New adds:

White Stripes – Elephant
White Stripes – De Stijl (which sounds to me like the lost tapes from Zeppelin I/II)
Hot Hot Heat – Make Up the Breakdown

And making their annual appearances in the rotation:

Gang of Four – Entertainment!
Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
Jeff Buckley – Grace

puckman: Brit Sarah Brightman is the ex-Mrs. Andrew Lloyd Webber and got her start starring in his horrible stage musicals. That's all I know.

White Stripes' 'Elephant' (I just don't know what do with myself)

Squeeze "Singles 45s and Under"

I've been a big Heart fan since high school; Ann and Nancy kept me straight for quite a while . Going to see them live in a few weeks! They can still rock it.

Listening to:
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will
Madonna - American Life
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Jack Johnson - On And On
White Stripes - Elephant
Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Turin Brakes - Ether Song

All great; good year in music so far to me.

Another BLASPHEMER! (pointing at ps151016) UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!

My most recent purchases (they're either in the CD player or sitting on the table waiting their turn):

Annie Lennox "Bare"
Christina Aguilera "Stripped"
Jewel "0304"
Sugar Ray "In The Pursuit Of Leisure"

Also in the CD player: Eurythmics "Savage"

Right now I'm listening to Dashboard Confessional's "MTV unplugged" CD, the "So Impossible" EP and "The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most" (I'm a little obsessed). In the car I have Christina Aguilera's "Stripped" and The Red Hot Chili Peppers' "By The Way". And I have Sarah Harmer's "You Were Here" in my discman. I put it on when I wanna relax. I bought that cd when it came out in 1999 and I honestly haven't taken it out of a cd player since. It's poppy/folky/rocky/jazzy, the lyrics are great, and I've met her on the street and she's really nice. And she's Canadian, so thats a bonus

*Matrix Reloaded: the CD; KARMA (Tarkan); and, Tears of the Sun (soundtrack).

[ June 14, 2003, 01:13 PM: Message edited by: bluebird48234 ]

Dixie Chicks, Anastacia, Norah Jones are in my heavy rotation right now in the car.

Great CD! Played it for a long time when it came out. Saw her with Weeping Tile when they opened for Blue Rodeo quite a while ago. It should have been more successful here in the US.

Sugar Ray It helps me sleep! I also like Blink 182 "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket" and Avril Lavigine "Let Go" plus Kid Rock and Antoinette

marys danish. circa. got the best cover of jimis foxy lady, sung by two chicks nonetheless. the band kicks the proverbial.

I've been listening to a lot of lieder by Hugo Wolf lately. As I type, Brigitte Fassbender is wobbling her way through the Morike Lieder with openly gay pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet tickling the ivories. Not a disc for the ages, frankly.

Also in rotation is the new recording of Schreker's opera Flammen. A very good opera in an excellent performance. I'm waiting anxiously for the recording of his Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin to arrive in the mail.

Also, a bunch of mp3's I downloaded, things like Supertramp, Blink 182, Be Bop Deluxe and so on. I burned the new Radiohead, but it's just one of about 300 or so albums that I've downloaded and burned in the last 6 months, so it'll have to wait.

I love this thread.

I don't think they'd be happy to hear this particular review! wink

Originally posted by ps151016:
Annie Lennox new one (but I'm somewhat underwhelmed)


She sounds great....that clarion voice can do just about anything. But with the exception of 3 or 4 tracks, I think her choice of material on this one wasn't great. Most of the stuff on this one doesn't really have staying power.

Ok... here is an update of what is in the CD player at the moment...
I burned a 70's Disco CD...
Lovin Is Really My Game
Relight My Fire
Disco Heat
Happiness by the Pointer Sisters
Star Love
Victim (Candi Staton)...one of my faves.
Love Hangover
You get the idea...

Gorecki...Symphony No.3...with Dawn Upshaw...if you have not heard this piece I would highly recommend it, a beautiful piece of mood music.

