What did you listen to today/tonight?

[Rangdo]

Thought I'd kick off something like this as it can be a good way to get introduced to stuff you've never heard of before ;)

So, for me tonight:-

Volbeat - Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil.

Probably the best album Metallica never recorded, well produced, great catchy tracks and best described as Metallica with the odd touch of country/rock'n'roll with a lead singer that at times sounds like Elvis.

Ambeon - Fate of a Dreamer

If you know Ayreon, you may have heard of this as it's a side-project. Kind of ambient and/or progressive rock with a great female vocalist, and amazing as she was only 14 at the time of recording. The CD has been deleted now so it's fleabay or Amazon shops only I think.

[haunyack]

completely different...

Suí Vesan - Merging With the Brook // omg... what a beautiful piece of work.

The title track sends me away.

http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/20060107160934177


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[Brian Ritchie]

Yesterday I received Steve Roach's latest two albums, Fever Dreams III (2 CDs) and immersion:three" (3 CDs), and since I was at home fending off a cold, I played them for most of the day. Fever Dreams is rhythmic ambient music (but not as feverish as, say, The Body Electric); immersion:three is arhythmic ambient washes. (I really do enjoy falling asleep to this stuff! Though today, I was actually trying to get some work done...)

Unfortunately, my SB3 is off for repair, so I had to keep changing CDs every 70 minutes - what a pain!

At one point though, I was playing different parts of immersion:three upstairs (via MediaMonkey) and downstairs - it's hardly stuff that has to be in sync.

However, when it was time to do the washing-up, I put on a playlist (on the iPod, through the kitchen "gecko blaster") unioning our "best ofs" of 2006-2004; and things like Doves, Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys, The Open, Gomez and Maximo Park were what came up. (We seemed to have a *lot* of washing-up :-) )

-- Brian

[stinkingpig]

Yo La Tengo, Modest Mouse, and The Decemberists in the house... the
construction crew in our backyard has good taste though, and I've
heard Belle & Sebastian, Elliott Smith, and more Yo La Tengo out there
:)
--
"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,
So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional

[toolik]

АукцЫон - Девушки поют

[doundounba]

Dave Brubeck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brubeck), Live at Montreux 1982. Great, intense, live jazz. Wonderful clarinette work by Bill Smith (http://faculty.washington.edu/bills/earshot.html). Brubeck is inspired, and inspiring. IMHO. :)

[KBP]

Volbeat - Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil

Hell yeah! :-) I play that album all the time! I really love the sound.

I can't wait until May 12., where I will attend one of their concerts...

[Rangdo]

A bit more progressive rock tonight

Magenta - Home/New York Suite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magenta_(Welsh_band)

That's not counting the couple of Volbeat tracks played at some volume that had my 3 year old daughter running around like a mad thing :D

[tyler_durden]

Spacemen 3

TD

[Mike Meyer]

I'm into progressive rock/metal too. Listening to alot of Threshold these days, new discovery for me.

Threshold - Subsurface

[Skunk]

the
construction crew in our backyard has good taste though, and I've
heard Belle & Sebastian, Elliott Smith, and more Yo La Tengo out there
:)


That sounds implausible, but you *are* in California I suppose. They mostly listen to Steve Miller, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, etc. IME.

LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver is great work rock, not to mention being the best new album I've heard in awhile, but I'd be lying if I said I listened to it tonight. Tonight was Vitamins For You, I'm Sorry Forever and Always (Folktronic I think, Indie for sure), about four times.

Lately I find myself picking an album for the house at night, or auto for the day, and sticking with it ad nauseum. LCD Soundsystem probably played 40+ times while driving around during the days, and Lustmord's Metavoid* nearly tied that in the house yesterday and the days preceding. Currently Roots Tonic meets Bill Laswell is in the car for the last few days, meaning about 30 rotations, but I'm really not sick of it yet.

*Brian Ritchie;
Steve Roach is credited for 'Bullroarer' (whatever ungodly instrument that is!) on Metavoid's Blood Deep In Dread. Just a tidbit for if you're ever playing six degrees of Steve Roach I suppose :-)

[Rangdo]

Threshold - Subsurface

This music business can get expensive, that's another one to check out ;)

[jdbaker]

Neil Young - On The Beach

[Rangdo]

H.I.M - Love Metal

And thanks to Mike Meyer :)

Threshold - Dead Reckoning, amazed the local HMV had a copy of this.

