Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine So, what are you listening to?

Somehow I'd never listened to Roy Wood's Boulders album until tonight. I suspect I will be making up for that in the future.

Total love for this classic album!

Silversun Pickups : Lazy Eye

(also, in love with the girl in the video...)

My dad like ELO. He also had a fair knowledge of the precursors to ELO, including Roy Wood's influence from The Move. But I've found that overanalysing it isn't the best approach. Just listening to it, and listening generally to any reaction seems to be best.


Here's Jeff Lynne's doin' disco (mid ELO I think) that I picked up in a thrift store.

New tune by former Don Cabellero guitarist Ian Williams's current band, Battles:

One of the young rock'n'roll groups from Britain that all the kids are listening to:

For Fickles:

Very kind of you, EDE. Thanks so much.

Great sound from the guitarist and singer of The Black Keys.

This one's a bummer, and I can't stop crying, but it's an amazing song:

This is Halloween | The Nightmare Before Christmas (Danny Elfman)
Night on Bald Mountain | Disney's Fantasia (Mussorgsky)
Opening Theme | Dracula (1931)
Night Journeys | Dracula (1931)
Ghostbusters | Ghostbusters (Ray Parker)
It's Only Forever | Jim Henson's Labyrinth (David Bowie)
If I Apologized | Mirrormask (Iain Ballamy, Neil Gaiman)
Suicide is Painless | M.A.S.H. (Johnny Mandel)
Long Ago and Far Away | Pan's Labyrinth (Javier Navarrete)
Time Warp | Rocky Horror Picture Show
Science Fiction Double Feature | Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tubular Bells | The Exorcist (Mike Oldfield)
Imperial March | Star Wars (John Williams)
The Empire Strikes Back Disco | Meco
Nimue's Song | Camelot - (Lerner & Lowe)
Smile | Charlie Chaplin (Orchestral Piece)
Smile | Lyrics-John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons; preferably performed by Judy Garland
Segue: Algeria Touchshriek | David Bowie
The Witch Doctor Song | Davis Seville
Ghostriders in the Sky | Johnny Cash
Thriller | Michael Jackson
Keep on Lovin' You | REO Speedwagon
(I Always Feel Like) Somebody's Watching Me | Rockwell
Planet Claire | the B-52s
Rock Lobster | the B-52s
Maxwell Edison | The Beatles
Frankenstein | The Edgar Winter Group
Hall of Heads | They Might Be Giants
We Will All Go Together When We Go | Tom Lehrer
Werewolves of London | Warren Zevon
Excitable Boy | Warren Zevon
Don't Let Us Get Sick | Warren Zevon
Hall of the Mountain King | Peer Gynt (Edvard Grieg)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | TV Theme Song
Casper the Friendly Ghost | TV Theme Song
The Addams Family | TV Theme Song
The Munsters | TV Theme Song
Twilight Zone | TV Theme Song
Molly Malone | (Irish Traditional - Sinead O'Connor)
Puttin' On the Ritz | Young Frankenstein (Irving Berlin)
Young Frankenstein Opening Theme | Young Frankenstein (John Morris)
Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) | Complete Soundtrack
Wicked | Complete Soundtrack

All on my Desktop PC.

Also, I am sure, available on YouTube and ITunes.

I've been listening too much lately to songs that make me sad, so this one always picks me up:

I used to hang out with these guys back when I used to do things like hang out...

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol on audiobooks. Driving a truck now, radio is shit, stations buy their programming from the same guy all over the nation. Same shit all the time.

A shit-ton of FutureCop! and The Gaslight Anthem.

Some "Come on, Eileen" reminiscing in the Shoutbox inevitably made me think of Dexys Midnight Runners' quirky but compelling cover of Van Morrison's "Jackie Wilson Said".

Eddie and the Cruisers was a great movie for 'my generation' with some classic music.



Tender Years and Season in Hell are also pretty awesome, from that soundtrack.

(The dude in the video is the actor from the movie, and not even remotely the actual singer...)

I wish I knew how to embed like all of you cool kids do but I can't so I'm just going to post this link.

I listen to so many Golden Oldie stations that I sometimes think I must have already heard every single old song out there and that there's nothing new for me to discover....

So when I hear a decades old song that I a) have never heard before; and b) instantly love, it's a bit like finding a mint condition of Adventure Comics #247 in a back issue bin filled with thousands of terrible 90s Image comics.

Such is how much I've fallen for this 1970 song by Dory Previn, an artist I'd never heard of before either.

But since hearing it in the final scene of the latest episode of Scream Queens about an hour ago, I must have listened to this song about 20 times! I. LOVE. IT.

The song has a fascinating background too! Google it if you're interested.

Here it is -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmi7eeCNVvo

This was the previous old song that I only recently discovered and became immediately obsessed with.

The first time I heard it was about a week ago when it came on the radio as I was parking my car and I don't feel weird admitting that I had burst into tears by the end of it.

The song perfectly encapsulates my own emotional struggles at the moment.

It's by Roy Clark, who's probably well-known by most of the Americans here, but who is an unknown quantity to most Australians:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_qAXgz7s_w&index=43&list=PL2467988B425C5FE0

Not embedding, because the cover image might be disturbing to sensitive souls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kGhzf5cESU