A Rock CD...
Clocks Coldplay
Californication...Red Hot Chili Peppers
Beautiful World..Coldplay
Wishing You Were Here Pink Floyd
Rebel Rebel...Bowie
Depeche Mode...Personal Jesus
stuff I like

Shemika Copeland...
Down Home Blues

Best of ELO...I love their music

Frank Sinatra..Best Is Yet To Come
A man's gotta swing!!!

So there you have it...

Currently, in my 6-cd changer in the car:

Hotel Costes Volume 5 - Stéphane Pompougnac
Hotel Costes Volume 1 - Stéphane Pompougnac
"Cafe Lounge" - Various
"Natural" - Celso Fonseca
"Dance Diva Dance" - my own burned compilation cd
"Happy End of the World" - Pizzicato 5 (found for $2 at Goodwill. How dare anyone turn in P5!!!)

in & out of the rotation: "Biography" - Lisa Stansfield, "Martini Madness" - My own 2 cd set of vocalists, "Steps - The Last Dance" - Steps, and "Best of" - Cesaria Evora.

[ June 17, 2003, 01:51 PM: Message edited by: Mariner Duck Boy ]

Using my dad's 5 CD changer...

Disc One is the 2nd CD of the Say You Wil (Fleetwood Mac) limited edition. Disc Two is the Pretenders Greatest Hits, Disc Three is the Very Best Of Cher, Disc Four is a CD I burned of Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac songs and Disc Five is Fleetwood Mac's Say You Will regular album.

I have a Kimberley Locke CD I made from downloading songs from KAZAA. Also I have Madonna's American Life and two other CD's I made 80's and a "Rock" CD (Pink Floyd, Scorpians Styx...etc)

anytime I hear mention of Mary's Danish, I instantly feel a kinship with the one making mention.

The best description I ever heard of the sound Gretchen and Julie made together likens them to a two=headed Exene Cervenka. (anybody know whatever happened to them?)

Otherwise, I'm listening to Megan Mullally's "big as berry", Grandaddy's "sumday", Annie Lennox's "bare", as well as Linda Rhonstadt's "greatest hits". Also worth mentioning is Maria Mckee's "high dive".

I know I have to get: White Stripes "elephant", the new Throwing Muses record, and Fleetwood Mac's greatest hits.

I also have Fleetwood Mac's "Say You Will" in the cd player -- there are a bunch of great songs on it -- Lindsey Buckingham proves once again that he is a Guitar God! Stevie is at her best -- she contributes some of her finest songs ever, notably "Thrown Down", but my new fave is "Running Through the Garden" -- an intense rocker -- when she sings that "I never meant to imprison you in my garden" -- you know she's lying!

But, having met Ms. Gator Jamie, my fellow tuba player, at Pride, I had to pull out some of my favorite works featuring my favorite instrument (pity my poor partner!). Again there's Fleetwood Mac: "Tusk" -- with the USC marching tuba section.

Ralph Vaughn Williams' "Tuba Concerto" (I think it's the only one in the classic repetoire) -- and the legendary recording of Frederick Fennel conducting the Eastman Wind Ensemble: more Vaughn Williams (Folk Song Suite) and Gustav Holst (Suites #1 and #2) (yes, he did compose something other than "The Planets").

on a side note we're just back from Wisconsin, where, instead of cds, "when in Rome" I have to listen to WTKM in Hartford -- one of the nation's few polka stations (again, pity my poor partner). All polka, all the time! (well, except for recipe exchange and farm reports at noon ...)

The Replacements, Tim and Soundgarden's Superunknown. I'm surprised they still play as much as I've worn em' out over the years(using them like chinese throwing stars or losing them under the couch). Especially, The Replacements.

[ June 17, 2003, 07:11 AM: Message edited by: budge ]

Instead of being jealous, I'm gonna take notes later this week for a trip to the music store!

Damn, some of these picks will really expand my musical horizons!

Everesence or however you spell it..... good good stuff

[ June 19, 2003, 05:33 PM: Message edited by: PhillyFan ]

Buwahahaha!

