Today I am Listening To...

[clarion]

Cloud Street on Youtube.  Very folkie, but they have a few funny songs, and that chap has a great voice.

[Aidan]

11:11  Rodrigo y Gabriela     Not dissapointed

[rogerzilla]

The Best Of The Boomtown Rats.

Her mind's made up, she walks down the road,
Her hands in her pockets, coat buttoned 'gainst the cold,
She finally finds Billy down at the Italian cafe
When he's drunk it's hard to understand what Billy says
But then he mumbles in his coffee and he suddenly roars,
"It's a rat trap Judy, and we've been caught."

My line manager at work, who did a bit of roadie-ing as a student, was once told to f**k off by Bob Geldof.

[Spinners]

My line manager at work, who did a bit of roadie-ing as a student, was once told to f**k off by Bob Geldof.

You mean you haven't been?

[clarion]

Neil Innes!  There's loads on Youtube all of a sudden

[Quisling]

Koder på snor by Valravn.  Their 2nd album just released.  A truly excellent follow up to their eponymously titled first effort.

If you're after a bit of Danish/Faeroese/Swiss-Ecuadorian electro folk punk then this is the album for you.

Electronic beats, hot hurdy gurdy action and a singer that sounds like Bjork.  This is an album that sings from dark volcanic places of ancient people. A bit like Noggin the Nog.  A long time ago in a land far, far away where the dark cliffs meet the sea...

   Valravn on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos

It's cheaper on Amazon than iTunes at the moment.

[Chris S]

A Mike Oldfield day for me:

Hergest Ridge
Ommadawn
Tubular Bells I, II and III
The songs of distant Earth
Music of the Spheres

[Jaded]

The Best Of The Boomtown Rats.

Her mind's made up, she walks down the road,
Her hands in her pockets, coat buttoned 'gainst the cold,
She finally finds Billy down at the Italian cafe
When he's drunk it's hard to understand what Billy says
But then he mumbles in his coffee and he suddenly roars,
"It's a rat trap Judy, and we've been caught."

My line manager at work, who did a bit of roadie-ing as a student, was once told to f**k off by Bob Geldof.

Bob Geldof invited me on stage.

[Tourist Tony]

I am having a Sigur Ros session. Big, moody melodies===what music should be, and afterwards  I will hit the Sibelius 3 to 5.

[ludwig]

The birds singing

[Aidan]

Manafon , David Sylvians new cd, a great follow on from Blemish

[alan]

The birds singing

...Mr. Tambourine Man?

or was it My Green Tambourine (or was that The Lemon Pipers )

[Deano]

The Warrior's Code by the Dropkick Murphys.  Not their best, I think, but great rowdy stuff. 

[clarion]

The birds singing

...Mr. Tambourine Man?

or was it My Green Tambourine (or was that The Lemon Pipers )

Amazingly, that was on the radio tonight (R&M), and I've not heard anything of it for twenty years!

[mike]

Chopin's nocturnes.  Absolutely amazing.

[Tim Hall]

Mawkin:Causley The Awkward Recruit.  Spiffy songs from hundreds of years ago about going off to fight in foreign lands and sometimes coming back to tell the tale, and stuff.

Mrs. Hall says the lead singer is drop dead gorgeous too.

[pcolbeck]

A CD of Jefferson Airplane. I had forgotten how rubbish most of their stuff was. Oh well it only cost 99p from the bargain bucket at a service station and White Rabbit and Need Somebody To Love are good songs.

[Androcles]

Camel.  Bits and pieces from Stationary Traveller on YouTube.  Not heard it for ages but that bass still sends a bit of a shiver.....

[Chris S]

A Fenderbusting playlist incl:

Dave Gilmour
Eric Clapton
Mark Knopfler

and others. Ah - the benefits of working at home - maximum scope for air-guitar 

[alan]

U2. Their greatest hits double album.
There's some decent turbo/rollers training tracks therein

[alan]

and others. Ah - the benefits of working at home - maximum scope for air-guitar 

It's great innit

The Shadows often play & do that dance routine to Kon Tiki & Telstar in our office

[Chris S]

U2. Their greatest hits double album.
There's some decent turbo/rollers training tracks therein

Funny you should mention that - last week's interval session on the turbo included "Lady with the Spinning Head", played ver ver loudly on the iPod.

[alan]

 & now we is havin' a George Thorogood & The Destroyers blowout,starting with
Who Do You Love
& then
Bad To The Bone

& then some early Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green era) such as
Black Magic Woman
Need Your Love So Bad

& then some Thin LIzzy including
Parisean Walkway
Whisky In The Jar(o)

[Tourist Tony]

Ozric Tentacles, "Pungent Effulgent"
Followed by Bruckner's 3rd and 8th back to back.
I have VERY wide tastes....

For those wgo don't know Bruckner, I also love Mahler. Mahler is a Gaudi Cathedral, set amid the Austrian Alps. Rich, deep, wonderfully human music, that reaches down inside you and tears at your soul.
 Bruckner is Ulm Cathedral, seen from the inside; soaring stone, hung with WWI battle flags, austere, solidly-built soundscapes, and just as human in a different way.

[Pneumant]

The new Megadeth album 'End Game'.  I like it lots, sort of a return to their late 80's /early 90's sound which is no bad thing. Brill new lead guitarist too, chap called Chris Broderick who adds a much needed counter to Dave Mustaine's riffing, missing since Marty Friedman left the band a few years ago.