April 2011 - More Stuff That I'm Listening To

Last month I mentioned the cd's that I took with me on my roadtrip to Florida. Now I get to list the music that I've been listening to out of the car. Some are brand new. Some are fairly old, but they are all things that I have listened to in the house over the last little while. There are 40 cd's on this list. Here they are:




The Baseball Project - Volume 2: High And Inside
King Crimson - Live In New Haven, Ct November 16, 2003
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Golden Greats No. 1
R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
Cake - Showroom Of Compassion
R.E.M. - Live At The Olympia In Dublin
Stuart Ferguson - Love Songs (And Other Tall Tales)
The Posies - Blood/Candy
Michael Carpenter & The Cuban Heels -The Incomplete Cuban Heels
Squeeze - Spot The Difference
Robin Trower - The Playful Heart
The BB's - The Blue Album
Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes - Pills And Ammo
Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 - Northern Aggression
Neil Young - Le Noise
Michael Carpenter & The Cuban Heels - The Completed Cuban Heels
California Guitar Trio - Andromeda
Trey Gunn & Marco Minneman - Modulator
Mike Keneally & Marco Minneman - Evidence Of Humanity
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey

Todd Rundgren - For Lack Of Honest Work
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
The Bears - Eureka!
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Psychodots - Terminal Blvd.
The Cavebodgs - Joy Rides For Shut-Ins
The Dukes Of Stratosphear (XTC) - 25 O'Clock
The Beatles - Revolver
Small Town Sheiks - Songs For Parker
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Robyn Hitchcock - Tromsø Kaptein
BBM - Around The Next Dream
Michael Carpenter - SOOP #3
Vanilla Fudge - The Beat Goes On
Adrian Belew Power Trio - Live In Germany
Mike Watt - Hyphenated-Man
Leslie West - Mountain
Silkworm - Lifestyle
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Poundcake - Aloha Via Satellite


That's what's been in my cd player these days. I'll try and come up with something else to write about next month, until the show finds it's way back to your computer. The accompanying pictures are from the baseball portion of my spring training trip. That's it for now. See you next time I have something unimportant to say...

March 2011 - What Am I Listening To?

The show is over...or in suspended animation if you prefer... but this blog will continue to be an outlet for some of my musical thoughts and other things.

A couple weeks ago, John asked me what I was currently listening to. He asked me while I was on my (mostly) annual trip to Florida for Spring Training Baseball. I drove to Florida on this trip so I brought a lot of music with me. 72 cd's to be exact. I managed to get through 46 of those cd's on the trip, plus an additional 16 since I've been home. That leaves me with 10 more to listen to over the next couple weeks in the car.


For this trip, since I'd be spending most of my time alone in the car, I decided to go with stuff that I knew well enough that it would keep me awake and alert. The worst thing is to be 10 hours into a drive and have a cd come on that you've never heard before. What you need at that point is something that you can sing along with and keep you awake. For that reason, the majority of the music came from the 70's & 80's, although the oldes thing I listened to came from 1965 and the newest was from 2008 (plus the occasional compilation). So here are the 46 cd's that I listened to on the trip:

1. Pink Floyd - Meddle
2. Genesis - Trespass
3. The Replacements - Tim
4. All - Allroy Saves
5. The Loud Family - Plants And Birds And Rocks And Things
6. Kansas - Leftoverture
7. Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes - Hearts Of Stone
8. King Crimson - Discipline
9. Firewater - The Golden Hour
10. Rainbow - Rising
11. Psychodots - Awkwardsville
12. Renaissance - Turn Of The Cards
13. The Good Rats - Tasty
14. The Bears - Car Caught Fire
15. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
16. Triumph - Just A Game
17. The Fall - 458489 A Sides
18. Pretenders - Pretenders
19. Richard Thompson - Sweet Warrior
20. Beat Farmers - The Pursuit Of Happiness
21. Icehouse - Icehouse
22. The Beatles - Beatles For Sale
23. Drivin' N' Cryin' - Whisper Tames The Lion
24. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
25. The Kinks - Sleepwalker
26. R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction
27. Split Enz - Time And Tide
28. Todd Rundgren - Back To The Bars
29. Carter USM - Post Historic Monsters
30. Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield
31. Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
32. Moxy Fruvous - You Will Go To The Moon
33. Kansas - Audio-Visions
34. Golden Earring - Moontan
35. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic
36. Roger Glover - The Butterfly Ball
37. Eddie Hardin - The Wizard's Convention
38. Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon
39. Rob Fetters - Lefty Loose-Righty Tight
40. Rainbow - Down To Earth
41. Yes - Fragile
42. Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
43. Gear Daddies - Billy's Live Bait
44. Don Dixon - Romeo At Julliard
45. Squeeze - Argybargy
46. Strawbs - Bursting At The Seams


Here are the 16 that have worked their way through since I've been home:
1. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
2. Iron Butterfly - Light And Heavy
3. Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation
4. King Crimson - Live in Chicago, IL November 29, 1995
5. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
6. The Smithereens - A Date With The Smithereens
7. The Good Rats - From Rats To Riches
8. Hedwig And The Angey Inch - Original Cast Recording
9. Alejandro Escovedo - A Man Under The Influence
10. Continental Drifters - Continental Drifters
11. The Tubes - Now
12. Traffic - Heaven Is In Your Mind
13. Saga - Silent Knight
14. Southside Johnny And The Jukes - At Least We Got Shoes
15. XTC - Skylarking
16. The Grip Weeds - Infinite Soul

And finally, here are the 10 that I haven't gotten to yet:
1. Utopia - Ra
2. Focus - Moving Waves
3. Guided By Voices - Under The Bushes, Under The Stars
4. The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
5. The Spongetones - Always Carry On
6. Spirit - The Family That Plays Together
7. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - So Far
8. The Fatima Mansions - Lost In The Former West
9. Dada - American Highway Flower
10. Arrogance - Rumors


I think that should answer John's question. The next blog entry (for April) will list some of the things I've been listening to outside of the car. The photos that accompany this blog are sunrise and sunset pictures from my trip. Enjoy!