Here is the tedious, yet eternally popular, item for reporting on the music you are listening to *now*. (NO DEPRESSION magazine reports that such a comment on AOL has its own acronym: "n.p." for Now Playing...)403 responses total.
Some jazzy funk thing on WDET, not really interesting.
Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu, ARIAS & DUETS. Curiously uninvolving, for the most part.
Well, I had thought a little while ago about putting something on, but I didn't. Just in case, I was thinking about putting on some Adrian Belew.
No cheating, now! :) Jonell Mosser, AROUND TOWNES, which I just bought about two hours ago. Earlier this week we saw her on CMT on a performance clips show, where she seemed to be doing a pretty good Janis Joplin imitation, right down to the dress. This CD is all songs written by Townes Van Zandt.
joy to the world, three dog night, forest gump soundtrack, it's a good cd:)
"I Could Fall In Love With You" (who sings this anyway? it's just on the radio right now)
Oysterband; the exceptionally rare "Everywhere I Go" single from Holland, with three outtakes from the last album; from a box of goodies received today from a net friend.
RE #6 "I Could Fall In Love" was a posthumous hit last year for Selena (the tejano singer, not to be confused with Selena Barwens).
The HD Hum.
Primus, "Pork Soda".
Listening to some Christmas music purchases for 1996. On right now is "On the Edge Christmas". Rock and alternative from the 80's and 90's.
Listening to the radio, WOMC.
i'm listening to "the british tape" as katy knows it :) earlier I was listening to 89x though...
Runrig, THE HIGHLAND CONNECTION. Scottish folk-rock band, from the days when they sang in Gaelic.
"Out Like A Lamb" by The Verve Pipe from LMNOPOP! release "Pop Smear"
This is wicked. I am reading this item again and the same song that was on the last time I was reading this item is playing again! What are the chances of that? This radio station must be connected to grex or something...
Or just a very limited playlist! Something German is on my radio right now. Foreign stations provide just the right ambient background to be easily ignored.
WDET: I think it's Loreena McKinnon? sp? ooh sounds nice.
lesse, i'm listening to techno now... the prodigy, music reach..
This is what is playing on the radio: "I love you, you didn't feel the same," "Though we're apart, you're in my heart" "Give me one more chance to make it real." <slinkie has *no* idea what song that is> Anybody? I gotta listen to the radio more often... I never know what's playing these days...
hm, i've never heard it before.. btw, i'm actually *not* listening to anything right now... odd.
RE #20 That song was "Make It Real" by the Jets (circa 1987-88).
(I was going to guess that those lyrics were stupidly obvious enough to be a new Alanis tune...)
eek! please... none of that;) still got the prodigy in the cd player... listening to track 10, "fire"
Sorry , forget to add a ";)" to that one.
Funny you should ask... I'm listening to the American Horn Quartet CD, and I know what I'm hearing is a frippery... its the barbershop one. Its pretty neat.
i'm listenint to some horrible country song in the backround (my dad has the tv on in the next room) "they call me cleopatra, cause i'm the queen of de-nile" ugh.
<sympathizes with katy, my father owns that CD and really likes it>
Dr. Demento show on WIQB, currently The Frantics.
I'm listening to coffee percolating.
listening to my matthew sweet cd i hadn't pulled out in awhile... not when i need it, from 100% fun
Reel Big Fish, TURN THE RADIO OFF; just snapped up for $2 from the Unwanted Discs Box at WhereHouse. Ska band. Nice horn section.
"I Will Always Love You" is playing on the radio
RE #33 Is that the Dolly Parton or Whitney Houston version?
i'm listening to myself play the clarinet... had some things to check up on, on here, and deffinately need to practice, my chair audition is this afternoon... eek!
Re: #34 There are two versions? I'm guessing it was Whitney Houston since there wasn't a country style to it. Re: #35 How did the chair audition go? "Don't Know Much" is playing on the radio.
RE #36 Dolly Parton not only sang "I Will Always Love You" (#1 country twice in 1974 & 1982), but she wrote the song.
Actually, that song is called "Wonderful World".
RE #38 I do believe there was actually a song called "Don't Know Much," a duet by Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville.
The Haydn trumpet concerto with that theme in the last movement that goes on playing inside your head for a week after you hear it. Wish I'd remembered before I put it on.
re 36, <grumble> not too well, moved down a chair... silly freshman that are in symphony band, *and* in the top part should be shot... ug.. and i really didn't play *that* bad... bitter..... noooo.
Re: 39 Yes, there is a song called "Don't Know Much" sang by Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville, believe it was back in the 80's. Re: 41 <abchan comforts kewy> I'm sure you'll do better next time around. What year are you? You still have time left, right? Do you go to PiHi?
i'm a junior, at huron... right now WIQB's on downstairs, i think i can hear some blues traveller... cept for that the house is silent, but for my typing.
For some reason that intrigues me, sharing your aural space. I am hearing the NPR theme and the whir of my hard drive. (Oh . . and the furnace fan . . and a bit of traffic.)
