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berberry
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Message 12 of 66 (198090)
04-10-2005 2:43 PM
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Reply to: Message 10 by jar 04-10-2005 1:27 PM
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jar writes:
quote: Ry Cooder is amazing.
Yes, as was Lowell George of Little Feat. Bonnie Raitt is no slouch either, but I prefer her early stuff from the 70s.
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berberry
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Message 13 of 66 (198091)
04-10-2005 2:47 PM
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Reply to: Message 7 by joshua221 04-10-2005 1:01 PM
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Jimi Hendrix
prophex writes:
quote: I listen to Hendrix
So do I, frequently. One of my favorite albums is 'Axis: Bold as Love', several tracks from which are not among the ones you hear in perpetual hot rotation on classic rock radio.
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berberry
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Message 14 of 66 (198092)
04-10-2005 2:49 PM
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Radiohead
is another favorite. Almost everything they do is superb, the latest album is no exception. The lead single was There There, the drum work from which borrows heavily from Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
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berberry
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Message 25 of 66 (198158)
04-10-2005 10:20 PM
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I like Asgara's taste with a few additions here and there, some of which have been mentioned like Tool / A Perfect Circle and Soundgarden. Glad to see I'm not the only Radiohead fan, but is there any love here for The White Stripes, Incubus, The Roots, Nickel Creek, Weezer, Black-Eyed Peas, George Clinton, Talking Heads, The Yardbirds, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Jack Johnson, Jeff Beck or Ray Charles? EDITED to correct critical omission. This message has been edited by berberry, 04-10-2005 08:23 PM
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berberry
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Message 30 of 66 (198193)
04-11-2005 12:16 AM
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Reply to: Message 29 by Asgara 04-10-2005 11:19 PM
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Asgara writes me:
quote: keep going dear, you're on a roll
Okay. T. Rex, Lucinda Williams, Stevie Wonder, Rare Earth, Tower of Power, Maria Muldaur, John Hiatt, Joss Stone, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green era in particular), Jethro Tull, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Dr. John, The Band, North Mississippi All-Stars, to name a few more. And has anyone mentioned Nirvana? I even like some black gospel, like The Mighty Clouds of Joy, New Jersey Mass Choir and The Staple Singers. A particular favorite from this genre is The Edwin Hawkin Singers' Oh Happy Day, an oddball pop hit in about 1968.
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berberry
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Message 40 of 66 (198441)
04-12-2005 2:44 AM
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Reply to: Message 37 by jar 04-11-2005 8:55 PM
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The Mighty Clouds of Joy, et. al.
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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berberry
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Message 54 of 66 (198681)
04-12-2005 2:41 PM
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The White Stripes
I'm surprised to see little or no mention of Jack & Meg here. Seems that most every rock fan I know loves this duo. Every album is superb, but for some reason they've mostly been limited to alt-rock and Triple-A playlists (I suppose they might be popular on college stations, but I don't live in a college town). Mainstream rock pays them no attention, save the one single Seven Nation Army. Personally, I think the White Stripes are the best rock band to come along since Nirvana.
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berberry
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Message 55 of 66 (198684)
04-12-2005 2:53 PM
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And still more oddball stuff...
Like pre-rock era pop standards. The latest issue of Alabama's car tags reference one of my all-time favorites: Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's Stars Fell On Alabama. The Andrews Sisters are also great. I absolutely love Rum & Coca-Cola, which seems to reflect a bit of reggea influence. Lena Horne's Stormy Weather is always good for relaxing, as is Dinah Shore's Shoe Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdie. The latter was used in a wonderful car commercial a few years ago, but I can't remember what car was being pitched.
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berberry
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Message 65 of 66 (218550)
06-21-2005 11:42 PM
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Kraftwerk's Autobahn
I was just listening to this, and since it's a big favorite of mine I thought I'd post about it. I don't think you can find anywhere a more dramatic example of an ahead-of-its-time song. I'm convinced that it had a profound impact on the techno craze that came along many years later. Autobahn, a musical interpretation of a trip down the famous German superhighway, began life as a 22-minute album track in 1974. It was severely cut to a 3-minute single (which reminds me of Iron Butterfly's Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida, edited from about 20 minutes down to 2 for a single) and became a hit both here and in Europe. Years later, the album version was much more reasonably condensed into a 10-minute version for inclusion on a Kraftwerk Greatest Hits album. It is the 10-minute version that I now prefer, since the full-length track gets a bit tiring before it ends. Check out the allmusic review:
History has not recorded whose idea it was to edit the original, 22 minute title track to the fourth Kraftwerk album down to a snappy three minutes. Nor does it recall the look on the faces of the sales reps who were handed advance copies of it, and told to do their job. But few records have ever seemed so unlikely, so unsuitable, so unsingle-like as "Autobahn". And few have turned all those presumptions so thoroughly on their heads. Top 30 in America, Top 20 in the UK, "Autobahn" (and in its wake, not only its parent album, but also a rush-reissued Ralf And Florian) became the surprise hit of 1975. In Britain, the record was popularly known as Dr Who music, out of deference to Ron Grainer's pioneering electronic soundtracks to the long-running sci- fi TV series. And elsewhere, a surprisingly popular misinterpretation of the record's lyric left armies of schoolkids under the impression that the group were singing "fun fun fun on the autobahn," like a bunch of grinning Teutonic Beach Boys. But band member Wolfgang Flur is unequivocal. "No! Someone else told me that they thought the way we speak in German, 'Fahren,' which means driving, sounds like the English word, 'fun.' 'Fahren fahren fahren,' 'fun fun fun.' That is wrong. But it works. Driving is fun. We had no speed limit on the autobahn, we could race through the highways, through the Alps, so yes, fahren fahren fahren, fun fun fun. But it wasn't anything to do with the Beach Boys! We used to drive a lot, we used to listen to the sound of driving, the wind, passing cars and lorries, the rain, every moment the sounds around you are changing, and the idea was to rebuild those sounds on the synth." "Autobahn" completely rewrote the rock rulebook. There was simply nothing to relate it to. Nothing except - it really did sound like a roadtrip. Trucks race by, horns honk, there's the windshield wipers and splash through a puddle. If you really thought about it, it was almost frighteningly mundane. But it was also exquisitely exciting, a fact which two continents' worth of record buyers were fast to pick up on. Some of the American radio stations were playing the short version, Flur continued. But some were playing the whole track. It sounded really good on car radios, I was told."
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