What do you listen to... besides exotica?

...assuming anyone does!

Me:

-Bjork
-They Might Be Giants
-REM
-Pizzicato Five
-Combustible Edison
-The Dining Rooms
-Montefiori Cocktail
-jazz (Chet Baker, Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis)
-Brat Pack crooners
-Gershwin tunes
-1950s Italian pop
-old Bollywood music
-traditional Japanese and Chinese music

Yum.

-kittenhead

Neil Young
Melvins
Bob Dylan (mostly mid/late 60s era)
MC5
Iggy Pop/Stooges
PiL
Just about any Dub-Reggae artist
Scissor Sisters
Frank Zappa
Tom Petty (everything up to the late 80s)
Sonic Youth (not so much the stuff after "Goo")
Ramones
White Stripes
NY Dolls
The Hives
Captain Beefheart (early stuff mostly)
The Pretenders
David Bowie

And of course, the old stand-bys:
Hendrix
Beatles
Doors
Led Zeppelin
Stones
The Police

Also been getting a bit nostalgic for alot of misc. 80s stuff like The Smiths, and just really some songs that take me back to those days of yore:

Video Killed the Radio Star-Buggles
Ant Music-Adam Ant
Money-Flying Lizards
I Do the Rock-Tim Curry
Reap the Wild Wind-Ultravox
Planet Earth-Duran Duran
Heaven 17-Let Me Go
Psychedelic Furs-Love My Way (without a doubt, one of the best singles AND videos of the 80s. Great vibe, really weird. Still holds up today. Knocked me out when I heard it back in the day.)

(Also...a great 80s album...one of the best: "Pop" by Tones On Tail. It's definitely 80s, but still has great sustaining power even now. Those guys really dropped the ball when they became Love & Rockets.)

....and since it's Christmas time now:'Do They Know It's Christmas?'-Band Aid (heavy nostalgia on that one)

Heard The Police "Wrapped Around Your Finger" the other day and had a heavy dose of nostalgia. Came outta nowhere and just consumed my brain. what the hell??

[ Edited by: donhonyc on 2004-12-16 14:13 ]

Pavement
Melvins
Sonic Youth
Mudhoney
The Cows
NY DOLLS
Hanoi ROcks
Eagles of Death Metal
Stephan Malkmus & the Jicks
White Stripes
Zeke
MC5
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Von Bondies
Beck
Johnny Cash
Queens of the Stone Age
Ween
Nebula
Fu-Manchu
Dessert Sessions
5,6,7,8's
Ramones
Dead Kennedy's
Black Flag
DEVO
B-52's (1st two records)
Wall of VooDoo
Jesus Lizard
Iggy & the Stooges
Judas Priest (Pre- Screaming for Vengance)
SuperNova
Surgery
Helios Creed
Chrome
Sandy Duncans Eye
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Boredoms

The list goes on and on "I SWEAR"
Later,
Spermy

Nothing.

NEU!

-Z

actually, music is my biggest passion by far... Trying to cram it all into one post is just too big of a headache for my little brain to handle...

-Z

Southern Culture on the Skids
Reverend Horton Heat
The Tiki Tones
Dick Dale

This time of year (Christmas) I really get my tune on with the 3 Suns "Ding Dong Dandy Christmas".

Pretty much what everyone's already said and more. It's been said of my music collection "No matter what you like, there's something in there to piss you off!" From ABBA to Zappa, from Bach to the Buzzcocks. You like Exotica? I'll break out the Dead Kennedys & Lawnmower Deth. You like Punk & Speed Metal? I'll break out Stephen Bishop & Warren Zevon. You like Singer/Songwriters? I'll break out Space Explosion & Hawkwind. You like Prog? I'll break out Mississippi Fred McDowell & Tampa Red. You like Yodeling/Kazoo-playing Bluesmen? I'll break out Charles Ives, Charles Mingus, Charles Manson, etc.

My wife's come to dread turning on the car after I've been playing CDs. This past week I've been playing Dutch & Belgian popular music from the Early '50s, 24-7 Spyz, Rush, live Hawkwind from the Mid-'80s to the Early '90s, Daisycutter, Skin Yard, Bukka White, & the Ramones.

