So what have you been listening to lately?

[SweetZombieJesus]

AKA SZJ's insane music collection spirals even further out of control.

This week it's been:

The first four discs of the Complete Stax/Volt Singles Box Set
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
The Blasters - Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings
The Sun Records Collection
Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
Supergrass - Life On Other Planets
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Books - Thought For Food
The Gories - I Know You Fine, But How You Doin?
Gang Of Four - Songs Of The Free
Mission Of Burma - Signals Calls And Marches
Cafe Tacuba - Cuatro Caminos
Autechre - Tri Repetae+++
Mouse On Mars - Idiology
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
The Rapture - Echoes

[joeybee12]

1. Clay Aiken and Kelly Clarkson!

Debarge, Starland Vocal Band and France Jolie!

[SweetZombieJesus]

3. Holy shit, you have horrible taste in music

I mean, Christ, Starland Vocal Band? Are you a masochist? Damn, that's hardcore pain right there.

Debarge is like Prince + Morrisey - the talent.

[joeybee12]

5. Oh, I could listen to Afternoon Delight over and over!

Sheer heaven!

[Droopy]

6. Holy shit, i'm roflmao!

Excuse me, sorry, oops, didn't mean to do that.

[joeybee12]

7. That's my favorite song--it's a tie with I've Never Been To Me by Charlene

Oh, double heaven!

[SweetZombieJesus]

8. Jesus, couldn't you like a respectable shitty band like ABBA?

I mean, ABBA sucks and all, but liking Starland Vocal Band is a sign that you're a sociopath.

[joeybee12]

10. I really don't understand Abba's music--not at all catchy

And the words are just too clever--like they're trying to impress people or something!

[SweetZombieJesus]

11. How can you deny the catchiness of ABBA? It's like musical ebola

No matter how much you hate them, Dancing Queen and Fernando will wrap around your face and lay eggs in your torso, and three days later tiny bejumpsuited Swedish pop sensations will explode out of your stomach. Where do you think Ace Of Base came from?

[joeybee12]

13. Actually, my roomate was playing Muriel's Wedding a while back,

and Waterloo kept playing in my head for three weeks!

Actually, I like none of the bands/groups I've listed.

Just wanted people to worry!

[mvd]

35. Abba's catchiness is what makes them great

And I also think they have sincere songwriting. It's all about the perspective you have.

I'm not really into Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken. Kelly's album Thankful isn't bad, but it's certainly not essential.

I've been listening to these lately:

Dido - Life For Rent: it has a folkier feel, and I enjoy it even more than No Angel.

Patty Loveless - On Your Way Home: a perfect melding of contemporary traditional sounds and bluegrass - with first rate songs!

Bangles - Doll Revolution: I'm a huge fan, and it's like they never left! :)

[scarlet_owl]

2. Indigo Girls, Big Mama Thornton, Camper Van Beethoven

Judy Garland, George Clinton and Parliament Funkedelic. It's all on the computer.

[SweetZombieJesus]

4. Hooray for Camper Van and P-Funk

I've always wanted to start a giant funk band that's a cross between P-Funk and The Talking Heads musically, and lyrically taking cues from Camper Van Beethoven, Pavement, and the Dead Milkmen.

[Interrobang]

28. Woah, dude...

I'm suddenly hearing "The Fez" with all kinds of cheez-whiz organs and shit in it. Man, that's a bad thing to do to a natural-born arranger (ask me how I turned "Let's Lynch the Landlord" by the Dead Kennedys into a disco tune once).

I've been listening to (ironically enough) The Dead Milkmen, the Dayglo Abortions, and a lot of Jello Biafra spoken word albums, because for some reason, almost none of my other CDs will play on my player, which is slowly going extinct (and me unemployed, goddammit! I'm going to have to either move the computer into my room where there's no space for it, or start listening to music only when I'm out here! argh!).

[arcos]

9. I don't remember everything, but here I go...

Air - The Virgin Suicides
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly.ky
Gotan Project - La Revancha del Tango
Canidas - Golden
Bajofondo Tango Club
Massive Attack - Protection
Hotel Costes 6

[XNASA]

12. Cool Ghoul's Halloween Party Mix

I break it out every Halloween. All the big hits are on it, Purple People Eater, Monster Mash, Witch Doctor, Love Potion #9.....

