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tor ·
This is maybe my favourite album of all times:
Neil Young - Freedom
http://open.spotify.com/album/2QC5ZUzKLsEbDaI9RF1PmJ
I love it because it has such high degree of integrety in the lyrics combined with the musical package and a sound that is just state of the art.
What do you folks put up there among your favourites?
trogluddite ·
Usually my fave is the most recent one I got - mostly CDs from bands I've been to see live just lately.
However, one album I always find myself coming back to is 'Double Nickels on the Dime' by the Minutemen (it's a double album - I hope that's not cheating).
I always loved the punk attitude, but not always the saminess of the barrage of noise kicked out by most punk bands - the Minutemen had all the attitude but mixed it up with a really eclectic mix of musical styles and sounds, and some real thought behind the lyrics rather than just the usual "tear it all down" punk nihilism. And a killer rhythm section; one of the few punk bands you could really dance to (for a minute or so - they always kept the songs short and sweet!).
oddson ·
tor wrote: This is maybe my favourite album of all times:
Neil Young - Freedom
Have you ever seen the SNL version of Rockin' in the Free World?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7luq7 ... orld_music
My recollection is a string broke during the first solo and he managed to play a decent second without it. I can't tell for sure from this low-rez but clearly at the end there's at least one gone.
Always loved this version - pretty edgy for a guy that had been a rock star for more than 20 years already (guitar guys - please don't tell me why his playing isn't technically proficient!).
Me I'm partial to mid-70s King Crimson; so I'd say Larks' Tongues in Aspic because it married jazz fusion --which tends to being precious and dull-- with heavy metal --which tends to being simplistic and crass-- with free improv --which tends towards anarchic noise-- without being any of these. (OK, so some find it pretentious but that's because they listened to the music press of the day and/or confused it with ELP and some of the earlier incarnations of the band.)
trogluddite ·
Yeah, it's sad how that 'pretentious' label gets stuck on anything that isn't in 4/4 or has more than two clearly hummable riffs per song - certainly, here in the UK, the music press seems to treat its readers as if they are a bunch of 5 year olds who need mummy to tell them what it's acceptable to enjoy.
Acrobat ·
tor wrote: This is maybe my favourite album of all times:
Neil Young - Freedom
http://open.spotify.com/album/2QC5ZUzKLsEbDaI9RF1PmJ
I love it because it has such high degree of integrety in the lyrics combined with the musical package and a sound that is just state of the art.
What do you folks put up there among your favourites?
What a question - following your judging policy I would say "The Wall" by Pink Floyd.
BUT 😉
I have a lot of albums sporting non-sense lyrics and wonderful music, like Led Zeppelin 4th !
Or albums with HORRID covers and wonderful music, like "The Wake" by IQ or Henry Cow's "In Praise Of Learning"...
aliasant ·
Okok.
Tangerine Dream, Poland
A live album that I can never get tired of.
It was one of very few concerts in poland during the cold war with a western band. I just wish I could have seen it, or any other Tangerine Dream concerts live 🙁
Amazing album if you dont care much for vocals but enjoy early electronic music.
tor ·
This is turning out to be a great thread 🙂
Yes, The Wall is absolutely up there aswell I think. And it is great to (re)discover new/old music.
Early seventies was a good period... Genesis, Supertamp, Marillion and much more.
But right now I wonder if I started a similiar thread some time ago... hmmmmmmm?
pall ·
JEAN MICHEL JARRE
Today is March 21 ; Spring EQUINOX
sunsynth ·
A friend introduces me Supertramp - what a wonderful 'band'
The 'last' concert i saw them live was in the 'Volksparkstadion' 1983...
a warm summer evening with a superb sound! 🙂
supporting act(or) was the 'little' Chris de Burgh 😉
JMJ is/was also my favorite for a long long time (Concert in China - my first double CD from Japan)
P.S.: My favorite: Alan parsons project - just hear 'the eye in the sky' 😉
aliasant ·
sunsynth wrote: A friend introduces me Supertramp - what a wonderful 'band'
The 'last' concert i saw them live was in the 'Volksparkstadion' 1983...
a warm summer evening with a superb sound! 🙂
supporting act(or) was the 'little' Chris de Burgh 😉
JMJ is/was also my favorite for a long long time (Concert in China - my first double CD from Japan)
P.S.: My favorite: Alan parsons project - just hear 'the eye in the sky' 😉
hehe.
