Watchya listenin' to?

moxy · Post by **moxy** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:33 pm

For the past two months, I can't get myself to listen to anything that isn't ITM...

Paul McGrattan's Keelwest, Beginish's (which is also Paul McGrattan) Beginish, Jimmy Noonan's The Maple Leaf, and compilation CDs made for me by local friends and which include Joanie Madden, Mary Bergin, recordings from the Chris Langan weekend in Toronto in January 2004, and a pile of others whose names I can't remember...

Used to be a time when I couldn't stop listening to Peter Gabriel, and another time when Led Zeppelin was it for me... Oh yeah, and Tears For Fears, remember them??!! (that was way back when I was in high school though...) And the Beatles too. I guess I go through phases...

Azalin · Post by **Azalin** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:34 pm

Peter Laban wrote: Loads of private recordings, Seamus Ennis, Bobby Casey, Junior Crehan, Kathleen Harrington and Elisabeth Crotty, Aggie Whyte, Paddy Canny, Willie Clancy, Patrick kelly, John Kelly, Paddy Fahey and Paddy Carty, Martin Rochford Dennis Murphy all that, the staple diet.

I'll start calling you Peter "Name Dropping" Laban!

(just being jealous)

Crysania · Post by **Crysania** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:37 pm

moxy wrote:For the past two months, I can't get myself to listen to anything that isn't ITM...

Sounds like me moxy...right now the only thing I've been into listening for the past...gosh...9 months nearly! is ITM...I've gone through phases too...been obsessed with Phantom of the Opera (and various incarnations of it at that), Weird Al's music, classical music, Evanescence, and a variety of others...

~Crysania

MarcusR · Post by **MarcusR** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:11 pm

moxy wrote:For the past two months, I can't get myself to listen to anything that isn't ITM...

For me it’s the opposite, I just can’t get my self to put on any ITM if I’m not practising.

Most frequently played artist (MFPA): Tom Waits!

BTW, the latest release “Real Gone” is the best since Rain Dogs (1985) and “Down by Law”
is still on my all time top 5 movie list.

Cheers!

/MarcusR

Jennie · Post by **Jennie** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:34 pm

Peter Laban wrote:Mostly I listen to the wind howling in the chimneys and the roar of the ocean in the distance.

You know, it's true that there's lots else to listen to, besides music. My spouse, bless him, puts on headphones when he turns on the morning news so that I can listen to... nothing. There are so many favorite sounds that become melodies when we're not filling up our fingers and brains with some other tune. That's when new tunes come to me, is when I can empty my head.

We live on the ocean. That's a good sound. And we're lucky enough to have lots of rain and a tin roof. Aah.

Jennie

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:08 pm

Wombat wrote:
Crysania wrote:Yeah maybe puzzling is a better word...it's like all of a sudden I feel like I *should* be ashamed of admitting I listen to Solas...a lot...I have all their albums, as well as three of Seamus Egan's...and suddenly I felt like I should be embarrassed...except...I'm not.

Ah well...very very puzzling...

~Crysania
Most of the people criticising recent Solas, me included, like the first two CDs. We wouldn't even be bothered discussing them if we didn't think they had talent. They just took a direction we don't much care for. But everybody was full of praise for Williams and Doyle and Doyle's solo CD is a long way from pure drop—more like socialist folk singers Dick Gaughan and Tim O'Brien than like pure ITM. Doyle still plays in a more traditional vein on stage but is to be found in a lot of interesting settings inlcuding O'Brien's band. Obviously, so long as Solas continue to draw crowds and they enjoy what they are doing then they are getting something right. I'm glad you get enjoyment from their recent CDs.

I'm one of the ones who was critical of Solas in a thread over in the flute forum, and I just want to say I completely agree with what Wombat said here. I may not care for Solas' more recent musical efforts, but I still like their early stuff a lot. (Their first album is one of my favorites, of any genre.) If you like their newer stuff, there's no need to apologize for it. It's all a matter of personal taste and opinion, anyway.

