What are you listening to?

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<p>OK I’m not trying to take away from mardad’s post, but I have really been meaning to start this thread for a long time! I am an avid music listener. The iPod is the greatest invention of my lifetime!<br>
Lately (past two days) I’ve been relaxing to Paul Schwartz and Nora Jones (her Not Too Late is fantastic!)</p>

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<p>I can’t stop listening to “The Sunlandic Twins” by Of Montreal. I am totally and completely hooked.</p>

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<p>In my CD player in the car at this minute, Paul Thorn – Ain’t Love Strange
On Deck in the CD, Joe Jackson – Night and Day or Faces Greatest Hits
My next CD purchase, Southside Johnny’s box set
Last concert was Prince</p>

<p>It’s just so sad re-reading that. :slight_smile: </p>

<p>My son will tell you that I listen to the oldies station way too much. I admit that I cringe whenever they say their tag “Greatest Hits of the Sixties AND Seventies”! I don’t listen to it THAT much, but I did find myself singing along to Boz Scaggs a few days ago. There you have it. </p>

<p>In a more modern vein, I do like Green Day, though I kid my son that Billie Joe Armstrong is a retread. Looks like the Cure guy and his songs sound like The Clash. I can’t listen to much of the other stuff he plays.</p>

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<p>Country girl here…I’m listening to The Wreckers…if you’ve never heard them, you should give them a listen. They’re great.</p>

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<p>A cd I got for my birthday from a special friend:
Rod Stewart Unplugged</p>

<p>~berurah</p>

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<p>I’m about to download Nashville Skyline into my ipod. My aerobics class has a version of one of the songs sung by someone else and it’s driving me crazy.</p>

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<p>Mathmom–speaking of which–who has new exercise songs? Mine are getting a bit old and I’m beginning to get a bit bored on my runs.</p>

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<p>Great exercise songs: “Set You Free” by The Black Keys. That’s what I’m listening to right now. <a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fMnFFB5XXM[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fMnFFB5XXM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Thickfreakness-Black-Keys/dp/B00008O31H/sr=1-5/qid=1170563731/ref=sr_1_5/102-0531102-3736126?ie=UTF8&s=music[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Thickfreakness-Black-Keys/dp/B00008O31H/sr=1-5/qid=1170563731/ref=sr_1_5/102-0531102-3736126?ie=UTF8&s=music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I put it on my wife’s iPod last night.</p>

<p>I’ve been listening to Gram Parsons’ five albums:</p>

<p>The Byrds
Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)</p>

<p>The Flying Burrito Brothers
Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)
Burrito Deluxe (1970)</p>

<p>The two incredible Parsons duet albums with Emmylou Harris and Elvis Presley’s band:
GP (1973)
Grievous Angel (1974)</p>

<p>IMO, Sweatheart of the Rodeo, Gilded Palace of Sin, Nashville Skyline, and Workingman’s Dead/American Beauty have to be viewed as a package deal. I think Parsons and Hillman hijacking the Byrds and recording a country album led directly to Nashville Skyline and Workingman’s Dead.</p>

<p>No way Dylan could have missed the hardcore country versions of two of his songs on Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Gotta believe that album helped inspire Jerry Garcia to buy a pedal steel guitar, which led to Workingman’s Dead/American Beauty and his side band, New Riders of the Purple Sage.</p>

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<p>Snake, yes that Black Keys song is great and I got it a couple years ago from the School of Rock soundtrack (which is actually a great soundtrack!). </p>

<p>Also STILL listening to the Garden State soundtrack. I thought the movie was kind of stupid, although I know a lot of people liked it, but I loved the music.</p>

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<p>patient, here’s some from my iPod:
(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in love—L.T.D.
A Little Less Conversation —Elvis
All I Wanna Do —Sheryl Crow
Barracuda-----Heart
Beer for my Horses----Toby Keith
Black or White----Michael Jackson
Boogie Oogie Oogie----A Taste of Honey
Bust a Move----Young MC
Bye Bye Love—Cars
Call Me—Blondie
Canned Heat—Jamiroquai
Don’t Stop Believin—Journey
Don’t You (Forget about me)—Simple Minds
Feel Good Time—Pink
Flagpole Sitta----Harvey Danger
Funkytown—Lipps, Inc
Gettin Jiggy Wit It----Will Smith
Good Vibrations—Marky Mark
Got to Give It Up—Marvin Gaye
Head Over Heels—the Go-Go’s
Heart and Soul—T’Pau
Hit me with your Best Shot—Pat Benetar
I’m Coming Out----Diana Ross
I’m Every Woman----Chaka Khan
I Believe in a Thing Called Love—the Darkness
I Can’t Wait —Nu Shooz
It’s the End of the World As We Know it----R.E.M.
Jessie’s Girl----Rick Springfield
Jive Talkin---- BeeGees
Just Like Heaven----the Cure
La Bamba----Los Lobos
Lady Marmalade Labelle----Labelle
Let’s Go----Cars
Loaded----Primal Scream
Love Train----big and rich
Lowdown—Boz Scaggs
MmBop----Hansen
My Brain is Hanging Upside Down----the Ramones
My Sharona-----the Knack
Never Been any Reason-----Head East
Never Let you Go-----Third Eye Blind
Play that Funky Music-----Wild Cherry
Rainbow Flows----Husky Rescue
Reelin in the Years-----Steely Dan
Relax-----Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Right Place Wrong Time----Dr. John
Saturday Night’s Alright----Nickelback version
Semi-Charmed Life—Thrid Eye Blind
Shining Star-----Earth Wind and Fire
Soak up the Sun----Sheryl Crow
Something About You-----Level 42
Stayin Alive----BeeGees
Super Duper Love-----Joss Stone
There’s Only One Way to Rock----Sammy Hagar
Tubthumping-----Chumbawamba
Upside Down-----Diana Ross
Venus-----Bananarama
Wannabe----Spice Girls
We are Family----Sister Sledge
What I Like About you-----Lillix version and the Romantics version
Working for the Weekend-----Loverboy
YMCA----the Village People
You Might Think-----Cars
You Sexy Thing----Hot Chocolate
You Should be Dancing----BeeGees</p>

