so what are you listening to right now?

Mother and child are out of the house until tomorrow evening, so I've got a mix CD I made a while back on - loudly. RATM, Tool, others. "Born of a Broken Man" is on now.

The slightest noise and my head feels like exploding. x(

But it's the result of a freshly diagnosed case of strep throat. Ugh. Not fun.

Sorry to hear it, primate.

The symptoms only kicked in last night, and I'm on penicillin for it now, so hopefully it clears up quickly.

Me, I'm building up an ironclad immune system through teaching children...

:thumbsup:

OF COURSE PRIEST! :-)

No,the jessica simpson cover of the song

It could happen. :D

or so I hear - I can't get it out here anyway. :(

is pretty slack, so streaming is hard and we don't have XM. Besides, Malloy is the only one I really miss much and I'm never up to catch his show anyway.

www.whiterosesociety.org

I'm lazy, though, and there's the sound card again.

Lovely soundtrack for drinkin' in the day. ;-)

I got a late call this morning to start teaching summer school Friday morning at 7:15, so I'm joining you in that drink. Or three. :D

okay, they're really just pecking at each other

I stay out of it mostly. They work things out pretty well.

(I hope - they need constant reminding to let him play with his own toys). I'm nine years younger than my closest sibling, so I'm curious to see how all this plays out, especially when we adopt again.

One of my favorite albums, well, ever!

I'm sufficiently out of it to have had to google Opeth - death metal isn't really my thing, but to each his own. :)

but Opeth has a lot of melody and musicality to it; not just the grinding crush of lower tuned guitars and bass.

metal prog!

Some of his - especially the fantasias on chorale tunes - sound like the organist popped a couple of acid pills before starting to play.

Thanks - I'll have to check it out. I've been listening to a lot of classical with the baby and realized that I could use some new orchestral and such. I don't have much organ music, if any.

Just to up my music / political snob cred. This guy isn't well known but he's one of Jimmy Carter's favorite musicians.

Oklahoma / New Mexico connection - what do you think of the music, besides the street cred with the Carter crowd? ;-)

I'm listening to Touchstones. Sometimes it'll show up in my Randomizer and at first I'll think it's Willie Nelson, which isn't an entirely accurate comparison but fairly close. His song "Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again" has a nice contemporary Woody Guthrie feel to it . . . 'There's always been a bottom and there's always been a top. Someone took the orders and someone called the shots, someone took the beating lord and someone got the prize. That may be the way it's always been but that don't make it right.'

Thanks!

by John Tavener wisth the Balimore Symphoney Orchestra and YoYo Ma

edited cuz my fingers are stupid

re: expanding the classical collection. :)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000009MON/102-2312824-2352929?v=glance&n=5174

you have to scroll down a little. enjoy

I just discovered that the late Link Wray was Native American....
How did I not know this all these years?



Tikki

or that he'd died. :(

Link Wray's website. http://www.linkwraylegend.com/


snip...
...Link is known for his instrumental hit single "Rumble". And to quote Uncut magazine, who voted Link #33 of the 100 best guitarist list in the World, as the composer of the world's most threatening instrumental: “The violent intimations of "Rumble" so struck sensitive late 50's sensibilities that it was banned by many radio stations. Not bad for an instrumental. "Rumble" will outlive us all”....



Tikki

"How jaded are my ears that the idea of someone finding a guitar instrumental 'threatening' seems so ridiculous?" Music doesn't mean what it once did. Then again, Wray was born the same year as my father, so who knows?

Радиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ

Yaaaa!

Somebody has to be the contrarian around here...

:evilgrin:

;-)

What's the news from Moscow these days?

And bogus health products from US companies.

But right now it's jazz.

Have a listen:

http://radio.echo.msk.ru:8000/listen.pls

I need a new sound card, but to hear tripe in Russian?

They have a lot of call in shows like in the US, so I get to hear accents from all over Russia.

I have to put up with the commercials, what can I say.

Sorry about the sound card.

I'm not trying to learn Russian, but I do want to brush up on (read: relearn) my Spanish. Hadn't thought about streaming radio. :)

Oh thank random chance, the lawnmower has stopped.

Now where did I put my ipod?

partly in order to get some escape from Baby Beethoven. :)

Hippolyte et Aricie

My first post at DU!

:hi:

Rameau - wasn't he the composer of the trumpet concerto that used to open Masterpiece Theatre? I have a CD with that somewhere.

The First Symphonic Suite" by Jean Joseph Mouret

Close, but no cigar....

Q

when I can. :thumbsup:

I only know a couple of songs. :shrug:

Is what Rush Limbaugh uses as his theme song on his radio show. Chrissy Hynde should sue........

Q

The Green World now. Been a while. :)

Gorgeous stuff.

It's every week now with the "What are you listening to?" and the "What have you been watching on TV?" or the "What movies have you seen?", "What's your favorite book?" and on and on.

What are you? The NSA? Or my mother maybe? :)

Btw. Right this second I'm listening to The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi.

of course, you're welcome to not be listening to anything at all.

