Well, I love listening to the Jazz shows on our local PR station here. I usually use it as backgroud music so I really never learn anything from it, and therefore know next to nothing about Jazz. but yeah, I do like it a lot.

I'm pretty keen on jazz and most of those names are at least familiar to me (thanks, Dad!).

As for right now, I've got Lords of Acid, the Voodoo-U CD.

anthrofuge - straight up metal up your ass. ok, they are pretty funny and obsessed with pirates. if you are really bored and curious you can check them out at anthrofuge.com or just click here.

yes, i'm a shill they are old friends of mine who creat new bands about every 6 months, put out a cd, get bored and start over.

the local "public" radio station is a not-so-guilty pleasure of mine. WXPN (88.5 on the radio dial) has recently upgraded their digs, and to celeberate, solicited their membership to send in their all time top ten lists. They compiled the top 885 songs and are playing them all this week from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm (Eastern)

A lot of old rock classics things like Neil Young (comes a time)- Stones (Angie) - even some things from the 20's and 30's -also Frank (ol blue eyes is in there, elvis, beatles etc...)

I have to admit, my radio has been cranked pretty loud the last few days.

You can check out the play list at xpn.org - if you're out of the area, you can stream it live from this site.

I'll let my collection speak for me.

Nasty habit of mine, I will listen to great guitarists just for the sake of listening to great guitarists. If anyone else shares this penchant, or just likes simple, barebones jazz, there's a man by the name of Joe Pass who is abso-fucking-lutely amazing. I also really dig Coltrane, Davis, Dave Brubeck, and a really amazing singer doing covers whose name is Renee Olstead. She's a really talented kid, and only about 16 years old if memory serves me

Frank Black and the Catholics

My jazz tends to run toward Bela Fleck and David Grisman but I do like the old big band stuff, and Coltrane.

jazz guitar yah:

Always Way Coolest Kenny Burrell, Classic Charlie Christian, The Amazing Grant Green, Spare Wes Mongomery, Old tyme Eddie Lang, Swinging Tiny Grimes, Kicking T Bone Walker.

Find Burrell's "Midnight Blue", Green's "Iron City" and/or "Idle Moments" and you will be happy.

Radio Paradise. Recently played Crash Test Dummies, Bjork, Smiths, The Frames, Wilco, Alex Gopher, SRV, Depeche Mode... not a bad playlist compared to any of our clear chan... must not rant in entertainment.

2 CDs in rotation at the moment:

Within Temptation's Mother Earth
Black Eyed Peas' Elephunk

I was listening to Joe Pass just yesterday, an album called "Unforgettable", which is just Joe and a guitar, playing his arrangements of many well-known standards from several genres. It is just like sitting in a room with him and listening to him play, so present is the recording. You can even hear him *breathe*. Needless to say, the music is amazingly intimate.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ux5t-oois/records.html

I saw Joe Pass about 20 years ago. He was, as you say, abso-fucking-lutely amazing. His death in 1994 left a large void in the world of jazz guitar.

Aphex Twins- Window-licker.

Hmmm.. emusic has that album. Do you think that'd be a good intro to him?

That's exactly where I got it. :)

I would describe this recording as being primarily for a serious lover of guitar music. It is entirely unaccompanied, not 100% free of flaws (one-take, live digital recordings all by a master of his instrument), and therefore not for casual listening.

If you love hearing an artist at the peak of their craft, with all the embellishment stripped away, so that you can enjoy the pure, real thing...yes, this is a great album as an introduction. The songs will be familiar, yet arranged in original ways, with a lot of improvisation thrown in.

When I saw Joe Pass all those years ago, he held a crowd of about 1000 in awe doing exactly the same thing...just playing his guitar.

Kinda on a Spain kick round here- and a new CD that is getting lots of play is a classical/flamenco guitarist David Russell- Reflections of Spain. ahhhh.

Most of the time my local nr 1 Belgian radio is playing...Studio Brussel , great music in all genres! Just bought the Best off Placebo, real good one, and " the remixes of Depeche Mode" also very good.... if you curious people wanna check belgim's nr 1 station.... www.stubru.be

I hear that is a kickass piece of work.

Anyone able to recommend some good tango music?

Some Taking Back Sunday, Cake, Bel Auburn, and Break of Day (<--local band).

With a little Frank Sinatra thrown in the mix.

Along the vein of radio paradise (which is pretty much great), there are two shoutcast stations I listen to pretty regularly: http://nugs.net and http://stumbleinthedark.com. Both are quite cool if you're into jam bands, and stumble has been known to slip in such greatness as Pedro the Lion every once in a while. Nugs is the favorite, though, as it tends to play entire live shows by different jam bands, and often offers the entire show for 128kbps mp3 download.

"I...dig....music...............I'M ON DRUGS!!!!!!!!"

edit: Also, people in Pittsburgh, Listen To More Public Radio. 91.3fm WYEP is insanely great, and they do a lot of cool stuff in the community. Not too long ago I got the chance to go down to a little theatre in, I believe, 'Sliberty (East Liberty to non-residents) and see The Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" film. Just cool, especially for a young kid who didn't get to see all this stuff when it was the big thing.