Re: 43 Don't worry, you'll kick their butts senior year :) "Endless Love" is playing on the radio
RE #45 Which version of "Endless Love" were you listening to? The original was, of course, done by Diana Ross & Lionel Richie, but there was a cover by Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey a couple of years ago.
right now i'm listening to nissa play her oboe audition stuff in the backround... i told her i'd listen:)
Re: 46 It doesn't sound anything like Mariah Carey so I'm guessing it was the original version. (As you can probably tell by now, this radio station doesn't do a very good job of telling us *who* is singing, just what they are playing)
in the other room, sheryl crow is singing "every day is a winding road", on the radio of course;)... hm...
Re: 37 I knew Dolly Parton wrote the song, but I'd never heard her sing it. Then again they don't play much country around here.
Once again nothing actually playing on my stereo, but Tom Waits (from _The Black Rider_) has been running thru my head all morning...
"Can We Try" is playing on the radio.
"Make It Real" by the Jets is playing again! Why is it that I always hear the same songs when I'm reading this item? I guess it just gets requested often.
Pete Townshend's _Psychoderelict_. Interesting themes of virtual reality to ponder while I Grex...
Symphony Fantastique, one of my favorite classical pieces.
Ar Re Yaouank, Breton folk band with a rock bass player.
The radio is playing a song I haven't heard in awhile... "Time", Hootie and the Blowfish.
that's an odd song, not as terrible as all their others... but that's only cause they didn't over play it... well, IMHO. irght now nothing's on, i'm just listening to my computer hum.
I dunno... it was a song that I really liked when I first bought the album, and I thought it was cool that it wasn't a single. 6 months later...
"Like A Prayer" (Madonna)
Unreal. WDET is playing SRC. Right now.
An odd arrangement of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" (the radio is playing nothing but Christmas carols for 34 hours straight in honor of Christmas)
<pouts over secular Christmas... nobody does this to Jewish or Muslim holidays!>
"Amish Paradise" (Weird Al)
I love that song!
I have a friend who is a Mennonite who really gets a kick out of it.
The Corrs- "Heaven Knows" My brother is making me listen to this cd- but I actually like it... weird... <grin>
"She's Always A Woman" (Billy Joel)
The new Hootie and the Blowfish CD I bought a couple of days ago (Fairweather Johnson). I dunno what song its on.
This strange dance-techno CD that came with a magazine I'm getting for somebody in another country. (sort of new-ageish, too)
Villanelle by Paul Dukas, for horn and piano.
Re: resp:69 I also bought that CD (about a month or two ago) and I think it is decent, however it is no match for their CRV CD.
Tom Waits, "Swordfishtrombones".
the first song i hear in 1997 is YMCA by the Village People.. i hope this isn't a sign of something... :P
wonderwall by oasis is playing in the other room.. ew...
The last song I heard in 1996 was "Ironic" (Alanis Morissette) on MTV, about 5 minutes before the ball was dropped. [Yeah, I know I don't get cable, and it sucks a big one. But I was in a hotel room and they had MTV! I'm missing out big time.] I think the first song that was played on MTV after midnight was something by Bush, I don't really remember because I didn't really care for it that much :)
The first song I heard in 1997 was "Insensitive" (Jan Arden) and right now I have no idea what is playing on the radio... "I'm not giving you up"
The first song I heard in 1997 was the "Camelot" song in Monty Python and the holy grail. The first MUSIC I heard in 1997 was the star wars theme (we were watching the third movie until about 12:30, when we realized it was after midnight, and ordered a pizza). Right now, I'm listening to my new Hootie and the Blowfish CD again, and the song is called "so strange".
(hooray for Tom Waits)
"They won't play this song on the radio" by Monty Python
Highlights from the opera "Turandot", with Eva Marton and Jose' Carreras. The disc says it is a live recording, but there's no audience. Poot. Still, Katia Ricarelli as Liu is pretty impressive. A find at Encore Music.
NIN Pretty Hate Machine.
"Footloose" (anyone know who sings it?)
RE #83 Kenny Loggins
Gwar "Scumdogs of the Universe"
hehe gwar.. i have a big joke about gwar.. and i don't member how it started, ah well..
"Live To Tell" (Madonna)
Trey Gunn, "One Thousand Years".
Micheal O Suilleabhain, CASADH (TURNING). Irish folk-influenced piano, meandering into New Age. Leslie's pick.
Tom Waits, "The Black Rider"
in teh other room, something by better than ezra is playing.... it's a decent song...
"Head Over Feet" (Alanis Morrisette)
something by shakespeare's sister (didn't get the songlist w/ the dub)
Meat Beat Manifesto "Lead Asbestos Lead" (or is that the other way around?)
"Too Many Walls" (Kathy Dennis?)
nowhere to go, melissa etheridge
King Crimson, "THRaKaTTaCK".
"I Believe in You and Me" (Whintney Houston)
suprisingly, the same song is playing, that was playing last time i responded to this item nowhere to go, melissa etheridge, it's a live version on the single...
A sampler CD from the Discipline Mobile Global label. Right now something like of new-age is playing, but there will be something really scary coming along in a track or two... ;)
Angel Eyes (Ace of Base)
Tom Waits, "Bone Machine". Not very cheerful, but one of his best albums. (Hmm, I seem to be on a Tom Waits kick lately)
"Ravine" (Ace of Base)
The Stranger - Billy Joel, a song written in the height of his alcoholism, and it kind of shows.
i actuallly really like that song... only have acopy of it on record tho.. i copied it to tape once upon a time, but that seemed to dissapear.
