What are you listening to? (aka To what are you listening?)

been awhile since we did one of these

Digital Underground - Humpty Dance

I'm doing a 30 day song challenge on my blog, so I've been going through some of my older CDs, hence the Hump.

The morning news - it's about the roof that ripped at the Metrodome being fixed

I'm still cycling through the 5 Celtic CDs I put on back on March 17th! Right now it's playing Altan's Caide Sin Don Te' Sin. (I believe the loose translation is "It's No One's Concern.")

Game of Thrones

I really hope Roy Dotrice reads A Dance with Dragons too. He's great.

I have 6.5gb of music to go through having just downloaded this years SXSW torrents. It's a mixture of music from artists that will be featured at the South by South West festival and I usually find a few new ones that I want to hear more from. Unfortunately the re-tagging of the songs is a laborious process so I have to be in the mood before making a start.

yesterday lots of Clutch - Blast Tyrant and s/t. Love that band. After my meeting with the recruiter for the job I want, I might throw some music on, but I don't know what yet.

Currently streaming some Gwendal songs though Spotify http://open.spotify.com/artist/5njaPBD9SLbjObNb9wcpSA (Celtic music)

Mazzy Star's So Tonight That I Might See. Very emo.

CBC Radio 1's The Current which is a news magazine program.

Later I'll switch to some loud and lively music for cleaning to - like the Saw Doctors, Eileen Ivers, and/or the Alison Brown Quartet.

Chad Mitchell Trio

>11 Bookmarque:
That's too funny:

borborygmi

Meanwhile, I don't get #11 or #12.

We had some synchronicity* in what we were listening to.

*Not the album by The Police.

hey dayna, that's pretty cool.

and morph, that's the CD cover of what I was listening to, audioslave's first album.

Currently, I am listening to the CBC afternoon programming. I am not exactally sure what they are talking about but I am sure I will be suicidal by the time they are finished.

'Bad Vibrations' by The Black Angels.

A traditional group called Woodlands in the office, and in the art studio The Help

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! by Abba.

(Don't laugh, you scoundrels! And yes, I am dancing in the kitchen...)

Martian Child by David Gerrold. I am loving it but I had to stop for a minute because I was laughing too hard.

The song in my heart

TV news! gah!

"The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars", by one of my Personal Gods: David Bowie.

ETA: fixed typos.

ah, Bowie, the last album I listened to was Lodger. Good choice.

#24:
Thanks, Bookmarque! :O)

I've been on a Bowie kick all week. I was excited to find that "Ziggy Stardust" goes extremely well with the endless activity of unpacking, dusting, sorting and shelving of the denizens of My Library. Of course, any diehard fan of Bowie's will say that Bowie goes with everything (which I agree with, in part). But I have yet to find another album of his that compliments the act of unpacking books so completely as "Ziggy" does. :O)

Talking of Bowie, I listened to Toy the other day. It's the unreleased album from 2001 that has just been leaked onto the net recently by some kind-hearted soul. Quite interesting and well worth a listen if you get the chance.

#26: Oooöooòooooooooooooohhhh ! NEW BOWIE!

*claps hands excitedly*
YAY! Thanks, Wolfy! You just brightened my entire weekend! I will definitely be checking that out. :O)

Ooooohhhhh, suitable. I haven't heard the Chad Mitchell Trio in decades. I love folk music.

I just bought 3 new CDs:

Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
Kenny Chesney - Hemingway's Whiskey
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

Brad makes me laugh, Kenny's "The Boys of Fall" is worth the price of the entire package, and I still have the vinyl version of "Folsom Prison," but now I can listen in the car.

I'm listening to the crickets outside, but the song in my head is True Colours.

a leaked Bowie album? It's been a desert of new material from him...nothing since, what? Reality? That was in 03, right? man, I think that's the longest he's gone without an album.

You're not doing the 30 Day Song Challenge that's on facebook are you? I'm doing that - tis really making me think about my favourite songs. Well, tonight I glutted myself on old, live videos from Fleetwood Mac (early Nicks). I was a one year old when most of those were made.

No, I'm doing it on my tumblr.

I was just wondering if it had the same criteria..here I'll show you a bit of the facebook one.

day 01 - your favorite song
day 02 - your least favorite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to
day 09 - a song that you can dance to
day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep

Those are the first 10. Similar?

Yep! That's the list. I found it on an archaeology blog I follow.

This is my list so far: http://blistersonmyfinger.tumblr.com/tagged/30_day_song_challenge

Ah, must be doing the rounds!

