What music have you listened to lately?

[mvd]

There's a fairly recent thread asking DU geezers what they are listening to, but I didn't feel comfortable posting there. :P

Here are some observations based on my most recent listening:

- I highly recommend these CDs: The Donnas' Bitchin', KT Tunstall's Drastic Fantastic, Jesca Hoop's Kismet, Rogue Wave's Asleep At Heaven's Gate, Imperial Teen's The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band

- Melissa Etheridge's The Awakening is recommended. Drags in spots, but has very poignant lyrics and some of her best singing

- Foo Fighters' Echoes Silence Patience & Grace is also recommended. There's filler, but there's a better balance of hard, soft, and experimental. There Is Nothing Left To Love is my favorite CD from them.

- Rascal Flatts' Still Feels Good is better than Me and My Gang, but still is not my thing. At least they pick up the tempo a bit, but it still has a middle of the road country sound and merely average vocals.

- I heard a few songs from Bruce Springsteen's Magic on YouTube! It is fantastic sounding, and could very well be my album of the year. It ranks with Bruce's very best, from those songs.

- I want the new one from indie duo Georgie James. Adding that to my fall wish list along with Bruce, Vanessa Carlton, Lucy Walsh, Bree Sharp (if it comes out this year,) Trisha Yearwood, Iron & Wine, PJ Harvey, Jimmy Eat World, Plumb, Cindy Alexander, Annie Lennox, Debbie Harry, Wussy, Liz Tormes, Steve Earle, John Fogerty, and more.

- Samples from PJ Harvey's White Chalk sounded haunting. I'm not a big fan of her early stuff (though I respect the raw emotional power,) but this, Uh Huh Her, and Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea are great.

- The Andrea Corr solo CD doesn't sound like it matches the Corrs' CDs, but has moments.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. These:

Wu-Tang Clan
Arcade Fire
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Frank Sinatra
Beatles
Velvet Underground
Public Enemy
Beastie Boys

[Lex]

2. I highly recommend Steve Earle's new one

called "Washington Square Serenade."

[mvd]

3. It's been described as "urban folk"

I could only hear samples, but I definitely want it. He creates something uniquely enjoyable each album.

[argyl]

38. "urban folk". That's a pretty decent two word description . I've just given it a first listening

and it's excellent.It's a more diverse sound, paying homage to his new home,New York City. He says goodbye to Guitar Town in Tennessee Blues,the opening track.

For any The Wire fans,he also does a version of the Tom Waits song "Way Down in the Hole," which has begun the first four seasons of this best TV show ever,each season having had a different artist singing it.

At the end of the fourth season Earle's recovering drug addict character,who had a small part in the first season,looks to be featured more prominently in the fifth and final season.So,with that in mind,I'm wondering if his version of "Way Down in the Hole" will be the one used in the fifth and (sniff,sniff) final season of this HBO series.

[Mojambo]

11. I need to track that one down. n/t

[Broken_Hero]

4. Lately,

The Tenacious D, Pick of Destiny sound track....I still laugh my ass off, over the Sasquatch Song....:)

Also been listening to a lot of Evanescene, Velvet Underground...oh, and the Punisher Soundtrack(Tom Jane version).

[pinto]

5. Lou Reed, Satellite of Love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUTq-WLI7RA

[pinto]

6. and as always, Coltrane (Blue Train) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9S4_kfs0i4

[pinto]

7. Sun Ra Arkestra, 'Face the Music'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfbk4QAjgXo

[Inchworm]

8. Evanescence seems to grab me lately

bring me to life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKer9hry-Gg

Call me when yer sober
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYIO9VtjUs

Lithium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4aiH0AiXBE

sweet sacrifice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=truln6VnS4E

in order of favorites :)

:hi:

[abq e streeter]

9. The Blasters first two albums,

Springsteen live in London, 1975... Rancid: Out Come the Wolves...John Fogerty doing Creedence stuff...Swamp De Ville (My band)...Bob Seger: Stranger in Town...The Animals: Animalization... Dylan: John Wesley Harding...Best of Mose Allison...

[Mojambo]

10. Some of mine...

The Weakerthans - "Reunion Tour."
Their latest. It's sooo good. I'm seeing them live on the 5th. Can't WAIT.

Cheese on Bread - "Maybe Maybe Maybe Baby"
Acoustic twee, anti-folk kinda boy/girl thing.

Imperial Teen - "The Hair, The TV, The Baby, and The Band."
Very glad to have a new one by them.

The Ackleys - "Forget Forget, Derive Derive"
I just can't seem to get this EP out of my rotation. It's kinda punky, high energy indiepop.


I'm EAGERLY awaiting Tullycraft's new one. Still about 3 weeks to go.

[mvd]

12. Thanks for your recommendations

I've checked out The Weakertons and Cheese On Bread, and I have the Imperial Teen album. They all sound worth buying!