<p>you can tell I am not a slave to any particular decade ;)</p>

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<p>At the moment I’m listening to Gov’t Mule 4-16-04 (Warfield Theater)</p>

<p>DISC 1 - SET 1 (63:15)
01 Crowd
02 Drums(Matt) >jam > Pygmy Twilight >
Blind Man in the Dark >
03 Game Face
04 Birth of the Mule^
05 Slow Happy Boys,
06 Fool’s Moon
07 Bad Little Doggie
08 How Many More Years?->I’m Going Upstairs->
09 Higher Ground->
10 How Many More Years?</p>

<p>DISC 2 (56:15)
01 One
02 Sco-Mule
03 When Doves Cry->
04 Beautifully Broken->
05 When Doves Cry->
06 Beautifully Broken->
07 Thorazine Shuffle
SET 2
08 Drums (Matt) > jam >@
09 Lay of the Sunflower@</p>

<p>DISC 3 (59:53)
01 Cryptical Envelopment-#>
02 The Other One#->
03 Wang Dang# Doodle->
04 The Other One#
05 Sugaree#
06 Viola Lee Blues<em>->
07 Lovelight</em></p>

<p>DISC 4 - SET 3 (62:14)
01 Drums (Matt) > John the Revelator &% >
02 32-20 Blues& >
03 Drums,Bass,Keys & >
04 Fiyo On The Bayou &+
05 keyboard intro & >
06 Fallen Down &
07 Mule >
08 Third Stone from the Sun >
09 Mule
10 crowd
11 E: Soulshine</p>

<p>^ - contains Eleanor Rigby tease
@ - Phil Lesh on bass, no Andy</p>

<h1>- Phil Lesh on bass, Bob Weir on guitar,</h1>

<p>Jeff Chementi on keyboards, Bill Kreutzman
and Mickey Hart on drums, no Andy, Danny
or Matt

    • Matt & Danny return to the stage
      % - Danny on trumpet
      & - Zigaboo Modeliste on drums
    • first time played</p>
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<p>We really like the Italian singer Ornella Vanoni. My daughter started out with an iTunes purchase of one of her songs from the Ocean’s Twelve soundtrack, and our interest has grown from there.</p>

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<p>I am LOVING the Dreamgirls soundtrack (the one disc version). And if you haven’t seen the movie…I highly recommend it!</p>

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<p>Sounds like a reunion to me.</p>

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<p>I like exercising to almost anything by The Cars or George Thoroughgood and the Destroyers. Rolling Stones are good in general. I’m also fond of older things like Rock Around the Clock, My baby sent me a Letter, Love Potion Number Nine, Twist and Shout. One that our aerobics class did which always makes me laugh is “It’s Raining Men.” I hated Abba, but it’s surprisingly good for exercise. Alot of 80s music was good too - B-52s, The Bangles, Blondie…</p>

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<p>A small random sample of some of my iPod favorite groups/artists:</p>

<p>Red Hot Chili Peppers</p>

<p>R.E.M.</p>

<p>Pearl Jam</p>

<p>Alanis Morissette</p>

<p>Lucinda Williams</p>

<p>Dar Williams</p>

<p>Beth Orton</p>

<p>Crowded House</p>

<p>Neil Young </p>

<p>Joni Mitchell</p>

<p>Belle & Sebastian</p>

<p>Trash Can Sinatras (I don’t know if anyone’s heard of them, but they’re from Scotland, and they’re kind of a cross between Crowded House, Belle & Sebastian and Simon & Garfunkel, IMO)</p>

<p>U2</p>

<p>Some of the “newer” musicians on my iPod: The Shins, Doves, Snow Patrol, A Band of Bees, Jim Noir and a new group that I’m starting to get into, “Vietnam”.</p>

<p>I agree with Mathmom: Looking back, a lot of 80’s music is better than I originally thought back in the day. However, when I now listen to much of the more “pop” oriented rock from the 70’s, I have to say that it sounds pretty cheesy(great soul/r&b music from the 70’s, though).</p>

<p>I have way too many CDs and I used to go around with a rotating collection of about 10 CDs in my car, to cover what I happen to be in the mood to listen to at any given time. Since I’ve had an iPod, I just loaded most of my collection on there, so now I can travel lighter.;)</p>

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<p>As far as individual discs are concerned I have well over 1,000, probably closer to 1500. I have over 500 live concert recordings most of which are 3 disc shows.</p>

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<p>In my car right now: Dave Matthews (Under the Table and Dreaming), Ben Folds Live, Red Hot Chili Peppers (Stadium Arcadium) , Death Cab for Cutie (Plan), Garden State Soundtrack, Grateful Dead (American Beauty) and Springsteen (Born to Run) CDs.</p>

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<p>Thank you for those exercise suggestions! I was afraid I was slowing down on the treadmill because I was getting so dang bored with my music!</p>