What is your current playlist for listening pleasure?

[blowtorch]

Not the stuff you listen to for the purpose of learning the songs- rather what type of material comprises the list you keep on shuffle mode for driving in the car, listening around the house, taking a shower, etc?

For me it's always music I've not heard before, whether it's old albums that I'd somehow missed by favorite groups, newly-discovered bands from decades back, or up-and-comers...it's important to me to keep the fresh-discovery quotient of my music listening rolling, so I am constantly creating playlists of that and rarely listen to tunes that are old favorites...

My current playlist at this time includes newly-discovered bands Starcrawler, Muffs, Damone, Whale, the "lost" album by The Smithereens, a bunch of (relatively) recently -released Prince stuff from "The Vault", the most recent Billy Idol material, Soul Asylum who somehow I'd never listened to until recently, The most recent album from The Cult (which has been growing on me in it's dark brooding cinematographic beauty)

Whatcha been listening to?
Maybe more to the point- what is your intention with that playlist?

 

[Chiogtr4x]

I'm still a CD guy, just never got on to streaming/ IPod, whatever...( my wife does Spotify on phone and laptop and has playlists)

So I like to listen to a lot of the Jazz I got into, when I did my own 'Jazz catch-up tutorial ' ( from say 2001-2003 just going nuts buying CD's after watching Ken Burns Jazz doc)

Most of it is ( non guitar) that goes from the early bop days of Charlie Parker, Dizzy, Monk, big into Miles Davis, Coltrane, and Cannonball Adderley. Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock. But I'm not much on the fusion stuff. So, mostly late '50's- mid '60's.
I don't like Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way, Mahavishnu, Ornette Coleman, free jazz- sorry!

Do love the 1936-1945 Big Band Era too...

So Jazz, Dead, Dylan, Neil Young, John Prine
Over, and over, and over...

 

[ClashCityTele]

The Best of Apache Indian, Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On & Peace, Love and Death Metal, Flux of Pink Indians - Strive to Survive..., Green Day - American Idiot, Iggy Pop - The Idiot & Lust For Life, Hendrix - Blues, Social Distortion - Greatest Hits, Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street. All in the car.
Must get The Cult's new album.

 

[blowtorch]

Must get The Cult's new album.

Prepare to not like it much at first haha.
It has def been growing on me, which, if I don't like something right away, I can usually trust those instincts- I will probably never like something that doesn't grab me right off the bat. But this is different
The mood is just so very different on this album

 

[bottlenecker]

I never listen to shuffle. I need a flow, so full albums. But I have been streaming at work more often than getting to listen to records lately. It's hard to make time at home with kids.
Choices are either something I think of that I want to hear again, or something new I hear about that I want to check out.

The last few albums I streamed were;
Jim Oblon's album Sunset from 2014.
Adrian Quesada's recent album Jaguar Sound
Duane Eddy - Especially For You
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Spanic Boys - Torture
Joshua Ray Walker - See You Next Time

 

[Short on cash]

Blindfaith
Early Tull

 

[loopfinding]

I never listen to shuffle. I need a flow, so full albums. But I have been streaming at work more often than getting to listen to records lately. It's hard to make time at home with kids.
Choices are either something I think of that I want to hear again, or something new I hear about that I want to check out.

same here.

i comb youtube or spotify playlists, skip through tracks, and if something catches my fancy i save the record or chunks of the record that i like into my genre-based playlists to put on continuously later. i also have those playlists sorted by year, so i can kind of pinpoint general things i'm looking for.

i have definite "discovery" (where i'm rifling through stuff superficially) and "listening" (where i'm sitting on my couch doing nothing else) phases. algorithms are pretty bad at selecting music (they're based on user preferences, not musical similarity), so i have to do that part actively myself and sift through it later.

 

[arlum]

It really depnds on what I'm doing. I've always created playlists for driving, playlists for relaxing, playlists for tripping and playlists for being astounded / impressed by another player or bands skill level. Each scenario, in my case, will result in totally different play lists.

Sticking to Listening Pleasure I might create a play list featuring .....

