"All that hides behind your eyes is what you wish to be"

[larryhammer]

The last six tracks I listened to by random shuffle were:

1. Patty Griffin, "No Bad News"
   
2. Anonymous 4, "Verbum supernum prodiens"
   
3. Martinibomb, "The Love God"
   
4. Satie, "Sonatine bureaucratique"
   
5. Pachelbel, Suite in G Major (Musica Antiqua Koln)
   
6. U2, "New Year's Day"

Sometimes I feel dreadfully mainstream and bland. Sometimes I feel preciously eclectic. Sometimes I can't tell the difference.

What's in your playlist right now?

---L.

Comments

[sarah-create.livejournal.com]

That is a fun mix!
Did you buy any European or Icelandic on your trip?
Might as well enjoy your music in more languages.

[larryhammer]

Didn't actually buy anything this last trip, though we did get some Icelandic folk music the time before. Bands like Sigur Rós are available internationally (and I love them), and I occasionally graze through mp3.is (some tracks are quite good, though I typically only keep about 1 in 20).

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean--I feel exactly the same back-and-forth about what I listen to.

I need more classical on my playlist...

1. Within Temptation: Bittersweet
2. U2: With or Without You
3. Mike Oldfield: Moonlight Shadow
4. Kanye West: Stronger
5. Pentangle: Sovay
6. Dolly Parton: Silver Dagger

[larryhammer]

Is Pentangle any good?

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

My acquaintance with them is still new, but I really like them. I gather they're from the 1960s and helped revive genuine folk tunes in England. I have two ballads (by which I mean actual centuries-old ballads, not slow, drippy modern songs) that they sing, "Sovay" and "Cruel Sister," and I love both. I've heard some other stuff by them on Last fm, and it has been good two.

You can hear them sing "Cruel Sister" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QCVucxouew&feature=RecentlyWatched&page=1&t=t&f=b

But, you have to wait through all the chat and tuning up at the beginning.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

make that, "good too"

why did I type the least phonetically spelled homophone?

[larryhammer]

That's okay -- a coworker just found "User Idee" in some old documentation.

---L.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_twilight_/]

" Pachelbel, Suite in G Major (Musica Antiqua Koln)"

What? Taco Bell did songs other than Canon in D minor? ;)

[larryhammer]

Yup. And some organ music, too.

---L.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Ray Lynch, Veronica Ras, "Hijo de la Luna", some Gregorian stuff, some drum music.

[larryhammer]

See? Compared to many, I'm teh boring.

---L.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Nooope. I've got the hammerlock on boring music--so say my kids.

[larryhammer]

Kids, schmids.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I ended up ordering that Ray Lynch CD you recommended, btw--used, as you did. (My logic for doing so was complicated and idiosyncratic flawless. Hope it arrives soon.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I hope you like it as much as I do!

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

I'm having a mellow music week, because the current WIP demands it. Cds I have on shuffle right now are Crosby, Stills and Nash, 3 different Simon and Garfunkel cds and a best of The Moody Blues cd. Maybe it's a hippie child week looking at that list.

Last week this book demanded all Celtic music. The week before it was Patty Griffin, Vienna Teng and Cowboy Junkies, with a dash of Coldplay.

The music in my playlist is like Mid-west weather. Wait five minutes and it will change.

[larryhammer]

I thought it was Iceland weather that changes every five minutes.

---L.