I'm listening to this. I've always liked old Madonna stuff to some degree, but only by means of this great compilation did I discover just how much potential is in her songs. It's really great and I encourage you to listen to some of the samples offered there.

Rage Against The Machine - People Of The Sun & Bulls On Parade - on the tape... yea, they're Comrades, but they're allright

I am listening to the tape recorder because there is a strange device here, on top of my monitor, using the third and final power outlet... yes, it doesen't seem to work for the time being, but oh boy, when it starts working... CELEBRATION !!!

Since my friends and Family members have all said that I have a strange taste in music. I am now listening to the Fast and the furious Tokyo Drift Soundtrack. Can't say it isn't bad, always up to broadening my horizons O.o

On the other hand I am also listening to DJ Tiesto In Search for the Sunrise (vol. 4 and 5)

I watched a program on PBS recently (yeah, weird, I know) but it was actually good! It was Eric Clapton jamming out for about an hour. He was playing some bluesy stuff. So, naturally, I'm listening to some Clapton.

Layla - a classic.

Oiiiii......holy muffin! Clapton is by far one of my favourites....jeez he´s been around for quite some time.....I used to listen to him when I was at University.....you know those parties where you get terribly drunk and just soo sentimental

I do remember having been running around outside in the snow, without shoes...then came in and just fell into a couch.....oh and they played Layla!

Mmmm I do have a couple of old records with Clapton....vinyl of course! One of my former boyfriends was called Clapton out of two reasons...he resembled him and....was a pretty good guitar-player!

Ohhh gotta go find those records now....

Well Layla ended, and my playlist has continued.

As I predicted, Queensryche's new album Operation: Mindcrime II did grow on me.

I'm now listening to Fear City Slide. It's actually a pretty sad song, as the protagonist of the story is comtemplating suicide. And in true Queensryche fashion, they don't tell you if he ever does or not.

Aha! That's where I got the name for my new Oblivion character. She is a Nord and I named her Layla but couldn't remember at the time where exactly that was coming from. Now I remember from Danny's post. I also have a Danish wildflower perfume named Laila, but that is different spelling.

I am listening to Italian opera music right now because it is the background to a Reading Rainbow show about making your own pasta ... they are rolling tortilinis. Making me hungry too.

im listening to my favorite indie rock band "Coheed & Cambria"
Im listening to that jazzy/acoustic version of "A Favor House Atlantic" ......
i just love their music.... almost as much as i love Queen....

(haha... lamar james? that guy rocked my world when i was a kid... even in startrek.....)

It's LaVar Burton.

Listening to Devil's Slide by Joe Satriani.

This guy is a guitarist and a half. He plays with a lot of electronic beats and stuff, but surprisingly, I like it.

I listern to Nigthwish Ghosts Love Score, it's a song that last for a whole 10.02 minutes. I think I must have heard it so many times, and still I get goosebumps fromlistening to it, it's just soooo good and brilliant...but the funny thing is that it was first made as a testing song, to check out how it would be when the opera like voice of Tarja overshadows the instrumentals...it went betetr than they could have even imagined....Nigthwish, I will love you forever

lol Tellie

Well - over here it's nothing special. Listning to a lot of different songs actually but mostly we're talking about Van Halen, U2 and Smashing Pumpkins. Some good stuff, at least I think so but now, at the moment it's U2 - Electrical Storm and Van Halen - Dreams.

Oh good stuff there, Fuzzy ... U2 and Van Halen. All their Sammy stuff rocks.

Yeh Lamar Burton was so cool as Jordy in Star Trek. I guess it's like an inside joke that he was blind in Star Trek but now he's the host of a reading show - Reading Rainbow. They often have cool books and stories on though, we like to see what he's up to.

I don't think he does Reading Rainbow anymore; I'm fairly certain that they're just reruns. Unless somehow the show hads survived for thirteen years. (I used to watch it all the time)

Right now I'ms listening to A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater. In my opinion, this is Dream Theater's best composition to date. It starts slow and acoustic-sounding, gets harder, slows down again, etc. There are so many changes in the song to keep you interested throughout its twenty-three minutes. (Not to mention Petrucci's guitar solos )

Dream Theatre are pretty good. They're definately fine muscians, but I generally fine their overly long "solos" between the guitarist and the keyboardist a little annoying after the first time. Like the first time it's interesting to hear, but after that, I feel like I just wanna get back to the song part. There are some exceptions for that though, I like the Octavarium album because the songs are little shorter so the solos don't become overly long so they have to do a lot of cool things quickly in the solos. Also, Scenes from a Memory works well with the long solos, they just stayed interesting for me, that's probably why it's my favourite album by them.