My favourite since Oxygen was JMJ. None of my friends listened to anything like that so they all considered me an oddball 🙂
After that I started listening to Tangerine Dream and also Alan Parsson Prjoject. Lovely music indeed.
You have good taste Sunny boy 🙂
Acrobat ·
sunsynth wrote: My favorite: Alan parsons project - just hear 'the eye in the sky' 😉
Tha's a great album too, check also his 1979's "I, Robot" album, it is nice just as much.
Afterall, he's also the man on the desk for Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the moon".
But he's a real studio-guy like Brian Eno or Tom Scholz of Boston. Not a street guy at all, no real band like the stones or such, just a chief and damn pro session men and friends going around. Does he ever played live? Dunno.
sunsynth ·
Hi Acrobat,
we all should have bin in Madrid last year 😍
2010: Eye 2 Eye: Live in Madrid
They made an awesome Video of it...
tor ·
about sound and musicallity check theese norwegian artists:
Eivind aarseth: Experimental/chill jazz guitarist: http://open.spotify.com/artist/0VqQFqLcy0bBMPDnKB25vC
Nils Petter Molvaer: Experimental/chill jazz trumpeter: http://open.spotify.com/artist/35RK0qcmTUBmMRbXKQUzw6
Bugge Wesseltoft: Experimental/chill jazz pianoist: http://open.spotify.com/artist/4p35pLn1lRgqoVVsnqNZEK
I can highly recomend theese for anyone.
nix ·
Nice idea for a topic.
You guys are more old school than me it seems.
Here are 2 of mine->
Massive Attack-Mezzanine
GrooveRider-Mysteries of Funk
I'll see if I can link a track from each.
Neither of these albulms is philosophically deep,
but both explore and cover an individual style comprehensively,
musically
Cheers 😀
AngularMomentum ·
Love Neil Young, mostly play Harvest, I think the organic sound (crazy horse and barn) of that album is just great.
My favorite album is Thinderbox from Siouxie and the Banshees. Parties Fall is probably my favorite on that album, and the guitar lick in Candyman gives me goosebumps from awesomeness.
tor ·
I agree Harvest is a rare piece of work and we can almost smell the dirt, wood, straw & grass.
Neil Youngs Harves Moon is also a great album.
oddson ·
AngularMomentum wrote: ...My favorite album is Tinderbox from Siouxie and the Banshees....
Cities in Dust is a classic track.
I always found it funny how punk started as a reaction to art/prog rock and ended with PIL, Banshees, Shriekback, XTC, etc. doing their own over-the-top productions. I guess you can only do three-chord gtr-bss-drm speed pop for so long before you start making things complicated. It's also hard to stay that angry.
AngularMomentum ·
If I could play three chords like Steve Jones does...I would play those forever. 🙂
Thinderbox indeed has some stuff, like City's in Dust that was very commercial. I did not follow much of the other (post) punk bands, for me Banshees was and is something special. What is funny is that most of the bands, when I was a kid, thought where American in fact all came out of the UK.
trogluddite ·
oddson wrote: It's also hard to stay that angry.
He he, yes, I had to laugh when I saw Johnny Rotten on the TV trying to sell me butter! 😕
I read in an interview recently that even Steve Albini has chilled out enough to spend his idle hours watching funny kitten videos on YouTube - though he did do a very good impression of an irate 16 year-old when I saw Shellac a couple of months back!
Anyway, getting back on-topic, I just got the latest CD of my fave live act du jour, and I just can't stop playing it - so I guess this is my favourite album ('til the next one!)...
