Mostly NPR but lately some of my older CDs such as Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mysteryt and Imagiantion: Edgar Alan Poe, The Story of the Clash and Mojo Nixon with Skid Roper Bo-Day-Shus.
CAKE: Comfort Eagle
CAKE: the one with the pig cover
The Legendary Hucklebucks: self titled
Satan’s Teardrops: self titled
Anson Funderburg and the Rockets featuring Sam Myers: live bootleg (recorded with permission of artist)
In the CD player right now: The Moulin Rouge soundtrack
Well, if my cassette player actually worked in my aging car, I’d be playing all kinds of tapes.
As it stands, I listen to an alternative rock station.
No CD player in the offing just yet.
I’ve got a stack of CDs in the passenger seat of the truck. The three I’ve listened to most recently were a Christmas medley, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and a collection of random music ranging from Modest Mouse to Hank Williams III.
Standby blues favorites:
- John Lee Hooker
- Albert King
- Albert Collins
- Howlin’ Wolf
- Fenton Robinson
- Steve Ray Vaughan
- Jimmy Hendrix
- BB King
CD’s of Bands I’ve heard live:
- Rod Piazza
- Hot Rod & the Blues Devilles
- Jim Diamond & The Groove Syndicate
- Larry Garner
- Big Al and the Heavyweights
- Willie Pooch
- Studebaker John
- Chef Chris and his Nairobi Trio
- Byther Smith
Alternative Music:
- Micheal Hedges
If I’ve got the radio on, it’s set to the NPR Talk & News station here. (There’s actually TWO NPR stations within reception distance here!)
Otherwise, I got my Neuros fuck the iPod playing on the radio. Mostly comedy… heavy on the Carlin, some Lenny Bruce, and any number of oddball comedians whose tapes I’ve picked up at truck stops while on road trips.
I’m taking a very long drive down to California in a coupla days, so I got a couple of audiobooks (The Universe in a Nutshell, Fast Food Nation) to listen to. The way I’m going, there aren’t a whole hell of a lot of radio stations.
Modest Mouse’s Good News, Moloko’s Do You Like my Tight Sweater, Cake’s newest, what’s it called?, The Flaming Lips Hit to Death in the Future Head (or something like that) and Handsome Boy Modeling School (what was I thinking? So not a driving cd) and Bran Van 3000.
I’ve got a five hour drive coming up and I’m bored of all my CDs and the audio book rental place only has romance novels and Rush Limbaugh. Eek!
My current playlist includes
[ul][li]Juanes, Fíjate Bien[/li][li]Shakira, ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? and Pies Descalzos[/li][li]Dido, Life for Rent[/li][li]Ciara, Goodies[/li][li]Paulina Rubio, Paulina[/li][li]Aimee Mann, Lost in Space[/li]Mediæval Bæbes, Undrentide[/ul]
In my six-disc CD changer:
REM - Eponymous
Social Distortion - Social Distortion
Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company
Eva Cassidy - Songbird
Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
Plimsouls - Everywhere At Once
Honest
A huge stack of burned-at-home CDs containing everything from Dean Martin and Reba McIntyre to Adam Ant, Pink Floyd and Dashboard Confessional. A bunch of folkie CDs: Seelie Court, Minstrels of Mayhem, Brollywacker, Seamus Kennedy, Hair Of The Dog, Gaelic Storm. Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas CDs (all three, now). My daughter’s Bowling For Soup CDs. I NEVER listen to the radio.
In my husband’s car, we have Sirius satellite radio and we mostly listen to Roadhouse Country, First Wave, The Bridge and whatever the folk station is called.
Hmm. In the player right now, Green Carnation’s ‘Light of Days, Light of Darkness’. It’s a pretty awesome CD, I say. 
In my CD player right now is Eminem’s Encore. Haven’t listened to too much else lately.
Normally, these are my favorites:
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Outkast - Big Boi and Dre Present … Outkast
Dr. Dre - The Chronic or 2001
Busta Rhymes - Genesis
John Denver - Greatest Hits
Bob Marley - Legend
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Currently on heavy rotation are:
Ru Paul, HO HO HO (Xmas CD)
Cyndi Lauper, Merry Christmas, Have a Nice Life
Brak Presents The Brak Show Starring Brak
And I have about 50 others floating around in various CD storage spaces and devices throughout the car, everything from cast recordings to greatest hits compilations to this freaky-deeky punk compilation notable only for the song “You Broke My Dick.”
Excellent choice, my friend. Word is they’ve got a 4th album due out early next year.
I’ve got a few mixes in my car right now (mostly metal, one specifically doom metal) and a few full albums.
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness (I love this album)
Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone (not bad, worth a few spins)
Flaw - Endangered Species (not so great, but not bad either)
Opeth - Still Life (Best. Opeth album. Ever.)
Nightwish - Once (this album is soooooo good)
Ayreon - The Human Equation (the most brilliant album released this year)
Atmosphere - Seven’s Travels (I loves me some good rap)
Antimatter - Lights Out (some cool dark ambient)
Lacuna Coil - Comalies (can’t believe I haven’t grown tired of this album yet)
Mercenary - Everblack (some really kick ass heavy metal)
Samael - Eternal (not tired of this one yet either)
Tool - Lateralus (I’ll never get tired of this one)
This may change soon, as I’m seriously thinking about getting an XM radio, especially with the little handheld ones they have now. But there are certain CDs that will always travel with me in the car, like the one lizardling mentioned.
Right now I have the excellent 4-CD Faces compilation Five Guys Walk Into A Bar in the changer. With a total of 67 tracks, 31 of which are previously unreleased, I’m having a grand time!
Blessed silence.
The seasonal glurge-track at my workplace has not only put me off music, but all metered or extraneous sound. Maybe forever. I’m dumping my huge and marvelous collection of eclectic tapes and CDs off at St. Vincent de Pauls.
I don’t even want to hear rustling branches, birds twittering or the rhythm of the moonlit sea.
Scissor Sisters
Brian Setzer Orchestra’s Christmas Album
Let’s see…in my CD player right now are Charlotte Church, Cat Stevens, a multi-cultural CD from the Nature Company, John Denver, Dionne Warwick, a hammered dulcimer instrumental, James Taylor, Sarah Brightman, Joni Mitchell and Billy Joel. It’s getting pretty crowded in there - I ought to let them all out for Christmas.
StG
I have some Our Miss Brooks shows on tape. I totally want Mr. Boynton, he’s so hot and passive. Also :o Gwen Stephani :o but I only listen to the first few songs! I get up to the one about being Luxurious like Egyptian Cotton and then I go back to the start. I also have Nina Simone After Hours which is the one that’s on the most and the one with the most cred.
There are several Misfits tapes in the thingie between the seats for when I feel like regressing to grade 10.