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What music are you listening to now? Or if you are listening to a particular playlist, what songs are on it?

Right now I'm addicted to Duran Duran's new album. I've also been listening to a lot of new wave...music from my youth :) I'm blaming Duran Duran for that too.

The new Radiohead album, Mumford and Sons, and A Perfect Circle have been on my playlist lately. Gearing up for the APC concert in July!! So completely stoked!:D

I heart Mumford & Sons!!!

I'm currently listening to Adele's 21

I do too, Sans. Amazing! I haven't gotten into Adele, but I haven't really devoted that much time yet.

I am currently obsessed Adele's 21 album. Sans, You have awesome taste because that is one good album. I'm also listening to Maroon 5's Album.

I'm hoping someone can recommend some good, new rock music. I always liked Against Me!, Rise Against, Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle, AFI and the Distillers.

Although lately I've been in to more low-key music. I love the Broken Bells' self-titled CD. I usually listen to that or the below playlist on shuffle whenever I'm going to work.

Bon Iver - Creature Fear
Boy & Bear - Rabbit Song
Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart
Glen Hansard - Say It To Me Now
Jesca Hoop - Wintersong
Laura Veirs - July Flame
Local Natives - Airplanes
Matt Pond PA - Amazing Life
Neko Case - Dirty Knife
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - O Children
Peggy Sue - Watchman
Port O'Brien - My Eyes Won't Shut
Radical Face - Welcome Home, Son
She Keeps Bees - Ribbon
The National - About Today
Tired Pony - Point Me At Lost Islands
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Warrior

Uh, I'm in love with The Strokes' most recent album 'Angles' (well, most of it anyway) even though it's different from their old stuff.

Other than that... well, there are waay too many songs on my playlist right now for me to mention them all here :)

Question: Do you guys randomize your playlist (with different artists) or do you listen to the same artist on one playlist?

Maybe it's a testament to my lack of spontaneity but I rarely allow my playlist to be a mash-up of random artists. I always pick one artist (with the utmost care) and listen to them religiously.

Currently playing my Jennifer Hudson Playlist

1) Pocketbook
2) Giving Myself
3) Spotlight
4) If This Isn't Love
5) Better in Time (by Leona Lewis)

Sashana wrote: "Question: Do you guys randomize your playlist (with different artists) or do you listen to the same artist on one playlist?

Maybe it's a testament to my lack of spontaneity but I rarely allow my p..."

I'm pretty much the opposite of you. My playlists are almost always random artists with one sort of theme, whether it's something like genre (rock, indie, folk), something else (love songs, songs with a good beat, songs that make me think of the Hunger Games, female singers, etc.), or playlists that make me think of a time in my life (Saves the Day and The Distillers bring me right back to high school, whereas She & Him and Tokyo Police Club is totally college music).

I love going through my music and putting together those playlists. Sometimes it will take me hours to make up the perfect playlist that encapsulates the mood I'm going for.

I'm like Laura. My playlists are usually based on some sort of theme or genre although more often than not, I will just toss up a playlist with my current favorite songs and just play it over and over again so my playlists tend to be named something like May 2011 Playlist or Current Playlist. lol.

Right now I am listening to Gates of Dawn by Secret Garden, one of my current favorites. Last night I had When Ginny Kissed Harry from the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince soundtrack on repeat.

I also have:
The Mouse and Septimus from Stardust OST (favorites)
Pachelbel Canon in D by Barrymore Chamber Orchestra

and tracks from the Twilight - Interpretations for Violin and Piano - to find out whether I still like those songs. :)

Because I end up listening to so many different genres and artists and my mood changes every other day, my playlist normally ends up becoming some sort of mish-mash of individual songs that get collected together over the course of a month. Of course by the end of the month my playlist sometimes starts to sound very bipolar.
Playlists are the new mood rings!

Happy-Jumpy April:
The Wombats - Little Miss Pipedream
The Wombats - School Uniforms
Motion City Soundtrack - Her Words Destroyed My Planet
Santigold Feat. Trouble Andrew - I'm A Lady
The Submarines - You, Me and the Bourgeoisie
Scouting For Girls - Gotta Keep Smiling
Scouting For Girl - Blue As Your Eyes
Save Ferris - I Know (Soundtrack - 10 Things I Hate About You)
Conor Oberst - NYC Gone, Gone

Have you guys heard anything by Lissie? She's the VH1 You Oughta Know artist. She kind of reminds me of Stevie Nicks. She's great if you like that old school Indie/Rock music (which I do).