TrioVD - Fill it up with Ghosts
...I don't think there are many styles that they don't squeeze in somewhere, but I guess you could call it heavy-prog-jazz.
All instrumental, something I've come to appreciate more and more as I get older - I tend to feel with lyrics these days that either (a) I agree with what's being said, so I'm not being made to think, (b) They distract me from the music because I want to argue back, or (c) Na-na-na Do-doo-do-wop-di-dum Baby - Oh, shut up if you've nothing to say! Though I make an exception for Half Man-Half Biscuit because they make me LOL.
tektoog ·
I was a big fan of Pixies in the 90's, Bossanova being my favourite album.
More recently I got these albums playing on regular basis in my car:
- Jakalope - It Dreams - (2004) (was co-produced by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails ) I like it for the pop flavour mixed with some heavy electronic programming.
- Iamx - The Alternative - (2006) very deep and depressing..mix between electro sounds and accoustic...
- Gusgus - 24/7 - (2009) Add this song is the best tune of the album for me, but the album is very well produced...big sound and hard work on the mastering...
- The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation (of course !) That was my introduction to raves ... the entire album seems like anthem today (Voodoo people and No good are real master pieces considering the time they've been made...almost 20 years ago now !!! crazy...)
Acrobat ·
this guy is doing very interesting things too, I've seen him live in Rome last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74spJD2oEPg
Acrobat ·
oddson wrote:
AngularMomentum wrote: ...My favorite album is Tinderbox from Siouxie and the Banshees....
Cities in Dust is a classic track.
I always found it funny how punk started as a reaction to art/prog rock and ended with PIL, Banshees, Shriekback, XTC, etc. doing their own over-the-top productions. I guess you can only do three-chord gtr-bss-drm speed pop for so long before you start making things complicated. It's also hard to stay that angry.
I had a girlfriend who was really in love with Siouxsie, she was part of her youth. When an artist is part of your youth, he got impressed so deep in your mind. Music has a real strange power on people.
AngularMomentum ·
True, I have the same thing with Frank Zappa.
AngularMomentum ·
trogluddite wrote: He he, yes, I had to laugh when I saw Johnny Rotten on the TV trying to sell me butter! 😕
Yuk, zit faced Johnny selling butter. I have just seen the add on ITV when Harry Hill was on. I like him very much though, Rotten cracks me up, smart guy too.
How about Iggy selling car insurance?? Right..... 😕
aliasant ·
Acrobat wrote: this guy is doing very interesting things too, I've seen him live in Rome last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74spJD2oEPg
Thanx Acrobat.
That sounded really nice and the video was very interesting too.
Going to have to get more of that.
trogluddite ·
AngularMomentum wrote: How about Iggy selling car insurance?? Right..... 😕
He he, the best bit is that, as a musician with a previous history of debauchery, the company concerned would never insure him - so he's unable to obtain the very product he's advertising!
Ha ha.. in my youth I borrowed a Selmer tenor sax with a nr4 tounge. You had to have the lounges of a elephat to get sound out of it. So sax never became my instument.
Ever heard Mark Hollis from Talk Talk? This is his solo project. The three last albums that Talk Talk made is also very interesting and beautyful albums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAMw-oYjHuE
AngularMomentum ·
Thanks for the tip, I am definitely going to check these two albums out. I like their hits so I am curious of the more experimental sound they did.
tor ·
If I do not remember wrong. A funny thing about Talk Talk is that they started out all electronic with synths and few people. But for each album they released they got more acoustic and the number of people contributed increased. 😉
pall ·
@AM Oh no, although I would have liked to play the sax. I not had the opportunity to learn. 🙁 Maybe my boys... But I like to listen a good composition for sax (especially for alto, soprano).
pall wrote: @AM Oh no, although I would have liked to play the sax. I not had the opportunity to learn. 🙁 Maybe my boys... But I like to listen a good composition for sax (especially for alto, soprano).
I like Wayne Shorter, specially with Weather Report like Domino Theory and Black Market.
