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Have any of you for some unexplained sudden reason can't get enough of a band/artist? And not even a good band or artist? If so, what or who is it?

I've been on this weird (and ashamed to admit it) Bon Jovi kick for the past week or so. Laugh if you must, but it's true.

Anyone else care to share?

Have any of you for some unexplained sudden reason can't get enough of a band/artist? And not even a good band or artist? If so, what or who is it?

I've been on this weird (and ashamed to admit it) Bon Jovi kick for the past week or so. Laugh if you must, but it's true.

Anyone else care to share?
*points and laughs* ;)

I made a cd for someone about ten days ago, and since then I've been listening almost exclusively to Isis and Converge. Mmmm, crunchy. :)

I am having rather a disney songs moment atm, but thats probably because i have had to leave my entire collection at home for the entire term. THats a long time to go with no elton john song!

I'm into Foo Fighters at the moment though I really don't consider it to be that weird.

Nah. But we forgive you anyway. :D

I'm into Foo Fighters at the moment though I really don't consider it to be that weird.

Welllll.... a few days ago a friend and I had a terrible craving to watch a music video by New Found Glory. @_@

Not my finest hour.

hehe i had a bon jovi craving at uni that lasted a couple of weeks.... slippery when wet rocks!


i tend to listen to music in cravings anyway though... i tend to listen to one band/artist pretty much exclusively for days/weeks at a time, or i'll listen to one band in each genre and listen to genres according to my mood (as in, in a day i'll listen to metal, jazz and blues, but in total only 3 bands cos they're the ones i'm stuck on)
i'm kinda obsessive/addictive in that way, and pretty much never use playlists :p

hehe i had a bon jovi craving at uni that lasted a couple of weeks.... slippery when wet rocks!


i tend to listen to music in cravings anyway though... i tend to listen to one band/artist pretty much exclusively for days/weeks at a time, or i'll listen to one band in each genre and listen to genres according to my mood (as in, in a day i'll listen to metal, jazz and blues, but in total only 3 bands cos they're the ones i'm stuck on)
i'm kinda obsessive/addictive in that way, and pretty much never use playlists :p

Yes! This is how it is.

Glad I have company in this. :)

I wants to find more Dylan Tanh music...

I'm listening to Beyonce.

Really want to listen to Billy Bragg's "The People's Flag", though I am a staunch capitalist/knee-jerk anti communist.

Not so much craving, but I found a really neat electronica group called "The Flavor Foundation".

Hmm. I've been listening to Air - Moon Safari for weeks now, although that's probably because of the fact it's my only chill-out album and I'm handling current stress like glass handles torsion.

I just stick on Pandora (www.pandora.com) most of the time.

I'm listening to Beyonce.

*cleans out ears*

Could you repeat that? :eek: :p


Still, I have a Creed song on my player so maybe I shouldn't talk. :p

Benny Benassi. I like techno, but it's a divergence from my usual tastes, which are darkwave and industrial/heavy/folk/goth metal/rock.

Dexys Midnight Runners FTW!

I'm listening to Beyonce.

*hits Ruffy*

I occasionally get totally sick of everything on my iTunes, which makes me run off and steal someone else's music. Other than that, I tend to go through phases (big ska-punk cravings at the minute).

*points and laughs* ;)

I made a cd for someone about ten days ago, and since then I've been listening almost exclusively to Isis and Converge. Mmmm, crunchy. :)

Lol. Converge.

I bought the "Jane Doe" album a few days back. Insane! And impenetrable. I'm trying to get into it but it's a challenge.

Isis rocks.



As for the topic, last night I had this weird irresistible compulsory desire to listen to a bunch of pointless grunge music. Like Bush, Candlebox, Silverchair, that sort of music.

Yeah, I've had that happen. I used to loathe My Chemical Romance, then I was listening to them non-stop for a few months, now I'm back to semi-hate since I now consider them overplayed.

