King Buzzo - This Machine Kills Artists
9-10

How the fuck do you take an Acoustic Guitar and make it heavy? Then again, this is the front man of the Melvins, who helped pioneer Grunge and Sludge Metal. He does whatever the hell he WANTS to do.

The Smiths - The Sound of... 8/10

I still think Morrissey is a tosser, but the Smiths have got some tunes.

Shivkumar Sharma - A Morning Raga Gurjari Todi 8/10
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food 8/10

Ali Akbar Kahn/L. Subramaniam - Duet 9/10
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century 8/10
Xenia Pestova/Pascal Meyer/Jan Panis - Stockhausen: Mantra 7/10

Zig Zags - Zig Zags - Cool album, thrashy garage rock, Ty Segall crossed with Motorhead.

Toumani Diabate - The Mande Variations 8/10
Ravi Shankar - A Morning Raga/An Evening Raga 8.5/10
Tapiola Sinfonietta/Stefan Asbury/Jean-Jacques Kantorow - Kalevi Aho: Chamber Symphonies No. 1-3 7/10

The Duhks - Beyond the Blue 7.5/10 (I need more time to really digest the record, but I like it)

Nikhil Banerjee - KPFA Berkeley 1967 8/10
Nikhil Banerjee - Madras 1964 8/10

Hariprasad Chaurasia - Raga Patdip/Pahadi Dhun 8.5/10
Kala Ramnath - Touching Air 8/10
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers! 8/10
Wiener Symphoniker/Vladimir Fedoseyev - Weinberg: Requiem 7/10

Trio Wanderer - Saint-Saens: Piano Trios 1 and 2 7.5/10
Black Prairie - Fortune 7/10

Zakir Hussain/Ustad Alla Rakha - Tabla Duet: Unique Tradition - Rare Combination 8/10

Down - Purple EP Part 2 7.5/10
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin' 7/10

I am listening to the new Jenny Lewis album "The Voyager" because I am a woman on her period. I give the album 9/10 only because I was pissed off at my boyfriend while listening to it.

Hilary Hahn - Bach: Partitas for Solo Violin 9/10
Ali Akbar Khan - Signature Series Vol. 2 8.5/10
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager 8.5/10

Godsmack - 1000hp 8.5/10

The Florestan Trio - Dvorak: Piano Trios Op. 65 and Op. 90 8/10
Vladimir Ashkenazy/Georg Solti/CSO - Beethoven: The Piano Concertos 8.5/10

Spoon - They Want my Soul. 9.3/10

Yesterdays- Pennywise 7.7/10

LaSalle Quartet - Schoenberg/Berg/Webern/Zemlinsky: Complete String Quartets 8/10

King Crimson - Red 7.5/10 (it loses .5 for vocal tracks)

Red is a classic, even if I only ever listened to it once.

I have to say, you can really hear how Tool and bands like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum have been influenced by King Crimson. When you listen to Frame by Frame on Discipline, you can hear the kind of intricate interplay that Tool have in their songs, and on One More Red Nightmare, off Red, you can hear where SGM stole their sound.

Ramnad Krishnan: Vidwan - Music of South India 6.5/10

I just can't get into it.

Tom Waits- Blood Money 8/10

Vasily Petrenko/RLPO - Shostakovitch: Symphony No. 6/No. 12 7.5/10

People seem to have been neglecting this thread during my hiatus, so here are a few of the albums I've been listening to:

Nasum - Helvete 8/10
Nikhil Banerjee - Afternoon Ragas 8/10
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft 8.3/10
Weather Report - Weather Report (1971) 7.5/10
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come 7.9/10
King Crimson - Lark's tongue in Aspic 8/10
Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra - Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem 8/10

Love teen town

Steve Earle - I Feel Alright 7/10
Mamani Keita - Kanou 7.5/10

Finally finished:

Gyorgy Ligeti - The Ligeti Project (5 CD boxset) 7.9/10

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3 8.9/10

I really like it, but something stops me from giving it a 9 or more. I'm definitely going to buy his other self-titled albums and So.

Jaz Coleman & London Philharmonic Orchestra- Pink Floyd Symphonic-

10/10

Absolutely fucking gorgeous. If you have any love for Pink Floyd at all, get this shit now.

