What are you listening to?

Every music-related forum seems to have a thread like this, so who are we to dispense with tradition?

So what's the last thing you listened to?

In my case, it was Pythia's Beneath The Veiled Embrace. Pythia are a female-fronted power metal band from the UK (unusual enough - most of these sort of bands seem to come from mainland Europe or Scandinavia!), fronted by Emily Ovenden (of Mediaeval Baebes fame). Best described as Kate Bush fronting Iron Maiden, with added Gothic flourishes, they really are fantastically good fun.

If any of this sounds like it might be your bag, give 'em a try:

http://www.pythiamusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/pythiamusic

Most recently I've been enjoying Teenage Fanclub's new single, Baby Lee.

One of the very few classic albums from the 90s. Haven't played one this for years - The Verve's Urban Hymns.

Kings of Oblivion - Pink Fairies
Legend - Legend
Fallen Angels - Fallen Angels
Marbles - Marillion

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Babylon By Bus.

I don't listen to much reggae, but I've always really liked this album. And I still do today.

I'll continue where I left off. So this is the last week or so's listening. Those of you that know me (and Lynda) may be able to tell I've been listening through some of her CDs recently!

Ginger - Valor Del Corazon ~249~
Ginger - Yoni ~304~
Motorhead - On Parole ~359~
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon ~370~
Monstermagnet - Superjudge ~392~
Dio - Holy Diver ~425~
Blues Project - No Rush ~443~
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock ~443~
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood ~443~
White Zombie - Astro-Creep 2000 ~457~
Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker ~466~
Deep Purple - Rapture Of The Deep ~468~
Angel - On Earth As It Is In Heaven ~468~
Black Sabbath - Tyr ~491~
Wildhearts - Coupled With ~500~
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying ~528~
Datsuns - The Datsuns ~528~
Wildhearts - Landmines And Pantomimes ~569~
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar ~571~
Van Halen - Van Halen II ~576~
Testament - Souls Of Black ~581~
Datsuns - Smoke And Mirrors ~797~
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge ~824~
Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death ~898~
Blind Melon - Soup ~954~
Alice In Chains - Dirt ~1051~
Clawfinger - Deaf Dumb Blind ~1073~
Anathema - The Silent Enigma ~1097~
Deckard - Dreams Of Dynamite And Divinity ~1167~
Clam Abuse - Stop Thinking ~1238~
Dark Tranquility - Projector ~1314~
Amen - Amen ~1424~
Deftones - Adrenaline ~1430~
Catamenia - Halls Of The Frozen North ~1455~
Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast ~1468~
Cradle Of Filth - Vempire ~1469~
Kingfisher Sky - Hallway Of Dreams
Chalice - Back To Back

This evening's listening so far -

Breathing Space - Below The Radar
Mostly Autumn - live 2009 (both discs)
Robert Plant - Pictures At Eleven
Big Country - No Place like Home

Next one in the CD player is going to be Robbie Robertson's same named debut solo album from 1987. It's the one with the excellent Somewhere Down The Crazy River on it. Love that song.

I've been doing a lot of driving recently, so most of my listening has been done in the car. Being in a lazy mood, I've set the sound system to "mix", so it's being left to its own devices when it comes to choosing the tracks. For some strange reason, it seems to have developed a love of Jackson Browne

I've tried switching bcak to normal play mode, and then back into Mix, but even so, the vast majority of tracks selected are still from Mr. Browne. Not that I'm complaining, it just seems more than a little wierd...

Jonsi-Go. The new album from the Sigur Ros vocalist.

lots of Reasoning, Ozzy Osbourne, Iona and Kyrbgrinder

Amused to Death - Roger Waters

SamLewis45 wrote:

Amused to Death - Roger Waters

Now there's a cracking album. One of my Desert Island Discs, that!

"This week, I are mostly bin playing..."

The Gathering Light - Karnataka
Satellite - Panic Room
3000 Days - The Pineapple Thief
Glass Shadows - Mostly Autumn
Head First - Goldfrapp

It is rather fab The Gathering Light and Satellite are both fantasitic albums

Currently listening to some ambient solo bass noodlings for Steve Lawson, streaming from his own website.

Recently-played CDs:

Kyrbgrinder - Cold War Technology.
Prog-funk-metal from the drummer-led power trio I first saw at the Cambridge Rock Festival last year. Rocks hard in places, also more melodic than I remember them being live. Good one,

Suede - Dog Man Star
One of those occasions where I dig out an old album I hadn't played for many years, and find I'd completely forgotten how great it was.

Happiness is the Road - Marillion

Mick Ronson - Play Don't Worry

His second solo album from 1975. Some cracking songs on ths album. Angel No.9, Empty Bed, This Is For You, and the title track.

