What Are You Listening To?

[Road Runner]

I was looking at the What Are You Reading? thread that Strocube started and came up with an idea.

We already have a very popular thread about favourite albums/CD's  -  but what are you listening to today or this week?

I won't try to make rules as they either get ignored or forgotten.
But roughly what have you just discovered  -  new or old  -  that you are playing on your computer, iPod, CD player, Walkman, or wind-up gramaphone?    

If it's an album/CD say which of the tracks persuaded you to buy it.



I recently found  Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful  -  Paloma Faith

I heard  'Upside Down'  on the radio and thought it was the most original thing I had heard in a while.
It's the one that starts off sounding like the Magic Roundabout theme!

RR.

[Bumpa STIKKA]

Racing Cars - Downtown Tonight
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson - Ain't That A Bitch
O C Smith - Together
Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye - Diana & Marvin

'They Shoot Horses (Don't They)' was the reason I bought the Racing Cars LP back in the mid seventies. 'Superman Lover' was the track from the brilliant Watson LP. The title track from the OC Smith album inspired that purchase. The Ross & Gaye collaboration is also another nostalgic blast from the past for me...

Those albums kept me up all last night - what put me to sleep was the vodka and cranberry-apple juice!

[JaiDee]

My Ipod needs a complete overhaul, I have heard and am tired of all 3000 songs many times over.

  Still getting the most play at this point would be Jawbreaker, Tool, and Clutch, maybe some Nine Inch Nails also.

[Grinder]

Oooooh Racing Cars... that takes me back.

On the Grinder-phone this week.... John Martyn... Paolo Nutini....Mayer Hawthorne... Elbow... Plan B... and the New Weller album.

Nice... (no not the band...)

[deepthroat]

I'm in Vancouver BC this weekend and just dropped $150 in the HMV store on Burrard, mostly on new collectible vinyl pressings and a coffee table book about Genesis.

They played a couple of Radiohead tracks over the PA so now I'm listening to The Bends and OK Computer as I check the board.

Got turned on to Radiohead by comments from Steve Hogarth of Marillion and their live version of Fake Plastic Trees.

[JaiDee]

I have loved  Radiohead since the first time I saw the video for "Creep" circa 1992 or so.

      Great band, 2 great guitar players.

 My problem is finding stuff that is NEW but still sounds like the bands I have liked for years......radio stations are lame and I travel a lot so I have no idea how to find 40 or 50 newer bands which I could have my daughter steal, errrrm I mean purchase, off the internet for me to re-fill my Ipod.

   One newer band from the U.K. I have gotten into since 2007 is Bloc Party - they sound a lot like vintage Gang of Four.

[Grinder]

Love this Aussie band... you might too JaiDee.



Or give a whirl to Arcade Fire, Elbow or The National...

[Bumpa STIKKA]

(JaiDee @ May 23 2010,11:57) I have heard and am tired of all 3000 songs many times over...

Opposite for me. I can't listen to new music. Almost everything after the mid 80s is a waste of time for me.

[lemontree26]

On a hot lazy Sunday like today:

"Let's change the world with music" (Prefab Sprout).

[Road Runner]

(Bumpa STIKKA @ May 23 2010,09:43) Almost everything after the mid 80s is a waste of time for me.

How about this one BS  -  came out a few weeks ago but features lots of golden oldies.


They were interviewed on the radio about a month ago and liked what I heard.
The CD came out in late April and I've been playing it off and on since.

RR.

[farangbah]

I haven't heard anything truly inspiring in ages. I continue to challenge my old mates in the biz to show me where the excitement at. But their "best of" lists are getting worse and worse...

Deerhoof is a pretty fun indie rock band whose last couple records I still listen to regularly. And there's a young Brit girl named Mica, who performs under the moniker Micachu & the Shapes, that put out a record called "Jewellery". This is the last record I can say I have enjoyed listening to. "Curly Teeth" is the bomb track on that ditty . . .

[farangbah]

Wait a minute -- anyone familiar with The Hold Steady? They just might be the kind of band that a lot of my brethren here haven't heard but might like . . .

Hard-won lyrics-of-today delivered over big, grand, classic riffs. Their albums are like picture books. Great summer driving music. I'd probably start with their record "Stay Positive" and work backwards...

[Tomcat]

yesterday bought post Ozzie Sabbath line up Album, Heaven & Hell. Ronny Dio took over vocals and doesnt it show.. sounds like Whitesnake and Iron Maiden... think ill stick with the old Sabb. Thumbs down.

Also got the new Cancer Bats CD... thats more like it. Sort of dark hardcore metal. I get all the sample CDs from Metal Hammer monthly and thats how i make my choice of new bands.. in general as far as Metal is concerned anyway.

For Prog Rock im still stuck in the seventies.

[guydesavoy]

Over the last few years I have found some new sounds on internet radio station radioparadise. On iTunes.

http://www.radioparadise.com/

Quite eclectic playlist, not much metal though.. It's where I found Porcupine Tree (belatedly), Thirteen Senses and Doves.

My record collection stopped around 86 with a few exceptions. Radiohead and Counting Crows woke me up early 90's but inspiration seems only to come a few times every decade these days.

But I will check out some of the names referred to above  

I still like the 86 Windham Hill compil  

[JaiDee]

(Bumpa STIKKA @ May 23 2010,15:43)

(JaiDee @ May 23 2010,11:57) I have heard and am tired of all 3000 songs many times over...

Opposite for me. I can't listen to new music. Almost everything after the mid 80s is a waste of time for me.

dooood, I agree with you 100%!

 ALL my stuff is from about 1968 to 1998.......a few bands in the past 12 years have made a mild impression on me, but not much.

Trust me, I am an old-school guy also....I am just tired of the same ol' shit and would like something new and good to come along.

It just never does