I can never resist a "what are you listening to" thread. Actually I don't listen to a whole lot of exotica. Here's what I've spun for the last week or so at work and on the road:

First 3 Sleater_Kinney disks (at maximum volume)
Pop Ambient 2004
Lost in Space - Aimee Mann
Journeys by DJ: Coldcut
Another Green World - Brian Eno
Genetically Modified - General Midi
Shenzhou - Biosphere
The Fountains of Paradise - Loop Guru
Prodigy - Experience
Boot the System - Coldcut
Hedphone Sex - Funki Porcini
The Room - Harold Budd
Stone Chilled Groove (compilation)
Led Zep - My own "Blues only" playlist. (I love how I can hear JB's squeaky drum hardware on "Since I've Been Loving You" when listening in headphones)
Joe Frank MP3s

BTW, Great list DHNYC!

Those fu*#ing voices in my head.

My stomach growling.

The Damned
XTC
The Stranglers
New Model Army
Kinks
Buzzcocks
Jan Davis
Au Pairs
Supergrass
Faith No More
Tamahawk
Fantomas
45 Grave
Redd Kross
The Who
Yardbirds
The Zombies
Burt Bacharach
Tom Jones
The Beatles
X
X-Ray Spex
Mind Over Four
The Carpenters
Manic Street Preachers
Minutemen
Television
The Clash
King Crimson
Beach Boys
QUEEN!!
Queens of the Stone Age
Foo Fighters
High LLamas
Agent Orange
Voivod
All Surf Music
Bowie
Yes
Aerosmith(when they were strung-out)
Gang of four
Meat puppets
The Jam (& all mod music)
Dead Kennedys
Wierdos
Unsane
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Buddy Rich
Gene Krupa

...the list goes on

PS Feel free to ridicule my favorite bands, I can take it.

[ Edited by: Tikitortured on 2004-12-16 13:43 ]

Hawaiian music (1950's style)
Burt bacharach
henry mancini
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Miles Davis
vintage comedy albums (lenny bruce, shelly Berman, Bob newhart..etc)
1970-s fusion
smooth Jazz (except Kenny G)
King crimson
yes
rush
Jon hassell (glas someone else mentioned this genius!)
world music, especially:
Salif Keita, Cheb Kahled, Youseff N'dour
Joni Mitchell
Rat pack crooners!
Solo Frank!
Julie London
any and all organ lounge music!
Disco and funk from the 70's
indian music like Ravi Shankar, Chaurasia and talvin singh, John McLaughlin/shakti, Zakir Hussien
Bluegrass, especially Flatt and Scruggs
Old country, like Chet Atkins
Duran Duran
Spandau Ballet
Kajagoogoo
Thompson Twins
Visage
Most other 80's music (my era!)
heavy, heavy, heavy amounts of classical: Bartok, stravinsky, Debussy..etc

almost exclusively exotica lately...my
wife kinda thinks i fell off the deep
end....but when the mood strikes...
The Clash (still one of the only bands
that really matter)
Elvis Costello
any of Mickey Hart's percussion-based bands
Mongo Santamaria
Mamady Keita
Antibalas
Allman Brothers
Taj Mahal Hula Blues
and as soon as I get the cd that I recently
ordered I am sure I will be enjoying Crazy
Al's "Ape"

On 2004-12-16 14:30, cynfulcynner wrote:

Excellent, choice CC! I haven't listened to this for a few weeks, but I will right now. It's shockingly good, but what do you expect when it's basically a Ben Folds album with "guests" like Shatner, Aimee Mann, Joe Jackson, and Henry Rollins. I like how when I ripped it to iTunes, the genre came up as "unclassifiable".

On 2004-12-16 15:27, Tiki-bot wrote:

I like how when I ripped it to iTunes, the genre came up as "unclassifiable".

Amoeba files it under Spoken Word. When I was at their Hollywood store a few weeks ago, it had a staff recommendation.

The Henry Rollins track (my favorite) is getting lots of airplay on KUSF!

Give or take, everything mentioned by DonHo and SpermWhale. Also add:

Fugazi
Bikini Kill
Beck
Wycleff
Harry Bellefonte
Billy Holiday
Herbie Mann
Roger Miller
Glenn Miller
IZ
Classic Hawaiian by various artists
Native American flutes
Herb Alpert
The Blacklisted

To name a few!

On 2004-12-15 21:37, kittenhead wrote:

-Brat Pack crooners

Ay-yi-yi. Quel embarrassment. I meant, er, RAT Pack crooners. That's what I get for drinking while typing - unintentional generational mixing. Although it might be interesting to hear Sinatra covering tunes from the "Breakfast Club" soundtrack from beyond the grave...