Here with Miles Davis Quintet...Footprints,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkUULYE-LAA
Solo version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XvJFW0D ... re=related
Good to have em pick up an instrument if possible. Music used to get beaten in with a stick, I have no problem with that. 😕 😉
I hope my kid gets into music as much as I am, at least he has the gear, and listens to music all day. I got him some instruments already, a drum-kit (he is a bit too young for it though but I got it cheap second hand), a Casio CTK 731, a Numark Mixtrack and a bunch of percussion instruments. He likes the Casio the most at the moment, it has styles that are easy to play along with and programming is easier than making a peanut-butter sandwich. He is a bit to young to pick up a guitar but as soon as he is able I'll buy him one and teach em some chords, with or without that stick... 😇
trogluddite ·
Yeah, would have to be Shorter over Kenny G for me too - though I do sometimes cringe a little when Weather Report start getting a bit '70's cop show'!
My fave for sax would have to be John Zorn and The Naked City (there are plenty of YouTube vids of them) - don't think I've ever heard any other 'Jazz' combo that did everything from laid back 'easy listening' right through to what can only be described as 'Thrash Jazz', with his sax doing a fantastic impression of an enraged elephant! They also did some sublime covers of old TV theme tunes (their Batman is really cool).
Great to hear people encouraging their kids to get into playing - don't know about where you are, but music education in schools seems have been in rapid decline here in the UK for a long time now. Even when it was more available, I always felt that the bias towards orchestral music must have put a lot of kids off the idea.
Even more sad is the complete lack of spaces where kids can crank up some amp's and make a racket, and the loss of so many small music venues right across the nation. A decade or so ago, the government introduced some stupidly restrictive entertainment licencing rules that made it OK for pubs/bars to have a 'Karaoke' night with 1000W of disco lighting, but deems a three piece acoustic band to be a fire hazard! (plusn the additional cost to venue owners).
They also had a big crackdown on raves and warehouse parties (the law literally mentions 'repetitive beats') - basically if you're not an established commercial enterprise with the paperwork signed in triplicate, your event can be shut down, and all your equipment confiscated - no matter how considerate of the neighbours you may have been.
I have nothing but the ultimate respect for all the little bands around the country who overcome all this to carry on getting out there to entertain me - and kudos to all the parents/teachers/youth workers who continue to encourage them to get started. It was all so much easier 20yrs ago when I was doing it.
Acrobat ·
that's a very TIGHT question,
I would choose records that are good from the START until the END, like
Blue Oyster Cult's "Fire of Unknown Origin"
or
Faith No More's "Angel Dust",
Sure there are lots of better tracks but their respective albums don't keep the energy alive like those.
Videos have had a bad influence on overall quality of music albums and iTunes made things even worse recently. 😉
AngularMomentum ·
trogluddite wrote: Yeah, would have to be Shorter over Kenny G for me too - though I do sometimes cringe a little when Weather Report start getting a bit '70's cop show'!
My fave for sax would have to be John Zorn and The Naked City (there are plenty of YouTube vids of them) - don't think I've ever heard any other 'Jazz' combo that did everything from laid back 'easy listening' right through to what can only be described as 'Thrash Jazz', with his sax doing a fantastic impression of an enraged elephant! They also did some sublime covers of old TV theme tunes (their Batman is really cool).
Great to hear people encouraging their kids to get into playing - don't know about where you are, but music education in schools seems have been in rapid decline here in the UK for a long time now. Even when it was more available, I always felt that the bias towards orchestral music must have put a lot of kids off the idea.
Even more sad is the complete lack of spaces where kids can crank up some amp's and make a racket, and the loss of so many small music venues right across the nation. A decade or so ago, the government introduced some stupidly restrictive entertainment licencing rules that made it OK for pubs/bars to have a 'Karaoke' night with 1000W of disco lighting, but deems a three piece acoustic band to be a fire hazard! (plusn the additional cost to venue owners).
They also had a big crackdown on raves and warehouse parties (the law literally mentions 'repetitive beats') - basically if you're not an established commercial enterprise with the paperwork signed in triplicate, your event can be shut down, and all your equipment confiscated - no matter how considerate of the neighbours you may have been.
