Tuesday Music Thread
 

What are you listening to today? Sicnce Random House has *ahem* "premitted" me to put iTunes on my machine I've been bringing over my library bit by bit.

On tap today:
Roumanian Dances - Bartok
Soul Station - Hank Mobley
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene


I'm always looking for recommendations, so post 'em here.

Peter

On my iTunes, I have:

Black Eyed Peas ( I love "Latin Girls")
Cold Play
Destiny's Child
Natasha Bedenfield

I'm so white bread boring.

Buddha Bar Mixes
Best of Hotel Costes
Verve Remixe 3
Nina Simone

I really like anything by The Killers lately, but Queen's Greatest Hits is my favorite everyday standby. If you're a child of the 80's, Poison is still great fun (please don't make fun of me!).

I love the Natasha Bedenfield video with the boomboxes following her around. I always see it early in the morning when I'm working out and it is such a nice, wholesome, upbeat way to start the day!

I have about 700 cd's in my collection, but here are some that get the most play:
Best of Miles Davis and Gil Evans
Putameyo Bossa Nova
Donald Fagan - Nightfly
Stacey Kent - The Boy Next Door
Ronnie Earl - Colours of Love
Frank Sinatra - The Capitol Years
BB King - Sweet Little Angel

Bronxzilla,

Be careful what you put out there on the web. Had a co-worker fired for something she put on a personal blog. I don't want to lose you to corporate rules.

Anyway, there are couple of threads out there about songs for a road trip. Recently one by mr.wonderful. I think this would be a good test for you to see how the search function really works on this site.

I have itunes on the personal computer at home, but no ipod yet. I'm amazed how many songs it can hold.

Anyway, I've recently had a Otis Redding craving.

re:Nightfly
Now I'll have the song "Maxine" running through my head all day.

Ncgrrl, thanks for the concern - nothing to worry abuot though.

Snowrooster: As long as you're not a Warrant fan, I won't make fun of you...

Since my husband scored a couple of tickets to see Paul McCartney tonight, am doing a Beatles, Wings mix. Haven't heard anything from his new CD yet but maybe tonight?? Personally, I hope he plays his old stuff

Peter - No, not a Warrant fan. You didn't happen to see their former lead singer on Celebrity Fit Club on VH-1? Kind of sad (though he seemed better off at the end of the show than he was at the beginning). I guess we all knew those 80's glam metal rockers might not look as good at 40 as they did at 20!!

Snowrooster: Blushing as a I admit to being a fan of Poison, too.

Any Nelson fans in the house?

Cold Play
Dr. Michael White
Filippa Giordano

And here I am listening to the keyboard clicks only :(

Beethovens 7th
Mendelssohn for Violin & Orchestra (Scottish Fantasy/Bruch
Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain
and The Buena Vista Social Club

I want an IPod (whine whine)

A live recording from 2005 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival : Galactic

Michael Schenker - The Endless Jam

Thievery Corporation - The Outernational Sound

Biil Laswell - ROIR Dub Sessions

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe - The Bridge

Mmmmmmmm, Scarlett: Sketches of Spain is one of my faves. At the other end of the Miles Davis spectrum is a posthumous CD titled Doo Wop. Have you heard it?

Coldplay.

bronxzilla,

Thelonious Monk Quartet featuring John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall in 1957. It is a newly "discovered" recording and is actually pretty awesome.

I have rediscovered "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen. There was a time (almost 30 years ago!) when that album was all I listened to.

All of the San Francisco Symphony's recordings of the Mahler Symphonies are also in the menu.

-Bill

Since I am geting ready to see U2 in a few weeks, they are currently getting heavy rotation on my Ipod and home stereo.

LoriNY - I am jealous - I've traveled to Chicago twice to see U2 and they are fabulous! I wish they would come to Cincinnati but I'm not holding my breath!!!

Ok, I had big hair in the 80's and I'm sure I caused some of the ozone depletion in our atmosphe, but I wasn't into Nelson. And apparently they aren't either now because the current tour is cover of Daddy Ricky's songs and I think it's accustic.

Maybe I'll listen to some Elvis Costello tonight.

I heard on the radio that Bon Jovi has a new album out today!! Rock on!!!

oh my. I bought an iPod for the trip to New Zealand (looooong flights) and have 2200 songs on it and it's barely one third full. still have many of my CDs to add to it. isn't technology fun?

listening to virgin radio stream in the background...

Great thread! I am taking notes, as we are buying ipods today as anniversary gifts to each other, and I can't wait to start downloading music.

And oh, how I loved the big hair bands back in the '80s... Poison was my first-ever concert, and Warrant was my second. :)

Not to make you jealous or anything, snowrooster, but U2 is in Chicago tonight, and we'll be there!

Scarlett: Good Stuff. Solea on Sketches of Spain is absolutely beuatiful, one of my all-time favorites.

Today I've got theBill Evans Riverside box set on full randomize.

Peter

Right now - The Chieftains - Santiago

Up next is Norah Jones' first album. Then maybe the Saw Doctors' Songs from Sun Street.

Todays music is going to be the soundtrack from the DeNiro film The Score..

fegeddaboudit...
No, have not heard that music.
This is a very old CD that we have ..

Now to go take my drivers test...should I take the Cars album with me? lol

Today it's "Pure Cult - The Singles" cranked very loud.

mm

Bobby Bare, Jr.
John Hiatt
Joan Armatrading

My three favorite performers!

"Now to go take my drivers test...should I take the Cars album with me?"

Just make sure you have "Here She Comes Again" or "Strap Me In" playing as you pull up, lol.

I love the classic rock with a little Rachmaninoff thrown in. :D

Should I create a standalone folder (or two) for music and movies?

Peter

No iPod, and no iTunes since with my dialup connection it would take hours to download anything... :-(

But I wanted to mention the Columbia two-CD "Pop Music: The Golden Era 1951-1975" collection I picked up at the library the other day. It has everything from Frank Sinatra to Johnnie Ray to Doris Day to Tony Bennett to Bob Dylan to Janis Joplin to to Earth, Wind,and Fire. Lots of fun!

Lee Ann

My kids got me a mini-Ipod for Mother's Day, engraved and everything. The only problem is, I don't know how to load it - or whatever that's called :D

If anyone has any affinity at all for singer/songwriters or country or folk , you all have got to get John Prine's new one called Fair & Square. By far the best cd I've heard in many a year.

I GUARANTEE IT or your money back!!!

Peter-- Do you mean you might create stand-alone folders for travel-related music and movies? Because--and this feels weird, reminding a Fodor's employee of this--this is a travel forum. I'm not bothered but these unrelated threads, but do you want to encourage them? There are other boards out there, after all, for other topics.

Bronxzilla and Snowrooster,
I met Brett Michaels, about two summers ago after Poison played at the Hard Rock in Orlando.
He was so nice. I had my picture taken with him on his tour bus and got his autograph. I keep thinking "Gee, if this were only 20 years ago" Ha-Ha

I must correct myself. It was House Of Blues, not Hard Rock.

Well color me green with envy!!! Oh did I have a thing for him in my teen years!!! I maintain that "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" is a great song!