What are you listening to?

**ForresterModern** · 15th April 12, 12:50 PM

Not Celtic (although I am partial to Silly Wizard), but in the last month or so I have gotten hooked on stuff by Eva Cassidy, a great singer who did mostly covers of other folks stuff, great covers, as well as a little of her own stuff, and some collaborations. Unfortunately she died of melanoma in 1996, right before her first solo album was published. She started getting lots of play posthumously and now has 11 albums out there, all stuff she recorded but was ignored by the music industry during her life, including great covers of "Over the Rainbow" and Sting's "Fields of Gold". Check out albums Songbird and Live at Blues Alley for great starters. You can hear some of her stuff on Wikipedia too. I have her Pandora channel bookmarked for regular play.

**MacGuffin** · 15th April 12, 02:17 PM

On the computer right now . Listening to Rufus Wainright's "Out of the Game" and Galician folk music on youtube. Also, old Alan Lomax recordings from Scotland I found on the web.

**Peter Crowe** · 15th April 12, 02:39 PM

Most recently I have been listening a lot to Pink Floyd's, Wish You Were Here album, and Led Zeppelin III, and IV.

**Bugbear** · 15th April 12, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by Peter Crowe

Most recently I have been listening a lot to Pink Floyd's, Wish You Were Here album, and Led Zeppelin III, and IV.

Always fun to pick out the references to Tolkien's writing, among others, in Zeppelin songs.

Think I should get back over to the kilt part of the forum, though.

**Southern Breeze** · 16th April 12, 07:26 AM

I've got a [I]very[I] eclectic mix on my i pod. Today it's been Johnny Cash, Glenn Miller, Warren Zevon, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.

**Mark R** · 23rd April 12, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by Southern Breeze

I've got a [I]very[I] eclectic mix on my i pod. Today it's been Johnny Cash, Glenn Miller, Warren Zevon, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.

Didnt expect to see a Zevon fan on the XMarks site. Anything in particular you like from him as he was rather eclectic in his own right.

Shame his has never been considered for the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.

**Southern Breeze** · 24th April 12, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by Mark R

Didnt expect to see a Zevon fan on the XMarks site. Anything in particular you like from him as he was rather eclectic in his own right.

Shame his has never been considered for the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.

Nothing in particular. A friend sent me copies of his music several years ago. Thankfully it was edited with the strong language bleeped over.

**SeumasA** · 17th April 12, 05:45 PM

I have pretty eclectic tastes too. Today on the ipod I had The Cars, Tom Petty, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, Dropkick Murphys, New Order, the Real MacKenzies and the Rolling Stones.

**kilted scholar** · 21st April 12, 06:01 AM

String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op.131 by Beethoven - Beethoven's greatest work, at least that's how Beethoven himself considered it - played by the Alban Berg String Quartet. Later in the day I might listen to some Bach flute sonatas, or perhaps the Shostakovich eighth conducted by Mraviinsky.