# What are you listening to right now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149 "2009-01-06T22:52:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/21 "2009-01-07T00:16:36Z")
Wavering Saints “Fuck You, I Have Magical Powers” ---
**Author:** ![ShakWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@ShakWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakWave)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/22 "2009-01-07T00:22:58Z")
_21st Century Schizoid Man_ by King Crimson ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/23 "2009-01-07T00:32:15Z")
Billy Bragg, “Waiting for the Great Leap Forward” ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/24 "2009-01-07T00:39:33Z")
Lately I’ve listened a lot to [“The Thought Chapter” by Color Theory](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001N0U6OG/ref=sr_f2_album_1?ie=UTF8&child=B001N0U6PA&qid=1231288671&sr=102-1) and the self-titled album by [Argyle Street](http://www.amazon.com/Departures/dp/B0018999VS/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1231288588&sr=8-1). ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/25 "2009-01-07T00:46:04Z")
The San Patricios by the Fenians. You can listen to it [here](http://www.thefenians.com/index2.html)- scroll down to the mp3s. It’s awesome. ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/26 "2009-01-07T00:55:34Z")
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/27 "2009-01-07T00:58:49Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > (bolding mine) > :eek: > > You want to be blown away, try _A Day in the Life._ > > They were famous for a reason. No shit. If you’re only on _Please Please Me_, you’ve got a world of awesome coming at you. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/28 "2009-01-07T01:00:09Z")
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni. Apparently Pandora Internet Radio thinks he sounds like Bach. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/29 "2009-01-07T01:10:45Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > You want to be blown away, try _A Day in the Life._ You’re right, that was pretty awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/30 "2009-01-07T01:13:06Z")
Also, [The Sign](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jFtzVa80A) by Ace of Base. Linn Berggren (the blonde in pigtails) is hot in that video! And I don’t know what it is about Scandinavian pop music, but countless times (although I knew before that Ace of Base is Swedish) I have run across an artist or listened to their music on Pandora, only to look them up and find they’re from Denmark, Norway, or Sweden (with Germany being the second-most country/region). I don’t purposefully seek out Scandinavian music, but I’d say the majority of my collection is, which is really weird. For example, The Cardigans are apparently Swedish, [Whigfield](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcmBaRAj7FU) is Danish, Smile.dk (despite the name) is Swedish, [Annie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Wf46tLonM) is Norwegian, etc. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/31 "2009-01-07T01:20:27Z")
[Minha Teimosia, Uma Arma Pra Te Conquistar](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAXgdvMo5qc) and the rest of the album, [A Tábua de Esmeralda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_T%C3%A1bua_De_Esmeralda) by Jorge Ben. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/32 "2009-01-07T01:20:41Z")
Do people exist in the western world who haven’t heard the Beatles? I knew their songs before I had my first record player. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/33 "2009-01-07T01:31:49Z")
I knew of them, but didn’t really know any of their music until the past two years, and I’m a soon to be 27 year old American. It comes from being raised on only one or two musical genres (country, in my case) and not being all that musically curious or adventurous as a child and teen. I’ve spent the past four years trying to catch up, but still have a lot of giants, both old and new, that I’m still not that familiar with. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/34 "2009-01-07T01:32:12Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > Do people exist in the western world who haven’t heard the Beatles? I knew their songs before I had my first record player. I knew of them, but didn’t really care for them for the longest time. Then I got the White album, and I loved a lot of songs on it, but I always hated their early stuff, so I just avoided it as they were too “soft” for me- I just happened to REALLY like Helter Skelter and Happiness (Is a Warm Gun). Then when I was just out of college, I finally decided to pick up another Beatles album, and I got **Abby Road**. :eek: After that, I became a Beatles Fan. And then came _Across the Universe_ the movie for me, and that’s whats made me more accepting of their softer sounds. But I def. love the beatles now, but I’m def. a fan of Abby Road and the later stuff more than the early stuff, but it’s ALL great! ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/35 "2009-01-07T01:43:06Z")
For the last couple of days I’ve been shuffling through five CDs worth of mp3s. Todd Rundgren’s _Utopia Theme_ just finished and we’ve moved to Ian Moore’s _How Does It Feel_ and then (because I couldn’t remember Ian Moore’s name) the Who’s _Won’t Get Fooled Again_. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/36 "2009-01-07T01:45:45Z")
I don’t care too much for the Beatles on the whole, but I do prefer their early songs (or at least ones in their early style) to most of their their “hippie”-era songs. (Back in the U.S.S.R., which is one of my favorite of their songs, is the main era exception I’m thinking of.) Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/37 "2009-01-07T01:47:05Z")
_Tronic_ by Black Milk, which I just picked up over the weekend. It’s fucking incredible. Been listening to nothing else for the past few days. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/38 "2009-01-07T01:54:09Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > I knew of them, but didn’t really know any of their music until the past two years, and I’m a soon to be 27 year old American. It comes from being raised on only one or two musical genres (country, in my case) and not being all that musically curious or adventurous as a child and teen. > > I’ve spent the past four years trying to catch up, but still have a lot of giants, both old and new, that I’m still not that familiar with. What are you finding that you like? 'Cause there are a lot of us here who love nothing better than turning people on to new (or old as the case may be) music. Oh, and now _Fire!_ by the Crazy World Of Arthur Brown has given way to _Father_ by the Why Store. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/39 "2009-01-07T02:04:36Z")
Oh, and I should mention that Blümchen is famous on the internet for “Heut’ Ist Mein Tag”, the [Secret Nazi](http://naziforest.ytmnd.com/) song on [YTMND](http://wiki.ytmnd.com/Secret_Nazi) (link on the meme). I actually found her through the suggestions on Last.fm, though, and only found the YTMND thing later. The really funny thing is that I also came across the [Secret Communist](http://secretcommunistforest.ytmnd.com/) song (the English version—All the Things She Said by t.A.T.u.) on Pandora before I read about that. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/480149/40 "2009-01-07T02:07:51Z")
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