No Knife

I have some kinda gypsy Franco- Argentinian- Finnish- Djangoesque accordion tango (Oscar Alleman, Cafe Accordion Orchestra, Baguette Quartet) All great!, but would also love to find some good, classic tango tipica. Ya know, forbidden dance and all. I'll let you know if I hear anything good. :)

Keane- Hopes And Fears. Superb album!

Tricky- formerly of Massive Attack. Nice.

"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show."
Happy Monkey, if you can help me to get that, I don't know how to thank you !

And i'm typing now on Atom Heart Mother from Pink Floyd, just after "Barb4ry" from Ez3kiel...

I'm afraid I don't have the upload capability for something like that. You just have to keep your eyes open for when things like that are available.

Bob James' Snowbird Fantasy

on repeat.

Caught a tune by John Chibadura on RP a couple days back, fabulous stuff. Gonna have to check it out.

Madeleine Peyroux- Careless Love

Anybody have knowlege of the edgier side of spanish guitar? Tony Bandaras did a couple of pretty lame movies where he was an assasin who played some pretty cool licks. Any knowlege of where that sound falls on the musical spectrum?

If you are a user of Yahoo Messenger, you MUST listen to this station on Launchcast Radio.

Nuevo Chicano mariachi/flamenco/ranchero? I'd get soundtracks and follow the leads into Mexico. Sounds like a great trip!

Modest Mouse, It wouldn't be me if I didn't mention it.

Old 97's Won't Be Home Fat guitar with lyrics "I was born in the back seat of a Mustang on a cold night in a pouring rain...." :thumbsup:

Boy, has this thread died off!! Time to revitalize! :cool:

My current list of fave CD's are:

Patti Smith's Horses
Eminem's The Eminem Show
Jane's Addiction's Nothing Shocking
Moussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain/Pictures at an Exhibition
Chant I: The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos
Douglas Adams reading Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency
(I might also throw some metal, zydeco, or more classical, alternative, rap, etc., in the mix, depending on my mood--admittedly putting this on 'random' can be a bit jarring) ;)

I just bought my 500th CD.

Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics.

Yes, all the greats are there, including Lonely Jew at Christmas, Christmastime in Hell, and The Dreidel Song.

Juno Reactor - Labyrinth

My mother honestly likes it, despite her traditional abhorrence for pounding bass (although the bass here rolls more than it pounds). I think that is a strong voucher in favor of this CD.

I went a little crazy at Overstock.com and bought a slew of music and 'book tape' CD's, mostly for $1 each. Some of them are very odd. The Kacapi Suling Cinta is Javanese ethnic dance music. So far the Viva Cubop 2 CD is my favorite with everything from salsa to very cool jazz. I've only had time to listen to 4 or 5 albums all of the way through. The grooves albums are interesting in that they are samplers put out by record companies. People are always complaining about buying a whole CD for one good song and not realizing that they usually end up putting a collection of good songs from different artists on one of these samplers or a movie soundtrack which ends up in the bargain bin.

One surprise was in the folk legends. Since the Dubliners were in it I expected traditional Irish folk songs. When I saw the title of the second song by Richard Digance was "Drag Queen Blues", I assumed it was some bit of slang having to do with fishing, like the term 'dragline', since there was a "Net Hauling Song" on the CD.

It turned out to be a song about cross-dressing. It was pretty funny.

39424 Time Life Classic Rock - Animal Rock $1.00 1 $1.00
39438 Various Artists: Grooves Volume 6 $1.00 1 $1.00
39447 Grooves, Volume 11 $1.00 1 $1.00
39468 Various Artists: Grooves Volume 10 $1.00 1 $1.00
39470 Various Artists - Grooves Vol. 13 $1.00 1 $1.00
2500752 World Stage - The Day America Cried $0.88 1 $0.88
2500759 The Phat Cat Players - Make It Phat, Baby! $0.88 1 $0.88
59417 Various Artists - Radio Free Music Volume 2 $1.00 1 $1.00
59553 L.S. Gelik - Kacapi Suling, 026617571429-L. $1.00 1 $1.00
75220 Various Artists - Elektronica II, 015095953025- V $1.00 1 $1.00
75248 Jimmy 2 Times - No More Shines $1.00 1 $1.00
75267 Virtual Audio Project - Cosmos, Virtual Audio P $1.00 1 $1.00
76458 Popa Wu - Visions Of The Tenth Chamber, Popa Wu - Visio $1.00 1
79604 Naked Without You $1.00 1 $1.00
81826 Francisco Aguabella - H2O $1.00 1 $1.00
81833 P`taah - Compressed Light $1.00 1 $1.00
81844 Various Artists - Viva Cubop 2: Dance The Afro-Cuban Way $1.00 1
81845 Jim Lauderdale - The Hummingbirds $1.00 1 $1.00
81847 Radney Foster - Another Way To Go * $1.00 1 $1.00
81883 Various Artists - Celtic Invasion: The Very Best Of New Irish... $1.00 1 $1.00
81884 Various Artists - Celtic Lives: Tales Of Pride $1.00 1 $1.00
82300 VARIOUS/FOLK LEGENDS VOL.1 - 777966719429 $1.00 1 $1.00
82301 VARIOUS/FOLK LEGENDS VOL.2 - 777966719528 $1.00 1 $1.00
86020 Caia - The Magic Dragon $1.00 1 $1.00
85790 Tom Jones read by Henry Fielding (Vol. 2) $1.00 1 $1.00
85791 Tom Jones read by Henry Fielding (Vol.1) $2.00 1 $2.00

CD # 500 arrived in the mail today.

the sound of rain falling. in Phoenix, that is a wondrous treat for the eardrums, indeed.

