June - What are you listening to??

[Angel Tarragon]

I'ts kinda interesting that there is not a "music" category in the thread options, but c'est la vie!

This is a thread for both music proper and especially books on tape! So ... what are you listening to now?

I have been going through the unabridged "Hobbit" of late - albeit slowly, bit by bit.

Okay, that but for this month.

I'm still on my Genesis kick and listening to a little Metallica every once in a while.

 

[sckeener]

I'm listening to Harry Potter while swimming. Currently I am on the first book again. I think this will be my 6th time to 'read' it.

 

[Templeton580]

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[GlassJaw]

The Used
AFI
The Haunted
Mae
Cursive
Black Dahlia Murder
Saosin

 

[jonathan swift]

Shiny Toy Guns
Spoon
The Appleseed Cast
The Arcade Fire
The Get Up Kids
The New Amsterdams
Murder By Death
Minus the Bear
Circle Takes the Square
Pelican
Isis
Godspeed! You Black Emporer

 

[Mark CMG]

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks on CD.

 

[Mycanid]

Rats ... Fru beat me to starting the thread!

I am listening to "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" right now. Good performance.

Oh ... music wise a little Jean Redpath of late, especially the "Lowlands" album, which after (or before? ) "Lady Nairne" may be her best.

 

[papastebu]

Getting up this morning I listened to four Billy Joel songs. "You're Only Human", "Shameless", "James", and one off of the fast one, Cold Spring Harbor, I think the album is, but the song is "You Can Make Me Free".
Tonight after Carson went to bed, I watched an installment of Austin City Limits on VHS, with The Cowboy Junkies, a blues player named either Walter or John Hyatt, I forgot to look which, and Stevie Ray Vaughan with I'm pretty sure all of the members of Double Trouble, Triple Threat, and The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Good show, but I can't watch it too often because I have no idea how to replace the tape if it breaks, and it's already about 15 years old.

 

[Nyaricus]

This month, I've really been starting to lean already into some new (to me) death-metal bands. Here's a taste:

Mnemic (Passenger, The Audio Injected Soul, Mechanical Spin Phenomena) - three intriguing albums by this death metal/industrial metal band with groove/nu metal influences. I need to listen to these guys more, but if anyone here is a fan of Static-X, they might likely like these guys, save that they like even harsher music.

Death (Symbolic) - okay, not a new band to me, but this is an awesome record. My band is working on a cover of the rolling, groovy track 'Crystal Mountain', which I really like.

Opeth (Ghost Reveries) - an very experimental and folk-y (in places) album by these progressive death metal giants. I've only began to listen to Opeth in the past 3 months, but they are fast becoming a favourite of mine. I'm really digging the track 'The Baying of the Hounds', which just dives right in hard and then softly meanders through some amazing piano-driven sections.

Amon Amarth (The Crusher) - an older album by an awesome melodic death metal/viking metal, nothing has thus far stood out for me. I need to give this album another few listens though. 'As Long as the Raven Flies' is definitely a great song, with a huge "chugga-chugga-chugga" guitar part towards the end which just sounds awesome for a moshpit.

At The Gates (Slaughter of the Soul [Bonus Track Edition]) - this is a re-release by some of the forerunners of the Gothenburg melodic death metal movement, and boy is it a goody. I'm really digging track 1 'Blinded By Fear'.

and last but not least:

Nile (In Their Darkest Shrines) - Nile is an interesting band, I'll give them that. They have very polished lyrics and have the distinguished place of being a techincal death metal band - that is, a death metal band with an extremely tight and polished sound. I haven't yet been in the mood to really delve into this album, but a cursory listen made track 1 'The Blessed Deed' and track 9 'Hall of Saurian Entombment' stick out.

And, those are the newest additions to my collection for this month* (and thus what I'm listening to)

*I or my friend Trev [Trev bought the Mnemic CDs, and the rest are mine] bought these albums all within the past week and a half, so I'm simply counting it as June.

cheers,
--N

 

[Dog Moon]

Same thing I listen to every month.