What musical track are listening to right now? If you have nothing on at the moment then what was the last thing you listened to? Jeebus will know if you cheat.
No kidding, this is mine.
I listen to NPR if I have the radio on, so I had dig back a day or so to when io9 kind of sort of rickrolled me.
mquirk
Stayin’ Alive – because of the Vinny Jones “Hard and Fast CPR” public service film.
Cervantes
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.
And before that, Tubthumping.
thruppence
I usually have BBC 3 streaming while I work…
SatanicPanic
Hollywood Brats
Paul (@princejvstin)
Vida la Vida, Coldplay
Cacti
I Got a Name, by Jim Croce.
Was thinking about my Grandma who passed away a few weeks ago. :-(
Emma
Barenboim’s masterclass on Beethoven’s piano sonatas. Amazing.
HelloRochester
ZZ Top Rio Grande Mud.
Omnes Omnibus
A song by Cilla Black as I was heading to work.
Violet
N Sync Bye Bye Bye.
Edit: My goodness Justin Timberlake is so young in that video.
SiubhanDuinne
Shostakovich: Concerto for trumpet, piano, and strings in c minor, Op. 35
raven
Sara Smile / Ooo Baby Baby – Daryl Hall and Smokey Robinson
mack
Dada- live
cleek
iPod shuffle currently has Tony Joe White – High Sheriff of Calhoun Parish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0eRq-zWrak
don’t think i’ve ever heard this one before.
? Martin
Faster – Janelle Monae
On and On – Erykah Badu
Belafon
I Will Steal You Back – Jimmy Eat World
gogiggs
Nothing at the moment, last thing was “Most of the Time” by Dylan.
Cervantes
@Omnes Omnibus: Alfie? Or Step Inside? Or … A Lover’s Concerto?
MomSense
Jumpin Jack Flash it’s a gas gas gas!
I’m not listening to it but it is stuck in my head and I can’t stop singing it.
Paul in KY
Itchin on a Photograph – Grouplove
RSR
Cake – Never There. on xpn.org
kwAwk
Smashing Pumpkins — 33
James Hare
#SELFIE by the Chainsmokers
Paul in KY
@? Martin: Janelle is going to be at Bonnaroo this year. Probably my number 1 or 2 target for making sure I am up front.
Jay in Oregon
“Passing By” by Zero 7.
srv
Static. 1% Problems.
Haven’t had a desktop stereo system since I moved to a standing desk, so was going to go all high-end headphones, but a pal found out and sent me a pair of high-end desktop (actually closer to bookshelf) speakers he’s had packed up as he got married and is moving every year or so. So I test them with my living room setup, and they’re awesome. Alas, people who loan me expensive shit expect me to use it. So now I need another amp for a set of speakers that want 50-75 watts just to idle.
So I have no music.
ranchandsyrup
Parquet Courts — You’ve got me wondering now.
raven
“Say It isn’t So”- Daryl Hall, Train
Paul in KY
@MomSense: To me, one of the top 10 songs they ever did. Rolling Stones will be a headliner at Glastonbury this year (along with Artic Monkeys & Mumford & Sons).
Artic Monkeys will also be at Bonnaroo & I am stoked about seeing them.
Cervantes
@SiubhanDuinne: Was reading, and listening to, The Gadfly the other day.
ranchandsyrup
@Paul in KY: like that song quite a bit. . My daughter loves that band. “PlAy tongue tied!”
Cassidy
I listen to podcasts on my commute back and forth to work, mostly, The Co-Main Event Podcast, RMS, and Revolutions. No gym this monring since the kids are on spring break, so no music.
And for fun, some real go getters doing some work.
PurpleGirl
Last CD — Mozart: Serenade in C Minor, K. 388 and Serenade in E-flat Major, K. 375
Previous CD — Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (and 3 other pieces).
The Dangerman
A Ukrainian classical pianists cover of Estranged (Guns and Roses).
WereBear
“There’s a Moon in the Sky” by the B-52s. Prior to that, heavily Devo.
Since it’s an Open Thread, my Help Me Help the Kitties Fundraiser has begun.
To be clear, it’s to help keep my cat advice site running… I’m as astonished as anyone how much it costs when one is middling-popular. One of these days I’ll finish my cat book and/or sell a million cat toys, but until then… I’m dependent on the kindness of those who are not strangers :)
ultraviolet thunder
@Emma:
I have a bunch of those recordings and I’m looking for all of them on vinyl. They’re outstanding.
