thebes Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 You know the deal- buy a new cd or rediscover and old one and you play it over and over again until you get tired of it, or put it aside for the future. So what's in regular rotation on your player at the moment. What tune are you now declaiming as the "best ever"? Right now I'm beating the hell out of Marianne Faithful's "Blazing Away" a 1990 concert cd that showcases the deep dark bluesy raw power of her later years. Has tunes like "Guilty", "Sister Morphine" and a killer versin of Lennon's "Working Class Here" Here's the lyrics: As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool Till you're so ****ing crazy you can't follow their rules A working class hero is something to be When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years Then they expect you to pick a career When you can't really function you're so full of fear A working class hero is something to be Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see A working class hero is something to be There's room at the top they're telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill A working class hero is something to be If you want to be a hero well just follow me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 "nightwish - century child" It's been on repeat since last Christmas and im not sick of it yet. Occasionally i'll throw in "nightwish - wishmaster" to vary things up a bit (which I got for my birthday last March). And I'm hoping to get Once, Over the Hills and Far Away, and Oceanborn for xmas, and perhaps even Angels Fall First if I'm lucky. (I've already got all the MP3's...gift from a friend in Sweden, but I want to have the high quality legal versions as well so that I can support the band). And no I'm not obsessed! As far as recording quality, I got to listen to century child on artto's system and to be honest, it sucked hardcore (which still bothers me to this day). On a less revealing system though the music is freaken amazing. That said, I doubt there will be many here that will enjoy it very much...so perhaps a listen in the car first would be in order Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholtl Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Death Cab For Cutie's "Transatlanticism" SACD Incubus' "A Crow Left of the Murder" SACD Snow Patrol's "Final Straw" SACD Staind's "14 Shades of Grey" DVD-A Linkin Park's "Reanimation" DVD-A Keane's "Hopes and Fears" CD All of Radiohead's CD's All of Travis' CD's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audio Flynn Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Ben Harper with the Blind Boys of Alabama Very good blues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myhamish Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Good topic, Mr. Thebes. What I'm listening to is a little different. Kind of timely maybe with Armistice or Remembrance Day coming up. A couple of years ago, there was a Mel Gibson Vietnam movie called, "We Were Soldiers". During one battle scene, there is a music track with a male vocal voice singing "Lay Me Down on the Cold Cold Ground". Really fits the movie in a very chilling way. Anyway, it's a pipe tune - a lament named Sergeant MacKenzie and is done by a group named 'Clann an Drumma'. On the audio CD, the recording starts with a lament on the pipes, goes into the vocal from the movie, a dedication to Sergeant MacKenzie of the Seaforth Highlanders during WW1 and ends with the pipes. Very haunting. Here's the Clan an Drumma site with a couple of downloads. One is a video with a different edited version of Sgt. MacKenzie. Once again, powerful stuff. Kind of stops you in your tracks. Hits kind of hard. Take a look and a listen. http://www.clannandrumma.com/download.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmboydoug Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 1. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. See my avatar. 2. Frank Marino - eye of the storm Dr Who, I agree 100% with you re Nightwish. I love Oceanborne even more than Century Child. Their cover of Walking In The Air is nothing short of haunting. I discovered Nightwish a few months ago and now all my friends accuse me of being "obsessed with that opera chick!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Election's over, Audio Phlegm. Dump the Avatar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huhuru Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" Bill Evans Trio "Sunday At The Village Vanguard" "The Dave Brubeck Quarter At Carneigie Hall" Huhuru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psg Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Diana Krall "Live in Paris" DVD-V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v3spitfire Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Skinny Puppy "the process". Brought it back into rotation around halloween, now I can't take it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdm56 Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 I've been tweaking the set-up of my new speakers the last few days, so I have been listening to the same few CD's a lot - and enjoying the heck out of them: Norah Jones second album, "Feels Like Home", which by the way, I think is better than her first one, which was also excellent; The Brad Mehldau Trio's "Anything Goes"; and for a change of pace, "One Step Ahead", by that good ol' Missouri girl, Rhonda Vincent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedrian Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 I try to avoid playing a cd to death. Some cd's currently in my rotation are: Vittorio Vandelli - A Day of Warm Rain in Heaven Sopor Aeternus - La Chambre D'Echo Haggard - Eppur Si Muove Mira - Apart Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines Jazzanova - In Between Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Shmoe Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Wow, definitely have to agree with the Nightwish stuff. A friend of mine recently aquainted me with them. I too eventually would like to get the "legal" versions MP3's are ok for temporary use but I prefer to have good original recordings. Is their stuff even available in US stores or are they only available through the internet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jheis Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Here is an eclectic mix of stuff I keep coming back to in no particular order: Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin/Paco de Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions, Lay it down King & Moore - Impending Bloom Patricia Barber - Verse Delbert McClinton - Never been Rocked Enough Bobby Scott - Slowly John Prine - Great Days Anthology Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light Til Dawn Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Karrin Allyson - In Blue Toni Childs - Union Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson Brian Bromberg - Wood Joel Harrison - Free Country Johnny Adams - Room With a View of the Blues (or anything else by Johnny Adams) Rene Marie - vertigo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 The Yes Album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholtl Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 This is the most diverse range of music I've ever seen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmboydoug Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Legal Nightwish available here... http://music.barnesandnoble.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piranha Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Black Sabbath-Sabotage The Doors-The best of The Doors Steely Dan-Gaucho, Aja, Royal Scam, Can't Buy a Thrill, and Pretzel Logic Aerosmith-Get Your Wings Alice in Chains-Unplugged Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Brian Wilson and 'Smile'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckears Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Mary Chapin-Carpenter: "Between Here and Gone" ...I'm not a fan of country music - Johnny Cash is about the only artist from that genre that I have had in my collection. There is something about M.C.C., and this album especially. It's terrific for listening on a quiet day when you're by yourself... the music and her vocals wash over you like a warm bed in winter. The recording is very well done, as well. The only other recent album I have listened to this much is Sarah McLachlan's "Afterglow". I've listened to Switchfoot's newest one also, but not as frequently. The louder rock tunes are just not what I'm looking for after working a 10 - 12 hour day. I think some of these female artists are filling the same role for me that New Age music did for a lot of yuppies in the 80's. (Not that I'm a yuppie; my work is a little more physically strenuous than office boy\girl or a financial services employee). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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