Groove Lingo: Philly and Local-Area Bands
i try to get out as much as i can to see different bands play... this page has my thoughts, feelings, and impressions of many I've seen recently. most are from the tri-state (PA, NJ, DE) area, but some aren't... Definitely not all-inclusive... that would take years...
This is what's been playing a lot in my CD player lately.
- Radiohead - everything... Favorite tracks: Exit Music from a Film, and tracks #3-6 (OK Computer). Also, thinking about you, ripcord, and I can't (from Pablo Honey)... older Radiohead is still choice, you know. I just picked up My Iron Lung (from '94) on sale.
- Bjork - Bjork rules. She is so cool. I wanna be like her if I ever grow up.
- Pizzicato Five - happy trippy funky music, sounds like a mix of cartoon music with dance and pop. They make me so happy!
- Jeff Buckley - ethereal, moody, haunting, emotional, jagged, nice. Inspired a lot of my painting from 1994-1997
- Solex vs. the Hitmeister - trippy, funky, sort of like Cibo Matto meets the Sneaker Pimps... song number eight is what grabbed me, I saw the video on the Drexel station: Solex All Licketysplit. Most of the lyrics are pretty stupid but then I don't sing along.
- Rufus Wainwright - Lush, full, nice. Maybe a little mushy, maybe a little pop-y, maybe a lot of piano stuff... Everyone's favorite drama queen, really self-centered and emotional lyrics. He does a nice job on the live show as well, tells these long sappy but fun stories. Made me laugh.
- Cotton Mather - I can't resist this great track My Before and After and just love the whole retro, Beatles-esque/60s mod feel to this release by cool rockers in Austin. Plus, they kick-ass live.
- Underworld - nice & dark rut... random confusion, voices, I don't know what I am thinking, what I want or what I need... now is the time to dig out some Underworld... just picked up Beaucoup Fish... people are talking about it like it's the next big thing. i also like Second Toughest in the Infants since all the tracks flow nicely into one another but almost any tracks will do, they've got that nice dark, quality about them.
- Neutral Milk Hotel - sure I heard a lot of people talking about them over the last few years but never heard their stuff. Until one night I was in a car with an old friend and it was late and it woke me up. I was instantly whisked away into some lucid dreamlike state for the rest of the ride home. One of the songs even made me cry. Fantastic and dreamy, yet full of cool psychedelic and pop effects... rich lyrics... this is where it's at. Ok some of it's flat out strange. It makes really great music for painting.
- Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust Trigger Hippie is such a soothing song... I picked this up used a few years back and it's still giving me much joy and satisfaction when the moods hit me. yum.
- Caterpillar - peace, love and popularity - nice cd from local rockers, who knows if they will reunite, since the lead singer/guitarist went to grad school in Montana. You can hear real audio files of their live show here many of the songs are on this cd.
- Sounds from the Philadelphia Low Orbit Lounge - compilation disc of many Philly-area bands all nice trippy music. on Lounge Records. Includes Flowchart, Lenola, and the Asteroid #4.