Journey

The Who. Young Man Blues.

I listen to music almost primarily by anarchists and communists. I am myself not one. That qualifies as weird musical cravings, no?

Not really....I don't listen to any music I consider crap. :p

I tend to get in the mood for particular styles, however, and I do sometimes get stuck listening to a few artists of a similar sound for a couple of weeks.

I've had the damn theme to the new Bond movie stuck in my head for the last couple of days. And I don't know many words...

Anyone else care to share?
Les Miserable

Into the Woods

Phantom of the Opera

Cats...


those were my most recent musical Cravings.

Right now I'd kill to hear "Sad Eyes" by Robert John. Just about any sad song from that era would work though. (Yes I'm feeling a little melancholy right now.)

I usually cycle through the bands on my Ipod, listening to several for a few weeks and then moving on to another set. Last month it was The Who, last week it was Pink Floyd and this week I'm listening to Santana.

oh yeah... and track two of this Album (http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/puyo-puyo-mega-tracks-of-puyo-puyo-cd-bayoeen-).

Since this (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/09/delp.dead.reut/index.html) happened, my Boston CDs. Usually, I can listen to Vernon Reid's (http://www.livingcolournet.com/vernonbio2.html) side project, Masque, without tiring of it :)

*points and laughs* ;)

I made a cd for someone about ten days ago, and since then I've been listening almost exclusively to Isis and Converge. Mmmm, crunchy. :)

CONVERGE!!!!!!! *molests* :fluffle:

I too have been on a Converge kick for the past... 6 weeks.

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFlQNtL8F9s&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Findustrialdisease%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F) has been in my head, too. But without the video it's not as cool.

CONVERGE!!!!!!! *molests* :fluffle:

I too have been on a Converge kick for the past... 6 weeks.

Guess who i'm seeing live on the 24th? ;)

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000IAK4.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Kill me now. Please.

Im stuck on about 5 bands right now,

Rammstein, Rush, Iron Maiden, and the London Symphony Orchestra's version of Bethovens 9th.:D

Oh definitely. Right now I'm on an A-ha kick. Not their old stuff, their newer stuff.

Celice, Minor Earth Major Sky, You'll Never Get Over Me, Analogue

Mmm, good stuff. If you haven't heard it, you should definitely give it a shot.

I frequently get musical cravings. Sometimes my temporary fixations are respectable - for the past couple of weeks, for example, I've been listening to all my Bach pieces repeatedly, before which I spent several days listening to Queen. On the other hand, sometimes said fixations are deeply, deeply pathetic, as when I spent a couple of days listening to Ricky Martin some weeks back. :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxhMaKu7Md4&mode=related&search=

This is the stuff.

Guess who i'm seeing live on the 24th? ;)

The Pixies?



I got a craving the other night to listen to some good banjo music. I really like the banjo.

Listening to a lot of The Coral at the mo, which is very wierd. In agood way.

Occaisionally I find myself needing a hit of something heavy eg QOTSA.

The Pixies?

lol, no, Converge. Hence the quoted post.

I would have liked to see the Pixies too, but so I hear they sold out in two minutes anyway.

Guess who i'm seeing live on the 24th? ;)
*punches*

Though I can't complain. Isis for just £10 in May. £10!

Lol. Converge.

I bought the "Jane Doe" album a few days back. Insane! And impenetrable. I'm trying to get into it but it's a challenge.

Isis rocks.
I've been listening to No Heroes, and it is shit hot. I lost the rest of my Converge collection when my hard drive packed up. Not got round to downloading it again. And, yes, Isis do rock. (£10! :D)

*punches*

Though I can't complain. Isis for just £10 in May. £10!

Eh...Isis were on at the same time as Eric Clapton here, unfortunately, and i'd bought my Clapton ticket long before Isis made the tour announcement. :(

Although the show was only $40 or so here as well.