Quitting while I'm behind... :oops:

-kittenhead

Tool

Elvis

Sly and the Family Stone

Brad

Murder City Devils

The Stones

Miles Davis

Mr. Bungle

Radiohead

Medesky Martin and Wood

Supreme Beings of Leisure

....and others

Ku Ku

Oh, and uh...

Louis Prima

Love that Louis Prima.

Ku KU

I had such a tough time with this topic and how to approach it, I thought the most honest way was just to pull out the LPs at the front of the pile (sorting out all the exotica) because they are the ones that get the most play (didn't touch the CD's) and this is what I came up with:

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
The Mothers of Invention - Ruben & the Jets
Pere Ubu - Datapanic in the Year Zero
The Last Poets - the Last Poets
Captain Beefheart - Strictly Personal
The Mothers of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
The Stooges - Raw Power
Pink Floyd - the Piper At the Gates of Dawn
Dr. John (the night tripper) - Gris Gris
Ed Sanders - Truckstop
Johnny Thunders - So Alone
James Brown - There It Is
Phil Alvin - Unsung Stories
Dead Boys - We Have Come For Your Children
Patti Smith - In Heat
The Tubes - the Tubes
The Cramps - Gravest Hits
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
The Gun Club - Miami
Levi Dexter - the Fun Sessions
Suicide - Suicide
The Talking Heads - 77
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
The Clash - Black Market Clash
Phil Austin - Roller Maidens From Outer Space

On 2004-12-16 09:43, freddiefreelance wrote:
24-7 Spyz

Sick, man!

I've got a lot of what others have listed but what have I actually been listening to lately? Besides exotica?

Tons of old Hawaiian and Tahitian. And...

Supersuckers
Melvins
New Bomb Turks
Coltrane
Johnny Cash
Fatboy Slim
L7
Motorhead
Gert Wilden
THE SCIENTISTS
Albert Ayler
Esquivel
Cheap Trick
TAD
Pharoah Sanders
Big Chief
Reptiles at Dawn
Mudhoney
Public Enemy
Monoshock
Yo Yo Hashi
Henry Mancini
Barry Sadler
Voices of the Atolls
Claudine Longet
NWA
Lemonheads
Sun Ra
Pizzicato Five
etc etc etc

What's in my CD case at this moment -

5.6.7.8.'s - Teenage Mojo Workout
Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes For Cash
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Bjork - Family Tree
Walter/Wendy Carlos - Clockwork Orange sndtrk
Carpenters - Now And Then
Chemical Brothers - Come With Us / Singles
Clash - Super Black Market
DJ Shadow - Private Repress
DJ Andy Smith - Document #1 & #2
DJ Z-Trip & DJ P - Uneasy Listening
Eric B & Rakim - Homemade CD compilation
David Holmes - This Film's Crap... / Ocean's 12 sndtrk
Joy Division - Closer
Kraftwerk - Computer World (German version)
Magnetic Fields - Holiday
Massive Attack - Danny the Dog sndtrk
Derrick May - MayDay Mix
New Order - Movement / Power Corruption Lies
Orbital - Insides / Blue Album
Outkast - Stankonia
Parliment/Funkadelic - Homemade CD compilation
Jean Jaques Perrey - In Sound...
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Public Enemy - Homemade CD compilation
Radiohead - Kid A
Ramones - Homemade CD compilation
MP3 CD's of BBC shows - John Peel, Essential Mix, Breezeblock

john coltrane....a love supreme...

JIMMY BUFFET!!!

I think I'm gonna get sick.

Flounder, you are very evil!!!!!!!

DIE BUFFY DIE!!!!!!

Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!

Forgot Man... Or Astroman!

Skaal,
kittenhead

You know, I always find these threads interesting because I see new artists that I've never heard of out here in the midwest.

Personally, I like the 'vintage' Hawaiian sounds. And I've ALWAYS been into big band era stuff; The Dorseys, Glenn Miller & all that.
But I also always have a '50's - '60's rock / surf sound going as well...when I was growing up, I didn't have a radio, I simply had a 45 player and a bunch of my father and uncles oldies. Still have them.

Standard Sinatra / Rat Pack is soothing. Always on! Right in front of a Stray Cats / Brian Setzer or Lee Rocker disk and right behind a blues set by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf or Elmore James.

I frequently switch between vinyl and disk, with appreciation for both.

Interesting topic! Like some of you have already said, to sit here and list all of my favorites would just annoy everyone and make my wrists hurt.

