What's in your CD/mp3 player?

[megamania]

Oh boy- here comes the comments of "you listen to that?!?"

Currently I listen to-

Lynyad Skynyad- Thirty Just saw them in concert in Manchester, Vermont

Then it gets freaky. for work I burn music disks. Different disks for different mental attitudes and toughness of the job (plastics factory)

LOTS of Hip Hop and Pop ranging from Britney Spears to Usher to Beyonce
Lots of 80's hair bands (long live Poison!) ranging from Poison to Whitesnake to Motley Crue.
I also listen to some country (generally the company heads don't want to hear Eminem with customers around) and various 70s and 80s rock.

Each of my CDs I create covers for. Covers represent content and style.

Country- Family pictures
Classic Rock- Maps of DnD campaign worlds
Glam Rock- Comic book related
Heavy Metal- DnD creatures
Hip Hop- misc from Comic books, DnD images to even food related.

Just waiting to get into trouble for some of these covers. I begin the day shift this week. The off shifts allow a lot of personal freedom .

 

[Tom Cashel]

Can you tell me a bit more? I just read about them on slate.com. The audio snippet they had up sound pretty cool; a bit like The Decemberists, or even the Magnetic Fields, albeit w/the academic incomprehesibility cranked up to 11...

Do they really have a song in Inuit??

Yeah, part of the lyrics to either "Quay Cur" or "Paw Paw Tree" are in Inuit.

The first time I listened to this record, I couldn't get a grip on its slip. Each song has so many parts mashed up against each other, that you literally have to check the CD player to see if the current track is new, or part of the same song.

Repeated listens got me hooked. Think mini-rock-opera, a la The Who, and you won't be lost in most of these tunes. The stories themselves have a bit of the Victorian/Boy's adventure feeling of the Decemberists, without being quite so obvious. "Chris Michaels" starts out suburban gossip soap opera and ends up on top of a dam in India, going through five or six distinct parts on the way. I still have no idea how they got there, but I'm impressed.

"Blueberry Boat" features a really cool and creepy keyboard riff (reminds me of "Smelly Tongues" by the Residents), but the story is about a young ship captain proudly delivering his cargo of American blueberries to Hong Kong before being waylaid by pirates in the straits. "It's sad and it's cold at the bottom of the sea, but at least I've got my blueberries with me."

Not sure if this helps you out. I say, go get it!

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Widespread Panic: Columbia, SC 10/21/2003 (2 CDs)
String Cheese Incident: Untying the Not

 

[Viking Bastard]

Currently?

David Bowie - Station to Station
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
The White Stripes - a CD that looks like a candy cane
The Pixies - the one with the 'Monkey Gone to Heaven' song
Peaches - Fatherer
Holtz - The Planets

And eagarly await the new Rammstein CD.

 

[Gizzard]

Right now its www.digitallyimported.com vocal trance stream...

The main trance stream for me. So right now it's "Solid Globe - Sahara (Markus Schulz Coldharbor Mix)". The vocal stream is my second favorite ("ATB - Hold You (Svenson & Gielen Remix)" right now. ;-)

 

[Tom Cashel]

The Pixies - the one with the 'Monkey Gone to Heaven' song

Doolittle is one damn fine album, you Viking Bastard, you.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

The MP3 playlist is up now.

Dave Matthews: Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away
Dave Matthews: Crazy
Dave Matthews: Once, On A Wild Afternoon
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds: The Maker
Dave Matthews Band: Me and Her
Failure: The Nurse Who Loved Me
Grateful Dead: Friend of the Devil
Grateful Dead: Scarlet Begonias
Phish: Boogie On Reggae Woman
Phish: Gamehendge
Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
String Cheese Incident: Jessica
String Cheese Incident: This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
The Animals: House of the Rising Sun
The Tear Garden: Romulus and Venus
Traffic: Light Up Or Leave Me Alone
Traffic: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Widespread Panic: City of Dreams
Widespread Panic: Sympathy for the Devil
Widespread Panic: Trouble

 

[D+1]

As we speak I am spending the day ripping my entire CD collection to dump onto a new 20GB iPod. I will never again be without the CD I want to hear, but don't have with me.

Most recent CD purchased: Sarah McLachlan, Afterglow

I have one CD still in my car that I put together containing:
Etta James At last
Living Color Love Rears It's Ugly Head
Joe Cocker Feelin' Alright
Black Crows Hard to Handle
Van Halen Hot for Teacher
Meryl Streep/Blue Rodeo Heartbreak Hotel (Checkin' Out)
Hollies Long Cool Woman
Heart Love Alive
George Thorogood One Burboun, One Scotch, One Beer
Stevie Ray Vaughn Pride and Joy
U2 She Moves In Mysterious Ways
Ted Nugent Stranglehold
Steelers Wheel Stuck in the Middle with You
Don Henley Sunset Grill
Squeeze Tempted
Ray Charles You Don't Know Me

 

[LightPhoenix]

Let's see...

We've got some Beatles, some Led Zeppelin, some Lynyrd Skynyrd, all of Dream Theater's CDs, both Liquid Tension Experiment CDs, Kill Bill Volume 1 ST, Pulp Fiction ST, Queens of the Stone Age, Smashing Pumpkins (MCaIS, specifically), Maroon 5 (my secret shame ), some Police, some Ben Folds Five, Feeling Good by Nina Simone, some Elvis, some MC Hawking, Float On by Modest Mouse, Grand Finale and Celtic Moon by Nobuo Uematsu, Creid by Yasunori Mitsuda, Orrizonte (a Suikoden 2 arranged CD, by Konami's group whose name I don't know), lots of Dvorak, Holst, Mahler (especially the 6th), and Grainger, some Chopin, some Simon and Garfunkel, some Janis Joplin, and some Duke Ellington.

That about covers everything that's in my usual rotation. Except for Maroon 5, which I only play when no one's around...

 

[Mallus]

Not sure if this helps you out. I say, go get it!

Thanks, it does help. And I think I will...