My playlist is all ADELE, from 19 and 21. It's been that way for the past six days, and I'm still not sick of her songs.

Esme da Sore Loser wrote: "My playlist is all ADELE, from 19 and 21. It's been that way for the past six days, and I'm still not sick of her songs."

Ditto.

I've been listening to my "British Chicks" playlist a lot lately.. It consists of Lily Allen, Florence and The Machines, La Roux, Adele, Kate Nash, Corinne Bailey Rae. Some really good stuff.

Incoming Blonde Moment:

I thought La Roux was french. Although I don't really listen to her.

I think they're English but they have a French name.

Them. Yes, I did know it was a them and not her. :P

I think today may find me putting together a playlist for the first time in awhile. It will start with "Song to the Siren," probably the This Mortal Coil version.

Thats quite an eclectic playlist, niquae. From the opera to Gaga.

right now I'm listening to Spellbound by lacuna coil

but my recent playlist is...
~spellbound- Lacuna Coil
~the animal- Disturbed
~Awake and Alive- Skillet
~Beast and the Harlot- Avenged Sevenfold
~Beautiful monster- Ne-yo
~Brick by boring brick- Paramore
~Claire De Lune- Claude De Bussy
~cooler than me- Mike Posner
~Decode- Paramore
~Down on me- Jeremiah
~Dynamite- Taio Cruz
~Echo- Gorilla Zoe
~End of ME- Apocolyptica ft. Gavin Rossdale
~E.T.- Katy Perry Ft. Kanye West
~Higher- Taio Cruz
~I caught myself- Paramore
~I will not bow- Breaking Benjamin
~Ignorance- Paramore
~In my head- Jason Derulo
~Into the nothing- Breaking Benjamin
~Invincible- Adelita's way
~Jar of hearts- Christina Perri
~Kissin U- Miranda Cosgrove
~leave out all the rest- Linkin park
~a little piece of heaven- Avenged sevenfold
~ Maybe- sick puppies
~misery- maroon 5
~Monster- Skillet
~My chick bad- Ludacris
~need you now- Lady antebellum
~nothin on you- B.O.B.
~the outsider- a perfect circle
~radioactive, kings of leon
~ready to start, arcade fire
~rolling in the deep, adele
~S&M- Rihanna
~say you'll haunt me, stone sour
~stripped, Shiny toy guns
~telephone, lady gaga
~world so cold, three days grace
~you're betrayal- Bullet for my valentin
~your love is a song, switchfoot

Sammie, I love A Perfect Circle. Maynard is just oozes so much talent it makes me lightheaded. Lol. Seeing APC in Dallas in June. It is going to be amazing.

nice, have fun!

lol I do have a serious eclectic list...I'm really Into music, just about as much as I am books.

I seriously second that, Sammie. I'll be listening to gangsta rap today and country music tomorrow.

lol

My music is all over the place and playlists are always a mix of artists and genres.

Right now I'm listening A LOT to AFI. From their first album to their newest and everywhere in between.

I've also been listening to My Chemical Romance

Right now I have a few songs I listen to all the time!! Literally!! I just can't seem to get tired of them:

Maroon 5 - Never gonna live this bed
Carolina Liar - I'm not over
Adele - Rolling in the deep
Neon Trees - Animal
- Next room
- Girls and boys
Ne-Yo - Closer
Parov Stelar - Chambermaid Swing
One republic - Won't stop (I love this song!!)
Bruno Mars - The other side
Sara Bareilles - King of anything
Wretch 32 feat Example - Unorthodox (:D)
Snow Patrol - You're all I have
Kate Nash - Foundations
Vampire Weekend - Giving up the gun
Feist - 1234
Take That - Love Love
The Pierces - Sticks and stones
Travis - Love will come through
Train - If it's love

and the list goes on and on and on ...