[Tektonik]

13. Been listening to a mix of stuff lately

At this very moment I'm listening to Devendra Banhart's 'Shabop Shalom' off of his album Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon; it's actually rather terrible, but comically so.

List of what albums I'm listening to these days:

*Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
*Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
*PiL - The Greatest Hits So Far
*Ricardo Villalobos - Achso
*Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

[skyblue]

14. Pink Floyd.

I'm in a real shitty mood so for some reason Pink Floyd works. I was playing Relics to death and now Mettle.

I totally disagree on PJ Harvey. Her early stuff rocks. It's pissy and quite original. Maybe I will listen to that next.

[Kutjara]

15. I'm heavily into traditional Japanese music at the moment.

I've got my iPod chock full of Koto, Shakuhachi, Shamisen and Taiko pieces. Amazingly beautiful stuff, and very relaxing. I can't play it in the car, though, or I'll go into a trance and wake up in the emergency room.

[Jamastiene]

16. My permanent favorites, Ramones, Dead Kennedys,

Blondie, Joan Jett, Courtney Love and...

for some reason, I have been listening heavily to the old Metallica albums (their first 4 albums) a lot lately. That one, I cannot explain.

[HuskerDU]

49. Maybe you like the first 4 Metallica lps because they

are hard/fast/loud rock-n-roll not too far off from the DKs and Ramones. Motorhead would sit right smack between 'em. Regardless, you have great taste in music, or at least very similar to mine. Your list may as well be mine.

[Misabel]

17. Vanessa Carlton, mvd.

I'm actually looking forward to Heroes And Thieves as well. Gotta say, the fact that she's now on Irv Gotti's hip-hop label did throw me for a loop.

Anyway, I've been listening to:

A Fine Frenzy - One Cell In The Sea
Fairground Attraction - The First Of A Million Kisses
Aberfeldy - Young Forever
Zero 7 - The Garden
Josh Ritter - Live At The Record Exchange

[mvd]

24. Welcome to DU!

We seem to have similar music taste. The A Fine Frenzy is one of my favorites of the year, and I always love Josh Ritter! I'm now interested in the names on your list that I don't know.

[Misabel]

26. Thanks for the welcome!

[Guava Jelly]

18. Lately

Tons of Dylan

[DarkTirade]

19. Been listening to a just soundtracks lately

a lot of John Williams, (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Schindler's List, ect.) some Hans Zimmer, but not a whole lot, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack (fabulous work by Howard Shore), and a few other random geeky things, like some Final Fantasy soundtracks (Nobuo Uematsu), the soundtracks to Serenity and Firefly (David Newman and Greg Edmonson), and a few other random movies in there. I also had the Vagrant Story soundtrack in there (another Squaresoft video game, don't remember the composer's name offhand), but I just took that off the winamp list when I added a bunch more John Williams. It was getting too crowded. :)

[Omphaloskepsis]

20. A bunch of Avail and Hot Water Music.

Avail..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sIj1B4jDVcQ

Hot Water Music:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FlZ8qI4bLl4

[ghostsofgiants]

32. I need to get into Avail.

[Omphaloskepsis]

39. Yes, you need some Avail.

I saw them when they toured with Propagandhi. It was a very good show.

If you still have the FTP info I gave you I can put some drugs on the server if you want. 460 megabytes of drugs. Enough drugs that it would take six CDs worth of music to do all of the drugs I will put there.

[u2spirit]

21. James Blunts new record

"All the lost souls" and some Death cab for cutie. Just waiting on new U2 and Coldplay records.

[mvd]

25. Same here (waiting for U2 and Coldplay)

The U2 album might be a while. But their albums are worth the wait.

[B3Nut]

22. Larry Young: Unity

Primus: Frizzle Fry
Rush: Snakes and Arrows
Frank Zappa: Apostrophe
The Ultimate Tony Williams
Portishead: Dummy
Gentle Giant: The Power and The Glory
Mr. Mister: Welcome To The Real World

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[AllegroRondo]

23. In the last week, Ive listened to

all 25 Rush albums. In chronological order. I must be crazy.

[Lethe]

28. damn they have 25 albums?

holy shit!?

[AllegroRondo]

41. 19 studio albums, 6 live albums

although one is "technically" just an EP of 60's cover tunes.

[Lethe]

27. right now i am listening to Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene Pt. 2

mostly because it is kick ass.

[Tektonik]

29. impeccable taste

:applause:

[Bennyboy]

30. Bruce Springsteen "Magic" and Jackie Greene...

Especially the shows last weekend with Phil Lesh and friends....jackie is like a young Bob Dylan. Really love the album Gone Wanderin'.....

