The infamous "what are you listening to" thread!

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punknaynowned - 18-3-2007 at 05:07

here, this is mildly entertaining and a lot of fun to do:shocked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfyBH84v6fg

BBP - 18-3-2007 at 17:37

Nice!

Right now I'm listening to my sister cursing. She's trapped in a web of cables.

DED - 18-3-2007 at 21:07

They made a digital picture of me today
I hope I can destroy the foto
At this moment I'm listening to the thunderstorm outside.

BBP - 19-3-2007 at 18:28

Heh heh... Don't worry DED! We won't use it in the future... except maybe for blackmail...

DED - 22-3-2007 at 23:07

Playing with my rare akai gx1820D
a combination of a 3 motor auto reverse deck and 8-track
now playing The last waltz of the band
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punknaynowned - 23-3-2007 at 11:17

that's great Ded, how'd it sound?
I love that music. haven't listened to it in a long time.
and y'know I've been listening for that song in all that Django stuff and I can't find it. I may still locate it, but I guess I'm sayin, don't hold yer breath over it :-(

have a good weekend!

DED - 23-3-2007 at 13:13

Quote:

Originally posted by punknaynowned
that's great Ded, how'd it sound?
I love that music. haven't listened to it in a long time.
and y'know I've been listening for that song in all that Django stuff and I can't find it. I may still locate it, but I guess I'm sayin, don't hold yer breath over it :-(

have a good weekend!

It sounded quite allright but there were soms cracks in it fom the record. yes I have searched around you tube and I heard a lot of django lately, and it sure sounds like django but I myself did not find the right song too. and it is so known :pissed:

[Edited on 23-3-2007 by DED]

DED - 25-3-2007 at 12:20

Listening to some old CCR work on CD Somehow it sounds better on vinyl. Think they blew up the music while remastering it.

aquagoat - 26-3-2007 at 09:36

listening to this:

and then that:

BBP - 26-3-2007 at 15:57

Nice!
Don't you just love them bands which make you puzzle how their band name is related to their logo?

Anyway, how's Decapitated?

aquagoat - 27-3-2007 at 18:29

I'm still in the process of discovering these records, but it's been pretty good so far, if you like brutal (but not too brutal) death metal, buy these and also "Wings of creation".

BBP - 28-3-2007 at 00:11

Nice!

Now playing: Mr Bungle - Disco Volante

BBP - 5-8-2007 at 13:51

Silence, silence...

The new PC is very quiet... I'm home alone while the family is out to the book market in Deventer (Largest in Europe)...
And I can hear the fish blubbing, and the clocks ticking...

DED - 10-8-2007 at 08:25

If the pc is to quit you can always put a cdrom into the dvd-rw drive.

Houston here we go
zoemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

BBP - 10-8-2007 at 10:56

Yeah it was real annoying when I played Space Odyssey on DVD.

Pappawas1975 - 25-8-2007 at 15:12

Today thus far -

MANOWAR - Fighting The World ( sorry, but I love this album! )

JOHN ZORN / MASADA STRING TRIO - Azazel : Book Of Angels Volume 2

FRANK ZAPPA - Civilization Phaze III

BBP - 25-8-2007 at 16:50

Hey! I think I got that album!
{runs upstairs to CD collection}
{runs downstairs to PC}
I do! It's a bit like Lordi in athmosphere: cheesy in a way, but funny.

Have played Roxy today, should do that more often, great album!

BBP - 30-9-2007 at 17:22

Some unidentified reggae while my dad is testing one of his magnetic tape recorders.

mutronboy - 2-10-2007 at 03:12

Hi Bonny!

speaking of tape recorders...here's mine
(I got rid of them last year...I miss 'em though)

mutronboy - 2-10-2007 at 03:18

woop! that was off topic

I'm listening to Sugarcane Harris 'Fiddler On The Rock'

with Larry Taylor on bass

a good bluesey start to the day ;-)

BBP - 2-10-2007 at 08:41

Just heard Dad saying (upon reading your message) that you write like Pete the Crocodile Catcher. Made me chuckle, then ponder for some time what that {...} was called again.

