I have been listening to Tom Vek, Chihiro, The Cure, Ruarri Joseph and Alterkicks on random.
At the weekend, I put up a new bookcase in the bedroom- which means that not only do we have enough space for all our books and other random things that can't be stuffed into wardrobes, we also now have the CD player in there. Which means I get to listen to music as I go to sleep! (hurrah!)
Last night, sleepytime music was The National- Alligator, M Craft- Silver And Fire and Ray Lamontagne- Trouble.

Last night, I was also listening to The Electric Six as I saw them play live. Hooray!

My MP3 player is determined to bum me out today. This is now the second time it has played 'Exit Music (For A Film)' by Radiohead. Good tune, but it's starting to drag me down.

So Yay! for LCD Soundsystem and 'Disco Infiltrator'. I'm back on the up...

I have been listening to Show Your Bones by YYYs alot recently. For a second album, it is pretty damn good.

Possibly OD'ing on Imogen Heap and Iron & Wine.

Nah, who am I kidding?

For a suggestion though, I would suggest checking out Imogen's version of "Hallelujah".

I seem to be listening to Oh No! Oh My! all the time at the moment after seeing them live last Thursday. They. Were. AMAZING. And they are lovely to listen to
Voices, I heard that cover not too long ago. It's not half bad!

Mmm, and Hide and Seek. It's hypnotic and awesome.

It's all about Murray Perahia and Chopin's Etudes a ce moment.

I got all these CDs out of the library! It is such a gentler and less virusy way to steal music!

Currently listening to Wyclef Jean, importing Tom Waits, having just listened to Pavement. Today's music also involved British Sea Power's newest (I like "No Lucifer" very very much) and the Think Differently Wu-Tang album (even though it only has two and a half members represented; it's mostly indie rappers)

Works Cited:
-Wyclef Jean, Preacher's Son
-Tom Waits, Real Gone
-Pavement, Terror Twilight
-British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music?
-Think Differently: The Wu Tang Clan Meets the Indie Culture

(sorry, writing paper atm)

Counting Crows, now, paticuarly Color Blind.

.....You can check cds out at the library? This is an absoulutely amazing discovery if so...

And DVDs!
I really want to hear Scarlet Johanssen's album of Tom Waits covers. Apparently, it is actually good!

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Lawks. I hadn't heard about that. An idea that bonkers simply has to be worth a listen.

elphaba - props to the Pavement selection. I love that album so much, my wife is starting to get suspicious.

Last couple of days I've been listening to a massive pile of bought CDs and homemade comps from friends. Still not through all of them despite 2 solid days of listening. Main highlight has to be the Jet Set Radio/Jet Set Radio Future soundtracks I treated myself to. Pure ear joy.

Iron & Wine- Innocent Bones

One of the better tracks off of The Shepherd's Dog, which I strangely can't get into. I like listening to it, but nothing sticks. This came up on a particularly good shuffle and I'm now addicted.

Mad Capsule Markets, (constantly) I've recently bought most of their albums off amazon, so I can make a compilation, but I'm really struggling to get hold of any of their earlier stuff, so any help would be great.

I'm listening to This Book Is So Awesome by Harry and The Potters

Hansel and Gretel Overture by Humperdinck. Like warm hot chocolate and a blanket.

Last week, I was given a copy of The Wombats' album and I am continuously surprised at how good it is. The music is basically middle of the road Indie (not my usual thing) but with some very clever and amusing lyrics ("signed, sealed, and lost in the post") and happy clappy drum beats. They even have a song about dancing to Joy Division and being happy! (I thought I was the only one who did that?!)

I have also been listening to BARR almost religiously. And Le Fil (album) by Camile, AND the new offerings from The B-52's- absolutely awesome stuff.
ALSO! Does It Offend You? Yeah!- they have a couple of tracks on their album that sound like fabulously cheesy 80s pop (the good kind), a few tracks are just full of dirty bass and drums, and a few tracks sound like a mixture of The B-52's and Polysics.
Lo-Fi, Anti-Folk and New Wave are my current weapons of choice

Interesting album, especially for people who think French girls shouldn't beat-box. I'm rather fond of 'Ta Douleur'.

I think my favourite is Janine III. Just because of how the words BURST out of her mouth when she sings them!