Yes, I really like that song too. But my favorite Billy Joel song is "Summer, Highland Falls", which no one seems to have heard of. The Stranger is a decent album, as are Songs in the Attic, the Nylon Curtain, and River of Dreams.
A Tori Amis interview CD. It's really cool. (It took Tower long enough to get a copy.)
"Be My Lover" (?)
la bouche, abchan
Anthony Newman, Scarlatti sonatas on harpsichord. A budget Sony release which has become a house favorite in the last month.
"Theme from 'To Kill a Dead Man'", Portishead
Cool what album is that from, I like Portishead.
Re #112: It's from the CD single Sour Times (Nobody Loves Me). If you like Portishead, check out MTV's AMP. It's a cool techno, ambient, type show. They showed the video for "Theme from 'To Kill A Dead Man'" last weekend. The show is on 1AM on Sunday (or Sat. night).
"I'll Stand By You" (?) (Re: #109 Thanks, Katy)
prolly the pretenders, abchan. otaking, do you know how long AMP has been on? i'd kinda given up on mtv, when i stumbled on AMP a few weeks ago while up north on a trip... i was giddy to see them playing techno:) it was kinda odd tho to see the prodigy on mtv the other day just during a regular video playing segment. *set drift off*
kewy, I first saw AMP a couple of months ago when I turned on Beavis & Butthead while playing a game. Suddenly, the coolest videos I've seen on MTV, including some anime sequences play at 3AM. I never saw it at 3AM again. I only found it again by accident 2 weeks ago, threw in a tape, and have been recording it since.
same here, i'll have to remember to tape it tomorrow night... woo hoo, some worthwhile music on tv, life is good:)
I checked out AMP last night. It was cool to see artisits I respect like Future Sound of London on empty t.v. I was just listeing to Camper Van Beethoven "Telephone Free Landslide Victory" gotta listen to those old chestnuts every one and awhile. :-)
"Similiar Features" (Melissa Etheridge)
California Guitar Trio, "Invitation". I got thru Coop and Agora with Tom Waits' "The Black Rider". Now why doesn't the Music conference have a Tom Waits item? Hm.... maybe I'll enter one.
"Take Me Home Tonight" (Eddie Money?) <abchan wonders where she could get a copy of this song>
"Take Me Home Tonight" was by Eddie Money, along with Ronnie Spector, formerly of the Ronettes, singing "Be my little baby" after Eddie sings "Just like Ronnie said..."
Ronnie Spector had a brief solo comeback in the late 70's; I wonder what became of her, and of my copy of her LP? Finest Kind, LOST IN A SONG; Canadian trio doing largely traditional songs from America and England.
"Surfin' the Spillway", an Ann Arbor (and nearby) surf music compilation.
"Anything for Love" (Meatloaf)
RE #125 Abchan, could that Meat Loaf song be "I'll Do Anything For Love But I Won't Do That?"
Re: #126 Yeah, but I didn't feel like typing all that in :) is the title really that long? Wow. Right now, I am trying to identify what the radio is playing. I don't think I ever knew the name of this song. Has anyone seen "The Next Karate Kid"? This is the song that the girl plays in the middle of the night and then all the monks come in and start dancing. Anyone know what it's called?
Babe the Blue Ox, PEOPLE. Mildly experimental rock band with some interesting rhythm structures. Been thinking about them for ages, since they came highly recommended by a friend with weird tastes, so I waited until I found a $5 used CD last week.
Listening to "Missing" by Everything But The Girl.
krj, are they any good? i have a poster of theirs in my room, on my wall of postcards, i never knew who they were, it was just a neet poster i picked up for free at tower about 6 mos. ago now..
So far I like them. I'll arrange for you to borrow the CD or something after I've heard it a few more times.
Emmylou Harris, WRECKING BALL. Moving on to become of my eternal favorite albums.
James Taylor "In the Pocket" album.
RE #133 I taake it you're talking about the James Taylor that used to be married to Carly Simon (as opposed to James Taylor of Kool and the Gang), right?
Okay, I answered my own question in #127 and it's playing again. "Dreams" (The Cranberries)
The Freight Hoppers / WHERE'D YOU COME FROM, WHERE'D YOU GO. Old-timey revival band. ..
19 Wheels, "Six Ways From Sunday" (local boys, from E. Lansing)
"Soul And Inspiration" by the Righteous Brothers.
"Ride Forever" by Paul Gross. It's off the Due South Soundtrack.
lesse. listening to charly, off of the prodigy expereince (prodigy), and in the other room my sister is playing right said fred, i'm too sexy, excessivly loud.
I'm listening to some surf music compilation. I can't remember which one.
listening to commecials on a british radio station.. internet radio is a beautiful thing
Internet radio? What's that? I've listened to stations on real audio before, but never anything called internet real radio.
Internet radio? That's the third time I've heard of that this week! What is it?
[I meant "internet radio" not "internet real radio" :)]
I'm hoping kewy will come by item #25, the radio item, and tell us *all* about it.
hmmmmm i am listening to a rather interesting CD! "Take my Hand"... there are two fabulious ongs by the Cheiftains.. The theme song to Winnie the Pooh and another one. Unluckily, there is a horrid song sung by Kathy Lee Gifford, the Kang- Roo Hop... and i used to love Kanga before i heard this.... tsk tsk tsk....
Rusted Root's 'Voodoo'.
