What song/album/artist are you listening to?

[Cville24]

Inspired by threads on many other forums, this thread is pretty self-explanatory- what song, album, or artist have you been listening to lately?

I'll start- I'm listening to Zach Bryan's album Quiet, Heavy Dreams. It's short, only 20 minutes, but it's a very nice album IMO.

 

[northstar907]

I absolutely love Zach Bryan, couldn’t pick a favorite album I normally just shuffle all. Been listening to him a lot lately as well as Morgan Wallen’s new songs.

 

[Capt MJ]

No doubt I’ll be an outlier, with eclectic and varied tastes developed from college radio station DJ days through several decades on the planet. All day today I have been listening to world music/nuevo flamenco on the big surround system as I’ve wrapped presents, written Christmas cards, made up lists of needed items for last rounds of holiday baking.

The playlist: Strunz & Farah vintage stuff, Armik’s latest, Gypsy Kings and Jesse Cook on his Felipe Conde guitar. I developed a love of flamenco while stationed at NAVSTA Rota, Spain, and would attend outdoor festivals where the music started late when it was cooler and you stayed up all night. People would get up and spontaneously dance or do the off-beat syncopated clapping.

Tomorrow in the car as I drive mids to the airport I’ll probably have Shania Twain and Joan Jett for an energetic mix.

I look forward to exploring what other people are listening to. Thank you for starting this thread!

Chill out with this tonight:

Note for @VelveteenR , if no one’s in the house, you know I’m dancing to these.

 

[brewmeist]

I have a wide-range of musical taste. As a former music major and trumpet player, I listen to and have performed many genres of classical & jazz over many years. But I also love everything from classic rock to heavy metal. Judas Priest getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was almost my top November moment, outside my kids coming home for Thanksgiving.

Having said that, since Thanksgiving, I have been listening to Sirius channel 71. The Christmas classics. There's something about listening to Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Andy Williams, OF COURSE Bing Crosby, and so many others... It all brings me back to my childhood and listening to my parents playing those songs on their scratch-filled vinyl records.

 

[justdoit19]

Presently, Harry Styles

What is wrong with me?

 

[justdoit19]

No doubt I’ll be an outlier, with eclectic and varied tastes developed from college radio station DJ days through several decades on the planet. All day today I have been listening to world music/nuevo flamenco on the big surround system as I’ve wrapped presents, written Christmas cards, made up lists of needed items for last rounds of holiday baking.

The playlist: Strunz & Farah vintage stuff, Armik’s latest, Gypsy Kings and Jesse Cook on his Felipe Conde guitar. I developed a love of flamenco while stationed at NAVSTA Rota, Spain, and would attend outdoor festivals where the music started late when it was cooler and you stayed up all night. People would get up and spontaneously dance or do the off-beat syncopated clapping.

Tomorrow in the car as I drive mids to the airport I’ll probably have Shania Twain and Joan Jett for an energetic mix.

I look forward to exploring what other people are listening to. Thank you for starting this thread!

Chill out with this tonight:

Note for @VelveteenR , if no one’s in the house, you know I’m dancing to these.

Best part of this, to this excited Mid Mom, is “tomorrow in the car as I drive Mids to the airport….” EEEEK!!! Yay. Also jumping!!

And TYSM for doing this 🚗

 

[moho]

Currently: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's 1975-85 live album. So many gems on there!

 

[Stealth_81]

I just drove from Florida to Wisconsin for the Holidays and these are the albums from my iPhone that I listened to on the way:

Devo - Are We Not Men
Imelda May - Love Tattoo
The Very Best of Grateful Dead
Houndmouth - Little Neon Limelight
”O Brother, Where Art Thou” Soundtrack
Silver Convention - Save Me
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - So Far
J Roddy Walston & The Business - Essential Tremors
Simon and Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits

You can make your own judgements on my music tastes.

Stealth_81

 

[Cville24]

I have a wide-range of musical taste. As a former music major and trumpet player, I listen to and have performed many genres of classical & jazz over many years. But I also love everything from classic rock to heavy metal. Judas Priest getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was almost my top November moment, outside my kids coming home for Thanksgiving.

