what are you listening to right now?

In reply to Gary :

I want that Rachmaninov concerto played at my funeral as the entirety of the service.

I listed to the Deja Vu album last night playing a board game with Tunawife. It's one of the finest albums ever made. It got me thinking, when I heard Woodstock. I remember the first time. I had been using Limewire in what must have been 1996 or 1997 maybe. I was looking for something and came across Carry Me. It was fantastic, so I poked around and found Carry On, and thought some goober must have just named the file wrong, but no, it was an altogether different and absolutely amazing song. I then found Woodstock and my mind was blown. The lyrics are so deliciously hippy that it was nearly silly in retrospect, but the music is undeniably great.

Fast forward 25 years and I'm listening to the vinyl in my house, with FAR superior audio quality. Then Helpless comes on, and Neil sounds like I can hear him crying between the words. It's really something.

And all that because of Limewire. I never would have cared otherwise about an album released 12 years before I was born.

I hope older bands relentlessly banning everything on YouTube today will get the idea. Their legacy and their music will die if they don't preserve it.

More fun stuff from Danny Barnes.

EDIT: No kiddos. Cussing and N-word...

Jimmy Smith playing Lalo Schiffrin:

Another recommendation from my son, and no organ in this one.

It's rare that I hear something that makes me say wow. Then I listen to it the next day and say wow again.

Stick around for the cover after this one

Spotify started playing a bunch of random 90's stuff that I haven't heard since then.... I'm not mad

https://youtu.be/ilKcXIFi-Rc?si=DsZ2YZK5U-ObLoUN

And Charlie the beagle is loving the music:

This weekend I rediscovered my love of Juanes, particularly his 2019 album Más Futuro Que Pasado.

Every song slaps in its own unique way; there's not a single miss on the album.

I KNEW IT

Disturbed (David Draiman) - Sound of Silence

Damn. Better than Simon & Garfunkel. David has a spectacular voice.

Have I introduced any of you hotshots to The Budos Band yet?

A live set from 2008.  Great audio quality.

This week's workday playlist consists of every Star Wars movie and live-action series soundtrack in in-universe chronological order.

After eight straight days of a portable generator thrapping away at 3600 RPM, I'm listening to silence. Peaceful, blessed silence.

I've had a knee replaced, and the other is failing. My heart has been shocked, and ablated. Asthma is kicking my ass. I hit 56 last week.

I recently heard Invincible, by TOOL. I'll be damned if it hasn't been my ride home music, for the past month.

TOOL - Invincible

Just vibing to this, or whatever it is the kids say nowadays:

Here's a good one to sample from the album above: