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Harlan Huckleby
05-11-2009, 07:07 PM
I was just listening to a Miles Davis song, and realized that I may have heard it a thousand times and am not even close to tired of it. So I was wondering what albums or CDs or twitter tweets you have listened to hundreds of times without getting sick of it. I made my list and realized that when it comes to obsessions, I'm really sweatin to the oldies.
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
ERik Satie Piano Works, Aldo Ciccolini
Marvin Gaye, What's Goin On
The Gentle Side of John coltrane
Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
Neil Young, After the Gold Rush
Nirvana, Unplugged
Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsies
LTJ Bukem, Producer 01
Billie Holiday Columbia recordings
Tyrone Bigguns
05-11-2009, 07:53 PM
For Ty:
Air: Moon Safari
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
The Clientele: The Violet Hour
Spiritualized: Lazer Guided Melodies or Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
Belle and Sebastian: Tigermilk
Luna: The Days of Our Nights
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
Joseph Arthurs: Redemptions Son
Boards of Canada: The Campfire Headphase
Nightmares on Wax: Carboot Soul
Brian Jonestown Massacre: Her Satanic Majesties Second Request
Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols Come Down
Pernice Brothers: Yours, Mine and Ours
VU: The Velvet Underground & Nico
Roxy Music: Avalon
Mogwai: Rock Action
Mercury Rev: All is Dream
Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Kings of Convenience: Quiet is the New Loud or Versus
Daft Punk: anything
Gotan Project: La Revancha del Tango
Thievery Corporation: anything
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto
Anything classical: Mozart, Brahms, Bach, etc.
hoosier
05-11-2009, 08:12 PM
The Who, Live at Leeds
Traffic, Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Stones, Beggars Banquet
Pogues, Red Roses and Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
Allison Krauss, Now that I've Found You (my six-year old makes me play it)
For Ty:
Air: Moon Safari
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
The Clientele: The Violet Hour
Spiritualized: Lazer Guided Melodies or Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
Belle and Sebastian: Tigermilk
Luna: The Days of Our Nights
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
Joseph Arthurs: Redemptions Son
Boards of Canada: The Campfire Headphase
Nightmares on Wax: Carboot Soul
Brian Jonestown Massacre: Her Satanic Majesties Second Request
Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols Come Down
Pernice Brothers: Yours, Mine and Ours
VU: The Velvet Underground & Nico
Roxy Music: Avalon
Mogwai: Rock Action
Mercury Rev: All is Dream
Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Kings of Convenience: Quiet is the New Loud or Versus
Daft Punk: anything
Gotan Project: La Revancha del Tango
Thievery Corporation: anything
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto
Anything classical: Mozart, Brahms, Bach, etc.
Good shit. Check out some Pedro the Lion and No Knife.
HowardRoark
05-11-2009, 08:56 PM
Afro Cuban All-Stars - A Toda Le Gusta
The Clash - London Calling
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out/Take Five*
Gear Daddies - Can’t Have Nothin’ Nice
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Jack Johnson - On & On
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Lyle Lovett - The Road To Ensenada
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
The Replacements - Tim
Son Volt - Trace
The Spinners - High Five
St. Germain - Boulevard
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz in Moscow
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
*if I could only choose one.
Tyrone Bigguns
05-11-2009, 09:01 PM
Zool,
Yeah...i'm pretty much a sucker for anything B&S put out...smart, sardonic, witty....what's not to like?
Mogwai...anything psychedelic gets me.
Those were ones that i never get tired of...i've listened, seen and liked Pedro. Though the Xianity/faith thing isn't really my thing, but i certainly can appreciate Bazan's talent and why people like him.
No knife...I can only listen to one knife band...SHONEN KNIFE. I've heard them also....get my fill of that style with ATDI, Fugazi, Clash, Sparta, etc...but, i'll revisit.
What i'm listening to now:
Los Campesinos
Decemberists
Arcade Fire
Camera Obscura ---damn those scots are good
Steven Reich
La Monte Young
Gui Borrato
LCD Soundsystem
Hot Chip
P.S. Saw Mogwai when they did a solo show on an open date from the Curiosa tour....6 of us in the audience. Amazing. Still, not as good as Coachella....me exhausted...laying on my back in the tent..their hypnotic drone taking me to a place halfway tween sleep and conciousness.
