I really like music/what are you listening to?

[Turbodog]

So, I'm escaping the heat (and the scattered summer thunderstorms) by doing a few things in my office. The current economy has us running on fumes, so I.....am digressing...........I'll get back on focus here.....j[U]st a second.......HOW THE HELL AM I GONNA SURVIVE THE NEXT FEW YEARS??????,.............oh, yea. focus....So, I'm sitting here surfing the net (and working sporadically, listennig to "Trouble in Mind", from Hayes Carll (2008). Really good stuff. Songs like "Bad Liver and a Borken Heart", "A Lover like you" and "She left me for Jesus".

Bored of listening to the same old crap...........you should be.

[Pas Bon]

Right this minute? Cordero, "En Este Momento". For a little taste, listen to "Close Your House Down".

http://www.last.fm/music/Cordero/_/Close+Your+House+Down

Love Trouble in Mind, BTW. And Little Rock too, for that matter.

[Mac da Knife]

Hey TD, been away for some time.

It appears my kid has been mis-behavin'

Ahem, as to music.
I am re-visiting Gin Blossoms, New Miserable Experience.
Good piece of work.

[Turbodog]

The long delayed national debut for the Gin Blossom's. Wow. How good would they have been withouth the firing/death of Doug Hopkins. Ironically, I am listening now to Fizzy, Fuzzy Big & Buzzy by the Refreshments right now. Another fine Tempe, Arizona Band. What are the odds.

Nice for you to surface Mac. Pretty boring around here.

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Mac, sorry to hear about your kid. My kids do misbehave, thats for sure, but then again, so does their daddy.

[kcdixiecat]

Listening to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss..."Raising Sand".....I LOVE this cd.

[mojo]

Elvis Perkins "In Dearland". Give it a listen.

http://www.elvisperkinsindearland.com/

[edible complex]

Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It
Troublemakers: Doubts & Convictions

[JRO]

WWOZ you won't hear the same music over & over

[Oyster]

WWOZ you won't hear the same music over & over

Except for Saturday from 10-12 is Irish, and from 12 to all day is Spanish. I have trouble understanding the words...Same with Cajun which starts at 12 on Sunday. Hay-eee!

[Suzy Wong]

Let's have some fun, this beat is sick I wanna take a ride on your disco stick

[Jeeves]

Silence. Blessed, by gawd, silence! :sleepy:

[Jerry]

Anything from Chris Botti or Diana Krall....David Sanborn's "Here and Gone" is a good recent find too.

[buzd]

Hard Rock:
Clutch
Early Kiss (Wicked Lester)

Alt:
The Nields

Funk:
Betty Davis
Bar-Kay's
Brand New Heavies
a lot of European compilations

[edible complex]

Let's have some fun, this beat is sick I wanna take a ride on your disco stick

"I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine"

[Suzy Wong]

You lost me EC, but it doesn't take much....

Lady GaGa (obviously as previously stated)

And
3OH!3
are 2 that come to mind....

And a shout out for JayZ (who I never liked) for opening his set with No Sleep Till Brooklyn (he replaced the Beastie Boys because of Adam Yauch's surgery)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPzhY6zfHgM&feature=related

[#7 throw away to do list.]

kevin sekhani (st paul's grad) sumner street http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kevinsekhani

generationals (jesuit/lsu guys) Con Law. hottest NOLA rock band at the moment.

http://www.amazon.com/Con-Law-Generationals/dp/B002AKAM24

doing an in store this sunday at 4pm. la music factory.

Eyehategod- most underated rock band to ever come out of NOLA. huge influence on the metal scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9jKiJTfFnw&feature=related

High On Fire- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89h-X-tZa_w

[peychaud]

This board is almost the last place in the world I'd expect to find and Eyehategod fan. (TF's board might be the last place.)

[Turbodog]

This board is almost the last place in the world I'd expect to find and Eyehategod fan. (TF's board might be the last place.)

I am in total agreement with Peychaud.

Right now I am listening to Chuck Meade "Journeyman's Wager; 2009). He was one of the two front guys (Gary Bennett was the other) from BR-549. This is an excellent solo debut for Chuck. Some upbeat BR-549 style stompers (She got the Ring (I got the Finger), I Wish it was Friday, Out on the Natchez Trail), some slow beautiful roots music (Edge Hill) and a nice, tasteful country tune (In a Song). Real Good Stuff!

