Crap, I bought more music!

I just about got away from Record Store Day clean, when I happened upon Felt's Ignite The Seven Cannons/The Strange Idols Pattern in the "new" bin, even though it's not really new. It's two albums from 1985 and 1984 respectively.

AllMusic calls Strange Idols, "the pinnacle of Felt's Cherry Red catalog," observing that it is right here that Lawrence et al transform an obsession with Television into something entirely their own. Ignite the Seven Cannons is the Robin Guthrie-produced follow-up which includes "Primitive Painters," one of Felt's modest hits.



Anyway, happy weekend, I'm going upstairs to do the crossword and watch the Lakers game.

Felt

I’ve got an iPod again, just a nano, nothing fancy. I got it for Christmas, mostly so I could listen in the car without carrying an ungodly number of CDs around. But I’ve been enjoying it quite a lot, mostly because of the album shuffle feature…I like listening to albums end to end. I like the surprise of not knowing what’s next. I like the fact that I can go back to albums I’m done reviewing or will never review. It’s been fun. I still use a shuffle for running, because you can bounce it around and drop it without disaster, and anyway, even I can’t run for more than about 50 songs at a time. But the nano has been a kick, I have to say.

So anyway, I was on the couch reading The Watchmen last night, and Felt’s Stains on a Decade came up and it was so good that I thought I’d share a little. I can’t share a lot, because I’m on dial-up and it’s snowing and I’m not likely to get out of the house for a while. But one song, I think I can manage. (This one is three minutes long. It took 18 minutes to upload. I’ve got to move so I can get broadband.)

It’s “Penelope Tree.” Fantastic.


I was also listening, last night, to a couple of CDRs by a band called La Otracina. I’m a little hazy about how I got them. I think Adam Kriney from Owl Xounds might have sent them a year or two ago. (He’s in both bands, it looks like.) Anyway, I’m a moron for not listening earlier, because it’s exactly what I like … mind-blowing psych/prog/improv sort of stuff. The two I’ve got are called Love, Love, Love. The band, I find, is now on Holy Mountain. That’s always a good sign. They have a MySpace.