Where are you musically right now?

My music tastes goes in cycles. Actually, it flips between two styles: Mellow and Harder stuff. Right now I'm totally into Punk and Goth Rock with a splash of harder rock thrown in. The punk mainly because it mirrors how I feel right now about the world.
My favorite song right now is My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade. What's yours, and what are you really into right now?
Duckie

That's always a given. The classics can't be beaten.
Duckie

Right this absolute second I'm down with Earth, Wind & Fire, with absolutely gorgeous harmonies and danceable music. :thumbsup:

I get into cycles, as well, except I vibrate between hardcore jazz fan and total sucker for classic rock, even the commerical stuff. Usually I'm somewhere in between, although I haven't done much jazz listening at all since the end of summer, when I really got into a Steely Dan craze of epic proportions and listened to the same album 23-thousand times. (And that's only slightly exaggerating.)

:evilgrin:

Nothing else will do and hasn't in a very long time. :hi:

Soundgarden and Audioslave...not sure if it's because I'm into him or just wishing it was vice versa...

"Can't Change Me" was an addiction for me when it came out.

I really wasn't into Audioslave until all of a sudden lately, I don't know why. I liked him better all unkempt and screamy like he was in Soundgarden, then all of a sudden that "I am the Highway" song got into my head and I couldn't get it out, even though it's been out for a long time all of a sudden it just got under my skin and I realized all the other songs that I had heard by them and liked and didn't even know it. I don't like this metrosexual thing. I wish all the guys would grown their hair long and unruly and start sweating again. Just random thoughts. I'll check out 'Can't Change Me' toute de suite.

He is such a met in that video, lol

That is a really cool song, I just read the lyrics. I thought in the end she would win but it looks like he cuts off right before he admits she's gonna change him. I'm not convinced. He is so soft in that song, wow.

Okay, I watched the video twice, it looks like she does change him in the end. I bet that's supposed to be his wife or something.

And rock, so Caesars. Also getting back into the Who and the Clash.

And of course, I'm always into Bob Dylan.

was listening to OK Computer, and now it's weezer

Is in the air.

I have gotten to the point where I can no longer keep up. There is too much good music out there. What a wonderful dilemma.

currently diggin on www.danbern.com. and www.dead.net

The majority of their music is political.

Even the songs that aren't are.

miami breaks, seventies cheeze (Carpenters, etc.)the "singers & songwriters" stuff from the seventies & sixties; indigo girls & melissa etheridge, deep forest; nat king cole.

LOVE LOVE the new TOTO album. IN-fuckin-credible.

Yes, I listen to all this at about the same times; not really in cycles. The only thing I seem to cycle through is the alternative rock...I have times when I really am not in the mood; then other times I'm really into it.

"Welcome To The Black Parade" is an addictive song.

Punk and hardcore and post-hardcore and whathaveyou are always at the top of my list. Indie rock and hip-hop usually aren't too far behind.

I posted a bunch of shite here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5704116&mesg_id=5709061

And add these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jf_8pHCqf4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3PK1SC9d5c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEuxTAJiHWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8MkVIe9xGc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb6gKUq9gms

That's a every small idea, haha.

Edit: I didn't mean to type "shite" at all up there, but I'm leaving it that way.

My local accessible college Station has been play MCR for about two years now if my memory serves me right...

That I performed with my fly down a little while back.

cried Falstaff......

and staying on top,

And screaming 187 on a mother f***ing cop!

And a big fuck you to the Firefox team... The google search ahead shit needs to go. Off to file a motherfucking bug report. I'm bitching about Firefox 2.0 RC2.. What a load of shit.

If anyone cares... Find the file google.xml

Delete the line 6. It starts like this: (delete the entire line)
<Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="http://suggestqueries.google.com

Save the file and bingo. No more Google Suggest.

And of course, do this with Firefox closed.

I've been playing Yo La Tengo's new album recently, and right now, I have Pink Floyd's "Meddle" playing.

BTW, My Chemical Romance were on my plane once. I didn't recognize them then, but I saw a bunch of young guys with instruments sitting next to me. One guy in particular stood out-- the guy with the afro-like hair and Mick Jagger lips, though I'm not sure what instrument he plays.

He was asking the stewardess if she had seen his iPod, though I think he later found it. A few months later, I was reading Spin Magazine while they were on the cover and instantly spotted the afro/Jagger guy, only then realizing it was them on my plane.

I love musicians, especially the ones who look a little different. They are usually nice guys with very little ego. And from what I've heard, these guys are exactly that.
Duckie

I'm not in a certain phase right now. I haven't bought much country lately (not sure about George Strait's latest, and some big releases are coming later,) but I've bought from these artists who are different from each other - Stefy, Human Television, TV On The Radio, The Lemonheads, The Cardigans, Lillix, Thea Gilmore, Yo La Tengo, Hem, and more.

I actually think the new Kellie Pickler song, "Red High Heels," is charming. As AI showed, she is not the best singer in the world, but she gives the song personality and a slight throwback feel. Now I want to hear what the rest of the CD is like.

Right now, I'm listening to:

Sister Hazel - Absolutely (on full album listening party - I really like this kind of straightforward rock sound!)

And earlier, heard Leigh Nash's Blue On Blue. Highly recommended!

Lonesome Crowded West is still the only tape in the car.

Radiohead, Tool/APC, NIN, and Folk Implosion are still the shiznit.

Represent yo.

You are definitely old school!!

Rock on!! :headbang:

How does it feel?
Oh, how does it feel?
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a Rolling Stone

I like hard rock, classical and Cole Porter, too.

