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dreadpirateroberts
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Posted: 11 Jan 2012 at 9:04pm |
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Time to once again, indulge my need for creating lists!
Interested to see what else everyone enjoys - other than our beloved Jazz that is (but also aside from Prog too, as there's much discussion of that on PA) so how about it - your ten fav Artists/Albums in other genres? Today, these ten perhaps, and in no order. I may add albums to these later: Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Roy Harper - Stormcock Mr Bungle - California Faith No More - Angel Dust Bjork - Homogenic Ani DiFranco - Out of Range Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy The Birthday - Night on Fool Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Lucio Battisti - Amore e non Amore Geeze, that was tough. Hard to match my old favourites against newer joys. Oh well, perhaps I need to do some Honourable Mentions or something. |
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Sean Trane
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MMMMhhh!!!...
Stormcock is prog enough for me... and so is Mr Bungle...
I'll kind of avoid the 60's and 70's psych-prog-fusion-jazz realm: (no order either)
Aerosmith - Rocks (or Get Your Wings)
Van Morrison - astral week
Portishead - Dummy
RHCP - SBSMagik
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Jacques Brel - Brel (AKA Les Marquises)
Clash - London Calling
Violent Femmes - debut
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Savoy Brown- Raw Siena (kind of psych-prog blues, but wtf)
John Mayall - A Hard Road
Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green (kind of psych-prog blues, but wtf)
Kat Onoma - Far From the Pictures
Haïr - the musical and the movie soundtrack
i'll stop here, but I'm sure I'll be back!!
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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dreadpirateroberts
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Yeah, I agree - Roy & Bungle are most definitely progressive (while not being 'classic prog') - perhaps I ought to have put 'classic' prog up in the title?
Some classics here especially, Sean: (on a related note, what did you think of 'Painkiller' by Judas Priest?) RHCP - SBSMagik Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green (kind of psych-prog blues, but wtf) Jacques Brel sounds interesting - what other favourites of his do you have? I'm going to check out 'Brel' later tomorrow |
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Some non-jazzy all-time favorites:
Prince Jammy "Kamikaze Dub" Public Enemy "It takes a Nation of Millions" EPMD "Unfinished Business" Deep Purple "Made in Japan" Milton Babbit "Ensembles for Synthesizer" Stockhausen "Opus 1970" Michael Jackson "Off the Wall"
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Sean Trane
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Well, Brel like most "French" singers (he was Belgian, of course, but he's associated to French because the man was a lover of French language) before the 70's, he didn't really make "albums" proper - most his 50's and early 60's "albums" were released on 10" vinyls, (not 12"), which are kind of EP's with only 8 relatively short songs
He more or less stopped in 66 to concentrate on movies and opera (Man Of La Mancha - Don Quixote), then contracted lung cancer in 77... This Brel album (his only real "Album") dates from that time, recorded a few months before his death and released days before it.
It's like a testament.... really poignant songs, where he really unleashes his wraths on idiots (he always did, but here he was mercyless) of all kinds and sings his last throes...
So if you want to get another Brel at first (other than that album), you'd better get a "best of", which are generally indeed his best of.... Better yet, if you can find a live DVD, go for that.... to get an idea how formidable a performer he was
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Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Paganini - The 6 Violin Concertos Beethoven - Piano Sonatas-Pathetique, Moonlight, Appassionata / Daniel Barenboim Sting - Fields Of Gold Orff - Carmina Burana Marianne Faithfull - Broken English Leonard Cohen - Live in London Madredeus - Lisboa Cesaria Evora - Cesaria Charles Aznavour - 40 Chansons D'Or |
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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ...
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Matt
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Beatles, Abbey Road Bob Dylan, Blood On The TracksNeil Young, After The Gold Rush
The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers
Bruce Springsteen, Darkness On The Edge Of Town
The Who, Who's Next
The Doors, LA Woman
Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon
Willie Nelson, Stardust
Tom Waits, Heart Of Saturday Night
Plenty more where they came from but most I bought as a kid and those early albums are all masterpieces for me. Every Beatles album except Let It Be and Yellow Sub (Which in my opinion is not an album anyway) "dog's breakfast might be a good term for it" , I would slap on 5 stars immediately
The Beatles Rule "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,what a musical masterpiece from a bloke who is still a kid when it comes to that band.