Yeah! Double posting.
Today is a Jeff Lewis and David Bowie day. The two, track by track, back-to-back work incredibly well! I was also listening to some of the darker stuff by Guillemots (Go Away, and She's Evil), and have got some Chemical Brothers and Blackbud in my playlist.

My day has been brought to me by 'Pink' by Boris and 'If You Can't Join 'Em... Beat 'Em' by DJ Format.

On the Boris tip, I've found that final track 'Just Abandoned My-Self' takes me nicely from my work to my house. Granted, I'm shuffling like a zombie by the time I reach home (it's difficult to keep pace to drone 'n' feedback), but the pacier stuff at the start keeps me struttin' just grand.

Anyone got comments or opinions on the new Portishead material? I've listened to a couple on YooToob, and on the whole I like it. Looking forward to the album dropping through my letterbox at the end of the month.

Six blade knife - Dire Straits, uninterestingly enough.

Androids-Do It With Madonna

Humorus video ^.^

A band that sounds a lot like Death Cab for Cutie called Velveteen. As an April Fool's day joke, someone pretended to release the new DCFC album when it was really the new Velveteen album (our good friend charlatantric). I came around after the joke, though. It's nice stuff.

I'll have to check them out when I'm back on a real computer.

For now, I am listening to Angels & Airwaves on account of I'm going to see them tonight. When I first heard them I was totally underwhelmed but now I fall madly in love with each of their songs then cheat on it with the next track.

I've also been listening to The All-American Rejects. I can't get their song Happy Endings out of my head.

The Country Side Project, honestly the happiest-making to be. Ever.

Alto45. Over and over and over.

Opeth. 'Ghost Reveries'. Specifically 'Beneath The Mire'.

My love for this track knows no bounds.

D.A.N.C.E by Justice.

I was a t T-Vital last year and couldn't manage to get to the Radio 1 stage to watch them! I had to put up with the Killers who I hate.

I've been listening to a lot of God is an Astronaut recently, last week it was because I was going to see them on Friday and this week it's because they were awesome on Friday! Also Nov gave me a whole load of their stuff after the gig so I have more to listen to... yay!

I spent the weekend listening to all the stuff on my laptop that I hadn't listened to before so lots of Battle Star Galactica, Devil May Cry and Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack that somehow ended up on there (*glares at boyfriend*)

Oooh and I got my ticket for Latitude festival - Sigur Ros, Death Cab For Cutie, Interpol and The Breeders... and I'm sure loads more to be announced! Wh00t!

It's been Brahm's Horn Trio in Eflat pretty much on repeat for several days now. It's so cleverly done. (Not the listening, how he's written it, I mean).

We Didn't Start the Fire by Billie Joel. For the 4th time now.

Got the new Portishead album yesterday, so I spent the morning in its company. Paint me orange and call me a satsuma if it ain't the best damn thing I've heard all year. It's a bit of a departure from the first two, but it's still bleak and gorgeous. Congrats to the 'head for reclaiming their sound from the Middle Class dinner party set. Woo!

The rest of the day has been soundtracked by Pendulum's equally smashing 'Hold Your Colour' album. Drum! Now with added Bass! Up there with Prodigy's 'Jilted Generation' and Basement Jaxx's 'Remedy' in my estimation.

My MP3 player has been rather nice to me today. My walk to work was enhanced by a lovely female-heavy run of Tori Amos, Marlena Shaw, Karen Dalton and Blondie, and my lunch break saw it follow Boards Of Canada with Sigur Ros. Marvellous.

Me, trying to sing Seu Jorge's version of "Starman". But also intermittent bits of the Books, early-era Mingus, Flaming Lips and --very briefly--Animal Collective. Making a playlist to go over the speakers at a Big Science Event, so I'm struggling between the very cool and the very elevator-music-y (Beck fits right in, little else does).

("Deescupestranho ee voltai maish puuro doo say-ohh" is what it sounds like when I try to sing Bowie in Brazilian Portuguese.)

Half Man Half Biscuit all the way today. Best of British - funny songs that are still funny on the nth time of listening. I look forward to receiving their latest, 'CSI: Ambleside', in the post later this month. Fun on a bun.

EDIT: Found this unofficial vid on YooToob - top Biscuit foolery with a David Lynch aspect. Who could ask for more?

