<p>I loved reading about everyone’s college music :)</p>
<p>So, what is everybody listening to now…even if you still like and include the “oldies” ?</p>
<p>Currently in my player:</p>
<p>Best of Led Zeppelin
Jethro Tull Songs from the Wood
soundtrack **13 Going on 30<a href=“don’t%20laugh!”>/B</a>
Leo Kottke One Guitar No Vocals
Natalie Merchant best of that I compiled (w/ some 10000 Maniacs)</p>
<p>Original cast recording of tick…tick…Boom.
Billy Porter - At the corner of Broadway + Soul
Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow
Peter Allen Live at Carnegie Hall
Jeff Buckley - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
John Mayer - Room for Squares
Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Van Morrison - Back on Top</p>
<p>The current pile next to the cd player in my study. :)</p>
<p>Brak is a hoot.
Neil Young
The Band
Dylan
Bonnie Raitt
(trying to come up with something more contemporary…um…um… Brak)
Blues Brothers
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Elvis</p>
<p>oh-my-gosh DrDrewsmom…</p>
<p>my husband is such a Leo Kottke fan…so funny that you have Leo in your list! (It’s hard to find Leo fans!)</p>
<p>Cafe Del Mar
Budha Bar
10,000 Maniacs
Diana Krall
The White Album…
Dixie Chicks</p>
<p>(top 6 on the stack)</p>
<p>I’m so boring. In the “heavy rotation” of my CD:</p>
<p>Elton John – Peachtree Road
Alice Cooper – Greatest Hits
Joe Jackson – 4
Carole King – Tapestry
Squeeze – Singles
The Jam – Snap!
U2 – Vertigo (Wow! something since 1980!)
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Hearts of Stone</p>
<p>I also secretly (so my S won’t give me a hard time, since I give HIM such a hard time about his music) listen to several of my S’s CD’s:</p>
<p>Green Day – American Idiot
Sum 41
Good Charlotte
Lynyrd Skynyd – Thyrty (strange as it sounds, he’s a huge LS fan, when neither of us are)
The Killers</p>
<p>lderochi,
I like Good Charlotte as well, also Smash Mouth and some of Green Day…all listened to in the car driving to look at schools last year!</p>
<p>Preset radio buttons in my car:
[ul]
[<em>] PBS station - besides the normal NPR stuff, the music they play is an eclectic mix of just about everything, with different shows on different nights: Celtic, Blues, Jazz, Reggae, …
[</em>] A station that plays “the best of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.”
[<em>] A station that plays “beat”-type music: hip-hop, rap, and that sort of thing. Believe it or not, one of my favorite current artists is Nelly.
[</em>] A station that plays “album rock,” which is my daily fix of LZ-type music
[/ul]</p>
<p>The CDs in my car are too varying a list to try to catagorize, but include everything from Phantom and Les Miz to Charlotte Church to Nora Jones to Sheryl Crowe to some local artists I really, really like. Some of my favorite CDs are Techno/Electronica/Trance - perfect for driving.</p>
<p>It amazes me that our kids like some older music (my son is an Aerosmith fan), but it also amazes me that we like some newer music (Nelly).</p>
<p>To the unbelievable embarassment of my S, who was with me at the time, I won a call-in trivia contest for our local oldies station, playing the “best of the 60’s and 70’s” (not even the 80s!). </p>
<p>Son helped eat the free pizzas, though.</p>
<p>I bought my husband U2 for xmas- funny cause he used to not be able to stand Bono.
I am going to have to get some cds- my husband has a huge blues collection, but I have a very small pile since I mostly listen in my car- and my former 12 year old van didn’t have a cd player.
