Backbeat's top five spins: This is what we're listening to this week. What's on your playlist?

As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn't be surprising to find that the most common (and mutually favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: "What are you listening to right now?" Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn't...

By Westword Staff

November 14, 2012

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As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn't be surprising to find that the most common (and mutually favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: "What are you listening to right now?" Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn't you know it, off we go, on and on about this new song we can't stop listening to, or this new album flipping our wig, or an old favorite we rediscovered. So whether you're looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities or are just curious, we've compiled a list of all the things we've been listening to this week. Keep reading to see which albums and songs were in heavy rotation, and then, of course, feel free to weigh in with your picks.

CORY CASCIATO Talking Heads - Remain in Light The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses Ween - Chocolate & Cheese My Morning Jacket - At Dawn The Blow - Paper Television

BRITT CHESTER Neil Young - "Cinnamon Girl" Telefon Tel Aviv - Farhenheit Fair Enough Rebecca Ferguson - "Backtrack" Kym Mazelle - "Young Hearts Run Free" Quindon Tarver - "Everybody's Free (to Feel Good)"

A.H. GOLDSTEIN The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Maken - In Person at Carnegie Hall Milo Greene - Milo Greene Marvin Gaye - "Distant Lover (Live)" Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball Danfis Preito - Absolute Quintet

DAVE HERRERA Quiz - Etcetera 9th Wonder & Buckshot - The Solution Input + Broken - Never Heard of Ya Epilogues - Cinematics The Gromet - Barren

JOSIAH M HESSE Die Antwoord - "Fatty Boom Boom" Tegan and Sara - "Walking With A Ghost" Men In Burka - War / Magic Rosemary Clooney - "Botch-A-Me" Belle & Sebastian - "I'm A Cuckoo"

NOAH HUBBELL Darq E Freaker ft. Danny Brown - "Blueberry (Pills & Cocaine)" Meek Mill - Dreams & Nightmares Blue Scholars - "Seijun Suzuki" Black Moon - Enta Da Stage Cage - Hell's Winter

TOM MURPHY Napalm Death - Utilitarian Godflesh - Streetcleaner Godflesh - Pure Boards of Canada - A Beautiful Place Out in the Country Siouxsie and the Banshees - Once Upon a Time/The Singles

PATRICK RODGERS Grupo Oz - "A New Day" Hermitude "Hyperparadise" (Flume Remix) Earl Sweatshirt - "Chum" DJ Classy Individual - "Lobster Trap Mix" Captain Murphy - "Immaculation" ft. Azizi Gibson & Jeremiah Jae

MARK SANDERS Matthew Dear - "Headcage" Sleater Kinney - Dig Me Out Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies Metz - Metz SBTRKT - SBTRKT

JON SOLOMON Alice Cooper - School's Out DeVotchKa - Live with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen Horace Silver - The Jody Grind Sparklehorse - Chest Full of Dying Hawks

AMBER TAUFEN M.I.A. - Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1 Lyrics Born - Same !@#$ Different Day Baraka Moon - Baraka Moon Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been DJ Dara - From Here To There

ANTONIO VALENZUELA Cabby (featuring Scorp Dezel, Dead Mic, Lil Bad, Innerstate Ike, Young Doe, Colorado Miracle, AP, Rockie, and DJ K-tone) - "We Gone" Remix LKeys feat Fl - "Gotta Make It" King Tef - "Beast Mode aka Skitzo" Kurupt - "Listen/#1" Dizzy Wright featuring Hopsin & Swizz - "Independent Living"

KELSEY WHIPPLE The Black Keys - "Little Black Submarines" Weezer - Pinkerton Young Prisms - "Breathless" Engineers - "Let's Just See" Austra - "Beat and the Pulse"

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