I’m 6 time zones from home, have a wretched cold and the primitive hotel internet connection keeps dropping. First world problems, I know, but that doesn’t make me feel any less miserable.
celiadexter
En El Pasado Quedara by Melaza. (Probably the best band you never heard of — NYC salsa.)
Hawes
A lot of Ryan Adams and Ray Lamontagne.
randomworker
This DJ has some cool mixes. This one is piano house. Sometimes I skip to around minute 17.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXBjgzjcBEk
jacy
Oh! by Eric Hutchinson.
Although the small child is home sick today, so Looney Tunes (Foghorn Leghorn) is playing in the background…..
WereBear
@jacy: Hope the Looney Tunes brings healing. Always does for me!
ultraviolet thunder
The colleague I’m traveling with has the worst taste in music of any person I have ever met. I’ve known him for 18 months of his imposing his tunes on every social situation and he’s YET to play a SINGLE song I’d want to hear again.
7:30 this morning driving to the office, me feeling like walking death, and he’s blasting Slipknot, The Eagles and Phil Collins. “Frank, please turn that down”. “Thank you”
Higgs Boson's Mate
Backpfeifengesicht’s “Études Transcendante for Triangle.” IOW; I don’t even give much of a fuck what I’m listening to so why should anyone else?
Another Holocene Human
New Topic: Pigs
I’m not saying the Met Police aren’t as corrupt at the NYPD in their own way, but… gee, maybe it’s the bias of whoever is editing the NYPD wikipedia article but jesus christ, NYPD needs to do better.
“Discretionary” promotions? Having “acting” detectives who don’t get paid for it? “Detectives” who drive the mayor around? “Discretionary” appointments into command ranks? (Met Police at least makes you pass a written test on the statutes you’re sworn to uphold.) And how many frigging command ranks are there? Probably dates to an era where the commanders were Protestant and all the people who put their ass on the line were Irish Catholic, which meant low status for detectives. Oh, and to become a detective you have to go through narcotics, first. Yeah, that would really give me confidence as a member of the public… I saw SERPICO, and think that guy is credible. Sure, go through 1-2yrs of TRAINING DAY in Narcotics in NYC then and only then do we let you loose to protect the public. Uh-huh. Narcs are like pigs to the power of pigs.
Just looking at the rank structure it’s obvious why:
the police union is disgruntled
the rank and file feel like the commanders are why they have a bad reputation
why the cops have a bad reputation
why corruption never dies in the NYPD
Why doesn’t New York take a look at other police forces in the English-speaking world and try to restructure? Every time this issue is discussed the focus is at the very bottom and very top. Change the commissioner! Recruit more minorities! You do those things but if the department’s not functioning on the inside, if the only damn thing you’ve done to fix that is to make beat cops the slave of a politically driven computer program that punishes them for NOT breaking the law and then you put lipstick on the pig with a fixed, ineffective internal affairs department…
Why do they even need that many layers of management? I mean seriously. It’s amazing they’re as effective as they are. Shit. Makes you want to stay away from NYC.
Rationally, I know the crime rate is much higher in Flori-duh than NYC, but at least here you don’t have to be a narc to be a regular cop and in fact the narcs and the other cops don’t really have much to do with each other, and there’s much less management, so even though they’re terrible, they just don’t have enough combined man hours to mess everything up. Of course, our dept is starved for resources, doesn’t even have enough officers, so the criminals always get away, especially if you can speed to Georgia quick enough and not get pulled over by FHP. I guess it’s not really comical, actually it’s terrible, but, you know, the City Manager has priorities–golf course before property crime division.
Ash Can
Stravinsky’s Petrushka
Ocotillo
Shine On You Crazy Diamond – Pink Floyd
shelly
The opening music to Bobby Flay’s ‘Throwdown.” This episode, ‘Grilled Cheese.”
Another Holocene Human
@randomworker: Sounds familiar.
Ash Can
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: I think I have that on a PDQ Bach CD.
Red Apple Smokes
Lightning Bolt– Jake Bugg and I’m in the Mood– John Lee Hooker
Librarian
I don’t listen to NPR, I’ve just never got into the habit. By what I’ve been hearing, I haven’t been missing much.
ultraviolet thunder
The last music I played for myself was Van Cliburn’s stupendous Beethoven ‘Emperor’ concerto. Doesn’t matter how many times I hear that I just about fall in a swoon.
