What CD are you listening to right now?

[Thelonious Funk]

Sufjan Stevens
Michigan

He says he is going to write an entire album for each of the fifty states... He's done two. This one is really good though.

[bigburner]

Sufjan Stevens
Michigan

He says he is going to write an entire album for each of the fifty states... He's done two. This one is really good though.

Did you see that Alloroc rated "Illinoise" as his top album for 2006? http://www.htguide.com/forum/showthread.php4?t=23356
How do you think that Michigan compares to Illinoise?

[dknightd]

Burning Spear "Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2001" - fun

[Thelonious Funk]

Did you see that Alloroc rated "Illinoise" as his top album for 2006? http://www.htguide.com/forum/showthread.php4?t=23356
How do you think that Michigan compares to Illinoise?

I'd say they are on par with each other. I lean towards Michigan because it isn't such a marathon listening session but you couldn't force me to pick a favorite track between the two. Illinoise is 22 tracks and 74 minutes. Then he released Avalance, which is a 21 track cd of outtakes from Illinoise.

Let's just say he's prolific.

Aside from the states theme, I think his best album is Seven Swans, as the songs are crushingly beautiful and for the most part, very sparse. It's an album you can't hide from. It will find your heart and give it a squeeze.

[Thelonious Funk]

Tonight I am drinking too much whiskey, smoking too many cigarettes, and digging though my teenage years. Anyone seen or read Hi-Fidelity?

I sort my albums auto-biographly... Tonight it's Toots and the Maytals

IN THE DARK

You cannot listen to this cd without hearing other bands songs... because those other bands stole riffs from these FANTASTIC tracks.

I agree with Lester Bangs. Toots and company are better than Bob Marley.

If only because Toots gave the Clash another song to cover


And speaking of Hi-fidelity

Does anyone else like Nick Hornby????

[chinets]

Huh, Thelonious Funk... 8x) :boozer: :gah:

The only thing I comprehended from you were the TOOTS... :boobies: :banana:

Cheers ,and Invite us over for a night cap some day!! Thanks! :^x

[David Meek]

The Doobie Brothers - The Captain And Me

one of my ten choices for my "stranded on a desert island with only ten albums for the rest of my life" list of albums.

[deke]

Blind Melon - Soup and Pink Floyd - Wish You Where Here

[bigburner]

Grayson Capps - "If You Knew My Mind"

I'm on holiday enjoying the New Zealand summer and this album cover looks the same way that I feel!

[8thDwarf]

Really enjoyed Hi-Fidelity(Cusack fan) have not read the book...liked "About a Boy"(movie) as well.
The soundtrack album is a fav ,toss off the Jack Black cover,not so bad but....make room for a Belle and Sebastian?
~"Should I bolt every time I get that feeling in my gut when I meet someone new? Well, I've been listening to my gut since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have sh*t for brains." ~

[Burke Strickland]

Arriaga: cuartetos -- three string quartets composed by Juan Crisostomo Arriaga (1806 - 1826), a musical prodigy often called the "Spanish Mozart" who wrote the three quartets on this album at the age of 18. Having composed 23 major works including a well received opera (when he was 13), Arriaga died of tuberculosis just 10 days before his 20th birthday. Given how striking and attractive the chamber music on this album is, it is intriguing to imagine what Arriagga might have achieved if he had lived longer.

Played by the Cuarteto Casels in their first recording on the Harmonia Mundi label ( HMI 987038 ), this one deserves a place on our "under the radar recordings" list.

Burke

[crackyflipside]

Dire Straights

Cd: Brothers In Arms

[sonicbaer]

CUSCO "ancient journeys"
preceded by Johannes Linstead "Mediterranea"

Jesse if you want to hear what those subs can do... try listening to "journey to alcazaba" on Linsteads "Mediterranea" CD..

[Thelonious Funk]

Yeah, the novelty of Jack Black wore off for me too..

And for those who thought I ws just in a drunken rant.. Lester Bangs was a music critic.

Sorry.

[Michael Orme.]

Dvd?

Been playing a DVD through my system, noise is still in my head!
C'etait Un Rendez-vous.

Poor Speakers. B+W DM602 S3. Car hits 134MPH!

[at_sunset_blvd]

Try Janis Ian (Breaking Silence). Great warm vocals, tight lows & sweet highs.

[jmb]

Los Lobos -The Town and the City :T :T

Excellent album.

[Burke Strickland]

Michael Praetorius "Terpsichore" selections from the Tersichore Musarum played by the Ricercar Consort conducted by Francois Fernandez and Philippe Pierlot (on different pieces), La Fenice conducted by by Jean Tuberry and La Bande Des Luths conducted by Phillippe Malfeyt. The CD is on the Ricercar label (RIC 205).

"Ricercar" (pronounced 'ree-chair-kar') is derived from the Italian verb "ricercare", which means "to seek out" and in music it denotes a fugue. "Terpsichore" (pronounced "turp-sik-er-ee") means "delight of dancing", and Praetorius' extensive collection of works under that name are a true delight in these performances.

[deke]

Dire Straights

Cd: Brothers In Arms

This is a good one... made me pull that CD out again.

[bigburner]

"Shuggie's Boogie: Shuggie Otis Plays the Blues" by Shuggie Otis

Cool bananas.

Shuggie is an early 70's guitarist who allegedly refused an offer to join the Rolling Stones and quit the music scene at the ripe old age of 22.

Thanks to Thelonious Funk for recommending this one.

[Chris D]

"Ricercar" (pronounced 'ree-chair-kar') is derived from the Italian verb "ricercare", which means "to seek out" and in music it denotes a fugue.

