... Magnetic Field by Joe Meek

Lauren Laverne's playing it. It'll be the one song in twenty on 6Music that I've heard before. And the one artist in twenty that I've heard of. So back to obscurity for the next three hours.

Ambient traffic noise, the tapping of computer keyboards and clicking of mice.

In my head, Lazy by Suede has been swimming around for about quarter of an hour now.

*makes west side gesture with hands*

Is currently done on my commute for the most part, so if you ever want to know what I'm listening to just check me up on Twitter (@johnnywas25). It's a constant flow of rubbish and great music from about 7am -9am. Like a radio show with the volume turned down....

If I was to hit play right now on my Ipod it would be 80s Mod band The Direct Hits and their album Blow Up. 10 tracks of 1966 flavoured Mod/Psych, all swinging London, black and white films and that moment when the Mods started going psychedelic around the edges. But this was recorded in 1984 so it's almost pastiche. Saved from that by some fantastic songwriting from Colin Swann and Geno Buckmaster, formerly of The Exits, who produced one New Wave/Powerpop single called Fashion Victim in the late 70s. If you like The Jam, XTC, Squeeze and the more whimsical side of The Who circa 66/67 you'd like The Direct Hits.

I was on a train a while ago it was late on a Friday and a guy obviously slightly refreshed asked the same questions.
“Well” he asked in broad slurred Sheffield accent
“I Allus always wanted t’know what all you lot are listenin’ to, when I’m on’t ‘train... everyone’s got ya head phones on... and wonder what tha all listen’ too.
“I’m listen to Journey best band in world (this was before the whole glee “more than feeling” thing) so come on what tha all listenin’ ta?”
It was good natured and so he went round his end of the carriage chivivng answer out of us all.
On lass offered up Whitney which got the reply “what! is it 1985 or summat” this from a Journey fan.
Coldplay got the thumbs up
An older gent was listening to the Eagles which got two thumbs up
When it came to me I went for honesty and also I couldn’t think of what would be “credible” so fessed up to listening to “The Alegri Miserere” which was the truth.
“Tha what?”
“Alegri Miserere it’s polyphonic choral music “ I continued sinking further into my pseud’s corner seat.
Cue a “garlic bread” style riff on “polyphony” etc
“Tha dunt want that, tha wants Journey, best band in’t chuffin’ world” and then sat down in triumphed and a swig of his stella.

Wrong thread, but since I'm here:

Listening to Radcliffe and Maconie on Listen Again in the office (my whole team is off this week, so headphones all the way). They are currently playing the Ace of Spades! And I'm eating strawberries and raspberries, so it's all good here.

due to the wonder of spotify & an understanding boss I am currently listening to Fisherman by The Congos.
My username is seanoneill so if anyone wants to link up feel free.

I always want to know what other people are listening to & find it fun to guess! I was set next to a bloke on the tube last week who pointed at my ipod then gave me a thumbs up! I was listening to the fall so he must be one of the 49,999 other people who can't be wrong.

Tom Robinson Introducing Podcast on 6music.

on the kitchen Squeezebox... Currently playing Hollywood Nights by Bob Seger.

Struggling Man - Jimmy Cliff

Bonkers philosophical/Big Ideas US podcast called Radiolab. Currently listening to an episode called 'Help!'which asks "what do you do when your own worst enemy is...you?"

It's a jumble of edits and layers as if Radio 4 was being remixed by the Avalanches.

http://www.radiolab.org/2011/mar/08/

But by the time I'd typed it it'd finished!

The "Fats On Fire" album. "Old Man Trouble". It's always Fats O'Clock somewhere.

The "Fats On Fire" album. "Old Man Trouble". It's always Fats O'Clock somewhere.

'That's How I Got To Memphis'

or so what - Paul Simon -

I Done A Album

On the radio in the background now....

You couldn't get arrested

Cracked LCD

I don't know how anyone finds time to listen to music other than when travelling or at home with feet up. I'm on bloody holiday and I still hardly get to listen to anything!

From Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom

Shiela take a Bow in the ears and Penge on the eyes. The only thing I know about Penge is that Brian Jones lived there, or Bill Wyman, or someone. I don't know who the Shiela in question is either.

in our office, but my own personal hard drive is playing 'Put On Your Sunday Clothes' from Hello Dolly via Wall-E

I'm sat at home listening to my boss drone on via a conference call on his weekly staff meeting.... I'm in Singapore and he;s in Minneapolis (and no, he is not Prince)

Another hour and it should be done. After that probably bed with the new Elbow album on as I finish my cup of tea.

Someone else droning on about their dumb children

Someone going into meltdown about their slow internet connection.

In my head: Underdog (Save Me)/Turin Brakes

as it's still my favourite station (after many years in Germany, although it's now been downgraded transmitterwise, in preparation for the army's eventual withdrawal from here.)

This week is fascinating as they're playing the force's top 500, I mean Pink Floyd/Jam/Love Affair/Black Sabbath on morning mainstream radio! Friday they're doing the top 100. Recommended.

Nice forgotten oldie today was the Source feat. Candi Staton. Terrific. Right now it's the Ace of Spades.

by Sun Kil Moon

For the 3rd time today. It's gorgeous.

Only The Lord Knows - Mavis Staples. It's a rather bad habit of mine to tweet what I'm listening to most days on Twitter. Ooh! Now Sweet Dreams(Live) - Emmylou Harris has just popped out.

Supposedly working at home today, so had the chance to listen to a couple of albums I recently bought, R.E.M's Collaspe Into Now and Paul Simon's So Beautiful Or So What.

...C'mon.

Only the first listen, but I'm going to stick my neck on the line and say it's brilliant.

Arts and ideas podcast...and to be honest it's really getting on my nerves.

the one that samples Serge's Bonnie et Clyde.

Crooked legs.

by Son Lux, on NPR
Now, people of Word: what's the title of the song by Alison Krauss on the CD (May issue)?

one of The Word CDs from recent months. Haven't been bothering with them so much since my record-buying has picked up. There's some quite nice stuff on them, turns out.

Meh

Let England Shake, on Spotify

It's That Look In Your Eye by Ali Campbell - which should by rights have been awful, what with it being an aeon since UB40 did anything decent. But it's a lovely, sunny poptastic choon. I'm listening to it voluntarily, as part of a Spotify playlist for my five-year-old daughter.

Next up is O Superman!

I managed to find almost all my long lost 45s on Spotify and created a playlist with them. Instant nostalgia!

SUDS AND SODA

Still catching up with new releases on Spotify

In the car I was listening to Godspeed you black emperor cd courtesy of el Hombre followed by Robert Earl Keen best of. Was a long drive back from Presteigne and both of these selections improved the journey somewhat.

Chapter One of Iris Murdoch's 'Under The Net' (Audio book, only 9 hours to go) has just been replaced by The Doors' 'Strange Days'.
Old fashioned way of listening to music, I accept, but I've now had that one Doors' record playing all yesterday and all today.
Random?
Nah!

...is currently, in another universe, playing 'What is Life?' live in Japan.

Lovely.

A Salty Dog....... the live version with the strings and stuff.

Just got back to work from lunch. Turned on iTunes on the work computer and the Word friendly Tom Waits showed up, singing Bad Liver & A Broken Heart. Very nice. May have to listen to the whole album this afternoon.

Cinnamon Girl

Not on an iPod, but I've got yesterday's "Later..." running on the iPlayer on the other tab, and I am going to keep listening to this song over and over because its sending a shiver down my spine. I think it's great!

of whoops, yelps, groans and screams.
Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal from The Ultrasound Remixes.

Test piloting the new Alison Krauss, doesn't sound much different to Lonely Runs Both Ways but that's not a bad thing.

Agaetis Byrjun - the title track of the album on random. Nine minutes of shimmering beauty

(Disneyland After Dark)
Sleeping My Day Away

(Random Playlist on Media Player)

Two Beans Shaker from their latest album A Matter of Life...

Because it is jolly good music to work/ revise to. Having said that I'm on here, so it isn't going too well.

compilation double LP. Yeehaw.

by Leon Russell.
A new discovery for me. Superb.

Don't Get Weird on Me, Babe.

It's been a while.

Live in London - the BBC Sessions. Well, the three tracks I used up the end of my e-Music allowance on before it expires today anyway. They're very good. I may download the rest of the album when the new credits arrive tomorrow.