Tyrone Bigguns
05-11-2009, 09:03 PM
Afro Cuban All-Stars - A Toda Le Gusta
The Clash - London Calling
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out/Take Five
Gear Daddies - Can’t Have Nothin’ Nice
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Jack Johnson - On & On
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Lyle Lovett - The Road To Ensenada
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
The Replacements - Tim
Son Volt - Trace
The Spinners - High Five
St. Germain - Boulevard
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz in Moscow
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Definitely coulda included them as well.
Joemailman
05-12-2009, 09:47 PM
The Band-The Last Waltz
Jackson Browne-The Pretender
The Byrds-Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
Johnny Cash-At Folsom Prison
Bob Dylan-Blonde On Blonde
Steve Earle-El Corazon
Emmylou Harris-Last Date
Los Lobos-How Will The Wolf Survive?
Van Morrison-It's Too Late To Stop Now
Elvis Presley-From Elvis In Memphis
Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run
U2-War
Neil Young-Rust Never Sleeps
Tyrone Bigguns
05-12-2009, 10:02 PM
The Band-The Last Waltz
Jackson Browne-The Pretender
The Byrds-Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
Johnny Cash-At Folsom Prison
Bob Dylan-Blonde On Blonde
Steve Earle-El Corazon
Emmylou Harris-Last Date
Los Lobos-How Will The Wolf Survive?
Van Morrison-It's Too Late To Stop Now
Elvis Presley-From Elvis In Memphis
Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run
U2-War
Neil Young-Rust Never Sleeps
Los: What a gorgeous voice. Some of the best shows i've seen. Much more applicable/relevant now that i live in AZ..and with our current immigration policies.
Earle: Love him as well..and fits my politics. Bought Exit O after hearing "i ain't ever satisfied" just once on the radio.
Last night i dreamed i made it to the promise land
I was standin' at the gate and i had the key in my hand
Saint peter said "come on in boy, you're finally home"
I said "no thanks pete, i'll just be moving along
Brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My-WWuXMcDA
Harlan Huckleby
05-12-2009, 11:32 PM
Los: What a gorgeous voice. Some of the best shows i've seen. Much more applicable/relevant now that i live in AZ..and with our current immigration policies.
I like their albums, but kinda dissappointed with concert experience. I think they are sort-of a bar band, they don't project to giant audience.
I like their album Kiko, among others.
Harlan Huckleby
05-12-2009, 11:39 PM
Daft Punk: anything
I pirated a copy of their album "Homework", listened to it once, was gonna throw it out, but labeled it "Load of Crap" and threw it in a box. I thought it was corny.
Then I gave it another listen a couple years later, guess I was in the mood for a load of crap. So its start to grow on me, and pretty soon I'm playing it over and over in the car. Its a guilty pleasure, like a BeeGees disco album.
Joemailman
05-13-2009, 12:55 AM
What I'm listening to most these days:
Dave Alvin-Ashgrove
Johnny Cash-The Man Comes Around
Bob Dylan-Modern Times
Norah Jones-Come Away With Me
Jerry Lee Lewis-A Half Century Of Hits
Shelby Lynne-Suit Yourself
Tift Merritt-Tambourine
John Prine-Fair & Square
Bruce Springsteen-We Shall Overcome:The Seeger Sessions
Hank WilliamsIII-Straight To Hell
Lucinda Williams-West
Neil Young-Prairie Wind
Harlan Huckleby
05-13-2009, 10:40 AM
Norah Jones-Come Away With Me
:evil:
I don't see how a well-adjusted, grown man can listen repeatedly to that shlock.
I know Norah Jones is really talented, I've seen her a few times on TV and she is an incredible singer. She can do WAY better material.
The songs on the that album are for love sick teenage girls. I was forced to listen to that album repeatedly when it first came out in coffee shops which employed love-sick, teenage girls. The songs are so drippy and dopey and formulaic. There is so much better music in that genre, say a Sarah Vaughn album, if you're feeling tender.
Grow up!
Joemailman
05-13-2009, 11:47 AM
You don't even like the Hank Williams song?
Harlan Huckleby
05-13-2009, 01:24 PM
Its hard to justify disliking that album so intensely. Its not the songs themselves. She uses the same emotional device, a trailed-off breathless yearning, on every goddamn phrase on every goddamn fucking song from beginning to end. It sounds premeditated, the creation of a heartfelt sound rather than a sound from the heart.
