What are you listening to? I'm getting old, I need new music

Luis Caffesse

Luis Caffesse

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Alright - so I've got too much of the same stuff rotating through iTunes.
I'm hoping to open myself up to some new stuff...so lets hear what everyone else out there is listening to.


Here's my status at the moment:


MOST RECENTLY BOUGHT: Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

MOST RECENTLY PLAYED: Getz/Gilberto

MOST PLAYED ON ITUNES: Belle & Sebastian, Dog on Wheels



So.... what have you got?
I need some new inspiration.
 
My list of music is all jumbled. I like a bit of everything.

Right now:

Brian Setzer (Solo and the Orchestra)
Cobra Starship
Tenacious D
The Killers
Theory of a Deadman
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Harry Connick Jr
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Meat Loaf
U2
Weird Al
The Rat Pack
Led Zeppelin
AC/DC
Jimi Hendrix
Louis Armstrong


Can't remember what else.... That should be enough to get you started
 
Hmmm...how open minded are you?

Echo & The Bunnymen - Siberia (Stormy Weather is amazing)
Cat Power - The Greatest (The Greatest is such a good song)
Kathleen Edwards - Failer, Back To Me (In State off her 2nd CD is textbook rock)
Hawksley Workman - Lover/Fighter (good to the last drop..met him, nice guy)
Travis - The Invisible Band (was a gift...surprised at how good it was)
Bebel Gilberto - (pretty much anything she does is good, moody stuff)
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind, Love & Theft, Modern Times (just the first 2 can last you for months)
Pino Daniele - Bella 'mbriana (Neapolitan blues/jazz/funk genius...25 years old and still rocks)
Fonky Family - Marginale Musique (Hip Hop from Marseilles. Title track schools anything 'urban' from North America that you hear on radio.)
Eels - Shootenanny! (Love Of The Loveless, Dirty Girl....)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Nocturama (Bring It On...'nuff said.)
Bruce Springsteen - Magic (doesn't come out until October, but you can download Radio Nowhere on iTunes...was free last I checked.)

That was fun.

I used to do music journalism, but I never got to write about the stuff I liked. Instead it was nu-metal and emo, and crap...I did get to interview some pretty big names in music, though.

I know this stuff isn't exactly new, but if you haven't heard it, it's new to you. (Ahh, NBC...such beautiful logic.)
 
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Right now, Wilco, Sky Blue Sky, awesome album.

Hawksley Workman - Lover/Fighter (good to the last drop..met him, nice guy)
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Hawksley Workman kick ass.

Travis - The Invisible Band (was a gift...surprised at how good it was)
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Travis is great, if you liked The Invisble Band, check out The Man Who, thats a wicked album...Good Feeling is pretty good too.
 
Ive been playing on my ipod latley

The Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am.
Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards
Springsteen- We Shall Overcome - the Seeger Sessions
 
I'm listening to the soundtrack of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's musical episode "Once More With Feeling". Who can resist the song "The Parking Ticket" by Joss Whedon:

I've been having a bad, bad day.
C'mon won't you put that pad away?
I'm asking you please, noooo
It isn't right, it isn't fair,
There was no parking anywhere.
I think that hydrant wasn't there.
Why can't you let it go?
I think I've paid more than my share,
I'm just a poor girl, don't you care?
Hey, I'm not wearing underwear....
 
The Killers: Mr. Brightside
Linkin Park: What I've Done, Become So Numb
Taking Back Sunday: Made Damn Sure
Fall Out Boy: Thanks for the Memories (Thnks fr the mmrs or something?)
My Chemical Romance: The Black Parade, Sharper Lives
Breaking Benjamin: Diary of Jane
Hinder: Lips of an Angel, Shoulda, Homecoming Queen
Finger Eleven: I forget the name of the song... oops
Incubus: Dig
Coldplay: Talk
Placebo: Infra-red
Panic at the Disco: Anything
Yellowcard: Lights and Sounds
 
1 The Arcade Fire
2 Ben Folds
3 The Shins
4 Coldplay
5 Decemberists
6 The National
7 Animal Collective
8 Death Cab
9 The Strokes
10 Snow Patrol
11 The Beatles
12 Eels
13 Foo Fighters
14 Guster

I can give a "favorite few songs" by each of these bands if anybody is interested. That is my tentative order of my favorite music. This is mainly soft alternative rock.
 
