Music Thread, woo hoo, what is everybody listening to????

[aquaman]

I am listening to The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion "Extra Width." Before that I was listening to Traffic, Woven Hand, Calexico.

[Heidi]

1. Tom Petty mix.

Track now: "The Last DJ," one of my favorite songs of the past 10 years. QuickTime video here: http://www.elvinsystems.com/pictures/y2002/lastdj.htm

The Last DJ

well, you can't turn him
into a company man
you can't turn him into a whore
and the boys upstairs
just don't understand anymore

the top brass don't like him
talking so much
and he won't play
what they say to play
and he don't want to change
what don't need to change

there goes the last dj
who plays what he wants to play
and says what he wants to say
hey, hey, hey
there goes your freedom of choice
there goes the last human voice
there goes the last dj

some folks say they're gonna
hang him so high
'cause you just can't do what he did
there's some things you just can't
put in the minds of those kids

as we celebrate mediocrity
all the boys upstairs want to see
how much you'll pay for
what you used to get for free

there goes the last dj
who plays what he wants to play
and says what he wants to say
hey, hey, hey
there goes your freedom of choice
there goes the last human voice
there goes the last dj

well, he got him a station
down in mexico
sometimes it'll kinda come in
and i'll bust a move and
remember how it was back then

there goes the last dj
who plays what he wants to play
and says what he wants to say
hey, hey, hey
there goes your freedom of choice
there goes the last human voice
there goes the last dj

[aquaman]

2. Gotta love some Tom Petty.....

Good ole rock n roll.

[Heidi]

3. Not only a fine performer but

a good liberal, as I understand it. :hi:

Next up: Leonard Cohen (thanks to Bullwinkle for the reminder. ;) )

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My absolutely fav Classical guitar CD....

It just lights me up...makes me wish I were 30 pounds thinner and a Flamenco dancer to boot...

:cry:

[aquaman]

7. Which would be?????

I have several classical guitar cds?.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. It is called....

Essential Guitar...33 Guitar Masterpieces..put out by Decca...

It is a two disk set...and it is fabulous!

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[Poiuyt]

18. Have you ever heard "Parkening Plays Bach?"

I think it first came out in the 70's. My favorite guitar CD and my favorite Bach CD.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. I might very well have...

But I never can remember the names of what I hear...

I had to go get the CD to check the name so I could tell you!

And Christopher Parkening is fantastic!

[Mojambo]

5. New Pornographers

It's a live show they did at the Triple Door in Seattle.

The setlist is mostly stuff off of their latest, Twin Cinema.

[aquaman]

6. Great band........

:)

[Kire]

9. Muse

Endlessly

[Splatter Phoenix]

10. Firewater - Another Perfect Catastrophe.

Fitting.

Firewater - Another Perfect Catastrophe:

Ain't nothing like it
When it's twisting and reeling
They'll put the boot right in your eye
Because when the floor turns into wall
And then the wall turns into ceiling
Oh what a lovely way to die
Another perfect catastrophe
Is just waiting to happen
Waiting for the moment to transpire
Another perfect catastrophe
Is just dying to go down
It's only looking for the
Perfect place and time

Oh wouldn't you love
To be my partner in crime
So many tricks that we could try
So if you want to find out
What it would been like to my
Co-conspiritor
Open up the door and step inside

When retreat is not an option
And remorse just ain't your style
There must be something left to do
Because every tragedy is a comedy
Unless you're the victim
Then you're just another monkey in the zoo

[aquaman]

11. I have moved to Iron Maiden....

"Piece of Mind." Next, "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake.

[driver8]

12. I just bought Elvis Costello's "King of America" so I'm listening to

that. There is a second disc with all kinds of other stuff. I love these Rhino reissues...they put so many extra songs on them its like getting another album.

I also got Neil Young's greatest hits but that may be a little heavy for me this morning.

[Lady Effingbroke]

13. Rage Against The Machine -- "Evil Empire".

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. The hum of the computer's fan.

[Left_Winger]

15. The songbirds in the front yard

Just enjoying the peace and tranquility of a Sunday morning.

