The 'what are you listening to' thread:

Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris.

Excellent workout music.

Artist: Elbow
Song: Red

Jack Pennate on 6 music... forgot how happy smiley good it is!

I have on Dream Theater's Acoustic Dreams. I'm not a fan, but I'm listening anyway. They're not bad.

Echo & The Bunnymen - Do It Clean (Live)

Ted wrote:

Echo & The Bunnymen - Do It Clean (Live)

I can see a pattern emerging here!

maxwell's silver hammer - the beatles

abbey road is THE greatest album of all time!!

Abbey Road is pretty damn good... but Rubber Soul beats it, for me

I have Nirvana on, the 2002 album.

Interpol - PDA (Black Session)

Jonny wrote:

Abbey Road is pretty damn good... but Rubber Soul beats it, for me

And Revolver beats them both!

Currently listening to King Harvest (Has Surely Come) - The Band

Who? The Deep Freeze Mice
What? A Trillion Sprods
Where From? I Love You Little Bo Bo with Your Delicate Golden Lions (double L.P.) (1984)
Why? Because I've been enjoying Late of The Pier's album, but certain aspects of it kept giving me a nagging sense of deja vu. It then occurred to me that mad indie with proggy overtones was a little like the Deep Freeze Mice, so I pulled out the only album I have of them and reminded myself of how much fun it was/is. A Trillion Sprods is the 13 minute epic!

P.S.
Sounds nothing like Late of The Pier. DFM have got tons of imagination and an ear for a tune, but suffer from a) being average musicians (particularly the percussion) and b) having about 50p to spend on production - not so much raw as rather thin and insubstantial sounding. There are some minor gems though.

Got Laura Marling on, Alas I Cannot Swim

Elbow - Hotel Istanbul

I have on 'Fucked Up Friends' by Tobacco, from Black Moth Super Rainbow

Just heard the frightened rabbit christmas song "Its Christmas so we'll stop" its chuffing briliant!

Elbow - Press Your Lips (Newborn) - El Presidente Remix

If you haven't heard this then you must. WOW.

Sarah wrote:

Just heard the frightened rabbit christmas song "Its Christmas so we'll stop" its chuffing briliant!

I was complaining yesterday about the lack of good Christmas songs... could this change that?

I have on Blur's Think Tank. It's grand!

The Stone Roses - Waterfall

Just put on Steve Hackett's Cured... bit dodgy, dunno what to make of it...

But before that I had Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon on, by the Quo! Boogy on down!

Ted wrote:

The Stone Roses - Waterfall

We have an ancient tape of random shite in our equally ancient car, and whenever we put it on my son (who's not even 3 yet) demands that we play Waterfall. I'm impressed with his musical taste, earlier on The Wonder Stuff's "Don't Let Me Down" came on the radio and he said "I like this one!" and started dancing round the living room.

Anyway, just listened to Flying White Dots' new album 3D - I hate the terms "mashup" and "chillout" so I'm just going to say that this is an Orb-influenced sample collage featuring Portishead, Radiohead, The Beatles, Mazzy Star, Carly Simon, DJ Shadow, and Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain". Available here.

Artist: Sun Kil Moon
Song: The Light

white room - cream

quality tune

I have Led Zeppelin - A Whole Lotta Love on, the huuuge live version from How the West Was Won.

First Aid Kit (AWFUL name) covering Fleet Foxes. Good, very very good!

What? Got To Get Away
Who? Easy Star All Stars
Where From? Until That Day EP
Why? Reggae/Dub - not a genre I listen to a lot, but ESAS make the sweetest music. Listening to this whilst the sleet is falling from the grey skies and I can feel the sun on my back and can't keep a smile from my face. What else can I say? (Ironically they're based in NYC so probably have worse weather than here in the UK).

Easy Star All Stars are best known for their critically acclaimed cover albums - Dub Side Of The Moon & Radiodread - if you have not heard those I can wholeheartedly recommend them. "Until That Day" is an EP of original material though, and it's good stuff!