What have you been tapping your foot to?

[Doug]

goth, huh?? I am more of a pop guy. I love the new Patrick Wolf cd Lupercalia. And the new Beyonce. I like music to be happy, like me!

[Sarah]

Right now, listening to Squirrel Nut-Zippers. Wish they were still recording.

[Bill, Moderator]

A favorite album and current favorite vilonist:

[Nancy]

I just bought Amy MacDonald's This is the Life and I'm totally in love!

[Doug]

I will have to check her out! I am having trouble finding new artists this summer.. we seem to have hit a dry spell musically.. there are things coming out, but I look at them, and I say "meh."

[Sergey]

currently entertaining me on my ride to and fro work....



(i'm wearing track 7 out!)

[Doug]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv94Sk...

I currently love this song.. (it does have a bad word in it... ) :)

[Nancy]

Doug wrote: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv94Sk...

I currently love this song.. (it does have a bad word in it... ) :)"


This made me laugh, Doug. :)

[Doug]

I think it is hilarious!

[Doug]

Matt I just watched the video for Edge of Glory.. I love it.. I think she does a better video when it is simpler.

[Steven]

among my current aural sex faves: Radiohead's Coda; Sam Cooke; anything by Marvin Gaye; The Doors L.A. Woman album; Change's Greatest Hits; Massive Attack; Etta James; It's All Right by The Impressions; Harlem Shuffle by Bob and Earl;Detroit era Motown; Atlantic Soul; Invisible Light by Scissor Sisters;Adele; a bizarre, but cool track by David Lynch (!) called Good Day Today

[Doug]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp8w58...

Lately, I love this!

[Rogier]

howl
florence and the machines

[Bill, Moderator]

I typically prefer instrumental to vocal or choral music. But, I was listening to NPR's Performance Today last week and they played an excerpt from the R composer Tomás Luis de Victoria's Requiem which I really liked. It put me into a similar mood as old style Gregorian chant can. So I did an iTunes search and found a wonderful album "Renaissance Giants" sung by The Tallis Scholars which includes the entire requiem.

[Cole]

Now:

-Anything by Reba (recently saw her in concert)
-Speak Now by Taylor Swift
-'What You Want' by Evanescence (THANK GOD THEY ARE FUCKING BACK!)

And has anyone heard 'Skyscraper' by Demi Lovato? It is a fantastic song for her to come back to after her rehab stint.

[Sergey]

"i mighta been born just plain white trash but fancy wad my name"

[Dan]

Foster the People! They have a major hit right now with "Pumped Up Kicks" but I really like some of the other tunes on their CD Torches, especially "Houdini," "Call It What You Want," "Helena Beat," and "Miss You."

[Doug]

I was happy to learn that Erasure had a new single - yay! and there is a new Will Young CD, and he is always good.

I wil have to listen to that Demi Lovato song. And Foster the People, too. I will try anything!

[Harry]

Let's get basic..............http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrEcP...

[Nancy]

Bang Bang

[Doug]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANbBwU...

New Melanie C (Sporty Spice)

[Adam]

Maroon 5 is my fav

[Juli]

Dan wrote: "Foster the People! They have a major hit right now with "Pumped Up Kicks" but I really like some of the other tunes on their CD Torches, especially "Houdini," "Call It What You Want," "Helena Beat..."

This a hundred times yes...I have been listening to this CD for a while now and it is my default CD in the car most days.


Pumped Up Kicks pulled me in but Helena Beat and Houdini made the CD for me.

[Bill, Moderator]

Husky wrote: "Basically, I'm just listening to everything I can find (except German folk music ^^*)
Recently, I'm listening to good oldies from the 40ies and 50ies :)"

And what's wrong with German folk music? I spent yesterday listening to Sentimental Sixties. They just don't write them like they used to.

[Doug]

New Erasure, Frankmusik, and Darren Hayes. Kinda like Kelly Clarksons new one.

[Debbie]

Tina Turner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkIh4...
and Adele http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3...

[Jules]

Right now I'm hooked on Girls Generation and f(x). (:

[Bill, Moderator]

Well I've been listening to Christmas music. Though my spiritual life is totally non-religious. This morning it was the Vienna Boy's Choir and prior days everything from Mahalia Jackson to Mannheim Steamroller. An all time favorite is the Joan Baez Christmas album: Baez: Noël

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I'm listening to "A Tell Tale Penis" by Joan of Arc. I really like this song. It's quite gentle and really pleasant to listen to. I've known about it for a few years now, and it never gets old.

And I think at least one of the members is gay, I'm not too sure on that though.

[Judikt]

Lately I've been listening to :
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
P!nk - Greatest Hits... So Far!!

[Bill, Moderator]

Doug wrote: "I love Ella! I love jazz standards and pop standards as well, like Peggy Lee, Doris Day, Jo Stafford..."

