Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine So, what are you listening to?

One hit wonder, Alannah Myles!

Wow, lotta love for the White Stripes upthread. They too are a one-hit wonder for me. I love Seven Nation Army , but the rest of their music does nothing for me.

Ditto Finger Eleven and Paralyzer , or Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Weapon of Choice , one hit wonders, the lot of them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYH0iH8Oxmg

Freakin evil effin DISCO since the wife is drivin me up a wall with that evil disco crap. She's evil I tells ya evil.

me, play guitar badly. very ... very... badly.

Nothing and everything. Ripped a bunch of my cd's )old stuff) to my mp3 player.

Lots of 80's goodness there.

RIP Adam Yauch (MCA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJjuwutaCxQ

He was my favorite

"Desolation Row" by My Chemical Romance.

Enjoying the hell out of Lea DeLaria's Bulldyke in a China Shop CD (1992). I actually had a chance to pick it up years ago at a women's bookstore, and passed. Then hated myself, because I didn't see it again until two weeks ago-- in the marked-down bin at a record store in Seattle. Woo!

Since I loved mid-90s Comedy Central stuff (when they still had tons of stand-up) AND great jazz vocals, this is pretty much the best of all possible worlds for me. I love love love that Lea remembers Mary Lou Williams' "In The Land of Oobla Dee," which almost nobody on the planet ever plays or sings.

Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
http://vimeo.com/33716408

Florence and the Machine - Shake it out
http://vimeo.com/31668601

After coming across an article talking about a recent reissue, I decided to listen to an album I'd heard referenced a lot over the years, but never got around to checking out, the prototypical shoegaze album, My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_duc1kFro&feature=relmfu

Damn. Just... damn!

I need to listen to that again.

Soundgarden's badmotorfinger made it's way back into my car CD player again, mostly because of Jesus Christ Pose...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14r7y6rM6zA&feature=related

So angry, cynical and powerful.

I'm halfway through the Lightning Seeds "Cloudcuckooland," listening to it for the first time. So far, it's a wonderful collection of pure pop (rather appropriately, there's a song on it called "Pure".) It's so wonderful, I had to post about it right away.

^^Loved the whole thing, I'm about to give it a second spin.

Borrow it, rip it, burn it, buy it, but however you do it, please give a listen to the Lightning Seeds' "Cloudcuckooland."

I guess it's rather sad that the most excitement I've felt for a CD since Lady Gaga's "The Fame Monster" EP is for a 22-year-old album.

Now I'm listening to a Church compilation -- I've never heard anything of theirs other than the brilliant "Starfish" album. The compilation is titled after their biggest hit, "Under the Milky Way", and has great liner notes.

^^The Church compilation turned out to be two-thirds excellent. Loved all the 10 pre-Starfish tracks, indifferent about the 5 post-Starfish tracks.

Will definitely try to track down all their pre-Starfish albums, especially Heyday, which was produced by Peter Walsh, who also produced Simple Minds' New Gold Dream, one of my favorite albums of all time.

In the meantime, I'm spinning Starfish for the first time since the beginning of this year, which I noted earlier in this thread. Still love it.

And up next: Bauhaus, 1979-83 Volume One and 1979-83 Volume Two.

Holy $&*(&(!!

I've long been familiar with Bauhaus' cover of David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust", but not their cover of T-Rex's "Telegram Sam."

Just heard it for the first time -- it's AWESOME!!

Studio version

BBC Radio performance

My re-reading of the Bronze Age Defenders (see the Gy'mll's forum) has inspired me to spin some of my favorite weird 70s rock music. So far, I've listened to two albums by T-Rex (Electric Warrior & The Slider) and one by David Bowie (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SZrJLMTO-8&feature=related


I'm complete and total crap on the guitar right now, beginner would be generous to categorize it. But I'd love to be able to play like that.

I've been listening to "Life's Rich Pageant" by R.E.M. like I was a high school junior again. It's never fallen out of my top ten albums in what, 25 years? It's never sunk to just nostalgia, it sounds better now than it did when it came out. A song like "Hyena" is maybe not a classic but they beat the tar out of it and made it better than it had any right to.

Matlock, I love "Life's Rich Pageant." It's quite possibly my favorite R.E.M. album. My favorite songs on it are "Flowers of Guatemala", "Cuyahoga," and "Fall on Me."

I think "Flowers of Guatemala" is a pretty under rated track and kind of a turning point toward a more direct political theme. "These Days" has sort of been my personal anthem lately.
I could ramble on about R.E.M. for a long time - they really were the band I grew up with.