I saw the VH1 "Behind the Music" on Led Zep and I pulled out all their albums. Made a tape and have it going full blast at work right now. Great PA system here. Bet they can hear it in Catalina right now. What are you listening to right now? James

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

Answers

Lyle Lovett "Road to Ensenada" - LOUD... (I should be doing laundry instead). .

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

We've been listening to the Bluetones' Mudslide EP a lot this weekend, and Ian's had his Best of Blur DVD on a continuous loop, so I've got Chemical World and She's So High and To the End in my head at the moment.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

ive been listning to kathi lees new cd!!1 i love it its so good!

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

Hey Lumberjack, My other half (not referring to my schizophrenia) is a huge, huge Led Zep fan-and coincidentally, is also a sort-of lumberjack (he's a Forester). We've been trying to get hold of the Led Zep "Behind the Music" for ages now. If you by any chance taped that show, I would be thrilled to buy a copy from you. And, if you are interestd, we could work out a trade for one of our bootlegs-we have Yellow Zeppelin (and it kicks ass). I spent the day listening to Aretha's Greatest Hits and "Til We Outnumber Em, The Woodie Guthrie Tribute Album". Woodie inspired me, I actually wrote my first song today on the guitar, "The Perfect Woman".

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

A couple of summers ago, Ian and I did a week's worth of housesitting for a friend of his down in London while she was in Italy on holiday. It was a great week -- a huge house by the Thames down in south London, surrounded by woods and only a ten minute Tube ride into central London. When we were actually in the house, we listened to Aretha Franklin's Greatest Hits non-stop, with Kenickie's Stay in the Sun single thrown in for variety's sake. Consequently, all those songs make me deliriously happy with the memory of that week.

Uninteresting but true...

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

Violent Femmes.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

The new Spice Girls album. Yes, I'm still on my Teen Poo kick. But soon the Krimma Music is gonna be blasting....

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

Superchunk.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

Dwanollah, I thought you said the new Spice Girls album was boring.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

Little Feat "Waiting for Columbus" collection.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2000

I get to listen to my daughter's lullabye CD everynight. I bought Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" so next time I'm in an altered state (like probably when h**l freezes over), I can crank it really, really, loud and have a flash-back 70's experience. I love that album. Actually, I've haven't bought many CDs and am trying to accumulate a very rich and classic collection of Jazz, R & B, and women musicians. I would be happy to have any of y'all's input 'cause you seem to know all the music much better than I. If you name an artist, tell me which album (uh, I mean CD) you think is best. Thanks!!

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

At this very moment? I am at work at the Reference counter of a library, waiting for quetsions. I hear the sounds of people murmuring and a few muffled coughs. I hear the people tapping tapping on their keyboards, pages turning, footsteps muffled by carpet, zippers on jackets and backpacks faintly jingling.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

I'm listening to Liz Phair and it makes me want to cry. I love her and she thinks I'm an idiot.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

Marisa -- ME TOO! Well, not this exact moment, but in the car. It's mostly been that, or "Step Inside This House."

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

I too am listening to Led Zeppelin; my renewed interest luckily coincides with them being on VH-1 every other hour...one of my roommates asked me the other day, "How many times can you listen to "Good Times, Bad Times" on repeat, and must you belt along EVERY TIME?" and I answered, "Indefinitely and YES!" Then I turned it way down and tried to hum along instead of belting...

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

I've been stuck on Marty Friedman/Jason Becker's "Speed Metal Symphony" today. Yes, over-the-top shred metal from 10+ years ago. Sometimes I just gotta have it. What I was listening to yesterday was Extreme and Matthew Sweet.

I was the biggest Led Zeppelin fan all through high school and college. I had tickets to see them in the Superdome in New Orleans just a week before Robert Plant's son died and the rest of the tour was cancelled. I always loved the intensity of the performances on the albums, the creativity that bubbled up in everything they did, and the fact that they were hugely popular but well outside of the mainstream of pop music. What I've been fascinated by the most over the last 10 years of listening is the genius of Jimmy Page as producer. Listening to any old Zep CD, the production is rich even when the music itself is raw and stripped down. There's a lot of Beatles talk these days, with the new anthology and the "1" CD. They were amazing and influential. I consider Led Zeppelin no less amazing or influential. Hats off to Roy Harper! (wink wink) :-)

P.S. Gwen, Your ALT tag on the Valkyrie photo from Halloween really made me smile, in case I haven't already told you. :-)

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

I know what it means to be alone
I sure do wish I was at home
I don't care what the neighbors say
I'm gonna love you, each and every day I'm listening to Liz Phair, too, but I'm not crying because I don't love her that way. I save my crying for Pavement. Paul: thanks. I don't remember what it said, but thank you.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

Gwen, it was perfect, as usual. It said, "Valhalla, I am coming." :-) Perfect!

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

I love Liz Phair but I don't love her that way either... I "met" her in a student cafe once- she was there having a quiet cup of coffee on her own and I slipped on the ice in the doorway- fell flat on my ass. She laughed at me in sympathy (I hope), and after she left, my friend, the waitress, told me who it was. Later I bought her CD, and loved it. And there it is, my brush with celebrity.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

Ah, Liz Phair. The lines "I'm sending you this photograph/ I swear this one is gonna last/and all those other bastards/were only practice" pop into my head at least once a week, at random intervals.

