What are you listening to?

[romeowood]

In addition to what we're smoking, pictures of us smoking it, and the like, I thought it would be a nice way to further introduce ourselves to our fellow forum folks if we shared what we're generally listening to while we smoke it.
Tonight I had just a few puffs of my Altadis Black Spice paired with one of my new Jet Streams, listening to Bear McCreary's brilliant soundtrack for Battlestar Galactica. All 6 albums of it, on shuffle. I also dredged up an early Tom Waits memory that sparked this thread.
And...go!

 

[bubbadreier]

Ray Charles for me, I have loved his music since I was a small child! Now that I am very large child, he is still one of my favorites!

 

[expatpipe]

Waylon Jennings, RCA years today

 

[andrewtpoland]

Son House, Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete Sessions 1965. Specifically the song Grinnin' In Your Face.

 

[chuckw]

Judge Roy Bean staring Gary Cooper and Walter Brennon on my XM radio.

 

[mowens]

I usually just set the ol Pandora station to Celtic music or Irish drinking songs and let things go from there.

 

[chero]

conway,bluegrass,50s 60s rock and..........................................

 

[romeowood]

Excellent selections all, I knew it! And chuck, thanks for reminding me there's a whole passel of streaming radio stations I haven't explored in a while with the old radio programs!

 

[papipeguy]

Huge Steely Dan fan here. Own everything they've made. Lately I've been listening to local college radio stations to get a feel for what the "younger" folk are listening to. Can't say that there are any particular new artists that strike me as being original but I'll keep trying to find them.

 

[fredvegas]

I'm not allowed to smoke in the house, so I can pretty much only smoke while I'm driving. I often spend all day in the jeep, driving all over VA, and I don't listen to much music anymore. I find that if there is music playing, and I'm familiar with it, my brain just sort of shuts off, and I get mild "highway hypnosis". But if I'm listening to something I've never heard before, I stay more alert. So I listen to spoken word podcasts almost exclusively while driving.
My list of podcast subscriptions is as follows:
CarStuff

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

Doug Loves Movies

Comedy Death-Ray Radio

Culturetopia

Friday Night Comedy from BBC4

Fresh Air with Terry Gross

TED Talks

Stuff you Should Know

Real Time with Bill Maher

Judge John Hodgeman

KCRW's Film Reviews

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Reviews from BBC5

NPR's 7am news

NPR's Intelligence Squared debates

NPR's Story of the Day

NPR's Sunday Puzzle

Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me

The Onion

PRI's The World Geo Quiz

Shut Up, Wierdo

The Bugle Podcast

This American Life
Most of these are short (~5 minutes), so I can churn through 20 or so in a day. Some others are a bit longer (Fresh air is usually an hour long, as are Comedy Death Ray, Wait Wait, and Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews). Point is, I never run out of stuff to listen to, and it's always something I've never heard before.

 

[unclearthur]

Today it's Gordon Lightfoot

 

[hobie1dog]

Boston- Party ( from their second LP )

 

[chero]

mannn fred, you drive all day just to smoke.

 

[romeowood]

@ Fred--I've been a fan of the TED talks too, been catching up on some lately. TED and a pipe are like peanut butter & jelly--a perfect combination for sitting and ruminating.
@papipe--I love the Dan myself. Caught them in concert a few years ago at Roseland in NYC; sounded just like the albums, which was good (impressive) yet bad (I could've stayed home and listened to the album). Last big live show I saw and probably ever will see.
@unclearthur -- was that you knockin at my cellar door? hehe--that song just has a whole new meaning now that I've seen some of your stashes of tobacco on this forum!
@chero -- conway as in twitty? my mom loves him. :laughat:i love his white man's 'fro. helluva singer too!

 

[collin]

Well the only artists I've listened to today are, thanks to last nights post; Tom Waits and a young lady who's music I just discovered a few weeks ago, Nataly Dawn.

You guys may have seen her band doing the Hyudai commercials during Christmas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib13SJKc9eM
For those of you who don't know Tom Waits;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-t9z8OLoCg

 

[tedswearingen]

papipeguy, Steely Dan is one of my favorites. Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho are three of the finest records of that era. If you are looking for younger artists check out Sufjan Steven's album 'Illinois'. It's entirely different than the Dan but of the same high quality musicianship and recording craftsmanship.

 

[romeowood]

never drive a car when you're dead. sage advice, tom.

 

[hobie1dog]

Pat Metheny- Always and Forever

 

[pstlpkr]

Been re-re-reading Dan Harrington's second poker book.

And, listening to Pictures at an Exhibition by Emerson Lake and Palmer.

 

[mattia76]

1. Cardinal baseball

2. Miles Davis

3. The Avett Brothers