I need a music list.

[cgannon64]

I'm getting a new computer this weekend (my old one died a sad death), which means that I get Soulseek back, and I can load it up with music.

So, people need to tell me all the blues, old folk, and early 60s garage rock bands (in the vein of the Yardbirds, the Flaming Wheels, 13th Floor Elevators) that they know of. Oh, and jazz. Not big band though, bebop.

EDIT: So far the best source of names I have is Pitchfork (it doesn't get more pretentious!) and the music channels from my cable provider, and they're not very good. They played me some Robert Johnson, and then followed it with this guy who is pissing on the ideas of blues. The song is called "I Had Trouble", and the guy wrote it in his sleep.

 

[Xen]

well, whil enot of what you listed, I suggest some Reggae. you cant go wron with that ****

 

[cgannon64]

Sure, but I don't like Reggae more than once. I'll listen to one reggae song and say, "That was nice", and move on.

 

[Xen]

Sure, but I don't like Reggae more than once. I'll listen to one reggae song and say, "That was nice", and move on.

down load Itunes; listen to soem of thier "radio stations" for reggae; I suggest the dub shack, and righ ton reggae, but most of them are nice (dub is very modern in its make, most peopole when they think reggae, its roots, IIRC the definitions)

 

[punkbass2000]

Check out 'Bela Fleck and the Flecktones'. If you have an opportunity to be their live DVD, good lord, do so. It is worth its weight in gold. They are the Truest Musicians that I know of. The bassist is unbelieveable, as well as Bela himself on the banjo.

 

[Xen]

what genre are they?

 

[cgannon64]

Sounds like folk, if its a banjo. But if its 60s garage rock with a banjo? Oh boy...

 

[Xen]

Sounds like folk, if its a banjo. But if its 60s garage rock with a banjo? Oh boy...

well, modest mouse uses a banjo once ina while, and its actually a pretty awesome sound, all told, even if it is indy rock

 

[Birdjaguar]

Tall order. The most obvious ones (not including Beatles, Stones etc.)

Dave Clark 5
Doors
Zombies
Kinks
Donovan
Hollies
Association
Incredible String band
Jefferson Airplane
Jimmy Dale Gilmore
Joni Mitchell Blue is her best album
Leonard cohen
Lou Reed/VU
Pearls Before Swine
Seeds
Tim Buckley
Traffic
Van Morrison
Warren Zevon
Rocky Horror sound track

Have fun.

 

[cgannon64]

The Beta Band has a Jew's harp in one of their songs.

(Jew's harp is the one that sounds almost like rubber bands, right?)

 

[Xen]

Ooooo! on the list by Birdjaguar, I tell you that if you have never had the privledge, warren zevon is a must (and for more, weird, offensive music, but with a touch mor eclassical class, try randy newmen )

 

[cgannon64]

Tall order. The most obvious ones (not including Beatles, Stones etc.)

Dave Clark 5
Doors
Zombies
Kinks
Donovan
Hollies
Association
Incredible String band
Jefferson Airplane
Jimmy Dale Gilmore
Joni Mitchell Blue is her best album
Leonard cohen
Lou Reed/VU
Pearls Before Swine
Seeds
Tim Buckley
Traffic
Van Morrison
Warren Zevon
Rocky Horror sound track

Hmm. I've got plenty of Kinks, and the Doors I've always been neutral on. Donovan is a fake Bob Dylan, I hear, Jefferson Airplane is a band I need to hear more of (do they always have the woman singer in that song about taking pills?), I grew up with plenty of Joni Mitchell, I've got all the good Velvet Underground albums, Van Morrison is a genius, and Warren Zevon seems cool enough.

Now I have to go and see the Rocky Horror Picture Show (and scream like a virgin, I hear ), and check out the rest of that list.

(Oh, Leonard Cohen, I know that name. He's a songwriter, right?)

EDIT: I see Xen mentioned Randy Newman. I nearly bought his CD the other day. How good was he back in the 70s?

 

[punkbass2000]

what genre are they?

I don't know. Jazz, bluegrass, sorta. Very different. No one does what they do at all. That's what I mean by True Musicians. I like how Bela says such self-evident things with such a straight face, because people don't take them into account. Like at one point in the video they're talking about how they're going to do a song for this particular gig, and he's saying this time they're not going to do the round or do it quietly, and someone says something indiscernible, and he's like, "...yeah, but if we don't change it a bit it's going to be the same". It's like duh, but many bands seem to strive for the opposite: play it exactly like it is on the album. Anyway, they're all really talented, they have tons of guests from outside their four piece. Bela plays banjo, Victor on bass, Jeff on a few woodwinds and Futureman playing a "Drum-guitar", as he calls it, which he has duct-taped together. Guests play bassoon, oboe, english horn, steel drums, tabla, and a couple other things, as well as having a Tuvan throat singer, who somehow can sing three notes at once . There are lots of time-signature changes, lots of unusual chord progressions and scales, plenty of styles, impossible soloes and general innovation and ingenuity. They are altogethr different and interesting band. I recommend it to any serious music-listener that's not too attached any particular genres.

