Thread: What are you listening to?

I always find these threads to be curiously insightful and very very wide ranged. I'll start.

I am listening to right now:

Adagio for Strings and Organ
Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Originally Posted by Sylexis

I always find these threads to be curiously insightful and very very wide ranged. I'll start.

I am listening to right now:

Adagio for Strings and Organ
Toronto Symphony Orchestra

I have some classical queued up for after lunch. At the moment I am listening to:
Switchfoot-
Nothing is sound.

VNV Nation - Honour

I'll probably be listening to Showbread, Combichrist and Shockwave at some point today too. It's the mood I'm in.

Current song: Poi Dog Pondering - Circle Around the Sun

Previous: Psapp - Tiger, My Friend

Rose Polenzani - Queen Anne's Lace.

Gorgeous voice, great songwriting. It's a little more "Lilith Fair" girl folk than I would normally listen to -- not that it's a bad thing. But I'm totally captivated by her music.

Previously:
Old 97's - Big Brown Eyes. My favorite band on the planet. Power-cowpunk-pop goodness.

White Zombie - Apocolypse Now
Current track is Psychoholic Slag

Tho I was considering switching over to Chronix Grit for a while..
http://www.chronixradio.com/

Virten, Minstrel

My boss on the phone next door. I think he's looking into retirement options.

lil bit of everything queued up today...
Bach to Pantera to musical soundtracks like Rent lol

Originally Posted by Jamers

My boss on the phone next door. I think he's looking into retirement options.

ROFL

.....added for length..............

Angelwing
The Nymphaeum

((Yeah, I know I am a fruitcake))

Lots of Enya later, Watermark is my fav... if I get too sleepy, I'll put on the Flashdance soundtrack and work at my plan desk, *giggle*

Work *giggle*

listening to the lofi newage stream from Magnatune.com atm

similar to the poster above, I expect later I will again be listening to my officemate talking to his mortgage broker and his real estate agent and his lawyer and maybe his sister.

Found a wonderful CD at Barnes and Noble online. It consist entirely of different arrangements of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, including all of Barber's authorized versions. It has Barber's original arrangement performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a smaller arrangement he did for a chamber orchestra performed by the Smithsonian Chamber Players, his arrangement for a string quartet and another for organ, and his amazing choral adaptation of the Agnus Dei to the work performed by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge.

It also has some arrangements not made by Barber himself. There's one with James Galway on flute and with synthesiser accompaniment, one that is all brass by the Canadian Brass, a wonderful clarinet version with Richard Stoltzman.

The piece just fits so well to the pain and sorrow of the times in the game. It's the most perfect hauntingly beautiful yet sad piece of music ever written.

Another constant in my CD player lately has been Borodin's unfinished opera Prince Igor, completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glasunov. The version I have is the BBC Symphony Chorus and the New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Simon.

Originally Posted by Solyne

Angelwing
The Nymphaeum

((Yeah, I know I am a fruitcake))

Ah! Fruitcake...Queuing up some Jimmy Buffett.

Local H - "Bound for the Floor" on trusty ol' XM Radio Online's Lucy station.

my lotro playlist highlights would have to be

consider the ravens - dustin kensrue (for at the bree-land farms)

Material boy - millencolin (for at the AH)

Transistor Transistor vs Everyone - transistor transistor

any - coheed & cambria

any - circa survives

MOST - alexisonfire (a trip to the ettens?)

I always have my iTunes on shuffle...so, let's see what the last 10 songs were...


1. The Deep - Further Seems Forever
2. No Fall Too Far - Becoming the Archetype
3. If I Told You This Was Killing Me, Would You Stop? - The Juliana Theory
4. Roulette Dares - The Mars Volta
5. Important Enough to Mention - MxPx
6. Unforgivable - Plumb
7. Down, Set, Go - Underoath Strings Tribute
8. Emotion Sickness - Silverchair
9. Isobel - Bjork
10. Blood Red Summer - Coheed and Cambria

Weird... 3/4 of those are Christian bands. Or at least, were at one time.


Currently listening to: Shockwave "The Ultimate Doom".

Originally Posted by PastorInsanity

Weird... 3/4 of those are Christian bands. Or at least, were at one time.


Currently listening to: Shockwave "The Ultimate Doom".

Yes I noticed that as well.

I generally listen to a friendly mix of Gamma Ray, Hammerfall, Blind Guardian. Been lot of Blind Guardian lately. Sometimes some Iron Maiden and Dragonforce and Edguy and Iced Earth creep in there.

And, when I'm feeling really crazy, out comes ol' Johnny Cash and Meatloaf. Paaaaradiise by the dashboard light baby!

Originally Posted by Faltigoth

I generally listen to a friendly mix of Gamma Ray, Hammerfall, Blind Guardian. Been lot of Blind Guardian lately. Sometimes some Iron Maiden and Dragonforce and Edguy and Iced Earth creep in there.

And, when I'm feeling really crazy, out comes ol' Johnny Cash and Meatloaf. Paaaaradiise by the dashboard light baby!