I just got back from my 40th class reunion. They gave each of us a CD called "Songs of Senior Year, 1966."

It has The Beatles, The Stones, the Supremes, the Troggs, The Byrds, Simon and Garfunkel, The Mamas and Papas, etc. I am listening to Wild Thing right now!

I cycle back to listening to his stuff a lot.

Also a lot of Soundgarden and Black Keys. With some Drive-by Truckers and Yeah Yeah Yeahs mixed in. Yeah I'm all over the place.

I have my Ipod on shuffle
Everthing on it from the soundtrack of guys and dolls to Marilyn Manson
You should see the looks i get from my co-worker

And that's sad, because there's a lot of good stuff out there. I'm in love with the soundtrack from Avenue Q, and I remember high school and obsessed we all were with broadway. And then of course the staples of the Stones and The Beatles have to be thrown in there somewhere. And I get weird looks too. The CDs in my desk are Avenue Q, Def Leppard Hysteria, Norah Jones, Kelly Clarkson, Maroon 5, and Justin Timberlake's new one.
Duckie

Mason Proffit, Chicago, Spirit, Steven Stills, Todd Rundgren, Kris Kristofferson, Creedence...

and X, Black Flag, Missing Persons, Iron City Houserockers, The Clash, Psychedelic Furs, Rush, Rank and File, the Blasters...

Music seemed to be at its most adventerous during the early part of both decades. And gave way to slick pop and contrived corporate product during the last half of them. The same could be said for the 90s.

saw them open for Skeleton Key about six months ago and they were insanely good live. very raucous band. Pure rock.

Also an Australian band called Howling Bells, very haunting sound. Gonna be very big someday.

I always listen to a lot of Angel Dust and King for A Day era Faith No More.

:7

From indie pop to modern Depression-era blues/gospel to classic rock to modern southern rock to mopey whiny shit to old-school country to...

specifically all three of the Matrix films.
And, of course, Bach (the Brandenburg concerti)

its a heavy music cycle, I'm hungry for some new hard music...I got Lamb of God and they..well, not for me...I'm not a big fan of guttural/screaming lyrics...but ILL Nino/Soul Fly are still stalwarts in my daily listening...I was on a soft rock kick before this metal cycle.

I used to have a button that said, "I like both kinds of music, rock and roll."

I love punk rock. I always have and I always will. I don't know what it is.

Same bands as always:
Ramones
Sex Pistols
Dead Kennedys
The Exploited
Social Distortion
Blondie
Joan Jett


Newer (sorta) stuff:
Nirvana
Hole
Green Day
Rancid
The Vines
The Killers
The Strokes

My son got me into some very offbeat stuff and I'm really enjoying it. The problem is my wife and daughter hate it

Jumping straight from Tomas Luis da Victoria to Jean Langlais.

Other stuff does feature, but that where it's most heavily based.

Brad Meldau!

Here's what I have on me today: the first two Soft Machine albums on one CD, and Quicksilver Messenger Service's Happy Trails.

I've been seriously retro for a while now. Latest listening obsessions include Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. And then there's the Can and King Crimson that I never seem to tire of.

And I wanna start a new band.

always the big three, Hank Williams, Muddy Waters and Billie Holiday

Don't usually like modern hiphop... don't like the the Blackeyed Peas much...

But loved the Fergie solo album...

Guilty pleasure

I'm not a Blackeyed Peas fan either. Some stuff on The Dutchess sounds too much like the BEPs, and her voice has limitations, but it's surprisingly mature and diverse.

Some grades for R&B albums this year:

Beyonce - B'day B+
Christina Aguilera - Back To Basics B-
Fergie - The Dutchess B-
Janet Jackson - 20 Y.O. C+
JoJo - The High Road (samples sound like a B or B+! Looks like there's not as much filler as on her first CD. Could be a good one!)

I mentioned how I like "Red High Heels" by Kellie Pickler, but after hearing the rest of the samples at SonyMusicStore, I'm not sure the CD Small Town Girl will be better than average.

Janet Jackson's CD should be a B-.

Right now I'm really into The Fray and Ok go. I'm also loving Incubus and some Godsmack. BnL is my old standby, of course. Then there are days I just feel like putting on classic music and being mellow.

Johnnie's band, Echo Grove, Drexel Dave's stuff, and a local southern rock band from Columbus. Then there's classic rock - Zeppelin, Allman Brothers, Skynrd. Also the Black Crowes.

and I have been listening to that.I don't know why.

a lot of sly stone, a lot of stax-volt, a lot of dirty 60's garage rock, and always, always a lot of woody guthrie

oh, and "do i love you" by frank wilson is the best song in the world right now

Many from my current wish list (I'm saving quite a few for Christmas - my parents give me some, plus I get other money) -

Shawn Colvin - These Four Walls
Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Me
Mindy Smith - Long Island Shores
Cori Yarckin - Ringing in My Head
Indigo Girls - Despite Our Differences
The Killers - Sam's Town
Ellery - Lying Awake
Verica Salt - IV
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Kasey Chambers - Carnival
The Randies - Saw The Light
Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
Evanescence - The Open Door (probably)
Robyn Hitchcock - Ole! Trantula
Sugarland - Enjoy The Ride (probably)
Loreena McKennitt - Ancient Muse
Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
Yusuf Islam - An Other Cup
JoJo - The High Road (possibly)
Nina Nastasia - On Leaving (probably)
Everclear - Welcome To The Drama Club
The Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love
Sister Hazel - Absolutely
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell III (possibly)
The Fray - How To Save A Life

im all over the place.

Devendra Banhart is great. Leadbelly. The Magnetic Fields..

and anything celtic..




:thumbsup: :)