If you have any recommendations (bands/songs) I'll be happy to read them :)!

Diana wrote: "...The Pierces - Sticks and stones..."

Yay for The Pierces! I think Kill! Kill! Kill! and Ruin are my favorites.

Since I'm having a very boring summer I've decided to go on a musical pilgrimage and listen to the 500 songs that shaped rock music. I don't know how long it will take me, maybe a few weeks, but today's playlist is:

AC/DC, Back in Black
AC/DC, Highway to Hell
Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys, Wabash Cannonball
Aerosmith, Dream On
Aerosmith, Toys in the Attic
Afrika Bambaataa, Planet Rock
The Allman Brothers Band, Ramblin' Man
The Allman Brothers Band, Whipping Post
The Animals, The House of the Rising Sun
The Animals, We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Louis Armstrong, West End Blues
Arrested Development, Tennessee

And just for the hell of it I listened my way into the B's. 30/500

The B-52's, Rock Lobster
LaVern Baker, Jim Dandy
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Work With Me Annie
The Band, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Band, The Weight
Beach Boys, California Girls
Beach Boys, Don't Worry Baby
Beach Boys, God Only Knows
Beach Boys, Good Vibrations
Beach Boys, Surfin' U.S.A.
The Beastie Boys, (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)
The Beatles, A Day in the Life
The Beatles, Help!
The Beatles, Hey Jude
The Beatles, I Want to Hold Your Hand
The Beatles, Norwegian Wood
The Beatles, Strawberry Fields Forever
The Beatles, Yesterday

Yesterday I listened to: (67/500)

The Beau Brummels, Laugh Laugh
Beck, Loser
Jeff Beck Group, Plynth (Water Down the Drain)
The Bee Gees, Stayin' Alive
Archie Bell and the Drells, Tighten Up
Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry, Maybelline
Chuck Berry, Rock and Roll Music
The Big Bopper, Chantilly Lace
Big Brother and the Holding Company, Piece of My Heart
Big Star, September Gurls
Black Sabbath, Iron Man
Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Bobby Blue Bland, Turn On Your Love Light
Blondie, Heart of Glass
Kurtis Blow, The Breaks
Gary U.S. Bonds, Quarter to Three
Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Green Onions
Boston, More Than a Feeling
David Bowie, Fame
David Bowie, Space Oddity
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
The Box Tops, The Letter
Charles Brown, Driftin' Blues
James Brown, I Got You (I Feel Good)
James Brown, Please, Please, Please
James Brown, Say It Loud — I'm Black and I'm Proud
Ruth Brown, Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean
Jackson Browne, Late for the Sky
Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth
Solomon Burke, Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
Johnny Burnette Trio, Train Kept a-Rollin'
The Byrds, Eight Miles High
The Byrds, Hickory Wind
The Byrds, Mr. Tambourine Man
Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash, I Walk the Line

I just bought Dino The Essential Dean Martin so that's basically what's on my playlist.

That's cool, Sashana. I might have to join you in this endeavor.

Rachel wrote: "That's cool, Sashana. I might have to join you in this endeavor."

I wish I would have started earlier. I start school next week so I don't know if I'll be able to finish it.

I've been listening to country the past month and these are my "most played" songs:

Blake Shelton:
Hillbilly Bone
Ol' Red
The More I Drink
Who Are You When I'm Not Looking
Honey Bee
God Gave Me You
Good Ole Boys
Over
Get Some

Dierks Bentley:
Feel That Fire
I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes
You Hold Me Together
Since You Came Along

Eric Church:
Where She Told Me To Go
Longer Gone
Smoke a Little Smoke
Carolina
Hell On the Heart
Drink In My Hand

Luke Bryan: all three of his albums, but especially
Rain Is a Good thing
Do I
Apologize
Every Time I See you
All My Friends Say
Baby's On the Way
We Rode In Trucks
Country Man
You Make Me Want To
I'm Hungover
Take My Drunk Ass Home
Country Girl
Tailgate Blues
Drunk On You
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Trace Adkins:
Honky Tonk Badonkadonk
Ladies Love Country Boys
Dangerous Man
If I Was a Woman

That's a great idea, Sash! I'd like to try listening to everything on my iPod at least once. I'd have to discount the audiobooks though.