Back on topic, I'm currently listening to a couple of CDs by William Coulter and Barry Phillips: Simple Gifts and Tree of Life. They both contain instrumental arrangements of traditional Shaker hymns. While the music is quite nice, the main reason I'm listening to them is so I can learn a few of the tunes, since my sister asked me to play them (on whistle) at her wedding in October.

Cheers,
John

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:21 pm

Jennie wrote:
Peter Laban wrote:Mostly I listen to the wind howling in the chimneys and the roar of the ocean in the distance.
You know, it's true that there's lots else to listen to, besides music. My spouse, bless him, puts on headphones when he turns on the morning news so that I can listen to... nothing. There are so many favorite sounds that become melodies when we're not filling up our fingers and brains with some other tune. That's when new tunes come to me, is when I can empty my head.

We live on the ocean. That's a good sound. And we're lucky enough to have lots of rain and a tin roof. Aah.

Jennie

Unfortunately I don't live by the sea. I think I understand very well what you are saying: I am very very very picky about what to listen to in the morning (and like nothing best). When I hear radio news or commercials or music too early in the day I feel like the day is bing stolen from me.

These days I am listening to the Claire Keville/John Weir/Eithne Ni Dhonaile CD that Peter mentioned above. Great stuff. Then I am listening to Denis Murphy a lot, his version of Lark in the Morning playing right now: very interesting, lots in that one.

Was also listening to Mary Coughlin reacently, anyone know her? My favorite is still "Tired and Emotional."

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:29 pm

Bloomfield wrote:
Was also listening to Mary Coughlin reacently, anyone know her? My favorite is still "Tired and Emotional."

I think I know her. Sort of jazzy with a very 'lived in' voice.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:09 am

Bloomfield wrote:"... then I am listening to Denis Murphy a lot, his version of Lark in the Morning playing right now: very interesting, lots in that one."
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One of my all time favorite tunes. I can't say I am familiar with Dennis' version.

My morning ritual (during an hour and a half drive into school) involves listening to National Public Radio. After 'Mid Day Mozart', it's back into hard and heavy I-Trad.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:05 am

Mary Coughlan is one of Irelands finest singers with a wonderful collection of songs from many sources.
Much more of a bluesy torch singer than a folk/trad type but well worth a listen.
Some of Irelands top songwriters whose work you will know through Christy Moore and Mary Black have supplied her with great material.I once heard it said that Mary Coughlan sings the songs that Mary Black cannot.
While "Tired and Emotional" is a superb album,her finest hour is "Sentimental Killers".This is essential listening for anybody who likes serious female vocals and well written songs.
Another sample of her work guarenteed to raise the hairs on the back of the neck is her version of "Ride on" with it's electric guitar solos and UP's blasting out over the drums.
"Love me or Leave me" is a recently released greatest hits CD and is a good intro to Mary Coughlan.
She has known troubled times in her life but last I heard was in fine fettle.

http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/coughlan.html

Make your next CD a Mary Coughlan one and you will not be dissapointed-I promise.

Slan,
D.

CobraCmdr · Post by **CobraCmdr** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:06 am

hi im new. I went to see this band called Phish at this festival called Coventry. And since then I have been on a Phish binge....I would list the albums and shows I've been listening to here, but I'll just say:

"various Phish"

Brendan

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:12 am

bring on the wet jokes

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:14 am

That gig in Coventry (Vermont, not the Coventry just up the road from Swindon) looked to have been Phish's last. It would seem that Phish have had their chips...

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:17 am

GaryKelly wrote:That gig in Coventry (Vermont, not the Coventry just up the road from Swindon) looked to have been Phish's last. It would seem that Phish have had their chips...

and ate them too???

H

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:32 am

izzarina wrote:
GaryKelly wrote:That gig in Coventry (Vermont, not the Coventry just up the road from Swindon) looked to have been Phish's last. It would seem that Phish have had their chips...
and ate them too???

H

A chip eating Phish......
Will one of ye tell her whats goin' on here....
I'd be too embarrased.....

Slan,
D.
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