What have you been listening to lately?

[mvd]

New Pornographers - Electric Version (I love this CD! It's sure to be in my top 10 of the year. Call it bubblegum alternative maybe. But it's bugglegum worthy of The Monkees.)

Beatles - Abbey Road (a very favorite, and even the goofy lyrics here are loveable.)

Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper (The Spirit Room had an amazing punch and I won't be forgetting it, but Hotel Paper feels like a natural progression. She's doing great pop and I can't wait until the next one already.)

George Strait - Honkeytonkville (one or two songs are just solid and could have appeared on a number of albums, but this is another gem for George.)

samples from Alex Bach - she's amazing! She's more rock than Michelle and Avril.

[Gringo]

1. Sinead O'Connor

Three Babies and others...

Harry Belafonte (Shake Senora!)

The Happytones "I Hate Republicans" :-)

[TSIAS]

2. I have a small collection

I just got Jimmy Buffett's "Meet Me in Margaritaville" compilation. There's 40 of his greatest hits, along with a few new recordings of older songs".

I also have Avril Lavigne's "Lets Go" debut album.

I always rotate my three Dixie Chicks CD's, "Home", "Fly", and "Wide Open Spaces".

I still actually listen to Billy Ray Cyrus, one of only a few country singers I can listen to".

I just bought "The Essential Willie Nelson", which is very good.

I have U2's "All That You Can't Leave Behind" in my car.

I occasionally listen to "The Rising" by Bruce Springsteen.

Finally, I have "Thankful" by Kelly Clarkson. It's surprisingly good. Better than the film "Justin and Kelly".

--Taylor

[mvd]

5. I love your taste!

:hi: TSIAS!

I even agree that the Kelly Clarkson isn't bad. I still think she could use better material, but with the exception of "Low," it's very listenable like Celine's A New Day Has Come.

[Pepperbelly]

3. white album, bare naked ladies first album, doors and ...

Ricki Lee Jones...

[Ramsey]

4. Ramsey's Latest List

Evanescence - Fallen
Peter Gabriel - Up
Rene Bouchard - crawl
Soundtrack to Black Hawk Down - Hans Zimmer
Black Lab - This Body Above You
The Devlins - Waiting
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Raul Malo - Today
Matchbox 20 - More Than You Think You Are


Just to name a few.

[GOPisEvil]

6. How's the Raul Malo?

I've seen The Mavericks a couple of times, and have always been impressed with Malo's voice. He hits those notes live, which is incredible.

I've heard a single or two, but not the whole thing.

[Ramsey]

11. It's great!

It is a somewhat eclectic mix, some songs in English, siome in Spanish. It has a wide range of styles, from Latin rhythm, to bluesy, to tango, to ballad, to authentic Mexican, to jazzy.

My favorite track, one that I heard on the local public station, really grabbed me and enticed me to buy the CD, is a very poignant ballad about love gone wrong (aren't those always the best?), called Every Little Thing.

I can definitely highly recommend this album!

[GOPisEvil]

12. I'll have to check it out!

Good thing my local store allows folks to listen before they buy - not just the popular cds either!

:-)

[WillyT]

7. Mike Malloy !!! --- What.... Oh, Sorry !

:evilgrin:

[mvd]

8. LOL

That's good, though - and I didn't specify music. :)

[KadeCarrion]

9. Peter Gabriel

Security, Up and Secret World Live.

[Ein]

10. Lately:

Crusin Tunes:
311 - Transistor, Music
Propagandhi - Todays Empires, Tommorows Ashes
Nofx - War on Errorism
Ween - Pure Guava

At Work:
Buddy Rich - The Best of Buddy Rich
Malloy and Hartman mp3s I burn.
Various classical CD's my friend loan me.

At Home:
Assorted mp3s

[curse10]

13. Germaine Tailleferre

She's on of "Les Six" A goup of 6 French composers that were around at the beginning of the 20th century

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. Quite a mix for me tonite

Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear
Frampton Comes Alive
The Association - Anthology
B-Tribe - Suave Suave
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Time Passages Live
Secret Garden - Songs From A Secret Garden
Molly Hatchet - Double Trouble Live

Is that called "a mix" or "complete chaos"?

Gotta keep the ol' synapses firing somehow...

[WindRavenX]

15. 3 CDs that never leave my CD player..

Red Hot Chili Peppers- By The Way
Coldplay-A Rush of Blood To The Head
Coldplay-Parachutes

[sasquatch]

16. Motorhead

thier latest album:Hammered
Mike Malloy
Disturbed:Believe
Hendrix:Land of the new rising sun
Tool:Lateralus and Aenema
Led Belly: Where did you sleep last night?

