Music (aka - The internet is dead and I'm bored)

Some? Most is great. Particularly if you can get a chance to visist the LOC. They have many of the old recordings that were made during the WPA projects in the 30's. Lot's of them have never been compiled or released.Back when I was in High School we used to make pilgrimages down to DC to spend the day listening in their little booths to some of the music. It's simply amazing.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

I heard a single from the new NIN.Pretty bland. Loud and thick, but no dynamic range.I always thought that Reznor's genious and power was manifested best when he juxtaposed his whispery, tortured, whiney lyrics with nothing but a beat behind them with the crashing, jangley, electronic wall of sound.I hope the rest is better than the advance single.

Hm... Dan's slobber-over-them-gleefully albums, in no particular order:Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Beck - Mutations
Beck - Odelay
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
The Clash - London Calling
The Beatles - Revolver
Jurassic 5 - J5EP
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs vol. 2
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
The Pixies - Doolittle
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Police - Synchronicity
Frank Zappa - Strictly Commercial
REM - Document
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
David Bowie - Ziggy StardustI'm sure more will occur to me. (Edit: for instance, Schraf's post just reminded me of Pretty Hate Machine.) I also listen to Franz Ferdinand and the Flaming Lips an oddly high amount, but wouldn't put them on the above list of involuntary-orgasm music.CRAP! Edited in, because I knew stuff would occur to me later:The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever, Amen
John Cale - Paris 1919
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me DeathThis message has been edited by [Dan's Clever Alias], 04-12-2005 09:08 AM

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"You can't expect him to be answering your prayers when he's not real, can you? That's like writing to the characters of a soap opera and expecting a reply, Mr. Silly Sausage!"
-Jane Christie

Some all-time favorites:Ani DeiFranco-Dilate
NIN-Pretty Hate Machine
NIN-Downward Spiral
Nirvana-everything they ever recorded
The Breeders-Last Splash
The Pixies-Doolittle
The Pixies-Trompe le Monde
Kate Bush-The Dreaming
Peter Gabriel-everything he's ever recorded
R.E.M.-Automatic For the People
Gipsey Kings-Tierra Gitana (listening to this right now)
Fleetwood Mac-Rumors and The Dance
The Beatles-The White Album
Simon and Garfunkle-The Greatest Hits
Jane's Addiction-Ritual de lo Habitual, Nothing's shocking
Ministry-The Land of Rape and Honey
Adam and the Ants-Kings of the Wild Frontier, Prince Charming

ELO and PF> your list gets my vote Asgara babe. How about instrumentals?Orion - Metallica
Terminal frost/signs of life - Pink FloydI'm out already, my memory can only hold about three.Oh hang on, what about Embrace? Anyone heard "Ashes"?This message has been edited by mike the wiz, 04-11-2005 05:14 PM

Jar might have heard the John R show on Sunday nights from some AM station in Nashville, ca. 1968. He had soul/R&B the rest of the week, but gospel groups like The Southern Hummingbird on Sunday. And he was a great DJ - "For all of you out deah in radioland slippin' it in and slippin' it out - get White Rose Petroleum Jelly!"

John R, Hoss Allen & Gene Nobles. There was also WWVA out of Wheeling WEST By-GOD Virginia. And DC hosted several great Jazz and R&B stations.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

they're going for something a little different this time around. the fragile was pretentious art rock, and very diverse. they're more for coherence, energy, and simplicity right now.also, if you've only heard the radio rip floating around the net, it sounds much better than that. and what i've heard from the rest of the album puts it sort of on par with the downward spiral. what i've heard of the new album is sort of like that, only focusing more on tonality and atonality. for instance, in "the line begins to blur" it starts with the wall of noise/modified industrial beat, and slowly develops a melody toward the bridge.but yeah, i think as far as the single, they just picked the most comercial sounding song, like they did with "closer."

Some good bands if you are into lit/indie rock:The Decemberists- An anachronistic Victorian sound, very original. Sometimes labled as Folk/Pop/Rock.Belle and Sebastian- The Boy with the Arab Strap and If You're Feeling Sinister are probably their best albums.Augie March- Australian band composed of great musicians with great poetic lyrics. "Strange Bird" is one of my top albums.Broken Social Scene- Not everyone's cup of tea, but I think their great.Modest Mouse- Their new ablum was good, but "The Moon and Antarctica" is their strongest I'd say.The Postal Service- Techno-ish, but still good if you're not into techno.

When I was young my family had a maid who listened to WOKJ in Jackson, an urban pop station that would often throw a gospel tune into the mix of soul and r&b singles. Whenever one of those gospel songs came on Maddie would turn the volume up. It was on that radio station that I heard and grew to love artists like the Blind Boys, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Mahalia Jackson, The Caravans, etc.I remember one gospel song this station used to play a lot, Precious Lord. It was by a female, but not Mahalia Jackson. I wish I could remember who it was; it was a beautiful version.

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Keep America Safe AND Free!