Then I half sing/hum that song for hours.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

"Fuck and Run" is my total themesong. God, I love Liz Phair.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

Right now I'm obsessing on the Magnetic Fields:

The book of love is long and boring No one can lift the damn thing It's full of charts and facts and figures and instructions for dancing but I, I love it when you read to me and you, you can read me anything The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb but I, I love it when you sing to me and you, you can sing me anything The book of love is long and boring and written very long ago It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes and things we're all too young to know but I, I love it when you give me things and you, you ought to give me wedding rings I, I love it when you give me things and you, you ought to give me wedding rings

Sniff.

Also lots of Tarnation and Son Volt.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

Jackie, I did. Yet I'm still listening to the damned thing. I have to fwd through at least 4 songs, but, yes, I'm STILL listening. Yeah, I know, I know... you don't need to point it out.... *snicker*

I think I'm just too lazy to pick out another CD.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

The Dandy Warhols, Merrymakers, Changelings, Pulp and, uh, more Dandy Warhols.

Peter Holmstrom is my new ex-husband-to-be. Mine. Mine. Back off, or you'll pull back a nub.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

I'm listening (on headphones and on autorepeat, because I'm at work) to a Revels CD, "To Drive the Dark Away".

The revels are cool! it's sort of christmassy and seasonal, but with different international traditions worked in. This one is Nordic (Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway) and Gospel. I love the yipping and stamping that seques into "go tell it on the mountain"

See http://www.revels.org/ for more. I love this stuff!

Anita of Anita's BOD and Anita's LOL

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

I'm listening to my newly made mixed tape over and over. The theme is "Bad Boys, Bad Love" I always do themes. By the time I get around to designing a cover and sending it out to friends I'll be right sick of it. I outplay every mixed tape I make. I think it's partly laziness not necessarily a testament to my genius at putting a record on the platter and pressing the record button.

I'm also listening to Nina Simone "Sings the Blues". I NEVER tire of this album. I think it's her best one by far. Anyone else a Nina Simone fan?

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

My favorite line from Liz Phair is "You fuck like a volcano and you're everything to me". I adore every line of "Chopsticks". "He said he liked to do it backwards, I said that's just fine with me, that way we can fuck and watch t.v." Why do all of my favorite musical quotes use the word fuck? I *was* listening to Ani Difranco (compilation) but now that I am on hold with the IRS I am listening to the Nutcracker Suite. I used to like Tchaichovsky, but too many hours on hold with the IRS and now I have developed a facial tic in response to his music. I may climb to the top of the bell tower if this doesn't end soon. Or I may just sit here and write a bunch of songs that use the word fuck copiously.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2000

"Fuck copiously." Heh.

I like that "volcano" line, too; and, just as much, the line immediately before it: "Your kisses are as wicked as an F-16." Oh yeah, Liz rocks.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2000

I was listening to Transcendental Blues by Steve Earle. But, now I've got In Step by Stevie Ray Vaughan and then I'm putting in Led Zeppelin. This thread is bringing back memories. I wore out 3 copies of the Led Zep vinyl LP in my younger days...thank god for CDs. p.s. floosie, you kill me....

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2000

Lately I've been listening to Moby, NIN, and Puracane.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2000

I've just gone out and bought Pavement (thanks Gwen) and Skunk Anansie (fuck off music) and a couple of other cds that I'm not going to tell you about coz you'll just laugh. We all have embarassing favourites, don't we?

-- Anonymous, November 23, 2000

Embarrasing favorites? Sounds like a new topic a-brewing, Jane!

-- Anonymous, November 23, 2000

Skunk Anansie...Hmm. I've always wondered why they aren't massive in the US -- Skin is that combination of scary and pretty and her voice is gorgeous and their music is hard enough for Limp Bizkit fans who wouldn't know they were actually listening to quality music if it held up a placard telling them so. Skunk Anansie should be huge in America.

-- Anonymous, November 23, 2000

Pavement broke up. That's my excuse for listening to them for the rest of the week. I hope you like them, Jane. SOME people on this forum think they're "a bunch of noise." I won't be petty and say those people's names, though. Although it's interesting to note that they share the same name. Hmm...

-- Anonymous, November 25, 2000

Did I actually say "a bunch of noise," Gwen? No, wait, I mean....

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2000

That's exactly what you said. It's burned into my retinas. It was driven into my heart on the tip of a wooden stake.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Huh. Well, I'll be damned.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Don't worry about it. I only cried for about 48 hours, and now I love them more than ever.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

But don't let me break up the embarrassing music confessions, y'all...

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

Oh Gwenz, you know these old geezers don't know good music when it bites them in the brain. He probably cried the day the muzak stopped. (I hear he has all the Lawrence Welks Greatest Tunes vinyl) Lumberjack

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2000

PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

-- Anonymous, November 30, 2000

The new PJ is amazing, especially the duet with Thom Yorke. Yumminess.

-- Anonymous, December 27, 2000