[ghostsofgiants]

31. We Are Scientists, Cursive, Dethklok, Heatmiser, Arctic Monkeys, Death From Above 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHfmme7iow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vEUsw3qmNQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90QeBRmpUBs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR7HkWezsHk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5AahFXSqz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOr3QsJpMZI

[Lethe]

33. Dethklok!

We call out to the beasts of the sea to come forth and join us, this night is yours, because one day we will all be with you in the black and deep, one day we will all go into the water. go, into the, water.

[ghostsofgiants]

37. The Dethalbum = BRUTAL

Go Into The Water is probably my fvaourite track.

[bridgit]

34. Tuji-San·(×´¯`v^

[Initech]

35. New CDs I've bought lately:

Manu Chao - La Radiolina - great stuff. Basically if you take all the genres on iTunes that I listen to and put them in a blender, and add some Spanish and French in the mix, you'd get this. It's catchy as hell and fun to listen to, and these guys put on a hell of a show.

Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace - The Foos do it again, and I like the mixes on this one a lot more than on In Your Honor.

Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest Of Times - I've been a fan of the Murphys for quite some time and this one is no execption. After that insanely catchy song they did for The Departed, I had high hopes for this one and it exceded my expectations.

[LostInAnomie]

36. Freya and Black Label Society

I'm in the mood for guitars.

On edit: I've been listening to Mastodon also.

[BlueIris]

40. Antonio Vivaldi, Maurice Ravel and 50 Cent.

What?

[stuntcat]

42. Neko Case, Live From Austin TX

:headbang:

[SacredCow]

43. We'd get along well, musically, I think....

I like all of your choices, though I'm not really a huge Springsteen fan.

Personally, I've been listening to a lot of Scissor Sisters lately, as well as miscellaneous Aussie bands (Midnight Oil, Hoodoo Gurus, Monarchs, et al).

[mvd]

44. Following up on the PJ Harvey

I heard the whole album White Chalk today on the AOL Listening Party. Singing in that high tone for the whole CD gets a little tiresome, but the album has some beguiling idiosyncrasies. It's worth getting, at a grade of at least B.

A big new discovery of mine is Kyle Lardner, whose CD Sail Among the Stars sounds phenomenal! It is piano pop mixed with folk and some power pop. On "Moral Amnesia," I read she mentions Al Gore in a positive way and expresses concerns about the Iraq War. She's quite pretty, too, though at 19, she's out of range for some of those older than me. Her page:

http://www.kylemusic.biz/

I heard Vanessa Carlton's Heroes & Thieves on YouTube, and way to go Vanessa! Clearly her best CD (though I enjoyed her other two a lot,) and a fave of 2007 here.

[graywarrior]

45. Down & dirty with Dropkick Murphy's

Loretta Lynn & Jack White on Van Lear Rose
Every Steve Earle CD I have
The Bobster
Live
and for some reason lately I have a passion for Tom Petty

[Bennyboy]

46. Phil Lesh and friends tour.....

With jackie Greene. Incredible stuff. The Greek, red Rocks, The Denver Fillmore and Santa Fe right now.

[JVS]

47. This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obLx7-Lvmh4&mode=related&search=

I've also been considering the text
to it.

[stuntcat]

48. José González, WHO I'M GOING TO SEE LIVE TOMORROW NIGHT :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_4abCWw-w
:headbang:

[Mr. Blonde]

50. Lately

LCD Soundsystem - both CDs.

M.I.A. - Kala. I don't really like rap, but damn she is good.

Bob Dylan - everything, but especially The Rolling Thunder Revue and Royal Albert Hall bootlegs.

Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare and they have a tasty Amy Winehouse cover out.

Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy. I am worried that I might actually die by sexy, but for something this much fun it is an acceptable risk.

Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted. How were they not bigger?

Ali Farka Toure - Savane. Really my first foray into world music, and probably won't be my last.

[Forkboy]

51. The usual noise

I still can't stop listening to that Caina CD.

Angels Of Light - We Are Him
Ministry - The Last Sucker (so much anti-Bush stuff on one CD...how can you go wrong?)
Bloodhorse EP
KMFDM - Tohuvabohu
Bad Religion - New Maps Of Hell (good, but not as good as their last two were, imo)
Cobalt - Eater Of Birds
Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
Killing Joke - Laugh? I Nearly Bought One, and Democracy
Deathspell Omega - Fas Ite, Meledicti, in Ignum Aeternum (hefty name)
Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
Xasthur - Defective Epitaph
Boris w/ Michio Kurahara - Rainbow

That's all off the top of my deranged head. :)

[Skittles]

52. Floyd Cramer

yes INDEED

[Fire Walk With Me]

53. "Space Soot"

Proggish rock. http://www.organgrinders.com

[cynatnite]

54. Bruce Springsteen's newest one...'Magic'

Wonderful music. I highly recommend it. Best money I ever spent.