Great selections!
I am glad to see that I am not alone in having a somewhat wide variety of CD's.
Here's my Desert Island tunes in no particular order:Rush - Prime Mover
Rush - The Pass
Rush Lock and Key
Rush - Anything else they've ever recorded
Stanley Jordan - Stairway to Heaven
Stanley Jordan - Georgia on my Mind
Primus - Tommy the Cat
Al Green - Let's stay together
Billy Ocean - Suddenly
Robert Fripp - Evening Star
Cream - Crossroads
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Tune Up
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Voodoo Child
Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour
Luther Vandross - Here and Now
Johnny Lang - Lie to Me
BB King - Lucille
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral
Black Sabbath - Anything else they've ever recorded with Ozzy, Dio and Ian Gillian)
New Order - 1969
New Order - Vanishing Point
Nightwish - She is my Sin
Iron Maiden - Everything they've ever recorded
Guns and Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Judas Priest - Turbo Lover
Judas Priest - Paint it Black
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Belle and Sebastian - I fought in a War
Belle and Sebastian - Hang Loose
Belle and Sebastian - Keep the Light on
Massive Attack - Black Milk
The Shins - Pressed in a Book
The Postal Service - Sleeping In
Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumors
Depeche Mode - Shine
The Cure - Kiss Me
The Cure - Standing by the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
The Cure - Pictures of You
Skin - Faithfulness
Ozzy - Diary of a Madman
Ozzy - Little Dolls
Ozzy - Revelation (Mother Earth)
Elton John - Border Song
Elton John - Madman across the Water
Larry Norman - Six Sixty Six
Larry Norman - Somewhere Out There
Altar Boys - You found Me
Jerusalem - In His Majesty's Service
Jerusalem - Ashes In Our Hands
Van Halen - Drop Dead Legs
Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
Van Halen - Little Guitars
Andre Segovia - Bach's Borree in E Minor
Weird Al - Constipated
Weird Al - It's all about the Pentiums
Weird Al - Hardware Store
Weird Al - Anything else that Weird Al has ever recorded
Nirvana - Rape me
Nirvana - In Bloom
Dead Milkmen - Stuart
Dead Milmen - Smokin' Banana Peels
Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit
Pretty much all 80's pop
Journey - Keep on Runnin'
Journey - Escape
Journey - Wheel in the Sky
Dio - Holy Diver
Rainbow (with Dio) - Man on the Silver Mountain
Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star
Yngwie Malmsteen - Overture 1383
Queensryche - Take hold of the Flame
Slayer - Antichrist
Slayer - Alter of Sacrifie/Jesus Saves
Joe Walsh - Life's been Good
Joe Walsh - The Confessor
Pink Floyd - Anything off of The Wall
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage
NIN - Downward Spiral
NIN - Further down the Spiral
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
NIN - Broken
Alice Cooper - Schools Out
Anthrax - I'm the Man
Anthrax - Eighteen
(Edited to add a few more)
I have a lot more, but the tracks are at home and I am not This message has been edited by MonkeyBoy, 04-12-2005 06:23 AM

Mmmm, Dan. I like the look of that record list. Excuse me while I accost you like a frightfully boring stranger at an interesting party.Firstly, I'm glad to see that Belle and Sebastian are appreciated round your neck of the woods.Remain in the Light has to be one of my favourite records. And 69 Love Songs (but all of it, dammit! I got it as a triple CD set, and love it all (well, with a couple of exceptions))Not having ever heard any of their songs before, I just bought an XTC best of, and it is particularly sweet.A friend did me a copy of Spike(?) by Elvis Costello a while back, and its fantastic... its got "Let Him Dangle" on it. Are "My Aim is True" and "This Yesr's Model" better than that? I don't know any other Costello.Have you ever heard any Aphex Twin? Some of its rather good.Ah, that's better.

It's cool, I get that a lot. I'm in my mid-to-late twenties and living in Chicago. I'm pretty sure owning at least one Belle and Sebastian album is required by law.Ha ha, but seriously. They're great. Have you heard Architecture in Helsinki? Similar band, but with a bit more of an upbeat tone to their music. It's up there, although I was torn for which Talking Heads album to go with. Speaking in Tongues came close. And although it's really just me on this one, Little Creatures is up there as well. (Television Man is probably my favorite song of theirs.) I got nothing against the other two, vol. 2 just stands out for me. If nothing else, Papa Was a Rodeo is like liquid awesomeness in music form.Although really, if I was going to single out anything by the Magnetic Fields, it'd probably be a mix between all three volumes. Hells. Yes. This Year's Model is probably his best album, and My Aim is True comes in a very freakin' close second.That being said, they're very different albums from Spike. They were recorded over ten years earlier, and he's just got a different sound at that point. Comparing them is a little futile. But it might be worth checking out Brutal Youth, which is the kind of "Hey! Let's do something old school!" album he did a few years after Spike. If it's the kind of thing you're into, the earlier stuff is worth checking out. Nope. What are they like?

On a side-music note, does anybody here play an instrument?Me, I play the banjo. Bluegrass-style.

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"You can't expect him to be answering your prayers when he's not real, can you? That's like writing to the characters of a soap opera and expecting a reply, Mr. Silly Sausage!"
-Jane Christie

yes. belle and sebastian are awesome. i only know two people who like them though.