Also been listening to:

Through the Past Darkly - Rolling Stones
Love & Theft - Bob Dylan
Second Coming - The Stone Roses

and

Love Metal - HIM

[Philostopher]

15. Were you in Cinci at some point, XNASA?

Cool Ghoul was the alter ego of a guy who used to do a "Count Floyd" style show on the pre-Fox independent station in Cincinnati.

I've got "Waiting For Columbus," the definitive Little Feat live compilation, on my CD-ROM player right now.

Doubtless if I stick with the computer, eventually I'll revert to some Sloan. I love hearing "Losing California" and "The NS" on Friday nights.

[XNASA]

19. It's actually odd how little I've been in Cincy.

Just one of those places I've always seemed to miss, unintentionally of course. It's the only major city east of the Mississippi I've never visited. I reckon.

I don't remember where I picked the Cool Ghoul's disc. Probably in a gas station someplace. I've had it for at least 10 years.

Sloan. I like Sloan.

[True_Blue]

14. Oldies but goodies

Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, AC/DC

[HEyHEY]

16. A lot of stooges

And of course some 80s

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[MrScorpio]

18. What's in my car

Zero 7 - Simple Things
St Germaine de pres cafe I, II, III
The Tao of Groove
Buckshot Lafonque - Buckshot Lafonque
Dj Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz
Rosalia deSouza - Nicola Conte apresenta...
Shirley Bassey Remixes
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces
The Funk Box
Another Late Night - Zero 7
Hotel Costes 1,3,4,5

[aquaman]

20. mnay many much much

Constantines
Woven Hand
Anonyomous 4
The Clash
16 Horsepower
George Winston
Lots of classical, etc.

[SweetZombieJesus]

23. Which Constantines? Shine A Light?

I just got that one, like it quite a lot.

[aquaman]

27. Yep, thats the one

It is really good, listening to it right now as a matter of fact.

[bbernardini]

21. Grateful Dead, Roxette, Clapton, Kevin Gilbert

GD - July 1989...last show of the Alpine Run
Roxette - Some show from the "Crash Boom Bang" tour
Clapton - Earls Court 1998 (w/ orchestra and Bonnie Raitt)
Kevin Gilbert - Dark Justice soundtrack

[SweetZombieJesus]

22. I forgot all about Wall Of Voodoo

One of the most underrated new wave bands, Wall Of Voodoo was kind of like an American Joy Division, at least to my ears. Dark Continent and Call Of The West are great albums.

[jonnyblitz]

39. "I'm on the Mexican Radio...."

I like their version of Ring of Fire also.

[carpetbagger]

24. The best damn radio station on Earth, KYOT, Terlingua TX.

Went on a four day road trip to Big Bend National Park. There's a little town called Terlingua on the western end. It's the only small town in Texas that's habitable (before I moved to Texas, I lived in a small town in West Virginia, so I don't have a thing per se about small towns). There's a single radio station in that entire area (except for a few distant AM stations from Mexico), which plays Texas alternative mixed in with some folk, jazz, mainstream alternative, and classical.

[BattyDem]

25. I must confess ...

I have been listening to nothing but Clay Aiken's new CD since it was released on Tuesday!
I'm a "Claymate" and I don't care who knows it!

But my CD collection is made up of all kinds of music: pop, rock, metal, 80's pop metal, country, alternative rock, Broadway stuff, New Age, Dance, R&B and everything in between. Musical style isn't really an issue for me. There's no point in limiting myself to one type of music. :-)

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

26. well

The Starting Line and The Early November's songs have been playing nonstop on my computer. :)

[leftist_rebel1569]

29. Tool and Stabbing Westward

Virtually nonstop, either of the two bands. I have "Flood" stuck in my head so bad, I'm listening to is as I type this...and will be for the next half hour :)

[Swede]

30. Old stuff Black Sabbath,BOC, the Who,

New stuff Korn, Evanesense,Audioslave. Must be a hard rock night,tommorow will be the quiter stuff.

[populistmom]

31. I've been in my 80's retro mode for the past few weeks

Pulling out a bunch of my old favorites:

Morrissey
Squeeze
Depeche Mode
The Smithereens

Sarah

[sistersofmercy]

32. Pepe and the Bottle Blondes (self titled), Morrissey - Bona Drag

Ella Fitzgerald - Oh Lady, Be Good: Best of the Gershwin Songbook
Love, Love, Love Gershwin.
Paris Combo (self titled)
Baaba Maal -Nomad Soul
Pretty much anything that isn't mainstream.