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O.K. So now I am listening to the Jayhawks. Wow. One of my all time favorites. Too bad they split up/shut down (maybe not forever). I am just playing some assorted stuff spanning their career. What a great sound.

[Mrs. Fury]

Saliva, Buckcherry, Toadies, Dishwalla, Skid Row, Tesla, Winger....

[Mac da Knife]

Ditto on the Jayhawks, TD.

Serious talent. I love the entire album.

[buzd]

I've picked up some older JJ Cale stuff recently. Happy music.

[Suzy Wong]

I think I am obsessed! (fyi: may be offensive to The Quakers out there)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrKLUlh-To

[Turbodog]

The heat has me beat. The only way to go is reggae. I have found solace from thew heat in the form of Burning Spear, Culture and Tim Armstrong (yes, the diminutive punk rocker from Rancid put out one of the best records in the history of reggae music ("A Poet's Life"; 2007). While I love classi,c "roots" reggae, Tim's modern, urban record (recorded with the socal Aggrolite's backing him; their stuff is pretty fine as well).

[#7 throw away to do list.]

steel pulse - true democracy was on heavy rotation for me in the mid 80's. i need to download a copy. havent listend to that one if years. barrington levy is an old favorite as well.

[Turbodog]

steel pulse - true democracy was on heavy rotation for me in the mid 80's. i need to download a copy. havent listend to that one if years. barrington levy is an old favorite as well.

That is one of reggae's best records. The Birmingham outfit put it all together on that one (their previous stuff was good, but this was a damned near perfect record). I still listen to that one a lot. I don't find much of the new reggae to be that good. One execption is Kingman and Jonah (Claudius Linton, an old Jamaican singer form the 70's and Ian Jones, an indie rocker from Maryland, with a top notch band). Cd came out in 2008. Really good.

[edible complex]

Taj Mahal Mo' Roots

[praline]

Been listening to a lot of Collective Soul lately. Gearing up to see them again at the Hard Rock Biloxi next month :)

Also listening to DH's music. The kids and I are at the beach so he has been recording his new songs and emailing them to me.

[Turbodog]

Ed Roland is good. I have not listened to them in a while, but always a worthy band. BTW, new album coming out in late August.

Today, I find myself llistening to Kasey Chambers "Carnival" (2006).

Most of the weekend, it was Dylan Live (Rolling Thunder Revue (1975). Great Tour, great band, great record). Also, Todd Snider's latest, "the Excitement Plan" (2009). Real Good Stuff!

[Low-N-Slow]

Pat Travers & Carmine Appice - "Bazooka" from 2006. This throwback features guests Rick Derringer, and Steve Lukather and Bobby Kimball from Toto. Covers of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition", and Aerosmith's "Last Child" include all the Travers bombast his fans have come to expect. Big and crunchy, loud and funky-- I La La La Love It.

[Oyster]

Just caught Lovett and his Large Band on Conan. They did a rockin "Choke my Chicken". Good stuff!

He sure is a strange one though...

[cstoehr]

yeah.....even Julia Roberts couldn't straighten him out..........

[Turbodog]

yeah.....even Julia Roberts couldn't straighten him out..........

And that's saying something!

[Oyster]

...hence...there he is...just chokin' his chicken...

[Turbodog]

So, to lighten my mood after hearing the president lie through his teeth (I never said I was for a single payer plan....; well excuse me sir, but you effing did so, and lutliple times), I went for power pop this afternoon.

So, after listening to Fountains of Wayne all afternoon, I feel somewhat better. Melodic, smart, non political.......perfect.

Now, if I can avoid the FOX shows tonight, I might keep my blood pressure down.

[willifred]

First time to post over here.....I've been listening to Richard Thompson alot lately..,Shoot out the Lights, and Rumor and Sigh. One of the 3 or 4 best guitar players I've ever seen live. Also been listening to old Warren Zevon...The Envoy...title cut applies to todays world as much as the day he wrote it. The band on those early albums was a virtual who's who of the day. .....You can't go wrong with Ry Cooder's Mambo Sinuendo either

[Turbodog]

All good willifred. Good taste!

I like really old Zevon, like say his 1st record, from 1976, featuring "Frank and Jesse James", "Mama Couldn't be Persuaded", "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Hasten Down the Wind", "Mohammed's Radio" and "Carmelita", among its excellent 11 trracks.

