What Are You Listening To Right This Very Second?

[dave from knoxville]

Graham Parker--Squeezing Out Sparks.  Still in my all-time top twenty.

Graham Parker - Discovering Japan

InDEED Fredericks, PREACH IT.

[dave from knoxville]

It's called the killer moon
It's called the killer moon

[Paul DeLouisiana]

Favorite lyric:
YYEEEAAGGGGHWUooAHHHhhhaei-i-i-au-auu-wuah-wuah-GNACH! GNACH! Waa-aa-a-aaa-aaa-aaaaa-i-ah-ee-ah-ee-ah-guuuuaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrr-ak-ak!

Ok so when I was about 19 I was at Grimey's in Nashville and  I picked up what I thought was John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band but it was Yoko's album of screeches and yelps. I remember the guy behind the counter asking me if I had heard it and I said yeah thinking he was talking about John's album, and he said "Isn't it brilliant!?" And I remember thinking, "Geez cool out, everyone likes this." But now I think how much that guy deserved and "Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww boy, you like THAT?"

[masterofsparks]

After years of being perplexed by this band, I've recently turned the corner. Still haven't heard everything yet, but I'm making my way through the catalog.

[masterofsparks]

Favorite lyric:
YYEEEAAGGGGHWUooAHHHhhhaei-i-i-au-auu-wuah-wuah-GNACH! GNACH! Waa-aa-a-aaa-aaa-aaaaa-i-ah-ee-ah-ee-ah-guuuuaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrr-ak-ak!

Ok so when I was about 19 I was at Grimey's in Nashville and  I picked up what I thought was John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band but it was Yoko's album of screeches and yelps. I remember the guy behind the counter asking me if I had heard it and I said yeah thinking he was talking about John's album, and he said "Isn't it brilliant!?" And I remember thinking, "Geez cool out, everyone likes this." But now I think how much that guy deserved and "Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww boy, you like THAT?"

I think I like the Yoko POB LP better than the John one (which I really love). I've heard other Yoko LPs (Fly and Approximately Infinite Universe) and not really liked them and I never cared for her tracks (or John's) on Double Fantasy, but that first LP is really something else. It features some of Ringo's best drumming IMO.

[nec13]

After years of being perplexed by this band, I've recently turned the corner. Still haven't heard everything yet, but I'm making my way through the catalog.

London Calling is a good, but overrated album. Not their best work, IMO.

I don't think they ever topped their debut album, personally.

[buffcoat]

I have now completely lost the thread of this conversation under the smothering layers of irony, or whatever it is that everyone calls irony.

[cavorting with nudists]

I really like Yoko's POB album and Fly. No irony!

[cavorting with nudists]

I guess I could do without the track that's the sound of a toilet flushing, but it's only 30 seconds long.

[cavorting with nudists]

Plus, I agree with Fredericks about the Clash. I love London Calling but nothing beats the debut plus their first few singles.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I also really like Ono. And I think The Clash's best record is Give 'Em Enough Rope.

[wood and iron]

I also really like Ono. And I think The Clash's best record is Give 'Em Enough Rope.

I second your opinion about Give 'Em Enough Rope.

Sandinista would probably be higher in my estimation if it was cut down to a single album.

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Listening to The Stranglers' No More Heroes.  I'm a fairly recent convert to these guys' records.  For too long, I wrote them off as misogynist bar-band dudes cashing in on England's late-'70s punk momentum, but I'm fixating on a few of their records lately.  They're great!  I was wrong about them!

Graham Parker--Squeezing Out Sparks.  Still in my all-time top twenty.

Graham Parker - Discovering Japan

InDEED Fredericks, PREACH IT.

Yes.  This album is so great.  The version I have has Live Sparks appended to it, and it's awesome.  They do a great cover of "I Want You Back" and a vicious version of "Mercury Poisoning."

If I can ever get up the nerve to play a solo show, I'll probably do "Local Girls."

[buffcoat]

I only know The Stranglers from Butt-head's take on the "Skin Deep" video.

[Alex_from_the_woods]

Graham Parker--Squeezing Out Sparks.  Still in my all-time top twenty.

Graham Parker - Discovering Japan

I haven't thought about this one in a long time but I loooved it back in the day. It got a lot of radio play. Parker had sort of a snotty,angry, bitter quality that I related to. (I wonder why?) I might have like Joe Jackson's early stuff  for the same reason.