What's everyone listening to today?

[k0pp0]

Ike Turner - FONKY!

[VR46]

Been going through loads of old CD's of late, today's choice Limp Bizkit, pretty tacky stuff but always had a bit of a soft spot for them for some reason, great band live.

[JP]

Been listening to The Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack again, it had some really good music in it and every now and again I dig out the CD.I know the listing for the first one says different but it is a Tito Larriva recording.

Tito Larriva "Anarchy in The USA"


Mila Jovavich "Satellite of Love"

[Dezm0nd]

I am listening to the new UNKLE album End Titles... Stories for Film, came through the post surprisingly early

[Dogg Thang]

This morning it's Black Snow by Snowgoons. Excellent hip hop album with huge production and a real kick to it.

[Ady]

I may as well just post my last.fm profile, it'd be a lot simpler.

http://www.last.fm/user/inphanta/

[PrayforMojo]

Not really my kind of thing, but I've spent an enjoyable few hours sitting in the garden with the lappy, sunning myself, watching videos of eighties rock bands on YouTube. Some of them have been hilarious. Like this, but for real, you know...



Others have been a bit more sobering. I mean, I didn't know that Lou Gramm, the lead singer with Foreigner, had a brain tumour removed a few years ago. Really sad to see what it has done to the guy. Still, there is something kind of inspirational about the fella. Despite what life has thrown at him, he's still out there doing what he enjoys.

[prinnysquad]

Takk - Sigur Ros

Again.

[laruso]

ive been listening to Fightstar's cover of Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark on the kerrang cd, but that's cus i played the 2nd guitar solo on it!

[Ady]

Styrofoam : I'm There to Show That Something's Missing.

[merf]

first there was the peerless System of a Down, then an amazing Serj solo album and now there's the debut album from 2 SOAD members under the name of Scars on Broadway.

been listening to it all weekend and its frankly stunning, even if every now and then you do yearn for a Serj roar or moment of madness.

[Ady]

Arovane : Tides

[Dezm0nd]

It's been a painful wait, but i'm listening to The Prodigy - More Music for the Jilted Generation!

Remastered with a second CD full of fanboy goodies

[dc-arena]

This week I've cracked open my super old copy of..

The White Room by The KLF.

Sounds just as amazing and fresh as it did in 1991 when I bought it on cassette tape, then later bought the import on CD which contained a 2nd CD of one of their later singles with remixes. The CD actually has some slightly different mixes over the cassette did which is cool, but I think this is down to the CD being an import which carried different versions (looking on wikipedia). I wanted to find the UK original CD, but The KLF famously deleted their entire back catalogue so nobody could buy their records in the UK anymore, remember that? Then they burnt £1 million in the name of art. Awesome

I had another look around in my lot of CDs and found Chill Out and Who Killed the Jams? Both fantastic albums and again still as fresh sounded as they did nearly 20 years ago (TWENTY!!!!).

Do we have a KLF thread? We should!

[JazzFunk]

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire and Bob Sinclar - Live At The Playboy Mansion.

Event though I owned most of their CDs, and though I tried hard back in the day, I used to not really dig Mahavishnu (seeing them as a lesser Weather Report). I stuck this on again earlier, after hearing the title track in a film I watched last week, and it's powerful stuff, very edgy, crazy and fuzzy and sensually funky. My inner jury's still out regarding their use of violins (though they're majestic on 'Celestial Terrestrial Commuters'), and I still prefer Weather Report's stuff overall, but it's gone well-up in my estimation, a seriously, seriously good album.

As for the Bob Sinclar CD, it is an amazingly good mix album, so much good stuff on it, perfectly selected, and I just can't understand why most of his recent music has been total ****e. How can one man go from the genius of 'Ich Rocke' to the dredge that is 'World Hold On' in the space of a few years? Anyway, definitely better than 99% of 'retro funky disco mixes' out there - it's ace.