What music are you listening to?

[mvd]

Haven't seen this topic in a while.

Most recently:

Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted (great pop album)
Metric - Fantasies (as good a pop album as Kelly's, but a little different - less dancy and R&B influenced, and there's a little more alt/rock sound, but just as hook-laden. You can hear some Blondie and power pop here. Was surprised reviewer Tim Sendra enjoyed their bigger sound as much as I did)
Petula Clark - The Ultimate Petula Clark (the whole collection is amazing - not just "Downtown.")

Some of:

Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart (is she trying to imitate P.J. Harvey or something? Hard to tell, because I couldn't stand her grating vocals. I'm not a huge P.J. fan, but she's clearly better.)

Silversun Pickups - Swoon (the Smashing Pumpkins comparisons really are accurate, but at least on this CD, their craft isn't as accomplished. People may like his vocals more than Billy's, though)

[BeachBaby]

1. Right this very second....

I am listening to Plain White Tees. :)

[Dr. Strange]

6. One way to say three words for you...

WHERE'S MY MONEY?

[BeachBaby]

10. Ohhhhh, it's what you do to me.....

when your wallet is full of moneyyyyy....

[redqueen]

2. The Beta Band

I've had their greatest hits cd in my car for a week now. Love it.

[Mojambo]

3. Today? BMX Bandits, The Bicycles, The Toothaches, and Fishboy's Daytrotter session.

Last few days... Kleenex Girl Wonder, Oh Darling, Penny Century, and the new Camera Obscura.

[mvd]

4. I'll be getting that new Camera Obscura for my birthday

:hi:

[Mojambo]

26. You'll LOVE it! n/t

[Symarip]

5. Today's been a mixed bag

The Pietasters - All Day. Great album. Kind of a mash up of The 4 Tops, The Rolling Stones and Desmond Dekker.

The 4 Skins - Best Of. Oi at it's best.

Dance Hall Crashers - Lockjaw. I've had a love-hate relationship with this double female fronted band. Today, it's love.

Prince Buster - FABulous Hits. FUCK YEAH!!!1 Original Ska at it's best. Specials/English Beat/Madness fans, this guy wrote half the songs that made those bands famous fifteen years prior in Jamaica.

[meegbear]

7. Black Sabbath followed by Michael Jackson ...

I listen to a lot of different stuff at the gym.

[backtoblue]

8. the cd in my car is mudvayne...

I like hard rock most of the time, but when it's time for peaceful reflection, I choose

Eric Clapton or the Beatles.

[Dr. Strange]

9. I've been digging on Archive all weekend.

Pills
Cloud In The Sky
Controlling Crowds
Bullets

[flvegan]

11. The beautiful sound of Chelsea eliminating Liverpool in what had to be

one of the best matches I've seen in quite some time.

[Rambis]

20. Great, don't have to wonder if it recorded on my TIVO

Knew,I should have stayed off this feckin site!

[flvegan]

24. Sorry.

Still worth watching though. An excellent match.

[Rambis]

32. Outcomes of football matches

should not be in subject lines :) Last year somebody sent me the Man United Chelsea outcome in an email literally one minute before I sat down to watch the final so I am used to it. I was over the moon at 0-2 Liverpool were attacking all over the field. Best 20 minutes I have seen all year. The best match I have seen all year even though the outcome was shite. Wish Stevie G could have played but I understand why Rafa kept him out. The club knew it was an uphill climb but if Liverpool play half that well the rest of the way Man U are in for it. The 17 year old Machedo can't keep pulling Man U's bollocks out of the fire every week. Squeaky bum time Sir Alex-

[redqueen]

22. I wish I'd have seen it.

[flvegan]

23. Fantastic game.

Drogba got hurt in the final minute, so I'm hoping he's okay.

[no name no slogan]

12. "The Killing Moon" by Echo & The Bunnymen, "Interstate 5" by the Wedding Present

Just those two on repeat on my iPod. My band is covering both of these (along with 10 songs I wrote) at a showcase we're playing on Thursday night.

Since I've been on lithium, my short-term memory is shot to hell, and I'm having a hard time memorizing lyrics, and I'm trying to get these crammed into my head in the right order-- even though I know the songs backward and forward on guitar.

After Thursday, I'm going on a Iggy Pop/David Bowie Berlin albums kick. I'm reading a book about it right now, and it makes me want to relisten to everything.

[hobbit709]

13. Baron Von Tollbooth And The Chrome Nun.

Before that Memphis Jug Band

[EastTennesseeDem]

14. Modest Mouse's The Moon and Antarctica

Yep, you hit me at the exact moment that I'm listening to my all-time favorite LP.

[HopeHoops]

15. Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen

"Tales from the Ozone". Had to fire up an 8 track player to hear that.

They also did "Boy You're Going to Drive Me to Drinkin' if You Don't Stop Drivin' That Hot Rod Lincoln".

[hobbit709]

18. My fave is "Down To Seeds And Stems Again'

[HopeHoops]

19. Well, my personal favorite is... (drum roll)

"A 40 Second Thing in 39 Seconds" - mostly because it actually lasts 42 seconds. I clocked it.

