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OT: what's on your stereo and bookshelf?

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lotemo

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Uhm. Nobody knows the stuff I like because it's usually obscure and diverse. I'm also into a number of Spanish, French, and Brazilian rock and pop artists. Currently on my stereo/mp3/ipod, or whatever anyone wants to call it (although I agree with the original post, it's all stereo):

 

La Gusana Ciega (the blind worm)-La rueda del diablo - Mexican alt rock

La 5a Estación - El Mundo Se Equivoca - Spain alt/pop rock

Belinda - Utopia, a spanish born singer of Spanish father/French mother, living in Mexico; alt pop/rock al la Avril Lavigne

Skank - Carrossel - Brazilian alt/rock. very Beatles/late 1960s influence

Finally Rick Nelson Perspective/Another Side of Rick double cd, Rick Nelson doing late 1960s kind of psychedelic pop. Most Rick Nelson fans hated it but I really like it.

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trevorlsmith

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I don't really listen to CDs much anymore, but here are some bands I've been listening to lately on my Ipod:

 

Arctic Monkeys

Beck

Ben Harper

Fruit Bats

Grateful Dead

Iron & Wine

The Libertines

Nick Drake

Wilco

Wilco, and

Wilco

 

A handful of books I have enjoyed over the past month or two:

 

Living With the Dead by Rock Scully

Under the Banner of Heaven by Krakauer

Into Thin Air by Krakauer

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

The Westies by T.J. English

Passion is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash by Pat Gilbert

The Mole People by Jennifer Toth

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

 

And I just started Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

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Mix CD's that focus on 90's Grunge Rock: Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains and the like

 

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Saw Pearl Jam at both Reading and Paris in 2006...Reading was gig of the year. cloud9.gif

 

I've seen PJ five times, including the infamous "Shoe the Shoeless" concert at Indio in 1993! cloud9.gif

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FlyingDonut

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I haven't seen Pearl Jam in a while. At the 1992 Lollapalooza, was pretty good, also at the 1313 Club in Charlotte in 1991. That didn't suck.

 

Currently listening to Umphrey's McGee live from Chicago on New Year's Eve. They covered " In a Box" for the encore, which was amusing. Also listening to a band you may never have heard of called Will Hoge - he's great, and for the life of me I can't understand why he doesn't get airplay. Also have Devendra Banhart, the Happy Hollows, the Raconteurs, and of course, the Grateful Dead, in heavy iPod rotation.

 

I very rarely buy music anymore. There's tons of free downloads at Culture Bully (and *geezer voice* you can keep up with what the kids like *end geezer voice*), plus there's literally thousands of concerts from hundreds of bands at the Internet Archive (including almost 3000 Dead shows), all with songs available to download.

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Under the Banner of Heaven by Krakauer

 

good book. read it and then watch the full season of "Big Love" on HBO, you'll feel like an expert in radical Mormonism

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Off the Rails by Rudy Sarzo

 

Whoa, there' a name from my record sleeve-reading past!

 

I will have to check out the book about the German soldier. It reminds me of Garth Ennis' War Story Jonah's Tiger. One of my favorite comics ever.

 

As for the Dokken crack, I have no defense except that George Lynch's guitar playing is very listenable.

 

Marc

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Mephisto

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I was told by one of my college roomates that I only listen to 5 things

 

The Allman Brothers Band

The Band

Credence Clearwater Revival

Eric Clapton

Elvis

 

Even though I have sooo much more on my PC and IPod I realized he was right.

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Sharkey

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Music currently being listened to:

 

1. Kiss Alive II

2. Nickelback: Silver Side Up

3. Beastie Boys: To the 5 Burroughs

4. Ramones Mania

5. Kid Rock: The History of Rock

6. Ercan Saatchi: Music of Leila (Turkish house music)

 

 

Books:

Nick Hornby: A Long Way Down

Chuck Klosterman: Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs

Diablo Cody: Candy Girl

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lizards2

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The Forgotten Soldier: Guy Sajer- Just about finished with this one. Unique look at the final days of WW2 from a German Army Soldier's perspective.

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Yeah - a Frenchman in the German army - if I recall correctly, mom was from France and dad was from Germany, enlisted in GrossDeutschland after occupation of France. One of the best WW2 books I have ever read, and I reference items I've learned from that book frequently. A must read, if you want to know what real hardship is.

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phoenix215

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On Cd circulation:

 

Tangents - Best of the Tea Party

Exile - Gary Numan

Gold - The Best of Ella Fitzgerald

Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

V.A.S.T - Self Titled Album

Soundtrack to Blade Runner

Soundtrack to The Crow (both versions of music from the movie)

 

In order of reading:

 

A Nietzsche Reader - A Selection of Works

A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Paradise Lost - John Milton

Volume's 1-5 of the Collected Short Stories of PK

TPB's of the Lucifier comic

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EvilAsh

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In my stereo....

 

(not that anyone will really recognize any of these bands)

 

Strike Anywhere - Dead FM

Dead to me - Cuban Ballerina

The Lawrence Arms - Oh Calcutta!

The Falcon - Unicornography

Much the Same - Survive

No Trigger - Canyoneer

Bigwig - Reclaimation

A Wilhelm Scream - Ruiner

None More Black - This is Satire

Flatliners - Destroy to Create

The Suicide Machines - War Profiteering is Killing us All

Lagwagon - Hoss (oldie but goodie!)

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Stereo:

Avail- Over the James

Electric Six- Fire

Saul Williams- S/T

This Is My Fist!- I Didn't Mean To Startle You

POS- Audition

The Blood Brothers- This Adultery is Ripe

 

Books:

Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer

Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality by Brad Warner

Tricked by Alex Robinson

Hwa Rang Do: Defend, Take Down, Submit by Taejoon Lee and Mark Cheng

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