What are you listening to?

[petra]

How are you entertaining your ears?

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[petra]

I've been alternating between epic Harry Potter fanfiction and The Adventure Zone. Lots of escapist stories.

[cynthia1960]

Our favorite radio station, KEXP in Seattle, streams on the net and has a worldwide audience.

[petra]

Oh, nice!

[moultingfanfare]

I've basically been living on Elvis Costello's Punch the Clock since the end of February. Everything else I've tried, I always circle back.

I've even tried other albums of his that I usually love, but nope. Gotta get those horns from Let Them All Talk. Something about that song just soothes me, I hear the horns, the seratonin releases.

[petra]

You have the perfect icon for this conversation! I'm glad you have an album that's working for you.

[moultingfanfare]

Thank you, I'm rather fond of blabbering about my favourite artists so I needed an icon to represent that, lol!

[bibliofile]

That's a damn fine album.

Music and books save lives.

[moultingfanfare]

Media is a blessing that I am not taking for granted, that's for sure!

[angelofthenorth]

Spotify Daily Mixes - usually the one with disco tracks for walking and Welsh music for staying indoors.

[petra]

Nice!

[moultingfanfare]

Spotify's algorithms for daily mixes are truly amazing.

I think aside from Google, Spotify is the one company that probably knows me best.

[via_ostiense]

I have 3 pop albums on my phone and listen to them on repeat while working, so they've almost become white noise.

[petra]

That's how I tend to listen to albums too. I hope you're enjoying them.

[althea_valara]

I'm a bore who only listens to music from video games, primarily the Final Fantasy franchise. Today it was the orchestral album Distant Worlds IV, which is my favorite.

[petra]

No judgment here! As long as what you're listening to makes you happy, it doesn't matter whether anyone else would enjoy it. I get on album kicks that last years.

[bibliofile]

I've been listening mostly to the BBC's Radio 6 Music, which streams live online and also makes shows available for a couple-few weeks. I especially recommend the Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show, which goes out on Saturdays. (I scared the cats by dancing.)

[petra]

Anything that makes you dance is a good time!

[fred_mouse]

I've not been listening to much. I put some music on my work laptop, but the drive was failing, and there are hiccups in the noise.

But the last three things I listened to were from our 'smirched from youtube' collection -- Dropkick Murphy's "Johhny I hardly knew you", "Neverending story" theme, and Leonard Cohen's "First, We Take Manhattan" (or whatever it is called).

[petra]

Having a failing drive sounds frustrating, but your musical choices are cheerfully eclectic when you can get it to work well enough.

[fred_mouse]

The drive has been put in a box to go to the afterlife and replaced with a new one, so I have hope. And I have quite eclectic taste, supplemented by four other people's music collections :)