Just at the moment The Love I Lost.

"Kick Death's Ass" from Andreas Mattsson ( ex-Popsicle ).
Highly recommended to middle aged slightly melancholic men and women wondering where their youth went...but learning to enjoy the small trivial pleasures of everyday life.
Bittersweet lyrics, bittersweet melodies.
"That's how I feel
Like a sunny room and two grownups
And one's in love and one is not
And one sits down and tells him so
He thought he had it all but here it goes
How easy it can be sometimes
Nothing to read between the lines
She'll get her things and that's the end
She says she's found another friend
Like if those two were me and you
And you would leave me lonely in that sunny room
That's how I feel"
One of many songs that I'm falling in love with right now listening to this wonderful album.

Lovely piece of warn Australian psychedelia from 1969. Very English sounding actually. I know nothing about them but heard The Church do a cover of this song at the weekend and am now a victim to its charms. It's not on Spotify so here's the YouTube...

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Rob Cowan, somebody's violin concerto I'd say, probably famous but not one I know.

You asked ;-)

Elvis Fucking Christ

Though I can hear the kids coming upstairs so will have to witch it off...

Bostich and Fussible´s Bulevar 2000. Crazy mix of Tijuana Norteño Tex-Mex and Electronica. Perfect for sunny weather.

Boy lilikoi by Jonsi

Matt Berry's "Witchazel"

Well alright. Never heard it before. Sounds nice.

Sarabeth Tucek-Get Well Soon http://open.spotify.com/album/2JyXR74N6544omuLHo0gaC

Seeing Eye Dog by Helmet http://open.spotify.com/album/385rXRPdfosiUrhlcaAOvp which is jolly good noisy stuff, apart from a woefully misguided cover of And Your Bird Can Sing.

A live 1984 rendition of "Zoot Allures" on which Mr Z advises a heckler to "Eat shit".

This is not my favourite edition of the Zappa show. While he had superb bands during the '78-'84 tours and a great frontman in Ike Willis, somehow it all seems a bit lifeless compared to previous editions.

The final 1988 tour was a "massive improve'lence" but apparently was so fraught with band disharmony that when it finally imploded he vowed to never tour again. Illness and his death in 1993 ensured that this was indeed so.

Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias - Snuffin Like That

The Dame. The gift that keeps on giving.

And it's

My doorbell by the White stripes

Brilliant album and well worth checking out.

by Thomas Fraser. Can't find a clip to share that tune but there is now a Thomas Fraser Festival in Shetland in his honour

Song of the pearl

........and all's well with the world

Through headphones on my laptop, whilst my colleague looks on in amazement at my arm waving, head bopping antics.

Currently working my way through the "Chinatown" album - Killer On the Loose...

The Bugle 148 podcast. Andy and John on great form as usual. Frank Skinner on Absolute next...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rtg8c/Meet_David_Sedaris_Episode...

A jazz violinist I'd never heard of until I saw his obituary in the New York Times. Powerful story of a guy who never got over his Vietnam experience.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/arts/music/billy-bang-jazz-violinist-d...

Station Approach, rather enjoying it as well.

Right now!

His album, The Innocent Ones

Here's the title track live.

another thread made me do it

also it seemed appropriate as the Green Man is a year dead

Sounds like a kids tv soundtrack. And not in a good way.

of my dining room clock. It's got a pendulum, you know.

... 'Cabretta' by Mink DeVille, current track is 'Cadillac Walk.'

....and it's now Vangelis - Ask the mountains

Wonderful stuff

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/jennie-abrahamson

A Rob Fitzpatrick recommendation from the new issue.

Very, very good indeed.

I'm going to see him tomorrow.

Whatching a doco about his songs I Sky plussed from Sky Arts 1 a few weeks ago...

"Got To Get You Off My Mind". Superb

"These Days" and "Dear Rosemary" being my favourite tracks from their amazing new album :-)

several albums on Acnefy™

Bob Hund´s Det Överexponerade Gömstället.

http://open.spotify.com/album/2fHlshQ59BSqyxdPKoTxVY

and a host of other names from the contemporary classical world
May 2011 (Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet, Bryce Dessner, Owen Pallett, Tyondai Braxton & more) by Barbican Music