Had Zoot Allures on again... amazing album...

aquagoat - 4-10-2007 at 14:38

listening to : Strapping Young Lad: City.

BBP - 4-10-2007 at 15:36

Played Absolutely Free, once more... One of the tops! And Brown Shoes live last week... sigh... {homesick smile}

BBP - 30-10-2007 at 20:05

There's something about these longer threads I need to fix...
In the mean time, I'm listening to a nice episode of the Big Cat Diary. The narrator is using the Attenborough-approach, which makes me smile.

DED - 13-11-2007 at 17:00

Listened to my French course CD (Bbp gave it to me)
First twelve lessons followed.

Sometimes you already know the words end sentences
Sometime it is going very quickly (all those short words)
Sometimes it is very funny
Pêcher (Fishing) is pronounced as the dutch Pisse.
In English is Pissen to piss
Strangely enough there is no difference seen from behind when a guy is phishing or ........
So All the languages come close to eachother.
Just cheked wiki for False Friends
(Words that are written or pronounced the same as in nother languages but meaning something completely different)

punknaynowned - 13-11-2007 at 17:32

in latin
malui = I have chosen, preferred
malum, mali = apple
malus, mali, mala, malae, malum = bad, evil, ugly, sick, disaster, ungrateful
malus, mali = apple tree
malus, mali = mast of a ship, pole in a theater where awnings are attached, support for a building
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BBP - 13-11-2007 at 19:08

Punky! How are you feeling?

punknaynowned - 14-11-2007 at 09:37

I'm fine. thanx fer askin!
I get a bunch of days off from work so I take advantage of it. Eat when I want, sleep when I want, work as I feel like it. play on the internet A LOT.
Bonny, I think you would really like the new Wazoo cd. It's a diferent kind of official release. you said you had the berlin show. which is great, yet wazoo is definitely NOT an audience recording. It very much has that you-are-there feeling, and not like it's coming to you thru a string-and-a-can!
It's a nice blend of classical and rock, avant and traditional. Eye opening. Better blended and completely different music than, say, Ahead Of Their Time which has those elements too.

BBP - 14-11-2007 at 17:47

I GOTTA have it! It's got Greggery Peccary!

BBP - 21-12-2008 at 12:36

Frank Day today... What's up the playing list for you?

Pappawas1975 - 21-12-2008 at 14:40

At the moment -

aquagoat - 21-12-2008 at 16:14

the mars volta ? what does it sound like ?

BBP - 21-12-2008 at 17:17

Discovering somebody put all the Mr Bungle tracks on YouTube! Too awesome almost: unfortunately I lost both my Mr Bungle albums (Disco Volante and Mr Bungle), when lending them to my sister. Why do I keep letting her use my stuff?

Pappawas1975 - 22-12-2008 at 08:51

The Bedlam In Goliath is excellent, Aqua. If you like their other albums, you will dig it for sure. Up there in my albums of 08, definitely.

Oh, and check out Mr. Bungle's "California" album BBP, if you haven't already.

It is WIN.

aquagoat - 22-12-2008 at 19:37

well, actually I've never heard any of their albums but I plan to do it soon, so I'd just like to know what it their music sounds like and what records you recommend.

scallopino - 23-12-2008 at 04:11

The Mars Volta are really cool as a band. I love what they do...total virtuosos. The singing kind of gets annoying for me after a while though. Their former drummer formed One Day As A Lion with Zach de la Rocha and recently released an ep.

BBP - 23-12-2008 at 14:16

There's some of their material on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPeSbITit5U
You're right, Scallop: the singing is annoying, although the music is interesting.

Pappawas1975 - 23-12-2008 at 16:30

I think the singing is an aquired taste, but I love it.