I'm up to number 5 tomorrow. Yay songs!

Sounds fun.

ETA: Where can I get the full list?

I got it here, Morphy. http://inventerare.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/30-day-song-challenge/

REO Speedwagon is on TV right now. And yes, I am singing along to all the songs. I love old rockers!

And the facebook group for those interested is....

http://www.facebook.com/pages/30-Day-Song-Challenge/120874111270003?sk=wall

I just listened to Forget You by Cee Lo Green twice. I have it as my favorite for day one. Now I'm going to go listen to the original version - Fuck You. My niece and nephew read my Facebook page, so couldn't put up that version, which I prefer.

The original is one of my favorite songs from last year. I even gave in and played it for my kid, once.

The first time I heard it, I didn't like it. I don't like the use of the word fuck in music. However, the more I listened to it, the funnier it got. It wasn't being used in a sexually degrading fashion. Then I saw a sign language version which made me like it even more!

I am back at the TV news. I live a very simple life.

lots of stuff spinning today -

@Morphy - I love watching signed versions of songs. I barely know any sign languages, be it Australia, American or Signed English, but I can often follow along when I know the song. This is my favourite for F**k you. This one is a version of Marylin Manson's The New S**t. It has potentially offensive language, of course, but it's very high quality.

Is this the one you meant for F**k You? The link you provided was to a different song.

I'm having a total nostalgia fest finding things on YouTube: Patricia Routledge singing "Climb every Mountain" and Julie Andrews singing "I could have Danced All Night". Just looking for "On the Street where you Live" and a tissue...

47 - Nuts! I linked to the same one twice. I wanted this one.

>49 Choreocrat: Nah, mine is funnier. :)

Doing some cleaning and listening to Malicorne, they're a pretty old french group usually dubbed "progressive folk" I believe.

Link for Spotify users
http://open.spotify.com/artist/2qcMbfpQ7bUpUwN73vIQXn

Mumford and Sons station on Pandora is my current choice (while editing).

While writing, I stick to instrumental.

I'm listening to my "mixed up" playlist on my ipod which is basically a collection of songs I've liked on the radio so bought on Itunes & also fave songs from a few fave artists :)

Right now I'm on: All These Things That I've Done by The Killers
*sings*
"I got soul but I'm not a soldier"

Next up is Big In Japan by Tom Waites
then
Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads
then
Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
then
Love is Noise by The Verve

Right, gone through the 5 songs in the post above & this work I'm doing is so boring so I thought I'd take a quick break & pop the next 5 songs on my playlist in here, lol...

Right now:
Reckless by Australian Crawl
then
Mad World by Gary Jules
then
Excuse Me Mr by Ben Harper
then
Mysterons by Portishead
then
Overcome by Tricky

King of the Road by Roger Miller

right now I am listening to children playing (I am at work right now).
Tonight I will be listening to Julie Berthelsen (a Greenlandic singer) and Sko og Torp (a Danish Band), since I am going to a concert with them

in the car I had an odd playlist going part of which includes Talking Heads, T Rex, Les Claypool (Highball with the Devil incarnation), The Doors, Slade & Deep Purple

Saturday morning: rain outside hitting the house, pellet stove merrily burning little pieces of wood dust, and silence. This is about the perfect acoutistic environment for me.

This week I've been listening to the album 21 by Adele, Aloe Blacc's album Good Things, KT Tunstall's Tiger Suit, and Brothers by the Black Keys.

now -

Seasons of Love from RENT - I just watched the last Broadway performance on DVD. *cries*

CBC radio 1. The world is in a terrible shape!

It's been a modern blues day starting with Five Horse Johnson, then some very early Clapton (self-titled) and some Stevie Ray Vaughan and now -

Primus - Ballad of Bodacious

that was a tough CD to get my ears around...took me a while to like it.

New Alison Krauss, Paper Airplane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMBpBjFfVyo&feature=related

>65 Bookmarque:
My husband felt the same way about it.

your lucky, my husband hates Primus. I stick some Les into playlists though so he had to deal with me singing along to El Sobrante Fortnight the other day. Ha!

Not even De Anza Jig? Everyone loves Julie Tolintino, the dancing Filipino!

nope, he just thinks he's too weird. This from a guy who loves Warren Zevon.

Jonathan Coulton - First of May http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCbD8nsxcd8

WFMT - great classical music station in Chicago. La Boheme's on right now.

