I've been listening to Pavement for the first time. So far I've gotten through Slanted and Enchanted and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. It seems pretty good, but I can't see what all the fuss about. Maybe you had to be there when the albums first came out to fully appreciate them. I remember somebody saying on the forums that Wowee Zowee was their favorite Pavement, so I'm gonna give it a shot soon.

Also, various Okkervil River tracks I downloaded. I really like a lot of it, especially their more recent stuff. There's a good chance I'll buy Black Sheep Boy. Hopefully, I'll like it as much as dano and LinnTate.

The Soundtrack of Our Lives Origin Vol. 1
Stephen Malkmus face the truth
The Raveonettes Pretty in Black
Belle and Sebastian Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
Spoon Gimme Fiction
Sleater-Kinney The Woods
Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust
Coldplay X and Y
White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs
eels blinking lights and other revelations
*wipes brow. good*

This is my playlist for tonight:

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
The Doors Strange Days
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Wildflowers

Right now it's Radiohead OK Computer
followed by:
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
Supergrass - Road to Rouen
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
maybe Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary or Engineers - s/t if I'm not overly tired, plus I'm leaving early to go on vacation for a week tommorrow morning, so I need my beauty rest...

Tool-Undertow
Tool-Aenima
Metallica-Ride the Lightning
Metallica-Master of the Puppets

I have yet another paper to write tonight, so here is my list:

Queen Greatest Hits
Dr. Dre The Chronic
The Beatles One (It is a decent compilation of some of their better songs)

Hmm...it's hard for me to talk about a 'playlist' because in 100 album listens I usually listen to 80 or so different albums.

The new ones I've still got in my CD changer are:

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Frank Black - Honeycomb
Son Volt - Okemah etc
Thee More Shallows - More Deep Cuts

I'm also listening to a few albums to flesh out my 2001 preferences. Mostly White Stripes - White Blood Cells, Strokes - Is This It, Bran Van 3000 - Discosis and Bob Dylan - Love and Theft.

Kingsbury Manx - The Fast Rise and Fall of the South
Sigur Ros - Takk
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
The Double - Loose in the Air

Discovering America - Van Dyke Parks
This one is growing on me. I was tempted to start a thread about how over-rated Parks is, but unlike Song Cycle, this album is actually keeping my attention and I have found myself coming back to it consistently. I've seen some mention of this album in relation to the new Sufjan album, and while I think this album is only pretty good, I still find it much much more interesting than anything Stevens has ever done.
Pearls Before Swine
Tim Hardin
I like Tim Hardin. I'm glad Okkervil River covered his Black Sheep Boy or I might have continued thinking of him as just another also-ran folkie burnout.

The Hold Steady- I've been listening to this on LT's recommendation. I can tell that I will like this when I am more in the mood for a good rock record. Unfortunately, as can be seen from the rest of my list, I'm in the mood for wussy singer-songwriter stuff right now.

Hot Women - Comp by R Crumb of his vintage collection

Dave Douglas - Soul on Soul

Cedric Im Brooks - The Light of Saba

Low - Things We Lost in the Fire

The Bad Plus - Give

BTW...not sure where to put this, so I'll tack it on here. I'm working on some mix tapes for some people, my first serious attempt, and I'd like some tips on what makes a good mix tape.

Current playlist...Does popping a CD in just to listen to one song count as part of the list? Oh well, I'll try to stay away from those.

Ziggy Stardust - Bowie
Young Americans - Bowie
Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine
Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
Jaz-Z/Linkin Park - That Collision Course thing
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris

Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic In the Attic
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

Been finishing up my thesis paper for grad school so I've had plenty of time to let music continuously play off my iTunes. These are the albums I'm constantly listening to while working.

Radiohead: Amnesiac
Massive Attack: 100th Window
Lamb: What Sound?
Flunk: Morning Star
The Go! Team: Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus
Radiohead: Kid A
RJD2: Deadringer
Radio Dept.: Lesser Matters
Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights
The Controls: One Hundred
The Roots: Things Fall Apart

and the death of Robert Moog has caused me to listen to...

Morcheeba: Who Can You Trust?

The Ramones, Hey! Ho! Let's Go!: The Anthology
The White Stripes, De Stijl
Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain
The Stooges, Fun House

Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage

Bedhead - What Fun Life Was and 4SongEP19:10

I really like Black Foliage up to track 19. Of the remaining 8 tracks (several do not merit the title of 'song'), there are two pretty good ones, and mediocrity (at best). Why does Olivia Tremor Control feel the need to put in a 10-minute "song" that is nothing but random noises? Does anybody really like listening to that stuff? I can't imagine so.

Bedhead. I'd forgotten how good they are. One of these days I'm going to make a list of my favorite albums from the 90's and all three Bedhead albums are going to be up there. What Fun Life Was has a 4 or 5 song stretch in the middle that is just about unbeatable. No bad songs on that thing either. That EP is really good too.

I've been listening to Flaming Lips, Violent Femmes, The Specials, and The Clash a lot recently. I haven't listened to any of either of their albums in a while. At least not all the way through.

And for some damn reason i've been listenting to Sublime's s/t.

Robyn- Robyn
Antony And The Johnsons- I Am A Bird Now
Shakira- Fijación Oral Vol. 1
Annie- Anniemal
Daft Punk- Discovery
Jefferson Airplane- Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane- Crown Of Creation

recent playlist:

Black Mountain - S/t
Postal Service
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
PWEI - THis is the day this is the hour this is this
Kids These Days - All These Interruptions
Sasha - Fundacion nyc
Stereolab - Dots and Loops

Wow. The playlist in New Zealand was every British Beatles album (some repeatedly) and Live at the BBC (that's Chuck Berry x 10!), Dungen, Death Cab, Holly Golightly X 2, Andrew Bird X 2, eels X 3, Sam Phillips, Nuggets X 2, Atlantic R & B Classics, White Stripes, Stephen Malkmus, Spoon, Sadies, Walkmen, Fruit Bats, Bob Dylan's s/t, Raincoats s/t, Futureheads, Arcade Fire (sorry), Coral, Pernice Bros.

The Playlist since I returned is BRMC Howl X 15, Coral Magic and Medicine x 3 (basically.)

So far this week:

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T
Kanye West - Late Registration
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
System of a Down - Mezmerize
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise!
Green Day - American Idiot
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Gorillaz - Demon Days
The Game - The Documentary
Beck - Guero
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
Love/Hate - Black Out in the Red Room