Actually, I've not been listening to CD's much lately as I realized that I was kind of behind in my classical listening. So, I've been listening to the local classical station, KUSC, despite it being connected with that Vortex of Evil known as USC. Last night they played Prokofiev's Cantata For The 20th Anniversery of The October Revolution, which includes a spoken-word section praising *shudder* Stalin *shudder* and despite the title and subject matter, it was a total knockout. It's why I'm listening to the radio again, to run in to stuff I'd never hear otherwise.

[ June 19, 2003, 05:54 PM: Message edited by: Jim Allen ]

right now ...
the cure - pornography
dave gahan - paper monsters
peter gabriel - up
psychopomps - in the skin
annie lennox - bare
robbie williams - escapology
velvet acid christ - twisted thought generator

In the past week or so:

Heart, "Greatest Hits"
Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run," "Darkness on the Edge of Town," and "The River"
Shania Twain, "Up!" and "The Woman in Me"
Fleetwood Mac, "Say You Will"
Linda Ronstadt, "Winter Light"
Lucinda Williams, "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" and "World Without Tears"
Rosanne Cash, "Rules of Travel"
Def Leppard, "Vault"

Last night I put in Eurythmics' "Touch"--featuring "Here Comes The Rain Again"--AKA the daily weather forecast for the last month-and-a-half and the next couple of days at least.

I was able to find at Tower Records yesterday an import from Holland of Kylie Minogue's last CD before "Fever" called "Light Years". It has some really terrific songs on it "Spinning Around", "Butterfly", and "Your Disco Needs You". The title track sounds like "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer and is a great song. Another song is her duet with Robbie Williams on the song "Kids". I highly recommend the CD if you can get it. She is like Janet and Madonna. Not gonna overwhelm you with her singing but they make infectious, terrific, pop/dance songs.

Other CD's in my changer lately:

1-Escapology Robbie Williams
2-Biography Lisa Stansfield
3-American Life Madonna

Aaron, "Light Years" is light years ahead of "Fever". I bought "Light Years" a few years back when it first came out after hearing the cd playing in a store in Edmonton, of all places!. The concert dvd is also pretty good. Your Disco Needs You should have been a classic! "Butterfly" was carried over to the Fever cd.

Chante Moore - Love Supreme
Karyn White - Ritual of Love
Jo Dee Messina - Greatest Hits
Lil' Kim - Hard Core
Jewel - 0304
Dwight Yoakam - This Time

(I know, I'm all over the board! LOL)

Currently playing is Chris Isaak's "San Francisco Days", one of my absolute favorites. Fun one to sing along to, and it makes me feel that rare combination of happy-sad which I find so perversely satisfying.

Madonna's "American Life" is taking a break, but I'm sure it will be back in the CD player soon.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by homr33:
[QB] Currently playing is Chris Isaak's "San Francisco Days", one of my absolute favorites. Fun one to sing along to, and it makes me feel that rare combination of happy-sad which I find so perversely satisfying. QUOTE]

"Heart Shaped World" is, of course, drop dead sexy, but "Speak of the Devil" is really good, too. "I'm Not Sleepy" makes me dream of dancing around with Chris at 2AM in the middle of my living room.

JR, I was going to ask if I could cut in, but if I were lucky enough to be twirling around with Chris Isaak and somebody tapped my shoulder, I would just ignore them. So enjoy your dance. You're right, though, "Speak of the Devil" is another really good CD. I have quite a few of his, but on most of the other ones I find a couple of songs I like and pretty much skip past the rest. At one point I know I had all his CDs, but when I broke up with my ex he took at least two ("Forever Blue" was one, can't remember the other(s)), and I never replaced them. I still tear up a little when I hear Except the New Girl on "SF Days", that part about "I have a feeling they're still together by the look that was in his eyes" always gets me.

Just heard Bruce Springsteen is coming to Milwaukee playing at Miller Park in September so for that have his "The Rising" CD spinning now...love the whole CD...especially Worlds Apart song which is a real departure for the Boss

A little off-topic, but did anyone see Lisa Marie Presley on "The Today Show" this morning? I felt bad for her. She was performing "Lights Out" and started to go down a few steps to get closer to the audience. The steps must have been slippery because she took a pretty hard fall and landed flat on the ground. She got up and recovered pretty quickly, though.

mostly my compilation CDs are in my player these days .. my best of 2002

re: Kylie ... LOVED Butterfly, that was the official song that caught me onto her again. Illicit's remix reminds me so much of some 70's cop show theme music.

