I don't know if I mentioned this myself; I got the record last week or so, and I really like it too. There's a fullness and richness to her voice that I don't think I've ever heard before. It's striking compared to the goofy sort of singing she used to do (very well, I might add.)

The title track is my favorite so far.

Nostalgic article from Salon demonstrating why music sucks today:

The greatest week in rock history

opps, Bought another new cd Glen Phillips "Live at Largo". Phillips was the lead singer of Toad the Wet Sprocket. Really nice live CD.

Toad the Wet Sprocket broke up? Jeez, where have I been. I saw then twice in concert, and, yes, they did sound good live.

FDog, sorry to be the bearer of Bad News. But Yes they broke up. Great band, considering they were basically a garage band in college. I have too many of their Cds.

The Broadway musical, Avenue Q. Check it out! Funny as hell!

I love Cyndi, but don't think At Last is terribly good. She does some great songs and I like her takes on many. I think her voice often sounds strained and the songs as a group don't make a great listen.

I just got done working out to the new Kylie Minogue CD it is an import from Australia. Pretty good for workout music except for about 2 songs.

I actually made it known to anyone who'd listen that I wanted this for Christmas and Santa did indeed bring it! It has yet to leave my CD player! Like you said, just fun R&R. Thanks for the referral!

Also been listening to other loud guitar driven rock stuff and blasting it since my downstairs neighbor moved out back in November. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Long After Dark, Nirvana's Nevermind, U2's The Joshua Tree and Foo Fighters' One by One.

I'm on a big Flaming Lips kick right now. Those guys and Velvet Underground.

I am currently switching off between the Linkin Park live CD and U2's Joshua Tree (which in my opinion is one of the greatest albums ever made...)

I just got notice that my newest cd, actually, it's a music dvd, is in the mail! The Pest Shop Boys' PopArt! I can't wait.

The latest cd's in my rotation are a World Idol mix cd and a Greatest Hits compilation by Japanese pop idol Namie Amuro. I recently discovered Namie did a side project called Suite Chic that featured some of the biggest r&b names in Japan. I heard samples of the Suite Chic cd "When Pop Hits The Fan" and it's a very cool cd that has a jazzy/r&b/hip-hop feel.

I am also playing the latest cd by Hawaiian superstar Keali'i Reichel.

And, after listening to Norewegian/World Idol Kurt Nilsen's cover of "Hunting High And Low", I have a sudden craving for listening to some A-Ha.

Listening to Linkin Park Hybrid Theory right now. Currently in rotation

Lighthouse Family - Postcards from Heaven
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Kylie Minogue - Body Language
No Doubt - The singles 1992-2003
M People - Elegant slumming
Maysa - Maysa (Former lead singer of Incognito)

I have PopArt on my player right now. It's great. Also listening to these of late:

Ronald Isley/Burt Bacharach: Here I am
TLC:Greatest Hits
Chet Baker: Sings It Could Happen to You
Bobby Darin: Wild Cool and Swingin'
Bobby Darin: Live at the Copa
The Supremes: 70's Anthology
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.: Ultimate Rat Pack Collection

I didn't really care for Rock N Roll, but Love Is Hell 1 and 2 are incredible.

I'm currently listening to Elvis-2nd To None and No Doubt hits collection.

Polyphonic Spree: debut
Infected Mushroom: all three
Phish: live stuff
ELP: live stuff
Moody Blues: box set

Hey Guys...You have to listen to Bubba Sparkxxx...Deliverence
New South...Country Hick-Hop
Plus he is really cute...

In another thread, 6iron posted

Just got The Stills CD "Logic Will Break Your Heart" ... a little band out of Montreal. Imagine the guitar of New Order/U2, the rhythym of early REM/Pretenders, vocals of The Smiths/Depeche Mode and you've got The Stills.