I love the solos. Probably because I'm a guitarist and I just sit in awe.

I agree with you about Scenes From a Memory though. Excellent album.

I'm listening Gnarls Barkley: Crazy, from his webpage. Haven't bothered to buy the album, don't know if I like his other songs.

But most of all, I love Crazy's music video.

'Maybe I'm crazy...'

Toumani Diabate with Ballake Sissoko - New Ancient Strings - pretty good kora music. What kora music is? A kora is an instrument that looks like...well... like this:
It's an instrument originally from Mali (that's an african country) and surprisingly it sounds a lot like a guitar, only it has a lot more strings - 21 of them.

As far as African music goes, my favorite is still Baaba Maal, but this stuff is pretty good too. I also have this compilation called 'A Rough Guide to African Music'. It's a good introduction to what is new and hot in various parts of Africa today. Some of it sounds like western rock music, other stuff is a mix of various western styles with local styles, and yet other stuff seems pretty traditional. At any rate, it's very good.

I'm listening to Queensryche's 'The Chase' from Operation: Mindcrime II.

I find it enjoyable because Ronnie James Dio (formerly of Black Sabbath) and Geoff Tate (Queensryche) perform a great duet, singing different parts at the same time. Dio playing Dr. X and Tate playing Nikki just before Nikki kills Dr. X.

(Which is odd, because I think Dio plays Nikki in the regular voice acting)

I think I may be a mindcrime junkie.

Recently I have been obsessed with listening to Rammstein's Mutter album, it's just so catchy. It's easily the best Rammstein album I have right now, while I thought both Reise Reise and Rosenrot were great, they definately can't compare to the stuff that's on Mutter.

It's just the blending of orchestral music, with hints of techno beats, all backed by heavy metal riffs. It just makes it so catchy, almost dancable with some songs. Freuer Frei! just makes me wanna get up and move.

Today I also purchased 4 CDs. The new Billy Talent CD, an Isis CD (on a whim, I've heard a little bit about them, but not much, all I know is that they're mainly instrumental base, little vocals), Nevermore's This Godless Endeavor (because it was on sale and I was interested in them earlier), and Hurt's Vol. 1.

I'm really excited over the Hurt CD because I didn't think I would find it in Canada and I would have to order it. I gave it a spin on the ride home and I already think I'm going to be hooked on it.

To tell ya the truth, I'm gonna go listen to it right now.

Rock on!

\m/ (o_0) \m/

The Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
This is somewhat strange... in a good & optimistic way, and it sounds nice... wacky, yet nice and, oh, I dunno, HAPPY ?!
*Mil goes away to ponder rather obvious political/moral message from that song*

Nirvana - Come as You Are

This song makes me smile on the inside and out. The electric guitar is quite entrancing, the bass intoxicating, and the drums mesmorising. The vocals, and lyrics, of course, are quite obscure. Pity Kurt blew his pretty face off.

I'm still listening to Project 86 religiously. I think everyone should go to the store right now and buy one of their CD's. Or you can download a couple songs here.

im listening to jason miraz's "You And I Both" ...
Ahh... another whiny(but very talented non the less) guy on the guitar....

I find that line delicious because Project 86 are often grouped with the Christian Rock genre. Not that is a bad thing though.

At the moment, like I expected, I'm absolutely obsessed with Hurt's Vol. 1. Just the element of string arrangements to certain songs make them so much more powerful. They do just about everything as well, acoustic sad songs, acoustic happy songs, hard rock/metally songs, and straight forward rockers, to indieish stuff, namely on the track, Overdose. I strongly suggest listening to Danse Russe, Cold Inside, Rapture, and House Carpenter.

