# CDs you're listening to now, redux **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 30, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168 "2000-06-30T15:33:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/61 "2000-07-14T17:33:07Z")
Thank God, Lux. I’ll be skibbling down to the record store after work. I honestly don’t know who the varmit was. Therefore, I defineately trust you over a figment of my memory. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/62 "2000-07-14T18:08:21Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Lux Fiat \* \*\* > [@](#): > > At home my CD player sits idle because I’m busy listening to the best mix tape anyone has ever made me, and it’s full of bands I’ve never heard of. Woo hoo! I feel all indie. \*\* Oh, man, I do love a good mix tape. Most of my favorite bands these days I can trace back to the first time I heard them on a mix tape. And I just finished making one for a friend of mine. Currently spinning in my Discman is _Doug_ by Uncle Bonsai; 13 songs about a guy named Doug. And someone above mentioned Johnny Cash so The Bobs’ _Sing the Songs of…_ is on deck, gotta hear their cover of _Ring of Fire_. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/63 "2000-07-14T18:21:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \* > \*\*Currently spinning in my Discman is _Doug_ by Uncle Bonsai; 13 songs about a guy named Doug. And someone above mentioned Johnny Cash so The Bobs’ _Sing the Songs of…_ is on deck, gotta hear their cover of _Ring of Fire_. \*\* Damn, that’s funny. Are they about the same guy, or various Dougs? Anyone a fan of the Zambonis? They only sing about hockey. They kill me. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/64 "2000-07-14T18:24:14Z")
I don’t know that I’d be tossing around words like “skibbling” on this board, Swiddles. People might think you have ear sex with porcupines or something. Robot Arm, nothin’ better than a good mix tape. As a direct result of this particular one, I have ordered a Modest Mouse CD from Amazon, and will probably get something by Jets to Brazil also. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/65 "2000-07-14T18:54:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \* > > **13 songs about a guy named Doug…** > > Damn, that’s funny. Are they about the same guy, or various Dougs?\*\* There is only one Doug. Songs include: _Doug’s Birthday Song Doug Goes To Town Doug At His Mom’s Doug’s Greatest Christmas Ever Doug At The Gates of Hell_ It all began as The Doug Suite during Uncle Bonsai’s heyday (such as it was) in the '80s. After they broke up, Andrew Ratchin (their principal songwriter) kept up the Doug tradition with his other groups and solo recordings. A year or two ago he finally reunited everybody long enough to record a Doug compilation. It’s hard to squeeze them into any standard genre, but the style is kind of hyper-literate, pop-cultural, satiric folk. Lyrics at: [http://www.yellowtailrecords.com/lyrics/lyr\_doug.html#bday](http://www.yellowtailrecords.com/lyrics/lyr_doug.html#bday) And I’m still listening to it. > [@](#): > > \*\*Anyone a fan of the Zambonis? They only sing about hockey. They kill me. \*\* Moxy Früvous has a song called _The Goal Judge_, about the one man who stands between us and anarchy. And in _King of Spain_ they come up with a rhyme for Zamboni. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/66 "2000-07-14T23:08:16Z")
I just got home, and popped in my brand new copy of Me 1st & the Gimmie Gimmie’s Are a Drag, where they cover Broadway showtunes. I am listening to a punk version of “I Sing the Body Electric.” Thanks, Dopers! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/67 "2000-07-14T23:42:22Z")
Right now? “Best of Sam & Dave”. Folks, there’s music, and there’s _music_ ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/68 "2000-07-15T02:48:59Z")
Changed the CDs in the car… “Boys for Pele,” Tori Amos “A Woman’s Voice,” compilation “Hold Your Fire,” Rush “Muy Muy Pop Yum Yum,” the Palindromes (PLD’s band!!!) “Songs From an American Movie,” Everclear “Book of Secrets,” Lorena McKennitt ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/69 "2000-07-15T03:02:38Z")
(thread hijack) Swiddles darling, You like Weezer, Everclear AND Me First!? You, my friend, get the extra-special, all-access back stage pass for the next Seriousart performance… —Hold on, this just in… just went to your website. You’re also an Ani fan… Holy crap. Gotta trade mix tapes with YOU sometime! (No, that’s not some sort of sick euphemism) (de-hijack) (or would that be a byejack…?) sorry. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/70 "2000-07-15T04:36:14Z")
At the moment in my CD player is Smashmouth’s “Astrolounge.” I just picked it up yesterday and haven’t stopped listening to it yet. Before that I was listening to the Foo Fighters’ “The Colour and The Shape.” Also in my collection as of recent have been Fiona Apple’s “When The Pawn”, Toad The Wet Sprocket’s “P.S.”, and Tracy Chapman’s “Telling Stories.” I saw Robert Cray in Hawaii in February… pretty cool stuff. Thanks for reminding me to pick up one of his CD’s sometime. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/71 "2000-07-15T17:44:24Z")
Funny you mention that, seriousart, I just cracked the foil on a brand-spankin’ new blank tape. Mixing in progress! 🙂 And, darling, anyone who serenades using Everclear is A-OK in my songbook! (to keep this thread on topic, The Dandy Warhols just stopped singing about heroine.) ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168/72 "2000-07-15T17:46:36Z")
or heroin, if you’re not a moron. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cds-youre-listening-to-now-redux/24168.md?page=3)