What are you listening to?

[Julie Wilber]

I tend to listen to music while I work and tend to go through phases. But while I am working on my current project, I have been listening to K.T. Tunstall and the new Prince Album. I have a feeling that within a few weeks, I am going to be adding to my CD Library and was curious as to what other people are listening to.

Thanks!

[leslienord]

CD library - how old school :p

Hmmm

Phantom of the Opera
Every Picture Tells A Story (Rod Stewart)
S&M (Metallica)
Journey
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles

My collection is small compared to my co-worker's - I only have about 1500 songs loaded.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Alternates between listening to the 300 MB media drive I use to shuttle songs to the ipod, and streaming kexp.org...the greatest station in the workd....(about 90% off all the new music I've heard in the last 10 years comes from KEXP...helps that they are as eclectic as me...new rage to heavy metal, shoe-gazer to alt-country to blues, to road-house music and world beat in between...no one else plays Snow Patrol, Beatles, Pasty Cline, Stokes, NWA and 50 foot wave in the same set....

[Tom]

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[dotCOM_host]

Previous: Final Fantasy VIII Piano Collections
Current: Mad World (Michael Andrews / Gary Jules)
Next: the whole Pendulum album, "Hold Your Colour"

[DesignExtend-MSI]

I wander around with music and News.

On my Recently Played list via iTunes:

Kansas City Shuffle (from Lucky Number Slevin)
Whiskey in the Jar (Metallica)
Coming Down (Daniel Ash)
They Might be Giants Podcast (free music, folks)
Silang Mabele (from Tsotsi)
Caroline (Concrete Blonde)
Don't Bother (Shakira)
Seven Spanish Angels (Willie Nelson)
Still is Still Moving to Me (Wilie Nelson)
100 Years (Five for Fighting)

[aGorilla]

XM Radio's the Joint (http://www.xmradio.com/programming/channel_page.jsp?ch=101)

[julie_thompson]

Sometimes nothing, just silence....

But my tunes are all on Sirius:

In the mornings I usually start my day with Howard Stern.

Then break to exercise to "1st Wave" which is 80's alternative rock (Depeche Mode, Alarm, Cure).

Then switch to "The Spectrum" Ch 18 which is Adult Album Contemporary. (Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, U2, David Gilmore and Dave Matthews Band)

But there are many times where I flip to "Hair Nation" Ch 23 and rock out to the 80's Hair Bands (Poison, Motley Crue, Queensryche). Brings back many fun memories of living in Los Angeles, nights on the Strip.... those were the days..... :p

Anyway, that's the mix that keeps me going.

[Vic - WolfPaw Computers]

Bring back Gazzarri's! I miss that club.

For me, today it happens to be whatever's playing on our local 'we play it all' station, JackFM. An ecclectic mix of all kinds of genres from the 60's to present.

[Jimmy Cooper]

Ok, y'all are gonna make fun of me, but here's what I listen to...

Showtunes (Love "Aida", "Avenue Q", "RENT", "Wicked", and many more)
Britney (Don't hate on Ms. Sprears. Her music is catchy.)
Madonna (A classic. New album is awesome!)
Random Top 40 (Whatever is new and current in the world of Pop music.)

Sometimes I'll get into some other random music, but mostly for me it's Pop and Hip Hop. Rock is ok, too.

[DesignExtend-MSI]

Ok, y'all are gonna make fun of me, but here's what I listen to...

Showtunes (Love "Aida", "Avenue Q", "RENT", "Wicked", and many more)
Britney (Don't hate on Ms. Sprears. Her music is catchy.)
Madonna (A classic. New album is awesome!)
Random Top 40 (Whatever is new and current in the world of Pop music.)

Sometimes I'll get into some other random music, but mostly for me it's Pop and Hip Hop. Rock is ok, too.

No problem. I'm still addicted to the soundtracks for Chicago and Moulin Rouge!!

And, seeing as my XM Radio was just delivered today, I think I'll be listening to quite a variety of things in the coming weeks.

Next to purchase on my iTunes list? Willie Nelson's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow..." Yes, the entire album. It was the first album I ever owned, and I still love it today.

[ids]

What I listen to...He! He! Here's a sneaky little plug. My website name Southbound.com actually comes from a southern rock band I was in back in my late *****, before I moved to CA ('84). The logo is based on our band's logo. I'm not really into trains, but the metaphor works kinda like a slogan.

Anyway, we made some demo recordings and that's basically what I listen to. If not that, most southern rock, classic rock, country, blues, smooth jazz, and occassional classical coming off the dish.

I'm in the best of many worlds....

Regards,

Scott

[Random Confusion]

Since DirecTV changed their music to XM sattelite I've hated listening to it. I lost my no-interruption, few-repeat for just the opposite.

I'm one of the oddballs who can listen to "snooze" music and be more productive, so I listen to a medly of Enya, David Lanz, Yanni, Bond, Doug Smith, Kenny G, George Winston, Wierd Al, Ray Stevens, The Monkees, The Turtles, Blue Man Group, Hooked on Classics, Abba, Bill Cosby, Robin Williams (I don't get much done with those two), and most other New Age.

If it has lyrics, I can't work. If it's got a melody I can focus. (c)rap gets shut down and dumped immediately on my Launch station.

