What are you listening to right now?

I was about 17 or so when her hit "Fast Car" came out, I thought it was a decent song...but it was a bit overplayed on the radio at the time, so I kind of got sick of it. About ten years later I heard the song again, and I was impressed at how well the song had actually held up...I listen to it quite often now.

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Nickelback - I've Figured You Out

...I like your pants around your feet, and I like the dirt that's on your knees...

Was just listening to a brief tribute to Ruth Brown on my local NPR station (WGBH-FM, 89.7, or GBH.org online). Ms. Brown died last week. She was the quintessential r&b voice of the 1950s. edgarblythe has an obit thread on her somewhere on A2K.

Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher

Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
The Magnetic Fields

There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old
We can rock all day in rocking chairs of gold
But tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing
There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old, my love

There'll be time enough for talk in the nursing home
Darling, time enough to write an epic poem
But tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing
There'll be time enough for talking in the home, my love

There'll be time enough for sleeping when we're dead
You will have a velvet pillow for your head
But tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing
There'll be time enough for sleeping when we're dead, my love

There'll be time for sex and drugs in Heaven
When our pheromones are turned up to eleven
But tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing
There'll be time enough for sex and drugs in Heaven, my love
And time enough for rocking when we're old

Ellen McIlwaine talking about blues around the world - with her music in between.

She's an amazing slide guitarist. I need to catch her in performance again.

You kill me - Bertie Blackman

Sugar Is Sweeter - CJ Bolland

Can't listen to fast car without crying.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is broadcasting a tribute concert to The Band (The Last Waltz) with some amazing performers: Blackie & The Rodeo Kings hosting -- looking forward to Luke Doucet and Kathleen Edwards.

Sublime - Santaria

XM "Flight 26". I think they play 26 songs over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

Feeling a bit groovy, so I'm listening to......

Itchycoo Park (in London, of course.) - Small Faces.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-QcGeMPiuI

....and after that groovy little number (one of my all time favourites), now it's .........

Passenger - Iggy Pop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEY6_jcrzI8

I really must get stuck in to writing a report soon.........A2K is SO distracting!

Cheeky...

You know why...

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Lust for life - Iggy Pop

How weird - who would've thought a convict descendant and a 'To the manor born' Lord would both love Passenger - weird. I used to play bass and sing that one - hard. Lucky I wasn't arrested for defacing a song.

Goodbye my lover .... James Blunt

Trouble Every Day - Frank Zappa

'I'm not black but there's a lot of times I wish I wasn't white'

Lonesome Train - Ray Davies

Actually, we have more in common than you think!

I used to play LEAD guitar to "Passenger", although unfortunately, I didn't actually have a lead guitar, so I just ended up shouting "Oonkachanga oonkachanga oonkachanga oonkachanga" etc.










Oh yes, and I strummed the old yard broom while I did it.

maybe i can top you, your lordship. the laptop is playing Stairway to Heaven--Led Zeppelin, alas, not F. Zappa's version which is inexplicably missing from my itunes library--and i'm plucking along on a ukulele. why isnt't there a uke version of this anyway?