Music And Brain Tangents

[Messalina Mommsen]

If you like 'joy division' do you allso like 'new order'?

New order

 

 

It's strange- I've never really listened to New Order much. Not sure why- I'll have to give them a go. We have ITUNES music store in Australia now, so you can just buy music over the net. Tempting. I'll have to make sure I'm never intoxicated in my bedroom with a credit card or a lot of money could be spent on music!

I'll also have a look at The Band. What's their best CD?

[Germanicus]

QUOTE(longbow @ Nov 10 2005, 02:59 AM)

 

If you like 'joy division' do you also like 'new order'?

 

 

 

 

It's strange- I've never really listened to New Order much. Not sure why- I'll have to give them a go.

 

New Order were long my favourite band.

 

If you like Joy Division, you should get either of the albums by Interpol, I am 100% certain you'll love them.

 

I also really liked that Scissor Sisters album that came out recently, and went to see them when they toured here.

 

I love the Pixies, and even Frank Blacks solo stuff.

 

I agree that Longbow has some good taste in his selections too, Something about the Cure and Smiths fitted well with my high school days. I saw the Cure on the Disintegration tour and still listen from time to time.

[Messalina Mommsen]

Thanks for the help there- Perhaps New Order will be the CD that I buy this week. I have a gift voucher so I can get two CD's. Any suggestions for the other CD? I want something of the electronic genre too- along the lines of Massive Attack, DJ Shadow, Coldcut...

[Silentium]

I listen to so many different things..music is a very important part of my life. I like and listen to many of the bands previously mentioned (Depeche Mode, The Cure, Joy Division and why not, also The Cult, Simple Minds and many other artists from the 80s =)) as well as 70s hard rock like 'Sabbath, Led Zeppelin', Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, The Damned etc..I also listen to classics such as the Rolling Stones, The Who, Dire Straits..and -dulcis in fundo-, heavy metal, trip hop and classical. =)

 

I'm interested to hear what kind of music people are listening to at this very moment?

-Now playing: Aerosmith - Dream on

 

What is travelling through their stereos/earphones/walkmans/discmans/ipods?

I usually listen to a lot of relatively unknown bands..I won't list all of them because it would take me hours, the main are: - Apocalyptica (instrumental tracks only), The Gathering, Kemopetrol, Akira Yamaoka (Japanese composer) +a lot of Italian artists..

 

Katatonia

Relieving, someone else listens to doom metal!

Edited November 15, 2005 by Silentium

[Primus Pilus]

Katatonia

Relieving, someone else listens to doom metal!

 

My wife and I (especially her) are anxiously awaiting the new release due out in Spring 2006.

[Virgil61]

But the classics allso get as much airtime in our house

the doors

The Rolling stones

The band

The Cure

Nirvana

The Stone roses

The Smiths

Van Morrison

 

The Smiths and Stone Roses are now considered "classics", man I'm getting old.

 

I've got a fairly wide range of music from punk to classical to jazz/blues etc. that I listen to with over 2,500 cds, tapes and records (those vinyl things) collected so far. I have a decent stereo system with Quad and ACI speakers, an NAD integrated amp, old Nakamichi tape deck, old McIntosh tuner and Pioneer Elite cd player. I try to give it good workout every once in a while.

 

Bands sitting on my cd player, tape deck, turntable and mp3 player lately:

 

Mahavishnu Orchestra- The Inner Mounting Flame (great guitar jamming fusion)

Allman Brothers Band- Live at the Fillmore East and Eat a Peach. Duane Allman comes close to Hendrix.

Jimi Hendrix- Band of Gypsys and First Rays of the New Rising Sun. Late Hendrix at his best.

John Hiatt- Master of Disaster

New Pornographers- everything

Rory Gallagher- outstanding but forgotten blues-rocker.

Hawkwind- mid-70s Pink Floyd meets Black Sabbath.

And recently as well a lot of Neil Young, Uncle Tupelo, The Connells and Warren Zevon.

 

I'm a big Howling Wold fan, listen to him and you'll hear where Zepplin got their inspiration. I'm also partial to a lot of early-punk and post-punk like Sex Pistols, Ramones, Wire, The Replacements, Guided by Voices and Husker Du.

[Virgil61]

It's strange- I've never really listened to New Order much. Not sure why- I'll have to give them a go. We have ITUNES music store in Australia now, so you can just buy music over the net. Tempting. I'll have to make sure I'm never intoxicated in my bedroom with a credit card or a lot of money could be spent on music!

I'll also have a look at The Band. What's their best CD?

 

I'd recommend Power, Corruption and Lies by New Order. Hands down my favorite New Order cd. Joy Division-- the band the surviving members of New Order came from-- is great but can be a little intense depending on your tastes.