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OMD - Architecture and Morality 8/10
Revocation - Existence is Futile 7/10

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain 7.5/10
Ali Akbar Khan and Asha Bhosle - Legacy: 16th-18th Century Music From India 7.9/10

Niche market for that last one

That is how I roll: Esoteric, Eclectic, Awesome.

Bad Religion- No Control: 9.4/10

Amazing punk album

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog- Come Poop With Me: 7.6/10

Certainly an acquired taste and only for fans of the character from his NBC Conan days. I like it.

Mina - Il Cielo in una Stanza 7/10

Never heard about them albums. Must be how irrelevant they are

Teddy Thompson - Separate Ways

Pretty good British folk songs. Cheered me up often when I had a bad mood.

10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p60YyMExsh8

Pink Floyd - The Endless River 7.5/10

Not bad, but I was hoping for better. Maybe I was hoping for too much. :-\

Bush - The Sea of Memories 7/10

Best album since Sixteen Stone, imo.

Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky 7.5/10
I doesn't touch Jane Doe or their subsequent albums.

King Crimson - Beat 7/10
Not as good as Discipline or Red; its immediate predecessors.

Prince - 1999 8/10

Machine Head - Unto the Locust 7/10

Insomnium - Across the Dark 8/10
Boris - Smile (Japanese version) 7.8/10

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 7/10
Blonde Redhead - Barragan 7/10
Goldner String Quartet/Piers Lane - Pierne: Piano Quintet in E Minor/Vierne: String Quartet in D Minor 8/10

The Decemberists - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World 7.5/10
Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas 9/10
Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov - Carl Maria von Weber: Sonatas for Piano and Violin/Piano Quartet 8/10

Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin/Paco De Lucia - Friday Night In San Francisco Live 8.5/10
Peter Gabriel - So 8.5/10

Dr. John, the Night Tripper - Gris-gris 7.5/10
Punch brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues 7.9/10

The Replacements - Hootenanny 8/10
Not as good as Let it Be/Tim/Pleased to Meet Me, but it grows on me with every listen.

Matthew Good - White Light Rock & Roll Review 6.5/10
It doesn't touch Avalanche; in some ways, it is a disappointment.

Forbidden Sin - Call to arms.

10/10. A monster of an album. My favorite track is no doubt "Civilian Casualties".

The Harvest by Stoned Jesus
8/10
Stoner/Doom Metal

Give a listen to it now at
https://stonedjesus.bandcamp.com/album/the-harvest
And throw some money at them later

L. Shankar with Zakir Hussain and Vikku Vinayakram - Raga Aberi 9/10
Slayer - Seasons in the 7.5/10

I think I need to listen to the Slayer album a bit more before I truly begin to appreciate it, but I've mostly been listening to Shankar.

I disagree with your Slayer rating. I'm not a fan of that one 6/10 at best. Totally agree with the other rating though. Spot on. It's good to listen to while preparing chutney to go with the curry and Naan bread

Don't hate, Shisen; Shankar is pretty bad arse.

Kate Bush - The Dreaming 7/10
Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts 8/10
Toumani Diabate - Djelika 8/10
L. Shankar - Eternal Light 8.3/10

Wayne Shorter - Juju 7.5/10
Parliament - Mothership Connection 7.5/10

Adhyapayana Yashodhar -- "Curry me Home to Kolkata" 8/10 not as good as his acclaimed 1998 album "forehead dotting" but some of the best sitar/metal ever recorded

Currently listening to Hariprasad Chaurasia's Four Dhuns record; check it out, Shisen, it is pretty good.

@ElVaq RACIST!

Stop making up artists Vaq. Not cool. :'(

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Pigface-FOOK 10 outta 10. Forgotten how great this was until the other day.

Hariprasad Chaurasia - Four Dhuns 8.3/10
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis 7/10

was listening to the soundtrack to the great Indian movie "Poo". Its kinda shitty.

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Just started listening to some of Hariprasad Chaurasia music and I find it is something to listen to after a long stressful day at work. Thank you for making me aware of this artist.

:cool:

ElVaq is serious.

I've got a couple of Nikhil Banerjee albums coming soon, and this upcoming weekend I'm finally going to listen to my Ravi Shankar/Ali Akbar Khan live album; tasty shizzle, people.