Another Holocene Human
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Oh no, HB’s mate–could it be?
Some People Really Don’t Like Music
mm
Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price.
Mr_Gravity
@mack: Where can I get some of that? Currently I have the late Robert Palmer – “Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley”.
Gin & Tonic
Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms.
Paul in KY
@ranchandsyrup: Love that song too. Saw them last year at The Hangout. Just a great band to see live. You can tell they are having the time of their life up there. They will be at Bonnaroo this year.
gogol's wife
“Pat Buchanan and Alan Dershowitz, Live, Now” — no wait, that’s a NewsMax headline.
srv
@randomworker: Acid House… Piano.
Intriguing.
burnspbesq
Bach, the cantata Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergotzen,
BVW 145.
Paul in KY
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: You might turn us on to some new music we’ve never heard of.
Belafon
@mquirk: “Another One Bites the Dust” also works.
MarkusOfarkus
“Mess On A Mission” by Liars
And yes, I was listening to the lead single from a new record. I’m not always that cool, but I got lucky. Ask Jeebus.
PurpleGirl
@Another Holocene Human: Hey, one of Giuliani’s drivers became the Police Commissioner. IIRC, name of Bernard Kerik.
ETA: A real prime example of detective talent (not).
ranchandsyrup
@Paul in KY: glad you enjoyed seeing them. Heard they’re a good live band.an I wish I could make it to bonaroo. Scheduled to go to coachella this year though. You going to bonaroo?
Pete Mack
2cellos youtube mix. They rock!
mtraven
I Held Her in my Arms by The Violent Femmes.
My 14-year-old son was recently freaked out by the fact that I like the same music he does…
Violet
@Cassidy: That’s just an amazing fucking rescue.
bemused
James – Laid
mtiffany
Sia — Day Too Soon
http://youtu.be/gusYUGCdrxI
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross Doodlin’
SiubhanDuinne
@Cervantes: I’ve never read the novel — nor seen the film, for that matter — but I love the music. Got into it originally, as I suppose everyone does, through the famous Romance, but the whole Gadfly score is wonderful.
Bill in Section 147
Sagen Sie, Frau Zimmermann by Topsy Kuppers
Randy P
Kind of an odd answer. For complicated reasons, we were discussing “Brigadoon” on Sunday and my wife admitted never having seen it in any form. So we rented the Gene Kelly movie from iTunes. Not one of my favorite musicals, but I never tire of watching that guy move. I had no idea “It’s Almost Like Being in Love” was from this show, I assumed it was some free-floating Cole Porter tune or something.
“I’ll Go Home with Bonnie Jean” has been my earworm ever since Sunday night.
SiubhanDuinne
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Now that’s an old favorite!
ellie
Nothing by Depeche Mode
ranchandsyrup
@mtiffany: beautiful
@bemused: a classic. Love that song. Singing along may cause the neighbor’s dogs to howl
SiubhanDuinne
@Randy P: they give it short shrift in the movie — probably a little too racy for the early ’50s — but try to get hold of the original cast album of Brigadoon and pay close attention to “My Mother’s Wedding Day.” It’s a lot of fun.
And “Come to Me, Bend to Me” may just be one of the most winsome love songs ever.
Punchy
Cornmeal. All day, all night.
bemused
@ranchandsyrup:
Me too. I couldn’t believe I had forgotten about it for quite awhile.
Fuzzy
“Seven Spanish Angels” duet by Ray Charles and Willie Nelson.
Amir Khalid
2Cellos’ sublime cover of With or Without You. Followed by three versions of I Dreamed A Dream — Ruthie Henshall, Lea Salonga, Anne Hathaway, all of them legends in the role of Fantine. All on YouTube.
Then this buffoon, also on YouTube (the clip is from Indonesian TV). The most painful part of the video for me is seeing Barack Obama watch that clown and his act.
Patrician1952
Love will tear us apart – June Tabor. Beautiful.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Another Holocene Human:
Not me. I enjoy Mozart, Peggy Lee, Bobby Troupe, Led Zeppelin, Soul Coughing, Leon Russell, Johnny Cash, The Dillards, Bach, Cheb Khaled, Tabla Beat Science, etc. I’ve loaded all of my devices with the stuff I like so other than those times when one piece or another evokes one piece or another I just don’t pay strict attention.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Get Got, by Death Grips.
schrodinger's cat
I will tell you if you give me a cookie.