 

The Band was an influential "band" from the late 60s and early 70s that played with Bob Dylan and backed him on a couple of albums. If you like Dylan or Neil Young you might like them, I'd recommend their first albums called "The Band" or "Music from the Big Pink". Both routinely make the best 100 albums lists but they aren't like much music being played on MTV today or on the charts today; country-rock-folk might be the best way to describe them.

[Moonlapse]

Katatonia

Relieving, someone else listens to doom metal!

Check your inbox.

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

So it seems like we got the old-timers and the classics lovers.

[Moonlapse]

So it seems like we got the old-timers and the classics lovers.

 

They're classic for a reason

[Spurius]

The blues I play most everyday when working on projects:

ARTHUR ADAMS, B.B. KING, DEBORAH COLEMAN, POPA CHUBBY, BIG BILL MORGANFIELD & TAJ MAHAL GEORGE "HARMONICA" SMITH, MEMPHIS ROCKABILLY BAND, MUDDY WATERS (Blind Pig all the way, baby!)

 

Just in the background, far too many movie and showtunes to list here

 

Get my butt moving, no matter how it's dragging...most any good swing band doing stuff from the late 30s and 40s.

 

 

(I can see the retirement home 30 years from now, the music in the speakers: "Highway to Hell" and maybe "Electric Funeral" :punk: )

Edited November 17, 2005 by Spurius

[Pertinax]

I wish to add Mr Warren Zevon and his Werewolves

[Messalina Mommsen]

The Band was an influential "band" from the late 60s and early 70s that played with Bob Dylan and backed him on a couple of albums. If you like Dylan or Neil Young you might like them, I'd recommend their first albums called "The Band" or "Music from the Big Pink". Both routinely make the best 100 albums lists but they aren't like much music being played on MTV today or on the charts today; country-rock-folk might be the best way to describe them.

 

Thanks Virgil- I'm going to get their CD tomorrow. It's a good thing they aren't like what's on MTV today- I've been a little disconcerted by the popular music scene. I got 'Get Ready' by NEW ORDER as it was on special, but am going to look into their music further...awesome

 

Has anyone heard of an American dude who goes by the name of 'Bright Eyes'...? His lyrics are incredible.

Edited November 21, 2005 by Messalina Mommsen

[Virgil61]

I'm interested to hear what kind of music people are listening to at this very moment? What is travelling through their stereos/earphones/walkmans/discmans/ipods?

 

I'll ressurect this old thread instead of starting another.

 

I've got pretty ecletic taste w/over 2000 albums, cds and tapes, probably closer to 3000 now, ranging from classical, jazz, country, reggae and rock. Love the old classic rock guitarists like Duane Allman, Rory Gallagher, Hendrix, Mavishnu Orchestra etc., late '70s early '80s punk/hardcore--Ramones, Clash, Pistols, Wire, Black Flag and Meat Puppets--as well as Johnny Cash, Neil Young, White Stripes, the Dead's Dick's Pick's, Drive-By Truckers, etc.

 

What was I listening to today? I'll come clean and admit it: Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Neil Diamond. There, I said it. Sort of corny and sometimes schlocky in their heyday but all artists that have sort of re-invented themselves showing the inner core of talent they've always (apparently) had.

 

Dolly Parton's cd 'Little Sparrow' and 'Those were the Days'. This ain't the Nashville Dolly of the '80s, all glitzy and glamour. She's went way back to her roots w/a bluegrass backing. It's far closer to roots-country--especially 'Little Sparrow' than modern Nashville garbage.

 

Loretta Lynn's 'Van Lear Rose' sounds more like alt.country then that Nashville sound as well. Jack White of White Stripes produced it and gives it a bit of an alternative edge incuding some guitar work and a duet. The woman is in her 70s and this album rocks.

 

Neil Diamond's '12 Songs'. Yeah, Neil Diamond, known for some real glitzy and schlocky songs like 'Sweet Caroline', 'Crackin' Rose' and 'Song Sung Blue'. He was always a talented songwriter, he wrote 'I'm a Believer' for the Monkees for example. Rick Rubin, the hip-hop and metal producer and the guy who brought Johnny Cash back into the spotlight with his American Recordings a few years ago, produced this. Diamond spent a year writing these songs. Rubin put him in a studio, added Tom Petty's band The Heartbreakers as background musicians, pushed the instruments back in the mix and made him play guitar while singing to keep him from his tendency to get bombastic. The guy can write a song and Rubin keeps a reign on him resulting in some pretty good music. About as close to Dylan or classic Elvis Costello in songwriting abilitiy as Diamond will ever get. I was impressed.

 

Anyway I'd give Loretta Lynn a listen, she comes closest to modern 'alt rock' sensibility, any album in the last five years from Parton if you like roots-country or bluegrass and Diamond if you like Costello/Dylan type songwriting. If you told me ten or twenty years ago that I'd listen to any of them (well maybe Loretta Lynn) I'd have laughed you out of the room, but it's good to see old talents reinventing themselves successfully and actually being relevant.