You folks out there actually get that?

Ya, I'm smellin the crack your puttin in your pipe. ;)

Wow...I didn't realize it was so obvious from 400 miles away. :)

It's got a special tang to it.

Tang? He's out in space?
Listening to MrNoodle rippin' it up.
Reminds me of Joe Satriani at the Tower, sitting in the 2nd row, right behind his Mom.

As soon as Pete gets off the trainer she'll be continuing our annual music rebuild. The cd carousel(sp) holds 200 but we have syc numbers (better music though bro). Anyway new music to yammer about soon. :thumbsup:

Are you saying that the music I like is inferior? You know, I'm off until Tuesday...don't make me drive up there and kick your ass.

I just heard a short piece on NPR that is going to force me to find the CD they were extoling. It seems someone has done a tribute album to the Moody Blues...by doing their music in bluegrass arrangements.

It sounded really, really good. Brilliantly good, in fact.

I heard that too. At least, I heard a snippet of it before jumping into the shower. It sounded pretty good.

Gonna have to check that out!

One sign of a great rock-n-roll album is the volume its at when you're done listening. Ben Harper Live From Mars turns out to be one loud mother pumpin album. Glory and Consequence, Excuse Me Mr., Sexual Healing, Steal My Kisses, and Burn One Down... are you getting the picture?

I was not aware that there is a recent documentary about the Moog and a soundtrack to it. I was listening to it today, and it was quite good.

Let's see...what else have I been listening to? Well, a lot...but among that lot:

Marvin Gaye--Here, My Dear: This is CD # 500 in my collection, incidentally.

Miles Davis--ESP

Beatallica--Beatallica and A Garage Dayz Nite

Queensryche--Promised Land

The last 5 CDs I played:

1. The Misfits - BLOOD-DRIVE - Live with Zoli (from Ignite)
An interesting bootleg if you can find it. Zoli took lead vocals only 4 days before this show. Impressive showing, I must say.

2. Charles Manson - LIE - The Love and Terror Cult
Charlie is so versatile, but he don't surf...

3. Tracy Lords - 1000 Fires
A technicality. My wife wanted to listen to it, and since she refuses to understand how to work a CD player...

4. White Zombie - PsychoHeadBlowOut / Soul Crusher / Make Them Die Slowly
A wonderful bootleg from a store in NYC. If you can find it, get it, even if you don't listen to it. The resale is worth it. After I bought it ($10), I found out that it goes for $30 - $50.

5. GG Allin 7-CD compilation from a European CD dealer
Amazing what you can do with a CD burner and CD-Rs. GG Allin and / The Murder Junkies / Texas Nazis / Scum Fucs / Shrinkwrap / The HolyMen /The Jabbers / and the rare 7" with The AIDS Brigade. I know this is stretching the idea of the thread, but I consider it a box set, so I apologize (waddle doodle, I am the Greaseman...)

The last 5 i've listened to:

Helmet - Size Matters
Shai Hulud - That Within Blood Ill Tempered
Snapcase - Lookinglasself, and Design for Automation
Miles Davis - Blue
The Blamed - Again

Warren Haynes live - And it stoned me, Soulshine

A bit late, I know, but Lucinda Williams, Car Tires on Gravel Road. Awesome!

Brian Wilson - Smile : Orchestral vocal/pop for old hippies. Verging on elevator music in places, but with excellent new versions of "Villains and Heroes" and "Good Vibrations". Notable because Brian is, at last, sane enough to realize the creation he should have released 40 years ago.

ZZ Top - Best of: Juvenile, prurient, musico-porn-double-entendre. And that's just the best stuff about it. I loves me some "Rough Boy" and "LaGrange".

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick: Eveyone else thinks Aqualung is Ian Anderson's greatest work. I think TAAB is.

My current selection of WMP radio stations: The energy dance radio is mostly Trance and is really good if you like that sort of thing. I understand UT really loves Trance http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/tongue.gif

Undertoad should check out DI.fm's Trance channels if he hasn't already.

I've been listening to:
Juno Reactor - Labyrinth
Paradise Lost - Symbol of Life

This year is going to mark the release of five new CDs from Bill Leeb / Rhys Fulber. Awesome!

Pixies - Wave of Mutilation. It's a "Best of" disc. I listened to the Pixies when I was younger, but kind of forgot about the band as time went on. I was in Borders the other day looking for something, and couldn't find anything I wanted. Suddenly my toddler points at this disc and says "Dad, get that. It's yellow!". Kid's got good taste in music. :)