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What do you listen to by default, when you can't think of what else to listen to at that moment?

― Nick Southall (sickmouthy), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Silence.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, Mark.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not one of Michael Mantler's better albums.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

but pete namlooks silence is however rather nice.

my current default : circlesquare - pre earthquake anthem
though skylab #2 is taking over at the moment, but i suspect that this will subside soon enough.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Blitz, Cockney Rejects and the Business usually.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm currently defaulting to Sonic Nuse and Love. Oddly.

― Nick Southall (sickmouthy), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Expanding (slightly)

I usually have a backlog of stuff.

If I havent, I may just put the radio on instead. But if it's too painful, I don't.

This is because I mainly listen to music in't car.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Philistine.

― Nick Southall (sickmouthy), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know Philistine; have they got a MySpace page?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

mixes wot i make myself

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

as in 'here's one i made earlier'

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Egotist.

― Nick Southall (sickmouthy), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

ho-rap usually. trina, lil kim, foxy b, rasheeda. the baddest bitches

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Egotist

not really. it's obv. all music i like put together in a way i like so of course i'm going to favour that as a 'default' option.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

plus if you present me with 50-100 CDs or dozens of mp3 folders i'm crap at picking one thing to start off with. so it will be iTunes or iPod shuffle (if i'm using those at the time) almost always anyway. i don't tend to listen to music when not travelling or at a computer (yeah yeah i know this is scandalous).

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Unlike most fucking plebs, I do not listen to music unless it is being played out through my $1000 headphones from my Bang and Olufsen stereo.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

The lovely Emma B's default record for the last two months has been Electric Warrior. Still not tired of it!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

the problem with relying on shuffle when you're in a default-listening mood is that it keeps coming up with stuff you don't want, so you skip forward, and you don't want the next record, or the one after, but you can't think of what you do want, so you keep skipping and skipping and finding only everything that's wrong. At which point if I've any sense I start on my backlog of dj sets/beatsinspace podcasts: if they're quiet enough they work as background music, if you increase the volume you can dance around the room.

― cis boom bah (cis), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

that's exactly what happens with 'default' TV viewing too. there's no default channel (even tho BBC 1 tends to be default channel technically), just start from one and skip forward until something appeals. not that big a deal tho. the whole not knowing what you want to listen to at a particular time is probably worseneed by the increase in quantity of music available to you but i'm not one of these 'too mauch choice and this is a bad thing' moaners.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Unlike most fucking plebs, I do not watch television unless it is on my new LCD screen in the proper 16:9 format and it is BBC Four.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I certainly don't listen to the voices in my head urging me to kill everyone now, I guarantee you.

― F. Ucking Plebs (Monty Von Bygone), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Debussy piano music, Steve Reich, BBC sound effects (especially building interiors)

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Pig Radio
http://pigmotel.com/en/radio/playlists/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

WFMU

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Laura Nyro is my all-time go-to artist...

― henry s (henry s), Thursday, 30 November 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to listen to pig radio but something about it started irking me. none of it seems very daring, maybe, is what it is. it feels calculated.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

The Cure's Faith or Eno's On Land.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://wrfl881.org/

Otherwise I hum "The Entertainer" over and over again.

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Scott Walker - "Tilt", and whatever Dubstep mixes I can lay my mitts upon. Anything to avoid theme tunes from crap mid 90s BBC sitcoms entering my mind (which appears to be the internal default option).

― Alex Williams (Gekkopel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Fall & Winter:
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Spring & Summer:
Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
anything by Fugazi

― Cap'n Guthrie (retardo1), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Derrick Shezbie, Spodie's Back
Hank Mobley
brass band shit
Telefon Tel Aviv

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i just hit shuffle on itunes and listen to whatever comes on. usually within five songs i'll hear something that i haven't heard in a while (especially as a full album) and i'll put that album on instead.

― Stephen Bush (Stephen Bush), Friday, 1 December 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link

tony conrad's 'four violins'

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

not really, just trying to outpseud dominique.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

New Order usually, any album.

― SandboxAnna (SandboxAnna), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

tony conrad didn't wear nice enough shoes for me to care about him

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

if all fails, the radio. usually a rock station, no alternative rock, please!

― postie23 (postie23), Sunday, 3 December 2006 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Spiritualized's 'Won't Get To Heaven (The State I'm In)' has been doing a good deal of this lately.

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Sunday, 3 December 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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