Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of November 23, 2009

As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious and to give you a feel for our individual sensibilities, we've compiled a list of all the things we're listening to this week. Feel free to chime in with picks of your own after the jump.

MARK BLIESENER
Ray Davies - Thanksgiving Day
Sam & Dave - I Thank You
The Beatles- Thank You Girl" (mono)
Mac Gorson - Thanks For Ev'rything
Bob Hope - Thanks For the Memories

CHRIS CALLAWAY
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Sloan - All Pretty Together
Sloan - Never Hear the End of It
Sloan - One Chord to Another
Death Cab for Cutie - Open Door [EP]

CORY CASCIATO
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
Yeasayer - "Ambling Alps"
pH10 - Well Connected
Fabio Frizzi - City of the Living Dead score

BRIAN FREDERICK
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - This Is Somewhere
Bret Dennen - Hope for the Hopeless
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
God Lives Underwater - Empty
Taylor Swift - Fearless

A.H. GOLDSTEIN
Puscifer "Cuntry Boner"
The Louvin Brothers Tragic Songs of Life
Tom Waits Glitter and Doom Live
Ella FitzGerald "Lullaby of Birdland"
Houses "Red Feather"

DAVE HERRERA
Churchill - Churchill
Flashbulb Fires - Glory
The Outfit - The Outfit
Moccasin - Last Leaf
Pretty Lights - Passing By Behind Your Eyes

THORIN KLOSOWSKI
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Dizzee Rascal Tongue N' Cheek
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

KIERNAN MALETSKY
Houses - Summer EP
Fatlip - The Loneliest Punk
Deer Tick - War Elephant
Cat-A-Tac - Past Lies and Former Lives
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

SEAN MERRELL
McLaughlin, Pastorius, Williams: Trio of Doom
Baroness: Blue Record
Ian Cooke: Unreleased Material
Erik Satie: Trois Gymnopedies
Tony Williams: Emergency!

TOM MURPHY
Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age
Space Team Electra - The Intergalactic Torch Song
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Give It Back
Orbiteer - October
Eurhythmics - 1984: For the Love of Big Brother

JEF OTTE
Houses - Summer EP
Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
Converge - Axe to Fall
Dead Prez - Let's Get Free
Beethoven - Symphony no. 7

ADAM PERRY
Miles Davis - No Blues (Live 1967)
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
The Pixies - "Bone Machine"
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

CHARLES RUSSELL
In Strict Confidence - My Despair
Komor Kommando  - Love Your Neighbor
Scary Bitches - Bat
Hudson Mohawke - Gluetooth
D-ranged - Her

DUTCH SEYFARTH
Drew Emmitt - Long Road
The Band - The Last Waltz
Leftover Salmon - On The Other Side
Motion City Soundtrack - Disappear
Pretty Lights - Passing By Behind Your Eyes

KYLE SMITH
Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
Swans - Body to Body, Job to Job
YOB - The Great Cessation
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Pictureplane - Dark Rift

JON SOLOMON
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live
Ketil Bjørnstad - The Sea
Kings of Convenience - Declaration Of Dependence
Rachel's - Selenography
Pixies - Doolittle

AMBER TAUFEN
Tosca, Suzuki in Dub
NIN, Ghosts I-IV
TV on the Radio, Dear Science
Beck, Sea Change
Modest Mouse, The Moon & Antarctica

ANDY THOMAS
Moonspeed - Flowers of the Moon
Throwaway Sunshine - For Everything We're Not
Them Crooked Vultures - S/T
Comradery - Unfortunate Self Portrait
Dead Girls Ruin Everything - What a Perfect Ending