What music have you been listening to for the past few days?

[mvd]

I know I haven't been around much - and it will continue to be that way for a while - but this topic hasn't been done lately.

Listened to these bought albums:

Corrs - Borrowed Heaven: excellent, as always! Kind of a mixture between Forgiven, Not Forgotten and In Blue.

Rembrandts - LP: I love the Friends theme song, but even if you are tired of it, this band has a lot of other great songs to offer! One of my new favorites.

Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin: An excellent followup to Let Go! "Forgotten" is the closest to pure punk that she's done. The album is not nu-metal like some have suggested, though. It is an edgier album than Let Go with very honest lyrics. Can't wait to hear what she does next.

Alanis Morissette - So Called Chaos: No Jagged Little Pill, but her best since then IMO.

Heard these on the full album listening party:

PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her: I love her intensity in this album. As a big fan, I might buy it tomorrow.

Calling - II: the first was boring, but this one is worse. To me, they are like the Musak of rock.

SheDaisy - Sweet Right Here: Better than Knock On The Sky and maybe even better than The Whole SheBang, but I'm not sure I'm buying it. One song has a really annoying chorus.

Sonic Youth - Nurse: More appealing than before, but not sure I'm purchasing.

Other things I've heard:

Samples from Sarah Hudson - Naked Truth: Sarah is Kate Hudson's cousin. I highly enjoyed what I heard - the album is coming out in July. And she's attractive - moreso than Kate IMO. Sometimes I like women who are different - just so they aren't like Courtney Love, though.

Ashlee Simpson - "Pieces Of Me:" This song beats what I've heard from Jessica, but it's an Avril rip-off IMO.

[tcfrogs]

1. Widespread Panic

Did a bunch of B&P last winter - finally listening to some great shows from the past 15 years.

[Mojambo]

2. Lets see...

Neutral Milk Hotel
The Minders
Go Sailor
Beulah
Rocky Votolato
Mcrackins
The Distillers
The Mummies
Oblivians
The Reigning Sound

And I can't seem to get away from the New Pornographers either.

[FleshCartoon]

3. I love PJ Harvey.

Dry is my favorite album by her. I haven't got the new one yet.

I've been listening to some Ray Charles, outta respect, I s'pose.

[MnFats]

4. different generation, I guess....

....
The Rolling Stones/Exile on Main Street
The Beatles/Revolver
The Silencers/some odd compilation thing I found
and a blues compilation thing with B.B. King, Buddy Guy and a blazing hot live version of Ray Charles singing "What'd I Say?"

We really DID lose a national treasure this week.....nobody who ever held office, though....

[tcfrogs]

5. Great list

Exile & Revolver are two of my favorites.

Of course, I'm too young to have really like them.

SARCASM!!!

[mvd]

11. I like a lot of the older stuff

Beatles are my favorite artist. :thumbsup:

[mvd]

12. dupe

n/t

[Forkboy]

6. This will shock you

nothing!

I was sick for a few days and just wasn't up for the raucus stuff I listen to normally.My music is no fun if I dont have the energy to bop around to it :)

[huellewig]

7. My list.

The Mars Volta -- http://www.themarsvolta.com/index_main.html -- This is a great example of why Flash should never be used for navigation.

Propagandhi -- http://www.g7welcomingcommittee.com/propagandhi/news.shtml -- Best.Band.Ever.

Gunmoll -- http://www.gunmollrock.com/index2.html

The Gain -- http://www.gain.itgo.com/records.htm -- A band that has been dead for years.

This Bike is A Pipe Bomb -- http://www.plan-it-x.com/tbiapb -- They played in my basement a long time ago and I have a record lying around. So I gave it a whirl. Mediocre band with awesome t-shirts.

[Mojambo]

8. Propagandhi does indeed rule.

You ever listen to Anti-Flag?

[huellewig]

9. Yup!!

What about Fifteen? The vocals are rough. But the message is grand. They have a album for every mood. Do you like I Spy? I'm listening to the split they did with Propagandhi right now.

[huellewig]

13. I wanted to add..

If you can see them live. Holy Shit. Out of a hundred plus shows I have seen this was the best. It was insane. In Portland, we paid 9 bucks for our ticket. In the line my friend got 180$ for his. And this place could fit a few thousand. Not bad for a gay Canadian Punk band.

[WindRavenX]

10. The usual:

Coldplay, U2, Beck...some classical at bedtime...
It was a very stressful week; I needed to listen to my faves :)

[dbt]

14. Big And Rich "Horse of a Different Color" CD

Damn, these are some sick bastards--and they're blatantly stealing my musical thoughts!!!! They are shamelessly laying hoedowns over some pretty serious Gangsta Grooves and I'll be switched if they ain't cracked the Top 10 Country Album Charts with this heresy!

"Charlie Pride was the Man in Black,
Rock and Roll used to be about Johnny Cash,"

is the most egregious example of them tapping my brain. The liner notes also refer to Cowboy Troy doing the "hick-hop" rap.

HICK-HOP! Goddammit to HELL, that's MY term!!! I invented it to describe what happens when you play, say, "Gin And Juice" with banjos and mandolins etc and the girls go Ape Shit Crazy on the dance floor. But I digress.

Big And Rich is an Irresistible Groove. You will be laughing and dancing your ass off at the same time if you dare to crank up "Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy!"