Certified Mutant Enemy
Steely Dan: Aja
dmsilev
Handel’s Water Music; relaxing music while I worked on something tedious and a bit mind-numbing.
Sibelius
Streaming KDFC Classical San Francisco,
Currently playing: Appalachian Spring, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
jacy
@mtraven:
My daughter went through a phase when she was 16ish where if she found I liked a song she liked, she’d immediately delete it from her iPod. She’s gotten over it now that she’s in college.
cminus
“Show Don’t Tell”, Rush. No, I’m not cool.
Paul in KY
@ranchandsyrup: Yes I am. Going to The Hangout (Gulf Shores AL in May), Bonnaroo (Manchester TN in June), ROMP (end of June in Owensboro KY), Bunbury (Cinn OH in early July) & Forecastle (Louisville, KY in mid Jul).
Your daughter might like group called The Mowglis, sorta like Grouplove. Another 2 she would enjoy (probably) are Portugal the Man & Of Monsters & Men. Have seen all 3 of those acts & they are all great shows live.
? Martin
@Paul in KY: Yeah, I am seriously smitten with Janelle. There is nothing there that isn’t 11 degrees of awesome.
dr. luba
It was Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, but now I’ve got DakhaBrakha (ДахаБраха) playing on the old, mostly analog music system.
DakahBrakha are a Ukrainian “Ethnochaos” group. Saw them live at the Detroit Institute of Arts last fall–they played in the Rivera court. Amazing performance. Met them and translated for them after the show. I’d been a casual fan of theirs for years, but now I am a passionate admirer.
Paul in KY
@ranchandsyrup: Glad you are going to Coachella. Would love to go someday, but Cali is a fur drive from KY & I’m not much of a flier, so I’d have to drive it.
dr. luba
Steve Reich link here. Modern classical music for people who don’t like modern classical music.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Paul in KY:
One of the neat things about the age we live in is the amount of music available on YouTube. You can preview Cheb Khaled, or Tabla Beat Science, or Bella Fleck and the Flecktones by way of deciding whether you like their stuff enough to plunk for it.
NotMax
Hm.
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Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics (Symphony No. 1)
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite
Ippolitov-Ivanov.: Caucasian Sketches (No. 1 & No. 2)
It’s A Beautiful Day: It’s A Beautiful Day (album)
kbuttle
It’s the End of the World (As We Know It), REM. Beds are Burning, Midnight Oil just concluded. God bless Spotify.
Another Holocene Human
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Seems like a perfectly respectable line-up of favs.
I don’t talk about my music likes because I can never tell you the name/composer. Sometimes I can tell who’s performing. I used to remember by it being so far into a tape but I’d always have the title and composer wrong, except on Beatles albums. At least CDs let me exactly identify which movement I liked … and CD liners let me know how wrong I was about the lyrics. Lol.
Another Holocene Human
@dmsilev: True that. I also like Glenn Gould playing the Goldberg Variations for that. Especially if I’m feeling nervous/anxious.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cervantes: None of the above. Anyone Who Had a Heart.
Another Holocene Human
@NotMax: What’s the appeal of Lieutenant Kije? I have nothing against Prokofiev, but this piece is so widely beloved and I don’t … get it, I guess.
Rich (In Name Only) in Reno
“Devil’s Anvil: Hard Rock From The Middle East.” It’s a CD reissue of a 1967 LP. The late Felix Papalardi discovered them in in Greenwich Village in 1967. Per the liner notes, the album had the misfortune to debut on the very day the Arab-Israeli War broke out, and so sank like a stone. I first heard them on Larry Miller’s overnight program on KMPX FM in San Francisco.
canuckistani
God by John Lennon. I’m mostly a punk/new wave kind of guy, but this one speaks to me.
opium4themasses
I was listening to Call Me A Hole. The mash up of Call Me Maybe and Head Like A Hole.
I was on a weird mash up mix bender. Before that it was Thomas the Tank Engine’s theme song and various rappers.
Calouste
Southbound Pachyderm by Primus.
Anoniminous
Last audio track was a digital recording of 1/f noise for work purposes.
The last music recording was “Tabula Rasa” by Arvo Part.
Joel
Looks like “Poor Leno” by Royksopp.
Stuart Katz
Last thing I listened to was in the car on the way to work, the most recent album by Future of the Left, I forget which track.
JoyceH
I just recently discovered I-Tunes Radio for my iphone. FREE music in a little hand-held device! Feels like when I got my first transistor radio. Especially since my usual station of choice is ’60s British Invasion.