Gosh, I learned to love Ella because she was my Mom's favorite. I started branching out to my parents generation's music: Ella, Judy Holliday, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, some big bands, Gershwin and Irving Berlin songs...

Has anyone tried collecting all the versions of a great old song? I have with Classical music and once made a list of all the versions of Unchained Melody I could find. It was impossible to find them all. I was listening to the radio yesterday and a fascinating jazz-blues version of Nat King Cole's Nature Boy was played live. I've found about 50 versions so far.

[David]

For the past six months or so I have been being blown away by the liquid poppin' roboticism of http://www.youtube.com/user/WHZGUD2

[Dylan]

I heard Bohemian rhapsody the other day and I just couldn't help but look up this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru-E7X...

This is my guilty pleasure.

[Nancy]

Dylan.kearney wrote: "I heard Bohemian rhapsody the other day and I just couldn't help but look up this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru-E7X...

This is my guilty pleasure."


Love it!

[Nancy]

I fell in love with Faun after watching Red Haircrow's Agony of Joy book trailer.

[Bill, Moderator]

I've been looking for the Director's cut of Sibelius' Violin Concerto and finally found then only extant version on CD:

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/a...

[Debbie]

And odd combo of radio (dance and country stations), Motown, songs from The Voice, especially Juliet Simms and Sera Hill, and a little bit of Pitbull. I've never watched one of those music shows but I got hooked on The Voice. Anybody else?

[Steven]

Joan Osborne's new album kicks butt; "Grehound" by Swedish House Mafia; Peter Gabriel's "Downside Up" and, as always, vintage MOTOWN. Almost nothing on the radio appeals to me at the moment, maybe next year. Also,I re-discovered a chunk of disco cheese called "I'm a Man" by Macho, and it actually sounds good in a late night/sleaze sort of way.

[Bill, Moderator]

I've been grooving to Shostakovich's Jazz Suites. The Waltz II from Suites II would be recognizable to almost everyone.

[Isaiah]

I am obsessed with the new Aqua CD. They have moved away from the Barbie Girl image they created with their first couple of CDs, now they are more like Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, and Jackie Beat thrown into one. Try the song "Like a Robot" if you really want to see the drastic change.

[Steven]

Hey Doug, looking for all the versions of a classic song sounds like something I would do! As for Unchained Melody,I would love to hear the history of this song, when it was written, by who, etc. and may look that up. I find the Righteous Brothers version a masterpiece, and it is an enigma as to why Bobby Hatfield did not pursue a solo recording career with a voice like that; his vocal is to my ears one of the best male vocals in pop music history; he was REALLY into this song. - Steve

[Tom]

Heard this on an episode of 'True Blood' (Season 3) that I'm watching and fell in love with the voice/lyrics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCV-YM...

I ordered the CD from the library to download.

Anybody a fan of hers or are familiar with her work?

[J.]

The new Bowie album is HOT. How To Destroy Angels' album is amazing.

[Kevin]

Lately we bought a new amplifier which has a built in web radio. Have discovered http://thebocx.com which plays a wide variety of chill out music.

Listen at different times of the day and the genre keeps changing.

Another old favourite is http://deevaradio.net/divadisco/ - Classic disco you've never heard.

[Paul Douglas]

I basically carried my music collection around with me since I bought my first Tape of Santana Abraxas at the age of 16ish, I was sort of a mini rocker in Wolverhampton so got into Led Zep and Pink Floyd. UB40 and Prince were also prominent and more my main taste. Then I came out and moved to London worked in a pub and the 90's arrived. So I heard camp stuff because we hosted Drag as well as clubby stuff trip hop. Got into rap listening to the Beastie Boys, Ice T & Cube. Salt n Pepper, Monie Love & TLC. Then there were all the soul ladies. Ruby Turner and Mariah Carey. I liked Diana Ross cause she asked me to dance. Nowadays I have 6000 plus tracks on my Imac and listen to everything forwarding through, stopping on the sing-a-longy ones. AND I've just got into Dolly Parton which is steering me into Country. I ain't too keen on ABBA though.

[Natasha]

Speed of Light by Bas and Ram (hardtrance)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELrq004dGRs

I'm practising *Shuffling* to it.

[Gregsamsa]

The Raveonettes

[Bill, Moderator]

With my high school 50th reunion coming up next month, I've been listening to hits from the '60s and getting maudlin and melancholy and all that. It's totally unbelievable. Behind my eyes, the world looks or feels like youth. Beware the mirrors.

[J.]

This has been an amazing year for me, personally, music-wise: I'm blissed out on the new Bowie, new Iggy and the Stooges, new Joan Jett, and new NIN. Some new bands I'm digging on (and highly recommend) are Hiatus Kaiyote, Holograms, and Smallpools.

[Holly]

Still acquainting myself with Panic! At The Disco's new album.

I'm convinced the song Girls/Girls/Boys is about a girl questioning her sexuality...