This is a bit different to the favourite other artists thread as the CDs you have in your CD player at the mo wont necessarily be ya fav artists.

Ive got a 3 CD changer so heres mine:

1. Hang on the Box: Yellow Banana (import)
This is insane genius, pure filthy engrish lyrics from a chinese all girl "punk" group. Definite Fall sound to it to be honest in places, touches of the pistols etc.

2. The Scaramanga Six; Strike! Up the band
This is pretty good actually and Id recommend it to you all. Theres shades of Wire, Fall, Gang of Four and even Von Bondies... Moogs a plenty. Probably a bit "heavier" sound than all the above tho.

3. Liars; They were wrong so we drowned
Dunno why I bought this, I find it really creepy and fucked up and a little consciousness altering in a negative way. Not something Im likely to play often


Now David its over to you...

And people NOT called David too.

For what its worth, my CD changer (with 5 slots) currently has:

poire-z, "+" (Erstwhile)
Coleacanth, "The Glass Sponge" (23five)
Jazzkammer, "Hot Action Sexy Karaoke" (Ground Fault)
Solesides' Greatest Bumps (disc 1) (forgot the label)
Muhal Richard Abrahms Orchestra, "The Hearinga Suite" (Black Saint)

Andy

Gaz Mayall - Top Ska Tunes (Trojan) Excellent compilation of early 60's ska.

First of all, The Scaramanga Six. Good taste!! Then again I'm slightly biased as they're chums. Their upcomming new LP is produced by a Cardiac and, from what I've heard, is a killer. Great live band too.

Anyway enough of such cronyism.

1) The Beta Band: Heros to Zeros. Its taken me a few listens but I now state this LP is a classic. I must be playing it 3/4 times a day. A complete sonic joy.

2) Ministry. They have a new record out soon, so I'm indulging in my youthful passion and I'm loving it.

3) Mr Bungle. Disco Volante & California.

4) Secret Chiefs 3. Book 3. Hard to describe but a joy to listen too.

Sorry I can't be more discriptive but I've been on the Red and my mind is mulch.

In the CD-ROM drive: No! by They Might Be Giants. One of the few CDs my daughter of 3 and I agree upon, and it has fun interactive stuff on the CD-ROM portion of the disc. Recommended for fans of odd-ball music who have children -- Foe

Link Wray- "Slinky!"

collection of 1958-1961 Epic singles.

Too hot.

DARKTHRONE 'SARDONIC WRATH' CDR#ZEKE 'KICKED IN THE TEETH' CD#BUTTHOLE SURFERS 'BAD TRIP' LIVE BOOTLEG CDR#NECROPHAGIA 'DIVINE ART OF TORTURE' CD#[COLOR=red]GUILTY PLEASURE-THE BANGLES 'EVERYTHING' LP :whistle:

Wiggles and Lizzy McGuire - they're not mine, honest. I have kids you know.

I keep meaning to get some link wray. His version of the BatMan theme is pure genius. I always heard a Link Wray influence in early Fall singles Like Rowche Rumble (Even the title is taken from a Link Wray single)

There not too far away from me either... based in Leeds. Im in Hull. So I may get a chance to see them. Only one of there CDs is listed on Amazon for some reason tho their website says theyve done 3. The third isnt out yet tho is it? I heard that Poison Pen single on 120 minutes, I was hooked. So I WILL be purchasing the new album ASAP.

not so much what is in my cd player, but what isn't - I can't find disc 2 of 27 pints, not in player, not in box - any suggestions? getting a bit panicky (my kids have just started helping themselves to the stereo...)

can u tell me what is the connection between liars & oneida??? r they the same??? or different ???? or what?????

they r both on a cd i have & i don't know the background info..... (bought it after i'd got the recent oneida release & rather liked it & thought i'd pick up other stuff...)

yours ignorantly.......

i could probably look this up on t'internet but i know that u lot r so well informed that this will be quicker & probably more effective...... :applaud:

Blimey! I’ve never even heard of half of these people!!!

