What have you been listening to?

[Allhallowsday]

DONNA LEONHART Bein' Green

[Torgo]

[Allhallowsday]

Torgo, I think it's time I opened my ROBERT PALMER collection which has remained sealed for at least a year...

CHAD & JEREMY Greatest Hits

[Allhallowsday]

COCTEAU TWINS Blue Bell Knoll

[HappyGilmore]

Hate quoting myself, but this is a 2-Disc set, and today I'm listening to Disc 2.  First disc is their earlier stuff, which is based more in a bluesy style, and the second disc is some of their more 'poppy' stuff, like "Legs", "Sharp Dressed Man", "Gimme All your Lovin" and "Doubleback."

[BeyondTheGrave]

[Allhallowsday]

HANK WILLIAMS 40 Greatest Hits 

[HappyGilmore]

London Calling by The Clash

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

[Killer Bees]

Greatest Hits - Sugababes (for Girl Power motivation)

Try Whistling This - Neil Finn (because it's a brilliant album and I'm seriously in love with this guy!)

Together Alone - Crowded House (see Neil Finn comment above)

Continuum - John Mayer (probably his best album to date)

[HappyGilmore]

Greatest Hit...And More by Reel Big Fish

Greatest Hits - Sugababes (for Girl Power motivation)

Try Whistling This - Neil Finn (because it's a brilliant album and I'm seriously in love with this guy!)

Together Alone - Crowded House (see Neil Finn comment above)

Continuum - John Mayer (probably his best album to date)

I like John Mayer.  So far I only have Room For Squares, but the guy's good.

[ulthar]

Continuum - John Mayer (probably his best album to date)

John Mayer is awesome.  I caught him on Austin City Limits a few weeks ago...great show.

[Rev. Powell]

Anonymous 4 - American Angels - Songs of Hope, Redemption, & Glory

Bluegrass standards done in a Renaissance chant style.  Not always effective, but interesting.  Sample: Wayfaring Stranger

[Torgo]

XTC   "Black Sea"

[Killer Bees]

Continuum - John Mayer (probably his best album to date)

John Mayer is awesome.  I caught him on Austin City Limits a few weeks ago...great show.

The guy's never written a bad song.  I don't think he's capable.  I also like the way his songs rhyme, but the lines all fit and he doesn't throw in words just to fit the rhyming scheme.  Plus he's the only songwriter who consistenly writes songs I can relate to in my own life.

Although Tori Amos is my favourite, I find her songs too full of metaphor and imagery to be of any real use to me in understanding what she's singing about.

Mayer is a true case of the song telling a coherent story with an easy rhyming scheme.

[Allhallowsday]

BEACH BOYS Pet Sounds !!  One of my very favorite albums!