JRL wanted topic starters, this is always a good one...so here goes...I listen to a lot of music because I love it and because I want to play the best I can find. Here's the bands I've found lately that I have really liked:
***Rock***
*Grandaddy-Sumday-weirdo art rock, funny, great stuff...
*New Pornographers-Twin Cinema-male/female vocals, sublime and slinky rock, gets into the grit of your soul and sticks...
*My Morning Jacket-Z-I'm still getting used to this one but it has some loud and soft moments so beautiful I can't deny...
*Elbow-Leaders of the Free World-I like this band a lot and this third album of theirs is really good, exciting to hear their new stuff, they are rather Coldplay but less so as their music more follows its own path...
*Neil Young-Prairie Wind-I always want to live NY's work, and I mostly do...this one has its pretty acoustic moments, its moments of lyrical high, but I am still not in love with it...partway there...
***Jazz***
*Charles Mingus-Ah Um-Sounds somewhat Coltrane to me, but I like it a fair much...
***Electronica***
*Sound Tribe Sector Nine-ARTifact-I've long loved this electronica jamband, saw them years ago in Boston & NYCity, this new album is long and I still haven't really taken it all in, but opening up to it...
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yeah, i just started listening to Neil Young's Prairie Wind.
The Dream is okay.
But still there's nothing quite as elusive as After the Gold Rush
I'm into Archie Shepp - no one quite sings the blues as he does, specially when he leaps from sax to voice.
(Cry of My People)
And since my daughter came home for a quick visit between world hopping, we're becoming Kanye West'ed and Akon'd - all the kids are listening.
Scarlet Begonias just because it's needed in my life these days.
And i'm looping Lou Reed's Animal Serenade.
Death cab for cutie-plans is growing on me.
Jack Johnson-love the new stuff, simple but easy
M83-sri-lankan rapper chicks rock
jesus and mary chain-just some goodies
A lot more but these cd's have been in my rotation lately :D
Lately Im listening to...
Jonh Coltrane - The Essentials
Deftones - Bsides & Rarities
311 - Dont Tread On Me
Modest Mouse - Discography
Godsmack - The Other Side
Grateful Dead - The Very Best Of
Sublime - Greatest Hits
Sigur Ros - Takk
The Cranberries - The Early Years
Tori Amos - The Beekeeper
Madonna - Hung Up (The single off her soon to be released Confessions On A Dance Floor)
Sasha, Shpongle, Infected Mushroom, BT, and lots more :)
Peace & Blessings
OBODAOUR
Everybody On the Bus-Rocco Prestia (Tower of Power bassist's one and only solo album)
Damn!-Jimmy Smith (The late, great master of the Hammond B-3 organ at his funkiest and swingingist)
Mars Hotel- Grateful Dead
Dream Factor- Jack Cassady (Airplane and Hot Tuna bassists one and only solo record)
Captain Beefheart mix (courtesey of Futori)
So much music so little time!!
Literally, I am listening to Trey's new album "Shine" right now.
Lately, I have been listening to:
Death Cab - Transatlanticism, The Photo Album, and Plans
The Shins - Chutes too Narrow
Wilco - All of their albums
John Coltrane - Misc...
In my player now...
Neko Case "Blacklisted"
Xenomorph "qlippoth"
Hammerfall "Crimson Thunder"
The Gathering "Sleepy buildings-live"
Old Man's Child "ill natured spiritual dimension"
I am finally starting to use iTunes on my iMac to listen while browsing and reading forums. Like, d'uh...
So now I am loading and listening to "Absent Lovers", 1984 2-CD live set of King Crimson.
I have to say that the Buckethead's "Island of lost minds" is a challenging and awesome listening experience.
What planet is Buckethead from again?
um. thats a hard question. music on the music player always changing. also, i can listen to the same album, for the whole day, for a week or so, so sometimes, music in player changes extremely slowly.
moslty, lately, i listen to lots of ambient/electronic.
i been reviewing Aphex Twin, aka Richard David James, who as far as electronic music was WAY ahead of his time, along with Orb and such classics.
http://www.drukqs.net/ (http://www.drukqs.net/)
Some Burnt Friedman, whos played with many styles from dub, to electronic, to plain out funky.
now with Burnt Friedman plays Love Songs.
http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/music/bfrdmnn.htm (http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/music/bfrdmnn.htm)
Some Tomas Jirku: http://www.tomasjirku.com/ (http://www.tomasjirku.com/)
Some Biosphere, and:
-Bluetech_-_Prima_Materia-2003-MYCEL
-Alpha_Wave_Movement_-_The_Edge_of_Infinity-1997- BCC
Reviewing some King Crimson as well.