Eh...Isis were on at the same time as Eric Clapton here, unfortunately, and i'd bought my Clapton ticket long before Isis made the tour announcement. :(

Although the show was only $40 or so here as well.
That's a little more expensive, isn't it? £10 is the same price as it is to see 65daysofstatic, so it really is rather ridiculously cheap. Converge still haven't announced any UK dates. They're doing most of the rest of Europe, though. :(

Isis and Jesu aren't touring Pittsburgh. :(

That's a little more expensive, isn't it? £10 is the same price as it is to see 65daysofstatic, so it really is rather ridiculously cheap. Converge still haven't announced any UK dates. They're doing most of the rest of Europe, though. :(

Probably, if you do a direct exchange rate - but for an international band, $40 is pretty damn cheap, since it costs a lot of money for smal and middle sized acts to travel here.

Converge were only $28, however. Even if I have a few drinks that's a cheap night out.

Anyway, Isis'll probably be back, as all of a sudden we're getting a lot of good bands coming out here. I'm seeing Slayer and Mastodon on the 10th of april as well...in early May, it's Sunn0))) and Boris, and in late May it's the Black Keys (who have three shows for some reason). So yeah, I can't complain anyway. Now all I need is 65daysofstatic and Explosions in the Sky - and if I happened to be really lucky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor would start touring again. :)

I'm in a Scottish Folk mood today.

Didn't consider that. Don't be expecting 65 to go down there anytime soon. ;)


I missed Mastodon when they played over here (in fact, it was on Tuesday), because I can't afford it. Missed Deftones the next day for the same reason. And I'm not seeing EITS either, as I can't afford that. I hate unemployment.

Deftones were AMAZING! :p Sorry, couldn't resist.

Probably, if you do a direct exchange rate - but for an international band, $40 is pretty damn cheap, since it costs a lot of money for smal and middle sized acts to travel here.

Converge were only $28, however. Even if I have a few drinks that's a cheap night out.
Didn't consider that. Don't be expecting 65 to go down there anytime soon. ;)

Anyway, Isis'll probably be back, as all of a sudden we're getting a lot of good bands coming out here. I'm seeing Slayer and Mastodon on the 10th of april as well...in early May, it's Sunn0))) and Boris, and in late May it's the Black Keys (who have three shows for some reason). So yeah, I can't complain anyway. Now all I need is 65daysofstatic and Explosions in the Sky - and if I happened to be really lucky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor would start touring again. :)
I missed Mastodon when they played over here (in fact, it was on Tuesday), because I can't afford it. Missed Deftones the next day for the same reason. And I'm not seeing EITS either, as I can't afford that. I hate unemployment.

Didn't consider that. Don't be expecting 65 to go down there anytime soon. ;)

You never know. I wasn't expecting Sunn0))), Boris, or Converge either. 65dos do have fans over here.


I missed Mastodon when they played over here (in fact, it was on Tuesday), because I can't afford it. Missed Deftones the next day for the same reason. And I'm not seeing EITS either, as I can't afford that. I hate unemployment.

:(

Have you tried applying for CD stores and the like? It's shitty retail work, but better than nothing. That's what i'm going to do anyway, since i'm not having much luck with "real" jobs.

nope. but then i don't listen to clearchannel or other corporate media so this might have something to do with it.

what i do get "cravings for" is the harmoniously exotic. mostly in object and passage way geometry, because that is my 'home' mode of perception, but it does extend into other contexts such as audible contours as well.

explains my love of forests, mazes, caves, ruins, alternative housing, construction methods, even cultures, sub or otherwise, and so on.

so anyway, pure tone electronica, with interesting patterns and harmonies, de-emphasizing atonal rythem structures, these i "crave", much as i do architecture and other objects of a similar, though in the latter case, more organic, nature.

what i'm trying to emphasize here is that for me it isn't about a particular musician or preforming ensemble, but rather the peculiar and unique qualities of the sound itself. personalities are just beyond the pale of how i perceive and relate to my surroundings and the universe beyond them arround me.

i live in a universe of geometry and texture, not one of personalities and coersion. not naturaly, nor that i percieve as healthily at any rate.

