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blah blah blah... based ona W H Auden poem - how uncool is that?
Completely cool!
Indeed. :thumbup:
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Completely cool!
Indeed. :thumbup:
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Completely cool!
Indeed. :thumbup:
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had to dig this one up again just been listening to my friends sons band and i'm loving them so thought i would share with ya too
they have been goin a short while and are just about to support the lost prophets so are doin real well
hope you like
they have been goin a short while and are just about to support the lost prophets so are doin real well
hope you like
found it and its still totally brilliant! Sex God
Just been on an iTunes spending spree...
How about a bit of:
Jack Penate
Biffy Clyro
The Divine Comedy
St. Etienne
How about a bit of:
Jack Penate
Biffy Clyro
The Divine Comedy
St. Etienne
Quote by noladreams
I think I beat you for uncoolness and undownness with the kids.
Joe D'urso is a guy from New Jersey who tours over here - good singer songwriter stuff.
Gaslight Anthem are from Red Bank New Jersey and are Bruce Springsteen's favourite band of the moment - he often appears on stage with them.
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul were a nineteen eighties spinoff from the Asbury Jukes, led by Springsteen's guitar player, Steve 'I'm also in the Sopranos' Van Zandt.
The Procol Harum track 'An Old English Dream' is based ona W H Auden poem - how uncool is that?
And the Manics are just the Manics.
Are you from NJ or just a Springsteen fan?
It's just I have family in them parts... Asbury Park, Red Bank, Neptune City etc etc
Just an enormous fan of the sound - wish I'd discovered this stuff so much sooner than I did...
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Quote by bouncy332
mine will most likely be laughed at or seen as totally un-cool but i like it
just discovered him a month ago and am loving his album
Jace Everett
and someone i have been championing for a couple of years now
Pete Molinari
How could anyone laugh at the theme to Tru bood
Dont get me started on country music,then i will be the uncool kid in the corner
i ve seen dolly live and loved it
but wat did you think to pete he is uber cool in my book but think i might b alone in this country they only seem to get him state side sadly he is a top bloke and deserves a break
:happy: yayyyy my mate pete (actually my friends friend but shhhh once he makes it big he is my best mate
) is finally going to get his break here it seems look out for him on tuesday 11th may on later live with jools hollandi'm soo rediculously excited :lol:
also there is talk of him being on wossy later in this series as wossy has been playing him on his radio show rather a lot lately and is quite taken with his sound so got everything crossed here we'll see him on there too
Sex God
comfy chair ,favorite tipple ,low lighting
now your ready to play
ENJOY
now your ready to play
ENJOY
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well tonights the night hope you all tune in bbc2 at 10pm to say i'm excited is an understatement go pete
well well someone with my taste of musik i like !!!!
Lady Antebullum
Train
Mumford & sons
An Horse
Billy Clyro
x
Lady Antebullum
Train
Mumford & sons
An Horse
Billy Clyro
x
Quote by minxysub
ohhhhhh a musical education needed.....
i shall make you a cd for when see you... but until then... have a look for..
me first n the gimme gimmes
puddle of mudd
bad religion
pennywise
3 doors down
dropkick murphys
live
hoobastank
rascal flatts
enjoy xxxx
Sex God
:happy::happy::happy::happy:
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Quote by Kaznkev
:happy::happy::happy::happy:
we really enjoyed him on jools holland,i hope it leads to more and greater things
cheers treacle got everythin crossed for him here he deserves a break he is a really grounded sweet guy be good to see some reward for all the ground work he has put in
Quote by Kaznkev
So is there someone out there u think i really should discover,they dont have to be new just new to me,
I'd like to suggest Maia Hirasawa's cover version of The worrying kind...
and
the Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden
I like the lyrics from both these songs - particularly meaningful to me.
As for classical music my favourite composer is J.S. Bach. I would recomend anything by JS Bach as I think he has produced the most sublime music ever but here's some of his best...
Cello Suite No.1 (prelude)
Concerto for two violins in D minor
Violin Concerto in E major (Allegro)
Oh and to cheer me up I always listen to Mozart's Requiem of course!
