Perhaps this belongs in MPSIMS. Feel free to move if necessary.
Lately I’ve been listening to Dream Theatre a lot. I just bought this album by them called A Change of Seasons, and think it’s great. The CD art is really cool.
Anyone else listening to anything lately that’s just really great?
Well, since I upgraded to a CD-RW at Christmas and had two drives, I used to jumble two of my favorite CDs together. However I am without music now that I have discovered that the solution to this problem was my soundcard.
Anyway, my music of choice at the moment is the InuYasha OST and Amy Jo Johnson’s Trans-American Treatment. Japanese harmonies with a folk-rock chaser. Nice mix.
I’ve got the last song I wrote in my CD player.
As for being “really great”,. that remains to be seen. 
My home player is currently playing Pilot to Gunner - Games at high speeds.
My car cd player is in the midst of the audiobook King of Torts by John Grisham.
I am SO embarrassed to admit this.
Barbra Streisand, “Classical Barbra.” The 1976 Streisand album on which she sings opera.
[sub]No, really, it’s totally great![/sub]
Car cd player:
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Joe Strummer w/Mescaleros
Johnny Cash’s Greatest Hits
Pogues, Hell’s Ditch
Currently in my 5 disc carousel:
Black Saint & The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
Companion by Patricia Barber
Transmissions From The Satellite Heart by The Flaming Lips
Sarah Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown
13 Tales From Urban Bohemia by The Dandy Warhols
five-disc player at home:
Virginia Rodrigues (Brazilian singer), Sol Negro
Two Putumayu compilations, Congo to Cuba and Mali to Memphis. (A third disc, Afro-Latino, is in regular rotation at work)
Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil (more Brazilians), Tropicalia 2
Jack Johnson, Brushfire Fairytales
No cd player in the car, the tape is a compiltion I made a couple of weeks ago of blues, etc., (Joe Cocker, King Sunny Ade, Janis Joplin, Tracy Nelson, Allman Brothers, and several cuts from the above five discs)
At work, in heavy rotation are the Putumayo disc, and a bunch of African and Brazilian stuff by artists whose names I’d misspell if I tried to list them without looking.
PS: Also in regular rotation at work: Orchestra Baobab (Senegalese band) and John McLaughlin with a bunch of Indian musicians as Remember Shakti.
The Red Album by Hector of the Black Heights.
What I’ve been listening to that is also really great is Time After Time by Eva Cassidy.
In my 5 cd carousel at the moment-
“Black Candy”-Beat Happening
“5th Release”-Pizzicato 5
“Charmed Life”-Half Japanese
“Night on Earth”-Rialto
“Release”-Pet Shop Boys
I’ve been driving around listening to:
Stephen Malkmus’ new album Pig Lib. It’s fookin’ brilliant
Bill Withers
3 CD changer:
8 mile soundtrack
Goo Goo dolls - Dizzy up the girl
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5/Serenade For Strings
Chicago (the band not the movie soundtrack)…the latest double CD set, can’t remember the name. Greatest Hits…
Awesome CD!!!
Godspeed you!Black Emperor - “Yanqui U.x.o.”
Sigur Ros - “()”
Set Fire to Flames - “Sing Reign Rebuilder”
Velvet Underground Bootleg Series Vol. I, disc 2. Live at the Matrix in San Fransisco in November of 1969 complete with a 38-minute (!) version of “Sister Ray” that’s surprisingly listenable.
In the car - Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea.
In the car:
King Crimson: The Power to Believe
Procol Harum: The Well’s On Fire
Nonesuch Explorer series: Java/Court Gamelan, Vol. 2