What do you listen to by default, when you can’t think of what else to listen to at that moment?
Silence.
Thanks, Mark.
It’s not one of Michael Mantler’s better albums.
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.
Blitz, Cockney Rejects and the Business usually.
I’m currently defaulting to Sonic Nuse and Love. Oddly.
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.
Philistine.
I don’t know Philistine; have they got a MySpace page?
mixes wot i make myself
as in ‘here’s one i made earlier’
Egotist.
ho-rap usually. trina, lil kim, foxy b, rasheeda. the baddest bitches
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.
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).
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.
The lovely Emma B’s default record for the last two months has been Electric Warrior. Still not tired of it!
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.
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.
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.
I certainly don’t listen to the voices in my head urging me to kill everyone now, I guarantee you.
Debussy piano music, Steve Reich, BBC sound effects (especially building interiors)
WFMU
Laura Nyro is my all-time go-to artist...
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.
The Cure’s Faith or Eno’s On Land.
Otherwise I hum “The Entertainer” over and over again.
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).
Fall & Winter:
Bruce Springsteen—Nebraska
Spring & Summer:
Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
anything by Fugazi
Derrick Shezbie, Spodie’s Back
Hank Mobley
brass band shit
Telefon Tel Aviv
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.
tony conrad’s ‘four violins’
not really, just trying to outpseud dominique.
New Order usually, any album.
tony conrad didn’t wear nice enough shoes for me to care about him
if all fails, the radio. usually a rock station, no alternative rock, please!
Spiritualized’s ‘Won’t Get To Heaven (The State I’m In)’ has been doing a good deal of this lately.