Iron Maiden, Pink Fairies and Ian Hunter today

Last week or so (including two 270 mile round trips to see Emerald Sky):

Man - Maximum Darkness
Ginger - Market Harbour
Chalice - Back To Back
Deftones - Around The Fur
Fear Factory - Digimortal
Grand Theft Audio - Blame Everyone
Hecate Enthroned - The Slaughter Of Innocence
Hives - Your New Favourite Band
Man - Live At Reading 83
Yes - Keys To Ascension 2
All About Eve - All About Eve ~15~
Renaissance - Scheherazade And Other Stories ~22~
Emerald Sky - Shadows Of Darkness ~36~
Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning ~41~
Rainbow - Rainbow Rising ~52~
Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizzards ~66~
Uriah Heep - Salisbury ~78~
Larry Miller - Fearless ~133~
Panic Room - Visionary Position ~245~
Renaissance - Prologue ~357~
Iron Maiden - Powerslave ~585~
Yes - Talk ~586~
Edgar Winter - They Only Come Out At Night ~591~
Pink Floyd - Meddle - Trance Remix ~602~
Madonna - Ray Of Light ~612~
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A. ~615~
Pearl Jam - Ten ~619~
Coney Hatch - Coney Hatch ~621~
Days Of Worth - The Western Mechanism ~621~
Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain ~621~
Greenslade - Greenslade ~645~
Annie Haslam's Renaissance - Blessings In Disguise ~653~
Siouxsie And The Banshees - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse ~883~
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Ju-Ju ~1007~
Slade - We'll Bring The House Down ~1073~
Shy - Brave The Storm ~1097~
Skids - Scared To Dance ~1229~
Fear Factory - Demanufacture ~1238~
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Join Hands ~1294~
Slits - Cut ~1336~
Slayer - Reign In Blood ~1430~
Genesis - 1970-1975 ~1444~
Gillan - Double Trouble - Studio Album ~1444~
Spandau Ballet - Journeys To Glory ~1448~

Crimson Sky - You (from their website a nice new song)

Kalyr wrote:

One of those occasions where I dig out an old album I hadn't played for many years, and find I'd completely forgotten how great it was.

I know what you mean. The only chance I get to listen to music is in the car and with only 6 CDs in the autochanger, I've spent most of the last few months listening to Panic Room's Satellite & Little Satellite, Dare's Arc of the Dawn, Karnataka's The Gathering Light, The Reasoning's Dark Angel & BS's Below the Radar.

So what I've done now is to put every track from 270+ albums onto a 16GB mp4 player but all in one folder so it plays them sequentially in numerical/alphabetical order starting with track 01 from all 270+ albums before moving onto track 02! I tried it on random and it seemed anything but so this way guarantees every track will be played once only and there are well over 2000 of them. I know this sounds a bit 'anoraky' playing tracks in alphabetical order but it just struck me as a good way to listen to hundreds and hundreds of tracks that I like but never seemed to get round to listening to. It also guarantees an eclectic mix every time I drive somewhere, which is quite often (about 22k miles a year). I started about 6-7 weeks ago so at the current rate, I reckon it should last over a year before starting again.

Sounds familiar to me... as regular readers of the (old) BS forum will know, I set myself the challenge of putting every album (orginal album initially, ie not compilation or live unless first released live) in the order I like them. That forces me to listen to every one and remember why I got it in the first place (or wonder why I ever got it!). I completed that exercise last year but by the end I'd forgotten how I decided about the first one, so I'm going through them all again... 900+ done, 600+ still to go.

So if you see a number against my "listened to" list, they're the positions at the moment. May cause a bit of debate or controversy but it's just a bit of fun (and even more anorak-y) - anyone else fancy doing that?

I also wanted everything on an MP3 player but even with five 20gb players I couldn't get them all on. So I gave up! And I agree random play doesn't tend to be that random - the same ones keep recurring and with 3,000+ on one player that shouldn't happen.

the new Reasoning and Oli Brown CDs plus Marillion early stages among others

Been a bit busy this week so not so manu as usual. Still, listened to:

Husker Du - Everything Falls Apart And More
Wildhearts - Fishing For Luckies ~290~
Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land ~338~
Spider - Rock'n'roll Gypsies ~472~
Honeycrack - Prozaic ~516~
Status Quo - Whatever You Want ~525~
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason ~547~
Ministry - Psalm 69 ~547~
Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr Sardonicus ~607~
Status Quo - Never Too Late ~663~
Status Quo - Back To Back ~710~
Status Quo - 1982 ~785~
Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two ~793~
Lee Harvey Oswald Band - Blastronaut ~893~
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision ~974~
Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause ~984~
Stanley Clarke - School Days ~1057~
Special Brew - O.K.! ~1061~
Incubus - Science ~1160~
Spooky Tooth - The Last Puff ~1314~
Split Enz - True Colours ~1322~
In Flames - Colony ~1399~
Status Quo - Fresh Quota ~1437~

Adverse Camber - The Reasoning
Omega - Asia
The Devil You Know - Heaven & Hell
Celebration - Uriah Heep
Edward the Great - Iron Maiden
Come What(Ever) May - Stone Sour

The Reasoning - Adverse Camber