Your playlist

[Desdichado]

It's been a while since anyone asked this, and the recent thread on EBM got me curious again. What's everyone listening to at the moment? My playlist here at work varies, but today I've got

1. Beborn Beton - A Wish Come True
2. Beborn Beton - Peach
3. Beborn Beton - Poison (El Presidente Shuffle Mix)
4. Beborn Beton - Poison
5. Beborn Beton - The Seduction
6. Brian Ice - Talking to the Night
7. Bolero - Fancy
8. Camouflage - Thief (Opal Mix)
9. Camouflage - Thief (Single Mix)
10. Cosmicity - Your Beautiful Lie (Red Sweater Mix)
11. Covenant - Dead Stars (Club Version)
12. Covenant - Der Leiermann (Club Version)
13. Covenant - Tour De Force (Club Mix)
14. De/Vision - Hear Me Calling (EnTrusted to Mesh)
15. De/Vision - Hear Me Calling
16. Mesh - It Scares Me
17. Mesh - You Didn't Want Me
18. Sandy Martin - Exotic and Erotic
19. Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Extended Version)
20. S.P.O.C.K. - Dr. McCoy
21. S.P.O.C.K. - Dream Within a Dream
22. VNV Nation - Darkangel (Azrael)
23. VNV Nation - Darkangel (Gabriel)
24. VNV Nation - Standing (Motion)
25. VNV Nation - Standing (Still)
26. :wumpscut: - Embryodead

Handily alphabetized, as you can see. At home, I've been listening to some Neuroticfish, Severed Heads, Scooter and Razed in Black. In the car, I've got some Apoptygma Berzerk, Shamen, B! Machine, Echo Image and other synthpop and futurepop, mostly.

 

[Desdichado]

Anyway, since no one else has responded, I'll update -- I cleared out that playlist afer listening to all those songs and stuck some more songs in instead:

1. Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song (Beborn Beton Remix)
2. Beborn Beton - Another World
3. Beborn Beton - Hemoglobin
4. Camouflage - Heaven (I Want You)
5. Children Within - Gallery
6. Echo Image - Listen to the Stars
7. Echo Image - Need to be Proud (Need to Dance)
8. Echo Image - Need to be Proud (Proud to Dance)
9. Echoing Green - Ceremony
10. FischerSpooner - Emerge (Adult Remix)
11. Intact - Now or Never
12. Hot Cold - Love Is Like a Game
13. Hubert KaH - So Many People
14. Koto - Visitors (Alien Mix)
15. Leiahdorus - Wake
16. Miko Mission - Two For Love (Mozzart Mix)
17. Moulin Noir - Spellbound (Run Level Zero Mix)
18. The Nine - Control
19. Psyche - Sanctuary
20. System22 - Illuminate
21. System22 - Until You Say You Are (Dreamtraveler Mix)
22. System22 - Until You Say You Are (Iris Mix)
23. The Other Two - You Can Fly

 

[der_kluge]

Wow. I've never heard of any of that.

I don't have any at work. I just started this job a couple of months ago, and haven't had time to get any CDs here to rip them.

At home, my hard drive inexplicably crashed, so I lost all the mp3s I had (and every picture I'd ever taken of my daughter), so I'm still kind of upset over that.

I got a new drive now, and I've more or less got all the software back on it I need, and I started replenishing my music library through bearshare (RIAA be damned).

It's a wacky collection of stuff - Eurythmics, Queen, REM, Cake, and some dance stuff (ATC, Aqua, Eiffel 65), but also Cindy Lauper, Kansas, America, James Taylor, Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong.

But most of that is easy to find. I'll struggle to replace some of the classical stuff. Berio's Sinfonia, Steve Reich's Different Trains, and stuff by Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Philip Glass. Classical (especially contemporary) is my first love. I have almost 500 CDs, 90% of which is contemporary classical.

 

[Desdichado]

Indeed; I go through binges where I don't want to hear anything pop whatsoever, and it's all classical, and orchestral movie soundtracks. Although I'm not so much a fan of contemporary classical as I am of the Romantics; Wagner, the Russian Five, etc.

As for not having heard of most of my recent playlists, I'm not terribly surprised. Some of those guys have enjoyed some success in Europe, but they are woefully underground on our side of the Atlantic. Most are either synthpop or futurepop bands; synthpop being essentially the son of old synthesizer New Wave such as Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, New Order, etc. and futurepop being a blending of synthpop with more Industrial influences.

And some of the stuff up there is mid-80s italo-disco; an obscure genre of pop music if ever there was one. Ironically (given the name) most of it comes from Spain, and I was introduced to it in Argentina when I lived there in the early 90s (at which point most of it was already five years old or more.)

 

[Psionicist]

Well, pretty close to mine.

Alice in Videoland, Angels and Agony, Apoptygma Berzerk, Assemblage 23, Blutengel, Colony 5, Covenant, Elegant Machinery, Front 242, Funker Vogt, Fixmer/McCarthy, Haujobb, Icon of Coil, Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Nitzer Ebb, Run Level Zero, Seabound, Spetsnaz, Suicide Commando, VNV Nation

Current favorites are

VNV Nation - Genesis
Apoptygma Berzerk - Eclipse
Funker Vogt - Black Market Dealers
Front 242 - Circling Overland
Run Level Zero - Shadows Merging
Jarre - Oxygene 8

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Lately, I've been listening to WFUV from Fordham University in NYC. It streams over the internet at http://wfuv.org/
Really good mix of rock, folk, jazz, a little bit of country, and no commercials. It used to be my favorite station when I lived in NYC, and may still be my favorite even if I'm 8 hours away.

 

[Qlippoth]

Well, I'm not at work, so I'm listening to CD(Blood & Chocolate by Elvis Costello & the Attractions) though at work my playlist is thoroughly mired in the 80s--with the exceptions of, say, Lard, Xorcist, and the like.

Maybe in 6 years or so, I'll be sweatin' to the '00s.

 

[msd]

A lot of Thievery Corporation, Pete Yorn, Chemical Brothers, and Our Lady Peace

Strange kinda...

 

[kenobi65]

Just so there's some old-fogey representation on this thread...

My MP3 player on my home computer usually has a randomized play of every MP3 in my collection. The 10 tracks it just played are:

- Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Queen
- What Would It Take, Jeff Lynne
- Who's Crying Now, Journey
- You Got It, Roy Orbison
- Wasted On the Way, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Sweet Caroline, Neil Diamond
- The Man's Too Strong, Dire Straits
- Dude Looks Like a Lady, Aerosmith
- Handle With Care, Traveling Wilburys
- Steve McQueen, Sheryl Crow

I think I'm showing my age.

 

[Desdichado]

Oh, I've got older stuff than that on my regular playlists; I'm just a bit burned out on my "best 500 songs of the 80s" folder and ready to give it a rest for a few weeks. Ironically, with the synthpop and futurepop listed above, I'm going back to my roots. That's a fundamentally old skool couple of genres; folks who refuse to admit defeat to the "Seattle Sound" and alternative wave that killed the old synthesizer New Wave movement of the late seventies and the eighties.