The soundtrack to my life right now

I just don't get people who aren't moved by music. My father finds music 'distracting' (though isn't that kind of the point at times?) and so, outside of my room, I grew up in largely silent household; whereas now on a typical day I wake to the alarm on my DAB radio, listen to the radio on the morning commute, turn on the iPod over lunch, catch the drivetime shows home, turn on the CD while I cook and finally fall asleep to something beautiful.

Music follows me round the house, down the motorway, through my life.

I devour music, absorb it, bathe in, live in it.

The tunes that soundtrack my life will vary from one month to the next, favourites will resurface again and again, shorter term obsessions will come and go.

So more for me than any one out there (have you not worked that out already about this blog?), for the record, this is the music that accompanies my life at this moment in time (in no particular order):

• Keith - Red Thread
• Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home Once and Never Again should be required listening for every teenage girl
• Hot Chip - The Warning
• Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now Of course thanks to Laura I now see him as a Moomintroll, but the beauty survives even that.
• Little Man Tate - About What You Know
• The View - Hats Off to the Buskers Damn you pesky Dundonians and your lurky catchy melodies
• Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration I never thought I'd like this album as much as Deserter's Songs, but you know what, it keeps creeping up on it
• Editors - The Back Room if you're going to be overly influenced by a band that went before, I guess you can do worse than making that Joy Division
• Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast back where it all started, before the beard
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
• Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City not the happiest band then eh?
• Duke Special - Songs From the Deep Forest
• Liam Frost - Show me How the Spectres Dance lovely man, lovely guitar
• Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
• Aimee Mann - Live at St Ann's Warehouse Save Me and Wise Up on Magnolia, just have to be one of the finest bits of film soundtracking ever.
• Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
• Hours - Narcissus Road
• Captain - This is Hazelville
• The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible did I mention I saw them live the other week ;-)
• The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
• The Smiths - The Queen is Dead I quite possibly can't be your friend if you don't think that There is a Light That Never Goes Out is one of the most searingly beautiful songs ever written. Close your eyes, put it on repeat, let it wash over you and bear you away...sigh...
• Bromhead's Jacket - Dits from the Commuter Belt

Hmmm...looking at that list I clearly have a thing for guitar bands (like I didn't already know that), but there also seems to be a developing theme of falsetto male voices. Come to think of it I did shove on an old Communards album the other week as well...

Luckily for my insatiable ears new music keeps coming and coming. Is there a point when it becomes indecent to still be following the new? At what age is it expected that you stop listening to anything new and settle down with the bands of 'your generation'?

I have a friend who has a theory on fashion, that in some way your taste in clothes get frozen to the time when you first really grew up. Ok she's blunter than that, she links it to what you were wearing when you lost your cherry (well ok, just before the moment you lost your cherry in most cases).

I think she may have something in the concept that our tastes do tend to freeze a little around the golden years of our late teens, but perhaps she takes it too far.

After all, according to her theory, old-age virgins should be the most en Vogue of their generation.

Anyway, I digress, the point is my musical tastes seem to keep expanding (maybe I have yet to lose my musical cherry? damn it enough of that digression already). So in the spirit of all things blog like and sharing, I've added links above to youtube and myspace etc where you can hear snippets of the albums I've listed, maybe other bloggers would like to similarly share their current musical listening?

What's the current soundtrack to your life?

Ah go on now; we won't judge.

Much.