I have nothing but the ultimate respect for all the little bands around the country who overcome all this to carry on getting out there to entertain me - and kudos to all the parents/teachers/youth workers who continue to encourage them to get started. It was all so much easier 20yrs ago when I was doing it.
I hear you completely, I have experienced both ways....
I was lucky as my temporary stepdad was a music theacher at school, he let us form a school band and even load all the equipment on a boat and have 2 weeks of a boating/music trip. Before I used to go to a Rudolf Steiner school and indeed classical music theory only and sometimes a bit of Jazz singing Basin Street blues...boring, but mostly having to learn the Mattheus Passion and having to perform those on anthroposofical events. I rather had anything else. As soon as I changed home I got to a new school and everything was really cool there. My interim dad had a complete studio with C64 and Steinberg Pro 16 and at school you could really do whatever you want if you had the talent for it. It was really encouraged in a cool way. On boarding school it was no different. It is weird to see now that the more money they throw at schools these days, the worse education is getting...must be the expensive poop-fly's in the management layers.
As for Weather Report, I do not like everything, but I surely like Domino Theory which was very experimental for my ears, but I guess it was the Zawinul show already by then, but the first few albums are really good imo...I wasn't too much into albums like Mister Gone, I thought that was quite boring. Zorn...never heard anything of him other then some Zappa freaks saying he is the best composer next to Zappa...so it should be music I am going to enjoy!
Parties....same here. I used to go to the first acid parties in Amsterdam (late 80's) and organize a few underground parties so we could play records and freak out. It was something I never had experienced before...it seemed like total freedom....can't have that! Government slammed back hard, with the freedom stick.
pall ·
You love Trance? I love the Vocal Trance. Here's a excellent song that I often listen to...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JU2HjLR-ts
tektoog ·
This girl has made a lot of collaborations with different artists.
She has an album on her own name (maybe more..I don't know...)
I like what she does...
Billy Joel ~ Glass Houses
Yazoo (Yaz in USA) ~ Upstairs at Eric's, also happens to be considered one of the top CDs to test high end audio systems when it came out on CD due to its pristine production & mastering.
trogluddite ·
infuzion wrote: Yazoo (Yaz in USA) ~ Upstairs at Eric's, also happens to be considered one of the top CDs to test high end audio systems
Dammit - I've only got that one on vinyl. 😉
Always had a lot of respect for Vince Clarke though - I remember seeing a show on TV about his sequencing rig around that era - multiple BBC micro-computers (8bit Z80's - developed as a cheap computer for IT lessons in UK schools), and creating poly sequences by creating dozens of mono lines across multiple computers, and syncing them together. It seemed like rocket science to me at the time - must have been one of the first DIY polyphonic 'DAW's.
That's a great album for the sheer variety of it though - everything from Alison Moyet's classic 'torch-song' singing, through to the really bizarre 'musique-concrete' stuff - all on what was considered a 'mainstream' album at the time.
I like very old spanich&hebrew music - the Sephardim.
"Partos Trocados" is my favorite song forever; often play it on recorder and pan flute.
"Ensemble Accentus" plays it very well too 😉 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MwPVjk5rcI
Idan Raichel Project has very good sephards songs. "Todas Las Palabras" broke my heart..
But thanks to copyright 😠 can't find good youtube record...
tor ·
Here is a new upcoming artist i really belive has a bright future. Great music and lyrics. His name: Jonas Alaska
http://www.myspace.com/jonasalaska
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jonas+alaska&aq=f
His debut album has a great potential as a new "favourite" of mine.
Enjoy!
tor ·
Really love this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihcz-Ila8DM
tektoog ·
lesobrod wrote: I like very old spanich&hebrew music
More modern stuffs from israel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hL6fkJ1_k
lesobrod ·
tektoog wrote:
lesobrod wrote: I like very old spanich&hebrew music
More modern stuffs from israel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hL6fkJ1_k
Thanx Yeaaah!