[ June 20, 2003, 09:20 PM: Message edited by: Breesboy ]

im listening to Fischerspooner, the Queer as Folk 3 and Stevie Wonder Greatest Hits

Enigma-"Gravity of Love" extended dance version. Its great treadmill music, with a high b.p.m.

Just bought the new Linkin Park CD, Meteora and the Deftones new CD (forget the name!). Meteora is great, these guys really rock. The Deftones CD goes back and forth from headbanging to mellow. Good mix.

A co-worker of mine just burned me David Gray "Live at Madison Square Garden". It sounds great. I went to his concert only 2 days later from the date of this recording (not sure if it is a legal recording or not?) at George Mason University in Northern Virginia. He is a brilliant artist and so damn handsome!

Good grief, I just checked I still had Christmas music in mine! I have been streaming music over netradio....

Does anyone know if the song "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty is supposed to be about a street in London, or Amsterdamn? I just also saw this new video by someone else thats a remake of this song, does anyone know who did this? It's almost kinda like a Depeche Mode kinda sound mixed with it.

I know the Foo Fighters did a remake....

I thought it was about the street in London. My thoughts about Baker Street were not positive since they were doing all of that construction last year. The tube closed down at the main station right there. I still saw Madame Tussauds, but was very tired by the time I finally made it there thanks to the construction on "Baker Street".

I figured it was London because when the song came out I was very much into reading the Sherlock Holmes stories, with Holmes's address being 221B Baker Street. I loved that song. Did he have any other hits? I can't recall any.

Right this second I have Toni Braxton's More Than a Woman in the CD player. I have been wearing out Beyonce's new CD, Blu Cantrell's newest and Madonna's American Life over the past two weeks.

Dunumber44, how is Blu's new CD? I almost bought it this past weekend but opted for Beyonce' instead. It has to grow on me but she looks astonishing on the CD jacket.

Hey Wisconsin Jock-I am hopeful of making the Miller Park show,wanted GA tickets but they were sold out within minutes of going on sale.If you could keep your ears open and PM me if you hear of anyone having anything available on the field level,I'd be most appreciative.

The Rising is the only "new" album I've been motivated to buy all year-only time I've ever bought an album on it's release date.I have most of the Rising Tour shows from the 2002 leg,and some from 2003 as well on cd.I listen to those rather than studio recordings because I prefer the excitement of live performances.I don't have a burner,but I have extra copies of a few shows and if you'd like I can probably hook you up.If you are interested PM me.
wink

PS-If you love Worlds Apart,you'd love the live version with Nils,Steve and Bruce screaming guitars.It builds to an awesome climax,and then they segue into a blistering version of Badlands. :cool:

[ July 01, 2003, 12:28 PM: Message edited by: Tim ]

REM - Murmur. I love their stuff from the early 80's.

I figured it was London because when the song came out I was very much into reading the Sherlock Holmes stories, with Holmes's address being 221B Baker Street. I loved that song. Did he have any other hits? I can't recall any.

He had one other a song called "Right down the Line", I swear I heard on the Radio that the song was supposed to be about Amsterdam, but someone else told me it was London. I also like that new version.

[ July 01, 2003, 01:29 PM: Message edited by: 34ra ]

In the Duckboy's car cd player this week: Out of the cd changer came the svelte cool Jazz/lounge cd's and in went a couple of ABBA cd's (due to my recent viewing of the musical Mamma Mia), my Country Scrambler cd (thank to Brad Paisely's adorable "Celebrity" video, T-Byrd's greatest hits and Clay Walker's greatest hits. I forgot how much in love I am with Clay Walker. You must check out claywalker.com and his videos. Epecially for "Then What" where he has his shirt unbuttoned and showing off that furry chest...hot hot hot..and "Live Laugh Love" where he shimmy's around in tight Wrangler jeans. He is so totally delicious that I am seriously thinking about flying down to Oregon to see him at one of the Oregon County Fairs in July.