Once again: what are you listening to now?

[skizzerflake]

From Bruce Springsteen's "Working on a Dream" I was listening to "The Wrestler" after seeing the amazing movie. Springsteen donated the song that runs during the credits of this low budget but memorable movie. It's a good song for an amazingly great movie. BTW, the rest of the CD is excellent.

 

[jamie2112]

Reel Big Fish- Sellout

 

[skizzerflake]

Brian Wilson's Lucky Old Sun. This cd is a guilty pleasure. Some parts, most notably the 40 second narratives, are painful and amazingly cloying but some of the songs have that Brian Wilson brilliance. It sounds like something he wrote for a high school musical about early the 60's Southern California teen scene, but I can't deny that he still has a gift for lush harmonies. With a large set of good backup musicians and singers, it's a good performance with decent sound. The last song, Southern California, is sad, wishing he could do one more session with his brothers.

 

[skizzerflake]

And...Don Chambers and Goat. At a Drive By Truckers show, he was the warm up band and I bought his CD, Zebulon. Chambers is dark and gothic, like Tom Waits might be if he came up in Alabama and crossed his voice with Paul Simon but then drank a lot of whiskey. And.. it has literate lyrics about decapitated heads, "speaking in tongues of fallen angels" and buckshot circles, so what else could you ask for. This is pretty good stuff, definitely original and with its own attitude. It's produced by Patterson Hood of the DBT so it has his stamp of approval. His drummer plays with tympani hammers and has a ladder full of hub caps in place of cymbals, the rhythmns are sometimes tribal chants with banjo accompaniment. Weird.

 

[Hawkeye]

Chris Orbach - Secession
This new release, the second from musician/actor, (Law & Order, Law and Order SVU), is a nice follow up to his first cd, "Safely Through the Night." Thoughtful lyrics together with an excellent band, that individually have played with a lot of big names, makes this one a winner.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/orbachc2

 

[lsiberian]

Seether- Broken featuring Amy Lee on Pandora(best service ever conceived.)

I love that song so much. It's awesome.

 

[pzaur]

Some radio station out of Denmark.


www.listenlive.eu for a listing.

-pat

 

[lsiberian]

And...Don Chambers and Goat. At a Drive By Truckers show, he was the warm up band and I bought his CD, Zebulon. Chambers is dark and gothic, like Tom Waits might be if he came up in Alabama and crossed his voice with Paul Simon but then drank a lot of whiskey. And.. it has literate lyrics about decapitated heads, "speaking in tongues of fallen angels" and buckshot circles, so what else could you ask for. This is pretty good stuff, definitely original and with its own attitude. It's produced by Patterson Hood of the DBT so it has his stamp of approval. His drummer plays with tympani hammers and has a ladder full of hub caps in place of cymbals, the rhythmns are sometimes tribal chants with banjo accompaniment. Weird.

Drive by Truckers my Father in law likes them. When I mention that phrase he gets giddy.

 

[MinusTheBear]

Possum Kingdom - Toadies

 

[haraldo]

Lovebugs, featuring Lene Marlin - Avalon

 

[jamie2112]

Possum Kingdom - Toadies

Thats funny I listened to that today as well.....

 

[jamie2112]

Helmet- Betty

 

[MinusTheBear]

Thats funny I listened to that today as well.....

Its an addicting song. Killer tune! Love the use of the whammy bar.

 

[jamie2112]

3 chords is all ya need......
Now I am listening to He is Legend- The Seduction.....riff after riff...

 

[jamie2112]

This is bada**........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-SiDge4hBU

 

[sgtpepper9]

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

 

[skizzerflake]

Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade. This is quite an evolution. Massively misbehaved/addicted country singer moves from Copperhead Road all the way to living clean, married to slinky country singer Allison Moorer in a townhouse in Greenwich Village acting and doing songs for Baltimore based "The Wire". I like the CD; it's sort of a letter from home from a performer I've known about for a long time.

 

[skizzerflake]

Lindsey Buckingham's "Gift of Screws". I've always been on the fence about Buckingham's tense, brittle demeanor and singing, but I pretty much like this CD. The biggest draw is good sound and LB's breathtaking guitar playing. There are also several tunes that sound like the next chapter in Fleetwood Mac. This isn't groundbreaking but it's pretty good.

 

[poutanen]

I realize this is an odd one here, but I've been listening to Metallica's latest CD a lot lately. Unforgiven III is pretty decent, in fact there are a bunch of good songs on the album.

 

[jamie2112]

Pantera- Far Beyond Driven. Sometimes I just gotta hear some swamp metal...