Enya - Now We Are Free
It's a song from the Gladiator Soundtrack, i like it
Also listening to Honour Him, same artist, same soundtrack

Listening to a band called Hotel Lights. I heard about them from my guitar teacher, who is a member of said band.

They are kind of indie mixed with chill '70s. I can't explain. Listen here. (The only thing myspace is good for: bands.)

Nice Danny ... I'm listening to Hotel Lights now too. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. So do you have a MySpace of your own? You could connect up with us other Chorrol people there and then you'd have 2 purposes for MySpace.

http://www.myspace.com/ibishelios = That's my url if you are interested in joining the MySpace Chorrol Crowd.

Enya - May It BE
Off the LOTR soundtrack. Some of this operaish/classical type stuff isn't half bad

Now I'm listening to Canon Rock by FunTwo that FuzzyKnight put as a link in the 'What You Tackling' thread here. I just love this song, so vibrant & upbeat .... I might make it my homepage music at MySpace if I can ever figure out how to do that. Gotta ask Doomed.

I'm currently listening to "In Fiction" by Isis. Almost 9 minutes of sweet music. It's off the Panopticon album, and I'm very happy that I purchased it off a whim.

The whole album is only 7 "songs" but the cd is nearly an hour long so that tells you how long the songs are. I call them "songs" just because they're more soundscapes than songs, they do have vocals but they're mixed behind the music so the words are unintelligable, they're basically another instrument. I just love the way they progress and texture the songs though, they mix peace and chaos elements really well, it's awe-inspiring.

But enough of my fanboyisms....

Sounds nice Mallet. I've heard of this Isis band before (it's practically my name ) but have never checked them out. Maybe I will now. I like awe-inspiring music. I find some of the Celtic music to be that way although I cannot understand the Celtic/Gaelic words they are singing.

Tool - Intension

Finally bought 10,000 Days.

Unlike what I heard from many other people, I found the new Tool album to be quite good. Sure, it's not too different from their previous album, but I could connect with the new songs much better, especially Wings for Marie and 10,000 Days, beautiful songs those two are.

The only actually song I couldn't really get into was Intension I liked Disposition better because it was shorter, Intension is too long for so little to happen, it ends rather nicely though.

I happen to like the new Tool album. Then again, I don't have any of their other albums. Grr, I hate being poor...

It's certainly focused on instrumentals.

I couldn't tell you which song I like the best, to be honest. I got into all of them.

Screaming Fist- Viletones

They were a really shocking punk band during the 70's that my dad used to listen to. They used to do things that scared, shocked and alienated the crowd, such as playing infront of a Nazi flag and naming the singer "Nazi Dog" (don't get this the wrong way though, they let people know they didn't support the ideals but that it was simply a shock prop). Anyways, they were actually pretty good.

Well once you do get money, you'll probably enjoy the Lateralus album since it's much similar in sound to 10,000 Days, I personally dig the title track off that album.

Personally, my favourite Tool album was the one previous to Lateralus, Aenima. It just has a really nice blend of semi-aggressive stuff to moody stuff. It where I got that eye avatar from, it's one of three covers you can insert into the cd case, it has that holographic stuff where you move the case up and down the image shifts and stuff. With the eye one, it rolls, the contortionist one is kinda gross, and the normal cd cover is neat, it's this white fiery void type dealie.

Enjoy 10,000 Days though, I did.

I'll keep that in mind.

Right now I'm saving up money for clothes.

Listening to Jambi off the same album.

I am currently listening to 'Angel' by Judas Priest; a fanstatically beautiful song by them from their 'Angel of Retribution' album from last year. It was funny that I suddenly became aware of their talent right around the time the album hit the stores, my luck. This is the single, true acoustic song off the album, really emotional, despite a 50 year old singing it. It's quite easily my favourite track off the album as well, though the metal mayhem in the other songs rocks my socks off.

Long live the Priest!

Rock on!

\m/ (0_o) \m/

I'm listening to Cab Calloway - The Ghost of Smokey Joe.

I'm not sure, but with passages like "kicking the gong around" I think it's about drugs. Considering that song is really really old, probably opium. Still, good music

I am currently listening to the new Strapping Young Lad album, "The New Black". It had me a little worried at first, since the previous SYL album was released a year ago, so the album could've possibly felt rushed.

