OT - what's in your stereo?

I'm curious about the music taste of my fellow snuff enthusiasts, so...what's in your stereo?

I'm currently enjoying The Stone Roses' 'Second Coming' for the first time in many years. Some great blues/rock and huge grooves on this underrated record.

howdydave

Right now I'm listening to:

"Yours Truely, Johnny Dollar"

Old Time Radio about: "the man with the action packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator -- Johnny Dollar."

I listen to a LOT more OTR than music...
When I do listen to music, I'm mostly a Doo-Woper!
I also love barbershop harmony.

Another favorite is acoustic blues -- I am especially fond of the female blues singers from between 1920 and 1940: Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ida May Mack, Victoria Spivvy, Ethel Wathers, etc.

I get just about all of my music (except female blues singers) online these days.

gandalf

I listen very différents styles,often rock,many frenchs, but I'm a Pink Floyd fan.
I think too to PJ Harvey,Nirvana,thérapy? or the same... ...Marilyn Manson,Sépultura...Good jazz equaly :)

least_weasel

As the moment, although I'm digging the silence, the box is loaded with Bach's Johannespassion by Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki

Koba22

Quid Pro Quo, the latest offering from Status Quo, my overall favourite band. Other than that I'm into prog (Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Kansas etc) and pretty much any classic rock type stuff. Also classical eg Vaughan Williams and Jazz.

roho

Free, Highway. Great band.

KebAMP

@Gandalf

You like Sepultura. Do you like Gorod? A GREAT French band, technical death metal at it's best.

greencrow

I am listening to Ryan Adams' new one Ashes and Fire. I am liking it on the first listen through.

Jinder

@greencrow, RA is a huge talent. I've hung out with him a couple of times, and he's a lovely guy too. Very misunderstood as a person I think. The first time I met him we got riotously drunk, the second time was after he got clean and sober, so we drank mango juice from a veggie stall at the festival we were at. In between our two meetings, he'd bought both the albums I had out at the time, and told me the second time we met how much he'd enjoyed them.

I was hugely touched that he'd remembered me at all, let alone bought my records, and he was extremely genuine and sincere. Of the 'celebs' I've met, Ryan is most definitely my favourite person.

BrownNoseBeaver

Anything and everything pre-war american blues, country, ragtime or jazz. I will have to look into the artist mentioned above no doubt they are excelent, especially considering the group of gentlmen who are suggesting them. Jinder where could i find one of your albums ? Btw i have almost every Pink Floyd album great band.

PipenSnusnSnuff

I listen to everything -- rock, blues, jazz, folk, classical, you name it. Last album I bought was "Sigh No More," by Mumford & Sons, and I'm really enjoying it.

My iPod is usually set to shuffle, and in the course of the day I'll hear everything from Gregorian chant to bebop to Serbian folk songs to Morrissey.

Jinder

@Brownnosebeaver speaking of Pink Floyd, I'm currently listening to David Gilmour's 'On An Island', what a great record! I'm a huge Floyd fan too. You can find any of my albums on iTunes or Amazon, if you search for Jinder you'll turn them up (I'm not to be confused with Asa Jinder, the Swedish harpist or Little Jinder, the Scandinavian dance/dubstep artist by the way!). 'Nine Cents From Benelux' is probably the best starting point as it's a Best Of. I appreciate your interest, my music is low-key and nothing special, I mainly write for other artists now but I still do an album every couple of years.

Pennanngalan

Everything from Motorhead to Pantera to Sepultura to Bolt Thrower to Black Sabbath. I won't turn up my nose at some good classical either.

howdydave

OTR - Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209

The private detective from San Francisco who wasn't a girl, she was all woman! This show first aired in 1949. Her sidekick, Rembrant Watson, was an artist who usually had a hangover.

Pot Poe

Whole lot of Gomez on my mp3.
Love "Bubble Gum Years" and "Tijuana Lady".

greencrow

@Jinder. That's cool that you dig RA too. I met him in Nashville after he did a show, he put on a good show and was gracious as all get out after playing. Always good to talk to someone who likes americana, I don't meet many people who are into alt. country or americana or whatever the popular name is for it now. What name did you record under? JInder and the Jets maybe, grin?

gandalf

@KebAMP -I don't know all the metal wave neither Gorod but if I hear them I would listen.

