Oldie (by today's throwaway standards) but a real goodie.
In my mind, Blur beat Oasis hands down at the time, and the achievements of the band members have rocked my socks off since.


It's not even North/ South bias.
And yes, being all girlie about it, it does help that Alex James and Damon Albarn were so damned goodlooking.

But really - Damon Albarn scored a musical based on Wu_Cheng's novel. Alex James is a pig farmer. The boys tick my boxes.

Fuck.

I didn't recognize the name of the song. Now I got that damnable "Woo hoo!" in my head.

Again.

Fuck, I says.

1972. krautrock. I was unaware and I am blown away. What is it, jazz? But it isn't!



hey you
you're losing you're losing you're losing you're losing
your vitamin c

Well 1972 brought over 1,000 new albums, not including classical, children's and the other categories you might be exposed to.

Mmm...canned okra.:greenface

The tune wasn't the worst thing I've ever heard, though.

Google search says I never posted this here before, which sort of seems unlikely, but fine.

"Tie My Pecker To My Leg"

NSFW "I says bad words on my records" - Mojo Nixon



I believe this is the most American song ever recorded. I believe Mojo is the truest of all Americans. Mojo and his buddies wrote it, but I think if there was ever sheet music printed of this song, it would just say for a writer, "Traditional".

What is it, jazz? But it isn't, it's something entirely fresh and new. Try and label it, you will fail. Many of you will hate it and that is why it is ART. Don't bother clicking on it and playing it because it is very long and takes a full minute to really get up to speed.

Progressive rock. I like it.

Avant-garde.

Wasn't particularly bad. Didn't care much for the last third of the tune, though.

During the composition of my post in the concerts thread, I was serendipitously led to this track (thank you youtube autoplay) with: John Lee Hooker, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Carlos Santana, Charlie Musselwhite and others I can't identify.

Wow, what a constellation of talent.

That's the part where you're spinning faster and faster just before you fall down.

I liked it, very much, thanks UT.

Air - Mike Mills (2004)

The song has three sections. The 4/4 first section has a very plain synth sound playing a wandering theme of 16th notes, over acoustic guitar, very reminiscent of Bach or it may even be a borrowed Bach theme.

This is pleasant enough, but it's rudely interrupted by a piano: also playing 16th notes, but over a 9/8 time, in an insistent repeating pattern. The 9/8 confuses us, and we struggle to resolve what has happened, partly because some of the underlying percussive sounds haven't changed since the opening. Are we stuck here?

As suddenly as the piano arrived, it leaves; now the song returns to 4/4 in recovery, and the original acoustic guitar background is back. Everything is calm now.

Strings enter, filling out the sound. They take time to tentatively graduate to 16th notes, but when they finally do, they are playing the original wandering theme.

It's the payoff. Everything has led to this. The plain vanilla analog synth that established the theme has been replaced by organic, human orchestration, and it's remarkable and beautiful.

This song is a beautiful morning, interrupted by a rude thunderstorm, returning slowly to beams of sun until the full glory of the day is with us.

This song has made me cry.

OK now that I've ended the thread.

I did enjoy this 1979 20/20 segment on this "New Wave" music. I was 17 when this aired and it does define my generation a li'l bit. Early X. For those of you born 1961-1967, enjoy?

Like all generations, it is funny to see the previous generation reporting on our trend. Kids these days! I remember a lot of hilarity poked at GI and Silent generation reporting on Baby Boomer phenomena.

part 1: Blondie, Devo, Elvis Costello, Clash


part 2: Talking Heads, Klaus Nomi

Limey, what is it about Scotland that it produces so much amazing music?

I dare anyone to hate this. You cannot.

For one thing, vocalists like Maggie Bell. :joylove:

I beg to differ. Well, hate isn't the word, so, I guess you're right, after all. I'll use firm dislike.



ETA: I'm so picky when it comes to music, I prolly shouldn't count, anyway.

Sure it does...

In a bid to find something I can listen to, I've been exploring older country music. In the "Word Association" thread I came up with Merle Travis, guitar picking fool, and, homeboy. So, I went looking for some "Travis Picking".

I don't ordinarily go for playlists on YouTube, but, someone put together one for the album "The Atkins – Travis Traveling Show" (Travis was a major influence on Atkins' playing style), and, if you like guitar, I strongly encourage you to give it a listen.