Today, I 'ave mostly been list'nin' to Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Mylo and the soundtrack from Snatch. All awesome! There's one DIOY,Y? track called Attack Of The 50 Foot Lesbian Octopus that sounds like a mixture of Polysics and the B-52's. Ace.

I've always been put off DIOY,Y? simply because of their wanky name, but that description you gave sounds right up my avenue. I loved Polysics' 'Now Is The Time' - 'Baby BIAS', especially. Investigation may have to ensue.

DIOY,Y? are ... umm... well, their album is interesting. It has a couple of very dancy tracks on it, a couple of songs that sound as though they could be cheesy 80s hits, and a song that sounds like !!! with an English singer. Best listened to with a lot of bass

Just how I like my dance - bass in me face. I need some quirky dancey stuff to offset the miserable air of Portishead's newie (brilliant as it is). My eye is on Crystal Castles after I heard 'Air War', but I've read some pretty lukewarm reviews...

Popped on a brief snatch of 'D.A.N.C.E.' by Justice. Just genius. Had to turn it off, though - the management did not approve of my 'misuse' of company puters. Bah.

Saint-Saens' second piano concerto in G minor. Very... sonorous.

My iTunes has been running untouched for a while, and I've made it through Bob Dylan all the way down to David Bowie. Deep Purple coming up in a few songs, and then Die Toten Hosen. And if I don't fall asleep, Dire Straits! It's gonna be a long night... Fecking projects.

For some nice old school, (yeah, because the 90's was 'back in the day' for some of you.. .. ......) White Town's Your Woman. man, when that came out, my dancing to it was completely involuntary. it would come on, and BAM, dance fever.

Sweeeet. My parents brought some boxes of my stuff recently, and that single was within. Lo-fi electropop genius, though I genuinely can't believe how popular it was at the time.

I finally managed to inflict 'D.A.N.C.E.' on my colleagues this morn, alongside 'Spandexman' by Mr Scruff. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

By the way, props to elphaba and syuu for some fine lyrical quotation in the ol' sigs. I like.

It really wasn't, here. I requested it at a radio station once because I'd heard it on a juke box and their response was '..what?'

Geez.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop

I think it may have made number one here for a week. If not, it certainly charted higher than that kind of thing normally does. It's a tune and a half, I tell thee.

I'm now near the end of my 12-hour bank holiday shift - a little bleary-eyed, but just about holding it together.

More work PC abuse has ensued, involving playback of the following:

'The Number Song' - DJ Shadow
'Slam' - Pendulum
'Chromakey Dreamcoat' - Boards Of Canada
'Alspacka' - The Tuss
'Windowlicker' - Aphex Twin
'Romantika' - Aparat Organ Quartet
'Green Grass Of Tunnel' - Mum
'California Soul' - Marlena Shaw
'Green Onions' - Booker T and the MGs

My co-worker (the only other person left in the building at this point) has countered with the Bee Gees, Phil Collins and Whitney Houston (who we all know is cheap like crack).

I pwned him, frankly.

You have an unbeatable band in there - BoC. No amount of chart topping or drug ingesting will save Whitney from being trashed by their sound.

(I still haven't figured out the criteria for why/when I use the shift key properly in my posts..it seems really random.)

and on a non-spammy note:
Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde

Snow Brigade!
Best song evar.

You're not wrong, kiddo. When I saw them play it live, I nearly jumped clean out of my shoes with unbridled joy.

Right now, the Beastie Boys are demanding "action" from my "back section". Who am I to refuse?

I want music with bass. So so far it has been Peaches- Lovertits, TV On The Radio- Starring At The Sun, Saul Williams- List Of Demands and RHCP- Suck My Kiss. Coming up: Radiohead and Queens Of The Stoneage. LAMP YEAH.

Shake the room, Daria. Bass is your friend. Any Death From Above 1979? I love the bass work on 'Little Girl'. Granted, it's all about good bass work, but I especially like that one.

On a slightly more trebly note, I think I'll be giving it some Go! Team on my way home. A little smidge popped up on my way in, and I think it'll be perfect partner for the slowly setting sun.

That would be bitchin'.

EDIT: The bloke next to me in the office has just put The Smiths on. He has risen in my estimation, especially seeing as he's chosen 'There Is A Light...'