“Oi’m Ennery The Eighth Oi am…”
Emma
@ultraviolet thunder: I am currently taking an online class through Coursera.org with Jonathan Biss. Well, he did the videos but has his student assistants help in the discussions, etc. No matter. He’s a wonderful teacher, most importantly because he places Beethoven in his historical as well as his musical context. I am having a ball. It’s funny to see Biss being taught by Barenboim.
The Dangerman
2Cellos above reminded me of a great cover on 2 pianos for Cinema Show (Genesis).
Anoniminous
@Another Holocene Human:
For some – most? – classical music fans it is a fun bit of fluff. For people forced to go to a concert by their classical music loving spouse it’s readily accessible.
Same with Suppe’s “Poets and Peasants Overture.”
raven
@Paul in KY: I just read “The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera” and the Hangout is prominent in the book. A really fun read.
Paul in KY
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: So right, Higgs! Utube is great for that. Recently saw Bela Fleck & his wife give a concert in Frankfort, KY. Just the 2 of them. They both play banjos & she sings. She is fluent in mandarin & sang 2 or 3 songs in that language. Very haunting music.
grillo
Daryl Hall & John Oates – I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)
But someone began talking to me, so I didn’t listen to all of it. So maybe that doesn’t count.
If not, then
moonlit memories by Nathan “ectogemia” Becker
Five more minutes and it would have been this.
Paul in KY
@kbuttle: Midnight Oil is a very underrated act (IMO). Love their song ‘Blue Sky Mine’ & several others.
WereBear
@Paul in KY: I’m a huge fan. Helped bring the Aussie Invasion.
Gravenstone
Estranged – GnR is the latest track to roll up on my iPod.
raven
@grillo: You watch Live From Daryl’s House?
Paul in KY
@Rich (In Name Only) in Reno: The woman who murdered Mr. Pappalardi recently died in Mexico. She lived there after she left prison.
NotMax
@Another Holocene Human
Dunno. I find it effective as background music to which I don’t have to devote much attention.
Although a lot depends on the orchestra.conductor. Some slow it to such a solemn, almost dirge-like tempo that it just drags. Bouncier works better (for me) with Kije.
Neutron Flux
Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs
dedc79
New Hold Steady album is out today and streaming on spotify. Here’s Spinners
drkrick
If You’re Going to the City – Mose Allison
just switched to
Clap & Vomit – Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Yeah, iTunes in shuffle mode.
Paul in KY
@raven: Raven, I went to 6 music festivals last year & The Hangout was overall the best one I attended. Bonnaroo might have been, but I got some stuff ripped off & our campground smelled of crap for last 2 days & it rained hard on us the last day.
Another Holocene Human
@NotMax: I feel like bouncier works more for Prokofiev.
What I do find interesting is the big tempo debate over Beethoven symphonies. Gunther Schuller was on the radio ranting about it years ago and he seemed very persuasive.
Comrade Mary
Pere Ubu – We have the Technology
(Man, I hope that David Thomas is still OK and the weight loss was voluntary.)
kathyp
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes’ ‘Straight Up’
(A punk cover of Paula Abdul)
MikeJ
Cat Power – Myra Lee
Linnaeus
J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D.
JasonF
RIght now I’m sitting in silence, but about 15 minutes ago, I listened to Lungs by Townes van Zandt.
Belafon
Now its Feel Good Inc (Stanton Warriors Remix) by the Gorillaz.
NotMax
@Anoniminous
Well put.
raven
@Paul in KY: Better you than me. I went to the Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair in 68 (60 miles from thew mudslide), the Palm Beach arts Festival in 69 and a bunch of smaller ones in the midwest in the 70’s.
Paul in KY
@WereBear: My top 5 Aussie acts:
1) AC/DC
2) INXS
3) Midnight Oil
4) Olivia Newton John
5) The Seekers (showing how old I am)
PaulW
Quick! Ta-Nehisi has an open thread discussion right now! It’s on totalitarianism – as it relates to Soviet Russia mostly, although fascism gets discussed as well – but hopefully he’ll keep this one open for a good while. Just remember to PLAY NICE and NO TROLLING. Anyone yapping about preseason baseball is gonna get hounded by 100 Horders…
Linda M
Paul Simon, David Crosby, and Graham Nash singing Here Comes the Sun.
http://youtu.be/muFOeZSIC2U
brendancalling
“Keep Your Powder Dry” off the new Motorhead album.