[Mike Meyer]

And thanks to Mike Meyer :)

Threshold - Dead Reckoning, amazed the local HMV had a copy of this.

Dead Reckoning is very good, that's the new one. Hope you like it!

[Rangdo]

Well a real mixed bag today

Vanessa Mae - The Original 4 Seasons
H.I.M. - Dark Light
Nightwish - Angels Fall First
Roger Taylor - Strange Frontier (blast from the 1984 past)
Magenta - a few CD singles I have
Proto-Kaw - Wait of Glory

Gotta love weekends and being in a lazy mood ;)

[Havoc]

L'orgue Dom Bedos de Sainte-Croix de Bordeaux

Some french baroque organ music on one of the finest organs for it.

[TCM]

The debut solo album by Curtis Mayfield - "Curtis"

[Khuli]

Well a real mixed bag today
Roger Taylor - Strange Frontier (blast from the 1984 past)

Wow - someone else bought a copy!!

[Rangdo]

Wow - someone else bought a copy!!

I must dig out Fun In Space - well, navigate the rock folder anyway :D

[raxtor]

Rickie Lee Jones with Girl at her Volcano, followed by the audio of Alicia Keys' Unplugged DVD.

(Hey, I'm new here!)

[Rangdo]

(Hey, I'm new here!)

Welcome :)

A bit late, but yesterday was Star One - Space Metal Limited Edition that just arrived through the post courtesy of fleabay.

It's a side-project of Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon) and not too shabby at all, it certainly keeps with his usual high production standards.

[smc2911]

Lots of Beautiful South and XTC (you can always see what I've been up to at http://www.last.fm/user/smc2911/)

[PhilNYC]

Was recently introduced to some "jazztronica"...

khmer by Nils Petter Molvaer

[Aztek]

Robert Plant - Principle of Moments
Pink Cream 69 - In10sity
Bob Dylan - Modern Times

[Rangdo]

Bit of a change last night

Tori Amos - American Doll Posse

[Mike Meyer]

Pink Cream 69 - In10sity

Another very good PC69 CD. Never thought I'd see them mentioned here. :)

[haunyack]

Somi - Red Soil In My Eyes.

Angelique Kidjo - Djin Djin.

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[fast eddie]

The Doors - LA Woman
Michelle Shocked - Arkansas Traveler
Leonard Cohen - Songs From a Room

[jdbaker]

Roger Waters w/Jeff Beck - Amused To Death, very well recorded, sounds great on my system in Party mode cranked up very loud (my wife is out of town)
The last three songs are just amazing.

[Rangdo]

WASP - Dominator
Rush - 2112 (remastered)
Ambeon - Fate of a Stranger

[egd]

Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws
John McLaughlin - Thieves & Poets
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

[givendale]

Kruder & Dorfmeister - G Stone Sessions
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio

[haunyack]

Luca Mundaca - Day By Day
Hem - Funnel Cloud
Susheela Raman - Salt Rain

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[tomjtx]

Beethoven Late quartets, grosse fugue, Guarneri

New Shins CD

Prefuse73

Ojos Negros

Bach 2nd cello suite transcribed for guitar, played by me :-)

[Mike Meyer]

Kamelot- Ghost Opera

[Rangdo]

Star One - Space Metal
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2003

[haunyack]

Songs Ohia - Ghost Tropic
The Books - The Lemon Of Pink
Soraya - En Este Nocha

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[peejay]

See the thread of the same name.

[Rangdo]

Dream Theater - Octavarium
Queen - Greatest Hits II
Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything

[haunyack]

A Girl Called Eddy - Tears All Over Town
Billy Joel - My Lives/Disc 3
Leon Redbone - Champagne Charlie

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[jonheal]

Always available here:

http://www.theheals.org/miscellanea/squeezebox_status.asp

Click on "Recently Played Selections."

[Timothy Stockman]

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - Contrasts
Kate Wolf - The Wind Blows Wild
Work of Art - Lift

[Havoc]

ELP - In the hot seat
Liquido - Liquido
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

All 3 long time since I heard them. Don't understand why I ever bought the Liquido...