I guess my tastes are a bit more ‘mainstream’ and less esoteric, so at the risk of ridicule from the rest of the board…

Stuff I’ve listened to today:

Franz Ferdinand LP (OK, so no-one else here seems to like them but I think they’re a pretty good pop / rock group…)
Peter Hammill, ‘A Black Box’ (one day I’m complete my collection of PH albums…)
Tom McRea ‘Just Like Blood’ (very Radio 2, Terry Wogan would approve…)
Buzzcocks ‘Ever Fallen in Love’ (cheapo CD compilation…)

I am right sad, me, because I only have the Fall in 2 out of the 5 CD drives I have - the other 3 are empty. No non-Fall music for me!

I have the Franz Ferdinand album. I like it all right, though it's nothing very original. I've been thinking about looking into Van der Graaf Generator, but I heard their catalog was being remastered, so I figured I would wait.

Today I have listened to:

Ennio Morricone - Che C'entriano Noi con la Rivoluzione? Never seen the film, but a really neat score, somewhat like the quieter, more hypnotic moments in the Sergio Leone scores.

Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach. Parts of this opera do not function well as background music (I was posting something longwinded elsewhere and it was a bit hard to concentrate when the "I was in this prematurely air-conditioned supermarket..." section was playing).

Javanese Court Gamelan Volume 2 (Nonesuch Explorer — love this series)

Right now, American Pop: An Audio History (CD 1, stuff from 1890 through the early twenties).

I thought the connection between Liars and Oneida was that they released a split single.

Dipped my toe in with the 'First Generation' comp a few months ago ... I still like some K.Crimson and Gabriel-era Genesis so I thought I'd give it go ... took it straight back.

Beefheart's normally in the CD when the Fall aren't.

maybe because you like the Fall?

To whoever was looking to get some Link Wray, check out The Swan Singles Collection. Incredible. You'll find yourself making up Fall songs and singing over them..

Hmm, depends on the age of the kids but check;

In the toaster
In the DVD or video player
In the garden (it may have been used as a frisbee)
It could also have been double stacked into the wrong CD case with something else...

The second disc is the best one too!

In the cd player at home:
Jack Rose - Two Originals Of , because I've been falling asleep to it for weeks. Acc. guitar, kind of a cross between John Fahey & Terry Riley.
In the walkman:
Keiji Haino - Next Let's Try Changing the Shape , home recorded drone psych guitar & voice from "the other man in black".

Currently have The New Sonics - basically an album of Sonic's songs played by Mudhoney and Gashuffer. It must be working cos both the wife and kids have dissappeared upstairs.

Today so far there has been -

The Fall 15 ways gig cd thing...
Bowie - Early On (from 1964)
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Stock, Hausen and Walkman - Organ Transplants vol 1

The speakers on the hi-fi are dodgy due to the wires being chewed by some rats we were looking after...

Didn't know that, looking forward to it - Pawn Hearts is excellent and a nice remaster would be welcome.

This morning, while ironing;

Pixies - Doolittle
Cptn Beefheart - Clear Spot
Felt - Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty
Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

I couldn't listen to good music while ironing, I'd do something nasty to my skin as I forgot what I was doing...listening to The Fall can however be accompanied by shopping, walking, travelling and sex, although for the last activity the music can often (in some cases) be more stimulating than the act itself. Wanking I wouldn't know...you'll have to ask more advanced members of this forum...

Very good for daily urban tasks... but sex? That just ain't right... much as I appreciate MES, I prefer the unobtrusive (in a krautrock ur-punk way of course) strains of Tangerine Dream's "Zeit".

Please tell me nobody puts on Fall records to accompany acts of onanism... surely wouldn't add to either pursuit, unless you're Morrissey maybe :lol: Now I have an image in my head of someone gettin busy to Prole Art Threat :(

If your good at it - Bremen Nacht Alternative

If you are bad at it - Bremen Nacht

"Soundtrack To Life As Self Lover!"
There thatll do for the next Fall Album title...

