What are you listening to tonight?

[mvd]

American Idol auditions. That first woman and the last guy are why some of these auditions are hard to watch/listen to.

These are the CDs I last listened to:

Nerina Pallot - Fires
The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
Alexz Johnson - Songs From Instant Star 2
Tilly And The Wall - Bottoms Of Barrels
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Candice - It's Always The Innocent Ones
Ellery - Lying Awake

All highly recommended!

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. Okay fine....

I have the FX premiere of "Thirteen Going On Thirty" playing above my head. Whatever, some decent 80s music.

[crim son]

2. Blessed silence. n/t

[BarenakedLady]

3. I have on my iPod shuffling

through all my favorites.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. The Closer.

It's on in the background.
Duckie

[Mojambo]

5. I really like that Tilly and the Wall record.

Took me a couple listens to get into it.

[mvd]

6. It's beautiful, isn't it?

Some songs, like "Rainbows In The Dark," sound like lost classics.

[mvd]

10. BTW

I'll be listening to the albums I got during the holidays for a while. I got about 25 CDs to close out the year. Only one disappointed me: the new Emily Haines. Taken in small doses, her CD is pleasantly sophisticated. But it gets numbing because of the lack of variety.

I forgot that I heard a live stream of the upcoming CD from the Postmarks (it's self-titled and excellent despite the mellow sound throughout.)

[Mojambo]

12. The album would be worth having for "Rainbows In The Dark" alone.

And there's plenty more to like.

The piano intro to the bouncy "Urgency."

The simple, but elegant "Lost Girls" and "Love Song."

The utterly uplifting "Sing Songs Along"

And oh man, "The Freest Man." I usually don't go for the electronic tinged stuff, but that's a great song!

It really is a rather inspirational record. I feel great when I hear it.

One of the best indie pop offerings of the year. For sure.

[mvd]

33. I had it in my best of 2006 list

Not quite in my top 20, but in hindsight, perhaps it should have been in.

[Ptah]

7. Some historical stuff

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x6067077

[lizziegrace]

8. Shooter Jennings

:wow:

[mike_c]

9. ARETHA!

Live album on now.

[Deja Q]

11. Videos on youtube...

[donheld]

13. deafening silence

:boring:

[Initech]

14. Currently - Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

Some others I've listened to today:

Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
Mars Volta - Amputecture
John Frusciante - Shadows Collide With People
Lupe Fiasco - Food And Liquor
Funkadelic - Self-Titled
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain

[Zookeeper]

19. I am loving "Return to Cookie Mountain"

and have been playing it to death. (Along with The Fall, "Heads Roll," and Eagles of Death Metal.)

At the moment, though, I'm enjoying some rare quiet time.

:thumbsup:

[Initech]

20. It is a great CD.

I need to get their other disc "Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes".

[Zookeeper]

27. Yes, my ears perked up when I first heard...

a couple of songs from that CD, but I never did buy it.

Please let me know how it compares. :hi:

[enigmatic]

15. my overnight show

Last 10 tracks:

God Give Me Strength- Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach
7 Dirty Words You Can't Say On Television- George Carlin
On Travelling- Richard Buckner
Love Is Like Oxygen- Johnny Polaris
Move- The State Of Mind
Thunder Road- Bruce Springsteen
I'm A Man- Bo Diddley
Reel Around The Fountain- The Smiths
Bright Summer Day- Curved Air
Final Solution- Pere Ubu

[fizzgig]

16. the few albums i have on itunes

green day, rancid, me too and the gimme gimmes, modest mouse, bad religion and a few dwarves songs thrown in for good measure

[idgiehkt]

17. lol, I just posted a whole thread

when I could have just replied to yours. I'm listening to "Look Around" by Blues Traveler, which is like a lecture to myself.

[mark414]

18. a mixtape i made for a friend

playlist as follows:

goodie mobb - free
lennie hibbert - rose len
tony alvon & the bel-airs - sexy coffee pot
pleazers - security
little denise - check me out
blondie - hanging on the telephone
dayton sidewinders - funky in here
the exploding hearts - i'm a pretender
the byrds - i'll feel a whole lot better
third guitar - baby don't cry
the lyrics - so what
helene smith - you got to be a man
donovan - get thy bearings
the maytals - monkey man
velvet underground - lisa says
gary byrd - soul travelin
massive attack - be thankful for what you've got
frank wilson - do i love you (indeed i do)
crazy girls - hey hey ha ha
the go! team - bottle rocket
ann raye - will you love my child
koushik - none in mind
the kinks - apeman
them - out of sight
the flamingoes - heavy hips
marvin holmes - find yourself
iggy pop - i'm bored

yes...it's as awesome as it sounds

[enigmatic]

21. "dayton sidewinders - funky in here"

I never heard of them; what are they like?

[mark414]

24. some of the damn funkiest stuff you've never heard

i just barely stumbled across them myself a year ago or so...to my knowledge they only released one single, ever, and both sides could bring brick walls down...

do you have AIM or MSN? i could send it to ya...my AIM is markLS414 and msn is [e-mail]

[enigmatic]

25. I'm going to PM you in a sec n/t

[mark414]

26. right on...check yer email

[Mojambo]

28. The Exploding Hearts. What a band.

Did you pick up the Shattered Ep that Dirtnap put out a while back? Some great b-sides and alt versions on there.

[mark414]

29. what a band indeed

and i've heard a couple tracks off the ep (busy signals is amazing) but not the whole thing

though when i'm in my weirder moods and i put them on i nearly drive myself to tears thinking about what happened to them because they're SO DAMN GOOD :cry: RIP, dudes

[Mojambo]

30. Busy Signals is great

So is Making Teenage Faces.

It's a shame how few people realize what a terrible loss for music that was. They would have been HUGE.

[Broken_Hero]

22. H.I.M...

their cd Dark Light...

And Rob Zombie's, Educated Horses.....:D

[Heidi]

23. The Stranglers.

:hi: mvd! :hug:

[mvd]

34. Hi, Heidi!

What kind of music do The Stranglers do? :hi: :hug:

[Heidi]

35. Rock, punkish, 70s.

Here's my favorite Stranglers song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAy9HG1XRos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCBiohY39yo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranglers

This far from my normal listening material, but I just watched "Sexy Beast," and fell in love with The Stranglers' "Peaches" on the soundtrack. "Peaches" plays behind a scene in which a "reformed" British thief, retired to a villa in sunny Spain, is sunning himself poolside and very nearly gets crushed by a boulder that lands in his swimming pool.

[mvd]

36. Cool concert footage, Heidi

They are pretty old-style punk. Haven't changed a whole lot since the 70s.

[Omphaloskepsis]

31. At this moment..

Artist: Styrofoam
Album: Nothing's Lost
Song: Couches in Alleys (featuring Ben Gibbard)

[Mojambo]

32. I just put on some Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer.

Jalopy Go Far

Pretty fun stuff! I just picked it up.