Chet Atkins in the left ear, Merle Travis in the right ear. Some of the best picking you'll hear. They talk some over the music on a few of the tunes, but, it's interesting, and, it doesn't detract too much from the tuneage.

Alrighty, then. I just found out playlists won't embed like a regular video,:mad:, so click here to go to YouTube to hear it. Well worth the click.

Outstanding! :thumb::thumb: In older Country & Western, there was some great stuff mixed in with normal wailing, whining and selling beer.

Digr, you might like Sonny Landreth's latest album, he collaborates with Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson and Vince Gill, plus Dr. John, and Jimmy Buffett.
This is him alone.

Yeah, that's pretty cool. I'll have to check out some more of his stuff before I commit.

He looks familiar.

My latest musical discovery is Postmodern Jukebox:

Haley Reinhart<--->:love:

Meh, I kinda liked her rendition of "Oops".

I really liked watching her renditioning it.:thankyou:

This was the British guitar sound of the early 1990s. In case you weren't aware. Get lost in the swirrrrrrrrling chords, did everyone have a chorus pedal, were they like really cheap there or something?

If this band did not exist Radiohead would not have existed. I imagine. In my head. Nobody has said that, I think. Except me.

There's no reason not to get the band back together...

I like these dudes, anti-ticket music for night driving.

I liked it. It soothed me.

I really like this.

Pretty cool

I'm enjoying this.

Holy. Shit.

It appears that I've found a current(ish) piece of music I actually like.

The Darkness - Open Fire



**Is it just me, or, do these guys sound like The Cult?**



Also, if I could get rid of the "aaaahhhhhhhhhhhAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHhaaaaahahahhhhh", this would be decent:

The Darkness - Barbarian



I listened to a lot of their stuff, and couldn't find anything else I could stand. These two seem to be outliers from their 'regular' style of music.

I was turned on to them by this article--->An Epic Conversation With The Darkness’s Justin Hawkins, Last of His Kind

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"Good music" according to who? Me, or the Cellar?

You

Just share what you're grooving on and maybe some of us will like it and add another groovy sound to our lives. Or not. It's always, at the very least interesting to see what other people are into.

According to ME

don't listen to those guys. It's MY world. You're all just living in it.

Is that a BAZINGA, or are you serious? I can't tell.

Didn't see these B4.

Anyway, good to know.

I assume bazinga is your pet name for a vagina, so NO that's not it at all.

I was just saying that 'good' is a relative word and therefore the assumption is that I meant good 'according to you' in the thread title.

And when I said you are living in my world, I meant that 100% seriously. I imagined you before you ever existed. If I stop coming to this site, you will no longer exist.

You've never watched The Big Bang Theory, have you?

Ok, music time! :D

1986:

Done for today.

Oh man, that's a late night traffic citation in the making. Excess boogying on down the road, excess noise emission from a motor vehicle, and one for excess grinning at a police officer. Step out of the car, please. :lol:

Nice one, Griffy. :)

Thanky!

Make sure you play this loud

I'm very fond of T.O.N., I didn't think anyone here was into gothic metal, or even metal in general.

This thread needs some Scroobius Pip.

Thanks for posting that cover of "Summer Breeze", Jim.

I started liking Type O Negative back about the time "Black Number One" came out. Not wild about them, mind you, but they have had several songs I liked.

Zathris, (or whoever) I'm a metal fan (and a little gothmetal) from way back, just not much current metal (or current music in general) that I like.

Good stuff from Dana and Jimbo.

Harry Connick Jr, playing in France. The audience was clapping on the 1 and 3, so at around the :40 he changes the music to sync with the audience.
That's a showman.;)

Out fucking standing,

especially since this went around this week:

looks like someone left the gate open at the cunt farm again

I guess his only shot at selling tickets is to a bigger dick at each show, so people can say they were there, when it shows up on yuotube.
He's a cunt, but a cunt with more money/pussy/leisure, than Ill ever have.:rolleyes:

Fucking, Iggy Pop, man. Ya look at the Biebers of this world - and then you look at Iggy Pop.

I love the way this generation of artists just say fuck you and your youth culture, I'mma keep doing this til I drop.



He's a year and a half off 70.

OK good call UT, they are on Colbert Friday. :p::cool::p:

Good music? That's subjective.
The tune is catchy, these crazy Ruskis are fun to watch, and the lyrics in English, which I've spared incurred no expense to bring you, are a trip. I also was struck by how pretty the girl is with minimal makeup. I like that natural look.