[Barry.B]

Utopia - Oops! Wrong planet
Utopia - Adventures in Utopia
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Bjork - Post

For those who don't remember, Utopia was Todd Rundren's band.

Have a listen to Pink Floyd The Division Bell - Limited Edition Trance Mix by The Orb (if you can find it).

Regards,

Barry.B

[Rangdo]

Masterplan - Self-titled (kind of Helloween with a David Coverdale vocalist!!)

[haunyack]

Utopia - Oops! Wrong planet
Utopia - Adventures in Utopia
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Bjork - Post

For those who don't remember, Utopia was Todd Rundren's band.

Have a listen to Pink Floyd The Division Bell - Limited Edition Trance Mix by The Orb (if you can find it).

Regards,

Barry.B


Oops! Wrong Planet -
One of my all time favourite - during my headbanging days (now as well).

I've read where Todd used to release his Pop stuff just to garner more cash to upgrade his studio equipment.
He'd fit in nicely on the audiophile forum.

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[Mike Meyer]

Russell Allen & Jorn Lande - The Revenge

[Zymurgy]

Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Southern Culture On The Skids - Dirt Track Date

[Rangdo]

Tara Blaise - Dancing On Tables Barefoot
After Forever - After Forever
Tori Amos - American Doll Posse

[desertrat58]

Joe Henderson - Lush Life
Johnny Griffin - Dance of Passion
Jack DeJohnette - Parallel Realities

[krita]

Last night: The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (Part 1 and half of part 2)

with the lights dimmed
enjoying a christmas beer ;)

[haunyack]

Mouth Music - Mouth Music
Suba - São Paulo Confessions
Dayna Kurtz - Another Black Feather

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[satkinsn]

Lennie Tristano - Copenhagen Concert thru' sb3
Tom Waits - second disc of Orphans while helping a friend move
McCoy Tyner - Mosaic Select set on the road with wife, buying furniture
...started day with audiobook of 'Moneyball.'

[Jez]

Zidane soundtrack by Mogwai - a recent purchase
than a few tracks by Mooseheart Stellar Groove band that I had forgotten

[autopilot]

Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fluer

Groove Armarda - Soundrock Boy

[haunyack]

Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans.

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[Mike Meyer]

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

[satkinsn]

Today, Memorial Day...

One disc of an Otis Redding collection while giving the dog a ride. (Head out window, ears pinned back, tongue lolling while the cd player hits 'Try a Little Tenderness.)

Later...

Tom Waits 'Heart of Saturday Night' while visiting graves of relatives.

Later still, Essential Earth, Wind & Fire, 'Boogie Wonderland' to keep blues at bay.

[haunyack]

"Go for a ride, go for a ride ??"
Gotta love a dog's heart.

Otis Redding...I listened to his (label) "The Essentials Otis Redding" just today.

Tom Waits "Heart of Saturday night" .. I'll put that one on just now.

Earth Wind and Fire...the happy music of the early 70's.
Listened to them with my black brothers while serving in the U.S. Navy as the war was winding down.
Good times, bad times.

God bless.



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[satkinsn]

"Earth Wind and Fire...the happy music of the early 70's.

Listened to them with my black brothers while serving in the U.S. Navy as the war was winding down.
Good times, bad times.

God bless.



Best line in Boogie Wonderland: You dance and shake the hurt...

Today:

Bill Evans 'Affinity.' Give Rhino/Warner Bro.s/whomever credit - at least they keep Evans' WB albums in print.

Tonight:

The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow
Intimate Miss Christy - June Christy
Hey Eugene - Pink Martini

Now:

A very loud bullfrog in my backyard.

s.

[haunyack]

Best line in Boogie Wonderland: You dance and shake the hurt...

Today:

Bill Evans 'Affinity.' Give Rhino/Warner Bro.s/whomever credit - at least they keep Evans' WB albums in print.

Tonight:

The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow
Intimate Miss Christy - June Christy
Hey Eugene - Pink Martini

Now:

A very loud bullfrog in my backyard.

s.

Bill Evans - of course.

The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow - I have the 1999 re-issue - love the additional takes on "Gone With The Wind".

