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[slink]

OK, seeing as how the 'what are your favourite' topics are too difficult to decide on (for me at least), I wanna try a different approach. I'm wondering if it will change the outcome much, and whether it will introduce me to some more stuff that I don't know of already but is worth having for my DJing:
So...

What did you listen to today?

Me:
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Tim Buckley - Dream Letter Live in London 1968
Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
Masters of Reality - How High the Moon
Sublime - Sublime
Queens of the Stone Age - similairly eponymous
Giovanni Battista Purgolesi - Stabat Matar

It was quite an eclectic day!

[Nabubrush]

Foo Fighters - "There is Nothing Left to Lose" and "One by One"
The Cult - "Love"

This is unusual for me, but I spent a lot of time at the gym today, so I was listening to whatever insipid drivel they play on this station that considers itself edgy.

[sjlimmer]

Um, well, this hasn't been a typical day, but so far:

Cake - Fashion Nugget
They Might Be Giants - Then: The Earlier Years (disk 1)
Luna - Bewitched
and some mp3's from Swell, Brassy, and Mojave 3 (can't remember which tracks right now)

Edit:  Because I can.  The rest of the day included

Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
China Crisis - China Crisis Collection

[V-Adore]

I've spent most of today listening to R.E.M.'s "Life's Rich Pageant." Honorable mention goes to my MP3 of "Dance Commander" by the Electric Six, which has also seen heavy duty today.

[Choop]

I picked up an MP3-CD player today and burned a bunch of songs to listen to on it. 168 songs on a single disc! ROCK!

The playlist included selections from the following artists:
50 Cent
Eminem
Norah Jones
Phantom Planet
The Donnas
Little River Band
Pearl Jam
System of a Down
Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow
Napy Roots
The White Stripes
...and many more.

All for only three payments of $29.99 - direct from K-Tel!

[AugustWest]

John Glenn's Autobiography and a little bit of "A Prarie Home Companion".  About two minutes worth of "This American Life".

[slink]

Excellent. I'll have to take a look at the people I don't know.
Those that I know that I give kudos for: Cake & TMBG, System...
And Prairie Home Companion - haven't listened to that in yeaaaaaaars!

I'm having to live without my mp3cd player for a while now, it was my car stereo, and my car just died, so I have to wait til I get a new one to put it in. I think I have a portable one but it sucks so bad!

Well, I'm off to check up on those bands that I don't knwo about that you've all posted so far.

[Choop]

Oh, I forgot about the NPR I listened to yesterday: The last of "Car Talk" (staff plastic surgeon: Faye Swift.) and "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" - a current events game show that rocks.

Slink: Also look up The Postal Service - fantastic caleco-rock sound.

[V-Adore]

Today's listenings, thus far, consists of an hour of the local "variety"/pop-and-light-rock station, including several guilty-pleasure songs. ("Oh, geez, 'Two Princes' is on? again? ... doo doo, princes who adore you, doo dee doo...") Now that I'm back in vicinity of a CD player, I'm putting on New Adventures in Hi-Fi, which is somewhere neck and neck with Life's Rich Pageant in my mental Best R.E.M. Album Ever contest.

More news later.

[Nabubrush]

Asherdan, you have some eclectic tastes. Today I got to listen to G'n'R and Pink Floyd, courtesy of some folks who live in my apartment complex. Not in my building, you understand - in a building some distance away. I liked it better a couple of weeks ago, when they were playing the Gap Band. At the gym, they were playing the classic rock station - I ask you, can anyone work out to the Allman Brothers?

[V-Adore]

Today I got to listen to G'n'R and Pink Floyd, courtesy of some folks who live in my apartment complex. Not in my building, you understand - in a building some distance away. I liked it better a couple of weeks ago, when they were playing the Gap Band.

There's nothing worse than really bad second-hand music. Last year I lived next to a young woman who was far, far overinfatuated with R. Kelly's "Ignition," to the point that a song that would have merely been quite awful normally had become totally intolerable within two months. Gah.

[starlight]

I just don't get how people's music can be *so loud* that it can be heard from a great distance away; sheesh.  do they leave all their windows open and turn it up to the loudest decibal?  hmm.  over here, at least people are decent in that respect; the worst I hear is on the weekend maybe a car with too much bass will drive by from the main road.

