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Post by RocDoc on Aug 26, 2004 14:27:54 GMT -5
I dunno, Bow.....the library definitely IS a boon to me, but I'd be finding at least some of this wondrous stuff I hear regardless(tho likely not in such seeming voluminous quantities which I often do now)....
These taste developed in a variety of ways....minoring in music for a time at the U of Ill definitely helped....that, then being an unpaid onstage extra for a top-flight performance of Bizet's 'Carmen'(the BEST and IMO most accessible true opera ever)gave me an up-close-and-personal view of how incredible opera/classical strains of music could be.....then having a girlfriend(hailing strangely enough, from Palo Alto)who turned me onto the gypsy/hillbilly/klezmer JAZZ of the David Grisman Quintet changed my musical life forever, as I had never been so taken with a new form of music, well since Carmen...THEN actually came the desire to study music through the 200-level university courses which I loooved participating in....
Credit my love for Mexican/Spanish folkloric forms to a ½-Mex girlfriend, whos Mom had simply great taste in music...and then the Los Lobos band incorporating LOTS of traditional Mex music in their shows awhile back....their David Hidalgo is one multi-dimensional RAWKING musician, believe me!
Springsteen is The Boss? No.
David Hidalgo is The Boss!
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Post by bowiglou on Aug 26, 2004 14:38:11 GMT -5
fascinating Rn...I have an interesting memory/association of Los Lobos "will the wolf survive"....at that time I was managing a Voc Rehab Counseling firm in Long Beach serving the industrially injured under the now basically defunct offering of voc rehab via the Workers Comp system.....anyway, I had one client from the East LA area who had an injury and was a very pissed off and kinda scary guy....anyway, we put him through a work evaluation to test his current status/readiness to work, and they terminated him due to problematic and threatening behavior....thus, I recommended closure of the case, which essentially would cut off his temporary disability payments...well, when he got word of this, he called me, told me he knows my car and where I park, and that I should be mindful of repercussions.....anyway, I figure if I'm going to be offed, I at least want this documented....so I then asked him to repeat exactly what he said so I can document his comments, as he knew I take fastidious notes......well, he totally backed off and said he was just kidding!..anyway, this guy definitely came from the mean streets and I realized that 'threats' were a method by which he summarily go on with life..at that time 'will the wolf survive' was released, and that title song, especially since it is so steeped in the lesser-than-beverly hills areas of LA kinda made me see his perspective..not that it still didn't scare me, but it shed some insight.....
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Aug 27, 2004 1:41:08 GMT -5
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Post by PC on Aug 27, 2004 4:27:47 GMT -5
I thought you hated Keane JLLM.
NP: The Vibrators - Baby Baby
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Aug 27, 2004 4:39:35 GMT -5
Punkchick - Meh, they're pretty so-so. The gushing AMG review made me decide to give the album a listen, and I think it's pretty bland on the whole. But there are a couple of outstanding songs on it - "Bedshaped" and "Everybody's Changing". Hugely derivative though.
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Post by luke on Aug 27, 2004 9:53:53 GMT -5
Keane is five bucks at Best Buy. I almost bought it but then remembered you saying it sucked. Worth five bucks or no?
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Aug 27, 2004 9:57:18 GMT -5
luke, do you like Coldplay? Didn't think so. Give it a miss.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Aug 27, 2004 9:59:01 GMT -5
 Five stars. No question. |
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Post by riley on Aug 27, 2004 11:12:56 GMT -5
I have to invest some time in these guys, because I have the first album and to me they're just good. Not bad, not great, just good, but clearly I'm missing something.
What is it that makes them appeal to you Jesus?
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Post by PC on Aug 27, 2004 23:31:36 GMT -5
The Stooges - Raw Power. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer this to Fun House.
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
And I heard a bunch of songs from the Flying Burrito Bros. that Shane sent me, "Wild Horses" being my favorite (it's superior to the Stones' version IMO, and that's one of their better songs). Overall, I liked some songs better than others, but there is something about Gram Parsons that I really love. His voice maybe?
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Aug 28, 2004 4:30:07 GMT -5
I have to invest some time in these guys, because I have the first album and to me they're just good. Not bad, not great, just good, but clearly I'm missing something. What is it that makes them appeal to you Jesus? I thought Up The Bracket was okay, nothing special. The second album is way better imho. |
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Aug 28, 2004 4:33:45 GMT -5
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on Aug 29, 2004 8:10:39 GMT -5
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Post by Proud on Aug 29, 2004 8:13:27 GMT -5
"Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes"
kiss off into the aiirr, behind my back i can see them starree...
and sgt. peppers kicks absolute ass. i set myself up badly the first time i listened, thinking something like OMG PPL SAY TEH BEATLEZ R TEH BEST BAND EVRE... can't build yourself up for ANY music like that, or you're screwed.
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Post by phil on Aug 29, 2004 8:46:45 GMT -5
The Beatles should have put
Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band ...
Listened to Johnny Winter's A Rock & Roll Collection ...
Highway 61 Revisited(by speed)
Frank Zappa's The Lost Episodes ...
SHARLEEEENA !!
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