Of...

Special mention to Sigur Ros- Takk, which I can't stop playing...
and Kate Bush- The Dreaming, because of the new album soon.

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stevenpottle said:

Hey how is that Goldfrapp album anyway? I was going to start a thread asking about it, because I just discovered them about a week ago. I know there was a thread about them a while back, but I didn't pay attention to it.

...in no particular order, just what i've been playing...

1. the decemberists, 'picaresque'
2. lcd soundsystem, s/t
3. the distillers, 'sing sing death house' and 'coral fang'
4. david bowie, aladdin sane
5. bauhaus, the sky's gone out

novamonkey said:

good choices can't wait to get my hands on that new Stevie joint


btw, don't you read your orgnotes every now and then, or did something get lost during the org updates last week?

OK, those are in my car CD changer right now, so they get heavy rotation


Teena Marie - It Must be Magic
bought the CD recently to replace the old vinyl, with some nice bonus tracks added




Thicke - A Beautiful world:
that one has been in my car since well over a year, still one of the best albums I heard in this millenium



EWF - Illumination
good album, no doubt, but I'm still in the process of getting into this deeper



Leela James - A Change is gonna come
bought this one just last week and what I heard so far I relly enjoyed.



Jamiroquai - Emergency on planet Earth
I was at their concert just a few weeks ago and put their outstanding early albums back on my playlist

minneapolisgenius said:

It's a great album, though you should start with their first album, "Felt Mountain"-which is very different to what they do now...
it is more chilled and she sounds like somekind of 1940's singer high in the windy, snowy mountains- it's really cinematic and lush.
I went to see them live last week and they were AMAZING, really blew everyone away...WOW!!!

minneapolisgenius said:

Supernature is new wave-electronica bliss. My favorite album of this year.

sextonseven said:

i can't wait for it to be released in the states.

sinisterpentatonic said:

I couldn't wait either so I bought the U.K. import.

The last five albums I've played:


Julieta Venegas - Sí


Suicide Girls - Black Heart Retrospective


Ladytron - Witching Hour


Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine


The Like - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?

Houses of the Holy--Led Zeppelin. A classic I am so lucky to have just bought for the first time.

Physical Graffiti--Led Zeppelin. Ditto.

American Idiot--Green Day. It's pop, not punk, but its great pop. Track 2 alone has as many hooks as some pop-punk bands' entire albums. Plus it's anti-Bush & has a great title (yes I'm American).

Animals--Pink Floyd. Not exactly a classic, but I've never heard any of these songs so it's a nice discovery.

3D--Jing Chi. Robben Ford is my favorite guitarist, but I'm not sure he can hold my attention over the course of this instrumental record of mediocre compositions.

Looks like I've gone stoner/guitar crazy!

1. Danger Mouse and MF Doom -- DangerDoom

2. Little Brother -- The Minstrel Show

3. Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane -- Live 1957 (Blue Note)

4. Dwele -- Some Kinda . . .

5. Gravediggaz -- 6 Feet Deep

minneapolisgenius said:

You should emigrate.

Number23 said:

Maybe I should.

I can't tell you how much I love this album though. I was actually going to start a Pulp thread this week. (thinking about it)

sextonseven said:

I must have it.

stevenpottle said:

I must have that too.

I saw the video for "Ooh La La" and the reason that I was drawn to the song is because it's based on, and also samples, Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" which is one of my favorite songs of all time. And the video kicks ass too. I love how they're all 1972 glam.
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andyman91 said:

Welcome to my world. (I'm not a stoner though )

So cool that you are experiencing some Zeppelin albums for the first time. I wish I could go back and do that again.

minneapolisgenius said:

Aye, it's an incredible record. I remember being furious no-one bought it and knowing they would split soon after. This Is Hardcore is my favourite though. Jarvis was in dark place, coked up, all elbows and knees, awkward and paranoid. Fantastic.

Number23 said:

Ah how I love Jarvis.

I'm actually listening to This is Hardcore as I type this. And the video for the title track is one of my favorite videos ever.

I didn't get into We Love Life until recently though, mainly because I remember seeing an interview w/ Jarvis about this album, and he was saying how it was their "happy" album. So I was like: "Oh. Well I don't think I'd like that then." So I never got it until now. I love it. "The Birds in Your Garden" and "Sunrise" are just beautiful IMO.

minneapolisgenius said:

I'm not a stoner either.....anymore!

I had 1-4 since I was a kid, but I never had those two records. Physical Graffiti is mostly new to me (I know a lot of Houses of the Holy). To paraphrase Spinal Tap's Derek Smalls "I envy me." I wish I could hear some Beatles for the first time again.
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andyman91 said:

Could you play me "Lick My Love Pump (in D Minor)" as well?

My most listened to albums the last week are:

Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow

Death Cab For Cutie: Plans

Neil Young: Comes A Time

Dinosaur Jr: Green Mind

Kanye West: Late Registration

minneapolisgenius said:

I'm the exact same way! We're too alike in so many ways. We might as well get married and get it over with. This week, I'm really wearing out...

RipHer2Shreds said:

(oh and on a side note, you and tA are the only ones who ended up as Robert Plant on the Zeppelin quiz. )

minneapolisgenius said:

Hello? I was the very first Robert Plant, thank you very much!

Well, not the very first, but you know what I mean.

minneapolisgenius said:

I'll arrange a duet

I've been playing:

* willie nelson - stardust
* Woody Guthrie - very best of
* Hank williams - Gold
* John Mayer Trio - Live in boston (bootleg)
* Gram parsons - grievous angel