What are you listening to right now?

Listening to "A Rough Guide To The Music Of Haiti"...sounds like a cross between the music of Nigeria and the Bahamas.

Also a lovely album by Burl Ives called Australian Folk Songs.

Tinnitus.

Damned wax.

My biggest issue with listening to music is that I have to be in just the right spot. Partial deafness in the right ear creates a fair amount of strangenes especially if speakers are closer to the left ear.


As to my current listening, I am letting things be silent for a few.

listening to the travelling wilbury's "handle with care" and the new cover of said song by some current indie darlings, both very enjoyable, forgotten how good the wilbury's sounded, a unique blending of voices to say the least but it worked quite well

A girl like you - Edwyn Collins

I have that cd. Kewl!

Tico would be proud, now it's Pink Floyd's 'Dogs' from Animals

Self Esteem - Offspring

Buzzcocks singles Collection

I'm lestening to the Stooges.

and oh yea and www.hamsterdance.com

Listening to The Jam LP "Sound Affects". i know it's old but way back in 1980 I did buy the then current album "Setting Sons", which came across as unattractively unsentimental at that time. It was good musically, but it came across as an unduly testosterone soaked work, to me, with songs like "Girl on the phone" sounding like a robot-Corporal reporting to his Sergeant:
Girl on the phone keeps ringing back
She's telling me this and she's telling me that...

Other tracks like "Little boy soldiers" are probably self-explanatory,[We'll send you home in a pine overcoat/With a letter for your mum/Saying "find enclosed one son/One medal, and a note to say he won"] with only "Eton Rifles" [the album's only hit and the song that inspired me to buy this album] rising above the depressing ambience of confrontationalism...

So what a delight to hear the sequel, the music's as good but the feeling is completely different, as evidenced on the haunting "Monday" with the simple refrain "Oh baby, i'll see you on monday/See you on monday" immediately killing fears of the sort of emotion-repression that seemed to be going on in it's prequel.

Of course nowadays this shouldn't be a problem for anybody if you access to a computer because you can listen to the album as many times as you like before deciding whether to keep it, but in 1980 there was no way of doing that. i had to rely on reviews, word-of-mouth and blind faith [at times].

So here's to "Sound Affects" by The Jam. 25 years too late!

Great post tino...I like reading about groups I haven't heard.

Some Lecuona selections (Maria la O, Amapola and others) performed by the composer's band - the Lecuona Cuban Boys,

Saw your name here george and thought I'd pop in to get a sense of your musical tastes.

Have you seen the extraordinary Ry Cooder documentary "Buena Vista Social Club"?

Moby - 18

Uneven and kind of repetitive in places, but interesting, nice melodies, and overall very soothing.

I like Signs of Love, Jam for the Ladies, Sunday (the day before my birthday), At Least we tried, Harbour, Look Back In, The Rafters, I'm Not Worried At All

I have it on tape. It's wonderful.


Listening to holiday music. All of my favorite radio stations are into their holiday vibe now and it's great. Jazz, r&b, pop, even some blues.

Haven't seen the documentary but I do have a few of their recordings.


I like music very much and my tastes are fairly wide-ranging. I very much like the Latin American music of past decades - Mexico's Maria Grever and Augustin Lara and performers like Trio Los Panchos (one of whom was from Puerto Rico); Argentine Tangos - because they are so sweetly melancholy, "Caminitos" is the prime example; Cuba's Lecuona; some old Xavier Cugat stuff recorded in the '30s; and Brazilian music from the traditional as performed by Inizeta Barroso, to the modern soft jazz/samba for which they are justly famous. I also like Ian and Sylvia! Operas are a favorite too Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, and Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman are favorites. Brief bits of Wagner - the last five minutes of Tristain & Isolde, the overtures to Rienzi & Tannheuser, etc. Mozart, Vivaldi, Rimsky Korsakov, Borodin and most Russian composers of the 19th & 20th centuries (Do you know Shostakivich's score from the film, "The Gadfly"?), Bruch, Debussy, Ravel, Granados, Ibert, and a few others. Don't like Mahler though. Finally I am a fan of things like Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Mungo Jerry, Marty Robbins, The Coasters, Hank Snow, Chet Baker, Art Tatum, Peggy Lee, The Drifters, Mickey & Sylvia, some Elvis & Beatles, Bob Dylan (provided the song is sung by someone else), and some non-corny Celtic music (some of the corny stuff too). Hope that gives you the picture.

My son put together a component PC computer for me with two hard drives and a zillion gigs, which, with an Apple wireless network and i tunes I have catalogued most of my music. A source oif great pleasure to me. I still need to get a modern turntable & CD burner so I can transcribe the old vinyl records, many of which are no longer available in CD or on line.

How about you?

The Son Never Sets by The Herd. It's Australian Hip Hop which as a genre is having something of a renaissance...

Tea and Sympathy - Bernald (nods to jay and the doctor) Fanning

Carole King's Tapestry