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Today I listened to some old music/some new music:

Anna Oxygen - All Your Faded Things
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Hood - Cold House
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Sad Like Crazy - love songs to death

and a few mix cds I found in my collection that people gave me or I made myself long ago: one contains songs by The Sugarcubes, The Anniversary, The Smiths and Tram (I just listened to those on repeat), the other has some Weezer, Bjork, etcetc. and my *absolute perfect* mix I made a copy of after making it for a friend; it contains Saint Etienne, The Sea and Cake, Hood, Low, Knife in the Water, Red House Painters, etcetc.  it's also really frikkin' sad.  I'm glad before I began to get teary eyed, a show I had been waiting on started, so I turned it off.

Now I'm about to stick in a synthpop mix another friend gave me awhile back.

[jough]

I hardly ever listen to albums anymore.  Most of my CDs are in boxes, and I play tracks in MP3 on my PC.

Today's Playlist, courtesy of BlogAmp:

Hives - Veni Vedi Vicious - 01 - Declare Guerre Nucleaire.mp3
Morrissey - The First Of The Gang To Die (Live on Kilborn).mp3
Hall & Oates - Did It In A Minute.mp3
Hotei Tomoyasu - Shin Jingi-naki Tatakai
Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland - 02 - Cough Syrup.mp3
Joe Jackson - Night And Day - 05 - Steppin' Out.mp3
American Wedding Soundtrack - 07 - Matt Nathanson - Laid.mp3
Christopher O'Riley - True Love Waits - 01 - Everything In It's Right Place.mp3
Charles Trenet - Boum!.mp3
Christopher O'Riley - True Love Waits - 09 - Exit Music (For A Film).mp3
Rufus Wainwright - Dinner At Eight (Live on Letterman).mp3
R.E.M. - Dark Globe (Syd Barrett Cover).mp3
Reel Big giraffe - Hungry Like the Wolf.mp3
Barenaked Ladies - When Doves Cry (Prince Cover).mp3
April March - Chick Habit.mp3
Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square.mp3
Juice Newton - Angel Of The Morning.mp3
mcfrontalot_gonnabeyourman.mp3
Cyndi Lauper - She Bop.mp3
Dean Martin - S'oter Celo de Roma (On An Evening In Roma).mp3
Radiohead [live] - Later with Jools Holland, London, England [09.06.2001] - 07 - Life In A Glass House.mp3
Wyclef Jean - Redemption Song (WTC Tribute).mp3
Thom Yorke - Bridge School 26 Oct 2002 - 06 - There There.mp3
John Lennon - Collection - 16 - Watching The Wheels.mp3
Air Supply - All Out Of Love.mp3
Insect Surfers - Bengazi.mp3
Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends.mp3
Elvis Costello - Best Of - 18 - Shipbuilding.mp3
Pixies - Where Is My Mind.mp3
Nil Lara - Fighting For My Love.mp3
Rocky Horror Picture Show - Science Fiction Double Feature.mp3
Travis Tritt - Take It Easy.mp3
Misfits - Last Caress.mp3
Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation (Ocean's 11 Version).mp3
Blur - End of the Century.mp3
M. Doughty - KCRW - 01- Janine.mp3
Thicke - When I Get You Alone.mp3
Donovan - Epistle To Dippy.mp3
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A. - 09 - I'm Goin' Down.mp3

Please keep in mind that this is culled mostly from my "Favourites" directory as I had only my laptop with few songs on it today.

-- Jough

[CortJstr]

Where did you get that BNL track?

Also, I've never heard M. Doughty's solo stuff. What's it like?

[slink]

I hardly ever listen to albums anymore.  Most of my CDs are in boxes, and I play tracks in MP3 on my PC.

Yea I do the same. Partly because I have to have them all as mp3's to mix with, but mostly because my PC is the only thing hooked up to my amp!

What a weird mix. I've been painting all day, maybe it's the vapors.

I do the same, every time I paint I listen to a whole collection of weird things! Last time I think it was PJ Harvey, the Hitchhikers Guide radio series, Cake and erm, TMBG - Flood and eponymous & Prodigy - Jilted.

Slink: Also look up The Postal Service - fantastic caleco-rock sound.

Will do. I know the name, but haven't heard them yet. I'll go do that now!

I just don't get how people's music can be *so loud* that it can be heard from a great distance away. The worst I hear is on the weekend maybe a car with too much bass will drive by from the main road.

I can be so guilty of that. I mean, when I drive I like to listen to music really loud. I try not to annoy people, and I don't think I do, but I am just such an audiophile that I hate hearing the car over the music. Fortunately I live in the country, so when at home I can listen to music as loud as I like, also a benefit for jamming with my 100watt marshall. Particularly when mixing it has to be very loud.
I'm terrible I really am!!