Lady Fantasy .............................. Camel.
Autumn ..................................... The Strawbs.
The Palace of Versailles ................ Al Stewart.
The Cask of Amontillado ............... The Alan Parsons Project.
Armageddon ............................... Prism.
Just Between You and Me ............. April Wine.
When He Shines ......................... Sheena Easton.
Total Eclipse of the Heart .............. Bonnie Tyler.
Cry No More ............................... Arcade.
Spirit of the Sea .......................... Blackmore's Night.
Deadline ..................................... Blue Oyster Cult.
Amanda ..................................... Boston.
Father and Son ........................... Cat Stevens
Twilight Zone .............................. Golden Earring.
Lucky Man ................................. Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Remember ................................. Harry Nilsson.
There's Never Been Any Reason .... Head East.
Swamp Witch ............................. Jim Stafford.
Perfect Day ................................ Lou Reed.
For You ..................................... Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
Melancholy Man ......................... The Moody Blues.
It Couldn't Be Better ................... The Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
Maybe I'm Amazed ..................... Paul McCartney.
A Whiter Shade of Pale ................ Procol Harum.
Ocean Gypsey ............................ Renaissance.
Garden Party .............................. Ricky Nelson.
King of The Road ........................ Roger Miller.
Samba Pa Ti .............................. Carlos Santana.
Lady of The Lake ........................ Star Castle.
Fly Like an Eagle ....................... The Steve Miller Band.
A Day ....................................... Styx.
I'd Love to Change The World ...... Ten Years After.
Learning To Fly .......................... Tom Petty.
Love Hurts ................................ Triumph.

 

[Matt Sarad]

Zappa Hot Rats
Hendrix Cry of Love
Michael Hedges Aerial Boundaries
Jie Craven and The Sometimers Garcia Songbook.

 

[rjtwangs]

Just for fun I've been listening to these two albums for the last week or so....

RJ

 

[billy logan]

Annette Hanshaw


btw How the heck do you get this impact and tone on some kind of Hawai'ian slide guitar??? My blind guess would be a Weissenborn or resonator (which I've never played either) and very heavy strings and, for a pick, a sharpened condor feather quill I Love A Ukulele


edit2editorialize - Ok, the band sounds like the Little Rascals theme song, and Annette Hanshaw veers over into the Betty Boop style sometimes, but, if you can adjust to a mindset of back then, she sings with a lot of heart, and not too sentimentally really delivers a song. That's all.

time machine edit: after reading page 2 of this thread:
Thanks to @guitar_paul1 linking to links - photos show Frank Ferera playing looks like a flattop guitar lap-style.


Yes +1 to guitar_paul1 's idea the slide guitar's prominent tone has a lot to do with how it was recorded...how often in those days does a guitar outshine a trumpet?

 

[BelairPlayer]

Lots of Julian Lage.

 

[Killing Floor]

Just for fun I've been listening to these two albums for the last week or so.... View attachment 1075333
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RJ

They were so freaking good live. I saw U2 open for them.

 

[Killing Floor]

First, hats off, Starcrawler is fantastic.

Lately, this week I’ve been on a Los Lobos trip with Native Son and going backwards to Wolf. Lots of Mott the Hoople because last week I saw the legendary Alejandro Escovedo and friends (Mitch Easter, Charlie Sexton, Scott McCaughey and others) performing Mott album and some Ian Hunter stuff. Got me on a tear.
And Arrow by Heartless Bastards was on while I was tidying up the dump today. And now I’ve got a mix of slow roll like Quin but that’s rap so y’all gonna hate.

 

[Killing Floor]

Adrian Quesada's recent album Jaguar Sound

Isn’t that cool? Have you ever listened to his Brown Sabbath/ Brownout?
Or Grupo Fantasma? Yes I know he wasn’t in GF all the time. But still, dude is like a waterfall of creativity.

 

[tlsmack]

When I go into John Prine mode, watch out. They are all sing -along mandatory.

 

[bottlenecker]

Isn’t that cool? Have you ever listened to his Brown Sabbath/ Brownout?
Or Grupo Fantasma? Yes I know he wasn’t in GF all the time. But still, dude is like a waterfall of creativity.

It was very cool. I'll buy a copy if I see an LP. I've listened to a little Black Pumas, but I hear about the dude all the time. Next time I get a chance I'll listen to his Boleros Psicidelicos album that also came out in 2022.

 

[Engine Swap]

Pretty much whatever LPs show up at the the thrifts. I lean towards 20th Century composers.

 

[Refugee]

Big Wreck

 

[Frisco 57]

Been on a Delbert Mc Clinton and Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac kick as of late...