June Christy - Her husky voice sends me.

Have you critiqued "Hey Eugene" yet?

Bullfrog hold that beat.


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[Rangdo]

Well, waiting around for new laptop to arrive during the morning

Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
Laura Fygi - The Latin Touch

After laptop arrives and I get to spend ages cleaning off the pre-installed rubbish and get things the way I want them, not much else but finished with

Tori Amos - American Doll Posse

more-or-less as background.

Listening to this new BC S300iu of mine is addictive though.

[Rangdo]

Soundtrack night.

Hans Zimmer - Gladiator
Hans Zimmer - Pirates of the Caribbean 1
Howard Shore - Fellowship of the Ring

[haunyack]

Youssou N'Dour - Youssou N'Dour & His Friends
Femi Kuti - Fight To Win
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Gift Of The Tortoise

Maria Muldaur- Heart Of Mine ... So nice!
Tribute to Bob Dylan.

Eagles - One of These Nights.


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[satkinsn]

Have you critiqued "Hey Eugene" yet?



I never even heard of Pink Martini until I saw it on the front page of the Slim Devices site, and then saw the title of some thread here in which someone asked if anyone had listened to them.

Somehow all that added up to me buying the cd last week after a cursory listen at the local Borders.

It's charming, and then some. 'Hey Eugene' is a great story song, the kind of thing that sounds like it was sketched out in 10 minutes but you realize about the fifth time thru' that there are lots of little details rowing together that make it work.

The rest is never less than pleasant, and there's a warmth to it that you usually don't get in post-modern, loungish, catch the-reference-as-it-goes-by music.

The dog likes it, I think. We listen to it sometimes when we drive out to watch the geese on the edge of town.

Back to the stated topic: not much music this weekend, but tonight, Bill Charlap trio live at VV, purchased as an iTunes plus album. Maybe Joe Lavano playing Sinatra after.

FWIW, iTunes let me convert three albums to plus, but the download times from Thursday to early Saturday were abysmal. Then it cleared about 10 am Saturday, and has been fine since.

I saw your African music; you like anything in the Ethiopiques series?

s.

[haunyack]

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I saw your African music; you like anything in the Ethiopiques series?

s.

I have a copy of Ethiopiques, Volume 10 - Tezeta.
I like the sparse quality of the compositions .. a reflection of life in this impoverished African state, I wonder?

Would you recommend another for me?

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[Keith]

Not really listening but on in the background while working:

Exodus - Bob Marley
Inside Job - Don Henley
Scissors in My Pocket - Polly Paulusma
Dreamt for light years... - Sparklehorse
Nutcracker (Highlights) - Peter Tschaikowsky
Prairie Wind - Neil Young
Release The Stars - Rufus Wainwright
Bella Donna - Stevie Nicks
I'm Wide Awake... - Bright Eyes
Loose - Nelly Furtado
Humdinger - The Hoax
Bird - Charlie Parker

Well that's what you get for random album...

[haunyack]

Tunng - Mother's Daughters & Other Songs
Taraf De Haïdouks - Honourable Brigands Magic Horses And Evil Eyes
Think Of One - Tráfico

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[Havoc]

not much time today, only this
Padre Davide da Bergamot: Musica per la Liturgia (Marco Ruggeri)

[satkinsn]

I have a copy of Ethiopiques, Volume 10 - Tezeta.
I like the sparse quality of the compositions .. a reflection of life in this impoverished African state, I wonder?

Would you recommend another for me?

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Sorry for the fractured conversation. I ended up replacing the wireless router in my home after several days of less and less connection and more and more frustration.

Three Ethiopiques to recommend:

Number 4, which appears to be getting some legs as the soundtrack to a Jim Jarmousch movie. It's jazz/sorta/more or less.

14, which is also jazz, but entirely the work of one master sax player. It's like discovering Sonny Stitt had an entire 'nother life he never told us about.

21, which is haunting piano music that I find hard to put a label to.

I get this stuff off eMusic, and you should look there for reviews from All-Music Guide.

best,

s.

edit - today's music: Michael Buble, "Call Me Irresponsible." There's something downright strange about this boy; he covers Leonard Cohen's "I'm Your Man" as a lounge crawl. Bill Charlap trio at VV (again). (Anyone else having trouble playing un-drm'ed iTunes files? Mine act like they're straining my SB3.)

