What are you listening to? (Page 2 of 4)

Because we're so obsessed with SLABs, Nick and I play this Mike Jones song nonstop in the rent-a-car until Jay threatens to kill us. My cousin, Judge Sam, pulled my coat about "Bird Front", and that one gets a lot of play as well. When I'm feeling Camaro-like on the way to a race, I crank the shit out of the greatest rock song of all time.

The best was watching you slowly pull into Autobahn cranking Nazareth's Hair of the Dog when you had the Challenger.

My wife and I have loaded over 800 CDs into iTunes and our iPods.   While her tastes and mine do overlap to some degree, there are some dramatic differences.   She, for instance, does not care for my Poxy Boggards collection.     When we are driving together, "skip" tends to get hit a lot. 

Oh, for joy!
This is going to be one of my favorite new sections of the forum. Music is kind of an all-consuming thing for me. And sharing music (the old-fashioned way by playing it and talking about it with other people) is one of my favorite things. I used to take James Brown 45's and Disney soundtrack records for Show And Tell in elementary school. I've worked in radio for 23 years. Still do (yes, there is still a radio station with a live person picking the music he plays) and I've worked in music retail for 22 years. Still do. (Yes, there is STILL a record store and people still do buy physical music!) As a matter of fact, that is what I have been swamped doing for the last two weeks leading up to Christmas, so I haven't been looking at the forum much. I'm excited to check out some of the stuff everyone else is listening to.
But, on the topic of Christmas music, here is the song that gets stuck in my head. My kind of Christmas song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
It is gritty and real and well-written and it has a certain brutal truth and sad sweetness to it to. And the melody gets stuck in my head. AND, when they do it live and the crowd sings along the particularly brutal parts at the top of their lungs....goosebumps. And, in the live show, when the snow starts falling an ol' Shane starts waltzing with his bride there is a room full of drunk irishmen and drunk wannabe irishmen with tears in their eyes.

"Happy Christmas your ass I pray God it's our last."

Freddie Blassie.

Dr. Demento actually sang very few songs...tho "Shaving Cream" was always a favorite of mine.

Digital Underground "Sex Packets".  It's that kind of day.......

Alice in Chains
Pantera
Spine Shank - particularly like the cover of The Beatles" While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
Soundgarden
90's rock is my thing.  Love Muzak!!!

Probably not going to win father of the year with the fact that my 7 year old knows all the words to that one.  O-well.

Um, seeing that I'm just an old fart... I listen to, yawn, Celtic music........  Grew up listening to my Irish singing in Gaelic and it stuck... I even bought a farm in the epicenter of Celtic music in North America... Mabou, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia....   Yeah, I've got it bad.

  -John

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_of_ … ged_Lemons

The track "Ballad of Lemons" sounds about right to be a theme song for the series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msFgtvg8QCI

Carl Perkins' Cadillac by Drive-by Truckers, Down To the Wire by Son Volt, and anything by John Prine or Billy Joe Shaver.

I'm in a serious alt-country mood today.

Went fishing in the Gulf last weekend in a nasty storm, and my friend put this on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Ky0v_0w0E

Got a mouth full of seawater from laughing.