What do we all listen to these days,? Ive just discovered the joys of a not so popular beat combo who go by the name of, Chrome Hoof.
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muzak ! wat you listening to ?
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Radio Scotland/4/iPod on shuffle.
No particular bands/groups at the mo.
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Explosions in the Sky, a long time favourite band of mine, have a new album out after 4 years away. I'm listening to that alot.
I also dug out an old album from my uni days I had listened to in years by a dream-pop band called Saloon. I also found the T-shirt in a drawer.
Radio 4 podcasts for bedtime.
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Is this a competition for bands with made up names?
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"Is this a competition for bands with made up names?"
That'd be a great album title.
No music in the workplace BY ORDER but I'm currently listening to the banjo line of Journey of the Sorceror with Peter Jones' voice over the top of it inside my head.
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Currently on the play list, The Jam, (classic) Manics, Queen and The Clash... One of these days i'm going to listen to something from this century.
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If I'm out for a long leisurely cycle, I like to have my earphones in (very low volume so I can still hear vehicles approaching from rear) and my ipod switched to something classical. Or a good audio book.
Not really a 'fan' of any particular groups but looking forward to BonJovi and Kings of Leon soon.
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Journey of the Sorceror
There are some rubbish versions on YouTube (this isn't)
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"One of these days i'm going to listen to something from this century."
It's not that I don't hear any 21C music - just not longer (mentally) record the intro and year of release like I used to!
Apparently 'my sort of music' is probably on Radio 2 these days (never listened).
Just like the passing of Douglas Adams (other thread), the death of John Peel left a hole where new music used to be discovered.
Radio Scotland has a variety of music programmes in the evening to suit many tastes.
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Everything Everything at the mo. I just like how the chap changes octave randomly while singing.
Radio 1 on way in Radio 4 on way out. Absolute 90s rather more than i'd like to admit. Radio 4 Extra rather a lot.
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Radio 4 or the TRON:Legacy soundtrack just now.
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High five, I love the TRON: Legacy soundtrack! Easily the best thing about that film :)
Also at the moment I have been listening to a lot of Yelle (bouncy French pop) and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' It's Blitz! And a lot of Talking Heads, for those of us who enjoy music from the 1970s-80s, too!
In fact, if for some reason you really want the down-low on my listening (on my laptop, so not at work or on the move) habits, voici:
http://www.last.fm/user/aliasalice/chartsPosted 12 years ago # -
I remember audioscrobbling
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Hey Chrome Hoof rock!! Also into Chrome/The F***ing Champs/ nomeansno/devo/deerhoof/sir lord baltimore/rezillos....blah blah etc etc plus all the bands I playin that are pure brilliant (though I say so myself)
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Two children under six, so the following is a list of titles, not made-up band names...
- Wind the Bobbin Up
- The Wheels on the Bus
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- If You're Happy and You Know It
- Three Craws Sat Upon a Wall
...and the Beach Boys in the car, because it's summer.
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Just to bring the mood down a bit: http://youtu.be/ylSXePctCzQ
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I had Gentle Giant spinning in the compact disc player this evening. Civilian wasn't their best ever moment, it has to be said, what with Octopus and the like having gone before, but it still had its moments.
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Currently enjoying Editors The Back Room, while discovering the Aliens' album Astronomy For Dogs and rediscovering Caravan's Blind Dog At St.Dunstans from my student days...
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and the Beach Boys in the car, because it's summer
I have a number of instrumental surf rock compilations that are very good - The Chantays, Eddie and the Showmen, The Surfaris, Dick Dale, The Mar-Kets and friends.
Best Coast are also a good modern take on surf rock. If a bit shoegazer.
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@greenroofer Do you know 'I like to ride my bicycle'?
I Like to Ride My Bicycle
I like to ride my bicycle, [lie on back and bicycle legs]
I ride it to the shop.
And when I see a big red light,
I know it's time to stop. [stop]I like to ride my bicycle, [start bicycling]
I ride it to and fro.
