What music have you listened to this weekend?

[mvd]

I listened to:

Tara Angell - Come Down (I forgot this was a 2005 CD! It would have competed for at least an honorable mention. Now that it is Jan. 22, I'm just keeping by best-of list the same, though.)

Duncan Sheik - Daylight (I'm a fan, and didn't think this was much of a dropoff at all)

4 new songs from Angela Ammons at myspace.com - rockier than before, but in a good way. Fits that pop/rock style that I love. I liked her first CD a lot and expect to get her second one (which is supposedly coming out this summer.) And at 23, she has matured nicely in looks, too! Pretty stunning. Despite her small-town Texas religious roots, I don't get a Republican feel from her.

I ordered Cat Power's new CD The Greatest, and got a full album preview at amazon.com for the order - it was a perfect fit for her voice. The music felt both modern and soulful in a Dusty Springfield way. I expect The Greatest and Jenny Lewis's new one to make my best of '06 list!

Still waiting to receive my CDs from Kat Parsons and Mandi Perkins, but I expect they'll be great, too.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

1. I've been on a Cat Power kick too - repeated "Moon Pix" plays &

assorted MP3's from "The Greatest". I've also been rediscovering "Skunk Anansie", after playing "Stoosh" for the first time in years last week.

Here's a bootleg of a Cat Power gigat La Cigale Paris on November 11, 2005:

http://www.rbally.net/2006/01/cat-power-chez-la-cigale-paris.html
http://www.rbally.net/2006/01/cat-power-chez-la-cigale-paris-partie.html

[mvd]

9. Cool - thanks

I like Cat's voice on The Greatest's songs even more than on her alternative albums' songs.

[Lochloosa]

2. Johnny Cash: My Mother Hymn Book...

I have always loved the old southern hymns....

[two gun sid]

3. Ryan Adams and The Cardinals...

Cold Roses and The Dropkick Murphys.

[Crazy Dave]

4. Smooth Jazz on Sirius Spa #73

[fizzgig]

5. just found this fabulous new xm channel on my tv

it's called fred, the 'classic alternative' station

damn it's good

i've heard concrete blonde, talking heads, oingo boingo, the cure, frankie does hollywood and all manner of other rad music

i think i'm in heaven

[HeeBGBz]

6. T-Rex - - The Slider

I just re-bought it after many years. Expounded upon in this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=293&topic_id=573&mesg_id=573

That is a rockin piece of work. You can't listen to it and not dance with wild abandon.

[elshiva]

7. Listened to 89.7 FM in Towson, their CD of the Week, Catpower

89.7 is a great station they played Talking Heads' song about living in a building last night.

Our parish has the best music for a small church in our diocese. One of my favorites today:
Hymn 565 "To Be a Pilgrim." It's an old folk song that Steeleye Span used as "Fighting for Strangers."

[SeattleGirl]

8. Nothing today, but yesterday I listened to music by

Green Day
Johnny Cash
Jimmy Buffett
Cher
Ray Charles
Bonnie Raitt
Queen
Carly Simon

I have a lot of songs stored on my computer, so just mixed a bunch of them up and listened while doing case reviews.

[TheProphetess]

10. Yesterday, Indigo Girls were with me while I cleaned

Then Jazz last night while the Prophet and I were out driving.

[nickgutierrez]

11. Ladytron - Witching Hour

Massive synth-pop kick on my end lately. I can't explain it, I just follow my ears, so to speak.

[Shine]

12. Got to see The Indigo Girls live on Friday nite. That was cool!

they were performing here in Santa Cruz.

At this very moment, we're listening to Madeliene Peyroux, a great jazz singer, from Canada. :thumbsup:

:hi:

[peekaloo]

13. Simon and Garfunkel, My Morning Jacket & Neil Young.

[gardenista]

14. Lots

Fiona Apple
Laura Veirs
Yes
Earl Scruggs
Emmy Lou Harris
Iris Dement
Johnny Cash
Annie Lennox
James Taylor
Loretta Lynn
Vanessa Paradis

[Initech]

15. Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat

Picked it up along with a couple of albums to complete my P-Funk collection with, and some real blues albums (Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson).

[mitchum]

16. Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Cassandra Wilson, Neil Young, Pharaoh Sanders

[Elidor]

17. I'm currently listening to a decent thunderstorm

Happening just outside. Most thunderstorms are background music, almost illbient, but occasionally you get struck by a raging symphony in E minor, with rolling echoes bouncing back and forth like mother nature's own techno giving off harmonics. I love those above all others.