The 5 Listens Test

I firmly believe that any CD of music is worth the 5 listens test.  Basically I listen to it 5 times through each time to give it some level of chance.  I often listen to an album once and twice and do not think it is great butjust about listen 5 it clicks.  I thought of this again at the weekend when I was spring cleaning my sister-in-laws house and we dug up a bag of LPs from the 90s and listened to 'Complete Madness' all the way through on vinyl.

It reminded me of when we used to sit in living rooms and listen to LPs 10-20-30 times in a row.  This never happens now but we can at least try the 5 listen test.  I am currently doing this with the new Animal Collective album Merriweather Post Pavilion

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Album of the Day - 10 September 2008

I have been too busy in the past couple of days to listen to much music in work but the current album in heavy rotation on the earphones is Okkervil River's new offering The Stand Ins. Saying that one of the kick ass tunes that I have heard this week is Fedde Le Grande - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit. Found this track when browsing DNA Lounge's mix tape by jwz. He has some interesting stuff there that I sometimes download and listen to.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

So there I am wondering what I should listen to and download and surfing and looking and around and then I just revert to basics. I love Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ... excellent lyrics - great beat - singer rocks - they are back on my always play list with Massive Attack and BMRC.. I will travel to see them when they hit Ireland again for sure and Paudie is coming with me.

Music This Month [August]

Recently I was speaking to brud Paudie about how much music I downloaded and how many actual full length albums (do people still call the albums?) I downloaded or burnt to my PC in a month. So here is what I have on my hard drive for August (not listened to mind but downloaded). In bold is actually what I listened to properly. So in total 25 Albums in the months of August. Scary really and not enough time in the day to listen to them all. But I will try!

1. Lee Scratch Perry - Voodooism
2. Ben Allison - Riding The Nuclear Tiger
3. Fela Kuti - Music Is The Weapon Of The Future
4. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
5. The First Chapters - http://tinyurl.com/5psgkw Early Rave Album
6. Monkey (Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett)
7. The Walkmen- You & Me
8. Truckasauras - Tea Parties, Guns & Valor
9. Black Uhuru - Black Sounds of Freedom
10. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
11. The Bug - London Zoo
12. Earth - The Bees Made Honey
13. OM
14. Muse - All their Albums
15. Shearwater - Rock
16. The Moldy Peaches
17. Harvey Milk
18. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us
19. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
20. Sigur Ros-( )
21. The Verve - Forth
22. OM - Pilgrimage
23. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
24. The Frank and the Walters - Fight
25. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
    

Of course you can always check this out on my Last FM Profile