# Whatcha listening to lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055 "2010-02-23T00:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/21 "2010-02-23T15:58:28Z")
- Phoenix’s latest CD - good melodic electro-pop - Them Crooked Vultures - fun heavy stuff - MGMT Oracular Spectacular - love their hits and track #4 Electric Feel which is in 6/8 time (I think) but totally grooves… - Norah Jones’ newest - love the keyboard tones on some stuff, but not stand out - Cannonball Adderly featuring Bill Evans on piano - can’t remember the name, but hey, it’s Cannonball and Bill - it’s amazing (jazz combo from the early 60’s with Adderly on sax) - Massive Attack - Blue Lines - just going back to take it in… ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/22 "2010-02-24T01:13:37Z")
Latest 10 full albums loaded onto my iPod: Orbital - Oribital 20 Vampire Weekend - Contra The Arcade Fire - Funeral Various Artists - Ultra.Dance 11 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 O.A.R - All Sides Daft Punk - Homework Daft Punk - Discovery Organized Konfusion - Best of Organized Konfusion Timbaland - Shock Value II Plus I loaded a bunch of random songs consisting of current top-40 rock, pop and dance, some 90s trip-hop, some indie rock tunes, etc. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/23 "2010-02-24T01:27:41Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > _Contra_ by Vampire Weekend. It’s so… innovative. At first really boppy and accessible, but actually with lots of depth, and challenging lyrics. According to Wikipedia they’re influenced by Soweto beat and Congolese kwassa kwassa, but they have a New York indie lyrical sound overlaid. Superb. Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend is also very good if you haven’t heard it. They are also pretty good live. ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/24 "2010-02-24T01:38:39Z")
Rediscovering… Fairport Convention… a nice two disc complilation… RIP Sandy Denny… and Some Eric Dolphy… both solo and with Mingus… Also… Fleetwood Mac at Chess… funny it was released the month i was born… Peter Green… Jeremy Spencer… and Shakey Horton… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/25 "2010-02-24T01:38:46Z")
I mostly listen to indie stuff of varying stripes, and [I blog](http://threateningloveletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Monthly%20Music%20Roundup) about what I’ve enjoyed every month. This month I’ve rejected a lot more mp3s than I’ve kept, running about 30 keep vs 800 discard..apparently I’m in a fickle mood lately. Maybe I should have rethought the “hey, I know, I’ll listen to all the artists in my downloads folder who begin with U-W this month” idea. > [@MrDibble](#): > > I’ve only \*just \*discovered Nouvelle Vague’s loungy 80s covers, so I’m grooving off their backlist at the moment. Better late than never! Which song do you like best? For me it’s a toss up between their cover of the Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen In Love?” and Bauhaus’ "“Bela Lugosi’s Dead.” ---
**Author:** ![vdgg81](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3d9bf3/32.png) [@vdgg81](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vdgg81)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/26 "2010-02-24T01:45:58Z")
I’ve been listening to a lot of John Coltrane lately. Before I’d only ever heard him on _Kind of Blue_, so when I listened to his version of “My Favorite Things” it was a revelation to me. I went to looking for more and bought some records (the Thelonius Monk quartet with John Coltrane live on Carnegie Hall is amazing) and then I bought _A Love Supreme_. I feel like an idiot for never listening to it before, it just may become my favorite album ever. I’m also listening to a lot of Brubeck. The recording of the quartet live on Carnegie Hall is amazing as is the (apparently) underrated _Jazz Impressions of Japan_. Looking in the internet I’ve read some unflattering things about Dave’s playing, but I just don’t hear it. I love his piano. I’ve also bought _My Funny Valentine_, by the Miles Davis quintet and it’s great. My next buy will definitively be another album by these guys. A relative has recommended me both Wayne Shorter and Ornette Coleman, but so far I hated some of their stuff and loved some of it, so I’m still on the fence. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/27 "2010-02-24T02:23:24Z")
Let’s see - [Duffy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PSIynZ_sww), [Julian Casablancas](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=849PNCwCqKA), [Lindsay Ell](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_PLxCxlbBw&feature=related), [A Fine Frenzy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDEEzS7OV2k), and [Elbow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL4mywCOJXA). I was listening to Them Crooked Vultures but I only like their song “[New Fang](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7_vH3H8LPI)” so far. You probably haven’t heard of Lindsay Ell - yet. She’s young, blonde, pretty, and plays blues guitar, sings, and writes music - I think she’s got a future ahead of her in the music biz (we saw her opening for Chris Isaak). ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/28 "2010-02-24T14:44:43Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend is also very good if you haven’t heard it. They are also pretty good live. I came back to state this as well - i forgot to include Contra on my list. I think VW has the potential to have a Steely Dan-like career - archer-than-thou academic lyrics, great musicianship, arrangements and production and songs that are accessible and poppy yet seem to be built of other stuff. In the case of SDan, it was jazzy and with VW it’s world-beat-ier, but still… I think both CD’s are great - the only rhyme I wish Ezra had left off is saying how he’d enjoy horchata even with a foot on Masada. Just too silly. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/29 "2010-02-24T14:50:25Z")
Joanna Newsom’s new (triple) album came out yesterday - Amazon is currently in the process of shipping it to me, but in the meantime, [I’ve been listening to it on npr.org](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123981491). ---
**Author:** ![wolf-alice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9e8a1a/32.png) [@wolf-alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf-alice)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/30 "2010-02-24T14:56:53Z")
The Beach Boys and Throbbing Gristle have been my main ones for the last week or two, at the risk of sounding like a terrible wanker. And my [Last.fm](http://www.last.fm/user/kinasc) says I’ve been having a bit of a Thurston Moore thing, and I’ve actively been trying to get into the Beatles - though that’s been more of a “Abbey Road on whilst doing the dishes” thing rather than a proper sit-down listen. I’m trying to get my brain around Pavement’s entire back catalogue as well, because I’m going to their ATP in May and I’ve never really been into them :smack: ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/31 "2010-02-24T15:29:47Z")
Fever Ray’s album of the same name; dark, weird, melodic and delicious. It’s been a long time since I liked anything modern as much as this. That and reggae in Venetian dialect. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Richie\_Incognito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@Richie\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richie_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/32 "2010-02-24T16:50:12Z")
Been listening to the following lately: Sly and the Family Stone-Live at Woodstock Rage Against the Machine-Evil Empire ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/33 "2010-02-24T17:27:40Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Also, there’s the Tallis Scholars albums “William Byrd” and “Josquin - Missa Fortuna Desperata/Missa Malheur me bat”. By the way, \*\*Le Ministre \*\*- I have a Tallis Scholars CD - [Best of the Renaissance](http://www.amazon.com/Best-Renaissance-Gregorio-Allegri/dp/B00000J9GR) (Amazon link) - very cool stuff; very Sunday morning ethereal, open and vast. I wish I had the bandwidth to dig more into stuff like that and the contemporary symphonic stuff I have heard like Arvo Part… ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/34 "2010-04-04T00:22:20Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I came back to state this as well - i forgot to include Contra on my list. > > I think VW has the potential to have a Steely Dan-like career - archer-than-thou academic lyrics, great musicianship, arrangements and production and songs that are accessible and poppy yet seem to be built of other stuff. In the case of SDan, it was jazzy and with VW it’s world-beat-ier, but still… > > I think both CD’s are great - the only rhyme I wish Ezra had left off is saying how he’d enjoy horchata even with a foot on Masada. Just too silly. VW has a sort of unique sound that’s sort of a cross between a Jam Band and New Wave. And the lyrics and album artwork has a sort of lates 90s New England prep school college frat party feel to them but without feeling douchey or pretentious. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/35 "2010-04-04T00:50:33Z")
Mostly music free the last few weeks, listening to audiobooks while driving - _Born Standing Up_ by Steve Martin, Roth’s _The Plot Against America_ and Tony Hillerman’s _Dance Hall of the Dead_. Before the hiatus I was listening to Dan Auerbach’s solo album _Keep It Hid_. A few nights ago I happened upon [Diana Krall doing **A Case of You**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrsc5FeQDs&feature=related), and, having seen her, Melody Gardot and Madeleine Peyroux in concert last month, gave it a few plays. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055/36 "2010-04-04T01:45:54Z")
I’m currently loving the Broken Bells album (lead singer of The Shins with Danger Mouse). > [@msmith537](#): > > VW has a sort of unique sound that’s sort of a cross between a Jam Band and New Wave. And the lyrics and album artwork has a sort of lates 90s New England prep school college frat party feel to them but without feeling douchey or pretentious. …with at bit of Paul Simon’s Graceland. I love their first album. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-listening-to-lately/530055.md?page=1)