[swhite58]

Neil Young - Prairie Wind
Michael Franks - Live with Crossfire (new)
Bellowhead - Burlesque (I can't stop playing it - English folk big band!)

Shane

[Rangdo]

Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam

Listening right now and sounding superb :)

[Timothy Stockman]

Junior Wells - Hoodoo Blues Man (with Buddy Guy)
Getz/Gilberto (THE classic album with "Girl from Ipanema")
Santana III

[Rangdo]

Amy Nuttall - Best Days

Includes an excellent version of Scarborough Fair

[haunyack]

Soca 101, Vol4 - Various
Danzas Urbanas - Troubadours
Spirit of the Forest - Baka Beyond

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[Videodrome]

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's album, "Facing Future". The first track, "Hawai'i '78 Introduction" is so haunting, I can't get it out of my head!

Apart from that, a few cuts from Orbital's album "The Altogether" in the car on the way to lunch. And while sitting at my desk at work today, mostly Baroque music from an Internet radio station.

[Zymurgy]

White Stripes - Icky Thump (outstanding!)

Tool - 10,000 Days (saw them a week ago)

[egd]

Arapaho - Wild Warriors (both Arapaho albums remastered - a timeless [modern] classic http://www.freshmusic.co.za/arapaho_clips.html)
Constance Demby - Novus Magnificat: Thru the Stargate (I'm definitely not a new-age fan, but this is something else)

[satkinsn]

Ravel: Complete works for solo piano - Jean-Philippe Collard
Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label
James Brown: Soul on Top
Tom Waits: Bone Machine
David S. Ware Quartet: Renunciation
Bruce Springsteen: Tracks
Sun Ra: Strange Strings

[MelonMonkey]

These guys track it so I don't have to remember. :) http://www.last.fm/user/TwistedMelon/

[drewe181]

speaking of lastfm, i just hit 10,000 tracks today (yay for me. now my social status is sure to skyrocket ;-) )

i had my squeezebox on random. let's get stoned by joe cocker was my milestone song

D

[adamslim]

speaking of lastfm, i just hit 10,000 tracks today (yay for me. now my social status is sure to skyrocket ;-) )

Yeah but 20+ months, man - that's an average of just an album or two a day. Musical starvation!

Oh and on topic - Schubert's piano sonatas. This is the music god would listen to, if he existed and wanted all the notes in the right places...

Adam

[drewe181]

Yeah but 20+ months, man - that's an average of just an album or two a day. Musical starvation!

Oh and on topic - Schubert's piano sonatas. This is the music god would listen to, if he existed and wanted all the notes in the right places...

Adam

i know...unfortunately working shitty hours doesn't help.

so i'm guessing your almost god then ;-)

D

[satkinsn]

Garry Wills: Lincoln at Gettysburg, audio book

Bach: Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in D minor - David & Igor Oistrakh

btw - I have no idea what 'continuo' means. I c & p'ed it from the cd liner.

[jt25741]

Garry Wills: Lincoln at Gettysburg, audio book

Bach: Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in D minor - David & Igor Oistrakh

btw - I have no idea what 'continuo' means. I c & p'ed it from the cd liner.

Continuo is short for Basso Continuo -- or continuous bass -- a lower line that continuously flows played by organ or other lower instruments of the time.

[9dk]

Friday Night in San Francisco (live).

[haunyack]

Friday Night in San Francisco (live).

Paco De Lucía, Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin...magic!
Nice choice.

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[9dk]

Paco De Lucía, Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin...magic!
Nice choice.

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It's magic alright! Definitely my favorite acoustic recording. Everytime I hear the audience in the background clapping and yelling..sigh..wish I was there.

[Benway]

Just bought my second sb3 and went straight for A Handful of Beauty by Shakti.

[satkinsn]

Today, the 4th, nothing so far.

Yesterday, lots.

Paul Bley - Notes On Ornette, BLEY/NHOP.

Harry Smith anthology - volume 4.

The Velvet Underground (self-titled)

Clifford Jordan's Leadbelly album

...and though it's a movie, I listened more than I watched "Elements of Crime," Lars Von Trier.

s.