Kelly Rowland - Ms. Kelly and a mix CD that includes "This Time" by JoJo and "All Night Long" by Robin Thicke. I like to shake my a$$!

Bjork has a "Greatest Hits" DVD?

Now I am seriously worried.....

R

...

Listening to:

Peter Gabriel, The Videos dvd

Lazy night, I listened to...

A-Sides - Hello Hello
Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental JPN 2-cd
Thrills - So Much for the City
Divine Comedy - Regeneration

My ex who loves Joy Division/New Order let me borrow:

New Order Item, A Collection & New Order Story dvd

Pretty cool!

Love and Kisses to you too dear!

R

U2, Elevation 2001, Live From Boston dvd.

I burned a mix of two of my favorite Johns (Legend and Mayer) so I've definitely been lost in that for the last week or so. My soul feels good, too!

Boston -

"Peace of Mind" cranked through the whole house... on the original Vinyl Album no less.

Rob

"Puddin' n' tain" - The Alley Cats, Phil Spector: Back to Mono (Disc 1)

Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.

"Cunts are still running the world" - Jarvis Cocker, The Jarvis Cocker Record

I've been on a big Chicago-music kick for the past week or so, since I went there for a wedding. Listened to Wilco, Jesus Lizard, Liz Phair, the Fiery Furnaces (they're from Chicago originally), Make Believe (not sure if they totally count, but whatever) and the Ponys (I bought their latest while in ORD). I know a lot of Chicago artists are not included here, I just sort of went with what I had, the ones I knew had some Chicago connection. None of this in any way included the band Chicago, not really so into them right now.

My all-time favorite electronic band, the godfathers of the genre:

Kraftwerk, Minimum-Maximum dvd. Here's Numbers from the concert. I saw them @ this show. They were awesome. Go see them if you ever have the opportunity.

And since this IS A SPORTS forum, Here's Tour de France video.

Timbaland's "The Way I Are" Remix is HOT!!!! That man has the hottest beats around. The song is also featured in a current Burger King (I think it is) ad now.

Joss Stone, The Soul Sessions....Heeeyyyyyy!

The Doors Collection (Collector's Edition).

Shoot me or whatever, but I liked the Doors in high school and developed a particularly deep appreciation for their work in college (there's a reason for that, I'm sure) then sort of forgot them for awhile (wonder why?). Then last year I got a friend of mine's Doors CDs and started listening, and good heavens they just suck. I pretty much actively dislike them now. I do like "Five to One," but really because you can kind of listen to it as a big "F**k You" to all the stuff the Doors supposedly stood for (which I appreciated very much in college). Okay, I also like "Spanish Caravan." But that's it. "The End" is just the most pretentious crap I've ever heard. I despise that song. I'm just saying.

On the plus side, the New Pornographers new album Challengers is out in less than a month. I'm going to dress up as Neko Case and camp out in front of Best Buy the night before so I can beat the crowds and be the first to get it.

I totally respect that...

I still love, "Light My Fire," "Riders On The Storm," "Break on Through," & "Crystal Ship." Songs I consider some of my all-time favorites.

Yeah, the Doors have some undeniably great pop songs, almost in spite of themselves. For me, it's just a matter of getting past Jim Morrison's really rather embarassing lyrics - sorry, "poetry" - and his overblown sense of importance (made worse by the fact that it's been carried on so relentlessly by Ray Manzarek).

Right now, I'm going through the collection and pulling stuff I haven't listened to in years. This week, I've been rediscovering my New Zealand pop obsessions, The Verlaines and The Chills.

I just love it when albums hold up!

Sade, Sade Live dvd. God she's gorgeous! And the music is not bad...

Dude, I've totally been meaning to get into the Verlaines, haven't gotten around to getting any of their stuff yet. Now will also check out the Chills.

If there are any Yeah Yeah Yeahs fans in these parts, they have a new EP out called "Is Is" that is pretty awesome. It sounds a bit more like "Fever to Tell" than "Show Your Bones," both of which I like but in different ways. Their s/t EP is just spectacular, also.

The trouble is that the two best Verlaines LPs (three, including a comp of early singles) are completely out of print.