[frylock]

33. my intelligent hip-hop stuff..

The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides

[Spider Jerusalem]

34. Let's see:

this week:

Recoil - "Liquid"
Soul Coughing - "Ruby Vroom"
Tricky - "Vulnerable"
Massive Attack - "100th Window"
Pixies - "Doolittle", "Surfer Rosa"
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "No More Shall We Part", "Tender Prey", "Let Love In"
Aphex Twin - "Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2"
Radiohead - "Hail to the Thief"
Future Sound of London - "Dead Cities", "Lifeforms Paths 1-7"
Barry Adamson - "As Above, So Below"
Ministry - "The Land of Rape and Honey"
Tom Waits - "Bone Machine"

[GOPisEvil]

36. Anyone who likes The Blasters and Spoon is OK by me!

Spoon is playing here next week. I guess they replaced the keyboard player finally. :-)

[SilasSoule]

37. Is that like Dave Alvin & The Blasters?

I've been catching up on some John Hiatt and Lucinda Williams.

[GOPisEvil]

38. Yessir; you're correct.

You know John Hiatt was here last week with Robert Cray. Too bad I had other plans. :sigh:

[ronzo]

40. Here are the two in the car...

Flim and the Bbs - Tunnel
Infectious Grooves - Groove Family Cyco

Which brings to mind a thread for another day...
What's the most bizarre juxtaposition in your stacks?

[specimenfred1984]

41. Mudvayne, Sevendust, Halford

As loud as possible. Halford is from Judas Priest, total 80's metal. Mudvayne is insane "mirror, mirror on the wall, STOP STARING AT ME".

[LewisJackson]

42. Bosstones, mostly.

A lot of other ska bands, and some Dropkick Murphys.

In a different taste, I've also been listening to Warren Zevon and Nada Surf.

I have weird tastes.

[mvd]

43. Forgot to mention this one in my previous post

Leona Naess - self titled. Being the power pop fan I am, I Tried To Rock You But You Only Roll is one of my favorite CDs and my favorite Leona CD. But this self-titled album is very pretty and also an excellent CD.

[RandomKoolzip]

44. A lott astuff:

Trojan Dub Box Set
The Mike Gunn-Durban Poison/Hemp for Victory
Firesign Theatre- Papoon for President!
NRBQ-Uncommon Denominators
The Wrens- Meadowlands
Guided by Voices- Earthquake Glue
Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith-Travelers
Y. Bhekhirst- Hot in the Airport
76% Uncertain- Hunka Hunka Burnin' Log
Grateful Dead- 10-12-68 Avalon Ballroom bootleg
Van Der Graaf Generator- The Quiet Zone
Lee "Scratch" Perry- The Upsetter Collection
The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers
Yes- Yesshows
Neil Hamburger- Laugh Out Lord
Lotion- Nobody's Cool
Van Morrison- The Philosopher's Stone
The Coup-Party Music
Charles Gayle-Repent
Brendan Benson- self-titled

[proud patriot]

45. System of a Down ...Paris ..Tool ....Rage against the machine

:evilgrin:

[fishnfla]

46. I'm an Alt Country fool

I'm always behind a trend trying to catch up
Boondocks
Blue Mountain
Tandy
6thGreat lake
Holopaw
Munly
over The Rhine
the Be Good Tanyas
Jolie Holland

[Search Party]

47. Thanks for asking abt my favorite subject

this week:

My Morning Jacket - a couple live shows I found on the net at http://162.42.208.241/~acidcasu/irl/

my guilty pleasure song of the week is: Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. One of the coolest songs of all time IMO.

Guided by Voices - Part 1 of 3 of a live show on the net at http://www.oftherecord.org/ Mr. Pollard is especially lively and drunk.

Silver Jews - Starlite Walker

every version of Solitary Man I can find on Soulseek

[FlyByNight]

48. New A Perfect Circle

and the new Type O and Rancid mostly lately.

Also Rush, Living Colour, Black Label Society, Slayer, Jane's Addiction, Rollins, old-school Metallica and Fishbone seem to be making their way into my CD player(s) most often recently.