Baroness - The Red Album
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Saviours - Crucifire
Early Man - Closing In
Lil Wayne - Da Drought III (mixtape)
Dock Boggs - The Complete Works of Dock Boggs
 
10 most recently played:

The Look of Love - Nina Simone
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars - Astrud Gilberto
My Love Is - Little Willie John
Santa Maria - Gotan Project
Charade - Cafe Accordion Orchestra
In Walked Bud - by my neighbor(actually my next door neighbor who plays the upright base made a cd for me with a piano buddy of his...jazz stuff)
Angel Eyes - Nancy Wilson
Star - Erasure
Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Mel Torme
La Mer - Charles Trenet

and the soundtrack from Forbidden Planet

...guess I live in the past!

RJS
 
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come. Greatest album period.

Most recent CD I bought was by The Gallows (Orchastra of Wolves), but I'm currently going through a '90s throwback phase.
 
Shameless plug:

If you're on itunes and your searching around anyway..... check out my stuff- Uncle Salty's Cabin. The self titled disc is kind of blues rock and the "hooch radio 109.9fm" disc is just kind of a melting pot of stuff......


As for what's on my ipod, I just finished converting all 150 of my cd's dating back to the 80's. Going through all that was a shock at some of the crap I actual bought at one time. No wonder my dad thought I had no musical taste.
Now I have a two racks of coasters......


DDP
 
Heres what I've been listening to lately...with some links to myspace music pages..

The Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?, 2014, Sea Ghost, and Tuff Ghost
Islands - Whalebone
The Beatles - Love (they took the 'Love' remix songs off the myspace.)
The Beatles - Abby Road (on vinyl!)
The Doors - Greatest Hits
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?,Hey Joe
The Ditty Bops - Walk or Ride
 
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I take it you like the softer-but-not-mainstream stuff:

Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun is superb, ( ) is beyond description, Takk... is a dream. This is the band that was used in the Children of Men trailer btw. In Icelandic. Guitar played with a violin bow.
Cranes - Wings of Joy (only good one. everything went downhill after this album)
Sekiden - Junior Fiction (funny cute lo-fi underground stuff)
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain (superbe - everything else is not)
Peeping Tom (best.cover.ever. somewhat out there. only time you'll ever hear the words "motherf*cker* come out of Norah Jones' lips on an album)
Athlete - Tourist (the song "Wires" alone makes this album worth the money. It's the song used in the new TLC ad for the ER show)
Jaga Jazzist - The Stix (if you're into jazz, this is the ****)
Katie Melua - Piece by Piece (HUGE hit in Europe, like Norah Jones but less jazzy. "I Cried for You" is a masterpiece)
Seigmen - Total (possibly the best album ever recorded. quite dark. and in Norwegian. Produced by Sylvia Massey. every person I've ever played it for has been mesmerized)
Essbjorn Svensson Trio - From Gagarin's Point of View (more jazz. very impressive stuff. not at all what you think. only piano player I've seen that plays the strings of the piano with a pick)
Matthew Good - In A Coma (the best-of album of one of the best canadian musicians to never make it internationally. this guy is beyond description and if it wasn't for his nasty attitude he would have been HUGE)
Ron Sexsmith - Retriever (I thought I would hate this album. I was wrong. It's very good)
Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse is very good, Red Letter Days is pretty much perfect. And unlike his dad Bob, Jacob Dylan can actually sing.

I'm going to bed. don't listen to all that hyped up crap. it's the unknown stuff that will really rock your world

mor10
 
PortisHead
Massive Attack
Roykstopp
The Killers
The Eels
White stripes
Mozart
Taraf D`Haidouks
Philip Glass
Notorious BIG
JayZ
Damien Jr. Gong Marley
cham


These ive benn listening alot to lately.
 
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I take it you like the softer-but-not-mainstream stuff:

Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun is superb, ( ) is beyond description, Takk... is a dream. This is the band that was used in the Children of Men trailer btw. In Icelandic. Guitar played with a violin bow.
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+1

I just discovered Sigur Ros a few months back. Take a long walk or drive by yourself and listen to some of their songs. I can't find the words to describe it, you just have to hear it.
 
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