Upon listening to it, I shouldn't have worried at all! It's great, and has a few more funny elements this time around, namely in the songs 'You Suck' and 'Anti-product'. I laughed my head off when the big band music started playing over metal riffs in 'Anti-product', I never thought those two genres would work together but it's really interesting to hear.

They did make this album a wee bit more accessible, but it doesn't bother me, though the "hardcore" fans might be disappointed it does. It's still very, very, metal though. Supposedly this might be their final album, and that makes me sad. Hopefully Devin changes his mind, but it's understandable to stop if you've been involved with 20 albums in the last 10 years. That's insane!

Rock on Chorrol!

\m/ (o_0) \m/

NIN - The Hand That Feeds

Maybe I'm just shallow. Or, maybe I'm just being an a55 People Net-wide are bashing this song and Trent Reznor, always forgetting that he can damn well do whatever he wants and make songs with disco-beats if he bloody wants to... oh, and I've also got a news-flash for those poor blind people on www.songmeanings.net: IT'S A FRIGGIN POLITICAL TEXT, YOU IDIOTS. Now, go and get your mouth washed with caffeine soap... (mmmm, caffeine soap...)

p.s.: An a55 can also mean Donkey

Currently listening to....

Covenant - "Leviathan".

A friend has just loaned me 4 of their albums, saying she thought I'd like 'em. A Swedish techno-gothy-industrial band (if I think of more labels I'll add them ), though most of their success has come in Germany.

Gotta say, she was right. I'm loving them

Ahhh burnie! You discovered Covenant? Awesome I´d say! I just adore their album Northern Light!

Just now I´m listening to Welle: Erdball, album: Nur tote Frauen sind schön......ahhhhh that´s music!

Hahaha...that's a cruel title! "Only dead women are beautiful".. .Though Welle Erdball seems to make good music. I only know one of their tracks, but it's quite good.

Me, I'm listening to a collection of David Bowie singles. You know I used to strongly dislike his music when I was young. I didn't like Tom Waits either. For me that was just music my mother listens to. Now I have almost all of Bowie's albums The song currently playing is Ashes to Ashes.

I know probably not that many people here would have a high opinion of Bowie, but whether or not you like him, you have to admit he's one of the most versatile and creative artists of our time, and I'm sure he's influenced many other artists.

Who likes Pearl Jam in here ?

I heard Daughter by PJ on the radio the other day, it brought back childhood days... I had to download it off the internet! But I have had the Ten album like my whole life! I like how he sings (I forget the guy's name), it sounds like he puts a lot of energy and emotion into the song.

In my family If you don't love David Bowie, Bob Dylan, the Sex Pistols and the Rollong Stones, you get disowned .

I'm listening to All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan, a song famously covered by Hendrix. I like both versions.

Ahh Bowie! I do have all his records.....yes records! Real ones.....no cd.....vinyl! yayyy I do listen to him now and then.....

Listening to a song off of The Mars Volta's upcoming album Amputecture. Check it out here.

I'm not disappointed in the least. In fact, I'm even more excited about being able to pick up a copy.

I enjoyed the parts that had music in the last Mars Volta album, wasn't really into the long seguements of white noise, particularly the second half of "The Widow". I would've perferred a better way of segueing into songs that white noise. Though the 4 minutes it takes for "Miranda That Ghost Isn't Holy Anymore" was pretty cool.

Currently I'm still obsessing over Hurt's debut album, and Isis' Panopticon album, and the new Strapping Young Lad album. Though I am currently listening to an Avenged Sevenfold song, "I Won't See You Tonight pt.2".

Oh yea! And if you wanna know an ultimate guitar song in my opinion it is Nevermore's "Final Product". I would almost say it's 50/50 vocals/guitar fills/solos. Now I don't know what certain guitar techniques are called but the main solo has some really nice fret tapping (at least that's what I'm guessing it is). Just a suggestion for you "guitar heroes" out there.

I'm listening to one of my favourite songs ever, Lazarus by Porcupine Tree. I'm learning it on guitar and will be singing it to a live audience soon along with some songs we wrote. The songs (and singer) really appeal to me as its about being in a place that doesn't fit you at all. Really beautiful lyrics too.