Oprah interviewing the Donald Trump family... What am I thinking? *grabs remote and changes channel*

The Baby Elephant Walk by Henry Mancini.

A coincidence - I was listening to Mancini's Elephant Walk earlier today. I was perusing You Tube clips of Stan Kenton and other in the same vein, when I came across a few of Mancini's recordings. Elephant Walk was one of his selections I clicked.

What am I listening to now? Why, the echo's in my mind of course.

Oooop. I'm now listening to my neighbour taking a shower...... well not him showering, but the water going through the pipes in the wall to his shower.

Ha! I recently loaded Elephant Walk to my playlist.

OMG, I almost typed Elephant Walk as Elephant Wank. LOL.

the cats' morning run, slide and tackle around the house. and the timer saying my coffee's done!

The White Stripes' cover of Blind Willie McTell's Southern Can Is Mine

The last 37 minutes of Bad Luck and Trouble...the ass-kicking continues.

Busdriver - Avantcore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HalDFVVo4aY

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon on CD

BBC4 Desert Island Discs with J.K. Rowling. Must be quite an old episode, as she'd only published four of the books.

May It Be, from LOTR:FotR

Kate Nash - Mariella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwqxwoQz6XE

Finnish Gothic goodness


more Finnish goodness

Ian looks weird without hair.

Tori Amos playlist, the song "Digital Ghost" from her album American Doll Posse just came on.

Before that it was the song "Give", from her album Abnormally Attracted to Sin. *sigh*. I miss that Cd! I have it stuck in my CD player and I can't get it out because the remote is broke. :(

CBC Radio One - Quirks and Quarks. Science is cool :)

Pandora is set to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds currently singing We Call Upon the Author to Explain from Dig Lazarus.

Sweet Dreams from the Sucker Punch soundtrack (sung by Emily Browning).

Nirvana - Stay Away

Green Sky Green Lake by Dead Meadow

I've reached the letter L from the first batch of songs from the SXSW compilation. Managed to find a few artists to hear more from so far but there's been a lot of stuff that I've just tuned out as well.

"Quietus" by Epica. :) I imagine swordfights and riding a fast horse through a landscape of all green. Give a try!

Kelly Flint

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV4nECvrJ4E

Q-Tip's Renaissance album

so good

What state do you guys live in?

Insanity

Quantum

Personally? I live in a state of Perpetual Procrastination, sometimes alternating between the fluid realms of Delerium and Delight. :O)

As to the topic thread:

"Peek-A-Boo" by Siouxsie & The Banshees.

Ayreon :)

Heads up: BBC Radio 4 extra is just starting a dramatisation of Terry Pratchett's Small Gods. About 2/3 of Guards! Guards! is still available to listen to as of the time of writing, but will all be gone within a week.

a little Clutch

Okay! I was just asking! You didn't have to be so rude about it! FYI I am not a stalker! I was just curious! Anyways, what book are you guys reading right now?

Also, what is your favorite song?

#106 - Not sure if you realize this, but LibraryThing is for people 13 and older. And The Green Dragon group is more for the 16 and older crowd.

Right now it's Goat the Head - Bone Throne

Okay! I will stop posting in this group!

sorry abby, come on back in a couple years.
and listen to this. I am. It NEVER gets old.

Okay! Maybe!

Ugly Duckling - Andy vs Dizzy

Makes me get up and dance.

I discoverred some new (to me) music the other night while watching CSI, & apparently I'm not the only one who loved it, it's been uploaded to youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9A2fLV4zPs&feature=related

So I hunted down more by the artist Willis & have been listening to them all day on their website: http://willismusic.bandcamp.com/

Its so pretty & smooth & I love it, will definitely be buying it to put on my ipod asap :)

nice (-:

ETA: I really appreciate this site. I so seldom listen to music these days, and I am pretty much stuck in the 1960s-70s-80s and I need to hear some new stuff. You all are giving me some things to check out and that is cool.

Richard Thompson - Dad's Gonna Kill Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-yySxecVAg

I am listening to Oprah right now. Pathetic, huh?

O, Children - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

CMT's Top Ten Videos of the Week.

Hunter Hayes sings "Storm Warning" at the moment.

The Kentucky Derby, yes, the horse race.

random stuff on the iPod - now some Bob Marley - Is this Love?

I've recently added some new faves to my "chronic repeat" playlist on Cloud Player:

Young the Giant, Telekinesis, Spoon, Local Natives, Deas Vail, Alpha Rev, Andrew Belle... currently listening to "Look Away" by Lissie.