And here I thought my modified Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 was a "ricercar"

[Burke Strickland]

Originally posted by Chris D
And here I thought my modified Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 was a "ricercar"

No doubt because its exhaust notes mimic the most elaborate contrivances of counterpoint in different keys and intervals at multiple and various starting points, where the canonical theme joins seamlessly from its end to its beginning to go on forever in a perpetual loop – the very definitition of “ricercar”. :>)

Burke

[Thelonious Funk]

"Shuggie's Boogie: Shuggie Otis Plays the Blues" by Shuggie Otis

Cool bananas.

Shuggie is an early 70's guitarist who allegedly refused an offer to join the Rolling Stones and quit the music scene at the ripe old age of 22.

Thanks to Thelonious Funk for recommending this one.

Holy lord god in heaven. Someone else now likes Shuggie Otis!

Now... Anyone heard of Louisiana Red?

Any song that starts with the following line:

"It'll be hard to miss you baby, with my pistol in your mouth"

get's my attention, if not adoration.

[Thelonious Funk]

Sufjan Stevens again... I cannot get enough if Illinoise right now...

He rhymes Decatur with Emancipator for gods sake.

Download a track... just take a looksee. I would start with All The Trees In The Field Will Clap Their Hands.

[JonMarsh]

David Garfield, "Giving Back".

Top flight session guy doing his own jazz album, with a huge list of guys he's played with over the years accompanying him- guys like Gerald Albright, Randy Brecker, Jimmy Johnson, Stever Porcaro, Lee Ritenour, and Freddie Washington.



Makes cheap speakers sound good. Makes good speakers almost sound like the real thing (for a CD). Nice muisic, too - smooth jazz.

~Jon

[RobP]

Supertramp: Crime of the Century Found this one looking through my collection, been 10 years or better since I listened to this one. :T

[dknightd]

Crime of the Century is a good one. I listened to it again last night for first time in years.

Right now I'm listening to Douglas, Jerry - The Best Kept Secret - just bought tickets to see him (though I actually prefer his mid 90's work).

[Burke Strickland]

Makes cheap speakers sound good. Makes good speakers almost sound like the real thing (for a CD).

Here's another one that does that: Mike Garson "The Oxnard Sessions: Volume Two" on Reference Recordings. This album was Stereophile's Recording of the Month Jume 1993, and is reportedly Garson's favorite of his work, including the sessions he did backing up David Bowie. :>)

This one could be an entry in the thread "What do you keep coming back to" -- it is not only exceptionally well recorded, but the performances are as enjoyable on the 100th listening as they were on the first. Great music -- real jazz.

The combination of piano, acoustic bass, drums and alto/soprano sax is thrilling, soulful, engaging and soothing all at the same time. There is a lot going on there; it's not just a rhythm on autopilot. While the whole album is well worth listening to all the way through, my favorite tracks are the first (Rumble), fourth (A Song For You) and 10th (I Get A Kick Out of You).



Burke

[Thelonious Funk]

Late For The Sky... Jackson Browne.

My girl got me into this CD, after a struggle as I could never get into Browne. I'm glad she did, as this has become one of my favorite CD's.

I'm not a big fan of much else that he did but this is great.

[Bluespower]

On An Island by David Gilmour. Very nice music to watch your lava light by.

[8thDwarf]

Strange Angels/Laurie Anderson

[8thDwarf]

A great 3 album straight through listening session...

[dowda]

a world of music

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[Chris D]

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[Cool Mr Steve]

I've been watching this thread long enough, I guess I'll add my two cents...

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams, Any other Jack Johnson fans, or am I alone on that one? Anyway, great album.

James Blunt - Back to Bedlam I saw some James Blunt fans earlier in the thread, but this cd is definitely worth mentioning again.

Dire Straits - Making Movies Brothers in Arms is a solid cd and I'll never tire of it, but Making Movies is also, in my opinion, an ESSENTIAL cd for any Dire Straits fan. A little more upbeat and a little more "fun," I'd say. And just like Brothers in Arms, each song is gold.

[bigburner]

Lou Reed - "Rock N Roll Animal"

This album brings back so many memories...

[Thelonious Funk]

Blues Image - Open.

If you like the Blues Rock of the late sixities and early seventies...

THESE GUYS ARE UNSUNG HEROS OF THE GENRE. Woo a hoo.

[Thelonious Funk]

Listening to Moe's new CD Conch. It's a departure. Not a bad one either. MOE is one of those jam bands that owes more to southern rock than to the Grateful Dead.

This record is more pensive than it's predecessors, and I like it, but it's still really no comparison to the live stuff.

Maybe it's just me but I like live records more and more over studio cuts. I like noticing the mistakes, changes, and playfulness of a live show.

What about you guys? Obviously this doesn't hold true for all genres, but in rock and jazz, I'm a sucker for the Live at the _______ record.

[8thDwarf]

two I dig all the way live...
Portishead Live: Roseland NYC
How the West Was Won

[Thelonious Funk]

two I dig all the way live...
Portishead Live: Roseland NYC
How the West Was Won

You are awesome. Portishead is so rad. And I mean rad in a way that trancends the stoner surfer movement of the mid-eighties.

[wkhanna]

The Almond Bros - Live at Fillmore East

[David Meek]

Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs

I put up a couple of posts about it in other threads and now I've GOT to listen to it. :

[David Meek]

The Almond Bros - Live at Fillmore East

Should that be the Allman Brothers?

[Thelonious Funk]

Should that be the Allman Brothers?

Easy now!! It's a common mistake and you can't fault the man for taste. That is a great record.

[bigburner]

James Gang - "Bang"

Just finished track 4 - Alexis. The second half of that song is huge!