what are you listening to right now?

Can't really think of anything more appropriate for today than this one.

I wonder if he winters in Texas? Big Sugar is Alberta based, but I believe his other band, Grady, was Texas based too.

Crank it.

A forgotten gem from the early '80s:

Going back to the songs that were sampled in my youth.

Back to my default setting: Cannonball Adderley. 

Stick with it through the whole thing:

Goldfinger

Pirate Metal, so much pirate metal

Today, Twisted Christmas.

BTW, thank you for that link to the Sound Defects.

Interesting stuff.

Found my CD wallet.  I have owned this CD for almost thirty years.

Still know all the words to everything

Antihero said:

Pirate Metal, so much pirate metal

Yarrrr! Never knew this was a thing, so happy to find out it is! Loving Alestorm!

On another note, on the cover of Do or Die by Dropkick Murphys my father is on the right hand side on in the back row with a huge crap eating grin on his face He was a Boston based demolitionist for many many years until he retired. I never listened to Dropkicks really until I found that out and I have to say I now love their older stuff. My husband showed the picture to my father who had no idea he was on the album, and he started to get teary eyed because he has several brothers and brother in laws in that picture who are no longer with us. I wrote to the band and told them this asking if there was a poster or something I could buy, and they sent me a copy of the 12"vinyl and a promotional picture with a note on the back of it. It was very sweet of them and made me a fan for life.

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Found my CD wallet.  I have owned this CD for almost thirty years

Still know all the words to everything

Awesome album! I also still know the words to every song. Lunchbox is a personal favorite, because of the back story. Nuts!

StilettoSS said:

On another note, on the cover of Do or Die by Dropkick Murphys my father is on the right hand side on in the back row with a huge crap eating grin on his face He was a Boston based demolitionist for many many years until he retired. I never listened to Dropkicks really until I found that out and I have to say I now love their older stuff. My husband showed the picture to my father who had no idea he was on the album, and he started to get teary eyed because he has several brothers and brother in laws in that picture who are no longer with us. I wrote to the band and told them this asking if there was a poster or something I could buy, and they sent me a copy of the 12"vinyl and a promotional picture with a note on the back of it. It was very sweet of them and made me a fan for life.

 

 

Edit: I married the guy with the red arrows daughter. I also dated the guy at the bottom of the arrows daughter. Really weird.

In reply to StilettoSS :

Alestorm is awesome! Currently Drink and berkeleyed With An Anchor are my favorites.

Starting to see Christmas music in the Youtube recommendations, but I guess I can't complain:

Blue Note Jazz on w2rd St, NYC.  More intimate, not a hall.  Cautious Clay.

Mark Knopfler - "So Far from the Clyde"

Great song. It's amazing how Mark can take an obscure topic and create a great song. He's done it many times with many topics.