Succumb to the raga!

Boojie Babu - his new cd "Slur my pee" gets 6.5/10 Effort wasn't there like his other stuff.

Drake's "retail mixtape" If You're Reading This It's Too Late - 8/10

Rokia Traore - Beautiful Africa 8/10
L. Subramaniam - Ragas Sarasvatipriya/Vasantapriya/Sivapriya 7.8/10
Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Galina Ustvolskaya 7/10

Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan in Concert 1972 9/10
Kurt Masur/New York Philharmonic - Shostakovich: Symphony 13 "Babi Yar" 8/10

Bjork - Vulnicura 8.5/10
Dr. John - Gumbo 8/10

Amjad Ali Khan - Raga Bhairav 8/10
Rahul Sharma - Native Signs 8.5/10

I listened to One Direction LIVE

4/7 stars

Thom Yorke's Tommorow's Modern Boxes - 7/10

It grows on me every time I listen to it. It's weird as fuck.

The new Modest Mouse album...

Upon first listen I really liked it, but upon subsequent listens I have cooled to it. Track 6 is killer.

6.6/10

nick carter im taking off 10/10

Herbert von Karajan/Berliner Philharmoniker - Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies 9.5/10

Beethoven kicks yo' arse, son.

Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colours 7/10

Nikhil Banerjee - Raga Hemant 8.5/10

Kyung Wha Chung/Krystian Zimerman - Strauss/Respighi: Violin Sonatas 8/10

Phil Collins - No Jacket Required 6.7/10
It has grown on me as I've continued to listen to it over the week, but it remains an above average album at best.

No Jacket Required is an excellent album. Granted it is not as good as Face Value but it is excellent. 8/10

Vilayat Khan - Raga Jaijaivanti 8/10
They Might Be Giants - Flood 7/10

Florence + The Machine- How Big How Blue How Beautiful 7/10

Still good, and still a blast to listen to Florence sing, but on the first spin, no songs really stuck out the way the tracks on previous albums did. Maybe I just need to relisten to it, but at the moment it's their weakest outing so far. But like I said, still well worth a listen if you liked their previous stuff.

Peter Gabriel - Us 8/10
Abdel Gadir Salim - Nujum Al-Lail (Stars of the Night) 7.5/10

Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood 7.5/10
Panjabi MC - The Album 7.5/10

Hariprasad Chaurasia - Raga Bageshri 8/10
Kiranpal Singh - Moments in Time 8/10
Patricia Petibon - Nouveau Monde 7.5/10


I've also been listening to Kiran Ahluwalia's Beyond Boundaries, but I only started yesterday so I'll wait until next Friday to pass judgement.

Kiran Ahluwalia - Beyond Boundaries 8/10
Clutch - Blast Tyrant 8/10
Steve Earle - El Corazon 7.5/10

Wow! I haven't heard any new album since Drake's "retail mixtape".

Wayne Shorter - The Soothsayer 8/10
Rush - Permanent Waves 8/10

Dear El Vaq, do you (like) listen to music exclusively or in the background?

What now?

Do you take out the time to listen to music exclusively or do you listen to it while attending other matters :?:

A bit of both. At the moment most of my listening is while I'm travelling back and forth to work, which usually takes around an hour each way on the bus.

Tarun Bhattacharya - Sargam 8.8/10

Cristina Branco - Post-Scriptum 8/10

Marc-Andre Hamelin - Dukas: Piano Sonata/Decaux: Clairs de Lune 7.7/10
I think I need to listen to last album several more time before I will begin to fully appreciate it.

Kala Ramnath - Kala 8/10
Om - Advaitic Songs 7/10

iTunes Music and Spotify have made me lazy. I don't listen to entire albums anymore.

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire 8/10
Jeff Beck - Truth 6.7/10

Wu Man - Chinese traditional and contemporary music for pipa and ensemble 8/10
Lamb of God - VII: Sturm und Drang 7/10

Dr. Dre - Compton: A Soundtrack

9/10

Haven't a heard single album in a while :(

Tarun Bhattacharya - Raga Basant Mukhari 8.5/10
Kuniko Kato - Iannis Xenakis 7.7/10

Wonder if people still maintain music libraries on their computers with respect to streaming services...

The New Classic by Cal Chuchesta - 100/10

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