"Wannabe" by the Spice Girls
cosmic girl, jamiroquai... a remix of it on the cd single.
Michael Flatley's LORD OF THE DANCE show, taped off of the Toledo PBS station earlier today.
actually.... i have realised that when i am in a badmood, its Tom Petty, If its just okay...Its the Cheiftains and Clannad, and if its great... well i go wild and just find something neato!
listening to chewing the apple of your eye, by the flaming lips.. haven't listened to this cd in awhile..
step it up joe by mustard's retreat, off their back to back compilation
The V-Roys, JUST ADD ICE.
gimmie the prize by queen, off a kind of magic
Lots of traditional Irish music.
Eileen Ivers, WILD BLUE; the ritualistic St. Patrick's Day purchase.
character zero, phish
The squirming coil, also phish.
It's noon-time on Palm Sunday. Just began Jesus Christ Superstar. Was listening to radio earlier, between "Over Easy" on WCSX and TheRiver, 93.9fm.
The dishwasher
A bit earlier (before the tv went on), Artisan, "Don't Eat that Potato."
Mmm, I don't think I know that Artisan track. Freyja's self-titled album; a band of six women, led by Jo Freya of Blowzabella and including Gabi Meyers from JAMS on hurdy-gurdy, doing a pan-European instrumental thing; not immensely compelling, but good working music.
Do you mean that you know Artisan? Do you have more? I must have more! And I'm at the edge of my budget for CDs this month.
Second listen to JCS.
You mean, do I know Artisan *personally*? Nah, I've just exchanged e-mail with 'em. :)
Really? Do you have any of their albums, though? Sniff!
Korn, Korn, Currently running through Shyoots and Ladders
Don't Speak by No Doubt. Cool song.
Trans Euro Express by Kraftwerk
Shooglenifty, LIVE AT SELWYN HALL, BOX (which doesn't skip now, hmmmm.)
Give it away
"Voices Carry" by 'til tuesday (a medley of their hit!).
"Grand Coulee Dam" from "This Land is Your Land", part of a recently released series of Woody Guthrie collections from the Smithsonian's Folkways..
My little brother's playing something by Hootie & the Blowfish...(uck)
The CD from that experimental instrument book mentioned in another item.
I'm listening to nothing but the hum of this computer's fan, curse it! Forgot to bring CDs with me to work today after clearing the last batch out of my office. I've got King Tubby's "Zion Gates Dub" going through my head, though, if that counts..
scott--where'd you get that book/CD? I haven't been able to find it, but I must admit I haven't been looking all that hard...
Folks like us on WDET, right now some Donovan.
Ditto, but not Donovan -- an Irish dance number by a Canadian family whose name I did not catch. Rather good, though.
Got it at Schoolkids. Snarfed their last copy, actually.
1812 overture, conducted by Neeme Jarvi. Not sure why I've been obsessing over this old warhorse this week.
Album: Dub Chill Out / Various Artists Track: King Tubby's Borderline Dub / King Tubby & Augustus Pablo. King Tubby really does an awesome dub.. Gotta get some more of his stuff, the few tracks I've got on various collections are solid..
RE #184 Who is this group called "Various Artists?" They sure do have an unusually larger than average amount of releases out. April Fool (albeit a day early).
I've always wanted to release an album entitled "Various Artists" just to see how many record-store clerks' heads exploded when trying to file it..
Ahh...so *that's* where it went...I'll have to kill you and steal it, scott.
Placido Domingo, Ruth Ann Swensen, Thomas Hampson: "Opera Gala"
"Bullet the Blue Sky", U2, off of Joshua Tree.
Soundtrack CD from "Laputa: Castle in the Sky".
The Backsliders, "Throwing Rocks At The Moon."
Spirit of the West - "Faithlift"
Didn't know you were interested in Spirit of the West, Mike... I liked some of their earlier, more folk-rock work, but I think the album before FAITHLIFT is when I gave up on them.
Waht is Faithlift like? I too like their earlier stuff (I think Dougie MacLean actually plays fiddle on one track on either their first or second albums -- and of course that made me track them down...)
Hmmm.. I'm not sure I'd say I'm "into" Spirit of the West but I thin "Faithlift" is a decent album. I'd be hard pressed to describe it, though, in any way that would give a decent impression of the album. I bought it on the strength of the two singles I'd heard on 89X (gotta love those CanCon laws..) and found the album to be pretty consistently OK to good but not outstanding..
carmina burana, can't remember who's performing it.. o fortuna, just popped it in.
Well, is Faithlift more like folk music or rock? They started out a lot more folky, wiht some GRAEAT traditional songs, and some not-bad originals, but then they seemed to slide into uninspired rock -- which always seems a tragedy. Erm, tv is on now, but earlier was listening to oldies on the radio. Is _Riders on the STrorm_ really such a classic? I mentioned that I hated it, and Bruce acted like it was sacrelige.
Fripp/Eno "Evening Star." It sounds sort like the what I imagine the inside of a CPU would sound like highly amplified.
re #197: I'd say probably more like rock, though better than average. also re #197: I guess I've moved out of the stage of my life in which I could stand to listen to Jim Morrison and the Doors but I agree with you about "Riders on the Storm." On the other hand my opinions about music don't coincide very well with those of the general populace so perhaps we *are* the ones whose opinions are heretical.