We were in the Virgin Islands, in 1981, my whole (large) family on my dad's boat of the time, a Gulf Star 50 ketch. I was playing a Zevon tape (no cd's quite yet). One of my brothers wanted to know who was this guy who did all the Linda Rondstat songs. Huh! ARRGGHH. He certainly gave her a fertile field of songs to choose from back then (they were both on Asylum Records at the time).

[willifred]

Carmilita is one of the best songs ever written. I sing it with the windows down, driving really fast. Early address to drug addiction. I love the reference to "pawned my Smith Corona, and I went to meet my man". Redo's of the song arn't as good, as they change it to "Pawned my Smith and Wesson" thinking that's cooler. I met a guy on vacation, that happened to have a shirt on that said "Enjoy Every Sandwich", a reference to his last appearance on David Letterman just before he died. (Go to Youtube and check it out.)The guy was a war correspondent/photographer. When I mentioned how much I loved the song, he immediatly started singing that line. and then proceded to go off about changing the lyric. So I guess people don't even know what a Smith Corona is these days....

[Low-N-Slow]

Since I knew I would have the offices mostly to myself today, I packed my 250GB USB drive in my briefcase. It contains most, if not all, of my mp3 collection. I briefly picked and chose from among several thousand tracks, but then settled at some point on an obscure album I picked up back in 1990-- The Joneses "Hard". This was both their debut and only album. I read a favorable write-up about it at the time in Stereo Review, and decided to take a chance. The critics had much higher hopes for them. They were from Boston. Their sound was like early Bad Company with a tinge of Foreigner. But they fell in that time period right between Hair Metal and Grunge. And they also fell between the cracks. Their record was characterized as "bluesy, melodic, upbeat, and just a rockin' fun album to listen to. It's got plenty of great guitar hooks, a powerful vocal performance, solid production, and the kind of songs you can sing along to almost immediately." I would tend to agree, and say that it's a record best enjoyed at high volume.

[jodyrah]

The Killers
Razorlight
RaRa Riot

[Turbodog]

I like the Killers. Don't know much about the other two.

This thread was moved here presumably to die. I understand admin wanting to beef up the music portion of the board, but I had purposely started this thread in the Lounge (so more would see it and participate), only to be very disappointed to see it moved here.

Anyway, I'll try to keep it going.

Yesterday I listed to Eddie Spaghetti (lead singer for the Supersuckers) solo stuff. It is country tinges and damned good stuff.

Today, it's been the Fabulous Poodles (late 70's, early 80's, thinking man's new wave). Very fine, indeed.

[Admin]

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[Low-N-Slow]

The unlikely fusion of glam-metal and blues-rock-- from 1988, Cinderella's Long Cold Winter. The radio hit was "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)", but the album is filled with other gems including "Coming Home", "Last Mile", "Gypsy Road", and the bluesiest of them all, the title track.

[Low-N-Slow]

Todd Rundgren. Went to Dorignac's early this morning to avoid the impending downpour. Was quite surprised-- shocked even-- to hear Rundgren's "Couldn't I Just Tell You" on the Muzak. The cut was from the same 1972 double album that produced "Hello, It's Me" and "I Saw The Light". I hold this particular album in a special place, because, up until the time I obtained it, I had mostly collected 45rpm singles. This was one of the earliest LPs I owned, my Mom having brought it home from the record store. There was always music in our house, and it was probably one of those trips where she bought something by Johnny Rivers, or The Lettermen, or Nat King Cole, that she thought to ask the shopkeeper what her son might enjoy. The cut in question was always one of my favorites-- relationship angst buried in radio-friendly pop jangle, a little rough around the edges, but forgiveable since three quarters of the album was written, produced and performed solely by Rundgren himself. The fourth side was nothing to sneeze at, in terms of talent-- the Brecker brothers, Rick Derringer, John Siomos (Frampton Comes Alive), Jim Horn, Tony and Hunt Sales (Soupy's boys, who later worked with Iggy Pop and Bowie), Vicky Sue Robinson (Turn The Beat Around), Rick Vito (Fleetwood Mac), and even (allegedly) Edward James Olmos. Rundgren wrote 23 of the 25 songs on the four sides. I think, years later, I would hear the first Crack The Sky album, and think back to this particular LP-- something about musical genius coupled with a sense of humor I always found appealing. I bought the CD when it was first available, and ripped it to mp3 today.