right now its older stuff, I rediscovered Circle X and love the guitar sound on their first 7" and the prehistory lp, it didn't grab me before for whatever reason...
also The Stooges: Funhouse Sessions, like the 17+ minute free-for-all onslaught on "l.a. blues"...
and some of the early Wipers lps.

kings of leon and ufomammut

I second that!

I got this first, thought it was awesome. I'm of the opinion that it's the only decent thing he's done (oh, except the split with Nortt, but I preferred the Nortt side)

spider and the webs

Radiohead

Heldon!

Also, an obscure early 70s private press electronic LP called "Pytahgoron" is blowing my mind recently. I believe it was "reissued" on CDR by the Creel Pone label.

Datetenryu LP from 1971
New Up-Tight album 'The Beginning Of The End' is fantastic too.

Menace Ruine's The Die Is Cast album
Astral Social Club
Nadja

Typo alert:
It's "Pythagoron," and it is utterly timeless layered electronic shimmering, not dated in any way and amazing in al senses and not just an "undiscovered private record."

hugh swarts
mark davies
the white shark
mr. hageman
job's daughter
paul bermann
anne eickelberg
jay paget
brown supper
zip code rapists
the enablers
pip proud
transcendetalists
mark mcguire
lilypads
skin graft
pocahaunted
noah westhand
four gentlemen of the guitar
robert horton
barn owl
vanessa arn
christian keifer
tom carter
christina carter
inca ore

Bleach 03 have been raping my eardrums quite well of late

oh yeah? i can make up a lot of names too

the bachs
sex vid
grouper
television ghost
new eat skull song
some old hijokaidan - tapes i think, i have a cdr of it and its awesome
ducktails! album out soon i think
sun araw

husker du, wipers, nirvana, merzbow

+ everything Sandbag mentioned

The Bats. I dunno how I missed this band, but it's only recently that i've gotten into them. I've been picking up everything by them I can get my hands on. They're awesome.

:-)

fucking BLACK DICE!!!

Thats right, Im mega stoked on Black Dice for the first time since 2003! LIstening to "Repo" for the fourth time and its truly the record I have always wished they'd make. Its fucking wierd man, real wierd jams.

ima make a full post

I've only just started getting into Sun City Girls... I think i'd been expecting a different band - I'm finding that I love half of it and finding the other half easy to dismiss.. I never thought i'd be seriously enjoying a song like shining path... tho isnt it a cover?

yeah, it's a cover.

I always tell people, one or two albums.. hell, ten or twenty albums.. don't really convey what scg are all about. You really gotta just delve in and absorb as much as possible. Truely brilliant.

Amazing band.

i now have 47 scg recordings, 11 richard bishop solo recordings, 7 alvarius b solo recordings, and assorted writings and articles and such. people who are into them are obsessed with them, i.e., favorite band. theyre mine anyways, along with the velvets.

anyways, another band i must mention, COLD CAVE. minimal synth/cold wave band. "Painted Nails" 7" on Hospital is pitch perfect minimal synth but it also is really loud and can get harsh even in thee most danceable parts. Prurient has really turned Hospital into a nifty label, hes mixed it up with all the sickest acts from industrial to power electronics to scuzz punk to black metal to now cool 80s synth stuff.

the other great is "the trees grew emotions and died" 7'. this one is influenced more by lo fi techno and also some of the more upbeat industrial music of the 80s, such as death in june. the last track "heavens gate" is a scorcher and really makes me want to revert back to my ecstasy fried days. as i sit here it makes me want to take 4 hits and have m eyes drain into the bacj of my head while the colliding synths and muted echo vocals sythmically colide into the orifices of my body creating vibrating sensations heightened more by.... ok im not gonna get too crazy with my fantasy there. this shit is wonderful though. i would like to start a band like this as i need a change from freak rock stuff.

I have everything by the sun city girls (which I believe is about 117 albums all together), sir richard bishop, charles gocher, alvarius b and every other side project and related project ever (and collabs) (I'm talking about stuff like eddie detroit, paris 1942, joke flower, new sessions people, square 9, etc. and of course their collabs with people like cerberus shoal) (and everything ever released by abduction and sublime frequencies) except for one item: "AUDIO LETTER TO MITCH MEYERS" I believe is the name. No idea how to get this. I also have two full length .avis of cloaven video casettes, but I'm missing 4. All that stuff together only takes up a surprising 7 gb of hard drive space, so I urge everyone to download as much as possible, considering 99% of it is out of print.

eddy detroit "jungle captive" is a hip fucking record. im pretty satisfied with my scg collection as of now, its pretty spread out though between my apartment, my room at my dads, and room at my moms.

also, i finally heard fabolous diamons for the first time after reading the z gun article and having my skepticism squashed. everyone is right, this band is incredible with an utterly unique sound. its like a super hypnotic dubbed out clatter of electronics and horns and percussion but played alongside a traditional punk duo. and it works so well.

also, dead luke for his drunken sailor take on synth punk.

I'm really starting to become overwhelmed by all the unbelievable, amazing music out there. I've always known there was tons of great shit out there but in the past few months I've REALLY started getting into it again (coinciding with REALLY getting into opiates again), it's all just blowing my fucking mind.

Hot Snakes

Mozart's Requiem in D Minor

i really like dead luke.

the last few days i've really been listening to a lot of comet gain, X, the free kitten cover of "sex boy" (the best thing they have ever done), the hospitals, shangri las, the new dum dum girls ep, one last wish, beat happening, throbbing gristle, us girls

i really like the buckets of bile new cassingle.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, particularly House Arrest, Worn Copy, and Scared Famous.

Fuckin' love it. Anyone else a fan?

the gories have been in my player non stop, as well as gun club "fire of love" which is one of the greatest records ever created.

also lots of grateful dead because i always seem to use them to mellow olut after the crazy noise stuff.

right mow; international musique concrete ensemble-imce2

really wild improvised concrete stuff from holland that i ripped off of no longer forgotten music. its real cool, sounds like something that the dead machines are always tryi to go for but dont quite have the means to do so.

thats what ive been saying. theres too many good bands, and plus we live in this underground climate where we all have to compete and hunt down for 7 inches and such, its almost a drag. i really wish sometimes that i was normal and could be satisfied listening to what o hear on the radio. but then again, i woulda never heard sun city girls had that been the case.

the obscure side of krautrock bands; german oak (third fave kraurock band ever, fucking guitar drug freakouts meets scary satanic atmospherics, "s/t" and "nilfelheim" are fucking sick. brainticket and agitation free also.

i'm close to the same, though i measure my collection in shelf inches.

:D

Haha, I'm not wealthy enough yet. One day I want to own actual copies of all of 'em. I only own 2 SCG records currently. :(

It took me years, but I do have every Beefheart album on vinyl, so I'm happy about that at least...

actually, i have to plead ignorance re: joke flower and new sessions people...what's the skinny there?

nevermind, google knows all.

Current 93.

It's really weird since I used to despise them.

Prurient - Time Began in a Garden

I've been listening to Ghost's self titled debut album heaps lately. Ballad of Summer Rounder might be one of my favourite songs ever.

Love Mark McGuire and Lilypad quite a lot, better than Emeralds really. Have you heard Imaginary Softwoods? That's probably the best Emeralds-related band. Peaking Lights are so fucking excellent too.

I've mainly been listening to electronic music lately, like Gridlock, Photek, Surgeon, and so on.