What ya listening to?

[cenacle]

JRL wanted topic starters, this is always a good one...so here goes...I listen to a lot of music because I love it and because I want to play the best I can find. Here's the bands I've found lately that I have really liked:

***Rock***

*Grandaddy-Sumday-weirdo art rock, funny, great stuff...

*New Pornographers-Twin Cinema-male/female vocals, sublime and slinky rock, gets into the grit of your soul and sticks...

*My Morning Jacket-Z-I'm still getting used to this one but it has some loud and soft moments so beautiful I can't deny...

*Elbow-Leaders of the Free World-I like this band a lot and this third album of theirs is really good, exciting to hear their new stuff, they are rather Coldplay but less so as their music more follows its own path...

*Neil Young-Prairie Wind-I always want to live NY's work, and I mostly do...this one has its pretty acoustic moments, its moments of lyrical high, but I am still not in love with it...partway there...

***Jazz***

*Charles Mingus-Ah Um-Sounds somewhat Coltrane to me, but I like it a fair much...

***Electronica***

*Sound Tribe Sector Nine-ARTifact-I've long loved this electronica jamband, saw them years ago in Boston & NYCity, this new album is long and I still haven't really taken it all in, but opening up to it...

 :twisted:

[judih]

yeah, i just started listening to Neil Young's Prairie Wind.
The Dream is okay.
But still there's nothing quite as elusive as After the Gold Rush

I'm into Archie Shepp - no one quite sings the blues as he does, specially when he leaps from sax to voice.
(Cry of My People)

And since my daughter came home for a quick visit between world hopping, we're becoming Kanye West'ed and Akon'd - all the kids are listening.

Scarlet Begonias just because it's needed in my life these days.

And i'm looping Lou Reed's Animal Serenade.

[neonaut]

Death cab for cutie-plans is growing on me.

Jack Johnson-love the new stuff, simple but easy

M83-sri-lankan rapper chicks rock

jesus and mary chain-just some goodies



A lot more but these cd's have been in my rotation lately

[OBODAOUR]

Lately Im listening to...

Jonh Coltrane - The Essentials

Deftones - Bsides & Rarities

311 - Dont Tread On Me

Modest Mouse - Discography

Godsmack - The Other Side

Grateful Dead - The Very Best Of

Sublime - Greatest Hits

Sigur Ros - Takk

The Cranberries - The Early Years

Tori Amos - The Beekeeper

Madonna - Hung Up (The single off her soon to be released Confessions On A Dance Floor)

Sasha, Shpongle, Infected Mushroom, BT, and lots more

Peace & Blessings
OBODAOUR

[JRL]

Everybody On the Bus-Rocco Prestia (Tower of Power bassist's one and only solo album)

Damn!-Jimmy Smith (The late, great master of the Hammond B-3 organ at his funkiest and swingingist)

Mars Hotel- Grateful Dead

Dream Factor- Jack Cassady (Airplane and Hot Tuna bassists one and only solo record)

Captain Beefheart mix (courtesey of Futori)

So much music so little time!!

[Indra]

Literally, I am listening to Trey's new album "Shine" right now.

Lately, I have been listening to:
Death Cab - Transatlanticism, The Photo Album, and Plans
The Shins - Chutes too Narrow
Wilco - All of their albums
John Coltrane - Misc...

[LizJah]

In my player now...

Neko Case "Blacklisted"

Xenomorph "qlippoth"

Hammerfall "Crimson Thunder"

The Gathering "Sleepy buildings-live"

Old Man's Child "ill natured spiritual dimension"

[winder]

I am finally starting to use iTunes on my iMac to listen while browsing and reading forums.  Like, d'uh...

So now I am loading and listening to "Absent Lovers", 1984 2-CD live set of King Crimson.

[LizJah]

I have to say that the Buckethead's "Island of lost minds" is a challenging and awesome listening experience.

[JRL]

What planet is Buckethead from again?

[fuzz]

um. thats a hard question. music on the music player always changing. also, i can listen to the same album, for the whole day, for a week or so, so sometimes, music in player changes extremely slowly.
moslty, lately, i listen to lots of ambient/electronic.

i been reviewing Aphex Twin, aka Richard David James, who as far as electronic music was WAY ahead of his time, along with Orb and such classics.
http://www.drukqs.net/

Some Burnt Friedman, whos played with many styles from dub, to electronic, to plain out funky.
now with Burnt Friedman plays Love Songs.
http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/music/bfrdmnn.htm

Some Tomas Jirku: http://www.tomasjirku.com/
Some Biosphere, and:
-Bluetech_-_Prima_Materia-2003-MYCEL
-Alpha_Wave_Movement_-_The_Edge_of_Infinity-1997- BCC

Reviewing some King Crimson as well.

Got 2 new Bill Laswell albums, which i am going to listen to..well..right now
-Bill Laswell - 1998 - Jazzonia
-Bill Laswell & Tetsu Inoue - 1995 - Cymatic Scan

when not flying in ambiant, i enjoy listening to spoken words, such as Alan Watts, or Joseph Campbell.

thats it for the moment. i am sure i am forgetting about 90% of what passes through the music player. wouh!

about Buckethead...i'd like to know what planet they are from as well. i have one of their long sleeve shirts (by mere randomness), and always feel stupid when someone at some party goes "buuucckkeeettthead" and does some grunting. i have no clue what buckethead is. apparently, they are grunters! i'd like to know, so i could grunt along haahhaahhaha!:shock:

[LizJah]

Buckethead may be from some other planet...but now Laswell?

Did you ever listen to that "PainKiller" album of his? That one hurt!!

Looks like Buckethead did some work with Laswell too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_%28band%29

[LizJah]

Okay, I guess this is a Zorn band technically speaking...

http://www.omnology.com/zorn07.html

[cenacle]

hey indra--i got trey anastasio's new album shine and liked it pretty well...more melody than in groove in some songs, but others get phishy phunked up...

i just got stevie wonder's new album, first one he's put out in a long time, will give a listen and an opinion soon...

lastly, has anyone heard of a band called animal collective or a music genre called freak folk?

[JRL]

That reminds me, I have been listening to Stevie Wonders Greatest Hits and 100 Year Hall by the Good Ol' Grateful Dead.