Top Ten Albums You're Listening To Right Now

I'm starting this thread because Pete told Tony to.

Anyway, these are the albums I listened to most this month...mostly different from my all time top ten, as already mentioned. Ones near the top have been losing rotation points as the month closes... I guess this is more, "top ten artists" than "albums", but in some cases it is that specific

The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Jim Noir - Tower Of Love
Belle & Sebastian - entire catalog (but I've been listening to mostly EPs)
Teenage Fanclub - Man-made
All The Go Away Birds EPs (i'm making an allowance since they don't have an actual LP and probably never will)
Camera Obscura - Mostly My Maudlin Career but the whole catalog
God Help The Girl (including Stills)
Spoon - Girls Can Tell and Kill The Moonlight
Zoey Van Goey - The Cage Was Unlocked All Along
Elephant - In The Moon

The last three, I probably listen to them daily. The rest, they are losing steam. I probably listen to 5-10 albums a day, just because my job involves sitting at the computer for 8 hours constant....so I get tired of stuff fast. Like Belle & Sebastian, I just went through a phase where I was listening to almost them exclusively for a week... and now, I probably won't again for ages.

yeah - i'm in a dungeon at a computer all day too so i can rip thru a few albums at the least a day.. been on a TFC kick again mostly

teenage fanclub - alot of eps and grand prix mostly
camera obscura - bside collection
zoey van goey -the Cage Was Unlocked All Along
drums - self-titled and lets go surfing ep
belle and sebastien - life pursuit
hermit crabs - Saw You Dancing and correspondence course ep
luke doucet - broken
the stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
wilco - wilco the album
essex green - long goodbye

probably a bunch more that i started maybe and never finished and several while i worked in the garage at home but cant recall - oh Walk the Line soundtrack and aerosmith's toys in the attic... fun stuff

real curious to see your guys stuff!
bolony

1. My Maudlin Career and a bunch of Singles
2. The Cage Was Unlocked - ZVG
3. Jim Kerr AKA Lost Boy
4. The Long Goodbye - The Essex Green
5. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
6. GHTG - GHTG, skipping songs with SM's vocals
7. Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
8. The Verve - Forth
9. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
10. American III - Cash

Pete wrote:

6. GHTG - GHTG, skipping songs with SM's vocals :shock:

I always skip Eve In The Tub...
but I like Hiding Neath My Umbrella

Asobi Seksu - Rewolf
The National - High Violet
The Black Keys - Brothers
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bravery Repetition & Noise
The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through the Devil Softly
Charlene Soraia - Daffodils & Idylls EP
Christian Bland & The Revelators - The Lost Album
The Blue Angel Lounge - Self titled
Lower Heaven - Ashes

The Clientele - everything, on a daily basis
Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
Pernice Brothers - Goodbye Killer
The Canterbury Music Festival - Rain and Shine
Wilco - a home made Wilco compilation
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - 'Before Today'
John Grant - 'Queen Of Denmark'
Iron and Wine - 'Around The Well'
Gigi - 'Maintenant'
The Zombies - 'Odessy and Oracle'

I mainly listen to compilations these days, and make my own up a lot of downloaded tracks from blogs. My blog has a few to download www.seekmagic.wordpress.com

alright... here's 10 albums i've been listening to lately:

Titus Andronicus - "The Monitor"
Camera Obscura - "Biggest Bluest Hi Fi"
The National - "High Violet"
Bob Dylan - "Saved"
Belle & Sebastian - "Dear Catasrophe Waitress"
Soundtrack - "The Big Chill" Vols. 1 & 2
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - "I Learned the Hard Way"
My Morning Jacket - "It Still Moves"
The New Pornographers - "Together"
Voxtrot - the 3 EPs

* The School - Loveless Unbeliever/+ all the b-sides and compilation tracks
* Au Revoir Simone - Verses Of Comfort, Assurance, And Salvation/The Bird Of Music/Still Night, Still Light
* Berlin - Savoy New York 3-19-1983 (192kbps from Wolfgangs Vault)/Zone-H records A Matter Of Time 7"/Pleasure Victim/Love Life
* Camera Obscura - Rare UK Bird/Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi/Underachievers Please Try Harder/Let's Get Out Of This Country+bonus/My Maudlin Career/+ all the b-sides and compilation tracks and live shows I can find
* Brittle Stars/Elephant Parade - Brittle Stars/Garage Sale EP + Remixes/Bedroom Recordings/+ all the tracks leaked from the new album
* California Snow Story - One Good Summer/Close To The Ocean
* Ladytron - 604/Light & Magic/Witching Hour/Velocifero
* Marsheaux - e-bay Queen/Peek A Boo/Lumineux Noir+bonus/+ all the b-sides and compilation tracks
* Electrobelle - myspace tracks including the ones no longer there..the digital single and Electronically Yours compilation tracks..awaiting the EP release
* Tetrastar - myspace tracks/youtube tracks/jaylyncoffinmusic myspace tracks..awaiting the EP release

there..10 albums..er..playlists...