[ Edited by: the75stingray on 2004-12-20 21:12 ]

Cicil War patriotic songs

punk and funk.

Lessee, I'm gonna confine this to ten. Not my favorite ten, because that would involve too much work and commitment. But ten I listen to a lot are:

The Fall
Einsturzende Neubauten
The Pogues
Randy Newman
The Drive-by Truckers
Dwight Yoakam
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter
The Cure
Concrete Blonde
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Hank Will-- damn! Well, I said only ten.

Right now, I'm completely stuck on Rita Chao, a Hong Kong go-go singer from the 60s. I can't stop listening to her version of Hanky Panky. This folder has one of her songs, not Hanky Panky, but another one. I first heard Rita Chao on one of the Girls in the Garage compilations, the "Oriental Special" vol 9. Highly recommended.

This week I've also been listening to Christmas records by the Beach Boys, the Surfers, and a 60s studio surf band called the Avalanches.

-Randy

Right now?

Patti Page - the Waltz Queen.

On 2004-12-16 15:27, Tiki-bot wrote:

On 2004-12-16 14:30, cynfulcynner wrote:

Excellent, choice CC! I haven't listened to this for a few weeks, but I will right now. It's shockingly good, but what do you expect when it's basically a Ben Folds album with "guests" like Shatner, Aimee Mann, Joe Jackson, and Henry Rollins. I like how when I ripped it to iTunes, the genre came up as "unclassifiable".

Ahahahaha! You guys rule. That is in heavy rotation on my iPod right now - and when I ripped m4as on it, I listed his genre on the CDDB as unclassifiable. I think I may have been the one responsible for that one! Tikifish claims he is too self aware - but it's just all too bloated and funny to me...

On 2004-12-21 16:11, Tangaroa wrote:

Tikifish claims he is too self aware - but it's just all too bloated and funny to me...

On a related note, I received this DVD for Christmas from someone who knows me too well:

http://www.5minutesonline.com/1D/dinahshore.htm

From the cover: This collection is a veritable cavalcade of celebrity horror mixing misguided singing attempts that actually aired on national TV via the Dinah Shore Show. You’ll see the likes of William Shatner, John Travolta, Dick Clark, Herve Villechaize, Robert Blake, Terry Bradshaw and many more make complete assholes of themselves! Oh, the embarrassments!

Devastatin' Dave the Turntable Slave.

On 2004-12-21 16:32, sinner wrote:
Devastatin' Dave the Turntable Slave.

He cops quite the pose on his LP, Zip Zap Rap...

On 2004-12-22 22:25, BaronV wrote:

On 2004-12-21 16:32, sinner wrote:
Devastatin' Dave the Turntable Slave.

He cops quite the pose on his LP, Zip Zap Rap...

I wouldnt mess with him: http://www.cenedella.com/images/album1e.jpg

Here's just a few off the top of my head:

Jason Falkner
Elliot Smith
Cotton Mather
The Tories
XTC
The Posies
Elvis Costello
Neil Finn
Jellyfish
The Merrymakers
Aimee Mann
Myracle Brah
The Polyphonic Spree

yes
the dead {after years of trying , finally got it }
the allmans
m83
sun ra
sun ra
oh yea,,,sun ra
sinatra
motorhead

I listen to everything from real rootsy blues through to Metallica, a pretty diverse range. I can handle a little classical, but it has to be heavy passionate stuff like "O fortuna". Jazz is good to study to as well. I generally cant handle rap, crap mindless pop, or dance.

ELEVATOR MUSIC...(13th Floor Elevators to be exact)

Allmans...Taj Mahal....virtually anything that's heavily percussive...and latetly...the
remastered Born to Run with live DVD. For all of you who might be too young to have experienced
the pre-Born USA Bruce....get your hands on this 1975 London concert DVD...he has always done great
shows but that era is why he became "The Boss." OK...quietly stepping down from the "old bruce"
soapbox.

Spy Bop Royale!

This is what's in my CD case in my car:

Split Enz-Spellbound
Crowded House-Live at CBGB
Green Day-American Idiot
Marcy Playground-Shapeshifter

Greatest Hits CDs that I made by:

Fountains of Wayne
Kate Bush
Sam Philips
The Go-Gos
REM
The Replacements

What I should add to the pile in the car:

Elvis Costello
Camper Van Beethoven
The Mavericks
Dwight Yoakam
They Might Be Giants
Ultra Lounge-Wild, Cool and Swingin'