What are You Listening to Right Now?

You may have seen something like this before if you frequent other forums; it's basically just a place for anybody to mention what song/album/whatever they're currently listening to/have been listening to recently. It can be as simple as "I'm listening to Elvis" to a full fledged review/discussion starter about that band/album/song if you want. It's fun to do, because then not only does everyone else on the forum know a bit about what you're into, but you can introduce people to music you really like so it gains more fans or even discuss the show with other fans on the forum!

So, the big question is; What ARE you listening to right now?

-Gary

Again, I'll start; I just listened to "American Trilogy" by Elvis Presley. The song has a special place for me, 'cause my Dad was a huge fan of the King and I played it at his funeral in 2007. Also, coincidentally, it was reportedly the last song Elvis ever played, on his piano, the night he died. Plus it's Elvis; so it's just awesome.

-Gary

I've been cranking the Offspring's Greatest hits lately

Oh, man. I haven't heard an Offspring song in YEARS. Are they still around?

-Gary

The Batman: Arkham Asylum soundtrack - I've usually got some film soundtrack playing in the background. I've collected film scores for about 15 years now.

Film scores are awesome. I should get that Arkham Asylum soundtrack...

-Gary

gallegra wrote:

Oh, man. I haven't heard an Offspring song in YEARS. Are they still around?

-Gary

I guess they're still around. I heard one of their songs on a movie a few weeks ago and it stuck in my head. And then I remembered some songs of theirs that I used to really like.

Oh, really? Cool. Was it a recent movie?

-Gary

Now that I think of it I believe it was from that second Van Wilder movie. Came on Comedy Central and I'm pretty sure that's where I heard one of their songs. Movie is pretty dumb though but I guess it's a fairly new movie. Not sure.

I never saw that one, because Ryan Reynolds only had a short cameo in it and it was mostly the guy from Harold and Kumar, and I had no interest lol. But the Offspring is legit, good to hear they're still around.

-Gary

Yeah I watched Van Wilder about 6 weeks ago now, pretty funny film, not the best but not boring
The song is called "You're gonna go far, kid" by The Offspring

atm listening to GTA san andreas radio los santos soundtrack

I love a lot of racing games' and GTA soundtracks. My favorite racing series is Midnight Club, but I haven't played many others. I love the Midnight Club LA soundtrack though.

-Gary

I've never even played Midnight club, only NFS ones
my favorite is NFS most wanted, best soundtrack by far

Wat's midnight club like?

It's like underground racing. I've never seen it, but I hear it's kinda like Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (the Movie). It has a bunch of different music, and you can select if you want just techno, just rap/r&b, just rock, or all mixed. It has all different types of cars, trucks, bikes and whatnot, like most racing games. I just really liked the first one I played for PS2, so I've stuck with it. I'm sure Need for Speed is good though, and I think Grand Turismo 5 looks killer!

-Gary

Blueprint 3 from Jay-Z. Fantastic album!

That is a good one! I like "On to the next" or whatever the name is. I know that's one of the main lines in the song haha.

-Gary

gallegra wrote:

That is a good one! I like "On to the next" or whatever the name is. I know that's one of the main lines in the song haha.

-Gary

Yeah thats one of my favourites. It has such a hypnotic rhythm.

It really does. At first I thought it was kinda boring, but then it really grew on me a lot.

I've been listening to podcasts a lot lately (trying to catch up on my favorite shows), but today I listened to Fort Minor's "The Rising Tied". For those who don't know, Fort Minor is the MC from Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda. He's really good at mixing in awesome samples, rock & roll, both meaningful and pop-culture lyrics, and a good beat as well.

-Gary

Today, for some reason I've been listening a lot to the album "Resistance" by the band Muse. It's got a cool mix of sounds that I enjoy. I especially like the title track, but I'm currently listening through the whole album, and I like it all. One thing you definitely can't say about Muse is that all of their songs sound the same; they have a very neat style.

-Gary

I've been listening to a lot of Wizard and Velvet Davenport.
Wizard's only have an EP right now, and it's free to download.

Spinning Flowers EP of the Wizards. You can get it here if you like instrumental music. I do, it's pretty chill. Only 6 good songs, I really enjoyed it. The site's safe, so don't worry about any mal-ware. I'm not letting my computer crash ever again. Ugh..
Anyways the link to that EP:
http://whizards.bandcamp.com/album/spinning-flowers-ep

And speaking of instrumental, does anyone ever buy the OST's to old SNES/NES/N64 games? I pulled out my old SNES and started playing Donkey Kong Country 2 and forgot how good the music and gameplay is. Man.. I missed it.
So I have been listening to that. Hah. Feel like I should be holding a controller when I listen to it.

I'll have to check some of that stuff out, seems pretty cool.

Fawks wrote:

Feel like I should be holding a controller when I listen to it.

Haha, me too.

Lately I've been listening to 2 things; either Linkin Park's newest record "A Thousand Suns" (which I love to death) or Christmas music, since it's about that time of year. I'm a major Christmas nut, so yeah...

-Gary

gallegra wrote:

I'll have to check some of that stuff out, seems pretty cool.

Fawks wrote:

Feel like I should be holding a controller when I listen to it.

Haha, me too.

Lately I've been listening to 2 things; either Linkin Park's newest record "A Thousand Suns" (which I love to death) or Christmas music, since it's about that time of year. I'm a major Christmas nut, so yeah...

-Gary

You should! I have yet to burn myself out of that EP, and that is saying something! Haha.

My graphics teacher plays music in the classroom, and out of 4 happy years, I am tired of the Beatles and early Christmas music... Then the Beatles's Christmas song came on, one day. Ugh.. Oh well. It's good music nonetheless.

LP is dead to me after Meteora. They have changed, but that's what happens to a band when they mature I suppose... Is their new album recommendable?

I think so, yeah - and a lot of people like it. I can't blame you; I liked a song or two on their last album, but I hated that they went straight rock; they cut out all the stuff that made them unique. But now they're closer to their old stuff, but they experiment with some new sounds too. If you haven't heard it yet, I put the first single from their new album below; the video looks pretty cool too...