RE #197 & #199 "Riders of the Storm" was the Doors' big hit when Jim Morrison died, which may explain the cult following of that number.
"Walter Carlos' A CLOCKWORK ORANGE;" tatty 25-year-old vinyl getting an airing now that I have *finally* gotten my turntable to sit level on this creaky old floor.
any relation to the good book or the dreadful movie by that name?
before today, everything but the girl
Head like a Hole, NIN
Orinoco in #202: "Walter Carlos' A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" is Carlos' presentation of all the music Carlos worked on for the film, whether it was used or not. It has been out of print since its initial release in 1971 (?), presumably due to legal wrangling. The Carlos LP includes an original composition, "Timesteps;" two movements from Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Second (Scherzo) and an abridged Fourth (Choral); Purcell's "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary"; and Rossini's overture to the opera "The Thieving Magpie." This is all early Moog synthesizer stuff, of course. There is also an official soundtrack recording which includes only portions of the Carlos performances. NP: more vinyl: Malicorne, LE BESTIARE. French folk-rock from '78.
in the absence of sun, Duncan Sheik. i like.
Frank Zappa, "Jazz from Hell".
"Miami" U2
Runrig, HEARTLAND. Would go well with anyone who liked Big Country.
Five Hand Reel, debut self-titled LP from '77. More ticky vinyl. Scottish folk-rock band which ranks with Steeleye Span in quality, but which never got any US marketing.
Mara, RUINO VINO. Australian folk band with major Balkan influence. The disc just arrived from an acquaintance in Australia this week.
senna--haven't heard of that one. What album's it off of?
Pop, orinoco, it's actually a good album. Spoonman, soundgarden
Fairport Convention "Leige and Leif" just finshed on the CD player. probably the classic British folk/rock album. This album has great singing, great fiddling, and Richard Thompsom on guitar, highly recommended.
Plus, with the addition of that Leif fellow it's even better! Listening now to U2's "Zooropa" album and mourning the fact that the follow-up album is so awful. Granted I'm biased in favor of Zooropa because (thankfully) it's almost more of an Eno album than it U2 but the singles from the new album are just appallingly bad. C'mon: "over me and over you / stuck together with God's glue / gonna get stickier, too"? Is the whole album that bad or is there some reason the low point has been singled out for incessant air-play?
Bob Dylan - "John Wesley Harding"
Annelin Neadit, SKEAKIT. More Sami (Lapp) music. I am probably mangling the spelling. ,.
Actually, Mike, I personally think that the new album is excellent. Of course, reluctant U2 fans of old have some trouble with the first two singles.. but I don't have the problem of being an old U2 fan, I can actually listen unprejudiced. Staring at the Sun is one of my least favorite songs on the album... I don't know why people obsess over it. "Do you Feel Loved" is much better, and it sounds a bit like old U2. "Miami" is different, but I like the plodding pace of it and the general feel. Freak, Silverchair (I dig calling myself a freak)
Well I frequently find that when I like an album by a mega-popular band the tracks selected for radio play are the ones I least enjoy.. I'm willing to admit that "Pop" might be a good album -- I was very pleasantly surprised by "Achtung Baby" and especially "Zooropa" -- after the insane overplaying of "Unforgettable Fire" and "Joshua Tree" during the time I lived in the dorms I thought I'd never be able to bear to listen to a U2 song again, let alone enjoy two successive albums. Nevertheless, if I ever buy "Pop" I'm going to be glad that I've got a CD changer that can be programmed to never, ever, ever play "Staring at the Sun." Anyway, I suppose this is all fodder for a different item. What am I listening to now? "Dub Gone Crazy" by King Tubby & friends..
Actually, 'Joshua Tree' is one of my favorites, if only because I never heard it when it was overplayed on the radio and hence don't have that bias against it. 'Unforgettable Fire' I've never heard, but I've also never heard anyone say anything nice about it, so... Oh, and "On" by Adrian Belew.
Listening to "It's A Beautiful Morning" by the Rascals.
Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Arthur Grumiaux & Claudio Arrau
it's interesting how radio ariplay can so completely turn me against some songs... I liked zero by the smashing pumpkins until it came out on the radio.. then voila, I hate it. Smae thing goes for New Pollution by beck, Excuse Me Mr. by No Doubt, greedy Fly by Bush. the List goes on.
yeah, once radio grabs ahold of something, they play it to death and back. most anything that gets played and played, i get reallly sick of.. so if i like a song and don't want to get sick of it.. i make a point of either not listening to radio, or not listening to the song when it comes on..
We *do* have a radio item which could use some entries. Whatever. NP: 4th CD of the Motown Boxed Set. Our new cat peed all over the box last week, and today she clawed up this disc which was still sitting out loose from the cleanup operation. Amazingly, the disc still plays.
Blues Deluxe, on WIQB, 102.9fm, waiting for Dr. Demento to start. (I do like the hour of blues before hand).
Steely Dan -- "Katy Lied"
no i didn't! <chuckle> uh, bad joke. listening to mama no quiero mas heuvo, aluva aluva, i think it translates into my mom doesn't have many eggs... how strange, well, it's mexican techno/dance
actually, 'my mom doesn't want more eggs'
Morphine, "Swimming".
ah, well, it's still a weird translation, and especially a weird title for a song. it's a shame, the spinners, i felt like seeing what this motown cd is that's been lying on the computer desk.. now i know, and knowing's half the battle.
Sleep to Dream, Fionna Apple
(actualy, mama no quiero mas huevos is mama, I don't want more eggs.) I keep listening for the printer at work to start working again! <sigh> I'm never getting outta here.
Listening to Chambanacon 1991, the Friday Night Open Filk (my recording).
big man with a gun, NIN (I like the song)
Car on a hill by Joni Mitchell
Caledon, "The Noble Trousers." Caledon is Clan Alba minus Dick Gaughan, more or less; another outpost of the vast musical empire of Scottish harpists & singers Mary MacMaster and Patsy Seddon.
Still listening to a song from Odelay.
Waitress, by Live
Caledon, "The Noble Trousers," just like response 237.
Noble Trousers...I have no clue, but it sounds intriguing...what is?
Donald Fagen, "Kamakiriad".
the new Yo La Tengo album, "I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One" perhaps not their best to date, suffers from some consistency problems, but has some great tracks - I just can't get the beat from "Moby Octopad" out of my mind.. anyone else here like Yo La Tengo?
Iggy Pop, "Brick by Brick"
Future Sound of London -- "Papua New Guinea"
Orinoco in #241: "The Noble Trousers" is your typical Scottish folk harp & bagpipe band, some Gaelic singing if I remember. Patsy Seddon & Mary MacMaster have four bands going right now... they're all at least interesting.
Wayfaring Stranger by Hills, Herdman and Mangsten.
listening to myself drumming on my brit lit book, i'm hoping to soon branch out into marching snare drum...
White, Discussion, by Live.
Kim Richey, "Bitter Sweet", which I already reviewed somewhere.
Pachelbel's Greatest Hit, arranged for two sopranos, Tatiana Troyanos and Benita Valente.
quiet, bjork
Is that a song name or a command?
heh :) Kickstand, Soundgarden.
Freshmen, the Verve Pipe...nice and depressing
Material -- "Seven Souls" Such a cool album, yet nobody's ever heard of it and it's even harder to find than it is to describe. Anyone else in this conference familiar with this gem?
Yes that is a brilliant album, I like the combination of Indian music, funk, and W.S. Burroughs poetic reflections on the transition of the soul to the afterlife. I lost my copy though <sigh>. If you like that one also try Material "Memory Serves," it's more like disonant jazz funk, it also has some great musicians like Bootsy Collins, Henry Threadgill, and ofcourse the usual Laswell people.
Didn't like "Memory Serves" or "Live In Japan" but "The Third Power" and, to a lesser extent, "Hallucination Engine" were both good.. None of them, though, compare to "Seven Souls" In the CD-player at the moment, Muslimgauze -- "Zul'm"
How is that Muslimgauze I'v always been intriqued by them but I haven't heard much of their stuff.
Still echoing Bleeding Me, by Metallica
re #259: I like it (now) but it took a little while to grow on me. I was, I think, expecting something different -- more melody oriented and actively engaging.. In contrast to what I was expecting, Zul'm makes considerable use of repetition and percussion patterns making it less instantly catchy but good as background music. I often listen to it while I'm working on something or as I'm falling asleep.
Mbilia Bel, Rigo Star, & Vivick Matou: "Yalowa." First soukous CD I've bought in ages; review in the World Music item soon.
"Flamenco: Fire and Grace", a Narada-records flamenco collection that I bought on a whim this afternoon.. Not bad for $2.50 but so far utterly failing to captivate me..
Some Tool which I cant' name yet
DJ Shadow, "Introducing DJ shadow." This is an interesting instrumental hip-hop album with more diverse samples than most, it samples everything from Tangerine Dream, to classical choral music and with really interesting beats behind it, recommended.
Is that different from "Endtroducing", his most recent?
Yup Endtroducing...Who me read the title, I just skim the title. :-) At any rate it's a good disc.
Listeing to Throwing Muses "House Tornado," it's their second album and my favorite (currently).
Fishbone, "Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe".
the soft purr of my cat behind the slightly louder pulse of Miami by U2
the Moodswings, "Moodfood"
One Riot One Ranger, "Faces Made For Radio." Sloppy but fun bluegrass.
Strange Currencies, R.E.M.
NPR
What REM song (CD?) is that?
("Strange Currencies" is on Monster..)
Listening to King Tubby again.. I'm not sure why I've become so
fascinated by dub lately, it just kind of happened.. Perhaps it's
the remarkable process of making new and totally different music by
disassembling and altering other people's work (decades before the
current sampling craze and with quaintly primitive equipment by today's
standards..) Right now I'm wondering if he'd have been a total terror
if the he'd had modern equipment available to him for the work he did
in the mid-70's or if the availability of advanced tools might've
stopped him from developing his distinctive style..
One Riot One Ranger again. Sounds better on the home stereo than in the car.
The Jimi Hendrix special on Blues Deluxe... WIQB, 102.9fm, 10pm Sundays, just before Dr. Demento.
Various Artists, "Amp", a collection of electronic music that, despite being released under MTV's aegis, nevertheless doesn't suck. I particularly like the track "Atom Bomb" by Fluke.. "Baby's got a Nobel Prize Given for the perfect crime Baby's got an atom bomb.." Can anyone tell me if this track's fairly typical of Fluke's recordings?