On the MP3 player, as I work about the house on this holiday:

Modern English: Life in the Gladhouse 1980-1984
Foetus Interuptus: Thaw
Die Warzau: Engine

wanking ?

Prole Art Threat?



nah, more like Pole Hard Thread

Fall into a Hole
(for 2nd generation Fall fans with too much slime on their hands)

Cool! Keiji Heino AND Stock, Hausen and Walkman got props!

Dan C-- seriously, try LInk Wray on yer kids...my 4 & 5 year-old daughters LOVE The Link.

Almost as much as The Wiggles...

Absolute grab for the youngsters: "No More Hot Dogs" by Hasil Adkins. A fave of my kids. Rated PG for cartoonish violence, though.

Peter Hammill mentions it on his website: "The remastering and reissue of VdGG Cds by Virgin is still ongoing but is definitely in the pipeline."

"Absolute grab for the youngsters: "No More Hot Dogs" by Hasil Adkins. A fave of my kids. Rated PG for cartoonish violence, though."

I want your head to hang on mah wall
It's like I told you baby, you can't talk no more
You can't eat no more, eat no more
Ho-ot dogs
I'm gonna take your head
An' put it on mah wall.

Ooh yeah. Hasil the Wild Man.

Saw him live twice @ Lounge Ax in Chicago. He threw a guitar at me!

That stuff about VDGG’s albums being remastered has been on PH’s website for what seems like forever…I suspect that the pipeline in question may be very long one…I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for these to be released if I were you!

I wouldn’t really know what to recommend to someone checking out VDGG for the first time…to be honest I think I’d just say buy whatever compilation or whichever of their studio albums you can find which is the least expensive – you are either going to love this band or you’re going to hate them, and it may not be worth shelling out wads of cash until you’re sure about them. If I really had to make recommendation I’d say ‘The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other’ or ‘Pawn Hearts’ from their earlier period or ‘Still Life’ from the later incarnation…

Love them or hate them, I can promise you, you’ll never have heard anything quite like VDGG…very dark, often very bleak, always weirdly beautiful…

If you are tempted, and don’t mind spending some money, I’d heartily recommend ‘The Box’ 4CD set, it covers the whole of the group’s career, most of the stuff on it has been remastered, its got some rarities that would otherwise be difficult to find and some live stuff that (as far as I know) has not been released elsewhere. More details at
Van der Graaf Generator - Albums

Got Gore's 'Gone Fishing' on; 'National Anthem of Goruguay' recalls The Wedding Present's Ukrainian venture. Weren't/aren't they from Leeds too?

Play School favourite nurseryrhymes-very cool.

(The Wiggles very annoying-going to a Wiggles gig in a couple of weeks

Salmonella Dub gig on Thursday)

in tha cd player-DJ Krush-'message at the depth' and 'meiso'

Doormouse 'freaked out mess'banging man

Well, between the 400 CD jobbie in the front room and the iTunes in my studio, there's no way to list 'em all, so the last 10'll havta do:

Roy Ayers: Virgin Ubiquity

Eddie Gale: Ghetto Music

The Fall: Slates/A Part Of America Therein

Static: Eject Your Mind

Sounds Of North American Frogs

The Rough Guide To The Music Of Egypt

Trojan Ska Revival Box Set

Can: Sacrilege

Dewey Redman: Tarik

Agitation Free: Malesch

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Now playing: The Fall - An Older Lover

"that'll do nicely sir..."

Ribbit ribbit.

Wouldn't that get a bit boring after 50 minutes? ^_^

those trojan box sets r gr8... got some ska & dub ones for half price in hmv & theres 3 cds in each... hours of entertainment.... :D

A Black Box (1980) is one of the great PH albums... it's displayed behind Mark's shoulder on the rack on the sleeve of Grotesque. (You may need the base records italian vinyl version to make it out though). Simon C, what d'you make of "The Jargon King"?

must dig this out - i got a load of PH vinyl cheap a few years ago... The Future Now & Nadir's Big Chance are great.