I just got the new Patti Griffin, and I haven't had a chance to really listen to it. For a first album, I'd recommend Living with Ghosts.

Oh, I like that Kylie Fischerspooner remix too. Shouldn't work, given FS's "we're soooo art-rock" shtick, but it does. Don't know the others, but gotta love "Your Disco Needs You" as a title.

Right now I am listening to the Black-Eyed Peas feat. JT, "Where is the Love?"

That 70s list made me feel fuckin' antique. Grah! You kids! Outta my Bowie CDs!

Right now I am listening to the Black-Eyed Peas feat. JT, "Where is the Love?"

My mother, of all people, loves that song with a passion. She listened to the snippets of the rest of the album in iTunes and was disappointed, though. I think she was anticipating a political band that brought her back to her youth the way that "Where is the Love" did.

From Joe's list the other day, the only 2 I have are The Who and PE. funny combo, made me laugh.

And despite it not even being his most recent single, I cannot get Usher's Yeah outta my head. I love it, despite not liking him much at all.

The only ones I don't have from Joe's list are the Monk, Rod Stewart, and Randy Newman albums.

311! Unlike me, they have no hyphen.

See, I actually went back and forth on whether they had a hyphen or not. Thanks for enlightening me :-).

tina, I feel odd picking apart Hec's taste in public without him here, plus I don't have a mental database of every recommendation he has ever made to draw from. My general feeling is still that he tends to like obscure stuff, but as I completely agree with this:

I think he has a bottomless pit of music crack-like addiction love that all of the compilation CDs in all of the Virgin megastores and obscure music shops of the coolest cities ever could not fill.

it's probably not the most important thing about his taste.

(And Hec, I'm sorry if my comment offended you at all.)

Edit: From Joe's list, we have the Public Enemy, the Miles and the Clash. I think that's it.

I think she was anticipating a political band that brought her back to her youth the way that "Where is the Love" did.

Will she be happy to know I saw them perform at a benefit concert for a minority-focused GOTV (get out the vote) organization sponsored by MoveOn.org and featuring keynote speaker William Jefferson Clinton? And they sang "We Shall Overcome" with Odetta? (Who made us all sing along. I cannot say no to Odetta.)

At that same show, Savion Glover "sang" a version of Hendrix's "Star-Spangled Banner" as he tapped. It was surprisingly moving. He is so astonishingly, amazingly, jawdroppingly genius.

Now I am listening to Rhett Miller and Ben Kweller do a plangent cover of "I Wanna Be Sedated." It is cracking me up. Thank you, Acquisition.

oh an aside, and I apologize if I am mistating what happened, but were backchannel things brought up here? cause that makes me uncomfortable.

I think it's stuff from other threads, not backchannels. At least as far as I know.

Are you talking about what I said? Cause that was spillover from the book thread.