 

[Xen]

well, his music, to my ears, is okay, not my thing, his humor is somtimes good, somtimes mediocre- but his messages ar epretyty clear, and soem of his sterotypes, while aweful, and insanelly offensive, are damn funny- still cant belive my dad was th eone who recomemnded him to me a year or two back

 

[punkbass2000]

"Oh, Leonard Cohen, I know that name. He's a songwriter, right?)"

Oh, yes. Has been for like five decades. Very good musician. But then, "Everybody knows"...

 

[Xen]

I don't know. Jazz, bluegrass, sorta. Very different. No one does what they do at all. That's what I mean by True Musicians. I like how Bela says such self-evident things with such a straight face, because people don't take them into account. Like at one point in the video they're talking about how they're going to do a song for this particular gig, and he's saying this time they're not going to do the round or do it quietly, and someone says something indiscernible, and he's like, "...yeah, but if we don't change it a bit it's going to be the same". It's like duh, but many bands seem to strive for the opposite: play it exactly like it is on the album. Anyway, they're all really talented, they have tons of guests from outside their four piece. Bela plays banjo, Victor on bass, Jeff on a few woodwinds and Futureman playing a "Drum-guitar", as he calls it, which he has duct-taped together. Guests play bassoon, oboe, english horn, steel drums, tabla, and a couple other things, as well as having a Tuvan throat singer, who somehow can sing three notes at once . There are lots of time-signature changes, lots of unusual chord progressions and scales, plenty of styles, impossible soloes and general innovation and ingenuity. They are altogethr different and interesting band. I recommend it to any serious music-listener that's not too attached any particular genres.

cool, I'm gonna have to give these guys a try; hopefully, they have soem stuff on I-tunes- any songs you woudl recomend?

 

[Birdjaguar]

I hear, Jefferson Airplane is a band I need to hear more of (do they always have the woman singer in that song about taking pills?),

Now I have to go and see the Rocky Horror Picture Show (and scream like a virgin, I hear ), and check out the rest of that list.

(Oh, Leonard Cohen, I know that name. He's a songwriter, right?)

EDIT: I see Xen mentioned Randy Newman. I nearly bought his CD the other day. How good was he back in the 70s?

I never got into Randy newman

White rabbit is the JA song everyone knows and it is about pills. "Today" is a better song from the same album. Other excellent JA albums: Crown of Creation, blows against the empire (named changed to Jeff starship for this album), and After bathing at Baxters.

Early Leonard cohen is best. He is a singer songwiter who writes intellectual lyrics


Look for Phil Ochs Pleasures of the harbor album

Steppen wolf (Born to be wild)

Marc bolan (T. Rex) in his pre glam rock days made fabulous music as the spelled out Tyrannosaurus Rex, Unicorn is the best of those albums This music is nothing like the heavy metal of T Rex.

You might try the political rock of country Joe and the fish.

The BeeGees actually made some great records in their pre disco recordings
Buffalo Springfield

 

[cgannon64]

This is a pretty good list.

Has anyone here heard of Can?

 

[Sir Bugsy]

If you want blues:

John Mayall and the Bluebreakers. That was Clapton's first band.
Derek & the Dominoes

Don't forget the originals:

Muddy Waters
Blind Lemon
Brownie McGee
Willie Dixon

 

[punkbass2000]

cool, I'm gonna have to give these guys a try; hopefully, they have soem stuff on I-tunes- any songs you woudl recomend?

I only just discovered them (my mom's boy friend let me borrow the DVD), so I don't know a ton, though it's great that it has lengthy documentary with it. About half of what I've found on LimeWire is from the DVD thus far, so anything with the 'Live at the Quick' album title is good. I haven't disliked anything so far, but I think the DVD is a real culmination of everything they've done. The tabla-player and Tuvan throat-singer are both from Asia and came fairly specifically for the purposes of playing the show, I believe. They make appearances on recordings but don't tour, I'm pretty sure. The four I mentioned are still the main band, but the oboe/english horn player, bassoonist, and steel drummer are vaguely referred to as the "Bela Fleck Big Band", and are on a fair bit of the newer stuff and I get the impression that they tour at least some of the time as well. There's just so muchon the DVD, it's well over two hours in total and I've watched the main part more than 10 times in the past 12 days. From the DVD (it's really hard to pick), I would say "A Moment So Close" might be a good choice, it's the only with really "normal" vocals, for a starter."Big Country" is good too, and I enjoy "Zona Mona" as well. Listening to them isn't half as good as watching, though. A lot of the stuff they do sorta needs to be seen to be believed Back when they played primarily as just a four-piece, for their first 2/3 albums, Bela relates that they wanted to play every song live a bit before recording, just to kind of "prove" that they are actually doing what they're doing, that there's no double recording when Victor carries a melody as well as chords on his bass, etc. That got that chip off their shoulder satisfactorily after that.