But Is Is is just terrific. To me it sort-of splits the difference between the two LPs. Track 2, "Down boy," is currently breaking my heart and banging my head.

My all-time favorite band:

Depeche Mode, Videos 86>98 dvd

the HAIRSPRAY motion picture soundtrack. I love "Without Love".

"The pills won't help you now" - The Chemical Brothers feat. Midlake, We Are the Night

I've never been much of a fan of the Chemical Brothers, but this new LP has some pretty yummy stuff on it.

Zoe (*a band from Mexico that rocks!), Zoe.

Here are some sample videos:

Asteroide video.

Deja te conecto video.

Miel video

Dead video.

Peace and love video.

Oasis, Definitely Maybe dvd.

The Best of Siouxsie & the Banshees dvd.

New Favorite download - Nelly Furtado - All good things (come to an end) - Dave Aude remix

Oasis, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.

A great cd that I'm enjoying is GANESH MANTRA. Traditional Indian music and chants. Highly recommended.

I finally got the new (latest, at this point) Hold Steady CD, and really like it. Also dig this band called The Noisettes, CD is "What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?" or something.

...and my new favourite band is White Rabbits. "Fort Nightly" is spectacular.

Also, got Broken Social Scene's second LP, "You Forgot It In People," and it is exhilarating. Say what you will about Canadians, they make some damn fine music.

I just noticed how quaint the title of this thread is - "What's playing on your CD player..." I'm not all-out into downloads yet - I love to go get a CD on the day it comes out - but when I get a CD, it's on the player in my computer for however long it takes to copy it, then it's hardly ever heard from again. All the stuff I download I copy to a CD just as a backup, but I don't even have a proper CD player.

Ta-Dah-Scissor Sisters. Love it.

So every time I open this thread now, at the top of the page I see "'C**ts are still running the world'" - and I hate the c-word, and only use it in the most extreme circumstances (like when watching clips from "My Super Sweet 16") and even then I use it sparingly, so at any rate at this point I'm just posting to hopefully hurry up a new page that will have someting nicer at the top.

Right now I'm listening to Broken Social Scene's "Feel Good Lost," which is great Sunday-morning-read-the-paper-drink-coffee-chill-out music.

Sorry, William! (It's a brilliant song, though...)

Anyway, I'm all over the new M.I.A. album, Kala. It's insane how good it is. And it's good how insane it is, too.

And the (finally released) second Junior Senior album, Hey Hey My My Yo Yo is also a blast - pity it didn't come out earlier in the summer!

I'm listening to the best-of collection ("Everything is Possible") from Os Mutantes, this whacked-out Brazilian band from back in the 60s and 70s. Pretty awesome.

Also got the new New Pornographers CD, "Challengers." It's pretty good, but not as immediately, jarringly catchy and lovable as their three previous releases. Very strong though. Whereas the first three were "driving around with the top down" CDs, this new one is more of a "drinking coffee and reading the paper on Sunday morning" sound. It's been described as a "grower" in about a billion different reviews, but it very much requires more intense listening to "get it."

For what it's worth, there have been a lot of "growers" this year, including "Boxer" by The National (which I liked at first but have grown to adore); and the new Modest Mouse and Interpol albums, both of which I was iffy about at first but now either love (Modest Mouse) or like very much (Interpol).

As part of my continuing (wow, that's easy to misspell in a very bad way) effort start a new page on this thread and get the hideous c-word off the top of the page, I went on a bit of a music bender this past weekend. I got...

Bauhaus - "In the Flat Field" - I've heard of this band a zillion times, most recently when Interpol or Ponys are compare to them, so finally got the CD. It's pretty awesome. Very goth/gloomy, but in a good way. I don't like to be too happy.

Cocteau Twins - "Heaven or Las Vegas" - I have "Head Over Heels" and love it, so when I saw this at a thrift store in my neighborhood this weekend for $2, I grabbed it. Awesome. It makes me realize I need to find somebody to make out with, it's that kind of sound.

Misfits - awesome, this like death punk sound, I dig it, it makes me just want to f**k my brains out. Any record with the songs "Mommy Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight" and "Die, Die My Darling" (Sideshow Bob translation: "The, The My Darling") right in a row is awesome.