Got 2 new Bill Laswell albums, which i am going to listen to..well..right now :D
-Bill Laswell - 1998 - Jazzonia
-Bill Laswell & Tetsu Inoue - 1995 - Cymatic Scan
when not flying in ambiant, i enjoy listening to spoken words, such as Alan Watts, or Joseph Campbell.
thats it for the moment. i am sure i am forgetting about 90% of what passes through the music player. wouh!
about Buckethead...i'd like to know what planet they are from as well. i have one of their long sleeve shirts (by mere randomness), and always feel stupid when someone at some party goes "buuucckkeeettthead" and does some grunting. i have no clue what buckethead is. apparently, they are grunters! i'd like to know, so i could grunt along haahhaahhaha!:shock:
Buckethead may be from some other planet...but now Laswell?
Did you ever listen to that "PainKiller" album of his? That one hurt!!
Looks like Buckethead did some work with Laswell too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_%28band%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_%28band%29)
Okay, I guess this is a Zorn band technically speaking...
http://www.omnology.com/zorn07.html (http://www.omnology.com/zorn07.html)
hey indra--i got trey anastasio's new album shine and liked it pretty well...more melody than in groove in some songs, but others get phishy phunked up...
i just got stevie wonder's new album, first one he's put out in a long time, will give a listen and an opinion soon...
lastly, has anyone heard of a band called animal collective or a music genre called freak folk?
That reminds me, I have been listening to Stevie Wonders Greatest Hits and 100 Year Hall by the Good Ol' Grateful Dead.
Been listening to alot of internet straming from shoutcast lately.... For the last week I have been boppin to the 24-7 live Stevie Ray Vaughn feed.... ('ta rip off Buddy Guy: Damn right I got tha Blues :lol: )--- sal
Also a mix of "The Aaron King Trio Live from the Torch" with your's truely on bass.
wouh Liz. no, i dont think i heard that Painkiller, Bill Laswell's album yet. I'll check it out.
He sure has done work with loads of people, and has been doing it for quite a while. He's worked with out right Masters, such as with Zakir Hussain in the Tabla Beat Science project.
http://www.uprisemgt.com/artists/tbs/tbsbio.php (http://www.uprisemgt.com/artists/tbs/tbsbio.php)
he's got some excellent ambiant, chill, space music, trip hop and dubby stuff.
A classic i'd say.
Cenacle..i heard a couple songs, and first hearing sounded like happy weird poppy pop. a bit like a bunch of freaks having fun and making music using funky noises and zoo toons. i'd like to hear more.
i have been listening to the last Boards of Canada album: The Campfire Headphase.
What to say of a BOC album?
It's BOC.
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One thing interesting about BOC is that you can hear the Sandison brothers sound waves and know its them. A couple notes and the brothers take you right into their musical space. This is not an easy thing to do for electronic music, when there is no voice to guide you to a face, or a guitar riff to a bands name. Electronic music, in this sense, can seem less personal, which is an accusation given to electronic music by the not yet converted into electro waves.
yet, BOC, is the very sound which shows how a keyboard, a twick, a blip and a blop, can be used as personally as a flute, or any so called "classical instrument".
http://www.cdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=2146 (http://www.cdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=2146)
"Typical of the enigma that is Boards Of Canada, in The Campfire Headphase they have created something of a paradox: immediately satisfying yet leaving you desperately craving more...."
about music favorites....
has there ever been a top 20 SpiritPlants musicians or albums list made yet?
i think it'd be a nice thing to put on a radio site page.
ithink i'd vote for BOC as one of the top 20 electronics, just because its what they sound like to me, classical music played on computers.
:?: :idea: :arrow: :?:
The Smithereens...Especially for You
I saw them live in Austin at the BackYard on their "A Date with the Smithereens" tour and was about 2 rows from the stage with the German chick I took. I caught my only guitar pick at that show.
Hey cenacle...if you can tune in right now to the radio, St Germain's Disco Volante show just started his sunday show. He will play some Freak Folk for us!!!
So tune in, or be square :D
Devendra Banhart is probably the most important one.
and also Animal Collective but then there's Joanna Newsome, Six Organs of Admittance, Cocorosie, and more...
Freak Folk Flies High!
A new generation of flower children keeps psychedelic folk alive...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 4/derk.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/04/14/derk.DTL)
enjoy.
Hey Fuzz!!
Well, I got a copy of the Boards of Canada (Sorry, when I think BOC, I think Blue Oyster Cult...) album "Twoism".
