I would like to suggest
Posted by davecowps on 28 July 2008 - 11:15pm.
an alternative to The Randomizer - What Are You Listening To Right Now?
ie. what music are you playing when you read the words "What Are You Listening To Right Now?"
As always, no cheating.
For no particular reason I'm listening to The Orchard by Lizz Wright. It's ok.
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Alphabeat's Boyfriend. On,
Alphabeat's Boyfriend. On, of all things, the Bubble Hits channel.
This is what Last.FM is for
... well, one of the things.
Anyway, whatever I'm listening to will be shown
here.
Unless it's on a CD or the radio, or something I'm doing for work.
A podcast of
This Sporting Life.
try it here:
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/thissportinglife/default.htm
evan david
going on about mortages again
Snap!
The other soundtrack to my morning is the sound of a small pneumatic drill digging up the side return of our flat. It's horrid - but still preferable to the truly ghastly noise pollution that is Robert Peston. Seriously, is this man a spoof? A posh counterpart to Ivan Brackenbury? As Jack Lemmon says in Some Like It Hot, "nobody talks like that!"
Robert Peston must be stopped
Robert Peston sounds like an unlistenable version of Kenneth Williams on "Just A Minute". One moment he's talking slow and low, the next he's chattering away like a demented typewriter (cf. Richard Briers), all within the same sentence. It's really hard on my ears that early in the morning.
Right now I'm listening to the wrong answer buzzer noise from "Family Fortunes" (eh-ehh!), which I've just downloaded for a friend's quiz.
No music
But my oven is warming up, and making a not unpleasant hum.
and smell ?
what's cooking the?
The seduction of claude debussy
By The Art of Noise.
I have just discovered this record. And its fabulous. Listened to it 3 times in the last 24 hours.
The Sound of Silence.
Not the Simon and Garfunkel version. The other one. Just the sound of one finger typing.
My colleagues
My work colleagues discussing last night's thunder storm.
I guess this isn't the kind of insight you were hoping for, is it Mr Cowps?
Well,
it is if they were singing it! I particularly like the thunderstorm in Crying to the Sky by Be Bop Deluxe - maybe your colleagues have heard it?
Ha!
I can pretty much guarantee that only one of my colleagues (hi Nat!) will even have heard of Be Bop Deluxe.
A podcast
The latest from "In The Groove - Jazz and beyond". Brazilian-inspired jazz this week, featuring the likes of Flora Purim. Great stuff, and a welcome antidote to last night's vile weather.
Joy Division - Closer
I was in the middle of Heart and Soul when I switched my iPod off when I got into work.
radio 4
I think it's Woman's Hour and the washing machine.
Careful about how you discuss popular music...
Some Basic Instructions.
http://www.basicinstructions.net/2008/07/how-to-discuss-popular-music.ht...
Just clicked on your link
and got lost for twenty minutes. Glorious. How come no-one's told me about this before?
Fantastic!
but for 48 year old men, they don't look very happy.
And tht beard is a bit, well, tidy..........
Groove
"Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" by Chic, all 8:22 of it, because I got this
in the post yesterday. Just how bloody great were Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson when they got in a room together?
Tell me
Where did you locate such wonder?
Chic
Here you go.
Careful, Dave,
you'll have Mr Hepworth after you for having the audacity to propose an alternative to the Randomiser.
Oh, and since you asked, 'Blood' by Tindersticks; I'm a cheery soul.
It's ok, I don't think he's listening.
The question was prompted by the number of Randomizer responses which indicate that lots of people have music on their mp3 players which they'd forgotten they had, rarely choose to play and in several instances don't even like! Unfortunately, that includes me.
If, as suggested elsewhere, The Word people use the Randomiser to check on their readership's tastes, I thought it might be interesting to ask what we listen to by choice.
I would also find it interesting to ask "What was in your last delivery from Amazon?* (* insert supplier of choice) as that would show what we actually spend money on, so we must think we like it!
(Listening to Crying to the Sky by Be Bop Deluxe - see above - whilst typing this. Switched off The Night by Morphine to do so, and will now put it back on!)
My otherwise reasonably peaceful morning
is being ruined by a rotund and impossibly posh character wittering away about his bloody holiday
But I'm bloody miles away!
;-)
The Coral's debut album
Was up to "Dreaming Of You" when I read the question... am having a Liverpool day on the iPod, having previously played a Teardrop Explodes compilation, Shack's "Waterpistol" and "Abbey Road" - tradition dictates The La's will probably be next...
Sax break...
.....in the middle of "I want your body" by Screaming Jay Hawkins.
Courtesy of Media Player shuffle.
It's just finished and "Season To Leave" by The Guthries has just started.
Ping
"Pinball"-Brian Protheroe
That
is a great choice.
nothing as yet
but have a craving to listen to ' wonderful life' - felice bros
Word CDs!
Slowly catching up on the last six months' worth.
Rather enjoyed Nick Lowe, Billy Bragg, Brandi Carlile, Chris Difford, Magnet, Shelby Lynne, Oh Laura and Sarabeth Tucek. Quite liked Toumani Diabate as well, and I've not been a fan of much of the African music that has been appearing on many covermount CDs in the last year or so, Tinariwen aside.
Didn't find the B52s as unbearably irritating as Love Shack was.