So what are you listening to today?

[mvd]

Time for a new thread. I listened to:

Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Bo Bice - The Real Thing (I loved Bo on AI. Clearly more than Carrie. But it turns out that I like Carrie's CD more. Carrie's CD is a good mix of country and pop, and she shows an interpretive skill that I didn't think she had. She still has room for improvement: "Lessons Learned" does not sound very lived in. Bo's album, on the other hand, sounds tailored for modern rock radio. Gone is the 70s sound and the energy he showed. Only the first and last songs are good. Bo's album: C, Carrie's: B)

BTW, listened to the Lindsay Lohan again, and my grade stands at C+. A small step backwards for her, as I gave Speak a B-.

Also listened to B101 for Christmas music. I like hearing it early (even before Thanksgiving, as I consider the middle of Nov. the start of the holiday season. There's an audience for it - they wouldn't be playing it otherwise. But I can see how it might annoy others.)

So what have you listened to?

[Initech]

1. Currently - Muse: Absolution

I've also been listening to:

Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel

Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All

The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesty's Request

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

[bicentennial_baby]

2. A Perfect Circle

Mer de Noms

[FuzzySlippers]

3. Ok, I'll admit it. This time of year I listen to Handel's Messiah.

And I sing along. I sing all the arias and the soprano parts of the choruses. Now you know my shameful secret.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

21. Ooooh! me too!

Except I'm torn- I've sung both the soprano and alto parts in the choruses...I never know which is going to come out of my mouth as I'm singing along with the recording!
:bounce:

[FuzzySlippers]

26. I'm way too high pitched to have done alto.

I was always assigned the descant parts when I sang in the church choir.

[deadparrot]

4. Rent and Wicked soundtracks.

Those two are the ones I've been listening to a lot over the past few weeks.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

23. Love 'em both!

Have you heard of "Zanna, Don't?"

Wonderfully fun musical- kinda deep if you go beyond the surface of the "pop-kitchy factor!"

:

[deadparrot]

25. No, I haven't.

Though I have been on a bit of a musical kick in recent months. I'll have to check it out. :)

[lizziegrace]

5. I drove several hours to pick up my daughter

on the solo leg of the trip, it was John Denver, Kathy Mattea, Sara Evans and Curtis Stigers. On the trip back, it was anything Christmas playing through her laptop. Bing and Frank topped the list.

[sendero]

6. Celestial Annhilation....

... by UNKLE/DJ Shadow.

Fits my mood.

[nickgutierrez]

7. System of a Down - Mesmerize

I'm still trying to put a letter grade to it. SOAD's albums are always hard for me to rate, because they seem to organize their albums around an idea or a theme, rather than around tracks. They build up to and away from a few key tracks. It seems like a B or a B+ to me at the moment.

[bridgit]

8. seed ~ afro celt sound system

[Skittles]

9. 9.0 Live by Slipknot

yup

[jonnyblitz]

16. SKITTLES, holy crap! i saw them at an OZZFEST awhile back

:wow: they are children of SATAN for sure!!! :P :hi:

[jonnyblitz]

17. self-delete

posted in the wrong place

[Skittles]

24. OH ALRIGHT

I'll confess: I send CDs to the sodiers and I cannot help listening for myself before I send......can't an old gal have some fun? :D

[Cannikin]

10. Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor

[LuCifer]

11. "Chirstmas w/ The Devil" - Spinal Tap & "Thank God It's Christmas by QUEEN

The 2 BEST xmas songs EVER!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY PAGAN YULE TIME, BILL O'LIEly!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lu

[Metta]

12. a new pair of tubes in my cd player

Very transparent, great soundstage, somewhat recessed. Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and some opera arias transcribed for bass viol and orch. Tasty.

[Ellipsis]

13. Calling Elvis...

Dire Straits

Calling Elvis - is anybody home
Calling Elvis - I'm here all alone
Did he leave the building
Or can he come to the phone
Calling Elvis - I'm here all alone

[AtomicKitten]

14. White Stripes

[Ellipsis]

15. Franz Ferdinand ~ Take Me Out

[jonnyblitz]

18. nothing at the moment but I have a "dandy warhol's" earworm

playing over and over and over in my head.

[southlandshari]

19. Marvin Gaye.

None do it better.

:loveya:

[name not needed]

20. KMFDM - Hau Ruck

[jonnyblitz]

22. that is the only one of theirs I don't have...

i need to get it. I LOVE that band and have yet to see them live...

[Ellipsis]

27. The soggy bottom boyz

I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow

[tjwmason]

28. Right now - Shostakovich

1st Piano Concerto.

I'm going to have a mini-Scottish theme later, I've got Robert Carver and James Macmillan to listen to.

[Robeson]

29. A Guy Called Gerald...I keep having "Beaches and Deserts"....

...going over and over in my head.