I musn't forget my favourite, favourite, favourite, aria from Puccini's Tosca "E lucevan le stelle"
and my second best aria (again from Puccini) 'O Mio Babbino Caro' sung by La Divina Montserrat Caballe
and lastly a couple of Latin artists (am nearly finished don't worry)
Juanes - La Camisa Negra
Juanes - A dios le pido
Marc Antony - Si te tengo aqui
and anything by the Spanish band Ojos de Brujo (Eyes of the Sorcerer) here's a sample
In my opinion their best album is Bari and their best track Memorias Perdidas (Lost Memories)
Heheh I'll leave it there - I could go on for ever and I haven't even touched salsa and Andean folk music :)
Sexpert
The Bundles
Kimya Dawson
Jeffrey Lewis
(those 3 are related - The Bundles is just Kimya and Jeffrey together)
O Children
Gogol Bordello
(best live band in the world, new album sucks and is the first Rick Rubin produced album where I don't think he fully gets the artist... get Super Taranta or Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike instead)
Gary Numan / Marc Almond / Siouxsie Sioux / The Cure / The Cramps
(maybe not technically new but... er, recommended, by default)
Anything except Muse.
>:}
Kimya Dawson
Jeffrey Lewis
(those 3 are related - The Bundles is just Kimya and Jeffrey together)
O Children
Gogol Bordello
(best live band in the world, new album sucks and is the first Rick Rubin produced album where I don't think he fully gets the artist... get Super Taranta or Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike instead)
Gary Numan / Marc Almond / Siouxsie Sioux / The Cure / The Cramps
(maybe not technically new but... er, recommended, by default)
Anything except Muse.
>:}
Shpongle, Dave Matthews, Badly Drawn Boy, Kosheen, Buddha Bar, Nouvelle Vague, Apocalyptica, Stabbing Westward, Kubb, Mazzy Star, Infected Mushrooms, Shinedown, Flaming Lips, Three Days Grace, Carolina Liar
Not sure what genre you're into but those are some faves of mine from either rock/indie or dance/ambient
Enjoy!
Not sure what genre you're into but those are some faves of mine from either rock/indie or dance/ambient
Enjoy!
In terms of more recent "classical" music, (there isn't really a good word for it is there? if it's recent it can't be classical; it's not necessarily orchestral; maybe "art" music?) if you want to sample some good stuff for free you could do a lot worse than sticking on Radio 3 any time between 12th July and 11th September - the Proms are brilliant, worth the licence fee on their own if you ask me.
Here are some recommendations:
Arvo Part
Pretty much anything, but it's worth trying some of his choral music, like his St John Passion. My personal favourite is a cello and piano peice called Spiegel im Spiegel. The Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten is lovely too. They're doing the St John Passion and the Cantus in Memoriam at the Proms on 17th August (along with Shostakovich 5 - should be a fantastic evening).
Henryk Gorecki
The Third Symphony, "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs", is his especially well-known one - it's very dark, very slow, and very very beautiful. It's ostensibly about and dedicated to the victims of the Nazi Holocaust - one movement takes its lyrics from a prayer for the forgiveness of the SS soldiers, written on a prison cell wall by an 18-year-old girl about to be executed - but like a lot of post-war Eastern European art, it's also regarded as being a lament for the Soviet occupation. Be warned that it starts of very very quiet but gets very very loud - so not really good driving music.
Gyorgi Ligeti
One of the most important modern composers, he died in 2006. Famous for "cluster chords" (ie lots of notes very close to each other) the music sometimes sounds a bit harsh and abrasive but I think at times it's really beautiful - try Atmospheres (there are two unrelated pieces with this name though, an orchestral one and an electronic one - I think the orchestral one is better) and also Lux Aeterna, which appears on the 2001 soundtrack - Stanley Kubrick was a fan. His prom is on the 11th August.
And then the Americans; a lot of American stuff over the last 30-40 years has been in the category "minimalist" - while in the rest of art this generally means "not very much", in classical music it means "the same thing over and over again - but in a way we think is interesting". It's a fine line though and a lot of American minimal stuff I find a bit repetitive and boring, and a bit too dissonant; but sometimes it can be really beautiful.
Steve Reich
Ste is credited as being a defining influence on ambient dance music, and in fact "Electric Counterpoint" was sampled by the Orb. That's a really good piece and I'd recommend starting there. Also "Music for 18 Musicians". "Different Trains" is really famous and important in the history of music too.