I just got out of a two-week straight stint where I was listening to nothing but Nightwish, Sonata Arctica and Dragonforce.

Getting back into my good ol' hardcore ways after doing a couple days in industrial land...

Christian bands sing Christian songs to Christian people

I listen to good bands who make good music that everyone can relate to.


Not trying to start a debate on this...but I'm a huge music guy...and I've had the possibly ensuing debate a hundred times over. I wouldn't have even posted this, except i get itched when I see things like...

Originally Posted by PastorInsanity

Or at least, were at one time.

aye, but alas, musical debate is for another time, another forum

CNN's online feed...the Decider just got done explaining how acceptable progress in only 8 out of 18 benchmarks for the Iraqi government is awesome.

Originally Posted by MRWarga

I always have my iTunes on shuffle...so, let's see what the last 10 songs were...

1. The Deep - Further Seems Forever
10. Blood Red Summer - Coheed and Cambria

Excellent choices.

Three albums on shuffle:

Andromeda - Extension of a Wish
Evergrey - Monday Morning Apocalypse
Buckethead - Colma

Originally Posted by ClumsySatellite

Excellent choices.

Oh no...

Stop making me supress my hatred of Indie/Emo.

Wanna' hear a good band with Chad Neptune in it?

Strongarm!

The Decemberists - The Sporting Life

Previously: Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues.

Originally Posted by Faltigoth

I generally listen to a friendly mix of Gamma Ray, Hammerfall, Blind Guardian. Been lot of Blind Guardian lately. Sometimes some Iron Maiden and Dragonforce and Edguy and Iced Earth creep in there.

And, when I'm feeling really crazy, out comes ol' Johnny Cash and Meatloaf. Paaaaradiise by the dashboard light baby!

I loooooooooooooooooooooooooove Blind Guardian!

Their LOTR inspired stuff is perfect listening while you're in-game.

Dragonforce and Iced Earth are great too.

Currently:

Vikingman - Rodrigo y Gabriella

last song (sorta)

Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower - Grateful Dead

Mmmmm *blares Jeremy Camp*

Anna Nalick - Wreck Of The Day

What does that say about my musical tastes? Absolutely nothing... I listen to everything from Dave Matthews to DMX /shrug

Eww... Dave Matthews!

Can't listen at work, but currently on shuffle in my Tacoma:

Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Sevendust - Alpha
Bodragaz - Clear
Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny (soundtrack)
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman

Originally Posted by estesmike

Can't listen at work, but currently on shuffle in my Tacoma:

Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

Yay! I hope to catch the tour for that album. It is killer.

Originally Posted by estesmike

Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny (soundtrack)

Egen and I once drove from Colorado to Pennsylvania, in the dead of winter and in a car with a broken heater (and a big fuzzy bunny), inspired by nothing but Red Bull and Tenacious D.

Gotta love the D!

Originally Posted by PastorInsanity

Eww... Dave Matthews!

I've learned Dave Matthews is an acquired taste. You hear a few songs hate them.. then you hear them on net radio a few times and ya think hmm that song isn't so bad. Then ya start singing along and suddenly you like a song by Dave Matthews. Thats how it worked for me.

Two new albums from two of my favorite artists:

An Ancient Muse (Loreena McKennitt)
Pocket Symphony (Air)

Originally Posted by KillerDynamo

An Ancient Muse (Loreena McKennitt)

I approve of your taste in music.

Dante's Prayer may be my favorite song ever.

Great music choices! Its really nice to see that I am not the only one that loves classical to hip hop to rock, to oldies, (and I'm a closet country junkie)

Originally Posted by Angelcake

Yay! I hope to catch the tour for that album. It is killer.

Totally!

Prog metal is definitely fun stuff. Last year after we played the Bon Jovi show we had the opportunity to open for Spock's Beard at their Denver appearance; those guys were freaking amazing... and the band I was in before my current one got to tour with Fates Warning for a while in '01 or '02 (unfortunately, this was about a year or so before I joined them).

Not only are they incredibly talented, they tend to be quite a bit more intelligent and infinitely more conversational than some of the 80's "hair metal" bands we've played with! Enuff Z' Nuff? C'mon. heheh.

Originally Posted by estesmike

Totally!

Prog metal is definitely fun stuff. Last year after we played the Bon Jovi show we had the opportunity to open for Spock's Beard at their Denver appearance; those guys were freaking amazing... and the band I was in before my current one got to tour with Fates Warning for a while in '01 or '02 (unfortunately, this was about a year or so before I joined them).

Not only are they incredibly talented, they tend to be quite a bit more intelligent and infinitely more conversational than some of the 80's "hair metal" bands we've played with! Enuff Z' Nuff? C'mon. heheh.

I love Fate's Warning! Too bad you missed out on that.

A little off the topic of my dear beloved Progressive Metal, but have you ever heard That One Guy? He is freaking amazing, and I think you'd appreciate his stuff. He toured with Buckethead recently. Just this lone dude, playing a huge instrument he invented himself. It's sick.