Jungle Brothers, V.I.P. Clean party rap with funk music. These guys are also technically talented: Rapping in fast triple time, changing keys, fast rapping (ala Young MC).
Creed, Human Clay. I got this C because of the songs Higher and Arms Wide open, but I like the entire CD. Fairly heavy guitar riffs, and the lead singer has a cool sounding voice.
ATB, “Movin’Melodies”. Laid back dance, including Killer 2000 (A remake of a Bob Marley song. Sorry, couldn’t find the title) and Don’t Stop. Good driving music.
Garbage, Version 2.0 Pretty good stuff!
Mechwarrior 2, (The game’s soundtrack can be played on audio CD) Yeah, I’m a geek.
Here at the office, at this very minute, LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ORCHESTRA: THE ORIGINAL DECCA RECORDINGS, VOL. 2 (1936-38).
At home, the kitchen CD player has DICK’S PICKS, VOL. 15…the Grateful Dead live at Englishtown, NJ, September 1977. The living room stereo has Brahms’ Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B Minor, Op. 115, backed with the String Quintet in G Major, Op. 111, performed by David Shifrin and Chamber Music Northwest.
Yesterday I picked up the new Ute Lemper disc, where she sings new stuff by Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, etc. (Eve’s steamed that she’s forsaking her Weimar-era Berlin cabaret roots). I’ll let you know how it sounds after I’ve snapped cellophane.
In the CD player, DMX’s newst “And then there was X”, Eminem’s first "The Slim Shady LP, and Van Morrison’s Greatest Hits for relacation with the ladies.
The 60 Greatest Radio Programs, tape #6- The Jack Benny show, starring Jack Benny, with special guests Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, Groucho Marx, and George Burns.
“Oh, when you say, ‘pardon me’, that’s the day I’ll return to you…”
Charlotte Church’s “Voice of an Angel.” The tempo on Amazing Grace may be a little fast, but I can’t wait to see what her voice will be like when it matures.
I still don’t have one o’ them new-fangled CD players. But on my cassette player as I was getting ready this morning was “The Jimmy Durante Show,” excerpts from his 1940s radio show. He was doing a duet with Sophie Tucker, “I’m As Ready As I’ll Ever Be.”
In the CD changer currently is Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine. The other 4 slots are unoccupied since I’ve been listening to MP3s the past couple of years. The MP3 I’m listening to now is Disconnected by Face to Face.
Right at this very moment? I’m listening to the radio. And no one will let me change it to a good station, all we ever listen to around here is top 40…blah.
When I get home in about 35 minutes, it will be The Very Best of Elvis Costello.