Boccherini's Musica Notturna delli Stradi di Madrid (from Master and Commander).

Going back to the artists I liked from the first batch of the SXSW stuff. First of those is:

oh sunshine

The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Stephen Sondheim).

The bird singing outside my kitchen window.

"In Christ Alone" on my in-laws' radio. Has a very pretty melody.

Portobello Road, one of the pieces from the Bedknobs and Broomsticks movie. I'm reading in another room but I can hear it coming from the living room.

That's my second favourite bit (after the famous soccer scene).

Unintended by Muse

I've been obsessively listening to Keep Your Head Up by Andy Grammer and am very much looking forward to the release of his album next month. And a friend has me completely addicted to Adele.

Pandora is set to Nick Cave and they are playing the soundtrack he did for The Assassination of Jesse James. Quite lovely, not exactly his Bad Seeds fare.

now some Elvis Metal

#129 & # 130:

OMG! I love that movie... I keep reminding myself to add it to the Netflix Queue. I haven't seen it in ages but I think perhaps my favourite part is when Angela Lansbury casts spells in the house and absolute havoc ensues, *chuckle*, especially when the guy dances with her nightgown! CLASSIC! :O)

>136 PandorasRequiem: It's a beloved movie of mine. My grandmother brought me at Christmas time to see it and the Rockettes at Radio City Musical Hall in NYC. I was very little (5?) but it is one my strong memories.

I can't stop listening to The Hazards of Love by the Decemberists. I bought this when it came out, listened to a few snippets, and put it away. Came across it again while cleaning, and *finally* listened properly. I'm in love now that I can follow the story! :o)

Chirping birds. I'm never up at this hour, and I didn't sleep a wink last night. I'm just not tired. I might take a nap sometime soon here, but I think I could easily go another 16 hours without a problem. Last time I did that was in 2008, and I wasn't the only one. Several of my friends couldn't sleep that night either. I guess there was something in the air. I hope everyone's getting/gotten a good night's rest for today, though.

OldCat growling at NewCat

I was just listening to Beyonce's new song Run the World, which I was surprised to enjoy. She seems to have incorporated elements of both Lady Gaga and Queen Latifah, and it worked kind of well. The backing track was musically challenging.

Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano

Trap Door by One Republic

The Bakerton Group

Born this Way by Lady Gaga. Ok! I'm a closet monster, I admit it

Glee's Madonna songs. I'm turning into a pop fan! Somebody kill me! :P

@Choreocrat, express yourself!

Right now (song): Shock Treatment Richard O'Brien Solo Version (Not Movie Version)

Earlier today (albums):
Grace Slick and The Great Society - Collector's Item
Jefferson Airplane - The Essential Jefferson Airplane
The Rocky Horror Show (several different albums) and Shock Treatment OST
Wicked The Musical OCR
Metropolis The Giorgio Moroder Soundtrack

I found "White Rabbit" with Jefferson Airplane on youtube a while back and repeated it over and over again. :) Me like very much!! Grace Slick just has such a nice voice! I actually prefer most of her songs with Great Society over the ones she made with Jefferson Airplane, but White Rabbit and Somebody to Love is better in the JA versions I think.

I'm listening to a lovely little playlist featuring Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling, Nathaniel Rateliff and Matthew and the Atlas.

Melissa Etheridge - Come to My Window is cycling through my head.

"I Need A Doctor" by Dr. Dre & Eminem has been on repeat most of the night. It's really the female lead in the background that has me enchanted. She has a beautiful voice!

Rafael Saadiq and Stevie Nicks new cds.

The Avett Brothers, Muse, Mumford and Sons, Ben Folds, O.A.R., and (to mix it up) Gaga... yup. I admit it. Gaga.

audiobook Coyote Wind by Peter Bowen - love this reader - does the accents wonderfully!

Boy, that Adele cd is as good as advertised.

Cher is swanning through my head, singing Believe.

a few minutes ago, Who are You. Now -

A few of Mumford & Sons' new songs, Below My Feet, Home, and Whispers in the Dark. They are quite awesome!

Watching Gene Kelly in "That's Entertainment."

Gotta dance! Gotta dance!

We will rock by Queen.
I always have my mp3 on shuffle, so I am listening to a nice mix of Edith Piaf, Judy Garland, Eminem, Metallica, Nina (my favourite Greenlandic singer) and many more. I like all kinds of music

Currently listening to a cover album of Disney songs by Japanese Rock & Visual artists. Some much better than others.