This is the thread for descriptions of tracks you are listening to right now

[descriptions to be non-qualitative as far as possible please - just the facts, man.]

Pussy Galore - "Car Fantasy"
It's kind of Avant-Gard rock, sounds like the fall but with more NY Dolls influence. I LIKE IT!

but much Noisier.

it's a mid-tempo electronic number by orbital. it has a really mournful synth line running through it. as i write the synth line has dropped out, and only the rhythym track remains. Oh wait there it is again!

Disco strings and funk guitar driven opener of Killa Tape Intro, the first track 50 Cent's Guess Who's Back?, which I'm listening to for the first time. "Oh my gaawd! My shit's so hot right now I'm in a zone!"

DJ Shadow's "Giving Up the Ghost". The drums in his material are always so organic and alive-feeling, and this one has one of those nice very-slow builds to it. Plus the weird shimmery-metallic background-ish noises are just eery enough.

"planet of the shapes" was the title btw.

fuzzy sounding synth "strings" house beat that sounds like some hard techno track if i pay enough attention,steel drum type sound coming in now,now the drums are gone,all the way through the you bring light in vocal,drums built up now,synth stabs,twinkling sound,female voice back in now,talking....

forgot to say it was two months off by underworld
and that my dad is asleep so i'm listening to it very quietly and can hardly hear it
much and all as i like writing about music,i'm terrible at literally describing it...

NOW - Hiway Code. Really cool minimal krautrock meets sort of early techno but played on guitars and crazy moogs and things with free jazz trumpets noodling in the background and fucked up off kilter boy-girl vocal harmonies. This whole CD is so great that it's going to be embarrassing having to tell them how much I love it.

"Miss You (Thin White Duke Remix)" Mirawis ft. Craig Weldren.

Look ma, I'm listening to dance music... Not as good as Eric Cartman's version, obviously, but still... It feels a lot more coherent than the original. It bubbles, it feels submerged in electricity, and then the Puerto Rican girls turn up, just dying to meet us.

Do Make Say Think - "Chinatown", sad, cheery, makes me want to cry. Has samples of birds, people talking, sounds like they are outside...im guessing its a sample of people in Chinatown. Little bloops and bleeps throughout, bassline...bum..bum...bum. Loop of this spaceship sound thing in the background. Now some gentle guitar picking, really cool. Sample of cars starting. Tight snares fading into the song now, jazzlike...more guitar picking, sounds like a harp in there as well. Just a cool song.

Pole's "Streit" is echoes and echoes and glitches. Yay dub.

Now it's "Seven Views Of Jerusalem" by The Teardrop Explodes.

Erm, same description, except replace "early techno" with "80s funk" and replace "boy-girl vocals" with "yodelling Julian Cope".

I am so predictable it hurts.

The Cellar Dwellars from one of those Lance records comps. you can pretty much guess its sound

Listening to top 40 radio, "Underneath It All" by No Doubt. Some kind of reggae influence obviously, slow guitars and what I believe are sythesized horns. Crooned female vocals over this, lyrics of love and remorse. An interlude with a deeper-voiced woman with a different accent. Choppier guitar after that, come exiting synthy swoops.

I'm cheating, cuz I blogged this a few months ago, but I happen to be listening to the song (Cat Power's "He War") now:

I'm sucked in by the circularity/repetitiveness of it, the way the verses explode into stunning choruses in a slow bloom rather than a predictably disorienting loud-soft-loud pattern. The "hey hey hey" that it all builds up to -- "it" being the simple, heavy, martial rhythms and and tense, reserved melodies -- starts out as a single point and fractures into a throaty multipart chorale on its trip up the arc. And throughout, the riffs stay the same, but the verse parts and the bridges begin to bleed over to the chorus in layers, until it's clear that they weren't really "verses" after all, just introductory statements of themes she'd planned to use later.

The Mystics-"love is a beautiful thing" now this is nice- motown via Tuson

Tonetraeger - Welcome Back, Kotter - M.Mayer/Tomas remix
Starts as dry humping house, promising much, taking it's time, holding back... minutes of anticipation pass as they circle each other, then the deep beat drops. Everything pulls together: the skittering percussion, hand-clap snares, deep slabs of synth, and it romps home triumphant. One by one they're gradually taken away, it fades. I think I need a cigarette.

"Flying". Last track on the new Throwing Muses CD. Kristin and Tanya screaming harmonies over distorted guitars.

"In Da Zone," A.B. Quintanilla y Los Kumbia Kings, off 2001's Shhh!:

it should just be standard r&b boy band stuff, luvvaman Blackstreetish semi-rap, soaring doo-wop harmonies, drum'n'bass rhythms, etc...but it's done by an LA cumbia band, under the loving care of Selena's brother A.B.

this, and the harp opening, and Kido AKA Gemini's rap, and the super-cheesy but incredibly on-point vocal backing, automatically makes it the coolest cross-cultural song ever. this would totally get anyone laid immediately

"Little Eyes" by Yo La Tengo, from the forthcoming album...

very smokey, slow burning lates 60s psychedelia in sonics, but motorik also. reminds me of "revolver" and john squire both of which i was listening to earlier...

haven't deciphered the lyrics yet.