Jinder

@greencrow yeah I'm into Americana (like you say, I wish they'd stop changing the damn name!) from all eras...huge fan of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Emmylou, Gram Parsons, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Chris Whitley, Cash, Lucinda Williams, Kristofferson, Carter Family, Wilco/Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt, Ryan and many more.

My parents listened to a lot of country when I was growing up, so it's ingrained somehow. I like blues too, but not in the same way at all. I appreciate blues, whereas I really 'feel' old school and modern alternative country.

Hehehe 'Jinder and The Jets' is better than any bandname I've come up with! I normally record under plain and simple ol' 'Jinder', but I fronted a band called The Mercurymen from '06-'09, we're long dead but thanks to some good luck we had a brief bout of success in the UK, some nice radio play and some great tours in nice venues. On my own my records normally fly under the radar a bit and I mainly play folk clubs and the occasional little arts centre, but it's good fun and keeps me busy :-)

Brandasaur

Not listening to anything right now, but I mostly listen to metal like Whitechapel, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Faceless, Chelsea Grin. Im a metal head \m/

matsnuffs

A nondescript Bagpipe CD.

Jrabevill

The Cramps - Green Fuzz

KebAMP

@Gandalf
I'm sure you'll love it! The co-main musical influence of Gorod is jazz. It shows very often in numbers of their songs.

Jinder

Currently listening to 'A New Morning' by Suede. It may have been the album that annihilated the band's career and alienated 99% of their fans, but it's still got some moments of greatness on it. The 3CD reissue package is beautifully done, too.

greencrow

@Jinder My tastes run with yours on most of what you listed. I just listened to your cover of Townes Van Zandt's If I needed you. Townes will break your heart won't he, man, the first time I heard Marie the world changed a bit.

howdydave

Right now I'm listening to Ethel Waters sing some of the off color songs that she wrote and sang before she found God and went to work with the Billy Graham Crusade.

e.g.; My Handy Man (1928) http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=7425

bish777

meat puppets-i'm a mindless idiot.

howdydave

OTR Dragnet (on the radio)

(I'm a "cops & robbers" fan if you hadn't figured it out yet.)

NJE03

Elton John - Captain Fantastic LP

theratroom

@Jinder just been listening to some of your music. Love it man. I am a folky so it kind of right up my street.

gandalf

I listen too: kate Bush,Lennon or psychédélic techno like Infected Mushroom.In fact I think I like the best for my delicate ear on every music style :)

snuffbrant

@greencrow @jinder ... nice to see some fellow No Depression, Postcard lovin' folks on here ... saw many Tupelo/Son Volt and Wilco shows. Loved Ryan Adams' Whiskeytown, "Strangers Almanac" is a classic ... I suspect you both are Steve Earle fans ... maybe Richard Buckner as well? Most know Earle, Buckner is unique. I use to follow Blue Mountain, Scud Mountain Boys(Joe Pernice is a master craftman) and the Jayhawks around back in the 90's ... I really miss those intimate 50-100 seat bars ... I think the jayhawks are back together again, in their original Louris/Olson combo.

howdydave

The Doo Wop Box Set (assorted)

Jrabevill

Hell yeah Steve Earle and Townes Van Zandt. I love old blues folk I'm a huge Ledbelly and Robert Johnson fan as well. Justin Townes Earles's new album Harlem River Blues is good stuff too. Like Dylan, Jennings, Haggard, and Willie and Cash although Johnny Cash is way too covered. I swear if one more cover of Folsom Prison I'll - well yeah.

BrownNoseBeaver

@jinder... It seems as though you have bin a bit modest when speaking of your musical career, you have a good following from what ive seen. While im not familiar with the music of today i must say i like your style, and have added your album to an evergrowing wish list.

I have David gilmours self titled solo album and love it. Have you ever listened to Syd Barretts solo work? Its very unpolished but still great especially if your a fan of Pink Floyds early work.

@Jrabevil...Really happy there is another Leadbelly fan here! Not long after buying a few of his albums i picked up a cheap 12 string and since gotton hold of a stella harmony baritone 12 string much like the one he plays. Its currently out of commission with a broken truss rod though :(

I completely agree with Cash being covered to much and i looks like i have to pick up some more Townes!

greencrow

@snuffbrant.. Yes I am a big fan of Steve Earle, I've seen him a ton of times at a small bar in Columbia, Mo. I was just listening to his Townes album today. I'll have to look up Richard Buckner as I haven't heard anything by him. You into the Avett Brothers? They are a North Carolina band and I have them on heavy rotation.

minux

Recently, the best one has been Carole King's The Carnegie Hall Concert 1971. Fantastic, especially when James Taylor joins in.

snuffbrant

Earle's tribute to TVZ is nice. @greencrow ... I do like the Avett brothers. if i recall they had an older band, Nemo, though I am not familiar with them. There is an NC band i really like currently, Roman Candle, have you heard of them?

