What are you listening to today?

[Brettendress]

The sound of the carpets being cleaned and the truck running at my business while it's 20 degrees outside and the doors have to be open! UGH COOOOLD

Brett Endress
Altoona Pa

 

[Brettendress]

On another note I just recently saw Arlo Guthrie with his daughter Sara Lee Guthrie and it was a great evening. Sara Lee and her Husband Jonnnie Irons have a Cd of Folk music that I just love, can't get enough of it.

Brett Endress
Altoona Pa

 

[criminaldesign]

have mermaid ave playing now. very good stuff.

there's also a volume 2.

 

[grafikfeat]

have mermaid ave playing now. very good stuff.

there's also a volume 2.

Yeah... Not as good as the 1st...

But still... There's a Volume II.

 

[criminaldesign]

Yeah... Not as good as the 1st...

yep, just gave it a listen.

Web makes for instant music gratification.

 

[grafikfeat]

I wonder how Springsteen would handle 'em?

 

[robsryder]

... I just recently saw Arlo Guthrie with his daughter Sara Lee Guthrie and it was a great evening. Sara Lee and her Husband Jonnnie Irons have a Cd of Folk music that I just love, can't get enough of it....

Thank you for this - I've found their CD at my local library, and a whole bunch of old Woody stuff that I've not heard before.

 

[criminaldesign]

wilcos 2nd record 'being there'

 

[grafikfeat]

Wilco was on last night.

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[crazydrummerdude]

The still of the video above really makes me not want to click on it.

But, today I've listened to:

 

[grafikfeat]

The still of the video above really makes me not want to click on it.

...but we know ya did...

 

[crazydrummerdude]

Nuh uh!

 

[grafikfeat]

Too bad... Funny shhhhhh.... Stuff.

 

[grafikfeat]

Is it me or am I seeing double?

 

[crazydrummerdude]

is it me or am i seeing double?

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[grafikfeat]

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[crazydrummerdude]

I usually listen to albums all the way through.. but today I put the ipod on shuffle.

Off the top of my head, I remember;
Blink 182.
Opeth.
Nine Inch Nails.
Thrice.
Death Cab For Cutie.
Alexisonfire.
The Descendants.
Johnny Cash.
Coheed.

 

[BUBBAZANETTI]

It's time for me to come clean............sigh............i have a real passion for what some might call "elevator music". I prefer the term "grocery store music" myself, but any way you slice it, cheesy pop. This may be a reaction to teenage years spent with dirty, badly recorded punk music. Sometimes i just want to be put in a good mood, sometimes i just don't want to think about my music, sometimes i want it to be easy. Sometimes, i want to listen to the Style Council..................

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.......but this isn't about the Style Council.

Other times, i want that same "vibe" with a little bit more intelligence. As i mentioned a while back, I was on a bit of a Steely Dan kick. Well, like most good bands from the 70s, they chose one of a couple predictable paths as the world rolled into the 80s. Their "most famous guy" decided to get a haircut and a Members Only jacket and put out a solo record. I always brushed over this one as a kid while poking around in my dad's collection because it was just another short hair, early 80s guy that used to do something else that was probably better, oh, and i was 14 and the idea of anything related to Steely Dan repulsed me. The other night I decided to give Donald Fagen's The Nightfly a try. Sure enough, the first song, IGY, fit the "smart but poppy" bill perfectly. It's got mass market sensibility but with sarcastically optimistic lyrics about the general mood of the country in the late 50s. Good stuff, I think I listened to it 3 times on the bus this morning, it's like Hewey Lewis's "Happy to be Stuck With You" for those with more discriminating taste. If it doesn't put a spring in your step, you're a grumpy old BMW rider.

(my apologies, but it's the only acceptably recorded version out there)

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[WEZUL]

So long Doug Fieger

Of The Knack.
Doug died today of cancer at 57.
I suddenly feel old.
Maybe not the greatest of bands but who doesn't remember "My my my my Sharona"?

 

[grafikfeat]

Of The Knack.
Doug died today of cancer at 57.
I suddenly feel old.
Maybe not the greatest of bands but who doesn't remember "My my my my Sharona"?

I dunno about old... Mortal maybe.
Define greatness.

You've heard of them... I've heard of them...
Think of all the bands that were better no one has heard of.

-Cancer Sucks-