Lemmy is like a god to me.
Paul in KY
@raven: I was too young for those. This is my thing right now. Want to do em before I get too old & they are generally a more economical way to see alot of music, as opposed to going to see the acts individually.
Plus you meet some really cool people at these things & music is always an icebreaker/conversation starter.
I have to leave work now, rock on!
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Erik Satie’s Gymnopedies.
NotMax
@Another Holocene Human
Diff’rent strokes and all that.
And tastes change. Listening to Rhapsody In Blue performed with accompaniment of the piano roll Gershwin made, it verges on positively manic, for example.
WereBear
@Paul in KY: I’m lukewarm on Olivia Newton-John, due to her choice of material. Fan of INXS.
No love for Men at Work?
MaryRC
Nick Lowe – House for Sale
Haydnseek
Ludwig Van Beethoven. Symphony No. 7. The 2nd movement will be starting momentarily, so I am out……….
danielx
Poor Poor Pitiful Me covered by Jackson Browne/Bonnie Raitt
? Martin
Wow.
If this stands, college sports just became a whole different thing. This is massive.
Another Holocene Human
@PaulW: I admire TNC for keeping his comments civil but on the other hand he keeps some real, I mean real freaks on there and I can’t … even ….
PaulW
@? Martin:
Hmmmmm. Would love to see the SEC players unionize in the “Right To Work (Yeah Right)” South…
Another Holocene Human
@? Martin: I’m singing Plies She Got It Made
smintheus
Rory Gallagher, Cradle Rock (started listening to his Irish Tour ’74 album). Can never get enough of Rory.
Mike E
Pictures at an Exhibition being rehearsed by my local symphony, so my soundtrack is live if a bit halting at times.
Exurban Mom
I’ve left open the link to Robert Downey Jr. singing Driven to Tears with Sting and just replayed it. He really does kill it. Glad John posted that link the other day…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiuzFNtki60
Jacks mom
The Dig Years 2001-2005. Jackie Greene
Amir Khalid
Has anyone here seen Divergent and/or read the books? I saw the movie this week; not too bad, although the longish boot-camp sequence was somewhat reminiscent of the more tedious parts of Ender’s Game. And its dystopian setting doesn’t seem all that well thought out, either.
patrick II
I have been listening to a young lady named Kawehi I found her yesterday at Esquire at a link from Charlie Pierce. I am an old guy, and I had never heard of “live looping” before. The young lady makes her background music right in front of you, loops multiple layers and then sings, plays her small organ, and also brings in the loops at appropriate times. It is remarkable to me — and I loved her voice too.
MikeJ
@Another Holocene Human: :
Is that sort of like talking out of your ass?
ETA: Dammit, I can’t read. That joke was funnier with my reado “Piles” in place.
Mnemosyne
I was singing “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” to myself while I was walking to lunch — does that count?
Comrade Scrutinizer
Rhea’s Obsession – Between Earth and Sky
Cervantes
@Omnes Omnibus: Great rendition!
Great song, in fact, but it really belongs to Dionne Warwick.
RSA
The wife is listening to the title track from Natalie Merchant’s album Motherland. That song has always reminded me of the theme song from the TV show Firefly.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Amir Khalid: Read the books. Standard YA utopian romantic triangle a bunch of peeps die trash. Roth is a wannabe Collins who is a wannabe author, so go figure. Lots of people really hated the ending of the series, but I kinda thought that Roth telegraphed the denouement pretty early on.
It’ll probably make a mint as a four-movie/three book series, and then will fade away more quickly than Twilight’s sparkly vamps.
schrodinger's cat
@Amir Khalid: How did you like Ender’s Game? I have read the book but not seen the movie.
Trollhattan
Cube radio playing a Mozart woodwind concerto—no idea which.
Mnemosyne
@mtraven:
I was riding the bus one time and there was a kid about 16 years old wearing a Dead Kennedys t-shirt. I was so tempted to go up to him, pinch his cheek like a grandma, and say, “That’s so cute — I loved the Dead Kennedys when I was your age, too!” But I decided it would be too traumatic.
Belafon
@Amir Khalid: My oldest has read it and Hunger Games and thinks Hunger Games is better.
Cervantes
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yes, although, as far as I know, the movie soundtrack is still the only way to hear the whole thing (at home, I mean). Or is there a new, complete recording I am not aware of?