I would start with De-loused In The Comatorium though Aqua...

aquagoat - 23-12-2008 at 18:55

thank you very much.

feetlightup - 23-12-2008 at 22:18

About a year ago I decided to try out the Mars Volta. I found Frances the Mute in a used bin, picked it up, and was quite impressed. However, it's almost TOO frantic and busy for my tastes - as if they're trying to do everything at once and it just gets exhausting. Frances has a neat pace though (the album seems to take forever, which isn't a bad thing), with more long songs than you would think could fit on a CD. Supposedly it's a pretty experimental for them. I then got De-loused in the Comatorium, but have been unsuccessful so far in listening to that one. Just too much too soon. I'm saving it for when I'm more in the mood for that kind of stuff.

Bonny, re: Mr Bungle. I'm not crazy about California, and the first album really blew me away the first 20 times I first heard it but it sounds mostly annoying to me nowadays (all that carnival stuff kinda grates). Disco Volante, however, is by far my favorite and an avant-rock masterpiece.

feetlightup - 23-12-2008 at 22:20

Right now, I'm listening to a Magma show from 2002-05-04 in Wurzburg Germany. Magma makes some of the most spiritually uplifting music I've ever heard.

Before that, I listened to Kayo Dot's "Choirs of the Eye", which was recommended to me by pigs03 on the Zappa forum a couple of years ago. It still gets a lot of play, and it's really wonderfully powerful stuff.

Pappawas1975 - 24-12-2008 at 09:50

Quote:

Originally posted by feetlightup
About a year ago I decided to try out the Mars Volta. I found Frances the Mute in a used bin, picked it up, and was quite impressed. However, it's almost TOO frantic and busy for my tastes - as if they're trying to do everything at once and it just gets exhausting. Frances has a neat pace though (the album seems to take forever, which isn't a bad thing), with more long songs than you would think could fit on a CD. Supposedly it's a pretty experimental for them. I then got De-loused in the Comatorium, but have been unsuccessful so far in listening to that one. Just too much too soon. I'm saving it for when I'm more in the mood for that kind of stuff.

Bonny, re: Mr Bungle. I'm not crazy about California, and the first album really blew me away the first 20 times I first heard it but it sounds mostly annoying to me nowadays (all that carnival stuff kinda grates). Disco Volante, however, is by far my favorite and an avant-rock masterpiece.

TMV are BUSY, that's for sure. A good thing.

My personal opinion on Disco Volante is that it is my least favourite MB album. I like it alot, but compared to the other two, it comes third easily....

BBP - 24-12-2008 at 12:17

Mr Bungle's first does indeed tire me occasionally but I now only play it in a real festive mood. And it's GREAT music when you're juggling!

feetlightup - 24-12-2008 at 15:37

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP
Mr Bungle's first does indeed tire me occasionally but I now only play it in a real festive mood. And it's GREAT music when you're juggling!

It seems that way, doesn't it? I'll have to remember that the next time I juggle.

BBP - 24-12-2008 at 15:46

Oh yeah! I also love to juggle to Jamiroquai... (well you got to have something to take your mind of the music). In Zappa's repertoire We Are Not Alone is fantastic, too.

Pappawas1975 - 24-12-2008 at 17:43

Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra - Out To Lunch

feetlightup - 29-12-2008 at 21:56

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP
Oh yeah! I also love to juggle to Jamiroquai... (well you got to have something to take your mind of the music).

:biggrin:

Right now:
Yes, 1979/4/18, Quebec City
Siberian Khatru

BBP - 30-12-2008 at 09:27

Yeah that was a strange purchase... in general, when I'm looking for a song, I buy a sampler, but this time I bought the album. Little did I know that JK's music is sucky, although he's cute.

