What are you listening to at the moment?...

[Stevieboy]

The new Biffy Clyro single is f'ing amazing!!! Played about a dozen times at least today


...now bouncing about to Queens of the Stone Age...hell YEAH!!!!

[Robusto]

For Lasc.

My missus says I have to say thank you (and she said it about 15 times) for the Thom Yorke mp3s...

"Very nice of him... even if he is a cigar smoker".

[nicwing]

I am listening to Wall to Wall Led Zeppelin although it's all from the remastered double CD which is on the lady wife's iPod.

I am reading the wonderful Mick Wall biography of the band which is written in a wonderfully unique style, and I've just got to the apsolute peak of their powers and their pomp, I fear it's all down hill from here.

I also fear that I am going to have to buy all of the albums on CD to hear the bits that didn't make the compilation.

Then next week I shall be moving on to Steve Winwood, the Buzzcocks and Fairport Convention in preparation for Cropredy in two weeks time.

Strange combination you might think but hey ho, pray for sun!!!

[Deano]

Great taste Nic! The Buzzcocks and Fairport Convention are both on my regular play lists.

[celsis]

Was listening to Steely Dan - Aja yesterday. I actually sat in the car when I got to the hotel in order to listen to the end of the album!

Aja was such a good album. Makes me feel old however. How come no modern bands are emulating the 70s bands?

Another thing I was thinking about was protest songs a la Dylan, Springsteen, Arlo Guthrie et al. All these people produced excellent msuic because there was something to protest about. What's happened to this generation? Even the punks had something to protest about. Are today's teenagers just too mollycoddled to protest about anything?

Jeez, I'm turning into a grumpy old man!

[Mr Moore]

I heard golden brown tonight, the first time in ages, christ, what a track.

[Robusto]

Was listening to Steely Dan - Aja yesterday. I actually sat in the car when I got to the hotel in order to listen to the end of the album!

Aja was such a good album. Makes me feel old however. How come no modern bands are emulating the 70s bands?

Another thing I was thinking about was protest songs a la Dylan, Springsteen, Arlo Guthrie et al. All these people produced excellent msuic because there was something to protest about. What's happened to this generation? Even the punks had something to protest about. Are today's teenagers just too mollycoddled to protest about anything?

Jeez, I'm turning into a grumpy old man!

Steely Dan brings out very different reactions from people, doesn't it?
Love vs hate.
I'm not sure where I am with them any more, but there are some great tracks.

Youth has no need to protest, it seems.
Gadgets take away the need to think, maybe.

[Broody]

Over the last few minutes
Hip Hop
Outkast I like the way you move
Black eyed peas Boom Boom Pow

Progressive
Tiesto hes a pirate
Blake jarrell Louder
Gabriel and dresden Snow Patrol remix
Deadmau5 and kaskade I remember and step one two

Rock
static X destroyer

[Mr Moore]

[QUOTE=Robusto;27515]
Youth has no need to protest, it seems.
Gadgets take away the need to think, maybe.[/UNQUOTE]


AAhh, poetical pessimism.
Lovely jubely.

[daverave999]

I've just rediscovered Plastikman's "Sheet One". Beautiful and creepy.

[Simon-JG-hr]

I'm listening to the BBC Proms, specifically the MGM Musicals performance from a couple of nights ago.

[Drewmidorn]

Steely Dan brings out very different reactions from people, doesn't it?
Love vs hate.
I'm not sure where I am with them any more, but there are some great tracks.

Steeley Dan is indeed a funny one. I can't stand how sterile it is. The funny thing is I would always say they lacked emotion and it felt like no one in the band was connected to what they were doing and that it was self indulgent musicianship with no content. Then I read an interview with Donald Fagen and he said that most of what he was interested was getting the sound clinically perfect, getting the perfect take.... and it sounds like it. Unfortunately at the expense of anything else.

My guitarist is really into Steeley Dan too and I mentioned to him that it is emotionless music made by truly autistic people for truly autistic people. He said "Music doesn't have to be emotional". I was stumped. perhaps he's right. perhaps you can appreciate music in the same way as you appreciate logarithmic tables or the workings of a rover V12 engine.

[Paulie]

At the moment it is AC/DC in the backgroud from Donnington 1991

[nicwing]

Fairport Convention, getting my head together for Cropredy!

[SteveGriff]

Steeley Dan is indeed a funny one.

Yeah Steely Dan... interesting band. TBH I love the music. Horses for courses.