Anyhow, yes, I like it, too.
Elizabeth
“Ke Kaua A Kukauakahi” by Mark Ho’omalu of Lilo and Stitch fame. It’s about the famous Battle of the Owls in Honolulu when they flew in from all the islands to save a man named Kapo’i. Love it and the whole CD!
Yatsuno
A massive choral version of the Smile song. Google it if you dare…
alhutch
What You Won’t Do For Love – Bobby Caldwell (the Mitsubishi commercial pushed me to buy it!)
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Mnemosyne: Jeez. I remember when kids in the late 70s thought that the Bee Gees did Sgt Pepper because of that damned movie.
rollSound
Cover of NIN’s Closer by Kawehi.
jacy
@Amir Khalid:
Kid #4 (the 13-year-old) is reading Divergent right now — he’s really liking it, but I glanced through it and the writing is really pedestrian and lackluster and it’s in freaking present tense. I hate reading present tense in novels. So maybe the plot is entertaining, but I’d never get that far without throwing the book out the window….
rda909
My ode to the Snowdenwald:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNFU5kkgL28
celticdragonchick
I have been listening to the soundtrack from Gravity. Amazing.
MomSense
@Mnemosyne:
I would pay to see that!
Xecky Gilchrist
Space Jam by Orphic – glitch-hop future funk, for those who like thumps and buzzes: https://soundcloud.com/orphicbass/space-jam-bonus-track
PaulW
@Another Holocene Human:
Oh, cmon, 90 percent of us are perfectly normal… uh, moderately normal… ummmmm, okay, SLIGHTLY abnormal, but WE’RE COOL, okay?
Amir Khalid
@schrodinger’s cat:
I have both seen the movie and read the book. I think I understand why Ender’s Game is so popular among real-life military types in the US: Ender is a fantasy super soldier, with off-the-scale combat skills and tactical sense that the adults around him worship. Indeed, it’s the only reason they give a damn about him at all. And, he starts his own religion as an adult! The idea of turning a ten-year-old kid into such a thing creeps me out, I don’t mind telling you. (These tremendous gifts seem to run in his family: in the book, though not the movie, his older brother and sister, not picked for the military school he gets into, become instead the two most influential political bloggers on Earth. No one knows they’re still just kids.)
I know the book has a big following in the US, but neither it nor the movie particularly appeals to me.
SiubhanDuinne
@Cervantes:
There’s a suite from the film score. I own this recording (although I have it on CD, not MP3). Some good stuff here, including the quirky, hardly jazzy-at-all, Jazz Suites.
Amir Khalid
Meanwhile in the Liverpool-Sunderland game tonight, Sunderland FC are giving a master class in how to park the bus at Anfield. Liverpool are probing, probing at their defence, but have yet to get through. Manchester United and Arsenal need to watch and learn.
ETA: And as soon as I hit “submit”, Liverpool captain Stevie Gerrard scores. 1-nil.
Randy P
@Amir Khalid: I dunno know, I liked the series, like pretty much everything Card has written despite him turning out to be an off-the-scale rightwing loon of the “I don’t recognize my country” type.
As I recall, he wasn’t exactly “turned into such a thing”. I believe it’s stated there was a breeding program specifically to create these military supergenius kids. Ender’s older brother was supposed to be the culmination of the program but didn’t qualify for reasons I don’t recall. So the parents were given permission to give birth to Ender.
In the latest couple of books in this universe, Card took the sidekick character of Bean into a very odd and interesting direction. Bean was if anything even smarter than Ender and also a product of genetic manipulation.
What creeps me out just a little is the religious overtones Card puts into a lot of his stuff, including this series.
ranchandsyrup
@Paul in KY: jelly of yr concert schedule. Have fun man
I like Portugal, the man out of those 3. Need to do a deeper dive on mowglis.
Besides coachella (wife’s company is a sponsor so we get some perks) hitting up a foster the people show and a def leppard/Kiss show.
Amir Khalid
@Randy P:
Ender’s brother didn’t have the right balance in his personality: too dominating, as I recall. Whereas his sister was the opposite, too conciliatory by nature.
ComradeOlaf
Instant Crush, Daft Punk, Julian Casablancas
Steve Putman
Listening to Weird Al Yankovic on shuffle…right now, “Living in the Fridge”…
ranchandsyrup
@ComradeOlaf: that song really grew on me. the autotuning was offputting at first but now i love it.
Viperbuck
Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.
