I'm sorta bored, and these sort of threads are always fun. Sometimes I can discover a new group through them, and I love finding new bands.
Anyway, my current rotation is:
Clan of Xymox - Notes From the Underground
Das Ich - Re_Laborat
Belle Morte - The Quiet
The Damned - Grave Disorder
Fields of the Nephilim - The Fallen
Seabound - Poisonous Friend (Single)
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An Android future Mix Cd(Features groups like VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berzerk, and The Crüxshadows)
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Beck - Guero
Daft Punk - Human After All
The Concretes - Selftitled
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Mum - Yesterday was Dramatic, Today is Ok
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
Giant Robot - Crushing You with Style
LCD Soundsystem - Selftitled
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Go Team! - Thunder Lightning Strike
Einstürzende Neubauten - 80-83 Strategies Against Architecture
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
Daft Punk - Human After All
Freezepop fancy Ultra-Fresh
The Streets A Grand Dont Come for Free
Flogging Molly Within a Mile of Home
Souls of Mischief 93 Til Infinity
Crash Twinsanity - Original Videogame Soundtrack
Instrumental Bossanova mix CD
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Ryan Adams - Gold
The Dears - No Cities Left
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Grandaddy - Sumday
Elbow - Asleep in the Back
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
electric 6
ben folds
underworld
beatles
supergrass
djihan & kamien
Air
iron and wine
bright eyes
lo fidelity allstars
the police
queen
-a pretty weird mix, really.
i'm listening and relistening to a bunch of albums on mp3 by Lorna, introuced to me by a bloke at work. Stunning stuff, desperate to get it on CD ... www.lornamusic.co.uk (fixed link)
Puffy Ami Yumi - Show soundtrack
The Killers - Big Fuss
Tarkan - Gecenin
Pretty slick site, too bad about their giant backlog of submissions...
Hm, CDs? I don't use CDs for anything but games which reminds me that I should get some cracs to end that annoying disc shuffling.
Rancid: Indestructible
Dropkick Murphys: Do or Die
White Stripes: Elephant
The Briefs: Sex Objects
Anti-Flag: Terror State
U.S. Bombs: The World
The Hives: Tyrannosaurus Hives
NOFX: Punk in Drublic
Madcap: Under Suspicion
Flogging Molly: Within a Mile of Home
Looks like a perfectly acceptable mainstream radio playlist .
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AAAAAAHHH!!! hehe
Internet radio gives me my music fix these days, but I am starting to update my CD rack.
Megadeth - The System Has Failed (I've lost track how many times I've listened to this album in the weeks that I've had it. A step back to the early days when rock provided the anthems we still enjoy today.)
Soilwork - Figure Number Five (made in Sweden. nuff said.)
Fear Factory - Archetype (just delivered this morning. another band making the wise decision to return to a sound that worked for them, before nu-metal went mainstream.)
Green Day - American Idiot (punk normally bores the hell out of me. but this is an album I can chill out to. good mix of tunes for the post-Blink182-shit-trash-crap era. i feel guilty calling it punk, it's that good.) *hides*
Slayer - Reigning Blood (I alternate between this and the new Still Reigning DVD...which is fucking awesome! A timeless classic, and a good warm up exercise for guitar I might add.)
Quartet Muartet-Dokuz Par
Green Day - American Idiot (punk normally bores the hell out of me. but this is an album I can chill out to. good mix of tunes for the post-Blink182-shit-trash-crap era. i feel guilty calling it punk, it's that good.) *hides*
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Oi! You'd better hide!
But seriously, I used to be a serious metal head in my youth, and eventually it just began boring me to tears. The slow grinding riffs and Cookie Monster Truck vocals just got old. I gravitated more and more toward speed metal, which in reality is very similar to a lot of hardcore and street punk. Check out the Casualties for a good example of this.
A lot of people think of bands like Blink 182 as punk. But the fact is that Blink 182 is to punk what a band like Europe or Cindarella is to metal. Emo is not punk. It's the butt rock of the punk world. I hate most emo garbage as much as anything, at it offends me that it even slips into online punk radio stations playlists. It's like mixing Testament and Slayer with Vixen and Great White. It just ain't right.
Listen to some good Oi! streetpunk, or some good hardcore, and it'll set you straight.
Megadeth - the System has Failed
Dr Dememto's Greatest Hits - all 3 2-disc sets
Mike Milligan and Steam Shovel
The Shins
Clutch
several others, I just can't think of them right now..