besides my daughters Cds- I tend to listen to Pearl jam over and over- just got Vs also listening to a collaboration with the Walmer high school choir from South Africa with Eddie Vedder. I know I should listen to something else but I can’t help it 
As the kids would say * Eddie is teh sex *</p>
<p>I think I have Dave Matthews, Bruce Springstein, Indigo Girls, the new U2, John Mayer, and Robert Palmer in my CD right now. My HS Sophomore son is taking one term elective in Rock and Roll History, given by the Band Director. They won’t get too far in on term (the whole course is a semester), but he is starting to get into some of the early rock and roll music.</p>
<p>From Weird Al’s My Baby’s In Love With Eddie Vetter…</p>
<p>Well, my baby’s in love with Eddie Vedder
She’s all crazy 'bout that Eddie Vedder
Once she was mine, but now I better just forget her
'Cause my baby’s in love with Eddie Vedder</p>
<p>Now, every time I see him, well, he looks so grim
I guess it really must suck to be a rock star like him
What a pain in the butt to have so much success
Spending all his time moping and avoiding the press
But my girl can’t get enough of his sullen demeanor
Like he’s some big tortured genious and I’m some kinda wiener</p>
<p>Well, my baby’s in love with Eddie Vedder
She’s got a thing for that Eddie Vedder
Tell me, what can he do that I can’t do better
Now my baby’s in love with
I said I said I said my baby’s in love with Eddie Vedder
Head over heels for that Eddie Vedder
I cant believe it, now she’s knitting him a sweater
'Cause my baby’s in love with Eddie Vedder</p>
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<p>We are relatively new fans Actually, my dad (lives in another state) heard him on his local public radio station and said “you should get a CD by this guy…” However he warned us that his singing was a little ummm, different, so we’ve only listened to instrumental by him. </p>
<p>My S#3 (HS freshman) just loves him and is a fairly new guitar player himself. He also listens to a lot of older Rush (Fly by Night, Farewell to kings, 2112, etc) as well as LZ, Hendrix, etc and eventually learns all the songs. </p>
<p>I think the only band my kids have introduced to me that I like is P.O.D. …and I can only take them for so long!
The Greenday, Nirvana, etc were mine long before they were “theirs” ;)</p>
<p>massmom: my HS fr would LOVE that class! Next year he’s taking music theory and 2 other music classes, but that one would probably be his fave.</p>
<p>Latin Pop: Juanes, Mark Anthony, Marco Antonio Solis, Chayenne</p>
<p>Beach Boys, ZZ Top, Rod Stewart, Andre Bocelli, Elton John, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, A Jewish Odyssey (assorted).</p>
<p>Latin is superior to anything out there IMO (I understand very few words)</p>
<p>H has mix of Madonna, Beatles balads, Dave Clark 5, Blackeye Peas, Dionne Warwick, Commodores, Marvin Gaye, Crystal Gayle, Linda Ronstand, and Tom Jones. Personally, I was playing Motown’s Greatest yesterday while vacuming. Then I moved to Bobby Darin’s Greatest. One of my favorite soundtracks is from “My Girl.” We’re just all over the place! ;)</p>
<p>my daughter loves the indigo girls- sees them every year when they play at the pier on Elliot Bay
The Butchies too.
I took an American roots music class in community college from a prof who is now at Northwestern
great class, learned about a lot of African music that I wasn’t familar with … Miriam Makeba, lots of old blues and jazz… great stuff
( Bull Moose Jackson…Freddy King… Gershwin…)
( I love weird al too- never really listened to Pearl jam till I heard them live about 10 years ago- now I see them every chance I get- )
*crossing fingers to get tickets to a benefit show with Pearl Jam- the Presidents of the United States of America ( who I took oldest to about 8 years ago for their final- final show ), Bill Frisell and Heart. *</p>
<p>How could I forget!!!</p>
<p>My perennial favorite: Sade. My kids can’t stand her (???) and I finally had to resort to listening to her mainly in the car. </p>
<p>She’s the one I want to see in concert before I die!</p>
<p>CDs in my car when I can’t take any more of the FM radio crapola:</p>
<p>Charley Parker with Strings;</p>
<p>A doo-wop compilation with Don & Juan, Jive Five, etc.;</p>
<p>A DC-area group called Afro-Brazilian Connection (or something similar)</p>
<p>I’m influenced by my 17 yr old daughter’s choices, but I love everything on this list and highly recommend them all:</p>
<p>Lucinda Williams: Essence
Youssou NDour: Egypt
Robyn Hitchcock: Luxor
Tift Merritt: Tambourine
Ani DiFranco: Knuckle Down
Diana Krall: When I look in your eyes
Sonny Rollins: Newks Time
Joni Mitchell: Blue
The Replacements: Let it Be
Kip Hanrahan: Vertical’s Currency
Ricki Lee Jones: The evening of my best day
Neil Young: Greendale
Charles Lloyd: Canto
Townes Van Zandt: The Late Great TVZ
The Zutons: Who Killed the Zutons?
Duke Ellington: Far East Suite
Elvis Costello: The Delivery Man
Joe Henderson: Lush Life
Steve Earle: Jerusalem
Guy Clark: The Dark
Kurt Elling: This time it’s Love
Jim White: Dig a hole</p>
<p>Radio: WFUV (Fordham University) and WNYC (NPR)</p>
<p>At this very moment I’m listening on my computer at work to the 24-hour a day folk music feed from Kent State University - Folk Alley.</p>
<p>This morning I listened to the Dixie Chicks. Recently I have been listening to Creedence, Beach Boys, zydeco, and the Mamas and Papas,</p>