So what’s everyone got in the cd player/computer/discman/walkman/tape player/gramaphone/a-trak/MP3 player/i-pod etc,etc,etc. at the moment?
I’m switching between The Kinnitty Sessions and Stan Rogers’ Home in Halifax.
Ok. I hate these. They always out me as not only un-hip, but not even all that whistley.
The truth is I’ve spent the past week obsessed/possessed by The Phantom of the Opera. I can not play the cd, but then I’m compelled to sing it, which is worse, and if I don’t do that, the songs play endlessly in my head anyway.
ps: i have a new Old Blind Dogs cd, but I have to wait 'til the Phantom releases its grip.
I don’t need no stinkin’ Walkman. This one reel keeps going on and on and on in my head today, and what’s driving me extra-batty is I don’t know its name.
That, and all the voices.
I downloaded Tony Higgins’ Port Gordon from the Clips & Snips Slow Airs page, and I’m playing it over and over in iTunes, because I find the harp version on the 110 Ireland’s Best Slow Airs CD too confusing, as it’s not just the melody.
The following are loaded on my MP3 player:
1.) Mike & Mary Rafferty, “The Old Fireside Music”;
2.) Brendan Ring, “Troublesome Things”;
3.) The Positively Testcard, “Gas Up My Hotrod Stoker”;
4.) Glenn Gould, “Goldberg Variations” Great Performances 1955;
5.) Oscar Shumsky, “The 21 Hungarian Dances”; and
6.) Joshua Redman Quartet, “MoodSwing.”
There is NOTHING wrong with that! It happens to be my absolute favourite musical and I have spent much time in my life obsessed with it…I own 10 recordings of it, 5 in foreign languages (Vienna, German, Japanese, Korean, and Dutch recordings).
After the recent postings slamming Solas, I suppose I’d look worse than you think you do for admitting what was in MY CD player and discman this week. shrugs I love the group, seeing them next week, and looking greatly forward to it…today I listened to some of The Hour Before Dawn and The Edge of Silence (which, although very far from traditional sounding…like…not at all…I still enjoy)…as well as Sharon Shannon’s Out the Gap. Yesterday it was Tommy Peoples (Waiting for a Call) and Liz Carroll (Lost in the Loop).
~Crysania
Don’t know if you had heard but they’re making the Phantom into a big screen movie (a musical). Saw the preview at Vanity Fair… my girlfriend made me go.
I can’t wait.
There’s been a discussion of Solas on the flute board, plus I’m learning the set with the Miller’s Maggot, so that’s what I’ve been listening to. Other than that, Eliza Carthy’s Anglicana, Joni Mitchell’s Hissing of Summer Lawns, a bunch of Tom Waits and Frank Zappa – Billy the Mountain may be dated, but it’s priceless.
The past month or so I have been on a serious Lunasa listening binge…pretty much non-stop. Man, I gotta get some sleep…right after Otherworld (again). 
Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas. Not what I grew up with but the more I listen to them, the more I get out of them. Just got a car with a casette player so was digging thru some old tapes, The Cure’s Kiss Me… and The Special’s first album, uh, the Beastie Boy’s Paul’s Boutique, among others. I see Elvis Costello has 2 albums coming out tomorrow, one a pop album and the other a classical. mike
Got Old Blind Dog’s “Gab O’ Mey” recording going at the moment. May switch to something else soon.
hmmm…I don’t know if I want to admit to a lot of this! 
Lately I’ve been on a Cherish the Ladies kick (well, this really isn’t lately…I want to be Joanie Madden when I grow up ). Also, some Altan, Gaelic Storm, and the Wolfe Tones. Throw in the Beatles and a bunch of other garbage that my kids love for good measure, and that about sums it up.
Oh, and Em, I can relate to your Phantom fetish. I swear, I could listen to “My Fair Lady” over and over again…Just you WITE 'enry 'iggins, just you WITE! 
Heather
Three weeks ago I added a 2 mile walk to and from the train station to my office. It’s been a breath of life listening to my walkman Cd player. I have two CD’s I’ve been switching between. Both are filled with MP3’s of various albums.
Here’s the albums.
- Ceol Aduaidh - Mairead ni Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy
The Tunes - Slainte
The Best of Altan - Altan
Broken Hearted I’ll Wander - Dolores Keane and John Faulkner
Wooden Flute Obsession - Various Artists (disk 1 and 2)
Ready for the Strom - Deante
Whisper of a Secret - Deante
Dance Music of Ireland, Jigs and Reels (Celtophile)
Music at Matt Molloy’s - Various artists
Traditional Irish Music in America: The East Coast - Various artists.
In Good Company - Kevin Crawford
Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers - Solas
Lunasa - Lunasa
Otherworld - Lunasa
Ghostwood - Lothlorien
In addition, on weekends I’ve been listening to tracks out of 4 CD set called Blues: Juke Box Hits, 60 songs. Artists I’ve been partial to include John Lee Hooker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf, Memphis Slim among others.
Alastair Fraser “The Road North”
At the moment, I’m listening to my wife play “The Ryans and the Pittmans” on the piano. (Updated: “Now I’m 64”)
My mp3 server downstairs has Queen’s The Game loaded on it.
The iRiver has A Crowd of Bold Sharemen, the BBC broadcast of Frank Maher’s birthday party, field recordings of this year’s Goderich and Great Lakes Folk Festivals, the old Jim Payne and Kelly Russell album, Le Vend du Nord’s Maudite Moisson, Peter Horan and Fred Fiin’s Music of Sligo, Stan Rogers’ Northwest Passage, Neil Gaiman’s Telling Tales, David Francey’s Torn Screen Door, Neil Gaiman’s Warning: Contains Language, and the Duhks’ Your Daughters and Your Sons.
Lots of Meat Loaf
Great Big Sea – Play (my 3 year old’s favourite album right now, he especially likes the drinking song)
Some Celtophile compilation CDs
Ministry – Psalm 69
I know about it…yep yep…will I be seeing it? Nope. Long story…but the basic gist is they’ve picked people who aren’t appropriate for the parts (i.e. can’t sing very well) and have decided to go “young and sexy” (when the Phantom is supposed to be 50…and hideously deformed). Not to smash anyone’s hopes, but the movie isn’t looking to be anything very good…I’m saving my money to go see the stage show again.
~Crysania
At this moment Loudon Wainwright III is singing “A Father and a Son” from “History”,a great,great song.
Dylan and Joni usually get a daily airing with a liberal sprinkling of ITM,Davis/Parker,and often a good helping of John McLaughlin/Paco de Lucia.
Tom Waits is a regular but only when Mrs.D. is not present. She can’t stand Tom so I wait till I’m alone for that kind of thing. Anything for a quite life.
Latest astounding discovery is Dusty Springfields version of Van the Mans “Tupelo Honey” - incredible version which is better than the original in many ways. Check it out and be amazed.
Slan,
D.
Jumpin’ at Apollo Illinois Jaquette
Altan
Music at Matt Malloy’s
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
Lost in the Loop Liz Carroll
And a host of others.
Mike