John Adams
In my opinion he takes the best bits of minimalism and takes it on a step. I really like Shaker Loops and Short Ride in a Fast Car (the latter is in the Proms concerts on 24th and 25th July).
In terms of non-classical music - for music with guitars and human drummers, I'd say if you're not already into the Arcade Fire give them a whirl; also the Animal Collective, Calexico, and Mogwai (definitely Mogwai - the album Young Team is a beast).
For music made with computers, my absolute favourite record of all week is Venetian Snares' "Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett". It's the most artful AND the hardest drum and bass you will ever hear - drum and bass in 5:4 and 7:8? And yet he makes it sound fluid and natural. This album uses a lot of samples (Billie Holliday to Elgar's Cello Concerto) really intricately worked together so that from listening to it it's not entirely clear where the samples stop and the stuff he wrote and recorded starts. You can get some of this record on You Tube - put on Hajnal and let it run, it has an incredible build.
That's all for now
T
Here are some recommendations:
Arvo Part
Pretty much anything, but it's worth trying some of his choral music, like his St John Passion. My personal favourite is a cello and piano peice called Spiegel im Spiegel. The Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten is lovely too. They're doing the St John Passion and the Cantus in Memoriam at the Proms on 17th August (along with Shostakovich 5 - should be a fantastic evening).
Henryk Gorecki
The Third Symphony, "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs", is his especially well-known one - it's very dark, very slow, and very very beautiful. It's ostensibly about and dedicated to the victims of the Nazi Holocaust - one movement takes its lyrics from a prayer for the forgiveness of the SS soldiers, written on a prison cell wall by an 18-year-old girl about to be executed - but like a lot of post-war Eastern European art, it's also regarded as being a lament for the Soviet occupation. Be warned that it starts of very very quiet but gets very very loud - so not really good driving music.
Gyorgi Ligeti
One of the most important modern composers, he died in 2006. Famous for "cluster chords" (ie lots of notes very close to each other) the music sometimes sounds a bit harsh and abrasive but I think at times it's really beautiful - try Atmospheres (there are two unrelated pieces with this name though, an orchestral one and an electronic one - I think the orchestral one is better) and also Lux Aeterna, which appears on the 2001 soundtrack - Stanley Kubrick was a fan. His prom is on the 11th August.
And then the Americans; a lot of American stuff over the last 30-40 years has been in the category "minimalist" - while in the rest of art this generally means "not very much", in classical music it means "the same thing over and over again - but in a way we think is interesting". It's a fine line though and a lot of American minimal stuff I find a bit repetitive and boring, and a bit too dissonant; but sometimes it can be really beautiful.
Steve Reich
Ste is credited as being a defining influence on ambient dance music, and in fact "Electric Counterpoint" was sampled by the Orb. That's a really good piece and I'd recommend starting there. Also "Music for 18 Musicians". "Different Trains" is really famous and important in the history of music too.
John Adams
In my opinion he takes the best bits of minimalism and takes it on a step. I really like Shaker Loops and Short Ride in a Fast Car (the latter is in the Proms concerts on 24th and 25th July).
In terms of non-classical music - for music with guitars and human drummers, I'd say if you're not already into the Arcade Fire give them a whirl; also the Animal Collective, Calexico, and Mogwai (definitely Mogwai - the album Young Team is a beast).
For music made with computers, my absolute favourite record of all week is Venetian Snares' "Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett". It's the most artful AND the hardest drum and bass you will ever hear - drum and bass in 5:4 and 7:8? And yet he makes it sound fluid and natural. This album uses a lot of samples (Billie Holliday to Elgar's Cello Concerto) really intricately worked together so that from listening to it it's not entirely clear where the samples stop and the stuff he wrote and recorded starts. You can get some of this record on You Tube - put on Hajnal and let it run, it has an incredible build.
That's all for now
T
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Quote by tomu
loads of good stuff
Hey you
Have you heard The Irrepressibles?
Sound and look fantastic. Great musicianship and concept/performance art.
Good stuff :thumbup:
I hadn't until now. Since the advent of the Strokes, the Hives, the Vines, the White Stripes, the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,and especially, more recently, the *&%&%^* Wombats, I've made a point of avoiding any band whose name starts with "the" unless they jumped off someone's record player into my ears, in a good way.
But I like these Irrepressibles, I've just had a listen on the internet and I'll listen to them some more. Thanks!