Check out "Love and Death" ... track #4 and "Gender Bombs" track #2 ....


kick replied

I just got the new Norah Jones CD- feels like home- I am digging it. It was hilarious- I was listening to this country sounding song "Creepin' In" and I'm like- that sounds like Dolly Parton- and it was!! The sound on the CD is like the last one with a bit more country sound to it. If you like the last one- I think you will like this one. Also am listening a bit to Guy Sebastian from Australia- I just can't get over the honesty in his voice and I hope he can make it in the US

I just bought three new CDs (new to my collection, anyway):

1. Diana Ross & The Supremes, Number Ones
2. Linkin Park, Meteora
3. Warren Zevon, The Wind

The last two CDs have been bugging me for months to buy them and I did while the iron was hot. I saw the first one and I jumped on it!

Currently listening to the Queer Eye Soundtrack, Blue Six, Big Muff, Kenny Chesney, Jody Watley's "Midnight Lounge" and World Idol winner Kurt Nilsen

I also have a dance music cd. Seal has some killer remixes from his Seal IV album and so does Annie Lennox.

And a song that I hated, HATED as a single, "Miss Independent" by Kelly Clarkson, has been transformed into an absolutely kick ass remixed single (the shanghai surprise remix).

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I just happened upon a great cd a few days ago. It's a new artist by the name of Donnie. The name of the album is "The Colored Section". He's a true R&B singer; none of the hip-hop, techno crap in his songs. Just good music and a GREAT voice. Although he is NOTHING to look at, the cd is by far one of the best R&B cds I've bought in a few years. I would consider him in the ballpark with Carl Thomas, Jill Scott, and some of the other NeoSoul singers. GREAT album, everybody that I've let hear it have gone out and purchased it for themselves. My favorite track is #7, "Do Yo Know?".

Da Kid.

Lizz Wright--a 24 year old jazz singer out of Georgia. Her first CD, "Salt" is one of the best CDs I've ever heard. She's like a fusion of Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson, and Phyllis Hyman with just a dash of Anita Baker.

the Return of the King soundtrack--for some reason, the neo-Wagnerian music really helps me think.

Masters At Work: The Tenth Anniversary Collection--because I need to shake my ass.

Alice in Chains Nothing Safe

Beach Boys: Pet Sounds. Simply one of the greatest albums ever made.

Beach Boys: SMiLE or what passes for it. Brian Wilson is touring Europe doing a reconstruction of his unfinished masterpiece.

Phish: tons of live stuff.

Sibelius: various symphonies, various orchestras/conductors.

Recently added three new CDs to my rotation:

1.Gavin DeGraw - Chariot

2.Guster - Goldfly

3.Barenaked Ladies - Everything to Everyone

Madonna--Music

I'm trying to stay awake and everything else I have is too mellow

I'm assuming you've heard the news that it's now no longer unfinished? And is getting its belated release this autumn? Hurrah.

Anyhoo, I'm listening to one of the best unknown debut albums ever - Life's Hard and Then You Die by It's Immaterial. If you're a fan of XTC or mid-period Talk Talk, seek this one out.

A rap that I composed in my head that goes something like "F*** Tha Punk A$$ Chimp, F*** Tha Punk A$$ Chimp"...

Compsed in response to yesterday's call for a Constitutional amendment, I assume? wink

Yeah, Jim, in addition to the budget deficit, the war...

Oh wait! This isn't P&R! wink

I had an "All Eighties All the Time" thing yesterday.

I had the greatest hits/best of collections of The Go-Go's, Paul Young, Marshall Crenshaw, Crowded House and Hall & Oates on shuffle while I cleaned the apartment.

Been listening to Crowded House's Together Alone for the last month.

Wish these guys (with brother Neil) would put some new stuff out.

The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows, Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone

Listening to tons of Velvet Underground lately, and Nico

Jeff Buckley. Grace. Died in Memphis, poor guy.

(To clarify: Dying in Memphis isn't necessarily so bad, just dying in general, especially at 30, especially in a drunk swimming accident. I grew up near Memphis, so things that happen there musically are interesting to me. One or two artists have gotten their starts there, I think.)