[sakabatou]

16. I am listening to Fullmetal Alchemist OST 1

[KG]

17. Roger Waters - Radio KAOS

[youthere]

19. "Spirit Dreams"..

Native American inspired instrumentals. Very soothing.

[Tikki]

20. "Sunglasses After Dark"....The Cramps.....n/t

[Left Is Write]

21. Dean Martin hits.

That's Amore, Memories Are Made Of This, Standing On The Corner Watching All The Girls Go By, Volare, Return To Me, You Belong To Me, and a few others.

[progmom]

23. nice

:thumbsup:

[tjwmason]

22. Marcel Dupré - Organ Concerto in E minor

Gorgeous - the organ's an Aeolian Skinner, can't remember where (I want to say Columbus, Ohio, but I'd probably be wrong then); it manages to cope with the French music very well indeed (which would have been composed for something more like a Cavaillé-Coll).

[ghostsofgiants]

24. Just finished listening to Pretty Girls Make Graves' "The New Romance"

Now I'm trying to pick out another album to listen to. I'm leaning towards some At the Drive-in I think.

[Omphaloskepsis]

69. Good stuff.. (PGMG)

I'm listening to The Go Find. Hmmmm... I might move on to Relationship of Command when this is done.

[Texasgal]

26. Right now?

Eric Clapton Chronicles. It's very good.

[ghostsofgiants]

27. Another day, another album: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead

"Source Tags & Codes"

[two gun sid]

28. The Pogues---Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

[khashka]

35. I've been meaning to buy that

Any good?

(Well it must be or you wouldn't be listening to it!)

But should I get it?

Khash.

[two gun sid]

51. Get it Khash. The Pogues are great...

I'm listening to Ron Kavana and Alias Acoustic Band -- Songs of Irish Rebellion now and I would recommend that to anyone also.

Pogue Mahone!

[WCGreen]

61. Black 47.....

[no name no slogan]

29. Cocteau Twins, "Heaven or Las Vegas"

One of the greatest albums of the 1990s.

[ZombieNixon]

30. Browsing my dorm room network

and stealing anything that piques my interest. (Technically, you're not supoosed to be able to do this, but cheap-ass bastard that I am, I conveniently figured out a way to get around it.)

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. An Evening With John Denver.

To calm me down.

[cssmall]

32. I'm listening to:

Demons and Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes (google the lyrics for Melancholy and Disciples of the Lie).
Velvet Revolver - Velvet Revolver
Guns and Roses - Use Your Illusion I

Those are my five of the day.

Tomorrow will probably include two or three Megadeth albums and Jim Croce.

[Initech]

33. Funkadelic Greatest Hits album

[Mojambo]

34. I had my face blown away by Thee Ultra Bimboos last night

Bimboo Wizard is a most excellent record.

[khashka]

36. Cocteau Twins - Treasure

I find it calming and strangely erotic.... both of which I could use right now.

Khash.

[no name no slogan]

53. Great album...

My favorite Cocteaus album.

[Maestro]

37. Funker Vogt

from the album Survivor

[WCGreen]

38. Tracey Bonham Mother Mother

Neko Case I wish I was the Moon....

Frnk sinatra One for mu Baby...

[Tikki]

39. "Happen Happened".....Salvation Army....n/t

[SarahB]

40. Ben Folds

The Luckiest

I don’t get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here

And where was I before the day
That I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

What if I’d been born fifty years before you
In a house on a street where you lived?
Maybe I’d be outside as you passed on your bike
Would I know?

And in a white sea of eyes
I see one pair that I recognize
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

Next door there’s an old man who lived to his nineties
And one day passed away in his sleep
And his wife; she stayed for a couple of days
And passed away

I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong
That I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

[WCGreen]

60. I really like Ben folds....

[Wetzelbill]

41. Right this second: "Don't Speak" by No Doubt

Gwen Stefani, you sexy, sexy beast. :evilgrin:

[BigMcLargehuge]

42. a "new" radio station here in NH known as Frank FM

they are about the most maudlin, boring, annoying, average, crappy, predictable, junk classic rock station I have ever heard. They make Clear Channel stations look inventive.

I guess it's time to switch to MP3s.