It comes with video.

Great album

Right now, the incredible drum solo "We're Looking For Something More Ethnic".

album- matter + form

song- arena

... is listening to Public Enemy "It Takes a Nation of Millions..." in next room. So I'm listening by proxy :)

For those wondering, here's how grades would correspond to my 4-star rating system:

4 stars - A+ or A
3 1/2 stars - A-
3 stars - B+ or B
2 1/2 stars - B- or C+
2 stars - C+ or C
1 1/2 stars - C- or D+
1 star - D
1/2 star - D-
0 stars - F

I took out Leona Naess's self-titled CD - I give it 4 stars out of 4!

I listened to Nelly Furtado's Loose and Keane's Under The Iron Sea at the full album listening party. Thoughts:

Loose - The good news is that Promiscuous is one of the worst songs. The bad news is that to me, much of Loose actually feals tense and contrived. Gwen's new CD is more playful IMO. On "No Hay Igual," Nelly Furtado says the title like it's an afterthought - when it translates to the passionate "it does not have equal." I enjoy the older Nelly more. Loose gets 2 stars, or C.

Under The Iron Sea - "Is It Any Wonder?" breaks loose, but still sounds a bit like U2. I thought only that song and "Leaving So Soon?" were memorable songs. The CD rarely rises above pleasant. I give it 2 stars, or C+.

Samples from -

Be Your Own Pet - it's rare that youngsters these days do the purer side of punk. What I heard was better than Fever To Tell by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, though less unique.

And finally, Paris Hilton's new song. Not surprisingly, I disliked it. Does she really think she's Blondie?! Not even a good summer song.

Gordon Lightfoot, Kathy Mattea, John Denver, George Harrison, Trisha Yearwood and a little Garth.

I'm listening to Matchbook Romance's "Voices" album. A friend of mine recommended it to me last night I was skeptical at first, expecting some dime-a-dozen emo album. I was pleasantly surprised.

Made myself a little compilation of my favorite Ryan Adams songs.

Dickhead Cheney. and thunder outside...

Makes me want to tear his eyeball out, if not his heart. I wonder where Poe got his inspiration?

:scared:

ooo, now I hear myself typing. It is quiet here which is GREAT!

Copperhead Road--Steve Earle

I'm listening to the * bashing Chicks right now.

Danielle Howle and the Tantrums, Do a Two Sable. If you like southern indie rock, you need this. On Amy Ray's Daemon label.

Pretty dry with no volume control, but still neat! Can't beat Gould for contrapuntal stuff

I've been fucking hooked on this album since seeing Nacho Libre last week.

I want to see it. Jack Black cracks me up!

Good lord,I just realized that this is my 666th post. :D

Happy "eeeeevil" milestone! :toast:

But you have to expect that going into the movie (since it was written by Napoleon Dynamite writer/director Jared Hess), and it's absolutely hilarious. And the other thing is - the movie would be very lame without Jack Black in it. But I highly recommend it!

Your mix cd sounds great!

I've got "Vicarious" cranked right now. :)

I loved their first three but didn't get much into Lateralus... what do you think of 10,000 Days so far?

but then again, I'm a die hard Tool fan. 10,000 Days is dark and moody, and most of the songs are 5 and 6 minutes plus. After listening to the CD for a few days, the standout songs for me are "Vicarious", "10,000 Days (Wings part 2)", "Rosetta Stoned", and "Right in Two".

:)

still undecided about buying it.. hmmm

I don't know if this helps your decision at all, but in my opinion, even though 10,000 Days is good, I'd say it's a safe bet that there aren't any "radio friendly" songs on it, other than "Vicarious". Other CD's of theirs have "Anema", "Forty Six and Two", "Sober", "H", etc... Songs that made it on the radio. 10,000 Days doesn't have any songs that are that radio friendly, other than "Vicarious", which I mentioned. It's hard, moody, dark, and most of the songs are lengthy.

Me - sometimes I'm in the mood for stuff like that, so I like it. Then again, I like all sorts of stuff. :)

"radio friendly" is most *definitely* not what makes a song interesting or worthwhile to me. :)

You're the first person I put into my "Buddy List". :)

You too! :hi:

And I'm addin you as well. :D

I'm not exactly sure what the Buddy list is for, but I think it means that if I ever get out of line on these boards, you have permission to smack me upside the head.

:D

well that and we can PM each other anytime, even if we can't find a post to click that letter icon :)

edit: other than that, i'm not quite sure what it's good for, either!

Just got Yankee Hotel Foxtrot last weekend :)

Livestream. Awesome. I can listen to "Drive Time" on my lunch break!

Album- Blind Melon

Song- "Soak the Sin"

next is "No Rain"

x( x(

I think a CD is about to go in.....

;)

I used to be a HUGE Ani fan in the 90's and then started to not like her stuff in this century. But I read somewhere that this album was/is a return to her old form and whoever wrote that was/is right! I can't stop listening to it...

B-side on the "What Do You Want Me To Say?" single.