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JC Chasez's "Schizophrenic" And the title of the cd matches the cd itself. Very sexy and JC experiments with different sounds. Of all the boy band members, I think JC is the one who will experiment the most. Kind of like Robbie Williams stepping away from the boy band image as he got older.

My favorite songs are "All Day Long I Dream About Sex" which has a 80's synth vibe about it. He sings in a monotone/robotic kind of voice while the synths swirl around him. Different and not the sound you expect to hear from a former boy band member. I didn't like the song at first, but the more I listen to it, the louder I play it in the car. "Shake It (featuring the Basement Jaxx)" which samples BT Express' "Do It (Til You're Satisfied), "Come To Me" which samples the throb of Corey Hart's "Sunglasses At Night". This is the song where JC flat out says he's masterbating and sings out "Baby Here I Come" or is it "Baby Here I Cum?". "Everything You Want" sounds like something a younger Sting would have sang. And on one of the songs he sounds like Jay Kay from Jamiroquai. Not for everyone's taste, but it is a different sound than Justin's cd.

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Sarah Brightman's "Harem". Extremely haunting, yet alot of it very, very, danceable, riddled with Sarah's soaring voice. Concert tonight, and can't wait.

Anyone heard about the breakup of Remy Zero? My favorite band.

Luckily, they've all been doing other music projects.

I'm listening to the Australian Idol CD and Louie DeVito's Underground Party 6. Both are great CDs!!

Right now, I'm listening to The Golden Hour of The Future - early recordings by The Human League and their forebears, The Future. Really raw, primitive stuff. Some of it's very beautiful, some of it's hilariously funny, and some of it's incredibly tedious. For those synth boffins who think "Being boiled" was too pop and that Cabaret Voltaire sold out when they signed with Virgin.

This always happens. Everytime I get back home after a trip to Hawaii, I listen to my Hawaiian cd's. "Alone In IZ World" is just a beautiful cd. It's so sad that he died at such a young age. I'm also listening to the latest by Keali'i Reichel (not as good as his previous cd's) and Hawaiian Comedian Frank DeLima's "Silva Anniversary" cd. I'm also listening to old school Contemporary Hawaiian classics Kalapana and Cecilio & Kapono's Greatest Hits.

Now I'm longing for another trip back to the islands....

I bought the Queer Eye soundtrack. It's actually pretty good. It's an enhanced cd that has the Video on it.

Queer Eye for the Tonka Guy!!

For pop music, I'm enjoying Usher's "Yeah" featuring Lil John & Ludacris. I can't believe I'm saying that, but I really like this song. The music is very cool and addicting.

I left my favorite Alice in Chains CD in someone else's car, Duck Boy: you must let me borrow your Barbra CD "you dont bring me roses, you dont bring me flowers anymore" everything on the radio seems to suck lately, and I'm tired of all my CD's.

For you NeoSoul fans, 3 time Grammy nominee, Anthony Hamilton has IT.

I'm listening to JC Chavez CD also. LOVE IT Great CD, not a bad song on the CD, some good dance tracks on it and a very sexy CD too. I highly recommend it, one of the best CD's I've listened to in a long time : ) Also the new Kylie is good too

I've been meaning to check that JC album out, azairforce. I thought the two singles were okay, but "All day long I dream about sex" is almost hilariously good. Is there more stuff like that? And what songs did Basement Jaxx produce?

I received the new Seal cd for my bday, great stuff. I loved his work in the nineties. I love the dance mixes being played on XM-BPM of "Loves Divine" and "Get it Together"

Jim
the whole CD is great and you can defintly tell the basement jaxx influence, I really like Shake It thats my favorite on the cd. I think you would really like that one and One Night Stand, I picked up the CD about a week ago and have been playing it time after time. sounds like you have some good musical tastes : )

Jim, I agree with azairforce on JC's cd. Scroll up & read my post regarding "Schizophrenic"

"Come To Me" is also one of my favorites.

Since Mardi Gras, Industry's "Release Me" has been in my walkman, I'd heard it in the last 2 months priod, and then all of the sudden in the last month, it's taken over.