What music have you listened to today?

[mvd]

Mine -

A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder: yes, it sounds a lot like a New Pornographers album, but that's a great thing! I'm one of the biggest New Pornographers fans around. This will certainly be in my year-end top 10. BTW, IMO Metacritic.com stiffed The Slow Wonder when it assigned the Village Voice review a score of 50. That review sounds like it would rate the album a 60.

Patti Smith - Horses: It takes a while to grasp the excellence, but it does come. Still sounds inventive after all these years.

And some songs from the dentist's office. :-(

Other recent albums I've heard (all great!) -

Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper
Lisa Loeb - Cake And Pie
Jimmy Eat World - self-titled
Anna Waronker - Anna
Aretha Franklin - Very Best Of
Green Day - Nimrod
a Patti Page collection

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Some

CSNY and Robin Trower... http://home.ca.inter.net/~suth/trower/

[pagerbear]

2. Listening to a CD of The Magic Flute

...while I work. Yep, went back to the office. By choice. Is that sad or what?

[eaprez]

3. Toots and the Maytals and some BACH! What a contrast!

[DODI]

4. Barenaked Ladies - Stunt

I have had a very strange addiction to this album for the last week or so.

[mvd]

6. That is an excellent choice!

:hi:

[TroubleMan]

5. On my computer at work I have mixture of soul,R&B, jazz, reggae, hip-hop,

and some merengue and salsa. About enough to go a work week and not hear the same song twice.


Right now I'm listening to my Anita Baker mp3's.

[Broadslidin]

27. Shaking, Rattling, and Rolling....!

The first Great Tune Played is Bo Didley's "Road Runner"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/lamarr/biography.shtml

Just click on "Listen Again" under Mark Lamarr's name
in the right hand column.

[Stew225]

7. I visited my Aunt in an assisted living facility today and

she was enjoying the following:

We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
Talk Dirty to Me - Poison
Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crue
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Love and Affection - Nelson
Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n Roses
Cherry Pie - Warrant

Thing is that my aunt will be 94 on September 1. Pretty interesting music tastes, woulnd't you say?

[mvd]

10. That's cool!

My grandfather likes a few of today's artists like The Dixie Chicks, but is mostly stuck in the big band and classical genres. Unlike me, he gives early rock and roll little credit.

BTW, that Village Voice reviewer I talked about above has a varied top-10 list, which is nice to see with reviewers. I just disagree about the A.C. Newman.

You can view his list here:

http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/03/critic.php?criticid=3189&poll_year=2003&type=A&keyword=

[asjr]

8. James Galway, Roberta Flack, Etta James and Hall & Oates

[chrisesq]

9. Black Sabbath and Avail

[chrisesq]

11. Black Sabbath and Avail

[name not needed]

12. nofx, bad religion, reel big fish, metallica, dropkick murphys, green day

lagwagon, yellowcard, flogging molly, and incubus. That's it I think.

[realisticphish]

13. Type O Negative, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Petty, Phish, Tracy Bonham, Soulfly

can you tell I like a broad range of music?

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

14. None

I can't afford any music---I'm Baroque.

Hee hee.

[mvd]

15. One kick

Always interesting to see what's being played out there.

:kick:

[Mojambo]

16. Just listened to one disc in the car,

The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic.

I cannot more highly recommend this album! Absolutely terrifc.

[mark414]

21. that album is absolutely phenomenal (sp?)

it is a total tragedy what happened to that band...

another brilliant band cut short was for squirrels...download the track mighty KC...

tragic

[Mojambo]

32. For Squirrels?

Haven't heard of them but if they're half as brilliant as EH then it'll be worth the search.

Thanks.

[AmandaRuth]

17. the Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith

and the Blasters - American Music. Car trip to a hike.

[lazarus]

20. Proclaimers

that is a really fun album.

[PittPoliSci]

18. an odd group

just listened to Eric Idle's FCC song.

But throughout the course of the day, I listened to the following:

Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartbreak
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

and the wonderful music in Kill Bill Vol. 2

[lazarus]

19. Jean Michel-Jarre

Equinoxe, Oxygene, Zoolook, and my favourite, Rendez-vous.

[last_texas_dem]

22. A combination

Kings of Leon's Youth and Young Manhood and Secret Machines' Now Here Is Nowhere- CDs both borrowed from my friend who keeps up with new rock much more than I. I'm enjoying both of them.

Also, Eagles- On the Border, Orpheus- Ascending, the Grateful Dead's Live/Dead, and my perennial favorite, Breakfast in America by Supertramp.

[bookfreak]

23. Some compilation tapes...

with songs from Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Idol, Rammstein, Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., Alice in Chains, etc. :headbang:

Also Belle and Sebastian's "Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant" and the soundtrack from "Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me"

[peacefreak]

24. Best of Aretha Franklin

Mojo Roots of Led Zepplin
Hillbilly Fever Legends of Country Rock
Ennis Sisters
yeah, all OVER the map!

[auburngrad82]

25. Commander Cody

"I Took Three Bennies, Now My Semi-Truck Won't Start"

[Spider Jerusalem]

26. Last 3 albums I've listened to:

Nina Hagen - "Big Band Explosion" (covers of old vocal standards...pretty good stuff, actually)

Iggy Pop - "The Idiot": one of the 3 best albums from the year I was born; the other two are both by David Bowie ("Low" and "Heroes")

Pixies - "Doolittle"

[bikebloke]

28. Mariza - "Fado Em Mim"

Pretty music.

I used to like early Nina Hagan when she was backed by Spliff (Nina Hagan Band and Unbehagan). Afterwards, she seemed to be imitating herself. I saw a photo recently. She was still wearing that awful clown make-up. I'll have to check out her latest out of curiosity.

[muriel_volestrangler]

29. Beach Boys' Greatest Hits

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. Strawberry Letter 23 by the Brothers Johnson

[Mike Daniels]

31. Just bought Slow Wonder a day or so ago and it hasn't left the player

Needless to say I love it. Of course, since A.C. Newman is the primary songwriter in New Pornographers it's pretty much a NP album without mutiple vocalists but that's good enough for now.

Going to see him in DC tomorrow night so I'm looking forward to that.

For the rest of the day it's been:

Circle (Wilco's bassist's side group)
New Pornographers
Polyphonic Spree
The Go-Betweens
Poptopia - 3 CD Rhino set of power pop from 70's, 80's and 90's