I saw Nora Jones sing a Marvin Gaye song, , "Trouble Man", with just her own piano accompaniment on a late night show (OK, I confess, it was Carson Daly) and it was mesmermizing. Incredibly soulful, she sang it better than MArvin Gaye, which ought to be impossible. She is an amazing talent.
Aaron12odgers
05-13-2009, 02:30 PM
Metallica, Fade to Black
William Control (Aiden), Death Club
50 Cent, Disco Inferno
Wu-Tang Clan, Can It Be So Simple
Eminem, Slim Shady
Billie Piper, Walk of Life
Snow Patrol, Chocolate
Foo Fighters, Let it Die
Weezer, Perfect Situation
The Calling, Wherever You Will Go
Joemailman
05-13-2009, 02:41 PM
Its hard to justify disliking that album so intensely. Its not the songs themselves. She uses the same emotional device, a trailed-off breathless yearning, on every goddamn phrase on every goddamn fucking song from beginning to end. It sounds premeditated, the creation of a heartfelt sound rather than a sound from the heart.
I saw Nora Jones sing a Marvin Gaye song, , "Trouble Man", with just her own piano accompaniment on a late night show (OK, I confess, it was Carson Daly) and it was mesmermizing. Incredibly soulful, she sang it better than MArvin Gaye, which ought to be impossible. She is an amazing talent.
To some extent it was premeditated. I read in an interview where she said she intended to avoid "oversinging" on the album, ala Mariah Carey and the like. She suggested at the time she may have overdone it. I suspect you agree.
Of course, this is her greatest performance... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEzxchU4RUY
Tyrone Bigguns
05-13-2009, 04:50 PM
Los: What a gorgeous voice. Some of the best shows i've seen. Much more applicable/relevant now that i live in AZ..and with our current immigration policies.
I like their albums, but kinda dissappointed with concert experience. I think they are sort-of a bar band, they don't project to giant audience.
I like their album Kiko, among others.
I would agree...the shows i saw didn't number more than 500-1000 or so.
Tyrone Bigguns
05-13-2009, 04:55 PM
Daft Punk: anything
I pirated a copy of their album "Homework", listened to it once, was gonna throw it out, but labeled it "Load of Crap" and threw it in a box. I thought it was corny.
Then I gave it another listen a couple years later, guess I was in the mood for a load of crap. So its start to grow on me, and pretty soon I'm playing it over and over in the car. Its a guilty pleasure, like a BeeGees disco album.
The energy and vibe is amazing. You either get it or you dont'. They changed the face of dance music.
Plus, part of it is dancing. If listening doesn't get you moving..then you are missing the point.
Plus, their shows are amazing.
Deputy Nutz
05-13-2009, 05:23 PM
Kid Rock: Rock n Roll Jesus
AC/DC: Live at Darlington
AC/DC: Ballbreaker
Beatles: One
Beatles: White Album
Tupac: All Eyes on Me
Dr. Dre: The Chronic
Jackson Five: Greatest hits
Credence Clearwater Rivial: Greatest Hits Compelation
Johnny Cash: When the Man Comes Around
Toby Keith: White Trash with Money
The Highway men: The highway men
Harlan Huckleby
05-13-2009, 05:36 PM
The energy and vibe is amazing. You either get it or you dont'. They changed the face of dance music.
I love all kinds of electronic dance music. Too bad my heart was too old for the full ecstacy, night on the town. My raves consisted of all-night computer programming sessions with Fat Boy Slim, chemical brothers, basement jaxx, and all the usual suspects.
Tyrone Bigguns
05-13-2009, 05:50 PM
The energy and vibe is amazing. You either get it or you dont'. They changed the face of dance music.
I love all kinds of electronic dance music. Too bad my heart was too old for the full ecstacy, night on the town. My raves consisted of all-night computer programming sessions with Fat Boy Slim, chemical brothers, basement jaxx, and all the usual suspects.
I didn't say you don't like electronic. I said you either get Daft or you don't. They took the best of house and mixed it with everything bad about French pop.
Those mentioned by you...nowhere near the level of Daft.
Harlan Huckleby
05-13-2009, 05:52 PM
I forgot about the other band I've obsessed about - Yo Le Tengo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgpQBaziy0
Tyrone Bigguns
05-13-2009, 05:54 PM
I forgot about the other band I've obsessed about - Yo La Tengo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgpQBaziy0
fixed.
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