How could anyone resist a title like that? Is this a typical kind of work for these guys? Looks like they have a ton of albums. What's your favorite album by these guys?
Ambient/experiemental. Is kind of what I would call it. It's really one of those perfect albums to have in the background...Did you ever listen to Brian Eno's "Thinking Man's Music"?
What else ya got? Wanna do some trading?
Love!!
Lj
the Boards of Canada dont have that many albums yet out actually. nothing compared to a mega producer such as Aphex Twins for example.
They have :
Music Has the Right to Children, Geogaddi, In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country, Twoism and finally The Campfire Headphase. So, its 5 albums so far.
i dont have a favorite one, but you cant miss the Geogaddi album, with such classic tracks as Music Is Math (5:21), Dandelion (1:14),The Beach At Redpoint (4:18) and more. An amazing album. But i do like Music has the right to children a whole lot too.
Yeah, its great stuff to have in the background, or its great to relax with and dive into your own head space guided by their music. A bit like Music for Airports by Brian Eno. I havent heard much Eno yet, and i know hes one of those people I have to study, so i havent heard "thinking mans music" yet.
um , got a lot of tunes here. what would you like to trade?
for more Blue Oyster Cult...DAHHHHH :shock: i mean Boards of canada, pitchfork has some great reviews and interviews:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/interview ... canada-05/ (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/b/boards-of-canada-05/)
:P :P :D
Woupsy Satori's mistake here...
At the moment I am listening to Burnt Friedman - Plays Love Songs. A nice groovy loungy trippy album, with nice beats, mellow sound, and a funky and a slightly porn feel to it. An album that makes you want to sit down, groove it out and be taken into a feel of smooth love-beat progression. And you come out refreshed :)
Another album i am currently listening to is Dictaphone - M.Addiction.
A very nice mellow electronica album, with a jazzy touch. The album reminds me of a trip into a friendly grooved up pink jazz world. The clicks and cuts, the sound of a saxophone, some wellplaced samples, typically with a sexy womanvoice, and a good mellow rythm to it, makes for a very well puttogether album.
Last i will mention a track i am in love with is Digital Talk vs. Sase - Digital Sase. Now here is a Psytrack I have long been waiting for. It has a sturdy beat, and crunchy bassline, that hypnotises you immediately. And some very well put together sounds, that is clearly there, but not taking over. This makes for a very flexible psytrack that outs you into a good trance feeling, where the beat changes some rythms, but keeps its flow, and all you wanna do is dance dance and DANCE! :D
-Satori
P.S. Sorry fuzzy... hadn't seen i was logged in as you :S
i love laswell to death but painkiller is awful
u need meds afterwards just to forget you heard it
i guess the title is fitting sorta
Let's see if I can get this link to work...You're prolly going to want a nice fast connection to watch.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... eavy+metal (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6903532459234048032&q=heavy+metal)
Yeah, that Painkiller "Buried Secrets" album is an interesting album. Keep the Ibuprofin handy...
Lj
here are some of my fav bands. (don carlos,the gladiators,horace andy,the beatles,the turtles,older conway twitty,older pasty cline,odetta,bob marley,eka mouse,nine inch nails,hank williams, mikey dread, barrington levy, maria griffth, sister nacny, the mighty diamonds, T REX, leroy smart, john hott, jacob miller, derrick morgan)
Nice list Brandon.
some more bands i really love...the smashing pumpkins, donovan, toots and the maytal's, black uhuru, desmond dekker, the upsetters, lee scarch perry, the congos, the ramones, yellowman, jimi hendrix, deftones, staind, george jones, loretta lynn, woodie guthrie, webb pierce, kitty wells, hank snow, odetta, midnight movies,
You like the Meters, James Brown, John Scofield, Dr John, Merle Haggard?
You play drums?
Robben Ford, Johnny A?
yeah im not to familair with any of those band but i like that one james brown song i think its called- its a mans world.. but i dont really know any of the other bands. i'll download some to see what they sound like.. and yes i love playing drums..
here are some pics of my pride and joy..
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I had to give some noisy distortion a try through the iMac - Helmet - "Meantime".
Brandon, some pretty sweet drums you got there. Lets have some pictures of your plant's set up :P
NICE drums! i bet the plants love it when you play :P
theres some pic of my plants at this link
http://www.spiritplants.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1103 (http://www.spiritplants.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1103)
Grateful Dead~Doin' That Rag~3/2/69~Fillmore West~San Francisco,CA
It's bad enough that I gotta drink "corporate coffee" ala Starbucks cuz it's the only place open at the hour, but this morning I got subjected to 'Girl From Ipanema', and other Bossa Nova... :roll: --- Guess it's time to start carrying my own tunes-----------sal
I have been listening to several shows from 69, one of my favorite years for the Dead.