Pappawas1975 - 30-12-2008 at 18:43

Yeah, Jamiroquai are shit.

aquagoat - 30-12-2008 at 18:46

Ward 21: King of the world.

polydigm - 30-12-2008 at 23:21

Quote:

Originally posted by Pappawas1975: Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra - Out To Lunch

Did they not know that title was already taken by Eric Dolphy? Or is it a tribute to Eric Dolphy?

aquagoat - 2-1-2009 at 14:09

aquagoat - 3-1-2009 at 15:01

Depth affect: Hero crisis.

Pappawas1975 - 3-1-2009 at 15:16

Quote:

Originally posted by polydigm
Did they not know that title was already taken by Eric Dolphy? Or is it a tribute to Eric Dolphy?

It is O.Y.N.J.O's reworking of said album.

Dolphy's album is one of my favourite albums ever. And, before you ask, Otomo's version isn't as good as the original.....

BBP - 5-1-2009 at 12:27

Orchestral Favourites.

Thanks Poly!

feetlightup - 6-1-2009 at 21:30

aquagoat - 13-1-2009 at 20:22

Pappawas1975 - 14-1-2009 at 18:48

What do you think to that Aqua?

Huck_Phlem - 15-1-2009 at 07:39

You are what you is from "Buffalo"! Excellent drum album!!!

aquagoat - 15-1-2009 at 18:48

Quote:

Originally posted by Pappawas1975
What do you think to that Aqua?

I like it very much. The singer's voice is not a problem for me, I ythink it fits the music perfectly. The music is quite complex but also quite accessible, wich is not such an easy thing to do. I'm gonna listen to De-loused in the comatorium, now.

[Edited on 15-1-2009 by aquagoat]

scallopino - 16-1-2009 at 02:32

The Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead

scallopino - 17-1-2009 at 12:57

Talking Heads - Remain in the Light. And what a masterpiece it is. The whole thing sounds like one complete composition. There is some great guitar playing on it and I just took a look at the credits...it's Adrian Belew!

aquagoat - 17-1-2009 at 20:46

punknaynowned - 19-1-2009 at 06:45

The Lumpy Money sampler is playing at zapparadio

right now it's the single version of Lonely Little Girl

punknaynowned - 19-1-2009 at 07:08

but now it's over Geoff!

BBP - 19-1-2009 at 18:55

The original!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIP6m8cA3q8

punknaynowned - 20-1-2009 at 06:51

it's on again Poly!
this proto-King Kong is so freaking great to my ears!!!!!!!!!
some of this (the horns) ended up on Lumpy Gravy but there is much more other detail here and lasts longer and is just an outtake -- with a Tom Wilson voice-over at the end,
my copy may arrive as early as Monday and I'm drooling

aquagoat - 20-1-2009 at 19:46

punknaynowned - 1-2-2009 at 23:28

here's a link to an article on the struggle for women's rights in Iran.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1000395...
I heard it and remembered B's reading of Lolita and Alice in Wonderland, which is what this teacher has been teaching in Tehran.

BBP - 2-2-2009 at 22:51

I read a lot of articles like that... thing is, all is never what it seems there. For instance, the veils and kerchiefs have enabled women to go to college, which parents before would often forbid because of the contact with men. Nowadays there are more female than male students in Iran.
...which doesn't mean I think it's OK that women are beat up when they wear clothes that reveal anything besides hands, feet and face, while men only need to wear something to cover up the pelvis... or that women are legal adults at 9 while men are legal adult at 15...

punknaynowned - 3-2-2009 at 01:38

yes!
It's so interesting to me how different underlying assumptions about people (ourselves, each other) can have such far reaching and profound effects across a culture and then how different it seems to other cultures.
For instance, Mike Phelps the swimmer got in trouble here for getting caught on film smoking pot.
The underlying assumption of the culture here in the states is that it's illegal and dangerous: even knowledge of it (what it's like) it is thought, can be dangerous. But because there is this stigma to it, I think, more people who wouldn't normally try it, will try it like Phelps, simply because our culture looks down on it and they want to know for themselves what it's like.
Whereas in Holland, where it's legal, there seems to be more of a feeling that it's a waste of time that could be dangerous. But that's not the official cultural stance there. Just as your attitude or feelings about that issue is at odds with the wider (legislated) culture, Phelps wanted to try something (probably peer-pressured) that his wider culture has always been telling him not to do or think about.