I have always liked country. I am not big on all of the "new age" country, as I like to call it, though. Anything like 2007 and before I am ok with. You've got some good songs there, Sans.

Hey, Rachel! I've missed you lately, how you been?

:) I've been good. Just had a rough, busy month and a half. Moving, finding new jobs, getting internet again, living with my mom (lol, the boyfriend and I love this one...not), and getting used to living in DFW again. Three years in a small town and you kind of forget how life is in the fast lane!

I missed you too, Sans! How have you been??

Wow, I missed a lot with RL crap. I hope you've found work? It's difficult getting used to living with the folks again. Took me several months to get comfortable.

I've been good, stuff has finally settled down at work and I have the energy to read again, so I'm happy. ^o^

I'm going on vacation tomorrow, so I sat down last night and put together a playlist of travel songs. So they either have lyrics that are about travel or just the way they sound puts me in the right mindset to travel (or sit on an airplane for 4 hours).

(in alphabetical order because I always just hit shuffle)
Alexi Murdoch – All of My Days
Ana Serrano van der Laan – Paradise
Angus & Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane
Arcade Fire – Wasted Hours
Arrah and the Ferns – Tokyo, Tokyo
Bat for Lashes – Tahiti
Be Your Own PET – Adventure
Bedouin Soundclash – Mountain Top
The Blanks – Over the Rainbow
Butterfly Boucher – Another White Dash
Cary Brothers – Ride
Cults – Go Outside
Death Cab for Cutie – Soul Meets Body
Devotchka – How it Ends (plays during Little Miss Sunshine when they’re driving)
Doves – Kingdom of Rust (plays in Zombieland when they’re pulling into L.A.)
Eddie Vedder – Guaranteed (song from the soundtrack to Into the Wild)
Fleet Foxes – Grown Ocean
Greg Laswell – Off I Go
Karen O. and the Kids – Sailing Home (from Where the Wild Things Are)
Local Natives – Airplanes
Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers
Mumford & Suns – Roll Away Your Stone
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
The National – Runaway
Radical Face – Welcome Home, Son
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Road Trippin’
Regina Spektor – Dusseldorf
The Republic of Tigers – Buildings & Mountains
Sea Wolf – Dew in the Grass
Sufjan Stevens – I Walked
Tired Pony – Points Me at Islands
Weezer – Island in the Sun
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
Yeasayer – Ambling Alps

Diana wrote: "Right now I have a few songs I listen to all the time!! Literally!! I just can't seem to get tired of them:

Maroon 5 - Never gonna live this bed
Carolina Liar - I'm not over
Adele - Rolling in the..."

Oh I love, love, love Kate Nash!

Me too, but I prefer Lily Allen.

Mine can be really random but right now it goes like this...
The All-American Rejects-
Move Along
Dirty Little Secret
It Ends Tonight

Avenged Sevenfold-
Almost Easy
Afterlife

Breaking Benjamin-
Until the End

Buckcherry-
Lit Up

Bullet For My Valentine-
Your Betrayal
Tears Dont Fall

Cavo- Champagne

Linkin Park-
By Myself
In the End
A Place for my Head
Forgotten
Numb
Given Up
Bleed it Out
What I've Done
No More Sorrow
New Divide
The Catalyst

Muse-
Uprising

Papa Roach-
Kick in the Teeth
Lifeline
Burn
Last Resort

Red Hot Chili Peppers-
The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie

Trapt-
Whose Going Home With You Tonight
Headstrong

I'm listening to The Pistol Annies and Hugh Laurie's album.

I feel like I'm having a party in my ears right now :) I'm listening to some 90s music: Christina Aguilera, NSYNC, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Destiny's Child, Mandy Moore, 98 Degrees, and the Spice Girls.

90s music...that's where it was at! Everything was good then! Pop...rock...grundge...metal...country...hiphop...rap...BRING BACK THE 90S!!!

Rachel wrote: "90s music...that's where it was at! Everything was good then! Pop...rock...grundge...metal...country...hiphop...rap...BRING BACK THE 90S!!!"

Ay ay! Here here! I totally agree in case you couldn't tell :P