RC

[DesignExtend-MSI]

If it has lyrics, I can't work. If it's got a melody I can focus. (c)rap gets shut down and dumped immediately on my Launch station.

RC

LOL - I'm the same way when I'm coding or designing. It's odd, Andreas V. is another. However, I CAN have the TV News (okay, it's FOX News) playing 24/7. I hear everything they say and I'm not distracted from work at all.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Not sure how you can listent to comedy (Fox News) while working...but more power to ya<G>.

[Southlander]

Currently...

Chick Corea & Touchstone - "Rhumba Flamenco"
Chick Corea - "The Ultimate Adventure"
Caribbean Jazz Project - "Here and Now: Live In Concert"

also enjoy Michel Camilo, Gonzalo Rubalcaba... etc.

[DesignExtend-MSI]

Currently...

Chick Corea & Touchstone - "Rhumba Flamenco"
Chick Corea - "The Ultimate Adventure"
Caribbean Jazz Project - "Here and Now: Live In Concert"

also enjoy Michel Camilo, Gonzalo Rubalcaba... etc.

Chick Corea - one of the greats who goes under the radar in the regular music-listening world. I was fortunate to have had to study his works in college (minor in commercial music).

[PicturesqueWeb]

Jazz....100% pure, honest jazz. Right now it's Louis Armstrong.

[Random Confusion]

I like Jazz when the artist can stay on-track (yes, I know that jazz is part improv, but there's still a base outline to follow for the music) but Armstrong is one of the offenders who can't stay on-track and turns discordant. When he comes on, I find myself getting up, and finding myself watering the lawn for about 10 minutes.

RC

Jazz....100% pure, honest jazz. Right now it's Louis Armstrong.

[DesignExtend-MSI]

I like Jazz when the artist can stay on-track (yes, I know that jazz is part improv, but there's still a base outline to follow for the music) but Armstrong is one of the offenders who can't stay on-track and turns discordant. When he comes on, I find myself getting up, and finding myself watering the lawn for about 10 minutes.

RC

Louis can do whatever he wants - that's Jazz 101. No diss Louis.

:)

[PicturesqueWeb]

The lawn knows you don't like Louis and plays it. The lawn is speaking to you through Louis..."water me".

(Perhaps I've really been listening to Twilight Zone music?)

[Random Confusion]

I'd wondered why my phone bill was higher than expected. It's all of those calls in to the request line through the cable buried under it that's causing it....

RC

The lawn knows you don't like Louis and plays it. The lawn is speaking to you through Louis..."water me".

[larryh]

I have such a wide taste in music, you're likely to find just about anything (except gangsta) playing at my house. How's this for an eclectic playlist (in no particular order):

The Beach Boys
Aerosmith
The Beatles
Hoobastank
Arrested Development
Glenn Miller
DC Talk
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Elton John
David Bowie
Yo-Yo Ma
The Ramones
Weezer
John Coltrane

But, if I need to get some serious coding done, I'll put on Jeff Healey (if you don't know who he is, he was the blind guitar player on the Patrick Swayze movie "Roadhouse").

:D

[DesignExtend-MSI]

I have such a wide taste in music, you're likely to find just about anything (except gangsta) playing at my house. How's this for an eclectic playlist (in no particular order):

The Beach Boys
Aerosmith
The Beatles
Hoobastank
Arrested Development
Glenn Miller
DC Talk
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Elton John
David Bowie
Yo-Yo Ma
The Ramones
Weezer
John Coltrane

But, if I need to get some serious coding done, I'll put on Jeff Healey (if you don't know who he is, he was the blind guitar player on the Patrick Swayze movie "Roadhouse").

:D

Wow, looks a lot like my iTunes direction - I've got every genre in there - but only a few Rap songs (not big on that). Jeff Healey? Yep... bought his first album day it came out and even today brings fond memories. My husband, however, can't stand his music. He got a guitar last year, I guess, to prove he can outplay Healey, but alas it's just collecting dust.

[larryh]

Jeff Healey? Yep... bought his first album day it came out and even today brings fond memories. My husband, however, can't stand his music.

IMNSHO, Healey's version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" beats Harrison's original :D

[DesignExtend-MSI]

IMNSHO, Healey's version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" beats Harrison's original :D

Yep, on the rare occasion a cover beats the original, it's very sweet.

Here's some very nice covers to which I'm addicted:

Metallica:
Turn the Page (NOT better than Seger's but very powerful, differently)
Whiskey in the Jar

Blue Traveler:
Imagine (ok, I love Lennon, but this version just pulls so much more emotion)

Concrete Blonde:
Tomorrow, Wendy

Willie Nelson:
You Don't Know Me

Garth Brooks:
Hard Luck Woman

Tim McGraw:
Tiny Dancer

Chapman & Clapton:
Give Me One Reason (live)

Then, of course, there's songs that should remain forever with the original artist. Pretty much anything by U2, REM, and TMBG.

[webfarm]

The support office next door just has the radio on, but our office (dev/sysadmin/sales) has a server running tuneZ software (hacked to provide "no-repeat workday" + faster volume control. The music is largely intrumental, ranging from electronica to classic rock (santana) and even a bit of classical.