[abq e streeter]

30. A truly tragic tale...

[Eyerish]

16. Let's see...

Today I've been listening to:

Ben Folds 5 "Whatever and Ever Amen"
Crowded House "Recurring Dream"
Fountains of Wayne "Welcome Interstate Managers"
&
Portishead "Dummy"

[guitar man]

17. I've been re-visiting my vinyl collection

...burning them to CD one by one and bringing them into work with me. Today, I'm listening to this jewel of a double record live set by Elvin Bishop. It's priceless.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IWqfvyO_nw8/SdKZ8_ECQvI/AAAAAAAAIsQ/SFimUXHRh2E/s400/Raisin%C2%B4+Hell+Live+-+Front.jpg

[abq e streeter]

31. Like them good 'ol Tulsa boys, do ya?

:hi:

[guitar man]

34. Why yes I do!

As a matter of fact here's a pic of me with some of them good ol Tulsa boys. L to R is me, Elvin Bishop,my dear friend Flash Terry (RIP 2004) and the best bass player that ever lived, Ron Martin (RIP 2009)



:hi:

[abq e streeter]

38. Cool! Never had seen a picture of Flash

but couldn't even begin to count how many times our mutual friend Sam Franklin brought his name up. I used to drive through Tulsa a couple of times a year , going to Chicago and back, but lately have been going up to Denver and then across Nebraska etc. but sooner or later I'll probably go through Tulsa again, and hopefully will be able to see you play. And my condolences to you on losing your bass player buddy this year........abq e streeter

[guitar man]

41. let me know if you're comin

we'll leave a light on for you :D

Yeah, it was tough losing Ron back in Feb. He was about the best friend I had in the world. He backed Flash and Sam on many many gigs over the years. It is still hard some days to wrap my head around the fact that all 3 of them are gone now :(

[abq e streeter]

45. same if you ever make it to Albq---

if I'm not playing ( and gigs have been REAL slow lately) there are open jams at a few clubs, and we'll have to hit one or two...Sad when you lose close friends; I really dearly loved Sam, and lost a couple other close friends myself in recent years, including the drummer from my old rockabilly band , who I went to see Springsteen with in Phoenix in '02 ( Tom died 10 months later)... I saw Bruce for the first time since then last Friday in Denver ( FANTASTIC show, btw), and I'm sure Tom would have been there with us, but as Sam put it in his gospel song: we're just "passin' through".

[ornotna]

21. Black Lips - O Katrina

The Aggrolites

The SteelDrivers

and some old Camera Obscura (Underachievers Please Try Harder), waiting on the new one to show up in the mail.

[old mark]

25. Working on some of my own, not listentig to anything much right now,

except some old '70's hippie music by a defunct geezer group called
Humble Pie.

Trying a little slow blues on the Telecaster my wife got me in January.

mark

[derby378]

27. TEA - Speedranch vs. End

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qAEdi68caM

[Arugula Latte]

28. When I worked out a few songs I listened to were:

Black Metallic -- Catherine Wheel
E=MC2 -- Big Audio Dynamite
Ceremony -- New Order
Swamp Thing -- Chameleons
She Bangs the Drums -- Stone Roses

[abq e streeter]

29. Magical Mystery Tour---makes me miss my days of...well, you know...

[redqueen]

33. Still The Beta Band.

Here's Dry The Rain in case you want to hear it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsbR2dEmHGc&NR=1

And another song called Human Being.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz4WwYrGPSw

[Systematic Chaos]

46. The Beta Band are awesome.

I stumbled upon their Hot Shots II CD at the library a while back and once it was in my car CD player it didn't leave until I brought the disc back. :)

[Systematic Chaos]

47. whoops wrong place n/t

n/t

[redqueen]

48. They certainly were... I wish they were still around.

[sakabatou]

35. Right now

Namine - Yoko Shimura

[bbernardini]

36. I saw Ida Maria a few weeks ago...

Opening for Glasvegas. My recording of the show is on The Pirate Bay, if such a thing interests you. :) I think I liked her a little better live than on album, but she generally doesn't do that much for me. As I said to my wife that night, "it's as if Bjork were auditioning for a Janis Joplin tribute band".

[mvd]

43. Yes, I've seen it said that Ida has a "primal wail," but I think it's just that she can't sing

Janis had a primal wail and COULD sing.

[bbernardini]

37. Coheed & Cambria, Steven Wilson (of Porcupine Tree)

Just finished listening to the last disc of Coheed & Cambria's new "Neverender" live set. Good stuff. Now, I'm relistening to Steven Wilson's "Insurgentes" album.

[southpaw]

40. You have taste, my friend

Haven't heard 'Insurgentes' yet, but I love Steven Wilson.

And Claudio is pure awesomeness in human form!

[bbernardini]

44. Thanks. "Insurgentes" is brilliant.

Kind of combines elements of all his projects into one.

[Left Is Write]

39. This morning it's been lots of Adam Lambert and David Cook.

[mvd]

42. This morning, I was listening to some Michael Johns..

speaking of Idol. I thought he should have gone further.