With apologies to that other group I obviously lifted the thread title from, I’d rather know what everyone’s dancing, air-guitaring, or headbangin’ to right now. New, new-to-you, oldies, let’s hear about it!
For me I’m about to immerse myself in The Hold Steady’s Stay Positive. Loved Boys and Girls in America and I’ve heard great things about the new one.
On the headbanging front I’ve been listening to Slayer’s God Hates Us All I’ve had this album a while and haven’t gotten into it. Now, though, I can fairly say this is my favourite album by them. Yes, I know this is sacrilege to Slayer fans, I love Reign in Blood as much as anyone but God Hates Us All is as good or better IMO right now.
Also from the heavier end of the spectrum, I’m really digging Probot, Dave Grohl’s metal project. It’s been out for a while but I just hadn’t got around to picking it up, it’s really good. Each song has a different vocalist: Lemmy, Cronos (Venom), many others. If you like metal, this is a solid album.
No need to apologize - if enough people are interested then it is a great idea.
I just recently started listening to Billy Joel’s Piano Man again. From the vinyl days, I really preferred One Side (rather than The Other Side.) You’re My Home and Traveler’s Prayer are rediscovered favorites. I haven’t heard them in more than a decade - possibly two decades. (I have Billy’s greatest hits on CD, but no Piano Man, and they weren’t considered hits.)
I just finished listening to Weezer’s Red Album. Good, but not great. Clearly two steps behind both Green and Blue. “Heart Songs” is the best song Ben Folds never wrote.
I seem to keep coming back to these over and over again lately on my iPod…
“Love Song” by Sara Bareilles. Catchy and funny.
The theme to the movie Cast Away by Alan Silvestri (won a Grammy). Hauntingly beautiful, wistful and evocative.
“Extreme Ways” by Moby. Edgily addictive. I once listened to it eight times in a row.
“Into the Night” by Benny Mardones. I can’t help it, this piece of Eighties cheese has me hooked.
“Driver’s Seat” by Sniff ‘n’ the Tears. Ditto.
“Disturbia” by Rihanna. Sly and delightful.
Dario Marianelli’s Oscar-nominated soundtrack to the 2005 movie Pride & Prejudice. A wonderful, uplifting score, done in the Baroque style and perfectly performed.
I felt the same way when I heard it, those two albums are hard to beat. Have you listened to Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo? It’s about as uneven as you’d expect from that type of collection but I’ve found my self playing some songs quite frequently, especially Blast Off.
I don’t listen to music very much. I’m not really open to new stuff and getting tired of the old stuff, so I listen to audiobooks.
But when I have a kid in the car, I listen to the radio, and I’ve found one station that plays a truly odd mix. The other day, I was delighted to hear Johnny Get Angry by Joannie Sommers. My mom used to have that record (I’m only 38)! I really got a bang out of listening to those oh-so-politically-incorrect lyrics and oh my god! The kazoo part! Delicious.
You might like David Sedaris’s readings of his own stories - much funnier in his voice than on the page, IMHO. Try Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Naked.
Been listening to Beborn Beton’s “Truth” CD lately. I’d never heard of this band (a German industrial/EBM group) until I started listening to Pandora and realized after a bit that a lot of the things I liked were by them. Ditto Neuroticfish.
Also “The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning,” by Smashing Pumpkins–I heard it on the “Watchmen” movie trailer and had to track it down.