What We’re Listening To: 2/6/2026
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Chris Guest
Each week, the Live Music Blog team takes stock of what’s been populating their playlists and getting endlessly stuck in their heads from the week that was. These can be new releases, obscure tracks in niche genres, or classic albums dusted off due to nostalgia (or because they’re simply awesome).
Enjoy what we’re listening to this week… and listen along with us if you so choose!
What We Listened to This Week
Here’s our weekly playlist check-in: new finds, deep cuts, and old favorites we can’t stop replaying.
The 50 Greatest Hits – Elvis Presley (2000)
While I prefer the tighter, punchier Elvis: 30 #1 Hits greatest hits compilation from 2002, this whopping 50-track collection delivers classics that the former is lacking (such as “That’s All Right,” “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Mystery Train,” and “If I Can Dream.”
Both albums shamefully omit my personal favorite Elvis track, 1956’s “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You,” which I happily added to a playlist with the entire 50-track compilation and jammed on it throughout the week. “Come at the King (of rock n’ roll), you best not miss.”
Top Tracks: “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” “It’s Now or Never,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Suspicious Minds”
Listen Next: Berry Is on Top by Chuck Berry, With His Hot and Blue Guitar by Johnny Cash, Please Please Me by The Beatles
Relayted – Gayngs (2010)
A little-known release featuring a rotating cast of 22 musicians, including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Dessa and P.O.S of Doomtree, Har Mar Superstar and members of Poliça, Megafaun, Roma di Luna, Solid Gold, Digitata, and The Rosebuds. All tracks for this album were written at 69 BPM – whether as a meme or as a writing constraint, who knows.
Those are the facts. But you can only truly understand how powerful, ethereal, and beautiful this extremely unusual collective’s music is by listening to this utterly transcendent album. Each track flows into the next, and there are myriad highlights, including a near-apotheotic cover of Godley & Creme’s “Cry.” Spellbinding work.
Top Tracks: “The Gaudy Side of Town,” “Cry,” “Crystal Rope,” “Faded High”
Listen Next: Bodies of Water by Solid Gold, Blood Bank (EP) by Bon Iver, Shulamith by Poliça Creatures of an Hour by Still Corners
In Ghost Colours – Cut Copy (2008)
Arguably the finest album from this Australian collective, this album was in heavy rotation for me during my college years, and it helped to usher in a deeper understanding – and adoration – for high-quality melodic electronica.
While you could argue this album is more of a synth-pop release, the songcraft on display is truly incredible. The album floats along as a technicolor reverie, with multiple interstitial instrumentals bridging the gaps between the “real” tracks – all of which are bangers. Released by revered Australian label Modular Recordings (now defunct) in 2008, this album nearing its 20-year anniversary makes this writer feel incredibly old.
Top Tracks: “Feel the Love,” “Lights & Music,” “Hearts on Fire,” “Strangers in the Wind,” “Nobody Lost, Nobody Found”
Listen Next: Zonoscope by Cut Copy, One Life Stand by Hot Chip, Discovery by Daft Punk
Music for the Jilted Generation – The Prodigy (1994)
1994 was a banner year for music. Britpop was in full swing in the U.K., with multiple seminal albums in that genre being released that year, such as Suede’s self-titled debut album, Blur’s Parklife and Oasis’s first album Definitely Maybe.
In the U.S., Weezer’s debut album stormed onto the scene, Biggie’s Ready to Die released, Green Day’s Dookie shepherded in the pop/punk era, Jeff Buckley’s only album in his lifetime, Grace, was unveiled, Soundgarden’s landmark Superunknown dropped… and the list goes on and on.
Amidst these classics, The Prodigy’s techno/rave masterwork Music for the Jilted Generation burst onto the U.K. airwaves, serving in starkly industrial, breakbeat electronic contrast to the sunny daylight found on various Britpop releases. An anarchic listen that holds up well.
Top Tracks: “Their Law,” “Voodoo People,” “Poison,” “No Good (Start the Dance)”
Listen Next: Better Living Through Chemistry by Fatboy Slim, Snivilisation by Orbital, Fat of the Land by The Prodigy
What Was in Your Rotation?
Catch us next week for the next edition of What We’re Listening To. In the meantime, what have you been vibing to this week? What new releases have caught your ears, or what classic albums have been in your heavy rotation? Let us know in the comments!
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