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I like that Albatross track by Fleetwood Mac, an original for sure. My Playlist at work so far:

St. Pancras - Underworld
Rock It Tonight - Seven Dub
Words Of Advice - Material w/William Burroughs
Fantino - Sebastian Tellier
Abermorgen - Andreas Dorau & Justus Koehncke
Dog Days - Matthew Dear

The Arcade Fire! --the best band in the last five years in all genres...my opinion of course.

Boards of Canada --In my opinion, the best band from Scotland...ever!

Modest Mouse, one of my favorite bands of all time. Their earlier music was a notch above their last two albums, but it's all pretty good.

Radiohead. Amnesiac and Kid A are my favorites.

Gorillaz...amazing

Tool...if you haven't gotten into them start now. Aenima and Lateralus are my favorites

Alice in Chains...excellent sound

The Postal Service

Profuse 23, DJ Shadow, Sigur Ros

Primus--probably the best bassist of all time

anyway, that gives you a good idea of what I've been listening to the last little bit.

peace

Damn, I must be getting old, I've never heard of 95% of these people.

currently got "The Prodigy - Everybody in the place" playing!

got there entire collection in my stack, all on random play!

BigRigRob wrote:Damn, I must be getting old, I've never heard of 95% of these people.

That's my problem, too.

And it is really frustrating because I know I would like a lot of what people are listening to now.

What I would like to be able to do is click on the name of a tune and just hear it. I would not mind if I couldn't download it, I just want to be able to hear it. If I liked it, I would go out and buy the album.

I hear ya man, but, I don't know, ain't heard much new stuff I like.
I remember the old days, when I had a broad mind and a narrow waist!

StonedSince'67 wrote:

BigRigRob wrote:Damn, I must be getting old, I've never heard of 95% of these people.

That's my problem, too.

And it is really frustrating because I know I would like a lot of what people are listening to now.

What I would like to be able to do is click on the name of a tune and just hear it. I would not mind if I couldn't download it, I just want to be able to hear it. If I liked it, I would go out and buy the album.

do you have itunes? if not, u can download it here:http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/download/

in there online shop section u can listen to 30seconds of the track b4 u buy!!![

yeah, I understand if you're a bit older having not heard of some of these bands. Some of them are fairly new, like The Arcade Fire. If you want to listen to their music and not buy it, go to youtube.com and search for them. Often times the videos are pretty bad, but it's the music that really matters.

Here some examples:

The Arcade Fire--Headlights look like Diamonds, Neighborhood #1 (tunnels), Neon Bible,

Boards of Canada--Dawn Chorus, Eagle in your Mind

Modest Mouse--All Nite Diner, Night on the sun, Bukowski, Lounge (closing time), Gravity Rides Everything, Dramamine, Dashboard.

The Postal Service--Sleeping In, Such Great Heights

Sigur Ros--Gong

Radiohead--I might be wrong, Dollars and Cents, Pyramid Song, Everything in its right place, How to disappear completely

if you're interested go have a listen, enjoy

Try LAST FM for finding/listening new stuff based on other artists that you like.

Another place to listen to streaming music HERE.

Also a couple of webcast shows which often bring me great new tunes:

Radio David Byrne for world/indie/really weiiiiird shit.

Little Steven's Underground Garage for guitar-based rock/punk/allsorts. It's Silvio off of the Sopranos, minus the wig (Steve Van Zandt). He's also Bruce Springsteen's chief guitarist.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I have been sampling some this morning and enjoying.

Sitting here at my computer has made me realise what I really miss ... going to a friend's place, seeing other friends there, being handed a smoke and someone saying "here listen to this you will really like it", smoking, listening, laughing, talking, smoking, laughing, listening, smoking ...

The older I get the more I realise it is people that are the most important thing in life ...

Thanks guys ...

ps I have just ordered Sya by Issa Bagayogo from Amazon

StonedSince'67 wrote: Sitting here at my computer has made me realise what I really miss ... going to a friend's place, seeing other friends there, being handed a smoke and someone saying "here listen to this you will really like it", smoking, listening, laughing, talking, smoking, laughing, listening, smoking ..

I agree, that's how I discovered almost all my new music...............
Good times.

Another option to listen to music before you buy is Myspace, near enough every band out there has a myspace page, if I hear something I usually just google the bands name and click on the myspace link and listen away.

Arcade Fire is top notch in my book. Recent listens:

Thomas Newman - American Beauty Soundtrack
Dandy Livingstone - got no album, just a download
Deer Hunter - Cryptograms
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Air - Moon Safari
John Martyn - Sweet Little Mysteries
Max Richter - Songs from Before

OK, theres a name I know, Neil Young.
I've partyed on his tourbus before!