:smoke:
dbt

[NashVegas]

15. 16 Horsepower - Folklore

Intense Southern Gothic

also, just started listening to the new Jump (Little Children) album. "Mexico" is the best broken-hearted love song I've heard in a long, long time.

[Ellen Forradalom]

16. Holly Golightly, Sleater-Kinney, Add N to X, Sonic Youth...

The Fall, and as always Liz Phair.

[DoctorBombay]

23. Yes! Another S-K fan on DU!

They are my favorites! Saw them a couple weeks back on their little mini tour. Incredible live presense.

As for me, lately I've been listening to Aimee Mann, the B-52s, the Breeders, CCR, Husker Du, and Bob Marley.

[slackdude]

29. Me too!

I haven't seen Sleater Kinney in far too long. The last time I saw them was when they were touring for The One Beat. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs were supposed to open for them but didn't make it to that gig (9:30 Club, DC). The time before that, they opened for Belle and Sebastian which was strange because they played to a half empty huge hall with the house lights turned on. They were working on material for The One Beat and only played stuff from that album. The first time I saw them (All Hands on the Bad One tour), they had the White Stripes as an opening act before anybody had really heard of them.

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. All sorts of stuff...

Massive Attack - "Mezzanine" and "100th Window"

Tricky - "Pre-Millenium Tension"

Einstürzende Neubauten - "Ende Neu"

Tori Amos - "Strange Little Girls"

James - "Wah Wah"

Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana", conducted by André Previn

Charles Mingus - "Blues and Roots"

Bad Religion - "Stranger Than Fiction"

Björk - "Homogenic"

Barry Adamson - "The Negro Inside Me"

Tom Waits - "Rain Dogs"

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "Let Love In"

[democracy eh]

19. I love your freaking playlist man

Finally another James fan
I was listening to WahWah the other day

OK in my iTunes recently played albums we have

James - Getting away with it...live farewell concert
Morcheeba - Big Calm
Pilate - new Canadian band, very U2 and older Radiohead inspired, kick ass
Rilo Kiley - the execution of all things
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid avenue
Assorted 'The' bands, Strokes, Vines, Trews

and the RadioVW online radio station

Heading out today to buy The Heavy Blinkers (funky 70s style orchestral pop) I was going to buy it on Weds but I was in a bad mood and didn't want to buy happy music.

[ikojo]

18. Some Dead, Phish, hip-hip

and Anti Flag.


I have totally avoided any contact with the RR worshipping masses.

[XNASA]

20. New Morrissey and new Loretta Lynn

"English heart......Irish blood......this I'm made of........"

[gold_bug]

21. Cocteau Twins

Heaven or Las Vegas

and...

Treasures

[Kazak]

22. TORTOISE!!!

LIVE!!!

[name not needed]

24. Okay...

Dokken
Franz Ferdninand
U2
The Roots
Alkaline Trio
Reagan Youth
Sonic Youth
Tool
Metallica
The White Stripes
Dead Kennedys
Ten Years After
Megadeth
The Misfits
The Ramones

[arwalden]

25. Shania Twain

[qwertyMike]

26. Here

Reagan's 5th Symphony
Julio & Reagan: Duet
The Sound of Reagan
Billie Joe Reagan
Reagan on my Mind
CSNY & Reagan
Reagan Clearwater Revival
Artist Formerly Known As Reagan
Sgt Reagan's Lonely Hearts etc etc
Reagan & Garfunlke
Lou Reagan - Transormer

add your own

[tigereye]

36. pretty good

All Reagan all the time! Entire radio station playlists/ television, every media known to man, devoted to him. Oh God.

[thebaghwan]

27. The Genius of Soul - Ray Charles- RIP

n/t

[slackdude]

28. Franz Ferdinand

I've been really digging the Franz Ferdinand album.

Also...
Modest Mouse - Good News for People who like Bad News
The Rapture - Echoes
Weezer - Blue Album
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Kill Bill 2 soundtrack

[HuckleB]

30. Jamie Cullum, Queen, Les Negresses Vertes, Bebo y Cigala ...

All incredible stuff.

[Liberal_Andy]

31. Neil's Greendale - Best of Marvin Gaye - Concert for George

and the demo of my new protest song.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

32. Mucho Steely Dan and Black Sabbath.........................

I've been in a real retro mood lately.

[proud patriot]

33. Parid "sonic jihad" and Anti-Flag "the terror state"

both great disks

[Atlanticist]

34. Just checked iTunes

Fat Boy Slim;

Franz Ferdinand - these guys rock !!

Jamie Cullum;

Coldplay;

Radiohead.

[greekspeak]

35. Mellow 60's and 70's pop

Adult standards, the usual

[tigereye]

37. Macy Gray

Elvis Costello various hits... wonderful the man is a genius
The Hasbeens.. two friends and old bandmates of mine doing great acoustic covers
Beatles various
Robyn Hitchcock various
Geri Allen Trio
The Who greatest hits... didn't realize how soulful they were at the time! Love to hear Keith Moon bashing away.
Ramones Tribute album

[LiviaOlivia]

38. The Jayhawks

and Michael Hurley

[stevielizard]

39. Ray- Birth of Soul, Coltrane-Live at Birdland

We lost Ray and Elvin Jones in the same week- I guess Jimi Hendrix or somebody's putting a new group together.