[mcscajun]

49. You've been "Jacked"; you have my sympathies

"Frank FM" is the same crap as "Jack FM" -- same concept, same format.

WCBS-FM was Jacked earlier this year, abandoning listeners of the most successful oldies station in the country in a stroke.

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/06/cbsfm_adopts_ja.html

[BigMcLargehuge]

52. interesting format idea... but I have to ask

Just how many people have More than a Feeling, Dream On, and Obladi Oblada in heavy rotation on their iPods... I swear these three songs are played every 15 minutes.

[mcscajun]

55. This format's been described as "listening to someone ELSE's iPod"

Sounds like you've got a bad one.

I've got nothing against the first or third tunes...but I don't want to hear them more than once a week, that's for sure. Dream On ... even less often.

I didn't listen past the first five minutes of Jack-FM. A) I was too pissed...and B) the first two tunes played were NOTHING I'd ever listen to. "Fight for Your Right (to Party)" by the Beastie Boys was the first...and I couldn't even Tell you what was second.

[Initech]

54. Jack FM is the worst radio station I've ever heard

:puke: :puke:

[cmf]

43. Bob Marley

It's comfort music to me.

[no name no slogan]

44. Energipsy, "Flamenco Rumba"

I just picked it up and put it on as soon as I got home.



So far, so good!

ONE EDIT: on reading the liner notes, I see they have a cover of Barry White's "Love's Theme", adapted for guitars. Sounds interesting...

[mitchum]

45. My wife rehearsing "You Win Again"

[MrSlayer]

46. "Sweet Neo-Con" from the Stones.

This new album has some quality material on it.

[Coventina]

47. U2 n/t

[mcscajun]

48. "Slow Motion Zydeco" by John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys

...is up right now. I've been listening to a whole set of Cajun/Zydeco/N.O. tunes out of my collection.

First time I could play 'em in a week without weeping. Someone on another thread proposed using this music as a new form of protest against our Feckless Fuck of a "Leader", and I was inspired to knock together a "Lament for Louisiana" list.

The full playlist is here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4644370&mesg_id=4646826

[mvd]

50. Hope Partlow

Full album listening party. I thought the 3 songs I heard before weren't that great (with "Sick Inside" actually being weak) - but I'm really liking most of the others! I'm glad I listened today, because it's worthwhile.

Before this, I heard The New Pornographers.

[mvd]

62. Now Teenage Fanclub's Man-Made

It's an excellent CD that I haven't taken out for a while. I have so many that many good CDs don't get heard for long periods of time.

As for the Hope Partlow, I'll probably buy it. Overall, it's not the best the pop/rock genre has to offer, but it's pop/rock mixed with down home charm, and that makes the CD largely enjoyable. Great moments include "Crazy Summer Nights" and the sweet "Like You Do."

[ismnotwasm]

56. Deep purple

Specifically 'When a Blind Man Cries'. I'm still pretty melancholy.

[Initech]

57. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

Right now I'm listening to the 32 minute version of Cassandra Gemini.

[Gregorian]

58. My friend is the DJ o KXLU right now.

I'll be listening to him for the next few hours.

Life in LA

[Chichiri]

59. "Malenfant's Dream," composed by yours truly

I'm going through my most recent songs, trying to decide on a track order for my upcoming album.

[Merrick]

63. The Arcade Fire - Funeral

and its really good. highly recommended

[xmas74]

64. Just put in a mix of Psychedelic Furs.

80's mood here tonight.

[elrondo]

65. I'm listening to:

Adrienne Young......... The Art of Virtue
Robert Earl Keen........ A Bigger Piece of Sky
Jack Johnson............. In Between Dreams
Bright Eyes................ I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

[FrankBooth]

66. Both Fruitbats albums

"Mouthfuls" and "Spelled in Bones."

Also listened to Big Star today and said a little prayer that Alex Chilton will re-appear soon, alive and kicking.

[chknltl]

67. Mostly local bands, Cookie at the moment n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

68. John Cage's 4'32", which I've been listening to for almost 2 hours

I just put it on "repeat".

[no name no slogan]

70. "Tarkus" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Worst. Wank-rock. Ever.

[ornotna]

71. Frijid Pink "House of the Rising Sun"

At the moment.