Elvis Costello - "Armed Forces" - Why did it take me so long to get around to getting this? Awesome, obviously.

The Move - "Message from the Country" - so I was looking for this one ELO song and happened to stumble upon this, The Move was a sort of precursor to ELO, I guess at some point Jeff Lynne joined The Move and slowly shaped it in his own image, setting the stage for the eventual formation of ELO - one of my all-time favourites evah. Anyway, this shit is whacked, I heart it.

Scissor Sisters - "Ta Dah" - I also found this at the thrift store for $2, and thank goodness - I hate it. HATE IT!!! It is just annoying as all get out. It's not even an "oh, just not my cup of tea" thing, after about three songs I actively disliked this band and everything about them. I think I have to surrender my gay membership card now.

I've kind of taken over this thread, come on people, help me out, I know you listen to music.

I'm really loving "Version" by Mark Ronson. He produced songs for Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen (both of whom have songs on his album).

God, what a great, great album. My very first EC purchase, back at the tender age of...what, twelve? And even though I loved it, I didn't fully appreciate it at the time. It's so rich, but never at the expense of being genuinely exciting. I hope you got one of the reissues with the extra tracks - absolute gold on there.

And if you don't have This Year's Model, Blood & Chocolate, Imperial Bedroom, Get Happy!!, Trust, King of America, and about half of Punch the Clock - go get 'em! Now!

(runs off to go put on "Green shirt")

Oh, and William? Another way to avoid seeing that word is simply by clicking on the Last post by: link on the front page (in the Last Action column). That automatically takes you to the last post you've seen, so you can avoid seeing the word "Cunts" every time.

Provided, of course, you didn't read the last half of this post.

A little mix of old and new dancey stuff that me and a friend came up.

Rihanna - Don't Stop the Music (den Broeder Big Room)
Guido Osorio - Werkin
Dirty Old Ann - Turn Me On
Charlotte Church - Tonight (Thunderpuss)
Robbie Rivera - Feel This
Hi-Tack - Waiting For U (Say Say Say)
Widelife/Byron Stingily - I Don't Want U Turn Me
Sylvia Indeep - Kiss My Black Ass
Firefox - Sex Shooter/Pull My Trigger

You're just evil, aren't you? Come over and sit next to me...

I have been listening to alot of chanting tapes such as GANESH MANTRA. And alot of music by disco deva AMANDA LEAR.

I'm thinking of buying an Eric Himan CD and wondered if anyone here is familiar with his music. Is he worth listening to?

Thanks!

Well played, my friend. Well played...

Nina Simone - 'Destiny' album; practically a reissue of 1987's Live & Kickin.

Destiny's version of "Four Women" is especially good, with a slightly funkier left-hand piano line than the original and a rock-inspired drumbeat that works really well.

A reminder of just how good she was.

R

I've been watching football and drinking beer pretty much all day, and I'm pretty hammered, and I'm sitting here listening to Syd Barret's "The Madcap Laughs" and let me tell you it's pretty effing spectacular. Nice way to cool down a bit after watching football all day.

Other than the new Ben Harper CD, I'm working all old/old-ish material. The new Ben Harper is beautiful.

Noisettes, What Time Is It Mister Wolf? I've worn out Noisettes, anticipating their US tour. But I'll be darned if they didn't cancel their US tour. Grrrrr!!!

Mark Ronson. He fronted the "house band" at tonight's VMAs, which I watch partly because he was there and partly because friends/insiders recommended several performances. I've downloaded a whole bunch of Mark Ronson tunes, primarly on the strength of his new version of "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before." I'm trying to warm up to Daniel Merriweather, who sounds Terrence Trent Darby-ish on the "Stop Me" remake, but I'm not completely sold...

The Dirtbombs. Can't wait for the new Dirtbombs CD to come out, so I've had Ultraglide in Black and Dangerous Magical Noise in pretty heavy rotation.

and the two best hip hop CDs of last year: The Coup's Pick a Bigger Weapon and Game Theory by The Roots.

New mp3 add, Starzoom - Billie Jean (People Always Told Me) - Hi-Tack remix