[Kenneth ken]

17. The Blasters

The complete Slash Recordings

really tasty double CD set.

[opiate69]

18. my usual rotation

Tool: Lateralus
Eleven: Avant Garde Dog
Bill Hicks: Rant in E Minor
Jethro Tull: Stormwatch/Heavy Horses
Black Sabbath: Sabotage
and I just recently rediscovered (thanks, kazaa): Alcatrazz: Distrubing the Peace. (the one with Steve Vai)

[Syn_Dem]

19. Hmm

Anti-Flag's Underground Network and Mobilize...also Coldplay's latest album a Rush of Blood to the Head...Bad Religion's recipe for hate....and NOFX's War on Errorism

[Il_Coniglietto]

20. Stuff

The Beatles: White Album
The Roots: Phrenology
George Harrison: Brainwashed
Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
Linkin Park: Reanimation
Moby: Play
Jurassic 5: Quality Control
Massive Attack: 100th Window
Vivaldi: Four Seasons
Depeche Mode: 101
Stone Temple Pilots: Purple

[SEAburb]

21. today, 7-8, I listen to

Joe Satriani's Crystal Planet
Shelby Lynne's Love, Shelby
AFI's Sing the Sorrow

[mvd]

22. Right now

A Carly Simon Greatest Hits collection - I'm really starting to get into her. She did some of the best torch singing.

Also, a collection called Ultimate Disco - hard to resist these partiular songs, including "Y.M.C.A." and "Celebration." Some of these songs aren't even pure disco.

The new Lucinda Williams album is really growing on me, and I want to buy it. It took a while to appreciate what are some of her sparest songs and purest blues songs yet. I love how even when she's vulnerable, her voice still sounds like there's some attitude there.

I heard some of the new Thalia - rhythmatic and bouncy, but possibly still too J. Lo-ish to buy. So far I think it's clearly above J. Lo and Paulina Rubio.

I don't see what the big fuss about Buddy Jewell is in country. His voice and songs so far sound like paint by numbers.

[SweetZombieJesus]

23. Looooot of PowerPop

Big Star, Raspberries, a little Cheap Trick, The Knack, Brendan Benson's latest album, new Supergrass, etc etc. Oh, and The Posies "Frosting On The Beater" album, along with Velvet Crush's "Teenage Symphonies To God" are making for particularly poignant summer nights of drinking.

[Capn Sunshine]

24. Currently playing

Cab Calloway
that dude rocks.Tool Cool.

prior:Aerosmith."Rocks"

next on CDplayer :Los Lobos, Colossal Head

[phishhead]

25. I got a Freya cd today, haven't quit listening to it yet.

Its one of the best hardcore cd's I've heard in quite some time.

[mvd]

26. Tonight..

More Carly Simon
My disco collection (some big hits here were clearly clunkers, like the slow "I'll Be Good To You," the rambling "Shake Your Groove Thing," and the cheesy "Get Up And Boogie." but I really like some of these disco songs - "Flashdance (What A Feeling)" just one more of them. They make the album worth it.)
Mandy Moore - self-titled (ok, I admit liking it a lot. It fits in perfectly with my White Stripes and Lucinda Williams CDs, just like Avril, Michelle, etc. do. I feel like Mandy will go places (not just in music,) and Britney won't.)

[mvd]

27. Tonight

BTW, I'm not bumping this one after tonight. I'll wait for a new one.

I heard:

Jennifer Hanson - self-titled: one of the better country releases lately. And it's grown on me - into an A- grade at least. She should be as popular as the somewhat by the numbers Rascal Flatts. Speaking of country, I might like the new ones by Brooks And Dunn and Brad Paisley.

Also heard a song called "Bad Girl" from an up and comer named Alexandra Slate - it's very good, and it reminds me of a rockier Fiona Apple.

A big thumbs down to the new Monica.

Heard some of Jessica Harp, and I'm not sure I'd like her as much as a lot of the other pop rockers. Some other pop-rockers I don't like as much: Lisa Marie Presley (still find "Lights Out" pretty annoying,) this Canadian pop/rock group I can't think of the name of now (not Our Lady Peace,) Kelly Osbourne - and I really don't like Jennifer Love Hewitt.

[TheBigGuy]

28. Gillian Welch, Old 97s, String Cheese Incident.

...Bert Jansch, Robb Johnson.

Just got the new Drive By Truckers CD...