And when I see a big green light,
I know it's time to go. [go fast]Posted 12 years ago # -
or the petrol-head equivalent:
I had a little motor-car
It wouldn't take me very far
I couldn't make the wheels go round
It wouldn't move along the ground.So I lifted up the bonnet
Poured a pail of water on it
Then I tied it up with string
And off it went like anything.Posted 12 years ago # -
For my inherited iPod shuffle the Radio 360 Radio 360 Podcast episode 68 (Sigur Ros etc) episode 62 (Reggae mix). Lot of other stuff I've never heard of but all with great sound quality by DJ Darkhorse. He laments that the days of paid DJ'ing are over thanks to Mac and web. Everything is a commodity these days...
On the hi-fi recently an old CD of Shadows and Light by Joni Mitchell with Jaco Pastorius on bass and Pat Metheny on guitar.
For end of evening 'Still' by John Abercrombie with more great guitar and bass.
Maybe Tony McManus as well - Ceol More is good one and not just for Celtic music fans.
Marc Cohn album if I want to remind myself what a well performed and recorded CD sounds like. Quite poppy but with a deep sound.
Not Mumford and Sons - too much banjo and teenage angst!
Bet you wished you hadn't asked!
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wish we hadnt asked ?
not at all ! usually rad4 and radscotland while at work in my lorry liberally sprinkled with cds and downloads. Most days i pass Ill by the library and buy any cd that I dont know the artists. Some gems some rubbish ! Ill be asking at the library for many of the aforementioned artists to further broaden my horizons. Very rarely listen to anything while on my bike. still quite quiet here and that is lovely !Posted 12 years ago # -
I have been mainly listening to the fantastic first 3 Roxy Music albums for the last couple of weeks (currently £3 each in Fopp! Bargain of the year!).
Also a fair bit of early* My Bloody Valentine of late, while boringly recalling those hazy days of sunshine, pointy boots and thunderbird wine from my youth.
Saloon and The Beach Boys also get played round here too on occasion (btw it doesn't need to be summer to listen to the Beach Boys, you know!) - my fave modern take on the Beach Boys at the moment is prob Animal Collective/Panda Bear.
I would never listen to music while on my bike. Not for safety reasons though - it's just that that's the only time I ever get any peace.
*Thought I'd insert the word 'early' here, in an attempt to sound really cool.
PS. @ Recombodna, what band(s) are you in??? *intrigued face*
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"hazy days of sunshine, pointy boots and thunderbird wine"
I have only ever come across Thunderbird wine here -
"Shall I mourn your decline with some Thunderbird wine and a black handkerchief?"
Which is of course from the album Pointy Boots...
(Mine's vinyl)
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Early Roxy - on first album they played as if their lives depended on it...(they could have been lynched for their outfits). Bryan Ferry is on Radio 360 somewhere in another context.
Ian Dury - yes - a vinyl copy will spoil all digital imitations.
Silver Thunderbird - see Marc Cohn.
My daughter borrowed a Beach Boys album and thought it was cool. I keep telling her she should listen to King Creosote and the Fence Collective. Meanwhile in Anstruther
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Today at work I listened to Phil Spector's "A Christmas Present to You". It's basically like regular Phil Spector but with sleighbells instead of castinets. So it's very good.
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"a vinyl copy will spoil all digital imitations"
Unless it's live (with added Mick Jones).
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Which is of course from the album Pointy Boots...
Ah yes, that'll be 'New Boots and Pointies'. Thunderbird = 'Californian Pear Wine'. To be avoided.
Phil Spector's "A Christmas Present to You"
That's the only christmas album I'll allow in the house, apart from The Beach Boys one, funnily enough. I like the track where Mr Spector chats over Silent Night. Such soothing tones.
@ Laidback - agree re Roxy - I also got the 1st Bryan Ferry solo album, These Foolish Things, (I've got all these on vinyl too, but nice to put on ipod) from Fopp at the same time - another favourite lp.
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