Restarted Mellon Collie.. *I'm listening to Jellybelly by the Smashing Pumpkins right now
Eulogy, Tool
Tortoise "Millions Now Living will Never Die," this is kind of hard to describe I guess the closest might be experimental rock improve with influences of everything from Philip Glass, and Disicplene era King Crimson, to Hip Hop, and 50s rock instrumetals and the Grateful Dead if they had started in the 90s. It's all instrumetal & mellow, good chillin' music.
On the shoulders of freaks-Henry Phillips
Monkey Wrench, Foo Fighters (off the cd, not the radio)
Peter Gabriel, SHAKING THE TREE (PG has only done one studio album in the last ten years!!!)
ultra by depeche mode
The Walkabouts, RAG & BONE. The collapse of the melodic talent of this Seattle band was one of the great disappointments of the '90's; RAG & BONE, from 1990, was their zenith.
Are the Walkabouts no more? I always loved their stuff. If you are a Walkabouts fan you might want to check out the Throwing Muses, esp their first eponymous album and their second CD "House Tornado."
PLAY-Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea
The Walkabouts still exist; I will have to find someplace to write about them.
Wish, NIN
soundtrak CD from anime series "El Hazard The Magnificent World".
Tim Berne and Mark Feldman
Junior Brown, SEMI CRAZY: the surf medley, which we heard for the first time last night on CBC's Nightlines program.
The End is the Beginning is the End, Smashing PUmpkins
the Skatalites -- "Ska-ta-shots" Definitely not worth the whopping $30 Tower's been demanding for it for the past several years but when I found the other day that they'd given up on selling it at their beyond-the-bounds-of-reason import price and had marked it down to $9.99 I snapped it up. Has a couple of swinging tracks that haven't made it to any of the early ska compilations I own..
(How did you find out that Tower had marked this down? There is a Breton disc by the band Tri Yann which has similarly been priced at $32 for about five years...)
Sorry, just happened across it while scanning for interesting dub & ska titles.. I think they'd actually moved it up to the shelf above the display bins.. I don't think it's part of a huge movement afoot at Tower to reduce their import inventory (although every once in a while they do so..)
is that any good scott? the music from the series seemd good, but who knows with soundtracks..
The "El Hazard" CD is a weird one. It has the opening and ending themes (really cool), then a set of radio plays (in Japanese, of course!) interspersed with pop songs. Those are all based on the characters. I have a tape with all of the music and just one of the radio plays. It gets a lot of airtime here in my house. :)
ah, sounds cool:)
The Magnetic Fields -- "The Charm of the Highway Strip"
Dr. Demento's 20th anniversary CD, disc 2, "Star Trekkin"
I have that! I listened to that Dr.Demento thing all summer a couple years ago!! Right now though-Masada
The Walkabouts, SEE BEAUTIFUL RATTLESNAKE GARDENS. Still writing that short Walkabouts essay in my head.
re # 305 I really like that Walkabouts CD a lot.
Kiss Off, The Levitz
Spiritualized -- "Laser-Guided Melodies"
push it, salt n peppa, uh.. i can explain.. queer thing on the radio
Still listening to Shoots and Ladders, by Korn
Infinity-McCoy Tyner with Micheal Brecker. . .
McCoy Tyner, INFINITY. I was inspired by katt's response above to pull the shrinkwrap off this copy which has been sitting in the living room for far too long.
The Beginning is the End of the Beginning, a remix of The End is the Beginning is the End (well, sort of. more of a reprise.) I'm really impressed by the last few sountrack offerings by the Pumpkins. They're better than a lot of their album stuff.
Bim Sherman -- "Miracle"
My little brother trying to drum.
Ken-whadja think of it? Orange than Light Blue-Funkarello
My tape of Bush covering the Rolling Stones song "Wild Horses."
Anything i deem good enough. I would like to listen to The Westboys... but... Tower Records sucks since they didn't have any. I guess I will try SKR next and then the mall. If no one has it, i am sorry, i will have to kill people. =)
"God Shiva" by Mshell Ndegeocello <sp?>
Divine, Korn
candy everbody wants, 10,000 maniaca er maniacs
Father Lucifer Tori Amos
Um, Bonedriven.
still listening to the Magnetic Fields' "Charm of the Highway Strip" -- just can't seem to take it out of my CD player..
just recently i was constantly listening to Barenaked Ladies, but iwas strong and changed it to the Cheiftains.
Bullet in your head, Rage against the Machine
the first, eponymously-titled Stone Roses album..
Exhuming Mcarthy, R.E.M.
Devil's Haircut, Beck
That crazy El Hazard anime soundtrack yet again.
Um, whatever's in my head, which seems to be some lousy song that Cedar Point plays.
Ack! katt in #316 asked for a reaction to the new McCoy Tyner CD, and I couldn't think of anything to say. Duh, I liked it. Arabella liked it even more; she is a fan of quite a few jazz pianists, since she plays piano herself. Tarnation, MIRADOR; been playing it somewhat obsessively, watch the alt-country item for a review.
CD-shuffle mix with 20,20 & 25 Hard-to-find Motown songs, plus
a STax/Volt compilation (Theme from Shaft, Funky Chicken, Mr. Big Stuff)
and a Motown Great Hits CD.
