What Are You Listening To Right Now? [#3?] - Page 3  

Van Halen live without a net DVD

"Cante Per Me" by Yuki Kajiura from Noir OST 1.

Black Sabbath - Children Of The Grave

Metallica - (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth

Listening to what I wish I could play like... I need to practice more often.

Metallica - Sanitarium on my DT770

An extremely low quality live recording of Time by Ours.

Planet Drum by Mickey Hart (and friends). A very well recorded album of percussion of all kinds from all over the world. I've had this CD for over ten years, but its been a few years since I've listened to it. I'm putting most of my CD's onto my iPod right now, and it was in the stack I'm currently encoding to MP3, so I pulled it out and stuck it in my CD player. Through my Senn HD600's and Gilmore Lite, it sounds absolutely fantastic. According to the liner notes, the album was recorded using a selection of Sennheiser, AKG, and Neuumann microphones. Good stuff.

-Keith

iced earth - prophecy

Right at this instant I am listening to Hey Jude by the Beatles. I have over 800 songs on my computer. Basically half my CD collection. Ya never know what song is going to come on.

And all the wine is all for me

Any of you been listening to the Cherry Tree EP by The National? Ohio band out of Brooklyn now, but this is good stuff. I might've posted a little blurb about it before but it bears repeating....this is damn fine music. Might be close to my pick for album of the year...that is, if it was an album. So what do you do with EPs? Do they qualify for best of the year? Do they have to be twice as good as a LP? Hmmm....

It's just 7 songs with about 28 1/2 minutes of music. The first 5 songs are new and one is a live version of a song from the last LP and one is performed mainly by Australian labelmate and avant garde composer/performer Padma Newsome who is also a sometime member of the band. If you like Interpol and the Tindersticks and Willard Grant Conspiracy (and by extension Joy Division, Nick Cave, Scott Walker, Tom Waits, The Smiths, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, etc, etc) then these guys from Brooklyn via Ohio might become one of your favorite new bands. They are one of mine. Beautiful CD that I've been playing over and over for about the last few months after reading a rave for it in Uncut. Hard to pick a favorite song from the 5 originals, but being a California kid this one called "All the Wine" always sounds kinda cool....

I'm put together beautifully
Big wet bottle in my fist
Big wet rose in my teeth

I'm a perfect piece of ass
Like every Californian
So tall I take over the street

With high beams shining up my back
A wingspan unbelievable
I'm a festival
I'm a parade

And all the wine is all for me
And all the wine is all for me
And all the wine is all for me......



Really cool live version of "Murder Me Rachael" from the last album too which is said to be very good as well, although at the moment it's only high on my seemingly endless wishlist, and not in my greedy, music loving hands. Quite a few studio and live tracks to hear and see at their label site at http://www.brassland.org/index_media.html, although the live video of "All The Wine" is an old version that bears little resemblence to this later studio track other than the title.

Queen "We will Rock you" Live DVD. Its a shame Freddie is no longer here...

Seabound "Torch" off of Beyond Flatline

Demon Hunter - My Heartstrings come undone
(my friend thinks it sounds like linkin park, I disagree though)