=^^=
.../\...

lol, no, Converge. Hence the quoted post.

I would have liked to see the Pixies too, but so I hear they sold out in two minutes anyway.

I knew that's what you meant, but The Pixies are cool, so I thought I'd throw that in there. :p

Deftones were AMAZING! :p Sorry, couldn't resist.
Meh. Seen them before. :p

Still slightly annoyed though, because their last album was pretty awesome.

Seen Mastodon before as well, but that was supporting Tool. Would have liked to see them with their own fans.

It's missing Explosions in the Sky that really bugs me. They probably won't come here again until they release their next album, and who knows when that's going to be. :(

You never know. I wasn't expecting Sunn0))), Boris, or Converge either. 65dos do have fans over here.
Well, they're planning to tour America, so you never know.

:(

Have you tried applying for CD stores and the like? It's shitty retail work, but better than nothing. That's what i'm going to do anyway, since i'm not having much luck with "real" jobs.
Yep. Don't really want to work in Virgin or HMV, but I still apply there (and they still reject me). There's only one independent record store left in Leicester now, and they never need new staff.

I knew that's what you meant, but The Pixies are cool, so I thought I'd throw that in there. :p

They are. Are you going?

Well, they're planning to tour America, so you never know.

Aye. Although if they toured now, I could only barely afford it myself :P


Yep. Don't really want to work in Virgin or HMV, but I still apply there (and they still reject me). There's only one independent record store left in Leicester now, and they never need new staff.

Nuts. Have you worked anywhere at all before? I'm hoping that because I currently work in retail I have more of a chance (and some of the staff at the local stores know me, heh).

Yeah, but I don't really want to get into retail. I figure that if I do that now I might get stuck there for the rest of my life. Which I really don't want.

I'm thinking that too, but i'm also thinking if I don't, i'm gonna be stuck in a supermarket for the rest of my life.

CD store > Supermarket.

Nuts. Have you worked anywhere at all before? I'm hoping that because I currently work in retail I have more of a chance (and some of the staff at the local stores know me, heh).
Yeah, but I don't really want to get into retail. I figure that if I do that now I might get stuck there for the rest of my life. Which I really don't want.

I'm thinking that too, but i'm also thinking if I don't, i'm gonna be stuck in a supermarket for the rest of my life.

CD store > Supermarket.
Rotting in the fiery pits of hell > Supermarket.

And that's just from the customer's perspective.

Rotting in the fiery pits of hell > Supermarket.

And that's just from the customer's perspective.

Yeah, imagine what it's like having to deal with hundreds of people a day that would rather rot in the fiery pits of hell than have to speak to you.

Bleh.

I have to be there in 9 hours. :(

Have any of you for some unexplained sudden reason can't get enough of a band/artist? And not even a good band or artist? If so, what or who is it?

I've been on this weird (and ashamed to admit it) Bon Jovi kick for the past week or so. Laugh if you must, but it's true.

Anyone else care to share?


Oi oi don't knowck tha Jovi, it's all coz of jon and his merry chaps that met and married my wife.

in answer to your question though yeah all the bleedin time, at the mo it's Masterdon, but it was Skindread for a while.

in answer to your question though yeah all the bleedin time, at the mo it's Masterdon, but it was Skindread for a while.
Listen to Ragga Punk! :D

I <3 Skindred.

Have any of you for some unexplained sudden reason can't get enough of a band/artist? And not even a good band or artist? If so, what or who is it?

I've been on this weird (and ashamed to admit it) Bon Jovi kick for the past week or so. Laugh if you must, but it's true.

Anyone else care to share?


I've liked BonJovi's stuff over the years.

The recent thing he did with Sugarland was good, the gal from that band is hot.