I have never got over Beatlemania
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My some favorites. ---------
Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination
The Police - Ghost in the Machine Van Halen - Fair Warning David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees Ian Gillan Band - Clear Air Turbulence Men at Work - Business as Usual The Cult - Electric Thin Lizzy - Black Rose David Bowie - Black Tie White Noise Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol.One |
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"Black Tie White Noise" is a jazz album and a damn good one too.
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Sean Trane
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three outstanding choices (I'm kind of excluding classical music from this list as well, because it mostly didn't come up in the "album" context)), but in case of Madredeus, I might have chosen Existir
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without classical music: Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Sting - Fields Of Gold Marianne Faithfull - Broken English Leonard Cohen - Live in London Madredeus - Lisboa Cesaria Evora - Cesaria Charles Aznavour - 40 Chansons D'Or Simon & Garfunkel - the Concert In Central Park Pink Martini - Sympathique Eric Clapton BB King - Riding With The King |
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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ...
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dreadpirateroberts
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Excellent, thank you - I will hunt for a Best Of. |
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From the top of my head, and most recent faves: Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus Kid A by Radiohead Hejira by Joni Mitchell Pink Moon by Nick Drake Dots & Loops by Stereolab American Don by Don Caballero Shades of Blue by Madlib Sons & Fascination/Sister Feelings Call by Simple Minds If not, old time faves: Come Taste the Band/Stormbringer by Deep Purple I by Led Zeppelin Who Are You by The Who On Every Street by Dire Straits Ready & Willin' by Whitesnake You are the music... by Trapeze Edited by Abraxas - 15 Jan 2012 at 12:18am |
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Isn't Come Taste the Band great! I feel it might just be underrated too? Despite all the Plant-isms from Coverdale, Bolin's guitar introduced some great changes on that album |
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"Come Taste the Band" and "Stormbringer" are underestimated. However, I feel that these albums are not bad. Probably Ritchie Blackmore would feel that "Stormbringer" was the worst as a guess. Little pop and an element of the R & B. And "Come Taste the Band" would not be established without existence of Tommy Bolin. On the other hand, I think that "Clear Air Turbulence" which Ian Gillan Band announced is predominantly superior jazz rock. I know that this album is favorite one of Pablo. Edited by Kazuhiro - 15 Jan 2012 at 8:39pm |
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Yes! Me too - I think that Hughes' singing added the R&B to the funk they were going toward too, with Stormbringer & Burn, but then 'Come Taste the Band' just got kinda grungy! Perhaps it's that guitar sound? The Dealer, kinda a sleazy sound and riff. I have only got the first two Ian Gillan Band albums, both are pretty good huh? - that reworking of Child in Time from the first album is interesting too |
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I felt that "Love Don't Mean A Thing" and "Holy Man" were the music with the element of the R & B about "Stormbringer". And I felt "This Time Around/Owed To 'G' "about "Come Taste The Band" when a new trial and the part which evolved were included for a band in particular.
I think that solo album is good about the performance of Tommy Bolin. And I think that the performance that I performed is famous for an album of Billy Cobham for the fan of Tommy Bolin. |
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^wow, I'm really surprised you guys actually like those two Deep purple albums. Yes, they're not classics and they're not pure hard rock, but that's why I like them so much and the reason why I love Deep Purple, so many styles to find in their discography.
Come Taste the Band just blowed me away with Bolin's guitar and funky interludes. While Stormbringer just had killer soulish and funky tunes, Hughes and Coverdale were at their best, Blackmore does a fine job playing something off his territory.
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I remembered that John said that "Made in Japan "was an album with the elements of the jazz before. My memory may be wrong. Or I do not yet have that I ask about the real intention.
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'This Time Around/Owed To 'G' is pretty fantastic stuff, easily my favourite track from the album. The instrumental section is tops. Yes - when I first got 'Spectrum' and say Tommy's name I was excited indeed.
Quality albums! Yeah, they cover a lot of ground (love that solo in 'Stormbringer') even back when Evans was singing, some cool tracks on those early albums.
I might have to re-listen to Made In Japan, thanks Kazu! |
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