# What Are You Listening to Right Now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760 "2005-11-12T20:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/1 "2005-11-12T20:42:22Z")
What album or song have you been consistently spinning lately? For me it’s [Spoon’s](http://www.spoontheband.com) entire discography. These guys totally rock me. I saw them live for the first time the other night and they were great. Their newest album **Gimme Fiction** is awesome. I’ve also taken to playing ‘Rebellion’ by the **Arcade Fire** , ‘Stereo’ by **Pavement** , ‘Fortress’ by **Pinback** , ‘Caring Is Creepy’ by **The Shins** , ‘Chicago’ by **Sufjan Stevens** , and ‘Me and Mia’ by **Ted Leo** a lot lately. ---
**Author:** ![John\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@John\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_F)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/2 "2005-11-12T20:54:59Z")
I seem to be listening to Citizen Cope, Los Lonely Boys, And The Killers a lot…admiting it makes me feel so “_mainstream_” it’s embarrassing. :o ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/3 "2005-11-12T21:04:44Z")
Now: Jimi Hendrix, “New York Pop”, Randall’s Island, NY 07-17-70. Earlier: The Beatles: 20 x 4 (Remastered Edition); Max Webster - High Class In Borrowed Shoes; Harry Chapin - Coffee With Harry (Remastered Edition). Yesterday: Doris Day: Secret Love (1951-1955) box set. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/4 "2005-11-12T21:06:12Z")
Concrete Blonde : Bloodletting, Depeche Mode : Violator and The Singles 81\>85, Cocteau Twins : Heaven or Las Vegas, and a mixed bag of Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Ministry and Danzig songs. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/5 "2005-11-12T21:07:42Z")
People shifting books around and flipping through papers at my library. Okay, okay… I’m currently making my way through a couple of jazz albums and relaxing to Coldplay’s _X&Y_, then grooving around the house to Norah Jone’s _Feels Like Home_. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/6 "2005-11-12T21:59:54Z")
The cranberries, mr brightside by the killers, the smashing pumpkins, breathe by anna nalick ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/7 "2005-11-12T22:29:53Z")
right now…Wisconsin-Iowa football game. music-wise, the **Gordon Lightfoot** box set and London Calling by the \*\*Clash \*\*today. At work, it’s been **Van Morrison’s** last couple cd’s. In the car it’s a **Gregory Isaacs** cd, an old one not sure of the name. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/8 "2005-11-12T22:33:26Z")
I’ve been switching between the three discs of Aerosmith’s **Pandora’s Box** set. and maybe air-drumming just a _little_ bit. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/9 "2005-11-12T22:47:02Z")
Man, I hate to admit this…but Neil Diamond’s new _12 Songs_ CD is pretty damn good… ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/10 "2005-11-12T22:58:41Z")
Right now? Jefferson Airplane’s live album **Bless it’s Pointed Little Head**. Before that I had the Irish trad band Dervish’s **Live in Palma** album, and before that Zoot Sims with the Joe Castro Trio **Live at Falcon Lair** (Castro was screwing tobacco heiress Doris Duke; this was a jam session recorded at her Beverly Hills estate, a mansion once owned by Rudolph Valentino). ---
**Author:** ![Penchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Penchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penchan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/11 "2005-11-12T23:28:26Z")
I’ve been listening to Green Day’s _American Idiot_ album religiously since it came out. For the past few years I’ve heard nothing but inane drivel and even though it’s debatable whether Green Day’s older albums are better than this album (I happen to like this album better), it was a breath of fresh air compared to some of the ‘music’ that’s been playing on the radio. Listening to actual _lyrics_ that had a message rather than listening to songs that consisted of nothing but hooks made me feel like music may very well come out of its rut. So yes, Green Day’s new album, Linkin Park, Evanescence and the Foo Fighters. I’ve been in a happy mood, can’t you tell? ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/12 "2005-11-12T23:35:39Z")
Pretty much the same as the OP. Except not Spoon, who despite my Austin roots and my Matador fandom, I’ve never really gotten into. Last 10 albums 1. Pinback _Summer in Abaddon_ 2. Arcade Fire _Funeral_ 3. Sufjan Stevens _Illinois_ 4. Neutral Milk Hotel _In an Aeroplane Over the Sea_ 5. Ali Farke Toure _Niafunke_ 6. Rovo _Imago_ 7. N.W.A _Straight Outta Compton_ 8. Bjork _Family Tree CD 3: Beats_ 9. Kool and the Gang _Kool and the Gang_ 10. Mates of State _Team Boo_ ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/13 "2005-11-12T23:40:26Z")
The last three albums I listened to were Clutch’s _Pure Rock Fury_, Týr’s _Eric the Red_ (why aren’t these guys wildly famous?) and Arcturus’ _The Sham Mirrors_. Later tonight I’ll probably throw on some Atheist, Earth or My Bloody Valentine. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/14 "2005-11-12T23:46:36Z")
Josh Joplin Group’s “Useful Music”–I just played that one a while ago. Also: Warren Zevon’s anthology I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead; Jimmy Eat World; Weezer’s latest; and the last two U2 records. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/15 "2005-11-12T23:51:40Z")
I’ve been listening to Fiona Apples new disc as well as David Grays. Both are brilliant. I just found Citizen Cope. Then there are the old stand-bys of Green Day and Kelly Clarkson. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/16 "2005-11-13T00:15:26Z")
I hesitate to re-mention it, as my original thread on the subject sunk like a stone, but I am listening to the collected works of early recording superstar [Ada Jones](http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=78rpm&collectionid=AdaJones_part1), till the neighbors complain . . . (You _must_ hear her version of He Lost Her On the Subway!) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/17 "2005-11-13T01:01:37Z")
Right now? “Reach Down” by Temple of the Dog. Very loud. Also got Mississippi AllStars, Clouds, Mad Season, Indiginous all in the same cartridge. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/18 "2005-11-13T01:39:55Z")
I’ve been mostly listening to older stuff: scratchy jazz, and fifties cabaret stuff. I’ve been doing a lot of Eartha Kitt and Blossom Dearie. Also some more recent ambient/trippy/instrumental stuff that’s hard to genre-fy: equal parts rock, jazz, electronic, and hip hop, like Psyco on da Bus and Fridge and Four Tet and Nobukazu Takemura. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/19 "2005-11-13T01:50:10Z")
Sky Saxon & the Seeds…“Red Planet” ``` The Skyster is the Man! ``` ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/20 "2005-11-13T01:52:12Z")
“Today” - Smashing Pumpkins I’ve recently discovered them. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760.md?page=2)