# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/21 "2005-11-13T01:55:16Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > “Today” - Smashing Pumpkins > > I’ve recently discovered them. I was about to reply “Really?” but then I remembered you weren’t very old during their heydey (the thread about your mom and the band thing) and they’ve been under the radar for quite awhile. The Pumpkins bring back some memories, man. ---
**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 13, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/22 "2005-11-13T02:35:22Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Ada Jones. . . (You _must_ hear her version of He Lost Her On the Subway!) ADA JONES??? Okay, you win the coolest “right now listening” award. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/23 "2005-11-13T02:39:29Z")
At this very moment: “Bittersweet Symphony”—the 6-minute version. I also just got the soundtrack for **Brokeback Mountain** but haven’t gotten to it yet. ---
**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, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/24 "2005-11-13T02:40:15Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Okay, you win the coolest “right now listening” award. That’s a first; I usually win the “_who?!_” award. ---
**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 13, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/25 "2005-11-13T02:43:15Z")
I was listening to Annette Hanshaw during dinner. How does that rate? ---
**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, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/26 "2005-11-13T02:48:16Z")
Ooooh, do you have her version of “I’ve Got ‘It’, But ‘It’ Don’t Do Me No Good?” ---
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/27 "2005-11-13T02:50:45Z")
[Comfortably Numb](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000A2H5UQ/002-0177457-8348018?v=glance) a cover by Dar Williams ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/28 "2005-11-13T02:53:52Z")
Now listening to Von by Sigur Ros. Another Four Tet listener! 🙂 I’m going to have to look up those other bands you mentioned, **lissener**. ---
**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 13, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/29 "2005-11-13T02:54:32Z")
Damn you! Damn your eyes! No. But I do have “I Faw’ Down an’ Go Boom!” Annette only went on the box for dinner because, after the Jefferson Airplane and a whole buncha Motown while the duck was roasting, Ukulele Lady said “What the FUCK is it with all this 60’s music?” So I threw on some 20’s music. ---
**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, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/30 "2005-11-13T02:57:19Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Ukulele Lady said “What the FUCK is it with all this 60’s music?” So I threw on some 20’s music. . . . Another marriage saved by Annette Hanshaw! ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/31 "2005-11-13T03:04:10Z")
Supergrass’ \*Road To Rouen \* My Morning Jacket’s _Z_ ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/32 "2005-11-13T03:25:21Z")
Right now: Thrillseekers - Night Music Volume 1 Earlier: Death Cab For Cutie - Plans Arcade Fire - Funeral Tiësto - In Search of Sunrise IV Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous Anoushka Shankar - Rise ---
**Author:** ![Foolonthehill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Foolonthehill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foolonthehill)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/33 "2005-11-13T04:31:17Z")
5-CD changer on ‘shuffle’ right now: Johnny Cash; American IV Southern Culture on the Skids; Liquored Up and Laquered Down Flatlanders; Wheel of Fortune Dwight Yokum; In Others’ Words Keen Cousins; So Alright ---
**Author:** ![Waterman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Waterman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waterman)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/34 "2005-11-13T04:44:32Z")
John Fogarty’s _Long Road Home_ Rilo Kiley’s _More Adventurous_ new Jackson Browne solo acoustic album Flogging Molly _Drunken Lullabies_ (Jackson was putting me to sleep thus Flogging Molly to wake me up) ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/35 "2005-11-13T05:17:13Z")
**A Decade of Steely Dan** – Steely Dan **International Superhits!** – Green Day **Muddy Waters: His Best** – Muddy Waters **Hot Rocks: 1964-1974 (?)** – The Rolling Stones And I just got **What’s the Story Morning Glory** by Oasis, but I haven’t cracked it open yet. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/36 "2005-11-13T06:28:29Z")
> [@myskepticsight](#): > > ‘Fortress’ by **Pinback**. I like their song “Syracuse” even better 🙂 Lately I’ve been fixated on “'79 AKA The Shouty Track” by Lemon Jelly. I swear that song is hypnotic. Other than that I’ve found myself replaying K artist tracks - Kent, Kenna, Kill Hannah and Kill Radio- and P-R artist tracks - Phoenix, Pillar, Primal Scream, Purrbox, Queens of the Stone Age, Ra, Radford, Razorlight and Recover - on my current mix cd. Over and over again. I think it’s time to make a new cd. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/37 "2005-11-13T09:01:55Z")
Andy Iona & His Islanders. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/38 "2005-11-13T09:53:35Z")
_Flores de Alquiler_ from La 5[sup]a[/sup] Estación. I had to buy it because it has a song on it I cannot stop singing – “El Sol No Regresa”. There are three versions of this song floating about: one from Diana Reyes, one from Beto Terrazas, and the original, which is the one on this album. Diana Reyes’ is good, Beto Terrazas’ is a little _too_ Mexican, and La 5[sup]a[/sup] Estación’s is the best. Also, I’ve been listening to _Llévame Contigo_, from Olga Tañón. I’ve recently been starting to explore merengue and salsa a little more, and this might be one of the best merengue albums I’ve ever heard. ---
**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, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/39 "2005-11-13T10:11:14Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Now listening to Von by Sigur Ros. > > Another Four Tet listener! 🙂 I’m going to have to look up those other bands you mentioned, **lissener**. Fridge is probly closest to Four Tet in style, but Nobukazu Takemura’s [_Child’s View_](http://www.japanimprov.com/indies/bellissima/childsview.html)–an extremely rare disc but worth tracking down–is near the top of my lifetime top ten albums of all time. (Googling just now, I find it’s even rarer than I thought. I better go make a copy and put it in a safety deposit box.) ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760/40 "2005-11-13T10:21:44Z")
Today I drove from Orlando to West Palm Beach (and back tonight!) for a wedding, so in my car I listened to a bunch of Black Box Recorder, the Specials, the English Beat, and the Buffy “Once More With Feeling” soundtrack (twice). The live band at the wedding was amazingly good for a “wedding band,” a seven-piece group with two saxes, guitar, bass, keyboard, drums, and a female singer. They did everything from competent Duke Ellington standards to Motown to disco to Skynyrd to bossa nova to (feh) Black-Eyed Peas, took all requests without grumbling, and helped make the wedding a classy and fun affair. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/330760.md?page=3)