And let this trippy electric 12-string riff wiggle around in your ear for a while:
NobodySpecial
Ready For Love – Bad Company. Earworm.
“Walkin’ down this dusty road….”
Southern Beale
What musical track are listening to right now?
“Voices In My Head” from the brand-new Chris Standring album, Don’t Talk, Dance! Which is fabulous.
Viperbuck
Temples “Shelter Song”
Amir Khalid
@NobodySpecial:
Paul Rodgers has one of rock’s greatest singing voices.
Pete Mack
@The Dangerman: I still like 2cellos Il Libre d’Amore (Book of Love), Smells Like Teen Spirit, and Thunderstruck the best. But they have a lot of brilliant covers–clearly they like heavy metal–and their classical music is top notch too. They put their heart into whatever they play.
Misterpuff
Erotic City by He who will not be named aw hell Prince!
Just One More Canuck
Chopin Ballade #1
And for Cole, some Phish
randomworker
@NobodySpecial: Wondrin where my life is heading, rollin on to the bitter end…Strange, that I know all the words to that song even after all these years. Damn you.
siciliandish
Watching/listening to Wagner & Me, Stephen Fry’s Documentary about his love for Wagner and confliction that he’s Jewish and Wagner was also Hitler’s fav Composer. It’s Excellent.
HeartlandLiberal
Staying at hospital with wife, who had hip replacement surgery. They provide wireless which is just good enough to watch YouTube videos.
Last night I watched / listened to this recording of live performance of Mike Oldfield – Tubular bells. One of the best pieces of music of its genre, fusing rock / jazz fusion / world music. Absolutely brilliant. It was the title piece of his famous eponymous album, which I have on vinyl still.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSRJvq4Wd48
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
Black Heart by Hey Rosetta!
burnspbesq
Some really strange early-20th Century piano works by Leon Ornstein, performed by Marc-Andre Hamelin.
After this, the new Drive-By Truckers record.
And after that, the last two acts of Der Rosenkavalier. I extracted the audio from the DVD, and now I have to cut it into individual tracks. Renee Fleming, yum yum yum.
Bonnie
Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind and Sundown
Leonard Cohen: Suzanne, Bird on a Wire, and Hallelujah
Bob Seger: Against the Wind
Have them on a playlist together. This mostly tells everyone how old I am.
Mnemosyne
@siciliandish:
I kind of get where Fry is coming from, but it’s not really Wagner’s fault that he was Hitler’s favorite composer since Wagner died in 1883, six years before Hitler was even born.
SiubhanDuinne
@burnspbesq:
Is that the performance they did in Live HD a few seasons ago, with Susan Graham as Octavian? That was one fine Rosenkavalier, it was.
grillo
@raven: I have. I loved the Mayer Hawthorne one. But there are several awesome ones.
burnspbesq
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s the performance from the festival in Baden-Baden in 2009, with Sophie Koch as Octavian and Diana Damrau as Sophie.
Cervantes
@siciliandish:
I’m with Edgar Nye: Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
J R in WV
Well, back when this thread started I was running a neighborhood errand, and had Outlaw Country channel on Sirius-XM radio, Elizabeth Cook hosting the show. I could probably look up the songs, they were not memorable but were entertaining. One was “On the Road Again” by Willie Nelson, with some of his friends, like Merle . . .
Gozer
Wasat by Com Truise (local boy…sorta, if you consider Trenton local to Philly)
DaveInOz
Neko Case – Night Still Comes.
It’s the first song on this NPR Tiny Desk Concert and probably the first performed by a gorilla.
mwbugg
Heart on a String – Jason Isbell
Paul in KY
@WereBear: Top 5. I’m not really an ONJ fan myself (although she is a beautiful woman & a fine singer), but I felt I had to include her as she has alot of stats.
I personally prefer Men at Work & Little River Band & Airbourne & a few others to her.
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: Fine book, but sorta unrealistic (even for Sci Fi) with all these kids doing what they do. Definitely written for younger teenagers (IMO).
Paul in KY
@ranchandsyrup: Make sure you are there for Arcade Fire set. I saw them in 2011 at Bonnaroo & they just blew me away. One of the best sets I’ve ever seen by any band. I would also love to see Muse. Def Leppard & Kiss ought to be great fun! Hope you have a wonderful time!
Paul in KY
@Mnemosyne: Agreed. Certainly not Wagner’s fault. I do like Ride of the Valkyries. Powerful piece of music.