With music from 7 years..But I'm nor sionist nor even hebrew 😮 Just like many cultures,
trying to find the best energy from any directions..Sitar, zikr, new age..thats good..
But Hard&Heavy!!!
From Israel )))):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0KiB1wQ2ZY
From Russia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYge8JaDAk0
From North (our flat is kinda of this house)))):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPRt6Tt6RyM
tektoog ·
lesobrod wrote: I'm nor sionist nor even hebrew Just like many cultures
Neither am I, but I noticed I'm quite sensitive to the spanish/hebrew musical scales... Don't know where it comes from...
I liked the second link best... the russian one...
And I'm not too much of a fan of Infected Mushroom either, although this song was one of the most inovative composition at the time (2003 maybe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82N3iOVo ... re=related
MegaHurtz ·
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc1_Az1fwqs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UINhE8L1yXg
lesobrod ·
tektoog wrote:
lesobrod wrote: I'm nor sionist nor even hebrew Just like many cultures
Neither am I, but I noticed I'm quite sensitive to the spanish/hebrew musical scales... Don't know where it comes from...
Hmmm...Really for me too. 🙂 "Shalom Aleihem"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgcRW0CKM08
is a best example of harmonic minor scale.
And when I listen authentic Hebrew or Sanskrit singing, the word "Home" 😍
comes to my mind. Don't wonna emigrate to Tibet or Israel but maybe
all we are somehow "from there" 😀
WOW! Really thank you tektoog !
It's from game OST, I don't like comp games... BUT!
Idea, music and video are very speciall... Looks like several examples of my personalities 😈
Well some years ago in Russia we talk about "spirit-less", "hard-hearted" Western world..
For my shame now all go by opposites...
tektoog ·
lesobrod wrote: I don't like comp games... BUT!
I've been blown myself... watched it 3 times in a row!
lesobrod wrote: Well some years ago in Russia we talk about "spirit-less", "hard-hearted" Western world..
For my shame now all go by opposites...
Naaa.... art takes all kind of forms and shapes all around the world...the true rule is to break up stereoptypes, defined limits and biases....IMHO...
Acrobat ·
I wasjust totally kept by the groove of this track, listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdV1V4vPPLI
I can't resist to singalong some crazy vocals or tap additional rhythms on the desk while listening,
the accents are wonderfully placed, well, simply because they didn't mess with them, they
leave it just where they've always been for thousands of years! AH AHA H
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
The best and complete live VST. Cigo one man band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXMuWi0dUBc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7yPllDjrCA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... ToWQGedLHU
trogluddite ·
pall wrote: The best and complete live VST. Cigo one man band
Left me with a big grin! 😀
tektoog ·
Viva Vox Choir, plenty of acapella remixes....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuYutmFPPK4
pall ·
@ tektoog - yes, talented team.
Here is a piece of classical music. "Gloria" by Vivaldi processed for the movie "Runaway Train" by Trevor Jones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgCiS8Sw2BE
If you like...
tektoog ·
pall wrote: If you like...
Thx M8... I really do like !!!
trogluddite ·
tektoog wrote: Viva Vox Choir, plenty of acapella remixes....
Thanks - really enjoying that! 🙂
tor ·
I really love this: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Piano Concerto in C sharp minor Op.30
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D22zOxeLJk8
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41a8A_Wxxb0
And i lost the CD I once had 😝
tor ·
The same concert but from an old dusty and scratchy Russian vinyl recording:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Zf7DCM7BM
I think this performance is more dramatic and interesting 😀
tektoog ·
Looks like I missed that one posted last summer... unforgiveable !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY
I heard the guys uses his own plugs to produce....
nix ·
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpN1j8R5 ... creen&NR=1
Here is another by Gotye,
I'd post a remix we have done,
but I am not sure of the copyright law.
That's interesting he use his own plugs tek.
Stafford82 ·
I have lots of favs, can't even figure the best one out...
Probably "In Rainbows" by Radiohead
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