LOVELESS UNBELIEVER-THE SCHOOL
QUEEN OF DENMARK-JOHN GRANT
YOU ARE FREE-CAT POWER
FOLD YOUR HANDS CHILD-B&S
ITS A COOL,COOL CHRISTMAS-VARIOUS B&S COMP
NIXON-LAMBCHOP
MEASURE-FIELD MUSIC
ALBUM-GIRLS
SISTER LOVERS-BIG STAR
BLOOD & CHOCOLATE-ELVIS COSTELLO

Nixon ... Class Gra

indeed..sorry bout the caps.........

It's been, I don't know, a month now. Thought I should update my "listening to right now" list. Been feeling kind of musically awkward lately and I've been latching onto anything new to listen to.

0. The Love Language. Over and over and over and over again.
1. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
2. Broken Bells. Though much less of them lately.
3. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow. Like BB, much less of them this week than in the last couple.
4. 20th century B&S. A specific playlist I built that mixes tracks from the first 4 albums together, though most of it is Peasant + Arab Strap.
5. All the Go Away Birds EP's. Though not ZVG or Elephant anymore.
6. The Concretes - Self titled LP and In Colour. Weird story about how I started listening to them again. Had this dream where I met Victoria Bergsman. Weeks later, I don't remember the details anymore, but it got me to start listening to The Concretes. Though not Taken By Trees...
7. Kate Nash - Made of Bricks, My Best Friend Is You. Ok so some of her stuff is kinda rough (content wise, not musically - just don't play it with the kiddies around), but her incredibly thick accent and popish anti-folk sound is addictive.
8. Early David Bowie, mostly Hunky Dory.
9. And a few albums get spun when I'm tired of listening to 0 through 8, but have pretty much taken back-burner. Like The Clientele, Camera Obscura, Isobel Campbel, you know...that sort of lot.

I'll tell you one band I keep trying to get into but can't for the life of me: Guided by Voices. There was one song played at the end of an IT Crowd episode that I really loved, but the rest I've listened to...just can't not hate it. If there are any fans here, sorry.

Also I tried Richard Hawley, his first two albums. I didn't hate him, but I wasn't exactly blown away either. Only gave him one spin.

its summer an the only things i listen to are nicks seekmagic downloads.....

looks better hopefully

i've too been listenin to nick's "girl with long brown hair" - lovely summer mix
- new Delays album called "star tiger star ariel"
- stars new one "The Five Ghosts"
- essex green "long goodbye" - finally just got my hands on a physical copy ordered direct from merge.. didnt know they'd mail a poster with it and i, like a stupid cut the envelop and the edge of the poster.. skotch tape just aint working!
- a Camera Obscura compilation made from some singles

tonybolony wrote:

- essex green "long goodbye" - finally just got my hands on a physical copy ordered direct from merge.. didnt know they'd mail a poster with it and i, like a stupid cut the envelop and the edge of the poster.. skotch tape just aint working!

<---- i just listened to a few samples of them on the merge site.....really fantastic. will be buying the 2-cd bundle imminently.

i've got half a dozen posters from merge orders, and though i've never cut them while opening (usually they are stuffed inside the LP jacket), they're always folded in half, which leaves an annoying crease. so i don't hang them up- because the crease is ugly. i've actually considered scanning the posters at my office where we've got a 12x18 flatbed, fixing the ugliness using photoshop's spot-healer tool, and reprinting.

paul wrote:

i've got half a dozen posters from merge orders, and though i've never cut them while opening (usually they are stuffed inside the LP jacket), they're always folded in half, which leaves an annoying crease. so i don't hang them up- because the crease is ugly. i've actually considered scanning the posters at my office where we've got a 12x18 flatbed, fixing the ugliness using photoshop's spot-healer tool, and reprinting.

BRILLIANT idea! I have a "man-den" that i've been framing some of the better concert posters i've been to and a few full size posters from my brother-in-laws work. I like EG enough to pop one up even tho i've not seen them live... yet.. soo, i will also do a nice scan at work and get myself an un-creased poster! perfecto!