So in Iran and Saudi Arabia et al, the cultural repression toward women is so deep that as you say, they have to wear head coverings in public or they'll get beat up for exhibiting that slip, that lax of male control. This on the face of it seems so at odds with western culture and yet stems from the same idea. Just a matter of how far it is taken and in which direction. They're both rigidly patriarchal societies.

The big breakthrough is with our minds. With knowledge or awareness of another point of view, there's no telling what people might do. That's where progress comes from.

I'm listening to www.marketplace.org . Never thought I'd ever pay this much attention to business and economic news. Glad I started a couple years ago.

Huck_Phlem - 3-2-2009 at 04:41

anyway...

I am listening to Charles Mingus' Epitaph. I guess it was a 2 hour composition that he did and was lost until recently.

It's really good.

MTF - 3-2-2009 at 05:42

My wife's in the kitchen, making a birthday cake with her very loud Kitchen Aid mixer.

And my daughter's in there too, trying to drown out the mixer with a CD on her boombox.

And they're trying to have a conversation over all this.

And I'm trying to drown it all out with David Bowie's "Heroes."

Another quiet evening at the Flycoon house...

punknaynowned - 3-2-2009 at 13:24

Huck I'd love to hear that!!

MTF, that's hilarious. I can see it so clearly.
Plus I love that record!
I'm listening to Steve Inskeep of NPR's Morning Edition. He's in Iran this week.

feetlightup - 4-2-2009 at 17:35

I'm listening to a live album by The Dicks.

MTF - 5-2-2009 at 05:12

Tonight I'm listening to Los Lonely Boys.

Not as greasy as Little Feat. Not as incendiary as Stevie Ray Vaughan. The songs aren't as tight as Los Lobos.

Kinda somewhere in the middle of all that...

aquagoat - 5-2-2009 at 20:33

Alamaailman vasarat: Käärmelautakunta.

and then:

punknaynowned - 6-2-2009 at 10:29

zappa radio, beat the boots selections
the black page left off TTNS dvd

scallopino - 6-2-2009 at 12:57

Quote:

Originally posted by MTF
My wife's in the kitchen, making a birthday cake with her very loud Kitchen Aid mixer.

And my daughter's in there too, trying to drown out the mixer with a CD on her boombox.

And they're trying to have a conversation over all this.

And I'm trying to drown it all out with David Bowie's "Heroes."

Another quiet evening at the Flycoon house...

I will never get sick of that song.

aquagoat - 8-2-2009 at 18:22

aquagoat - 9-2-2009 at 18:19

[Edited on 9-2-2009 by aquagoat]

aquagoat - 11-2-2009 at 18:50

scallopino - 17-2-2009 at 04:26

CAN - Tago Mago. I haven't heard anything like it. It sounds to me like a mixture of Bitches Brew and Radiohead and Jimi Hendrix and maybe Headhunters.

BBP - 21-4-2009 at 10:40

Well, you know... I'm looking for a harp picture right now so I put on some harp music to keep my spirit up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnLpO_bY0Q&feature=relat...
HarpTallica playing Orion.

aquagoat - 21-4-2009 at 18:37

[Edited on 21-4-2009 by aquagoat]

BBP - 23-4-2009 at 06:30

In an ultimate moment of reliving my childhood I put on 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor.

aquagoat - 24-4-2009 at 17:12

Huck_Phlem - 28-4-2009 at 07:49

Bartok or something...it's dark

aquagoat - 28-4-2009 at 18:46

scallopino - 29-4-2009 at 12:55

A Radio National special on Miles' Kind of Blue. It's a brilliant program, featuring extended clips of Miles talking about it.

aquagoat - 29-4-2009 at 19:24