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What the last few CDs you've listened to?

Last few CDs I've listened to?

John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band from 1970 -- the remastered version from a few years ago.  The one that featured Mother, Well Well Well and Working Class Heroe.   A fave of mine. 

A Nirvana mix CD  that mixes popular songs like  Teen Spirit and Rape Me with selections from the MTV mostly accoustic set and the early Sub Pop album they did.    I overplayed Nirvana a few years back but now enjoy listening to them again.

JUNO  music from the movie soundtrack

Something a little different to listen to.   I like several cuts, good to hear the Kinks Well REspected Man and even the over-used All the Young Dudes... mixed in with some oddities, snippets and some fine stylized folkish tunes.  I should probably review it, since I'm probably much older than the target market.

Julian Priester  LOVE

an experimental improvisational record that the highly acclaimed Jazz trombonist made a few years back.  Two very long movements, the first nearly 20 minute one features a driving funky bass line.  Very interesting, slightly challenging too.

Jack Johnson;

Cuts from his last two albums with a couple of songs from the Curious George album thrown in.   Mellow to be sure, but Johnson gives lots of details and has strong lyrics which I can listen to over and over again and have been for a while now.

 

Nice idea to start these threads, Chris!

I haven't purchased any new CD's in a long time... but here are my favorites right now...

• Zero 7 (Check out gitbean's review)
• The Shins
• SPOON (indie rock band from Austin, TX)
• Nikka Costa (her voice reminds me of Joss Stone, very soulful & sultry)
• Radiohead (flash back from the 90s but their coming to Lollapalooza '08!)
• Feist (the pretty gal who branched off from Broken Social Scene)

I tend to lean towards lesser-known, indie bands.

Yeah THE SHINS !!!! 

Haven't heard the whole Feist album but also had three of her songs on a recent mix cd...    

Cake is another older indie band I love dearly (and I noticed they had a song in Forgetting Sarah Marshall).

"Dirt Farmer" by Levon Helm. Yeah. It's rednecky.

Ah, a topic I love!   My last few CDs?

Mudcrutch- Tom Petty gets his first band back together! Sublime country-rock.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road- Elton John.  Git in the truck, turn it up loud! YEAH!

1's- The Beatles- I could listen to this all day, then again all night....

I've not purchased any new CDs since I bought the Spielberg/Williams Collaboration Boston Pops album with my Simple Thanks certificate, but I've been listening to Beatles 1, Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volumes I, II, and III, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and some classical music CDs.

Well, at the moment, I'm listening to a recorded book on CD ("The Manchurian Candidate"). The last music CD I listened to was oddly... me. I was in the car, grabbed a CD thinking it was something else and it turned out to be a crude CD of me playing guitar and singing that I recorded nine years ago. Weird!

--Bob

Last few albums...

Underworld -  Second Toughest in the Infants
Ulrich Schnuass - A Strangely Isolated Place
Spiritualized - Pure Phase
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

And of course I track it all through last.fm in case anyone else wants to see what else I listen to  ;)  http://www.last.fm/user/tea41

ChrisJarmick said…

Yeah THE SHINS !!!! 

Haven't heard the whole Feist album but also had three of her songs on a recent mix cd...    

Cake is another older indie band I love dearly (and I noticed they had a song in Forgetting Sarah Marshall).

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I was just listening to Cake's version of I Will Survive, this morning, and thinking it may well be better than the original. As I get older, I find myself listening to a lot of stuff I steered away from as a kid, because my parents liked it: Hector Lavoe, Eddie Palmieri, Cole Porter....

Loaded my CD changer with an assortment of Steeleye Span

Most recently, I purchased a number of greatest hits albums, including Tom Petty, Queen, Counting Crows, and a couple of others.  They are all in my current rotation.

Gosh I don't even have a CD player in FL but as soon as I get home I imagine I'll put on some mellow music - James Taylor, Yanni, Norah Jones...Jo

Ok..most of these bands I have never heard of. :)

I have been listening to LES Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera lately.  In the car and while working out.  I love singing "On My Own" at the top of my lungs.  IT sounds good...I swear!  :)

I have a cd I burned myself and it is a collection of my favorites....Smoke on the Water, Locomotion, Another One Bites the Dust, Black Velvet, Without Me ( yes I like some Eminem too...lol) Addicted to Love, Born to be Wild and then there is the Redneck in me....I Love Nascar by Cledus T. Judd and done to the tune of I Love this Bar by Toby Keith...lol Nothing like sitting at a traffic light next to some old lady and blasting Eminem with the windows down...lol

It's fun to see what people are listening and the wide variety of tastes and genres of music.  Variety is indeed the spice of life !!!

Swapped out the JUNO soundtrack  for  Eagles Hotel California which I haven't listened to for quite a while.     Also swapped out Julian Priester's Love Love CD for a Max Roach (jazz) c.d. with Julian on trombone.  Swapped out a mix c.d. for a classical music cd mix includes Schuman, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, and a few others.

 

I can't stop listening to the She and Him album...except when I'm listening to The Eagles. I blame Chris Jarmick for putting Hotel California in my head! And, honestly, the Joe Walsh guitar solo on the title track is among the best in rock and roll.

HA!

Now I've got a combo of songs from Phantom of the Paradise and the Best of Fleetwood Mac (Tusk, Dreams, Rhianon, You Make Loving Fun, etc.) and a couple of Paul Simon and Dylan songs (Dignity) thrown in too.

And

The Catherine Wheel soundtrack  the trippy Twlya Tharp and David Byrne colloboration  ahhhh good stuff.

AND

a Jazz and Blues compilation featuring Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, and many others.

AND

a so bad it's good 80's compilation....  POP MUZIK  BY M,  I Eat Cannibals, Flock of Seagulls. . . indeed

If you haven't heard it, the newest Eagles CD, "Long Road Out of Eden" is worth a listen!

Sniff'n the Tears - Fickle Heart -

I know it's older than dirt, but there is nothing like it nowadays.  British Blues Rock with every song a knock out.

hmm have to check that one out one of these days.  Thanks G.

I don't need a CD player--my neighbor plays his loud enough. 

ChrisJarmick said…
What the last few CDs you've listened to?

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The last CD I listened to? Depends on what the listening was for.  For the sheer pleasure of listening, I'd have to say it was Beatles 1.

For review purposes, Billy Joel Greatest Hits, Vol. I & Vol. II.

I've got a complilation of Leonard Cohen --  Many songs from  The Future, Field Commander Cohen, I'm Your Man  and a few other albums.. 

Cat Stevens  aka Yusef Islam  again a c.d. compilation I made from several of his albums including of course Teaser and the Firecat, Tea for the Tillerman, Foreigner, Mona Bona Jackone, etc.

 

 

I'm a great Guns & Roses fan.  I hook my headphones up to my CD player to avoid bugging the neighbors and really turn up the volume!  Welcome to the Jungle!

Last few CDs? A bit of Susan Tedeschi, some Zephyr (local Boulder band from the late 60's), a blues/rock group from MI called Cherri & the Violators, country/rock band frm Sandy Eggo; The Taylor Harvey Band, a little Buddy Guy, and a smattering of Elmore James.

I haven't bought a CD in years, but I just finished listening to Hubert Sumlin...gotta love it!

i'm new here

I had been listening to a compilation of Jack Johnson...and CAKE  and I put together another compilation CD which includes things like  Move Over  from Steppenwolf, Stage Fright  from the Band, Angels and Miss America from David Byrne, some Elvis Costello and Annie Lennox, and Doors and Lou Reed and. . . well pretty interesting mix.