Having said that, since Thanksgiving, I have been listening to Sirius channel 71. The Christmas classics. There's something about listening to Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Andy Williams, OF COURSE Bing Crosby, and so many others... It all brings me back to my childhood and listening to my parents playing those songs on their scratch-filled vinyl records.

Trumpet player here as well! On that note, tonight I’m listening to Oli Parker’s album Coalescence.

 

[cb7893]

The playlist: Strunz & Farah vintage stuff, Armik’s latest, Gypsy Kings and Jesse Cook on his Felipe Conde guitar. I developed a love of flamenco while stationed at NAVSTA Rota, Spain

The Gold Standard

 

[Capt MJ]

The Gold Standard

I like them too! The guitar mastery is phenomenal.

 

[RagingBull]

August and Everything After - Counting Crows
Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead
Eat a Peach - The Allman Brothers Band
The Never Story - J.I.D
Europe '72 - Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead - Grateful Dead

 

[Cville24]

Just saw Zach Bryan's new album, All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster, was released on Christmas, so that's what I'm listening to this evening. So far, it's great!

 

[Cville24]

Listening to Prime Time by the Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra. The album includes a song that the Towson University jazz ensemble played for students visiting as part of the TU 2022 honor bands- that was a pretty cool realization when I first heard it.

 

[Usnavy2019]

I'm a big ILLENIUM fan right now. His songs are usually a good mixture of EDM/pop, so it's not one extreme. He also does remixes which changes things up a bit and adds an electronic element to it!

 

[Cville24]

I'm a big ILLENIUM fan right now. His songs are usually a good mixture of EDM/pop, so it's not one extreme. He also does remixes which changes things up a bit and adds an electronic element to it!

Just checked him out- pretty cool stuff! Looks like a lot of collabs, which is neat to see in itself, but he seems like a good artist in his own right.

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On a separate note, I just can't get away from Zach Bryan! I feel like his music is very easy to listen to over and over- I hear new things all the time, especially when comparing between versions of songs (for instance, Flying or Crying is very different on DeAnn than on All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster).

 

[unkown1961]

If you have Amazon Prime, search for Classic Album - this is a series about the making of classic albums like Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, American Pie, Rumours, Aja, and many others. It's interesting to hear how the album came about and its production.

 

[Usnavy2019]

Just checked him out- pretty cool stuff! Looks like a lot of collabs, which is neat to see in itself, but he seems like a good artist in his own right.

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On a separate note, I just can't get away from Zach Bryan! I feel like his music is very easy to listen to over and over- I hear new things all the time, especially when comparing between versions of songs (for instance, Flying or Crying is very different on DeAnn than on All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster).

I'll give Zach Bryan a listen!

 

[cb7893]

Nothing is as satisfying at this old man's age as discovering a new musical artist to obsess about. Even better when it comes from an offspring. DS #2 came home for Christmas and introduced me to this guy, Billy Strings. I have always loved Blue Grass music, so it is very satisfying to see a young kid like him--or Ricky Scaggs or Young Allison Krauss--come along and keep it alive. Coincidentally, last Saturday the WSJ had a nice write up on him:

Billy Strings Found a Life Raft in Music

The singer and guitarist saw his career take off when he started streaming performances from home during the pandemic.

www.wsj.com

I think Dr. Ralph Stanley would approve of this cover of his song:

 

[Heatherg21]

My sister and I spent 2 nights in an Air BnB in the Sierra Foothills in November. We built a playlist of all of our mom's favorites, from John Denver, soundtracks from musicals, hymns, Neil Diamond, Barbara Streisand, George Strait, and Simon and Garfunkel. Great memories, some laughter and some tears (mom is in Hospice). My nephew got the Echo all set up and staff and visitors tell Echo to play 'Peggy's playlist' and the biggest smile and calm come over her.

It also reminded me that the author I worked for kept a meticulous address book. Each year during our first meeting, he would hand me the book and ask me to update my info. I was always amused by the fact that my name was directly above Art Garfunkel.

I love Zach Bryan, our son plays guitar and has liked Bryan long before he became a super star, he is also a Navy veteran.

I also love the Turnpike Troubadours, the new Taylor Swift music, and pretty much any soft acoustic piano which I listen to when doing work or homework. And one can never go wrong with Def Leopard, Van Halen, Boston, Journey, and Fleetwood Mac.