The shins-both albums
Daft Punk-homework
Clap your hands say Yeah :D
Grateful Dead~Dark Star~10/12/68~Avalon Ballroom~San Francisco,CA
Grateful Dead~Smokestack Lightning~2/13/70~Fillmore East,New York,NY
Belle & Sebastian- The boy with the arab strap
Dylan and the Dead
John Hyatt-Joni Mitchell-Buddy Guy-Norah Roberts------ (plus those incessant voices inside the cranium)---------- sal
Grateful Dead~Truckin'~10/19/72~The Fox Theatre,St.Louis,MO
Grateful Dead Closing of Winterland DVD 12/31/78
Reggae today>................ :lol: 8) ========= sal
David Gilmour's new solo album : " On an Island "
It's been Miles for awhile now.
My son's been working on a paper on Miles' influences in and on music and well, i've got All Blues and So What permanently in my mind.... (from the album Kind of Blue)
sigh...there's no one like him/them .....no one
though Jerry with Grisman also gives us a version of So What.
edit: Just caught Grateful Dawg on TV! Jerry and David ---unbelievable - so much like being there...
Kind of Blue is a landmark record and one of my favorites. It's innovations set the stage for fusion and jam bands.
Duke Ellington - Three Suites
Grateful Dawg!!
Groundation, PlastikMan, ande Linton Kwesi Johnston is to be found on my playlist these days...
(: i'll add a few important pearls too:
Antony and the Johnsons
Coil
Current 93
Nurse with Wound
A Silver Mt. Zion
Charles Atlas, cEvin Key, Phillip Western, Download, Autechre, Jessica Bailiff, Four Tet, Fridge, Windy & Carl, Fennesz ... ... ...
I just listened to the Garcia, Grisman, Rice "Pizza Tapes" recently. Its sweetly toned and intimate.
Yeah, I love that one too.
i was just going to come in and confess my most recent obsession - Antony and the Johnsons - Perfect Day
Till now it's been Antony doing Candy Says and his beautiful harmonies in other songs on Lou Reed's Animal Serenade.
What a bitter-sweet voice - Perfect Day is just a whacked out astral travel version - totally between the lines....haunting. Beware!
and yeah...Pizza Tapes...yum
for a couple of weeks now i've been returning to shpongle's 'nothing lasts...but nothing is lost'...when i first heard it some months ago, it did not hit me, but i think it was simply too overwhelming...i now see how they have made an album every bit the equal of 'tales of the inexpressible' and 'are you shpongled?'...sampling the movies 'waking life' and 'apollo 13,' and returning to terence mckenna for more inspiration, this album is more of a long suite, a symphony, an epic multi-part high, hard, low, secret, blustery, joyous swoop...i recommend highly, esp since it may be the final sphongle album...simon posford said something about liking the idea of trilogies....i've been thinking maybe i should try listening to all three albums in a row...
Wolf Parade and
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
But I do wanna pick up the new Flaming Lips album
-Caulcade Fire
KVMV Steve Kimock. Very entheogenic :D :D :D
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Show Your Bonesâ€
i dont listen to much psy when at home, but this week end was a great dark psy fest! so, here are some pics of some good days with Neil Gibson. an excellent dark psy fest with Penta and Ocelot, decos by Neils and a museum visit:
http://www.gamatron.net/neil_gibson/index.htm (http://www.gamatron.net/neil_gibson/index.htm)
this few days have been spent pulling out the old vinyls and the hippie collection, Grateful Dead and Frank Zappa reviews.
wwoouuhhhhh :P :P
Play list from recent roadtrip: Bob Marley-Songs of Freedom disc 4, Beatles- Sgt Pepper's Lonleyhearts Club Band, Sons of Champlin-Live, Mind X- Live in a Whitetrash Town, Frankie Lee- Here I Go Again, Grateful Dead- Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, Neville Brothers-Yellow Moon.
Grateful Dead - Mars Hotel
Hey Cen, I like Shine also. Often times I use it as my jogging music.
My time lately has been devoted to new explorations. Two artists for whom I've recently aquired albums are:
1. Sun Ra (thanks to the other thread in this forum)
2. Half-handed Cloud
Thanks for your speed of like response, Indra.
See he discovered Sun Ra here, that's what I'm talking about.
The music never stopped.........