Before that Sunshine over Leith by the Proclaimers (very disappointing)
before that a 60-disc Baroque music compilation box set! ---------- Andrew, gentleman of leisure, noodler extraordinaire.
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Ali Farka Toure - Savane, John Fahey, Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives, Sevens, Mahler, Philip Glass, Gershwin, Wilson Pickett- Its Harder Now, Wayne Shorter, Los Lobos, Gerry Mulligan, Django R, and a really beautiful cat mostly known here in Minnesota who plays guitar and writes some amazing stuff for a sharp little blues based band. Pete Kavanaugh
Now I know when Buddha posts his list it's going to be quite an eclectic mix, with the message being - listen to a wide variety of music to become a better musician..............but I likes what I likes..i'm too old to force myself to listen to stuff i don't likes.
PS. GamblersHand seems to have taste VERY similar to my own! We ought to exchange record collections! ---------- ------------------ View my videos on YouTube!"
LOL, @Buddha - Now Chris don't tell me you never listen to any of them.
After looking back over that list I realize that all of those guys are just playing the same kind of music. For me it's all just wake up music, or at the very least it deffinetly was when it first hit the scene. Genre be damned, wake up music kicks everybodys ass.
I also notice that most of the guys in that list are dead. What is it about us Americans? We love dead poets, dead writers, and dead musicians (I'm not much better). The live ones might have to sleep outside with the dogs.
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Looks like Oisin and I share a love for The The and The Jam! I'm not as in to the Dead Kennedy's, but I definitely appreciate them!
So far, he main two dudes I'd want to exchange record collections with are GamblersHand and Oisin. I'd certainly take a few specific suggestions from the other's, but I think I'd really like to spend time with the WHOLE collections of GamblersHand and Oisin. ---------- ------------------ View my videos on YouTube!"
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Wow, no I don't know Pete personaly. I've talked with him briefly and love watching him perform at the Gunflint just around the corner from my house, play the crap out of his CD. I think he has a house in the neighborhood where I live. One of his guitar buddies lives next door to me (Todd). No, I'm no musico, just a wanna be trying to learn me some harp. I didn't realize you were in Mn, or maybe you just know a bunch of players out here.
Issac....you're welcome to drop in next time you're in the UK !!
I grew up in Northern Ireland listening to this music, punk/new wave/mod revival stuff in the late 70s/early 80s. We also were big fans of homegrown music like the Undertones and Stiff Little Fingers and other UK groups like Dr Feelgood and Nine Below Zero. The best thing about this time was getting to meet kids from different backgrounds at concerts as in the town i grew up in (Portadown) it was not the done thing to mix with other kids from a different religion but my group of friends and I didn't give a feck about religion. We got a few beatings for it but our lives were a whole lot richer for sticking to our guns. Needless to say we all got out of N.I as quickly as we could when we reached our late teens.
---------- Oisin
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Oisin. I got to see Stiff Little Fingers play about 6 or 7 years ago when I was living in San Francisco. That was an awesome show! They had a great opening band that was totally punk, but had a dude playing the washboard the whole time! I think they might have been called "throwrag" or something like that. PunkRock washboard! That was when I was first dallying with the harmonica, and I thought,"if that guy can play punk rock washboard, I oughtta be able to play punk rock harmonica". Little did I know where that thought would lead me!
I'd certainly like to drop by next time I head to England. Consider yourself with a standing invite to visit here in Arizona if you ever travel stateside! ---------- ------------------ View my videos on YouTube!"
I listen to way too much stuff (bottomless appetite :) ) to list it all but here goes some stuff that wasn't already said (for example, someone already mentioned Waits and I've been listening to a lot of his stuff):
Rodrigo Y Gabriella (music starts at 0:48)
Damien Rice
Smetana
(actually just a lot of classical focused on piano/flute/violin lately)
Rin'
Regina Spektor (definitely not the best example)
Cannonball Adderley (actually just lots of jazz too, lol)
- Guilty pleasures -
Tegan and Sara (got tired of trying to find a good example, lol)
Something Corporate (not their best- most of their stuff is piano focused, but meh)
I could do this all day but I better stop I got things to do :) .
---------- ~Ryan
"I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window." - Stephen Wright
Pennsylvania - H.A.R.P. (Harmonica Association 'Round Philly)
Yeah it's a cracking tune. BTW, Loved the punk stuff you posted, esp. Ruts and SLF (one of my all time favourite bands). I met Jake Burns once, top bloke; named my son after him!
Recently I've been listening to the breeders which made me dig out some pixies. Still listen to alot of early verve stuff( northern soul is one of my fave albums ever and Nick mccabe is one of the most original guitarists ever!!!) and also been listening to Kula Shaker ( listen to ' hey dude' . Always listen to radiohead, stone roses ( love spreads..... WOW ) jimi, mansun( attack of the grey lantern) prodigy( dark beats) and when I want pretty music then I listen to Nick drake. Infact I don't listen to mugh blues at all really. I own about ten blues albums and have downloaded half a dozen j ricci shows.. .... No wonder I'm a pretty crap harp player
Funny, I was just listening to the version of The Girl From Ipanema by Stan Getz with Astrid Gilberto and Desafinado. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
I've been listening to these guys tonigh, the are called The Lost Fingers. They make gipsy jazz this is from there first album "Lost in the 80's". It's all 80 song that have been given there gipsy jazz treatment.
