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    Right now some Scots and Irish music.

    Alasdair Roberts, The Corries, The High Kings, Van Morrisson and a few others are queued up on my playlist.
    If you haven't heard Alasdair Roberts and you aren't feeling sufficiently depressed I suggest you sample his heartbreaking take on Scots folk song.

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    Just written to her recording engineer to try and pry some more CDs/DVDs out of him and find out if she is going to be touring Europe anytime soon.

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    Missing Persons - Destination Unknown. I heard this on the radio the other day, and I hadn't heard it in years... and now it's an earworm.

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    (Youtube link, sorry I couldn't find a better version)

    I've got my random video mix going, which is heavily weighed toward Jem and the Holograms (I need more music videos, and movie clips, and amvs...)
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    I just got my hot little hands on Muse's The Resistance. I'm quite pleased with it so far. I've never been a huge fan, but I've generally enjoyed what they put out. This one has actually been a lot more enjoyable to me than the previous albums. Knowing how I am about music, it'll remain in constant rotation on my playlist for a few more days before I start putting other things in there again.

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    Anyone recommend songs like this? I love it.

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    After seeing her open up for Chris Isaak last night, I'm listening to . This girl can flat out play the guitar -- I can only imagine how good she's gonna be once she grows up and really learns some stuff!

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    Right now I am listening to jazz pianist Ray Bryant.

    Genius.

    Truly magnificent stuff.

    His solo stuff is stirring, truly. But his trio work is great fun.
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    This week, I've bounced around. Mostly, it's been Less Than Jake, though there's been a fair amount of Muse.

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    The song " " by Clutch is so damned awesome that I am convinced that I do not own speakers that are capable of playing it loud enough to get the full appreciation. I love that song so damned much.

    The other song that I've had on heavy rotation this week, and a radical departure from Clutch is the bouncy and jazzy and poppy " " by Against Me! I heard this at a buddy's house and the chord progression got stuck in my head and I ended having to learn how to play it, and the more I listened to it then more and more that I ended up likeing is.
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    Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
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    So one of my favorite bands in the world is a new school hardcore punk band called The Bronx. For who knows what reason they decided to do a mariachi album under the name Mariachi El Bronx. I think that's a pretty cool idea, and it gets even better when you realize that they weren't kidding and they really made a totally balls out mariachi album. Then they upped the ante by covering a Prince song and just transcending everything by being a hardcore band playing mariachi covers of Prince and still scoring so fucking hard by really doing it perfectly. If this isn't awesome, I'm insane because I love this as much as I love anything at all. Matt Caughtran is the best vocalist in the history of music period. Seriously.

    by Mariachi El Bronx
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    Take quite a while to start.

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    I Would Die 4 U by Mariachi El Bronx
    Yeah, this is incredible. Thanks for posting it, Cluricaun

    I have been listening to a lot of Andrew Bird lately:

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    I went to see the Cave Singers last night and they were rather good.

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    I like Lykke Li, don't know about you.
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    I turned my iPod into my own personal Way Back Machine this week by loading The Smiths' Hatful of Hollow into it. It's interesting to me that everything that it my least favorite Smiths release in 1987 make it my favorite now: comprised of mostly live-in-the-BBC-studio versions of their best-known songs, the dreadful 80s production values are stripped away. It sounds warm, gritty (especially the bass guitar), and imperfect. Makes me wish I had seen the Smiths in concert.
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    Right now I am obsessed with these two songs:



    Taumpy: Oh noes, you aren't a super powerful wave of destruction.
    Panther Squad: It's true! My scythe does not shorn the biomonsters in great swaths like it ought!

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    I keep playing two favourites right now. The first one is because it's November, and I can't stay sad when Daler is so happy.


    And another evergreen:
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    I wish this were available to buy. It has as far as I'm aware only available on the DVD of "Jacquou Le Croquant".

    Just managed to rip it as an mp3 though so I can drag it around on my mp3 player

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    Owl City's Fireflies. The first time I heard it, I didn't much care for it but it grew on me rapidly, particularly after seeing the video.

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    Walpurgis, I love that Kate Bush video. Yay for Donald Sutherland.

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    Lately I'm enjoying this song an awful lot. It's very pleasant. (Also, the female vocal is my friend's aunt)


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    TingTing (NOT The Tingtins (Blearrgh!) Mozarts 11th piano concerto. Not exactly as he imagined it.

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    I just discovered this song by Florence + the Machine, which completely floored me. My inner 20-year old Goth just woke up and asked for her eyeliner.

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    "And I hope I don't get born again, 'cuz one time was enough!" -- Mark Sandman

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    Ray Bryant

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    -Jim Rockford

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    Last edited by Myglaren; 05 Feb 2010 at 11:35 AM.

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    To sleep, perchance to experience amygdalocortical activation and prefrontal deactivation.

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    I heart Tom Waits.

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    been listening to this lately

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    I've had this song stuck in my head for a couple of weeks.


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    Van Morrison These Are The Days

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    Thanks, Myglaren, for keeping this thread alive for so long.

    Couldn't find an album version for this unfortunately. This is an Americana/Bluegrass band from Australia called The Greencards.


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    No thanks are due Taumpy, it's pure self indulgence

    I didn't used to like the following clip, always sounded too 'broken' and as though she should have left it alone. In fact when she sang it in Brussels I wondered why it had been on the setlist at all.

    A couple of weeks ago it got dragged onto my mp3 player and I have begun to really like it. I think it must be something that grows on you (no - not like fungus) and I rather like the 'brokenness' and her inability to reach the highest notes anymore (she's 48 now). Thinking about it, I do seem to have a preference for her live CDs and DVDs where they don't quite attain the perfection of the studio recordings, especially where she breaks down and cries onstage.



    She went for a little trip yesterday

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