Be Honest! What are the last 5 pieces of music you listened to? And Why?

Merry Chrimbo Naim Types (weather lovely in NZ!!)

Thomas Dolby: Aliens Ate my Buick

Magazine: Real Life

Magazine: Secondhand Daylight

Lutoslowki: Sym No 3 (Salonen/LA Phil)

All vinyl

Alex

The Correct Use of Soap?

Oui 3 are a bit young for you Nick.

Buick - Side one is on the really pants side of pants, side two is passable.

Alex

Katia and Marielle Labeque: Rhapsody in Blue arranged for two Pianos

The Humblebums' First Collection of Merry Melodies

Charlie Parker: Symbols

Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water

The Vaughan Brothers: Family Style

All the above are on vinyl (just a coincidence, not a prejudice ;-)

The reasons? The first three are my father's, and he offered to lend them to me, the final two, I just bought, and wanted to hear!

Chris L

Orb: Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, because I have just got it back!

Hardfloor: Respect. 303,808,909. Great wobbly acid stuff!

EZ Rollers: Weekend world. Great contrast of styles.

Pink Floyd: Wall live. Do i need to explain?

Bartok - String Quartet No 2 (Julliard, digital set)

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (Disc 2, 5 songs)

Beethoven - Emperor Concerto (Pollini / Bohm)

Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe (Boulez)

Franck - Prelude, Chorale et Fugue (Kissin)

But these were just the last of so many discs I brought out to test my new (well, demo) CDX. The list is long and included music from Schulhoff, Renee Rosnes, Madonna (yes, Madonna), Beethoven, Bartok, Haydn, Mozart, Bartok, Guns 'N' Roses (yes, Guns 'N' Roses), Ives, Samuel Jones, Bartok, Mahler, Duke Ellington and many others. I must get home as soon as possible and listen to more.

• Sylvian & Fripp - Damage
  
• King Crimson - Thrak
  
• Nine Inch Nails - The downward spiral
  
• Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
  
• Dali's Car

...and might I add it's all sounding pretty good to my ears!

Rico - SM/Mullet Audio

2.Radio Tarifa - Cruzando el Rio

3.Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabate - Kulanian

4.Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced

5.Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love

One of the reasons I buy a lot of CD's is that I tend to have crazes on particular types of music for several weeks at a time,or sometimes just for a few days.1-3 on my list show that I'm in a "world" phase at the moment (I don't really like that term,but I don't know any other).

The other way I'm prompted to listen to things is by reading about someone.I've just been reading Mojo's feature on heroes and several people nominated Jimi Hendrix,hence 4 and 5.

Does anyone else have crazes like this,where you can't seem to get enough of psych or prog,and then you don't want to hear anything but dub or trance?

Also,sometimes I can listen to an all-time favourite album and it does absolutely nothing for me.Is this a common experience or do you always enjoy your favourites?

Also also,there is that horrible moment when you can't find the right thing to listen to.It exists - it might even be buried deep in your collection - but you can't seem to put your finger on it,and you end up listening to something that is somehow unsatisfying.Does anyone have the same problem or am I just obsessive?

[This message was edited by shazbut on SATURDAY 16 February 2002 at 21:47.]

St Germain - Tourist - memory jogged by another thread.

Bjork - Vespertine - as above + lovely gatefold.

Porcupine Tree - Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape - as 1. above.

Enigma - First album - surprisingly good after a three year gap.

Alex

Recently been listening to lots of music whilst I've been working on some head-f***ing epistemological analysis. Consequently this is reflected in my listening - tranquil to violent before graduating back to a semblance of calm...

The music

It's better,I think,to go for individual albums.One of my favourites is Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra - the combination works really well.

Radio Tarifa are Spanish,and feature traditional music from southern Spain and Morocco,along with some of their own stuff.It's something of a hybrid,as they have a rather good electric guitarist,and the vocalist sounds a bit like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Congrats on getting Ric Ocasek.Although you weren't exactly overwhelmed by response to your previous audio question,I'd suggest trying another to see if you get some feedback this time.

Just worked out that way.

Cheers,

Bob

Richard Shindell - The Courier
John Gorka - The Company You Keep
Beethoven - Violin Concerto
Lucy Kaplansky - Every Single Day
James Taylor - JT

Rodriguez, Concerto d'Aranjuez, 'cause it's just great.

Antonio Forcione, Ghetto Paradise, hadn't listened to it for a while. Ought to listen to it more, a good record.

Barry Manilow, Copacabana, having won it as a prize in a pancake race last Tuesday I popped it on to see if it was as bad as I remembered. It's actually worse.

King Crimson, Heavy ConstruKction, the Improvs disc, because I was feeling in the mood for something mad, bad and very dangerous to know to help purge the Bazza from my head.

Pete.

Masada... Live at Tonic (top recommendation from Hockman!)

The Eminent JJ Johnson Vol1 and 2 (King vinyl) because Mole jazz is heaven

Don Cherry .. Symphony for improvisors (see above)

Gerry Mulligan/Lee Konitz... Revelation (BN reissue series LP) Because Gerry swings

John...

Goose

At the moment I am doing 'electronica'

1. Fila Brazillia, Jump Leads. (you have to buy this just for track three and four)

2. Baby Mamouth. Seven Up (This is a seriously good album folks, Nick Lees, take note, buy this album!)

3. Groove Armada, Goodbye Country Hello Nightclub, (yep still listening, I like this Album, but am beginning to think I am alone!)

4. Eric Clapton, Slow Hand (I found this on vinyl at a chariety shop, got it and five other records, -which turned out to be crap- for 75p, its in very very good condition, and I really enjoyed revisting which led me to:)

5. John Mayall with Eric Clapton, Blues Breakers, or The Beano album, (simply love this, have it on vinyl favorite tune being 'have you heard', in fact I think I am going to put it on now)

God there is so much music in the world. I don't suppose if you were subjected to listening to different music continuosly from when you are born to when you die you would cover even a tenth of it.

Chopin - earlier Mazurkas (Sofronitsky)

Chopin - later Mazurkas (Ashkenazy)

Chopin - Polonaises Op 40 and 53 (Pollini)

Brahms - Piano Sonata No 3 (Annie Fischer)

Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra piano reduction (Sandor)