Right now, Born to Wander - Rare Earth
Some Stray Cats that's lying around
Listening to the computer fan right now. The headphones are downstairs, and I don't want to wake up the household with loud music.
Some Mechwarrior 2 background music.
Strangers in a Car, Mark Cohn
Something I don't recognize on 89X
The River, 93.9fm just after tuning into "Acoustic Cafe" a syndicated show made hear in Ann Arbor. When the commercials hit hard, it's off to the CD player.
Piggies, the Beatles
Herb Alpert, PASSION DANCE, new album from my childhood fave.
"The Horse" by Cliff Nobles and Company (their entire "Greatest Hits" CD).
FOLK 'N HELL, anthology of contemporary Scottish stuff
Dr. Demento on WIQB, 102.9fm, Sunday nights at 11pm, Ann Arbor.
re 342- I love Cliff Nobles. Cool group
RE #344 I wish that IQB, or another area station, could carry Dr. Demento at an earlier time.
Lights Out, Newsboys.
Primus, "The Brown Album". Just came out!
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by the Righteous Brothers.
What i want to grex by is the _Grosse Piont Blanke_ sound track....
Primus has a new album? why havne't I heard about this?
That damn 'bitch' song, which my cousins won't stop playing
I don't know, orin, it's not such a bad song in *very* small doses. Right now Fish So Fine by Eye Guy -Thanx orin!
The Old Joe Clarks, TOWN OF TEN.
Just saw and add for the Primus album. I ahve no idea why I haven't heard any singles or any promotion on the radio
There was a diplay in the window at Schoolkids.
Zoned, the Levitz
<bows> Nothing right now--I'm going into music withdrawl out here, away from all my CDs. Thankfully, I'll be home tomorrow. :)
Ditto on the withdrawal.. I should've brought a bunch've CDs with me before I fled AA, I guess I didn't realize I'd be gone this long.
Uh, something on the radio
Since I didn't have anything to listen to, I broke down and made a side trip to my favorite record store (Vinyl Solution, in Grand Rapids.) Now listening to Spiritualized's new album, "Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space"
THRAKK, King Crimson
I took out my Peter Gabriael Cds again... i love this man!!!!!
Too bad he's only done one studio album in the last ten years. :(
too true... but to keep myself happy about him, i have a theory that he takes him time so he can produce *good* music and not crap.
Wherever I may Roam, Metallica
Let Me Be Your Song, from Fraggle Rock
I looked in my box-o-Cds and found Mazzystar....damn fine woman!
Something by radiohead
In The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
<applauds>
re 367: I miss Cantis (Jim Henson).
Cold Turkey - John Lennon (real loud)
re 367&372: wasn't it Candace? Or am I imagining things. Or possibly just being too anal for my own good...
Okay, from my Fraggle Rock, Music and Magic CD, the credit goes
to Jim Henson for Convincing John and Cantus the Minstrel.
sorry for the mis-spelling.
No music on right now, listening in to Drew & Mike on WRIF
Carseat, by Blind Melon.
Wally Pleasant
an anthlogy of Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn covers
re 374: you're always too anal for your own good.:) Nothing new there. I don't know, generic library cd.
Time-Life SOUNDS OF THE SEVENTIES, 1972, volume II. (Did anyone subscribe to the SOUNDS OF THE 80's series?) ((Admin note: I'm going to freeze this item and start a new copy when we get to about 400 responses.))
Something by Johnny Q Public (they're a band, not an artist)
The Polish Muslims on CD, finally a compilation of many of their songs. "Love Polka Number 9"
Swipsy, a rag written by Scott Joplin, and performed by Richard Zimmerman. I love the Polish MuslimsDidn't they bring out the Chicken dance?
The Dear Janes, NO SKIN; best $1 junk used CD I've gotten in a while
Some funky Bjork remix
That damn El Hazard soundtrack again.
"Some Fools Never Learn" by Steve Wariner from Janet's CD "Today's Hot Country."
Angry Chair, Alice In Chains.
MTV Unplugged (on CD) Vol. 1.
A Japanese recording of some Bach cantatas; I'm too lazy to get the box to report which ones.
i got Sarah M's new cd and love it.
I'm waiting for the Spawn soundtrack. Starfox 64 in the backgrtound.
Spiritualized - "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space"
"Get Back" - Paul what's his name
You mean that guy who was in Wings?
"Get Back" was by the Beatles (featuring the future Sir Paul McCartney).
No! Reaallly?
H, Tool
Mojave 3 - "Ask Me Tomorrow" (not so good -- a couple of Slowdive members apparently decided they'd rather be in a mediocre Mazzy Star clone band. For my money they'd've spent their time more productively coming up with another album like Slowdive's "Souvlaki" instead..)
Wow, 400. I feal so special. Easy Money, by King Crimson.
When I first started reading this item, I'd had last listened to tuba player Roger Bobo's "Yellow Bird" (not to be confused with the folk song of the same name-- it's a fusion piece based on the folklore of the yellow bird that tricked the devil), so it was going through my head, alternating with Real Life's "Send Me An Angel." Right now I'm listening to xkp's "heart ov thee would" from the ambient compilation _From Here to Tranquility_.
Worlds Apart, Jars Of Clay
OK, eight months, over 400 responses, and this one I declare to be full, as I announced about 20 responses ago. The new "now playing" item is #60; see you there!
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