Right now .... heavy in my rotation is My Morning Jacket's catalog on shuffle ... and Wilco's new one, "The Whole Love" ... also, kinda hate to admit it, but Ray Lamontagne is quite fantastic albeit derivative, but what music hasn't been done before? ;-)

snuffallday

currently dave mattews- gravedigger, next up falling down by oasis
mainly i'll lidten to anything but its gotta have the right feel to it. and it also depends on the mood or place you are

Jinder

@brownnosebeaver I'm a huge fan of Syd's solo work-in fact, I probably listen to more Barrett that I do Floyd. I know everyone says Madcap Laughs is his best but I prefer the second self-titled album, it seems a bit less tortured than Madcap and further 'out there', it really has a sense of whacked-out wonder about it that I've never heard anywhere else.

@greencrow Townes was incredible, I learned so much from his songwriting-I love the fact that he was a great storyteller in song but always deeply (and often painfully) honest...he really leaned into the darkness, too far perhaps by the end of his life, but his songwriting just got better and better. Marie is one of my favourites too, absolutely chilling stuff.

@theratroom thanks for the kind words! I'm a folky at heart too, I keep going off and joining noisy rock bands for fun but I always come back to the acoustic guitar, country and folk music.

@snuffbrant I'm a big Earle fan, I've yet to get into Richard Buckner but he has been recommended to me so I'll check out his music. Jayhawks were one of my favourite bands of the '90s/early '00s, I had no idea they were back together. They made some killer records, amazing atmospheric stuff, some of my favourites. Stranger's Almanac era Whiskeytown was incredible too...I've bought and given away loads of copies of that album to friends, it's one of the best introductions to contemporary Americana I think, I've yet to meet anyone who could resist 'Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart' or 'Houses On The Hill'.

Actually, I think it might need a spin right now!

snuffbrant

yeah, technically the jayhawks have always been together, without Olson, but been on hiatus for a few years ... Olson rejoining is new this past year or so ... which was what made their melodies so sweet. Pure pop heaven "I'd Run Away" ... and "Stranger's Almanac" hasn't a single bad song on it ... I love Replacements-inspired "Waiting to Derail" and "Losering" ... and absolutely love "16 Days" and "Avenues".

roho

Ryan Bingham, Junky Star. Any fans here? I also like Steve Earle and Townes Van Zandt. I saw Townes in a roadhouse outside of Reno about two months before he died. A special treat as I had been a fan since the early seventies.

greencrow

@snuffbrant.. listening to Roman Candle for the first time right now. I definitely like this song- Eden Was a Garden, gonna look up more. Thanks for the suggestion.
@roho.. Yes I like Ryan Bingham, The Weary Kind is a great tune.

It looks like this is turning into the Americana music thread.

Spam

Listening to Radio 4 as usual. Not your typical 20yr old student listening, I admit. But it's a great way to keep up to date with things, and listen to interesting discussions... And Sailing By is lovely to fall asleep to.

Mouse

Eddie Palmeri salsa

mustangii

been listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Kenny Wayne Shepard and Johnny Lang on shuffle on my MP3 player, Sometimes the Eagles and Some Motown get thrown in for good Measure.

edm

bob

Alèmayèhu Eshèté

gandalf

@bob -bless you.. -)) ; It might be anscestral with such a name. Unluckly I don't listen many music actually and I don't know them.

bob

it's the name of a singer. His music though is amazing. It is ethiopian jazz, which is an amazing genre. It's a little jazz a little funk a little tradional african, it's a little ska, a little motown, and then some. It's amazing

Dragon

After getting my first day off in 2 weeks I am sitting back with Frédéric Chopin's 21 Nocturnes, 15 being my favorite. Oh and a big pinch of Dholakia Kamal.

least_weasel

Grieg, Peer Gynt incidental, London Symph/Oslo Phil. Choir, Per Dreier (cond.)

bob

music the cheapest luxury of modern times. Cheap as in it's amazing what you get for a few bucks.