heard any good albums recently?

[spacemonkey]

My current favs are ...

Air - Talkie Walkie (chillout frenchy tunes)
D-Note - D-Note (jazzy chilled out d&b)
hexstatic - Listen & Learn (funky samply scratchy mix)

have also been listening to lots of 70s stevie wonder

anyone got any recommendations?

So what do you young 'uns think of the Darkness?

they're a one trick pony imo

Spacemonkey is that the one where each of them contributed the tracks on one CD (but if you've not listened to it you probably don't know)?
I've had a Ron Sexsmith album hanging around for seven years now and have still unaccountably not listened to that. Unexpected present. Supposed to be very talented but his miserable little face on the front always puts me off.

(not that i'm a "young un"!)

it's two albums - Speakerboxx/The Love Below

Andre 3000 (drool) did The Love Below and the other bloke did Speakerboxx

Janstar, worse, much worse. She means platter-spinner Ken Bruce of Radio 2...
Gone off the Darkness a bit since I heard Justin huffing about how mean Glastonbury were to them last year...

Darkness are overrated I think. Skulks off.....

Not Ken Bruce!!!

I went on Popmasters and he was rude to me.

For any of you Kiwis out there - Bic Runga has got into the top 20 here. Dh bought it for me yesterday.
Has anyone heard of Keane? Their single is great

I confess it was ken bruce... but if he's featuring neil hannon he can't be all bad, gals

sorry, he's a t**t. Ken that is.

I know. but we have radio2 preset because of jonathan ross on saturday mornings. i even confess to listening to jeremy vine & jimmy young in the olde days..

emiliana torrini is superb
erykah badu as well, mmm Poor Tyrone
Nice one FF some class you got girly!!!
Have also come out of Coldplay/Train/Travis/Starsailor phase... Never can kick Pink Floyd though
Also The White Stripes is bearable
In my cd rack now is
Fiona Apple (why oh why? suicidal feeling left meweeks ago)
U2 Rattle and Hum live
Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
Iris Dement - Infamous Angel
Paul Weller - Best of thingy
Sinead O Connor - the one with Troy on it
Christine Lavine - the one with senstive new age guys on it

All I cna say about Bic Runga is
ABOUT BLOODY TIME

WIll Young (Ducks and Runs - he is sooo lovely!!)
Nora Jones' new album

Wow just how uncool am I

bic who?

No, I like the rest of R2 on the whole, it's just him (emoticon making yuk face).

I even like Steve Wright.

Great selection Kiwisbird

LOVE jonathan ross show on sat morn

he's so much funnier on the radio

nigel harman was a bit dull & disappointing though

I thought he was a bit smug. Pleasant enough but what could he say with JR lauding him as if he were a god?

Dh has got an album called Koop, which I really like.
Alison Goldfrapp,
Katie Melua (although I think she is being over-faced, which is disappointing)
And I have Ed Harcourt in the car.
Strange mix!!

Marina, Scissor Sisters is a bit late 70s/ 80s poppy - Billy Joel meets Elton John and Prince circa "1999", but none the worse for that. There are a few fillers on the album though. Franz Ferdinand is meets White Stripes gone New Romantic and full of really catchy riffs. And brilliant - I'm not sure there's a dud track on there. Going to see them next month HTH

Bundle, don't you find VINE SHOUTS A BIT TOO MUCH? And what's so special about him that he isn't [email protected] like everyone else? I had high hopes of him but he comes over as a bit of a pillock.
Moreover, is Steve Wright for real when he sends out the strapline, "all material is copyright"? Like I'd repeat any of his jokes (also yuk emoticon).
We are always edgy with JR on the radio because of ds picking up interesting phrases, although I love the show. Why I bother worrying when ds is desperate to watch Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow is beyond me.
Abiding memory of mat leave with dd will be listening to Stuart Maconie covering for Johnnie Walker while getting the children's tea. Happy days. I love Stuart Maconie a lot.

Thanks Bear. Enjoy FF, the Scissor Sisters are getting excellent reviews for their live shows too. Both sound right up my street.